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Everything the Tories and Labour need to fix before Brexit happens
By John Crace 4 September 2018
The closer we get to the deadline day of 29 March 2019, the more intense the internal feuding in the Conservative Party over Brexit becomes
As you were, many politicians will have gone into the summer recess six weeks ago, praying that they could fall into a deep sleep and wake up to find their problems had gone away. No such luck. Both the Tories and Labour are still stuck in the same toxic mess as they were back in July. As Theresa May memorably once said when she dropped the dementia tax three days after launching her party manifesto during the last election, “Nothing has changed.” The difference being that this time she would actually be telling the truth.
The closer we get to the deadline day of 29 March next year, the more intense the internal feuding in the Tory Party over Brexit becomes. Boris Johnson has used this week's Daily Telegraph column to declare war on the prime minister's Chequers' proposals and, by implication, to launch his own leadership bid. "The scandal of Brexit is not that we have failed but that we have not tried,” he writes, conveniently forgetting that for two years he was foreign secretary and was one of the key players in the government's negotiating strategy.
And herein lies the real problem. Cast your mind back to the morning after the EU referendum. You'd have expected Boris to be on top of the world that the country had voted to leave. In fact, he had the look of a man who had just come down from a bad acid trip to find he had just murdered one of his best friends. The reality was that Boris had never expected or intended to be on the winning side. The referendum had only ever been a game to further his own career.
Now that he was confronted with delivering on his £350 million promises he was completely clueless. And he still is. In the space of two years he hasn't been able to come up with anything better than the same empty rhetoric he employed during the campaign itself. If only we all believed in Brexit a little more, then everything would be OK.
The problem for the Tories – and the rest of the country who will have to live with the outcome – is that the prime minister hasn't actually been able to come up with anything much better. Her Chequers' proposals haven't just been rubbished by the Brexiteers in her own party, they've been criticised as unworkable by her pro EU MPs, the Labour Party and the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier. They offer no solution to services – that make up 80 per cent of the UK economy – or maintaining an open border between Norther Ireland and Ireland.
And yet, despite appearing to have no parliamentary majority – assuming the Brexiteers and the Labour Party vote against it – for her policy, Theresa May continues to insist that Chequers is still the only game in town. And with just seven months to go until Britain formally leaves the EU, time is running out to come up with anything better.
Which leaves a "no deal" – a scenario which almost every impact assessment considers to be chaotic in the short and medium term – as a genuine possibility. Just recently the prime minister tried to reassure everyone by announcing that “a no deal wouldn't be the end of the world”. Hardly a ringing endorsement. Great. Brexit isn't actually going to kill us. Though it may make us all significantly worse off.
How this all plays out is anyone's guess. Theresa May could still be in office in March next year or she could be gone soon after the Tory Party conference at the end of this month. The only firm commitment the prime minister has given is that there won't be a second people's vote on whether to accept whatever deal the government finally manages to negotiate. So, given her track record on breaking electoral promises, that must mean we can't rule out a second referendum.
With the Tory Party busy tearing itself apart over Europe, you'd have thought Labour would have been keen to establish itself as a government in waiting. Instead, it's been fighting its own internal battles. Not least over accusations of anti-Semitism within the party. You'd have thought Labour would have wanted to act quickly by acknowledging there had been a problem, accepting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism and promising to take strong action in future.
Instead, it's allowed the situation to rumble on with MP Frank Field resigning the party whip over Labour's refusal to take anti-Semitism seriously. More Labour MPs are threatening to follow suit unless immediate action isn't taken. Party activists have merely accused Field of opportunism, arguing that he was going to be deselected anyway over his decision to vote with the government on a crucial Brexit vote in July.
This rather misses the point. First, anti-Semitism is a problem and does need to be taken seriously. Second, one of the hallmarks of a serious political party is that it is a broad church and tolerates dissent. As a backbench MP Jeremy Corbyn voted against his own party whip more than 400 times and he was never threatened with deselection. Calls to get Field removed as a MP just look petty and vengeful at a time when Labour needs to look inclusive and magnanimous.
Right now, Labour more resembles a social movement rather than a party that is offering the country a serious alternative government. And it shows. Given the crises in the Tory Party, you'd have expected Labour to be at least ten points ahead in the opinion polls. Instead, it is level pegging with the Conservatives. Rather than take the lead by coming up with its own credible Brexit proposals, it seems content to merely criticise the Tories for not having come up with anything better.
And, like the Conservatives, Labour also appears on the verge of collapse with many of its MPs fed up with Corbyn's lack of leadership over Brexit and anti-Semitism. And, like the Tories, the only thing that is currently keeping it together is its own MPs' inability to agree on how and on what terms they want to fall apart. Westminster is in a febrile state. Entropy is in the air. And both parties seem more interested in their own concerns than in governing the country.
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If wolves can return to the West, why not New York?
Rocky Barker Opinion Essay March 24, 2003
Eight years after a wolf walked out of a pen and howled in Yellowstone National Park, it is clear the predators are here to stay.
The restoration of wolves to Idaho and Yellowstone in 1995 has been wildly successful, even though many Westerners remain bitter about an intrusive federal government. Now, a decision announced earlier this month by the Bush administration may prevent the return of wolves to wild places in the East.
This isn’t playing fair, and Westerners should oppose it.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced March 18 that gray wolves would be "downlisted" under the Endangered Species Act from endangered to threatened. This means federal biologists no longer believe wolves are on the brink of extinction in the United States, and the new listing allows more flexibility in killing "problem" wolves. In Idaho and Wyoming, officials already have that flexibility because the wolves were reintroduced as experimental populations with special rules.
What this decision really means is that Easterners are off the hook. The Bush plan would combine in one group healthy populations that have returned naturally to Midwestern states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin, with nonexistent populations in the East. This means the chance wolves will be reintroduced to Maine and New York is practically nil.
Wolves will still be considered endangered in the Southwest. But in places like Nevada, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Montana and California, wolves will have less federal protection. This may please many Westerners. It will certainly make it easier for ranchers and others who have to deal with the wolf’s taste for cattle and house pets.
Why should Westerners care about wolves in the Adirondacks, the Maine woods or the Catskills? Because wolves occupy only about 2 percent of their historic range, and in the wild and heavily forested places of the East there is ample habitat and food to maintain healthy populations. Easterners should also have to face the same debates and tradeoffs as Westerners. Once upstate New Yorkers decide it’s necessary to kill off a wolf pack to accommodate suburban homeowners and their dogs, they may begin to understand the challenges we’ve been facing out here.
For the record, I’m thrilled that wolves are back in the West. I have had the opportunity to hear a pack howl in Yellowstone, and I’ve watched them run through the hills of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. These experiences have enriched my life and enhanced my trips into the backcountry.
But I recognize that many of my friends disagree. Some would even wipe wolves out again if given the chance, though this will never happen: The Endangered Species Act removes that option even after the states take control.
Meanwhile, Westerners for the most part are making room for wolves, albeit at different levels of cooperation, and this adaptation could also happen in the East, though wolves will have a harder time refilling the smaller pockets of habitat. Yet the East desperately needs more predators, since Whitetail deer numbers are exploding at the same time that hunting wanes. Wolves can be the answer to a growing overpopulation problem that otherwise will be solved with disease.
I believe, as many Western conservative members of Congress say they believe, that the federal government should put as much time and effort into restoring wolves to New York as it has to bringing them home to Idaho. Only when wolves howl again in the Adirondacks will this nation prove its commitment to protecting its natural legacy.
Rocky Barker is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colorado (hcn.org). He is a visiting fellow at the Andrus Center for Public Policy in Boise,Idaho.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].
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Mosquitoes: The Most Dangerous Animal on Earth?
Written by Patrick Keeffe on February 12, 2016
Mosquitoes have bedeviled humans for centuries, spreading disease and death to millions. Today, the latest plague they bring is the Zika virus.
“Mosquitoes are perhaps the most dangerous animals in the world,” Omar Akbari, PhD, an assistant professor of entomology at the Center for Disease Vector Research at the University of California Riverside, told Healthline. “They are the primary vectors for major human diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, and dengue fever, which together infect hundreds of millions of humans worldwide and kill millions each year.”
The World Health Organization, he added, reports that more than 50 percent of the world’s population is presently at risk from mosquito-borne diseases.
Zika and other insect-borne diseases are traveling quickly with new reports every week.
On February 2, Texas reported a case of Zika infection transmitted by sex, rather than by a mosquito bite. The patient was infected after sexual contact with someone who had returned from Venezuela, where the virus is spreading.
On February 9, the big island of Hawaii declared a state of emergency to deal with an outbreak of dengue fever, spread by infected mosquitoes. Since October, 250 cases have been confirmed on the island.
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Current methods of preventing mosquito-borne diseases are highly inefficient, Akbari said.
While crucial mosquito research is under way in university labs, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is also engaged in the global war against life-threatening diseases.
Dr. Lyle Peterson, MPH, leads the CDC’s fight against insect-borne diseases. Peterson is director of the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases in the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Colorado.
The center supports the CDC’s mission to protect the American public from exotic and domestic bacterial and viral pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and other vectors.
Peterson told Healthline that the Zika virus was discovered in the mid-20th century in Africa.
“In 1947, the virus was first isolated from a rhesus monkey found in the Zika forest of Uganda,” he said. “Before 2007, at least 14 cases of human Zika virus disease had been documented in the literature, although other cases were likely to have occurred and were not published.”
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Mosquitoes Are Effective Transmitters
Since Zika was first reported in Brazil in 2015, cases have exploded in 24 countries or territories. The virus is spreading rapidly because mosquitoes are more effective transmitters of disease than even flies.
“Mosquitoes spread disease-causing agents, not the disease,” Peterson said. “They bite people to consume blood. Feeding allows the mosquito to produce eggs. When feeding, a mosquito pierces the skin like a needle and injects saliva into a person’s skin. This allows the disease-causing agent – for example, the Zika virus – into the site.”
Only a small fraction of fly species, however, will bite people, Peterson said. When a fly bites, it creates a wound and drinks blood from the site.
“When a fly bites, it does not directly inject saliva into the bite like a mosquito does,” Peterson explained. “Some diseases are transmitted by flies. But because fly feeding habits are different from mosquito biting habits, fewer pathogens are transmitted through fly bites.”
Since mosquitoes fly, they can also spread a disease more quickly than an illness such as Ebola, which is transmitted from person to person.
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Using Genes to Battle Mosquitoes
The Zika virus and other major deadly diseases are spread by just one of the world’s 3,500 species of mosquito.
Akbari’s research concentrates on Aedes aegypti or Asian tiger mosquito, common in the United States. It’s the major vector for dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika.
Akbari wants to introduce and spread genes within the mosquito population that prevent the next generation of insects from transmitting a pathogen. In theory, that should reduce transmission of a virus, with a consequent reduction in infections or deaths, he said.
“To test this hypothesis,” Akbari said, “first we need a broad understanding of mosquito biology that we can use to develop gene-based strategies for engineering mosquitoes that are resistant to pathogens.
Then we need to engineer mosquitoes that are resistant to all types of infections. Finally, we need to develop tools to rapidly ‘drive’ these laboratory-developed genes into wild mosquito populations.”
Together, this approach conceivably can provide a foundation that has the potential to revolutionize vector control of mosquitoes, he said.
Akbari’s work at his U.C. Riverside lab is supported by a National Institutes of Health Career Transition Award, a grant from the California Cherry Board, and a private donation.
“We are a brand-new new lab,” he said, “but we hope to have results by sometime in early 2017.”
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The Latest: Coast Guard: Duck boat was inspected in February
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - The Latest on a deadly tourist boat accident in Missouri (all times local):
The U.S. Coast Guard says a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake in an accident that killed 17 people was built during World War II and had passed an inspection in February.
The Kansas City Star reports that the Coast Guard said the craft was the 33-foot-long Stretch Duck 07 built in 1944.
Lt. Tasha Sadowicz is with the Coast Guard's regional office in St. Louis. She says a majority of the 22 Stetch Ducks operating in Missouri were built in 1944 or 1945.
She said the duck boat that sank during a thunderstorm Thursday was inspected annually. Investigators say none of the 31 people on board was wearing a life jacket.
In 2016, an inspection revealed that the boat's fire detectors were inoperable, but they were later repaired. And between January and April 2015, the Coast Guard kept the boat from sailing.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the 31 people aboard a Missouri tourist boat that sank weren't wearing life jackets.
The patrol released an incident report Saturday with details about the
The patrol released an incident report Saturday with details about the Thursday accident that killed 17 people. They were aboard a vessel known as a duck boat that capsized in Table Rock Lake near Branson after storms quickly moved into the area.
The incident report notes that the amphibious vehicle was overcome by strong winds in a thunderstorm, which caused the vessel to swamp and then sink.
Among the dead are nine members of a single family.
A longtime friend says the Indianapolis couple who died along with seven family members on a Missouri tourist boat enjoyed trave
A longtime friend says the Indianapolis couple who died along with seven family members on a Missouri tourist boat enjoyed traveling together after they retired. They especially liked big family trips.
Seventy-year-old Horace "Butch" Coleman and 69-year-old Belinda Coleman, who went by "Toni," were killed Thursday when the boat capsized in a storm near Branson. A brother, two of their adult children and four grandchildren also died.
Maxine Gilliam has lived in the same neighborhood as the Colemans for more than 40 years. She says, "We were like family" and her family is "devastated."
Gilliam says Butch Coleman worked for UPS before retiring and coached youth football for more than 40 years, a position son Glenn Coleman, a 40-year-old also killed Thursday, took on when he got older as well.
Toni Coleman was a talented seamstress who was like a sister. She says "If either of us needed to talk, we'd go to Dairy Queen and unload while we ate ice cream."
A Branson resident who says she's ridden duck boats on Table Rock Lake about 10 times says she's never seen anyone wearing a life vest during the ride.
Kathy Ford said Saturday she's lived in Branson for 19 years and has taken her 4-year-old great-granddaughter on a duck boat ride. She said the operators of the boats will show passengers where life vests are, but she has never seen any rider put one on.
Seventeen people were killed when a duck boat capsized Thursday on choppy waters. The accident happened as winds approached hurricane strength.
Ford said the Thursday's storm was one of the worst she's seen in Branson.
Ford said she works at nearby theme park Silver Dollar City and was leaving work as the storm began. She said the park usually alerts staff when a storm is approaching. When she left, she had been given no notification about bad weather and the park had closed no rides.
Meteorologists say they had been tracking the storm that hit a southwest Missouri lake before an amphibious duck boat capsized, killing 17.
Nearly eight hours before the boat carrying 31 people sank Thursday, the National Weather Service had issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the area including the lake.
National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Wise said Saturday that the most intense part of the line of storms started forming at 5:45 p.m. Thursday south of Kansas City and extending south into Arkansas. It hit the Springfield area at 6:23 p.m., uprooting trees and downing power lines. The boat went down shortly after 7 p.m.
Meteorologist Elisa Raffa of KOLR-TV in Springfield said in a phone interview that her station was forecasting all morning the threat of severe weather, including a Facebook live event after the watch was issued.
Raffa said, "My hurt with this as a human and as a person and as a meteorologist is this storm was expected."
A birthday party held last week in Indianapolis will serve for some relatives as a final living memory of Tia Coleman's family.
Coleman was the only one in her immediate family who survived after a duck boat capsized Thursday on the choppy waters of Table Rock Lake in southwest Missouri. Her husband and three children were among 17 killed.
Cousin Serica Franklin says she held Arya Coleman at the party, describing the 1-year-old as "all smiles" and a happy child. Her own son ran around with 7-year-old Evan Coleman, who was excited to start second grade in a program for gifted children. Nine-year-old Reece Coleman also drowned.
She described Glenn Coleman as down-to-earth, laid-back and a good father. She said her cousin was "always bragging about just how good of a husband she had."
Franklin said: "It's heartbreaking that that's how I'm going to remember them for the rest of my life."
An Indianapolis woman whose nine family members died when a tourist boat sank says crew members told passengers the tour would start on the water because of an incoming storm.
Tia Coleman's relatives were among 17 people killed when a duck boat capsized Thursday on the choppy waters of Table Rock Lake in southwest Missouri. The accident happened as winds approached hurricane strength.
The amphibious boat tours usually travel on both land and water. Coleman told television station KOLR that before the tour started passengers were told they were going out on the water first. She says when they went onto the lake there were "big, huge waves."
The president of the company that owns the duck boat business said Friday the business monitors weather.
A severe thunderstorm warning had been issued for the area more than 30 minutes before the boat sank.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it might take as long as a year to finish a report on what caused an amphibious duck boat to capsize and sink on a lake in southwest Missouri Thursday.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that in a late Friday press conference near the site of the accident, NTSB officials said they expect to be on the scene for the next week to 10 days.
Seventeen people, including five children, died when the boat capsized on choppy waters during a storm.
The area had been under a severe thunderstorm watch for hours and a severe thunderstorm warning for more than 30 minutes before the boat sank.
A man who owns a private inspection service says he told a company operating duck boats on a Missouri lake that two dozen of them had significant design flaws.
Steve Paul said Saturday that he inspected two dozen duck boats for Ripley Entertainment in August 2017. He said he doesn't know whether the boats remained in Branson.
A duck boat operated by Ripley Entertainment capsized Thursday evening, killing 17 people.
Paul said the boats had systems venting motor exhaust at the front below the water line. He said in rough conditions, water could get into the motor and shut it off.
Paul said pumps used to take water out of the hull would then shut off.
A Ripley spokeswoman did not immediately return telephone and email messages seeking comment.
The website for a tour company whose boat capsized in southwest Missouri says the business will remain closed during the investigation.
Seventeen people, including five children, died Thursday when an amphibious duck boat capsized on choppy waters during a storm. The National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are investigating.
The website for Ride the Ducks Branson has been taken down, except for a page saying the business will remain closed to support the investigation and allow time for families and the Branson community to grieve. The page says the company's leaders are heartbroken.
Jim Pattison Jr., president of Ripley Entertainment, which owns the business, said Friday that the captain operating the boat had 16 years of experience, and the business monitors weather. The area had been under a severe thunderstorm watch for hours and a severe thunderstorm warning for more than 30 minutes before the boat sank.
An Illinois man says his 12-year-old daughter told him that her grandmother saved her after the Missouri tourist boat they were on sank in a storm.
Todd Dennison tells the Kansas City Star that his mother, 64-year-old Leslie Dennison, had taken his daughter on a special trip to Branson, Missouri. They had just arrived in town Thursday night when they went out on the duck boat tour.
Authorities say Leslie Dennison, of the western Illinois town of Sherrard, was among the 17 people who died on Table Rock Lake.
Todd Dennison says his daughter told him that after the boat was submerged, she felt her grandmother below her, pushing her upward. He says "She said her grandmother saved her."
A Missouri couple who recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary were among the 17 victims of a tourist boat accident near Branson.
The accident on Thursday claimed victims ranging in age from 1 to 76. Among them were 65-year-old William Bright of Higginsville and his 63-year-old wife, Janice.
Neighbor Barbara Beck says the couple moved to Higginsville from Kansas City, Missouri, three years ago to be closer to a daughter and their grandchildren. They quickly grew to relish small-town life and were active in church and the community.
Beck says the Brights had decided to stop taking extended vacations. Branson was to be their last.
William Bright's final public Facebook post noted the wedding anniversary and how happy he was with his wife, his three kids and 16 grandchildren. Life, he wrote, had "been a lot of fun."
An Indiana woman whose nine family members were killed when a Missouri duck boat sank says the last thing she heard before a huge wave swept over them was her sister-in-law yelling, "Grab the baby!"
Tia Coleman and her 13-year-old nephew were the only survivors out of the 11 family members who set off on the tourist boat Thursday night. Those who died were Coleman's husband and three children, ages 9, 7 and 1; her sister-in-law and 2-year-old nephew; her mother-in-law and father-in-law and her husband's uncle.
Tia Coleman tells television station KOLR that the family first went to the wrong duck boat business but switched out their tickets for the 6:30 p.m. ride. She says as the boat reached the water there were "big, huge waves." She says passengers told crew members, "This is a little bit too much."
Then a huge wave hit and the boat began sinking. Coleman says she was in the water alone, praying to Jesus, "Please keep me .... so I can get to my children." She says she spotted a rescue boat and swam as fast as she could to it.
A relative of an Indiana family who lost nine members when a duck boat sank in Missouri says the family is taking it hard.
The Stone County Sheriff's Office identified the Indiana family members as 45-year-old Angela Coleman, 1-year-old Arya Coleman, 69-year-old Belinda Coleman, 76-year-old Ervin Coleman, 7-year-old Evan Coleman, 40-year-old Glenn Coleman, 70-year-old Horace Coleman, 2-year-old Maxwell Coleman, and 9-year-old Reece Coleman.
Kim Thomas Sr. says
"The kids are doing better than we are. We have to live in this world; they have gone to the other side," said Thomas, 51, of Indianapolis.
Thomas, whose own children grew up with Coleman's, said the family has a strong faith in God.
He said family members were upset to hear the boat captain told passengers they didn't need to use life preservers.
"He'd probably done that trip 10,000 times, but you should always err on the side of safety," Thomas said.
A St. Louis-area couple who died in the tourist boat accident near Branson apparently opted for the duck boat ride at the last minute.
Among the 17 people who died Thursday on Table Rock Lake were 68-year-old Rosemarie Hamann and 69-year-old William Asher. Hamann celebrated her birthday earlier in the week. Her final Facebook photo was a selfie with Asher. He's sticking his tongue out, and she' smiling at his silliness.
Russ McKay of St. Louis met the couple four years ago when they offered to help with a charity event McKay was organizing. Since then, they worked on annual charities for veterans.
McKay said he talked to Hamann nearly every day, including during her trip to Branson. On Wednesday, she told McKay that she and Asher had just gone on the Branson Belle paddle boat and were planning to go again. But for some reason they opted instead for the duck boat. McKay didn't know why.
The driver of a Missouri duck boat that sank and killed 17 people is being remembered as a longtime pastor at a Rhode Island church.
WPRI-TV reports Robert Williams was a pastor and founder of Cathedral of Life in Providence, now called King's Cathedral.
His son-in-law, Bishop Jeffery Williams, described the 73-year-old as a "prince of a man, loving, kind and generous." He said the loss to the family is "incalculable."
A statement from the church says Williams and his wife, Judith, helped found the church in 1999.
The station also reported Williams worked for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority as a building foreman. Spokespeople for the agency didn't immediately comment Saturday.
Williams helmed the boat when it capsized in Table Rock Lake after a strong storm on Thursday.
The deaths from the tourist boat accident at Table Rock Lake in Missouri exceeded the number of deaths on the lake over the past decade combined.
Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Laurie Driver says 16 drownings occurred on the lake from 2008 up until Thursday.
The lake is near the country music tourist town of Branson.
More than half of those killed in Thursdays' accident were members of the same Indiana family. According to the Stone County Sheriff's Office, five of the dead were from Missouri, two were from Arkansas and one was from Illinois.
Authorities have released the names of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson, Missouri, lake.
More than half of those killed were members of the same Indiana family. According to the Stone County Sheriff's Office, five of the dead were from Missouri, two were from Arkansas and one was from Illinois.
The Ride the Ducks boat sank Thursday in Table Rock Lake in southwest Missouri after a strong storm.
The sheriff's department identified the Indiana family members as 45-year-old Angela Coleman, 1-year-old Arya Coleman, 69-year-old Belinda Coleman, 76-year-old Ervin Coleman, 7-year-old Evan Coleman, 40-year-old Glenn Coleman, 70-year-old Horace Coleman, 2-year-old Maxwell Coleman, and 9-year-old Reece Coleman.
The people from Missouri were identified as 69-year-old William Asher, 68-year-old Rosemarie Hamann, 63-year-old Janice Bright, 65-year-old William Bright, and 73-year-old Bob Williams.
Also killed were 64-year-old Leslie Dennison of Illinois and 15-year-old Lance Smith and 53-year-old Steve Smith from Arkansas.
More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely wouldn't have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up.
Tracy Beck, of Kansas City, Missouri, said she recalled the family members waiting in line. After they stopped for a picture, a ticket taker realized they should have boarded at a different location and reassigned them.
The grief-stricken community, known for its country shows and entertainment, hosted vigils Friday night in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks of Branson and at a church.
Divers found the final four bodies Friday in Table Rock Lake near Branson after the deadliest accident of its kind in nearly two decades.
For the AP's full story: https://bit.ly/2NyEEa3
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New owners of The Orchards Mall are making a pitch to potential anchor stores by offering three years of no rent. The Benton Township mall is set to lose its last anchor store, J.C. Penney, on July 5.
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Orchards Mall offering rent incentive to potential stores
BENTON TOWNSHIP — The new owner of The Orchards Mall is getting creative in an effort to add an anchor store.
Durga Property Holdings Inc., which is listed as the owner of the mall, is offering three years of no rent to any big box store willing to set up shop at the Benton Township mall.
Montu Bedi, an administrative developer of Bedi and Associates LLC, is handling business development affairs for the mall on behalf of Durga Property Holdings.
With J.C. Penney expected to close July 5 – which is the mall’s last anchor store – Bedi said they have hired a company to begin reaching out to other big box stores.
Bedi said they offered J.C. Penney three years of rent-free space, but the retailer’s corporate office rejected the deal.
“We would be willing to extend that offer to any anchor store that is willing to come to Orchards Mall,” Bedi said. “We have put a plan in place, but it will take some time to get it to where it needs to be. Building Rome doesn’t happen overnight. With the amount of turmoil that’s happened there, it will take some time.”
Bedi commended Berrien County on its willingness to work with the mall and said he believes a lot can be done if an anchor store comes to the mall.
“Malls are not what they used to be, but it has great potential,” Bedi said. “I was amazed when I drove around and saw some of the developments. “Had (the mall’s previous owners) communicated with the county and township, they would have gotten some help.”
The mall has had trouble keeping its anchor stores in recent years.
J.C. Penney’s corporate office announced it would be shuttering its Benton Township location in March this year.
Penney’s announced closure came a year after the mall lost Carson’s – which also had long served as an anchor store.
Prior to that, a full-service Sears store closed a decade ago.
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White, a 48-year-old retired investigator with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, had raised issues throughout the campaign about the Sheriff's Office spending under Blackwood on motorcycles, new patrol vehicles, firearms and other supplies.
White said he was encouraged to run for sheriff last summer by a group of deputies who felt they were not being treated fairly. He campaigned on fiscal responsibility, diversity, and better community visibility and service.
Blackwood denied the spending claims, and county documents show many equipment upgrades during his tenure were made with drug forfeiture, credit for surplus equipment and other non-taxpayer monies. County records show the department's turnover is low.
Blackwood and Chief Deputy Jamison Sykes also addressed issues that White's campaign supporters had raised, including the dismissal of a nurse in 2014 over an improper jail relationship and accusations that Sykes recently was seen pulling up White's campaign signs.
Sykes was cleared of wrongdoing following a Sheriff's Office investigation in consultation with the State Bureau of Investigation.
"We took this serious. We weren't complacent. We weren't terribly worried, but we wanted to give it the attention it deserved," Blackwood said.
"Our goal was to run our race and not get caught up in the quagmire of rumors and untruths," he said. "One thing I learned a long time ago is if you're talking about yourself in an election, that's great. If you've got to talk about your opponent, then you haven't got anything to run on."
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Here's what the 2 men who want to be Orange County sheriff say about the job
Spending, sign stealing and infidelity questions raised in Orange County sheriff race
The sheriff is a position created by the state and, among other duties, involves managing countywide patrols, calls for service, crimes and civil process papers; operating and maintaining the county jail; providing courthouse security; hiring deputies; and writing budgets for consideration by the county commissioners.
Blackwood, 57, has served 36 years with the Orange County Sheriff's Office. He was first elected sheriff in 2014 when former Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass retired.
Blackwood and White, who had Pendergrass' support, shared many goals for the department with his challenger, from continuing the fight against opioid abuse to providing a safe jail for inmates and deputies and increasing well-being checks for local seniors.
Tammy Grubb: 919-829-8926; @TammyGrubb
Dad who tried to save his kids off NC coast dies after being pulled from ocean, town says
Records show NC superintendent bypassed committee to award $8.3 million state contract
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Mar 22 Masters of Taste - Bringing World Class Flavors to The Rose Bowl
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Masters of Taste
Once again the culinary mecca, Masters of Taste, will take over the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA Sunday, April 7th. From 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm attendees will be able to sample delectable bites, savory sweets, and top beverages in one place!
This year Masters of Taste 2019 is also introducing Chef Michael Hung as the event’s first-time Host Chef. 2017 and 2018 Masters of Taste Culinary Master, Michael Hung’s illustrious career credentials include time spent with Traci Des Jardins’s James Beard Award-winning team at San Francisco’s Jardinière and overseeing the kitchen at Roland Passot’s Michelin-starred La Folie. Chef Hung then left San Francisco to open Faith & Flower in Downtown Los Angeles, where under his leadership the restaurant was honored “Best New Restaurant” by Esquire Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and Travel + Leisure. Michael’s success continued when he opened the highly-acclaimed Viviane in the Avalon Hotel Los Angeles and then he started his own company Ardour Hospitality in 2016, which focuses on full-service consulting, culinary and hospitality experiences in Greater Los Angeles. In addition to running his own company, Michael has also returned to Faith & Flower where he oversees the kitchen.
“I have been a participant in Masters of Taste for the past two years and it is spectacular. Cooking and serving people on the field of the Rose Bowl could be a once in a lifetime dream, but I have been lucky enough to get to do it for the past two years, and this year, the honor to be able to formally host the event,” says Hung. “And, while the festivities are amazing, what is most impressive is that Masters of Taste donates 100% of proceeds from this event to Union Station Homeless Services each year. Homelessness deserves our attention, focused work and finances, and Union Station Homeless Services and Masters of Taste are truly leaders in helping those who are in need.”
Masters of Taste 2019 will bring over 2,500 food and beverage enthusiasts together from all over Greater Los Angeles for one afternoon to celebrate this exhilarating festival, which will include the finest fare from over 95 Culinary Masters and restaurants, delectable sweets prepared by L.A.’s top Sweet Masters, top Beverage Masters who will be featuring signature handcrafted cocktail tastings from over 25 spirit brands and bars, a premier 50-Yard-Line Cocktail Bar featuring top Mixologists from four of L.A.’s most distinguished drinking destinations, select wineries, local craft breweries, cold-pressed juices, cold brew coffee, live entertainment and much, much more.
Guests can expect bites from: Faith & Flower, 1212 Santa Monica, Alexander’s Steakhouse,, Ayara Thai, Bacchus Kitchen, Claude & Co., Bistro Mon Cheri, Bone Kettle and more.
100% of the proceeds from Masters of Taste 2019 will directly benefit Union Station Homeless Services, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to helping homeless men, women and children rebuild their lives. In the last three years Masters of Taste has raised over $1.5 Million in support of Union Station’s life-saving programs.
A VIP Power Hour will be held from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm and General Admission will be from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Tickets are still available, be sure to grab yours now as this is the culinary event of the year.
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Mar 24 Coconut Cartel at The Jim and Neesie : Come For the Food & Drinks But Stay For the Vibe
Mar 14 The Red Chickz - Bringing a New Wave of Heat to DTLA
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Lew Lehman (I) (1933–2000)
Actor | Writer | Director
Lew Lehman was born on April 8, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Lewis W. Lehman. He was an actor and writer, known for The Pit (1981), Phobia (1980) and The Killing Machine (1994). He died on March 25, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. See full bio »
April 8, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
March 25, 2000 (age 66) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Drive-In Dust Offs: The Pit (1981)
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2000-2009 RIP
How much of Lew Lehman's work have you seen?
The Pit Director
Phobia Writer
The Killing Machine Older Man
Killers of the Wild Writer
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1999 Felicity's View (Short)
1994 Death Junction
1994 The Killing Machine
Older Man
1994 Avonlea (TV Series)
Bigwig #2
- Someone to Believe In (1994) ... Bigwig #2
1980 Phobia (screenplay)
1977 Killers of the Wild (Documentary)
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1981 The Pit
Father of Jennifer Lehman.
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Daily Graphic Editorials
We must train good leaders now
BY: Daily Graphic
Date: Jul 17 , 2019 , 11:38
Africa's development challenges have been blamed on the lack of a leadership that will take bold, selfless decisions to continue the work started by leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
We have capability of steering economy
In 2001, Ghana, after an objective analysis of the economic situation, took the bold decision to opt for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative as an opportunity to take a breather to pursue medium to long-term economic goals to place the country on an even keel.
Kejetia market must set the standard
In 2015, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), backed by the central government, took the bold decision to reconstruct the Kejetia Lorry Terminal into a modern market edifice to accommodate more shops for traders, as well as serve as a lorry terminal.
Pavements for pedestrians, streets for moving vehicles
BY: Vicky Wireko
Except for few instances where due to the unavailability of off-street parking lots, city authorities designate some areas for on-street parking, the general rule is that streets in cities must be freed for vehicular movements in both directions.
Keep the surveillance on polio
Poliomyelitis, also known as polio, is a highly infectious viral disease that mainly affects children.
EC must be supported to deliver
BY: Dr G. Nasser Adam
Years into the Fourth Republic and the conduct of seven presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as countless political party, district and local level polls, many Ghanaians still view the Electoral Commission (EC) with some level of suspicion.
African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat is here
The quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) begin on an explosive note today when three-time champions, Nigeria, come up against another former champion, South Africa, each aiming to move a step closer to lifting the trophy.
We must take personal safety, security seriously
Living things, especially animals, have the innate ability to directly perceive, feel or know of activities around them.
The traffic lights are still down
Chaos on our roads will be unimaginable if there is nothing to regulate pedestrian and vehicular movement.
We’re focusing on regions
Ghana owes its strength, opportunities and successes to the rich human and material resources that abound in the land.
The Diaspora has a lot to offer
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade has been described as one of the most dehumanising endeavours in human history.
GPHA workers’ concerns must be brought to finality
Workers of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) yesterday blocked access to the Tema Port in protest against alleged attempts by the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to direct Meridian Ports Services (MPS) to retain refrigerated imports at the new port.
We must do more for the aged
Today is Republic Day, a day that commemorates the creation of an Executive President and the coming into effect of a new Republican Constitution.
Tomorrow, June 30, marks Martyrs Day, a day set aside to commemorate the bestial and gruesome murder of three High Court judges together with a retired military officer. Unarguably, that incident has become one of the black spots and a blot on the conscience of this country.
Make IDIF beginning of industrialisation drive
The demand for Africa’s agro-processed commodities is causing developing countries, including Ghana, to shift capital, labour and entrepreneurship away from informal employment into the industrial sector.
EC must crack whip to sanitise political space
The 1992 Constitution encourages the formation of political parties.
Factor population issues into devt planning
Development planning can take different modes and have various facets, but whether it is on the individual, professional, urban or country level, it cannot be done independent of the person.
More of such Supreme Court rulings
In 2009, on the assumption of power by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a rector of the Ghana Institute of Journalism was asked to return to duty.
Let the brotherly love exist
Ghana-Nigeria relations date back to the colonial era when descendants of Hausas from Nigeria were brought to the Gold Coast by the British government to fight the Ashantis.
District League Table a call to work harder
The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD)-Ghana and UNICEF yesterday released the 2018/19 District League Table (DLT) for metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs).
30% gold processing can propel development
The history of mining and its economic significance to the country stretches over a century.
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Daines looks to make history; Curtis tries to hold line
Daines looks to be first Republican in 100 years to fill Montana seat in U.S. Senate
Daines looks to make history; Curtis tries to hold line Daines looks to be first Republican in 100 years to fill Montana seat in U.S. Senate Check out this story on greatfallstribune.com: http://gftrib.com/1xF2ZNQ
John S. Adams Published 10:00 p.m. MT Oct. 11, 2014 | Updated 10:55 p.m. MT Oct. 11, 2014
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HELENA – Not since Joseph Dixon held it more than 100 years ago has a Republican sat in the Montana U.S. Senate seat up for grabs this election season.
When longtime Democratic stalwart Sen. Max Baucus bowed out of his reelection bid last year to take a post as the U.S. ambassador to China, Republicans zeroed in their best shot in nearly two decades at winning back the seat.
Not since former Lt. Gov. Denny Rehberg challenged Baucus in 1996 have Republicans come close to unseating the Democrat. Rehberg lost his bid that year by just under 5 percent of the vote.
On Nov. 4 Republican Congressman Steve Daines hopes to do what no other living Republican has managed to do, and in the process help Republicans reclaim the U.S. Senate.
To do that Daines, 52, will have to defeat upstart Democratic hopeful Amanda Curtis, a one-term State House representative from Butte who joined the race late after Democratic nominee Sen. John Walsh bowed out in August amid a plagiarism scandal.
"I remember in 1979, I was a junior at Bozeman High School, I was a Boys State delegate in Dillon, and Max Baucus was our newly elected United States Senator and the keynote speaker," Daines recalled. "I don't think Montanans focus on whether there's an 'R' or a 'D' on the name on that ballot. They want to see 'MT' behind that name."
By all account Curtis' campaign faces a steep uphill battle.
Curtis, a 35-year-old math teacher, sought the party's nomination at a special nominating convention on 16, a mere 80 days before the Nov. 4 election. Prior to her nomination Curtis was preparing for the start of school year.
"This is not anything I thought I would end up doing," Curtis said. "When I was asked to run for the state legislature I was convinced to take that position as a community service. I am doing the same thing now; I see the opportunity to be the voice in Washington, D.C. for families just like mine."
Curtis frames the race as choice between someone who will represent working class families and someone who will represent the interests of the rich and powerful.
"You can look at Congressman Daines' voting record and see that he is out of touch with working families in Montana," Curtis said. "I'm not attacking him personally, I'm pointing to his horrible voting record."
Curtis blasts Daines for voting to turn Medicare into a voucher system, voting against funding for the Violence Against Women Act, and supporting a Republican Party Platform resolution to urge the federal government to turn over federally managed public lands to the states, which the Democrat says will lead to selling off public land to private interests.
"It shows he's out of touch with most working families in the state," Curtis said. "Most working families in the state can't go on vacation unless they have access to public lands."
Daines says Curtis' attacks ring hollow. He says his family tree in Montana grew from humble roots, starting with his great, great grandmother, who homesteaded near Conrad as a widow with seven children. Daines said the
"I grew up in the construction business, my mom and dad started up a construction business there in Bozeman, and that's how I spent my summers growing up," Daines said. "I grew up in the trades and I understand the importance of good, high-paying jobs in Montana."
Daines said a lot is at stake for Montana come November. Daines took a swing at the ball President Barack Obama last week generously teed up for Republicans when he stated publicly his "policies are on the ballot" come November.
"Montanans want someone to stand up against the policies of President Obama," Daines said. "We need to move our Montana policies forward instead of president Obama's policies."
Most political watchers have declared Montana's Senate race a safe Republican pickup in November. Daines, a sitting congressman with the advantage of statewide name recognition and access to political donors' deep pockets, raised more than $1.8 million for his campaign between July and Sept and had $1.6 million on hand for the final month of the race.
Curtis, who has been on campaign trail for little more than 55 days, had raised $500,000, according to her campaign.
Libertarian candidate Roger Roots is also on the ballot, though his campaign has not raised enough money to meet the minimum Federal Elections Commission reporting threshold.
If Democrats are going to keep the seat and cling to control of the U.S. Senate, then Curtis will have to surprise the pundits and political prognosticators who have all but declared Daines the victor.
Curtis says she's not afraid of the tough odds she faces in the race.
"The distinction is looking at a voting record of someone who has not stood up for Montana families, and instead has given them extreme representation by a person who is out of touch with what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck in the state of Montana and are really one catastrophe away from bankruptcy, and a high school math teacher who has gotten into politics as a community service and who has lived and breathed these issues," Curtis said. "I really do see this as a community service that I've been asked to do and I'm all for it, I'm in it to win it, and I'm working my butt off every day."
For more stories from the Tribune's 2014 Voters' Guide, check out our Montana Politics page.
Q&A with Democrat Amanda Curtis
If elected, would you support the implementation plan the Department of Defense is currently pursuing for New START? Would you support further nuclear reduction?
New START's goal of limiting the amount of nuclear weapons that could fall into the wrong hands is an important way of improving Americans' security at home and abroad. However, we must make sure that the reduction is implemented evenly so that one installation and the jobs it supports are not unfairly affected.
To what do you attribute the widening income gap between the rich and the poor, what would you do as a Senator to work to close that gap?
Over the last few decades, the tax burden has shifted from corporations to the middle class. The wealth gap is a result of giving tax breaks to the wealthiest and corporations while attempting to balance the budget by cutting vital services to students, seniors and veterans. It is further proof that Washington isn't working for our working families.
I will work to close corporate tax loopholes, fight to make sure women earn equal pay for equal work, and raise the minimum wage so families can spend money in local businesses and help create local jobs.
What is your position on cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, and other policies proposed to address global climate change—and what steps should we take to improve our ability to tackle challenges such as climate change that cross state and national boundaries?
Whatever the causes of climate change are, scientists agree that it is happening and we have a responsibility to ourselves and future generations to reduce its impacts. Both sides of the aisle should be working together to map out a plan for investing in alternative, clean energy and developing the technology that will reduce carbon emissions from traditional sources of energy like coal, natural gas and oil.
The Berkeley Pit, which is currently 1,053 feet deep and contains more than 43 billion gallons of toxic water, looms at the headwaters of the Clark Fork and the Columbia River Basin. In fewer than 10 years the water levels are expected to reach the "critical level" and at that point pumping and treating of pit water will begin in perpetuity. What would you do as a Senator to address this urgent situation?
The Berkeley Pit and Silver Bow Creek are the headwaters of the Columbia River and this issue needs to be dealt with without delay. The water entering Silver Bow creek should be capable of supporting wildlife like cutthroat trout, and the current water treatment plant is incapable of proper discharge standards. As our next United States Senator, I will fight to fund the necessary upgrades to the current treatment plant. We should also invest in research and development at schools like Montana Tech in Butte to find cost-effective technologies to mine the heavy metals in the Berkeley Pit water.
Should Americans have to pay fees to access public lands to do things such as hike, fish, camp or hunt?
We should not have to pay fees to access our public lands. Our public lands belong to all of us and Montanans are already facing increasing obstacles to access their favorite places to hunt, fish, hike and camp. Rather, we should push for a more responsible Congress that gives our public lands managers the resources that they need to be managed effectively to ensure that middle class families aren't responsible for picking up the tab when they show up to enjoy our outdoor places.
What should be done in Congress to protect Social Security for today's seniors and ensure that the program remains viable for future generations?
Hard-working Montanans have paid into Social Security for decades and should be able to retire with dignity. I will work to prevent Social Security from being privatized so that it remains viable for today's seniors and future generations. The best way to keep Social Security viable is to eliminate the payroll tax cap loophole that allows high-income earners to pay less than their fair share into Social Security.
What policies or principles do you support to strengthen Medicare?
I will oppose any plan that turns Medicare into a voucher program. I will fight to keep Medicare solvent by directing the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers to reduce the costs seniors pay for prescriptions. And I will work to eliminate improper Medicare payments that cost taxpayers billions of dollar every year.
Do you support repeal of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare?
The Affordable Care Act is saving lives in Montana. No one should be denied access to healthcare because of a pre-existing condition. Instead of voting over 40 times to repeal the law, we should work together to reduce costs and delay of care so that Montanans can access the affordable health care they deserve. The ACA provided for Medicaid Expansion in Montana, and the last Legislature missed the boat when they refused to approve Medicaid expansion. We should expand Medicaid in Montana instead of sending our tax dollars to other states.
Do you support turning federal land over to states?
Turning our federal lands over to state management is just the first step toward privatization. Montanans do an excellent job of managing our state lands, but we simply cannot afford the additional cost of managing the millions of acres in Montana that are federally managed. With the first fire season, our state would be forced to sell off those lands and Montanans would be barred from access our best outdoor places.
Do you believe corporations and unions should have the same rights as individual citizens when it comes to political spending?
Montanans know that corporations are not people and the money is not speech. I support overturning the disastrous Citizens United decision that allowed dark money to flood our airwaves during election season.
What is the root cause of inaction in Congress? Where should Americans place the blame for partisan stalemate?
There is a disconnect between working families and our representatives in Congress because people are disengaged and extremists get elected who don't share our values. I will represent working families and work across the aisle to bridge the partisan divide and get things done.
Q&A with Republican Steve Daines
I've successfully fought to prevent the Obama administration from unilaterally reducing our nation's nuclear arsenal and worked to protect the nuclear mission at Malmstrom. I've also led efforts to maintain ICBM silos in warm status and to prohibit an environmental impact study on our ICBMs, which could serve as a backdoor attempt for the Obama administration to unilaterally reduce the nation's ICBM fleet.
I oppose the President's proposal to reduce the United States' nuclear arsenal beyond levels decided under the New START treaty. Given the growing global threats to our nation's security, maintaining a strong nuclear deterrent is becoming more important—not less. Our "peace through strength" strategy and our strong nuclear defenses have played a critical role in maintaining peace across the world. We must ensure the United States maintains maximum flexibility to respond to nuclear threats.
The downturn in the economy hit many Montana families hard, and it's taken far too long for our economy to recover. We need more, better-paying jobs, so Montanans don't need to leave our state to find work and so that Montana families can get back on their feet. I spent 28 years in business, including 12 years at a Bozeman tech start-up called RightNow Technologies, where I helped the company grow and create new good-paying Montana jobs. RightNow grew into Bozeman's largest commercial employer with over 1,000 employees.
During my time in business I witnessed firsthand that many of the bright spots in our economy are being threatened by overreaching federal regulations that directly threaten thousands of middle class, family wage jobs. Washington-driven policies that create more red tape, hinder resource development, and force more costs on Montana small businesses to pay for Obamacare. In Montana, many of our rural communities and reservations are facing double-digit unemployment. These are the same areas where responsibly managing our forests and developing our natural resources could create hundreds of good-paying Montana jobs—yet senseless Washington regulations are holding these jobs back. Montanans working in our timber and coal industries make around $65,000 – $87,000 a year. That's why I'm fighting for commonsense policies that grow our economy and create jobs—solutions like building the Keystone XL Pipeline or increasing active management of our National Forests.
Montana has earned the nicknames "the Big Sky State" and "the Treasure State" for a reason. Our mountains and rivers, our clear blue skies and our unmatched public lands are an important part of our state's heritage and our way of life. Montanans know better than anyone how to best protect these precious resources—and we also know that protecting our environment and growing our economy isn't an "either – or" choice. We can have both.
Montanans know the importance of our natural resources industries to our state's economy. Our energy sector supports thousands of good-paying Montana jobs and helps keep energy prices low for Montana families.
That's why we must be mindful of the consequences of policies that affect Montana jobs, energy prices and the economy. President Obama's war on coal and cap-and-trade policies threaten nearly 5,000 Montana jobs and would cause Montana's electricity prices to skyrocket-- while having little to no impact reducing global carbon emissions.
In fact, Washington regulations aimed at Montana's resource development industry are pushing business to other countries with far lower standards. Technology improvements and self-imposed regulations are already improving Montana's coal and energy standards while keeping jobs in Montana.
I support an all-of-the-above energy approach to securing American energy independence that includes alternative sources of energy—hydropower, wind, and solar—along with coal, oil, and natural gas. It's also long-past time we approve the Keystone XL pipeline to create good-paying Montana jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
I believe protecting public health and safety is of the utmost importance. As a Superfund site, I will continue to work closely with the Environmental Protection Agency and other stakeholders to help ensure that a forward-looking, effective strategy is in place to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts at Berkeley Pit. The EPA has affirmed to me their confidence in their mitigation plan and the proven technology that would be used to safely and responsibly discharge the water when the time is necessary. As a U.S. Senator, I will monitor this matter closely and fight to safeguard public health and protect nearby waterways.
As a fifth generation Montanan and sportsman, I know the importance of Montana's outdoor heritage and our public lands, and strongly believe we must ensure Montanans have access our public lands. I will not support any proposals that would reduce Montanans' access to our public lands and will continue fighting for solutions that increase and protect Montanans' access to our public lands.
Unfortunately, nearly two million acres of Montana public lands are completely inaccessible to the public. That's why I introduced the "Making Public Lands Public Access Act," which utilizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to increase Montanans' opportunities to enjoy and access our public lands.
I've also introduced bipartisan legislation to protect some of Montana's most special places—like the East Rosebud Creek near the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, and the North Fork of the Flathead River near Glacier National Park. And in the wake of a Forest Service rule that could have placed senseless costs and restrictions on Montana journalists seeking to take photos in Wilderness Areas, I called on the Forest Service to address Montanans' concerns that the fees could inhibit Montanans access to our public lands.
As a society, we have a responsibility to keep the promises that have been made to our seniors. Social Security provides critical support to seniors and people with disabilities and I will work to ensure Montana seniors receive the benefits they have earned.
While protecting the Social Security guarantee for today's seniors and near retirees, I also am committed to working toward commonsense reforms that ensure these important programs are secured for future generations.
The first step toward safeguarding the Social Security guarantee for future generations is putting more Americans back to work. Our economy continues to underperform, which reduces revenues going into the Social Security Trust Fund. We need to enact policies that promote job creation and encourage work to get our economy back to strong employment levels. In addition, Social Security is structured to provide lower and middle-income individuals with a larger share of their earnings when they retire. We should consider ways to expand on this principle to keep the program strong and solvent for our children and grandchildren.
I will stand strong against any efforts to change Medicare for today's seniors and those near retirement—that's one reason why I'm fighting to repeal Obamacare, which cut more than $700 billion from Medicare to pay for the health care law's increased costs. Additionally, more than 30,000 Montana seniors could have faced up to a $180 cut every year to their Medicare Advantage plan and thousands more may lose access to Medicare Advantage plans because of cuts made to pay for Obamacare.
I introduced the "Ensuring Medicaid and Medicare Access to Providers Act" to protect access to critical health care services for disabled, elderly and low-income Montanans by ensuring that businesses which provide services through Medicaid and Medicare do not face the crushing burden of Obamacare's employer mandate.
We need to address the enormous challenges facing Medicare, including the insolvency of Medicare Part A, so that the next generation can benefit from this program. We can do this by building on past bipartisan initiatives to enhance choice and competition. I believe we need to do this while keeping beneficiaries 55 and older exempt from changes. We should also ensure that government targets greater financial assistance to lower-income Americans by building on means-related policies that already exist in parts of Medicare.
Tens of thousands of Montanans have received cancellation notices for their health plans, small business owners in Montana are facing millions of dollars in new fees and compliance costs, and hardworking Montanans are seeing their hours cut or losing their jobs altogether.
From failed websites and security breaches, to the President's repeated efforts to change the law and grant exemptions for big business without any Congressional approval, it's clear that Obamacare is a deeply flawed law that needs to be repealed and replaced with Montana-driven solutions that lower costs and increase access to care.
That's why one of my first votes in Congress was to repeal Obamacare and allow the opportunity to work toward real reforms that put Montanans first.
We need reform that focuses on solutions- not more bureaucracy and red-tape. We should allow Montana small businesses to pool together and have the same health insurance buying power as large corporations. Montana families should be able to deduct their health care costs with a standard deduction. We need comprehensive tort reform and reforms that allow Montanans to purchase health insurance across state lines, expand access to Health Savings Accounts (HSA's) and provide greater investment for community health clinics.
With our national debt fast approaching eighteen trillion dollars, we simply cannot afford more irresponsible policies that increase our national debt, while failing to actually address the rising costs of healthcare.
Montana's public lands are an important part of our state's heritage, our economy, and our way of life. I will not support any proposals that would reduce Montanans' access to our public lands, nor will I support efforts that result in the sale of public lands that Montanans so greatly value.
The transfer of federally-owned land to the state is not feasible, but it is imperative that we to do a much better job managing our federal lands. We need more local and state control of our federal lands. The worsening health of Montana's forests has resulted in increased risk of catastrophic wildfires. The economies in our forested counties are suffering and have some of the highest unemployment rates in Montana due to the dramatic increase in federal regulations and litigation from fringe groups.
That's why I supported a bipartisan provision in the Farm Bill that allowed states to identify priority landscapes for active management and restoration to address the dwindling health of Montana forests suffering from beetle kill. With support from Senators Tester and Walsh and myself, Governor Bullock nominated five million acres of public land in Montana for prioritized management. Additionally, legislation I've helped introduced (H.R. 1526) includes a provision that allows for states and locals to manage certain areas of federal forestland. Montanans know that the federal government is not effectively managing many of our public lands, and we deserve better.
Montanans are frustrated by the cost of elections and amount of money in campaigns— but we also know that free speech for all is critical to a free society. From the IRS targeting Americans based on their political beliefs to the recent wiretapping of AP journalists, Montanans have seen first hand the risk of big government to our freedom of speech. I respect the role that the Supreme Court holds in protecting our First Amendment rights and believe that this decision was made with that protection in mind.
Montanans agree: Washington is broken, and it needs to change. Washington has become a town that promotes all the wrong behavior and all the wrong people at the expense of hard-working taxpayers. It is no accident that Washington, D.C. has emerged from the recession better than any other region in the country. Inaction is rewarded, and politics trump finding solutions.
We need to bring accountability to Washington. That's one of the reasons I introduced the "Balanced Budget Accountability Act," which simply states that if members of Congress don't do their job and pass a balanced budget, they shouldn't get paid.
These principles reflect the way we do things in Montana—and they stand in stark contrast with the Senate, where Democrats have decided that the American people don't deserve a budget at all.
The Senate's inaction is sadly part of a larger trend. In the past year and a half, the House passed more than 350 bills — many with bipartisan support — of which the Senate refuses to even take up for a vote. We need new leadership in the U.S. Senate
Q & A with Libertarian Roger Roots
I believe the U.S. Defense Department is greatly over funded. In the Senate I will vote to cut military spending deeply. No enemy on earth believes they can nuke the U.S. without committing immediate suicide, and this would be true even if the U.S. reduced its nukes by 75 percent.
This widening gap is not nearly as big of a problem as it seems. The economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out that "the rich" and "the poor" are actually the same people at different stages of their lives. (Most Americans begin their working lives in 'the poor' income quintile and finish their working lives in either of the top two income quintiles.) Thus we should all cheer when we hear that the "gap between rich and poor" is growing; it means we can expect to be even wealthier when we reach retirement! To the extent that this gap reflects non-age-related disparities, it is mostly due to government barriers that keep poor people from entering rewarding careers and occupations. Consider the high cost and licensing barriers associated with becoming a barber: a poor person must first attend 1500 hours of State-approved "instruction"! It is all so unnecessary.
I am a science buff and I love reading about scientific studies and theories. The global-warming alarmists have not proven their case (despite the claims of some politicians). The best evidence is that humans account for only a small percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There is nothing I could do as a U.S. Senator to 'set' the global thermometer for the people of the planet earth. Moreover, it would be quite presumptuous for me (or the U.S. for that matter) to control the global thermometer of the people of the world. Knowing that government tends to fail at everything it tries, I shudder at the notion!
One thing is for certain: if the private sector were unleashed on this problem, the problem would be solved very quickly and easily. In any case, it is a state matter, not a federal matter. As a U.S. Senator, I will do absolutely nothing regarding this. Indeed I will oppose any effort in the U.S. Senate to "solve" this problem by using the federal government.
Libertarians tend to support user fees and access fees instead of taxing people who do not use government facilities. In fact, money raised from user fees tends to reflect the actual value of such goods and services. Montanans should remember that millions of Americans—including poor Americans—who live on the east coast or in faraway places must now pay to subsidize and maintain the beautiful public lands we have in Montana. We in Montana are living subsidized lives, and we should think about this before we place any heavier burdens on taxpayers far away. (I recognize that my answer may not sit well with some Montanans.)
Social Security is a very popular program, but a deeply-flawed one as well. It takes money from poor people and transfers it to richer people. It takes money from Blacks and minorities (who have lower average life expectancies) and transfers it to white people. Economic studies repeatedly establish that Social Security is also simply a bad investment; people who invested the same money in the stock market or other investments would generally have much more money upon reaching retirement. I would work to gradually abolish Social Security (after paying all benefits to those expecting them), by allowing young workers to opt out of the program.
Medicare, Obamacare and Medicaid all produce the same result: they increase demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise. Medicare is responsible for driving up health care costs faster than the rate of inflation every year for more than thirty years. In the Senate I will work constantly to limit and ultimately abolish Medicare and all other government interventions in health care. If we unleashed the power of capitalism and free enterprise on health care, we would all be healthier, and prices would quickly come down so that the poorest among us could afford quality health care. Look at telecommunications. Look at computer technology. Prices have gone down while quality has gone up. The same would be true if we unleashed the power of capitalism on health care.
I will work constantly to repeal Obamacare. The reason that the political system is so obsessed with 'insurance' and not the actual goods and services is that government meddling has caused the price of medical goods and services to rise through the roof. I would deregulate health care and get the government out of it as much as possible. In an ideal world, people should be able to be uninsured. When medical needs arise they should be able to negotiate deals with providers and lenders in the same way they negotiate deals when their cars break down unexpectedly. This would happen if prices were lower. Government meddling has driven health care costs artificially high, and I will work to deregulate American health care.
There is no question that current federal lands are retained by the U.S. government unconstitutionally. Just read the Constitution, which describes with great specificity how the federal government is supposed to acquire land. Current federal lands were generally not acquired by the federal government in this constitutionally-described manner. Having said this, the National Forest system and BLM lands around us have been under federal control for so long that they have acquired a sort of 'grandfathered' status. As a libertarian, I am equally suspicious of both federal and state governments when it comes to control of public lands. I am more in favor of auctioning some parcels of federal lands to the private sector in a manner similar to the Homestead Acts. And I believe this will actually become necessary to pay off the massive entitlement debts that Republicans and Democrats have irresponsibly run up.
This is a 'red herring' issue. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case in 2010, it was faced with claims by the Federal Election Commission that the Commission had power to ban books and videos under "campaign finance" laws. This of course is a plain violation of fundamental First Amendment principles. Since the Citizens United ruling, it has become common for certain special interests (many who actually call themselves liberals) to falsely claim that the Supreme Court proclaimed that 'corporations are people,' and to push for an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the decision. This movement is very dangerous, and strikes at the heart of Americans' abilities to challenge government by printing, broadcasting, and raising money. Government already has too much power over elections. It should be made easier, not harder, for Americans to challenge government by mounting ad campaigns in every way possible.
Americans should cheer that there is a "stalemate," because it means that Congress is not passing as many stupid and unnecessary laws as it has in the past. The sad reality is that the two big-government parties are in complete agreement with each other over 95 percent of all issues. Both Democrats and Republicans have pushed the government further and further into our private affairs and our daily lives. Thank God there appears to be something of a stalemate in Congress at the moment. The greater danger occurs when both houses of Congress are aligned, and the President is of like persuasion. It was just such an environment that gave us Obamacare, the Patriot Act, Medicare Part D, and many other terrible programs and laws.
Amanda Curtis
Office sought: U.S. senator
Political party: Republican
Birthdate and place: September 10, 1979 in Billings, MT
Home: Butte
Occupation: Teacher
Family: Husband, Kevin.
Professional experience: Teacher, Butte Central Catholic High School, 2004-2006; teacher, Helena Middle School, 2006-2009; teacher Butte High School, 2009-present.
Military experience: none
Political experience: Served one term in the Montana House of Representatives representing HD 76 in Butte, 2013-2014.
Civic club membership: Butte America Foundation, president; Central Southwestern Montana Central Labor Committee, delegate.
Campaign website: amandaformontana.com
Birthdate and place: Aug. 20, 1962, Van Nuys, Calif.
Home: Bozeman
Occupation: U.S. Congressman, businessman
Family: Wife, Cindy, and four children: David, Annie, Michael and Caroline.
Professional experience: Vice President, RightNow Technologies in Bozeman; Clair Daines Construction; Procter and Gamble.
Military experience: None.
Political experience: Unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor in 2008 on Republican gubernatorial candidate Roy Brown's ticket. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012.
Campaign website: SteveDaines.com
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No 100 Republic F-84F
No.100 in the Warpaint series
By Charles Stafrace
Launched at SMW, Telford November 8th 2014
Republic F-84F Thunderstreak and RF-84F Thunderflash
Fraught with engine and aerodynamic teething problems that resulted in its missing the Korean War for which it was intended, the F-84F Thunderstreak, initially seen as languishing in the shadow of the more well-known and proven F-86 Sabre, matured to become a formidable fighter-bomber that served not only with the USAF's Tactical and Strategic Air Commands, but also with numerous European air forces for many of which it also offered the first experience in swept wing jet fighter operation. It provided a much-needed deterrent during the critical early years of the Cold War and the 1960s, especially with NATO air forces, where it normally replaced its straight-wing predecessor, the F-84 Thunderjet.
No fewer than 2,711 examples of the Thunderstreak were built, so that for a time it was the fighter most in widespread use in Europe, becoming the backbone of the Alliance's combat element. In contrast, its service with the USAF was rather short-lived when newer fighters such as the F-100 Super Sabre and F-4 Phantom with superior and supersonic performance supplanted it in service. However, with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, when these modern fighters and the USAF's other more valuable combat aircraft were deployed to Southeast Asia, the USAF recalled the Thunderstreak for another spell of frontline service in defence of mainland United States.
It was only the French who used it in anger when it carried out strikes on Egyptian targets during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Sharing the Thunderstreak's main characteristics including its vices and virtues, its offshoot, the RF-84F Thunderflash, was considered to be the best photo-reconnaissance fighter of its time, capable of carrying six cameras in its abundant nose in 15 different combinations. The Thunderflash, too, was exported to most of NATO's air forces, as well as to the Republic of China Air Force where it carried out routine overflights over mainland Communist China in a hostile environment. The French, too, used it in a firing war, again in Suez, while the Turkish Air Force similarly employed it during its brief war with Greece in 1974.
Again, the advent of such types as the RF-101 recce Voodoo and the RF-4C Phantom replaced it in USAF service, while the F-104 was the type that most replaced it in NATO air arms. But both the Thunderstreak and Thunderflash remained in service for a long period in some of the European air forces, the last Thunderflash being retired from the Greek Air Force in 1991.
This latest Warpaint title gives an account of these two types' service, with detailed lists of serials, squadron service, production and variants in 80 pages of text accompanied by no fewer than 190 colour and B&W photos, eight pages of colour artwork by and foldout scale drawings, describing the development and operational career of these remarkable aircraft. This book is written by Charles Stafrace and is superbly illustrated by Richard J.Caruana.
Stock code: WPT100
UK: 1.65
Europe: 6.55
US/Canada: 9.85
Rest of the world: 10.70
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06/05/2014 07:37 am ET Updated Jun 05, 2014
One Year After Edward Snowden's Leaks, Government Claims Of Damage Leave Public In Dark
By Matt Sledge
U.S. officials have not been shy in claiming fallout from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's leaks.
"I think it’s the greatest damage to our combined nations’ intelligence systems that we have ever suffered," former NSA Director Keith Alexander told an Australian newspaper. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the revelations caused "profound damage." And House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) claimed the disclosures "are likely to have lethal consequences for our troops in the field.”
But the U.S. government has revealed little to back up these catastrophic-sounding generalizations, saying it wants to keep further details about its intelligence sources and methods from the public. So, one year to the day after Snowden's first leaks were revealed, Americans are forced into a strange balancing act -- weighing whatever good the leaks generated in revealing the vast reach of government spying against unsupported official claims of harm to measures meant to protect the nation.
"If after a year, they can't show a single individual who's been harmed in any way by this reporting, is it really so grave? Is it really so serious?" Snowden asked in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams that aired last week. "The possibility exists, and if this has caused some serious harm, I personally would like to know about it."
Getting the facts has been hindered by government agencies whose chiefs made those dire-sounding statements about the Snowden leaks. Contacted by HuffPost, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and State Department all declined to provide additional detail on their claims of damage.
The DIA did release portions of its assessment of how Snowden's leaks affected military operations after a Freedom of Information Act request from the Guardian newspaper. But the document was heavily redacted and the DIA withheld 27 of its 39 pages.
The explanation for those redactions and for the agencies' reluctance to reveal more is relatively straightforward: Laying out what Snowden wrought would risk revealing more sensitive secrets, the agencies say.
"It would not be in the best interest of our National Security and efforts to fight terrorism for us to educate -- thru the media -- terrorist on the changes we might be seeing in their communications," Gene Barlow, spokesman for the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, said in an emailed statement.
"We constantly look for opportunities to share with Americans what collection we’ve lost, but are wary of doing further damage to collection that we need to regain," Barlow added. "We do however, continue to work with our Congressional oversight to make sure they have visibility into the damage done by the leaker."
But Congress has been of little help in explaining to the public what damage -- if any -- Snowden has done. In fact, Foreign Policy reported in January that the only reason the White House declassified small portions of the DIA report was so that Rogers and other members of Congress could discredit Snowden. Spokespersons for Rogers and for Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) failed to respond to requests for more information.
What few details the public knows about the alleged Snowden damage have come from sources outside the government. U.S. cloud computing companies may lose an estimated $35 billion in business from customers abroad, concerned NSA spying compromises their security. U.S. diplomatic relations with Brazil and Germany have been frayed by the news that the NSA spied on their leaders. Both of those countries are generally still aligned with U.S. because of their basic interests -- so it's far from clear that the fallout will last.
More difficult to ascertain, and more important, is whether terrorists are changing tactics. If they are using tougher encryption, or switching from easily intercepted digital communications altogether, they may be going dark to the NSA and other government spy agencies. And that could mean -- theoretically -- that it is harder to stop attack on troops in places like Afghanistan.
"To the extent that this is true, it means that valuable intelligence that might have been collected using these methods will not be available," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. "That is a presumptive future harm, but also a plausible one, I would say."
U.S. rivals, including Russia and China, may have been alerted via the Snowden leaks to U.S. cyber-intelligence operations against them -- although those countries were presumably well aware of such operations before.
Damage also may take the form of allies choosing not to cooperate with U.S. surveillance of potential terrorists. Reporting by The New York Times suggests efforts to strengthen intelligence cooperation between the U.S. and Germany have stumbled since the Snowden leaks.
"One of the reasons we have been successful over the past 12 years in reducing the threat is extensive international cooperation," former State Department official P.J. Crowley wrote in an email. "If the political fallout from these disclosures causes some of our allies to pull back cooperation, then that too would have an impact."
Crowley suggested that one way Americans could think of the Snowden leaks is in terms of future risk, rather than present known harms. "A lot will depend on the extent to which adversaries exploit what they have learned from him," he said. "We are a long ways from being out of the woods."
Snowden's supporters, on the other hand, say the government owes citizens more than hypotheticals about future damage. They also say they believe there is ample reason to believe official claims exaggerate any damage. One need look no further, they said, than WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence soldier now imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act.
Manning was arrested in 2010, and U.S. officials, including Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested Manning had blood on her hands for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents. But testimony at Manning's 2013 trial revealed that prosecutors had little evidence to show that the leaks led to the deaths of U.S. service members or allies. Nothing presented in open court backed up Mullen's assertions.
Aftergood said he believes the government's damage claims could be investigated by Congress, the General Accountability Office, or an inspector general. Snowden's supporters would settle for anything.
"I haven't seen any concrete evidence," said Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, where Snowden is a board member. "So far, it's been all hypotheticals and bluster. We should always be open to the possibility that damage occurred. Just like we should be open to the possibility of weighing the public interest against that damage to decide."
Matt Sledge
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This June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee for the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)
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Black Sabbath: The End of The End
Documentaries, Music • Movie • 2017
Chronicles the final tour from Black Sabbath. On February 4th, 2017, Black Sabbath takes the stage in Birmingham, the city where it all began, to play...more
Chronicles the final tour from Black Sabbath. On February 4th, 2017, Black Sabbath takes the stage in Birmingham, the city where it all began, to play the 81st and final gig of the tour and bring down the curtain on a career that spanned almost half a century. The cameras are taken into the heart of the action, getting up close and personal with the band as they perform genre-defining hits, from 'Iron Man' to 'Paranoid' to 'War Pigs', among others. The special also features a studio performance of some of their songs not played on the tour.
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Tough Guys
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ISGC Undergraduate Research Fellow Shares Spacecraft Fuel Research on Capitol Hill
AMES, IA – Brandon Vance, an Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) undergraduate research fellow and Iowa State University student, recently presented his research at the Posters on the Hill event in Washington, D.C. The event is meant for members of Congress and their staff to learn more about the importance of undergraduate research by speaking directly with student researchers. Vance’s research focuses on the design of catalysts used to convert Mars’ natural resources into rocket fuel.
“I honestly loved presenting my research to the people I interacted with at the event. Practically everyone I talked to was excited and blown away by the work I had done. I felt absolutely joyous during the entire event because traditionally nontechnical individuals were actually investing their time and interest into my research and work,” said Vance.
Vance’s research is incredibly innovative. As space travel advances towards manned missions to Mars, a variety of challenges need to be addressed. One challenge being that it is unrealistic to send enough fuel aboard a spacecraft for a return trip. So, there needs to be a way to replenish the supply by creating fuel. This happens through a process called carbon dioxide methanation where catalysts are used to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas into methane fuel. Vance’s research dives into designing catalysts built to withstand Mars’ temperatures and improve their efficiency.
Vance displays the reactor that is the centerpiece of the catalysis process that can be used on the surface of Mars to create rocket fuel.
“The primary source of inspiration for my research is my belief that it is everyone’s duty to leave this world in a better state than when they entered it. I believe that I will have the greatest influence and broadest impact through my endeavors as a catalytic scientist and by communicating those results to a broad audience,” said Vance.
The ISGC has been the primary source of funding for Vance’s undergraduate research. Additionally, through ISGC funding he was able to attend several conferences across the United States to share his research with a variety of audiences.
“In short, I don’t think I would be as successful as I am if it wasn’t for the support from the ISGC,” said Vance.
Vance is one of many students the ISGC is proud to fund and encourage in their STEM education and career pursuits.
The Iowa Space Grant Consortium is a part of NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. The ISGC supports aerospace research, education and outreach activities for all Iowans through five program categories: internships/fellowships/scholarships; higher education; research infrastructure; precollege; and informal education. The ISGC carries out its goals with the help of six universities across the state of Iowa, as well as a number of private industry, education and government organizations, and science museums.
ISGC Accepting Applications for 2019-2020 Scholarships
ISGC has three scholarships available to undergraduate students. Scholarships are available for Research Fellowhips, Preservice Education, and merit.
The ISGC strives to improve Iowa’s future in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and provides outreach activities through numerous programs, including scholarships and fellowships.
The deadline to apply is June 30, 2019. For more information please visit: https://www.iaspacegrant.org/funding/undergrads/
ISGC Seeking Proposals for Curriculum Development Program
The Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) requests proposals for the curriculum development program which is to develop or utilize innovative approaches to improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning and instruction in a university setting through project based course development, capstone courses, curriculum or course redesign, and could include preservice education courses to prepare STEM K-12 educators. Such projects should provide experiences that will equip the future STEM workforce for careers in aerospace or related industries important to NASA.
If you or an educator/instructor you know is interested in an award of up to $10,000 for learning and instruction in a university setting, please apply for the curriculum development program. Deadline to apply is July 22, 2019. Details available at: https://www.iaspacegrant.org/funding/faculty/
2019-2020 Request for Proposals(PDF)
Former NASA Test Pilot “Fast Eddie” to Speak at Iowa State
A former NASA test pilot and 35-year veteran of military aviation, Ed “Fast Eddie” Schneider will share his knowledge and many experiences in a special guest appearance Friday, April 26.
A guest of the Department of Aerospace Engineering’s chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), he will present a lecture in 0010 Howe Hall at 6:00 p.m.
Ed “Fast Eddie” Schneider
Schneider’s presentation is titled, “The SR-71 Blackbird, a Research Pilot’s Perspective.” The presentation will cover a history of the triple-sonic Blackbird aircraft family, technical descriptions of the aircraft, and Schneider’s first-hand experience about what it’s like to fly at a speed of Mach 3 at 80,000 ft. A question and answer session will follow the lecture.
The lecture is open to all Iowa State University undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff.
Prior to the lecture, the AIAA will be holding a dinner for ISU aerospace engineering students, which can be registered for here.
Schneider became the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School’s youngest graduate at age 24 in 1973. He served on active duty in the U.S. Navy until joining NASA in 1983. At NASA, Schneider became an aerospace research pilot at the Dryden Flight Research Center from 1983-2000, and at the Johnson Space Center from 2000-2004. During his 18-year-career at Dryden, Schneider was best known for his work as project pilot for the F-18 High Alpha Research Vehicle over a nine-year span, becoming the first pilot in history to conduct multi-axis thrust vectored flight.
During his career Schneider flew over 7,800 hours in 80 types of aircraft, including the SR-71 Blackbird from 1994-1999.
Schneider flew projects on the SR-71 Blackbird from 1994-1999
Schneider is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and served as the organization’s President in 1993-94. He is also an inductee of the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame, and was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the agency’s highest award.
STEM on Station Seeks Proposals for Educational Downlink
STEM on Station, a NASA Office of STEM Engagement activity, is currently accepting proposals from United States educational organizations interested in hosting an In-flight Education Downlink. A downlink is a twenty-minute, live video question and answer session between an educational organization and an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
STEM on Station is currently accepting proposals for organizations to host a downlink during ISS Expeditions 61/62 which runs October 2019 to April 2020. Any interested organizations should submit the proposal (below), to JSC-downlinks@mail.nasa.gov. The deadline to apply is Monday, June 3.
Hosting an educational downlink provides a great opportunity to educational organizations looking to provide a unique, authentic experience to enhance their student’s learning, performance and interest in science.
Interested organizations are strongly encouraged to attend an online informational session:
Tuesday, April 9 at noon Central Time, https://zoom.us/j/151698891 (Audio only available by dialing: 1-929-436-2866 with a Meeting ID: 151 698 891)
Wednesday, May 1 at 3:30pm Central Time, https://zoom.us/j/309293519 (Audio only available by dialing: 1-929-436-2866 with a Meeting ID: 174 894 528)
Educational Downlink Proposal Form
Downlink Planning Guide
Iowa Space Grant Consortium Student Logo Contest
Current ISGC Logo
The Iowa Space Grant Consortium is looking for submissions for a new logo. The contest is open to students sponsored by ISGC and the deadline for submissions is May 11.
The logo should not be focused on any one Iowa academic institution, should be designed so that patches and pins could be created (max size 4in) without compromising detail, and should be representative of the state of Iowa and our work. Winners will be selected in the summer following the May 11 deadline.
Please direct any questions and/or final submissions to ISGC office at: isgc@iastate.edu.
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Rotterdam Food Bike Tour
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Explore Rotterdam in a culinary way
This tour is a great opportunity for everyone to explore Rotterdam in a culinary way - off the tourist track. People can learn about Dutch craftsmanship, indulge in a variety of foods and experience the history of central Rotterdam.
Tour operator: Inside Rotterdam
Location: Rotterdam
Departure point: Markthal
Duration / distance: 3,5 hrs
Languages: English, Dutch, others on request
Price: € 45,- p.p.
Minimum group size: 3
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In 3,5 hours your Rotterdam food expert will take you to 7 different tastings on 7 different locations in the centre of Rotterdam. All places were hand picked for their special story and delicious food, ranging from being home made, authentic, biological, of historical value or just typical Dutch.
Important Dutch food such as Dutch cheese, Dutch beer and Dutch cookies are covered. Numerous interesting Rotterdam highlights and historical facts along the way will be pointed out to you and questions will be enthusiastically answered. Bring an empty stomach!
7 tastings & stories
Discover the culinary side of Rotterdam
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Vera Farmiga to Star Opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Warner Bros.' 'The Judge' (Exclusive)
11:11 AM PDT 3/20/2013 by Borys Kit , Tatiana Siegel
Vera Farmiga, Robert Downey Jr.
David Dobkin is directing the dramedy, which counts Robert Duvall and Vincent D'Onofrio in its cast.
Vera Farmiga, hot off her debut in A&E’s Bates Motel, has been cast as the female lead opposite Robert Downey Jr. in The Judge, the Warner Bros. dramedy that David Dobkin is directing.
Downey stars as a successful attorney who returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral to discover that his estranged father (Robert Duvall), the town's judge, is suspected of murder. The man sets out to discover the truth, and along the way, reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
STORY: Robert Duvall Joins Robert Downey Jr. in 'The Judge'
Farmiga will play a waitress in the hometown who never left the small-town life and who has a history with Downey’s character.
Judge is a co-production between Team Downey and Big Kid Pictures. A Boston shoot beginning in June is being eyed.
Farmiga, who was nominated for an Oscar for her work in 2009’s Up in the Air, is receiving raves for her performance as Norman Bates’ mother in Bates Motel. The show premiered Monday, grabbing 3 million viewers and becoming A&E’s highest rated premiere with the coveted adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 demos.
The actress, repped by CAA, Authentic Talent and Peikoff Mahan, will next be seen starring in New Line’s horror thriller The Conjuring, which opens July 19.
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Home / Nomadic Peoples, Number 2, Winter 2010
The Rise of the 'traider': the Commercialization of Raiding in Karamoja
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Author: Eaton, Dave
Source: Nomadic Peoples, Number 2, Winter 2010, pp. 106-122(17)
Publisher: White Horse Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/np.2010.140207
The majority of published material on the commercialization of raiding in Karamoja deals with warlords or other elite conflict entrepreneurs. This article suggests that commercialization has also triggered profound changes at a more local level. Based on a range of interviews within the region, it will argue that commercial forces have made possible the rise of the 'traider'. 'Traiders', or livestock traders who were or are raiders themselves, use inside information to purchase stolen cattle from thieves immediately after an attack. Frustrated victims argue that 'traiders' can easily launder the proceeds of a theft, rendering the recovery of stolen cattle almost impossible. Unfortunately, the Ugandan state's punitive approach to law enforcement makes them ill-suited to the more sophisticated investigations necessary to capture 'traiders' and earn the trust of Karamoja's inhabitants.
Keywords: CATTLE RAIDING; COMMERCIALIZATION; KARAMOJA; PASTORALISM; POKOT
Nomadic Peoples is an international journal published by the White Horse Press for the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects. Its readership includes all those interested in nomadic peoples, scholars, researchers, planners and project administrators.
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Bill O'Riled: Fox News Host Fighting Mad as He Defends Network in Face of Megyn Kelly Allegations
12:52 PM PST, November 15, 2016 - Inside Edition
Playing Bill O'Reilly Rages On Live TV Defending Fox News After Megyn Kelly Allegations
Bill O’Reilly exploded on live TV as he came to the defense of Fox News Tuesday morning, saying it is “open season” on the network.
Read: Megyn Kelly Speaks Out About Donald Trump's Anger, Roger Ailes' Come Ons With Dr. Phil
“I’ve had enough of it!” The O'Reilly Factor host told CBS This Morning. “It's a good place to work, all right? We do good work! We do honest work!”
The former Inside Edition host vented his frustration after anchor Norah O’Donnell asked if he had read his colleague Megyn Kelly’s new book, Settle For More.
Meanwhile, Kelly has been making the rounds on morning TV, promoting her new book in which she says she was sexually harassed by former Fox News honcho Roger Ailes. Ailes denies the allegations.
And O'Reilly says it's time to put the Ailes scandal to rest.
“I'm not interested in litigating something that is finished that makes my network look bad, okay? I’m not interested in making my network look bad at all. That doesn't interest me one bit,” he said.
O’Donnell was stunned by the sudden outburst and began fanning herself with papers on her desk. O’Reilly began to ebb the situation by saying he's known O’Donnell for a long time and that she is Irish so she understands his temper. She said she was feeling the “Irish heat.”
O’Reilly said Kelly’s book does not interest him and it arrives as she is negotiating her Fox contract. Rumor has it that she wants to be on equal footing with him.
She danced around the topic on Good Morning America Tuesday morning, saying she "can easily stay at Fox. I can go anywhere I want.”
Kelly told GMA that she was “figuring out” whether she would stay at the network or not.
Fox and Friends co-anchor Ainsley Earhardt spoke about the Kelly situation to Inside Edition, saying: “We have moved on as a channel. The Murdoch’s have been extremely supportive of me and my career. I have had nothing but good experiences and sexual harassment is not tolerated."
Read: Megyn Kelly Claims Ex-Fox News Boss Roger Ailes Offered to Boost Her Career for 'Sexual Favors'
In Kelly's new book, she writes that she was upset when O'Reilly refused to cancel an interview with Trump after the president-elect attacked her on Twitter.
"I watched as O'Reilly apologized to Trump, extolled the virtues of ‘forgiveness’ and asked Trump to consider turning the other cheek. I felt a surge of anger and a surge of tears," she wrote.
Earhardt said she was “sorry to hear that,” adding, “I wish her well. I wish everyone at Fox well.”
Earhardt has a new children’s book out called Take Heart, My Child: A Mother's Dream, which is inspired by notes her dad wrote her as a child.
Watch: In Bizarre Interview, Newt Gingrich Tells Megyn Kelly: 'You Are Fascinated by Sex'
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CBC: Internet, phone bills in Canada too high, says consumer study
The federal government needs to take action to assess how escalating phone, internet and television bills are affecting Canadians, especially those earning the least income, a new study on affordability says.
Canadians are spending between $100 and $212 a month per household on communications services, according to the report issued Monday by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), an Ottawa-based consumer advocacy group.
While all Canadians are feeling the pinch, low-income households are getting particularly hard hit by the cost. These households account for between 8 and 15 per cent of the population, depending on the measure, and an average of 7.6 per cent of their total annual expenditures is going to communications, exceeding spending on clothing, health-care and education.
Many consider communications services essential, so they’re making cuts in other areas, such as food, as bills go up.
“Government and regulatory decision-makers have implemented ‘affordability’ policies that have focused on the availability and accessibility of communications services, rather than their true affordability,” the PIAC report says.
“Relying solely on competition has not, and likely will not, create the conditions needed to ensure that communications services truly are affordable for low-income Canadians.”
The study, titled No Consumer Left Behind, suggests five courses of action:
The federal government should amend the Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Radiocommunications Acts to include “affordability” under universal service obligations
Affordability in such cases should be calculated against other relevant expenditures to ensure Canadians don’t have to cut spending on other essentials
The requirements should respect consumer control over expenses and choice of services as much as possible
Any government policy or regulatory initiatives for low-income consumers should be designed with affordability in mind
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission should conduct yearly research on the affordability of the four major services: landline, cellphone, internet and television
The study gathered data from focus groups and interviews with organizations such as food banks, Credit Canada Debt Solutions, the Salvation Army and ACORN Canada, an advocacy group for low-income families.
Defining 'affordability'
Using comparable studies from other countries such as the United Kingdom, the report suggests affordability of communications services can be defined as four to six per cent of monthly household expenditure. Current spending in Canada, depending on household size and income levels, ranges as high as eight per cent to as low as 1.7 per cent in the highest brackets.
However, affordability can’t be defined as just total expenditure, the report notes. The amount of control Canadians have over what they choose to spend on also matters.
Canadians in the lowest economic quintile – that is, with an average income of $17,300 - spent about $1,538 on communications services in 2012, a 3.6-per cent increase from 2010. Communications represented their fourth-largest expenditures, after shelter, transportation and food.
Average spending on some other goods and services - food, for example - has declined over recent years while communications expenditure has risen, suggesting consumers are making cuts elsewhere to pay their phone and internet bills.
“Phone (home or cellular) is a necessary service that clients would not cut. To make up for the expense, they might use food banks, clothing programs and other community resources,” said a survey respondent from the Ottawa-based Shepherds of Good Hope foundation for homelessness.
“This is hard, though, because clients want to feel normal. They want to be able to go to a store to buy things like everyone else.”
Onus on government?
PIAC researchers solicited input from the country’s major telecommunications providers, but received only two responses.
Toronto-based Rogers pointed to several of its services aimed at lower-income consumers, such as the Connected for Success program, which delivers inexpensive broadband to Toronto Community Housing, as well as cheaper wireless options for seniors.
The company also highlighted that the average per-megabit download price of its home broadband has declined significantly since 2009.
Regina-based SaskTel said the onus to meet social obligations falls to governments rather than to individual companies. The company also criticized “interventionist policies” such as the CRTC’s ban on three-year wireless contracts, implemented in 2013, which have not resulted in greater affordability of services.
SaskTel also suggested that broadband - and not wireless, home phone or television - is the only essential communications service. The company also pointed out it has some of the lowest cellphone service prices in the country.
Highest wireless bills in the world
A number of recent studies and analyses have also found Canadians’ communications bills to be high.
A 2014 study by Ottawa-based consultancy Wall Communications that looked at eight countries found high prices on bundles of the most basic communications services, especially compared to what many Europeans pay. A typical package of home phone, wireless, broadband and TV costs about $182 in Canada, compared to just $93 in France or $102 in the U.K., for example.
Canadians also pay the highest wireless bills in the world, at around $56 (U.S.) per month, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Wireless Matrix. The average among developed countries is closer to $40, while in the U.S. it’s around $50.
The federal government and the CRTC have taken numerous steps in recent years to try and tame some of these costs, such as encouraging new cellphone carriers through special spectrum auctions and the implementation of the Wireless Code.
Last week, the CRTC also ordered television providers to offer basic packages by March 2016 for no more than $25 a month, with mandatory pick-and-pay channels at affordable rates following by the end of the year.
PIAC said the decision will improve affordability for Canadians, while Bay Street analysts expect per-customer revenue for TV providers to decline between $5 and $21.
However, with most providers also offering a host of communications services, observers believe the companies will move to recoup lost revenue through hikes in other areas.
"We believe that companies will be able to charge more for internet than what they're charging right now," said Desjardin Securities analyst Maher Yaghi, according to the Canadian Press.
Article by Peter Nowak for CBC News
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By William Van Meter
Photography Sebastian Kim
The Borgias were an Italian Renaissance noble family whose love, dysfunction, and power knew no bounds: Adultery, incest, and murder—including fratricide—are just some of their purported claims to fame. Naturally, as good Italians, the complex web of their lives was intertwined with the Catholic church, inextricably so because the patriarch of the family, Rodrigo Borgia, became pope.
The Borgia saga has become legend and inspired novels, plays, and an opera, so naturally it was time for their story to be made into a Showtime series. Debuting this spring, The Borgias was created and produced by Neil Jordan (who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 1992’s The Crying Game). The show combines a Sopranos-esque crime-family drama with the lavish period production of Rome. But added to that are intricate interfamily struggles one usually associates with Greek tragedy. Jeremy Irons plays the father, Rodrigo, but the rest of the cast, though relatively unknown, hold their own. That’s particularly the case for two of the young and molto attractive Borgia children, who battle and plot their way into adulthood: Twenty-five-year-old French-Canadian actor François Arnaud, who plays Cesare, and 22-year-old Manchester, U.K., actress Holliday Grainger, who plays Lucrezia. As Cesare, Arnaud channels a son who has no qualms about murdering his own brother to take military control of the papacy and escape being part of the church. “The character has such a great journey,” Arnaud says. “He goes from a daddy’s boy to a warrior and a killer and a lover. It’s more honest to fight than pretend to be Christian.” Arnaud, who has previously been seen mainly in French-Canadian films and television productions, believes much of the show’s controversy is over his character’s relationship with his sister. “There were a lot of rumors of incest between Cesare and Lucrezia,” explains Arnaud, “but we’re not going for that. There is a deep love and affection. The physicality of the relationship is almost childish. They always have their hands in each other’s faces, but it is innocent.”
Grainger, whose childlike beauty gives Lucrezia a certain wayward innocence, agrees. “It’s one of the only genuine relationships in the series,” she says. “You get a break from corrupt politics.” For those unfamiliar with one of the most infamous women of the 15th century, Lucrezia is an amalgam of Ophelia, Cleopatra, and Marie Antoinette. “Some think she is a selfish, manipulative villainess who poisons people and has incestuous relationships with her family,” Grainger explains. “Some see her as the pawn in her family’s game, and she is just weak and does what they say. Other people see her as a very strong woman who manipulates the situation to get the best outcome for herself and her family. I obviously like the third one!” Grainger is no stranger to period dramas, having also recently wrapped roles in this year’s highly anticipated Jane Eyre and the 1890s Parisian drama Bel Ami. “I’m ready to get out of my corset and into contemporary life,” she says. If the series does as well as expected, Grainger and her co-star should expect to spend a little more time in Italian finery, as well as on location in Budapest, where The Borgias is being filmed. “Even Italy,” Arnaud reasons, “doesn’t look like Renaissance Italy.”
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How to Get Rich
One could argue endlessly about what it means to be rich in financial terms. But most definitions would indicate that being rich means the ability to spend a large amount of money annually and to sustain that for many years, ideally for life. I would argue that while all rich people do not necessarily actually spend a lot each year, having the ability to do so, for many years or indefinitely, if desired is a necessary prerequisite to being rich. What constitutes a large amount of spending per year depends on your perspective and frame of reference and is not a set amount. Most people might agree that those who make say five times more than they do are rich. So a minimum wage earner might consider everyone making $100,000 per year to be rich, while those making $100,000 per year consider that it takes $500,000 per year to be rich.
Whatever your definition of what it means to be rich, this article discusses how it might
be achieved.
In our economy there are basically two sources of income available to individuals. There is income from employment and there is income from assets owned. In this case we might define assets as anything of value that produces a current income, is expected to produce a future income, or can be sold now or in the future for cash.
We could perhaps also include income from government social programs. But if we are focusing on how to get rich we can pretty much ignore that source of income.
The following are three main categories of how to get rich. There would be some overlap between them and many rich people have probably achieved their success from more than one category.
Getting rich from working
A relatively few people in society are basically rich through employment income. There are certainly executives making $300,000 per year and there a few making over one million per year. And in some cases (but probably not most) they will make these incomes for decades and then receive very lavish pensions for life.
Those on the lower end of the income scale would likely include many of the higher paid government workers in this category as well. A couple with two well-paying government jobs and the associated pensions might well be viewed as rich by those who must get by on jobs that pay less than half and which include no pensions or other benefits.
Specialist doctors, dentists and many senior lawyers might qualify as rich through employment income. However in some or many of these cases there is no pension and so the income cannot be relied on for life.
Some top entertainers and sports stars certainly earn incomes that would qualify them as being rich in most people’s eyes. But some of these careers are short-lived.
Getting rich from owning and controlling a business
Some business owners would qualify as being rich. These people don’t make up a large percentage of the population. Still, there are many thousands of people who own businesses that produce large incomes for the owners and that will continue to do so, perhaps indefinitely. These would include some of the owners of the more successful franchise businesses, especially those who own multiple locations.
Also included might be owners of large car dealerships and industrial dealerships. At the very top end are the controlling owners of the largest businesses in the country.
Getting rich (slowly) through saving and investing
It may be that very few of the world’s ultra rich got that way through saving and investing. But certainly many moderately rich people got that way through saving and investing.
For most people this is likely the best way to get rich. Most people are simply never going to earn employment income sufficient to be considered rich from that income alone. And there are many barriers to getting into business and most people are never going to own their own business and also the vast majority of business owners remain small business owners and do not become rich (although that depends on your definition of rich).
I contend that over a lifetime it is quite feasible to become rich through saving and investing.
Over periods of 30 years the U.S. stock market has never failed to return an annual return of at least 4% over inflation and very seldom has it been under 5% and it has been above 6% (as a compounded average over the full 30 years) about 75% of the possible 30 calendar year periods since 1926.
So let’s assume that you can make 5% on investments over and above inflation.
How does money then grow?
A $10,000 one-time investment would grow as follows:
Start – $10,000
Year 5 – $12,763
Year 10 – $16,289
Year 15 – $20,789 (doubled in 15 years)
Year 30 – $43,219 (more than quadrupled in 30 years)
Year 45 – $89, 850
Year 50 – $114,674 (more than a 1000% gain in 50 years, and this is after inflation)
In reality we can’t know what return we will get from investing. But the above illustrates that the rewards of investing eventually become very large over the decades.
I believe that a realistic goal for a young person would be to eventually build up financial assets that will produce an income similar to his or her wages from working. This would allow the person to eventually retire. To be free of the need to work. This could be defined as financial independence. It’s not an easy task. But it is a goal that the data suggests is achievable.
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OPINION: Time for statutory fiscal rule in South Africa
Opinion / 4 June 2018, 7:30pm / David Maynier
Democratic Alliance (DA) Shadow Minister of Finance, David Maynier MP.
JOHANNESBURG - We need some new and innovative thinking about how to deal with the staggering level of national debt and debt service costs in South Africa.
The fact is that our fiscal policy, which aims to stabilise national debt, has been a failure.
Our national debt, measured as net loan debt, is now set to balloon to a staggering R3.03 trillion, or R52.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), by 2020/21.
As a result, we will be spending a staggering R214billion on debt service costs by 2020/21, which is R120bn more than we will spend on higher education; R115bn more than we will spend on police services; and R8bn more than we will spend on healthcare in 2018/19.
The Minister of Finance, Nhlanhla Nene, is drowning in red ink, with ballooning national debt, and debt service costs.
We cannot go on like this, and for that reason we have written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, giving notice of our intention to introduce a private member's bill, in terms of section 73(2) of the constitution, entitled the Fiscal Responsibility Bill (FRB), in Parliament.
The FRB is, to the best of my knowledge, the first statutory “fiscal rule” proposed in South Africa.
It aims to introduce a “fiscal rule” to stabilise national debt and debt service costs in South Africa.
First, the FRB provides for:
* A fiscal rule prescribing that, for each financial year from 2019/20 to 2022/23, net loan debt expressed as a percentage of GDP must not be more than it was the previous year.
Second, the FRB provides for:
* A review of the fiscal rule by the National Assembly every four years, beginning in 2023/24, by either amending, renewing or terminating the fiscal rule; and
* An annual fiscal responsibility report to be tabled by the finance minister at the same time as the Budget is tabled, setting out whether the fiscal rule was complied with or not, together with reasons for those outcomes, and recovery plans in the event of a failure to comply with the fiscal rule.
And, finally, because South Africa is a small, open economy, vulnerable to shocks, the FRB provides for:
* An exemption from the fiscal rule to be granted in respect of a specific financial year, or years, by the National Assembly upon application by the finance minister, with good cause having been shown and on the recommendation of the standing committee on finance.
Put simply, the FRB would act as a sort of “legislative handbrake” forcing the executive to stabilise national debt and debt service costs in South Africa.
The fact is that had the FRB been in place, the former minister of finance, Malusi Gigaba, would not have had the discretion to deliver his now infamous “kamikaze” medium-term budget policy statement last year, which “blew up” the Budget and risked a catastrophic full-blown sovereign credit ratings downgrade to junk status.
We must accept that there is now a question mark, given spending pressures, about whether national debt, measured as net loan debt, will actually stabilise, as it is expected to do, at 53.2percent of GDP in 2023/24.
However, assuming it does, we will be spending a staggering R277bn on debt service costs in 2023/24, which is R30bn more than we will spend on basic education this year (2018/19).
We hope, therefore, that the FRB will be given serious consideration, and we are encouraged by the fact that the finance minister may not have agreed with the proposal, but nevertheless committed to “engage on the matter” when the idea was pitched in Parliament.
And so we look forward to working together with the executive, political parties, business, trade unions, civil society and members of the public on the FRB, which we think will go a long way to stabilise our national debt and debt service costs in South Africa.
David Maynier MP is the DA’s shadow minister of finance and a member of the standing committee on finance in Parliament.
The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Independent Media.
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Jon Carey graduated in 1998 from Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois. There, Carey was a participant of several sports. His wrestling team placed third in the state duals twice, while Jon placed third individually at the state tournament his senior year. Carey went on to wrestle at Upper Iowa University for four years. He graduated with a teaching degree from Upper Iowa in 2003.
Jon taught in the South Winneshiek Community School District where he served as a resource teacher, athletic director, and middle school wrestling coach. Since 2006, Jon has taught Junior High Social Studies at the Independence Junior/Senior High School and has been involved in the wrestling program at different levels. Carey was a part of the 2009 Iowa Class 2A Coach of the Year Staff, which is presented by the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association. Currently, Jon is coaching the Junior High wrestling team, the Indee Mat Club wrestling program, and other sports his children are involved in. Jon resides in Independence with his wife Brook, daughter Claire, and son Adam.
Garry Anderson was a graduate of East Buchanan High School. While in high school, Garry was a 4-time conference champion and placed 6th in the state at 112 lbs in 1992. Garry also participated in football while at EB. In 1993, he was a 2nd team All-District running back. The Buccaneers made the playoffs in 1990, 1992, and 1994. After high school Garry attended William Penn University and majored in Biology, Environmental Science, and Education.
In the fall of 1998 Garry took his first teaching job at Eddyville High School as a science teacher and middle school wrestling coach. Garry taught and coached at Eddyville for three years before moving to Independence. In 2002, Anderson was hired as the Middle School wrestling coach. Anderson was a part of the 2009 Iowa Class 2A Coach of the year staff, presented by the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association. Currently, Garry resides in Independence with his wife Andria and four children Natalee, Summer, Benjamin, and Alec.
Daniel Eschen was a 2008 graduate of Independence High School. Daniel was part of the state duals team his freshmen and senior years. Individually, Daniel placed 6th at USA Folkstyle nationals at 125 lbs his junior year and was a state qualifier his senior year at 119 lbs. Daniel attended Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo and is currently working for the City of Independence in the Water Department as an operator. Eschen is currently coaching at the Junior High and High School level for Independence.
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Daniel Benjamin
Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Daniel Benjamin is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Cornell and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Economic and Social Research at USC. His research is in behavioral economics (which incorporates ideas and methods from psychology into economic analysis) and genoeconomics (which incorporates genetic data into economics). Benjamin co-organizes (with David Cesarini and Phil Koellinger) the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), a collaborative research infrastructure involving over 70 data providers who have collected both whole-genome data and social-science measures. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard, an MSc in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, an AM in Statistics from Harvard and an AB in Economics from Harvard.
FAQs about “GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment”
Paper Conference paper | By Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, Philipp Koellinger, and Peter Visscher | Apr 2015
The SSGAC is a research infrastructure designed to stimulate dialogue and cooperation between medical researchers and social scientists. The SSGAC facilitates collaborative research that seeks to identify associations between specific genetic markers (segments of DNA) and behavioral traits, such as preferences, personality and social-science outcomes.
The Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics
Paper Conference paper | By Christopher Chabris, James J. Lee, David Cesarini, Daniel Benjamin, and David Laibson | Apr 2015
Behavior genetics is the study of the relationship between genetic variation and psychological traits. Turkheimer (2000) proposed “Three Laws of Behavior Genetics” based on empirical regularities observed in studies of twins and other kinships. On the basis of molecular studies that have measured DNA variation directly, we propose a Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics: “A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability.”
GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment
Paper Conference paper | By Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, Philipp Koellinger, and Peter Visscher | May 2013
A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are genome-wide significant (rs9320913, rs11584700, rs4851266), and all three replicate.
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Someone repeatedly compromised NASA servers
December 19, 2018 By William Knowles
This isn’t going to improve NASA’s FISMA scorecard rating for 2018.
On Tuesday, December 18, 2018. Bob Gibbs, Assistant Administrator, Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer sent an agency-wide message to the 17,000+ NASA employees, according to SpaceRef which posted the memo on their site.
On Oct. 23, 2018, NASA cybersecurity personnel began investigating a possible compromise of NASA servers where personally identifiable information (PII) was stored. After initial analysis, NASA determined that information from one of the servers containing Social Security numbers and other PII data of current and former NASA employees may have been compromised.
Upon discovery of the incidents, NASA cybersecurity personnel took immediate action to secure the servers and the data contained within. NASA and its Federal cybersecurity partners are continuing to examine the servers to determine the scope of the potential data exfiltration and identify potentially affected individuals. This process will take time. The ongoing investigation is a top agency priority, with senior leadership actively involved. NASA does not believe that any Agency missions were jeopardized by the cyber incidents.
NASA Civil Service employees who were on-boarded, separated from the agency, and/or transferred between Centers, from July 2006 to October 2018, may have been affected.
NASA employees should be counting their lucky stars that this doesn’t happen more often, In 2016 NASA’s Office of Inspector General found that NASA lacks a mature cyber program, earning a score of 27 out of 100 under the Office of Management and Budget’s and DHS’ five-step maturity model.
In the 2017 Federal Information Security Modernization Act: Fiscal Year 2017 Evaluation of NASA came to the conclusion that…
Despite progress made to address previously identified weaknesses related to its cybersecurity program, we concluded that NASA, based on the results of our current review, has not implemented an effective information technology security program. Further, without implementing additional improvements to ensure that NIST requirements are implemented, the Agency may lose ground in its efforts to address the challenges in a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape. To strengthen its information security program, we believe the Agency should continue its initiatives in each of the seven IG FISMA domains.
Risk Management. Strengthen the enterprise architecture risk management framework by closing the gap between mission systems and inventory, and complete the transition to RISCS.
Configuration Management. Augment secure configuration settings, improve hardware and software asset management, and remediate configuration-related vulnerabilities including unsupported operating systems.
Identity and Access Management. Increase the use of PIV authentication for unprivileged users.
Security Training. Complete applicable role-based training for personnel with significant security responsibilities.
Continuous Monitoring. Develop a comprehensive continuous monitoring strategy for automatic hardware and software inventory detection and data exfiltration defense capabilities.
Incident Response. Bridge the gap between reactive and proactive intelligence gathering and analysis techniques.
Contingency Planning.
Finally, we are concerned that many recommended corrective actions from prior FISMA and other IT-related reviews remain open after more than a year. We urge a renewed Agency commitment to addressing our previous recommendations given the constant and growing cybersecurity threats. Although this memorandum made no specific recommendations to NASA, management provided a brief response that is reproduced in Enclosure V. Technical comments provided by management have been incorporated, as appropriate.
Sadly, Its easier to blame this all on aliens.
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Former UIC Accounting students alerted to 2002 personal security breach
InfoSec News has learned that notification letters have been sent last week to some former students of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration whose personal information, including Social Security number, was recently found to have been publicly accessible on an unsecured website dating back to 2002.
Two documents were accessible: a class roster from a Special Topics in Accounting course, ACTG 594, from the spring semester of 2002; and the advising list from spring 2002 for all junior and senior accounting majors.
University staff “took immediate action to remove the files from the website and sever connections to the documents” the letter said.
The university sent the letter to every mailing address it had on file for each individual. Because the university cannot verify that it was successful in reaching all affected parties, this news release is being issued in accordance with Section 10 of the 2006 Illinois Personal Information Protection Act.
Concerned individuals may contact the Federal Trade Commission, Midwest Region, 55 W. Monroe St., Suite 1825, Chicago, IL 60603, 1-877-IDTHEFT (1-877-438-4338) TDD 1-866-653-4261.
Concerned individuals should take precautions against identity theft as suggested by the FTC on its website and may wish to exercise their right to a free annual credit report from each of the three major credit reporting companies, available online at https://www.annualcreditreport.com or by calling (877) 322-8228.
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The Vanishing American Adult
interview with Ben Sasse
via Uncommon Knowledge
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Recorded on June 2, 2017
Senator Benjamin Sasse joins Peter Robinson to discuss his book The Vanishing American Adult and the growing crisis in America of prolonged adolescence. Senator Sasse argues that children are growing up, entering adolescence, and becoming stuck in the transitional stage to adulthood as they fail to become financially independent from their parents. He argues that because this generation of children is growing up during a time of relative peace and prosperity, it has allowed millennials to grow up without the issues of previous generations that were raised in war time. In this era of consumption and material surplus, he argues that adolescents are leading age-segregated lives and not developing a work ethic and that both their parents have an obligation to teach their children to grow up. Furthermore, he stresses the importance of intergenerational learning by allowing children to be raised around their grandparents and other adults to help them learn that the trivial trials of youth don’t matter in the long run.
Senator Sasse believes that there are certain virtues that American children have to learn to become productive and happy adults. Part of that is by teaching children the distinction between production and consumption and how to find happiness and self-worth through jobs that make one feel like a necessary part of the company/society. This, he argues, will help raise peoples’ self-worth and lead them to happiness and fulfillment in their everyday.
Senator Sasse finishes by stressing the importance of building children’s identities as readers to help foster the growth of ideas and active learning over the passive activities of sitting in front of screens. He notes that sedentary life is not fulfilling and that by encouraging people to participate in production over consumption will lead to more fulfilling lives. He ends on the optimistic note, that while our youth may still need guidance, overall America’s best days still lie ahead.
Full transcript below:
Peter Robinson: Millennials, have we gone from the greatest generation to the softest? With us today, a member of the United States Senate who knows how to turn millennials into adults, Ben Sasse of Nebraska on Uncommon Knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. A fifth-generation Nebraskan and the son on a football coach, Ben Sasse attended public schools in Fremont, Nebraska, spending his summer working in cornfields. He holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. He spent five years as president of Midland University. Ben Sasse was elected to the United States Senate in 2014. Unlike most members of the Senate who leave their families behind in their home states, Senator Sasse takes his family back and forth with him from Nebraska to Washington, helping his wife home-school their three children. Senator Sasse is the author this spring of the Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming of Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance. Senator Sasse, welcome back to Uncommon Knowledge.
Ben Sasse: Good to be here.
Peter Robinson: Shooting today from Stanford University. Welcome to Stanford.
Ben Sasse: Beautiful place.
Peter Robinson: Tell us the story of the Midland University Christmas tree.
Ben Sasse: I was 37 when I became a college president. I'm a business turn around guy and I live in this town where this special 130 year old college is in danger of going bankrupt. Nobody thinks they're hiring me to run this college because I know anything about student affairs or student culture. Yet, that's the thing that's keeping me up at night my first six, 12 months, 18 months at this school. I knew we were going to get the debt restructured and we were going to raise new money and we were going to try to buy another college. We were going to be able to solve the business problems but I was worried about what was happening in student life. One event crystallized it more than anything else. It's the anecdote doesn't make the world but it sort of captured an angst I had. We had a big athletic arena. There was a 20 foot Christmas tree to be erected the day before or day after Thanksgiving. I don't remember when it was. We had a bunch of students who were employed by the athletic department or the advancement and development office. These are good jobs. These are the best of the best students.
Peter Robinson: They're being paid.
Ben Sasse: They're being paid and it's desirable to work in the development office or work in the athletic department. These are hearty and healthy vital young, 19, 20, 21 year olds. They were supposed to decorate the Christmas tree. It's 20 feet tall. The tree was there and all the decorations were there and they decorated all the bottom eight feet of the tree with twice as many decorations as you would probably need because they spent all their decorations in the bottom eight feet and then they're packing up to leave. The tree is naked from foot eight to 20. The vice president for development happens by and she's like, "Hey, what are you guys doing?" They said, "Yeah, we used all the decorations. We're done." She said, "What about the top half of the tree?" They said, "We didn't know how to get up there." She said, "Did maintenance refuse to bring you a ladder?" It turned out that nobody had really thought to ask. There was no real problem solving in the group. It was, we've been given a task and we're going to leave when the task is done.
Peter Robinson: Bright kids. Healthy kids.
Ben Sasse: Able kids.
Peter Robinson: Able kids but passive.
Ben Sasse: Passive is the right adjective.
Peter Robinson: Okay. This book lays out the figures. Millennials and those coming up behind them do they have a name yet? Does this next generation ... Let's call it millennials. Kids. They marry later, they live with their parents longer, they know less about American history, they demonstrate less initiative and more passivity, they participate less in religious organizations. They're softer not just psychologically but physically. You know that whereas in the 1960s only one teen in 20 was obese. Today, one teen in five is obese. That is a quintupling. Soft. Passive. This despite having grown up during a period of peace and by and large economic expansion in the richest and most powerful nation in human history. What has gone wrong?
Ben Sasse: You said in spite of. Maybe it's because of. I want to be clear. This book is a constructive book. It's two-thirds program for how to think about habit formation for 13 year olds and 15 year olds and 17 year olds. The part we're going to talk about first it sounds like is the one-third stage setting about the problem. This book is not a blame laying book. It is not a beat up on millennials book. It is a, "Wow, what is this category perpetual adolescence" book. That's a new thing in human history. I want to be clear. Adolescence is a pretty special concept. It's only about two millennia old. We came up with this idea that you go from the dependent state of childhood to the independent state of adulthood and you don't have to, boom, transition from one to the other instantaneously when you become physically an adult. Two millennia ago people came up with this concept that when you biologically transition from childhood to adulthood at puberty that doesn't mean you have to immediately be fully independently financially, emotionally, morally, in terms of school even or household structure. We have this idea that for 18 months to four years you can have a greenhouse phase of intentional transition from one to the other. That's great as long as we remember that adolescence is meant to be a means to an end. It is not the destination. Peter Pan is a dystopian hell. It is not a utopia as Disney has tried to remake it. Peter Pan is a character who becomes physically an adult and yet he has no historical awareness. He has no moral awareness. He kills people and he doesn't even remember their names. That's a bad thing. We don't want to be man babies. We want our kids to go from a stage of necessary dependence to more and more independence when they can.
Peter Robinson: The argument here is that if the children grow up in conditions of peace and prosperity, parents, the society, cannot simply leave it to reality to slap them around and shape them up. Parents have to help them grow up more intentionally.
Ben Sasse: Right. I think that though there's no blame laying in this book, if there were it would be at we, the parents, and grandparents feet to not have thought through what does it mean that our kids are growing up at the richest time and place in human history? There's a lot about that that is obviously great. To be protected from levels of violence that most people have known throughout human history, to be protected from abject poverty. We're going to need to figure out how to celebrate scar tissue with these kids because scar tissue is the foundation of future character. We need to celebrate it.
Peter Robinson: We cannot do the book justice because this is video, not print. We're going to do as well as we can. As you say, two-thirds of this book, this marvelous book, is a handbook on how to help kids grow up into real adults. Let's take a few of your maxims. Discover the body. I'm quoting. "Discover the body. Teens need to appreciate the joys of birth and growth and the tragedy of pain and decline." Discover the body. That's your first bit of instruction. Why?
Ben Sasse: Yeah, I wanted to think about as you transition from childhood to adulthood it isn't enough to just progress through grades in school. Most people, most times in human history have had rites of passage. They've had the big hunt. They've had intentional home leaving. They've had first job or first economic self-sufficiency. We've sort of muddled all these markers together. What I really care about is when you're 13 versus 15 versus 17. What are these habits? What are the affections and loves? What are the exposures you should have? Some of it is about work ethic and limited consumption, et cetera. One of them is the body is necessary ... You need to understand your body inter-generationally because you go from a state of dependence to independence but you're ultimately going to decline and become dependent again. We're raising 15 year olds that spend almost all of their time with 15 year olds. 19 year olds that spend almost all of their time with 19 year olds. That's really weird historically. No one has ever done that before. If you brought people in a time machine from 300 years ago to 3000 years ago and you dropped them in today I think the main thing they would think is weird about our life at first is just the material surplus. There's a cornucopia of produced goods that they would have known a world of nature and a couple of things that have been built. Our world is just filled with tools and instruments and consumption aids and whatnot. 30 days past that I think that people from another place, another time would think the strangest thing about us is that we live entirely age-segregated lives.
Peter Robinson: Got it. You quote, "Puritan minister Cotton Mather was severely blunt." Now you're quoting Cotton Mather in your book, "Go into Burying-Place, children; you will there see graves as short as your selves. Yea, you may be at play one hour; dead, dead the next." You quote that approvingly.
Ben Sasse: It's a winsome book, isn't it?
Peter Robinson: You're very serious about this point. It's a kind of memento mori. You want children to understand ... You want children to spend time with grandparents. You want them to spend time with the declining neighbor across the street. You want them to be aware of the way this all ends even as they're beginning.
Ben Sasse: If our kids are going to be wise they need to be around people who have actually passed through some years. A 13 year old is never going to become wise spending all of their time with 13 year olds. I have two teenage daughters. My kids are 15, 13, and six. Our girls are the teenagers. It hurts when a 13 year old girl experiences the slight of another 13 year old girl. Yet, if you know 60 year olds and 75 year olds and 90 year olds, it doesn't hurt quite as much because probably this moment you're living at is not the be all and end all of your whole experience.
Peter Robinson: Ben Sasse and The Vanishing American Adult. Develop a work ethic. Tell us about your grandmother Elda Krebs Sasse.
Ben Sasse: My grandmother I don't think she ever clocked in at 100 pounds. She was about 4'11, this tiny woman, and yet had larger than life personality and charisma. When I was a kid I used to travel with my grandparents a lot in the back of their car. My grandfather came back from World War II, never went to college himself, but was the business manager of this college for 35 years. The college that I was the president of half a century later.
Peter Robinson: Oh, really? Really?
Ben Sasse: He was the business manager, ultimately kind of CFO type of role, but the athletic department reported to him so he'd travel and go to all the away sporting events and I'd ride in the back of the old Chevy Impala with my grandparents. I would ask them questions about the war and the Great Depression and Dustbowl era upbringing that they had. They never thought anything was exceptional about their upbringing. Yet, I was stunned as a kid in the early 1980s at just how much hardship they had gone through that was just like water off a duck’s back. That they didn't think anything about any of it. It was just what you did. My grandma had this great story about how my dad's older brother, about six years older than he was, he was born ... Grandma was pregnant when Grandpa left for the war and then my uncle Roger was born while Grandpa was away at the war. Grandma and Grandpa had just leased some property. They grew up on a farm. Grandpa was the hired man. They had only a year apart in age but they met as teenagers when Grandpa was the hired man on my Grandma's parent's farm. They had leased some property and they were going to start farming and Grandma had grown up around farms but she had never driven a tractor. All of a sudden her husband is away at war, she's giving birth, they have new land, there's planting and harvesting to be done, and she had to figure out how to do it. She had this leased property and she had a borrowed tractor and she figured out a way to take my uncle's bassinet and attach it to the side of the John Deere tractor and she taught herself how to plow and harvest. I thought this was stunning as a 10 year old kid. Grandma was always amazed that I wanted her to tell me the story again and again because she just thought it was necessity is the mother of invention.
Peter Robinson: Okay. Now here's what I need to ask you to do. Please persuade me that this book written by a fifth-generation Nebraskan, which is filled with stories ... Not filled with stories. There's a number of stories about your grandparents, your own upbringing, as of course there should be, about your kids de-tassling corn. You have to persuade me that this isn't in some way a lament for a lost agrarian way of life that characterized America through almost all of its history and that you, in your generation and where you grew up in Nebraska you saw the last glimmerings of this way of life, and that you, young man though you may be, are filled with nostalgia. Well, you and Thomas Jefferson, "Oh, no. We're not all farmers anymore. The country can't work." Address that critique. That thought in the back of a reader's mind.
Ben Sasse: Let's locate ourselves in economic history for a minute. Hunter gatherers, agrarianism, industrialization, the big tool economy, and whatever this thing is that we're entering now. The global economy, the digital economy, the IT economy, service economy. Sociologists are throwing in the towel. They're just calling it the post-Industrial economy. It's kind of a weird thing to name something. We don't refer to industrialization as ...
Peter Robinson: Post-agrarian.
Ben Sasse: Yeah, the de-agriculturalization of America. It's not just the push from the farm that was technological substitution for labor that made it more efficient. It was also the pull of factories and cities. Mass urbanization, mass immigration. We're going through a transition that is pretty unique in human history. We didn't have alphabets when hunter gatherers settled down and began to farm. I think the only analog for the economic disruption we're going through, and frankly what I care about even more than the economic disruption, is the social network and human capital implications for neighborliness of this moment. I think the only analog we have to this moment is the progressive era where people are leaving the farm, moving to the city, and there is bipartisan panic in America that America can't long endure. Democrat Woodrow Wilson, Republican Teddy Roosevelt, this won't work because you won't have transparency and virtue and neighborliness. They were wrong. We ended up recreating a kind of human capital in the cities. Urban, ethnic neighborhoods were every bit as neighborly and accountable as the Tocquevillian village had been. That was a massive disruption in root to figuring out what human capital looked like in the cities again. I think we're going through an analogous disruption in the nature of work now but probably even more than what they went through. We're going to have a shrinking of the average duration at a job that probably accelerates forever more. Hunter gatherers and farmers they didn't choose jobs. They just became eight or 10 or 12 and they did more of what their parents and grandparents did. When you went from the farm to the city you had a massive disruption. 15 to 25 year old males went to the city and they had to get a job. It was hugely unsettling for everybody's social structure. Once you got a job you tended to keep it until death or retirement. What we're going through now is what they panicked we were going through back then, which is ever more rapid disintermediation. Not just of jobs but of firms and of industries. This is not agrarian romanticism. It is an awareness that if you separate work from the household, as we've done, and so kids come of age with lots of material surplus and very little exposure to production. You're going to have to create something that's going to feel a little bit artificial but that is a structured way of habit-forming, that build a work ethic, even when necessity didn't mandate it.
Peter Robinson: Okay. Tell me then. We've got changed economic circumstances we're going through. The country has been through something like this once before. We're going through a huge something again. Your argument is that there are certain virtues that children need to learn, that American children in particular, need to learn that remain the same from the founding ...Thomas Jefferson would recognize what you're talking about in this book, although he believed in an agrarian America. We've been in an industrial America. Now we're entering some third kind. Why do you argue in particular that there are certain virtues that Americans need to learn to make this republic work? Explain that line of thought, which runs through the whole book.
Ben Sasse: America is prefaced on a few ideas. One is universal human dignity. We believe that people are created with dignity and that those natural rights are things that government exists to secure. Government is not the author or the source of those rights. We believe government is limited because we think rights are prior to government. We believe a whole bunch of pre-political things. We believe that happiness is something that people have the right to pursue and frankly that can't be secured by compulsion. We believe that production is ...
Peter Robinson: That people have the right to pursue happiness and that is the only way to achieve it by pursuing it on your own? Go ahead.
Ben Sasse: Yeah, I don't think we think that ... Here, I'll blend a little bit of American ideas stuff with I think some moderate sociology. Let's just sociology for a minute. I am solidly Aristotelian. One argument in this book is some slight anti-Platonism. I don't want to scare people away with no philosophical interests. I think social science is now bearing out a lot of what Aristotle understood about the sort of way that nouns and verbs get wrapped up together in habit formation. You can't decide who you want to be in the long-term and your time is often occupied in the short-term. You make decisions about the medium-term and the medium-term decisions you make about what to pursue end up creating short-term task and duties and time expenditures in your life. Those things end up becoming habits and those habits define your long-term character. I think modern social science shows us that production makes people happy. Consumption doesn't. Right now our kids are not being raised with an instinctive, in the belly exposure to a distinction between production and consumption. We're occupying our kids time with schooling and progression through grades as if that's their work and then when they're not in school it's just different types of consumption. We don't burden them with having to understand the distinction between needs and wants. Well, that burdening with them is a real serious love. If you help your kids understand that one of the things that defines whether or not you're happy in life is earned success, it's a numerator of needs met over a denominator of perceived needs, one way to be happy in life is to get more stuff into the numerator but it's not a very fruitful path. It's not very reliable. A much more reliable way to be happy in life is to guard against expanding the denominator of your perceived needs very far. It turns out healthy people tend to know the difference between the word need and the word want. We're raising a lot of kids right now with appetites that feel fairly limitless because we're teaching them that more and more consumption might fulfill them but it's not true. It doesn't bear out in wise lives of older people or in any of the literature we have.
Peter Robinson: I'd like to stay with the nature of the American republic for just a moment longer. The Vanishing American Adult, "Material abundance can make us freer and less dependent" obviously, "But simultaneously more lonely and isolated." Here is one of the most striking sentences in the book, "It is very difficult for a rich republic to remain virtuous." Here is this strange ... It seems to me you're almost setting up ... Well, you mentioned Aristotle. You're almost setting up a tragic view of American history here where the greatest generation endures the Depression, your grandparents, they endure the Depression, your grandfather goes off to the Second World War and through the sacrifices that they made, their grandchildren get just the kind of life they wanted for them and their great-grandchildren. You and your children they get a period of peace, they get prosperity, and it ruins them. When America gets what it doesn't want, war, Depression, Americans are great people. We produce the greatest generation. When we get what we want we're unimpressive as citizens. Talk me out of it.
Ben Sasse: Well, if you look at inherited wealth around the world people who figure out how to manage that inherited wealth without growing their kids appetites, turning it into actual investments, it can work out well. If you become consumers in the next generation there's danger in that. It's natural that there should be a cycle of production, wealth creation, and then recreation or leisure. By the way, there's an important historical debate about why the word recreation is more virtuous than the word leisure because it's cyclically driving you back to productivity again. I want to be revivified but to get back to work, to live a life of gratitude by serving my neighbor again. It's natural that inside any family or any individual of maybe any generation that production leads to wealth leads to recreation. If it slides across generations and people in the second or third generation are just living off on inherited wealth from production past there's something lacking in their lives that is unsatisfying for them. There's tons of data that shows that one of the highest correlates to happiness in life is whether or not you do work that you think anybody needs. Not at the end of the day, "Do my knees hurt?" Or my ankles or my back or do I think I made enough money or was there some annoying jack wagon three cubicles over who talks loudly. Do I think somebody needs me? If Monday morning, or whatever day of the week you go and start your work, there's a place that you need to go because someone needs your work you have worth and you have dignity and you have self-esteem. Just consuming more can't replace that. I do think there is a danger in becoming so wealthy that we forget to inculcate those habits of productivity that lead to happiness.
Peter Robinson: All right. One of the other maxims here, "Learn how to read and decide what to read. Reading done well is not a passive activity like sitting in front of a screen." Senator, senator, kids these days, smartphones, computer screens, 75 inch flat panel televisions, and you want them to turn off the screens and pick up books? Now lost causes can be noble. I'd really love to hear you persuade me that this isn't a lost cause. I'll grant you the nobility. Prove that it’s not a lost cause.
Ben Sasse: History for a minute. I think if you have one true founder of America, if there's a sine qua non that if you didn't have this guy or gal, you couldn't get America, I think it's Gutenberg. Our founders believed that the habits of mass literacy produce a world where you've got competing printing presses and it's competing printing presses that get to healthy skepticism of authority, that leads to cultural pluralism, that leads to a freedom of the press. Speech, assembly, religion, protest. America is predicated on the habits of mind, of decentralized power, where individuals who were created with dignity, where families are making lots of decisions for themselves, and there is a difference between the deliberative consumption, the deliberation that comes from reading and reflecting upon a task, the dispassionate nature of deliberation and reflection and choice, there's something different there than the repetitive dopamine feedback loop of shorter and shorter digital addictions. Now I am a celebrate of a lot in the digital economy. I run my own Twitter account.
Peter Robinson: I was about to say. I was about to charge you and you'd have no choice but to plead guilty. You're one of the Tweeting-est members of the United States Senate going.
Ben Sasse: Tweeting-est sounds almost dirty. @BenSasse is really me. There's an @SenSasse, which is my press office. @Ben Sasse ...
Peter Robinson: Formal, dignified decoratives but the one that's really you ...
Ben Sasse: Yeah. Commuting dad. 15 year old, 13 year old, six year old kids, lots of fishing and snake spearing in our lives out in the country in Nebraska, and we just have a great time commuting. As I'm a dad, educating my kids, and that's who @BenSasse is. I think there's a lot about the digital moment, economically, and even the subset of the digital moment, which is digital media that has real potential. Only if it's paired with a certain kind of habit formation that recognizes that constant digital consumption and digital addiction is really dangerous. There's a time for deliberation, there's a time for choice, there's a time for action, but you need to ultimately be able to get back to a place where you can wrestle with long thinking and bigger arguments and your own mortality.
Peter Robinson: Your kids read?
Ben Sasse: They do.
Peter Robinson: Because you make them read? How do you get them love it?
Ben Sasse: We've now been successful in getting them to love it. By the way, this book is not only not old man screaming get off my lawn, this book is not in any way us holding out our family as a model. We stumble and fall every day. My wife and I have a shared theory of what we're doing. One of the motivators behind this book is I have a broad belief that as we're hollowing out local community and mediating institutions and we're politicizing national conversation, we're left with this huge vacuum of space where people don't have the chance to deliberate around a dinner table with their neighbors about how to raise their kids well. I think a lot of people want to do that. I wrote this book and Melissa and I deliberated long and hard about this book as we were leaving the college. This idea predates the Senate campaign. To just think aloud about the theory of what we're trying to accomplish. We fail in the execution but we've got a shared theory of what training wheels removal looks like. It's kind of how we think about parenting a teenager. We have in the literacy chapter a quantity and a quality theory of what we're up to. Wherever possible, we want to parent with the grain. I've got a theory of human fallen-ness. One of my kids is named after Augustan. This is theologically heavy for a six year old so we call him Brack. I definitely believe in a fallen human nature. Yet, when you can parent with the grain I want to do it. When we could get our kids to be interested in reading at four or five, six years old, we want to just go with it at first, even if it had a cotton candy like feel. Hardy Boys, Magic Treehouse, Encyclopedia Brown.
Peter Robinson: Hardy Boys.
Ben Sasse: Whatever it was. We would just do more of that. When they liked it, reward them. Praise them, help build an identity that they are readers. Give them stuff occasionally. We're not big into material consumption but try to figure out how to reward them with experiences that they wanted when they were reading more. Then we'd substitute more quality into the flow of their quantity. We tried to do both at once. Tevi Troy, who I think you know, has a game called The Century Club, which he used to play when he worked for President Bush. Bush and Rove and Tevi would have a competition to see if they could read 100 books in a year. My kids have never succeeded yet but we play The Century Club at our house. A lot of people can read two books some week on vacation in August or over a Christmas holiday. To try to hit two books a week, 50 weeks in a row, to get 100 in a year that's saying something. We got our kids on this pathway of start reading stuff that's pretty shallow and cotton candy-ish and then you read instead of five of those in a row, you'll read two and then we'll substitute them and you have options of spinach versus asparagus versus broccoli and you pick among these three really good books and then we'll let you go back to reading some cotton candy for a while.
Peter Robinson: Okay. A couple of last questions here. Two presidents. Both of whom you write about in The Vanishing American Adult. "At the beginning of President Obama's administration, a reporter asked him if he believed in American exceptionalism. After a pause, he strangely replied, 'I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." Why was his reply strange?
Ben Sasse: Yeah, honestly, it hurts me that President Obama said that. One of the jobs of a President of the United States is to hold forth big and ... I'm going to have a Gorsuch joke here by accident. I almost said bigly. To hold forth loudly an understanding of what the American idea is about. The American idea is that we believe 320 million Americans and seven billion people across the globe, we've got approximate governance responsibility for these 320 million, we believe they're created with dignity and we believe that that is a pre-political thing that you affirm creedily as an American.
Peter Robinson: That makes this country exceptional?
Ben Sasse: Well, America is not exceptional in that we think we're better than other people. It's not an ethnic claim, it's not a tribal claim. It's a historical understanding of how unique Philadelphia in 1787 was, which was our founders said something incredibly arrogant in Philadelphia. Most people, most places, in all of human history have been wrong, our founders said. Government isn't the author or source of your rights. Rights come by nature and government is our shared secular tool to secure those rights. When you flip that ... I teach civics to a lot of Nebraska high school kids and I draw an island surrounded by an ocean on one side of the white board. Then I draw the same picture on the other side. I say the pre-American view is that the island is your rights and the ocean is the government's power. The American view is that the island is the government's power and the ocean are your rights.
Peter Robinson: Second president, again I'm quoting The Vanishing American Adult, "We need to go back to Reagan ... Not because you did or did not, or would or would not have voted for him, but because he was presiding at the last moment when we talked seriously about what America means for all Americans. The Cold War against expansionistic Soviet communism forced us to explain who we were and why we differed." Back to Reagan. Can you get kids to think seriously about the Cold War, about Reagan's speeches? You don't really mean back to Reagan. You mean back to an understanding of a historical understanding of America.
Ben Sasse: Yeah, I think we're living right now with two political parties that are just hungover from the 1960s. I think both of these political parties are incredibly exhausted intellectually. Neither of them know what they're for. They're both mostly just against the other party and the vast majority of the American people want to tune them both out. I want to be clear. I think I'm the third most conservative guy in the Senate by voting record but I'm not very partisan because I think both of these parties are just not interesting. I care about problems that are five and 10 and 20 years in the future. Neither of these parties is dealing with anything big. It's both Hatfield and McCoy's but it's worse than that because it's seven year olds slapping each other to say, "He started it. She started it." I think that in the Cold War you at least had a sense of an obligation to understand why expansionistic communism was bad. We got to some clariy-
Peter Robinson: The Cold War of course was bipartisan. Harry Truman starts it and Ronald Reagan finishes it well. It's bipartisan in between. Last question, one final quotation from The Vanishing American Adult, "I am an optimist and I believe that America's best days lie ahead." All right, Senator. From the greatest generation to these soft millennials, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, from the Lincoln/Douglas debates, which is on your list of items to read, from the Lincoln/Douglas debates to whatever it was that we watched during the presidential race last year ... You're an optimist but you named one of your children Augustan. Augustan is sitting there in northern Africa and watching Rome fall. He leads a great life, he becomes a saint, he produces an enormous volume of important literature, it's possible to lead a good life in the end of time so to speak. Do you consider yourself more in the position of Augustan or do you really believe that this country's best days lie ahead? How can you be an optimist?
Ben Sasse: Well, let's be an optimist ...
Peter Robinson: The Augustan option is very dignified. I'm giving you a good pessimist to follow if you want to.
Ben Sasse: You already set it up by saying we're at the last question. Right now we have to do a whole bunch of theology and political theory and parse the two kingdoms and do two cities and two loves and a city that has foundations. It seems too big for a parting question. I'll say I'm definitely optimistic about the net productivity, about what the global economy will produce in the next decade or two.
Peter Robinson: More stuff.
Ben Sasse: Not just stuff. More services that are quite interesting. I got here with a Waze app. I was in San Francisco this morning and coming down to Palo Alto. There are opportunities to not sit in traffic, which are not life changing but that was a nice little gift to know that taking this exit could avoid that car wreck and that half an hour delay.
Peter Robinson: In five years, you'll be running it from ... Actually, you could drive from San Francisco here. There are driverless vehicles already.
Ben Sasse: I like to drive so that sort of worries me. Now I will be a Nebraska romantic about the county road and why every kid should drive at 14 like we do in Nebraska. I think that what comes next in the digital revolution is going to be fascinating. We're going to have a layering of information and data on top of the physical world that's going to be fascinating. What I'm not sure about is that the benefits of that are going to rid down to the median worker and the median family right now. That I'm scared about because I don't think we're thinking at all about the disruption and the nature of work. Larry Summers talks about how 7.2 billion people on Earth, maybe you've got four and a half billion workers today. We're going to go to nine billion people on this planet by the year 2050. You might go to a place where you only need four billion, three and a half billion, three billion workers to more than meet the needs for all nine billion people. Guess what? Work isn't just about how you put bread on the table. Work is a fundamental anchor of human identity and service. We're meant to live a life of gratitude by doing something meaningful. We're meant to get to the evening and get some of that leisure or recreation or fun, food, and wine, and fellowship with friends looking back at the fence you built that day or the field you farmed or the factory you co-labored with or the app that you designed. You're meant to look back at that and say, "I produced something today" and right now I don't think we're thinking nearly enough about the challenges to the nature of work going forward. The potential is huge. Our political conversations and our bigger than political, it's called civic conversations, they're impoverished right now.
Peter Robinson: I'm trying to find it. The book actually ends on an up note. You just sounded more like Augustan than I was expecting you to right there. The notion is what? The notion is you need to teach your children these virtues so that they can become good Americans, so they can continue to change, so to speak, you're very conscious of American history. As you've demonstrated a couple of times here you're happy to go back to Aristotle at the slightest provocation. Also, because something big and actually a little bit alarming is coming at these kids. Is that right?
Ben Sasse: Yeah, there is a real difference between actually climbing the top of the mountain and going there on your friend's Instagram. Right now we're doing a disservice to our kids by pretending that a more sedentary, passive life might fulfill them. It's not true. We need our crazy Uncle Teddy Roosevelt in our life and I want kids to become intoxicated with all that they can travel to through literature, across space, into other cultures, by learning to produce. There's a lot of opportunity for our kids but we need a different conversation about how to raise them and passively allowing them to be peer-segregated into a more sedentary posture is not going to be satisfying for them or for the republic.
Peter Robinson: Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. America's crazy uncle in the 21st Century and the author of The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming of Age Crisis and How to Rebuild A Culture of Self-Reliance. Thank you.
Ben Sasse: Thank you.
Peter Robinson: For Uncommon Knowledge and the Hoover Institution I'm Peter Robinson.
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You Are Here: Home → The Church can humbly act as a mirror to help people confront this virus in our midst
The Church can humbly act as a mirror to help people confront this virus in our midst
Michael Kelly February 28, 2019
In a way, every time someone is talking about clerical sexual abuse the Church is losing. Few things convulse people with anger and dismay as much as revelations that those charged with leading people to God betray that trust and instead inflict the most appalling harm.
Perhaps, the only thing to come close is when people hear that those raised up to lead the Church – bishops and religious superiors – sometimes chose to turn a blind eye and often preferred to put the avoidance of scandal and the reputation of the Church or an accused cleric ahead of the pain of a child.
As Benedict XVI noted in his letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the scandals loom large and have obscured the light of the Gospel “to a degree that not even centuries of persecution succeeded in doing”.
It is a painful legacy, and for all that the Church in Ireland has made huge strides forward to ensure that ecclesial life is as safe as possible for children and vulnerable adults.
We can’t say it often enough that heart-wrenching lessons have been learned and that while no system will be perfect, the Church here now has hard-won policies and procedures in place that represent the gold standard. The army of thousands of volunteers who give of their time, talent and energy to work in child safeguarding across the Church really do represent a revolution.
More than this, at a time when the reality of fewer and fewer priests is becoming more apparent, it is also a shining example of how laypeople, religious and priests can work together to share co-responsibility for the life of the Church.
None of the huge strides that have been taken in countries like Ireland can diminish the immense damage that has been done, nor can it make us complacent that this is now perfect and something that can be consigned to the past. As is becoming more and more evident in every walk of life, constant vigilance is the only stance when it comes to safeguarding. In other words, safeguarding has to be seen as a culture rather than in isolation.
The abuse summit in Rome which concluded at the weekend focused primarily on responsibility, accountability and transparency. These are all vital components for a comprehensive safeguarding strategy.
The fact that the Holy See is preparing a guidebook for every bishop in the world to know how to handle these cases supported by a new task force is good news. Some victims and survivors will – understandably – say ‘too little, too late’. And for them, that is tragically true. But, the real fruit of the Rome meeting must be that the lessons learned in countries like Ireland must be applied globally.
No family or society ever wants to confront an issue like the abuse of children. In the Church we have been forced to confront this. We have been held to the standard of the Gospel and found wanting, but if we can truly face the inadequacies and wrongdoing in a courageous fashion the Church can, please God, help serve as a mirror to wider society all across the globe to confront the virus of abuse that infects everything it touches.
Michael Kelly is co-author of a new book with Austen Ivereigh How to Defend the Faith – Without Raising Your Voice – it is available from Columba Books.
Michael Kelly is an award-winning writer and broadcaster specialising in religious and social affairs. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, he attended the Pontifical University St Patrick’s College, Maynooth where he obtained degrees in philosophy and theology and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome where he studieD social institutional communications. From 2002-2005 he was an Editor in the Central Information Service of Vatican Radio. In this role, he travelled with Pope St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI on overseas trips. In 2005, he returned to Dublin to take up the position of Deputy Editor with The Irish Catholic newspaper, succeeding as Editor in 2012. In 2016, he was appointed Consulting Editor of Columba Books, the Dublin-based publisher of religious and spiritual books. He is a regular contributor to programmes on RTÉ, BBC, UTV, CNN and Al Jazeera. He also have extensive experience offering media training and coaching in the voluntary sector. Mr Kelly is a weekly columnist with Ireland’s largest-selling secular newspaper the Irish Independent and has been published in The Irish Times, the Irish Examiner, The Irish News, The Guardian, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic World Report, the National Catholic Reporter and the National Catholic Register. He writes from Ireland for Catholic News Service of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is co-author with Austen Ivereigh of the best-selling book How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice. He is a frequent visitor to the Holy Land and is currently working on a new book on the holy places in the Holy Land which is due to be published in Autumn 2019.
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Irish President Mary McAleese has launched an extraordinary attack on financial regulators, lawyers and economists she says are responsible for much of the downfall of the Irish economy.
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McAleese was speaking in Russia at the end of a five day trip there.
“It was long argued that heavy, strong-handed regulation was not the most conducive environment for business, yet as we now know to our great cost, that light regulation was a recipe for trouble,” she told an audience at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.
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McAleese, who is a lawyer by profession, also attacked the legal profession, saying they kept their knowledge for the privileged few.
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Donal Hickey
It became known as the little school in the “next parish to America” and there was outrage when a Fianna Fáil government decided to close it 44 years ago.
A national campaign to save Dunquin national school, in the Dingle peninsula, secured huge support.
As the school was in the heart of the west Kerry Gaeltacht, looking out at the fabled Blasket islands, the campaign was also seen as a battle for the Irish language and culture.
It included a march from Dunquin to Dublin and a demonstration in O’Connell Street. There was also a brief occupation of the Department of the Gaeltacht offices.
Among those who supported the school at the time were writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain and poet Máire Mhac An tSaoi, who had attended the school in her youth.
A change of government in 1973, when a Fine Gael/Labour coalition took over, also brought about a change of heart with Education Minister Dick Burke, on assuming office, deciding to reopen the school.
Mr Burke is among the people interviewed in a new TG4 documentary — part of celebrations to mark the school’s 100th anniversary — as well as Máire and Breandán Feiritéar who were to the fore in efforts to keep the school open unofficially and who taught there then.
Recalling that time, ex-minister Mr Burke says: “It wasn’t a government decision. It was a personal decision. I did it on my own initiative and it had nothing to do with any protest or complaints. The school was reopened for cultural reasons only.
“I know there was another school in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh but, in my opinion, there was a difference between the special case of the Blasket Islands and this school that was right on their doorstep.”
Others in the programme include Máirín Ní Chearnaigh Tobin, daughter of Blasket Islander, Seán Pheats Tom Ó Cearnaigh; Frances Uí Chinnéide, grand-daughter of the legendary educator, Seán ‘An Common Noun’ Ó Dálaigh, and Máire Ní Chriomhthain Uí Uallacháin, now aged 84.
The slogan, ‘Ní dhúnfar Scoil Dhún Chaoin’ (Dunquin school will not be closed), was first uttered by a Dublin-based Irish language professor and frequent visitor to Dún Chaoin, the late Breandán Ó Buachalla, at a public meeting in the school after its official closure.
Members of the Ó Buachalla family also feature in this documentary, as well as members of the Ó Snodaigh family, several of whom attended the school in order to keep it open.
In the late 1960s, pupils from the school took part in the David Lean movie, Ryan’s Daughter, and were regularly transported en bloc to the ‘film school’, built especially for the purpose nearby.
Peter Carr, of Woodend Films, is the producer /director of the one-hour documentary, to be screened on TG4 at 7.30pm, on December 31. Mícheál de Mórdha, a former pupil and broadcaster, is the narrator.
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A century of powerful posters from the first World War to Ryanair, the IRA and Dracula
Vintage posters for auction: war, politics, terrorism, travel, sport and film
Sat, Jan 13, 2018, 06:00
Michael Parsons
An advertisement for Wills’s Bulwark Cut Plug (pipe tobacco) dating from the 1940s
One of the most powerful – and certainly most effective – advertising campaigns in history was created just over 100 years ago to en-courage young men to join the British army in the first World War (1914-1918). Recruitment posters appeared in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and Ireland and hundreds of thousands responded.
These posters – like vintage advertising generally – have become very collectible and there’s a selection coming up for sale at Whyte’s Auctioneers in the first big Dublin auction of 2018 on Saturday, February 3rd.
When the first World War began there was an acute shortage of manpower in the British army and parliament authorised an increase of half-a-million soldiers. A Parliamentary Recruiting Committee was established by MPs and the War Office in London set up a special unit to commission the posters – some designed by well-known artists. Tens of thousands of copies were printed.
Surviving copies are very sought-after by collectors and when framed and hung, can make a very dramatic impact. One of the most poignant images, given the subsequent carnage, is Lot 85 in Whyte’s catalogue – a poster captioned “There’s Room For You – Enlist To-day”, showing soldiers, in high spirits, aboard a train leaving a station. It was printed by W & M Strain & Sons Ltd of Belfast and 104 High Holborn, London, and is estimated at €300-€400.
Lot 83, entitled “Are You In This?” was cleverly designed by Lt Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts) to target waverers – it depicts men, women and children engaged in war work (€200-€300).
Posters like these helped to attract tens of thousands of young Irishmen to enlist but after the 1916 Rising public in opinion began to change in Ireland and support for the war effort declined. Following Independence, the British army left Ireland in 1922 but returned – unexpectedly – to Northern Ireland in 1969 when the modern “Troubles” erupted.
There’s a poster in the auction from the 1980s – made by the IRA in Belfast which depicts the British army in a shockingly different light. Lot 171 includes a two-colour poster headlined “Stay Clear – Keep Them In Fear” with a photograph of a British army patrol with the strapline, “Isolate the enemy”, and a warning to the civilian population to “stay clear of all crown forces personnel”. It was published by the “Belfast Brigade, Óglaigh na hÉireann” and is being offered with a 1980s An Phoblacht promotional poster and an 1992 general election poster for Martin McGuinness (who failed to unseat John Hume in the Foyle Constituency) – with a combined estimate of €200-€300 for all three.
Far less controversial, and of considerably more aesthetic appeal, is Lot 472, an image featuring the real Óglaigh na hÉireann – the Irish Defence Forces manning salute guns on Dún Laoghaire Pier which is, in fact, a card point-of-sale advertisement for Wills’s Bulwark Cut Plug (pipe tobacco) dating from the 1940s and estimated at €150-€200.
Vintage travel posters are among the most attractive and among the highlights in this auction is Lot 478, a trans-Atlantic liner poster, for the “Dominion Line” featuring an illustration of SS Canada. It was made for display in “Great Southern and Western Railway” stations, advertising the line’s trans-Atlantic schedule for autumn and winter 1900. The poster has added historical interest because these sailing never, in fact, happened.
The SS Canada was taken out of service in mid-1900 to ship troops to Southern Africa to fight in the Boer War and the services advertised on this poster were cancelled as a result. The estimate is €500-€600.
More modern travel is evoked in some of the designs for an early advertising campaign for Ryanair.
Lot 483, dating from circa 1985, is a set of six poster designs, for the low-cost Irish airline that had been established the previous year, described as “attractive and scarce”, A4 size, framed, by artists including Pauline Bewick, and headlined “Spirit of Ireland” (five posters) and “Spirit of Europe” (1) – with a collective estimate of €200-€300 for the lot.
The most expensive item in the auction is a vintage film poster. Lot 484, was made to promote the 1958 film Dracula – a British horror film directed by Terence Fisher based on the novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
This was the first in the series of Hammer horror films, starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. In the US the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the earlier Dracula (1931) starring Bela Lugosi. According to Whyte’s “this poster has become one of the most sought-after cinema posters worldwide”, which explains the steep estimate: €6,000-€8,000.
By coincidence, in November, “Heritage Auctions” in the United States sold an exceptionally rare poster for the 1931 Dracula – for $525,800 – a world record price for a film poster at auction.
The posters will go on view from Wednesday, January 30th, at Whyte’s, 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, and go unbder the hammer in “The Ecelctic Collector” auction in the nearby Freemasons’ Hall in Molesworth Street on Saturday, February 3rd, at 11am.
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Gary Retelny
Gary Retelny is President and CEO of Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS). He is responsible for overall leadership of the business spanning 19 offices in 13 countries and covering seven discrete business lines: Governance Workflow, Responsible Investment, Corporate Solutions, Asset Management Intelligence, Transaction Cost Analysis, Fund Services, and ISS Media.
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With more than 30 years of experience in senior roles at both leading investment management and private equity firms, Gary is also responsible for expanding ISS’ range of solutions through acquisitions. Most recently, these include Incentive Lab (2014), Ethix SRI Advisors (2015), iiWisdom (2016), IW Financial (2017), the Investment Climate Data Division of South Pole Group (2017), EVA Dimensions (2018), and oekom research AG (2018), Strategic Insight (2019), and CAER (2019).
Prior to leading ISS, Gary was Head of Strategy and Business Development at MSCI Inc. (ISS’ former parent) where he spearheaded major strategic initiatives including the $290 million IPO of MSCI on the NYSE in November 2007, the acquisition of Barra in 2004 for more than $800 million, and the $1.6 billion acquisition and financing of RiskMetrics Group in 2010.
As a speaker on matters of import to the financial community, Gary has appeared before corporate board members, investor bodies, and other audiences seeking ISS’ perspective on the state of, and shifts in, the global responsible investment and corporate governance landscape. He is also a member of ISS’ Global Policy Board, which is responsible for formulating ISS’ benchmark voting policies.
Gary received a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University as well as an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School.
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Home / The Institute / Former Visiting Fellows / Agnieszka Pasieka
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale. In the period 2007-2011 she was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
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The Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in Rural Southern Poland
My research primarily addresses the relation between religion and politics, and investigates the situation of minorities in the context of church-state relations in Poland. In 2008/09 I conducted ethnological fieldwork in a multireligious and multiethnic rural community. This study provides the basis for my doctoral dissertation, in which I combine ethnographic enquiry with historical analysis.
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Blog Entry No. 15 - Upcoming Music Gigs in the UAE →
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are well known for its nightlife and numerous music gig from small club acts to huge music festivals. Hot and humid weather is out and winter is just right in the corner, outdoor events are starting to pop out in different parts of the Emirates. Here's a list of the upcoming music gig to watch out before we leave 2016 behind.
Artist: Madness
Hits: Our House | It Must Be Love
Genres: New Wave | Ska | Pop
Venue: Dubai Tennis Stadium, Al Gharhoud, Dubai
Organizer: The Irish Village Dubai
Date: 06 October 2016, Friday
Tickets: from 295 AED
image courtesy of The Irish Village Dubai (click image for event details)
Madness are London ska group formed in mid 70's. The North London Invaders have 15 hit singles that reached the UK Top 10, "House of Fun" and "Wings of Love" were just few of their early top singles in UK and Ireland. Some other hits that attained their well know status are, "It Must Be Love" (a well loved version of Labi Siffre's 1971 hit), "My Girl" and "Our House", a new wave track that was their most internationally successfully single to date.
Artist: James Morrison
Hits: You Give Me Something | You Make It Real
Genres: Soul | Pop Rock
Venue: Dubai Opera House
Organizer: Dubai Opera House
image courtesy of Dubai Opera (click image for event details)
James Morrison, a singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved a worldwide success with debut single "You Give Me Something", claiming a No. 1 spot in New Zealand in 2006. His "Undiscovered" debut album, debuted at the top of the UK album charts. He won the Brit Award for Best British Male in 2007.
Artist: Bob Geldof | The Irish Village 20th Year Anniversary
Hits: I Don't Like Mondays | Rat Trap
Genres: New Wave, Punk Rock
Venue: The Irish Village Dubai
Date: 20 October 2016, Thursday
Tickets: FREE
Bob Geldof became the lead singer of the punk rock band Boomtown Rats in the late 70's. Their hit song "I Don't Like Mondays" was number one in the UK Singles Chart for a month in the summer of 1979. Geldof and Midge Ure (Leadman of Ultravox) were the men behind the supergroup Band Aid (founded to raise money for famine relief in African countries) where he co-wrote the track "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?", which has sold 3.7 million copies in the UK. This free event is brought to you by The Irish Village in celebration of it's 20th year of Irish existence in Dubai.
Event: Sunset Music Festival
Artist: Gabrielle | Arrested Development | Snap
Genres: 90's pop music | hip-hop | dance
Venue: Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi
Organizer: Zayed Sports City
Support Artists: Freshly Ground, Adam Baluch
Image courtesy of Sunset Music Festival (click image for event details)
Relieve the 90's with the inaugural Sunset Music Festival in the Emirates. The 90's iconic bands will be performing live in the leading sports destination in the capital, Zayed Sports City. Headlining the festival will be the Brit Award winning singer songwriter, Gabrielle. Her debut single "Dreams" topped the UK Singles chart in 1993, "Going Nowhere" & "Out Of Reach" are just few of her top charting hits. The American alternative hip-hop group, Arrested Development, will be one of the co-headliner of the event, well known with their tracks like "Everyday People", "Tennessee" & "Mr. Wendal". Another co-headliner will be the German Eurodance group The Snap!, the group became famous with their hits like "Rhythm Is A Dancer" & "The Power", particularly known for it's hook "I've got the power".
Freshly Ground, the South African Afro-fusion band, will be supporting the event with Adam Baluch, a live looping artist who is a veteran performer in many music gigs in the region.
Artist: Bamboo
Hits: Noypi | Hallelujah | Tatsulok
Genres: Alternative | Pop | Pinoy Rock
Venue: World Trade Center
Organizer: Spicy Lemon
Date: 27 October, Thursday
Image courtesy of Platinum List (click image for event details)
Bamboo Mañalac is a music icon in the Philippines for more than 20 years, he became famous in the mid-1990s as lead singer of one of the biggest selling Filipino rock band "Rivermaya" before becoming the frontman of his own band "Bamboo". He is the star of the popular TV show "The Voice of the Philippines" and later returned back as coach in "The Voice Kids Philippines" from 2014 to present. He is currently in an international tour and scheduled to play in Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Dublin and Doha.
Event: Fiesta De Los Muertos
Artist: DJ Lazer | All Saints | DNCE | Hollaphonics | The Mariachis
Genres: Pop | EDM | Rock | Mariachi
Venue: Autism Rock Arena, Dubai-Al Ain Road, Dubai
Organizer: 117Live
Date: 28 October, Friday
117Live, one of the biggest event management in the region, presented a brand new annual halloween themed festival in Dubai, Fiesta De Los Muertos - A Killer Party.
The American electronic music band, Major Lazer, will be one of the headline act of the event. Their massive hit "Lean On" featuring Mo became the most streamed track in Spotify history with more than half a million plays. Included in the line up is the Best New Act in the 1998 MTV Europe Music Award, All Saints. The reformed English-Canadian girl band became famous with their award winning hits like "Never Ever" and "Pure Shores". Joe Jonas & his band DNCE have been recently added in the line up. The American pop band popularized the disco funk hit "Cake By The Ocean" which was nominated for the Best Anthem in the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards.
The festival will be supported by the UAE house/electro duo Hollaphonic and The Mariachis, an authentic ensemble of Mexican musicians.
Artist: Brian Wilson (of The Beach Boys) The Pet Sounds Tour
Hits: Wouldn't It Be Nice | Kokomo | Surfin USA | Sloop John B
Genres: Rock | Pop | Psychedelia
Date: 03 November, Thursday
Brian Wilson is the creative genius behind the American rock band The Beach Boys. Pet Sounds tour is a worldwide concert tour by Brian Wilson to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds which was released in 1966. Founding members Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin who joined the band in the 70's will be joining him on stage. Brian Wilson will play tracks from the Pet Sounds album along with rare cuts and greatest hits.
Event: Whats On! Party In The Park
Artist: Kaiser Chief | Charlatans | Travis
Genres: Indie Rock | Alternative
Venue: Dubai Media City Amphitheater
Organizer: What's On
Date: 11 November 2016, Friday
Support Artists: The Boxtones | Adam Baluch | 13 Daze | Tim Hassal
Image courtesy of What's On (click Image for event details)
One of Dubai's much awaited music festival is back on it's 3rd year. This is Dubai's version of the Glastonbury Festival but without the mud just the scenic landscape of the Media City Amphitheater. The multi stages, the urban street style of the pop-up village, artisan stores and the Brunch deck makes it stand out from the other music festival in the region.
This year's music line ups are popular in the Brit-indie rock scenes. The lads from Leeds, Kaiser Chief, will be one of the headliner, famous with their hits like "I Predict A Riot" & "Everyday I Love You Less & Less". The groovy band of the 90's, The Charlatans, are also co-headlining the event, known from their tracks like "The Only One I Know" and "Weirdo". The Scottish band, Travis will also be sharing the stage to play their hits like "Why Does It Always Rain?" and "Closer".
Artist: The Stranglers
Hits: Peaches | Skin Deep | Golden Brown
Genres: Punk Rock | New Wave
Date: 24 November 2016, Thursday
Tickets: 150 AED
The English punk rock band are returning back to The Irish Village Dubai after 8 years. They are the most successful and longest surviving band from the UK punk scene in the 70's with 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date. Their biggest hit is "Golden Brown", it reached number 2 in Britain. Some of their other tracks include, "No More Heroes", "Peaches", "Always The Sun" and "Skin Deep". This will be Irish Village's last scheduled live performance for the year following the gigs from Madness, Bob Geldof & Brian Wilson.
Event: Yasalam - F1 After Race Concert
Artist: Chemical Brothers | Lionel Richie | Rihanna
Venue: Du Arena, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
Organizer: Yasalam
Date: 25-27 November 2016, Friday-Sunday
Tickets: FREE for F1 ticket holders
Image courtesy of Yas Marina Circuit (click image for event details)
The largest entertainment music festival is back on its 8th year. The After-Race Concerts are back with spectacular line up of global superstars, a magnificent three nights of musical entertainment free for all F1 ticket holders.
The event will be kicked off by the English electronic duo, The Chemical Brothers, their massive hits "Block Rockin Beats" & "Hey Boy Hey Girl" are the anthems of techno music in the late 90's. The former Commodores member, Lionel Richie will be performing on the second day. Well loved with his romantic top tracks like "Hello", "Say You, Say Me" and "Stuck On You". And on the final day, crowd will be dancing and cheering with the baddest girl of Barbados, Rihanna. The top selling digital artist of all time and the 8-time Grammy Award winning entertainer will perform her "Anti World Tour" in the capital. This event is exclusive for Abu Dhabi GP ticket holders.
Artist: Elton John
Hits: Candle In The Wind Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Genres: Rock | Rhythm & Blues
Date: 15 December 2016, Thursday
The legendary English singer will be performing in Dubai as part of his "Wonderful Crazy Night Tour". Elton John is one of the most successful artist in the history of the American Charts having 56 Top 40 singles in the US. Three of his albums have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, including his 1970 eponymous album. He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, and holds the record for the biggest selling single of all time. Some of his notable top charting hits include: "Daniel", "Your Song", "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me", "Rocket Man" and a lot more.
This article has no connection with any of the events, artists or organizers, all details were gathered personally for this blog's usage only. All details are verified and found accurate during the time of posting. Links for the details of all mentioned events were provided for proper verification of the subscribers.
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Firms Win Judgment, Totaling Over $25,000.00, on Behalf of Three Dental Managers Wrongfully Denied Overtime Pay
by Brian J. Markovitz
More and more frequently, employers are evading the legal requirement to pay overtime to their employees by choosing to pay them on a salaried basis instead of an hourly wage, and then telling the employees that they’re not entitled to overtime because they have an “exempt” job title. But often this practice amounts to nothing more than illegal wage theft from workers who should be classified as hourly and are being denied overtime pay that they deserve.
In June 2016, along with Andrew Santillo of Winebrake & Santillo of Dresher, Pa., I filed a civil case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland charging Illinois-based Heartland Dental, LLC, with violating the law by doing just that. Our complaint alleged that Heartland Dental committed wage theft by denying overtime pay, which is normally “time-and-a-half” of their regular pay, to office managers whom the company misclassified as salaried. Heartland Dental hired these office managers to work in dental offices throughout the country.
On May 23, 2017, we obtained a judgment, totaling over $25,000.00, entered on the basis of settlements with Heartland Dental on behalf of our three clients– all of them residents of Prince George’s County, Md., and all of them “salaried” office managers who were improperly denied overtime pay by Heartland Dental.
Heartland Dental is a company that provides office managers, marketing personnel, IT workers, and other support staff to dentists across the country. It works with more than 750 dental offices and pays the workers directly.
We alleged in the lawsuit that Heartland Dental violated federal overtime law by classifying its so-called “S” or salaried office managers in dental offices as exempt from receiving overtime premium pay (or “time-and-a-half” pay) when they worked more than 40 hours in a week.
We pointed out in the complaint that the duties and level of supervision of the “S” office managers were identical to those of other office managers who were being paid hourly and were receiving overtime pay. Accordingly, we asserted Heartland violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We sought damages, penalties and litigation costs from Heartland Dental.
The lawsuit was filed as a collective action on behalf of all people who worked as salaried office managers for Heartland Dental any time after June 16, 2013. We are confident that there are other present and former employees of Heartland Dental who are or have been in this situation, and we hope that others will come forward.
Mr. Santillo and I are very pleased that we obtained this judgment for our c clients and hope that others will also be brave enough to come forward to try to collect the monies they are owed.
Brian J. Markovitz
Brian Markovitz is a principal in the firm’s Labor and Employment and Civil Litigation practice groups who focuses primarily on helping victims who have suffered severe injustice in the workplace. He represents individuals throughout Maryland, the Washington D.C. area and across the country in complex employment litigation and appellate matters involving wrongful termination, retaliation by employers in response to reporting fraud or misconduct and discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age and sexual orientation.
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President Donald Trump speaks at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on his way returning back to the White House, Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump tweeted some Democratic Congresswomen should leave the US
In tweets Sunday, the president portrays the liberal lawmakers as foreign-born troublemakers, but did not identify who he was talking about.
Author: JONATHAN LEMIRE , Associated Press, CALVIN WOODWARD , Associated Press
Published: 7:05 AM PDT July 14, 2019
Updated: 6:16 PM PDT July 14, 2019
WASHINGTON — Starkly injecting race into his criticism of liberal Democrats, President Donald Trump said Sunday that four congresswomen of color should go back to the "broken and crime infested" countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S. His attack drew a searing condemnation from Democrats who labeled the remarks racist and breathtakingly divisive.
Following a familiar script, Republicans remained largely silent after Trump's morning broadsides against the four women. But the president's nativist tweets caused Democrats to set aside their internal rifts to rise up in a united chorus against the president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump wants to "make America white again." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, after jousting for days with Pelosi, said Trump "can't conceive of an America that includes us."
Trump, who has a long history of making racist remarks, was almost certainly referring to Ocasio-Cortez and her House allies in what's become known as "the squad." The others are Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Only Omar, from Somalia, is foreign-born.
Ocasio-Cortez swiftly denounced his remarks . "Mr. President, the country I 'come from,' & the country we all swear to, is the United States," she tweeted, adding that "You rely on a frightened America for your plunder." Omar also addressed herself directly to Trump in a tweet, writing: "You are stoking white nationalism (because) you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda."
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, summed up the Democratic response: "Racial arsonist strikes again. Shut. Your. Reckless. Mouth."
With his tweet, Trump inserted himself further into a rift between Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez, just two days after he offered an unsolicited defense of the Democratic speaker. Pelosi has been seeking to minimize Ocasio-Cortez's influence in the House Democratic caucus in recent days, prompting Ocasio-Cortez to accuse Pelosi of trying to marginalize women of color.
"She is not a racist," Trump said of Pelosi on Friday.
On Sunday, Trump's tone took a turn.
"So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run," he tweeted.
"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done."
He added: "These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"
The attacks may have been meant to widen the divides within the Democrat caucus, which has been riven by internal debate over how far left to go in countering Trump and over whether to proceed with impeachment proceedings against the president. Instead, the president's tweets, which evoked the trope of telling black people to go back to Africa, brought Democrats together.
"Let's be clear about what this vile comment is: A racist and xenophobic attack on Democratic congresswomen," tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate.
Another 2020 contender, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, tweeted at the president: "This is racist. These congresswomen are every bit as American as you — and represent our values better than you ever will."
RELATED: Democrat infighting on race spills into 2020 presidential contest
Few Republicans weighed in on the president's comments. Congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, did not respond to requests for comment, nor did Sen. Tim. Scott of South Carolina, the only Republican black senator.
Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in a previously scheduled appearance on "Face the Nation" on CBS, said only: "You're going to have to ask the president what he means by those specific tweets."
Shortly after the tweets, and a later presidential post defending the harsh scenes at a border detention facility where hundreds of migrant men are being held in sweltering, foul-smelling conditions, Trump left the White House to go golfing at his Virginia club.
Trump appeared unbowed Sunday night when he returned to Twitter to say it was "so sad" to see Democrats sticking up for the women. "If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior," he tweeted, "then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!"
It was far from the first time that Trump has been accused of holding racist views.
In his campaign kickoff in June 2015, Trump deemed many Mexican immigrants "rapists." In 2017, he said there good people on "both sides" of the clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white supremacists and anti-racist demonstrators that left one counter-protester dead. Last year, during a private White House meeting on immigration, Trump wondered why the United States was admitting so many immigrants from "shithole countries" like African nations.
Repeatedly, Trump has painted arriving immigrants as an "infestation" and he has been slow in condemning acts of violence committed by white supremacists. And he launched his political career with false claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Despite his history of racist remarks, Trump has paid little penalty in his own party.
Though a broad array of Republicans did speak out against his reaction to Charlottesville, they have largely held their tongues otherwise, whether it be on matter of race or any other Trump provocation. Fearful of his Twitter account and sweeping popularity among Republican voters, GOP lawmakers have largely tried to ignore the provocative statements.
Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic presidential hopeful from California, tweeted, "Let's call the president's racist attack exactly what it is: un-American."
Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in suburban Westchester County.
Pressley, the first black woman elected to the House from Massachusetts, was born in Cincinnati.
Omar, the first Somali native elected to Congress and one of its first Muslim women, was born in Somalia but spent much of her childhood in a Kenyan refugee camp as civil war tore apart her home country. She immigrated to the United States at age 12, teaching herself English by watching American TV and eventually settling with her family in Minneapolis.
Tlaib was born in Detroit.
Associated Press writer Hope Yen contributed to this report.
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Gregorio Kohon
Gregorio Kohon is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and works in London in private practice. He edited The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, and The Dead Mother: The Work of André Green. He also published No Lost Certainties to be Recovered; Love and its Vicissitudes (co-authored with André Green), and Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny (2015). He is also a poet and a writer. His new book, British Psychoanalysis - An Independent Tradition is to be published in 2018.
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
by Gregorio Kohon
In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the... (more)
The Greening of Psychoanalysis: André Green's New Paradigm in Contemporary Theory and Practice
Edited by Rosine J. Perelberg, Gregorio Kohon
The influence of André Green on psychoanalysis has been immeasurable - his theoretical, clinical and cultural contributions have identified him as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of... (more)
The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green
Edited by Gregorio Kohon
This collection of essays explores the concept of the "dead mother" which refers to the process of mourning that takes place in the child following maternal depression, when the child experiences the... (more)
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition
British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives in the Independent Tradition is a new and extended edition of The British School of Psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition, which explored the successes... (more)
Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny
Interest in the relationship between psychoanalysis and art - and other disciplines - is growing. In his new book Reflections on the Aesthetic: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny, Gregorio Kohon examines... (more)
Love and Its Vicissitudes
by Andre Green, Gregorio Kohon
In Love and its Vicissitudes Andre Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love. (more)
Red Parrot, Wooden Leg
This is an original first novel of an accomplished poet: erotic, humorous, exotic and sensuous. It describes the adventures of two young writers, set in the midst of political repression,... (more)
No Lost Certainties To Be Recovered: Sexuality, Creativity, Knowledge
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Jack Nicholson, Veronica and Andrea Bocelli
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Remembering Pavarotti: Renée Fleming, Andrea Bocelli, and Placido Domingo Pay Tribute to the Legendary Tenor
There were as many stars in the audience as there were onstage
Kari Mozena
A few years before his death, Luciano Pavarotti performed at a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Opera held at the Staples Center. It was shocking to see the most famous tenor in the world being wheeled out in a padded contraption to help him stand. It even had a cup holder. I closed my mouth, however, when he opened his. There he was, his voice was like no other, filling up that difficult venue. During his farewell tour in 2005, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Luciano Pavarotti died in 2007.
Andrea Bocelli, Renee Fleming, and Placido Domingo Photograph by Nathanson’s Photography.com
Famed soprano Renee Fleming and tenor Andrea Bocelli took to the stage (for the first time together!) Friday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for “Remembering Pavarotti,” a concert organized by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Proceeds from the gala will be put towards pancreatic cancer research at The Salk Institute. Fleming did a sing-along version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” that left many in tears. The evening was magical and the crowd on their feet often, especially when Pavarotti’s longtime friend Placido Domingo (as one of The Three Tenors he and Pavarotti performed together many times) joined Fleming and Bocelli onstage for ‘Non ti scordar di me.” Emotions were already running high before Domingo spoke about his friend. “What else more can I say about Luciano Pavarotti? His voice has been one of the most beautiful voices, not of our time, but in the history of tenors. Really, his voice was unique,” Domingo said.
Bocelli stopped by dinner afterwards for just a moment (he was hopping on a plane to Philadelphia to sing “The Lord’s Prayer” for the Pope) and Jack Nicholson skipped the 4-course feast all together. Nicholson (looking good!) did, however, run backstage to congratulate Bocelli before he left for the East Coast. Gala chair Goldie Hawn giggled with her old Laugh-In producer George Schlatter and her S.O. Kurt Russell (who, in case you were wondering, has ditched his The Hateful Eight hairdo). Everyone stayed late remembering an opera legend who will live on through music.
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Column: L.A. will be the center of the sporting universe for the next decade
Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Games.
(Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
By Arash MarkaziColumnist
Los Angeles has long been viewed by many as the sports and entertainment capital of the world, but the city is about to enter a 10-year period few regions have experienced. The last such stretch also was in Los Angeles, from 1984 to 1994, when the city hosted the Summer Olympics, a World Cup and two Super Bowls along with its other big-time events.
With the opening of the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park (have to get a catchier name before it opens in 2020) as the home of the Rams and Chargers, the re-opening of a refurbished Coliseum this summer for USC and perhaps the opening of a new arena in Inglewood for the Clippers in 2024, Los Angeles will be hosting or in the running to host some of the biggest sports events over the next decade.
While it might be difficult to get excited about events that won’t take place for years, it’s never too early to count the reasons why Los Angeles is taking center stage again.
NCAA Men’s Basketball West Regional, Honda Center, March 28-30, 2019: For the eighth time in its history, the Anaheim venue will host an NCAA men’s basketball event. The arena has undergone several multi-million dollar renovations over the years — some say in attempt to attract an NBA franchise — and has become a favorite destination of the NCAA in March.
The Breeders’ Cup, Santa Anita Park, Nov. 1-2, 2019: One of the biggest dates on the horse racing calendar, this will be the 16th time the event is being held in Southern California and 11th time at Santa Anita.
NCAA Men’s Basketball West Regional, Staples Center, March 26-28, 2020: While Los Angeles might not have a tournament team this year, it can at least look forward to having back-to-back west regional finals in its backyard. Now if the city can have a team actually play in one.
MLB All-Star Game, Dodger Stadium, July 14, 2020: Anaheim has hosted the MLB All-Star Game twice over the past 30 years (2010 and 1989) but this is the first time Dodger Stadium will host the event since 1980. Los Angeles hosted the event one other time, in 1959 at the Coliseum after the Dodgers had moved from Brooklyn.
College Football Playoff semifinal, Rose Bowl, Jan. 1, 2021: The Rose Bowl game will double as the College Football Playoff semifinal for the third time after hosting the first playoff game in 2015. The Rose Bowl is one of six primary bowls in the College Football Playoff and will host a semifinal game every three years.
Super Bowl LVI, Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, Feb. 6, 2022: For the first time since Super Bowl XXVII was held at the Rose Bowl in 1993, Los Angeles will host the NFL’s biggest game. The country’s second biggest market was unable to host the event for 21 years — only cities with an NFL team can be awarded a Super Bowl — but figures to be in the regular rotation again. Despite the drought, Los Angeles has hosted seven Super Bowls — Rose Bowl five, Coliseum two — which trails only New Orleans and Miami (10 each).
College Football Playoff National Championship Game, Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, Jan. 9, 2023: Some of the biggest games in college football history have been held at the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum but the Los Angeles Stadium — which is also vying to host the Pac-12 Championship Game in football, a new bowl and perhaps an annual neutral college football game during the regular season — will enter the mix by hosting the ninth CFP National Championship Game.
U.S. Open, Los Angeles Country Club, June 15-18, 2023: The U.S. Open, the third of the four major championships in golf, will be held in the city for the first time since Riviera Country Club of Pacific Palisades played host in 1948. Back then Ben Hogan won the $2,000 grand prize on a course that would become known as “Hogan’s Alley.”
College Football Playoff semifinal, Rose Bowl, Jan. 1, 2024: The Rose Bowl’s traditional Pac-12 champion versus Big Ten champion matchup will again take a back seat to a playoff game, the Rose Bowl serving as a semifinal site for the fourth time.
FIFA World Cup, various sites, 2026: The rise of soccer’s popularity in the U.S. and the birth of Major League Soccer can be traced to the 1994 World Cup in the United States. The Rose Bowl was used more than any other venue that year — eight games, including the semifinal, third-place game and final. Los Angeles will again figure prominently in the mix in 2026 with the United States, Canada and Mexico earning a joint bid.
Summer Olympics, various sites, July 21-Aug. 6, 2028: Los Angeles will become the third city — after London and Paris — to host the Summer Olympics three times when the Games return to the Southland for the first time since 1984. The Coliseum will become the first venue to host three Olympics (1932, 1984, 2028) as it will co-host the opening and closing ceremonies along with the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park.
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Arash Markazi
Arash Markazi is a sports columnist with the Los Angeles Times.
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14-year-old boy who is partially paralyzed wows Aggies basketball team
By Paul Swenson, KSL.com | Posted - Apr 17th, 2019 @ 2:56pm
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SALT LAKE CITY — For Tate Erickson of Logan, ball is life.
The 14-year-old eighth-grader can’t get enough basketball in his life — playing with the same group of friends since he was in elementary school. But after playing basketball for nearly seven years, a dramatic event changed his life forever.
Tate suffered a concussion during a practice for his little league football team.
His parents, Matt and Rachel Erickson, erred on the side of caution, taking him out of football to give him time to recover. But his symptoms continued, even after a few months. Tate suffered headaches, nausea, and, at times, couldn’t even tell what was real and what wasn’t.
The Ericksons took their son back to the doctor, where Tate was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He underwent surgery but suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left side and kept him in the hospital for another month.
Tate finally returned home from Primary Children’s Hospital in the summer of 2018 before beginning his eighth-grade year. At the same time, the Utah State basketball team was preparing for Craig Smith’s first season as head coach of the Aggies; a team that was predicted to finish ninth in the Mountain West Conference preseason standings.
Tate’s parents are both graduates from Utah State, and Tate, being a big sports fan, has always cheered for the Aggie teams. Word of Tate’s story made it to Smith’s squad, and they reached out to him — but not over text or Instagram direct message. Each player on the team mailed Tate a handwritten letter, thanking him for his support of Utah State basketball and inviting him to come for a tour of the team’s court, offices and practice area before their season began.
“It just meant so much to Tate to have them include him,” Rachel Erickson said. “It was really neat that these guys took the time to reach out and talk to him and just help him feel like he’s still part of something.”
Tate visited the Utah State facilities and ended up meeting the entire team before one of their practices.
“He seemed like a really strong person,” assistant coach Justin Johnson said of meeting Tate. “The way that he handled all of that, it was pretty impressive meeting him.”
Scan of Tate Erickson's brain after suffering a concussion. (Photo: Courtesy: Erickson family)
Aggie forward Justin Bean was also impressed with Tate’s positivity and courage after meeting him.
“He just had this big smile on his face as we all just gave him high fives and talked to him before practice started,” Bean said.
After meeting Tate, the team gave him a ball and asked him to show them some of his game.
“We played with him on one end of the court,” Bean remembered. “He’d take the ball in his right hand and shoot it one-handed, and it was one of the purest shots I’ve ever seen. Just money.
“After about the fourth or fifth one in a row, we all just started looking around and thought, ‘We need to get this kid a jersey!’”
After attending practice and playing with the team, Tate was also invited to attend the home opener against Hartford in November. He sat on the sidelines and went into the locker room with the team during the game, leading them in the “Aggies on three” cheer before entering the court.
Tate Erickson poses for a photo with Utah State players Sam Merril and Neemias Queta. (Photo: Courtesy: Erickson family)
“It was a great experience for all of us,” Bean said. “Having him there, knowing what he’s been through and the adversity he’s faced, and just seeing his attitude and how positive he was throughout everything.”
Tate returned to another game later in the season at the request of Neemias Queta. The Aggie freshman gave Tate his personal tickets and even gifted the eighth-grader with his warmups after the game.
“It meant so much to Tate and to me that they took that time, and they didn’t ask for anything out of it,” Rachel Erickson said. “They just did it to be awesome."
Bean added that meeting Tate was a humbling experience that helped the team be more positive and get to know the culture of Cache Valley.
“One thing you don’t realize as a college athlete is just how much of an impact others in the community can have on you,” he said. “It’s easy to get caught up in the fame of just having people want to come watch you play basketball, but there’s just a nice simplicity about having people look up to you and being able to learn from them.”
While doctors aren’t sure what Tate’s recovery will be like, he still continues to improve. Since returning home from the hospital in the summer of 2018, Tate can now walk with a brace and can even make small movements with the fingers on his left hand.
Despite the uncertainty of his recovery, one thing about Tate will always be sure: He can always be seen cheering on his Aggies.
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Busy intersection closure in Nacogdoches postponed until early June
By Donna McCollum and Jeff Wright | May 16, 2019 at 2:39 PM CDT - Updated May 16 at 8:54 PM
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - A construction project planned at a busy intersection familiar with many Nacogdoches drivers has been pushed back for at least two more weeks.
The intersection of East Austin and Raguet streets is popular with residents and commuters in Nacogdoches. The intersection has become the subject of a construction project to widen the road from a two-lane to a four-lane roadway which will include a sidewalk a new traffic light.
“I’m the luckiest one because I have two entrances,” said Vida Raney, homeowner near the intersection. “It is what it is; we’ll just have to deal with it."
WEBXTRA: Widening construction on busy Nacogdoches street postponed until early June
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) originally wanted to block off the intersection in mid-May, but after some discussion with the city and residents, TxDOT is now waiting until June 3. An elementary school is located just down the street from the intersection, and all parties have agreed it would be in the best interest for school to let out before the road is blocked off.
“It’s going to be an inconvenience to go to little Kroger and to the post office and to the bank down there,” Raney said, referencing her property’s proximity to nearby landmarks. “We’ll just have to take a different route.”
A construction project planned at a busy intersection familiar with many Nacogdoches drivers has been pushed back for at least two more weeks. (Source: Donna McCollum/KTRE)
Billy Huddleston Jr., owner of NacBurger, located in the nearby strip center is hopeful satisfying customers’ cravings for a burger will compensate for the longer drive.
“Any time you close down a thoroughfare to your business it’s concerning,” said Huddleston.
The closure is expected to last up to three months.
“It definitely will affect my business. I don’t see how it couldn’t. Hopefully, my customers will still support us and take the detour,” said Huddleston.
“This project is progressing well and we are to the point of relocating utilities in this intersection,” said Rhonda Oaks, public information officer for the Lufkin District. “Because of the depth of excavation required to relocate underground utilities, the road will be impassable.”
Motorists are advised to take alternate routes during the course of this work. Austin Street will continue to remain closed to through traffic.
Donna McCollum
KTRE Reporter
Donna McCollum produces stories for the weekday newscasts at 5, 6, and 10. Nacogdoches County keeps her busy, but she also covers news stories in adjacent counties.
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Het Baken; Optimal wellbeing in a working environment
"Het Baken" is one of the most remarkable office buildings in The Netherlands. It is a hyper modern, fully functional office building with a very stylish and designed interior. Inside the building there is an art collection that would fit any museum in the world. The building speaks art and design and is an eye-catcher in it's surrounding. Next to all the build-in functionalities the building has an identity. "Het Baken" doesn't only have a hart and soul, it also has it's own personality.
The Lighting
The lighting inside and outside the building contributes to the wellbeing of the employees and visitors. Everywhere in the building one feels comfortable and fit for work. In every room the lighting can be dimmed to the specific need at any time. And is perfectly designed to fit the architecture and interior of the building.
The building incorporates the most up-to-date and innovative lighting system. The light level adapts to the incoming naturally light level. From facade to the center of the building there is a progressive light level to achieve a very evenly comfortable ambiance. Next to this the adaptable light systems also ensures an optimal use of energy.
The very specific wishes of the client resulted in taylor-made lighting instruments. The light profiles in the offices with indirect lighting are designed according the architectural curves of the building. Special ceiling coves are developed to incorporate light and airconditioning to be integrated in the architecture. Lighting is integrated in the facade and frames of the building.
The atrium inside is one of the most striking examples of integration of lighting and architecture. The ceilings on the corridors of the atrium are illuminated with lighting that is completely integrated in the architecture. The illuminated ceilings create a beautiful sense of height. During the day the atrium, with it's glass window ceiling, forms the daylight intaking center of the building. After sunset the atrium forms the beautiful glowing hart of the building. No one in the atrium can resist the urge to stand still and look up and enjoy the spectacle.
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Maddie Hasson, Unearthed (WWD)
After roles in “Novitiate” and “I Saw the Light,” Maddie Hasson, the star of new web series “Impulse,” is poised for her breakout year.
“I think I sort of got found.”
Maddie Hasson carries the confidence of an actress long in the profession, though she’s a name relatively unknown. The 23-year-old is poised, sure of herself and deceptively stylish, and Hollywood is catching on.
The Wilmington, N.C., native grew up doing theater and was scouted by a manager when she was 15, after her theater director urged her to attend a film audition; she’s still with the same manager today. “I think I got very lucky,” she says.
It would be a year longer for her to convince her mother that uprooting to Los Angeles wasn’t an entirely insane idea. “She let me go to L.A. for a month. And she went with me, and she said ‘If you get a job, we can keep coming back.’ So there was no like, ‘we’re going to move to L.A. right now when you’re 16.’ She was not having that,” Hasson says. “Luckily; I think that I probably wouldn’t have handled that well. It’s a good mom move; go mom.”
Hasson is in New York on a press leg for her new show “Impulse” on YouTube Premium, a breakout thriller series from director Doug Liman of “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” fame. She plays Henry, a headstrong 16-year-old girl who discovers she can teleport.
“I loved her from the very beginning,” Hasson says of Henry. “She really knows who she is for a 16-year-old. And nobody in the writing team or producing team or directing team ever tried to stifle that strength just because she’s a young female character. They really went with it, which was refreshing.”
It’s assumed, then, that she’s read many parts that were otherwise.
“I think the unfortunate thing is, when you get a strong female character, the breakdown will often say something like ‘she’s sassy, or bratty or angsty.’ And you’re like, ‘no, she’s just pissed off. Like, she’s tired of your shit, and she’s tired of being called sassy, and bratty and angsty,’” Hasson says.
Hasson’s previous credits include the 2015 film “I Saw the Light” alongside Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen and last year’s “Novitiate” with Melissa Leo, Dianna Agron and Margaret Qualley. She teases that the project she’s currently at work on is something “I can’t talk about it,” but that she’s looking for a challenge.
“[My management] send me a lot of tough female characters because I think they think that I’m tough,” she says. “But I don’t want to rest in that — I want to go and do something different.
For the “Impulse” press trip, she’s begun working with celebrity stylist Molly Dickson, a former assistant of Leslie Fremar who, since going on her own, has built a roster of some of young Hollywood’s best-dressed new faces including Sadie Sink, Katherine Langford and Joey King. For the day, Dickson has pulled a Dior skirt suit that fits Hasson’s preference for being “very covered up.”
“She came into my hotel room and she was like, ‘I have Chanel and Christian Dior.’ She was like, ‘Chanel likes you.’ And I was like, ‘I’m going to start crying,’” Hasson says. “I really like classic, elegant things. I love the way Anna Wintour dresses. I like to be covered — it makes me feel very strong and powerful…to have layers and a high neckline, and big trousers and a big coat.”
The occasions for the stylist only seem to be increasing.
“It’s fun having a stylist; I like it. It’s a new thing for me, but I’m so into it,” she says. “I’m so on board with the whole thing.”
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Maddie Hasson stars in YouTube original series ‘Impulse’ (USAToday)
In the new YouTube Premium series, ‘Impulse,’ a teen, played by Maddie Hasson, learns she can teleport during a traumatic event. Hasson learned after she got the role that she was the producers’ only choice for the part.
“Impulse” Screening – Photos
Last week (June 7), Youtube hosted a screening of Impulse in NYC! I have added 82 photos from this event to the gallery.
Meet the Young It Actress Who’s Taking Style Cues From Anna Wintour
What does it take to be the next big thing? Whether you say innovation, irreverence, or a lot of flash, it’s undeniably the elusive It factor—that can’t-look-away but also can’t-quite-put-your-finger-on-it instinct. And we’re doubling down for It Girl, It Brand, our latest series speaking to who and what are on the edge of being huge.
This time around, we found something quite kismet in the pairing of actress Maddie Hasson and the Australian label Albus Lumen. The two have their differences: Hasson is making a name for herself as an on-screen (and style) chameleon of sorts, yet the brand, led by Marina Afonina, has made a solid impression for its consistent, strong message of being laid-back yet refined thanks to Afonina’s structured but non-stiff silhouettes, medley of desert colors, and signature tie belts. The biggest similarity between this It brand and It girl? They both make it all look so easy.
“I would probably teleport out of a party to somewhere with pasta,” laughs Maddie Hasson, a woman clearly after our own hearts. Within just a few minutes of meeting the actress, we learn not only that she’s down for a carb-loading session at L.A.’s Gusto but also that she has an affinity for getting dressed up and names Anna Wintour among her style icons (yes and yes!). But it’s not just Hasson’s taste in food and fashion that makes her obsession material—we have to credit the former North Carolina native’s latest on-screen performances for landing her firmly on our radar.
While Hasson’s breakout came via the 2014 ABC Family series Twisted, we were introduced to the rising star in last year’s Novitiate as the rule-breaking nun-in-training Sister Sissy (a fantastic and emotional watch we highly recommend). This month, however, Hasson finds herself in a completely different role of note, that of time-traveling teenager Henrietta “Henry” Cole in the YouTube Red drama series Impulse. Hasson’s performance is nothing short of fantastic, proving once again her star power is no flash in a pan.
Impulse has all the makings of a great sci-fi thriller—an on-the-edge-of-your-seat plot packed with action—but setting it apart from the countless others is the independent young heroine at the center of the story. It’s that which drew Hasson to the project right away, the opportunity to play a well-written female character who is flawed yet still fully sure of herself—a rare find in Hollywood. “I don’t think that’s something commonly portrayed in young characters, especially young female characters, because people have this misconception that because you are young and a woman you can’t have a good understanding of who you are already,” Hasson says. As such, she praises the writers for brilliantly crafting a 16-year-old who isn’t likable just for the sake of it.
Yet while a strong female character is an attractive draw for an actor, Hasson isn’t afraid to portray someone on the opposite end of the spectrum either. In fact, in a perfect world, you won’t see her playing the same character twice. Though most newcomers don’t have the luxury of being choosy about their projects, Hasson is careful to not pigeonhole herself into one type of character early on, a smart effort to showcase her range. If all goes to plan, we’ll see an entirely different Hasson next. In her words, “someone meeker, less sure of herself.”
Luckily, Hasson is no stranger to an identity change, particularly when it pertains to her own personal style. Looking at Hasson in front of us, polished in classic silhouettes and with sun-drenched locks, it’s hard to believe she went through a “huge” Goth phase. Hasson credits her husband, composer Julian Brink, for her style 180. So in lieu of taking style cues from Courtney Love (her former muse), she found inspiration from Anna Wintour’s uniform: cool jackets paired with long skirts and boots. “I really like being covered now,” she says. “It makes me feel very powerful for some reason.” With warmer days upon us, though, Hasson tells us she is settling into a heavy rotation of lightweight linen dresses—like we said, a woman after our own fashion hearts.
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Get to Know ‘Impulse’ Star Maddie Hasson with These 10 Fun Facts
The new series Impulse (a sequel to the 2008 movie Jumper) just premiered on YouTube Premium and we caught up with star Maddie Hasson to learn more about her!
The 23-year-old actress is best known for starring in the ABC Family series Twisted and for her work in the movie I Saw the Light.
Here are 10 Fun Facts she shared with us:
1. Maddie is short for Madelaine and my middle name is Louise.
2. I’m very shy.
3. I don’t drink alcohol.
4. I have a whippet named Leo who is also very shy and doesn’t drink alcohol.
5. I got married at 20 (best decision I ever made).
6. I danced competitively as a child from age 8 to 14.
7. I love high waisted trousers.
8. I love Love and romantic movies.
9. Running really calms me down when I get anxious, which is often!
10. Impulse was the hardest and most rewarding job I’ve ever had, and I’m so deeply proud of it.
Watch the new series Impulse now on YouTube Premium!
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Impulse – Production Stills
Hi! 5 stills from IMPULSE have been added to the gallery
The first three episodes of “Impulse” are now available to stream on YouTube for 30 days. (I have posted the videos below!) The full season is available with a subscription to YouTube Premium.
Maddie Hasson & Doug Liman Discuss The YouTube Original Series, “Impulse”
“Impulse” follows a young teenage outcast named Henry Coles who, after nearly being raped by the popular kid at school, discovers that she has telekinetic abilities. But in the process, her powers crush a truck and nearly kill her would-be assaulter, leaving him paraplegic. As the town is left reeling by the mysterious accident, Henry is plagued by strange seizures that allow her to telekinetically manipulate things and teleport. Maddie Hasson and Doug Liman took the BUILD stage to talk about the new YouTube Original series.
Edit : I have added 20 pictures of Maddie at the AOL Build Studios with Doug Liman + 286 caps from the video above + 3 portraits!
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Residents make their way through downtown for 2nd annual March for Science
Nearly 100 people marched through downtown Las Cruces in support of science-based evidence and science education.
Residents make their way through downtown for 2nd annual March for Science Nearly 100 people marched through downtown Las Cruces in support of science-based evidence and science education. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2018/04/22/second-annual-march-science-downtown-las-cruces/539202002/
Ali Linan, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 9:00 a.m. MT April 22, 2018
Marchers take to the streets for the March for Science at the Plaza de Las Cruces on April 21, 2018.(Photo: Maggie A Adams/ For The Sun-News)Buy Photo
LAS CRUCES - Don Pepion bent down and put his hand to the floor.
Pepion, a New Mexico State University Native American studies professor, opened the Earth Day celebration held at the plaza Saturday with a proclamation.
“Whereas, this communal act will signify the commitment of each of us individually and as resident of Mother Earth to work to protect and preserve her and ensure that that blessing of the Creator are available not only to us but to those we leave behind and their descendants’ descendants,” he said.
The placing of his hand to the ground, Pepion said, was a way to connect back to the indigenous belief that humans are related to all things, including plants, animals and the cosmos, and that by connecting to the human life source — the Earth — one acknowledges their responsibility to maintain that balance.
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The celebration included the second annual March for Science, where nearly 100 people marched through downtown Las Cruces in an effort to give voice to the importance of fact-based evidence and teaching science in schools, among other issues.
People hold up signs as they participate in the March for Science on April 21, 2018 downtown. (Photo: Maggie A Adams/ For The Sun-News)
The effort was among the hundreds of marches held around the country in April with the same purpose.
The march began at 10:15 a.m., where the group chanted “Science, not silence” and “Science is cool, learn it school,” among others. The march lasted about 30 minutes.
Erin Taylor, one of the marchers and a chemistry teacher at Mayfield High School, said she came to the march to support science-based evidence policy and science education.
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“What the past year has shown with the attempt to put in poor science standards by the New Mexico Public Education Department, which we successfully fought against, as well as non-scientists making science decisions in the state and more important nationally, is that we need to stand up for evidence-based decisions,” Taylor said.
For Deleasmita Roychowdhury and Beth LeBlanc, participating in the march was about supporting science, environmental justice and bringing recognition that it’s not about what the Earth can do for the people but what people can do for the Earth.
Stephanie Beauregard and her son Theodore Beauregard come out to march in the March for Science at the Plaza de Las Cruces on April 21, 2018. She is a chemistry teacher at Las Cruces High School. (Photo: Maggie A Adams/ For The Sun-News)
“The way things are going, that makes me very worried about our environment and about our arts and about education and about the next generation,” Roychowdhury said. “All these issues keep us coming back to come and support environmental justice and the climate.”
LeBlanc added: “I hope that people take away that each individual can make a difference.”
More than 40 groups and organizations also filled the plaza with the goal of informing people on how they can cut their waste, reduce harmful impact and change their living behaviors to support the planet rather than harm it.
More: New Mexico innovation could mean new solar power jobs, according to report
Carrie Hamblen, president of Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce and an organizer of the celebration, said she hopes with the event people will be more thoughtful about their everyday actions.
“Our idea is to amplify that voice and help people understand how simple things can reduce the harmful effects we’re having on our planet,” Hamblen said.
Ali Linan can be reached at 575-541-5476, alinan@lcsun-news.com or @Ali__Linan on Twitter.
March for Science at the Plaza de Las Cruces on April 21, 2018. (Photo: Maggie A Adams/ For The Sun-News)
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ABSs – a case of tortoise v hare?
By Eimear McCartan, partnership solicitor at Manchester law firm Ralli
It has now been 12 months since the formal introduction of alternative business structures (ABSs) by the Legal Services Act 2007.
Prior to the reform being introduced, speculation about the effects such radical changes would have was rife. In particular, those pessimistic about the changes lamented the undermining of the legal profession via the introduction of so-called ‘Tesco Law’, combined with the ringing of the death knell for the high street firm as we currently know it.
For individual partners, there were concerns that their hard-fought position in the traditional partnership model would become increasingly redundant and outdated as a more fluid model was introduced. At present, the evidence suggests that for individual partners, the gloom predicted has yet to come to pass.
Recent assessment
Two pivotal pieces of research have been recently carried out which assesses the consequence the introduction of ABSs has had on the legal world since introduction. The consensus is the practical implications to date have been somewhat underwhelming.
In June 2012, research was carried out by Jures on behalf of law firm Fox Williams, which involved a survey of 100 commercial law firms. The results are an interesting indication of the current mentality of partners in commercial law firms and suggest, at present, that there is reluctance to meddle with the status quo. Of those surveyed, 62% identified loss of control as the biggest barrier to change, whilst 51% identified resistance from partners as an obstacle to introduction of the ABS.
The findings of the second piece of research, carried out by accountants HW Fisher & Company, following a survey of 75 small and medium-sized firms in the south-east, were equally cautious. Some 89% of those surveyed had not been affected by the Legal Services Act, with 52% expecting the Act not to affect them over the next 12 months.
In spite of the slow pace of change to date, some of the findings of the research carried out do demonstrate a potential willingness to embrace opportunities in the future. In the Jures research, over half of those surveyed found the prospect of private equity compelling or very compelling, and 39% have already changed their management strategy as a result of the implemented changes. Such findings suggest that whilst there is an initial reticence about evolving, the seeds of change are planting in the minds of many.
Thoughts for the future
The consequence for partners of this willingness to embrace change could be far-reaching. The ethos behind the Legal Services Act 2007 helps to shed light on what the consequences for individual partners may be in future. The drive for introducing the ABS was to encourage law firms to become more streamlined and competitive by offering combined legal and non-legal services, with the opportunity for outside investment.
For individual partners, the worrying word here is ‘streamlined’. This would suggest that those partners not quite fitting the bill, those underperforming or those resisting the alternative structure, will be ousted. Partners need to be prepared for a de-cluttering of the traditional partnerships as lacklustre performers are replaced by non-lawyers with innovative skills, business acumen and commercial minds.
Obstacles partners may experience in future – or indeed may already be experiencing as more flexible legal structures are embraced and the traditional partnership model is chipped away – include a loss of control of their firms as outsider investors take over. Alternatively, lock-in clauses may be used to ensure high-performing partners stay on after investment by a private funder. Others have bemoaned the likely loss of loyalty, commitment and trust between partners which will come with the move away from the trusted partnership model to a more modern and commercial legal environment.
The changes implemented by the Legal Services Act to date can hardly be described as revolutionary; indeed they have been more sedate than sensational.
Despite this, the signs are emerging that changes are afoot and attitudes are shifting. What is very clear for partners is the need to adapt to these changes to survive in future. Already in today’s climate, partners are expected to be multi-disciplinary; they need to be lawyers, managers, marketers and business developers.
The introduction of the ABS reinforces the need for partners to broaden and hone their business skills, perhaps by undertaking further formal training. In this way they can add increased value to a more commercial business environment. In addition, a clear vision and plan for the firm, defined roles within the partnership and transparent processes will also help to ease partners into this new setting.
A word of warning at this stage: partners also need to be prepared to relinquish control to some extent in future if outsider investors are to play a role; a certain loss of independence is inevitable. For some partners, adjusting to this may be very difficult to accept.
Overall, the effect of the introduction of ABSs is akin to the tale of the tortoise and the hare. Whilst the changes have been slow to impact the legal sector, ABSs are still likely to have their day; ultimately the tortoise will win out.
This article was first published in issue 3 of Modern Law Magazine
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Could popular beauty products be making you sick?
Ingredients found in soaps, lotions, shampoos and other beauty products could be making you sick, researchers claim.
Now, lawmakers are taking action. Houston TV station KPRC reports a bill before the U.S. Senate would require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to review five chemicals commonly used in beauty products each year.
The bill has bipartisan support, KPRC says.
The first five chemicals set to be reviewed are diazolidinyl urea, diethyl phthalate, methylene glycol/formaldehyde, propylparaben and quaternium-15.
Dr. Rick Troendle, a chemist at the University of North Florida, found propylparaben, for instance, in sunscreen and facial cleanser during a recent trip to a Walmart store. Critics say the chemical has "estrogenic activity" and has been linked to certain types of breast cancer.
The FDA, however, says the chemicals appear in such small amounts in most products and are therefore safe to use.
“Everything has a trade-off to it whether it's healthy or unhealthy," Troendle told the station. "It's levels.”
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Foxconn's Wisconsin Plant Pivoting From Large to Small-Medium Displays in Cost-Cutting Measure
Wednesday May 23, 2018 5:11 AM PDT by Mitchel Broussard
Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group is making a shift in its expansion plans to Wisconsin in the United States, where it will now produce small to medium-size displays for Apple and other customers. This is a change from its original plan of having the Wisconsin plant produce large television displays, and the move to smaller displays is said to help lower initial costs at the factory (via Nikkei).
In total, Foxconn's Wisconsin plant will make displays for car infotainment systems, personal computers, tablets, smartphones, smaller televisions, and other "niche products." If the supplier kept on track with building large TV displays, the output would have required a "more complete" local supply chain lacking in the state, and a greater initial monetary investment for production equipment.
"Previously, Foxconn planned to build a 10.5th-generation display manufacturing factory, which is more suitable for large-sized displays," supply chain sources told Nikkei.
"But later they figured out that it might be more feasible and efficient to build a sixth-generation display plant or an 8.5th-generation factory from which they could move some equipment from Asia."
The incomplete local supply chain is believed to have been one of the bigger obstacles to Foxconn's large panel plans in Wisconsin. Sources speaking to Nikkei said, "It would require other companies like Corning to also set up a glass substrate facility nearby, as it's almost impossible to ship fragile, huge size glass materials from a distant place."
Foxconn has been open to building a facility in the U.S., with news becoming more frequent in late 2016 and the eventual Wisconsin home tipped by sources speaking with The Associated Press in June 2017. Foxconn confirmed the Wisconsin/TV display plant later in the summer, with plans of investing $10 billion into the location and initially employing 3,000 workers, with the potential to expand to as many as 13,000.
As Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed out in a recent interview, many parts of the iPhone are created in the U.S. (like the display glass and Face ID module), but the components manufactured in the U.S. are then shipped abroad, with devices assembled by suppliers like Foxconn in China. Because of this, Cook said: "It's not true that the iPhone is not made in the United States. We have always made the parts here. People just look at where the final product is assembled." In a global world, Cook explained, manufacturing and assembly needs to be done in a variety of places.
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star_nerdy
A multinational company doesn’t suddenly realize, oh wait how will we ship products long distance?
They promised all these jobs and all this work, government gave them $3 billion in incentives, and now they’re saying never mind we’re going to do this other thing that’s cheaper.
Corporations don’t invest billions without due diligence. They knew what they were doing.
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As Apple CEO Tim Cook pointed out in a recent interview ('https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/28/tim-cook-iphone-us-manufacturing/'), many parts of the iPhone are created in the U.S. (like the display glass and Face ID module), but the components manufactured in the U.S. are then shipped abroad, with devices assembled by suppliers like Foxconn in China. Because of this, Cook said: "It's not true that the iPhone is not made in the United States. We have always made the parts here. People just look at where the final product is assembled
Makes sense to me. Being assembled and made is different.
BMW assembles some (or all?) of their X line in the US, but I am sure people still refer to them as German made.
If there was a choice between US made parts being assembled in China, and Chinese made parts being assembled in the US, I would choose having the US made parts.
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10.5th? 8.5th?
Someone doesn't understand how 'th' works.
This. It was obvious from the start that this thing wouldn't employ nearly as many as they'd claimed, nor bring about as large of return for the state of Wisconsin but they certainly fell for it and gave them a sweet deal.
You're 90% right. The 10% you're wrong about is Wisconsin "falling for it". They were complicit in the deception... probably helping to craft the deal to make it look as good as possible. Governments do it all the time with the most visible examples being enticements for sports teams and event.
Shocking! A company gets huge tax breaks then doesn’t live up to its end of the bargain. If only the government had the thought to put language in the agreement to claw back some of those breaks when the investment in WI wasn’t what was promised.
Never gonna happen. These deals are worked out together. Both sides know the grandiose proclamations are nothing more than PR.
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There goes my hope of possible Apple TV set.
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Jazz Up Your Blues Bucket List
Words by Kelly
Chicago is famous for jazz and blues. Growing up, I had a handful of songs that were my go-to but they were all pop hits. I relied on the local radio station top ten countdown and was often glued to the TV so I didn’t miss a Joey McIntyre and NKOTB appearance. You would have never caught me listening to an Oldies or Blues radio station. But that was then. I eventually became intrigued by the Blues scene here in Chicago, especially over the last five years.
Thousands of tourists visit the city to get a taste of the Chicago blues — and explore the history of the sound that had such a significant influence on early rock music. Here’s what makes it so special.
A Brief Bluesy History
As documented by Choose Chicago, Chicago Blues developed during the Great Migration, when African American workers migrated in droves from Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana to seek industrial jobs in Chicago. This new wave of residents included many gifted musicians who used electric guitars and amplifiers to build on the energy and rhythm of the Delta blues. This uniquely Chicago style grew rapidly, transcending the street corner to become a staple of the city’s nightlife scene. Today, blues music is as much a part of the Chicago landscape as deep dish pizza and the Wrigley Field bleachers.
Jazz Up Your Bluesy Bucket List
Few cities can lay claim to the Jazz and Blues scene like Chicago can. Even now, in 2018, the Blues and Jazz bars are usually packed to the brim, with lines out the door. Often the crowds include new generations who are discovering that even the pop and country music that they like is influenced by these two genres.
If experiencing a live music “supper club” is on your bucket list for the next time you’re in Chicago, look no further than these spots, sure to jazz up your night:
2548 N Halstead St. | (773) 544-5442
This wouldn’t be a true bucket list if I didn’t start with my favorite, Kingston Mines. With two stages, this retro bar has been popular with locals for the past 50 years. Almost anyone I talk about Blues music with has mentioned this spot for a super fun night out. Located in the popular Lincoln Park neighborhood, Kingston Mines is the largest and oldest continuously operated blues clubs in the Chicago area. The live entertainment is worth the trip alone, and there’s also a full dinner menu offered daily, featuring delicious southern-style fare.
THE DETAILS: Live music 7 days a week. All ages. Tickets sold online and at the door. Reservations accepted. Admission $6–15. Open until 4:00 AM (5:00 AM Saturdays).
INSIDER TIP: Complimentary admission (plus two guests) to anyone working in the hospitality industry (with proof of employment).
Buddy Guy’s Legends
700 S. Wabash St. | (312) 427-1190
Buddy Guy, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and legend in his own right, owns this cultural landmark in Chicago’s West Loop. Now 82 years young, Buddy Guy’s music and vibrant stage personality has influenced some of the most popular and talented musicians the world has known, like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. After settling down roots here in Chicago back in 1957, it was only natural for Buddy to take his passion to the next level and open Legends in 1989.
INSIDER TIP: Buddy does play at his own club on occasion, so be sure to do your research on his tour dates before planning your visit.
329 N. Dearborn St. | (312) 923-2000
Unlike the other blues and jazz clubs in the city, the House of Blues is known for larger format shows and has hosted shows of all different kinds. If you like the sound of seeing a show in a venue that combines the soaring grandeur of a European Opera House and the down-home aura of a juke-joint, this is your place! The House of Blues offers daily shows, from live stand-up to solo musical performances.
A Jazzy Yet Brief History
… and yes there is a difference between Blues and Jazz music.
Like its bluesy counterpart, jazz hit the ground running in Chicago in the early to mid 20th century and evolved into the brassy tunes that we’ve come to know and love today. We Midwesterners like to put a twist on everything, from pizza to architecture, and jazz is no exception. The style known as “Chicago Jazz” came from the marriage of two styles of southern music — the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans “Dixieland” styles that artists such as Louis Armstrong and King Oliver pioneered. This sound evolved throughout the decades, incorporating heavy strings, bass and guitar as well as longer solos and quick tempo beats.
Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
With an iconic green-lit marquee and retro feel throughout the bar and cocktail programming, the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge is one of the city’s hot spots for live jazz. Located in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, The Green Mill is a fantastic spot for enjoying cocktails with a friend or for a date with that special someone.
THE DETAILS: Live music 7 days a week. Ages 21+ only. No advance tickets or reservations. Admission $4–$15. Open until 4:00 AM (5:00 AM Saturdays).
And then there’s…
Andy’s Jazz & Supper Club
THE DETAILS: Live music 7 nights a week. Ages 21+ after 7:00 PM. No advance tickets. Reservations accepted. Admission $10/15. Full dinner menu.
Jazz Showcase
THE DETAILS: Live music 7 nights a week. All ages. Tickets sold online and at the door. VIP seating available. Admission $10–30.
Blue Chicago
THE DETAILS: Live music 7 days a week. Ages 21+ only. No advance tickets or reservations. Admission $8/10. Open until 2:00 AM (3:00 AM Saturdays).
B.L.U.E.S.
Doors open at 8:00 PM, music starts at 9:30 PM. Open 6 days a week; closed Mondays. Must be 21 to enter
Smooth Jazz at Loews Chicago O’Hare Hotel
This hidden gem is located at our sister property, Loews Chicago O’Hare, which hosts live jazz nights in its Montrose Room. The best part is you can package your tickets with an overnight stay at the hotel and make a night of it.
Kelly joined the teams at Loews Chicago and Loews Chicago O’Hare in September 2016. A long-time hospitality professional, Kelly is a Chicago native and is thrilled to share her passion for her hometown with guests via this blog and the hotels' social media channels.
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MDD - Retrospective application of harmonized standards: an investigation
Originally posted in October 2011. Due to the transfer, links to footnotes no longer operate.
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While significant discussion continues around the content of EN 60601-1:2006 (IEC 60601-1:2005), it is generally understood that in Europe as of June 1, 2012[1], the previous edition will be withdrawn, leaving only the new edition to provide the legal “presumption of conformity” against essential requirements.
Notified Bodies have indicated that this situation is in effect retrospective: all older designs that are still being sold will have to be re-verified against the new standard. This is based on the interpretation that the “presumption of conformity” only exists at a point in time when each individual device is placed on the market. Thus, in order for manufacturers to maintain compliance, they must continuously update the design taking into account current harmonized standards.
Although standards are voluntary, it is still expected that manufacturers evaluate compliance on a clause by clause basis. This ensures the manufacturer is aware of specific non-conformities, and can then choose to redesign or provide an appropriate justification as to why alternate solutions still meet the essential requirements. Thus the voluntary nature of harmonized standards has little impact on the amount of work associated with updates in standards, and in particular, work associated with retrospective application to existing designs.
Despite the apparent unity in Notified Bodies on this interpretation, the MDD does contain text that calls this interpretation into question. Moreover, the implications of broad retrospective application may not have been fully considered by Notified Bodies.
The preliminary "whereas" section of the Medical Device Directive (MDD) includes the following paragraph:
“Whereas the essential requirements and other requirements set out in the Annexes to this Directive, including any reference to ‘minimizing’ or ‘reducing’ risk must be interpreted and applied in such a way as to take account of technology and practice existing at the time of design and of technical and economical considerations compatible with a high level of protection of health and safety;”
Later, in a paragraph associated with harmonized standards, this is repeated again:
"… essential requirements should be applied with discretion to take account of the technological level existing at the time of design and of technical and economic considerations compatible with a high level of protection of health and safety"
These statements appear to indicate that the presumption of conformity may exist at the time of design, rather than the time of placing on the market. If so, this would remove the retrospective nature of standards, and conflict with the advice of Notified Bodies. While the “high level of protection” part is open to interpretation, it appears that the intention was to say that essential requirements, standards and risk should be considered to apply at the time of design, unless there are some serious concerns. For example, if incidents in the market led to changes in standards or state of the art, such changes could be considered reasonable even for old designs.
Unfortunately, this “time of design” statement lacks further legal support. In the core part of the directive (articles, annexes) the phrase is not repeated. It also appears that the “whereas” section has not been transposed into national law (UK law, for example, does not use the phrase). The forward of EN ISO 14971 does repeat the above statement that "risk" must be assessed “at the time of design”, and this is also clarified in again in Annex D.4 in the same standard. But since these references are hidden away from the normative text, again they are often overlooked. So if the authors of the MDD really did intend the presumption of conformity to apply at the "time of design", there is considerable room for the EU to improve on implementation to provide greater legal certainty.
So, we are left with the task of finding out if retrospective application is feasible. An investigation finds that there are three key areas: the first looks at the unusually large number of standards that apply to medical devices; the second considers the case of “brand new” standards (without any transition period), and the third is the impact of requirements that apply to the manufacturer, as opposed to the device.
Notified bodies have tended to highlight the retrospective aspect on high profile product standards undergoing transition, such as EN 60601-1:2006. But they have been very weak in enforcing the retrospective rule for all harmonized standards.
This is not a reflection of poor quality work by Notified Bodies, but rather the sheer impracticality of the task. While other directives may have more standards, the MDD is perhaps unique in the large number of standards that can apply to a single "product". Under the Low Voltage Directive, for example, two to three standards would typically apply to an electrical appliance such as a toaster or washing machine, keeping retrospective application in the realm of feasibility. Other high profile directives don't use the phrase “at the time of design” .
In contrast, a typical medical electrical device will have at least 10 harmonized standards, and Appendix 1 of this document lists some 26 harmonized standards that would apply to a typical full featured patient monitor.
Keeping on top of all these standards retrospectively is arguably beyond what can reasonably be expected of manufacturers. Benefits from new standards would be offset by adverse effects such as impeding innovation and increasing costs of medical devices. Another less obvious effect is that it tends to make standards less effective: recognizing the heavy burden, third parties often allow simplifications to make the standards easier to apply retrospectively, but these simplifications set up precedents that can take many years to reverse.
Not only are there a large number of standards being regularly updated, there are also many “brand new” standards which are harmonized without any transition period. This poses a special case where retrospective application is impossible, since a manufacturer cannot know when a standard will be harmonized. In a sense, the standard becomes instantaneously effective on the day it is first published in the Official Journal.
In literature associated with EN 60601-1:2006 (IEC 60601-1:2005), it has been pointed out that the original standard has been around for many years, thus manufacturers have no excuse for further delays beyond June 2012. But this is again an example where only high profile standards are being considered, not the full range of both harmonized and non-harmonized standards.
The “no excuse” interpretation implies that manufacturers must watch IEC or ISO publications, anticipate and prepare for harmonization. But this is not only unfair since there are many IEC and ISO standards that never get harmonized, it is also logistically impossible. There are many examples where the time from first publication as IEC or ISO to publication in the Official Journal is less than 18 months[2]; no reasonable law could expect implementation in such a short time, particularly in the context of retrospective application. Moreover, the simple logistics of CE marking (such as the declaration of conformity, technical file) would be impossible arrange in a single day when the standard first appears in the Official Journal.
The case of “brand new” standards alone provides simple, unarguable evidence that the presumption of conformity cannot apply at the time of placing on the market, without violating the principles of proportionality and legal certainty[3].
A more complex situation exists with manufacturer requirements, usually in the form of management systems. EN 60601-1:2006 highlights these problems as it has both product and manufacturer requirements in the same standard. Manufacturer requirements are those which require the manufacturer to take some specific action indirect to the product; while these actions are intended to have an influence on the product they are often several layers removed, such as the retention of qualification records of persons involved in the design.
Historically, the new approach directives were based on product requirements, and it is arguable that areas of the directive have not been fortified to handle manufacturer requirements. Even the definition of a harmonized standard is “a specification contained in a document which lays down the characteristics required of a product …”[4], and thus appears not to have provision for manufacturer requirements.
Since the principles of free movement, essential requirements the presumption of conformity all apply to the device, it is obvious management systems alone cannot be used to provide a presumption of conformity; rather it is the design specifications, verification records and other product related documents output from the management system which provide the main evidence of conformity.
If a harmonized management system standard is updated, the question then arises about the validity of product related documents which were output from the old system. In other words, whether the older documents still provide a presumption of conformity. Moreover, if a “brand new” management system standard is harmonized (such as EN 62304), the question arises whether manufacturers are required to apply the management system in retrospect for older designs.
This is very different to product requirements. A change in product requirements might be annoying, but generally limited in the amount of resources required for re-testing or redesign for specific technical issues. In contrast, a change in a management system can invalidate large amounts documentation and trigger a massive amount of rework, far beyond what is reasonable to achieve the objective of health and safety. Manfacturer requirements are clearly written to apply at the time of design: the costs are relatively small if applied at the time of design, whereas as the implementation after the design is complete can be incredibly high.
Consider for example, a manufacturer that has an older programmable system, but did not record whether the persons validating the design were not involved in the design, as required by EN 60601-1:2006, Clause 14.11. A strict, retrospective interpretation would find all the validation tests invalid, and force the manufacturer to repeat them all again at great cost.
Thus, while less straightforward, management systems also provide a fairly strong argument that the presumption of conformity applies at the time of design.
In practice, most Notified Bodies take a flexible view on retrospective application of management systems, using common sense, taking into account the amount of work required, and focusing on high level documents associated with high profile standards.
Also with respect to “brand new” standards, Notified Bodies often apply an informal transition period of 3 years from the time a standard first harmonized, recognizing that immediate application is impractical.
While these relaxations are reasonable, they are not supported by the law. This is not a case where vagueness in the law requires Notified Body interpretation to fill in the details; this is in a sense a simple question of when the presumption of conformity applies. The answer, whatever it is, must be universally applied. It is not possible to apply one interpretation to EN 60601-1 and another to EN 62304. All harmonized standards must be treated equally.
With the current law, the only practical universal interpretation is that the presumption of conformity applies at the time of design, as indicated by the “whereas” section of the MDD.
It is worth to note that no official document endorsed by the EU commission indicates that retrospective application is required. This is unlikely to happen as documents issued by the EU are usually carefully vetted by the lawyers, a process which is likely to raise similar concerns as discussed above. In particular, the situation with “brand new” standards (standards without a transition period) will make the commission wary of formally declaring standards to be retrospective.
Also, it is a well established regulatory requirement (e.g. clinical data, EN ISO 13485, EN ISO 14971) that post market monitoring includes the review of new and revised standards. Thus, the “time of design” interpretation does not imply manufacturers can completely ignore new standards. But importantly, the flexibility in decisions to apply new standards to older designs is made by the manufacturer, not the Notified Body.
The “time of design” interpretation is not without problems. Designs may take many years to finalize, so the term “time of design” obviously requires clarification. It could also lead to products falling far behind state the art, or failing to implement critical new requirements quickly. Even using the “time of design” interpretation, “brand new” standards still pose a challenge to manufacturers, since it can be impractical to apply even to current designs. So, more work is required.
But in the context of EN 60601-1:2006, a “time of design” interpretation would act as a pressure relief valve not only for manufacturers, but for all parties involved who are struggling to apply such a large new standard retrospectively.
Appendix 1: Harmonized standards applicable to a patient monitor
The following is a list of harmonized standards which are currently applicable to a typical full featured patient monitor including accessories. Items shown in brackets are standards which are expected to replace the existing standard or are already in transition.
EN 1060-4 (ISO 81060-2)
EN ISO 9919 (EN 80601-2-61)
EN ISO 12470-4 (EN 80601-2-56)
EN 60601-1-4 (EN 60601-1/Clause 14)
EN 60601-2-30 (EN 80601-2-30)
[1] The actual date will depend on particular standards
[2] See EN 62366 (Usability Engineering) which has only 13 months from publication as IEC to listing in the Official Journal.
[3] As required by the “Treaty of the European Union”
[4] See directive 98/34/EC
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Do You Need a New Language Peeve?
Sure, it's popular to complain about words ending in '-ize'. But what about words ending in '-ate'?
Are you the kind of person who decided to collect 8-track cassettes because vinyl LPs had become too popular? Do you enjoy worrying about the language use of others, but find that too many other people have the same peeves? Do you need some new words which, when you encounter them at a cocktail party, will allow you to gracefully and quietly (but not too quietly) inform the speaker that he or she had just committed a minor error? If so, look no further, for Merriam-Webster has you covered.
Alfred Ayres, writing in his 1881 book The Verbalist, said of effectuate (“to cause or bring about”) that “this word, together with ratiocinate and eventuate, is said to be a great favorite with the rural members of the Arkansas legislature.” Fighting words!
For much of the 20th century, certain words which have the misfortune to end with the suffix -ize have been frowned upon (incentivize, finalize, prioritize). But the -ize words are not the only ones that has come under fire; words ending in -ate also seem to be quite adroit in provoking ire, or they were at the end of the 19th century.
Alfred Ayres, writing in his 1881 book The Verbalist, said of effectuate (“to cause or bring about”) that “this word, together with ratiocinate and eventuate, is said to be a great favorite with the rural members of the Arkansas legislature.” Fighting words! Not to be outdone, Henry Alford, in his 1864 A Plea for the Queen’s English, said of eventuate that it was “another horrible word, which is fast getting into our language through the provincial press.” As is so often the case when comparing the judgments of 19th century linguistic scolds, however, it is Richard Grant White who is the most strident in his objections.
Militate is rarely misused, except that any use of it is misuse, and it belongs rather among words which are not words. It does not appear in Johnson’s Dictionary, and it is of comparatively recent introduction … The use of this word is, however, not a question of right of wrong, but one of taste. It belongs to a bad family, of which are necessitate, ratiocinate, effectuate, and eventuate, which … should not be recognized as members of good English society.
—Richard Grant White, Words and Their Uses, 1880
Do these words truly belong to “a bad family”? That depends on your view of what counts as, in White’s phrase, “members of good English society.” Most of the -ate words that the 19th century curmudgeons waxed wroth about were not particularly new; many of them appear to have entered our language in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Effectuate may be found as far back as 1577:
Before all thinges, Adrian gaue order, that the body of Traiane might be brought into Italie, where it shoulde be giuen a generous sepulchre, and to effectuate the same, commanded his ashes to be inclosed in a boxe of Vnicorne….
—Antonio de Guevara, A Chronicle, 1577
Militate (“to have weight or effect”) goes back to 1598:
The pompe of this vaine world she did despise,
Weighing the slipperie state of earthly things,
Therefore aboue the Spheares of heauen she flies,
To sing and ioy before the King of Kings:
Her vertues that did militate on earth,
Against the flesh, the deuill, sinne and hell.
—Thomas Rogers, Celestiall Elegies of the Goddesses and the Muses, 1598
Eventuate (“to come out finally”) can be found from 1697:
Or do they think … that God is too good to eventuate the Eternal Misery of any Being?
—Timothy Manlove, The Immortality of the Soul Asserted, 1697
There are certain characteristics that are shared by most of these frowned-upon words: they tend to be longer than they need to be, and smell like the kind of word that someone uses when trying to appear smart. Some of them, such orientate (“to orient”), or conversate ("to converse"), were created through back-formation, which is always a recipe for censure.
There are occasional success stories, such as militate, which has become an entirely acceptable (albeit obscure) member of good English society. Others, such as orientate, are split; speakers of U.S. English tend to view the word as a combination of pompous and illiterate, while it is much more accepted by British speakers. As for ratiocinate (“to reason”), eventuate, and effectuate, they have expanded beyond being used by the “rural members of the Arkansas legislature,” although some usage guides still will caution against them, in favor of shorter words.
And so if you are bored with the hoary old chestnuts of prescriptivism, and would like to have a boutique peeve, perhaps you might consider this fine collection of 19th century gripes: militate, ratiocinate, and effectuate. Few people will know what you are talking about, and, of those who do, even fewer will care, but you can take solace in the knowledge that you are original in your linguistic rants. And at least you won’t be talking about irregardless.
Seriously, everyone is sick of hearing about that.
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Chase Anderson 2.2 4 1 1 0 3 1 8 12 38 5.19 0 0 1 0
Jacob Barnes 2.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 6 21 4.76 0 0 1 0
Jake Petricka 1.0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 6 22 9.00 0 0 0 0
San Antonio Missions (7 - 4) Won 5 to 4 - Triple-A
Mauricio Dubon SS 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 .279
Corey Ray CF 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 .154
Keston Hiura 2B 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 .293
Tyrone Taylor DH 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 .263
Tyler Saladino 3B 4 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 .294
Cory Spangenberg LF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 .161
Nate Orf RF 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .240
Jake Hager 1B 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0 .190
Tuffy Gosewisch C 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Adrian Houser 5.1 5 2 2 1 6 2 16 23 86 1.10 0 0 1 0
Deolis Guerra 2.0 2 2 2 1 1 1 6 9 29 6.35 0 1 1 0
Donnie Hart 0.1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 12 0.00 0 3 0 1
Michael Tonkin 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 6.75 0 1 1 0
Jay Jackson 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 15 0.00 1 2 1 0
Biloxi Shuckers (5 - 5) Lost 5 to 3 - Double-A
Trent Grisham CF 4 0 2 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 3 0 .250
Weston Wilson 3B 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 .250
C.J. Hinojosa SS 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 .242
Dillon Thomas RF 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 .417
Patrick Leonard 1B 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 0 .192
Cooper Hummel DH 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 .156
Bruce Caldwell 2B 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 .048
Michael O'Neill LF 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 .192
Max McDowell C 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 .111
Alec Bettinger 5.1 6 3 3 1 8 1 16 22 88 5.23 0 0 0 0
Daniel Brown 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 5 0.00 0 0 0 0
Devin Williams 2.0 3 2 2 2 3 1 6 11 51 3.24 0 0 2 1
Carolina Mudcats (6 - 5) Lost 5 to 1 - Class A Advanced
Joantgel Segovia CF 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 .368
Eddie Silva 2B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 .161
Payton Henry C 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 .282
Mario Feliciano DH 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 .231
Ryan Aguilar 1B 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .257
Dallas Carroll 3B 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 .200
Rob Henry RF 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 .273
Zach Clark LF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 .160
Devin Hairston SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 .160
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J.T. Hintzen 0.2 2 1 1 0 1 0 2 5 20 6.23 0 1 0 0
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Gabe Friese 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 -.-- 0 0 0 0
Matt Hardy 2.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 6 7 25 1.35 0 1 2 0
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (5 - 5) Won 6 to 3 - Class A
Brice Turang SS 4 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0 .200
Yeison Coca 2B 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 .310
David Fry 1B 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 .303
Chad McClanahan RF 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 2 0 .231
Gabriel Garcia DH 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 .182
Je'Von Ward LF 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 .207
Connor McVey 3B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 .133
Jesus Lujano CF 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .214
Brent Diaz C 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 .286
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Adam Hill 2.1 2 2 2 1 0 0 7 10 40 2.45 0 0 1 0
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Home Spazio Mondo news Mondo excellence awarded by ASBA
Mondo excellence awarded by ASBA
Two facilities with Mondo track have won the prestigious awards ASBA.
Like every year, the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA) announced the names of the sports facilities that in 2015 were highlighted to be examples of excellence in sports facility construction.
Carl Maddox Field House at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, with a Mondotrack surface, was named Outstanding Indoor Track Facility of the Year, and Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, featuring Mondo’s Super X 720 surface, was given the Silver Award in the Track Division.
ASBA, of which Mondo is a member, is the national organization for builders, designers and suppliers of materials for athletic facilities. Annual awards are presented to facilities built by ASBA members that best exemplify construction excellence.
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Welcome to DandD Driving School
Dear student please complete steps 1 through 3 to signup for a classroom and have your seat reserved. Our web site is updated Real-Time so to assure accuracy of the information. Please make sure to include your email address because your enrollment confirmation will be sent there.
State Required 32 Hour Teenage Course
Full state required 32 hour teenage course, including 24 hours classroom and 8 hours behind the wheel.
Classes are 2 hours each and are numbered 1-12. Students are able to start the classes any day that class is provided. The student can take classes in any order, and take up to 2 classes a day depending what is provided at their location. For the first class, a parent/legal guardian will need to accompany the student for the enrollment process. STUDENTS MUST BE EARLY TO EVERY CLASS.
Once your student has completed at least 6 classroom classes, is paid in full, and has a valid temporary permit you will need to call our office to get on the driving list for the behind the wheel portion.
Once your student has completed all 12 classes there is a written exam that the student will need to receive a 75% or better on.
The behind the wheel lessons are scheduled in 4-2 hour sessions. The instructor is able to pick up and drop off the student at home, work, or school as long as it is in the same area.
Once the student has successfully completed the 24 hours of classroom, has passed the written exam with a 75% or better, and has completed 8 hours behind the wheel with the instructor, they will receive a completion certificate that they WILL NEED in order to test for their license.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact our office at 937-294-7206.
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Professional behind the wheel training for teens that are already enrolled in online classroom instruction.
Paperwork will still need to be filled out in person. D&D Driving School will need the original of the online certificate, the full payment, a parent or legal guardians signature, and the students temporary permit information. They do not go on the list until you fill out paperwork in person.
We are currently accepting enrollment for the driving only portion however the drive times will be scheduled according to their enrollment date with D&D Driving School.
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The Driver Assessment is for a driver who has experience and would like an evaluation to know what areas are their strengths and weaknesses. The Driver Assessment focuses on five key areas of driving: space management, time management, visual search, intersections and distractions. The assessment is scheduled in a two hour block with a second interview to discuss the report. The report will show the drivers crash potential.
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Holland Has Perhaps Most Encouraging Start
Published May 24, 2016 at 12:40 PM
Derek Holland #45 of the Texas Rangers throws in the first inning against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Global Life Park on May 23, 2016 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Rick Yeatts/Getty Images)
Derek Holland has seemingly been pitching for his spot in the rotation for a few weeks now.
Crazy how far he's fallen in that regard.
His job seems pretty safe for now with the news A.J. Griffin is nowhere near being able to return from a shoulder injury, but even still, he's starting to put together some solid outings.
After two straight bad outings, Holland has two straight quality starts and Monday night's against the Angels might be his most impressive outing of the season as far as his stuff is concerned.
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He tied a season-high 6 2/3 innings set in his second start of the season, and in that one he tossed scoreless baseball, something he didn't do on Monday.
But on Monday, his stuff might've been the best it's been all year, and that's encouraging.
He needed just 99 pitches to get 20 outs and pounded the zone with 67 strikes, and his velocity was strong in the mid 90s and actually got better as the night went on. More importantly, he used his change-up effectively for really the first time this season and that always makes a fastball even more dangerous.
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The Rangers have waited for Holland to show his good stuff for a while now, and with Yu Darvish returning on Saturday from 14 months away, it's only going to boost the team's rotation that much more.
Holland is eligible to become a free agent after this season unless the Rangers pick up a club option for $11 million in 2017. So, it's in his, and the club's, best interest to keep this up.
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Full Coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France
England Beats Neighbor Scotland 2-1 to Open World Cup
Despite FIFA's attempts to talk up ticket sales at the World Cup, the stadium in Nice was only about a third full
By Rob Harris
Published Jun 9, 2019 at 12:56 PM
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England's Nikita Parris, left, celebrates after scoring her side's opening goal on a penalty kick during the Women's World Cup Group D soccer match between England and Scotland in Nice, France, Sunday, June 9, 2019.
Ellen White got England off to a winning start at the Women's World Cup, curling in a shot to give the 2015 semifinalists a 2-1 victory against tournament newcomers Scotland.
In a dominant first half, Nikita Parris netted a penalty in the 14th minute before White struck in the 40th on the French Riviera.
But there was no repeat of England's 6-0 rout of its neighbor at the European Championship two years ago, with Scotland ensuring it was a nervy end for England coach Phil Neville's side after Claire Emslie pulled one back in the 79th.
But the 20th-ranked Scots couldn't produce an equalizer against No. 3 England in Group D, which also features Japan and Argentina.
Despite FIFA's attempts to talk up ticket sales at the World Cup, the stadium in Nice was only about a third full with the attendance given as 13,188.
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State leaders unfazed by missing budget deadline
By Katie Lannan and Matt Murphy State House News Service
BOSTON - Massachusetts, one of just two states where the Legislature has not yet finalized an annual spending plan, rang in fiscal 2020 on Monday operating under a temporary budget while lawmakers continued negotiations.
The fact that Democrats missed their July 1 deadline didn't bother Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who said extra time at the negotiating table can ultimately result in a better budget.
"I don't have a problem with the budget being a week or two late," Baker told reporters after meeting with legislative leaders. "I care a lot more about the quality of work product and the completeness of that work product and giving people the ability to do the stuff that they need to do depending on where we are to finish the process."
Last week, while Baker was in London for an offshore wind conference, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito signed a $5 billion interim budget bill, also known as a one-twelfth, that will keep state government programs and services running through the month of July.
"I've been involved in the course of my career in state government in 14 budgets, and I think of those 14 budgets, 11 of them came in after June 30," Baker said. "I would argue that in many cases the one-twelfth -- which was an act passed by the Legislature and signed by the lieutenant governor last week which buys these guys some time to sort of work their way through the rest of the elements of this budget -- usually ends up producing a better product than simply getting there by June 30."
While the government will remain open, policy language that differs between the House and Senate's $42.8 billion budgets -- including a University of Massachusetts tuition freeze, a tax on opioid manufacturers and prescription drug pricing control -- is up in the air until a deal is reached.
Ways and Means Committee chairs Rep. Aaron Michlewitz and Sen. Michael Rodrigues left the meeting in House Speaker Robert DeLeo's office around 3:15 p.m., telling the News Service on their way into a lawmakers-only area next to the House chamber that they were off to continue their negotiations.
Asked if they expected to reach a deal before the Fourth of July holiday, Rodrigues said, "That's the hope" and Michlewitz said, "We're going to keep working."
DeLeo, meanwhile, classified it as "very questionable it if will be done by July 4th."
Massachusetts and Ohio were the only states with July 1 fiscal year starts where lawmakers had not finalized their budgets, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers. The governors of New Hampshire and North Carolina vetoed the budgets lawmakers sent them.
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16 Musicians Who Responded to Sexism in the Best Possible Way
By Kate Beaudoin
On March 16, Meghan Trainor released a disaster of a sexist music video called "Dear Future Husband." It featured Trainor scrubbing floors and essentially running down a laundry list of some of the most sexist notions about women and relationships. On the heels of that, though, it's worth remembering that there are plenty of powerful moments when popular musicians have used their platform for good. Though sexism is ubiquitous in the music industry, so too are powerful feminist musicians — male and female.
It's easy to ignore if you look away, but sexism is a nasty presence in music beyond Trainor that we need to address. Part of the problem stems from a striking imbalance in the numbers: According to the Huffington Post, a report from PRS for Music, an international organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers, showed that of its 95,000 members, only 13% are female. And just 15% of UK music label owners were women in 2012, according to the Association of Independent Music. One look at the lives of female pop stars only confirms it — female musicians are subjected to near-constant harassment and vicious double standards.
There's no doubt: The music industry is a male-dominated field. But thanks to musicians taking a stand against the patriarchal system, we're chipping away at the status quo and giving women the credit they deserve.
1. Janelle Monae
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R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monae is well-known as an outspoken feminist, and her latest album, The Electric Lady, proves it. Playing off Jimi Hendrix's slyly patriarchal Electric Ladyland, Monae makes her album about the lady and not about "the male fantasy theme park," as the Feminist Wire puts it so well. Plus, the R&B artist owns her own record label, Wondaland Records, and makes the majority of creative decisions there.
"I absolutely have encountered sexism in the music industry," she told NME in an interview. "I don't look at myself as a victim. I think some people just are not taught any better. And certain behavior has been passed down and it's been accepted and I think it's up to us as women not to accept it, and lead by example. I won't allow myself to be oppressed."
2. Grimes
In April 2013, Canadian musician and jack-of-all-trades Grimes took to her Tumblr to post an epic feminist manifesto. On the heels her world tour, the 25-year-old singer says she'd finally had enough of the disrespect she received during shows and decided to speak up about the issue. "I wrote what I wrote below," she said in a follow-up post, "not to complain or make anyone sad, but because I feel like if it's possible to not accept stuff I hate and live a comfortable life then I want to do it :)."
"I don't want to be infantilized because I refuse to be sexualized," she wrote. "I'm tired of men who aren't professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to 'help me out' (without being asked), as if I did this by accident and I'm gonna flounder without them. Or as if the fact that I'm a woman makes me incapable of using technology. I have never seen this kind of thing happen to any of my male peers."
"Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth," the deceased Nirvana frontman told NME in 1991. "And it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape."
On a similar note, he wrote in his published journal, "It's up to men. ... I still think that in order to expand on all other -isms, sexism has to be blown wide open. But there are thousands of green minds, young gullible 15-year-old boys out there just starting to fall into the grain of what they've been told of what a man is supposed to be and there are plenty of tools to use. The most effective tool is entertainment."
4. Solange Knowles
Indie singer-songwriter, and Beyoncé's sister, Solange Knowles sent out a series of tweets in response to a Pitchfork review of the indie singer's album, True. The review included the line, "Hynes has met an ideal female vocal muse in Solange, who executes each cut with simple grace and yearning naïveté." Solange was not happy to be painted as a helper to her male producer Devonté Hynes, when in fact she co-writes all of her music and writes music for other performers.
After taking to Twitter to express her disappointment, she ended with the simple but powerful statement, "Sexism in the music industry ain't nothing new."
5. Bjork
Icelandic pop star Björk has long been an advocate for women and women in the music industry. This quote comes from an interview with Pitchfork just after the release of her latest album, Vulnicura. Like Solange, the extent of Björk's songwriting has been questioned by the industry, when in fact she co-produces and co-writes all of her own material.
"I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things," she told Pitchfork. "It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times. Girls now are also faced with different problems. ... But it's an ongoing battle. I hope it doesn't come across as too defensive, but it is the truth. I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora's box a little bit and air it out."
6. Kenny Chesney
This stand against sexism comes from a most unlikely place — the world of country music, long known for its sexist stereotypes and female objectification. But in an interview with Billboard, Chesney stood up against the rampant sexism in country music and even acknowledged that his own past tendencies were ill-advised.
"Over the last several years, it seems like anytime anybody sings about a woman, she's in cutoff jeans, drinking and on a tailgate — they objectify the hell out of them," he told Billboard. "Twenty years ago, I might have written a song like that — I probably did. But I'm at a point where I want to say something different about women."
7. Kate Nash
British singer-songwriter Kate Nash takes her job as a feminist seriously: She's the global ambassador for the Because I Am a Girl initiative. The initiative helps girls in underdeveloped countries receive education and food. When Nash went on tour in 2013, Because I Am a Girl tagged along and helped spread the word of female empowerment.
"Feminism to me is something that becomes more real, more palatable and important to you when you really experience sexism," she told the blog, Conversations with Bianca. "You grow up a bit and you're taken out of the bubble and you know that it's still really present. Being in the music industry really opened my eyes to it, in a really simple way at first. I was the only girl in the room all of the time until I really searched for more female company."
8. Jack White
Jack White may dislike many things, but feminism isn't one of them. Though his music has been criticized for its negative portrayals of women, White is actually a proponent of women's rights. In fact, he's even inspired some to wonder whether he's "rock's greatest male feminist."
"It's a real shame that if a woman goes onstage with an instrument, it's almost a novelty," White told Spin. "Like, 'Oh, isn't that cute.' It's a shame that in 2014 that's a little bit of what's going on in the perception in the room."
9. Neko Case
Though she says she resisted identifying as a feminist for a long time, singer-songwriter Neko Case now takes her role seriously. Playboy reviewed Case's album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, and wrote, "More thoughtful and mature and funnier than the typical female artist types, she's also not trying to ape the hunter-gatherer characteristics of her male counterparts." Lines like that didn't sit well with Case, so she took to Twitter for an epic takedown of the magazine.
"Don't take any shit," she told Vice in an interview just before Playboy's review was published. "Accept nothing but the fact that you're equal. I don't think it should be a taboo subject, either, where people are like, 'Feminism, if you say that word, there's gonna be a fight.'"
Though she was criticized for not identifying as a feminist for a long time, Swift eventually came around. "As a teenager, I didn't understand that saying you're a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities," she told the Guardian in an interview. "What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means."
"You're going to have people who are going to say, 'Oh, you know, like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends,'" Swift told Time magazine. "And I think frankly that's a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says that about Bruno Mars. They're all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life, and no one raises the red flag there."
11. Beastie Boys
Though the Beastie Boys took a lot of heat for their misogynist song, "Girls," the boys from Brooklyn have admitted to growing up and looking back at their songs with some regret. "There are no excuses," the rappers told Time Out New York. "But time has healed our stupidity. We hope that you'll accept this long-overdue apology." Since then, they've said, "We strongly support empowering young girls [and] breaking down gender stereotypes." The Beastie Boys have proven that sexist notions can be reversed.
"Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I'm watching Night of the Living Dead Part Two all day, every day," Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz wrote in an anthology of the band, according to the Nation. "Listening to the lyrics of this song, one might say that the Beastie Boys 'Fight for Your Right to Party' guy is a hypocrite. Well, maybe, but in this fucked up world all you can hope for is change, and I'd rather be a hypocrite to you than a zombie forever."
12. Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches
In an open letter in the Guardian, the lead singer of the British band Chvrches made an appeal to resist rampant online sexism. Chvrches are indebted to the Internet because the band was "born on the Internet," she wrote, but added, "There are, however, downsides to being known on the Internet." Mayberry wrote that she's been on the receiving end of a landslide of disgusting, horrible sexist threats, and that kind of behavior shouldn't be acceptable — especially since the Internet is such an easy hiding place for faceless trolls.
"Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over and accept defeat? I hope not," she wrote. "Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.' ... I am not a martyr, nor am I attempting to change the world in any revolutionary way. I am only in a band, not one of the many wonderful people in organisations striving for change."
13. Kathleen Hanna
Former lead singer of riot grrrl bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Hanna has long had a reputation for being an outspoken feminist activist. In addressing her role as a pioneering feminist in music, she told Rolling Stone, "I don't like every woman in pop music, but it's not the woman, it's the music. And I need to be able to say I don't like Lady Gaga's music, and that doesn't mean I'm slamming Lady Gaga."
"I don't know how 'feminist' [new musicians] call themselves or whatever, but feminism isn't something that you are, it's something that you do," she told Rookie magazine. "I don't give a shit what you call yourself. Like: Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross is a fine thing to call yourself. Whatever. If you're doing feminist work in the world, then it's exciting."
14. Brandi Carlile
Openly gay country-folk musician Brandi Carlile is no stranger to the hardships facing women — a burden that's compounded by the fact that lesbian musicians face a double standard. She started an organization called Looking Out that supports women through music: $1 from every concert ticket Carlile sells goes to the organization. She believes that the best way to achieve equality in music is for women to look out for and support each other.
"The best thing that ever happened to women in music, in my opinion, is a sense of community," she told Ms. Magazine. "Surround yourself with people who teach and inspire you and you might find the power in numbers. Women can sell tickets, records, and being a rock star is not a boy's game."
15. Lily Allen
Though British pop star Lily Allen denies any distaste for Kanye West's sexism on his album Yeezus, she did write a feminist manifesto called Sheezus. And like both Björk and Solange, Allen has faced questions about whether her material is self-produced or the product of a "man behind the scenes." In fact, Allen writes all her own music.
"You will also notice of the big successful female artists, there is always a 'man behind the woman' piece," she told NME. "If it's Beyoncé, it's Jay Z. If it's Adele, it's Paul Epworth. Me? It was Mark Ronson and the same with Amy Winehouse. You never get that with men. You can't think of the man behind the man. Because it is a conversation that never happens. If you are Ed Sheeran or someone, no one ever talks about who has produced or who is the man behind Ed Sheeran."
16. Meredith Graves
A member of the riot grrrl band Perfect Pussy, Meredith Graves takes issue especially with the double standard that women face in music compared to men. At a festival in September, the singer read aloud an essay about that sexism. The New York Times called her essay "a monologue about the difficulties around female identity in pop: why the artificial beauty so many men desire in women stops at the artistic persona, where women aren't trustworthy if they're not real enough."
"Women are called upon every day to prove our right to participate in music on the basis of our authenticity — or perceived lack thereof," she wrote, according to Pitchfork. "Our credentials are constantly being checked — you say you like a band you've only heard a couple of times? Prepare to answer which guitarist played on a specific record and what year he left the band. But don't admit you haven't heard them, either, because they'll accuse you of only saying you like that genre to look cool. Then they'll ask you if you've ever heard of about five more bands, just to prove that you really know nothing. This happens so often that it feels like dudes meet in secret to work on a regimented series of tests they can use to determine whether or not we deserve to be here."
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Art still selling in spite of recession
PUBLISHED: 16:52 14 April 2009 | UPDATED: 23:22 15 June 2010
AXMINSTER artist Michael Morgan triumphed at this year's annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours by having all five of his paintings accepted. He sold them all within 10 minutes of the show's opening.
AXMINSTER artist Michael Morgan triumphed at this year's annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours by having all five of his paintings accepted. He sold them all within 10 minutes of the show's opening.It is the eighth year Michael, acknowledged as one of the country's most accomplished and successful landscape painters in watercolour, has had his work selected for the prestigious exhibition."There was a considerable attendance at the private view, where 400 paintings were on display," said Michael, whose work is exhibited at Marine House at Beer gallery."The current financial downturn appears to have had little, if no effect, on the success of the evening."He believes the public appear to be buying paintings and other works of art, rather than leaving investments in banks to generate little interest."As well as giving them continuing pleasure, they maintain and significantly increase their value over time," he said.
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Nuffield Foundation » News » New £12.5m funding opportunity for research into musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions
New £12.5m funding opportunity for research into musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions
The Nuffield Foundation has announced a new funding opportunity for research into musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions through the Oliver Bird Fund. First established in 1948, the Oliver Bird Fund was bequeathed by Captain Oliver Bird to specifically invest in rheumatic disease research.
Over the next 10 years the Oliver Bird Fund will dedicate up to £12.5m on research into musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, with up to £6.25m to be awarded over the first five years. Applications for the first round of funding will open in winter 2018.
The fund will support interdisciplinary research spanning biomedical and social sciences disciplines with an emphasis on understanding the health and well-being of people living with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. In particular, research funded by the Oliver Bird Fund will aim to:
Improve understanding of the social, economic and other causes of MSK and related chronic illnesses for individuals’ health and social wellbeing across the life-course and consequences for peoples’ active participation in society.
Identify the potential for development of novel protective and preventive interventions in order to reduce health and social wellbeing equity gaps.
Develop and enhance innovative approaches to improving evidence on MSK through investment in data analytics and related areas (e.g. informatics).
Bridge biomedical and social sciences and encourage closer collaboration with stakeholders to increase the likelihood of research evidence informing practice and policy.
Identify how health, social care and other data can be effectively integrated and subsequently assess the feasibility of scaling nationally to provide the basis for a novel biomedical/social MSK consortium to further health and social wellbeing equity research.
During the next five years, the Oliver Bird Fund will fund projects designed to better understand the nature, scale and impact of MSK conditions, across three programmes of research, developed in close collaboration with Arthritis Research UK.
To find out more about the Oliver Bird Fund and upcoming application process, please contact oliverbird@nuffieldfoundation.org
More about the Oliver Bird Fund >
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The Farr Side: MixTape tour does not disappoint
David T. Farr More Content Now
Fun! Fun! Fun! The MixTape Tour was a blast from the past. The two-plus hour trip down memory lane, headlined by the New Kids On The Block, dazzled fans last week at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The sold-out show featured an array of who’s-who ’80s and ’90s stars, including Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Salt-N-Pepa and Naughty By Nature joining the fab NKOTB.
The show got off to a grand start with DJ Illtown Sluggaz getting the crowd on its feet for well over 20 minutes. I’ve attended more than 100 concerts and I’ve never seen anything like it. It was so much fun to see and hear everyone jamming to Sluggaz spin the hits of the best decade for music.
When the lights dropped and New Kids took the stage, the noise level doubled. The guys performed an eight-song set that featured “The Way,” “My Favorite Girl,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Summertime,” “You Got It (The Right Stuff),” “Remix,” “Block Party” and “Games.” Judging by the crowd’s reaction, they still got “the right stuff,” even 30 years later.
In true mixtape fashion, the show played out just like the ones we used to make. Tiffany was up next to perform her No. 1 cover smash of the Tommy James & The Shondells classic, “I Think We’re Alone Now.”
Then, it was Debbie Gibson’s time to shine. Dressed in a skin-tight hot pink jumpsuit she belted out “Out Of The Blue,” “Shake Your Love,” and “Electric Youth” on a stage shaped like a compact disc on the opposite end of the arena. It was pretty cool to see the contraption lift high up in the air as she sang.
NKOTB returned for “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind,” “Valentine Girl,” “If You Go Away,” and “Please Don’t Go Girl,” a song that Joey McIntyre just sang the heck out of.
As much as I liked the show to that point, I was waiting for what was to happen next.
Salt-N-Pepa took the stage and took command. The group never sounded so good. “My Mic Sounds Nice,” “None Of Your Business,” “Expression,” “Whatta Man” and “Let’s Talk About Sex.” They jammed!
NKOTB came back again for “Tonight,” “Boys In The Band” and “Cover Girl.” “Tonight” has always been a great song, but this time it was even better. Donnie, Jordan, Jonathan, Joey and Danny road the compact disc to its highest peak yet high above the floor.
Naughty By Nature returned the hip hop vibe started by SNP with a rousing three-song set including “O.P.P.,” “Feel The Flow,” and “Hip Hop Hooray.”
With her piano ascending from the mainstage, Gibson returned to perform her No. 1 “Foolish Beat,” and “Only In My Dreams” before going into her massive hit “Lost In Your Eyes,” which was joined by NKOTB’s McIntyre.
“Shoop” from SNP followed before Tiffany’s amazing return for “All This Time” and a performance of her second No. 1, “Could’ve Been.” That was another shining moment, and not just because of the massive disco ball that appeared as she made her way through the crowd to the other stage.
New Kids No. 1′s “I’ll Be Loving You Forever” and “Step By Step” were big moments, but, for me, it was the song I came to see: “Push It” by Salt-N-Pepa. What a rush! That is one of the songs that defines the ’80s, for sure.
The show would not have been complete without “Hangin’ Tough,” the title track and No. 1 song from NKOTB’s mega-selling album that made them global stars. Donnie Wahlberg and the guys totally pleased the audience of mainly 40-year-olds.
The close brought all of the MixTape performers back for the fun, ”’80s Baby.” What a great moment to witness.
I came away from this show with such a good feeling. I’m so thankful I grew up when I did. Especially, when you can see this kind of show now and feel as good as you did when you made your own mixtapes from the radio then.
David T. Farr can be reached at farrboy@hotmail.com.
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Freshkills Park
Arts & Attractions Freshkills Park
Freshkills, the famous gargantuan former landfill a park? Hard to believe, but true. The city carefully transformed this controversial site into an important asset for Staten Island, New York City and the region. Now that the landfill is nearly cover... more
Freshkills, the famous gargantuan former landfill a park? Hard to believe, but true. The city carefully transformed this controversial site into an important asset for Staten Island, New York City and the region. Now that the landfill is nearly covered with protective caps and grass, the site is actually a remarkably beautiful place. New York’s new parkland at Freshkills will be one of the most ambitious public works projects in the world, combining state of the art ecological restoration techniques with extraordinary settings for recreation, public art, and facilities for many sports and programs that are unusual in the city. At 2,200 acres, the site is 2.5 times the size of Central Park. It has the potential to become an international model of creative reuse that will transform how we experience vast, reclaimed urban landscapes. Only 45% of the Fresh Kills site is landfill. The rest is creeks, wetlands and open fields. 995 acres of the 2,200-acre site are composed of six landfill mounds, which range in height from 90 feet to 225 feet. 760 acres of the site, an area nearly equal to Central Park, have never been filled with garbage or were filled more than twenty years ago.... more
Freshkills, the famous gargantuan former landfill a park? Hard to believe, but true. The city carefully transformed this controversial site into an important asset for Staten Island, New York City and the region. Now that the landfill is nearly covered with protective caps and grass, the site is actually a remarkably beautiful place.
New York’s new parkland at Freshkills will be one of the most ambitious public works projects in the world, combining state of the art ecological restoration techniques with extraordinary settings for recreation, public art, and facilities for many sports and programs that are unusual in the city. At 2,200 acres, the site is 2.5 times the size of Central Park. It has the potential to become an international model of creative reuse that will transform how we experience vast, reclaimed urban landscapes.
Only 45% of the Fresh Kills site is landfill. The rest is creeks, wetlands and open fields. 995 acres of the 2,200-acre site are composed of six landfill mounds, which range in height from 90 feet to 225 feet. 760 acres of the site, an area nearly equal to Central Park, have never been filled with garbage or were filled more than twenty years ago. These flatter areas and open waterways host many things, from precisely engineered infrastructure to intact wetland and wildlife habitats.
While the full build–out will continue in phases for the next 30 years, development over the next several years will focus on providing public access to the interior of the site and showcasing its unusual combination of natural and engineered beauty, including creeks, wetlands, expansive meadows and spectacular vistas of the New York City region.
Five Parks in One
Freshkills Park will have five main areas: the Confluence (made up of Creek Landing and The Point), North Park, South Park, East Park and West Park. Each area will have a distinct character and programming approach.
The Confluence is the cultural and waterfront recreation core of the park, sited at the confluence of Richmond Creek and Main Creek and encircled by the park road. Two developed areas along this loop are the main activity sites in the park:
Creek Landing (20 acres) will be designed for waterfront activities, including an esplanade, canoe and boat launch, restaurants, a visitor center and a large event lawn for gatherings, picnics and sunbathing. The area will also allow for ample car parking and will be a central point of arrival and departure of park users.
The Point (50 acres) is designed to accommodate sports fields, event spaces, lawns, artwork and educational programming. A long promenade along the water’s edge will support restaurants, a banquet facility and an open–air market roof. Old machinery and artifacts from Fresh Kills Landfill operations will act as outdoor sculptural pieces, and the old barges will be re–imagined as floating gardens. The promenade will be a vibrant social place with seating, fishing piers, a boat launch and great views across the water toward the natural beauty of the nearby Isle of Meadows.
North Park (233 acres, max. elev. 150 ft.) will be characterized by simple, vast natural settings—meadows, wetlands and creeks. Adjacent to the Travis neighborhood and overlooking the William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge, the area will feature paths and trails for walking, running, bicycling and skating encircling the northern mound. Scenic overlooks and spaces for picnicking, catch–and–release fishing and bird–watching will be provided.
South Park (425 acres, max. elev. 140 ft.) will provide large natural settings and active recreational spaces, including soccer fields, an equestrian facility and mountain biking pathways. Adjacent to the Arden Heights neighborhood, South Park will also host picnic areas, fields and trails. The area is also large enough to house a major sports and recreation center for track and field and/or swimming. The hilltops lend spectacular views across the site and into the distance.
East Park (482 acres, max. elev. 135 ft.) will be defined by the park road that extends from Richmond Avenue into the heart of the site and connects to the West Shore Expressway. The park drive will be sensitively designed as a scenic route integrated into the landscape. The Richmond Avenue side of East Park has been conceptualized as a nature education area with specially designed wetlands, boardwalks and exhibits and public art installations. The large mound in this area lends itself to a variety of recreational uses, from golf and field sports to archery, informal pickup games, frisbee and picnicking.
West Park (545 acres, max. elev. 200 ft.) hosts the site’s largest mound, with the West Shore Expressway to the east and the Arthur Kill to the west. An enormous earthwork monument is envisioned atop the mound in remembrance of the September 11 recovery effort that occurred in this location. Set on a vast hilltop wildflower meadow, the earthwork would be open to the sky and offer spectacular 360–degree views of the region, including a direct line of sight to lower Manhattan.
By the way, "Kill" is a word of Dutch derivation meaning a stream or creek.
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@freshkillspark
North Park construction is underway, with work on the overlook deck and bird observation tower!
https://t.co/grUfMwHpEg Yesterday at 4:20 PM
RT @egarzetta: Grasshopper Sparrows rapidly colonized @freshkillspark in 2015. Four years later, they’re still here—and still singing in Ju… Yesterday at 3:44 PM
On July 13th, journey to Freshkills Park on a @CenterForArch @CHLNewYork Industrial Waterway Tour from Manhattan.
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Concerts ahead
By Special To The Orange County Register and Timothy Mangan | Orange County Register
Pacific Symphony
Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky joins the ensemble to perform the mother of all crowd-pleasing knuckle busters, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Conductor Carl St.Clair opens the concert with another familiar third, this one majestic, the Symphony No. 3 by Brahms. 8 p.m. Feb. 6-7. Tickets are $26-$185. Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. 714-755-5799. www.pacificsymphony.org
The world’s most famous chamber orchestra visits Orange County with German violinist Julia Fischer, Gramophone’s 2007 Artist of the Year, leading a program that Bach’s two violin concertos and pieces for strings by Britten and Walton. Presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. 8 p.m. Feb. 11. Tickets are $30-$260. Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. 949-553-2422. www.philharmonicsociety.org.
Hakan Rosengren
The acclaimed Swedish clarinetist joins fellow Cal State Fullerton faculty member pianist Eduardo Delgado, to perform a program of music for clarinet and piano. On his own, Delgado will play Schumann’s demanding Symphonic Etudes. 4 p.m. Feb. 8. Tickets are $15-$20. Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton. 714-278-3371. www.fullerton.edu/arts/events.
San Diego Opera’s 44th season continues with its second production of the year, Jules Massenet’s rarely performed “Don Quixote,” an opera based on the novel by Miguel Cervantes. This new production features the return the great Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role. Also returning to San Diego in the role of Dulcinea is American mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. 7 p.m. Feb. 14 and 17; 8 p.m. Feb. 20; 2 p.m. Feb. 22. Tickets are $35-$200. 619- 533-7000. www.sdopera.com.
Special To The Orange County Register
Timothy Mangan
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Trust new ANC leadership - Mapisa-Nqakula on #ZumaExit anxiety
Paul Herman
Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on a door-to-door walkabout in Philippi, Cape Town. (Paul Herman, News24)
Cape Town - Defence Minister and ANC NEC member Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has told ANC supporters that they need to trust the party's new leadership on the current anxiety over the future of President Jacob Zuma.
Mapisa-Nqakula and Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane embarked on a door-to-door rally in Philippi on Saturday, to canvass supporters ahead of a #Mandela100 rally on Sunday in Cape Town to be addressed by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa.
The campaign is amid what is seen as a week-long game of brinkmanship between Ramaphosa and Zuma, following the postponement of the State of the Nation Address.
Read: SONA postponed 'in the interests of the country' - Mbete
Speaking to News24, Mapisa-Nqakula said the NEC did not know any more than the public did on the ongoing talks between the two, confirmed by Ramaphosa as being "fruitful and constructive" on Tuesday.
She could also not say when they expected to hear any official decision being communicated.
"I don't know. We leave whatever [decisions] to the top 6 of the organisation. I am just doing my work now on talking to our people that voted us into the NEC and also into Parliament."
When asked how she is reassuring those ANC supporters she was visiting, she said citizens needed to rally behind the efforts of the party's new leadership.
"We've been to conference. The people have spoken. People know what they want, and they put together a new leadership that is going to unite the organisation, and they should rally behind that leadership," she said.
Mapisa-Nqakula told @News24 that as NEC members they don't know any more than the public does yet on the ongoing discussions between Ramaphosa and President Jacob Zuma. #ZumaExit @TeamNews24
— Paul Herman (@PaulHermanCPT) February 10, 2018
Amid such uncertainty, the message was now "unity of the movement", whichever way things went.
"People must prepare for the national election in 2019. The ANC has a programme, and it has been endorsed by South Africans. We want a better life for South Africans.
"Therefore, time must start now. We don't have much time [until 2019]. Councillors must work hard to ensure we meet our people, and go down to the ground to understand their challenges."
'Responsibility of the ANC'
Mapisa-Nqakula was curt when it came to questions around Cabinet and whether her colleagues had discussed what a change in power would mean for Cabinet.
"Why should Cabinet discuss these issues? It is the responsibility of the ANC to discuss issues of leadership, it is not a Cabinet responsibility.
"Cabinet has met, committees have met and all we're focused on is reports that focus on Cabinet."
Mapisa-Nqakula said as Cabinet, they have not discussed the issue of #ZumaExit and await instructions from the #ANC's top 6. "It is the responsibility of the ANC to discuss issues of leadership, it is not a Cabinet responsibility." @TeamNews24
The NEC, which is the highest decision-making body in the party, was due to take a final decision on Zuma's future on Wednesday, but Ramaphosa dramatically cancelled the NEC meeting this week after what he called a "constructive and fruitful" meeting with Zuma on Tuesday.
Zuma's wife Tobeka Madiba-Zuma however fanned the flames of uncertainty on Friday when she posted to Instagram that "all hell was about to break loose".
Zuma and Ramaphosa will reportedly "conclude" their discussion on Zuma’s exit as head of state in less than 48 hours, after which the outcome will be announced to the nation, News24 has reliably been told.
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How Kenya lost its way
For decades Kenya was the African success story, yet the election has exposed bitter divisions. Now
By Michela Wrong
"If Kibaki is named president, Kenya will never be the same again," said the businessman at the wheel of the SUV. Abandoning Kisumu, whose trashed commercial city centre was still smouldering, we had just cleared a roadblock manned by two drunken youngsters brandishing machetes, checking cars for suspected government supporters.
At the shack of an airport, scores of terrified families were jostling for places on the first planes out. Forty passengers had spent the night sleeping on the floor, desperate to leave the opposition stronghold. Many were Asian traders, traumatised by the looting of millions of dollars in stock. The other main targets of the rampaging pro-Odinga Luo mobs - members of Kisumu's Kikuyu and Kisii tribes - had fled to local police stations for shelter.
Kenya isn't supposed to be like this. Congo and Côte d'Ivoire certainly, or Rwanda at one time. But not Kenya. For decades, this country's reputation as one of the most stable democracies on the continent, the user-friendly face of Africa, has made it a draw for nearly a million tourists a year. That image had clearly been shattered in a split second for two American tourists pleading for seats at the airline counter. "Look, we've just seen a woman burnt alive in front of us. We HAVE to get out of here," the man was saying.
The tourists are not the only ones reeling. Kenyan human rights organisations denounce "a coup d'état" and Kenyan pundits hang their heads in shame. "We truly have become a banana republic", one newspaper columnist told me, while the country's foreign backers struggle to digest the enormity of the situation.
Kenya matters to the west. The only African nation deemed sufficiently tranquil to host several UN agencies, it serves as headquarters for hundreds of non-governmental organisations, multinational companies, banks and media organisations. Its fast-growing economy, dwarfing those of its nearest rivals, Uganda and Tanzania, was thought to be a motor that could pull the region into prosperity.
British troops train here, US warships moor off its coastline, and its proximity to the volatile Horn, combined with the government's enthusiastic support for George W Bush's "war on terror", made Kenya a likely venue for Africom, the new US military command planned for this year.
Repeatedly targeted by al-Qaeda, used as a conduit for hard drugs pouring on to European streets, Kenya is regarded by western diplomats as a country upon whose domestic strength or weakness hinges not only the stability of the region, but the security of their own nationals. "If Kenya's house is in order, we are all the safer for it," said one diplomat.
Now it is clear that its house is in total disorder. The electoral contest between President Mwai Kibaki and the feisty opposition leader Raila Odinga, the closest in Kenyan history, has exposed an ethnic fissure whose depth was no secret to ordinary Kenyans, who are more tribally polarised than at any time since independence in 1963. For months, Kenyan websites have been citing the ominous formula of "47 versus 1": the pitting of Kenya's 47 smaller tribes against the Kikuyus, the largest and most economically successful group, from which Kibaki and his closest ministers hail.
Elected in 2002 as the head of a multi-ethnic coalition, Kibaki has been widely criticised for having ruled African old-style: doling out top positions to his kinsmen, showering Kikuyu areas with resources, and sabotaging a constitutional review process that originally aimed to dilute State House's near-monarchical powers.
Within minutes of Kibaki's re-election being announced on 30 December, after a vote-counting exercise whose rigging had become embarrassingly obvious, the riots began. There was nothing haphazard about the violence: in the slums of Nairobi, the hills of the Rift Valley, on the streets of Kisumu and in the coastal resort of Mombasa, Kikuyu premises were set on fire and Kikuyu residents beaten and lynched.
Just as it was possible in the former Yugoslavia to tell residents' ethnicity by which houses had been attacked, the pattern of damage in looted areas faithfully reflected the ethnic passions at play. In areas loyal to Odinga's ODM movement, Luo premises went untouched, while passing traffic was flagged down by firebrands looking for the hated Kikuyus. That so many of Kenya's shanty towns are ethnically mixed hugely increases the prospect of lavish bloodshed, with militias of Luos and Kikuyus, armed with machetes, steel bars and knives, launching raids into one another's areas of control and guarding access routes.
The form ordinary Kenyans' frustrations are taking is certain to fuel an agonised debate about the nature and severity of Africa's "tribal problem". But there is a strong argument to be made that Kenya's chaos actually exposes a very different divide: that between a smug political elite and the desperately poor.
Despite revelations of grand corruption reaching to the highest levels of his government, voiced in part by his own former anti-corruption chief John Githongo, Kibaki has continued to enjoy the support of western aid ministries, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. After the years of economic stagnation under his immediate predecessor, Daniel arap Moi, the 6 and 7 per cent growth rates notched up since 2002 convinced many aid officials that Kibaki was a leader worth backing, to the tune of $800m annually.
Ironically, a government whose ministers and civil servants had been implicated by Githongo in conspiring to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in a scam involving a company called Anglo Leasing had of late been showered with in ternational awards for good governance and the efficient restructuring of its administration.
In private, western aid officials acknowledged that question marks about government probity existed, but insisted that the country's "overall trajectory" was positive. They were particularly impressed by Kibaki's introduction of free primary education - funded by our own Department for International Development (DfID), which gave £50m in aid in 2007. They saw the move as a precious investment in the future.
Yet there was worryingly little evidence that the country's growth rates were trickling down to Kenya's poorest. Instead, every survey showed divisions between the rural poor and urban elite widening. In Nairobi, in the throes of an astonishing building boom, the wabenzi - the wealthy classes - shop at 24-hour malls and relax on the green lawns of their gated communities. But two out of every three Nairobi residents live in slums whose squalor is unrivalled on the continent, and Kibaki has failed to produce the half a million new jobs a year he promised.
The paradox is that many poor Kikuyus in the capital actually voted for Odinga and the ODM, and against their own supposed champion. They had come to the conclusion that Kibaki and his chums, loyal patrons of Nairobi's plush golf clubs, were fundamentally anti-poor.
They were particularly incensed by the government's ruthless street clean-up, in which tens of thousands of the corrugated iron kiosks on which ordinary workers depended for food and supplies were flattened to make way for flower beds. Jua kali - Kenya's informal commercial sector - is the mainstay of the poor. "What use is free education if you have no business, if you cannot make a living?" asked Joseph Kariuki, one of Nairobi's many Kikuyu small entrepreneurs.
In their quest for bourgeois respectability, the Kenyan authorities had gone so far as to ban smoking outdoors in the centre of Nairobi - something that even the most health-obsessed city council in Europe would hesitate to attempt. At makeshift roadblocks on the routes into the shanty towns this past week, machete-wielding Kikuyu youngsters stood, defiantly puffing away, sending a two-fingered salute to the men in charge.
However, amid the alarm at the poisonously ethnic nature of the violence breaking out across Kenya, more encouraging trends risk being missed. If the presidential vote was too heavily compromised to be trusted, the more straightforward parliamentary vote revealed a great deal about how Kenyans view their government. Twenty of Kibaki's ministers and key lieutenants were rejected. So was Nicholas Biwott, a stalwart supporter of Moi, as were the former president's sons: Africa's tradition of fawning respect for its elder statesmen sustained a great dent. A generation of "dinosaur" leaders, many in their seventies, was in effect given a clear thumbs-down by the electorate.
The average age in Kenya is just 18. Since the 2002 polls, three million new voters have been added to the country's electoral roll. The rebuff that these jobless, prospectless youngsters delivered to a political elite seen as out of touch and morally bankrupt deserves respect.
It also deserves to be heeded by an inter national community which, under pressure in the wake of the Gleneagles summit to increase lending to Africa, was determined to believe - not only of Kenya but of countries across the continent - that corrupt, ethnically biased governments can nonetheless make constructive development partners.
When Githongo sought exile in Oxford and went on to expose the Anglo Leasing scam, western governments, with the World Bank in the lead, did little more than express genteel dismay. The outspoken British high commissioner Edward Clay, who offended Kenyan ministers by accusing them of gorging until they "vomited on the shoes" of foreign donors, was replaced on retirement with a far more emollient diplomat; and the World Bank representative Colin Bruce, who rents his lodgings from the presidential couple, has continued releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.
As this story goes to press, Kenya is plunged into the most widespread political violence since independence. Already the official death toll across the country stands at 148, although human rights organisations believe that the true figure is far higher; 75,000 people have been internally displaced.
If President Kibaki can survive the tumult on the streets, which seems likely to worsen rather than diminish, he will still struggle to establish legitimacy over a parliament in which the ODM holds the majority of seats.
"Kenya is on the verge of a meltdown," warns Githongo from exile. "It's not clear its architects realise its repercussions."
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How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history
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Barbara and Jack Nicklaus to be Inducted into International Pediatric Hall Of Fame at 2010 Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation Diamond Ball
MIAMI – Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation President Lucy Morillo-Agnetti today announced Barbara and Jack Nicklaus will be inducted into the Ambassador David M. Walters International Pediatric Hall of Fame at the Foundation’s 2010 Diamond Ball. The gala, “Diamonds…Forever: “Honoring the Past. Celebrating the Future,” will be held Saturday, October 2, 2010, at the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
One of South Florida’s most anticipated charity events, the Diamond Ball will commemorate Miami Children’s Hospital’s Diamond Anniversary – 60 Years of World-Class Care – and honor the legacy of medical excellence while celebrating the future of our children.
Named after the first Chairman and President of Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Ambassador David M. Walters International Pediatric Hall of Fame was created in 1986 to recognize and honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the health and happiness of children everywhere. It is the highest honor bestowed by the Foundation.
With their induction into the Ambassador David M. Walters International Pediatric Hall of Fame, the Nicklaus’ join an exclusive group of legendary children’s advocates, including Beyoncé, Dwyane Wade, Kelly Preston, Jonas Salk and Walt Disney, to name a few.
“We are privileged to recognize Barbara and Jack for their unwavering commitment to children, not only in South Florida but across the country,” said Morillo-Agnetti. “The 2010 Diamond Ball will be a perfect place to celebrate all those who support our mission of reaching out to children no matter where they live.”
Long known as the first family of golf, Barbara and Jack are the passion and guiding lights behind the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation. The organization supports numerous pediatric health care services and projects aimed at children’s health, safety and well-being. Jack is a National Trustee of The First Tee and has twice spoken before Congress about the character-building values of the organization and golf in general. Additionally, the Barbara & Jack Nicklaus Junior Golf Endowment Fund supports youth programs across the country and in their own backyard.
For a complete list of previous Hall of Fame inductees, please visit http://mchf.org/2079/Benefits-of-Giving/Hall-of-Fame.aspx/.
To learn more about becoming a part of the 2010 Diamond Ball, please contact Morgana Rolle at mrolle@mchf.org or 786-624-2038.
ABOUT MIAMI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation is a not-for profit 501 (C) (3) established to create a world-class pediatric hospital so no child need leave South Florida for superior medical care. “Funding World-Class Care” and following the principle that all children deserve state-of-the-art pediatric care with no financial boundaries, the Foundation helped 289-bed Miami Children’s Hospital become a leader in pediatric healthcare with more than 40 subspecialties, the largest pediatric neurology center in the United States, a top provider of cardiology and neonatology services, and a Research Institute conducting in excess of 150 clinical trials and protocols.
Miami Children’s Hospital is one of 170 pediatric hospitals in North America affiliated with Children’s Miracle Network and South Florida’s only freestanding Hospital dedicated exclusively to children. To learn more about the Foundation and offer support, visit www.mchf.org, become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MCHFoundation or call 305-666-2889 (toll free: 800-987-8701).
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Trump Signals Interest In 2020 Election Interference
If there’s something strange in your presidential campaign. Who ya gonna call? “Trump voice” NOT the FBI. #LSSC #Colbert #Monologue
Source: www.youtube.com
Tags: brian-kilmeade, collusion, george-stephanopoulos, stephen-colbert, trump-collusion, trump-collusion-admission, video
“It’s going to get to Russian conspiracy”: Former prosecutor lays out Trump’s inner circle
“Watch for the defense to become the thing they’ve denied, because the truth is worse,” said Wallace, noting that originally, the Trump team tried to flat-out deny there was any collusion with Russia. “They’re not even denying, because they’ve pleaded guilty to these contacts with Russians … this is a campaign whose defense to collusion is, ‘we couldn’t collude with our press office.’ That’s what Brad Pascale and Jared Kushner say.”
.. “They could collude, they were colluding, and all of this is so nefarious,” said Kirschner. “It’s not reckless, it’s not happenstance, it’s not careless … what I found remarkable in what [special counsel prosecutor] Andrew Weissman was saying to the court, when they were trying to decide whether Paul Manafort’s plea agreement should basically be torn up because he lied. As a cooperating witness, he kept lying to the special counsel.”
.. What I find remarkable is that Manafort gets charged, right, federally indicted. What does he do after that? He starts tampering with witnesses. And he was charged for tampering with witnesses. After that we have now learned through this litigation, albeit in highly redacted form, that he continued to conspire with [suspected Russian agent Konstantin] Kilimnik.”
“What is it that they so desperately want to cover up?” said Kirschner. The answer, he said, was in the fact that Weissman told the judge that the Kilimnik interactions go “right to the heart of what the special counsel is investigating.”
Source: www.salon.com
Tags: collusion, konstantin-kilimnik, paul-manafort, paul-manafort-witness-tampering
Here’s why a new Mueller transcript is so damning for Trump
This is the first time the special counsel has indicated publicly that it thinks a witness or target in the investigation might be angling for a pardon. Many have speculated that the pursuit of a pardon could explain Manafort’s otherwise puzzling behavior.
But since a pardon for federal crimes could only come from the president, the special counsel’s acknowledge of this possible motive is remarkable. It means the special counsel believes Manafort could increase his chances of a pardon by with a criminal lie. This, quite directly, implies that Trump has an interest in one of his former aides engaging in a criminal cover-up — a circumstance that is hard to imagine unless the president himself is at least indirectly implicated in criminal behavior.
While many have long suspected and argued as much, it is still a stunning turn of events to have it confirmed by prosecutors in court.
..This is the first time the special counsel has indicated publicly that it thinks a witness or target in the investigation might be angling for a pardon. Many have speculated that the pursuit of a pardon could explain Manafort’s otherwise puzzling behavior.
The transcript also reveals that Manafort met with Kilimnik at Trump’s January 2017 inauguration, which is reportedly under investigation separately by the Southern District of New York. There, they discussed the promotion of a Ukraine peace plan, prosecutors said, which is believed to favor Russian interests. This shows that, despite Trump’s attempt to distance himself from Manafort after firing him in August of 2016, Manafort at least believed he had the chance to promote a political agenda under the Trump administration.
.. After Manafort had agreed to cooperate, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer, revealed that the ex-campaign chair had stayed in his joint defense agreement with the president, a situation legal experts said was extraordinary and posed the risk that he could innappropriately share sensitive information.
Tags: collusion, cover-up, lies, paul-manafort, paul-manafort-pardon, trump-implicated
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy
“Was directed”? Naturally, you’re thinking, “was directed by whom?” By Trump? Could be . . . Stone says it was not, but who knows? The point, however, is not who did the directing but why it was thought necessary to reach out to Stone. The Trump campaign had to ask Stone because it was in the dark.
.. Plainly, the campaign was not involved in the hacking, so it did not know what the Russians gave Assange. And it had no involvement with WikiLeaks’ operations, so it turned to Stone, who had held himself out as a knowledgeable source. But Stone, too, was unsure. Mueller alleges: “STONE thereafter told the Trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by [WikiLeaks]” (emphasis added). The prosecutor has to say “potential” because Stone did not have solid knowledge of Assange’s intentions — he tried to find out from others (including Credico, who had contact with Assange), but they did not know for sure exactly what Assange had and whether or when he would publish it.
.. 1. It is standard government practice never to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.
2. This is especially true of counterintelligence investigations, which target foreign powers, not individuals, and which are classified.
3. It violates Justice Department and FBI policy to identify a subject of any investigation if that subject has not been charged with a crime. This is especially true when the subject, whether a person or an entity (like the Trump campaign) is of interest to a counterintelligence investigation — again, such investigations are classified, and subjects whose suspected connections to foreign powers are being scrutinized should never be disclosed.
4. It is simply not true that, as a matter of course in a counterintelligence investigation, the Justice Department and FBI do an assessment of whether any prosecutable crimes have been committed. Instead, whenever agents happen to stumble upon evidence of a crime, they always consider whether to prosecute. This is not a routine aspect of counterintelligence investigations; it is an unremarkable fact applicable to all kinds of inquiries — even background investigations of applicants for government employment.
That is to say: It was wrong to acknowledge the existence of the classified Russia investigation, and it was egregiously wrong not only to name the Trump campaign as a subject but to do so in a manner that suggested criminal prosecution was foreseeable. Any thinking person would have taken Director Comey’s disclosure, in disregard of several law-enforcement and intelligence protocols, to signal that the new president could be conspiring with Russia in an espionage scheme, for which he — or at least officials in his campaign — might very well face criminal charges.
It has to have been obvious to investigators for months that this suggestion was misleading. Yet there has been no correction of the record. For month after month, the FBI, the Justice Department, and the special counsel have been content to allow the presidency to be enveloped in a cloud of suspicion that necessarily infects the administration’s capacity to govern, to conduct foreign relations, and to deal with Congress.
There is no reason why the special counsel could not have issued an interim report clearing the president of suspicion that he was a Russian agent. Doing so would merely have removed the specter of traitorous conspiracy from the White House. It would not have compromised Mueller’s ability to investigate Russia’s interference in the election; it would not have undermined Mueller’s probe of potential obstruction offenses by the president. (And while it is not Mueller’s job to discourage the president’s puerile “witch hunt” tweets, if the public had been told that the Justice Department withdrew its highly irregular public statements about Trump’s possible criminal complicity in Russia’s espionage, presidential tirades about the investigation would have ebbed, if not disappeared entirely.)
Source: www.nationalreview.com
Tags: collusion, correct-the-record, no-collusion, roger-stone-indictment, russian-agent, trump-russia
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August 31, 2016 | Javier Ruiz
Bad news in leaked EU Copyright Directive
Leaked EU Copyright Directive ignores ordinary internet users and presents limited reforms to support creators, researchers, teachers and librarians, while providing a sledgehammer of protectionist measures for the incumbent news, music and film industries.
Several documents have been leaked from the European Commission providing a clear picture of the proposed reforms to copyright that will be presented later in the year. The picture is quite negative as the proposals range from the timid to the openly regressive, such as the introduction of a new ancillary right for news publishers. Several key initiatives have been dropped, including changes to the current exceptions for freedom of panorama that allow taking the pictures of public art and buildings.
The documents leaked include the Impact Assessment on the Modernisation of EU Copyright Rules, prepared by EU officials; an official communication titled ‘Promoting a fair and efficient European copyright-based economy in the digital single market’ due to be published later this month; and finally the full text of the proposed new Directive on Copyright in the Single Market.
The new Directive will complement and not replace current legislation such as the Infosoc Directive, although there are some minor technical modifications. Existing directives will not be reopened for discussion, thus limiting the possibilities for reform in key areas such as Digital Rights Management. The directive applies to the European Economic Area (EEA) and will probably be relevant to the UK whatever shape Brexit eventually takes.
These leaks make the past two years of pre legislative discussions about comprehensive copyright reform feel like a waste of everyone’s time, except of course for a few industry lobbyists. The EU is about to throw away the first chance in over a decade to adapt copyright to the digital world, instead choosing classic protectionism for incumbent industries. These measures will not promote the creation of a vibrant digital industry in Europe capable of standing up to Silicon Valley - as EU policymakers want.
Below is a summary of the main contents of the leaked Directive. There are other initiatives in the wider package, including: a Regulation for online broadcasting, implementation of the Marrakesh treaty on accessibility for the visually impaired, a broad package on copyright enforcement and more provisions to promote European works.
The contents of the Directive are a mix of initiatives that include some mandatory limited exceptions for culture and education and measures to help improve remunerations for creators, but in the main are openly about supporting right holders and European industry.
Protectionist measures
Publishers ancillary right
This is the most controversial reform is the creation of a completely new intellectual property right for news publishers which lasts 20 years and will add a new layer of complexity to Internet regulation. The new right has the same scope as rights of reproduction and making available and it’s covered by the same exceptions, including criticism or review. The EU is open in aiming to support the financial sustainability of news publishers, and the right does not cover scientific or academic publishers. We are not completely clear on the situation of blogs, but the right is meant to cover only publications by a “service provider”.
This right is meant to stop internet news aggregators to simply copy a portion of the news article and stop revenues flowing to the original site. Similar initiatives in Germany and Spain had a disastrous effect on media access, but we will need more time to fully understand how bad this one is. The first analyses are extremely negative as the new right seems even less constrained than previous initiatives.
User uploaded content: YouTube Law
Another major concession to industry aiming to address the “value gap” created by the disparity between the number of people watching content in platforms - basically YouTube - and the revenues received. The Directive forces relevant online platforms to seek licenses from rightsholders. While there may a case for Google to share some of its profits with rightsholders it is unclear that copyright law is the best way to do it. This law will extend beyond YouTube with unpredictable effects on Internet activities, as lawyers cotton on to the new powers given to industry.
This new power goes to the heart of Internet regulation: the (lack of) liability of intermediaries that enables content to be hosted and linked around, expressed in the E-commerce Directive. In principle the new power covers services that go beyond providing “mere physical facilities” and perform and “act of communication to the public” by taking an active role in curating or promoting content, but this is not always clear cut.
The Directive does not include an obligation to monitor preemptively - which would contravene other laws - but it forces the implementation of technological protection measures to protect works, such as Google’s Content-ID - with transparency obligations towards rightsholders.
Fair remuneration for authors and performers
There are some positive measures to protect creators that include transparency over online media sales, powers to renegotiate contracts and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. Overall they seem positive albeit a bit weak, when compared with the sledgehammers given to news publishers and the music industry.
New mandatory exceptions
These exceptions are positive but in all cases limited when compared to the initial demands of libraries, educators and cultural institutions. They do not include many of the more far fetching reforms proposed by civil society and even the European Parliament.
The call for a mandatory exception for “freedom of panorama” campaigned for by many civil society groups including ORG fell on deaf ears. The Commission has simply stated in their documents that the status quo works fine, while politely asking all countries to implement the exception.
Text and Data Mining exception
This exception allows the making of copies to perform analysis for scientific research by non-profit or public interest organisations. There is no compensation for rights holders and an explicit ban on contractual clauses overriding the exception. Technical measures to restrict access or copying are allowed but should not affect the exception.
This is a positive move, although many research organisations and libraries had been asking for a broader scope as they feared that a lot of important research may be excluded.
Online Teaching exception The rationale for this exception is the lack of clarity on whether existing exceptions in the Infosoc and Database Directive apply to online education, particularly cross border access . The exception covers only “educational establishments”, which must control access to the resources, and will likely exclude many online educational initiatives. The exception allows for licensing schemes to take precedence over the exception and this could be used to weaken the provisions.
Libraries, archives and similar cultural heritage institutions will be allowed to make necessary copies of works for preservation, but only of works in their permanent collections. The exception is only for internal copies and not for online libraries.
Supporting the digital market
A couple of fairly minor initiatives that are positive but of limited impact in the context of the once-in-twenty-years reform of copyright.
Out-of-commerce works
Libraries have been lobbying for a long time to be allowed to engage in collective licensing deals to digitise and distribute out-of-commerce works. They see this as both an extension of their mission and an opportunity to generate funds, although in principle this is framed as non-commercial cost recovery of the costs of mass digitisation. The exception only applies to works first published in the EU. This is not a full free copying exception, but the option to enter extended collective licensing deals without the need to get approval from every author. There is a six month compulsory notice in case authors are around and object.
The directive forces member states to create a voluntary “negotiation mechanism” with the support of and impartial body to help parties license work for Video on demand (VoD) services.
In summary, a disappointing culmination of a two year discussion that started with high hopes of seeing Europe take bold moves to really modernise copyright. The legislative process starts now, however, and while the UK is in the EU, ORG will continue to try to influence the shape of these laws as they go through the European Parliament. We must also remember that this is all based on leaked documents and the European Commission may still make some changes.
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Megan Doyle — 11 December, 2018
Luxury Meets Sustainability at Remode
At Remode in LA, industry thought leaders discuss the role of the luxury sector in creating a more sustainable fashion ecosystem.
What responsibility does the luxury sector have to lead the fashion industry in sustainability? This is the question posed to a panel of fashion’s thought leaders, including ORDRE co-founder and chief executive Simon P. Lock, sustainability consultant Julie Gilhart, Laurent Claquin, head of Kering Americas and Eva Kruse, chief executive of Global Fashion Agenda, at Remode in LA. In short, the sector has a lot to answer for.
“Everyone is convinced that sustainability is a necessity and not a luxury, but for the luxury industry it’s a duty,” opened Kering’s Claquin — who believes that luxury products should, by their very nature, be inherently sustainable. “When you think about luxury you think about creativity, quality, craftsmanship and the preservation of craftsmanship, exclusivity... all these words are also associated with sustainability.”
Kruse, who launched the Copenhagen Fashion Summit in 2009 contributed to the debate by adding, “We believe that the luxury sector is where sustainability would thrive the most, because it’s something that we expect from products that we pay a lot of money for...The rest of the industry is looking towards [the luxury sector] — they are setting the trends and leading the runway shows — the sector has an obligation to lead the way.”
As ORDRE co-founder and CEO Simon P. Lock explains, technology will play a vital role in the creation of a more sustainable industry for both consumers and makers. “We’re starting to use technology to better understand apparel online, so when consumers understand this, they make better purchases and the return rates go down,” Lock explained. “Therefore, we don’t need to have couriers running around all over the world.” These advancements in technology are also helping designers too, he advocates. “We’re seeing the use of 3D animation in the design of sampling. You can create a virtual sample, put in a virtual showroom, without having to spend millions of dollars on fabric sampling, manufacturing, and the resources that goes along with that.”
A major challenge to the weaving of technology and sustainability into the system seems to be in updating complex supply chains and archaic business models within luxury brands, which are often rooted in heritage and tradition. “A lot of what has stalled the luxury business is that it’s so hard to undo a lot of the practices that they’ve had for decades,” sustainability expert Gilhart added. “They’re also very afraid of not being 100 percent perfect [at becoming sustainable] — I’m a big believer in doing something and not expecting to change everything in a day.”
“The elephant in the room is consumption. How much more do we really need?”
Eva Kruse
Indeed, Lock conceded that this has been a challenge to pitching ORDRE’s future-focused concept to luxury leaders. “I spend most of my time convincing luxury brands to change their antiquated practices, to move and embrace technology in a new way,” he said. “It’s not that they don’t believe in technology — the evidence is there, you can see how powerfully it can be directed towards a brand — but it’s often the change in business practices which is the most difficult thing.”
While the sustainability discussion has been gathering momentum within the fashion industry, Kruse points out that communication must now spread further than the industry to truly have an impact. “We have had this discussion internally in the past 10 years, and now we need to take it to the mainstream level,” she said. Additionally, Kruse raised one under-considered issue which is at the crux of the whole debate. “The elephant in the room is consumption. How much more do we really need?” she asked the room.
“That in itself is always the most difficult question to talk about in an industry that thrives off creating a need that we don’t even have. I think there’s an opportunity for the luxury sector right here — brands have an opportunity to speak to customers about purchasing less, buying smart, buying products you really care for and keep them longer.”
“I deeply believe we can grow in a sustainable way — I don’t think they’re two opposite worlds”
Laurent Claquin
While research shows that consumers are taking sustainability into their purchasing considerations, (BoF’s 2018 State of Fashion report showed that 66 percent of Millennials were willing to spend more on ethical fashion), Gilhart believes it would be irresponsible to put the responsibility wholly on the customer. “We can’t wait for them to change their ideas of consumption — luxury has to stand for that thing that is aspirational, and [the sector needs to] invest in and look at ways to use what we have, so that were not going to waste more materials.”
Ending the discussion on a positive note, the group agreed that the relationship between the luxury sector and sustainability has a promising future. “I deeply believe we can grow [the sector] in a sustainable way — I don’t think they’re two opposite worlds,” said Claquin. “When you do it in a sustainable way, you not only decrease your negative impact but you can create a positive impact… When I see the number of innovative startups in this market today — with their combination of new materials, new business models and artificial intelligence — that is going to create the luxury of tomorrow.”
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Oregon State Bar Bulletin AUGUST 2012
August/September Issue Table of Contents Super-Size Me Judicial Selection Bar Counsel The Legal Writer Profiles in the Law Managing Your Practice On Professionalism Parting Thoughts Departments Letters Briefs Bar News CLE Discipline Applications Among Ourselves Moves In Memoriam Classifieds
When Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Timothy J. Sercombe finished in third place and thus lost the May primary race for an open seat on the Oregon Supreme Court, his views of how the state should select appellate judges didn’t change.
Before and after, it was — like for many others — ambivalent. Although public support for electing judges is common, polls also consistently show that the populace believes judicial campaign contributions affect judges’ decisions.
A 2009 Gallup poll found that 89 percent of voters think the influence of campaign contributions on judges is a problem, and 90 percent believe that a judge should not hear a case involving an individual or group that contributed to the judge’s campaign. In addition, a 2010 Harris poll found that more than 70 percent of Americans are convinced that campaign contributions influence courtroom decisions.
In recent years, legislators, governors, courts and citizens’ groups in nearly every state have introduced proposals to limit the role of politics in the selection of state judges, according to the American Judicature Society. “The extent of these activities underscores the recognition that an independent judiciary is essential to the maintenance of public trust and confidence in the court system,” the society contends.
Sercombe supports Oregon’s system of directly electing judges because he believes doing so helps ensure “the accountability of the courts to the people. I think that’s an important part of legitimizing what the courts do,” he says.
At the same time, his experience in the election drove home for him more than ever the demands and drawbacks of fundraising required to run for a judicial office.
“It’s difficult and expensive to run a statewide judicial campaign, and it poses a particular challenge in that voters have less information about how courts work, from which to make political judgments, than they do about what their state legislator or governor is doing,” Sercombe says. “So it’s a challenge to figure out a way to conduct those elections and make them less vulnerable to outside influences and special interests.”
This is particularly true, he found, if all of the candidates are qualified people, because it means “you need to raise a fair amount of money to communicate your qualifications to the voters.”
And, for Sercombe, that is where the problem lies. In order to be successful, a candidate needs to raise large amounts of money from single sources.
“My concern is that it’s hard to raise enough money to do that without obtaining significant amounts from persons who have interests in matters that come before the court. If that’s the necessary ingredient for success, it comes at a cost. It makes a judge somewhat beholden to that source of money, that contributor. That’s not what we elect judges to be. It’s important to be unbiased.”
The Revised Oregon Code of Judicial Conduct states, among other provisions, that judges must not:
Make pledges or promises of conduct in office that could inhibit or compromise the faithful, impartial and diligent performance of the duties of the office
Publicly identify, for the purpose of election, as a member of a political party other than by registering to vote
Personally solicit campaign contributions in money or in kind
“I don’t disagree with electing judges on a statewide basis, but I only wish there were better ways of getting information to the voters about (candidates’) qualifications,” says Sercombe. Possible options might be public financing of judicial races, or at least some subsidy to campaigns beyond just the voters’ pamphlet, he suggests.
Raising “big chunks from single sources will come at a cost to the judiciary,” he concludes. “That’s the concern I have now about the way we elect appellate judges.”
‘A Really Troubling Issue’
In that regard, his sentiment is shared by former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul J. De Muniz. He spearheaded the formation of, and now chairs, the Work Group on Appellate Judicial Selection and Retention in Oregon, which is studying how Oregon and other states select judges for a state’s two highest courts, and whether alterations to our method are in order.
“I am very worried that the influence of the special-interest financing of judicial election campaigns is eroding the public’s confidence in the courts,” says De Muniz, who continues to serve as a justice pending his approaching retirement.
Nationally, he points out, the increasing politicization of state judicial elections puts at risk judicial independence and public confidence in the impartiality of judges’ decisions. The escalating cost of campaigns, and the increasing involvement of partisan politics and special-interest groups in that process, pose a severe threat to an independent and fair judiciary, he says.
Remaining independent is “the cornerstone of what the judiciary is supposed to do,” De Muniz says. “If the public loses the confidence and trust, what happens to our system of government?”
In judicial campaigns in states such as Wisconsin, Iowa and West Virginia, where large contributions from special interests led directly to election of judges favored by those groups, the campaigns were “marketed to voters on identifying what (special interests) believe will be a judge’s vote in a given issue,” he says. For example, in the 2010 Iowa election, the qualifications and reasoning of the three justices who were defeated were never in question, but only that “they voted against the majoritarian will,” he says, striking down a state law that had banned same-sex marriages.
Special interests wanting the justices defeated spent around $1 million, $900,000 of which came from out of state. Likewise, outside groups spent $3.6 million in the Wisconsin Supreme Court spring 2011 race.
Rep. Chris Garrett, D-Lake Oswego, a lawyer with Perkins Coie and a member of the state work group, noted in an opinion piece last November that in 2007, the West Virginia Supreme Court threw out a damages award against a coal company. “The court’s vote was split 3-2, with the deciding vote cast by a new justice whom the coal company had just spent $3 million to elect,” Garrett wrote in The Oregonian.
“A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice describes how big business and other special interests have embarked on a ‘hostile takeover’ of state judicial elections. The report describes a ‘coalescing national campaign that seeks to intimidate America’s state judges into becoming accountable to money and ideologies instead of the constitution and the law.’
“Oregonians have not had to face this scenario, thankfully,” Garrett wrote. “But it may be just a matter of time. Like many other states, Oregon elects its state judges. Unlike many other states, Oregon has no rules limiting the dollar amounts that can be contributed in state elections. Thus, unless we make changes to our system of selecting judges, we are at risk of joining other states that are seeing a flood of special-interest money into judicial elections.”
Moreover, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, which held that political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, “means a state is likely powerless to regulate the amount of money being brought into third-party judicial elections,” notes De Muniz.
Like Sercombe, prominent Portland criminal defense attorney Janet Lee Hoffman favors election of judges, but finds problematic that judges must become fundraisers in order to compete and let voters know who they are. Judges are not trained to be fundraisers, nor are they cut out for it, she says. “We’re dealing with positions where you have to be neutral and give people a fair shake. The appearance of judges fundraising and campaigning is a little bit opposite of a neutral judiciary.”
On the other hand, most voters don’t know who their judges are or on what basis citizens can evaluate their character and qualifications. As a result, candidates are faced with the challenge of conveying those qualities to the public, despite the constraints the law places on what they can say and do, she adds. “It’s a really troubling issue.”
Hoffman, who was part of a three-person panel that moderated an April debate among the three candidates vying to replace retiring Justice Robert Durham, is following with interest what the work group concludes. “It’s a shame that it’s come down to this. Because it reflects an uneasiness, which I share,” with the perception of fair elections “when unlimited money can come into a state and influence who’s picked based on political issues,” she says.
“I believe in direct democracy, I really do.” But the Citizens United ruling changed the landscape, Hoffman says. “I don’t believe direct elections are healthy to generating confidence in the judiciary, ... but it’s only grudgingly that I say that.”
If we move to an appointed system, the question becomes whether you keep judges for life or require that they be reappointed after a certain period of time.
“I don’t know by what criteria you would reappoint,” says Hoffman. “In my mind, it would have to be automatic reappointment unless the judge violated the judicial code of ethics.” She is unsure how — whether an appointment committee alone weighs in or public input is permitted — “meaningful review” could be conducted without the process becoming “politicized.”
As with contentious issues such as capital punishment, public preferences for selecting judges have waxed and waned over the history of the nation. The states currently differ widely in the method used to select appellate judges. According to the American Judicature Society, the tally for selecting them is, as follows, by:
Gubernatorial appointment (without any nominating commission preselecting candidates): Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey
Legislative appointment: Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia
Partisan elections: Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia
Nonpartisan elections: Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin
Merit selection, including various forms of gubernatorial appointment from a list of recommendations from a nominating body, with or without retention election: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming
De Muniz points out that Oregon held partisan judicial elections until 1931. At that time, the legislature adopted the bar’s proposal and passed legislation abolishing partisan elections for the judiciary, requiring that candidates’ names be printed on the ballot “without any party designation.” The legislation also prohibited judicial candidates from referring to their party affiliation.
“Unlike the framers of the federal Constitution, who concluded that appointing judges for life was integral to the creation of an independent judicial branch of government, the delegates to Oregon’s constitutional convention of 1857 — caught up in the national wave of Jacksonian populism — concluded that an election for a specified term, rather than appointment and confirmation, was the preferable method of selecting judges,” according to De Muniz. They believed they were ensuring the independence of judges by instituting popular vote, he says.
Just as Oregon’s government was founded by Jacksonian Democrats, the state continues to be “Jacksonian in its outlook,” observes veteran Stoel Rives lawyer James N. Westwood, also a member of the state work group. “We’re kind of locked in a time warp. Progressivism had its way with Oregon, and we’re still experiencing that.”
Westwood, who unsuccessfully ran for an open seat on the Oregon Supreme Court in 1998, sought appointment to the court in 1997 and sought appointment to the Court of Appeals in late 1998, has “gone back and forth” in his views about how the state should select its appellate judges, he concedes.
Presently his choice would be the federal way: appointment of judges for life, with appointment made by the governor. “It guarantees judicial independence, more or less,” and removes the influence of money on elections, he says.
However, Westwood doesn’t accept the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision was “a travesty. ... I understand the outrage. My response is, let’s amend the Constitution if that’s so bad. Political speech has to be protected above all others; that’s what the Founders had in mind.”
Further, he views the process of judicial selection as a political process — and not in a pejorative sense. “I would make it more political, but more politically balanced on the courts. We don’t have political diversity on the courts.” A major reason, he says, is that Democrats have held the governorship for a quarter of a century.
Westwood says he doesn’t mind that judicial races must be run as nonpartisan, but “gubernatorial appointments ought to take political diversity into consideration. A candidate should be able to state whether they are a Democrat or Republican.” If candidates could do this, it would give the voters more confidence that “I know this person better,” he says.
Whether most Oregonians prefer to retain the right to elect judicial candidates, in fact elected judges in contested races have been the exception rather than the rule. As the American Judicature Society notes about Oregon, the governor appoints judges to fill midterm vacancies on the courts, and the appointee stands for election at the next general election.
The society adds, “In recent years, approximately 85 percent of Oregon judges have first been appointed rather than elected to office, and the vast majority were unopposed in elections to retain their seats.”
Proposed Solutions
The Work Group on Appellate Judicial Selection and Retention in Oregon is meeting regularly, and De Muniz hopes the group can complete its review before the 2013 legislative session begins, so that, if the group reaches a consensus, it can make recommendations to the Legislature.
Hosted by the Oregon Law Commission, based at Willamette University, it is the largest work group ever assembled by the law commission, De Muniz notes. The commission lists 17 voting members, 11 “work group advisers,” 12 “work group interested persons” and five staff members.
“We’re trying to get information about what’s been done before, not just in Oregon but in other states,” explains Jeffrey C. Dobbins, executive director of the Oregon Law Commission and an assistant professor at Willamette University College of Law. He, along with the work group staff, supports the group with data and research.
Among the findings he shared with members: Of Oregon’s 2 million registered voters, only 600,000 typically vote in contested judicial contests. Moreover, big money spent on judicial races tends to increase turnout, Dobbins notes. “It’s an interesting problem in that states where you have money being spent, especially out-of-state, people pay more attention and the vote goes up.”
Whether the work group can reach agreement that Oregon needs to modify the way it chooses state judges is highly uncertain. De Muniz acknowledges that, over the past 20 years, no states that have made an attempt to change from the judicial election method have been successful in that effort. Moreover, the hurdle would be particularly high for this state, and not just because of its populist tradition.
“If we’re going to change the fundamental way in which we select judges, it will require a constitutional referral, because our constitution mandates the election of judges,” he says. Such an effort presumably would necessitate a herculean public relations campaign to convince citizens that a constitutional change is needed to avoid future damage to the courts’ reputation.
The American Judicature Society promotes a hybrid type of solution combining selection and election. Called merit selection, it was developed by society co-founder Albert Kales.
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a notable activist for judicial independence, has emphasized that the United States is the only nation in the world that elects judges. She long has been a strong advocate for merit selection systems as a method of reducing the amount of politics involved in judicial elections, according to De Muniz.
In a 2010 keynote address at Seattle University School of Law, O’Connor stated: “While our judiciary has always faced significant attacks, the single greatest threat to judicial independence now is fairly modern, and it’s uniquely American. It’s the flood of money coming into our courtrooms by way of increasingly expensive and volatile judicial election campaigns.”
The judicature society describes merit selection as a system in which the state sets up a bipartisan nominating commission that includes members of the legal community, as well as citizens. When a vacancy occurs on the court, hopefuls submit their applications to the commission. It then reviews applications, conducts interviews with the applicants, and assesses the qualifications of each. The commission creates a list of names of those it believes are most qualified for the job, listing usually three to eight names, depending on the state. Then it gives the list to the governor, who chooses one of the people on the list and appoints that person to a judgeship.
After serving a term, the judge then is placed on the ballot for what is called a retention election, and citizens get to decide whether or not the judge will remain on the bench.
“Not only does merit selection ensure that only the most qualified candidates become judges, but it also limits the influence of any one political party or public official,” the society contends. “In doing so, it frees judges from overt political influence and promotes a fair and impartial judiciary. Furthermore, retention elections provide a mechanism whereby those judges who are failing to live up to their responsibilities to the citizens can be removed from the bench. Unlike popular elections or appointment, merit selection seeks to balance judicial independence – by removing, as much as possible, direct political control over judges – with public accountability, by allowing citizens to decide whether the judge is retained in office.”
The society also rebuts the argument that electing judges is the best way to ensure diversity on the bench.
Research has demonstrated that “minority judges are significantly more likely to have been appointed than elected. ... The best way to achieve diversity is by using a well-designed merit selection system.” Even without provisions that specifically aim to produce diversity on the bench, merit selection is as effective as elections in producing greater numbers of women and minorities who serve on the bench, the society maintains.
De Muniz endorses a change for Oregon. He supports merit selection, but with a difference. His proposal would eliminate retention elections, which is the method used in nearly all of the states that employ merit selection systems. Instead, he would have retention decisions made by the same judicial nominating commission that draws up a recommended list of candidates for appointment. Appointments would be for a 10-year-term, with review by the commission at two years into the first term, then subsequent review near the end of any additional terms.
Retention elections merely move the problem forward of vast sums of special-interest money being used to try to pick or replace candidates based on social policy issues, he argues.
For instance, in the example of the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court, where it issued a unanimous decision striking down a ban on same-sex marriage, three members of the court faced retention elections. A nationally funded campaign led to the ouster of all three, and those same opponents of same-sex marriage expressed their intent to challenge the rest of the members of the court when they come up for retention elections this year and in 2014.
De Muniz believes that switching from elections to a nonpartisan commission and appointment system “would be a great step forward in preserving or restoring the public’s faith in the impartiality of judicial decisions.”
Cliff Collins is a Portland-area freelance writer and since 1991 has been a frequent contributor to the Bulletin. Reach him at tundra95877@mypacks.net.
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Federal Court finds Expert Blinding to be One Factor in Assessing Weight Given to Expert Evidence
Gilead Sciences, Inc v Canada (Health), 2016 FC 857
When using expert witnesses in patent litigation, blinding them to the legal framework may be viewed favourably, however, it is only one of perhaps several factors that will be considered when assessing the weight given to their evidence.
In this case, the Federal Court (“FC”) granted Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s (“Gilead”) application for an order prohibiting the Minister of Health from issuing a Notice of Compliance to Apotex Inc. (“Apotex”) in respect of its Notice of Allegation until the expiry of Gilead’s Canadian Patent No. 2,261,619 (“the ‘619 Patent”). [137]
The ‘619 Patent covers VIREAD®, a prodrug used in the treatment and prophylaxis of HIV. [5] The asserted claim in the ‘619 Patent is Claim 32, which describes the chemical compound tenofovir disoproxil (“TD”) and its salts, tautomers and solvates. [6] Apotex alleged invalidity on the grounds of anticipation, invalid selection as a selection patent, obviousness, and inutility. [6]
Expert Blinding: One of Several Factors Considered
A preliminary issue assessed by the FC was the weight to be given to expert evidence. Gilead provided the legal framework to its experts early, including the legal test for anticipation, obviousness, and utility, whereas Apotex did not do so before the experts had drawn their own conclusions on issues, thereby “blinding” them. [55] Apotex submitted that the court has recognized expert blinding as a preferred method for gathering evidence and asked that greater weight be given to its experts. [56] The FC found that blinding of a witness is one of perhaps several factors that influences weight given, but it is not a matter that goes to admissibility. [56] The FC further stated that blinding is a question of relevance, reliability and weight, and is not a doctrinal matter. [59] Throughout the decision, the FC noted the greater experience and knowledge of Gilead’s experts and two false statements made by Apotex’ witnesses as factors that affected weight given. [68, 79, 106, 130]
Validity: Invalidity Allegations Unjustified
In assessing anticipation, the FC accepted Gilead’s expert evidence that the disclosure in the prior art, EP0481214 (“the ‘214 Application”), provided no clear direction to follow that would inevitably lead the person of skill in the art (“POSITA”) to TD. [83]
In analyzing the allegations of an invalid selection patent, the FC found that even if the ‘214 Application included TD (which it found it did not), TD presented special advantages over the other members of the claimed genus that were not disclosed, making it a valid selection patent. [91]
Upon reading the ‘619 Patent through the eyes of the unimaginative POSITA, the FC was unable to find that it was uninventive and either self-evident or obvious-to-try. [104] Rather, the FC found that it required an inventive spark as the prodrug literature suggested there would be instability in the ‘619 Patent. [105, 112]
In assessing utility, the FC determined the promise of the patent to be “efficient oral delivery of the parent compound through its prodrug, which has a specific carbonate moiety, yielding bis(POC)PMPA or tenofovir disoproxil.” [124] The FC found that in vivo testing was not required to prove utility, and that in vitro laboratory results demonstrated a clear bioavailability improvement over the parent drug alone. [129, 132, 135]
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Starbucks Free Wi-Fi Vanishes Into Thin Air
By Dan Moren
As a wise man once said, "Starbucks giveth and Starbucks taketh away." Scant days after iPhone users reported finding free access at certain coffee chain locations that had switched to new Wi-Fi provider AT&T, that feature now seems to have vanished into the ether.
I revisited the Davis Square, Somerville, location at which I'd found free access last week. Instead of the login screen that readily accepted my iPhone number, I was greeted by a user login screen asking for a user ID and password. While there didn't appear to be an option to sign-up for Wi-Fi access on my iPhone, the login screen seems to accept a variety of user credentials, from AT&T Wi-Fi users to AT&T Remote Access users and customers of a variety of AT&T subsidiaries and services, such as Prodigy, SBC, and SNET.
The reasons behind the disappearance are no less vague as those behind the initial free access. An AT&T spokesperson I talked to declined to comment, and Starbucks did not reply to a request for comment. While it's possible that this may merely be a matter AT&T initially turning on this service earlier than intended, there also may be a more technical explanation to the service's disappearance.
The system AT&T was using to detect iPhones relied on reading the client's User Agent, a plaintext string that identifies the browsing software and platform of the device. That string, however, is extremely simple to alter--for legitimate reasons; it's often used by web developers for compatibility testing. Safari users, for example, can masquerade as an iPhone merely by checking a box in the preferences to enable the Develop menu and then selecting the appropriate option from the User Agent sub-menu.
Some have speculated that the ease with which users could obtain free access for their laptops and other devices may have led to AT&T shuttering the service, though whether that decision is temporary or permanent is unknown. We'll continue to follow the story, keeping you posted on any new developments.
This story, "Starbucks Free Wi-Fi Vanishes Into Thin Air" was originally published by Macworld.
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A Tale of Two Cortices: The Dialogue between Cerebellar and Cerebral Cortex
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A Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a Principal Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust and member of Academia Europaea, Prof. Häusser's main research interest is the cellular basis of neural computation in the brain, with a special focus on the role of dendrites. His group has helped pioneer optical and electrophysiological methods for probing the function of neural circuits in the intact brain. After receiving his PhD from Oxford University, Prof. Häusser joined Nobel Laureate Bert Sakmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, and Philippe Ascher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France. He established his own laboratory at UCL in 1997 and became Professor of Neuroscience in 2001. With his ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Häusser is investigating how dendrites, the receiving elements of neurons, can act as computational devices, and how they are engaged within neural circuits during behaviour. To address this fundamental question, he and his team will exploit a range of innovative imaging, recording, and optogenetic technologies that will allow them to both record and manipulate dendrites and neural circuits during behaviour. This approach will provide invaluable insights into how single neurons act as computing devices, and how the computations that drive behaviour are implemented in single cells and neural circuits.
Dendrites; Neural circuits; Neuronal computation
The cerebellar cortex and the cerebral cortex work in concert to regulate a wide repertoire of behaviours, from sensorimotor tasks to more complex cognitive operations. Although much information exists about their individual contributions, we still lack a global framework for understanding how the reciprocal influences between these brain areas contribute to brain function. Understanding this process is crucial for understanding not just how the brain plans and executes movements, but also for complex decisionmaking processes, with implications for psychology, philosophy, cognitive sciences and computer science. This project will address this question by synthesizing experimental observations and theoretical studies to provide a quantitative understanding of the link between cerebellar and cortical function in a range of behaviours. This work will be placed into a wider framework by interaction with cortical and cerebellar experts in the Paris community. It will also draw on the expertise of the International Brain Laboratory, a new initiative which aims to create a virtual laboratory uniting experimental and theoretical groups across the world and lead to a transformation of the scientific culture in neuroscience. This project therefore represents a fresh approach to probing the relationship between two key brain circuits, which can offer profound insights into how brain-wide interactions are integrated to drive behaviour in both healthy and diseased brains.
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Saving struggles
The Treasury may want councils to make savings in PFI deals, but some transparency around the cost-cutting process would be helpful
Following work undertaken by Local Partnerships, the Treasury thinks that savings of “over 5%” can be made across a range of local authority PFI deals. Indeed, the research sets out five key areas in which savings can be made – while also insisting that this is not an exhaustive list.
But what would no doubt prove most helpful to councils would be case studies and examples of where the government has already made savings in its PFI deals. According to the Treasury, £1.5bn in savings had already been achieved by the Autumn Statement in 2012 (just over a year after the programme was set up, and the figure represents the initial target for the scheme).
However, the government has been reticent to share that information, and has refused to disclose how those savings have been made, or even on which projects, citing the commercial sensitivity of such information. If the Treasury really expects to see significant savings being made by local authorities, it seems only right that it might share its own successes.
After all, the five key areas highlighted by this latest review do not build significantly on Lord Sassoon’s initial report. The idea of increasing occupancy, or reducing the frequency of non-essential services (ie hacking away at the gold-plated facilities management contracts) is nothing new. Most authorities looking for savings will have already done this.
Nonetheless, one finding of the review could provide a new line of attack for local authorities to reduce their PFI costs. According to the Local Partnerships study, even where external support is required by an authority to deliver savings, this need not be exorbitant and the average savings to cost ratio had been around £4 every year for the remainder of the contract for every £1 spent in the review.
Many authorities – and for that matter private sector partners – have been reticent to start employing external advisers, in the fear that they would end up spending much more on advisory fees than they could ever hope to save. If the Local Partnerships experience is borne out, it could result in many more councils choosing to bring in advisers to open up contracts in the hope of finding substantial savings.
For more on the government’s programme of operational savings in PFI contracts, see my feature in the December/January issue of Partnerships Bulletin, or click here.
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PETER WIDRY
Pete is the founding partner at P6 Aviation. He started flying in 1999 and flew the EMB145 at American Eagle from 2006-2012 as both Captain and First Officer.
In addition, Pete has been an active flight instructor since 2004 and has over 7000 hours of total flight time, with 4500 in multi-engine turbine aircraft.
Pete holds an MBA from Columbia University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City.
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A successful entrepreneur, Johnny has been an active real estate developer in New York City since the 1980’s. His name is etched in stone atop a 4 story building that he built at 203 E 7th Street.
He has always felt that people should do something in life that they are proud of — flying and building are two ways that he has expressed that.
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Monday, May 9, 2016 to Thursday, May 12, 2016
Trade Mission Review
For its first 2016 Trade Mission, the American Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Panama (AMCHAM) organized a visit to Silicon Valley, in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industries of Panama, PROINVEX and the Embassy of Panama in the U.S.
The delegation was comprised of member companies of AmCham Panama and senior management and representatives of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries of Panama, the Authority for Government Innovation (AIG) and the National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT).
"Trade missions try to get the most out of the existing Trade Promotion Agreement with the United States. We went to Silicon Valley with the firm intention to learn and to highlight Panama, as well as to present Panama´s potential as a business ally and partner." said Aristides Chiriatti, President of AmCham.
The three day event began with a full day immersion workshop on Innovation and Business Culture by Accenture Open Innovation, VMWare (subsidiary of EMC Corporation), 500 Startups (a global accelerator) and Pinterest. The second day kicked off with a presentation by Office of the Mayor of San Francisco entitled "San Francisco Economic Outlook", followed by corporate visits to Salesforce, Cisco Innovation Lab and Intel Capital. The final day included appointments with Google, Facebook and the University of California at Berkeley, and a Doing Business Networking Reception.
More than 100 startups and Silicon Valley companies had the opportunity to learn about the advantages of investing in Panama and Latin America during the aforementioned event organized by PROINVEX, Weebly and Latin San Francisco. The main speakers were: Alberto Aleman, director of PROINVEX Panama; Gustavo Ripoll CEO for DELL Central America and the Caribbean; Giovanni Stella, Country Manager of Google Central and Margarita Rojas, regional director for Weebly Latin America. Irvin Halman, director of AIG, highlighted: "The mission to Silicon Valley is just the beginning of an agenda full of innovation and entrepreneurship in Panama".
Foreign trade has become increasingly important component in the economic development of Panama, and it is AmCham´s commitment to work with its regional partners to increase export activity and foreign direct investment -FDI- between Panama and the United States.
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Michael Yates Crowley (Playwright): Michael’s works for theater include The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B Matthias (Playwrights Realm at The Duke on 42nd Street); Gunplay: A Love Story (developed at NYTW and Ars Nova); Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (American Repertory Theater, Joe’s Pub); temping (premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival, A.R.T.); Evanston: A Rare Comedy (2013 O’Neill NPC selection); and The Ted Haggard Monologues (published by S. Fischer Verlag; filmed by HBO). He is a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group, a former NYFA Playwriting fellow and member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program at Juilliard. Together with the director Michael Rau, he founded the narrative technology company Wolf 359.
Michael Rau (Director): Michael is a director specializing in new plays, opera, and digital media projects. He has worked internationally in Germany, Brazil, the UK, Ireland, and the Czech Republic. He has created work at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, and Ars Nova. Regionally, his work has been performed at A.R.T. in Cambridge MA and he has developed new plays at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Kennedy Center. He has served an assistant director for Anne Bogart, Les Waters, and Ivo Van Hove. He is a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and a professor of directing at Stanford University.
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Stage Managers
Kara Kaufman (Stage Manager)*: Playwrights Realm: The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll'd, Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth; Sojourners. Selected Off-Broadway: Sojourners and Her Portmanteau (NYTW); Kingdom Come (Roundabout); Today Is My Birthday (P73); Travels With My Aunt; John & Jen (Keen Company); SeaWife (Naked Angels); I See You; The Mysteries; Restoration Comedy; These Seven Sicknesses; Kaspar Hauser (Flea); Dani Girl (EPBB); The Opponent (A Red Orchid); Neva (Public); Really Really (MCC); Lush Valley (HERE Arts Center); Paternity (Cherry Lane) and Hold Music (Living Theatre). Proud AEA member and Harvard grad.
Andrea Jess Berkey (Assistant Stage Manager)*: Off Broadway: Gloria, The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, O Earth, Maurice Hines’ Tappin Thru Life, Charles Francis Chan Jr’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Consent, The Last Starfighter, The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero, joy, Fame on 42nd Street. Potomac Theatre Project, Soho Rep, MCC, Cherry Lane, Manhattan Theatre Club. Festivals: NYMF, FringeNYC, NAMT, MITF. Regional: Flat Rock Playhouse, North Carolina Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Touring: Blue’s Clues Live!, TheatreworksUSA. Numerous readings and BC/EFA events. Proud member of Actor’s Equity Association.
Heidi Armbruster (Rachel)*: Heidi has extensive New York and regional theater credits, including “Time Stands Still” on Broadway, Lincoln Center’s production of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Disgraced,” the New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s “Poor Behavior” at Primary Stages, the world premieres of Rachel Bonds’ play “At The Old Place” at La Jolla Playhouse, Sam Hunter’s play “Clarkston” at Dallas Theater Center, Anna Ziegler’s play “Boy” at Keen Company, and T.D. Mitchell’s play “Queens for a Year” at Hartford Stage. Heidi was recently seen in the New York premiere of Tracy Letts’s play “Man from Nebraska.” Heidi was awarded a Drama League Nomination for her work in the Keen Company’s revival of “Tea and Sympathy.” Heidi’s Film and TV credits include “Poor Behavior,” “My Man Is A Loser,” “Michael Clayton,” “Revolutionary Road,” “The Northern Kingdom,” “Louie,” “The Blacklist,” “Blue Bloods,” “30 Rock,” “House of Cards,” “Daredevil,” “Divorce,” and Michelle on Darren Star’s TV Land hit “Younger.” Heidi received her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
John Behlmann (Ryan Lee)*: Appearing next in the upcoming Broadway musical Tootsie. BROADWAY: Significant Other, Journey’s End. OFF-BWAY: Gone Missing, 1776 (Encores), Pretty Filthy (Civilians), Important Hats (MTC), 39 Steps (NWS), Eager to Lose (Ars Nova), SignificantOther (Roundabout), Wild Animals… (MCC), This Is Not J.A.W.S. (Dixon Place). REGIONAL: Nuke in Bull Durham (Alliance). FILM: Wolf of Wall Street, Revolutionary Road, Dead Sound, Standing Up, Falling Down (upcoming) TV: Agent Adams in “Riverdale”, “Good Behavior”, “Madam Secretary”, “Instinct”, “Odd Mom Out”, “Blue Bloods”, “Good Wife”. TRAINING: Wesleyan, Denver Center.
Keilly McQuail (Aneta)*: Off-Broadway: Her Requiem (LCT3/Lincoln Center), You Got Older (Page 73). Regional: Significant Other at the Geffen, Bad Jews at Long Wharf. Other Recent Theatre: Of Government (Clubbed Thumb), Half Moon Bay (Cherry Lane, Lesser America), Heartbreak (Bushwick Starr/New Georges), Preston Sturges' Strictly Dishonorable (The Flea). Upcoming Film/TV: ‘Orange is the New Black’ and Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City on Netflix. Proud member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Education: NYU Tisch and the Atlantic Theatre Company.
Genesis Oliver (Dani San Luis)*: Broadway: Angels In America. Off-Bway: Empathitrax, How To Live On Earth (Colt Coeur); Primal Play (New Georges). Regional: We Are Proud To Present... (Playmaker's Rep), One Night In Miami... (Baltimore CS) & various others. TV: NOS4A2. Commercials: KIA, AT&T & various others. National Theatre Conservatory (MFA)
Alexandra Silber (Elena)*: BROADWAY/NEW YORK: Fiddler on the Roof, Master Class, Arlington, Hello Again, Song of Norway, She Loves Me. REGIONAL: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare), Camelot (STC), My Fair Lady (Muny), Carousel (Reprise), Love Story, Murder on the Orient Express (McCarter). LONDON’s WEST END: Kiss Me, Kate (BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall), Carousel, Fiddler on The Roof, and The Woman In White. FILM: 1408. TV: Elementary (CBS), Mysteries Of Laura (NBC); all three Law & Orders (NBC). TRAINING: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. AWARDS: TMA Award, Drama League Award, NOMINATIONS: Grammy, Ovation, Outer Critics Circle. CONCERTS: Grammy® nominee for Maria in West Side Story with San Francisco Symphony. I Am Harvey Milk (Los Angeles), Trouble in Tahiti at Tanglewood, Symphony Space, Orchestra of St Luke's, Carnegie Hall, Caramoor, Detroit Symphony, American Symphony, John Wilson Orchestra for the BBC Proms. BOOKS: Alexandra’s novel After Anatevka and memoir, White Hot Grief Parade are published by Pegasus Books and also available at Audible.com
Myra Lucretia Taylor (Beth)*: Broadway: NINE (Tony Award/Best Revival), MACBETH, ELECTRA, CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, MuleBone, and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Off Broadway: THE LUCKY ONES (Ars Nova; Lortel nom., Best Featured Actress in a Musical), SCHOOLGIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY (MCC; Special Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble), FAMILIAR (Playwrights Horizons;( Lortel and OCC noms. for Best Featured Actress in a Play). Regional credits include: Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Goodman, The Long Wharf, and The McCarter.TV: UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT (NetFlix), ATLANTA(FX), MADAME SECRETARY, ELEMENTARY, INSTINCT (CBS). Film: BEN IS BACK, THE BIG SICK, CATFIGHT, UNSANE, BUSHWICK, MADELINE’S MADELINE. Web: BEST THING YOU’LL EVER DO (Indie Web nom. best supporting actress). Ms. Taylor is a Fox Fellow.
Liesel Allen Yeager (Emma)*: Liesel loves working with writers on new plays and is excited to be working with Playwrights Realm. She has been part of developmental workshops at Eugene O’Neill, Ojai Playwrights Festival, The Public Studio and in living rooms all over New York and Los Angeles. Other credits include Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha And Spike. Off-Broadway: Plenty (The Public), Teenage Dick (The Public), Too Much Too Soon (Lesser America), The Sporting life (Studio 42). Regional: Amadeus (South Coast Rep, CA), Cock (Studio Theatre, DC), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Center Theatre Group, CA). Film: A Picture of You, All the Little Things We Kill. TV: "Daredevil", “Madam Secretary”, “The Goodwife”, "Rizzoli & Isles", "How to Make it in America"
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Robocop vs. Terminator vs. Hollywood
Back in the 90s, crossovers were kind of a big thing, at least in comic books(though games were not immune, Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
, anyone?).
Recently, movies have started to cash in on the trend. One of the earlier projects was going to be a World’s Finest movie, teaming up both Batman and Superman. Last I heard, that one was in “development hell,” though I’ve also heard that maybe after the new Batman and Superman movies make some headway…
That hasn’t stopped others, however. First was Freddy vs. Jason
. I’ve never been big into horror movies, so that one didn’t really get my blood pumping. I’m not adverse to seeing it, but even if I never do, I don’t think I’ll be bothered. Rumors persist of a sequel, though Sam Raimi has said that Ash
won’t play a part as many had hoped.
Next came a revival of a conflict from the 90s which spawned some games, comics, and such. Alien vs. Predator
. And even though fans have complained that it mucked with the continuity of both franchises, it did well enough that a sequel is on the way next year.
My interest is raised a bit. Alien
movies were never quite my thing, but I did like Predator
and its sequel.
I’m still holding out hope for the crossover that would round things out nicely, and fill the niche I want: Robocop Versus Terminator.
No small secret that even though I’ve never seen Robocop
, I’ve been into the Terminator
movies, and still thought that what I’ve seen(and played) of Robocop has been pretty cool.
As it happens, Frank Miller(who wrote the latter two Robocop movies, but had otherwise limited involvement. Oh, and something you might have heard of called Sin City
, as well as Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
) used to do writing for Robocop comics way back in the day, and among those was the killer team-up of Robocop Vs. Terminator:
In the machine-dominated future of 2029, a human rebel gains access to the Skynet computer’s Time Displacement Equipment and sends herself into the past on a desperate mission to kill officer Alex Murphy, a.k.a. RoboCop. But Skynet is onto her plan and dispatches a trio of Terminators to the past as well. The Terminators’ mission: protect RoboCop at all costs.
Due to finances and other factors of the time(I was a kid with a meager allowance), I was never able to actually read the crossover, nor play the video game.
That is, until now.
Just like the source material, this isn’t really meant to be kiddy-fare, though what I’ve read so far isn’t overly gruesome, either. All the same, what I’ve read so far has me rather hopeful for a big-screen crossover. The art isn’t the greatest, but the mechanical stuff comes out looking pretty good.
Of course, as is my understanding, Alien vs. Predator didn’t adhere to the original comic book story at all, and was created from the ground up, to the chagrin of some. So it would come as no surprise if a movie were to disregard the Robocop vs. Terminator story in much the same way.
But on the other hand, since Frank Miller seems to have a bit of Hollywood experience behind him(in addition to writing the original story), perhaps they would bring him on board to adapt his story for the big screen, or at the very least create a new one.
I’m not the only one who would like to see this crossover happen on the silver screen, as this fanmade video shows.
…and just think, if such a movie were made and succeeded, maybe someday we could have Alien vs. Predator vs. Robocop vs. Terminator. Perhaps the tagline could be something like “This Battle Will Tear The World APaRT.”
One person has already shown how they may all be connected, and another story has already put the Terminator into the Alien/Predator conflict.
So who knows what may happen? Here’s just hoping that Hollywood doesn’t miss this oh-so obvious opportunity to cash-in.
LBD “Nytetrayn”
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Michael Loriaux
A.B.: University of Chicago; Ph.D.: Princeton University
m-loriaux@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: Email Professor
Research Interest(s): Critical Theory, European Unification, Post-Nationhood
Program Area(s): Methods; International Relations; Comparative Politics
Regional Specialization(s): Europe
Subfield Specialties: Critical Theory; International Theory
I study European unification from the perspective of post-national and post-sovereignty studies. My books include France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform (Cornell, 1991), Capital Ungoverned (co-authored: Cornell, 1997), European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier (Cambridge, 2008; winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for best book employing interpretive methods), and Europe Anti-Power (Routledge, Interventions, 2016). I have begun work on a new book of cultural history entitled To Be With: Phenomenology, European Union, and Vatican II. I co-founded and direct the French Interdisciplinary Group, and advise students in our various French partnership programs, including the dual PhD programs with Sciences Po, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, l'École Normale Supérieure, l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and our new exchange with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. I also direct our Northwestern-Sorbonne Nouvelle undergraduate program in Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought, taught in Paris, and am active in the Critical Theory Graduate Studies Cluster. I teach graduate courses on international relations and interpretive methods.
Europe Anti-Power: Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate (London: Routledge Interventions, 2016).
European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Law and Moral Action in World Politics. Edited with Cecelia Lynch (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
Capital Ungoverned: The Dismantling of Activist Credit Policies in Interventionist States. Co-authored with Meredith Woo-Cumings, Kent Calder, Sylvia Maxfield, and Sofia Perez (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997)
The Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order. Edited with Meredith Woo-Cumings. (Boulder: Westview, October, 1992)
France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991)
Translation of Marc Crépon, The Thought of Death and the Memory of War, University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
"Hermeneutics," a 6000-word article in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming August, 2014.
"The Illusion of Power and the Disruption of Moral Norms: Thucydides' Critique of Periclean Policy," with Sara Monoson, in Beate Jahn, ed., Classical Theory in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (reprises 1998 APSR article).
"France: A New "Capitalism of Voice?" in Linda Weiss, ed., States in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
"International Law and Moral Action in International Relations Thought," in Cecelia Lynch and Michael Loriaux, Law and Moral Action in World Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
"The French Developmental State as Myth and Moral Ambition," in Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed. The Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 1999).
"Saint Augustine and the Realists: Skepticism, Psychology, and Moral Action in International Relations Thought," International Studies Quarterly, December, 1992.
PS 240 Introduction to International Relations
PS 308 Critical Theory and the Study of Politics
PS 408 Interpretive and Critical Approaches to the Study of Politics
PS 447 Critical Studies in World Politics
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Portland rents level off, but remain unaffordable for many
With a 2-bedroom apartment going for $1,605, housing activists say a stabilization measure is needed.
By Randy BillingsStaff Writer
After a dramatic rise in rents in Portland from 2010 to 2015, the city’s average market rent prices have leveled off and risen at about the rate of inflation, according to an analysis by the Portland Press Herald.
The cooling market has been cited as a reason to oppose a referendum next month in Portland that would place limits on future rent increases, among other protections for renters. But backers of the measure cite other evidence that rents continue to rise at an unsustainable rate, especially in some neighborhoods, and say individual renters still need to be protected in the future from unaffordable rent hikes and from evictions.
FAIR RENT PROPOSAL
• Limits rent increases to the rate of inflation for landlords who own six or more units.
• Creates a seven-member Rent Board to be appointed by the City Council with the following duties: rule on requests made by landlords to increase rents beyond inflation to cover capital investments; review eviction notices and rule on any appeals filed by evicted tenants; rule on rent increase appeals by tenants; mediate landlord-tenant disputes; and issue fines when the ordinance is violated.
• Units built after Jan. 1, 2017, are exempt.
• Rental registration fees would increase by $30 a unit, from $35 a unit to $65 a unit.
• If approved, the ordinance could not be changed by the City Council for five years.
• The ordinance also lays out specific criteria for evicting tenants with rental agreements, including lease violations, failure to pay rent and being a nuisance.
• The following are exempt from the ordinance: units owned or managed by a municipal housing authority; accommodations provided in a hospital, convent, church, religious facility or extended care facility; dorms owned or operated by higher educational institutions and Portland Public Schools; owner-occupied duplexes and triplexes; and accessory dwelling units.
The average advertised rent price for a two-bedroom apartment in Portland, including utilities, rose from $1,560 in September and October 2015 to $1,605 at the same time this year. That’s a 3 percent increase. When adjusted for inflation, rents have actually fallen slightly in the past two years, according to the Press Herald market survey.
While the average rent citywide has leveled off, it remains well above what is considered to be affordable for a renter earning the median income in Portland.
The state of the rental market has become a political issue leading up the citywide vote Nov. 7. Voters will decide the fate of a citizen initiative to adopt a rent stabilization ordinance that would limit increases to the rate of inflation for landlords with six or more units and make it more difficult to evict tenants. It would also establish a rent board, which among other things would hear appeals from tenants who believe they were wrongly evicted or had their rents raised illegally.
More than half of Portland’s residents – 57 percent – are renters.
The leveling of rents and an increase in vacancy rates are signs that the market is now absorbing the demand for market-rate housing that drove up housing costs in recent years, said Tom Watson, a rental property owner and member of Say No To Rent Control, a well-funded political action committee that opposes Question 1 on the city ballot. Watson, however, concedes there is still a lack of housing supply for lower-income renters.
In the last three years, more than 600 units of housing have been built in Portland, with an additional 464 under construction as of September. And other communities in Greater Portland, such as Westbrook, are adding housing units as well.
“There is an irony there that the rent control people are pushing for rent control in a flat market,” said Watson, a co-owner of Port Property Management, which is city’s largest market-rate landlord. “It does seem misplaced.”
After annual increases of 6 percent to 9 percent from 2011 to 2015, Watson said he hasn’t increased rents in his apartments in the last two years and is currently offering $500 off some of his apartments.
Jonathan Culley of Redfern Properties provided similar rent data for his apartments at West End Place, which was built in 2014 and was the first in a wave of market-rate apartment projects in Portland. Average rents in that 39-unit building have declined by nearly 1 percent, since 2015, Culley said.
Meanwhile, a city housing market report released last week estimated that the vacancy rate for rental units is currently at 3.5 percent, which means the shortage of available units has eased since 2015 when the vacancy rate was virtually zero.
However, Fair Rent Portland, which authored the proposed ordinance and collected signatures to put it on the ballot, said the rent limits and other measures are still needed. In addition to preventing future rent spikes, it also contains provisions that would protect renters from unjust evictions and would create a process whereby renters could resolve disputes with landlords through a rent board appointed by the City Council, rather than going to court.
“It’s going to give a lot of people piece of mind,” said Fair Rent Portland organizer Jack O’Brien.
The group also points to another market tracker, RentCafe.com, that indicates rents in Portland increased by 7 percent to 9 percent in 2016. O’Brien agreed that rents appear to be leveling off in 2017, both here and nationally, but said the lull is likely temporary and only means that it is a good time to roll out a rent stabilization ordinance.
“Because at that point, the ordinance isn’t really changing what the market was going to do otherwise and it’s only going to come into effect when you have a significant push for upward rents,” he said. “The long-term trend is really clear – renters are facing higher and higher cost burdens.”
And just because the overall average rent increases have tapered off, that doesn’t mean that some individual renters are still not seeing large rent increases.
O’Brien pointed to a city report released last week that included data from the online real estate firm Zillow showing that some neighborhoods, such as the East End, East Bayside and Oakdale, recently experienced double-digit rent increases.
Both sides agree that Portland’s average rent increases appear to have peaked in 2015, the same year the Maine Sunday Telegram published a series of stories on Portland’s housing crunch. The paper found that rents increased by nearly 40 percent in the five-year period leading up to that report, even after adjusting for inflation.
At the time, desperate renters flocked to open houses to view the few available apartments and sometimes lost out when a rival had cash in hand. Others left the city for a suburb, where buying became the cheaper option. And low-income residents were sometimes forced into substandard units, or into the homeless shelters or campers parked near the downtown. Some landlords evicted low-income tenants from some buildings so they could upgrade and charge higher rents.
Mayor Ethan Strimling called the rental market a crisis at the end of 2015 and created a Housing Committee to look specifically at housing issues, ranging from tenant security to housing supply. The committee originally consisted of five of the nine councilors with the hopes of producing proposals that already had a majority support, but was scaled back to a three-member committee this year.
In the end, the committee in 2016 recommended modest tenant security proposals – such as increasing the notice period for increasing rents, updating the city ordinance to mirror state language on housing anti-discrimination laws and educating tenants about housing laws – rather than more aggressive proposals, such as rent control.
While hundreds of new housing units have been built since then, the affordability gap – or the difference between what people can afford to pay for rent versus what they actually pay – still exists, especially for people who work in the hospitality industry, which is the backbone of the city’s bustling tourist economy.
The median renter income in Portland appears to have leveled off since a decline that began in 2010, during the Great Recession. The median renter household income in Portland in January this year was $34,680, according to data compiled by the Maine State Housing Authority. That is still lower than the 2009 median income of $39,036, but suggests a leveling off or possible rebound from a nine-year low of $30,601 in 2014.
The result is that, despite seeing rents stabilize, many renters still feel like they are being squeezed out of the city. The city’s housing report indicates that half of the city’s renters pay more than 30 percent of their income on housing – the standard benchmark to determine whether housing is affordable.
The maximum affordable rent for a median-income renter in Portland is now about $867 a month, based on the state income data. That’s more than $700 less than the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment, according to the Press Herald survey. And it’s nearly $500 less than the average rent for 114 one-bedroom apartments leased between March and June by Port Property Management, which owns or manages more than 1,000 units, primarily in downtown Portland. Those one-bedroom units averaged $1,113 a month.
Randy Billings can be contacted at 791-6346 or at:
Twitter: randybillings
Staff Writer Cara DeRose contributed to this story.
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Hampshire College goes 100 percent solar
December 16, 2017 · 8:30 AM EST
Writer Julia Franz
The Harold F. Johnson library at Hampshire College.
Photographer contracted by Hampshire College/CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hundreds of US colleges and universities are taking action to combat global warming, but so far just one residential college has turned 100 percent to renewable energy: Hampshire College.
To get there, the Massachusetts college has installed a 19-acre solar farm, complete with 15,000 panels. Together, the panels will produce about 4.7 megawatts of power each year — more than Hampshire can even use, says Jonathan Lash, its president.
Lash, the former head of the World Resources Institute, joined the college in 2011. A year later, he says the administration considered installing solar panels but ultimately decided it would just be too expensive.
“Now, we looked again in 2015 and the price had come down so much, the efficiency of the panels had gone up so much, that we were able to move forward and have it be an overall savings rather than an expense for the college,” he says. “We would do this just for economic reasons, but there are a lot of other reasons as well.”
Lash explains that under the contract Hampshire signed with SolarCity, the solar provider paid to install the panels, while Hampshire supplied the land. “And, we've signed a contract to buy all the power coming from the panels,” he says. “We pay them a little over 6 cents a kilowatt-hour. If we buy the electricity from the grid, we pay about 13.5 cents a kilowatt-hour, so it's a big savings.”
SolarCity also provided the school with a bank of Tesla batteries to store up power. Lash says that allows the school to keep using its solar-sourced electricity on cold winter nights and other peak times, rather than buying power at the same time everyone else is. “That's good for us and it's actually helpful for the utility,” he notes.
Over the life of the solar farm, Lash estimates the college will save $8 million to $10 million in total. “That's a big deal,” he says. “It's really important.”
But he says the system’s curriculum benefits are even more important. Students have been involved in every aspect of the decision-making — from the initial cost-savings analysis to selecting a site, choosing a contractor, working with the college’s neighbors and now, managing the system, he says.
“This is the challenge that our students and every other student is going to face in the next 20 years, how to turn the US economy into a low-carbon economy,” Lash says, “and they're going to get the real firsthand experience of doing it. So that was reason number one.” Plus, he says, making the switch to renewable energy is “just the right thing to do in an era of accelerating climate change.”
“This keeps the jobs local,” he adds. “It means that there are no pipelines being built through people's communities to get power to our college. And it helps, in the best way that we can, to avert climate change — the costs of which are falling most heavily on the poorest, most vulnerable people.”
This article is based on an interview that aired on PRI’s Living on Earth with Steve Curwood.
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Everyone Against Abortion Raise Your Hand, New Pro-Life Video Grabs Attention
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new pro-life video sponsored by Priests for Life is making the rounds across the Internet and is grabbing the attention of thousands. Titled, "Everyone Against Abortion Please Raise Your Hand," the video features a non-graphic image of a person holding the hand of a baby victimized by abortion.
"Let us mourn for these children," the video says. "May our hearts be broken enough for God to enter and stir us to action to defend their lives."
The video is part of a concerted effort from Father Frank Pavone to have Americans confront the reality of how abortion destroys the lives of babies before birth and to do so in a respectful way.
Pavone tells LifeNews.com the video has "sparked a response like no other I've seen" and that he is getting positive reaction from the nearly 23,000 people who have seen it on YouTube and thousands more who have viewed it on the Priests for Life web site.
"Viewers are calling 'Raise Your Hand' the most powerful, memorable, and touching pro-life video they've ever seen, yet there are no bloody images or controversial statements in it," Pavone said.
"The outstretched hand of this child is reaching a lot of people," he added. "The responses are overwhelming."
Pavone launched an advertising campaign for the video through an advertisement on the Drudge Report on Friday.
He told LifeNews.com that the video is a method of presenting the travesty of abortion in a unique way.
The proper use of graphic images has been a long debate within the pro-life movement.
Some pro-life advocates say they are a problem because they are off-putting to some viewers, who are then turned off to the pro-life message, and unsettling for women who have had abortions and have been trying to reconcile with God and themselves for what they did. They say the images are fine when shown privately with someone's consent rather than airing them in the general public.
Others say the images save lives and force viewers to confront the reality of abortion and how it kills children.
"People who have been in the pro-life movement for 35 years, people who have always been against the use of graphic images are saying this video leaves an indelible mark in a moving, loving way. This picture speaks more than a thousand words; it gives voice to 50 million lives," Pavone says.
Priests for Life intends to continue promoting the video through Internet advertising on major web sites.
Related web sites:
Raise Your Hand Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_7jnp--UE
Priests for Life - http://www.priestsforlife.org
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Dara Sanandaji
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Obama, Bush and the ‘second-term curse’
By Bruce Drake
Barack Obama and George Bush have at least one thing in common when it comes to the second terms they won — the first year of their encores have been downers when it came to their public images. Both experienced falloffs in overall job approval and in Americans’ perceptions of their leadership, ability to get things done and trustworthiness.
Bush had won re-election in 2004 by a razor-thin margin over Democrat John Kerry, and while Obama beat Republican Mitt Romney more decisively, he was one of the few presidents to win a second term by a margin lower than his first.
Common to both men was a belief that their victories opened a door to opportunity in that first year after re-election. Bush declared, “I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.” Obama, who had dueled Romney through the campaign over his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class but not the rich said the election had sent a “very clear message” from Americans.
But then both of them encountered the rocky first year after re-election that has become known as the “second-term curse.”
Both saw their job approval numbers suffer: Obama’s rating in December stood at 45%, down 10 points from the previous year. In that same month in 2005, Bush’s rating was 38%, also down 10 points from the previous year.
And both saw significant declines in the ratings the public gave them in the first year of their second term on leadership, ability to get things done and trustworthiness.
For Obama, negative views on all three traits increased by double digits over the course of 2013: Those seeing him as not trustworthy rose 15 points to 45%; those doubting him as a strong leader increased 11 points to 48%; and those who thought he was not able to get things done rose 14 points to 51%.
Obama was faced most of the year with an economy that was inching into recovery, but one in which large percentages of Americans were still saying in a September poll that household incomes and jobs had yet to recover from the recession.
Following the flawed rollout of the exchanges on which Americans were supposed to be able to shop for insurance under the health care law, 59% registered their disapproval of Obama’s handling of health care policy in an Oct. 30-Nov. 6 poll, and Americans were evenly divided over whether he had misled them in saying they could keep their current health care plans under the new law.
On the foreign front, Syria cost Obama some of the support he had on foreign policy, with the public disapproving of his handling of the issue by 56% to 29%.
If Obama was confronted with setbacks in 2013, so too was Bush in 2005, with the most prominent of them being the scathing criticism his administration received over its response to Hurricane Katrina. (In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, a Pew Research survey found that 67% of Americans thought Bush could have done more to speed up relief efforts). And the public was turning more negative on what had become a longer-than-expected war in Iraq — an issue that had come central in the 2006 midterm elections, according to a Pew Research survey.
Both were among issues that contributed to sharp declines in public impressions of Bush’s trustworthiness, effectiveness and leadership between fall 2005 and March 2006, according to another Pew Research survey. During that period, those seeing Bush as trustworthy dropped nine points to 40%; perceptions of him as a strong leader fell seven points to 44% and those believing in his ability to get things done went down eight points, to 43%.
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Bruce Drake is a senior editor at Pew Research Center.
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Avoiding a talent crisis in life sciences
With increasing competition in the emerging world, healthcare reforms, rising customer expectations, cost constraints and the on-going challenge of successfully bringing new drugs to market, it’s perhaps fair to say that the life sciences sector is under pressure.
Last Updated: 02-Jul-2013
With increasing competition in the emerging world, healthcare reforms, rising customer expectations, cost constraints and the on-going challenge of successfully bringing new drugs to market, it’s perhaps fair to say that the life sciences sector is under pressure. It may not surprise most of those in the industry, then, to hear that the industry is also potentially facing a talent crisis.
In a recent PwC Global CEO survey, a worrying 51% of CEOs from the industry reported it is becoming more difficult to attract and hire the right people – the highest recorded percentage of the sectors polled. So what is happening in the industry and why is the sector in flux?At Ochre House we recently held a think tank with senior HRD’s within pharma and life sciences to identify the people challenges they face and how these can be addressed. In a benchmarking survey for this we were able to drill down into just what the key talent challenges are. The results concluded that:
86% of respondents felt that businesses in the sector did not have the ‘burning platform’ to invest in strategic talent initiatives
97% of respondents felt their talent strategy was aligned to business strategy, however, despite this view, the majority had little or no visibility on what future capability was needed
98% felt they were not optimising and leveraging on their brand to attract present and future talent
99% felt the lack of emerging talent was a significant business risk
In practice, most respondents found themselves bogged down in reactive recruitment, or as one neatly put it, “fighting fires.”It would appear that there is a level of disconnect between line managers and resourcing teams when it comes to identifying the critical skills needed for the future, particularly on an international level. And, perhaps most important of all, while there was enthusiasm for pipelining talent in the sector which would create engagement with potential hires at the very early stages of their careers or even education, many of resourcing teams are finding it difficult to make a sufficiently strong business case for such activity.There consequently seemed to be a talent ‘wish list’ shared by the great majority of senior HR professionals consulted, which embraced the following:
A talent strategy actively driven by the business and embedded in its culture
Quality conversations with talent both internally and externally, rather than a focus on processes
Analysis of implementation
Better visibility of international talent – internally and externally
Simple and effective talent management tools to capture mapped individuals and their capabilities
More focus on emerging talent programmes
Better knowledge of best practice
Business value demonstration.
But how can any or all of this be achieved? Discussion among the delegates at the think tank itself centred around three key solutions:
While it may sound simple, there are many instances whereby identifying critical skills needs to be done as a first point of call. A relatively small number of participants had undertaken what they felt was a robust analysis of likely future skills gaps, but this had almost exclusively been limited to high potential and business leader level. This had, in turn, led to some mapping of the external talent pool and an examination of where the next generation of replacements would come from.
On the back of this a debate broke out as to whether organisations in the sector were focusing too heavily on ‘emerging talent’ in its widest sense and neglecting the ongoing potential of individuals at the later stages of their careers. While at least one delegate maintained that ‘new blood’ was vital to fuel innovation, others felt that a mix of the old and new in a mentoring/developmental environment might be the most productive solution. In particular one person made the point that we need to raise awareness of the industry beyond the mainstream vocations; doctors, nurses and vets, so school children could make informed decisions when making career choices. Some also argued that the industry was limiting itself by relying too heavily on traditional hires and that there was a need to foster much greater diversity by bringing in people from ‘creative’ as well as hard scientific backgrounds.
While there was an overall positive feeling, at least about the theory of talent pooling and pipelining, there was doubt around how possible it was to put into action with several examples of failure outside the sector cited. For pooling and pipelining to work, engagement must be ongoing and, perhaps most important of all, relevant. Going much further than simple job postings or bland news about a company, really effective engagement will require an approach based upon the principles of marketing. This will certainly need the ongoing involvement of line managers willing to share their knowledge, insight and experience. And engagement will need to commence much earlier than is common at present. One delegate gave the example of Microsoft, which encourages its top development people to lecture at universities in order to raise awareness of opportunities in its industry as a whole, but also as a way of accessing high potential students before their career plans are crystallised. Consider O2 as well which has a team of ‘professional engagers’ focused on target talent groups such as female engineers, but backed up by a cadre of front-line managers who have bought into the concept.
Perhaps the greatest consensus was around the belief that pipelining and pooling could only be effectively implemented if a clear and compelling business case could be built for it. Delegates pointed out that, in general, organisations were focused on the ‘here and now’ in terms of talent. However, when asked to think about the future many businesses are relying on currently relevant technical abilities as opposed to the underlying capabilities that would help to create a workforce which could adapt to the ever-increasing pace of change. As a result there was a general unwillingness to invest in any process whose deliverables were perceived as tenuous and only arriving at some ill-defined point in the future. However this did not mean that resourcing teams could simply go off and build a strategy and then foist it on the business. Constant engagement and questioning of what the business actually wanted to achieve and how it planned to do it was essential to create a blended and integrated solution.
There was general agreement that pipelining and pooling needs to be championed by an organisation’s leaders and that the best way to achieve this would be through ‘starting small’, through contained and highly focused test projects. And any such project would need to demonstrate its ROI clearly, through agreed metrics and, wherever possible, a clear link to the ‘bottom line’.
While the sector is perhaps a way off a talent crisis for the time being, organisations need to be addressing this issue before it’s too late. Talent pooling and engaging with future candidates provides a sustainable solution which is beneficial to an organisation long term. Without a succinct solution, businesses and indeed the sector face losing out when it comes to talent.
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The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill
Author: Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill, in which Sam Neill retraces Cook's footsteps, in the 250th anniversary year of Cook's first voyage. Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768 - 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted - but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed. The Pacific with Sam Neill is the companion book to the Foxtel documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself. Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples. Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital - this is history - but not as you know it.
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Imprint : HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Author : Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
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Free TV licences at risk for thousands of over 75s in Wakefield
Over 20,000 pensioners in Wakefield could have to start paying for their TV licence.
Sarah Hall
Tens of thousands of of pensioner households in Wakefield could lose their free TV licence after 2020.
The BBC has started a consultation on free licences for the over 75s.
Official figures show there are 20,378 households in Wakefield that qualify for a free licence.
The scheme is currently funded by the Government but the responsibility shifts to the BBC in 2020.
The broadcaster says that paying for it would take a fifth of its budget and the cuts needed would "fundamentally change the BBC".
A TV licence costs £150.50. A review commissioned by the BBC says that funding the scheme across the UK would cost £745 million by 2021, rising to £1 billion in a decade.
The cost of a licence for every household over 75 in Wakefield is £3.1 million.
Projections from the Office for National Statistics show that the growth in the ageing population will mean 38,391 over 75 households in Wakefield by 2041. The potential bill for free TV licences would be £5.8 million.
Options being considered include a discount for over 75s, increasing the qualifying age to 80, or restricting free licences to the most needy.
The BBC said it wanted to hear from viewers before making a decision next summer.
Chairman David Clementi said: "We will listen to their views and balance all the options and arguments before making a decision.
"The board does not underestimate the significance of the decision, its implications for the BBC and its audiences."
Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: "Despite recent progress, there are still significant numbers of older people living on very low incomes who would genuinely struggle to pay the licence fee if required to do so.
"There are two million people aged 75-plus, one-in-two of whom is disabled and one-in-four of whom view the television as their main form of companionship. For many others, including those who are chronically lonely...the TV is a precious window on the world."
She added: "Our initial appraisal is that any of the options set out would introduce significant practical difficulties and create unfairness for different groups of older people."
A Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport spokesman said: "We know people across the country value television as a way to stay connected with the world.
"The BBC will take on responsibility for free licences for the over-75s from 2020 and it is right that they've confirmed no decisions will be taken until the public have been fully consulted.
"We've been clear that we would want and expect them to continue with this important concession. Ultimately it is the BBC's responsibility to ensure its substantial licence fee income is used effectively to deliver fully for UK audiences."
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The States People Want To Get The Hell Out Of [Infographic]
Survey says: people want to leave Illinois.
By Colin Lecher
Gallup is out with a new poll and accompanying map measuring responses to this question: "Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or would you rather remain in your current state?"
Big insights from the geographic misery watch? Illinois residents would rather not be residents, with 50 percent (!) saying they'd move if given the chance; 49 percent of Connecticut residents said the same. On the other end of the spectrum, folks are pretty content in Montana, Hawaii, and Maine, with a relatively slim 23 percent in each state saying they'd like to move on. Here, again via Gallup, is a table of the highest and lowest percentages:
Gallup also measured the percentage of residents who said they think they _will _leave in the next year, which, as you might expect, broadly reflect the states where people already _want _to move. When asked why they planned to move, here's what they said:
Those saying it is at least somewhat likely they will move were asked to say why, in their own words. The biggest factor residents give for planning to move is for work or business reasons -- the 50-state average is 31%. This is followed by family or other social reasons (19%), weather or location (11%), and then seeking a better quality of life or change (9%).
You can read more about the poll's methodology over at Gallup's site. But only if you feel like moving is the right decision for you at this moment in your life.
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Press Room Press Release Archive 2011 Press Releases
At 11:58 am, Portland Fire & Rescue responded to a two and a half story house fire at 1400 SE 34th.
Firefighters arrived in three minutes and reported heavy fire and smoke billowing out of the home’s second story.
The firefighters used forcible entry to gain access to the fire because no one was home at the time. Firefighters then quickly located the fire on the first floor after observing a bright glow in the back area of the home in the kitchen. Because of the older type of construction, fire raced up the walls and got into the second story and attic of the home.
Firefighters worked alongside one another to diligently fight the fast moving fire, attacking it from the inside of the home and on top of the roof. No injuries were reported.
“Houses built around the turn of the century cause us concern due to the type of construction and the lack of fire blocking that can cause fires to escalate quickly,” said Battalion Chief Jim Forquer.
The homeowner reportedly left the home at 10:30 am and when notified by his neighbor, he quickly returned to speak with Fire Investigators.
Fire Investigators are on scene trying to determine the cause of the fire. Damages are estimated at $50,000.
Portland Fire & Rescue reminds citizens that when there is fire or emergency in their neighborhood, help create a safe space for firefighters to work by staying on the sidewalk and away from hoses and fire apparatus.
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Port of Brownsville Announces New Directors
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Port of Brownsville announces the promotion of a new director of finance and the appointment of a new director of special projects.
Lorena Hernandez, CPA, is the port’s new finance director following the retirement of Steve Fitzgibbons. Fitzgibbons served as the port’s finance director for more than five years.
Hernandez manages the port’s nine-member financial team, winner of six consecutive Certificates of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting presented by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). She was previously assistant finance director.
Prior to joining the port, Hernandez worked for a local CPA firm and served as an internal auditor for the University of Texas System. She is a Class 1 Assessor/Collector and an active member of the Texas Association of Assessing Officers, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the GFOA.
In 2013, Hernandez graduated from the University of Texas at Brownsville (now UTRGV) with a B.B.A. in accounting. She became licensed as a CPA in 2015. She is currently pursuing a Master of Accountancy from UTRGV.
Also, Jose Herrera joins the port staff as special projects director.
In his new position, Herrera is responsible for managing all aspects of port special projects, ensuring each is carried through from inception to completion. Prior to joining the port, he was the president of the Brownsville Economic Development Council (BEDC).
A successful entrepreneur, Herrera was president, founder, and owner of US Herr Industrial Metals, a local manufacturing company. He has served the community as a trustee at Valley Regional Medical Center and the Texas Southmost College Board of Trustees, as well as board member and chairman for the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation and the BEDC.
Herrera graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in microbiology. He is a veteran having served in the U.S. Navy.
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PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. has announced today that Diamond CBD has initiated a mobile team equipped with an inventory of displays and CBD infused edible treats and oils designed to deliver stock and launch sales through brand new vendors in untapped retail stores and congruent facilities such as fitness centers, etc., across the U.S.
For a brief video overview click here.
Armed with the Company’s most popular consumables, Diamond CBD’s squad of mobile sales vans begin their journey in South Florida. Their mission is to bring Diamond CBD’s premium product line to brick and mortar establishments across the country, from Miami to New York and ultimately, California. All at zero initial cost to vendors.
Diamond CBD distributes premium quality products and has established a successful, growing distribution network. The company’s new fleet of mobile sales vans will allow them to support their loyal vendors with free deliveries whilst simultaneously reaching out to new contacts and inducting them into the Diamond CBD family.
The CBD market is predicted to be worth a staggering $2.1 billion in consumer sales by 2020 with $450 million of those sales coming from hemp-based sources. That's a 700% increase from 2016. In 2017 Diamond CBD shattered all expectations and achieved revenues of $14.5 million, underscoring the potential of the CBD market. Diamond CBD’s success comes down to ensuring that consumers have access to a product whose quality speaks for itself. Their new fleet of mobile sales vans will help to drive the companies performance to new heights and bring Diamond CBD to a storefront near you.
About Diamond CBD, Inc.: Diamond CBD focuses on the research, development, and multinational marketing of premium hemp extracts that contain a broad range of cannabinoids and natural hemp derivatives. Diamond CBD’s team consists of hemp industry pioneers and natural product experts, chemists, doctors and scientists, dedicated to producing the finest and purest cannabidiol (CBD) oils. The result is a robust selection considered among the most powerful natural CBD oils, tinctures, edibles, and vape liquids found anywhere. For more information, please visit its website at www.DiamondCBD.com.
About PotNetwork Holdings, Inc.: PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: POTN) is a publicly traded company that acts as a holding company for its principal subsidiaries, First Capital Venture Co., the owner of Diamond CBD, Inc., the maker of Diamond CBD products.
Safe Harbor: Forward-Looking Statements are included within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements regarding our expected future financial position, results of operations, cash flows, financing plans, business strategy, products and services, competitive positions, growth opportunities, plans and objectives of management for future operations, including words such as "anticipate," "if," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "could," "should," "will," and similar expressions are forward-looking statements and involve risks, uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our control, which may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from anticipated results, performance, or achievements. We are under no obligation to (and expressly disclaim any such obligation to) update or alter forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. has announced that Diamond CBD presented the Chong’s Choice Premium Vape Product Line at VAPEXPO, which based in Paris (France), is one of the world’s leading vape trade...
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FABIEN MÉRELLE
TRAVERSÉ(E)
8 September – 6 October 2018
Presenting oneself in everyday life.
Fabien Mérelle’s new exhibition at Praz-Delavallade could be considered a portrayal of the artist in everyday life, a mise en scène of what happens within the confines of a place of leisure, a workplace, a place for creating or within a personal and intimate space. But what form does it take and what impression does it make on others? In the 1950s, a study by the American sociologist Erving Goffman, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" addressed how we engage in behaviour akin to theatrical performances in our daily life, at the times when individuals come face to face and simultaneously try to control the impression they make, whilst attempting to gain information about the other.
And it is this question that Fabien Mérelle has decided to tackle, this tension between an individual and the other, invariably portraying himself dressed in striped pyjama bottoms, a pantomime-like costume all the better to surreptitiously invade the public space in a civilised, bittersweet and ironic manner. He finally accedes, with the participation of his friends and relatives, to a theatrical dimension as he translates his fantastical and dreamlike scenes into ink and watercolour drawings. These drawings that describe in minute detail a world where present and past combine and the living, the dead and forgotten, humans and plants, whimsical characters and extraordinary animals are brought face to face like childhood dreams that have been repressed. Dreams that suddenly appear in his childhood drawings, which he has preciously conserved and which forge a new dialogue with the little boy he was thirty years before. He takes books out of his archives that immediately find new virgin territories to conquer, adventures that are just a pencil stroke away thanks to his fertile imagination.
One such example is this raft that is, to all extents and purposes, identical to a drawing (Radeau de Fortune, 2016) in which we see the artist on a raft, like Jonah having just escaped from the whale’s stomach, but with the ears and tail of a donkey. As his character takes form on the white page, Fabien anchors his work in reality in order to continue his investigations of what gives life to the drawing and its source of inspiration. It is probably no coincidence that his character, in the original sense of the term, evokes the idea of a mask. Does not everyone, consciously or subconsciously; always play a role? And as we realise and accept this fact Fabien Mérelle’s characters become believable and therein lies the sublime subtlety of the artist’s approach.
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Milwaukee Brewers vs. Houston Astros Pick
by Dan Jamison | Jun 12, 2019 | mlb
Milwaukee Brewers (38-29) at Houston Astros (46-22)
When: 8 p.m., Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Where: Minute Maid Park
Line: MIL +125/HOU -135
Runline: Brewers +1.5/Astros -1.5 (MyBookie)
Total: 7.5
Starting Pitchers: Brandon Woodruff (8-1, 3.87 ERA, 1.17 WHIP) vs. Justin Verlander (9-2, 2.31 ERA, 0. 74 WHIP)
Breezing Brandon
Something lit a fire under Brandon Woodruff in May, and it’s been a big help for the Brew Crew, as the Milwaukee hurler has been incredibly consistent for most of the past five weeks. Other than a 12-10 win at Pittsburgh, where he couldn’t get out of the sixth inning, each of the rest of his past eight starts have seen him go five innings or more, hold the opponent to three runs or less and allow the Brewers to walk off the field winners. In fact, the Brewers have now won eight in a row when Woodruff takes the mound.
But are there cracks starting to show for him, or do the Pirates simply have him figured out better than the rest of the National League? Of the 15 earned runs that Woodruff has allowed in his past eight starts, nine of them belonged to Pittsburgh. Given that both of his last two starts were against the Pirates, it’s tough to say whether things aren’t going to be so rosy for Woodruff moving forward, or if he just needs to stay away from Pittsburgh for the time being.
Top-Rate Consistency
When Justin Verlander is on the mound, you usually feel pretty good about your chances of winning that game if he’s on your side. The Astros have been able to count on Verlander as usual this year, as he’s gone through seven innings in seven of his past 10 starts and hasn’t given up more than five hits in a game since a 4-3 win over the Yankees on April 8. That win was 12 starts ago, which underscores just how steady Verlander has been over the past two months.
But as great as the Astros’ pitcher is, he has had one flaw this season that could be exploited. In all but two of his starts this season, he’s given up at least one home run. He’s conceded 14 on the season in 14 starts, and if the Brewers are able to get men on base when the big fly comes, they could do serious damage. That’s especially true in Milwaukee’s case, because the Brewers are third in the majors and tops in the National League at home runs, hitting 124 on the season.
The Brewers might be third in the majors in home runs, but right behind them are the Astros, who have hit 106 on the season and have actually outscored Milwaukee by 10 runs this year. While Milwaukee’s success comes via the long ball, the Astros are just good hitters in general. Houston has 604 hits this year, ranking third behind Arizona and Minnesota, and only the Twins hit for a higher batting average than the Stros do. Milwaukee either has to keep Houston off the basepaths or step it up on hitting the ball out of the park.
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The Historical
Once upon a time, these were divisional rivals competing 19 times a season, but they have played just twice since the Astros’ move to the American League in 2013. Prior to that, the teams were seldom competitive at the same time, as they occasionally took turns challenging the Cardinals and Cubs for superiority in the NL Central but were rarely able to string together long-term success. Going even further back, the teams were in opposite situations in 1997, with the Brewers playing in the AL to the Astros’ NL.
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The Brewers are 7-1 in Woodruff’s past eight road starts against a team with a winning record.
The Brewers are 1-8 in their past nine interleague road games.
The Astros are 5-1 in their past six against a team above .500.
The Astros have won Verlander’s past seven Wednesday starts.
The over is 8-2 in the Brewers’ past 10 against the AL West.
The under is 4-1 in the Astros’ past 5 home games.
With the weather at 88 degrees at first pitch for Wednesday, don’t be surprised if the Astros opt to play the game under the roof.
Dan’s pick
Woodruff has pitched very well this season, but Verlander at home is one of those things that you just don’t bet against unless you have a darn good reason, such as the price being so poor that it’s not even worth it. Well, that’s not the case here. In fact, this is about as good a price as you’ll find for the Astros with Verlander on the hill.
It’s a testament to the respect shown to the Brewers and how strong a team they have, but the reality is that they’re only .500 away from home, while the Astros are 25-9 in southeastern Texas. I can’t ignore those numbers, and having Verlander on the hill only makes it easier to take Houston in this matchup. As good as Milwaukee is, I see the Astros taking this game.
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Virginia Adoption Law Blog
The First Standard
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Thursday, April 12, 2018.
The first of the eight standards of proof which a court is required to consider prior to determining whether the consents of birth parents to a proposed adoption are being withheld contrary to the best interests of the child is stated as follows: "The birth parent's efforts to obtain or maintain legal and physical custody of the child."
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The Catch All Language
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Friday, February 23, 2018.
The Standards of Proof which a Court must consider in granting an Adoption without the Consent of a birth parent includes standard "catch all" language.
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The Detriment Requirement
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Friday, February 9, 2018.
When Section 63.2-1205 was enacted in 1995, it included language requiring the trial court to consider whether failure to grant the Petition for Adoption would be detrimental to the child. In 2006, the General Assembly removed this language from the statute, and substituted for it the requirement that the court determine whether consent is withheld contrary to the best interests of the child.
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Doe v. Doe
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Wednesday, January 24, 2018.
In the important 2011 case of Copeland v. Todd, the Supreme Court of Virginia upheld the constitutionality of Section 63.2-1205 of the Code of Virginia, which sets out the standards which a court must consider in making the determination that the consents of birth parents to a proposed adoption are being withheld contrary to the best interests of the child.
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The Home Study Requirements
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Friday, January 19, 2018.
In Copeland v. Todd, the Supreme Court of Virginia pointed out that the standards of proof in contested adoption cases must be read along with eight other factors which the Department of Social Services, or private agency, must investigate and report upon pursuant to Code Section 63.2-1208. Those factors are the following:
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The Constitutional Rights of Birth Parents
The Constitutional Rights of Birth Parents are extremely important. Parental Rights are recognized as fundamental rights under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United State Constitution. Whenever a Court must consider whether the best interests of a child require an adoption which is objected to by a birth parent, this would appear to conflict with those important constitutional rights. For this reason, the standards of proof which a court must consider before it can grant an adoption over the objection of a birth parent are very important.
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Attachment and Bonding, Part 4
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Thursday, January 4, 2018.
Some people ask why adoption is necessary. Why, they ask, cannot there be some continuing visitation with birthparents? The answer is that there can be in some situations and not in others, and that the decision should be made by the adoptive parents, who are the only ones sufficiently attuned to the individual needs of the child to be able to make that decision in a manner which is responsive to the particular needs of the particular child. Judges usually cannot adequately make that determination.
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By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.
If the child has not developed a healthy attachment during the critical first five years of life, then it has been conclusively shown that the child will suffer from irreversible developmental consequences, such as reduced intelligence and increased aggression. The condition known as "Reactive Attachment Disorder" will most likely result. This condition comes in two forms, one which causes indiscriminate and dangerous relationshiops and one which prevents any relationships at all.
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Friday, December 22, 2017.
Attachment is characterized by specific behaviors in children, such as seeking proximity to the attachment figure for comfort, safety and security and to have basic needs met. These behaviors may be clinically observed and measured.
By Robert H. Klima of Robert H. Klima, P.C. on Tuesday, December 19, 2017.
The terms "attachment" and "bonding" are often confused. Attachment refers to a child's emotional connection to caregivers. Bonding refers to the caregivers' feelings and connection to the child. Both are relevant under 63.2-1205, but attachment is of primary concern as it relates more directly to the best interests of the child. It addresses crucial relationships from the point of view of the child's needs and experiences.
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RockCellarTV: One-On-One with Stewart Copeland of the Police
By Rock Cellar Magazine Staff on July 12, 2018 Rock Cellar TV
From July 16-22, HDNET Movies will air Classic Rock Week, a run of 19 music documentaries hosted and narrated by Stewart Copeland — legendary drummer of the Police and a masterful storyteller, too.
In the weeks leading up to the premiere on July 16 (which happens to be Copeland’s birthday), Rock Cellar’s Ken Sharp visited Copeland in his studio in Southern California for an exclusive and very candid interview.
🚨 Calling all Classic Rock Fans! 🚨 @Copelandmusic wants YOU to watch our classic rock documentary celebration featuring rock legends like The Police, @TheWho, @BobDylan and many more! pic.twitter.com/ddcGA9PUhf
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Among the topics discussed are the same ones covered in the HDNET docu-series, from the Doors to the Who to Rush (note Copeland’s reverence for Rush’s Neil Peart) to the Police’s involvement with the US Festival in 1982, and more.
The 19-film line-up kicks off with the Copeland-directed film “Everyone Stares, The Police Inside Out” on his birthday, July 16, and also features critically acclaimed docs profiling The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers, The Doors, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Who, Bad Company, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doobie Brothers, Rod Stewart, Les Paul and The 1982 US Festival.
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Lovett*The Lost Book of the Grail
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail
Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. His one respite is his time spent nestled in the library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral.
But when a beautiful young American named Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester charged with the task of digitizing the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken. Appalled by the threat modern technology poses to the library he loves, he sets out to thwart Bethany, only to find in her a kindred spirit with a similar love for knowledge and books-and a fellow Grail fanatic.
Bethany soon joins Arthur in a quest to find the lost Book of Ewolda, the ancient manuscript telling the story of the cathedral's founder. And when the future of the cathedral itself is threatened, Arthur and Bethany's search takes on grave importance, leading the pair to discover secrets about the cathedral, about the Grail, and about themselves.
"Lovett's unique work combines literary and historical research with classic elements of cozy mysteries, classic love stories, and exciting adventure tales to create a true genre-blending masterpiece. At once funny, heartwarming, and suspenseful, The Lost Book of the Grail has something for every kind of reader, and every kind of book-lover, alike." -Bustle
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Home Music Album Reviews
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It’s a measure of Stevie Wonder’s place in our collective unconscious that merely saying his name immediately conjures up images of Eddie Murphy’s Saturday Night Live impression — the neck arched upward, the body swaying, the braids flying. To many listeners, especially during the past decade, when hip-hop so dominated the black-music scene, Wonder has been increasingly perceived as more of a soul-music icon than an authentic presence. Which is precisely what makes Natural Wonder — a double CD recorded live with a 30-piece symphony orchestra at concerts in Osaka, Japan, and Tel Aviv, Israel, earlier this year — such an important and revelatory statement. Because throughout the course of this 25-year retrospective, Wonder repeatedly demonstrates the remarkable extent to which his distinctive inner visions have been ahead of the musical curve.
Given Wonder’s exhaustive body of work, one is prone to take for granted such breakthrough recordings as the funk ‘n’ rolling “Superstition” (’72), the R&Bjiving “I Wish” (’76) and the reggae-bopping “Master Blaster (Jammin’),” from 1980. In retrospect it’s clear that when Wonder sang, “Music is a world within itself with a language that we all understand” on “Sir Duke,” his ’76 tribute to Duke Ellington, his kaleidoscopic, pancultural musical philosophy was already firmly in place. Listening to his wordless, soaring East-meets-West vocal gymnastics on “Love’s in Need of Love Today,” the circular gospel blues of “Higher Ground” or the nightmarish urban landscape depicted in “Village Ghetto Land,” one hears an artistic wellspring from which such artists as Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Arrested Development and Coolio have all drawn sustenance and inspiration.
If one were forced to pick a solitary track here to represent what Wonder is all about, it would be “Ribbon in the Sky,” originally recorded in 1982. The song begins as a straightforward pop ballad with just voice and piano, glides smoothly into a jazz-tinged instrumental break in which Wonder trades harmonica riffs with his sax player and ends up swinging over a churning Latin beat. Such is the seamless, eclectic genius of Stevie Wonder.
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