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Great Country, Shame about the neighbours
by James Wilson 2 years ago Jan 23, 2019 0 Comments
Visitors to last week’s YES (Yalta European Strategy) annual meeting in Kyiv will have seen the beautiful autumn colours of Kyiv’s magnificent chestnut trees. They will also have seen alongside the main highways the serried ranks of traditional political billboards already promoting candidates for next March’s Presidential elections. Not all political parties have selected their candidates to run for office yet – they are expected to do so this fall – and the election campaign proper is not due to start until next year. But, already the old fashioned personality cult style of electioneering posters are in evidence for the early movers keen to reinforce their branding.
This is the 5th year that the YES meeting has been held in Kyiv, after the annexation and military occupation of Crimea by Russia perforce caused a change of location from the original and historically symbolic venue of the Lividia Palace in Yalta. But the institution remains true to its original objectives, and it is still the key event that provides an annual review and authoritative analysis of the future of relations between Ukraine and the EU.
With the onset of autumn, we are also approaching the 5th winter of war that Ukraine has faced in its Eastern provinces with armed military intervention from Russian army regular forces, and the circumstances of this conflict will inevitably play a strong backdrop to next year’s Presidential election campaign.
Ukrainian voters are likely to support a candidate who can show to them that they will be the best choice for the country’s future integration ambitions with Europe. The present incumbent Petro Poroshenko was handed something of a PR success last Friday (14 September) when the European Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ukraine for Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) of up to €1 billion in the form of medium and long term loans.
With this assistance, the EU indicates that it is happy with the direction that reforms are taking in Ukraine, and that it will continue to support economic stabilisation in the country, including through structural and governance reforms.
In signing the MOU with Ukraine, Valdis Dombrovskis, the Commission Vice-President said: “Europe strongly supports Ukraine on its path of economic recovery and reform. The new programme of EU macro-financial assistance will help Ukraine reduce its economic vulnerabilities and enhance stability. At the same time, by implementing important reforms, especially in the area of the fight against corruption, Ukraine needs to deliver on the expectations of its citizens.” Future payment of disbursements under the programme will also be dependent on continuing to fulfil political conditions, which require Ukraine to respect European values and principles, including a multi-party parliamentary system, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Paradoxically, Ukraine’s immediate neighbour, Hungary, was censured in last week’s plenary by the European Parliament for illiberal behaviour and failure to respect European values. So 15 years on from the start of the YES strategy, Ukraine finds itself moving on a more pro-European path even than some of the EU member states on its Western border.
Whatever his detractors may say, Petro Poroshenko has been at the helm of his country for a historic period which has seen the emergence of strong and sustainable civil society organisations. Whether or not this development can actually be directly attributed to his policies, nevertheless the growing maturity of democratic responsibility and the espousal of European values has happened under Poroshenko’s watch. He should take credit for this, and it will undoubtedly lead to a more robust society capable of dealing with the changes that lie ahead for Ukraine.
It is still too early to pay too much attention to recent opinion polls predictions about the outcome of next year’s Presidential elections. What is certain is that the contest will be closely fought, and most probably it will go to a second round run-off election after the first poll. Also, with the growing sophistication and intelligence of Ukrainian civil society, it is going to take more than signature posters
promoting a personal brand to swing votes. People will want to see a break from the old style of politics, and to place their trust in the candidate who can convince them of their genuine commitment to real change.
I anticipate a fascinating year of politics in Ukraine, as young intellectuals seek a shift change in the landscape of their government establishment, and strive to create better democratic representation that is true to the European core ideals that they aspire to. This will be no small achievement, given the neighbours Ukraine has to deal with to their immediate East and West, but I still believe that Ukraine is a great country, and that its people will rise to the challenge.
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Cabrita, Jorge
Research into the occupational mobility of immigrant workers reveals that the growth of the foreign resident population has had significant impacts on the Portuguese labour market. The immigrant population has a substantially higher economic activity rate than the total population. Immigrants come mainly from eastern Europe, Africa and Brazil, and are generally hired in the construction and hotels and restaurants sectors. More than one third of companies surveyed stated that they would like to hire more immigrant workers.
During the late 1990s and beginning of the twenty-first century, Portugal has seen a significant increase in the immigrant working population. In 2004, the General Directorate of Studies, Statistics and Planning (Direcção-Geral de Estudos, Estatística e Planeamento, DGEEP) initiated a study to assess the labour market entry and occupational pathways of the immigrant working population through an analysis of the different parameters of their mobility. The study made use of the most recent official statistical data, as well as international and national research published on the subject. The study also included a survey of immigrant workers in Portugal and interviews with a panel of human resource (HR) managers.
Profile of immigrant labour force
In Europe, Portugal is one of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries with the highest growth in the proportion of immigrant workers as part of the total working population between 1995 and 2000: during this period, the proportion of immigrant workers increased from 0.5% to 2.2% of the total resident population. In 2004, the estimated immigrant population in Portugal amounted to 302,000 individuals, corresponding to around 3.5% of the total resident population. Some 68% of the immigrant population are men and more than two thirds are aged between 25 and 50 years old, according to data from Lists of Personnel in 2002.
In 2001, the immigrant population in Portugal registered an activity rate of 77%, which is significantly higher than the equivalent rate for the total resident population, standing at 51.7% in the same year. The employed immigrant population, which in 2004 represented approximately 223,000 individuals, was mostly composed of people coming from eastern Europe, accounting for about 38% of the total immigrant population; the workers mainly came from Ukraine (22.1% of the overall immigrant population). The second largest population group came from African Portuguese-speaking countries, corresponding to about 32% of the immigrant population – mainly from Angola, accounting for 12% of the total immigrant population, and Cape Verde, representing 11.7% of the total.
The unemployment rate registered among the immigrant population by the Employment and Occupational Training Institute (Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional) was approximately 4% in 2004.
Sectoral breakdown
Immigrant workers are mainly hired in the following sectors: construction (around 15% of workers), hotels and restaurants (about 12% of workers), real estate, renting and business activities, and consultancy. Moreover, these sectors are the most important in terms of integration, retention and absorption of immigrant workers. Brazilian workers move predominantly to the services sector, the African Portuguese-speakers work mainly in the construction sector and eastern European workers are generally hired in manufacturing.
Occupational path
Most of the immigrant workers can be found in one of three occupations: elementary occupations, plant and machine operators and assemblers, and service and retail trade workers. This also tends to vary according to the workers’ origin: individuals coming from other countries of the European Union are concentrated in the higher qualification occupations, while the eastern European and African Portuguese-speaking workers predominate in the occupations with lower qualification requirements.
In terms of occupational paths, the three occupational categories cited above – which require fewer qualifications – are those with the highest proportion of immigrant workers. Workers coming from Portuguese-speaking African countries and Brazil have a higher tendency to move to less qualified occupations. However, in general terms, the study identified an upward trend in the average qualification levels of immigrant workers.
Regarding work contracts, in 2004, most immigrant workers had fixed-term employment contracts (66%). Permanent contracts only represented 4.5% of the total. According to the survey among immigrant workers, job security has slightly improved for workers, who experienced changes in occupational terms, namely with an increase in the proportion of permanent contracts.
Difficulties in hiring immigrants
According to the results of the questionnaire to the employers’ panel, in the second quarter of 2004, more than one third of HR managers stated that they would like to hire more immigrant workers during 2005, with average increases of between 30% and 200% in the representation of immigrant workers in their companies. However, the lack of renewal of the immigrant population in the past two years (2004 and 2005) has become a key problem for enterprises. Companies that are more sensitive to labour market swings are also more critical regarding the effect of immigration policies in constraining the labour market. This is due to three main factors:
the return to the origin country of some good quality workers who attained their temporary migration objectives;
the perception of a decreasing skills base among the remaining unemployed immigrant labour force;
the slow response of the public employment services, mainly due to the volume of vacancies.
Mismatch between jobs and qualifications
In general, an overall mobility of 66% was recorded, which represents the proportion of immigrant workers who have moved between more than two jobs since their arrival in Portugal. The occupational paths of these workers reveal that, after an occupational downgrading in the transition from the last job in the home country to the first job in Portugal, a progressive upgrading in subsequent jobs occurs.
However, a mismatch persists between the jobs obtained and the workers’ qualifications, indicating that the upward movement is still incomplete and in progress. This gradual adjustment has a different incidence according to the workers’ country of origin: for example, workers coming from eastern Europe and China are quicker to reach their proper skills level in their occupation.
The survey of the immigrant population (18 years old or older) was carried out between December 2004 and January 2005 in 55 sampling areas corresponding to parishes (the smallest administrative unit in Portugal). The questionnaire was applied face to face and some 1,588 valid questionnaires were collected. The data gathering was also complemented by a questionnaire addressed to a panel of 117 HR managers from companies employing immigrant workers, in order to learn about their strategies and management practices in respect of immigrant workers. Random telephone interviews were carried out, covering the hotel and restaurants, construction and cleaning services sectors throughout Portugal.
Carneiro, R. (coord.), A Mobilidade Ocupacional do Trabalhador Imigrante em Portugal, [Occupational Mobility of the Immigrant Worker in Portugal], Cogitum Collection, No. 20, Direcção-Geral de Estudos, Estatística e Planeamento (DGEEP), Lisbon, 2006.
Jorge Cabrita, CESIS
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AAPA 2016 Spring Conference To Showcase Value, Needs of Western Hemisphere Ports
Published on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 by Expansion Solutions Magazine
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to keynote on April 6
American Association of Port Authorities — High-ranking government officials, policy influencers, port authority CEOs and senior staff from throughout the Western Hemisphere, along with a host of maritime industry leaders will converge on Washington, D.C., April 4-6, to participate in the 2016 Spring Conference of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) – the unified and recognized voice of seaports in the Americas.
Among the conference highlights will be a keynote luncheon address by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx on April 6; an April 5 luncheon to kick off Western Hemisphere Ports Day – celebrating the unity and value of seaports throughout the Americas; an analysis of the 2016 U.S. presidential election by political columnist and commentator Charlie Cook; an interactive conversation on planning and coordinating the multimodal freight system between Maj. Gen. Ed Jackson, Deputy Commanding General for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil and Emergency Operations, Capt. Paul “Chip” Jaenichen, U.S. Maritime Administrator, and Bud Wright, Executive Director for the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO); and perspectives on FAST Act implementation from Vinn White, Deputy Assistant Secretary at USDOT, Roger Bohnert, Deputy Executive Director of USDOT’s Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC), and Rolf Schmitt, Deputy Director of USDOT’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research & Technology at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
In addition, the annual event will feature discussions on the new International Maritime Organization container weight verification requirement; customizing messaging on economic impacts and jobs; changing energy demands and policies; port cyber and physical security needs and priorities; and leading port industry initiatives on environmental stewardship. Day one of the two-day program will also include member-only meetings of port directors, regional port delegations, along with executive and technical committees.
“In addition to having Secretary Foxx as our keynote speaker and kicking off Western Hemisphere Ports Day as a way to recognize the value of a unified seaports industry, we’re looking forward to the many informative and provocative discussions at this year’s Spring Conference,” said AAPA President and CEO Kurt Nagle. “At the April 6 luncheon, AAPA will announce the results of our 2016-2020 Port Planned Infrastructure Investment Survey. We’ll showcase the amounts U.S. ports and their private-sector partners plan to invest in port authority-related infrastructure and relate that to the amounts their federal partners need to invest in the land and waterside connections to those ports. I think the results will be surprising.”
For more information about AAPA’s 2016 Spring Conference agenda and speakers, click here.
WHO: Hosted by American Association of Port Authorities and co-sponsored by TD Bank, Canadian National Railway, WSP Parsons Brinkerhoff, Boyden Global Executive Search, Saul Ewing, LLP, and the Port of New Orleans
WHAT: AAPA’s 2016 Spring Conference event
WHEN: Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5-6
WHERE: Renaissance Washington DC Downtown Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
MEDIA: Professional journalists representing bona-fide media outlets may register for complimentary access to open business sessions (April 5, 12:30pm – 4:45pm and April 6, 8:30am – 4:30pm) by emailing Aaron Ellis at aellis@aapa-ports.org and requesting a media badge.
About AAPA
Founded in 1912, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) is the recognized and coordinated voice of seaports in the Americas. Our trade association represents more than 150 public port authorities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America. In addition, association members include more than 300 sustaining and associate firms and individuals with an interest in the seaports of the Western Hemisphere. AAPA is dedicated to strengthening the ability of member ports to serve their global customers and create economic and social value for their communities. AAPA promotes the common interests of the port community, and provides leadership on trade, transportation, environmental and other issues related to port development and operations. AAPA also raises awareness among the public, media, and policy makers about the essential role ports play within the global transportation system. AAPA headquarters is located in Alexandria, Virginia, approximately 5 miles south of Reagan National Airport, at 1010 Duke Street. The staff includes 14 full-time, and three part-time, employees. AAPA’s annual budget is approximately $2.7 million. AAPA is governed by its 10-member Executive Committee and 52-member Board of Directors. AAPA has 12 technical and three policy committees; there are 350 individual corporate and almost 200 individual associate members on the committees.
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TRICARE: Referring of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy by Doctors of Podiatric Medicine Acting Within the Scope of Their License
by the Defense Department on 11/17/2020.
The DoD is amending its TRICARE regulation. Specifically, this rule allows coverage of otherwise authorized physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) for TRICARE beneficiaries when such services are referred by a TRICARE-authorized Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, also known as a Podiatrist, acting within the scope of his/her license.
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The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD(HA)) issues this interim final rule (IFR) with request for comments to temporarily modify the TRICARE regulation by adding coverage for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)-sponsored clinical trials for the treatment or prevention of coronavirus disease 2019...
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The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD(HA)) issues this interim final rule (IFR) with comment to temporarily modify the TRICARE regulation by: Waiving the three-day prior hospital qualifying stay requirement for coverage of skilled nursing facility (SNF) care; adding coverage for treatment use of investigational drugs under...
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Ashby Folville
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Description in 1877:
"ASHBY FOLVILLE, a small village and parish in East Goscote Hundred and Melton Mowbray Union and County Court District, situated on the bank of a rivulet, near the Burrough hills, 6 1/2 miles S.S.W. of Melton Mowbray, and 10 miles N.E. by E. of Leicester. Its parish, including Barsby township, has an area of 3,013 acres, and had 447 inhabitants in 1871. Ashby Folville township has 1,983 acres and 174 inhabitants."
White's "History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland," 3rd Edition 1877"
Tim HEATON has a photograph of St. Mary's churchyard on geo-graph, taken in June, 2019.
St. Mary, Ashby Folville, Church of England
The parish was in the Melton Mowbray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
The Loughborough Library holds copies of the 1841, 1861, 1881 and 1901 census for this parish. You will have to visit the library to see them.
The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche.
The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Piece No.
1851 H.O. 107 / 209
1861 R.G. 9 / 2299
1871 R.G. 10 / 3293
The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
The church was built in the 14th century.
The church was restored in 1875.
The church seats 140.
Geoff PICK has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2003.
Another photo of Saint Mary's Church appears on the Flickr site.
The Anglican parish register dates from 1579 (some sources give 1653).
The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
The Society of Genealogists holds copies of parish records including baptisms and burials from 1584 - 1812, marriages from 1584 - 1837 and microfiche copies of burials from 1813 - 1876.
Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
Ashby Folville is a village, a township and a parish which lie about 11 miles north-east of Leicester city and 6 miles south-west of Melton Mobray. The parish covers 1,796 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
You may want to take in the Ashby Folville Folk Thing Festival.
By automobile, take the A607 arterial road north-east out of Leicester and turn right (east) at Rearsby onto the B674.
John SUTTON has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012. You simply MUST take a peek inside and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events while you're there.
You can see pictures of Ashby Folville which are provided by:
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Ashby Folville to another place.
You can see the administrative areas in which Ashby Folville has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
The village was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book.
For many centuries this was prime grazing land and most of the occupants were graziers or smallplot farmers.
Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Carington Arms on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2014.
Stilton cheese was made in this parish.
A new tradition has been started in Ashby Folville. It is the monthly car meeting, held on the second Tuesday of each month all year long. The car meeting features classics, vintage, motorbikes, supercars, sports cars, modified and Japanese Imports. In Summer months over 4,000 people attend.
The Manor House, built of stone, was restored in 1893-94 and in 1912 was the property of Herbert Hanbury SMITH-CARRINGTON, esq. J.P..
See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK706120 (Lat/Lon: 52.70108, -0.956656), Ashby Folville which are provided by:
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
There is a single monument in the churchyard; a gravestone in the shape of an urn with cloth draped on it, on a four tiered base. It is for World War I, Henry Herbert WARRINGTON, son of James and Mary WARRINGTON, who died in France on 27 Sept. 1917. He was 22 years old.
In World War II the US Army had a small camp on the grounds of the Manor House.
After World War II the US Army Camp was used as temporary housing for resettling displaced Polish refugees until 1965.
This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a Civil Parish when those were established.
The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the northern division of the county.
On 18 August, 1882, the parish of Ashby Folville was reduced in size to enlarge Gaddesby Civil Parish.
On 24 March, 1884, the parish of Ashby Folville was reduced in size to create Barsby Civil Parish.
In April, 1936, the Civil Parish of Ashby Folville was abolished and its 1,796 acres merged with Gaddesby.
You may contact the Gaddesby Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to do family history work for you.
District governance is provided by the Melton Borough Council.
John SUTTON has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012. You should stop in when they are open and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
Lord Carrington (undated) left 133 acres of land for seven poor people and a bede house. By 1881, this charity paid for three bede houses.
"Bikeboy" provides a photograph of the Bede houses next to the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Bedehouse and The Vicarage next to the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2018.
As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
A Public Elementary School was built here in 1849 to hold 50 children.
Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the Old County School on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
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Baltimore tutor accused of fracturing 7-year-old's jaw faces assault, abuse charges
BALTIMORE, Md. - A Baltimore school tutor has been arrested, fired after being accused of throwing a 7-year-old boy against a wall, leaving him with a fractured jaw and two missing teeth.
The boy’s mother, Lateekqua Jackson said she went to her son’s school on Monday to pick him up and found her son injured.
Trayvon suffered a fractured jaw, two missing teeth and another tooth pushed into his gums. That trauma was allegedly sustained by a city school tutor while the child was at City Springs Elementary located at 100 S. Caroline Street in Baltimore.
The school’s tutor told police he physically removed Trayvon from class for being disruptive. As he was carrying the child out, he lost his footing, and Trayvon hit himself on the wall. His mother doesn’t believe that story, "he can't throw himself into the wall and fracture his jaw and loose his teeth. He's only seven years old. He's so small he's not going to do the damage to himself," she said.
Officials launched an investigation and on Wednesday Baltimore Police announced that the incident had been captured on video.
“After viewing the video and examining all other evidence, detectives concluded that a crime had been committed and an arrest warrant was obtained,” police wrote in a release on Wednesday afternoon.
Timothy Randall Korr, 25, was arrested and charged with 1st and 2nd degree child abuse, 1st and 2nd degree assault, reckless endangerment and neglect of a minor. He was transported to Central Booking is waiting to see a court commissioner. Police say they will release a booking photo once it is available.
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Bottled water sold at Target, Walmart, Whole Foods contain toxic levels of arsenic, report finds
By Colleen Killingsworth
OAKLAND, Calif. - Many people buy bottled water at a premium under the assumption that it is healthier, cleaner and safer than tap water, but new consumer reports reveal that not all bottled water is actually a better choice.
The California Center for Environmental Health issued a release on Tuesday regarding independent testing that found high levels of arsenic — a toxic metal that can cause reproductive harm, cancer and birth defects — in two prominent bottled water brands.
CEH has sent legal notices to the manufacturers and retailers of Starkey Water, owned by Whole Foods, and Peñafiel, owned by Keurig Dr. Pepper, which is bottled in Mexico and sold at Target and Walmart.
Under California's Prop 65, also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, these two bottled water brands contain enough arsenic that they are required to place a health warning on labels — something that neither brand has done.
"There is no place for arsenic in bottled water," said Caroline Cox, Senior Scientist at CEH. "Bottled water companies need to take the necessary steps to remove this toxic metal from their products, and retailers should stop selling them now. Until those conditions are met, we recommend consumers avoid purchasing Whole Foods' Starkey and Dr Pepper's Penafiel."
Just two months ago, Consumer Reports published similar research which found high levels of arsenic in the same two brands of bottled water.
This isn't the first time Starkey and Peñafiel have gotten into trouble over arsenic content in their bottled water.
Starkey Water had to recall more than 2,000 cases of bottled water between 2016 and 2017 because the arsenic content was found to be beyond the federally acceptable level, 10 parts per billion. Whole Foods did their own internal testing a year later and found arsenic levels to be just barely below the federal limit, but this level of arsenic can still be incredibly harmful if ingested regularly.
Both Peñafiel and the Food and Drug Administration have known for years that the bottled water brand contains dangerous levels of arsenic, but neither has ever issued a recall. Consumer Reports's recent testing revealed that arsenic levels were about double the federal legal limit.
Arsenic is a heavy metal that acts as a carcinogen, which can wreak havoc on the human body. Even small levels of arsenic ingestion can cause big problems; it only take a small dose of arsenic significantly disrupt the body's endocrine system, which regulates hormone production and secretion.
Prolonged arsenic ingestion via contaminated water can lead to toxicity in almost all systems of the body because arsenic inactivates up to 200 enzymes responsible for things like DNA synthesis and repair.
Initial symptoms of acute arsenic poisoning include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and can in some cases lead to nerve damage or brain damage, such as memory loss, dementia, or seizures.
With chronic ingestion of arsenic, the heavy metal builds up in the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, muscles, nervous system, gastrointestinal tact and spleen, causing multi-system disease. At its worst stages, chronic arsenic toxicity leads to malignant cancer of the skin, lungs, liver, kidney and bladder.
Children are much more susceptible to arsenic toxicity, which can negatively affect mental and physical development as they are still growing. This can lead to lower IQs and poor performance in school.
"It makes no sense that consumers can purchase bottled water that is less safe than tap water," said James Dickerson, Ph.D., chief scientific officer at Consumer Reports. "If anything, bottled water — a product for which people pay a premium, often because they assume it's safer — should be regulated at least as strictly as tap water."
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Army captain surprises daughters at school after serving in Iraq for nearly a year
Army captain surprises daughters after year in Iraq
Captain Cynthia Jones made a surprise appearance at her daughters' school.
Break out the tissues — this one’s a tearjerker.
An Army captain serving in Iraq for much of the past year arranged to surprise her two young daughters by showing up at their school on Tuesday, and the girls couldn’t have been happier.
Capt. Cynthia Jones, a Chinook pilot with the U.S. Army, made a surprise appearance at the Galt Adventist School in Galt, Calif., just before her daughters Mary and Naomi were let out of class, Fox 40 reported. Arriving in full uniform, Jones first met with the principal – herself on the verge of tears – to help facilitate the surprise.
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Footage of the heartwarming moment shows kindergartener Mary spotting her mother first, and quickly running into her arms. Mary then runs back toward the other schoolchildren to find her third-grade sister Naomi before she, too, runs forward to embrace her mom.
“I was so happy,” Mary told Fox 40.
“I don’t know what I’d do without a mom in my life,” added Naomi. “It made me really proud to see that she was home.”
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Jones’ husband, too, was just as glad to see his wife after nearly a year. "It's awesome having her back,” said Dan Jones, himself a veteran who previously served in Afghanistan. He also said he spent some time “trying to keep [the girls] occupied, make the time go by faster” in his wife’s absence.
The best news of all? Capt. Jones won’t be leaving her daughters to go back to Iraq, as she has finished her overseas deployment.
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"They've grown so much and there's probably a lot that's happened over this last year that I've missed," Jones, who will now serve with the Army National Guard, told Fox 40. "But I'm excited to come back and be a part of this."
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Riggs Hill
Round Trip Distance: 0.75 miles
Elevation: 4714-4846 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Riggs Hill
Fee: none
Attractions: Dinosaur fossil site
Riggs Hill is a short hike that has a lot to offer in the way of geology, paleontology and views of the surrounding valley. Our grand kids had an enjoyable time climbing on the rocks that bordered the trail. The main trail loops around the hill and returns to the parking area for a total distance of .75 miles. If you hike all the way to the top of the hill once you reach the saddle you will end up hiking more than a mile. There is also the opportunity to hike up the hill to the east and almost double the total distance to 2 miles.
The main trail begins at a kiosk just west of the parking area and circles the hill in a clockwise direction. There are some helpful trail guides in the box next to the kiosk that give a history of the site and point out some of the interesting spots along the route.
We opted to hike the trail in a counter-clockwise direction due to our preference to hike up the steep scree slope north of the parking lot rather than down it. Just up from the parking area the trail passed between a wooden platform and several rows of seats. If I remember right these were all part of some young mans Eagle Scout project.
The short section of trail that followed ascended steeply up the hill. We enjoyed the numerous dark colored boulders that covered the landscape. The very dark color of the patina upon the rocks suggested a higher manganese-rich content. Rocks with a reddish brown color generally indicate more of an iron-rich content to the patina.
It was only a short distance before we reached the saddle between Riggs Hill and the point just to the east. We followed the trail to the west that went on the north side of Riggs Hill.
The trail took us around the hill and past the site of the Holt quarry. The guide mentioned several partial dinosaur skeletons that had been removed from this spot.
In the area of the Riggs quarry site we came upon the cast of some bones that had been partially buried for everyones enjoyment.
The last section of the trail, which if we had gone in the proper direction would have been the first part, passed between South Broadway and the hill. There was a split rail fence that served nicely to keep the kids from wandering into the roadway. The fence was part of another Eagle Scout project that was completed under the auspices of Aaron Scheetz whose father worked for the Museum of Western Colorado at the time.
We arrived back at the parking lot after hiking for about one hour. It's sad to think that this could have been a national treasure site if it hadn't been looted of all the bones but rather developed in situ. That probably would have required a 24 hour guard to protect the location. All that aside the Museum of Western Colorado has managed to develop Riggs Hill to make it an enjoyable hike and place to learn some interesting history and geology. If you would like to experience it for yourself then all you have to do is 'Take a hike!'.
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India launches first indigenous aircraft carrier
Source:Xinhua Published: 2013-8-12 14:23:54
India's indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, built by the Cochin Shipyard Limited for the Indian Navy, is docked at the Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kerala, on August 11, 2013. India launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier on August 12, which will put the country in the league of nations to have such a capability, a top defense official said. (Xinhua/stringer)
India's indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, built by the Cochin Shipyard Limited for the Indian Navy, is docked at the Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kerala, on August 11, 2013. India launched its first indigenous aircraft carrier Monday, which will put the country in the league of nations to have such a capability, a top defense official said. (Xinhua/stringer)
Indian Defense minister A.K. Antony on Monday launched Indian's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in the southern port of Kochi, marking the entry of India into the world's elite club capable of producing their own carriers.
Addressing the ceremony, Antony hailed the event as a milestone for India's navy capability, according to local TV Times Now.
INS Vikrant, with a capacity to carry 36 fighter planes, would go for extensive trials in 2016 before being inducted into the Navy by the end of 2018, said officials, who described the launching as the "crowning" of domestication program of armed equipment of the country.
Nearly 90 percent of INS Vikrant's hull has been built indigenously, said The Times of India online.
The flight deck INS Vikrant will have the capacity to hold 19 aircraft and the hangar inside will have room for 17 fighters.
The time interval between the take-offs of two fighters from the ship can be as low as three minutes and can be reduced to less than two minutes, the newspaper quoted naval officials as saying.
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‘Everyone knows Maguire isn’t worth £80m’ – Man Utd still under pressure on deadline day, says former defender
03:31 8/8/19
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Paul Parker believes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer still has much to prove at Old Trafford, with more additions required to a squad that has underperformed
Manchester United may have spent £80 million ($97m) on Harry Maguire, but Paul Parker claims “everyone knows he is not worth that money” and “Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is under a lot of pressure”.
The Red Devils have reached transfer deadline day having made three additions to their ranks.
Maguire has joined Daniel James and Aaron Wan-Bissaka at Old Trafford, with there the potential for more deals to be done before the summer deadline passes on Thursday.
Former United defender Parker believes more proven performers are required in order to make Solskjaer’s side competitive, with the club having overspent in one area and failed to address their deficiencies in another – with Romelu Lukaku’s proposed move to Inter set to leave them short in attack.
“Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is under a lot of pressure. He needs a good start and he needs his team to show consistency. People are questioning how that team fell apart after such a good start,” Parker told Eurosport.
“They capitulated - their performance at Everton (a 4-0 defeat in April) was like an ostrich sticking its head in the sand, it was awful. So Ole is under immense pressure.
“United have addressed a situation that the fans have been screaming for. They've been saying that their centre-halves are rubbish, which was implanted in people's heads by Jose Mourinho.
"The best way to shut the fans up is to go and spend £80m on a defender who everyone knows is not worth that money.
“The hope is that Harry Maguire can have the same impact that Virgil van Dijk has had at Liverpool, but you rarely get two bangs out of a stick of dynamite. I really don't see how Maguire is going to come out and play in the same vein as Van Dijk. They're hoping that he can make the defence better, but there's a massive amount of pressure on him.
“United still have problems elsewhere, in midfield where there's a lack of creativity. There's been talk of Christian Eriksen coming in there, and then up front, Romelu Lukaku wasn't the ideal frontman that United need.
“If you take Lukaku's goals away, there wasn't enough substance. They need another centre-forward as at the moment they've not got anywhere near enough, they can't rely on what they've got unless someone hits the ground running and keeps at that pace throughout the nine months of the season.”
United are being linked with a number of frontmen, including Juventus star Mario Mandzukic, but face a race against time to get bodies on board before attention turns to the start of the 2019-20 Premier League season.
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Home > News > Excellent Development Opportunity In Scenic Location
Excellent Development Opportunity In Scenic Location
Galbraith is bringing to the market a current commercial site with significant potential for development as a rural or leisure business, or as a residential property, set amidst peaceful countryside in an attractive area and highly accessible to Glasgow and the Central Belt.
Barnbrock Farm was most recently used as an office as part of Clyde Muirshiel Country Park and offers a substantial traditional farmhouse with four principal rooms, kitchen, storeroom and three bedrooms; two adjoining stone-built barns recently used as workshops and stores, and a separate modern accommodation block with a kitchen, shower room, WCs and storage rooms.
Separately there is a substantial corrugated metal barn with a mezzanine floor providing ample storage or workshop space, all set amid 4.68 acres of attractive wooded grounds.
Within the grounds lie a campsite with eight timber shielings or glamping pods, requiring refurbishment. The land extends to nearly two hectares, with a useful grazing paddock and a burn running along the southern boundary. There is also an electric vehicle charging station.
Fiona Fulton who is handling the sale of the property said
Barnbrock Farm offers an excellent opportunity for a number of uses – perhaps as an outdoor education centre, premium camp site or an equestrian property in a lovely location. Equally the property could be converted as a wonderful rural home in a prime residential area. Sites such as this with planning permission are rare in this region. It would be relatively straightforward to modernize or extend the existing buildings, or change the land use to residential, subject to the necessary consents.
The location is ideal with Castle Semple Loch nearby - well-known for a range of recreational activities as well as wildlife and bird-watching. The two closest settlements, Bridge of Weir and Lochwinnoch, are both desirable villages with an excellent primary school at Lochwinnoch and a direct rail route to Glasgow city centre.
Currently the property has planning permission for, and is in use as commercial premises. There is also planning permission for a campsite. Barnbrock Farm is within the Local Development Plan for Renfrewshire. The site has most recently been used as office and storage premises for a regional country park and the camp site has hosted groups of young people on educational visits.
The adjacent Locherwood Community Woodland and nearby Muirshiel Country Park offer access to high-quality outdoor space. Castle Semple Loch, about five miles distant has a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which is renowned for bird watching. There are also sailing and kayaking opportunities on the loch and walking routes in the Clyde Muirshiel regional park. The Sustrans off-road cycle route from Irvine to Glasgow continues along the lochside. There is also a golf course beside the village.
Barnbrock Farm is for sale through Galbraith for offers over £340,000.
Fiona Fulton MNAEA
Fiona is part of the Sales team in our Ayr office and a member of the National Association of Estate Agents.
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DUBAI: The who’s who of the horse racing fraternity from across the globe will converge on Meydan as the biggest sporting event of the year, the $35m Dubai World Cup – making it the world’s richest race day – unfolds on Saturday.
The trio of Saeed Bin Suroor, Charlie Appleby and along with jockey William Buick will lead the Godolphin charge across the nine races.
Having provided Saeed Bin Suroor his eighth Dubai World Cup success last year, Thunder Snow, already the only horse to have won the UAE Derby and the Dubai World Cup, bids to become the first dual winner of the world’s richest horse race on Saturday.
“This has been his target since the Breeders’ Cup in November,” Bin Suroor said.
“The plan was always to wait for Super Saturday when he pleased us to put him spot on for Saturday. We have been very pleased with his work and he is in great form. We would have preferred a lower draw but he drawn wide last year.”
Elliott Walden of WinStar Farm laughed as Audible briefly emerged from the fog that descended over Meydan Racecourse on Friday morning, only to be shrouded again as he went through his gallop ahead of Saturday’s Dubai World Cup. As he stood on the rail and took in what he could of Audible in advance of Saturday’s signature test, Walden tucked into the fact that what he has seen from the son of Into Mischief since arriving in Dubai confirmed to him that the colt was as ready as he could be for his international test.
Under exercise rider Amelia Green, Audible came to the track in his usual time to gallop twice around. He paused for a handful of moments to observe the onlookers before getting into his routine and showcasing the good flesh he had maintained throughout his venture.
“He went well, he looked happy. You like to see them happy and bright and it doesn’t always go that way,” said Walden, president and CEO of WinStar Farm, which co-owns Audible along with China Horse Club, Starlight Racing, and Head of Plains Partners.
“When you come this far, it is a bit of relief. Hopefully he can come back to himself a little bit. His last race was disappointing, the last two races really, but hopefully he’ll come back to himself here.”
Based at the iconic Zabeel Stables, trainer Satish Seemar and stable jockey Richard Mullen are having a wonderful UAE racing season, which is in no small part related to the success—and sheer dominance—of yard star North America. The massive son of Dubawi will once again line up in the $12 million event, but this time is the co-favourite in the race with arch rival Thunder Snow after two front-running one-sided victories thus far this season in the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 and 2 (both Group 2). There is no small sense of redemption at stake here, as North America was the choice of many tipsters last year, but failed to break and gifted an uncontested lead to the ultimately successful aforementioned foe.
The key to getting Charles Fipke’s Seeking the Soul through his final day of training before the Dubai World Cup was sticking to the same routine he has kept all week, according to trainer Dallas Stewart. As he has done all week, the 6-year-old Perfect Soul horse came on the track and galloped once around in the dense fog.
“We’re keeping to our plan,” Stewart said. “We’re not changing anything now.”
Stewart will once again partner with Mike Smith, one year after teaming up for a fifth-place finish with Forever Unbridled.
“You can’t get too far behind on this track, because you’re not going to make up ground and it’s ‘See you next year,’” Stewart said.
Trainer Simon Foster reported Dolkong was doing well just one day before the big occasion.
“He just did a quiet lap of the training track as planned this morning, Foster said.
“All well. We’re ready to go and delighted to be there.”
Meanwhile, as with the rest of the week, Antonio Sano’s 5-year-old Gunnevera kept it casual on the dirt track as he returns for the race for the second time. Instead of Joel Rosario, who was aboard 12 months ago when Gunnevera took eighth after a troubled preparation, Sano has decided to give his fellow Venezuelan-born Emisael Jaramillo the big-race mount.
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The nine races, highlighted by the $12 million Dubai World Cup, have attracted some of the World’s best race horses to Dubai.
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Two-time Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow has been confirmed to start in the Whitney Handicap (G1) on Saturday, Aug.3, at Saratoga Racecourse in Saratoga Springs, New York, US. The Whitney is the most prestigious summer race for dirt horses, 3-year-olds and upward, in America and carries
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Skeptical Minds
GillieJan 23, 2016Interviews0
On January the 16th, Gillian had a pleasant conversation with singer Karolina and guitarist Michel from the electro-industrial metal band Skeptical Minds. We found ourselves a nice place in the couch of the backstage area of venue “The Verlichte Geest” and started talking …
Tonight you are playing at ‘De Verlichte Geest’, have you already played this venue before?
Michel: Once, maybe 4 or 5 years ago, when we were promoting the previous album with “Beyond the labyrinth”. So we knew the place already and it’s good to come back!
Did it leave a good impression on you?
Michel: yea, the conditions were not so easy that day, technically we had some issues with the mixing-table. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but we did have a good gig and the people also liked it. If we wouldn’t have liked the experience we wouldn’t come back! (laughs)
In October, you released your latest album “Omega Thanatos”, what made it extra special was that it was accompanied by a comic book. Tell me how this idea started to grow and how you practically worked it out.
Michel: In 2008, when we were making the previous album, we already had an idea for the future. We had a story in mind and we thought it would be nice if we could make a concept album for the next (third) album. We wanted to combine that with a comic book but at the time we didn’t know how and with whom. It was just a project we had in mind and we would see what the future would bring. Then in 2011 there was Alain Poncelet, I know him since 20 years but I didn’t know that he was working on comic books and so on. He proposed to make a t-shirt for us and we said OK, that’s how we started to work with Alain for the artwork of the band. We made a first comic ‘Broken dolls’ as a try-out for this project, to see how we have to work to make a comic. It’s like a movie, it’s very specific and for us it was completely new. This is how things started so we gave him the idea we had, he started to prepare his storyboard and we had some songs already. he made the final drawings to adapt to the songs and fit on the ambiances of the drawings, so it was like ping-pong. It took us 2 years to be ready but we did achieve this and everybody is happy about the result.
So you actually adapted the songs to fit his drawings?
Michel: Yea, we had to because when you look at the final drawings it’s very dark, we wanted to put that in the songs too and what we had in the beginning didn’t fit the drawings enough.
It was too “positive” ?
Michel: Not too positive, it was maybe aggressive when it had to be more melancholic. The first song for example is a dreamy song, it was not like that in the beginning so it didn’t work.
Karolina: Also when you see the different chapters of the the comic and you hear the songs, you can say “ahh, okay that’s why it’s like that, it works together”.
Michel: When you listen to the cd after you know the comic, you will see some images coming back, so it’s easier when it fits. It had to be like a soundtrack!
What where the reactions on your new album up until now?
Karolina: very good!
Michel: Better than we expected, because we didn’t know if the metal world would like it. Some songs are completely different, if you compare “Thanatos” to “The dance” for example, we couldn’t put those songs together on a normal Skeptical album. Within the atmosphere of the comic, it makes sense. People say it’s different and it’s something new, so that’s good.
Karolina, where did you find your main inspirations for the lyrics of the new album?
Karolina: When I saw the comics, I had the information what each chapter was about and I imagined what kind of words could fit to each chapter. I saw the images and from there I created the lyrics
Michel: Something interesting to say is that the text from the comic book was written by me and the lyrics of the songs were written by Karolina. No one watched what the other wrote, we didn’t want to take the same words so each one expressed themselfs in another way. That was very interesting, it was better to let Karolina do the lyrics because this way it was more natural. In the comic we chose to put less words because the girl in the story is empty and desperate so it makes the whole feel more heavy. When you sing, you can explain more things! So we had 2 different ways to explain the same thing and it was interesting to work like that.
It is far from a cliché album, the songs are varying from each other and we can hear different styles. Was that a conscious choice from the beginning or did it just evolve that way?
Michel: in the beginning the songs were more classical “Skeptical Minds” songs, but because of the drawings we started exploring other fields.
Tell me about the title of the album, how did you pick it ?
Michel: The main subject turnes around death; will she die or not? She had a dream that said she will die, she saw the end of her world and it turns around this. It all comes down to this; whatever you do, whether you influence death or not (we don’t know if you can), you will die one day. Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet and we wanted to choose a word that is understandable in every language. Thanatos is death, so all together the title means; ‘in the end we have death’. Thanatos also appears like a character in the comic, we used that opportunity to make the “Skeptical Minds” logo appear in the comic as Thanatos. He represents the god of death.
Would you say that your style has changed with the new album?
Michel: The problem is that people like to define a style for a band but we don’t really do that for ourselves. We just say we mix different elements; electro, industrial, metal guitar sounds and melodic female voices. The rest is just inspiration, we don’t want to say we play more metal or more gothic because we don’t care. I think some of the new songs are different from what we made before, like “Balcony dreams”, this song starts with a harp and I could have never thought we would ever use a harp in our songs.
For me it is difficult to say if our songs still sound like “Skeptical Minds”, it’s up to our fans too judge that.
When we compose, for every song we use three keywords; sadness, depression or aggressiveness. We always try to use minimum 2 of these words in each song, thats why all the songs still feel like Skeptical Minds songs and that’s what keeps the coherence. For me personally it’s a very different album from what we did before, but it’s more easy for people who are not in the band to judge this.
How do you like to play the new songs live and how is the crowd reacting to them?
Karolina: From the crowds side I see the curiosity, I see they experience the new songs and the emotions that come forth from it. From my side it is also very interesting because I play something new that was recently created and I can express myself in a new way, so I like it.
Michel: I would like to make a difference between the day we presented the album and now. When we presented the album in October, it was the first time we played the new songs, so we didn’t know if people would appreciate them. We knew that some songs were very different from what the fans were used to hear but the reactions were very good, since that moment we were relieved. We already liked the songs as we composed them, but as soon as we knew the fans liked them too, it felt better on both sides.
Tonight we will play 5 or 6 songs of the new album so it’s wel represented!
In the album booklet it said that there would be more “Skeptical Minds and Alain Poncelet” on stage, can you tell something about this?
Michel: yes, we try to integrate different visual elements on stage. At the release for example we had a screen, so we could project things and we had movies for every song, that was very cool.
Something different that will happen next week is our show in a comic book store. Alain will have a signing session in the afternoon together with 6 other artists. After that, we will play a gig to present the album and those 6 artists will be drawing on the side, they will each make their interpretations, related to “Omega Thanatos”. We will try to do more things like this in the future.
You have played gigs in different countries throughout the years, what country left the best impression on you?
Karolina: in every country you have different kinds of responses and very nice fans, but for me, the best show ever was our show in Athens. We played there for the first time, supporting Epica. We knew some people but it was our first time to play there as a band so we could not know how people would react. When we were putting our material on stage, people saw us and they started to scream “Spartaaa” and when we started to play the gig, people were singing along with our songs.
Michel: We never sold the CD there but you could see that despite this, a lot of people were following us, they were ready to see us. We just thought we would play there like ‘newbies’, but they welcomed us like a professional band. It was very surprising, there was an ambiance like nowhere else and it was incredible for us.
We also played Metal Female Voices Fest and it is also one of our best memories, just like when we played in Poland last year, but Greece was really blowing us away.
Since that moment we never played again in Greece, but every time we go the country, we tell people when we will go to a bar and sometimes 50 people come to the bar just to have a drink with us, we never saw this before!
One final question; how do you see the near future of Skeptical Minds?
Karolina: We will try to promote the new album as much as we can.
Michel: We will give you a scoop; the first part of 2016 we will promote the new album, the second part we will work on Karolina’s side project. It’s not particularly metal..
Karolina: You can guess what it will be about! (laughs)
Michel: Normally it will be ready at the end of this year, it is also a collaboration with Alain Poncelet, but it will be more about Polish legends.
Thanks a lot for your time!
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Guam High's Chauret commits to Jacksonville for NCAA Division I football
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Guam High Panther football coach Jacob Dowdell said even before he had seen Keith “Trip” Chauret on the field, he knew he was going to make it far in the sport.
“I told him he was gonna make it. He was a little flabbergasted, seeing as I didn’t see him play,” he said.
Chauret signed an official letter of intent with an NCAA Division I school Thursday evening on National Signing Day, the first day a high school senior can sign a national letter of intent.
Chauret, an outside linebacker and strong safety for the team, chose Jacksonville University out of 13 offers he collected from schools across the nation, including Bucknell University, Western New Mexico University, Graceland University and Birmingham Southern.
“I have a lot of people to thank for this opportunity — a lot of people who have helped me get this far. Mainly I want to thank God, who has blessed me with my abilities to get this far,” said Chauret.
Chauret also thanked his coach, his family, teachers, guidance counselors and all those who have helped push him toward achieving this milestone.
Department of Defense Education Activity Superintendent Steven Bloom praised Chauret’s commitment to excellence — not only on the field, but also in his academics and citizenship.
“You represent your family and your school with dignity and distinction,” Bloom said.
Dowdell said Chauret’s large build was an indication that he had the potential to become a Division I athlete. Chauret, a senior at Guam High, stands at about 6-feet, 2-inches tall.
“He’s got a good size. It’s his frame. … I knew by looking at his frame what we could do with him from where he was starting,” Dowdell said.
Dowdell said he sees a great potential in many students on island to move forward into college football.
Only about 6 percent of high school football players make it into the NCAA, according to collegesportsscholarships.com.
“There are a lot of people who have great frames, so we are very hopeful that more kids will get more opportunities with us, now that we have a Division I athlete coming from Guam,” he said. “Here on Guam, there are quite a few kids who can play on that level.”
Chauret’s father, Air Force Lt. Col. Keith Chauret Sr., said his son had been playing sports since kindergarten, starting with T-ball and flag football, and had cultivated a love for football over the years. The elder Chauret said the family had lived next door to a high school football coach when his son was around second grade. His son would assist as water boy at games, and would often mimic the players’ workouts.
As for the younger Chauret’s decision to choose Jacksonville University, the elder Chauret said it was a really tough decision, but his son had built a rapport with the school’s football coach.
“He wishes he could go to all of them, but you gotta pick one. I think that was the hardest thing. It was tough,” the proud father said. “His mom and I are just ecstatic.”
The younger Chauret said part of his decision in choosing Jacksonville in Florida stemmed from wanting to be closer to his family.
“My parents will be getting stationed in Alabama this summer, so it will be pretty close to my family,” he said. “It’s a great academic school, and the coaches have stayed on top of me to make sure this is where I want to go.”
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Speed error in Hinckley costs £300
CHANGING the speed limit on the Coventry Road between the A5 and Hinckley town centre has proved a bit of a problem for the county council.
In last week’s Times it advertised changes to ‘correct an anomaly’ in the 2008 imposition of a 30mph speed limit order.
It is asking for comments by May 8 on raising the limit for the first 87 metres from the A5 from 30mph to 40mph and cutting the limit on the next stretch to Trinity Road to 30mph.
A highways spokeswoman said: “As part of the commitment to reduce road accident casualties, a scheme on Coventry Road was introduced in 2008. The measures included enhanced signing and road markings, to indicate a reduction in the speed limit on the majority of Coventry Road to 30mph.
“Due to an administrative omission in carrying out the legal requirements to change the speed limit, it has been necessary to re-advertise the change... the cost of rectifying this is £300.”
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God's Funny Man
by Stephen Hilaire
Have you ever wondered why Jesus' disciple Peter was so obsessed with fish? Or marvelled at how Jesus could cure a madman without self-help books or a leather couch? Comedic performer and storyteller Stephen Hilaire has.
He presents Bible stories in a way you probably haven't heard before, with sound effects, dramatisation and lots of laughs.
It's a surprise to see a sacred book written thousands of years ago being portrayed in such a contemporary, almost radical, manner.
People today have a passion for cinema blockbusters with surround sound and special effects on the big screen. Consequently, we have come to expect an outstanding story to have an expensive, high-tech presentation, an A-grade cast and superior direction and production.
In contrast, it can be hard to sit down to a simple book and be engrossed in the context of the story.
Today's society is drifting away from Bible reading. While the Bible is still a bestseller, it is often placed on the shelf and left unexplored. Even many Christians do not read it regularly.
How can today's Christian storytellers excite a new interest in an old subject?
Enter Stephen Hilaire, wearing his trademark purple suit. Along with Glenn Coombs, Stephen is the creator of “Hilaireous Productions,” a company that offers comedic storytelling, creative performance workshops and puppetry performances. His biblical storytelling, aimed at teens and adults, recounts tales of the Old Testament greats—such as Gideon, Noah, Jonah and Joseph—with a new twist. The Gospels are also retold in a series of episodes, much of which have been recorded on a DVD entitled Jesus Christ and His Merry Men.
Now 28 years old, Stephen Hilaire has been committed to portraying a contemporary version of Christianity since he was a child. In Grade 6, an opportunity arose for his family to be involved in a Scripture Union Beach Mission puppetry team. He continued with this project each year, until he was the team leader at the end of his high school education. After earning a Creative Arts degree from the University of Wollongong in 2000, he teamed up with Glenn Coombs and they hit the road with their own puppet shows, starring a wolf named Hamish.
These shows subtly present Christian values such as love, mercy, forgiveness and family. With attention-grabbing plots, Stephen and Glenn try to counteract children's “been there—done that” attitude. They also cater for adults by inserting references in the scripts that adults will find amusing. As they perform at schools around New South Wales, Hilaireous Productions aims to demonstrate that discovering Jesus is not boring. Through humour and drama, Stephen wants to give people a taste of Jesus that will inspire them to know more about Him.
As a dramatic performer who needs to engage audiences, Stephen's work is cut out for him. Using the Bible for script material can be hard work. “The Bible is bare-boned, with not much detail. It is more like a history textbook, recording a series of facts,” he observes. He also recognises that the Bible is not a Western book—it is steeped in Jewish and Middle Eastern culture. When we read it, often a lot of the message is lost in our interpretation through Western eyes.
Stephen explains, “Take the story of the prodigal son, we read it and think, Oh, how sad—the son lost all his money and had to work in the pigpen. How yucky. But in Jewish tradition, to work with pigs—unclean animals—made a person spiritually defiled. And to work for a Gentile—a non-Jew—was a deep degradation for a Jewish person. With that sort of understanding of the story, we can now see more clearly in the parable the contrasts between being lost and rescued.”
While researching for a new act, Stephen seeks additional background information to give him a clearer understanding of the context of the Bible story. For performances, he examines at least four different modern translations or paraphrases of the Bible, such as the New International Version, Good News, the New Living Translation and The Message.
He immerses himself in the story, discovering nuances of the text, and seeking clues to build a story or char acter. The information Stephen gleans helps him flesh out a dramatisation and decide which angle to take.
Stephen often receives feedback from people saying they had never seen the Bible story from his perspective before. He also finds it ironic that aside from his humorous additions, the original Bible texts contain some quirky accounts that many Christians have overlooked.
He mentions a show he presented to a church group, involving a dramatisation of the Old Testament story of Gideon. Afterward, one audience member approached Stephen and commended him on his particular slant. He asked, “That bit about the man dreaming of a loaf of bread rolling down the hill—how did you think that up?”
Stephen responded, “That's a piece I didn't add; it was in the Bible account all along.”
The sceptical man went away to check his Bible and discovered it really was part of the scriptures.
Stephen admits that while he embellishes stories and creates his own version of biblical events, he is mindful to keep the heart of the story intact. He is aware of the accusation that he could be sacrilegious.
“While I don't mind chucking off at the disciples, I never make fun of Jesus. I really do like Jesus.”
Stephen hopes his representation of biblical characters as real people with real doubts and weaknesses will encourage us. He asserts that 12 disciples travelling around together for 18 months must have led to a range of personality conflicts. They were ordinary people, who were mostly ignorant and confused about Jesus' intentions and His teachings.
Despite being misguided and vacillating in their faith, they eventually became great teachers and leaders in the fledgling Christian church.
Stephen can relate to the apostle Peter, who was infamous among the 12 for being impetuous and making inappropriate comments. “But it was okay—Jesus still loved him,” Stephen marvels. After Jesus' death and resurrection, Peter's faith grew and he became one of the founders of the new Christian church. “There are many examples of God's grand plan working out for the best despite—or even because of— people's failings.”
One of Stephen's aims as a Christian performer is to have an impact—to “kick a dent in the world.” He believes Christianity must be dynamic and relevant to the wider world. While some Christians may feel comfortable with their perspective on life, the world is always changing. How Christians relate to others must also change. Stephen asserts, “We cannot afford to get slack; we can never say that we have done all we can. We need to keep abreast of what people read, what they listen to and change our methods to engage people.”
Stephen's biblical storytelling represents Jesus in a fresh way; he sees his work as a “cure for complacency.” He hopes even mature Christians will have their imagination stimulated, inspiring them to reanalyse their perspective.
He says it is possible for a Christian to become complacent about their faith and theology, something that should be confronted.
Stephen is not content to stagnate.
Being a third-generation Christian, he is quite familiar with the stories in the Bible but sees it as crucial to dig deeper each time he studies it, so he doesn't take the message for granted.
“The more you study the Bible the more complex it gets; you need to peel back the layers for deeper truths.” He spends time studying for himself and attends a men's Bible-study group.
Through Hilaireous Productions, Stephen seeks to challenge negative perceptions of Christianity. The Christian stereotypes in the media are unflattering in various ways. Stephen cites just one example: “Look at the two Christian characters in the TV show The Simpsons. Reverend Lovejoy doesn't believe what he preaches and Homer's neighbour, Ned Flanders, is weak, nerdy and submissive.” These media representations attest to the many people who have witnessed hypocrisy and had hurtful experiences through involvement with Christians.
Stephen believes Christians need to keep Jesus at the heart of all they do.
“Jesus is fantastic. If Christianity looks bad, it's not because the heart of it is wrong—it's what we've done with the way we represent Christ.”
Stephen's life is busy trying to represent Christ in a positive way. His business tours schools and churches, and he also performs regularly at Black Stump Christian festival (held near Wollongong, New South Wales) since 2001.
Stephen would like to see Hilaireous Productions expand to provide work opportunities for creative people in Christian multimedia. With his wife, Mandy, and young daughter, Isabelle, Stephen has great hopes for the future—and why not? His world centres on a “fantastic Jesus.”
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McGlothin History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
There are many Irish surnames being used today in forms that are quite different than their original, ancient forms. McGlothin originally appeared in Gaelic as Mac Lochlainn or O Maoilsheachlainn. The first name is derived from a Norse personal name, while the second name originally designated a follower of St. Secundinus.
Early Origins of the McGlothin family
The surname McGlothin was first found in County Meath (Irish: An Mhí) anciently part of the kingdom of Brega, located in Eastern Ireland, in the province of Leinster, where they held a family seat from very ancient times, long before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 A.D.
Muircheartach Mac Lochlainn (died 1166), was king of Tír Eoghain, and High King of Ireland (c.1156-1166.) Together with sixteen of his closest allies, he was killed and was succeeded by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair.
Niall Mac Lochlainn (died 1176) was a king of Cenél nEógain and Cenél Conaill, son of Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn.
Early History of the McGlothin family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our McGlothin research. Another 68 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1002, 1172, 1404, 1387, 1405, 1506, 1699, 1797, 1784 and 1857 are included under the topic Early McGlothin History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
McGlothin Spelling Variations
Pronunciation, rather than spelling, guided scribes and church officials when recording names during the Middle Ages. This practice often resulted in one person's name being recorded under several different spellings. Numerous spelling variations of the surname McGlothin are preserved in these old documents. The various spellings of the name that were found include MacLoughlin, McLoughlin, MacGloughlin, Lochlain, Claughan and many more.
Early Notables of the McGlothin family (pre 1700)
Notable amongst the family name at this time was Cearbhall mac Lochlainn Ó Dálaigh (died 1404), an Irish poet, Chief Ollam of Ireland (1387-1405); Paidin mac Lochlainn Ó Mailchonaire (died 1506), an Irish poet; Charles Macklin (1699-1797), originally Cathal MacLochlainn in Irish, or Charles McLaughlin...
Another 45 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early McGlothin Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the McGlothin family
The 19th century saw a great wave of Irish families leaving Ireland for the distant shores of North America and Australia. These families often left their homeland hungry, penniless, and destitute due to the policies of England. Those Irish immigrants that survived the long sea passage initially settled on the eastern seaboard of the continent. Some, however, moved north to a then infant Canada as United Empire Loyalists after ironically serving with the English in the American War of Independence. Others that remained in America later joined the westward migration in search of land. The greatest influx of Irish immigrants, though, came to North America during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s. Thousands left Ireland at this time for North America, and those who arrived were immediately put to work building railroads, coal mines, bridges, and canals. In fact, the foundations of today's powerful nations of the United States and Canada were to a larger degree built by the Irish. Archival documents indicate that members of the McGlothin family relocated to North American shores quite early: Thomas, Bridget, Catherine and Helen MacLoughlin who settled in Quebec in 1849; Bernard, Charles, Denis, Hugh, James, John, Michael, Patrick, Thomas and William MacLoughlin all arrived in Philadelphia between 1823 and 1860. The family also settled in Newfoundland between 1792 and 1872..
Contemporary Notables of the name McGlothin (post 1700) +
Paul Sandford McGlothin (b. 1948), American musician, author and consultant on calorie restriction
Ezra Mac "Pat" McGlothin (b. 1920), American Major League Baseball pitcher
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Hyperion Nuclear: Buy Your Own Nuclear Power Plant
Dave Burdick
At a time when energy costs have become a real focus again -- and major nuclear failures appear to be fading in consumers' memories -- one business is trying to convince people to take themselves off the energy grid without using a wind turbine or solar panels.
Hyperion nuclear power plants, small plants for home use, could be coming soon:
Scientists at Los Alamos in New Mexico say the plants will be on sale within five years. Hyperion Power Generation, based in New Mexico, said it's already taking orders and will start mass production of its Hyperion Power Module within the same time frame.
The goal "is to generate electricity for 10 cents a watt anywhere in the world," according to a Hyperion executive. That same executive also said "you could never have a Chernobyl-type event" with one of the reactors.
Hyperion's in-home nuclear plants are safe from a "Chernobyl-type event," said the company's CEO, because they're built differently:
The reactors, only a few metres in diameter, will be delivered on the back of a lorry to be buried underground. They must be refuelled every 7 to 10 years. Because the reactor is based on a 50-year-old design that has proved safe for students to use, few countries are expected to object to plants on their territory. An application to build the plants will be submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission next year.
'You could never have a Chernobyl-type event - there are no moving parts,' said Deal. 'You would need nation-state resources in order to enrich our uranium. Temperature-wise it's too hot to handle. It would be like stealing a barbecue with your bare hands.'
Hyperion Nuclear is marketing the plants to specific types of communities that it believes would find real value in being off the energy grid:
"Hyperion power modules (HPMs) are a perfect alternative for those communities -- such as military bases, hospital and college campuses, - that, for security, reliability, or financial reasons, desire to be independent of their local utility's power source. Equally important is Hyperion's ability to bring heat for industrial uses and electricity for infrastructure and homes to remote locations with no reasonable access to reliable energy. For example: over 25% of the world's population does not have access to clean water. Hyperion can solve this appalling situation by providing the power to pump, clean, and process life's essential element, thereby turning the tide on disease, poverty and social unrest."
The Hyperion nuclear plant -- also called the Hyperion Hydride Reactor -- would eliminate the need for much energy infrastructure, save for the seven-year refueling:
One of the largest problems in the energy industry today is the transmission of power from the large power generating facilities to distant locations. The Hyperion Hydride Reactor is small and portable. According to its developers, the device provides the long-awaited solution to the need for cost-efficient, practical power sources in rural or remote locations. The module is sealed at the factory and is not opened until it needs to be "refueled" (the reactor has a uranium hydride core, surrounded by a hydrogen atmosphere). The manufacturer claims refueling should take place approximately every five years. The precautionary measures of containing the reactor and of completely burying the module at the operating site are designed to minimize the possibility of human incompetence or hostile tampering.
::Hyperion Power Generation web site ::Hyperion nuclear batteries the size "of a hot tub"
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Insanely Cool Hotels You'll Have To Stay In To Believe
Carly Ledbetter
05/13/2014 07:00am EDT | Updated December 6, 2017
Now that 7-star hotels are a thing and personal butlers are becoming a staple at certain London hotels, things are getting a little outrageous in the hotel world.
So what better way to embrace the insanity then by taking a look at a few stays we think are crazy cool:
This 7-Star Hotel Dominates The Skyline
Constructed in 1999, the world's first 7-star hotel can be found in Dubai, because of course it would be in Dubai. According to its website, the Burj Al Arab features a personal butler, eight world-class restaurants and bars, a private beach and transportation via Mercedes, Rolls Royce or private helicopter service. Sounds super nifty, the only thing deterring us is the hefty price tag for a night in the Royal Suite.
We Wouldn't Mine Staying Here At All
For around $660 per night (not including the cost of the plane ticket you'll need to get to this mine in Sweden) you can spend a night in the "world's deepest hotel room." The Silvermine Hotel, located within the Sala Silvermine, has only one room that's 500 feet underground and it's known as the "Mine Suite."
A Hotel Fit For An Olympian (Or A King)
The Pangu Hotel was built for the 2012 Beijing Olympics and just like the Opening Ceremonies, the Chinese really outdid themselves. The second 7-star hotel to make the list, this one is relatively affordable to stay in. According to The Telegraph, the hotel offers replicas of the Forbidden City on rare Italian marble, silk wallpaper and even Baker furniture (which is only found in America's White House).
You'll Need To Go Underground To Get To This Loveshack
You read that right -- another "world's deepest hotel room" this time found at the Grand Canyon Caverns, Cavern Motel Rooms in Arizona. The truly spectacular thing about this hotel room is that it's technically 65 million years in the making. Located 220 feet below ground, it has a $800 price tag for this lonely-looking love cave and the outdated magazines it offers as amenities.
Shrangri-YES, We Want To Stay Here
If you're into the whole floor-to-ceiling windows thing, then the Shangri-La Hotel in London is perfect for you. The 19 story-hotel (which stands within The Shard and opened a few days ago) offers outstanding views of London's most famous sites and will even lend you a personal butler if you're in one of the suites. The hotel is home to London's highest champagne room (even though most will drink bubbly at any height).
Swanky Enough For A Sultan
The Museum Hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey is one museum we would never get tired of visiting, probably because it calls itself a LIVING museum. As the first luxury hotel in the region -- yes, it's only five stars -- all of its rooms are made out of ruins. The Sultan's Cave, arguably the coolest room offered, features two caves and can only be accessed by entering though a tunnel.
The iNsane iSquare Mall & Hotel
Orlando's iSquare Mall & Hotel, which will cost around $400 million to complete by 2017, claims that anyone who visits this hotspot in the future will be made to feel like a "celebrity or billionaire." Considering the hotel is already making some consumers angry with their exaggerated, self-imposed 7-star rating, we hope the indoor ice arena and 24-hour revolving restaurant make up for the grumpiness.
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Joint Statement by FAO, IFAD, WFP and the World Bank on COVID-19 Impacts on Food Security and Nutrition on the occasion of the Extraordinary G20 Agriculture Ministers' Meeting
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic loss of human life across the world and presents an unprecedented challenge with deep social and economic consequences, including compromising food security and nutrition. Responses need to be well coordinated across the world, including by the G20 and beyond, to limit impacts, end the pandemic and prevent its recurrence.
The pandemic is already affecting the entire food system. Restrictions on movement within and across countries can hinder food-related logistic services, disrupt entire food supply chains and affect the availability of food. Impacts on the movement of agricultural labor and on the supply of inputs will soon pose critical challenges to food production, thus jeopardizing food security for all people, and hit especially hard the people living in the poorest countries.
Agriculture and its food-related logistic services should be considered as essential. Increased efforts are needed to ensure that food value chains function well and promote the production and availability of diversified, safe and nutritious food for all. In doing this, it is necessary to give precedence to the health of consumers and workers, adhering to safety measures, such as testing, physical distancing and other hygienic practices.
Currently, the world food market is well supplied and all countries, particularly those with prominent trade shares, need to ensure that it remains a stable, transparent and reliable source of food. During the 2007-08 food price crisis, panic-driven policy responses, such as export bans and rapid escalation in food stock procurement through imports, exacerbated market disruptions.
While food supplies were tighter because of weather shocks globally in 2007-08, this behavior stretches the balance between global food supply and demand, increasing price volatility and ultimately contributing to it. These immediate impacts proved extremely damaging for low-income food-import-dependent countries, and to the efforts of humanitarian organizations to procure supplies.
Countries need to work together to strengthen cooperation during this pandemic that is affecting all regions of the world. It is important to ensure that policies, such as short-term measures to restrict trade, do not distort global markets.
Collective action is needed to ensure that markets are well-functioning, and that timely and reliable information on market fundamentals is available to all. This will reduce uncertainty and allow producers, consumers, traders and processors to make informed production and trade decisions and contain panic behavior in global markets.
The Agricultural Market Information System – a G20 initiative that combines the expertise of ten International Organizations with the information provided by countries with a high share in world food trade – is monitoring world supply and price developments.
The devastating economic impacts of COVID-19 reinforce the need for investments that prevent future outbreaks of such infectious diseases, recognizing the interconnections between people, animals, plants and their shared environment – the One Health approach. Continued attention is necessary to strengthen the resilience of food systems to such disease outbreaks and also to other shocks.
As the pandemic slows down economies, access to food will be negatively affected by income reductions and loss of employment, as well as availability of food in local markets. Efforts should focus on supporting access to food for the poor and the vulnerable and those whose income is most affected. Implementing adequate social protection measures, such as cash transfers, and investing in early recovery efforts in response to COVID-19 is critical to saving both lives and livelihoods. Ensuring that these measures reach everyone will be key to avoiding further spread of poverty and hunger.
Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of the pandemic. Its effects could be even stronger in those countries that are already facing exceptional emergencies with direct consequences for agriculture, including those due to ongoing or emerging conflict and climate shocks or desert locust outbreaks.
The pandemic is likely to have significant repercussions on the delivery of humanitarian and recovery assistance. Maintaining ongoing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable groups and adapting to potential COVID-19 impacts is critical. Investment is needed to accelerate recovery efforts and build resilience of vulnerable populations, coordinating our efforts with all partners, including with the UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19.
Decisive collective action is needed now to ensure that this pandemic does not threaten food security and nutrition, and to improve resilience to future shocks. On this, we highlight the 2021 Food Systems Summit as an opportunity to drive transformative action and contribute to the UN Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs by 2030.
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Rakovsky, Christian Georgyevich
Rakovsky, Christian Georgyevich khrĭstyän´ gēyŏr´gyĭvĭch rəkôf´skē [key], 1873–1938, Soviet Communist diplomat. His early revolutionary activities extended from his native Bulgaria through Switzerland, Germany, France, and Romania. In 1919 he briefly headed the Ukrainian Soviet government. A Soviet delegate at the Conference of Genoa (1922), he was later Russian chargé d'affaires at London (1924) and ambassador to France (1926–27). His opposition to Joseph Stalin's leadership caused his expulsion (1927) from the party. He later recanted (1934). In the public purge trial of Mar., 1938, Rakovsky was convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years. He is believed to have died in prison.
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Within These Walls
Ania Ahlborn
In her all-new supernatural thriller, bestselling indie horror author Ania Ahlborn asks: How far would you go for success? What would you be capable of if the promise of forever was real?
With his marriage on the rocks and his life in shambles, washed-up true-crime writer Lucas Graham is desperate for a comeback, one more shot at the bestselling success he once enjoyed. His chance comes when he’s promised exclusive access to death row inmate Jeffrey Halcomb, the notorious cult leader and mass murderer who’s ready to break his silence after thirty years, and who contacted Lucas personally from his maximum-security cell. With nothing left to lose, Lucas leaves New York to live and work from the scene of the crime: a split-level farmhouse on a gray-sanded beach in Washington State whose foundation is steeped in the blood of Halcomb’s diviners—runaways who were drawn to his message of family, unity, and unconditional love. There, Lucas sets out to capture the real story of the departed faithful. Except that he’s not alone. For Jeffrey Halcomb promised his devout eternal life…and within these walls, they’re far from dead.
Praise For Within These Walls…
"Terrifyingly sad….Within These Walls creeps under your skin, and stays there. It’s insidious….The book’s atmosphere is distinctly damp, clammy, overcast, and it isn’t all the Washington weather: its characters’ souls are gray, dimmed by failure. Ahlborn is awfully good on the insecurities that plague both aging writers…and oversensitive young girls…which leave them vulnerable to those who…know how to get into their heads. So grim.”
— The New York Times Book Review
"Cruel, bone-chilling, and destined to become a classic, Within These Walls is worth the sleep it will cost you. Some of the most promising horror I've encountered in years."
— Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author
“A monstrous Russian nesting doll of a book, holding secrets within secrets; the plot barrels headlong towards one of the most shocking climaxes you’re ever likely to read. This one’s going to wreck you."
— Nick Cutter, national bestselling author of The Troop and The Deep
“Ania Ahlborn is a great storyteller who spins an atmosphere of dread literally from the first page, increasing the mental pressure all the way through to the terrifying, chilling ending.”
— Jeff Somers, acclaimed author of The Electric Church and We Are Not Good People
"Ever-mounting terror and a foreboding setting make for pure storytelling alchemy....Ania Ahlborn goes for the gut with surprise twists that will stay with you for days. Not a book, or an author, that you'll soon forget."
— Vicki Pettersson, New York Times bestselling author
Gallery Books, 9781476783741, 464pp.
Ania Ahlborn is the bestselling author of the horror thrillers Brother, Within These Walls, The Bird Eater, The Shuddering, The Neighbors, and Seed, and the novellas The Pretty Ones and I Call Upon Thee. Born in Ciechanow, Poland, she lives in South Carolina with her husband and their dog. Visit AniaAhlborn.com or follow the author on Facebook and Twitter @AniaAhlbornAuthor.
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Home Advertising MP3.com to Promote Warner Music Artists
MP3.com to Promote Warner Music Artists
By Christopher Saunders | December 21, 2000
MP3.com took another step on its path to legitimacy in the eyes of the music industry Thursday, signing a promotional deal with Warner Music Group.
Under the three-year marketing and promotion deal, MP3.com will provide promotional services, such as featuring Warner Music artists throughout the site and distributing e-mail mailings to its membership of about 11 million users.
A separate, two-year video agreement with WMG gives San Diego-based MP3.com a license to use music videos of the company's artists.
The companies did not disclose the terms of either agreement.
"MP3.com is thrilled to be able to feature selected songs and videos from many of Warner Music's top artists," said MP3.com president and chief operating officer Robin Richards. "Both of these agreements will prove valuable to Warner Music artists and the more than 11 million registered users of MP3.com."
The deals continue the music industry's efforts to capitalize on the marketing potential of the Internet's huge music following. WMG, which is owned by Time Warner, controls several popular labels including the Atlantic Group, Elektra, Rhino, London-Sire Records and Warner Bros. Records Inc.
"MP3.com's online reach will help promote Warner Music artists in the coming years," said Paul Vidich, executive vice president, strategic planning and business development at WMG. "We're pleased to be working with MP3.com and we look forward to offering our artists and labels MP3.com's unique distribution capability and technological infrastructure."
The two deals also represent the increasing detente between the major music companies and MP3.com, considered a rogue by the mainstream industry just months ago. In November, the site agreed to shell out more than $50 million in damages to Seagram's Universal Music Group, to settle Big Music's last suit against the company. In all, the company spent over $150 million to settle lawsuits and secure licenses from the top five music companies.
Revenues from online promotions aren't MP3.com's only source of business. The company also provides technology enabling offline retailers to pipe in music and audio ads, for a subscription fee. MP3.com signed one of those deals Monday, with pet supplies retailer Petco, which has more than 500 stores nationwide. According to that agreement, Petco can use MP3.com's system to schedule, manage and geographically target in-store audio advertisements through the service.
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Volatility Brings out Both the Good and Bad Days
Rey Descalso
Written by: Jared Coffin
Last week wasn't for the faint of heart. The market had a horrible week, and that's being kind. Half of the rally from the December 2018 low was evaporated in seven trading sessions. The sell-off itself wasn't all that surprising due to numerous technical warning signals that were popping up in prior weeks. As well as overly optimistic sentiment. However, the magnitude and velocity sure was intense and came as a surprise. The stock market bears are awake and there's no telling how long before they return to hibernation. It's wise not to poke the bear, you may not like the result.
Where the market goes from here
Most are wondering what comes next, and many have different theories. Frankly, nobody knows for sure. But looking at the charts and data can always help to determine possibilities. Currently I'm hearing a lot of the same responses. When everyone starts coming to the same conclusion, I begin to become a contrarian. The sentiment seems to be that the short-term bottom is in, and the market won't end lower in an election year.
Many are expecting the market to bounce hard forming a V-shaped recovery like we witnessed at the December 2018 lows. Due to extreme oversold market conditions a bounce is already underway and has been impressive thus far. The Federal Reserve announced an emergency 50-basis-point rate cut due to the growth-slowing fears because of the coronavirus. Although, it's premature to know what the news cycle will be over the coming weeks and what long-term damage this virus will have on the economy. It's all hypotheticals at this point based on the current available information. Now for a quick look at the current chart of the S&P 500 (SPX).
Source: Optuma
Notes from the above chart:
An oversold bounce is underway, and the RSI has moved back above 30 (illustrated in the blue box).
At the time of this writing, one more gap remains above current price. Gaps can act as resistance and some overhead supply will likely be in those areas. Two of the three gaps have already been filled and the most recently filled gap around the 3100 zone in SPX has so far acted as resistance (grey boxes labeling gaps).
The move from the December 2018 low to February 2020 high has retraced and bounced at a prior level of resistance from the January 2018 highs. And more recently that same level acted as support back in October 2019 (red horizontal line).
Most are expecting a V-shaped recovery off the lows. I'm in the camp of a W-shaped recovery and believe we may retest the lows and possibly even undercut those lows in the days, weeks and months ahead (price action much like the green boxes).
It's not common to get the level of volatility we had last week while in an uptrend and above long-term moving averages - especially at that velocity. Volatility tends to cluster. The best and worst days occur close to one another and those tend to be in downtrends.
Using Optuma software, I tested the number of times SPX has had a weekly decline of 7% or more over the past 25 years. I picked 7% at random because I wanted to make sure to look for a substantial sell-off, but not so large that there were only one or two samples to show. Prior occurrences are labeled by the blue circles in the following chart. As you can see, it's rare to have that magnitude of a sell-off while in an uptrend. The majority have happened while we were already in a downtrend and moving lower.
I also looked at how many times the SPX has rallied 3% or more in a single day while above versus below its 200-day simple moving average. On the following chart, blue dots label the occurrences while above and red dots label the occurrences while below. As we see, it's much more of a downtrend than an uptrend characteristic. This is just one of the many reasons I think it's too early to say the coast is all clear.
Risk comes quickly
As we've seen recently, risk happens fast, and it's difficult to make unemotional decisions once the volatility has begun. That's why it's so important to have a predetermined plan and to stick to that plan. For tactical investors that may mean raising cash levels. And those tactical investors need to be prepared for the possibility of the dreaded whipsaw. It's simply the cost of doing business. It may be wrong more times than right, but the one time it's right its payoff is substantial and is the reason you abide by such rules. That's the price you pay if you want to attempt to tactically protect your portfolio.
Likewise, for passive investors, you know this is just part of the deal. You've chosen to make no adjustments and would rather ride the index all the way up, and all the way down. Both methods can sound great to an investor when they're imagining the scenario. However, regardless of the strategy, when the volatility begins, emotions cause us to realize that it doesn't feel so good in the moment.
Having gut-wrenching swings in one's portfolio is never anyone's idea of fun. But as the great analyst Bob Farrell once said, "Excesses in one direction will lead to an opposite excess in the other direction." Extreme resets in price bring future opportunities. Try not to get paralyzed by your emotional responses at times like these and keep plugging away at your goals. Whether it be this week, this month, or this year, this too shall pass.
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Miliband Criticism Shows How Cosmetic We Have Become
By: Azeem Ibrahim
I am not sure who to blame, the medium or the message. Perhaps it is the fault of television – constant, intrusive, hungry for anything to fill up the air time. Or it’s the message from commentators, reporters and pundits who also have inches or minutes to fill and choose to fill them with trivia instead of information.
The media are spending an inordinate amount of time these days talking about Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition, a position of power and prestige and enormous importance to the preservation of the parliamentary system and democracy as we practice it. The trouble is they seem to be obsessed with his clothes, his hairstyle and his smile. Instead of thoughtful analysis of the finer points of the present economic situation, we are hearing snide digs about his voice or his way of delivering a speech.
This is doing us all an injustice. Politics deserves a different approach from treating it as fodder for a gossip column or a TV reality show. We need to raise the tone of discourse to something above the lowest level of populism and if we must attack the politician, let’s attack ideas and not the colour of his tie.
We have an interesting example to learn from across the pond with the current Republican presidential candidates sparring for attention in their campaigns. By dumbing down their messages, by appealing to the lowest common denominator of potential voters, and by engaging the soundbite generation with their slick (and silly) slogans, they are further bringing down the standard of public discourse.
By spending more time it seems, listening to their image consultants than doing their homework on the intricacies of the economy, they have looked faintly ridiculous up on stage for their public “debates”. Almost identical in their dark suits, white shirts and solid red or blue ties, fresh shaved so they don’t look like Nixon and firmly coiffed so an errant lock does not distract from the easy, practiced and insincere smile, they proffer predictable platitudes and patriotic pledges to “take back America”.
One wonders sometimes who is worse – the politicians or the people in the audience who cheer and clap for the most meaningless slogans, for they are basically the party faithful, the voters who are proud of not getting confused by facts and who will vote the party line consistently.
Prime minister’s question time has a big following in the States and people love to hear the cut and thrust of real debate, with the English language being used with elegance, nuance and wit. Parliament is the forum for politics as performance, and the media would do well if it stopped looking at political speeches as if they too needed an award for performance. It is the content that matters and that is what Ed Miliband produces.
As Labour leader he is intelligently positioning the party by being serious and not pompous, analytical without being academic, resolute but not arrogant. What you see is what you get, not some image consultant’s production. Most of all, he has repeatedly pinpointed basic concerns of Britain’s people who are “squeezed”, worried that “the British promise” to their young is being broken, and realising that the market system must change in order to be compatible with post-crisis needs and realities. Indeed Miliband’s insights are so evocative that his foes try to filch them. He deserves better from the media as he works on something far more meaningful than a five minute spot on a talk show. He has a vision of the UK for the long term and that takes incremental change, patient, intelligent, detailed legislation that gradually brings the ship of state back onto a more democratic course. He doesn’t offer glib and polished promises for change, because he, like president Obama, has discovered it can’t be done in a hurry. Anyone who has studied the shock doctrine in economics is aware how damaging austerity budgets can be with unintended consequences affecting future generations. Incremental change, even though it annoys the talking heads on television, is sound politics and Ed Miliband knows it.
Dr Azeem Ibrahim is a Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors at the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding and a former Research Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and World Fellow at Yale.
This article was published by Politics.co.uk on January 23, 2012. Read it here.
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Move to seize North Korean ship in Mexico over abduction case
By admin|2019-03-03T22:21:58+03:00August 4th, 2015|Categories: PAGE_news, Post_Category_Calderon-Cardona v. North Korea, Post_Category_Kaplan v. North Korea, Post_Category_Kim v. North Korea|0 Comments
The family of a South Korean man believed killed in North Korea are trying to seize a Pyongyang-owned vessel being held in Mexico, in a new sign of how legal snares are complicating the regime’s international trade.
Kim Dong-sik, a 53-year-old pastor, was abducted by North Korean agents in China in 2000 and can be presumed dead, a US court ruled in April. It ruled that Pyongyang should pay $330m to Mr Kim’s family, who are US citizens.
The family have seen an opportunity to secure a first installment of this sum, in the form of the Mudubong, a North Korean cargo ship held by Mexican authorities since colliding with a coral reef last July.
On Tuesday their lawyers vowed to appeal after a Mexican court declined to consider their petition to place a lien on the Mudubong, which would give them the legal right to seize it. The court ruled on Monday that the case did not fall under its jurisdiction.
“We want to get the boat into our hands and sell it, and put the money towards the judgment against North Korea,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the family’s lead lawyer, who represented the family in the successful US action and who has previously won cases resulting in the seizure of Iranian-owned assets in the US.
Some legal experts consider the move a long shot, given that the US ruling would first have to be recognised in Mexico — an opinion seemingly endorsed by the Mexican court’s initial ruling. However, Alberto Mansur, the lawyer representing the family in Mexico, maintains that the case is on firm ground.
“This has never been done when the defendant is a sovereign nation but the recognition procedure is pretty straightforward,” he said.
The North Korean embassy would be the defendant in the case, he said. “Our laws provide for the attachment of assets when enforcing a claim,” Mr Mansur added.
The lawsuit brings a new twist in an affair that reflects the complexity of efforts to implement UN sanctions against Pyongyang. Two weeks after the Mudubong ran aground off the Mexican coast, the UN Security Council and US Treasury issued new sanctions against Ocean Maritime Management, which was accused of involvement in illicit arms trading. OMM is the Mudubong’s ultimate owner, according to a panel of experts appointed by the Security Council.
In an attempt to sidestep this measure, the panel of experts reported in February, North Korea has attempted to conceal the fact that OMM controls Mudubong. The registered owner, Mudubong Shipping Company, was quoted by North Korean media in May as saying: “Our company is a corporate body independent of [OMM] . . . There is . . . neither reason nor ground . . . to make the ship subject to ‘sanctions’.”
But the experts’ report said they still considered the Mudubong an asset of OMM, and had conveyed this to Mexico’s government. The report criticised weak implementation of sanctions against OMM, with at least six nations inspecting OMM vessels but failing to impound the ships.
“The Security Council confirmed on May 6 the Mexican government’s obligation to continue freezing the Mudubong. Mexico will continue to abide by this decision for as long as it is not modified or withdrawn by the Security Council,” the Mexican foreign ministry said in an emailed response to questions.
The ministry did not respond to a question about what it planned to do with the ship.
Mr Mansur noted the precedent of Ghana’s 2012 seizure of an Argentine naval vessel, as part of a campaign by US hedge fund Elliott Management over Buenos Aires’s default on debt. That ship was returned to Argentina, after the UN’s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea agreed with Buenos Aires’s argument that impounding the naval training vessel and its roughly 300 crew violated the immunity of military vessels under international maritime law.
However, Mr Mansur said North Korea’s claim to the ship was unlikely to be protected by international rules on sovereign immunity because these did not apply in cases of gross human rights violations.
“I think the immunity of sovereign nations has been eroded in the last 10 or 20 years,” he said. “Rogue countries like North Korea have to be answerable to somebody. They can’t torture and kidnap with impunity. I think the nations around the world have come to realise that.”
He said a 2004 UN convention, signed but not ratified by Mexico and not yet in force, listed cargo ships as assets which could be seized.
The direct implementation of sanctions against North Korea is not a new phenomenon. In 2013 Panamanian authorities confiscated weapons that had been hidden beneath bags of sugar on a North Korean ship returning from Cuba, which had sent them to North Korea for repairs. In 2009 authorities in South Africa, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates blocked attempted arms exports by North Korea.
But such examples of successful sanction implementation have had only a marginal impact on North Korean trade, which remains driven by China, said Andrei Lankov at Kookmin University in Seoul.
“Five or six years ago, some hardliners said the sanctions were beginning to bite,” he said. “What did we see? Economic growth, with a restaurant boom in Pyongyang, and minor traffic jams.”
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Atlantean Legends: General Sevalis and the Chests of the Sea
When the God of the Sea forbade the use of the Eye of Poseidon and the Scepter of Ampheres, the priests at the Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis forged two sacred chests, which they called the Chests of the Sea in which to store the treasures. Upon their completion, Poseidon was pleased and he offered the Atlanteans solace. If any one were to use his treasures, they need only return them to the chests and their curse would be lifted. For this gift, the Atlanteans were grateful and the Chests of the Sea became just as renowned as the treasures they bore. As time passed by, only few remembered the importance of Poseidon’s treasures and the chests that bore them.
Two-hundred years before the destruction of Atlantis, a great war raged between the Atlanteans and their enemy to the east, the Athenians. What they were fighting for, how long the war lasted, and who won, no one person can be certain. What is known are the feats of one general and a band of warriors that secretly
infiltrated the City of Atlantis.
Deep in the shadow of night beneath the pale half-moon, the Athenian general Sevalis of Haros and his several dozen warriors quietly and one by one made their way into the City of Atlantis, disguised as beggars and merchants. Over the course of several hours, they made their way through the city and to the canal that surrounds the central island of the city. Discretely, they waded through the water until they came to the western-most edge, which was closest to the Palace of the Kings. Sevalis knew that if they passed through the ten gardens and past the palace, he would reach the Temple of Poseidon and fulfill his goal.
Several months earlier, the Athenian king heard reference to the treasures that Poseidon had placed in the care of the priests at his temple in Atlantis. The possession of these treasures would give Athens immediate leverage over Atlantis and might even end the war with their quick surrender. For the purpose of obtaining these artifacts, the Athenian king sent Sevalis to Atlantis.
With the utmost skill, Sevalis and his men quietly broke away a small section of the wall; a hole big enough for one man to get through. Silently they filtered through and slinked around the Palace of the Kings and its surrounding gardens and made their way to the Temple of Poseidon at the city’s center. With five men, Sevalis sneaked into the temple and made his way to the top-most tier of structure and stole the two Chests of the Sea.
As he and his men made their way back to the break in the wall, they met the resistance of the Atlantean guard. Most of the general’s men were killed during this altercation, but Sevalis and a few of his men made it back to the wall and escaped the city. What Sevalis did not know, was that as he and his band of warriors made their way toward the Temple of Poseidon, the arch priest saw their shadows in the moon light and hid the Eye of Poseidon and the Scepter of Ampheres in an underground chamber. The priest intentionally left the Chests of the Sea for Sevalis to find, though he later regretted it.
It was not until Sevalis returned to his ship and set sail for Athens that he bothered to look inside of the chests. He was most displeased with their vacancy, and now unable to re-penetrate the City of Atlantis, he faced his fate and returned to the king in Athens. The king, although quite furious, was not as mad as Sevalis would have expected. The king reasoned that Poseidon did not wish the removal of these treasures and therefore made them disappear. As a consolation for his efforts, the king gave one chest to Sevalis and kept the other at the Temple of Zeus in Athens, assuming that they held no real value.
As time passed, the Athenian king learned of the importance of the Chests of the Sea and sent for Sevalis to return the chest he had given him. The king promised that the two chests would ensure the safety of the Athenians if they were to ever be attacked by Atlantis. Sevalis, unfortunately, no longer possessed the second chest. During his travels, he had bartered it away for goods in a city far south of Athens, on the other side of the sea in the Realm of Saїs. Threatened with the death and dismemberment of his family, Sevalis left for Saїs and never returned to Athens. After the months of his absence turned into a year, the Athenian king assumed Sevalis could not find the chest and dared not return without it. Sevalis’ family was executed in the king’s anger. No one outside of the general’s crew knew the location of Saїs at that time. The king’s ambitions to find the second chest died with him and it was not spoken of again.
In truth, Sevalis did arrive in the Realm of Saїs, but the Saitians refused to return him the chest, no matter their price. The general grew angry and in this blunder, he attacked the Saitians, to which they quickly killed him in their own defense. The few of his men who survived left Saїs immediately, but found they could not sail their ship effectively with so few men and were soon shipwrecked. None survived.
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From the producer of Repercussion and Nakee, Pongpat Wachirabunjong’s Angel Heart was channel 3’s primetime mega hit during its broadcast. It’s the story of an attractive young woman called Lamyong who charm and attract all men. She comes from a destitute family and lives in the slum. At her first chance, she marries a young naval officer named San to get away from her surroundings. Not long after, they have a baby son named Wanchalerm (Anniversary of the King’s birthday). With her husband away in the navy, Lamyong spends her time beautifying herself and flirting with the locals. She does not care for her son and is lazy, doing housework. Her marriage did not last, but there’s always another man that would want to marry her. Despite his poor upbringing and neglect, little Wanchalern survived his childhood and took care of his step-siblings because his mother could not do it. He seeks refuge in a monastery, and it helped him grow to be a good young man (Adult Wanchalern is played by James Jirayu).
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Kingdom Housing / News Archive / Fraser Avenue
Fraser Avenue
Kingdom Housing Association has enlisted the help of local school children to help raise awareness of its major £26 million regeneration project in Inverkeithing.
Working alongside Fife Council, the Association is to demolish 236 properties on Fraser Avenue and replace them with 189 new energy efficient homes.
Pupils from Inverkeithing Primary lent their artistic talents to the development by entering a competition to create a logo for the Association’s newsletters, which are being sent to residents with updates of the work.
Attending the school to hand out prizes to the competition winners, Bill Banks, chief executive with Kingdom, said the initiative was one of many community projects aimed to involve local people in the project.
Receiving awards from Mr Banks and Fife Council housing service senior manager, Alan Russell, were pupils Hannah Scott (Primary 1-4), Spencer Howers (Primary 5-7), while Matthew Cherry and Annabelle Sung took second places.
Three certificates of commendation were also presented to Jess Bowen, Jenna Hamilton and Lucy Delaney.
Bill Banks, chief executive with Kingdom, said: “The Fraser Avenue project will be a large development that will involve a great deal of input from the local community. The logo competition was one of the community projects which aims to involve local people in the project.
“I was very impressed with the enthusiasm and creativity of all the pupils who entered and would like to thank everyone involved. The designs will be used on newsletters and other publications to promote awareness of the project.”
Headteacher Caroline Gardiner said: “The competition was to raise awareness that big change is happening in our community and that change can be really positive.
“The children came up with such good designs that it was really hard to pick a winner.
“A number of children live in the area and will be directly affected by the regeneration and this was a really good opportunity for them to take ownership and make it high-profile.”
The new Fraser Avenue homes will provide a mixture of cottage flats, family houses and single storey cottages for households with particular needs.
Plans are also in the pipeline for three retail units, a village green, play park and associated infrastructure to service the development.
Fife Council is currently moving residents on the Avenue to free up the blocks for demolition.
It is hoped the preparations for the first phase of demolition will take place early in 2016 with the on-site demolition work progressing over the summer. Construction work on the new houses is expected to start towards the end of 2016.
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Former KU running back reported missing in Missouri
Brandon Bourbon last seen Saturday night
Updated: 6:19 PM CDT Apr 4, 2016
KMBC 9 News Staff
Deputies in Missouri are looking for a former University of Kansas running back who has been reported missing.Brandon Bourbon, 24, was last seen on Saturday night in Washington County, Missouri. Signals from his cellphone suggest it was in Maries County late Sunday night. Friends have expressed concern about his safety.Bourbon is believed to be in a silver 2001 Chrysler Town & Country van with KU stickers on the back window, minor body damage on the rear end and custom Missouri tags JR-JENA.Bourbon was with the Jayhawks from 2010 to 2014. He finished his career at Washburn University.Anyone with information about him should call the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at 573-438-5478 or local law enforcement.
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Deputies in Missouri are looking for a former University of Kansas running back who has been reported missing.
Brandon Bourbon, 24, was last seen on Saturday night in Washington County, Missouri. Signals from his cellphone suggest it was in Maries County late Sunday night. Friends have expressed concern about his safety.
Bourbon is believed to be in a silver 2001 Chrysler Town & Country van with KU stickers on the back window, minor body damage on the rear end and custom Missouri tags JR-JENA.
Bourbon was with the Jayhawks from 2010 to 2014. He finished his career at Washburn University.
Anyone with information about him should call the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at 573-438-5478 or local law enforcement.
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Spider-Man 2 Actor Aasif Mandvi: “The Heroes Don’t Always Have To Be White Men”
Born in Mumbai, Aasif moved to England and then shifted to Florida when he was 16 to settle down with his family.
Indian-origin American actor Aasif Mandvi played out various stereotypes while exploring a career in Hollywood because he had just two options — grab the opportunity or starve. Now, the Indian-American star is happy that these things are being challenged and says that people have started seeing the economic and financial viability of telling stories that do not revolve only around white people.
“Early in my career, I think there was a lot of that (stereotypical notions attached to people of colour), and it continues in some respects even today. But we are at a point in history where a lot of these things are being challenged. A lot of ideas of who gets to tell what stories and what stories matter are now being questioned. I think we’re also seeing the economic and financial viability of telling stories of people who are not just white,” Aasif told IANS in an interview.
“The heroes don’t always have to be white men. When I was coming up in the business, there were a lot of stereotypes, a lot of playing what I like to call the ‘patanki-ing’, which is like the way the westerners hear the Indian accent, which is like, patank, patank, patank, patank. And a lot of (people) asking us to do that, and sort of play with those stereotypes. I find that less now. The culture has changed, Hollywood has changed somewhat. We still need a South Asian superhero, and that will be the culmination,” he shared, and joked: “When that happens, then I’ll have nothing to bitch about.”
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Born in Mumbai, Aasif moved to England and then shifted to Florida when he was 16 to settle down with his family. He has played a range of roles in film such as “The Proposal”, “Ghost Town“, “The Internship“, “Today’s Special” and “Spider-Man 2“, and has gone on to carve a way onto the small screen with shows such as “The Brink“, “Halal In The Family“, “The Daily Show” and “Evil”.
Looking back at his career, he said: “I’ve just always been doing my work. I’ve done television, movies and theatre. My Indian parents were incredibly disappointed to realise that the only thing their son was good at was being a clown and sort of just being a ham, acting and performing, writing poetry which nobody reads.
“But that was always just part of my DNA. What I was doing as a child, I continued to do as an adult, and so I just kept (going) on. I was lucky enough to study and go to school for this and then get work and there was no alternative for me. So it was like, either I play the bus driver or the cab driver or whatever stereotypical role there was or I starve, in the early days, that’s kind of what it was for me,” added the comedian and writer.
Mention that his parents must be proud of him today, he said: “I think ultimately, my parents did come around and were quite excited, especially when I got on ‘The Daily Show’. I think that was a big moment for them. I always used to joke with my mother that I was her second favourite ‘Daily Show’ correspondent.”
Right now, Aasif is seen on the small screen as Ben Shakir on the series “Evil”, which airs on Zee Cafe. The psychological mystery examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion.
Talking about his character, Aasif said: “My character is a true pragmatist. He only believes in the things that he can see, smell, taste, and touch. He doesn’t believe in any kind of religious mumbo jumbo, he doesn’t believe in anything that is outside of the realm of what he can’t prove. He’s also very handy and can fix things. So he’s very different than I am. But there’s an element of being a counter voice to the status quo that I liked about him and that I really related to and sort of found fun.”
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Walker Evans / Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The purpose of this essay is to evaluate Walker Evans’ realistic depiction of the rural poor and migrant farmers during the Depression, and how this body of work re-defined the standards of documentary photography. In order to fully grasp the influences of Evan’s powerful imagery, it is necessary to understand the circumstances he was working under. With an understanding of the environmental influences, this essay will compare differences between his photography and other photographers during this period. President Roosevelt established the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935 to document and elevate the plight of rural American farmers (renamed Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937.) Roosevelt appointed Rexford Tugwell to implement their ‘New Deal’ that focused on relief, reform, and recovery. Tugwell, however, found it difficult to convince Congress to pass the necessary legislation. Tugwell turned to a former colleague, economist and photographer, Roy Stryker to help people understand the plight of the rural farmer. During Stryker’s tenure at Columbia University, he used photography to help his students better understand economics. Tugwell wanted Stryker to educate the public, through photography, on what it was like to be a farmer during the Depression. Thus, in 1935, Stryker joined the Roosevelt administration as ‘Head of the History Section’. Stryker’s goal would see the work of the History Section document American life and events. He wanted to create a body of work that would last for future generations.
Marion Post Wolcott, Wilkins Family Making Biscuits, Garnville County, NC (1939); photograph by Walker Evans
His first task was to assemble a team of photographers. Roy Stryker assembled photographers that included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, John Collier Jr., Edwin Rosskam, Jack Delano, Gordon Parks, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Carl Mydans. The qualities he was looking for were photographers that had studied photography as an art form or journalism. He believed that they understood the power of photography as a tool of puersuasion.1 Stryker wanted to capitalize on the cultural popularity of “picture-taking” and photojournalism that was taking place during the 1930’s.2 The purpose of any documentary photography or photojournalism is to record the importance in the subject in order to portray a true sense of the event or theme. You could argue that ‘documentary’ photographs must show all aspects and points of view, not simply the ones chosen by the photographer or editor to further ones objective or conclusion. However, when the FSA sent photographers around the country to compile and document information of the FSA’s relief efforts, they did so with the primary goal of impressing upon Congress and the American people the need for the ‘New Deal’ and its government aid programs. These photos were meant to sway members of Congress and the American people by making them aware of the devastation for the farm communities in the South and Midwest. As such, Stryker maintained strict control over this team, and what should or should not be depicted in the photographs. Stryker wanted photographs there were future oriented and “showed a determination that not even the Depression could kill.” 3 He wanted photographs to show the American people that the New Deal would create a ‘better future’ for the farmers and rural poor. The following photographs by Russell Lee, Jack Delano, and Marion Post Wolcott show examples of the type of work Stryker’s envisioned.
Jack Delano, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Windsor Locks, Connecticut (1940); photograph by Walker Evans
The image Spanish American Workers by Russell Lee exemplifies the “future-orientation” that the FSA wanted. They wanted to prove to the public that its relief programs were working. Lee’s image showing workers building a new home portrays progress and hope for the future.
The photo by Jack Delano shows Connecticut Polish farmers in a joyful mood despite the poverty and depression that has devastated their farm. Delano’s image portrays hope and prosperity for the future as a result of FSA program, which was exactly what Stryker envisioned.
Walker Evans, Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife (1936); photograph by Walker Evans
The Photograph of Miss Wilkins making biscuits for dinner is another example by photographer Marion Post Wolcott conveying the message of how the FSA funding is restoring life to normal. What is more comforting that a photograph of mom in the kitchen baking for her family? Notice the abundance of food, and even the flowers on the shelf. Stryker wanted the images to show the American people that hope existed for the future with the FSA programs. Walker Evans, however, believed that the images must be a “pure record and not propaganda”.4 Evans wanted to create images that were more than just the FSA. Evans despised the political nature of the project and was determined to maintain his independence. By departing from the political agenda of the FSA he was able to create a sense of realism. Although Stryker admired Evans’ photographs, the two men did not get along. The conflict between Evans beliefs of creating a pure objective record, and the FSA’s political and social agenda, resulted in Stryker letting Evans go in 1937. Even though Evans’ tenure was a mere 18 months, he created some of the most powerful documentary images in America. Using the imagery created for the FSA project, and in collaboration with James Agree, they published the landmark book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in 1941. This book was the result of the material gathered during an assignment the men accepted in 1936 for Fortune magazine.
Walker Evans, Bud Fields and his family, Alabama (1936); photograph by Walker Evans
They were to produce an article documenting the lives of sharecropper families in the cotton belt. With this assignment, Agee and Evans set out for the South with the best of intentions. They would be respectful to the farmers, but they did not intend to cater their assignment into Stryker’s propaganda agenda. At first the southern tenant farmers met the two New York journalists with suspicion. But after a month long search, they were successful in persuading Burroughs, the Tengle, and the Fields families from Alabama to take part in their assignment (they were given pseudonyms in the book to conceal their identity). Both Evans and Agree lived with the families for several weeks and recorded their experience of ‘their world’, and did so with respect and dignity. For this privilege they pair the families room and board.5 The following images from Evan’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men photo essay juxtaposed against the images by Lee, Delano, and Wolcott, illustrate where Evan’s departed from other photographers who complied to Stryker’s objectives.
Walker Evans, Lucille Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama (1936); photograph by Walker Evans
The photo of the Fields family portrays the reality as he saw them. There is poverty, struggle and hardship. Evan’s used an 8×10 view camera and had the family pose for the photograph. Even though he composed the image, he did not attempt to hide that the reality was not rosy. They could not look forward to the future; the present struggles did not afford them that luxury. The most daunting aspect of this photo is the stare of the elder child – there is no innocence one would expect from someone so young, just the harsh reality of their life as it is in the present.
Evans made four pictures of Allie Mae Burroughs. One of the most popular images from the book is the one depicting brooding anger and resentment, conveyed by a slight tilt of the head, the furrows around the eyes, the angle of the pursed mouth.6 There is no contrived smile conjured up for the photograph. She is frail but yet her eyes portray the cold reality that life is not easy and she must be strong. She folds her lips as if she is holding back real story of her life. Jeff Allred describes the image as a rendering of the human figure; rooted and emplaced entity is reinforced in the photograph by the visual rhyme linking the severe horizontality of the wrinkles and the hair to the grain of the clapboards of her home. Evans’s camera captures a reaction in which an instant of the ordinary life is translated faithfully.7
Russell Lee, Spanish American Workers (1940); photograph by Walker Evans
The portrait of Lucille Burroughs reminds one that the realities of the depression are not limited to the adults. Despite attempts to dress as a young girl, the facial expression tells a story more sober than a young child should face.
Walker Evans, A Child’s Grave , Hale County, Alabama (1936); photograph by Walker Evans
The photograph of the child’s’ grave illustrates how Evan’s observes a subject and records it. He photographed it just as one would if they walked up to the grave. The site is undisturbed and no markings are visible to indentify the deceased child. There are no clues as to what happened to the child. One can only conceptualize the harsh environment and dangers endured by the cotton farmers during the depression. Evan’s imagery was successful because he photographed how he ‘saw’ the world in the present. His photographs have a realistic and objective quality. He felt as if the images should tell a story in itself. Hence, placing his entire image collection at the beginning of the Let Us Now Praise Famous Men book before the title page, without any text commentary, plate numbers, or any other way to match them with the subjects and scenes described by Agee – a departure from the standard practice of photojournalism where photos are used to support the written article.8 The images were meant to stand-alone and tell a story. Although Evans and James Agee published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in 1941, the book originally only sold a few hundred copies. Only when the book was republished in the early 1960’s did it receive critical acclaim, and has since been hailed as America’s premier work of documentary reportage.9 Walker Evans set out with an attitude of “no politics whatever”, and did not compromise either during his 18 months with the FSA, or his subsequent projects. From the onset, Evans was clearly going ahead with a “something else” agenda. He would attempt to appease his employers, but at the same time took advantage of the opportunity to perfect his photographic technique. 10 It’s this uncompromising attitude, which resulted in Walker Evans being called by some as a pioneer in documentary photography. Jeff Allred sums up Evan’s work “as being anything but antisublime in its focus and shows a humanity conditioned by particular social and historical pressures”.11
1 Hurley, Jack F., Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties (Barton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972)
The book is a historical account of Roy Stryker and the FSA that described Stryker’s criteria for selecting photographers for the FSA project. Jack Hurley has written 7 books on photography and photographers of the period.
Berger, Maurice, How Art Becomes History: Essays on Art, Society, and Culture in Post-New Deal America(New York: Harper Colins, 1992).
The book explores the topic of influences of art on society and the role of photography during the early 20th Maurice Berger is a historian, art critic and curator. He is a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Within this essay the description of the cultural role of photography during Walker and Stryker’s time with the FSA.
3,4 Evans, Walker, Thopson, Jerry L., Walker Evans at Work – with an essay by Jerry Thompson(Icon (Harpe), 1994)
The book was compiled and edited by John T. Hill who was the executor of Evan’s estate. The book takes its readers though Walker’s life and examines his working methods.
5,6,8 Hambourg, Marie; Rosenheim, Jeff; Eklund, Duglas; Fineman, Mia, Walker Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in association with Princeton University Press, 2000)
The book is an examination of Walker Evans Photography over his career. The section cited within this essay was the “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”, which went into a historical account of the events that took place that led to the publication of the book.
7,9 James Curtis, Making Sense of Documentary Photography (Published online June 2003)
This online document in PDF format (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/photos/) provides a history of documentary photography. James Curtis is a Professor of History at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.
10 Hill, John; Mora, Gilles Walker Evans The Hungry Eye(Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993)
The publication is a chronological exploration of Walker Evan’s career spanning from 1927 – 1975. The portions used within this essay are the chapters and photo plates relating to the FSA period and “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”. John Hill, a friend and colleague of Walker Evans and the executor of his estate. He is a former Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale University School of Art. Gilles Mora has been editor-in-chief of Cahiers de la Photographie since 1981.
11 Jeff Allred, American Modernism and Depression Documentary (Oxford University Press, 2009)
The book is an investigation of the ‘aesthetics of interruption’ of 1930s-era documentary books. Jeff Allred is Assistant Professor of English, Hunter College
12 Evan, Walker; Agee, James Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (First Mariner Book Edition 2001)
The book is the central theme of this essay in which photos were described and evaluated.
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"A Passionate Friendship" - Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
I think it’s time for a love story. My music offering today highlights two amazing composers who shared a deep love, yet never married.
Clara Schumann, (née Wieck) and Johannes Brahms met in 1853. “Hannes” was 20, Clara was 34. With special letters of introduction in hand, young Hannes arrived on the Schumann doorstep in Dresden in October of 1853. Clara’s husband Robert invited him in, and Hannes began to play some of his own compositions on the piano. After only a few minutes, Robert laid a hand on his shoulder and said, “Wait, I must bring my wife to hear this.” As Clara entered the room, Hannes became nervous to play, well aware of her reputation as a brilliant concert pianist.
The result of this afternoon was a long and deep friendship with Brahms and both the Schumanns. They invited him to live with them, which lasted several months, up until February of the following year when Robert was committed to an insane asylum. Robert was editor of a musical literary journal, called Neue Zeitscrift, (trans. “New Magazine.”) Before he took ill, he wrote great accolades to Brahms’ talent, proclaiming him to be the successor to Beethoven.
Clara was not allowed to visit Robert at the asylum, so Brahms became her liaison, visiting him frequently. For the next year and a half and continuing after Robert’s death, Clara and Hannes’ friendship strengthened and flourished. He continued to live in Dresden, studying Robert’s library and helping Clara with the children - 8 of them! However, Brahms soon felt that being physically close to Clara was getting in the way of his focusing fully on composing so he moved back to Hamburg. Their friendship was nurtured with many letters, and he often sent his compositions to her for her comment and approval. There were clearly words of affection in their correspondence, though many of their letters were destroyed by Clara’s daughter after her mother’s death. This “passionate friendship,” as it is sometimes called, continued for some 40 more years.
Clara’s work presented here, Romanze in B minor, was written in 1856, but was not published in her lifetime. At the top of the score, she inscribed, “Christmas 1856,” and at the end, “fondest memories, Clara.” To whom her thoughts were directed is somewhat ambiguous, but given that Robert died in July of 1856, I would guess it was to her husband. Yet, there are a few bars in the second phrase that are undeniably a quote from Brahms’ F minor piano sonata, Op. 5 - a piece that he played for the Schumanns that first day they met in 1853.
All of Brahms’ last piano works - Op. 116-119 - were written between 1891 and 1893 and represent his most intimate musical style. His A Major Intermezzo, Opus 118, no. 2, touched me deeply from the moment I first heard it. There is undeniably so much love in this one short piece that it can’t help but touch anyone’s heart who hears it. Hannes’ beloved Clara died in May of 1896, and he left the earth just 11 months later.
When I was working on my DMA at Memphis State, a number of pianists were asked to play several hours of Christmas music at the Mall of Memphis. There was a nice little round stage on the first level with a baby grand piano in the center, with three balconies open all the way to the roof of the mall. The concert started with cute little kids playing carols, and ended with us Memphis State piano students. Needless to say, most shoppers went about their business, not really paying attention to the live music. Some were mildly amused by the children at the beginning and then maybe thought those of us who played later was just piped-in mall music.
I chose to play a mix of carol arrangements and classics, and included this intermezzo. Noting the shoppers’ indifference, I didn’t really feel like I was performing, so I just enjoyed the nice piano and acoustics of the space. Because I had the intermezzo memorized, I was able to close my eyes for most of the length of the piece. As I finished, I was astonished to see the three levels of railing surrounded by people applauding!
THAT’S the power of great music. That’s the power of this piece and Brahms’ love for a woman. This was one of the most special moments of my life as a pianist, and firmly established in my heart my goal as a musician to use my talent and skills to move people with the music that I love so much….
It is my prayerful hope that these pieces do that for you.
Clara's Romance in B minor:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ri6RatB7grBXVVJpeTx2aFKfdIpmkX_/view?usp=sharing
Brahms’ Intermezzo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ffjw03oXhor7DYBtYZ75CnwY1aW-kR_1/view?usp=sharing
“Smizing” when you don’t feel like it - Charles Chaplin’s “Smile” sung by Nat King Cole
Dealing with Heartbreak - "It is Well with My Soul"
"No Man is an Island" - John Donne
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Column: Baby, there’s nothing wrong with a little sexy banter at Christmastime
A Lyft driver in San Francisco delivers some yule time cheer from the driver’s seat.
(Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times)
By Robin AbcarianColumnist
Reporting from San Francisco —
Here is a Christmas gift to my critics, many of whom have accused me of being a humorless, feminist man-hater:
I love the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”
I get a little thrill every time I hear the contrapuntal duet, a lovely back-and-forth between two smitten people who don’t really want their evening to end.
Of course, I can’t ever remember all the words. You probably can’t either. But I know enough of them to be able to state with certainty that the song is not “rapey” as some have claimed.
It’s not “inappropriate.” Nor “politically incorrect.”
It’s a catchy and sly attempt at seduction, a back-and-forth about the possibility of a cozy encounter. Between consenting adults.
And yet, every Christmas, our culture seems to require something pointless to fight over.
We don’t have the War on Christmas to kick around anymore. After Bill O’Reilly got the boot from Fox News, the imaginary cause he had championed melted away like Frosty the Snowman on a warm day.
Broadway composer Frank Loesser and his wife and musical partner, Lynn, pictured in 1956, originally performed their song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” for friends at their housewarming party.
(Anthony Camerano / Associated Press)
Thus, the war on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”
Some radio stations actually yanked it from their Christmas music rotations this year.
“To some modern ears,” reported the New York Times, “the lyrics sound like a prelude to date rape.”
They sound like romance to me.
The other night in San Francisco, where throngs of holiday shoppers crowded the sidewalks around Union Square, and one of my Lyft drivers was dressed up as Santa Claus, I saw a Christmas cabaret performed by the Gay and Lesbian Chorus of San Francisco.
The show, at a club in the Castro called Martuni’s, was a high-spirited antidote to some of the smarmier aspects of the season.
As you might imagine, it was full of tweaked, gay-themed Christmas songs and plenty of bawdy lyrics. (“Walking ’round in women’s underwear.” “What child is this? Don’t say it’s mine.”)
For me, of course, the high point was “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” with lyrics that had been reworked by chorus member Krissa Lagos, a San Francisco writer and editor, who also happens to be my niece.
Over Thanksgiving, Krissa had been struggling with rhymes, and I was happy to hear that she managed to keep the playful, spirited tone of the song when she performed her version with duet partner Eliza Speece, a humane educator at the San Francisco SPCA:
“I really can’t stay.”
(“Baby, I’m fine with that.”)
“I’ve got an early day.”
(“No worries, you told me that.”)
“And the kitty will be pacing the floor.”
(“You’re a cat mom? So gay.”)
Reworking lyrics for live shows is a wonderful tradition. Giving a contemporary gloss to an old favorite is more of a compliment than an insult.
After all, if we really hated the tune, we wouldn’t keep singing it, would we?
I am a huge Christmas song nerd, and will be playing them for at least another week.
The jolly songs are fine, but I prefer the poignant songs, like “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Christmas Time Is Here” from “Peanuts,” which is sometimes called the saddest Christmas song of all.
Maybe that’s because Christmas can be such a bittersweet time of year. It’s a time when we count our blessings but also tote up our losses. We become acutely aware of how much we are given, and how others have so much less.
The lyrics I love most reflect our humanity — the grief we feel when we are apart from loved ones, the joy (and pain) we feel when we are together, the importance of passing cherished childhood beliefs to the next generation, the sheer joy so many feel at the retelling of Christ’s birth.
The world is a mess, but we will muddle through somehow.
Many people before me have noted a stunning irony about America’s most beloved Christmas songs: Most were written by secular Jews. Many were written for movies.
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote “Silver Bells” in 1950 for the Bob Hope movie “The Lemon Drop Kid.” Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas” in 1942. Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin wrote “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in 1944 for “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
Frank Loesser, the great Broadway composer and lyricist, wrote “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” in 1944 to sing at parties with his wife, Lynn Garland. It was, she said, their ticket to all the best bashes. Five years later, to Garland’s distress, Loesser sold the tune to MGM for the 1949 movie “Neptune’s Daughter,” starring Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban. It won a best song Oscar.
“I felt as betrayed as if I’d caught him in bed with another woman,” Garland said, according to the 2006 book “America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley.”
Some years ago, I wrote a story about the genesis of the great Christmas song “Silver Bells” by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who had churned out many hits in the ’40’s and ’50’s, including “Que Sera Sera,” “Mona Lisa” and — to my amusement — the theme for “Mr. Ed.” Together they won three best song Oscars.
When I reported the story, Ray was an 89-year-old widower and an absolutely shameless flirt.
At his home in Beverly Hills, he offered to show me his royalty books. He wanted to prove that “Silver Bells” generated about $800,000 a year. The books were in his bedroom downstairs.
“You’re sure your husband won’t mind?” he asked mischievously as he settled onto an electric chairlift on the staircase.
That Christmas morning, I was home celebrating with my family.
Ray called.
“I could not have paid a publicist to get me such great coverage!” he gushed. “I want you to go to Tiffany’s and pick out anything you want. It’s my gift to you.”
I let him take me to lunch at the Polo Lounge instead.
Why? Because there is nothing wrong, and there never was, with a little bit of flirting.
robin.abcarian@latimes.com
Twitter: @AbcarianLAT
Robin Abcarian
Robin Abcarian is an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She writes about news, politics and culture. Her columns appear on Wednesday and Sunday. Twitter: @AbcarianLAT
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Another Day, Another Material Support Suit Against a Social Media Company
By Benjamin Wittes
Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 4:55 PM
Another group of terrorism victims has filed suit against a social media company for allegedly giving material support to a terrorist group, in this case ISIS. These cases have been proliferating of late. I've written about them here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. Here's the latest complaint, this one filed against Twitter in the Southern District of New York:
Cain Et Al, No 1 17 Cv 00122 (S D N Y Jan 08, 2017), COMPLAINT Against Twitter, Inc (2) (PDF)
Cain Et Al, No 1 17 Cv 00122 (S D N Y Jan 08, 2017), COMPLAINT Against Twitter, Inc (2) (Text)
I don't have a lot new to say about this issue in light of this latest complaint. It is most similar, in my judgment, in its sophistication and seriousness, to the complaint filed by Hamas victims against Facebook last summer. This is unsurprising, since it was filed by the same law firm. So for an analysis of what Twitter's defenses are likely to be and what the pivot points in the case are, I would refer readers back to that post. The analysis of this case is very similar, though for reasons I will explain, I think the current complaint is at least somewhat weaker.
I'll content myself with a few quick thoughts:
First, I continue to believe that Section § 230 of the Communications Decency Act should not categorically bar these suits. As I have argued before, nearly all of them (so far, anyway) should fail, but I don't believe the material support law operates in a fashion that makes them properly subject to CDA immunity. Zoe Bedell and I explained why in an earlier post:
all of the cases in which the courts to date have immunized service providers are cases predicated on offending content of some sort. That is, somebody posted something that was alleged to abridge someone else’s legal rights, and the question was whether or not the service provider bore some responsibility for the third party’s offending content. Construing § 230 broadly, the courts have held that holding the provider of “neutral tools” liable for such offending content makes the provider a “publisher” or “speaker.”
The material support laws, however, do not work this way. Liability under them does not depend on offending content—by the provider, by a third party, or by anyone. Consider 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, which holds that “Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.” There are many reasons to believe that Twitter has not violated this law by providing service to ISIS users (we spell out some of Twitter’s defenses in our post last week), but note that if it has violated the law, that offense was completed the moment Twitter knowingly provided service to ISIS. The offense does not depend in any way on what ISIS may have tweeted, or even if ISIS used the service in question. If ISIS operatives tweeted cat videos or they tweeted nothing at all, Twitter still would have violated the statute (assuming it did) the moment it knowingly provided “any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including . . . communications equipment” to operatives of a designated foreign terrorist organization.
In other words, one is not imposing liability under the material support laws based on any allegedly offending content. One is imposing liability based on the provision of service as an antecedent matter to a terrorist organization.
That said, to say that the defendant is not (or should not be held) immune does not mean that the defendant is liable. It means merely that the defendant is not excused entirely from defending the case. And many of these complaints should fail because they suffer from the same problem: they don't even seriously allege that the social media defendant played a meaningful role in the specific attack that killed the plaintiff's family member. They allege, rather, that the terrorist groups used the service, that the service didn't do enough about it, and that an attack happened in which someone got hurt—and that the company is therefore liable. Even if courts agree with me that CDA § 230 isn't the end of the conversation, that shouldn't be good enough in an environment in which the companies make their services available to any user with no vetting.
The connective tissue in this new complaint on the crucial issue of proximate causation seems to me at least somewhat weaker than in the Facebook complaint, though significantly stronger than in earlier Twitter complaints. I have only read over this complaint quickly, but it seems to lack some of the clear allegations that appeared in the Facebook complaint about how Twitter was allegedly used in the specific attacks in which the plaintiff's family members were killed. I suspect that might be fatal to this suit even if it survives a CDA immunity analysis.
Finally, it continues to bewilder me that these case are being filed in the Second Circuit, rather than in the Seventh Circuit, where the standard of causation seems more forgiving. Again, Zoe and I spelled out the differences in an earlier post; suffice it for now to say that the difference between the Second Circuit opinion in Rothstein, which will control this case, and the Seventh Circuit's en banc opinion in Boim is not trivial. As Zoe and I put it back in July, if this filing were in Chicago, rather than New York:
the lower causation standard Judge Posner articulated in Boim v. Holy Land Foundation would apply in what would seem like a helpful fashion. In that long and involved en banc decision, the court found a Hamas donor could be found liable because it “had participated in the wrongful activity as a whole [and] thus was liable even though there was no proven, or even likely, causal connection between anything he did and the injury.” The Second Circuit, however, has rejected this lower causation standard, finding that the [Antiterrorism Act] requires a traditional showing of proximate causation.
So here's my bottom line: There are two big questions in these cases. The first is whether CDA § 230 really means that a social media company is categorically immune from liability for knowingly permitting terrorists to organize and plot on their platforms when the result is mayhem and death; the second is whether, if they are not categorically immune, what standard of causation does a plaintiff have to meet in order to hold a social media company liable for an attack by a terrorist group that does some of its organizing online?
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
@benjaminwittes
Enslaved and Forced to Watch Her Husband Dig His Own Grave—And Labeled A Terrorist As A Result
Jennifer Daskal, Paul Rosenzweig Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 9:00 AM
Document: Forced Labor Constitutes Material Support, Board of Immigration Appeals Finds
Quinta Jurecic Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 1:52 PM
Prosecuting Hezbollah Agents: The Domestic Front of a Larger, Long-Term Shadow Conflict
Robert Chesney Fri, Jun 9, 2017, 2:11 PM
Facebook Immune from Liability Based on Third-Party Content
Russell Spivak Tue, May 23, 2017, 1:45 PM
Should the Muslim Brotherhood be Designated a Terrorist Organization?
William McCants, Benjamin Wittes Fri, Jan 27, 2017, 10:26 AM
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Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill
Hon Amy Adams, in Committee, to move the following amendments:
Clause 4
In clause 4 (page 6, after line 10), insert as subsection (2):
In section 4(5)(a), replace “suspicious transaction reports” with “the reporting of suspicious activities and prescribed transactions” .
In clause 5, replace the definition of accounting practice (page 6, lines 13 to 18) with:
accounting practice means—
an accountant in public practice on his or her own account in sole practice:
in relation to 2 or more accountants in public practice, and practising in partnership, the partnership:
an incorporated accounting practice
In clause 5, delete the definition of law enforcement purposes (page 9, line 17 to page 10, line 6).
In clause 5, replace the definition of law firm (page 10, lines 7 to 12) with:
law firm means—
a barrister or a barrister and solicitor who is practising on the barrister’s or barrister and solicitor’s own account in sole practice:
in relation to 2 or more barristers and solicitors practising law in partnership, the partnership:
an incorporated law firm
After clause 5(4) (page 13, after line 28), insert:
In section 5, replace the definition of law enforcement purposes with:
law enforcement purposes means—
the prevention, disruption, detection, investigation, and prosecution of—
any offence under this Act; or
a money laundering offence; or
any offence within the meaning of that term in section 243(1) of the Crimes Act 1961; or
an offence under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002:
the enforcement and administration of—
this Act:
the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009:
the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975:
the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002:
the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992:
the Customs and Excise Act 1996:
the performance by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service or the Government Communications Security Bureau of its functions under the Intelligence and Security Act 2017:
the detection and prevention of the harms specified in section 58(2) of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017:
any purpose or action referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) relating to, or taken in respect of, legislation of an overseas jurisdiction that is broadly equivalent to the enactments referred to in those paragraphs
In clause 6, new section 6(1), replace “at the close of 30 June 2017 or that comes into existence on or after 1 July 2017” (page 15, lines 29 and 30) with “at the commencement of this section or that comes into existence on or after the commencement of this section” .
Clause 13
Replace clause 13 (page 21, lines 11 to 13) with:
13 Section 31 amended (Ongoing customer due diligence and account monitoring)
In section 31(2)(b), replace “suspicious transaction under section 40(1)(b)” with “suspicious activity under paragraph (b) of the definition of that term in section 39A” .
In clause 36, new section 130(1)(d), replace “(a) and (c)” (page 33, line 8) with “(a) to (c)” .
After clause 41(1A) (page 38, after line 13), insert:
In section 142(c), replace “suspicious transaction” with “suspicious activity” .
In clause 42(1), after “suspicious transaction report” (page 39, line 7), insert “or a prescribed transaction report” .
In clause 49, delete new section 154(1)(hb) (page 40, lines 28 and 29).
Clause 52A
In clause 52A(2), after “Schedule” (page 43, line 29), insert “1” .
In clause 52A(3), replace “After Schedule 2,” (page 43, line 31) with “In Schedule 1, above clause 1,” .
In clause 52A(3), new Part 1 heading, after “Financial” (page 43, line 33), insert “Transactions” .
In Schedule 1, new clause 5(e), replace “paragraph (b)” (page 47, line 1) with “paragraphs (b) and (d)” .
In Schedule 1, after new clause 6 (page 47, after line 8), insert:
7 Exemption powers apply immediately to new reporting entities
Any reporting entity or class of reporting entity to which, under section 6(2), this Act does not yet apply but will apply at a future date may, on or after the commencement of this clause, apply for an exemption under section 157, and the powers and duties conferred by sections 157 to 159 in relation to applications for exemptions apply immediately.
In Schedule 2, item relating to section 33(2)(c)(i) (page 48, line 31), delete “and (ii)” .
This Supplementary Order Paper amends the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill.
This Supplementary Order Paper—
amends clauses 4, 6, 13, 36, 41, 42, 49, and 52A and Schedules 1 and 2 to replace redundant references to “suspicious transactions” with “suspicious activities” and to make other corrections of an editorial nature:
amends clause 5 to provide that lawyers and accountants in sole practice are reporting entities but that in the case of 2 or more lawyers or accountants, as the case requires, practising in partnership, the reporting entity is the partnership itself:
amends clause 5 to remove a definition of law enforcement purposes that is already in the Act and that is inconsistent with a new definition of that term that is being inserted:
inserts new clause 7 into Schedule 1 of the principal Act (which deals with transitional, savings, and related provisions) to clarify that Phase 2 reporting entities may apply for, and may be granted, exemptions under the Act before the Act applies to those entities.
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White House getting gayer? Trump should exercise caution regarding gay affirmation
Contributing to the world’s strange perception that homosexuality is a good thing is counterproductive to human health and happiness.
Fri Feb 28, 2020 - 11:35 am EST
By Doug Mainwaring
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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Heads exploded on both ends of the political spectrum this week as President Trump and his administration showed two signs of affirming homosexuality during his trip to India.
And while these actions might be the result of political calculations or nothing more than an expression of well-intended human kindness, the president and his staff need to be aware of the deeper implications of their messaging.
While the realignment and redefining of the Republican Party under Donald J. Trump has brought significant pro-life and religious liberty victories, with Christians having their rights protected when facing off against LGBT demands for universal tolerance, in an odd juxtaposition, homosexuality is simultaneously being promoted by the president in arenas outside the courts but very much within social media and popular culture.
Time-Lapse of The White House on June 26th 2015 Screenshot
Infelicitous in India #1
As he headed to India last weekend, President Trump retweeted a posting by gay activist Peter Tatchell praising Bollywood (India’s version of Hollywood) for releasing a film featuring a gay romance not long after homosexuality had been decriminalized in that country.
The president tweeted a single word: “Great!”
Great! https://t.co/eDf8ltInmH
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 21, 2020
Some social conservatives were angered and disappointed at the seeming endorsement of homosexuality, while pro-LGBT organizations seized the opportunity to condemn the president for what they see as his anti-LGBT record while in the White House.
“What is the message to the world when the president of the United States — a self-proclaimed Christian — applauds a morally conservative nation for abandoning its principles to celebrate homosexuality?” wondered Scott Lively, in a commentary at WND.
“What kind of mentality justifies the normalization of homosexuality to an entire nation’s children as a political tactic?” he asked. “I feel nauseous just thinking about it.”
Others took to Twitter to express their reservations about the president’s message:
Decriminalization is one thing. Promoting a behavior is another and WRONG.
— Denise Snively (@denise_snively) February 21, 2020
I’m sorry, but Mr President, you shouldn’t be retweeting this.
— T Gilbert, JD (@tponews) February 21, 2020
GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, was unhappy with the President’s tweet for wholly different reasons, saying, “There have been 136 attacks on LGBTQ people through policy and rhetoric since the Trump Administration took office,” while providing a link to its “Trump Accountability Project,” which catalogues his so-called “anti-LGBTQ statements and actions.”
There have been 136 attacks on LGBTQ people through policy and rhetoric since the Trump Administration took office.https://t.co/mggKkPC4yO
— GLAAD (@glaad) February 21, 2020
It should be noted that GLAAD has had a long and deep interest in Hollywood, having rewarded the production of LGBT-friendly movies and TV programming for the last 30 years with its “GLAAD Media Awards.”
GLAAD also has a vested interest in maintaining Donald Trump as its Boogeyman-in-Chief in order to fundraise and maintain some semblance of ongoing relevance in a world that, for the most part, now considers all things LGBT as sacred cows.
Bollywood may well go the way of Hollywood and begin introducing sympathetic LGBT characters and storylines in order to normalize homosexual and transgender behaviors. The president should not have tweeted, “Great!”
Decriminalizing homosexuality in order to save gays and lesbians from death or cruel and inhuman punishment is laudable, but contributing to the world’s strange perception that homosexuality is a good thing — a “Great!” thing — is counterproductive to human health and happiness for the citizens of any nation.
In the 1989 gay manifesto, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the ’90s, the authors informed gays and lesbians, “You can forget about trying right up front to persuade folks that homosexuality is a good thing.” And yet now, thirty years later, we have a Christian man’s man occupying the White House saying “gay” is not only “OK,” but “Great!”
Earlier this week, as President Trump entered the world’s largest cricket stadium — packed to capacity for what turned out to be perhaps the largest pro-Trump rally ever — the Village People’s “Macho Man” blared over the sound system.
For most people, the song is a fun, upbeat sampling of dance music from the 1970s, much like the Village People’s “YMCA,” a song that over the years has been played at baseball stadiums, school events, and wedding receptions because all ages enjoy it.
But for those engaged on either side of the culture wars, the Village People’s songs are recognized as gay anthems that have played a prominent role in the rising acceptance of gay culture.
While “YMCA” and “Macho Man” are associated with good clean fun, their origins are not remotely wholesome.
The Village People formed in New York City’s Greenwich Village during the disco era, a time when the Manhattan neighborhood was a haven for the city’s same-sex attracted population.
But the late 1970s disco era that spawned both songs immediately preceded the early 1980s onslaught of the AIDS epidemic, a plague that decimated the world’s homosexual population, which had recently decided that sexual contact should be guiltless, free, and frequent.
Both “Macho Man” and “YMCA” were released by the group in 1978.
For most, the only words from the song they remember are “Macho, macho man, I gotta be a macho man,” but there’s much more to the song than that:
Body, body wanna feel my body
Body, baby, such a thrill, my body
Body, wanna touch my body
Body, baby, it’s too much, my body
Body, check it out, my body, body
Baby, don't you doubt, my body
Body, talking about my body, body
Baby, checking out my body
Every man wants to be a macho, macho man
To have the kind of body always in demand
Joggin’ in the mornings, go man go
Workouts in the health spa, muscles grow
You can best believe that
He’s a macho man
Glad he took you down with anyone you can
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk
His western shirts and leather, always look so boss
Funky with his body, he’s a king
Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains
You can best believe that, he's a macho man
Likes to be the leader, he never dresses grand
Every man ought to be a macho, macho man
To live a life of freedom, machos make a stand
Have your own lifestyles and ideals
Possess the strength of confidence, that’s the skill
You can best believe that he's a macho man
He’s the special god son in anybody's land
In 1980, on the precipice of the AIDS disaster, the Village People starred in a movie alongside Bruce Jenner — now known in some circles as “Caitlyn” Jenner, Valerie Perrine, and Steve Guttenberg, titled Can’t Stop the Music.
The song “YMCA” plays in the background in a homoerotic scene (warning: there is a lot of nudity in this video) which takes place in the gyms, swimming pool, and locker room of a YMCA.
The unvarnished homoeroticism employed in the sequence vividly displays the real meaning and intent of the scene.
The song is anything but benign, wholesome fun for the whole family as it has come to be regarded.
Interestingly, at the very end of the video, all fifty or so male performers collapse onto each other as if dead. One has to wonder how many “young men” were led to horrendous early deaths from AIDS after having watched the highly sanitized version of gay life portrayed in this movie.
Time-Lapse of The White House on June 26, 2015 Screenshot
Many, including the president, may have happily forgotten the tragic early history of AIDS.
I haven’t and never will, having volunteered in the early 1990s to feed, bathe, and change diapers for indigent men dying of AIDS at Mother Teresa’s Gift of Peace in Washington, D.C. I watched many men wither away and die after suffering gruesome illnesses.
Recently, President Trump has, more than once, indicated through Twitter that he could vote for a gay “married” man like Pete Buttigieg for president, but I’m not sure he has thought through all the ramifications of that — of what the constant barrage of official White House photos of two men kissing, embracing, and holding hands would do to our nation’s young people.
Eric, I can live with that! https://t.co/TtNdK9pg06
We may never know exactly what President Trump meant by this tweet, but long after the election is over, it will stand not as an endorsement of an opposition candidate, but of Buttigieg’s sexuality and his genderless, non-conjugal “marriage.”
President Trump and official Washington aren’t the only ones who need to be far more cautious about promoting the acceptance and celebration of homosexuality, even if that promotion is subtle and unspoken.
At the 2020 March for Life, the “YMCA” song was played over the loudspeakers as people gathered at the rally site. Watch as hundreds of pro-lifers immediately launch into the YMCA dance moves, likely not aware of the homoerotic intent of that song and its choreography.
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Doug Mainwaring is a journalist for LifeSiteNews, an author, and a marriage, family and children's rights activist. He has testified before the United States Congress and state legislative bodies, originated and co-authored amicus briefs for the United States Supreme Court, and has been a guest on numerous TV and radio programs. Doug and his family live in the Washington, DC suburbs.
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Lion head casts - a roaring success?
Lion head casts in the sculpture conservation studio
While sculpture conservation are best known for their work repairing large monuments, they also do a lot of smaller scale, more delicate work. On a recent visit I saw this batch of cast lion heads in the studio. The casts have been made as part of a scheme to restore some of Liverpool's historic drinking fountains, funded by United Utilities and the Liverpool Culture Company.
Children hold an original lion head spout from a fountain, with a new jaw made by conservation technologies
Conservation technologies have replicated the lion head spouts from the fountains, which was quite a challenge as only the only remaining original head had a broken jaw. A new jaw was modelled, based on old photos of the fountains, then the casts were taken from this.
The original head is shown on the right, held by children from local primary schools at the launch of the project in July. An education programme has involved Liverpool children in a range of projects about the fountains, with some even composing their own 'water music'.
The new casts should be appearing on fountains near you (if you live in the Liverpool area) soon. The Woolton Road Melly fountain is the first of four that are being considered for renovation. The others are located at East Prescot Road, West Derby Road, and Chapel Street.
Terry Chapman of United Utilities said: "When these fountains were first introduced in the 1850s it was a tremendous breakthrough in public health - and these are beautiful civic monuments in their own right which deserve to be restored."
The project has been supported by the Libraries and Regeneration Departments of Liverpool City Council, National Museums Liverpool, The National Trust and Friends of Liverpool Monuments.
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The spelling Llanelly is an anglicised form of Llanelli which was used until 1966 hence both spellings are used as appropriate throughout this site. Click red pins for information.
Llanelly Pottery
The plaque commemorates Llanelly Pottery, which operated in the centre of the town from 1839 to 1922. William Chambers Junior, opened the pottery in 1839. He lived in Llanelly House, was involved in most aspects of the town's business and social life and, as an active magistrate, became involved in the Rebecca Riots.
Furnace Tollgate
In 1843 the whole of West Wales was affected by civil disturbances known as The Rebecca Riots. Instigated by the unfair cost that the tollgates placed on society as a whole, the populace rose up under the cloak of anonymity. Disguised as women with blackened faces and armed with guns, axes and saws the rioters were led by Rebecca. They would ride out at night and destroy the toll gates as a protest. Between the night of the 2nd, and the morning the 3rd August, 1843, after demolishing the Sandy Tollgate, Rebecca made for the furnace Tollgate intent on its destruction. The gatekeeper must have tried to prevent Rebecca because he received a beating and the blast of a gun in the face. The Furnace Gate was destroyed. An eyewitness account states the old toll house and its thatched roof was burnt into cinders, its walls in fragments, the gate in pieces and the massive pillars on which they hung were pulled from their roots and thrown headlong into the river where stands The Stradey Arms, in fact the old place was a heap of ruins after Becca. Furnace Post Office now stands in its very place.
Bres Colliery
Bres Colliery was located in Bres Road, and was the earliest deep pit in Llanelli. The pit was opened by the local company of Roderick, Bowen and Griffiths in 1794 and was taken over by the Pemberton Family, from the north of England, in 1804 and sunk to the Bushy seam at 177m (580 feet) depth. It was later worked by George Bruin of London and finally by the Llanelly Copperworks Company who incorporated it into their Old Castle Colliery complex with workings in the Rosy, Fiery, Golden and Bushy seams extending almost 3.2 km (2 miles) from the Stradey Fault in the West to the Box Fault in the East. This complex operated under the name "Old Castle and Bres Collieries" until final abandonment in May 1889
Ty Newydd (Adulam)
According to tradition, a small community of Baptists were said to have met and worshipped in the district of Llanelli before 1653. John Myles, a minister of Ilston (Gower) is listed as a Lecturer there in 1656. Lower Mill is reputed to be one of their meeting places. Following the restoration of the crown in 1660, Baptists were forced to worship in secret, hiding in houses and caves, as there was persecution of Nonconformist sects throughout the land. One such meeting place was in a cave not far from Felinfoel at a place called Goitrewen.In 1689, an Act of Religious Tolerance was passed allowing nonconformists to worship openly. The first Baptist chapel in the district was that built at Felinfoel in 1709. It was then known as Ty Newydd meetinghouse, the name that it bore until 1840 when the chapel was rebuilt. It then took the name of Adulam. The old Felinfoel millpond would have been a suitable venue for the chapel's baptismal ceremonies. Today, a purpose-built baptismal pool can still be seen in the village, adjacent to the Lliedi Bridge.
Carmarthenshire Railway
The Carmarthenshire Railway began operating as a horse-drawn railway, linking Alexander Raby's iron furnace in the village of Cwmddyche (later Furnace) to his shipping place on the coast. It was later incorporated into the Carmarthenshire Railway when an Act of Parliament was passed in June, 1802, allowing its construction. The railway linked Raby's furnace and various collieries to important mineral sources in the Great Mountain area, Cross Hands. Interestingly, an 1801 plan of the railway shows it passing very close to the Meeting House, Newydd (Adulam Chapel). The railway, the earliest operating public railway in Great Britain, consisted of horse-drawn wagons running on cast iron tram-plates. The Railroad was later replaced by the Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway, which ceased operating on the closure of the Cynheidre Colliery. Its route is now marked by a cycle-way.
Felinfoel Mill
Felinfoel Mill. In 1831, the village is described in a parliamentary report concerning Llanelli. It states There is a group of Houses at the Northern end of the Borough called Felinfoel; but it is completely removed from the Town and contains but three Houses and one in the course of building, this will be a Farm-house; one of the three is a Mill, held on a Crown lease; another is a gentleman's House; the remaining one is a Public house. According to some historians there is evidence that a medieval corn mill may have existed in the village by about 1399. A plan drawing dated 1815 shows a mill and its mill pond in Felinfoel.
Felinfoel Brewery
Felinfoel Brewery is said to have commenced operating as a small cottage-brewing industry in the King's Head Inn, Felinfoel, run by David John. A large brewery spanning the River Lliedi had been erected by 1878, becoming the present limited company in 1906. The most important landmark in its history is that following experiments carried out in the canning of beer in December 1935, it became the first brewery in Great Britain to commercially can beer in March 1936. Felinfoel continues to produce fine ales!
Felinfoel Baptismal Pool
Felinfoel Baptismal Pool. According to tradition, a small community of Baptists were said to have met and worshipped in the district of Llanelli before 1653. John Myles, a minister of Ilston (Gower) is listed as a Lecturer there in 1656. Lower Mill is reputed to be one of their meeting places. Following the restoration of the crown in 1660, Baptists were forced to worship in secret, hiding in houses and caves, as there was persecution of Nonconformist sects throughout the land. One such meeting place was in a cave not far from Felinfoel at a place called Goitrewen. In 1689, an Act of Religious Tolerance was passed allowing nonconformists to worship openly. The first Baptist chapel in the district was that built at Felinfoel in 1709. It was then known as Ty Newydd meetinghouse, the name that it bore until 1840 when the chapel was rebuilt. It then took the name of Adulam. The old Felinfoel millpond would have been a suitable venue for the chapel's baptismal ceremonies. Today, a purpose-built baptismal pool can still be seen in the village, adjacent to the Lliedi Bridge.
John Wesley was a famous 18th-century Anglican clergyman and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. This was the first widely successful evangelical movement in the United Kingdom. Wesley is said to have visited or passed through Llanelli on twelve occasions, preaching in the vicinity of the Parish Churchyard on most of his visits.
Penycastell
Pen-y-Castell. Old maps and plans of the town of Llanelli show an ancient fortification on the site that is now bounded by the buildings that are known today as The Metropolitan, Castle Field, Le Caprice (Castle Buildings) and Pencastell. Past historians have referred to this site as being Roman or Norman in origin. Early Ordnance Survey maps name the site as Ancient Camp or Pen-y-Castell.
James Dickson Innes
James Dickson Innes was born in 1887 at Greenfield Villas, Murray Street, the son of the historian John Innes. Following his early education at Christ College, Brecon he attended the Carmarthen Art School in 1904 and later trained at the Slade School in London. Sadly his life was cut short by tuberculosis and he died in 1914. It was landscape that inspired him and he particularly loved the mountains of Wales. He paid many visits with his great friend Augustus John to north Wales to paint the landscape. He also travelled and painted in France and Spain. James Dickson Innes's most original landscapes were painted in rich colours and express his feelings about the view before him. The paintings of James Dickson Innes are admired all over the world.
Lloyd Street Chapel
Lloyd Street Chapel was built in the Gothic style in 1887. It was sited opposite the old Catholic Church of St Mary's that once stood there. In 1905 when the spiritual fires of the Revival burned bright in Llanelli, Lloyd Street Chapel played a prominent part and many meetings were held there.
Royalty Theatre
Royalty Theatre. The town of Llanelli once boasted a Victorian music hall and theatre that was demolished in 1977. Appropriately called The Royalty Theatre, its construction was completed by Boxing Night December 1892, ready for the opening performance of Alfred Cox's comedy drama A Detective which was performed by C.H. Ross's Comedy Company.
Arthur William Haggar 1851-1925. Pioneer of the cinema and film maker. Proprietor of the Royalty Theatre Llanelli. Looking Around Llanelli - Harry Davies page 243
Two informative Plaques sponsored by Tinopolis record the Royalty's connection with Charlie Chaplin and one of its former proprietors, Arthur William Haggar, a pioneer of early film making are located at the TV studio's entrance in Park Street.
Marshfield Works
Marshfield Works opened in Station Road in 1863 to produce sheet iron for sale to tinplate works in south Wales and to works in Birmingham. The names Marshfield and Lakefield are reminders of how wet this low-lying pasture land once was.
Highfield House
Highfield House. In the early days of motoring, the invention of a spare wheel system was a significant contribution to the practicality and success of this novel form of transport. Thomas Morris Davies and Walter Davies opened an ironmongery shop in Stepney Street in 1895, followed by a cycle shop in Stepney Street Arcade and a small cycle and motor repair works at the rear of the Stepney Hotel. In 1904 the brothers patented the first practical motor vehicle spare wheel. It was a smokeless wheel rim, mounted on which was a tyre of slightly larger than usual diameter. This rim and tyre could be attached to a wheel with a punctured tyre by adjustable clamps. Although it was only a "get you home" accessory, and not suitable for extended use, it was widely adopted.
Old Lodge Works
Old Lodge. In the first half of the nineteenth century Llanelli was a coal mining and copper smelting town. Dafen and Morfa Tinplate Works opened in 1848 and 1852 respectively, the first hint of where the future of the town lay. The next two works to open were quite different - they were wrought iron works, an industry that had died out in the town at the beginning of the century. The Nevill family, owners of Llanelly Copperworks and most of the local collieries established both these works at the grounds of Glanmor or Field House, which was situated between what is now Nevill Street and Paddock Street. It is hard to believe that the land each side of Station Road was once lawns and orchards!
Railway Riots
Railway Strike. The Llanelli Riots took place on 19th August, 1911. Their immediate cause was the very first Railway Strike which lasted only two days. The strike started on Thursday evening, and by Saturday evening two young men had been shot dead by the military. One man was killed when a railway truck exploded and, on the following day, three more people died from their injuries. The story of the Riots is set in a period of great industrial unrest, and involves prominent figures on the international scene such as Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, King George V, and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.
Rachel Roberts 1927 - 1980 was born at the Manse (House) of Emanuel Church in Tyisha Road in 1927. She was the daughter of Richard Rees Roberts who was the Baptist Minister of the little chapel that still stands today at the bottom end of New Dock Road, Llanelli. After studying at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Rachel starred on the screen and stage in a number of famous productions in London and Broadway. During her successful career she held leading roles in films which include This Sporting Life, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Yanks. Her international stage performances list Alpha Beta, The Visit, Chemin de Fer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and many other plays. Richard Harris, Albert Finney, and Rex Harrison are among some of the famous names that have starred alongside her during her acting career. Following her marriage and subsequent divorce to Alan Dobie she married the famous Hollywood actor and film star, Rex Harrison in March 1962. This marriage was to last nine years. Sadly, Rachel Roberts ended her colourful life in November 1980 at the age of 53. A full biography of her life can be found in the book No Bells on Sunday - The Journals of Rachel Roberts with a documentary biography by Alexander Walker. Pavilion Books Ltd. 1984
The Plough & Harrow
The Plough & Harrow Blue Plaque was installed on Ty Newydd the house that was formerly the Plough & Harrow, commemorating its connection with the Rebecca Riots of 1843. It was here that the Rebecca Rioters would meet and plan their operations and where Dai Cantwr was captured.
Farmers Arms
The Farmers Arms blue plaque was installed on this cottage which was formerly the Farmers Arms Inn, commemorating its connection with the Rebecca Riots of 1843. It was one of the Inns in Five Roads where the Rebecca Rioters would meet and plan their operations.
Mynydd Sylen Rebecca Meeting
The Great Meeting on Mynydd Sylen. By the end of the summer of 1843, The Rebecca Riots, which had ravaged West Wales, were drawing to an end. The violent and clandestine attacks on the tollgates were being replaced by peaceful and open air meetings calling for political action.
Carmarthenshire Railway Cynheidre
Carmarthenshire Railway Cynheidre. The Carmarthenshire Railway began operating as a horse-drawn railway, linking Alexander Raby's iron furnace in the village of Cwmddyche, later Furnace, to his shipping place on the coast. It was later incorporated into the Carmarthenshire Railway when an Act of Parliament was passed in June, 1802, allowing its construction. The railway linked Raby's furnace and various collieries to important mineral sources in the Great Mountain area, Cross Hands. Interestingly, an 1801 plan of the railway shows it passing very close to the Meeting House, Ty Newydd - Adulam Chapel. The railway, the earliest operating public railway in Great Britain, consisted of horse-drawn wagons running on cast iron tram-plates. The Railroad was later replaced by the Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway, which ceased operating on the closure of the Cynheidre Colliery. Its route is now marked by a cycle-way.
Carmarthenshire Railway Horeb
Carmarthenshire Railway Horeb. The Carmarthenshire Railway began operating as a horse-drawn railway, linking Alexander Raby's iron furnace in the village of Cwmddyche , later Furnace, to his shipping place on the coast. It was later incorporated into the Carmarthenshire Railway when an Act of Parliament was passed in June, 1802, allowing its construction. The railway linked Raby’s furnace and various collieries to important mineral sources in the Great Mountain area, Cross Hands. Interestingly, an 1801 plan of the railway shows it passing very close to the Meeting House, Ty Newydd (Adulam Chapel). The railway, the earliest operating public railway in Great Britain, consisted of horse-drawn wagons running on cast iron tram-plates. The Railroad was later replaced by the Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway, which ceased operating on the closure of the Cynheidre Colliery. Its route is now marked by a cycle-way.
Stag & Pheasant
Stag & Pheasant. Approximately four miles outside the town of Llanelli sits the rural and sleepy village of Five Roads. But its peaceful and tranquil appearance of today belies a very active and turbulent past. Not only did it stand between Cynheidre Colliery, The Eclipse Brickworks, Horeb Mills and the Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway, but further back in time the village became the focal point of some of the most exciting events in Welsh agricultural history - The Rebecca Riots.
Stepney Spare Wheel
Stepney Spare Wheel. In the early days of motoring, the invention of a spare wheel system was a significant contribution to the practicality and success of this novel form of transport. Thomas Morris Davies and Walter Davies opened an ironmongery shop in Stepney Street in 1895, followed by a cycle shop in Stepney Street Arcade and a small cycle and motor repair works at the rear of the Stepney Hotel. In 1904 the brothers patented the first practical motor vehicle spare wheel. It was a spokeless wheel rim, mounted on which was a tyre of slightly larger than usual diameter. This rim and tyre could be attached to a wheel with a punctured tyre by adjustable clamps. Although it was only a, get-you-home, accessory, and not suitable for extended use, it was widely adopted.
Glanmor Foundry
Glanmor Foundry. The building on which this plaque is attached was originally the laboratory of the Glanmor Foundry and is the only extant part of the original works. The Glanmor Foundry was situated directly behind this building.
Copperworks Dock
The Copperworks (or Nevill's) Dock. Initially constructed as a tidal dock by the Llanelly Copperworks Company in 1805 for the import of copper ore and the export of smelted copper and coal. It was provided with lock gates by 1824 making it, reputedly, the first floating dock in Wales. It remained in constant use until 1951
Llanelly Copper Works
Llanelly Copper Works. Llanelly Copper Works Company, formed by Cornish and London merchants and Birmingham copper manufacturers, built these works in 1805 to smelt ore from Cornwall using local coal. The managers were Charles Nevill (1753-1813), his son Richard Janion Nevill (1785-1856), and his grandson Charles William Nevill (1815-1888). The company owned most of major collieries in Llanelli and its own railway system, developed a lead and silver smelting works and built the first floating dock in Wales. The works became the third largest copper smelting concern in the world by the 1850s, smelting ores from Australia, Chile and Cuba. Foreign competition resulted in the works converting from smelting to copper wire manufacture in 1923.
Welsh Tinplate and Metal Stamping Co Ltd
Welsh Tinplate & Metal Stamping Co Ltd 1898-1978. The old Cambrian Copper Works / Llanelly Lead Works were bought in 1898 by the Welsh Tinplate & Metal Stamping Co Ltd. This company had started business at Wern Works in Ann Street in 1892 and was so successful that it moved to the much larger Cambrian Works. It employed around a thousand people, mainly women, producing enamelled saucepans, plates and bowls, army tinplate mess-tins and galvanized buckets. The fame of its products resulted in Llanelli being nick-named, Sospan, and Llanelli Rugby Club adopting a saucepan as its emblem. It closed in 1978 due to cheap imports and changing tastes.
Amelia Earhart. At midday on 18th June 1928, a Fokker FVII, tri-motor seaplane flew virtually unnoticed over Llanelli. After circling the New Dock area of the town it finally landed on a channel of water in the Burry Estuary opposite the Crown Colliery, which was situated below the village of Pwll. The seaplane named "Friendship" was secured to the No. 10 Buoy after a flight from Trepassey, Newfoundland, a distance of over two thousand miles. The flight had taken approximately 20 hours and 40 minutes through heavy rain and fog to finally make the mainland of Great Britain.
Tregoning Library
Tregoning Library was the building of the Morfa works in 1851 which started the development of the tinplate trade in Llanelli town. The Dafen tinworks had been built in 1846 although it did not start production until 1848. The owner of the Morfa works was John Simmons Tregoning, a Cornishman who was a partner in the Liverpool firm of Clint, Tregoning and Company, metal merchants and ship-brokers. Soon after the partnership broke up, Tregoning built the Morfa works consisting of an ironworks, two rolling mills and a tin house. Tregoning, though, stayed in Liverpool where his son, John Simmons Tregoning II was born in 1842 and later joined his father's firm. He came to Llanelli in 1865 and stayed with Octavius Williams, the Morfa works manager at his home, Highfield. When Williams moved to Hendy to build a tinworks there, Tregoning took over the house as well as the management of the works at the age of 23. He had married on taking over Highfield in 1866 and lived there for six years before moving to the magnificent Iscoed mansion in Ferryside. It is interesting to note that the works was originally called the Llanelly Tinworks but when many more works were built in the town, the name was changed to Morfa.
Gelli Onn Sunday School
Gelli Onn. According to the Victorian historian David Bowen, the Calvinistic Methodist Church in Llanelli was founded when Walter Bowen and Henry Rees left the Baptists in Felinfoel and joined the Methodists at Goppa Fach. They then met in a dwelling house in Llanelli owned by an old lady who was known only as Martha. This religious assembly became known as Society Martha. Preaching then began in 1786 in a house near West End known as Gelli Onn.
Emmeline Pankhurst. Electioneering campaigns of a hundred years ago were a very different activity to those of today. Then, with no radio or television to reach their constituents with their policies, the politicians had to address the public personally in parks, theatres, halls, schoolrooms and literally, on their soap boxes.
Dr. Percy Wilkins
Hugh Percy Wilkins (1896-1960) Percy Wilkins was an amateur astronomer known worldwide for his work on the Moon. Wilkins was born and educated in Carmarthen. He served for a time in the army during the First World War and subsequently moved to Llanelli where he lived for a period in the 1930s. He was a lodger with a Mr. and Mrs. Philips at 56 James Street, where he assisted Mr. Philips who was a house painter by trade. Percy Wilkins then moved to live at 22 Bradford Street Llanelli, where he had a private observatory, but he then moved to England to continue his life's work - lunar astronomy. He was elected a member and then a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and became Director of the Lunar Section of the Society. He was elected Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and was honoured by astronomical bodies in France, the United States, Spain and other countries. He produced detailed maps of the Moon and, in 1951, he completed a 300 inch diameter map that was considered by many astronomers as the culmination of the art of selenography prior to the space age. (Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon). The Moon maps produced by Wilkins were used by the Americans when they landed men on the Moon at the end of the 1960s. Unfortunately, he did not live to see this, as he died in Bexleyheath in 1960. He also published a number of books about the Moon, including two in collaboration with Sir Patrick Moore. A crater on the Moon is known as the Wilkins Crater. It lies in the Southern Uplands on the near side of the Moon and has a diameter of 57 km.
Silent movie star. Gareth Hughes was born in Llanelli. He was a gifted child and developed a love of theatre from an early age. His father was an award-winning speaker at local competitions. At the age of sixteen, he left home for London and a career in theatre. Gareth worked with a number of touring repertoire companies, playing in Shakespeare and popular melodramas. In late 1912, he became involved in a movement to promote Welsh national drama throughout the UK and in London. In early 1914, he sailed to New York with The Welsh Players to perform Change at the Booth Theatre, New York. The play was not as well received as expected but, when his fellow actors returned to the UK in May 1914, Gareth chose to stay in the USA.
Bwlch y Gwynt Community
Machynys and Bwlch-y-Gwynt were once occupied by terraced houses and tinplate works. It is now an 18-hole championship golf course.
Machynys Community
Near to this site stood the reputed Dark Age Island Monastery of St Piro and The Community of Machynys.
Bryntirion
The Union Workhouse. The workhouse was later converted into Bryntirion Hospital. The little known but important history of the workhouse is that it was the base for the military during their operations against Rebecca in and around the town and district of Llanelli.
Dorothy Squires
Dorothy (Edna May) Squires was born on 25th March 1915 in a showman's caravan at Bridge Shop Field, in the village of Pontyberem, near Llanelli. By 1928 her father Archibald Squires and his family, had settled down in Dafen, at which time he was described as a steelworks sheet worker and had purchased Aston House, New Road, Dafen, Llanelli.
Dafen Iron and Tinplate Works
Tinplate Pioneers. Dafen Iron and Tinplate Works. In September 1845 R.J. Nevill leased a piece of land of 5 acres known as Cae Lan'r Afon to Thomas and James Motley of Leeds and John Winkworth of Bath, for the purpose of erecting a tinplate works. After two years trying to establish the business the Motley brothers put up the works for sale due to trade and financial difficulties. The Dafen Works was not brought into production until the latter months of 1848, after the works was bought by brothers in law Sydney James Phillips and Benjamin Phineas Nunes (pronounced Nunez), metal merchants and selling agents of London, and Robert Smith of Carmarthen. The first works in the Llanelli area to produce tinplate finally closed in 1958.
Lord Elwyn Jones
Lord Elwyn Jones (1909-1989) Frederick Elwyn Jones was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire; in 1927 he went to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and in the following year to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to read history. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1931. He was called to the Bar at Grays Inn in 1935, and began to practice on the Welsh circuit in 1936. During his time in London he became involved in Labour politics.
Ronnie Cass
Ronnie Cass, born on 21 April 1923, showed an interest in music from an early age. Educated at the Llanelli Boys' Grammar School he went on to study economics, music and mathematics at the the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. After serving in the RAF during the second world war he returned to finish his education, subsequently teaching in Llanelli Boys' Grammar School. His heart was set on a life in stage and music and so he left for the bright lights of London. Ronnie Cass was to go on to work with many famous stage, theatre, TV and film stars but perhaps he is most well-known for his work with Sir Cliff Richard, when he wrote the film scores for 'The Young Ones' , 'Summer Holiday' and 'Wonderful Life'.
Eleanor Daniels
Eleanor Daniels 1886-1994, daughter of a Llanelli hay merchant. Her dramatic, prize-winning recitations of her youth led her to success in both dramatic and comic productions on Broadway, touring the length and breadth of the U.S.A. Eleanor Daniels appeared in a number of silent film productions in New York between 1914 and the mid-twenties but is to be remembered for her appearance in If Winter Comes, with Percy Marmont and Bebe Daniels. In 1930 Eleanor was awarded Gorsedd Honours in recognition of her services to Drama. In later life she turned her skills to teaching elocution.
Tyrfran Tollgate
In 1843 the whole of west Wales was gripped in the civil disturbances known as the Rebecca Riots. Aimed mainly at the unfair tolls that were charged for the use of the turnpike roads, the rioters, disguised with blackened faces and attired in women's clothes, would attack and destroy the offending tollgates and their attached gatehouses. It may be that the last of Rebecca's attacks in Llanelli came on Saturday 30th September 1843, when she removed the Tyrfran Tollgate on the road to Felinfoel and dropped it down the shaft of a nearby coal pit. According to old documents and newspapers the gatehouse and gateposts remained untouched.
John Graham Chambers
John Graham Chambers, born at Llanelly House on 12 February 1843, was principally responsible for the modern laws of no fewer than three of the most prominent Olympic sports: athletics, boxing and rowing. In a brief but remarkable career, Chambers also staged the FA Cup final.
Steadman Davies
Steadman Davies MBE 1925 - 2010. Teacher of martial arts and yoga. Born Bwlch-y-Gwynt. Dedicated his life to serving the people of Llanelli.
Llandafen Toll House A blue plaque on the old toll house at Llandafen commemorates the nineteenth century system of collecting tolls from traders in order to finance the construction and maintenance of roads connecting producers with market.
Carmarthenshire Dock The Carmarthenshire Dock was initially constructed in 1806 by the ironmaster, Alexander Raby for the import of iron ore and the export of coal and iron goods, including munitions for the Napoleonic Wars. Initially the dock consisted of the eastern pier sometimes known as Mine Quay, Squires Dock or Raby's Shipping Place. It was subsequently purchased by the Carmarthenshire Rail Road and Tramway Company.
Island Place Meeting House Site of former Mormonite (archaic) Mormon/Latter-Day Saints Church. Later used as a Pentecostal Church. Opened 1894 and closed in 1995. Identified from the Llanelly Board of Health Plan of 1853.
Horeb Mill This building is located in the hamlet of Horeb near the village of Pum Heol, and is about 1 km downstream from the older, Melin yr Afr. Built sometime after 1801 to ensure the continuation of milling in the area , it was much more accessible than its forerunner. A succession of millers named Phillips ran the mill up to the 1880s when the Philpot family took over. Both families had a long history as millers around Llanelli.
Beasley Plaque The former home of Trevor and Eileen Beasley in Llangennech who campaigned in the 1950s to persuade the Council to produce Welsh language tax bills.
Francis Dunn Francis Dunn was the Caulker's Mate of HMS Erebus, one of the ships of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition that had sailed off to the Arctic in 1845 in search of the North West Passage.
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with Bill McKibben & Helena Norberg-Hodge
In this live conversation and Q&A, Bill McKibben, one of the world’s foremost climate campaigners, answers audience questions about climate change issues. Bill co-founded 350.org and spearheaded the 2014 People’s Climate March, which brought more than a million people on to the streets in 162 countries to demand action on climate change. Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures and a pioneer of the worldwide localization movement, joins Bill to provide her own perspective.
Recorded February 22nd/23rd, 2017
Photo of Bill McKibben by: © Nancie Battaglia
Bill McKibben is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org and the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is a 2014 recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ He has written a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published 25 years ago, and his most recent, Oil and Honey.
Helena Norberg-Hodge (Australia) is the founder and director of Local Futures/ISEC. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, described as “an inspirational classic” and Local is Our Future.
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School Holiday Activities at the Markets
Written by Local Market Guide. Thursday, 23 December 2010
Extended Xmas hours at the Fish Market
Written by Local Market Guide. Monday, 13 December 2010
Written by Local Market Guide. Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Finding the perfect Christmas gift is a challenge every year. It is hard enough trying to remember the presents you gave the previous year, let alone trying to be creative.
The good news is that there are several extra Christmas markets on this month to help you on your way, some of which are mid-week twilight markets. This is the perfect way to catch up with friends before Christmas and knock off a few pressies at the same time. You will find some great gift ideas from local artists and artisans and possibly something for yourself too!
History of the Markets
Written by . Tuesday, 30 November 2010
It is easy to forget that the markets we visit today have roots back to the early 19th Century. I guess the difference between now and then is that today it is a cool way to spend the day, to talk with farmers and producers and find unique artisan product’s that may tempt you into a purchase. Back then markets were often rough places and were located close to the wharves for transport.
I thought it would be interesting to have a look back and see where and what the original markets in Sydney were. What I did find is that there is a very confusing history as the markets moved from location to location around town.
Governor Bligh opened the first produce market in the Rocks in 1806. By 1809 this had moved to Market Street, described as ‘a paling enclosure around some sheds’ operating from sunrise until noon. The markets adjoined the Old Burial Ground site (now home to Sydney Town Hall) and linked to Corporation wharf at Darling Harbour. This was the centre of fresh produce trade for decades.
More markets existed from the late 1820’s near Pitt, Hay & Campbell St. These included the cattle, hay and corn markets. These later became the Belmore markets (now Belmore Park). The original Paddy’s markets was also located nearby on the site of the now Capital Theatre. It was thought to be named Paddy’s as it was similar to a famous market in Ireland offering everything from animals for sale, sideshows, farm produce and second-hand goods. Given the number of Irish that arrived as convicts and the thousands of immigrants that arrived later in it is no wonder a ‘Paddy’s market’ was started, and now I know possibly why the popular Irish pub ‘Scruffy Murphy’s’ is in the area too!
By the 1860’s the area was also popular with circus managers. During peak times such as school holidays and livestock sales, market stalls were set up alongside the Wilson Circus who offered entertainment such as tests of strength and trick riding.
By the late 19th Century the produce markets up town were becoming deteriorated and they were replaced with the QVB building. Sydney siders were obviously not ready for this type of high-end arcaded shopping and as a result it was unsuccessful. The real focus of markets in Sydney moved to Haymarket and in 1893 the new Belmore markets opened on the site of the Capital Theatre.
So what happened to Paddy’s? After the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the early 1900’s the city council reclaimed land in the area and selected the current location as the new site for markets in the area as it was closer to shipping wharves, and the railway goods line. It became known as Sydney Municipal Markets.
With the focus now on Paddy’s markets, the new Belmore markets were transformed into a Hippodrome and functioned as a circus for 10 years and amazingly the site included a seal pool and an elephant enclosure! Paddy’s markets have been on the site ever since.
Photo of Belmore Markets c1900 – From Powerhouse Museum Collection
References: Dictionary of Sydney, Paddy’s Markets History, City of Sydney –About Sydney / History & Archives
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Josh Thomson
The Journal News
Once again, you will decide lohud's Football Player of the Week each week. Lakeland quarterback Tyler Santucci was selected as last week's best.
Below you will find the finalists for this week's honor. Voting will end at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The winner will be announced Tuesday night.
FRIDAY'S GAMES: Recaps from all 19 high school football games
SATURDAY'S GAMES: Recaps from all 17 high school football games
Here are the candidates from Week 4:
Joey Carino and Kevin McKenna, Stepinac
The senior duo from Somers were both vital to Stepinac's efforts in a 36-35 loss to rival Iona Prep. Carino went 16 of 26 for 233 yards and two touchdowns and also rushed for 160 yards and three scores. McKenna caught five passes for 86 yards, rushed for a pair of first downs and led the defense with 11 tackles, including a pair of sacks.
Cullen Coleman, Rye Country Day
The Northwestern commit logged the best performance of his career in a 41-20 win at Montclair Kimberley Saturday. He compiled 416 all-purpose yards and scored six touchdowns. That included 20 carries for 240 yards and four touchdowns, three catches for 88 yards and a score and an 88-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
Evan Falco, Rye Neck
The junior was an efficient 16 of 18 for 312 yards and four touchdowns and added nine carries for 129 yards and a score in Rye Neck's 36-14 defeat of Blind Brook.
Logan Flaherty, Pearl River
He caught five passes for 101 yards and two scores and also had seven tackles and an interception in Pearl River's 45-0 victory at Dobbs Ferry. Flaherty missed Week 1 with a broken thumb and did not play offense Week 2 due to the injury. He has 252 yards and three TD catches in the last two games since returning.
Justin Haughton, Nanuet
In a rare night game at Nanuet, Haughton stole the spotlight by rushing for 190 yards and four touchdowns on just 11 carries. He led the Golden Knights to a second straight win, a 56-15 defeat of rival Albertus Magnus.
Colin Jennings, New Rochelle
It was another dominant day for the Huguenots, who routed the Yonkers Force 42-15. Jennings, the new starter at running back, took three of his four carries to the house. He had 130 yards, including a 72-yard scamper.
AJ Johnson, North Rockland
Johnson earned a nod as a finalist for stepping in for hobbled starter Izaiah Battle at running back. He rushed for 101 yards and a touchdown and helped set up another score in North Rockland's 18-10 comeback win over Suffern. Johnson also intercepted a pass to end Suffern's final drive.
Luke Mantini, Ardsley
The first-year starter at quarterback had his best game yet in Ardsley's 35-7 win over Bronxville. He finished 10 of 15 for 201 yards and a pair of scores.
Justin Lee, Tuckahoe
Lee led the Tigers to a 40-16 victory over Haldane, which beat Tuckahoe for last year's Section 1 Class D title. He went 7 of 16 for 161 yards and three touchdowns and added another 61 yards and two scores on the ground.
Dennis Riordan, Clarkstown South
Riordan continued to perform in his first year as the starter at quarterback. He went 15 of 18 for 284 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for a pair of scores in South's 41-21 win at Eastchester.
Jarel Washington and Darius Wilson, Iona Prep
The juniors led Iona Prep's comeback in a 36-35 victory over rival Stepinac. Wilson went 16 of 30 for 200 yards and two touchdowns and did not commit a turnover. He threw a touchdown to Alex Williams with 2 minutes remaining to set up the go-ahead two-point conversion. Washington had 183 yards of offense on just seven touches, including a 72-yard touchdown run and the bulk of a crucial 61-yard gain on a hook-and-ladder pass.
Jared Wilens, Pleasantville
The senior exploded for four receiving touchdowns in his team's 42-28 victory over Putnam Valley. Wilens helped the Panthers overcome a 14-0 deficit by catching six passes for 169 yards, including four for scores.
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MAUC was incorporated in 1967 as a means to diligently organize for economic and political empowerment of the Mexican American population in San Antonio. MAUC’s purpose at that time was ‘to provide gratuitously, counseling and educational programs to Mexican American volunteer groups and leaders, interested in the social, economic and educational problems of Mexican Americans throughout the State of Texas.’ Its founding board of directors included, Dr. Charles Cottrell (St. Mary’s University), Dr. Richard Caldwell (Kelly AFB), Judge Albert A. Peña, Jr. (Bexar County Commissioner), and community activists Mario Compeán, William C. Velásquez, and Juán J. Patlán.
MAUC, the first local affiliate of UnidosUS (formerlyNCLR), soon established itself as a leader in advocating community problems. Like a finely woven tapestry or a detailed piece of art with rich and vibrant colors and textures, MAUC has experienced the gamut in issues affecting our constituencies.
At the crux of MAUC’s inception was the right to speak Spanish on school grounds at a local school district. Another was the inclusion of courses portraying the positive contributions made to society by Mexican Americans – something that was not taught in schools at the time. Voter education and registration was another effort – especially dear to the heart of then MAUC Executive Director Willie Velásquez. His work at MAUC laid the groundwork for his later endeavor, the Southwest Voter Education and Registration Project (SVREP).
MAUC continues to seek ways to build the organization’s effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of social services in the area of education, health, family strengthening and community economic development to all areas of the City and County. The process of assisting an individual or group to identify and address issues and gain insights, knowledge and experience needed to solve problems and implement change.
If you are interested in supporting MAUC’s efforts, either through funding, in-kind services, or volunteer opportunities, please contact us at 210.978.0500 or e-mail info@mauc.
The Mexican American Unity Council, Inc. (MAUC) provides guidance, services in areas of education, housing, community and economic development.
MAUC will be a beacon of hope recognized for helping people improve their lives and their community.
Dedicated to the rebirth of our inner city neighborhoods...
MAUC resides in a historical building constructed in 1911. As the former home of David Crockett Elementary School, it was vacated in 1967 and remained unoccupied and subject to vandalism until 1975. The structure faced demolition but the community protested that as a “beacon of hope,” as it was called in its heyday, they could not allow the building to face the wrecking ball. The City then called for bids to purchase and restore the stoic edifice and MAUC was selected through a competitive process to take charge in restoring the structure. The MAUC Center was dedicated in ceremonial fashion on October 29, 1977.
MAUC Center is currently home to community-based organizations such as ED Plus, Healthy Futures of Texas, United Counseling Center, Our Casas, Inc., SEIU of Texas, Leticia Luna Attorney, Cavazos & Galindo, AAMA, PeopleFund, San Antonio Counseling and Behavioral Center, G-TEK Industries, American Gateways, Greater SA After School All-Stars, AA New Beginnings, Executive Profile, MEX US Law Firm, and WeatherTek General Contractors.
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DA Vance: Man Charged With Murder, Robbery of 87-Year-Old College Professor
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of MATTHEW LEE, 50, for violently robbing 87-year-old Lehman College professor Young Kun Kim inside of a bank vestibule on the Upper West Side and knocking him to the ground, causing his death. The defendant is charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with Murder in the Second Degree and Robbery in the First Degree.[1]
“Young Kun Kim, a beloved member of the Lehman College faculty, was simply running a Sunday errand when he was attacked and left for dead in his own Upper West Side community,” said District Attorney Vance. “Violence against seniors and other vulnerable residents of our city will be met with the full force of our laws. My Office remains committed to seeking justice for elderly victims, and I encourage victims of elder abuse to call our hotline at (212) 335-9007.”
According to the indictment and documents filed in court, at approximately 4:50 p.m. on May 13, 2018, LEE followed Dr. Kim into a bank vestibule on Broadway between West 96th and West 97th Streets. The defendant waited in the vestibule while Dr. Kim withdrew $300 in cash from an ATM, and then attacked him in an attempt to take the money. Dr. Kim resisted and fell to the ground in the ensuing struggle, hitting his head on the floor. Other bank customers found Dr. Kim moments later and he was transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his head injuries four days later. Meanwhile, LEE fled the scene with Mr. Young’s money and was apprehended on West 90th Street by members of the NYPD’s 24th Precinct Detective Squad.
Assistant D.A.s Dafna Yoran, Senior Trial Counsel for Trial Bureau 70, and Elizabeth Clerkin are handling the prosecution of the case under the supervision of Assistant D.A. Alfred Peterson, Chief of Trial Bureau 70, and Executive Assistant D.A. John Irwin, Chief of the Trial Division. Analyst Henry Chapman is also assisting with the case.
District Attorney Vance thanked the NYPD for its assistance with the investigation, particularly Sergeant Taiyuen Lee of the 24th Precinct; Detective Mourad Arslanbeck of the 24th Precinct Detective Squad; and Detective Mark Worthington and Lieutenant Patrick Brown of the Manhattan North Homicide Squad.
[1] The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. All factual recitations are derived from documents filed in court and statements made on the record in court.
MATTHEW LEE, D.O.B. 10/3/1967
Charged:
Murder in the Second Degree, a class A-1 felony, 1 count
Robbery in the First Degree, a class B felony, 1 count
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40 A-List Actors You Didn't Realize Got Their Start on TV
From sitcoms to medical dramas, some of Hollywood's elite started on the small screen.
By Adrianna Freedman
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In Hollywood today, it's not uncommon to see your favorite stars go back and forth between television and movies. But this wasn't always the case. Sure, you might know Leonardo DiCaprio for Titanic or Morgan Freeman for The Shawshank Redemption, but did you know some of their first jobs were on TV? Find out which famous film actors have TV to thank for garnering them a spot in the realm of acting.
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Michael J. Fox's most famous role is Marty McFly. But three years before, he was making audiences laugh as the Reaganomics-obsessed Alex P. Keaton on the hit '80s sitcom Family Ties.
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The Oscar winner might be famous for movies like Titanic and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but back in the fall of 1991, he was making his television debut as Luke Brower in the final season of Growing Pains.
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Almost a decade before Hemsworth was turning heads as Thor in the Marvel universe, he was portraying a young Kimberly "Kim" Hyde on the Australian soap, Home and Away.
Leto might be best known for his band or his roles in films like Dallas Buyers'Club, but in the mid-1990s he was busy gaining recognition as Jordan Catalano on My So-Called Life.
While Smith was making moves as a young DJ and rapper in the 1980s, he got his acting break when as a fictionalized version of himself in the still-popular sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
The actor has starred in hit comedies, like Bruce Almighty or Ace Ventura, but he got his start in acting as an ensemble member on the comedy sketch series In Living Color.
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Over a decade before Gosling was stealing hearts in The Notebook, he was part of an all-star ensemble cast (alongside the likes of Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears) in a 1990s reboot of The Mickey Mouse Club.
Back in 2006—years before he was in action films like American Assassin and 21 Bridges—Kitsch was making fans swoon as fullback Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights.
Moviegoers might've thought JGL made his mark on Hollywood in 10 Things I Hate About You, but that's only because they probably forgot his five-year stint on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.
While Clooney's career has massively expanded since his days on TV, he did get his start as Dr. Doug Ross, one of the original characters on the hit 1990s medical drama ER.
Before LaBeouf made his mark in film roles like Holes, Transformers, and most recently Honey Boy, he was just another Disney Channel kid, starring as the goofy Louis Stevens on Even Stevens.
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Carell might be the star of award-winning movies (Beautiful Boy) and TV shows (The Office), but most people forget that the comedian got his start as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Williams is associated with award-winning films, like Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting, but it was the sitcom Mork and Mindy that gave him his first foot in the door.
The 2010s was the decade when Jordan became a household name in Hollywood—but it's not when he first started acting. In the early aughts, fans of The Wire might've noticed him in a recurring role.
Before Hanks became an award-winning film actor in the 1990s, he spent the previous decade starring on various TV shows, including portraying Kip/Buffy Wilson on the short-lived series Bosom Buddies.
Pratt's most famous films include the Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World franchises. Before he was on the big screen, he got his start in 2002 as Bright Abbot on Everwood.
Back in the late 1990s, no one knew Franco would eventually become a Hollywood staple. He was just known as Daniel Desario on the cult series Freaks and Geeks.
Back in the 1970s—long before anyone would consider him to be the acting voice of multiple generations—Freeman was making waves as a cast member of the PBS children's show The Electric Company.
Many years prior to Depp winning multiple awards for his work in various films, he was one of the original actors in the late 1980s cop show, 21 Jump Street.
Just a few years prior to Travolta wearing white jumpsuits and greaser attire, he gained some notice for his portrayal of Vincent "Vinnie" Barbarino in the series Welcome Back, Kotter.
Just a few years prior to winning an Emmy for Watchmen and appearing in Aquaman, Abdul-Mateen was portraying Clarence "Cadillac" Caldwell on the short-lived Netflix drama The Get Down.
Lawrence is most famous for her roles in movies like The Hunger Games franchise and Silver Linings Playbook. However in 2007, she was portraying teenager Lauren Pearson on The Bill Engvall Show.
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Sure, Cumberbatch is known for portraying Sherlock and Doctor Strange throughout his career, but his acting stints began in the early aughts, when he portrayed Rory Slippery on the British dramedy Fortysomething.
It was the 1980s when a then-unknown Denzel Washington gained notice amongst TV viewers when he began portraying Dr. Phillip Chandler on the hit medical drama St. Elsewhere.
While McCarthy is famous for her comedic turns in films like Bridesmaids and the Ghostbusters reboot, Gilmore Girls fans have known her for years as chef Sookie St. James.
No one can deny Matthew McConaughey is one of Hollywood's elite. But in the early 1990s, he was just an unknown actor starring in a re-enactment segment on Unsolved Mysteries.
Less than five years before he would become a star for his work in Die Hard, Willis was busy fighting other bad guys as Detective David Addison on the ABC dramedy Moonlighting.
Before he was proving his comedic chops on the big screen, Sandler was one of the many cast members on Saturday Night Live in the mid-1990s.
Back in 1984, it didn't take long for fans of the series Knots Landing to fall for a young Alec Baldwin, who portrayed televangelist Joshua Rush in the show's sixth season.
Just a decade before Evans would have a legion of fans from portraying Captain America, he was a young actor starring as Cary Baston on the short lived Fox series, Opposite Sex.
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SOPHIE GLENN
RUST NEVER SLEEPS
“I want my designs to challenge what makes furniture recognizable. I employ traditional furniture forms and methods of making but make slight alterationsor integrate contrasting elements that promote user engagement and investigation.”
Sophie Glenn is a furniture maker and metal worker from New York City, NY. She received her MFA in Furniture Design and Woodworking from San Diego State University (San Diego, CA) in 2017 and has worked as a metal fabricator and welder for independent businesses across the country. In her series, “Rust Never Sleeps,” Sophie challenges traditional norms in furniture making through her use of material and color. Designs, which appear at first to be made of wood, are revealed to be fabricated in steel. Sophie’s work charges the audience to abandon our preconceived notions and to look more closely before drawing conclusions.
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NGO: Morsi's life at risk due to medical negligence
November 30, 2017 at 4:22 pm | Published in: Africa, Egypt, International Organisations, News, UN
Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi at a court session behind a cage in Cairo, Egypt on 6 August 2017 [Mostafa El-Shemy / Anadolu Agency]
Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's life is at risk due to medical negligence by prison authorities, the Arab Organisation of Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) warned today.
Morsi's family have spoken of the harsh conditions of his detention which the report deems "inappropriate for his age and health". His son further told the NGO that Mazraat Tora Prison, where the former president is being held in solitary confinement, has refused to provide the food and medication needed to treat his diabetes.
"He is also suffering from back and neck pain which makes it necessary for him to be in a room with a special bed and at certain room temperatures otherwise he will suffer a slipped disc. Also, because of the poor detention conditions he suffered a weakness in his left eye, as a result of complete medical neglect."
Authorities are refusing to allow his family or defence team to visit him and complaints about his maltreatment have repeatedly been disregarded.
Last week, Morsi pleaded in court to be taken to hospital immediately citing the immense deterioration of his health; his request was denied. He has also lost sight in his left eye due to his diabetes being left untreated.
Read: Morsi tells lawyer of threats to his life
Since Morsi's detention in 2013, he has been subject to forced disappearances and prevented from meeting anyone except on two occasions. Whilst he has been sentenced to over 45 years for allegedly spying for Qatar and "killing protestors", he continues to be tried for numerous other cases.
The former president faces a raft of additional charges, ranging from "jailbreak" to "espionage".
Morsi, along with a host of co-defendants, has consistently denied the charges against him, while many independent observers say the accusations are politically motivated.
A leader of Egypt's now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group, Morsi became the country's first-ever freely-elected president in mid-2012.
One year later, however, he was ousted by Egypt's military, which killed hundreds of his supporters and threw tens of thousands behind bars.
AOHR called upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Rapporteurs on arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance to intervene urgently with the Egyptian authorities to put a stop to the human rights violations against Morsi and all political prisoners.
Read: Egyptian court postpones Morsi's trial to 3 December
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Kirkland Lake buying Detour Gold in stock deal worth $3.7 billion
Cecilia Jamasmie | November 25, 2019 | 5:36 am Intelligence Markets News Precious Metals Canada Gold
The Cosmo mine is located in the Northern Territory, Australia. (Image courtesy of Kirkland Lake Gold)
Canada’s Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX, NYSE: KL) (ASX:KLA) is buying smaller rival Detour Gold in an all-stock deal worth C$4.9 billion ($3.7 billion) that boosts the already large list of mergers and acquisitions to have swept the sector this year.
Kirkland is offering 0.4343 shares to Detour Gold shareholders for each share held, which represents a premium of 23.8% to Friday’s closing price.
The transaction, which will help the Toronto-based miner scale up its operations and boost reserves, is expected to generate pre-tax savings of about $75 to $100 million per year, the companies said in the statement.
Deal helps Kirkland expand operations and boost reserves and is expected to generate pre-tax savings of about $75 to $100 million per year
“We have already taken two mining operations, Macassa and Fosterville, and transformed them into high-quality assets that generate industry-leading earnings and free cash flow,” Kirkland Lake Gold’s president and chief executive, Tony Makuch, said.
Detour Gold owns the Detour Lake open pit gold mine in northeastern Ontario, which according to Makuch, provides Kirkland with the opportunity to add a third “cornerstone asset” located in the company’s back yard.
The miner posted earlier this month record cash flows and net earnings – $0.84 per share – for the July-September period. The quarter, said the company at the time was its best to date, thanks mostly to exceptional results at Fosterville mine in Australia.
The transaction requires approval by a two-thirds majority vote by Detour Gold shareholders and a majority vote by Kirkland Lake Gold shareholders, in addition to regulatory and court approvals.
Canada-centric
Following the highly publicized multi-billion mergers of Barrick – Randgold and Newmont – Goldcorp early this year, the global gold sector has been going through an anticipated wave of consolidation, mostly focused on Canada.
Barrick and Newmont themselves followed their big acts by merging their operations in Nevada, United States, which created the world’s largest gold complex.
“We can expect even more M&A activity in the near future,” Dean Braunsteiner, PwC Canada National Mining Leader prophetically told MINING.com in April. “That creates a cascading effect of further deals as companies sell off non-core assets, which brings new opportunities for management teams to build the next big Canadian mining company.”
Unlike in the previous gold deal spree registered in the early part of the decade, companies are now moving away from a “size for size’s sake” mindset to owning and focusing only on the best assets, Kingsdale Advisors noted in a June report.
The announced Kirkland-Detour deal is just one example of such trend. Once completed, shareholders in both companies will own about 73% and 27%, respectively, of the merged company.
WTF, Kirkland buying a very low grade mining operation and destroying its reputation as a very high grade producer. They just crashed KLA share price – a stupid decision that
should be reversed immediately.
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DTC Era / March 20, 2019
Shopify tightens grip on partners, merchants
By Shareen Pathak
Shopify is making some changes. Effective late last week, the company said it would restrict certain “partners,” — Shopify’s term for the plethora of vendors, mostly agencies, that work with the company — from soliciting retailers from leaving the Shopify platform. It’s also part of a series of moves that asks that Shopify retailers use Shopify Payments to power their businesses.
It’s a move that makes sense for Shopify as it seeks to protect how merchants and partners use their platform. But it’s caused some issues in the market. On LinkedIn, where DTC brand founders congregate in groups, both “partners” and retailers say it’s left them feeling “handcuffed.”
One e-commerce agency founder told Digiday that if a retailer comes to them asking for advice, they’re going to give them the best possible answer — even if that means that Shopify may not be the right choice. That isn’t possible for many of these agencies now, which are also classified as Shopify partners. Shopify for its part said that the changes are part of a continued effort to encourage the best possible retailer experience.
At the same time, rival platforms are capitalizing. BigCommerce went on a PR spree this week, with one of the VPs posting a lengthy LinkedIn post about how important it is to choose and why it’s a “fundamental business right.”
But more interestingly, this is yet another example of platform dependency, especially in retail, and how quickly things change. Vendors are still reeling from Amazon’s sudden move a couple of weeks ago to purge thousands of brands from its platform as a way to assert more control over how brands use it. Like Shopify after it, and many that come after it, giving up control to platforms is never going to be easy, or result in changes that will make, in this case, merchants happy. After all, platforms giveth but they also seek to protect themselves.
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How the fortunes of DTC startups and buy now pay later apps are intertwined
The direct-to-consumer startup boom has also fueled the rise of a number of secondary industries — for example, buy now pay later services. Affirm just went public this week and if its Wall Street debut is any indication, it’s got some staying power. Affirm disclosed in its S-1 that it generates nearly 30% of its revenue from just one company: Peloton, one of the darlings in the DTC space. But the relationship between buy now pay later services and DTC startups runs deeper than that.
Outdoor furniture company Outer pays its customers to turn their backyards into "showrooms," which prospective new customers can check out as they're deciding whether or not to buy a sofa or a rug from Outer. It's something that the startup has done since launching in mid-2019. But 2020 was the year in which Outer started to prove that its model has traction. The company did more than $12 million in sales in 2020, up from $1.1 million in 2019. Now, the company plans to lean on its customers more to help fuel its growth, as it seeks to expand the showroom model.
Despite hungry VCs, DTC brands are rethinking their fundraising approach
There's two competing narratives right now taking shape in the direct-to-consumer space: one, that venture capital funding is starting to fall out of favor with DTC startups. And two, that it's a great time to raise venture capital funding as a consumer startup, as more investors are finally waking up to the fact that there's a huge opportunity for these companies as more people do more shopping online. But these two concepts aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Some DTC startups are still raising venture capital money, they're just doing so later on. Or, if they take VC funding, they are taking steps to ensure their cash lasts longer.
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Jacob F. Field
Dr Jacob F. Field is a historian and writer who was a contributor to 1001 Historic Sites and 1001 Battles. He is the author of One Bloody Thing After Another: The World's Gruesome History, and We Shall Fight on the Beaches: The Speeches That Inspired History, both published by Michael O'Mara Books. He studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, and then moved to Newcastle University for his PhD, where he completed a thesis on the Great Fire of London. He then worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge.
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A Short History of the World in 50 Places
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One Bloody Thing After Another
A Short History of the World in 50 Animals
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Nice Carnival: French Riviera’s vivid tradition
Monaco Tribune - 17 February 2020
© Carnaval de Nice 2020
The Nice Carnival is arguably the brightest event of the year on the French Riviera.
Every February a colourful carnival takes place in Nice. This year Nice is the capital of the carnival from 15 to 29 February.
According to some sources, the tradition of carnival dates back to the 13th century, when the Count of Provence, Charles II of Anjou, held a royal picnic in this area – with balls, actors, fireworks and bustling festivals. For the 13th century, the feast was too lavish and even displeased the church, but nevertheless the carnival not only survived but thrived to this day.
Carnival traditions
It is hard to imagine the carnival in Nice without confetti. This tradition dates back to the 19th century. In 1821-22 the Duke of Savoy Victor-Emmanuel I was on a holiday in Nice. A carnival procession took place in his honour when for the first time the servants threw small candies made of caramel sugar at the crowd. In spoken Italian, the candies were called “confetti”. The paper confetti, which we were used to now, only appeared in 1892.
Another tradition of the Nice Carnival is the “Flower Battles” (La Bataille de Fleurs). The first “Flower Battle” was held in 1876 on the Promenade des Anglais and, compared to the modern one, looked rather modest – the owners of floats, which were decorated with different flowers, simply exchanged bouquets. Now the “Flower Battle” is one of the most remarkable moments of the carnival. About 20 floats decorated with flowers take part in the parade. The procession also brings dancers, musicians and acrobats. A special place on the “Flower Battle” is given to the traditional Provençal flower – mimosa. At the end of the procession, flower floats are literally “dismantled” and flowers are thrown into the crowd.
No carnival in Nice happens without the extravagant parades of floats. Every year, between 12 and 20 floats take part in the parade. They are decorated according to the theme of the carnival. The name of the theme of the carnival is based on the same principle from year to year: “King of…”. Then follows the theme of the carnival – King of Circus, Sports, Cinema, Gastronomy… Each float presents its own vision of the character. The floats usually move 15 km along the Promenade des Anglais and a couple of adjacent streets.
Finally, during the carnival days there are a lot of fun events. Among them, for example, is a race dedicated to rock music, or even Zumba competitions. Fireworks are another essential attribute of the carnival. During the two carnival weeks, the sky of Nice is illuminated daily with the lights of lush fireworks as darkness falls.
Official carnival in Nice
The first official carnival in Nice was held on 23 February 1873. In the same year, Andriot Saetone from Nice initiated the creation of the “Folk Festival Committee”. Under the patronage of the municipality, the committee was responsible for organising and conducting parades, writing the script and selling tickets for the carnival. Since 1873 the carnival was cancelled several times – during the First and Second World Wars and also in 1991 due to the war in the Persian Gulf.
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2020 Carnival: “King of Fashion”
The theme of this year’s carnival is “King of Fashion”. For two weeks the carnival events will feature a burlesque performance depicting fashion in all its forms. Spectators will see the King and Queen of Fashion and their subjects.
The themed carnival floats will be joined by giant puppet heads, which in the carnival environment are called “grosses têtes”. Performers and dancers from all over the world will focus on the theme of the garment industry and its hidden aspects in a humorous way.
This year’s “Battle of Flowers” parade will see 80% of floats decorated with local flowers. Since 2005, floral parades have had the same theme as the entire carnival. So this year “Battle of Flowers” is also dedicated to “King of Fashion”. The parade is quite unique for several reasons. Most importantly, participants create costumes especially for this occasion, and during the event guests are given thousands of flowers! The carnival procession of the flower floats will take place in Massena Square on February 15, 19, 22, 26 and 29.
Traditionally, during the carnival there are night processions – “Parade of Lights”. The carnival floats will light up the centre of Nice. There will be both music and visual projections.
You can find the full program of the carnival here.
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Forgettable Used Ferrari Purchase Lands Owner Millions
Jan 06, 2019 at 3:51am ET
By: Dominik Wilde
Published by: Adrian Padeanu
The broken F430 bagged him $5.8 million in damages.
Imagine buying a second-hand Ferrari for $90,000, and then getting $5.8 million as a result. It sounds like a perfect, if indeed crazy scenario, but for one man, it was actually an inconvenient truth.
Automotive News reports that Hamid Adeli purchased a Ferrari F430 from Mercedes-Benz of Northwest Arkansas back in 2016, but he made the mistake of not checking the car out himself prior to purchasing – a must before buying any second-hand car. Instead, the dealership had the car inspected by a Ferrari specialist.
The inspection at the Ferrari dealership in Plano, Texas revealed a number of issues with the car. Some were fixed, but others weren't on the say-so of the garage selling the car.
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That would later prove to be problematic for Adeli who had the car shipped to his home in Virginia on the basis that the dealership told him the car was "turn-key" and in "excellent condition." It wasn't though.
Before too long the car started smelling of gasoline – the smell was so bad that it went into Adeli's garage and home. The cause was later discovered to be a leaky exhaust manifold, and there were reportedly a few other problems with the car, too.
The Mercedes dealership that he bought the car from immediately distanced themselves from the case, insisting that anything that would be a concern to someone buying a 10-year-old used vehicle had been fixed, and the car was "as-is," but Adeli sued them for breach of warranty, fraud and violations of consumer protection laws.
At a trial, a jury awarded Adeli $6,835 in compensatory damages,$13,366 in incidentals, and $5.8 million in punitive damages. The crazy payout is one being contested by the dealership, who is now seemingly admitting fault, but is only willing to pay $27,340 in punitive damages.
Don't take inspiration from this. Buying a dodgy second-hand car will almost never land you with a lottery-sized windfall. Always get a car properly checked before signing on the dotted line and handing over your hard-earned dough.
Source: Automotive News
Gallery: Ferrari F430
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Pregnant and without health insurance? Help is available
Mary Lou Jay
Pregnancy is supposed to be a joyful time. But if you're expecting and without health insurance coverage, the worry over the bills you're facing for prenatal care and delivery may outweigh the excitement of planning for your baby's arrival.
You have reason to be concerned. A study published in 2007 by the March of Dimes Foundation found that the average expenditures for maternity care were $7,737 for vaginal delivery and $10,958 for a Cesarean section. The American Pregnancy Association has similar figures ($6,000 to $8,000 for delivery costs) but reports that the costs can go much higher for high-risk pregnancies.
Thanks to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, group health insurance plans sponsored by employers with 15 or more workers must include coverage for pregnancy and delivery-related expenses. But women working for small companies are not covered by that mandate (although their companies may choose to offer maternity coverage).
In addition, most women who purchase individual health care insurance policies don't have prenatal or delivery coverage. The National Women's Law Center, which has studied inequalities in health insurance, says that only 13 percent of individual health care plans covered maternity expenses in 2009.
With all of these exclusions, 13 percent of U.S. women who get pregnant each year are without insurance coverage for maternity costs, according to the American Pregnancy Association. That will change in 2014, when certain provisions of the federal health care reform law kick in and insurance companies will be required to include those benefits as part of their health insurance packages.
In the meantime, however, there is some help available today for women who are pregnant and without insurance.
Womenshealth.gov, a website developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, suggests that pregnant women who need assistance call 1-800-311-BABY (1-800-311-2229) or 1-800-504-7081 (for assistance in Spanish). The number connects you with the health department in your state, which will have information about local resources, such as your state's Medicaid program, for which you might quality.
Although it's not insurance, there's also a program called AmeriPlan that offers participants discounts of 10 percent to 50 percent on pregnancy-related doctor bills, lab fees and even hospitalization expenses. The plan requires a sign-up fee and a monthly membership card. Unlike traditional insurance, AmeriPlan will cover women who are pregnant when they sign up for the plan.
The American Pregnancy Association also suggests that pregnant women should contact their local hospitals before the baby's birth to see whether they can work out some sort of financial arrangements, such as a sliding scale fee or discount. Another alternative for women without health insurance who are having normal pregnancies are free-standing birthing clinics, which traditionally charge about half of what a hospital would cost.
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Melania Trump's Inaugural Gown Accepted By Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
By Jessica Kwong On 10/18/17 at 2:35 PM EDT
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U.S. Melania Trump Trump Inauguration Smithsonian American history
Melania Trump's inaugural ball gown is headed to the Smithsonian, just like Michelle Obama's and those of first ladies past.
The First Lady will donate the white silk, off-shoulder dress with a thin red waist bow and leg slit to the National Museum of American History on Friday morning, the Washington Examiner reported on Wednesday. She wore it at the first of three inaugural balls on January 20.
Designer Hervé Pierre told Harper's Bazaar that he followed Melania Trump's request for a simple and elegant dress.
"The lines are as sleek as a paper cut; the curves of the skirt are fluid, yet the overall shape is sharp and intense. For me it reflects her personality," Pierre said. "It was important for us not to follow any recipe for a 'First Lady gown.'"
Recalling the inaugural night, Pierre said, "The President walked in and saw her for the first time. He said, 'Whoa, that's really gorgeous.'"
Trump's gown will be unveiled at a private event with 200 guests at Flag Hall in the capitol hosted by Smithsonian Institution secretary David Skorton and the museum's director John Gray, then put on display for the public.
Pierre said he will definitely be on hand.
"I got chills. I know how in the designer world, there are lots of big egos. I have always tried to manage my ego for many, many years," Pierre told Women's Wear Daily. "But in this case, there is nothing to be ashamed of — it's a big ego thing. I'm really, really proud of it."
First Ladies, white inaugural ball gowns #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/svtDawX1rE
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 21, 2017
Former first lady Michelle Obama has had gowns from both of her husband's inaugural balls accepted by the Smithsonian museum.
Obama's 2009 gown was similar to Trump's in its white silk detail, but was one-shouldered, chiffon and embellished with organza flowers that had Swarovski crystal centers. Her 2013 inaugural number was a long, ruby-colored chiffon gown with a cross-halter strap neckline and scoop back. Both were designed by Jason Wu.
The First Ladies collection has been one of the most popular displays at the Smithsonian Institution and the original exhibition in 1914 was the first at the Smithsonian to feature women prominently.
It contains more than two dozen gowns, including those worn by Laura Bush, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lou Hoover and Frances Cleveland, and "encourages visitors to consider the changing role played by the first lady and American women over the past 200 years."
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Sand dunes can 'communicate' with each other
Even though they are inanimate objects, sand dunes can 'communicate' with each other. A team from the University of Cambridge has found that as they move, sand dunes interact with and repel their downstream neighbors.
Even though they are inanimate objects, sand dunes can 'communicate' with each other. A team from the University of Cambridge has found that as they move, sand dunes interact with and repel their downstream neighbours.
Using an experimental dune 'racetrack', the researchers observed that two identical dunes start out close together, but over time they get further and further apart. This interaction is controlled by turbulent swirls from the upstream dune, which push the downstream dune away. The results, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, are key for the study of long-term dune migration, which threatens shipping channels, increases desertification, and can bury infrastructure such as highways.
When a pile of sand is exposed to wind or water flow, it forms a dune shape and starts moving downstream with the flow. Sand dunes, whether in deserts, on river bottoms or sea beds, rarely occur in isolation and instead usually appear in large groups, forming striking patterns known as dune fields or corridors.
It's well-known that active sand dunes migrate. Generally speaking, the speed of a dune is inverse to its size: smaller dunes move faster and larger dunes move slower. What hasn't been understood is if and how dunes within a field interact with each other.
"There are different theories on dune interaction: one is that dunes of different sizes will collide, and keep colliding, until they form one giant dune, although this phenomenon has not yet been observed in nature," said Karol Bacik, a PhD candidate in Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and the paper's first author. "Another theory is that dunes might collide and exchange mass, sort of like billiard balls bouncing off one another, until they are the same size and move at the same speed, but we need to validate these theories experimentally."
Now, Bacik and his Cambridge colleagues have shown results that question these explanations. "We've discovered physics that hasn't been part of the model before," said Dr Nathalie Vriend, who led the research.
Most of the work in modelling the behaviour of sand dunes is done numerically, but Vriend and the members of her lab designed and constructed a unique experimental facility which enables them to observe their long-term behaviour. Water-filled flumes are common tools for studying the movement of sand dunes in a lab setting, but the dunes can only be observed until they reach the end of the tank. Instead, the Cambridge researchers have built a circular flume so that the dunes can be observed for hours as the flume rotates, while high-speed cameras allow them to track the flow of individual particles in the dunes.
Bacik hadn't originally meant to study the interaction between two dunes: "Originally, I put multiple dunes in the tank just to speed up data collection, but we didn't expect to see how they started to interact with each other," he said.
The two dunes started with the same volume and in the same shape. As the flow began to move across the two dunes, they started moving. "Since we know that the speed of a dune is related to its height, we expected that the two dunes would move at the same speed," said Vriend, who is based at the BP Institute for Multiphase Flow. "However, this is not what we observed."
Initially, the front dune moved faster than the back dune, but as the experiment continued, the front dune began to slow down, until the two dunes were moving at almost the same speed.
Crucially, the pattern of flow across the two dunes was observed to be different: the flow is deflected by the front dune, generating 'swirls' on the back dune and pushing it away. "The front dune generates the turbulence pattern which we see on the back dune," said Vriend. "The flow structure behind the front dune is like a wake behind a boat, and affects the properties of the next dune."
As the experiment continued, the dunes got further and further apart, until they form an equilibrium on opposite sides of the circular flume, remaining 180 degrees apart.
The next step for the research is to find quantitative evidence of large-scale and complex dune migration in deserts, using observations and satellite images. By tracking clusters of dunes over long periods, we can observe whether measures to divert the migration of dunes are effective or not.
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Karol A. Bacik, Sean Lovett, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Nathalie M. Vriend. Wake Induced Long Range Repulsion of Aqueous Dunes. Physical Review Letters, 2020; 124 (5) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.054501
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Suggested Citation:"Summary Tables: Dietary Reference Intakes." Institute of Medicine. 2011. Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13050.
Dietary Reference Intakes
Estimated Average Requirements
Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Vitamins
Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Elements
Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Total Water and Macronutrients
Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges
Additional Macronutrient Recommendations
Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, Vitamins
Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, Elements
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Estimated Average Requirements
Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academies
Life Stage Group
Calcium (mg/d)
CHO (g/d)*
Protein (g/kg/d)*
Vit A (μg/d)a
Vit D (μg/d)
Vit E (mg/d)b
Thiamin (mg/d)
Riboflavin (mg/d)
Niacin (mg/d)c
9–13 y
14–18 y
> 70 y
NOTE: An Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) is the average daily nutrient intake level estimated to meet the requirements of half of the healthy individuals in a group. EARs have not been established for vitamin K, pantothenic acid, biotin, choline, chromium, fluoride, manganese, or other nutrients not yet evaluated via the DRI process.
*These labels were revised since publication.
aAs retinol activity equivalents (RAEs). 1 RAE = 1 μg retinol, 12 μg β-carotene, 24 μg α-carotene, or 24 μg β-cryptoxanthin. The RAE for dietary provitamin A carotenoids is two-fold greater than retinol equivalents (RE), whereas the RAE for preformed vitamin A is the same as RE.
bAs α-tocopherol. α-tocopherol includes RRR-α-tocopherol, the only form of α-tocopherol that occurs naturally in foods, and the 2R-stereoisomeric forms of α-tocopherol (RRR-, RSR-, RRS-, and RSS-α-tocopherol) that occur in fortified foods and supplements. It does not include the 2S-stereoisomeric forms of α-tocopherol (SRR-, SSR-, SRS-, and SSS-α-tocopherol), also found in fortified foods and supplements.
Vit B6 (mg/d)
Folate (μg/d)d
Vit B12 (μg/d)
Copper (μg/d)
Iodine (μg/d)
Iron (mg/d)
Magnesium (mg/d)
Molybdenum (μg/d)
Phosphorus (mg/d)
Selenium (μg/d)
Zinc (mg/d)
cAs niacin equivalents (NE). 1 mg of niacin = 60 mg of tryptophan.
dAs dietary folate equivalents (DFE). 1 DFE = 1 μg food folate = 0.6 μg of folic acid from fortified food or as a supplement consumed with food = 0.5 μg of a supplement taken on an empty stomach.
SOURCES: Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride (1997); Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline (1998); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids (2000); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc (2001); Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids (2002/2005); and Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D (2011). These reports may be accessed via www.nap.edu.
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Vitamins
Vitamin A (μg/d)a
Vitamin C (mg/d)
Vitamin D (μg/d)b,c
Vitamin E (mg/d)d
Vitamin K (μg/d)
NOTE: This table (taken from the DRI reports, see www.nap.edu) presents Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) in bold type and Adequate Intakes (AIs) in ordinary type followed by an asterisk (*). An RDA is the average daily dietary intake level sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97–98 percent) healthy individuals in a group. It is calculated from an Estimated Average Requirement (EAR). If sufficient scientific evidence is not available to establish an EAR, and thus calculate an RDA, an AI is usually developed. For healthy breast-fed infants, an AI is the mean intake. The AI for other life stage and gender groups is believed to cover the needs of all healthy individuals in the groups, but lack of data or uncertainty in the data prevent being able to specify with confidence the percentage of individuals covered by this intake.
aAs retinol activity equivalents (RAEs). 1 RAE = 1 μg retinol, 12 μg β-carotene, 24 μg α-carotene, or 24 μg β-cryptoxanthin. The RAE for dietary provitamin A carotenoids is two-fold greater than retinol equivalents (REs), whereas the RAE for preformed vitamin A is the same as RE.
bAs cholecalciferol. 1 μg cholecalciferol = 40 IU vitamin D.
cUnder the assumption of minimal sunlight.
dAs α-tocopherol. α-tocopherol includes RRR-α-tocopherol, the only form of α-tocopherol that occurs naturally in foods, and the 2R-stereoisomeric forms of α-tocopherol (RRR-, RSR-, RRS-, and RSS-α-tocopherol) that occur in fortified foods and supplements. It does not include the 2S-stereoisomeric forms of α-tocopherol (SRR-, SSR-, SRS-, and SSS-α-tocopherol), also found in fortified foods and supplements.
eAs niacin equivalents (NE). 1 mg of niacin = 60 mg of tryptophan; 0–6 months = preformed niacin (not NE).
fAs dietary folate equivalents (DFE). 1 DFE = 1 μg food folate = 0.6 μg of folic acid from fortified food or as a supplement consumed with food = 0.5 μg of a supplement taken on an empty stomach.
Niacin (mg/d)e
Vitamin B6 (mg/d)
Folate (μg/d)f
Vitamin B12 (μg/d)
Pantothenic Acid (mg/d)
Biotin (μg/d)
Choline (mg/d)g
gAlthough AIs have been set for choline, there are few data to assess whether a dietary supply of choline is needed at all stages of the life cycle, and it may be that the choline requirement can be met by endogenous synthesis at some of these stages.
hBecause 10 to 30 percent of older people may malabsorb food-bound B12, it is advisable for those older than 50 years to meet their RDA mainly by consuming foods fortified with B12 or a supplement containing B12.
iIn view of evidence linking folate intake with neural tube defects in the fetus, it is recommended that all women capable of becoming pregnant consume 400 μg from supplements or fortified foods in addition to intake of food folate from a varied diet.
jIt is assumed that women will continue consuming 400 μg from supplements or fortified food until their pregnancy is confirmed and they enter prenatal care, which ordinarily occurs after the end of the periconceptional period—the critical time for formation of the neural tube.
SOURCES: Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride (1997); Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline (1998); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids (2000); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc (2001); Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate (2005); and Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D (2011). These reports may be accessed via www.nap.edu.
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Elements
Chromium (μg/d)
Fluoride (mg/d)
Manganese (mg/d)
Potassium (g/d)
Sodium (g/d)
Chloride (g/d)
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Recommended Dietary Allowances and Adequate Intakes, Total Water and Macronutrients
Total Watera (L/d)
Carbohydrate (g/d)
Total Fiber (g/d)
Fat (g/d)
Linoleic Acid (g/d)
α-Linolenic Acid (g/d)
Proteinb (g/d)
NOTE: This table (take from the DRI reports, see www.nap.edu) presents Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) in bold type and Adequate Intakes (AI) in ordinary type followed by an asterisk (*). An RDA is the average daily dietary intake level sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97–98 percent) healthy individuals in a group. It is calculated from an Estimated Average Requirement (EAR). If sufficient scientific evidence is not available to establish an EAR, and thus calculate an RDA, an AI is usually developed. For healthy breast-fed infants, an AI is the mean intake. The AI for other life stage and gender groups is believed to cover the needs of all healthy individuals in the groups, but lack of data or uncertainty in the data prevent being able to specify with confidence the percentage of individuals covered by this intake.
aTotal water includes all water contained in food, beverages, and drinking water.
bBased on g protein per kg of body weight for the reference body weight, e.g., for adults 0.8 g/kg body weight for the reference body weight.
cNot determined.
SOURCE: Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids (2002/2005) and Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate (2005). The report may be accessed via www.nap.edu.
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Ranges
Macronutrient
Range (percent of energy)
Children, 1–3 y
Children, 4–18 y
n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acidsa (linoleic acid)
n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acidsa (α-linolenic acid)
aApproximately 10 percent of the total can come from longer-chain n-3 or n-6 fatty acids.
SOURCE: Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein, and Amino Acids (2002/2005). The report may be accessed via www.nap.edu.
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Additional Macronutrient Recommendations
Dietary cholesterol
As low as possible while consuming a nutritionally adequate diet
Trans fatty acids
Saturated fatty acids
Added sugarsa
Limit to no more than 25% of total energy
aNot a recommended intake. A daily intake of added sugars that individuals should aim for to achieve a healthful diet was not set.
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, Vitamins
Vitamin D (μg/d)
Vitamin E (mg/d)b,c
1−3 y
9−13 y
14−18 y
NOTE: A Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) is the highest level of daily nutrient intake that is likely to pose no risk of adverse health effects to almost all individuals in the general population. Unless otherwise specified, the UL represents total intake from food, water, and supplements. Due to a lack of suitable data, ULs could not be established for vitamin K, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, biotin, and carotenoids. In the absence of a UL, extra caution may be warranted in consuming levels above recommended intakes. Members of the general population should be advised not to routinely exceed the UL. The UL is not meant to apply to individuals who are treated with the nutrient under medical supervision or to individuals with predisposing conditions that modify their sensitivity to the nutrient.
aAs preformed vitamin A only.
bAs α-tocopherol; applies to any form of supplemental α-tocopherol.
cThe ULs for vitamin E, niacin, and folate apply to synthetic forms obtained from supplements, fortified foods, or a combination of the two.
Folate (μg/d)c
Choline (g/d)
Carotenoidsd
dβ-Carotene supplements are advised only to serve as a provitamin A source for individuals at risk of vitamin A deficiency.
eND = Not determinable due to lack of data of adverse effects in this age group and concern with regard to lack of ability to handle excess amounts. Source of intake should be from food only to prevent high levels of intake.
SOURCES: Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride (1997); Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline (1998); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamine E, Selenium, and Carotenoids (2000); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc (2001); and Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D (2011). These reports may be accessed via www.nap.edu.
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs): Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, Elements
Arsenica
Boron (mg/d)
aAlthough the UL was not determined for arsenic, there is no justification for adding arsenic to food or supplements.
bThe ULs for magnesium represent intake from a pharmacological agent only and do not include intake from food and water.
cAlthough silicon has not been shown to cause adverse effects in humans, there is no justification for adding silicon to supplements.
Magnesium (mg/d)b
Nickel (mg/d)
Phosphorus (g/d)
Siliconc
Vanadium (mg/d)d
dAlthough vanadium in food has not been shown to cause adverse effects in humans, there is no justification for adding vanadium to food, and vanadium supplements should be used with caution. The UL is based on adverse effects in laboratory animals, and this data could be used to set a UL for adults but not children and adolescents.
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Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American population is based on the understanding of the health outcomes that calcium and vitamin D affect. It is also important to establish how much of each nutrient may be "too much."
Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D provides reference intake values for these two nutrients. The report updates the DRI values defined in Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride, the 1997 study from the Institute of Medicine. This 2011 book provides background information on the biological functions of each nutrient, reviews health outcomes that are associated with the intake of calcium and vitamin D, and specifies Estimated Average Requirements and Recommended Dietary Allowances for both. It also identifies Tolerable Upper Intake Levels, which are levels above wish the risk for harm may increase. The book includes an overview of current dietary intake in the U.S. and Canada, and discusses implications of the study. A final chapter provides research recommendations.
The DRIs established in this book incorporate current scientific evidence about the roles of vitamin D and calcium in human health and will serve as a valuable guide for a range of stakeholders including dietitians and other health professionals, those who set national nutrition policy, researchers, the food industry, and private and public health organizations and partnerships.
Front Matter i–xvi
1 Introduction 15–34
2 Overview of Calcium 35–74
3 Overview of Vitamin D 75–124
4 Review of Potential Indicators of Adequacy and Selection of Indicators: Calcium and Vitamin D 125–344
5 Dietary Reference Intakes for Adequacy: Calcium and Vitamin D 345–402
6 Tolerable Upper Intake Levels: Calcium and Vitamin D 403–456
7 Dietary Intake Assessment 457–478
8 Implications and Special Concerns 479–512
9 Information Gaps and Research Needs 513–522
Appendix A: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Glossary 523–536
Appendix B: Issues and Interests Identified by Study Sponsors 537–538
Appendix C: Methods and Results from the AHRQ-Ottawa Evidence-Based Report on Effectiveness and Safety of Vitamin D in Relation to Bone Health 539–724
Appendix D: Methods and Results from the AHRQ-Tufts Evidence-Based Report on Vitamin D and Calcium 725–1012
Appendix E: Literature Search Strategy 1013–1018
Appendix F: Evidence Maps 1019–1024
Appendix G: Cases Studies of Vitamin D Toxicity 1025–1034
Appendix H: Estimated Intakes of Calcium and Vitamin D from National Surveys 1035–1044
Appendix I: Proportion of the Population Above and Below 40 nmol/L Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and Cumulative Distribution of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations: United States and Canada 1045–1058
Appendix J: Workshop Agenda and Open Session Agendas 1059–1064
Appendix K: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members 1065–1074
Summary Tables: Dietary Reference Intakes 1103–1116
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Governor Hogan Announces COVID-19 Relief Grants for Major Tourism-Related Institutions
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$8 Million Will Support 32 Tourism-Producing Organizations
Nearly $50 Million in Funding Has Supported Recovery for More Than 1,800 Nonprofits
ANNAPOLIS MD (December 18, 2020) – Governor Larry Hogan today announced the recipients of 32 awards totaling more than $8 million to tourism-related nonprofits through the Maryland Strong Economic Recovery Initiative. This is part of the more than $600 million in emergency economic relief that the state has announced to date.
The program, administered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, provides grants up to $500,000 for the state’s nonprofit and tourism producing organizations, such as museums, cultural attractions, zoos and aquariums whose mission and work substantially contributes to the economic development and now economic recovery of Maryland communities through visitor-driven activities and programs.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on many of Maryland’s great cultural, educational, and historical institutions,” said Governor Hogan. “We’re proud to dedicate this funding through our Maryland Strong Economic Recovery Initiative to help our nonprofit partners weather this storm and keep Marylanders on their payrolls.”
In addition to the nonprofit tourism awards, the Maryland Strong Economic Recovery Initiative will also provide $35 million in funding to entertainment venues and Main Street communities impacted by the pandemic. Applications for those programs are currently being reviewed and awards are expected to be finalized by the end of the year.
Today’s announcement comes after more than $40 million in awards were previously made through the Maryland Nonprofit Recovery Initiative to more than 1,800 nonprofit organizations across the state. The Maryland Nonprofit Recovery Initiative provided grants of up to $75,000 to nonprofits affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These nonprofits employ thousands of staff members and are focused on economic development, heath, human services and housing.
“These initiatives are yet another example of collaboration and cooperation between state agencies that has served as the foundation for Maryland’s nationally-recognized pandemic response and recovery efforts,” said Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Kenneth C. Holt. “Working together we are sustaining a wide range of nonprofit organizations that directly serve Marylanders and provide everything from meal assistance to emergency housing to health services, as well as providing funding to help entertainment venues, tourist attractions, and Main Street businesses rebound from these current economic challenges.”
Launched earlier this year, the Maryland Nonprofit Recovery Initiative (NORI) is supported by multiple state agencies and provides assistance to nonprofit organizations whose critical operations have been financially impacted by COVID-19. Through the NORI grant opportunities offered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, the Maryland Department of Commerce, and the Maryland State Arts Council, a wide range of nonprofit organizations have received critical funding, including nonprofits licensed by the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration and the Developmental Disabilities Administration.
“With help from the Maryland Nonprofit Recovery Initiative, our agency provided financial assistance to hundreds of applicants that were negatively impacted by the ongoing pandemic-from 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) nonprofits, to independent artists and arts organizations,” said Maryland Commerce Secretary Kelly M. Schulz. “We thank the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development for their partnership in supporting the state’s business community and economy during this time.”
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Kim Dotcom's wife Mona has applied to the courts for the return of her belongings seized when her husband was arrested on copyright charges, including a $202,000 Mercedes and a face sculpture valued at $100,000.
The court has already allowed Kim Dotcom to take an allowance for living expenses and one of the vehicles from the seized assets.
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"Many of my personal belongings were taken by the police, including artwork, jewellery and watches, a laptop computer and mobile phone, and my car," she said in papers filed with the court.
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The FBI has charged Dotcom with criminal copyright violation and has taken the position that his wealth is "tainted" because it was earned through crime.
An extradition hearing is set for August.
Mrs Dotcom said she had "no involvement" in Megaupload.
"I have always believed my husband's businesses are entirely lawful and I still believe this to be true." She said she believed Dotcom would not "risk doing anything that would hurt our family".
"I am simply asking the courts to return my own property and make reasonable provision for our family's ongoing maintenance and care."
Mrs Dotcom said the household was made up of 13 people - her, her husband, the couple's three children, her two young brothers and six staff. Since her affidavit was filed the household has grown by two more with the birth of her twins. Staff wages for the month added up to about $29,000.
But it was the cost of day-to-day living which proved most expensive, with $7000 a month spent on groceries, tanker water costing $1800 a month because the neighbourhood is not on town supply, and clothing and shoes at $700 a month.
Gas for heating and cooking cost $2000 a month and electricity $3500 a month. Phone calls from the landline were budgeted at $5000 - including toll calls.
The court files revealed some of the costs of the family's lifestyle, including rent of $1 million a year on the Coatesville mansion.
The last quarterly rent payment in February was met after a loan from a friend of Dotcom's. The next is due any day.
Dotcom also told the court he had spent about $6.5 million in modifications to the house. He said it cost about $600,000 a year to keep the house going. That included $1850 a week for lawn mowing and $4200 a week for three full-time gardeners - but not the $450 monthly cost of the olive grove.
It also emerged the money which Dotcom deposited in New Zealand as part of his residency scheme had earned $600,000 in its first year. With all his belongings seized, Inland Revenue sent him a bill for $198,000 as the tax department's share of his first year's interest earnings.
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Heartland Inventory & Monitoring Network
Mike DeBacker
Network Program Manager
Wilson's Creek NB, 417-732-6438
Mike joined the park service's I&M team in 1996 with the Prairie Cluster Prototype Monitoring Program. Over this time, Mike has served in several capacities including botanist, ecologist and most recently as network coordinator for the Heartland I&M Network. Mike's primary research interests lie in the prairies of the Great Plains. He is currently involved in several projects examining spatial structure in species distribution, and the influence of fire and grazing regimes on plant community composition. Mike earned a BA degree in Political Science from The Colorado College and a MS degree in Biology from Missouri State University.
Jordan Bell
Exotic Plant Management Team Crew Leader (WICR)
Jordan serves as the Exotic Plant Management Team Crew Leader at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. He is responsible for planning and project management for invasive plant control projects in 9 parks. In addition, he assists with long-term monitoring of these plant populations. Jordan began his work with the network in 2010 as a Student Conservation Association intern following graduation from College of the Ozarks with a B.S. in biology. Jordan has also completed a graduate certificate in restoration ecology through the University of Idaho.
Sonia Bingham
Wetland Biologist
Cuyahoga Valley NP, 330-342-0764 ext.7
Sonia Bingham is a duty stationed employee at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where she manages the Wetland Monitoring Program and Invasive Plant Monitoring at CUVA. Prior to joining the network in 2007, Sonia was an environmental consultant, where she gained extensive professional field experience assessing and monitoring wetlands and streams in Northern Ohio and other locations throughout the Midwestern U.S. In this work, she conducted wetland delineations, developed restoration plans, and surveyed plant, fish, macroinvertebrate, and freshwater mussel communities. Sonia received a B.A. in Biology from Hiram College, Ohio and an M.S. in Environmental Science from The Ohio State University. Her research focused on root habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrates created by common forest trees at the stream bank.
David E. Bowles
Aquatics Resources Program Leader
Missouri State University, 417-836-4702
David is the Aquatic Program Leader for the Network. Prior to his present position, he worked 11 years as an aquatic biologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He serves as a member of the recovery teams of several endangered species including the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow, Barton Springs Salamander, and the Southern Edwards Aquifer Recovery Team. David is a retired U.S. Air Force (Colonel) Medical Entomologist. He also serves on the adjunct graduate faculty of the Department of Biology, Missouri State University. He has published extensively on a variety of topics including taxonomy and ecology of aquatic insects and Crustacea, aquatic plants, fisheries biology, and medical entomology. His education includes a B.S. in Biology and Natural Resources from Ball State University, an M.S. in Aquatic Biology from Southwest Texas State University, and a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Cameron Cheri
Cameron is a research specialist for Missouri State's Biology Department and supports the Heartland I&M Network's aquatics program. He primarily assists with field surveys, sample processing, and database entry for the network's fish, aquatic invertebrate, and aquatic plant monitoring projects. Cameron graduated from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville with a B.S. in Biology in 2015. In 2017, he started an SCA internship at Buffalo National River assisting park ecologists with various monitoring and outreach programs. The following year, Cameron started graduate school at Missouri State University where he studied the effects of riparian vegetation structure on dragonfly and damselfly communities using Ozark spring streams. He received his M.S. in Biology in 2020 before joining the Heartland I&M Network. Cameron is a naturalist with a keen interest in how aquatic invertebrate and plant communities are responding to environmental changes.
Tyler Cribbs
Aquatics Ecologist
Tyler is an aquatic ecologist for the Heartland I&M Network. His work involves assisting with research on fish assemblages and invertebrate communities of Ozark river systems and prairie streams. He was first employed by NPS in 2002 with the Prairie Cluster Long-term Ecological Monitoring Program. He received a M.S. in Natural and Applied Sciences and a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation & Management from Missouri State University.
Hope Dodd
Fisheries Biologist
Hope is the fisheries biologist for the Heartland I&M and Prairie Cluster Prototype Programs of the National Park Service. She coordinates long-term monitoring of fish assemblages and physical habitat in prairie streams and Ozark river systems. Her research interests focus on anthropogenic disturbances in lotic systems and assessment of these long-term effects on water quality, habitat, and biota. Previously, Hope worked as a stream ecologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey conducting research on the assessment of restoration practices on stream fish and invertebrate communities and the effects of dam removal on a mid-size river system. She received her M.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University and her B.S. from Ball State University in Aquatic Biology and Fisheries.
Jennifer Haack-Gaynor
GIS Specialist
Jennifer has received a BS degree in Wildlife Conservation and Management and a MS degree in Geospatial Sciences from Missouri State University. Besides working for the NPS, she has also been employed by the NRCS NRI from 2000 to 2002 performing image interpretation for land change analysis. Work responsibilities focus on using remote sensing for land use/land cover analysis and GIS/GPS support for various inventory and monitoring projects.
Jan Hinsey
Jan is an aquatic ecologist and Assistant Database Manager for the Heartland I&M Network with primary responsibility for the sampling and identification of invertebrates at the Buffalo National River. She was first employed by NPS in 2003 at the Buffalo National River to help conduct aquatic invertebrate bioassessments and sample water and air quality within the park. Prior experience includes land conservation, cave ecology, and GIS while working with conservation organizations and government agencies in Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. She received a M.S. in biology from Missouri State University and a B.S. in biology from the University of Arkansas.
Tani Hubbard
Science Writer/Editor
Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, 520-404-9991
Tani is a Research Associate with the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative and a science communicator for the Heartland I&M Network. She works with network scientists to publish monitoring reports and creates content for web science articles and the network website. Tani has an M.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. She also works with other NPS I&M networks and on the NPS Natural Resource Publication Series. Tani has more than 25 years of experience in science writing, editing, publishing, ecological research, and teaching.
Sherry Leis
Plant Ecologist
Sherry is the Plant Ecologist for the Heartland I&M Network and Prairie Cluster Prototype Monitoring Program at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. In this position, Sherry provides expertise in understanding plant communities in light of management history. Her interests lie in the investigation of disturbances such as fire, grazing, and off road vehicle use on grassland communities of the Great Plains and Midwest. Sherry’s expertise is in grassland ecology and the role of disturbances. Sherry earned Bachelor Degrees in Anthropology and Environmental Biology from Beloit College, WI and a MS in Rangeland Ecology and Management from Oklahoma State University.
Doug Marcum
Biological Science Technician
Cuyahoga Valley NP, 330-342-0764 ext. 3
Doug has been working as a seasonal biotech under Sonia Bingham since 2011. While initially hired to assist with the wetlands monitoring program, he has been fortunate enough to contribute in other ways as well. Doug leads a breeding bird study at Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CUVA), while occasionally assisting with other wildlife studies. His BS in Conservation Biology and MS in Ecology both come from Kent State University. Doug’s master’s research (at CUVA) examined the effects of habitat and succession on mammal communities at two spatial scales.
Lloyd Morrison
Quantitative Ecologist
Lloyd has a B.S. degree in Biology from Baylor University, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis. He conducted his dissertation research on the island biogeography and metapopulation dynamics of ants in the Bahamas and South Pacific. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where he conducted research on the effects of invasive ants on native arthropod communities, and biological control by the use of natural enemies. He extended this work as a Research Fellow at the University of Florida at Gainesville/USDA Agricultural Research Service. Throughout his postdoctoral years he has continued to study the long-term metapopulation dynamics of Bahamian ants and plants. He joined the Network in September 2004.
David Peitz
David G. Peitz
Wildlife Ecologist
David graduated from Iowa State University with a BS in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology and from Oklahoma State University with a MS in Wildlife and Fisheries Ecology. David came to the National Park Services in 2000 after spending 6.5 years as a wildlife research biologist with the University of Arkansas Agriculture Experiment Station. David has had management responsibilities for a range of long-term monitoring projects within Midwestern parks, involving both terrestrial and aquatic organisms and systems. Currently his efforts are focused on terrestrial mammals and birds.
Gareth Rowell
Gareth joined the Heartland I&M Network in 2003 as biologist / data manager. He develops databases and provides database support for the monitoring projects at the Heartland Network. From 1982 through 1993, he conducted graduate and postdoctoral research on insect (mostly honey bee) mating systems and migration models at the University of Kansas, Brock University, Ontario, Canada and Texas A&M University. From 1993 to 2002, Gareth served as GIS data manager for the Endangered Resources Program at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. From 1995 to 2002, he also served as Texas Section 6 Federal Aid Coordinator in partnership with USFWS Ecological Services.
Mary Short
Mary serves as the botanist for the Heartland I&M Network. She provides support to multiple projects including the network's vegetation, exotic plant, rare plant, fire ecology, and bird habitat monitoring projects. She has previously held multiple technician positions with the NPS and USGS, and in 2010 she completed a year-long Student Conservation Association internship with the Heartland I&M Network. Mary received an M.S. in Natural Resources with a Forestry emphasis from the University of Missouri and a B.A. in Biology with a specialization in Ecology and Conservation Biology from Boston University.
Jeff is a research specialist for Missouri State University’s Biology Department and assists the Heartland I&M Network with aquatic research and monitoring. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Biology where he is conducting a fish movement study in Ozark National Scenic Riverways to look at the impacts of potential barriers on fish movement. His work with the network primarily involves assisting with fish and invertebrate community monitoring in Ozark river systems and prairie streams throughout the Midwest. Before working with the network, he served as the field crew leader for the Conservation Corps of Iowa, resource assistant for Missouri Department of Conservation, and a biological technician for Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association. He received his B.S. in both Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Geography from Northwest Missouri State University.
Craig Young
Biologist and Invasive Plant Program Leader
Craig serves as a biologist and invasive plant program leader for the Heartland I&M Network. In this capacity, Craig manages projects to monitor invasive plants in all network parks, wetlands at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and the Missouri bladderpod, a rare plant, at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. Craig also oversees the Heartland Exotic Plant Management Team, which is dedicated to managing invasive plants across all network parks. Prior to beginning work with the National Park Service in November 2003, Craig worked with Virginia's Natural Heritage Program as a natural areas manager and with The Nature Conservancy of Georgia as an ecologist. Craig received a B.S. in Biology from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and an M.S. in Environmental Forest Biology with a concentration in Plant Ecology from the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
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The main Black Friday trends according to Lyst
The advance of loungewear continues
Fashion December 3rd, 2020
Author Lorenzo Salamone
Beloved, criticized and eternally controversial, Black Friday has become one of the most enticing annual traditions of the year for brands and fashion retailers. This year's edition was also very special, as it took place essentially online as most of the stores are still closed. Lyst, the world's leading search engine for luxury fashion, collected and analyzed the main purchasing and search data of online users and extrapolated three macro-trends that emerged from this year's Black Friday.
The declination in luxury sauce of the gorpcore aesthetic still goes for the most. The North Face, Moncler and Grenson & Hunter were the most sought after brands in this category that, in addition to outerwear, saw an acceleration of research in the field of hiking boots that, after sneakers, ranked as the most sought after products of the weekend along with jackets.
Suits, slippers and pyjamas, that is, all comfortable clothes for the home, have seen a surge in searches in the last period – an increase that has arisen at the expense of garments associated with formality and trips such as belts, luggage and backpacks. In particular, Ugg boots have been saved among the favorite products about 160,000 times. The category of pyjamas and nightwear, on the other hand, recorded a 330% increase in searches.
Watches are not only accessories but also safe haven goods, the value of which is maintained and increased over the years. At an unstable time in history such as this, it is normal for consumers to focus their expenses on reliable categories such as watches – searches for which they have increased by 115% each year.
The data for Italy
During Black Friday, Italians searched for sneakers, of which Alexander McQueen's Oversized model proved to be the most transversal and successful, both among the male and female audiences. Jackets, sweatshirts, knitwear and boots are all the other most sought after categories of last weekend, with Off-White, Nike and Gucci in the Top 3 of the reference brands. Also on the rise are the second-hand categories that have seen a rapid surge in searches for Louis Vuitton's Bucket Bag.
As for the most sought-after products, she won gucci's GG Logo Belt in the women's category, followed by Alexander McQueen's Oversized sneakers (which are the most sought after in the men's audience) and Off-White's Off-Court 3.0™. The fourth and fifth positions are occupied by Louis Vuitton's Noe bag and Dolce & Gabbana blazers. As for men, however, Off-White™'s White Pascal Painting Print sweatshirt is the second after McQueen's sneaker as the most sought-after product and is followed by Tommy Hilfiger's T-shirts, sweaters by British heritage brand Private White V.C. and Golden Goose sneakers.
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EuroscepticismMediaPoliticsUK PoliticsThe Brexit PartyThe Telegraph
The Brexit Party’s mission to remake politics has only just begun – there’s plenty to come yet
We are witnessing a dramatic, rapid and undeniable shift in the terrain of British politics – whether the establishment parties want to admit it or not. Take Peterborough as a case in point. In the 2017 general election, the Labour Party won 48 per cent of the vote there, just beating the Tories on 47. Between them they piled up a mighty 95 per cent of Peterborough votes – the embodiment of the old two-party system.
By the time of Thursday’s Peterborough by- election, however, everything had changed. The Labour Party clung on to the seat with 31 per cent, while the Tories finished a distant third with 21 per cent. This time the combined total for the two parties barely topped half of the total vote. And coming up between them, just 683 votes behind Labour on 29 per cent, was the Brexit Party.
Peterborough, by the way, was Number 201 on the Brexit Party’s list of winnable seats at Westminster. If we can get so close to winning there, then no Tory or Labour seat is safe any longer.
In the mere eight weeks of our existence, we have blown apart the old political certainties. We swept to victory in the European elections, easily winning more votes than the Tory and Labour parties put together. Even more remarkable is the latest YouGov poll of general election voting intentions, which shows the Brexit Party on 26 per cent nationally – an extraordinary six per cent ahead of the rest. And this is only the start.
For the next few weeks, the country is going to be possessed by a full complement of Conservative Party leadership candidates, telling us that we will definitely leave the EU as promised on October 31. That date will loom larger in the public consciousness over the coming months. If Brexit is betrayed yet again, and we do not leave on October 31, there will be no telling what extraordinary heights the Brexit Party might reach.
The meteoric rise of the Brexit Party poses a dilemma for millions of Tory voters. In many parliamentary seats the real contest now is clearly between Labour and the Brexit Party, as it was in Peterborough on Thursday.
It is evident in these seats that if you vote Conservative, you will get Labour. If you vote Conservative, you will get Mr Corbyn. If you vote Conservative, you will almost certainly get a second referendum. In other words, if you vote Conservative, the one thing you won’t get is a clean-break Brexit.
Of course, the Tory leadership candidates will all insist they can be trusted to deliver. But given that Mrs May told us 108 times that Brexit means Brexit and that we would be leaving on March 29, why would I believe a word any of them say? Especially as all of them, despite their earlier protestations, ultimately voted for Mrs May’s appalling Withdrawal Agreement – really a new EU treaty, penned by M Barnier.
While the establishment parties tear themselves apart over Brexit, what next for the Brexit Party? On Sunday June 30 we will hold our first national party conference – “The Big Vision” – at the NEC Birmingham.
There, we will lay out our strategy for fighting a general election and unveil our first 100 candidates. I admit that we still have quite a lot to do to get ready – we have already received more than 3,000 candidate applications, and are working to create a national network of activists from scratch. But we are up for the fight.
At the NEC Birmingham we will also unveil the direction of our policy development, especially focusing on the opportunities that ought to be available to Brexit Britain. Then we will start a consultation with our paying supporters – all 110,000-and-counting of them – and give them a vote on what happens next.
This is the new politics, with decision-making powers taken out of the hands of a few party delegates or self-serving National Executive Committees, and directly entrusted to our supporters. When we say that the Brexit Party is a movement for democracy, we mean it. And our direct democracy begins at home.
I launched the Brexit Party a mere eight weeks ago with the commitment to “Change Politics for Good”; to challenge the insular political class, replace their outdated two-party system, and push for fundamental democratic reform across our unrepresentative political system.
In that short time, others who talked about “change” but only offered more of the same stale ideas have already fallen off the political map. The Brexit Party, by contrast, is beginning to redraw that map. We are tapping into the appetite for real change among millions of people who believe that enough is enough and that Britain deserves better.
Eight weeks into the life of our new movement, what I see with this party is energy, enthusiasm and optimism, from our great candidates to our growing army of supporters. The success of the BP is the alchemy by which we are turning anger into hope.
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You are here: Home / News / National News / San Francisco Murder of Five Spotlights Asian Gambling Addiction
San Francisco Murder of Five Spotlights Asian Gambling Addiction
April 5, 2012 by NGOC NGUYEN and VIVIAN PO, New America Media Leave a Comment
What drove Binh Thai Luc, 35, to be charged on March 27 with slaying five people in a San Francisco home on March 23? The grisly murders have rocked the city and left investigators and the public searching for a motive.
“We’re not discussing any potential motive for these killings,” stated Omid Talai, spokesman for San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon, who said he couldn’t comment further because the investigation is ongoing. Asked whether gambling might be involved, he replied, “We’ll be exploring everything.”
News media reports have suggested that the killer may have been trying to collect on gambling debts. Although gambling addiction affects every group, researchers have found unusually high levels among Asians.
The Website of the Responsible Gambling Council (RGC) notes, “A regional study in California shows that 35 to 42 percent of Asian American casino clientèle are problem gamblers, a much higher rate than in the general population.”
Growing Problem Can Erupt in Violence
For the city’s Asian residents, the violent nature of the crime in their communities — Luc, could face the death penalty, is of Chinese-Vietnamese descent and the victims were all Chinese — has stirred suspicions that it could be tied to gambling, a growing problem in the community that has sometimes erupted in violence.
“Gambling is a huge problem in the Chinese community,” said Kent Woo, executive director of the NICOS Chinese Health Coalition located in San Francisco’s Chinatown. (NICOS is an acronym for the group’s five founding organizations.)
Woo co-founded the Chinese Community Problem Gambling Project, a California-wide program that runs a gambling hotline, offers counseling services and does research and outreach.
A survey the group conducted in 1997 found that 70 percent of Chinese Americans in San Francisco believe gambling is a problem in their community.
Woo said money issues stemming from problem gambling and crime often go hand in hand.
“It’s actually somewhat common for our clients to report that they have gone to loan sharks for money,” said Woo, adding that loan sharks scout casinos and card rooms looking for desperate gamblers, who have run out of money. In some cases, Woo continued, loan sharks bribe casino staff to track customers who are losing money.
In June 2010, California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Gaming Control cracked down on an Asian loan-sharking ring at the tribal casinos outside of Sacramento.
The bureau arrested five lenders, who allegedly charged exorbitant interest rates — 5 to 10 percent every week — and threatened borrowers and their family members to collect debts.
One lender, a member of a violent international gang in China, used his ties to pressure borrowers by threatening their family members back home.
The number of people calling the NICOS hotline doubled to 300 calls from 2009 to 2011. Most of callers have a debt of about $50,000 dollars before they reach out for help.
Why Asians?
Tony Nguyen, a counselor and business analyst at the Southeast Asian Community Center in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, said a lot of immigrants gamble because they are exposed to it at a young age. It is culturally accepted in Asian culture, and gambling is often part of holidays and celebrations.
Nguyen, who provides assistance to small businesses in need of loans and start-up assistance, said his mainly Vietnamese clients struggle for employment and tend to have lower-incomes. But, that doesn’t stop them from gambling away money they can’t afford to lose.
“They go to work and get a paycheck. The first thing they do is go to the casino and burn it,” he said.
“They always hope they can make the big bucks and once in awhile they make money, but then they come back the next day [to the casino] to burn it again.”
Compulsive or pathological gambling come with a wide range of signs, such as preoccupation, restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop, “chasing” losses with more money, lying and performing illegal acts.
According to the RGC Website, “The issue is more severe in the Asian American community, with pockets of the population experiencing trends of acute problem gambling — especially in areas with high concentrations of casinos, such as California and Connecticut.”
Nguyen, the business analyst with the Southeast Asian Community Center, observed that problem gambling affects Vietnamese men of all ages. He also said he sees many women gamblers, who are trying to make “quick money.”
Recently, Nguyen said, he’s seen a disturbing trend: Homeowners who resort to gambling to come up with large sums of money to save their homes from foreclosure.
Woo, the director of the Bay Area’s NICOS health coalition, says Asians may be attracted to gambling because of their immigration experience. People who are willing to start a new life in another country are generally greater risk-takers, and more likely to gravitate toward the risk-taking nature of gambling, he said.
Casinos Make It Easy
Nguyen emphasized that the proliferation of casinos in the Bay Area has made it easier for people to gamble without having to go to Reno, Lake Tahoe or Las Vegas.
“There are so many casinos in the Bay Area now. People can go there anytime they want until they lose all their money, until their last dollar,” he said, adding that many casinos offer lines of credit to special customers.
“It’s obvious that casino operators know they can make money off Vietnamese, and that’s why they provide free transportation, and sometimes other premiums,” said Vu Hao Nhien, an editor for Nguoi Viet, a Vietnamese-language daily based in Westminster, Calif.
“The casinos near Little Saigon would have been so empty on a week day, if not for the Vietnamese, who are there all the time. It’s gotten so that they even serve pho and Chinese noodle soup,” Nhien said.
For some Asian immigrants, “casinos have become main social institutions, replacing churches, family associations, restaurants, et cetera,” said Timothy Fong, assistant clinical psychiatry professor and co-director of the Gambling Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He spoke during a University of Massachusetts, Boston, forum on problem gambling in the Asian American community.
Jennie Hua, a counselor for NICOS’ gambling hotline, said gambling fills a void in people’s lives.
“The main reason that Chinese men take on gambling is that they don’t have much social life or hobbies. Therefore, they choose casinos to kill the time,” she said.
Also, Hua said, many seniors are attracted to casinos to fill their time: “Their kids are moving away, they find that they don’t have many friends to hang out with, they then go to casinos.”
Nam Paik, pastor of the Northern California Deaf Church based in Fremont, Calif., has long worked with Korean-community members struggling with gambling addiction. He recently launched a Korean-language Website where visitors can join an anonymous online forum to discuss their problems with gambling.
“When Koreans first arrive in the U.S., they often find themselves isolated from mainstream society and unaware of many of the recreational diversions available,” said Paik. With Las Vegas and other major gambling centers nearby, it becomes an easily available source of entertainment, he added.
Family Impact
Although problem gambling can lead to violence in isolated cases, the more typical impacts on families can still be devastating.
“I can see broken families, divorces, lost jobs I see that,” said Nguyen of the Southeast Asian Community Center.
In a commentary published by Silicon Valley De-Bug/Viet Tribune in 2010, contributor Thuy Ngo described the fallout of her stepfather’s gambling addiction on her family life in San Jose, Calif.
“I sometimes think his actions were a result of a long rocky marriage, feelings of depression, and a loss of hope that things would ever get better. In the end there was a lot of analyzing we all did, the what-ifs or the could-bes. But at the end of my mom’s marriage to him, the finalization of their divorce was his only wake-up call to his gambling addiction.”
Ngo concluded, “There was nothing that could get him to stop his addiction. I think things could have gotten worse, and at least, we all survived.”
New America Media’s Aruna Lee, Andrew Lam and Summer Chiang contributed reporting.
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Home » Latest News in Nigeria » You don’t know your tribe – Biafra group attacks Wike
You don’t know your tribe – Biafra group attacks Wike
Saturday, November 28, 2020 Fashola MC POSCABA 0 Latest News in Nigeria
Biafra Nations League, BNL, has lambasted the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, describing him as a man who does not know his roots.
The group described as false Wike’s claims that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was trying to rename the State.
In a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday and signed by the Deputy National Leader of BNL and Head of Operations, BBS Media, Ebuta Akor Takon, the group described the Governor as a talkative who lacks focus.
BNL accused Wike of trying to create ethnic tension in the State, adding that the Governor who denied being Igbo does not know the history of Rivers State and Niger Delta as a region.
The group pointed out that it was not possible for any group to rename a town if the indigenes of such town are not involved.
“The Governor does not have a tribe and acts as confused person,” the group said, insisting that the, “Niger Delta region of today includes Imo and Abia and they joined region same day Edo, Ondo, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States were included.
“We were never part of Niger Delta, it is an Ijaw region by geographical definition, it was Obasanjo that created this confusion when he added other areas as part of the region.
“If Wike said he has found a new ethnic group, and that he is not from Igbo because they told him that Ikwere is from Benin, it’s fine.
“But then, he shouldn’t forget that Late Oba of Benin rejected the claim, saying that the Benin Kingdom does not have any record showing that Ikwere migrated from Benin. They do not speak related language or practice the same culture.
“So you can see he doesn’t know anything, and he is a Governor. He merely relied on what some of the elders in Rivers State told him, and these were the same elders that looted Igbo property during the war.
“Being a Niger Deltan does not call for ethnic denial, everyone in Nigeria knows Wike is an Igbo man who is ignorant of that, he also does not know the meaning of his names. A full-fledged man like him does not know his ethnicity, it’s a shame.”
BNL claimed that Wike has no other agenda in his state other than talking about the activities of the Pro Biafra groups.
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Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus and has been isolated in Scotland for two weeks
March 25th, 2020 Health, News, News UK, World comments
HEIR to the British throne Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus after he displayed mild symptoms of the virus and has since been placed in isolation for two weeks in line with government health guidelines.
Clarence House, Prince Charles’ official residence, has confirmed that the 71-year-old royal had been diagnosed with the ailment. According to an official spokesman, he displayed mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been self-isolating in Scotland with the Duchess of Cornwall.
“He has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few days as usual. The Duchess of Cornwall has also been tested but does not have the virus.
In accordance with government and medical advice, the Prince and the Duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland. The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria required for testing.
“It is not possible to ascertain from whom the Prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks,” the spokesman said.
So far, 8,077 people in the UK have contracted the virus, resulting in a total of 422 deaths so far. This has resulted in the government shutting down all services across the country, restricting movement to essential workers like National Health Service staff.
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The Accredited Operator Scheme (AOS) is underpinned by a Code of Practice in order to maintain a fair balance between the rights of the motorist and those involved in the management and enforcement of parking on private and unregulated land within Australia.
Members of Parking Australia who operate within the private parking sector are required to subscribe to the AOS and adhere to this Code of Practice which defines the core standards necessary to ensure transparency and fairness.
The Code of Practice was created not only with reference to the applicable legal provisions also with proper regard to the concerns of the motorist.
The Code is enforceable against the members of the AOS and includes a scheme of sanctions (12 points) that can be invoked and result in an operator having its AOS licence withdrawn due to non compliance.
The Accredited Operator logo is awarded to parking operators (site) based on a rigorous audit of some 80 criteria relating to parking operations, signage and compliance monitoring.
The Accredited Operator Scheme logo will be displayed on those car parking facilities that have been independently audited.
AOS members must set out Terms and Conditions of parking and have signage that is audited against a robust set of guidelines.
For more information – click here to download the Accredited Operator Scheme prospectus.
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Grantham, England, Lincolnshire, South Kesteven
Caythorpe Court has a 4-hectare park containing an early 20th-century formal garden with mid-20th-century development. The site is now used as an outdoor pursuits centre.
Caythorpe Court was built as a hunting lodge. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1899 and built in 1901-3.
The site is in a rural setting, the house being set on a north-west to south-east ridge with views west towards Caythorpe village.
The following is from the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. For the most up-to-date Register entry, please visit the The National Heritage List for England (NHLE):
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An early 20th-century terraced garden designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for a house also by Blomfield.
LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING
Caythorpe Court is situated 13km north of Grantham and 2km east of the village of Caythorpe. The northern boundary of the site here registered is Caythorpe Heath Lane; the eastern and southern boundaries are contiguous with the rest of the College grounds and buildings and the western boundary overlooks agricultural land. The site, which comprises c 4ha, is in a rural setting, the house being set on a north-west to south-east ridge with views west towards Caythorpe village.
ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES
The main entrance to Caythorpe Court is off Caythorpe Heath Lane, 80m north-west of the mansion. The ornamented wrought-iron gates sit between partially rusticated gate piers and are flanked by high stone walls (gates and walls listed grade II). A gate lodge (listed grade II), situated to the east of the entrance and reached from the drive by a short flight of steps, was altered from a farm cottage by Blomfield c 1900 with subsequent alterations when it became the Head Warden's House in the 1960s. There is a garden to the south of the lodge. The drive, with a shrub bed on the north-east side and a yew hedge on the south-west side, leads south-east for 70m to the walled forecourt on the north-west front of the Court. A further entrance lies 125m east of the main entrance, also off Caythorpe Heath Lane, and gives access to the stables and the eastern half of the site. These drives are part of the early C20 drive system shown on the OS map published in 1903/04.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING
Caythorpe Court (listed grade II*) is built of coursed limestone and ironstone rubble with some banding, pitched stone-coped gables with ball finials, and slate roofs. It was designed in a C17 style by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1899 and built in 1901-3. The Court is L-shaped, with the service area to the south-east, and lies on a north-west to south-east axis. The north-east three-bay front faces a walled courtyard, in the centre of which is a sundial set in a fenced circular paved area surrounded by a circular flower bed. At right angles to the north-east front is the linking service range. The north-west front, the south-west front, and the south-west front of the service area all overlook the terraces of the garden.
Some 60m to the north-east of the Court are the stables (listed grade II) which were designed by Blomfield in c 1900. They comprise a long range to the north with a shorter range at either end, all ranges being of one storey. The long north range has a central two-storey projecting bay topped by a timber cupola containing a clock. The stables were converted into an accommodation block in the late C20 and there is now (2000) a car park in the centre of the courtyard.
GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS
The terraced gardens (listed grade II) are situated to the south-west of the Court and are entered from the entrance forecourt through a gate adjacent to the north-west front which leads on to the part of the upper terrace overlooked by the south-west facade. The upper terrace has grass adjacent to the Court with flower beds between a paved path and the balustraded edge. The paved path continues parallel to the south-east front of the Court with to the south a walled area of lawn, planted with a few trees, with flower beds to the north-east against the wall. The north-east boundary of the upper terrace forms the south-west boundary of the kitchen garden and there is a short tunnel between the two areas. A platform aligned with the central bay of the south-west front projects from the upper terrace; from here two flights of balustraded steps lead down to the middle terrace while a short flight of steps leads from the north end of the upper terrace to the middle terrace. Like the upper terrace, the middle terrace is L-shaped and continues parallel to the north-west front of the Court. A wall runs along the northern boundary of the terraces, broken by a low gate, and then curves convexly before continuing straight for a short distance. The stone retaining walls of the upper terrace are buttressed and have been planted with flowering plants. The middle terrace is grassed. Aligned with the steps from the upper terrace are balustraded steps from the middle to the lower terrace. These steps descend centrally for a few steps then divide into a double flight. The lower terrace is also grassed and has as its south-west boundary a yew hedge. South-east of the lower terrace is a tennis court. There are views out over the surrounding farmland from all three terraces. Beyond the terraces a path leads south-westwards down concrete steps to the site of the late C20 swimming pool, removed in the late 1990s (outside the boundary here registered).
An area of woodland occupying the north-west corner of the site is entered off the south-west side of the main drive. A gravel path with wooden edging laid out in the late C20 leads through the woodland.
The kitchen garden, which immediately adjoins the south-east corner of the Court, occupies most of the eastern half of the site here registered. A late C20 building, formerly the Principal's Residence but which now (2000) houses offices, is situated in its south-west corner. The north-east part of the garden is occupied by C20 glasshouses and frames and a boiler house is set in the north-east wall. Mid C20 student houses have been built along the north-west boundary of the kitchen garden, south of the stables.
A Hatfield, Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Guide to the Grounds and Horticulture Unit of Caythorpe Court (1988)
A Brief History of Caythorpe Court, guidebook, (Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture around 1989)
N Pevsner et al, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (2nd edition 1989)
L R Cryer, Caythorpe, A History of Caythorpe and Frieston (1995)
Caythorpe Court, Grantham, brochure, (Kesteven Agricultural College, no date)
Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Caythorpe Court, a plan (no date)
OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1903-4
Description written: February 2000
Amended: March 2000
Edited: May 2002
Mansion House (featured building)
Earliest Date: 01 Jan 1901
Latest Date: 01 Jan 1903
Description: Terraced gardens.
Detailed History
Caythorpe Court was built as a hunting lodge for Major Edgar Lubbock in the grounds of an old farm. The house, then known as Mansion House (Cryer 1995), was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942) in 1899 and built in 1901-3. Blomfield also designed the terraced gardens. By 1904 (OS) the mansion was known as Caythorpe Court. The house and grounds were sold in 1906/07 to Mrs Elma Yerburgh, the wife of a Lancashire brewer. During the First World War the Court became an Auxiliary Military Hospital and during the Second World War was the Headquarters for the 1st Airborne Division Signals. Lincolnshire County Council purchased the estate in 1948 together with additional agricultural land (Cryer 1995) and Kesteven Farm Institute was opened. In the mid 1960s the Institute became the Kesteven Agricultural College and in 1980 amalgamated with two other agricultural colleges to become the Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture. In 1994 the College became part of De Montfort University in whose ownership it remains (2000).
Early 20th Century (1901-1932)
Reginald Theodore Blomfield
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http://www.pgl.co.uk/en-gb/family-adventures/centres/caythorpe-court#.VsxxgdC4jcs
https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000972
{English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest}, (Swindon: English Heritage, 2008) [on CD-ROM]Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest
Pevsner, N. and J. Harris, {The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire} (London: Penguin, 2nd edition 1989)The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire
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Regulators issue air permit for Weymouth compressor station
Jessica Trufant The Patriot Ledger @JTrufant_Ledger
WEYMOUTH — State regulators on Friday issued an air quality permit for a proposed natural-gas compressor station on the banks of the Fore River despite opposition from local mayors, state legislators and neighbors.
Spectra Energy-Enbridge received initial approval for the project from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in January 2017, but it still needs several state permits. The state had agreed to issue its air permit decision by Friday at the request of the gas company, and any appeal decisions and final permits by June 28.
The state Department of Environmental Protection on Friday issued the air quality permit, just a week after the Metropolitan Area Planning Council released a health impact assessment that found that the compressor station proposed by Algonquin, a subsidiary of Spectra Energy-Enbridge, would be unlikely to affect health and noise in the area.
Gov. Charlie Baker ordered the study in July 2017 amid strong local opposition to the project from officials and residents in Weymouth, Quincy, Braintree and Hingham.
Weymouth Mayor Robert Hedlund on Friday said he wasn’t shocked by the decision to allow the permit, although he had been hopeful that Baker would have stood with the community on the issue.
“You have three mayors who he’s worked well with, four communities weighing in, 14 legislators and people he was elected to serve, but if you look at how this has gone with state regulators working with the gas industry in the past, it doesn’t surprise me,” Hedlund said.
The health impact assessment found that the proposed station would produce air toxins such as benzene and formaldehyde, noting there is “an extensive body of literature linking air pollution to mortality and hospitalizations due to respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological diseases."
But the assessment concluded that the estimated air emissions are not expected to exceed daily or annual standards or guidelines, and therefore are not likely to cause health effects. The assessment drew similar conclusions regarding noise and land use.
Peter Lorenz, a spokesman for the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, said in an email that the state "completed a comprehensive and science-based evaluation of air quality and health impacts" before approving the air quality permit.
The air plan requires some mitigation for dust and noise, sound impact testing, enhanced notification for the intentional release of natural-gas and leak-detection requirements, and the development of a decommissioning plan.
Hedlund sent a letter to Baker earlier in the week asking him to reject the air quality permit because the compressor station would add toxins to an already overburdened, industrialized area. Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan, Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch and 14 legislators from the South Shore also sent letters to Baker.
Compressor stations are placed along pipelines to maintain pressure and keep gas flowing. Residents and officials from Weymouth, Braintree, Quincy and Hingham say the facility would vent toxic gases that could sicken neighbors, and that it could explode.
In his letter to Baker, Hedlund said the town had spent almost $750,000 in its fight against the compressor station project since he took office in January 2016.
The town has filed legal challenges in state and federal courts as well as with administrative agencies, including the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and state Department of Environmental Protection.
Hedlund on Friday said he expects the town to sue the state to challenge the air permit. He said town officials and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Martin Suuberg have different opinions on the state's role in administering the Clean Air Act.
"I don’t accept the decision or the explanation," Hedlund said.
Alice Arena of the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station said she can’t think of another time when a politician turned his or her back on constituents the way Baker has during the fight against the compressor station.
“To have a governor ignore and divert the legitimate concerns of citizens, I find it to be extremely troubling,” she said.
Arena said the decision suggests that residents' "lives, environment, and economic livelihood mean absolutely nothing to (regulators)."
Arena's group will hold a rally at 1 p.m. Saturday at the park next to the proposed compressor site, 50 Bridge St., Weymouth.
State Sens. Patrick O'Connor, R-Weymouth, and John Keenan, D-Quincy, and state Reps. Ronald Mariano, D-Quincy, James Murphy, D-Weymouth, and Joan Meschino, D-Hull, also released a statement expressing disappointment with the decision.
"This decision sets a dangerous precedent for facilities like this to be built anywhere in the Commonwealth, and beyond," O'Connor said.
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Home » News » $3 MILLION AWARDED AS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FIRST RESEARCH AWARDS OF 2015
$3 MILLION AWARDED AS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FIRST RESEARCH AWARDS OF 2015
Challenge Awards to Advance Immunotherapy and Optimal Treatments for Lethal Prostate Cancer.
February 24, 2015 — The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) announces 3 new Challenge Awards to support discoveries for the treatment of lethal prostate cancer. PCF Challenge Awards are multi-year awards supporting cross-disciplinary teams of research scientists. These are the first major awards funded by PCF in 2015.
For more information, visit pcf.org/manhood-for-good
In 2014, PCF solicited proposals for the Global Treatment Sciences Network (GTSN) Challenge Awards as part of an initiative to support research on novel medicines, treatment strategies, and standards of care. All projects must focus on research in humans, resulting in a swift, direct impact in the care of millions of prostate cancer patients and their families. With these new awards, PCF now funds 9 research teams working in the field of treatment sciences.
“Our focus in 2015 is to fast-track discoveries that will have immediate clinical relevancy for advanced prostate cancer,” says Jonathan W. Simons, MD, president and CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. “The innovative work conducted by our Challenge Award teams will revolutionize the way advanced prostate cancer is diagnosed and managed. This will improve the outcome for all men with this disease.”
The importance of all 3 PCF Challenge Awards detailed below is their shared goal of putting men with advanced prostate cancer back into longer remission when existing drugs no longer are working. Some men have significant increased survival from prostate cancer treated with chemotherapy; others do not. 2 of the PCF Challenge Awards, however, one from Thomas Jefferson University and the other from Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute will move research forward on correctly predicting which patient is which.
The first of these 2015 PCF GTSN Challenge Awards, titled “Optimizing First Line Treatment for Men with Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer,” led by William Kevin Kelly, DO, of Thomas Jefferson University, examines whether the status of the retinoblastoma gene in tumors can function as a biomarker to determine whether patients with lethal prostate cancer will respond to abiraterone (Zytiga®) or chemotherapy. As part of this project, Dr. Kelly and his team will develop models from patient data that determine the optimal duration of chemotherapy administration. The results of this work will help clinicians make the best decisions for the treatment of prostate cancer patients.
Hing Leung, MD, PhD of the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, leads the second successful project, “Optimizing the Use of Taxane Chemotherapy in Prostate Cancer.” Dr. Leung and team are studying patients treated with chemotherapy in order to identify biomarkers that can predict which patients will most benefit from chemotherapy, and to identify mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance. They will also study how metabolic changes can alter sensitivity to chemotherapy, which will identify novel targets for new experimental drugs that could be combined with chemotherapy.
“T-cell Receptor Gene Therapy for Treatment of Lethal Prostate Cancer,” the third successful proposal, is led by Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Baltimore and his team are studying how patient immune cells (T-cells) recognize prostate tumors in order to generate an effective T-cell gene therapy for prostate cancer patients. They will determine the best strategy for genetically modifying a patient’s own T-cells to fight their tumor and optimize the delivery and efficacy of this therapy in preclinical models. This project will lead immediately to clinical trials, fast-forwarding the delivery of novel therapies to advanced prostate cancer patients.
PCF Challenge Awards are composed of teams of scientists from 3 or more cancer centers. In order to conduct pioneering research, these entrepreneurial scientists require large investments in areas that fall outside the parameters of traditional funding organizations. As a stipulation of funding, all PCF Challenge Award teams must include at least one PCF Young Investigator, demonstrating the Foundation’s commitment to the career development of early and mid-career scientists.
Awardees were selected from a pool of 55 applicants, representing 48 institutions in 13 countries around the world. Each submitted proposal was subjected to a rigorous, two-round peer review process in which the projects were assessed for clinical relevancy and their potential for near-term impact on standard of care. Priority was given to high-risk, first-in-field and currently unfunded projects.
About the Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world’s leading philanthropic organization funding and accelerating prostate cancer research. Founded in 1993, PCF has raised more than $615 million and provided funding to more than 2,000 research programs at nearly 200 cancer centers and universities. The PCF global research enterprise now extends to 19 countries. PCF advocates for greater awareness of prostate cancer and more efficient investment of governmental research funds for transformational cancer research. Its efforts have helped produce a 20-fold increase in government funding for prostate cancer. More information about PCF can be found at www.pcf.org.
https://www.pcf.org/news/3-million-awarded-as-prostate-cancer-foundation-announces-first-research-awards-of-2015/
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Penguin's Fundamental Booker nomination
September 11, 2007, 11:00 , 11:00
Penguin's The Reluctant Fundamentalist has made it to the final shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Mohsin Hamid's novel traces the life and love of Changez, an idealistic young Muslim man who leaves Pakistan to pursue his education in the US. Judges described it as 'a subtle and thoughtful examination of the raw meat of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, and one man's personal response to working within it'.
The Booker is one of the UK's most prestigious prizes for fiction and the winner will receive worldwide recognition and a prize worth £50,000. Each of the six shortlisted authors receives £2,500 and a designer bound edition of their own book. Last year Penguin author Kiran Desai won with her novel The Inheritance of Loss. This year's winner will be announced on 16 October at an award ceremony in London.
For more information about the Booker prize, see: http://www.themanbookerprize.com
For more information about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, see: http://www.penguin.co.uk
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Two Millionaires becomes the largest group on Prosper.com ever!
March 4, 2007 twomillionaires1
With the click of a mouse late Thursday night March 1, 2007, the leader of the Two Millionaires Group on Prosper.com admitted the 5,509th member and created the largest group on Prosper ever! The one remaining challenge at the time was to beat PsychDoc's record number of loans created….
Asked about how his group succeeded in growing so large so rapidly, "TwoMillionaires1" the group leader replied that he did a lot of internet marketing in the beginning to bring new members in, and it grew from there to the point where today word of mouth from contented borrowers brings in probably hundreds of new members each week.
"It didn't hurt either to have a private website that has attracted more than 300,000 hits and 10,000 unique visitors," the group leader added.
An upcoming press release is likely to bring in a huge influx of new members over the next few weeks.
As of the date of this report, more than one and a half million dollars has been loaned to members of this popular people-to-people online borrowing and lending group, almost 400 individual loans.
Details are available at:
http://www.prosper.com
http://www.2mils.org
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Wellington wants non-village communities to stop using its name
May 2, 2017 at 12:01 AM May 3, 2017 at 3:03 PM
The Wellington Village Council thinks the village has a branding problem.
Or, more specifically, it has a problem with developers and businesses using the Wellington name even though they’re not in the village.
The most recent case is Arden, a nature-focused new community that’s located miles west of Wellington’s borders. It’s in unincorporated Palm Beach County, west of Loxahatchee Groves and Lion Country Safari.
READ: First look: New development west of Wellington has community farm, 1-mile lake
Press releases that include promotional material for Arden include a Wellington dateline.
Sure, the homes will be zoned for Wellington schools — at least for now —and Arden’s zip code includes a sliver of Wellington, but using the name Wellington isn’t sitting so well with the village leaders.
Vice Mayor John McGovern called it "false advertising." Councilman Michael Napoleone said it infuriates him. And Mayor Anne Gerwig said Wellington needs to protect its brand.
But protect it how? The answer to that question is much less clear.
It has been a problem in the past, Village Attorney Laurie Cohen said, specifically naming Wellington View, Wycliffe Golf and Country Club and Homeland, all developments outside of Wellington’s village borders.
Cohen said the village would have to prove that these developments are causing Wellington "irreparable harm," something she thinks would be a challenge.
None of the developments are using Wellington logos or violating its copyright in any way, she added.
Wellington has asked some of these developers to stop in the past, most recently Arden, said Village Manager Paul Schofield. But it fell on "deaf ears."
READ: 5 next big things for Wellington
"We’ve never been successful, and I’m not sure how we could be here," Schofield said.
In a statement on the issue, an Arden representative recognized that the development is not in the village, but mentioned that it shares a postal code with a part of Wellington.
"Arden is located in unincorporated Palm Beach County, but the community has a zip code recognized as Wellington by the postal service," said Andy Smith, Southeast Division President for Freehold Communities.
Gerwig acknowledged that the 33470 zip code does dip into the western portion of the village in environmental preserve land, but it’s mostly associated with Loxahatchee Groves and The Acreage.
And the council hopes to do something about it.
They want to try something, whether it’s a lawsuit, a cease-and-desist letter or Napoleone’s humorous suggestion of placing a sign in front of the development saying "this is not Wellington."
"I can’t imagine we have no recourse," said Councilman Michael Drahos. "We just have to be creative about this, and do what we can do to protect the residents and our brand."
READ: Winding Trails development project gets final approval in Wellington
It’s a big deal for the council because it could mislead people who want to buy a home in Wellington and don’t realize it’s not in the village, McGovern said.
When someone buys a home in one of these outside communities, Wellington doesn’t see any benefit in taxes or otherwise.
"We want people who desire and intend to live here to know that by going there that is not what they’re doing," McGovern said.
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Redi-Mail Installs Solar Power at NJ Direct Mail Facility
FAIRFIELD, NJ—Dec. 14, 2010—Redi-Mail Direct Marketing, a company specializing in relationship marketing campaign management across a variety of media channels, announced the installation of a technologically-advanced solar panel system at its facility in Fairfield, NJ.
The new solar photovoltaic system will provide electric power for Redi-Mail’s 170,000-square-foot location. Using the latest green design engineering, the system comprises over 1,000 solar modules (39x65˝) affixed to the roof of the building, that are designed to harness sunlight to produce electricity.
“We were persuaded to convert to solar power not only by the efficiency of the system but also by its environmentally-friendly impact,” said Thomas R. Buckley, CEO at Redi-Mail.
Mayor Sam Gasparini of Fairfield agrees that Redi-Mail is taking a leading-edge position in the business community with its solar installation.
“We are pleased that Redi-Mail has sought to invest in solar power,” Mayor Gasparini said. “Green energy is the wave of the future and we applaud the leadership role that Redi-Mail has taken in this solar installation.”
Sam Paglianite, owner of Freedom Energy, contracted to perform the installation, says that Redi-Mail stands to save the environment from the emission of over 200 tons of CO² and 6,000 gallons of heating oil annually when the system is up and running.
About Redi-Mail Direct Marketing
Redi-Mail Direct Marketing is a relationship marketing campaign management company that deploys coordinated communications across a variety of media. Redi-Mail also provides clients with a wide range of direct marketing, mail and fulfillment services as well as website development and hosting and database management, with specialty services such as variable data printing and Personal URLs.
Source: Company press release.
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Category: Southern California
Another Wave Motor Another wave motor has appeared, this time at Huntington Beach and only on paper, at that. But it is said to involve an entirely new principle and some glittering hopes are entertained by its inventors, Alva L. Reynolds and his brother. They…
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With the loss of the Magnolia Avenue Pier, a new pier in Long Beach was needed. In response, Long Beach would build the original Pine Avenue Pier, the first municipally owned pier on the Pacific Coast. The pier was also the first purchase made by…
In the 1870s, 4,000 acres of the local Rancho Los Cerritos (mainly used to raise sheep) was sold to William E. Willmore, who subdivided the land in hopes of forming a new community, one he would name after himself—Willmore City. Unfortunately for him, the real…
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What comes next after a denomination apologizes for its sin?
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An important step in healing is to hear the stories of affected Native Americans
Two years ago, the current and former Stated Clerks of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) journeyed to Utqiagvik (Barrow, Alaska) — the nation’s northernmost city — to apologize to Native Americans, Alaska natives and native Hawaiians for damage inflicted by the church in previous decades.
That act came as the result of action by the 222nd General Assembly (2016), which directed the apology within and beyond the denomination “especially to those who were and are part of ‘stolen generations’ during the Indian-assimilation movement, namely former students of Indian boarding schools, their families and their communities,” according to assembly minutes.
From left, the Rev. Vernon Broyles, the Rev. Irv Porter and the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, participate in “Coffee with the Clerk” Monday. (Photo by Randy Hobson)
The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, the current Stated Clerk, used his “Coffee with the Clerk” Facebook Live platform to talk about ways Presbyterians can continue their work to honor and include Native Americans. His guests were the Rev. Irv Porter, the denomination’s associate for Native American Intercultural Congregational Support, and the Rev. Vernon Broyles, a volunteer for public witness serving in the Office of the General Assembly.
Porter, an enrolled member of the Pima Tribe who’s also descended from the Nez Perce and T’hono O’odham tribes, is also the part-time pastor of Church of the Indian Fellowship in Tacoma, Washington. He said many Native Americans have used storytelling to begin healing from the intergenerational trauma that comes from being torn from their family to attend a boarding school.
“I highly recommend the church hear the stories of where people are coming from. Not to rehash what happened, but in telling their stories, there’s healing,” he said. “An apology is really just the beginning. To hear a national church apologize is one thing. Now Native American people are waiting to see what the next result will be.”
The forced education by white people that many Native children experienced two and three generations ago impacted each one differently, Porter said. Many children grew up not speaking what would have been their Native tongue and not knowing the family stories that other children learn by heart at a young age.
“Some went on to have very good lives,” he said. “For others, this was the beginning of traumatic experiences they had for the rest of their lives,” trauma they often passed on to their children and grandchildren, he said.
After viewing the video of the Rev. Gradye Parsons, the former Stated Clerk of the PC(USA), apologizing on behalf of the denomination, “you could see in people’s faces” the impact the apology made as Parsons’ words were translated into their indigenous language, Porter said.
Walk into a Presbyterian Church with mostly Native worshipers “and a lot of what you’d see is familiar,” Porter said. But the visitor would also see a few elements not present in most Presbyterian churches, he said.
“There’s time for people to share what God is doing in their life,” he said. “People can go on and on, but nobody leaves. The 60-minute issue [capping worship at one hour] is not there for Native Americans. It has everything to do with being there in the spirit of what is happening.”
Looking at the mistreatment of Native people and the denomination’s eventual apology in theological terms, Broyles said, “Sin is sin.”
“One thing that has come through clearly in conversation with Alaska native people is that we as white people look at nature as something to be exploited,” he said. “The Genesis story clearly lays out the unity of God’s creation, and Native people understand that.”
While there are plenty of books and other resources Presbyterians can use to educate themselves about this era, “the emphasis today is how do we do that with regards to relationships,” Nelson said, wrapping up the hourlong conversation. The “powerful message” he learned while helping to deliver the apology “is that a way to break down barriers is through personal engagement.”
“People do things we don’t understand,” he said. “There is something in their story that makes a difference” in beginning to understand their thinking, “and that only happens through relationships.”
“I’m glad we’re moving in that direction as a denomination,” he said, including becoming “better neighbors” with more and more Native Americans. “Continue to keep us in your prayers,” he asked viewers.
Mike Ferguson, Editor, Presbyterian News Service
Today’s Focus: Native Americans
Paul Seebeck, PMA
Allison Seed, BOP
Father, we thank you for calling us to be your hands and feet. We ask you to open our hearts and minds to do your work every day, everywhere, and through everyone we meet. You have placed us here to do your work, and with your help we will gladly obey. Amen.
First Reading Daniel 4:28-37
Second Reading 1 John 4:7-21
Evening Psalms 66; 116
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Home News & Analysis PDI annual awards 2017: Global winners
PDI annual awards 2017: Global winners
The global winners and runners-up of the PDI annual awards 2017
Fund manager of the year
Ares Management
Apollo Global Management
DeVeer: market feels a bit stretched
“We’re not the only global manager, but we’re one of only a few with really deep direct-lending capabilities in the US and Eu- rope,” says Kipp deVeer, director and CEO of Ares Capital Corporation and partner and head of Ares Credit Group. “We got into direct lending early in both regions and we’ve remained very committed.”
In the year to September 2017, Ares had raised almost $7 billion in new eq- uity and debt commitments across its US direct lending vehicles. It also – within the first few days of the new year – completed a ground-breaking strategic move when Ares Capital Corporation acquired American Capital, further increasing the size of the what is already the largest BDC in the US.
In Europe, where the firm has been operating for 10 years, it saw its direct lending team pass the $10 billion mark in assets under management. The firm also showed its funding power by structuring a €310 million financing package for Dutch gaming company JVH.
Overall, the Ares credit platform had approximately $70.5 billion in assets un- der management at the end of September with $40.7 billion of direct lending AUM – $29 billion in the US and $11.7 billion in Europe. Its private direct lending funds in the US have more than tripled their AUM over a five-year period to around $9 billion as of the same date.
Looking ahead, deVeer says: “It continues to feel a bit stretched and we have been preaching conservatism. There’s some sloppy underwriting around, so we have been increasingly focused on trans- actions where we are the incumbent, utilising our well-established relationships with sponsors and borrowers as a source of repeat business.”
Newcomer of the year
AlbaCore Capital
Blue Torch Capital
Allen: short ramp-up
Having launched in late 2016, London-based fund manager AlbaCore Capital quickly secured investment from PSP Investments providing the firm with a huge vote of confidence in the form of a €500 million commitment. AlbaCore could quickly focus on investing which was, by chief investment officer David Allen’s admission, a case of “somewhat doing things backwards”.
It was also “very helpful”, allowing the firm to develop a track record early on. By the end of the year, AlbaCore was reported by market sources to be well on course to hit and even exceed its €1 billion debut fundraising target.
Allen is a fan of rapid progress. Also, according to market sources, by the end of the year, the fledgling firm had deployed about 70 percent of its capital in around 30 deals and was delivering a return in the low 20s percent gross and 15 percent net (the firm itself cannot comment on fundraising or returns).
“A common complaint with some larger funds is that it takes a long time for them to ramp up. Our ramp-up has been very quick. My goal was to put cash to work and not have capital sitting around,” says Allen.
At the heart of the AlbaCore strategy, and perhaps a major draw for investors in uncertain times, is its focus on capital preservation and staying disciplined. “We have a ‘no arrogance’ policy,” says Allen.
“We will avoid sectors where we don’t have confidence in our ability to make predictions, or where you can win big or lose big. What we did last year was seek simple businesses which were market leaders with predictable revenues and margins. We like that predictability.”
Also appealing to investors in any start-up is a long track record. With around 30 years’ investment experience himself, Allen says he was delighted to “get the band back together”, with a number of former colleagues from Canada Pension Plan – such as Bill Ammons and Deborah Cohen Malka – and Matt Courey from his Morgan Stanley days back in 2001-2002 joining him at AlbaCore. In all, the firm now has nearly 20 professionals.
Sponsored deal of the year
Synerlab (Intermediate Capital Group, Goldman Sachs)
State Highway 130 (Strategic Value Partners)
Qlik Technologies refinancing (Ares Management
Pharma niche: ICG and Goldman Sachs target higher returns
When ICG and Goldman Sachs jointly provided a €160 million unitranche pack- age to support the refinancing of French pharmaceutical manufacturing company Synerlab’s existing debt, it brought together two compelling themes: health- care and growth.
Synerlab, a pharmaceutical develop- ment and processing firm, has been in growth mode for some time. Backed by private equity firm 21 Centrale Partners since 2013, by the time of ICG and Goldman Sachs’ financing in July last year, it had seen sales growth increase 30 per- cent and was anticipating taking sales revenue from €130 million per annum to
€200 million over the next two to three years. It also had two pending acquisi- tions in the pipeline.
Healthcare is still considered a niche area of lending but, for those with sufficient expertise, can potentially offer higher returns than when lending to more bread-and-butter type businesses.
Formed in 2001, Synerlab is a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation which develops drugs in value-adding niches, specialising in small and medium-sized batches. It has spotted the opportunity to consolidate in an industry where third- party principals are reducing the number of partners they have.
“We have undertaken a new stage in our development both in France and internationally,” said Pierre Banzet, chief executive of Synerlab, at the time of the deal. “The refinancing will provide us with additional means to pursue our ambitions.”
Synerlab fought off competition from many other notable deals last year. Among them, our runner-up State High- way 130 was a rare example of a distressed debt investor (Strategic Value Partners) gaining the rights to operate an infrastructure asset.
CLO manager of the year
CIFC Asset Management
Spire Partners
Despite dire predictions it would be brought down by a series of challenges, the CLO market saw them all off with US CLO issuance ahead of 2016’s full-year figures by September.
Falling energy prices, stiffer regulation and compressed yields were all cited as reasons to be bearish on CLOs in 2017, but the top fund managers weathered the storm with CIFC taking the crown in a close contest.
CIFC completed 12 large CLO transactions accounting for $7.3 billion of issuance last year (as of 16 November). By the time summer rolled around it had already issued $6 billion, with four new CLOs worth $2.9 billion, while also refinancing three of its 2013 vintages and a further three 2014 vehicles.
CIFC also launched a dedicated fund to support its CLOs, the CIFC CLO Strategic Partnership, which supported all four of its newly issued 2017 vehicles and had raised $117.3 million as of August 2017. It will be used to address the new capital requirements of US risk retention rules.
More recently, the firm issued a $1.2 billion CLO, CIFC 2017-V, announced in October, to be managed by the CIFC CLO Manager II partnership with the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.
Spire Partners took the award in 2016 and was nominated again in 2017. While it could not quite match the might of CIFC globally, it has clinched the award for European CLO manager.
Distressed deal of the year
Toys R Us (Angelo Gordon, HPS)
Gymboree (Apollo Global Management)
Liberbank (Bain Capital)
It’s no game: ailing Toys R Us was in need of refinancing
The difficult circumstances surrounding Toys R Us, which became one of the most high-profile bankruptcies in the US last year, exacerbated as it went through the process of seeking Chapter 11 protection in the run up to Christmas, the most crucial time of year for any toy retailer.
Angelo Gordon and HPS Investments joined several other investors to facilitate access to up to $2.3 billion of capital to help Toys R Us refinance its existing debt. It is thought to be the largest ever debt- or-in-possession finance package made available to a retailer and comprised a $1.85 billion commitment from JPMorgan and other banks, along with a $450 million first-in, last-out finance from a syndicate of lenders. This was accompanied by a $450 million term loan and an extra $375 million internal financing for non- bankrupt affiliates.
Angelo Gordon provided $126.72 million of the $450 million FILO loan, while HPS loaned $18.3 million, according to court filings.
The complex financing package fol- lows on from a 2002 private equity buy- out of the US toy retailer by Bain Capital, KKR and Vornado Realty Trust. The $6.6 billion deal was highly leveraged and re- ports suggest Toys R Us was spending up to $400 million per year just to service its debts at a time when it faced increasing competition from generalist retailers like WalMart and online services such as Amazon. Dealing with this fast moving and complex financing situation has earned the deal our distressed award this year.
As our awards are announced, it appears the rescue package is having results, with Toys R Us successfully achieving bankruptcy protection and announcing a plan that will see about 170 of its 880 US stores closed to stabilise the company.
Fundraising of the year
Alcentra
Hayfin
The first time we have had a global fund- raising of the year award is, coincidental- ly, also the year private debt fundraising hit an all-time record of over $180 billion worldwide, according to PDI data. This enormous amount of capital was raised from fewer funds than in 2016, which means 2017 saw some of the largest vehicles ever seen in the asset class. So, it’s no big surprise that our winner’s fund is a monster.
Apollo raised an enormous buyout fund in 2017, worth $24.7 billion, from which it will allocate 25 percent to distressed debt. Such an amount would constitute a substantial debt fund in its own right and is far above the 1 percent of its Fund VIII. Much of this comes from reduced allocation to buyout activity, indicating Apollo’s growing thirst for debt over equity.
It’s not every year funds this large come along and that such a large pro- portion of it is being assigned to debt investment from one of the world’s best-established private equity players may one day be looked back on as a milestone for the asset class.
Impressively, the mega-fund was raised in just six months after it launched in December 2016 showing strong investor appetite for the mixed strategy that will cross distressed debt, corporate carve-outs and opportunistic buyouts.
The other firms shortlisted also raised funds worth billions of dollars in 2017, making a significant contribution to the fundraising record. With some investors expecting 2018 to be an even bigger fundraising year, could we see even larger vehicles dominating this award category next time?
PDI awards
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BISSELL Helps Give Homeless Pets a Clean Start
Company Supports Shelter Rehabilitation and Animal Rescue Effort with $20,000 Grant
BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
May 25, 2011, 10:05 ET
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- It's all paws on deck this week for pet lovers from BISSELL Homecare Inc., Animal Lifeline, the Petfinder.com Foundation and The Animal Rescue Site, who have organized a group of volunteers that today embarks on an 8-day operation to improve the lives of homeless pets in Eastern Kentucky. BISSELL, a longtime advocate for pet adoption, is funding Animal Lifeline's Rescue U trip through a $20,000 grant that allows the group to rehabilitate several animal shelters in need of support, educate shelter workers and help place adoptable pets in forever homes. Animal Lifeline is a nonprofit support organization for rescues, shelters and municipal groups working to improve the lives of homeless pets.
From May 25-June 1, student volunteers and animal care professionals from across the U.S. will undertake a series of "paws-on" clean-up projects to improve the conditions at Kentucky's Rowan County Animal Shelter and Menifee County Animal Shelter. The group will clean and repair existing kennels as well as build new ones; install chain link fences; create cat and dog beds; and build an outdoor enclosure and play area for cats. In addition, BISSELL, Animal Lifeline and the Petfinder.com Foundation will participate in an educational seminar to inform representatives from 15 local shelter and rescue groups on pet clean-up and other factors affecting adoption.
"BISSELL believes in supporting families and recognizes that pets are a great addition to a family. But our research reveals that pet clean-up is a significant barrier to pet adoption in America – 38 percent of Americans say they'd add a pet to their home if clean-up was easier," says Rich Sorota BISSELL's senior vice president and general manager of global marketing and sales. "This unfortunate reality is what compels BISSELL pet lovers to support animal welfare programs like Rescue U and the Petfinder.com Foundation, so that more pets can find their forever homes."
At the end of the week, volunteers will transport approximately 40 dogs from the Rowan and Menifee county shelters to Petfinder.com shelters and rescue organizations in the Northeast for adoption through the program.
Pet lovers can follow the week-long Rescue U effort through photos and video by visiting BISSELL's Facebook page or the Petfinder.com Foundation blog. To further rally consumers around pet adoption, for each new fan that registers on BISSELL's Facebook page beginning June 27, the company will make a $0.50 donation to the Petfinder.com Foundation in order to reach its goal of contributing a total of $50,000 in 2011.
BISSELL supports the pet community through contributions to more than 100 U.S. pet charities totaling over $200,000 annually, as well as through partnerships with organizations like Petfinder.com. For more information on BISSELL's pet programs, the complete line up of BISSELL pet products, cleaning tips and more, visit the online Pet Lovers Community at www.bissell.com/pets.
About BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
A 135-year-old company, Grand Rapids-based BISSELL Homecare, Inc., is the top-selling brand in floor care appliances in North America* with an expanding presence worldwide. As an innovator of cleaning products, BISSELL produces and sells vacuums, sweepers, deep-cleaning machines, bare floor cleaners and cleaning formulas at retail locations across the globe. The company is in its fourth generation of family leadership.
About the Petfinder.com Foundation
The Petfinder.com Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 public charity, helps homeless pets by saving lives through adoptions, helping shelters prepare for and recover from disaster and working to make sure animal welfare organizations across the country are more sustainable. Its mission is to ensure no adoptable pet is euthanized for lack of a home. Since 2003 the foundation has provided over $15 million in grants to animal welfare organizations and Petfinder.com member shelters and rescue groups.
About Animal Lifeline/Rescue University
Rescue University is a program of Animal Lifeline, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting animal rescues, shelters and municipal groups who advocate for homeless pets. The mission of Rescue University is to involve the next generation of Americans in volunteerism to benefit animal rescue and sheltering efforts. Since 2008, the program has allowed college-aged students to volunteer in local shelters, run supply drives and travel to rural communities to provide support and resources to animal rescue groups.
*based on NPD sales data
SOURCE BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
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Susan Elizabeth Thors
Ponte Vedra Valley Funeral Home
4750 Palm Valley Rd, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
https://www.stjude.org/
Susan Elizabeth Thors, 71, of Jacksonville, Florida, passed away peacefully in her sleep on August 3, 2020. Here are the details of the service to honor her life:
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2020
Time: 12 p.m.
Place: Ponte Vedra Valley Funeral Home at 4750 Palm Valley Rd.,
Virtual Broadcast: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86466023890
Link to Obituary: https://www.pontevedravalley.com/obituaries/susan-elizabeth-thors
If Mallomars cookies are able to rain down from the sky in heaven, there is a hailstorm of graham crackers and marshmallow treats falling as Susan “Susie” Thors is welcomed into its kingdom. Susie died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, August 3, 2020.
A wife, mother and grandmother, Susie’s greatest joy in life was doting on those she hoped to inspire and comfort in life. There was no greater listener, and untold years of her life were spent celebrating and offering advice to those who relied on her wisdom to help them through the day.
Susie is survived by her husband Barry of 38 years, her sister Marilyn (John) Alberti, her sons Robert (Shari) Noonan, Brian (Grace) Noonan, Brandon (Katrina) Thors, Geoff (Pam) Thors, Tyler (Priscilla) Thors. She is also survived by grandchildren Nick, Lucas, Ava, Spencer, Max, Jackson, and Connor, as well as niece Caryn Alberti and nephews Richard (Susan) Alberti and Peter (Sandra) Alberti. She also leaves behind two dear friends of more than 60 years, Pam Loescher and Kathy Materazzi.
Susie’s life will be celebrated at 12 p.m. on August 13, 2020, inside the Ponte Vedra Funeral Home chapel, located at 4750 Palm Valley Rd., Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082. Plans are in the works for a virtual viewing option to watch the memorial service. Instructions will be sent out the morning of the service explaining how to tune in for those who cannot attend in person.
In lieu of flowers, Susie had a soft spot in her heart for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and would be honored to have any donations made to the organization in her memory.
Born to Henry and Elizabeth Droge in Jamaica, N.Y., on Oct. 11, 1948, Susie spent her childhood in Manhasset, N.Y. While growing up nurtured by her parents and loving sister, Susie learned to keep a tight circle of loved ones who she cherished until her final breath.
Susie was easily puzzled by and resisted technology until she finally learned how to download an app that family members suggested she would enjoy. At that point she became a world-class Netflix binger and Hulu watcher everyone went to for advice on the latest and greatest new show airing on the platforms. She was also a dedicated patriot with a deep love for her country and enjoyed studying its history in books and documentaries.
A lover of movies, Susie got thrills watching intense dramas like “24,” “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” but also enjoyed comedies that made her laugh. Whether it was watching “What About Bob?” or “My Blue Heaven” for the thirtieth time, she waited for the punch lines and silly moments that often became catchphrases at the dinner table or during conversations on the phone. “Remember, green-side up …”
Susie’s laugh was legendary, and the way it lifted everyone’s spirits, could best be defined as her superpower. Each eruption would fill the room, and the joy her laugh radiated will forever echo in the hearts of those who loved her. It was the sound of love and joy and happiness from the depths of her soul.
Though she loved to celebrate occasions and milestones at classy restaurants like The Capital Grill, Susie was just as content getting a cheeseburger and milkshake at Burger King. She took advantage of Burger King’s slogan, “Have it your way,” when she looked the teenage cashiers in the eye while asking, “Can you please put my fries down a second time because I like them extra, extra crispy?”
Susie could also be aptly named the Cruise Queen, as she was always planning her next excursion with family and friends. This hobby, and her love of traveling with her beloved husband, was displayed (a clever gift, courtesy of son Brandon) on their license plate frame declaring, “My other car is a cruise ship.”
A marvelous host and planner of get togethers and family gatherings, Susie was famous for the thousands of sparkles, confetti and seasonal ornaments for every occasion, from birthdays to anniversaries, and the biggest of them all: Christmas. Even in Florida, she transformed her home into a winter wonderland for every child and grandchild to feel the spirit of Christmas on every surface and in every corner of her home.
Most recently, she organized a wedding for her youngest son that will forever remain one of the great parties of all time to everyone in attendance.
Susie was a stickler for arriving on time. She was never 30 seconds late to any appointment or get together, unless of course, there had to be a pit stop at Daily’s to refill her 42-ounce cup of Caffeine Free Diet Coke.
Susie liked what she liked, and if you didn’t like the same, well, that was tough luck for you. Susie would let you know that fact, including her famous, “Okay, it’s time to go” announcement when she was ready to get home to watch Jeopardy or finish the latest series’ episode she was binge-watching.
She made strangers feel special, and her smile and spirit made them love her. From her daily chats with Smitty at Daily’s to waitresses who looked forward to her sense of humor and curiosity about their lives, Susie made everyone feel special.
Finally, Susie’s life has been honored across the world as her Burmese daughter-in-law’s family has been holding vigils all week to honor her legacy, love and kindness toward the people who came to love her from afar.
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Jersey Harbours
Jersey Marinas
Jersey Coastguard
Jersey Airport
Board Members & Executive Team
Mark Chown
Year Appointed: November 2017
Mark Chown has extensive business experience in the private equity, leisure, property and aviation sectors. He held senior executive and non-executive positions with Flybe Group plc over 18 years, until 2014, including Deputy Chairman. During this time Flybe quadrupled in size, to become Europe’s largest regional airline.
Mark led the successful acquisition of BA Connect, the IPO on the London Stock Exchange and other significant corporate transactions. Mark has held non-executive director and Chairman roles in substantial businesses in the leisure, property and IT sectors.
Mark has a BA (Econ) from Manchester University and a postgraduate qualification from the Manchester School of Management. He trained as chartered accountant with what is now PWC, before moving into the private equity sector with 3i plc, prior to becoming a partner in an independent private equity firm. Mark is a member of both the Audit Committee and Risk Committee at Ports of Jersey.
Mark sits on PoJ Risk Committee (Chair), PoJ Audit Committee
Jeff Hume
Deputy Chairman & Senior Independent Director
Year Appointed: January 2017
Jeff Hume was, until recently, the Senior Independent Director of Manx Telecom plc, an AIM listed company and is a member of the London Stock Exchange Primary Markets Group.
He was the Deputy Chairman of the Dover Harbour Board, a major Trust Port, until December 2016 and the Senior Independent Director of the social housing association Moat Homes Ltd until September 2016. He was the Senior Independent Director and latterly the Chairman of Hyder Consulting plc (the multinational Consulting Engineer) until 2014. He was earlier an Independent Director of Health Lambert Insurance Brokers.
In his executive career he was the Finance Director of TDG plc (Logistics), AWG plc (Anglia Water and Morrison), Alfred McAlpine plc (Housebuilding and Construction) and Howden Group plc (Mechanical Engineering). He previously held senior management and financial positions in the FTSE100 Hawker Siddeley Group plc.
He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
Jeff chairs PoJ’s Audit Committee and was a member of the Nomination Committee.
Charles Hammond
Year Appointed: February 2019
Charles Hammond has been involved in the Ports industry for over 25 years and is the current CEO of Forth Ports Limited. He holds and has held many different roles in the industry, including Chairman of The United Kingdom Major Ports Group, a member of The Scottish Energy Advisory Board and a member of the Cabinet Secretary’s 2020 Vision for Health & Social Care.
Previous roles have included Chairman of Space and People Group, the retail, promotional and brand experience specialist and he has previously been Chairman of the Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh, the Economic Development Agency for the East of Scotland.
Charles sits on the PoJ Risk, Remuneration and Investment Committee.
Geoffrey Spence
Year Appointed: June 2018
Having spent 24 years working in investment banking, specialising in the financing of the Utilities, Energy and Infrastructure industries and its major projects, Geoffrey also advised the UK Government and public sector on the commercial and financing aspects of these industries, having worked for Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd, Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Bank plc.
He was also Chief Executive of Infrastructure UK within HM Treasury, leading its Infrastructure, Policy and Delivery, as well as being a Special Advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s advisor on business and EU policy.
He has held senior positions in Lloyds Bank plc as well as being a member of the UK Government’s Thames Estuary Commission.
Nowadays, Geoffrey is a Director of a private, charitable acute Hospital in Nazareth, Israel and is a member if the Board of the Association of Consulting Engineers. He is also a member of the London Mayor Brexit Advisory Panel.
Geoffrey sits on PoJ Nomination Committee, PoJ Audit Committee, PoJ Investment Committee (Chair).
Dr Jane Smallman
Year Appointed: March 2020
Dr Jane Smallman has worked in civil engineering for most of her professional career. She was at HR Wallingford Ltd, a world leading specialist consultant in civil engineering and environmental hydraulics, for over 30 years. She was Managing Director when she retired in 2015.
Jane is now a Non-Executive Board Member and Chair of the Management Board for the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas), which is an Executive Agency of the UK Government Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Jane is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Trustee Board. She is a Fellow and was previously a Trustee and a Past President of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST).
Jane is also an Honorary Visiting Professor to the School of Engineering of the University of Edinburgh.
Nicky Dunn OBE
Nicky Dunn has extensive executive and non-executive experience in commercial leisure, together with significant non-executive experience in property and placemaking.
During her executive career, Nicky held senior positions for SMG the world’s largest venue operator. Her consultancy company IMD Group provides advice to the leisure industry in both the public and private sector.
Until November 2019, she chaired the board of The Titanic Foundation, which built and owns the award-winning Titanic visitor attraction together with other assets along the waterfront in Belfast. She also chaired the most successful Netball World cup, held in Liverpool in July 2019.
Nicky currently sits on the boards of The London Legacy Development Company (Olympic Park) and The Young Vic Theatre in London. She chairs The Jockey Club Live and The London Stadium boards.
In 2016, Nicky was awarded an OBE for Services to Tourism.
Matt Thomas
Group Chief Executive Officer
Year Appointed: July 2019
Matt joined Ports of Jersey as Group Chief Executive Officer bringing significant international experience in the operation, development and financing of major infrastructure companies. In his previous role, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Shannon Group, the primary catalyst for economic development in the West of Ireland, incorporating airport, tourism, property and aerospace companies.
Before moving to Ireland, Matt was based in Manhattan, leading the €4bn privatisation of LaGuardia Airport in his role as Chief Commercial Officer of Vantage Airport Group. He was involved in the majority of Vantage’s thirty airport projects across four continents, as well as being a director of a number of airports in the Vantage portfolio, including Nassau, Bahamas; Montego Bay, Jamaica and Santiago in Chile.
A qualified accountant, having trained in investment banking, Matt has also held senior management positions at Vancouver Airport (recognised as the best airport in North America), Liverpool John Lennon Airport (where he was CEO), Larnaca and Paphos in Cyprus, Copenhagen and Newcastle Airports.
Matt also serves as a Director for Ports of Jersey’s 100% subsidiaries, PFD Limited and POJ (Services) Limited.
Andrew Boustouler
Deputy Chief Executive
Year Appointed: October 2015
Andrew has fulfilled a number of key roles at both Jersey Airport and Jersey Harbours for many years and was appointed by the Government of Jersey as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in November 2011 following the establishment of the combined Ports of Jersey.
He undertook a central role in the incorporation process and was appointed to his current role as Chief Financial Officer on its fruition. He has direct responsibility for Finance, Property and Compliance.
Immediately prior to joining the Government of Jersey he was employed by a local law firm where he specialised in structured finance transactions as well as providing general banking and commercial advice.
He was born in Jersey and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2001 after having been called to the Bar in 1998 and is a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.
Andrew also serves as a Director for Ports of Jersey’s 100% subsidiaries, PFD Limited and PoJ (Services) Limited.
Robin MacRae
Airport Director
As Airport Director, Robin has overall responsibility for the policing, control and administration of the aerodrome and the Channel Islands Control Area (CICA) as well as enforcement of the legislation, including overall responsibility for safety and security relating to air navigation.
Robin initially joined Ports of Jersey as Head of Air Navigation Services. He previously held several senior leadership positions in Highlands and Islands Airports in Scotland, specialising in Aerodrome Operations, Aviation Fire and Rescue, and Air Navigation Service Provision for the Group, where he was latterly Director of Operational Support.
Having over 32 years’ experience in the aviation industry Robin has specialised in Aviation Risk and Safety Management and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Factors and Aviation Safety Management from Cranfield University, delivering significant transformational projects to ensure safe, secure and compliant operations.
Alan Merry
Executive Strategy & Development Director
Alan has extensive international, senior executive and Board level experience gained across a range of industry sectors.
He worked closely with the Board and Executive Team on the incorporation of Ports of Jersey and holds the position of Strategy and Development Director with a remit focused on business improvement. Alan acted as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Ports while the selection process for a permanent replacement was concluded.
Alan is also Non-Executive Chairman of Jersey Post, a role he has held since 2017 having joined the Board in 2015.
Prior to this, Alan was Director of CPA Global for 8 years and, before coming to Jersey, held senior executive roles in the financial services and retail sectors.
Steve Tanner
Group Capital Projects Director
With a background in commercial project management and procurement, Steve has worked for a number of high-profile businesses across the UK, including the NHS Trust and the British Nuclear Group of companies.
In recent years, Steve has become heavily involved in the aviation and transport industry, initially heading the Commercial Management Team at BAA, Heathrow Airport Ltd, before taking the role of Acquisition Director, leading the team responsible for major projects annual contract spend of circa £1.1billion. This included major developments at Heathrow.
In 2012, he moved to Manchester Airport Group, heading up contracting activity across the four airports in the group (Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth) and supporting major projects undertaken by the organisation, including the successful £1.5 billion acquisition and integration of Stansted Airport.
Prior to joining Ports of Jersey in 2016, Steve worked for Speedy Asset Services, the UK’s largest construction services supplier in the role as executive director, with responsibility for the management of circa 1,500 vehicles, 300+ properties and 40,000+ assets.
Captain Bill Sadler
Harbourmaster
Bill is an experienced Master Mariner with over twenty years of practical experience across a number of different maritime sectors, including a number of years in Command with Trinity House.
Bill joined Ports of Jersey in 2015 as a Harbour Manager/Pilot, initially heading up work on the Ports Safety Management System, before assuming responsibility for Jersey Coastguard.
In 2017, Bill was appointed Harbourmaster and is responsible for ensuring the Island’s lifeline critical maritime assets remain open, safe and secure, as well as ensuring we deliver on our Maritime Public Service obligations.
Bill was appointed to Ports Executive Team in December 2018.
Hannah Gleave
Hannah is a specialist in employment relations, reward and change management. She has worked for Ports of Jersey since 2015 moving from a Reward and Employment Relations specialist role in local government.
She recently led a comprehensive Reward Project that modernised all pay, terms and conditions for the business through an extensive engagement programme that won the UK CIPD People Management Best Reward and Recognition initiative 2019.
She was born in Jersey, completed her Masters in HR Management at London Southbank University, Strategic Leadership level 7 CMI qualified, has a BSc in Psychology and is also a licenced Counsellor and Psychotherapist.
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News May 1, 2008 update:May 2, 2008
Cloning not beneficial to livestock breeding
The practice of cloning should not be regarded without scepticism, said Dr Roel Veerkamp, researcher at the Animal Sciences Group (ASG) of Wageningen University and Research Centre.
In expressing his scepticism, Veerkamp used the example of a bull to demonstrate his point. "Before a clone is made of a good bull three years have passed," Veerkamp said. "Using the conventional route, that period of time would yield better bulls than the original one that would be cloned. In addition, cloning is expensive. Genetic improvement is lost when old clones are being used instead of other bulls."
Debate on cloning
Veerkamp makes his comments after European agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel recently called for a debate about animal cloning for food production.
She, in turn, did that as the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently concluded that eating meat from cloned animals is safe. The European agency for food safety (EFSA) also concluded in a concept advice that there is no reason to assume that products of cloned animals are essentially different than those of non-cloned animals.
Aim of breeding
The aim of breeding is that every next generation is better than the last one. However, when cloning, that principle is lost, Veerkamp said. "One could say that for reasons of uniformity it would be good to have cloned animals. However, in that case a very large group of production animals needs to be cloned, which is expensive."
"In addition, in the top of the breeding pyramid it is necessary to keep diversity and genetic variation. Clones could possibly be used for very specific applications, e.g. in medicine production. But that again is a different topic than food production."
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Contra Costa Retirees May Have Benefits Case
A lawsuit brought against Contra Costa County in 2012 has been revived after a previous dismissal has been overturned after an amended filing was heard in U.S. District Court. Judge Jon Tigar has decided that City MOUs and resolutions may be used to outline terms of a contractual intent to provide benefits in perpetuity.
The ruling has paved the way for a group representing retirees to challenge a 2010 reform to retiree healthcare. Previously, the County had provided 80 percent of premiums for retirees and their dependents. But the County changed that policy three years ago, instead opting to provide a flat cap to cover some of healthcare expenses. The rest would be the responsibility of retirees to cover.
The amended filing relied upon memorandums of understanding, as well as resolutions approved by the Board of Supervisors, to provide the terms of an implied contract between the County and its workers. Those terms would be vested rights under case law, which could undermine the 2010 reform and restore 80 percent coverage for health premiums.
Read the full story at Courthouse News Service.
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CalPERS Considers – Then Rejects – Efforts to End Tobacco Divestment
By Steven Greenhut.
As the nation’s largest state-based pension fund, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is known for using its massive investment muscle to promote various social-investment causes. So-called ESGs – Environmental, Social and Governance issues – are a major theme for CalPERS, as it promotes broader board diversity, moves away from global-warming-creating carbon-intensive industries, and invests more in women-owned and minority-owned businesses, among many other values-oriented priorities.
Advocates for these types of investments often argue that it’s good business to focus more on “socially responsible” companies or to divest from others, but an ongoing debate at CalPERS suggests that isn’t always necessarily true. For months, CalPERS’ top investment officials have been setting the stage for a vote in the investment committee on Monday. They proposed ending CalPERS’ 16-year policy of divesting from tobacco stocks – a decision that analysts say has cost the underfunded system as much as $3 billion over the years as tobacco stocks have soared.
But in a 9-3 vote, the investment committee decided not only to maintain its current ban on tobacco investments, but to expand it further. As the Sacramento Bee reported, the committee’s vote is final because it includes all members of the governing board.
CalPERS depicted its original divestment decision as a financial rather than social one and committee members made the same point on Monday.
In 2000, tobacco companies were facing lawsuits. But as the Wall Street Journal reported in April, “The MSCI World Tobacco index returned more than 309 percent in total returns over the decade from 2005 to 2015, compared with 172 percent total returns for the broader MSCI World consumer staples index, according to FactSet.” And on Monday the committee also argued that tobacco investments still have long-term risks, despite the recent tobacco-stock performance.
Yet despite the financial justifications, there’s always been a strong social element about the divestment strategy. The latest remarks from top state officials and editorial boards makes clear that the tobacco-divestment issue is a social matter as much as a financial-performance-related one.
“Not only is this a predatory out-of-state industry whose child-baiting marketing tactics are disgraceful, but its product is responsible for more than $13 billion in annual health care costs,” said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a statement after CalPERS announced a reconsideration of its policy. “Taxpayers will be forced to pick up part of that tab, including CalPERS’ own retiree health benefits. We cannot sell our soul for profit. Investing in death for a return is inexcusable.”
Treasurer John Chiang argued that CalPERS never totally divested from tobacco stocks, anyway. “It is time to end the charade that somehow CalPERS stopped investing in tobacco companies more than a decade ago. Our external managers currently have plowed a sizable $547 million in tobacco-related funds, according to the latest CalPERS staff estimates,” he said. Chiang called for CalPERS to divest from its indirect tobacco-related investments, too.
And the Los Angeles Times editorial board on Monday made clear just how much this fight is about social issues rather than financial ones: “Divestment is a difficult call for governmental pension funds. They have a clear fiduciary duty to maximize the returns on their members’ investments. But in our view, these public agencies also have a responsibility not to support evil, corrupt or destructive forces whose ill effects far outweigh any good they may do. That can take the form of products, like tobacco and firearms, or regimes.”
Those who testified at the committee also made similar social-oriented points. They won the day, as the committee voted to divest of its remaining $547 million in tobacco-related investments – ones invested by outside managers.
Not surprisingly, it’s been CalPERS’ investment staff that has focused more on financial returns. The committee’s investment agenda for its Monday meeting detailed three options. It could have removed all tobacco-investment restrictions. It could have expanded the divestment beyond the current restrictions – i.e., also restrict tobacco investments from externally managed portfolios. Or it could have left the current approach of divestment from internally managed portfolios. It chose option two.
“Divestment, as an active investment decision, represents a form of active risk taking that must be considered, first and foremost, within the context of the CalPERS Board of Administration’s fiduciary duty,” according to the staff report’s executive summary. “As a mature, cash-flow negative system, CalPERS is obligated to seek out and implement the portfolio construction methods that best serve our mission – the sustainable delivery of promised benefits. In efficient markets, however, limiting the opportunity set for investments has generally been shown to have a detrimental effect on performance, and CalPERS’ experience with its tobacco investment restrictions over the past 15 years has been no exception to the general rule.”
As CalPERS investment officials explained in public presentations to its board last month, as a public pension fund managing the assets of the state’s government employees, the agency’s prime responsibility to assure that it makes the best-possible investments to assure that it fulfills its pension promises to current and future retirees.
It’s worth reviewing the basics of how these pension funds operate. Typically in the private sector, employees receive defined-contribution plans, such as 401(k)s. The employee has some money deducted from the paycheck and invested in mutual funds. Sometimes the employer also contributes a portion. If the investments do well, the employee retires with more money. If they don’t the employee has to make do with less.
By contrast, government employees at the state and municipal level typically receive a defined-benefit plan, in which the government agency promises a set pension benefit based on a formula. The government employer pays a large share, with the employee also typically having money deducted to go toward the benefit. The pension fund invests those dollars. No matter what, the employee still receives the promised amount. If investments go sour, the size of the unfunded liabilities, or debt, grows and taxpayers are required to pick up the slack.
Given the potential impact on government budgets, these investment issues take on a highly political tone. CalPERS’ investment returns have been dismal in the past year, which creates pressure for reducing pension benefits or hiking investment returns. With the former a nonstarter in the current political environment, the latter becomes the subject of intense scrutiny. That’s what we’re seeing with the current debate in the CalPERS investment committee.
CalPERS staff had been leading the charge to a) further lower expected rates of return based on those disappointing recent results and predictions of a continued tough road ahead; and b) try to boost return rates by allowing staff to reinvest in soaring tobacco stocks. But the state Legislature apparently hasn’t gotten this message.
New legislation would call for CalPERS and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System to divest any holdings from a North Dakota oil pipeline that has been the source of protest by Native Americans and environmental activists. Certainly, any such divestments would mean little in an investment portfolio (in both funds) valued at $450 billion. But the Legislature is showing its desire to continue a push for more investment based on social concerns rather than strictly financial ones.
That’s always a risk in publicly controlled systems. That’s a tension that will continue, although Monday’s vote shows that CalPERS isn’t likely to soon abandon its current approach even in the face of mounting fiscal problems.
Originally posted at Cal Watchdog.
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Developer drops £10m legal case against Northumberland County Council over housing proposals
A £10m High Court legal challenge against Northumberland County Council and three of its leaders over delayed plans for 2,000 homes has now been dropped.
An arms-length body of the developers Lugano Property Group issued a writ in September claiming in July it would be hit with delayed project bills of £13m in the construction of the Dissington Garden Village.
The Labour plans to create 2,000 homes on the site north of Ponteland were put under review after the Conservatives took over in the last local elections in 2017, with Lugano alleging that the authority acted unlawfully.
The county council denied the allegations, labelling them as “inappropriate, untrue, and defamatory,” and the developer launched legal proceedings against the council’s leader Peter Jackson, cabinet member for planning John Riddle, and chief executive Daljit Lally.
Six months on from the writ being issued, the legal challenge has now been discontinued by the developers.
Councillor Jackson called it the “most humiliating admission of defeat” and called for a public apology.
Jackson said: “All along we said that there was no foundation for their wild and unsubstantiated allegations against councillors, council staff and the county council itself, all of whom have just been carrying out their proper functions.
“The particularly vitriolic statements from the Lugano directors, Allan Rankin and Richard Robson, have been shown to be indefensible and without foundation. They should publicly apologise without delay.
“This has been a long saga which has concerned many in the local community.
“They will be delighted that the planning system in Northumberland has been shown to be both robust and fair, not bending to the demands of the large developers, treating all applications according to clear criteria without fear or favour.”
The council leader also said the authority would be pursuing Lugano Dissington Estate Ltd for “very substantial legal costs.”
The Newcastle-based Lugano Property Group, which owned the claimant at the time of the legal action, said that despite not being involved in the decision to discontinue the challenge it “stands fully behind the claims made in both the legal proceedings and our previous complaints to the council.”
The notice of discontinuance was signed by Simon Conway, the director of Lugano Dissington Estate, but it is also reported that the company is no longer owned by Lugano Property Group.
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Bookstores Get Political
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The election of President Donald J. Trump has galvanized many in the book industry to a level of political activism not seen in generations. This week, we begin a series that shines a spotlight on some of the actions taken by those in publishing, bookselling, libraries, the nonprofit world, book-related media, and more.
Deandra Beard, the owner of Beyond Barcodes in Kokomo, Ind., recalls her shock the morning after the presidential election when she learned that more than 57% of voters in Indiana had cast their ballots for Donald Trump—including more than 50% of the voters in her county. She committed to using her multicultural bookstore as a safe space for aisle-crossing political conversations.
Since the election, Beard has organized two in-store community dialogues: the first was intended to let attendees blow off steam about the election, and the second was in a larger town hall format as part of the year-old store’s ongoing “We the People” series of discussions about intersectional social issues in the U.S. During the town hall, people of “various political persuasions” discussed the election, why they voted the way they did, and how to “work across the aisle” to build relationships in the future, she explained.
“Through that [town hall],” Beard noted, “I know that people for sure voted for Trump and are already regretting it.” More town halls on current events will be held as necessary, she said.
On April 22, Beyond Barcodes will hold a day of education about immigration. The event will include a concert by a Chicago-based band, Bassel & the Supernaturals, whose lead vocalist, a Syrian immigrant to the U.S., will also facilitate a discussion about the issue from the perspective of an Arab-American.
Chicago’s Women & Children First, one of the oldest women’s bookstores in the country, has taken a strong and vocal stand against the Trump presidency and its ramifications. In early January the store owners, Lynn Mooney and Sarah Hollenbeck, announced that they were launching a feminist craft circle with the goal of “using traditionally ‘feminine’ crafts for political statements, art, and more.” The Feminist Craft Circle members knitted 100 pink “pussy hats” for the Women’s March in January, which were distributed before and during the marches in Chicago and Washington, D.C. The crafting group has decided to continue to meet as a regular crafting circle; most recently, they knitted hats and scarves to provide to a local nonprofit, Care for Real, that helps people in need with food and clothing.
Women and Children First has also launched two monthly events in response to the current political climate. The first, called Activism, showcases local activist organizations. Each month, representatives from a different Chicagoland social justice organization make a presentation about its mission, followed by a q&a and information session on how people can become involved with it.
The second monthly series is called the Conversation. In it, authors discuss issues of political, social, and cultural relevance. The inaugural panel was subtitled “Art + Resistance” and featured Aleksandar Hemon, Eula Biss, and Roger Reeves, among others.
In Houston last month, Tony Diaz, the proprietor of Nuestra Palabra Arts & Books, took to the streets to voice his opposition to some of the new policies of the Trump administration that have filtered down to the state level. Under protest was SB4: a law making its way through the Texas legislature that would empower police on university campuses to act as de facto immigration officers. “We have to work together to make this stop,” he said to the nearly 50 people who’d gathered in the 80-degree heat outside the administrative building of the University of Houston Downtown to hold placards with slogans such as “Immigrants Welcome Here” and “Stop Racism” for the television cameras. “This city behind us hums with industry, with trains and construction,” he announced, “and we know who built this city, this country—immigrants.”
Diaz opened Nuestra Palabra late last year. By his own account, it is just the fifth Latino-focused bookstore in the nation. It is housed inside Talento Bilingüe de Houston, a cultural center that also includes a 270-seat theater, which the store will use for special events. Currently, the shop has 500 titles on offer, with plans to expand to some 2,000.
A vocal advocate for Latino literary life, Diaz is also the founder of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Our Say—an organization that was responsible for the Latino Book and Family Show, which ran from 2002 to 2007—and a self-described librotraficante (“book smuggler”). In 2012, he organized a caravan to smuggle “wet books” into Arizona after the state outlawed Latino and ethnic studies at universities. In keeping with the spirit of that project, one of the first events at the store was a seminar for high school teachers on how to use Latino literature, which was free to attend with the purchase of Hecho in Tejasi, the anthology of Mexican-American literature edited by Dagoberto Gilb.
Asked why he started a bookstore, Diaz explained that downtown Houston is a book desert and, save for the headquarters of the Houston public library, there is nowhere to get a book in the district. (A Books-A-Million closed several years ago.) His mission is to give the Latino community a literary place to “chill” and to help the curious discover books that can help share the Latino experience.
At KitaabWorld, an online children’s bookstore focused on offering hard-to-find books from South Asian countries—including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Afghanistan, and Nepal—the focus has also been on educating readers, parents, and teachers. An ongoing campaign dubbed “45+ Books to Counter Islamophobia,” which has promoted books on topics from Muhammad Ali to the Grand Mosque in Paris, has garnered international attention.
“Our roles are not purely as booksellers,” said site cofounder Sadaf Saddique, a Silicon Valley consultant. “We see ourselves as taking bookselling to the next step by trying to facilitate representation for South Asian culture and children’s books. In this regard we are activists and advocates in addition to being booksellers.”
The site, which operates out of the San Francisco Bay area and has an office in Menlo Park, Calif., was born last year when Saddique and cofounder Gauri Manglik, an attorney, recognized a gap in the market for books that featured South Asian children in various cultures and countries, not only in the context of an immigrant or assimilation experience in America. “We wanted books that authentically depicted life back in India, for example, and for that reason we had to import the books ourselves.”
KitaabWorld currently offers approximately 1,000 titles, and it is working with a dozen publishers in India. The site also handles its own warehousing and distribution.
“The biggest challenge is discovery, educating people to let them know that these books do exist—there are books that depict little girls in hijabs doing everyday things,” Saddique said.
Educators are as much a target audience of KitaabWorld as are general readers. Sometimes, Saddique said, “teachers can sometimes be reticent to order books about, say, Islam, because they fear that they don’t know enough about the topic to make a good decision as to what to buy.” He added, “That is why we put out our list to counter Islamophobia—it was more to make people comfortable with the topic.” However, he continued, “we want to emphasize that we are not just a site for Islamic books. We have done campaigns to educate people about Diwali, for example.”
Among the site’s bestselling titles are Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan and illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Viking) and Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams (Eerdmans). But perhaps dearest to the cofounder’s heart is Dear Mrs. Naidu by Mathangi Subramanian (Young Zuuban), a story about an Indian girl living in a slum who battles the government to get education and becomes pen pals with Mrs. Naidu, a long-dead freedom fighter. “The book won the 2016 South Asian Book Award,” Saddique said, “and we were so eager to sell it here. Part of our mission is to help expand the audience for these books in the United States, but also to simply prove that the audience exists here so more of these types of books get published.”
A version of this article appeared in the 03/13/2017 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Bookstores Engage in Diverse Forms of Protest
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Ten Minutes
This fine art photograph was hand selected by the PurePhoto curation team for placement in private collections and interiors by the world’s leading art & design professionals.
Lev's bold photo-paintings are constructed from hundreds of individual photographs that he takes in different parts of the world and then digitally "paints" by blending the separate images into single original limited series photo-paintings. To build his pieces he employs an in-depth Photoshop process that continues to evolve through the course of his career.
Lev's work has been acquired by collectors across United States and Europe, featured in prominent residential projects, and adorns the homes of Hollywood's elite ... and of course his mom and dad.
Lev Gorn was born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family. His grandfather, David, himself a painter, muralist and sculptor became his first art teacher. In the 1980’s, Lev's family immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, where Lev went to Yeshiva and then to The High School of Art & Design in Manhattan, and eventually to SUNY Oneonta, where he discovered photography. In his junior year, while on an exchange program at the University of Swansea, Wales, he auditioned for a play on a friend's dare. He got the part and after performing the play at the Edinburgh Theater Festival, Lev immersed himself into a new art form that further deepened his journey as an artist.
Working as an actor in NYC, afforded him to attend the International Center of Photography and become a professional photographer. Some time later, on a film set, Lev met Gabe Fazio and started writing screenplays and making short films. The film-making process opened up another creative avenue and showed Lev how the power of the narrative can transform human perception of an every day moment.
One day, while walking through mid-town Manhattan, he photographed hundreds of people in business suits on their lunch hour. The next day, at the beach, he photographed hundreds of people lounging on the sand. A thought hit him like a ton of bricks - "each scene has its own emotional value - so if I layer an image of the beach over an image of the business crowd would I be creating a new emotional value?"
Lev started experimenting with multiple exposures on 35mm film. He discovered that each seemingly separate moment frozen in his camera is an intersection where the artist's conscious and subconscious worlds simultaneously converged. Taking it a step further, Lev started working in the digital format to create controlled multiple exposures on a single frame. As he fine-tuned his creative process by incorporating Photoshop, he observed that the viewer's experience can be altered by manipulating traditional points of reference with color, form and context.
Lev's multi-layered artworks dilate the viewer's perception of space-time geometry by creating a tension between the artwork's new state of consciousness and the observer. "The way words are created by rearranging individual letters, and then become sentences and paragraphs, and eventually turn into books, similarly, I use photographs, like letters of an alphabet, to compose my works."
In order to preserve the continuity of each project's narrative, Lev works on all of the pieces at the same time. His process resembles a film director's in that he has to maintain the integrity of the preceding and upcoming scenes in relationship to the one he is working on in the moment.
In 2011, Lev conceived a photography project which over the next five years, brought him to India, South America, Portugal, Canada and Iceland, and culminated in a 2016 solo exhibition in NYC. This creative journey profoundly influenced Lev’s style as a visual storyteller.
Lev's career in film and television covers over 50 films and TV series. He has played a number of standout roles in some of the most highly-acclaimed television series, such as the Emmy-award winning “The Americans” in which he played Arkady Ivanovich, and “The Wire”, as Eton Ben Eleazer. Other TV work includes shows like NetFlix Maniac, Showtime Billions, Amazon Jack Ryan, CBS Madam Secretary and numerous others.
He worked with Woody Allen in the famed 2016 comedy “Cafe Society”, opposite Susan Sarandon in “Ace The Case”, in “The Good Shepherd” starring Matt Damon, and in David Rodriguez’s third feature, “Once Upon A Time in Queens”, in which he shared the screen with Michael Rappaport, Paul Sorvino and Chazz Palminteri. Lev’s other films include “Sangre De Mi Sangre” (Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner), “This Teacher”, directed by Independent Spirit Award-winning Mark Jackson, Gregory Segal's "White Knight", shot entirely in the Philippines, and most recently ”Lingua Franca”, directed by Filipino MOMA-featured filmmaker Isabel Sandoval, which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival 2019.
“Joe Mover”, Lev’s first short film, won best short at the Appalachian Film Festival and led to a cash grant from The Doorpost Film Project. His second short film, “Ten: Thirty One”, won the best short prize at the Oldenburg Film Festival and took home the best actress award at the Ourense Independent Film Festival.
The success of “Ten: Thirty One”, the story itself, and the profound connection that audiences had with the character’s inner lives, inspired Lev to co-write the feature screenplay “Get Psycho.” The anticipated film will serve as Lev’s directorial feature film debut. Production starts in Spring 2020.
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St Kitts-Nevis man facing deportation from Canada; claim she fled from homophobic attacks at home
Reports from Canada indicate that a St Kitts-Nevisman who claimed that fled his homeland, because he was the victim of repeated homophobic attacks, is facing deportation by Canadian authorities. 31-year old Rolson Ryan’s bid for asylum in Canada was denied by the country’s Immigration and Refugee Board.The Toronto Star reports that despite Ryan saying that he would “face a serious possibility of persecution” as a gay man if he returned to his homeland, the Board denied the refugee claim because Judge Brenda Lloyd said “the Government of St Kitts and Nevis provides adequate protection to its citizens.” A subsequent appeal to the refugee appeal tribunal was also rejected in 2014 on the same grounds.
The newspaper reports that Ryan was attacked twice by mobs and was subsequently taken to a hospital, but charged that “no police report was taken in either incident.” He reportedly fled St Kitts-Nevis for Toronto in 2013 with help from ‘Rainbow Railroad’, a Toronto-based group that helps rescue sexual minorities abroad to safety in Canada.Joel Dick, a lawyer who, along with his wife Dara Douma, sheltered Ryan for five months at the request of a friend at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, said that he does not “believe St Kitts, where being gay is criminalised, can protect Ryan”.
“I didn’t know there were places that helped gay men,” said Ryan, who now works in a bakery factory in Toronto. “It is really tough being gay there. You have to do everything hidden. It is a very small, tight country. If people know that you are gay, they are going to beat you up.”Douma and Dick, along with their families and close friends, are helping to fund a new appeal to the federal court against the appeal tribunal’s latest decision, according to the Star.
“In Canada, Rolston is out and happy,” Dick said. “He has a life and can live as himself. He is still reserved and private, but he feels secure here, and is less invisible, because he doesn’t have to hide who he is.”
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"I shaved my head once and learned that I've got, like, a cone head. So I'm never gonna do that again."
Doobie Brothers Fleetwood Mac, rock band Lindsey Buckingham, musician with Fleetwood Mac Stevie Nicks, singer and musician with Fleetwood Mac Jeff Foskett...
Name Tommy Fleetwood
Profession Athlete
The time to hesitate is through.
Robby Krieger, Musician
More Quotes by Robby Krieger
"To be on the winning team on your debut is amazing enough anyway but to do so alongside one of your best mates is the stuff of dreams."
"Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose."
"I'm not saying I'm anywhere near the David Beckham league, but because I played well and Moliwood and probably the hair and everything, I did start to get recognized more and more."
"Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff."
"I have always been a very patient person, I am a perfectionist but have a high level of patience and think that's one of the things when I started my comeback that really helped... I wasn't rushing anything as long as I knew I was on the right track."
"I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'"
"When it is on, the Ryder Cup is by a country mile the biggest sporting event in the world."
"It is the biggest sporting occasion in the world when it comes around so I want to be there, I want to play multiple Ryder Cups. I just want to be part of that whole thing."
"Race to Dubai winner, playing in Ryder Cups, winning majors - these are all great parts of a career you want to have."
"I had a few moments in Hong Kong, the odd minute where you sit down and reflect more than anything of having that ticked off in your career. It's something special."
"The U.S. Open was something I loved."
"Every time I'm practicing, playing or prepping, Majors are always going to be the ones everybody wants to win. But putting the urgency or too much pressure on yourself is not going to do any favors."
"I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year."
"The frustrating part is knowing that you've done it before, knowing that you can play, but then your game starts going down the wrong path and you lose confidence. It's so easy to just start slipping away."
"The American fans have taken to me, so I'm very grateful for that."
"You never really get a chance to sit back and look at where you are or what you've done. If you stop working, you're gonna get overtaken quickly. You can't really take your foot off the gas - until you decide to pack it in."
"If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well."
"It's a different style of golf; that stands out for sure when you come over to America. The style of play and the golf courses in America. Most golf courses in America either stretch your game, and test different elements of your game and the margins for error are smaller."
"I always try and watch how business people think. I like to read a lot about business people. I'm not going to say I've got a great business mind, but I enjoy learning from the world of business."
"Clare makes life so easy for me. From a business perspective, to being my wife, to being my friend. It allows me to go out and just play golf and work on a daily basis. I consider myself very, very lucky. She's the person I trust the most and when it comes to business, that is extremely important."
"It's good for me to get home and re-connect with everyone."
"Golf's not an easy game. You keep working at it and, sooner or later, something good will happen."
"It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that."
"I'm not going to lie and say I don't really mind about winning in America. Of course I do."
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Joe Cocker Quotes
"Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around."
civil servant, Harold Cocker, and Madge Cocker, née Lee. According to differing family stories, Cocker received his nickname of Joe either from playing...
Name Joe Cocker
Profession Musician
I love working in London.
Kathleen Rose Perkins, Actress
More Quotes by Kathleen Rose Perkins
"I've been touring now since about '68."
"I was in Germany when the wall came down."
"Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened."
"The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age."
"Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s."
"I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter."
"It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?"
"Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them."
"I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people."
"I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not."
"Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be."
"Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody."
"I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old."
"Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?"
"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?"
"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
"Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing."
"For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving."
"I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling."
"Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move."
"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."
"Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think."
"I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks."
"I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me."
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Chinese state media downplay, discredit Hong Kong elections
Nov 26, 2019 3:19 PM PHT
BEIJING, China – Chinese state media on Tuesday, November 26, sought to downplay and discredit the results of Hong Kong elections that delivered a stunning victory for pro-democracy candidates and a stinging rebuke to the pro-Beijing establishment.
Local elections in the semi-autonomous city revealed broad public support for a protest movement that has stirred months of violence, as candidates seeking to loosen control by China seized an overwhelming majority of the 452 elected seats.
But the election winners were not mentioned in Chinese-language state media on Tuesday, including official broadcaster CCTV and Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily.
The People's Daily said "social unrest... has seriously disrupted the electoral process."
An editorial in the English-language version of China Daily said the poll was "skewed by intimidation" and "dirty tricks".
The editorial said "violent intimidation tactics were intended to reduce the exposure and visibility of pro-establishment candidates".
"External forces that have helped stoke the months-long anti-government campaign in the special administrative region also contributed greatly to damaging the election chances of pro-establishment candidates," it said.
A commentary in English on official news agency Xinhua said that the election "fell victim" to "rioters".
"Campaigns of some patriotic candidates were seriously disrupted, and their offices were trashed and set ablaze," it said Tuesday.
"One candidate was injured in an attack. Harassment on patriotic candidates occurred on the voting day."
The commentary went on to give its support to city leader Carrie Lam, and said the "Hong Kong community should also correctly understand the relationship between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland".
The Tuesday front page of the nationalistic Global Times said the election had sparked "reflection" but warned it was "highly politicized amid ongoing social unrest".
The article went on to quote experts saying there was "no need to over-interpret the victory of pan-democrats".
Global Times said that "under the plurality voting system... the opposition won 80 percent of seats with only 60 percent of the vote".
On Monday evening, the flagship Chinese news program Xinwen Lianbo also did not mention the Hong Kong elections. – Rappler.com
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(65) The Dead of Summer
Title:The Dead of Summer (Volume 1) by Mari Jungstedt
Publisher: Stockholm Text Publishing
I received this title as an e-galley from netgalley.com It was released on May 3, 2012
Synopsis: The most isolated island in the Baltic Sea, Gotska Sandön, north of Gotland, serves as the setting for her perfect crime story. A husband and father of two is mysteriously murdered while on holiday, taking a morning jog. With no evidence of a motive or suspect, assistant commissioner Karin Jacobsson is assigned to her first major case to lead the investigation while her boss, Superintendent Anders Knutas is away on holiday. Meanwhile, TV reporter Johan Berg keeps pace with the police team, while at the same time distracted in trying to win back his former love and the mother of his child, Emma, who resides on the island.
Review: While I really enjoyed this book I wasn't quite sure who the main character was. The book really focuses on so many characters. I believe the police man Knutas was supposed to be the main player, but there were so many other more intriguing characters that he sort of got lost. I was more drawn into the story of Johan Berg the TV reporter who seemed to be one step ahead of the police and the Assistant Commissioner Jacobsson whose power is given a back seat when her boss Knutas returns from vacation early.
This is your typical slower paced Scandinavian mystery. There is no clean wrap up at the end, the characters are all flawed, and while you know that something happened in the past to spark these murders you aren't quite sure what. I almost feel like many of these books are more character studies with the mystery as secondary. Either way its a very enjoyable read.
Irene October 8, 2012 at 8:45 PM
I've not read any Scandinavian authors yet, but I'm piqued.
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Northwestern Mutual to pay $84 million to settle annuities lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel
(Reuters) - Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co agreed to pay $84 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that it illegally reduced potential payouts on annuities it sold at least 30 years ago, cheating investors who used them as retirement investments.
The settlement disclosed on Friday in the federal court in Milwaukee, where Northwestern Mutual is based, covers about 4,000 current and 29,000 former owners of the annuities pursuing a class action.
They claimed Northwestern Mutual breached its contractual obligations when in 1985 it quietly changed how it calculated dividends on deferred, fixed annuities it had sold, costing them millions of dollars annually. Experts for the plaintiffs had estimated compensatory damages could reach $278 million.
The preliminary settlement requires approval by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman in Milwaukee. Northwestern Mutual denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
“This lawsuit was a case of a small group of customers seeking more than their fair share of dividends, which would have come at the expense of all our other policy owners,” Northwestern Mutual spokeswoman Betsy Hoylman said. “At this point, it is best for our policy owners to close this matter.”
Annuities are financial products into which individuals make regular payments which are then invested, with an expectation they will later receive regular payments.
According to the investors, Northwestern Mutual still paid what it called “dividends” on the annuities in question, but that these payouts merely reflected interest on short-term bonds into which it had moved assets.
Investors said this deprived them of their “contracted-for investment in the growth and profitability of Northwestern.”
Northwestern Mutual expects to pay more than $5.5 billion of dividends to policy holders in 2015, according to its website. It has $230 billion of assets, and oversees $24 billion of annuity assets in 351,000 client contracts, the website shows.
Five law firms for the plaintiffs, including Boies, Schiller & Flexner in Armonk, New York and Kersten & McKinnon in Mequon, Wisconsin, plan to seek fees of up to 35 percent of the settlement fund. Neither of those two firms was immediately available to comment.
The case is LaPlant et al v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, No. 11-00910.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Grant McCool
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Kolb's son later testified he never saw his father attack Honeycutt and forensic evidence showed the deputy's vest had no signs of a stabbing, Kolb said.
Detectives without training on interviewing minors who witnessed traumatic events questioned Kolb's son without asking for the authorization of his mother, who was driving from Silicon Valley to reunite with him, the lawsuit said.
The detectives also secretly recorded Kolb's son while he spoke on his cellphone with family members to obtain incriminating information against his father, the lawsuit alleged.
Angela Musallam, a spokeswoman for the Placer County Sheriff's Office, said Tuesday that the sheriff's office "does not have anything further to say about Mr. Kolb's case."
At the time of the shooting, Kolb was working as a senior director at Survey Monkey. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, which is a felony, and felony child endangerment.
He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense of brandishing a deadly weapon other than a firearm "in order to spare my family further legal trouble and spare my son having to testify and worry that he held my life in his hands," Kolb said.
Honeycutt shot Kolb once on the left side of his torso and once in his back. Kolb now lacks bowel and bladder control, cannot engage in normal sexual activity and lives with chronic pain.
Now an engineering manager at Facebook, Kolb said he volunteers his free time to press for legislative changes to California's blanket immunity for police officers and to reform policing in the country.
"This is a morally bankrupt and corrupt system that is bent on one thing, which is protecting the power of the entrenched police unions and this power structure," he said.
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Civil Legislation
In recent years, provincial governments across Canada have passed legislation to address the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, and allow for victims to seek compensation.
Since Canada added the offence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images to the Criminal Code in 2014, multiple provincial governments have passed legislation which allows for victims to seek compensation in civil proceedings. Currently, the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador have legislation in place which provides this protection.
When comparing the laws in place in each province, there are clear similarities. Each of the five provincial laws create a right to sue, allowing for an action to be brought for damages against the person who distributed the intimate image without consent. In addition, the laws in place in each province provide that the subject of the intimate image does not lose their expectation of privacy (in respect to the image) because they consented to the image being recorded by someone else, or because they provided a copy of the image to someone else, provided that there was a reasonable understanding that the image was to be kept private. What this means simply is that just because you let someone take a picture or give someone a picture doesn’t automatically mean that you gave them permission to share it with anyone else.
The only defences set out specifically in the legislation is if the distribution of the intimate image is “in the public interest.” Given the way that the legislation is worded, a defendant can also argue that there was no “reasonable understanding” that the image was to be kept private.
Along with the common features of the provincial laws addressing the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, some provinces have included some interesting additional provisions. The laws in Manitoba and Nova Scotia created support agencies. In Manitoba, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection is created to manage a tip-line to provide services to victims of any age. The Nova Scotia law created CyberScan, an agency which has been helping victims of cybercrime since 2013. In both provinces, these agencies provide information about negotiation, mediation, and restorative practices, and support people in removing intimate images.
Provincial Laws: Timeline
January 2016: Manitoba, The Intimate Image Protection Act
August 2017: Alberta, The Protecting Victims of Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images Act
July 2018: Nova Scotia: Intimate Images and Cyber-protection Act
September 2018: Saskatchewan: Privacy Act (amended)
November 2018: Newfoundland and Labrador, Intimate Images Protection Act
In addition, in Alberta, the Protecting Victims of Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images Act provides an extra element of protection by specifically allowing victims to remain anonymous during court proceedings. As well, in awarding damages for this offence courts in Alberta may also make an order prohibiting the publication of the name of any party to the action or any information likely to identify a party if keeping the party anonymous would be in the interests of justice.
Both Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador laws place ‘reverse onus’ on the defendant. This means that the intimate image is assumed to have been distributed without the consent of a subject, and the defendant must prove the opposite. Saskatchewan is also the first province to allow people to pursue a claim in Small Claims Court if they seek damages of less than $30,000.
These provincial laws represent at least the beginnings of a clear shift in recognizing the need to allow for civil action to address the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Although there is no legislation allowing for civil claims in Ontario, the courts have begun to recognize the need for civil claims to be brought. Beginning in 2016, the courts in Ontario have shown willingness to allow civil claims and award damages to people who have had their intimate images distributed without their permission.
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‘Religious rhetoric won’t help Egypt’s new head solve real problems’
25 Jun, 2012 10:04
Mohamed Morsi (C) (AFP Photo / STR) © AFP
President Morsi’s success as the new head of Egypt will depend on his ability to solve urgent problems rather then skills in political debate, says his former competitor Amre Moussa. That can only be achieved by keeping the country secular, he says.
The former presidential hopeful shared with RT his view on what he calls highjacking of Egypt’s revolution, its uncertain political future and the ongoing historic shifts in the Arab world in general.RT: Many people were surprised that you did not make it through to the second round of the recent presidential election. Why do you think you did not do as well as expected?Amr Moussa: I was among those who were astonished that I didn’t make it. But this is democracy: the results are not guaranteed, they are never guaranteed. But I am glad that the democratic process has really started. The elections were observed by international, Arab and civil society organizations in Egypt. I have my own reasons and I understand what happened, how things were managed in the last few days. But my concern is not this. My concern is that the democratic process should not be derailed. Especially at this stage where we are just starting. So I am glad that things went that way. It would have been much better had I been in the second round of the race, but it is immaterial compared to the process itself and the preservation of the initiative towards democracy.RT: The revolution failed. The revolution, in your words, was supposed to achieve democracy. Why do you think it was unable to sustain itself?AM: Because of so many mistakes. And the mistakes were committed by all parties to the Egyptian scene. You cannot accuse one party of monopolizing the mistakes. The Egyptian revolution was subjected to hijacking from the very first minute.The oneness of the goal to put an end to the former regime brought everybody together. It was not really observed, noticed, understood, that [there existed] forces other than the real forces of the revolution. Once the regime came to its end and the former president decided to abdicate, differences started. And many forces, especially from the right, attempted to speak on behalf of the revolution and to hijack it. And that was seen in many organizations and unions and parties, each of them claiming to represent the revolution. And they were talking past each other different political languages. RT: Could the revolution have worked? What was needed for it to achieve its goals?AM: I believe one party – one heavyweight – and clear goals. In order to be able to compete and get into the parliament and compete and get into the government. But the several voices, different logics, different emphases and the attempts to highjack it to the effect that they called the elected parliament a “parliament of the revolution”. That was a bit strange. The revolution was not a religious one. So the misconception, the misunderstanding, the misrepresentation of things…However, regardless of the absence of the actual presence of the revolution, the spirit of the revolution is still there. The feeling that this is a different time and different era and different philosophy and different goals – this spirit is still there. So I do not think that the Egyptian revolution was defeated. But it was definitely subjected to a lot of pressure: efforts to derail the revolution, efforts to finish off the revolution. But its spirit and the general feeling that we have already entered a different era is still there.RT: What does a Morsi win mean for Egypt? Are you concerned that Egypt will become a more Islamist state?AM: I believe there will be a lot of disagreement on that point. Egypt is not ready to be anything but a civil state. It means that the success or failure of President Morsi will be by what he would do to deal with the problems of Egypt rather than getting into political talk about the philosophy of the Muslim Brotherhood.RT: Are you concerned by the growing Islamist fundamentalism in the region?AM: No, why should I be concerned? The point is that this is a religion, not politics. Politics is something else. A government has to be civil. This is what I believe in. We live in the 21st century. We have problems in our country, in our region. We have to deal with them with all the means and ways that we see fit to deal with that. Religion is something else. We need a civil state. We need a modern constitution. And Egypt has always had a modern constitution starting with the 1923 constitution. Separation of authorities, independence of the judiciary power…The government has constitution as its sole reference – nothing else. Only the constitution. Independence of judiciary is so important and vital! Human rights and fundamental freedoms, rights of women – all those principles should be enshrined in addition to the non-discrimination or citizens, in addition to the basic nature or religion, that it has its role, but its role as defined in the constitution, nothing more.RT: But the military have made themselves responsible for writing the new constitution. Are you confident that the military will be able to give the people a constitution that they accept?AM: It’s not the military that are going to write the constitution. It’s the constitutional assembly that will have to write it; Constitutional assembly with the representation of all factions of our society. Nobody expects the military to write the constitution. The amendments of the constitutional declarations are all stop-gap arrangements. It is the construction that will rule Egypt.RT: But the military will choose the people who will write this constitution.AM: Well, until now we have a committee already in place of the constitutional assembly. It has some controversy around it. So we will see what kind of proposals the Supreme Council will come with. But many of us have their own opinions about it. So it will not be that the military would just appoint – they will sell it, they will consult, that’s what I expect.RT: You were head of the Arab League for a decade. How do you explain the Arab League’s stance on Syria, which has surprised many?AM: The situation in Syria is different from the situation in Libya. The Arab League played an important role in Libya in order to pave the way for change and to save civilians. It was supported by almost everybody. In Syria it is different because of the strategic situation. None of the countries surrounding Syria had a revolution. Libya had Egypt and Tunisia to the east and west – both in the state of revolution. So the neighborhood was already ready to support the revolution in Libya. As for Syria, many countries around it are really concerned that things would get out of hand.But this is the spirit of change. This is the era of change. And change is the name of the game. Forget the western expression “the Arab Spring” or any other expression of that kind. It is the spirit of change. Change is the name of the game. And change is the historical development. It is not just a sporadic thing. So it is a matter of time, in my opinion. Change will take place in Syria, especially after the bloodshed that happened there. You cannot get back to square one. It’s very difficult to get back to square one to be accepted.The powers differ on how to deal with Syria. Some put the blame on Russia. But I believe this is a lucky hanger. There is no western plan for Syria. There is a lot of hesitation, a lot of disharmony among the power on what to do with Syria. But the natural development of things will play its role. What happened cannot reach the point of going back to square one that easy. Don’t forget that this is the time for change, and change is the name of the game. And Syria is no exception.
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CIA had dozens of operatives in Benghazi during consulate attack
2 Aug, 2013 19:11
A picture shows the interior of the burnt US consulate building in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on September 13, 2012 following an attack on the building late on September 11 (AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia) © AFP
Dozens of CIA operatives were reportedly near the scene where US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed last September 11, and the agency has gone to great lengths to keep the operatives’ actions a secret.
In an exclusive report, CNN said there were as many as 35 Americans on the ground in Benghazi at the time of the attack, 21 of which were working in a building that is believed to be operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. What the operatives were doing there that day remains a mystery, and it appears that the agency is making an extensive effort to try to stop any more information leaks.
“You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation,” an unnamed source told CNN.
The controversial news has been a cause of concern for some who fear that the US government could have prevented the attack, and US. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) believes the CIA is hiding something major. Since January, the agency has extensively questioned its operatives and subjected staffers to more frequent polygraph tests. A source told CNN that the agency’s actions are an unprecedented attempt to prevent information about Benghazi from ever being leaked.
“I think it is a form of a cover-up, and I think it’s an attempt to push it under the rug, and I think the American people are feeling the same way,” Wolf said.
A source told the news agency that some CIA operatives who were involved in Libya have been subjected to frequent – and sometimes monthly – polygraph exams. CNN analyst Robert Baer said that this is unusual, since agency employees are typically subjected to lie-detector tests once every three to four years, and “never more than that.”
“If somebody is being polygraphed every month, or every two months it’s called an issue polygraph, and that means that the polygraph division suspects something, or they’re looking for something, or they’re on a fishing expedition,” he said. “But it’s absolutely not routine at all to be polygraphed monthly, or bi-monthly.”
The CIA is allegedly trying to find out if any of its employees or agents are talking to the media or members of Congress about what happened at Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, 2012. One insider says that doing so is risky, and could have far-reaching consequences.
“You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well,” the source said.
Dean Boyd, a CIA spokesman, has denied allegations that the agency is covering something up. He claims that CIA employees are always welcome to speak to members of Congress, and that the agency has shared “an extraordinary amount of information related to the attack on US facilities in Benghazi.”
But the information leaks present a different narrative, and questions remain unanswered about the number of Americans and CIA operatives who were at the scene at the time of the Benghazi attack. Wolf said in the days after Sept. 11, several sources with ties to the CIA demonstrated a willingness to share what they know with members of Congress. But now, there is nothing but silence from CIA operatives and contractors.
“Initially they were not afraid to come forward,” he said. “They wanted the opportunity, and they wanted to be subpoenaed, because if you’re subpoenaed, it sort of protects you, you’re forced to come before Congress. Now that’s all changed.”
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Elkem to cut jobs as part of two-year restructuring plan
European Rubber Journal Report
OSLO, Norway—Elkem S.A. is implementing a $17.6 million global restructuring plan to optimize efficiency and cost position.
The two-year global productivity improvement plan will streamline the organization, and is expected to save the company $307 million annually, Elkem said in a 3 March statement. While the savings mainly will be achieved through the planned reductions of personnel, the company said it was too early to estimate how many full-time jobs will be affected.
Priortization will given to reducing the number of contractors and to job cuts through attrition.
Elkem expects positive earnings contributions from the restructuring to be realized in early 2021, with "full potential" to be achieved from the end of 2021.
The Oslo-based supplier of silicones said the measures are being taken because it failed to meet profitability targets amid market uncertainties.
"Corrective actions are expected and needed," Elkem CEO Michael Koenig said, "our aim is to improve Elkem's profitability to fund future growth and specialization."
Elkem said it was in close dialogue with employee representatives to carry out the plan in compliance with local labor laws.
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About The Prince of Wales
Charitable work and interests
Supporting The Queen
Click here to visit the official website of The Prince of Wales.
While there is no formal constitutional role for the Heir to the Throne, The Prince of Wales seeks, with the support of his wife, The Duchess of Cornwall, to do all he can to make a difference for the better in the UK and internationally.
The way His Royal Highness does so can be divided into three parts: undertaking official Royal duties in support of Her Majesty The Queen and on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government, working as a charitable entrepreneur, by supporting charitable and civil causes which promote positive social and environmental outcomes and promoting and protecting national traditions, virtues and excellence.
The Prince of Wales, eldest son of The Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born at Buckingham Palace at 9.14pm on 14 November 1948. A month later, on 15 December, Charles Philip Arthur George was christened in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher.
The Prince's mother was proclaimed Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 25, when her father, King George VI, died aged 56 on 6 February 1952. On The Queen's accession to the throne, Prince Charles - as the Sovereign's eldest son - became heir apparent at the age of three.
The Prince, as Heir to the Throne, took on the traditional titles of The Duke of Cornwall under a charter of King Edward III in 1337; and, in the Scottish peerage, of Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland.
The Prince was four at his mother's Coronation, in Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953. Many who watched the Coronation have vivid memories of him seated between his widowed grandmother, now to be known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and his aunt, Princess Margaret.
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh decided that The Prince should go to school rather than have a tutor at the Palace. The Prince started at Hill House school in West London on 7 November 1956.
After 10 months, the young Prince became a boarder at Cheam School, a preparatory school in Berkshire. In 1958, while The Prince was at Cheam, The Queen created him The Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. The Prince was nine-years-old.
In April 1962 The Prince began his first term at Gordonstoun, a school near Elgin in Eastern Scotland which The Duke of Edinburgh had attended.
The Prince of Wales spent two terms in 1966 as an exchange student at Timbertop, a remote outpost of the Geelong Church of England Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia.
When he returned to Gordonstoun for his final year, The Prince of Wales was appointed school guardian (head boy). The Prince, who had already passed six O Levels, also took A Levels and was awarded a grade B in history and a C in French, together with a distinction in an optional special history paper in July 1967.
The Prince went to Cambridge University in 1967 to read archaeology and anthropology at Trinity College. He changed to history for the second part of his degree, and in 1970 was awarded a 2:2 degree.
Investiture and military career
His Royal Highness was invested as Prince of Wales by The Queen on 1 July 1969 in a colourful ceremony at Caernarfon Castle. Before the investiture The Prince had spent a term at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, learning to speak Welsh.
On 11 February 1970, His Royal Highness took his seat in the House of Lords.
On 8 March 1971 The Prince flew himself to Royal Air Force (RAF) Cranwell in Lincolnshire, to train as a jet pilot. At his own request, The Prince had received flying instruction from the RAF during his second year at Cambridge.
In September 1971 after the passing out parade at Cranwell, The Prince embarked on a naval career, following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and both his great-grandfathers.
The six-week course at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, was followed by service on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norfolk and two frigates.
The Prince qualified as a helicopter pilot in 1974 before joining 845 Naval Air Squadron, which operated from the Commando carrier HMS Hermes. On 9 February 1976, The Prince took command of the coastal minehunter HMS Bronington for his last nine months in the Navy.
Click here to find out more about The Prince of Wales's military career.
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Family and married life
On 29 July 1981, The Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral, who became HRH The Princess of Wales.
Lady Diana's father, then Viscount Althorp and later the eighth Earl Spencer, had been an equerry to both George VI and The Queen. Her maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a close friend and Lady-in-Waiting to The Queen Mother.
The Prince and Princess of Wales had two sons: Prince William, born on 21 June 1982; and Prince Harry, born on 15 September 1984.
From the time of their marriage, The Prince and Princess of Wales went on overseas tours and carried out many engagements together in the UK.
On 9 December 1992, The Prime Minister, John Major, announced to the House of Commons that The Prince and Princess of Wales had agreed to separate. The marriage was dissolved on 28 August 1996. The Princess was still regarded as a member of the Royal Family. She continued to live at Kensington Palace and to carry out her public work for a number of charities.
When The Princess was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997, The Prince of Wales flew to Paris with her two sisters to bring her body back to London. The Princess lay in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace until the night before the funeral.
On the day of the funeral, The Prince of Wales accompanied his two sons, aged 15 and 12 at the time, as they walked behind the coffin from The Mall to Westminster Abbey. With them were The Duke of Edinburgh and The Princess's brother, Earl Spencer.
The Prince of Wales asked the media to respect his sons' privacy, to allow them to lead a normal school life. In the following years, Princes William and Harry, who are now second and sixth in line to the throne, accompanied their father on a limited number of official engagements in the UK and abroad.
On 9 April 2005, The Prince of Wales and Mrs Parker Bowles were married in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor. After the wedding, Mrs Parker Bowles became known as HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall were joined by around 800 guests at a Service of Prayer and Dedication at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The Service was followed by a reception at Windsor Castle hosted by Her Majesty The Queen.
To find out more about The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, visit their official website here.
For more than 40 years The Prince of Wales has been a leader in identifying charitable need and setting up and driving forward charities to meet it. Through the years, His Royal Highness has developed a wide range of interests which are today reflected in The Prince of Wales's Charities, a group of not-for-profit organisations of which The Prince of Wales is Patron or President.
The organisations are active across a broad range of areas including education and young people, environmental sustainability, the built environment, responsible business and enterprise. The charities reflect The Prince of Wales's long-term and innovative perspective, and seek to address areas of previously unmet need.
The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund
Founded in 1979 and incorporated in 2008, The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation trading as The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund (PWCF) supports the charitable work of HRH The Prince of Wales.
The work of the Charitable Fund is two-fold:
A grant making body that supports a wide range of causes , the primary areas of interest being the built environment, responsible business and enterprise, young people and education, and global sustainability.
An incubator for initiatives and projects that fall within the Charitable Fund's primary areas of interest.
Find out more about the Charitable Fund and The Prince’s charitable work.
The Prince is Patron or President of over 400 charitable organisations. You can view the full list on His Royal Highness's website: https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/patronages
The private pursuits and interests of The Prince of Wales are as varied as his concerns - like the welfare of young people and the disadvantaged, music and the arts, the quality of our built environment and sustainability - to which he devotes his public life.
The Prince is a keen watercolourist and paints whenever his schedule allows. Lithographs of his paintings are sold and all proceeds go to The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund.
Wishing you all a very happy #BurnsNight! To celebrate, we’re sharing a watercolour, painted by The Prince of Wales, featuring the Scottish Royal residence, Balmoral Castle. You can also listen to a recording of HRH reading one of his favourite Robert Burns poems, 'My Heart's in the Highlands', by following the link in our bio.
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His Royal Highness enjoys gardening, especially in his organic garden at Highgrove. A keen advocate of traditional rural skills, The Prince enjoys hedgelaying and has hosted the National Hedgelaying Championships at Home Farm. He has also laid many of the hedges on Home Farm himself.
In pursuing some of his interests, The Prince is able to give support to organisations in the worlds of art, music and theatre - as he does in many other fields - through becoming Patron or President.
The Prince and The Duchess regularly attend theatre and opera performances and symphony concerts, sometimes as part of a fundraising event and sometimes in a private capacity.
Over the years His Royal Highness has taken part in many different sports including horse racing, scuba diving and sailing. Up until November 2005 The Prince raised money for charity by playing polo. He decided to retire from the game after playing it for over 40 years.
To find out more about The Prince of Wales, visit his official website here.
While there is no established constitutional role for The Heir to the Throne, The Prince seeks, with the support of his wife The Duchess of Cornwall, to do all he can to make a difference for the better in the United Kingdom and internationally.
#Repost @clarencehouse First look: As a year of 90th birthday celebrations draw to a close, we would like to share this special photo of The Prince and The Queen, taken earlier this year at Windsor Castle. 📸 @nick_knight
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The way in which His Royal Highness does so can, in simple terms, be divided into three parts:
1) Undertaking royal duties in support of The Queen
This involves Their Royal Highnesses supporting The Queen in her role as a focal point for national pride, unity and allegiance and in bringing people together across all sections of society, representing stability and continuity, highlighting achievement, and emphasising the importance of service and the voluntary sector by encouragement and example.
Find out more about The Prince's Royal Duties
The Prince of Wales today presided over an #Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Congratulations to all the recipients! Pictured: Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Wall MBE, Professor Usha Chakravarthy CBE and Alastair Cook CBE 📸 Press Association
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2) Working as a charitable entrepreneur
Inspired by HRH’s values of harmony and sustainability, The Prince of Wales's charities work to transform lives and build sustainable communities.
For over 40 years His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has been a leader in identifying charitable need and setting up and driving forward charities to meet it.
The Prince of Wales carries out dozens of engagements every year in support of his charities. Collectively The Prince of Wales's charities raise more than £100 million annually to support The Prince of Wales's charitable work in the UK and overseas.
Find out more about The Prince of Wales’s charities
3) Promoting and protecting national traditions, virtues and excellence
The Prince of Wales, together with his wife The Duchess of Cornwall, seeks to promote and protect, through their work, the country’s enduring traditions, virtues and excellence.
Among other things, His Royal Highness’s work involves highlighting achievements or issues that, without his support, might otherwise receive little exposure, supporting Britain’s rural communities, encouraging sustainable farming, and promoting tolerance and greater understanding between different faiths and communities.
Overseas visits:
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall are among the United Kingdom's most important ambassadors. Every year, Their Royal Highnesses travel abroad at the request of the British Government to further British diplomatic interests, raise the UK’s profile in the country visited and promote British excellence.
It has been a wonderful three days for The Prince and The Duchess on the #RoyalVisitGreece. Thank you for the warm welcome 🇬🇷 Ήταν τρεις καταπληκτικές ημέρες στην Ελλάδα στο πλαίσιο της επίσημης επίσκεψης. Σας ευχαριστούμε πολύ!
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These overseas visits enable The Prince to familiarise himself with a wide range of international issues and to meet many Heads of State and senior officials. His Royal Highness often represents The Queen at overseas events, such as state funerals.
The Prince tries to find ways for The Prince of Wales's Charities, most of which His Royal Highness has established himself, to work for the benefit of the international community and often visits projects set up by his own charities during overseas visits. For example, The Prince has recently set up Prince’s Trust International.
The Prince of Wales has been a proud supporter of the Commonwealth for more than four decades and helps to maintain the Royal Family's strong connection to member countries through official visits, military links and charitable activities.
His Royal Highness has visited 45 of 54 Commonwealth countries to date, many of them on several occasions. Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has accompanied The Prince on the majority of Commonwealth visits since their marriage in 2005.
During the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2018, The Prince of Wales was unanimously voted to be the next Head of the Commonwealth.
Their Royal Highnesses will be visiting Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo in March on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government. The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the region to celebrate peace, reconciliation, youth empowerment and restoration. This photo was taken during The Prince’s first official visit in 1978 and he’ll be returning this March for his ninth visit to the region. You can find out more about the engagements Their Royal Highnesses are undertaking and further details about the tour by following the link in our bio.
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Friends of Letheringsett Mill
Website: www.letheringsettmillfriends.co.uk
Group of supporters aimed at protecting Letheringsett Mill
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
The Prince of Wales, Honorary Member
Fundacion Amistad Britanico-Mexicana
Charity offering education and improved healthcare to needy people in Mexico.
Region: Rest of world
The Prince of Wales, Patron
Garden Organic
Website: www.gardenorganic.org.uk
Membership organisation dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening and food.
Region: UK-wide
Garrick Club
Website: www.garrickclub.co.uk
Private members' club in London.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Patron
The Prince of Wales, Member
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Website: www.glamorgancricket.com
Welsh cricket club.
Region: UK (Wales)
Website: www.gsa.ac.uk
Art school in central Glasgow.
Region: UK (Scotland)
Guinness Partnership
Website: www.guinnesstrust.org.uk
Charitable housing association providing providing good quality, affordable homes.
Health and Hope UK
Website: www.healthandhope.org
helps village communities run health care and education programmes in and around Chin State, Myanmar
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Website: www.hmd.org.uk
Annual event held to uphold the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Hospice at Home West Cumbria
Website: www.westcumbriahospiceathome.org.uk
Provides nursing and counselling care at home for patients with a life-threatening illness.
Without employers committed to changing attitudes, we would be pushing a rock uphill – but, with you, we can and will change the way we think about mental health in this nation.
A speech by The Duke of Cambridge at the Heads Together Unilever Conference
Prince Harry and The Countess of Wessex attend the ICAP Charity Day
You have not only faced challenges but you've had the resilience to overcome them. You have also, in your willingness to have open conversations, become young mental health pioneers.
A speech by The Duchess of Cambridge at the Place2Be Awards
The Duchess of Cambridge to attend child mental health awards
Investitures
The Countess of Wessex visits Portesbury School
The Earl celebrates the 60th anniversary of the National Youth Theatre
The Prince of Wales attends the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards
Prince Harry visits Nottingham
The Princess Royal celebrates 30 years of St John Ambulance Cadets
To us, mental health first aid means getting in there early to support people, before what they're going through becomes more serious or even clinical.
A speech by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry for Heads Together on World Mental Health Day
A speech delivered by The Duke of Cambridge at the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Gala Dinner in aid of SkillForce
We have a big vision for Coach Core and want to make it possible for young people all over the country to take part in this programme.
A speech by Prince Harry as the Coach Core apprenticeship scheme celebrates its nationwide expansion
Prince Harry celebrates the nationwide expansion of the Coach Core programme
I would like to congratulate all of tonight’s winners again, well done and thank you for inspiring all of us with your strength, positivity and selflessness.
A speech by Prince Harry at the Wellchild Awards, 2016
The Duchess of Cambridge to Attend a Roundtable Seminar on Addiction & Mental Health Problems within Family
The Duchess of Gloucester supports therapy for babies with cerebral palsy
Princess Alexandra meets patients at Royal Trinity Hospice
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visit community projects in Cornwall
The Countess of Wessex attends the St John Ambulance Everyday Heroes Awards
I hope that this excellent series of podcasts by the Anna Freud Centre will go some way to help families overcome that fear of what happens next if they look for professional support
The Duchess of Cambridge's message of support for the Anna Freud mental health podcast series
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visit Northern Ireland
The Countess visits the New Forest and Hampshire County Show
The Prince of Wales visits a Prince’s Trust centre and the Penny Brohn National Centre in Bristol
We cannot lose a sense of urgency, because despite all the progress we have made, HIV remains among the most pressing and urgent of global challenges
A speech by Prince Harry at the International AIDS Conference in Durban
The Duke of Kent visits Old Tree Nursery
Prince Harry hosts Heads Together BBQ with sports stars and those who have supported them through tough times
We must follow the example of the young people of Lesotho, and meet one of the great challenges of our generation with optimism, energy, and openness.
Prince Harry's speech at the Sentebale Concert, Kensington Palace
Princess Alexandra visits Brixton Market to see new children's charity initiative
Prince Harry to begin new focus on fight against HIV/AIDS
I believe that, by your coming together creatively and openly to tackle bullying, you will be creating an enduring model for how the Internet should progress into the next stage of its development.
A speech by The Duke of Cambridge at the Founders Forum 2016
Hackney Children's Choir perform for The Duchess of Gloucester
Leading Technology companies join The Royal Foundation Taskforce on the Prevention of Cyberbullying
Prince Harry visits Double Jab Boxing Club
The Duke of Gloucester supports St John Ambulance in Hong Kong
Princess Alexandra praises Shoreham air crash doctors
Princess Alexandra visits the Clink Restaurant, HMP Brixton
Prince Harry's charity Sentebale to host music concert in Kensington Palace Gardens with Coldplay on 28 June
The Prince of Wales hosts a Garden Party to mark 40 years of The Prince’s Trust
Launch of #HeadsTogether campaign
The Countess of Wessex's DofE challenge
We are confident that, in partnership with others and by maximising our use of the new centre, we will provide 1 million hours of support to children and young people living with HIV and AIDS across the region by 2020
Prince Harry's speech at the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup, Florida
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