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At the Will of the Body (Paperback)
Reflections on Illness
By Arthur W. Frank
Mariner Books, 9780618219292, 176pp.
In this deeply affecting memoir, Arthur W. Frank explores the events of illness from within: the transformation from person to patient, the pain, the wonder,and the ceremony of recovery. To illuminate what illness can teach us about life, Frank draws upon his own encounters with serious illness -- a heart attack at age thirty-nine and, a year later, a diagnosis of cancer. In poignant and clear prose, he offers brilliant insights into what happens when our bodies and emotions are pushed to extremes. Ultimately, he examines what it means to be human.
Arthur W. Frank received the Natalie Davis Spingarn Writer’s Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship in 1996. He teaches at the University of Calgary.
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Hot Rod Additional How To
GPS Tracking Secuirty System – The GPS Snitch
Written by Steven Rupp on October 4, 2007
It’s 2007, and by now many expected us to have warp engines and flying cars. While those predictions from old sci-fi movies haven’t panned out, the 21st century is still delivering some cool technology. For instance, take that constellation of satellites known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Originally launched by the military to track troops and aim bombs with pinpoint accuracy, it’s now used for myriad purposes, including knowing where your musclecar is located.
Once a thief makes off with your car, it’s highly unlikely you’ll ever see it again. Let’s face it, there are a million places they could take it and the cops are just too busy to search them all. To you, it’s your pride and joy, but to the rest of the world, it’s just a car. If you want to avoid being a victim, you need to take matters into your own hands. Alarms, steering wheel locks, and kill switches stop the amateur thief, and at best, slow down the pros, but once they have the car in their possession, those gadgets are useless. Enter the GPS Snitch, a miracle of modern technology that won’t stop someone from taking your ride, but will greatly increase your chances of getting it back.
The GPS Snitch is a mix of GPS and cellular technology that is designed to be easily hidden in a car or anything else you want to track. This allows the Snitch to provide real-time position tracking over the Internet. Log onto its Web site from a computer or Web-enabled cell phone, and you can see exactly where on the globe the unit is. We asked Yves Carrier of Blackline GPS (the makers of the Snitch) how the tracking process works. He explains: “Whenever your Snitch is online, you can request its location at any time because it’s a track-on-demand product. Once the ‘locate’ button is pressed, our computers generate a wireless communication with a customer’s Snitch, requesting its GPS location. The GPS Snitch will then calculate its position and send this information back wirelessly to our computers so that we can show the information in your GPS Snitch account.” All of this happens in just a few seconds, and seconds count when someone is making off with your ride. In addition to location, the system also provides altitude, ground speed, and heading.
The Snitch is also small, about the size of a deck of cards. This gives great flexibility where you can stash it in your car. Inside this compact package is a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, a GSM cellular system, a rechargeable battery, a motion sensor, and a circuit board to control it all. The battery can power the Snitch for up to seven days, so once charged, you can simply turn it on, arm it, and hide it in your car. The company also offers a hardwire kit ($14.99) that lets you continuously charge the unit off your car’s electrical system. If a scumbag steals your ride and disconnects the car’s battery, the Snitch will still rat him out for up to a week. Given the portable nature of the Snitch, you can easily move it from car to car, hiding it virtually anywhere.
At times, you may elect to turn on the unit’s perimeter alert function; the unit will automatically track the Snitch every five minutes for two hours in the event your car moves. In this mode, you’ll have a record of where your car has been, even if you can’t get online right away to track it. It will cost you 24 “tracking credits” (about $1.20), so make sure you disarm this function before you go for a cruise.
Tracking The Snitch
Inside the Snitch is a mechanical motion sensor. If the Snitch (or your car) shakes, the unit will send a “motion alert” to your e-mail. Once the Snitch detects movement, it automatically sets up a GPS perimeter around itself. If the Snitch leaves this security perimeter, a second alert message is sent to you to tell you that your car is on the move. This alert can be sent to two e-mail addresses and text messaged to two cell phones. According to Blackline GPS, the Snitch knows the difference between a simple vibration and actual movement. We took the Fairlane-with the Snitch in it-to lunch. Sure enough, once the Fairlane moved outside the pre-set perimeter, it was tracked every five minutes for two hours. It even caught me heading back to the office. [Steve, we need to talk about those two-hour lunches.-ed.]
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Justia Lawyer Directory Family Law North Carolina Cornelius Attorneys
Cornelius, North Carolina Family Lawyers
Pete McArdle
North Carolina Family Law Lawyer with 24 years experience
Mr. McArdle has lived in Charlotte since 1979. He attended Saint Gabriel Catholic School and Charlotte Catholic High School. Mr. McArdle continued his education at the University of North Carolina. At Chapel Hill, he... Read More »
Courtney L. Carter
North Carolina Family Law Lawyer
Courtney Carter is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but has resided in the Charlotte area since 2011. Prior to relocating to Charlotte, Courtney pursued her undergraduate degree at Kent State University. She... Read More »
Ashley A. Crowder Esq.
Experienced and Dedicated Family Law Attorney! Problem Solving for Families!
I am committed to skillfully guiding clients through family legal matters. I provide zealous advocacy to fight for your family’s rights and interests! Visit my website for more information and call for a consultation. Read More »
Angela McIlveen
North Carolina Family Law Attorney with 12 years experience
Angela McIlveen is the CEO and Co-Founder of McIlveen Family Law Firm. The first thing you will notice when you meet Angela McIlveen is that she genuinely cares about her clients and the clients of the Firm. Maybe... Read More »
Denise Anderson
Cornelius, NC Family Law Lawyer
(984) 244-1145 19109 W. Catawba Avenue, Suite 200
Family, Divorce, Immigration and Medical Malpractice
Charlotte School of Law
Attorney Anderson is a passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated attorney who stands with her clients every step of the way. After spending over a decade in the health care industry, that experience coupled with her experience as an attorney has positioned her to deliver unparalleled service to her clients. Her experience allows her to seamlessly analyze medical records and apply the law to determine the validity of medical malpractice cases, nursing home abuse cases, and personal injury cases.
Attorney Anderson also focuses on Immigration cases. Immigration law is not just a professional choice; it is a calling. As an immigrant,...
Nicole Vandiver Bryan
(704) 892-9355 18809 W Catawba Ave
Family, Business, Divorce and Estate Planning
Martin Brennan Jr
(704) 896-6441 17115 Kenton Dr
Jesse Creed Jones
Cornelius, NC Family Law Attorney with 42 years experience
Christopher Adkins
HUNTERSVILLE, NC Family Law Lawyer
(704) 274-5677 9620 Sherrill Estates Rd
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Estate Planning
Practice Area Breakdown:
80% Family Law - separation, divorce, child custody, child support, spousal support, equitable distribution
20% Estate Planning - wills, living wills, trusts, power of attorneys
I am a native of Charlotte and graduated from Myers Park High School. After college and law school, I moved back to Charlotte and served as a police officer, and as an officer in the N.C. Army National Guard. I focus my law practice primarily on family law and estate planning.
I live in Huntersville with my wife and our four children. We both have children from previous relationships, and one child together. I thoroughly...
Lyn Morton Batty
Davidson, NC Family Law Lawyer
(704) 255-6209 228 Caldwell Lane Suite B
Davidson, NC 28036
Family and Arbitration & Mediation
David Self
Huntersville, NC Family Law Lawyer with 11 years experience
(980) 441-1110 112 South Old Statesville Road
After graduating from law school, I knew that I wanted to help families in the community where I grew up. I knew I didn’t want to fight for corporations. I knew I didn’t want to work far away from family and friends. That is the reason why I have been helping families in Charlotte and the surrounding area since the day I started practicing law.
Dustin S. McCrary
Mooresville, NC Family Law Lawyer with 9 years experience
(704) 593-6688 181 N Main St
Family, Criminal, DWI and Divorce
Divorce is tough. There’s no way around it. Divorce is stressful, intensely emotional, and overwhelming. It is the perfect storm of problems, from determining child custody arrangements, divvying up assets, and untangling previously tangled lives.
There’s where I come in. I’m Dustin McCrary, a divorce lawyer focusing on the needs of divorce and separation, child custody, child support, alimony and spousal support, property distribution, and domestic violence. And I’m here to help.
My clients would tell you that I have the natural ability to put them at ease. I have a calming presence and genuinely care about every person I meet. I’m...
Andrew Wingo
Mooresville, NC Family Law Attorney with 21 years experience
(704) 457-1073 330 S Main St
Family, Business, Criminal and Divorce
Campbell Law School
Andrew J. Wingo graduated from Norman A. Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University with his J.D. in 1998. He has nearly two decades of legal experience in the areas of commercial real estate, business law, criminal law, personal injury, and domestic/family law. A true trial attorney, Andrew has effectively litigated cases across state and federal courts for his clients. He is aggressive when protecting his clients and bold when asserting their rights. Andrew is licensed to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Vicki Booth Webb
Mooresville, NC Family Law Attorney
(704) 230-2332 181 N. Main St.
Family, DWI, Divorce and Juvenile
Vicki Webb is a native of North Carolina. She graduated from NC State University with a B.S. in Statistics. Knowing she wanted to work with people more than numbers and with a desire to make a difference in the world, she chose to pursue law. She saw a chance to broaden her horizons and view of the world when she was accepted to California Western School of Law in San Diego.
During law school, Vicki founded the Family Law Society at CWSL. She was chosen to participate in the year long Child Abuse Interdisciplinary Program, an intense...
Kenneth R. Harris Jr.
Duke University School of LawNorth Carolina
Ronnie D. Crisco Jr., Esq.
Experienced & Skilled Attorney! Exceptional Family Law Representation! Call Now!
I provide dedicated and determined legal advocacy in all phases of family law. I am committed to fighting for the rights and interests of my clients! Visit my website for more information or call for a consultation. Read More »
Mike Godley
Mooresville, NC Family Law Lawyer with 33 years experience
(704) 663-1600 514 Williamson Rd
Mike Godley has practiced family law in Mooresville, North Carolina for 31 years. Family law deals with issues concerning the break up of a marriage such as divorce, custody of children, child support, spousal support and division of property. Family law also involves issues prior to marriage such as prenuptial agreements and issues after marriage such as separation agreements.
Mike serves his clients as an educator, adviser and advocate through the legal system, which can often be very confusing, frustrating, and time-consuming without a guide to help through the process.
Mike Godley is also a mediator who helps parties and their...
Jacqueline Marie Druar
Mooresville, NC Family Law Lawyer
Family, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Estate Planning
Stephanie Marie Killian
Mooresville, NC Family Law Attorney with 6 years experience
(704) 457-1073 330 S Main St.
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Entertainment & Sports
Kelli Y Allen
Charlotte, NC Family Law Attorney with 8 years experience
(704) 727-4900 10150 Mallard Creek Rd. Suite 105
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Immigration
The Law Office of Kelli Y. Allen provides personalized, professional legal and mediation services.
Kelli represents immigration clients worldwide. Her immigration law practice focuses on family-based visas, adjustment of status, consular processing, unlawful presence waivers, naturalization, DACA, U-visas, removal of conditions, and some non-immigrant employment visas. Kelli is a member of the American Immigration Lawyer's Association and previously clerked with the Charlotte Immigration Court.
Our North Carolina elder law practice consists of long-term care planning, asset protection, establishing long-term care Medicaid eligibility without having to "spend down", preparation and submission of NC long-term care Medicaid applications, and representation before the...
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Charlotte, NC Family Law Attorney with 14 years experience
(704) 370-2828 200 N McDowell St
Born and raised in Kannapolis, North Carolina, Ronnie Crisco is a proud alumnus of A.L. Brown High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a degree in Public Policy Studies. In 2002, he received his law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005. While in law school, Mr. Crisco competed nationally as a member of the UNC Mock Trial Team, assisted indigent clients through the UNC Civil Legal Assistance Clinic, and served as editor on the UNC Journal of Law and Technology.
Mr. Crisco is a Board Certified Specialist in Family...
Joshua W Goodman
Charlotte, NC Family Law Lawyer with 6 years experience
(980) 819-0021 301 South McDowell Street, Suite 506
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
Growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina I learned to focus my energy on finding a solution rather than worrying about the problem. This mindset inevitably led me to my profession as an attorney. I graduated from the University of South Carolina with a business degree in Economics. I immediately began work in the financial field helping people navigate the world of small business loans. The following year I received the Fourth Ward Scholarship to attend Charlotte School of Law. While attending Charlotte School of Law I had the opportunity to gain valuable experience through internships with the Mecklenburg...
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(877) 351-1513 400 S Tryon St.
Family, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Angela McIlveen is the CEO and Co-Founder of McIlveen Family Law Firm.
The first thing you will notice when you meet Angela McIlveen is that she genuinely cares about her clients and the clients of the Firm.
Maybe it’s because she remembers going through her parents’ nasty divorce when she was 6 years old. Angela knows that her parents' divorce impacted her life. Angela McIlveen remembers growing up with her dad when kids didn’t grow up with their fathers and she says it definitely shaped her life. In case you are wondering, no her mom wasn’t a bad person. Her...
David A. Concha
Charlotte, NC Family Law Lawyer with 18 years experience
(704) 525-8824 725 E Trade St
Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Divorce and Workers' Comp
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
My main area of practice is Immigration Law. I am the son of Immigrants. However, I also, handle uncontested divorce, criminal defense for most misdemeanors, name changes and legitimation, personal injury and workers compensation.
Kenneth Love
(888) 465-1891 324 Rensselaer Avenue
Family, Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Defense
University of Cincinnati College of Law
I am originally from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from North Carolina Central University in 2003 with a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Psychology. I obtained my Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2006. I than began work with Legal Aid of North Carolina. While at Legal Aid, I served as a staff attorney representing clients in housing, employment, education, and consumer matters. I also served as the director of Legal Aid’s statewide Bankruptcy team. In October of 2011, I began work with Mike Lewis Attorneys. There...
Matthew Arnold Esq.
Family, Business, Divorce and Personal Injury
Mr. Arnold is an experienced trial attorney who has tried bench and jury trials in both North Carolina District Court and North Carolina Superior Court and has argued cases in front of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the North Carolina Supreme Court, and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA. Mr. Arnold grew up in Charlotte, and attended Carmel Junior High, South Charlotte Middle, and graduated from Providence Senior High School. Mr. Arnold earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology graduating cum laude from Belmont Abbey College where he received a basketball scholarship and played varsity basketball...
Joseph Ittoop
North Carolina Family Law Attorney
Mr. Joseph Ittoop primarily concentrates his practice in the areas of Immigration and Family Law. As a Charlotte-native, he has had the unique perspective of watching our city grow from rural farmlands to a booming,... Read More »
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Ben Tobey Esq.
North Carolina Central University School of LawNorth Carolina
Jason David Witt
(704) 493-6851 301 S. McDowell St, Suite 1014
Cameron Brown Building
Family, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Divorce
Wake Forest University School of Law
Was born and raised in Charlotte, NC.
Ketan Soni
(704) 375-8488 1001 Morehead Square Drive
I represent clients going through divorce and family law issues, including separation agreements and prenuptial/premarital agreements, alimony, equitable distribution, child support and custody. I mediate cases for spouses that cannot reach a resolution on their own. My divorce practice across North Carolina gives me a wide range of experience on how judges rule.
I created a free downloadable North Carolina Child Support Calculator which reflects North Carolina's statutes. This can be found at http://hullandchandler.com/child-support-calculator
Other attorneys also hire me to mediate their clients' disputes prior to going to court. I advance the practice and knowledge of law for my colleagues...
Jeremey Poindexter
(704) 334-7897 301 South McDowell Street
Jeremey Poindexter has been practicing law in the Upstate for more than 11 years. He has focused the majority of his practice on family law. He has handled a full range of family law cases including simple divorces, complex high net-worth divorces, custody actions, grandparents’ rights cases, DSS cases, and termination of parental rights cases. He is married to his wife, Katie, and they have two children, Calvin and Adia.
When Calvin was born, he was diagnosed with Down syndrome. This has led Jeremey to focus much of charity work on issues dealing with disabilities. He has served on the...
Danica Lynn Little
(704) 343-5633 11220 Elm Lane, Suite 200
Family, Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
Florida State University College of Law
Charlotte Wills, Trusts, Probate Law, Estate Planning; Guardianships, Elder Law, Special Needs Planning, Asset Protection; Business Succession Planning; Estate, Gift and Income Taxation; Estate Administration; Business Law Mecklenburg County (Member, Tax Section) and North Carolina (Citizen-Lawyer Task Force) Bar Associations; South Carolina Bar (Member, Tax Section); Charlotte Women's Bar Association (Board Member; Secretary; Treasurer; Vice President; President, Past Chair); American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (Member, Taxation Committee); Institute of Management Accountants; Charlotte Christian Chamber; Women's Initiative Network, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Western and Central North Carolina; Carolina Foster Kids Foundation Director. Order of the...
Ms. Crowder focuses her practice on family law cases: divorce, child custody, child support, alimony and equitable distribution and other matrimonial law matters. Ms. Crowder is interested in working with families especially in custody matters where the family can work together as a team to develop the best outcome for the children.
Mr. McArdle has lived in Charlotte since 1979. He attended Saint Gabriel Catholic School and Charlotte Catholic High School. Mr. McArdle continued his education at the University of North Carolina. At Chapel Hill, he played on the Junior Varsity Basketball Team and served on the UNC Supreme Court. He also received recognition for being an All-ACC Student Athlete. After graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Political Science, Mr. McArdle attended law school at Campbell University. Mr. McArdle returned to Charlotte in 1995 and has been representing clients in Charlotte and the surrounding Charlotte region since. In 2015 he became...
Jennifer Harrington
301 S. McDowell Street
Washington & Lee University
My passion is family law. It is what drove me to become a lawyer, motivated me through law school, and gets me excited to start my day. Family law has always been a part of my life, in experience, study, and practice. A childhood spent in and out of domestic court piqued my interest in the different elements of such a complex and human-driven area of the law. Conrad, Trosch & Kemmy is my home in Charlotte. My goal is to make every client feel heard in a situation where communication may have broken down. I will vigorously...
Valerie M. Hein Hunter
(704) 412-1442 10130 Mallard Creek Rd
Valerie grew up in Alabama and obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. During her undergraduate studies, Valerie became interested in the study and practice of law. She went on to attend the Charlotte School of Law, where she served as the president of the Trial Advocacy Board and had the opportunity to try cases in front of attorneys and judges across the country. Valerie has furthered her experience in the practice of law through her work with the nationally recognized Cochran Firm; and she has gained perspective from the bench by clerking...
Shawna D. Collins
(704) 289-3250 301 S. McDowell Street
11th Floor, Suite 1107
Family, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Dealing with family law issues can be overwhelming—especially if you are looking to file for divorce. The Collins Family Law Group is a law firm committed to helping individuals file for divorce and find solutions for their other family law matters. The team has over 85+ years combined legal experience, and has the ability to take on even the most complicated cases. If you are about to file for divorce, the team can assist you; regardless of if your situation calls for mediation, negotiation, or litigation. The team understands how difficult and emotionally draining it can be to file for...
Charlotte, NC Family Law Lawyer
Experienced Family Attorney! Aggressive and Skilled Advocacy!
I am dedicated to advocating for the rights and interests of families. I will work tirelessly to help you receive the best possible outcomes! Visit my website for client reviews and results. Read More »
Alyssa M. Levine Esq.
Family, Divorce and Personal Injury
Sean McIlveen
(877) 351-1513 400 S Tryon St Suite 950
University of Houston - Main Campus
Sean McIlveen is a Partner Attorney and Co-Founder of McIlveen Family Law Firm.
When Sean McIlveen is not in the courtroom, he spends his time building custom furniture. Sean grew up in Gastonia, N.C. and graduated from UNC-Charlotte with a degree in B.A. He attended Wake Forest University School of Law and graduated from the University of Houston with his J.D.
Sean McIlveen is also the author of two books on child custody and he is often asked to speak at events. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the Gaston County Bar Association. Sean...
Eric S Meredith
In developing my philosophy in how I practice law, I realized from the beginning that people are coming to me because they need help and they trust me to help them in their time of need. I enjoy doing what I do because it provides me with an opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. Quick Facts about Eric Eric is a scratch golfer. Eric is an avid University of Tennessee football fan.
Kent State University and Charlotte School of Law
Courtney Carter is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but has resided in the Charlotte area since 2011. Prior to relocating to Charlotte, Courtney pursued her undergraduate degree at Kent State University. She graduated with her Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Management with a focus of Pre-Law in three years. During her time at Kent State University, Courtney had the opportunity to perform an internship with one of Pennsylvania’s State Senators. During Courtney’s time with the Senator’s office, she was able to assist constituents with government assistance programs, as well as organize events for children, veterans and senior citizens.
While in law...
Ronald Skufca
(704) 376-3030 1514 South Church St., Ste 101
Family, Business, Construction and Divorce
Ron is the founder of Skufca Law and leads the firm’s litigation group representing businesses and individuals in the areas of business, construction, motorsports, and family law. He has substantial experience in the construction industry, NASCAR, and advising a wide range of businesses in all aspects of their legal issues. Ron currently serves as outside general counsel to several of his long-time business clients while continuing to work with individuals starting their own business or to resolve disputes that may arise. Ron is dedicated to helping both new and longtime business owners in a cost effective and efficient manner. Some...
Megan Powell
(877) 462-3841 2412 Arty Ave
Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal, Divorce and Domestic Violence
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(980) 272-8438 725 East Trade Street, Suite 215
Charlotte, NC Family Law Attorney with 1 year experience
Family, Divorce and Immigration
Mr. Joseph Ittoop primarily concentrates his practice in the areas of Immigration and Family Law.
As a Charlotte-native, he has had the unique perspective of watching our city grow from rural farmlands to a booming, urban landscape.
Mr. Ittoop is a detail-focused professional who strives to advocate to his fullest ability for all of his clients. He is a strong believer in treating others as he would like to be treated and lets that philosophy shine through his work. It is his goal to create practical legal solutions which give his clients peace of mind.
Joseph resides in Charlotte with...
Anastasia Cowan
Charlotte, NC Family Law Attorney
Family, Criminal and Juvenile
Anastasia Cowan pursued her undergraduate degree at Ohio State University. She was a resident advisor, a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society, and a member of the Women’s Glee Club.
Chris Beddow
University of South Carolina School of Law
Erik Ashman Esq.
Mr. Erik Ashman’s practice primarily caters to cases involving divorce, child custody / visitation, child support, domestic violence protective orders, adoption, separation agreements, pre-nuptial agreements,... Read More »
Anastasia Cowan pursued her undergraduate degree at Ohio State University. She was a resident advisor, a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society, and a member of the Women’s Glee Club. Read More »
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Dealing with family law issues?
Family law generally concerns domestic relations and family-related matters such as marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, adoptions, paternity, guardianships, domestic abuse, surrogacy, child custody, child abduction, the dissolution of marriage and associated issues. Each state has its own set of family laws, and traveling across state borders can sometimes affect your rights and those of your family.
Contrary to popular belief, seeking the advice of a family law attorney does not necessarily mean that something is amiss in your family. A family law attorney can help negotiate prenuptial/premarital agreements for clients in anticipation of marriage or advise same-sex couples on relevant legal issues affecting their relationship. They also can help with adoption proceedings and other procedures involving children.
Family law attorneys often do represent clients seeking a divorce, annulment or legal separation, and the complicated issues that can arise as a result. Although domestic abuse is a criminal offense, some family law attorneys are skilled at handling these situations, as they are often entangled with other family law issues.
Some jurisdictions certify lawyers as family law specialists, which means these attorneys have met the certifying body's minimum requirements for education, experience, and examination.
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“People may drive by us and they know we are in the community and now they know that we are also of the community,” said university President Ron Slepitza. “It (the sign) is also a message back to the community that we are open and engaged with the community.”
School officials have designated 2012 the year the Catholic university makes its mark in the community where it has been located since 1965, when the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet opened its doors on Wornall Road.
In the decade since Avila College became Avila University in 2001, the school has been adding athletic programs and facilities, renovating existing space to make it more modern and constructing residential halls to accommodate a growing student population. More than 1,800 students were enrolled in the fall.
In the last two years, $13.5 million has been spent on renovations and new construction.
“We are doing more this year and next year on this campus than has been done in the last 50 years,” Slepitza said. “What we are doing is trying to put Avila on the map in a way that it hasn’t been before.”
Consider that until this year Avila’s athletic fields were in no shape to be host for competitions, so football games and soccer matches had to be played at rental facilities off campus. But the campus has seen so much growth, including new turf and bleachers and hillside seating, that for the first time in the school’s history it could hold all of its homecoming events on campus.
And when the fields are not occupied by university teams, they are used by high schools, community leagues and neighborhood runners and walkers, said Bob Luder, university spokesman. Mabee Fieldhouse was renovated and expanded with an addition called the Pavilion that has a second full-size court.
University administrators are especially proud of Thompson Hall, a dorm with four-bedroom suites.
Up the hill from Thompson, and inside the student center, is the new dining hall. The old cafeteria-style dining space was gutted and redesigned into a purple and gold lounge/eatery/computer cafe.
The renovations have transformed the dining hall. “After dining hours it becomes a central gathering place for students to meet and study,” Luder said.
If you hang around the campus, “you see more people walking dogs and sitting out by the fountains here,” he said. “People say, ‘This is our campus.’ ”
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About - Staff Member - Jennie Westbrook Courts
Jennie Westbrook Courts
Vice President, External Affairs
Jennie Westbrook Courts is the vice president, external affairs at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), where she leads ITI’s communications efforts for media, members, and digital outreach.
Westbrook Courts previously worked at the communications firms Precision Strategies and Subject Matter, where she guided message development, media relations, and crisis communications for associations, corporations, and non-profits. Prior to that, Jennie served as the communications director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under Tom Carper (D-Del.) and as the press secretary for Sen. Carper’s personal office. Jennie is from Newark, Delaware and earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University.
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“I remember riding with Steve in my helicopter to view potential sites for Rainforest Cafe. I knew Steve was on to something great, and I also knew he had the tenacity to get it done. His story is not only compelling, it’s fun, inspiring and full of sound business advice.”
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"It's a Jungle in There is an easy to read book that imparts wisdom on the art of how to turn 'no' into 'yes'. This book should be required reading for all entrepreneurs at any stage of their career.”
Former President, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Chrysler Corporation and also best selling author
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“It’s A Jungle In There” may be my favorite how to business book I have ever read! Steve and I first met when he contacted me about forming a partnership with “Build-A-Bear” to create “Build-A-Dino” for the T-Rex brand. It was the first time I ever considered forming such a partnership but Steve’s passion, enthusiasm, along with a brilliant retail strategy convinced me to give it a chance. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to learn how to get in the game and win and have fun doing it!”
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Biscuits win as Suns falter in 11th
Jeff Elliott
The Jacksonville Suns allowed six runs in the top of the 11th inning in an 8-2 loss to the Montgomery Biscuits in front of 5,827 at the Baseball Grounds on Saturday night.
It was the third consecutive loss to the first-place Biscuits (16-7) after Jacksonville (10-13) had won four of five games against Pensacola to start a 10-game homestand.
Suns starting pitcher Angel Sanchez lost his bid to pick up his first win of the season after dropping his first four starts. Sanchez went 6 1/3 innings in his longest and most effective outing thus far. In two of his losses, Sanchez allowed a total of three earned runs in a pair of six-inning efforts against Birmingham and Chattanooga.
He escaped unscathed twice when the Biscuits loaded the bases. The second time came in the fifth inning when, with one out, Sanchez induced a 4-6-3 double-play ball. The 24-year-old right-hander from the Dominican Republic allowed at least one base runner in five of his seven innings that he pitched in.
The Suns bullpen has struggled during the team's homestand. It has now allowed at least one earned run in six of the eight games in the current home stand. Five times, it permitted three runs or more.
The cumulative figures weren't impressive.
In 18 2/3 innings of work in the eight home games, Suns relievers allowed 34 hits and 22 runs, 14 of which were earned, resulting in a 9.00 ERA. James Nygren had been one of the few bright spots in three appearances. He allowed just three hits in five scoreless innings.
But Saturday, after relieving Sanchez with two runners on base, he allowed a bunt single and a two-run single that tied the score before retiring the next two batters.
In the 11th inning the bullpen totally faltered, allowing three hits and six runs. A pair of Suns errors and a balk led to five of the runs being unearned.
The Suns continued to have defensive lapses. They committed three more errors on Saturday, giving them 14 miscues in their last six games. Two of their errors came in the 11th inning, fielding mistakes by shortstop Austin Nola and third baseman Ryan Fisher that led to a pair of unearned runs. The go-ahead run came home when Suns reliever Nick Wittgren was called for a balk when he touched his fingers to his mouth while standing on pitching rubber. The second run came in on a sacrifice fly. The third scored on Fisher's error.
The Suns lost an opportunity to take the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning. Alfredo Silverio stroked a two-out single to left with Nola on second base. Nola plowed into Biscuits catcher Luke Maile instead of sliding. Maile fell over backward and in the ball popped free.
Home plate umpire Jimmy Hollingsworth hesitated before making the out call, even with the ball in the dirt.
The call infuriated Suns manager Andy Barkett who vehemently argued the call and was ejected, Barkett's second ejection of the homestand.
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Every story has a beginning. This is ours…
CLICK HERE for a list of the membership roles of First United Methodist Church prior to 1913. The church was not a United Methodist Church at that time. It was a Methodist Episcopal Church, South during this period of history. This list may be of interest to person who research genealogy or for those who have family members who were members here in the past. Any one seeking more information regarding this list may contact May Lou Meyers through the the church office: 903.586.2494
HISTORY OF FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AS PRINTED IN THE JACKSONVILLE DAILY PROGRESS
Having at one time been banned from worshiping as Methodist followers, believers gathered in private homes and sometimes held secret worship services to practice the Methodist religion.
“When Texas was under Mexico, only the Catholic religion was allowed in the area,” Barbara Hugghins, associate pastor at First United Methodist Church of Jacksonville, said.
“When the Protestant faith was allowed in the area, the Methodists were some of the first to come into East Texas.”
Through Mexico’s reign, Indians and the Texas Revolution, the Methodists prevailed, and when the revolution ended in 1836, the Methodist Mission Board decided it was safe to send Methodist missionaries to Texas.
In 1845, eight years after the denomination’s establishment in Texas, the church, which would later become known as the First United Methodist Church of Jacksonville, was established on Gum Creek (which is now the vicinity of Lake Jacksonville).
In 1853, the congregation established a second church building, due to Gum Creek’s demise with the establishment of a new settlement by Jackson Smith. But by 1856, the Methodists had outgrown the building, and another building was built on an adjacent lot.
According to a history of the church that was recently published, in 1908, the church conveyed all of its property to First Methodist Episcopal Church, south of Jacksonville. FUMC is now located at 1031 SE Loop 456 (Corner of Corinth Road & Loop 456).
The 208-page book regarding the Methodist church’s 160 year history began when, then historian, John Allen Templeton researched and recorded information about early church buildings, church music, and a bit about early members. His document was a 26-page narrative titled, “The Methodist March In Jacksonville, Texas.” This document served as confirmation of historical data warranting that the church was eligible for two historical markers: (1) from the Texas State Historical Commission and (2) from the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church. It was John Allen’s dream that a more complete, hardbound volume including more topics about the church would be forthcoming, but that didn’t happen in his lifetime.
In 2000, a newly appointed history committee, chaired by May Lou Meyers, tackled the enormous job of sorting through closets and files to gather old, dusty, and musty documents and items related to the history of this church.
“Within a couple of years, we had cataloged and properly filed several hundred items,” Meyers said. “Since it was necessary to read through all of the papers in order to properly categorize them, we of the committee learned a great deal about the church that we wanted to share.”
In addition to information about early church buildings, the book includes chapters about the stained glass windows and other church treasures, Christian education (including all Sunday school classes), outreach, visitation, UMW and UMY, subgroups of the Church Leadership Council, and support groups such as the library, radio and TV ministries.
“At this time the church is building a new facility, a major undertaking marking a new chapter in the history of FUMC. This is an ideal time to record the history of the current and former buildings,” Meyers said.
The book includes much more detail about the Methodist church’s history in Texas and how followers came to practice their right to freedom of religion.
“The Methodist March” is $25 with a $5 shipping and handling fee for orders to be mailed. For anyone interested in purchasing the book, an order may be mailed to FUMC at 1031 SE Loop 456, Jacksonville, Texas 75766. Inquiries are welcome by phone at 903-586-2494.
Information from The Jacksonville Daily Progress
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Please support the U.S. Scholars Initiative!
The United States Scholars Initiative (USSI) aims to increase the number of international, degree-seeking undergraduate students from the United States at ICU. This merit-based scholarship will provide full-tuition support for four years of undergraduate study at ICU. Starting in 2018, two incoming first-year students will receive the scholarship annually.
Background and Objective
ICU was founded through the generous support of churches, foundations and private citizens in the United States and Japan. Indeed, JICUF was established in 1948, one year prior to ICU, to organize fundraising efforts from its New York City office. Many prominent individuals and families in the United States, including Eleanor Roosevelt, the Rockefellers, Jackie Robinson, Douglas MacArthur and others supported ICU during its early years. Their interest stemmed from ICU’s unique international and Christian mission and an earnest hope of achieving reconciliation between the United States and Japan after the terrible atrocities of World War II.
Sixty-nine years later, Japan and the United States remain steadfast allies. However, the continued strength of the bond requires continuos effort and the cultivation of the next generation. ICU is well-positioned to lead the way in forging strong bonds between young people from Japan and the United States. ICU’s rigorous Japanese language program and excellent liberal arts curriculum well prepares students from the United States for a career that spans the Pacific Ocean. With this in mind, JICUF is proud to support the United States Scholars Initiative.
As you can see in the above data, in 2016 only 309 United States citizens were studying as 4-year degree-seeking undergraduates in Japan. While there has been a 30% increase between 2012 and 2016, students from the United States only represent .5% of the total number of international students studying as 4-year degree-seeking undergraduates in Japan. This low number does not bode well for the future well-being of the US-Japan alliance.
The USSI scholarship aims to address this trend. By offering U.S. students a full-tuition scholarship to ICU, we hope to encourage some students to seriously consider pursuing a 4-year undergraduate education at ICU.
Source: Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Annual Survey of International Students, 2012-2016 (http://www.jasso.go.jp/en/about/statistics/intl_student_e/index.html)
donate to USSI
Please submit your donation through the above form.
Please mail a check payable to Japan ICU Foundation (designated to USSI in memo) to 475 Riverside Dr. Suite 439, NY, NY 10115, USA.
For larger donations, please consider mailing a check or using a bank transfer to save on transaction fees. Please contact us at information@jicuf.org to receive our bank account details.
100% of your donation will support USSI. JICUF is a 501(c)(3) organization and donations from US residents are tax deductible.
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Religious Voters May Lean Republican, But Feel Conflicted About The Candidates
By Marisa Peñaloza • Sep 21, 2016
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NAACP volunteers Marjorie McKinney (left) and Joan Brannon sit at a booth to register people to vote at the Hospitality House, a community shelter in Boone, N.C.
Marisa Penaloza / NPR
North Carolina voters (from left: David Cuthbert, Kristine Martin and Jack Lawrence) and members of the The Heart congregation, a church in Boone, N.C., all described their Christian beliefs as central to their lives.
Tom Gjelten / NPR
Renee Miller plays with her 11-month-old daughter, Ariana, at the Hospitality House in Boone, N.C.
Originally published on September 21, 2016 5:32 pm
Researchers seeking to predict how Americans will vote have for years identified an important clue: The more religious you are, the more likely you are to lean Republican.
Conversations with more than two-dozen self-identified "faith" voters in Boone, N.C., suggest that pattern is holding this year, even while revealing the same high level of voter disenchantment evident across the country.
"I've always felt that the Republicans align with my beliefs," said Judith Martinez, 51, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Mexico. An evangelical Christian who leads the Spanish-language ministry at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Boone, Martinez's opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage are decisive factors in determining which party and candidate to support. "The Bible is very clear in telling us the way we should live," she said, "and we are not respecting that." She expects to vote for Donald Trump.
Among Hispanic voters, Martinez is in a minority. A recent ABC/Washington Post poll showed Republican candidate Donald Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by 25 to 40 points among Hispanic voters in various battleground states. That advantage, however, may diminish when religious beliefs are considered. Voting analyses carried out by the Pew Research Center on the basis of exit poll data in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections identified a strong correlation between religiosity and Republicanism.
"How often you attend church services is at least a good predictor [of how you vote] as your level of education, your gender, your age, your union membership, or the region where you live," said Alan Cooperman, Pew's director of religion research. "The only thing stronger is race." (The recent ABC/Washington Post poll showed Trump drawing only about 5 percent of the African-American vote, regardless of religious affiliation.)
The pro-Trump "faith" voters interviewed in Boone, a small city in the western Carolina mountains, have decidedly mixed feelings about his candidacy, however. Judith Martinez says her religious beliefs ultimately may dictate a vote for Trump, but she is deeply troubled by his harsh characterization of Mexican immigrants.
"He's very crude," Martinez says. "Mexicans are some of the people here who work the hardest. He doesn't value their efforts."
Nationwide, nearly half of Trump's supporters are "very enthusiastic" about his candidacy, according to the ABC/Washington Post poll, with about a third of Clinton supporters saying the same of her. Of the religious voters interviewed in Boone, however, not one was a hard-core supporter of either Trump or Clinton.
"I will not vote for anybody," said Jack Lawrence, 67, a retired optometrist and founding member of an interdenominational church in Boone called The Heart. "I will cast a vote, but it will not be for anybody. It will be a negative vote." In his case, he says, it will be a vote against Clinton.
Lawrence was one of six members of The Heart congregation who agreed to meet with NPR to discuss how their Christian commitments are influencing their thinking about this year's presidential election. Three were undecided, including Kristine Martin, 36, who moved to Boone two years ago when her husband took a position at Samaritan's Purse, the evangelical Christian charity founded by Franklin Graham.
"It's a scary election for me," Martin says. "There's part of me that wants to check out."
All six Heart members describe their Christian beliefs as central to their lives. "That's where we find our identity, first and foremost," said David Cuthbert, 41, chief executive officer of Wine to Water, an organization in Boone that promotes access to clean water around the world. "At the end of the day," he says, "it's what shapes every aspect of our lives."
That commitment, however, may be of little help in guiding the election decisions at The Heart this year. Cuthbert says he remains undecided.
One of the two Heart members leaning to Clinton, 35-year-old Dejah Miranda-Huxley, says her preference is a reaction to what she sees as Trump's "exclusivist" attitude toward minorities and immigrants. "Neither side reflects my faith," she said.
Whether the Republican advantage among religious voters in places like Boone will hold in future elections is unclear. Renee Miller, 34, who was raised in a strict Pentecostal household near Boone, found her loyalty to the Republican Party challenged after going through a yearlong addiction treatment program at Hospitality House, a community shelter in Boone serving people in the midst of poverty-related crises.
"I came here homeless and pregnant and addicted to drugs," Miller says. "This place has been really helpful as far as getting treatment. I now have a healthy baby, a beautiful little girl, and I'm a completely different person." A registered Republican, she attributes her political identity largely to her religious upbringing. "I definitely want a leader who believes in God," she says. A year at Hospitality House, however, has left her unsure of her political loyalties going forward.
"At this point, I would probably vote for Trump," she says, "because I just have a lot of mistrust for Hillary." But she is not convinced her instincts are entirely correct. "Being in this position has made me rethink my political values," she said. "People ask me why I'm Republican, when it's the Democratic Party that mostly supports programs like this that help people. I'm conflicted." As are many religious voters in Boone, and voters around the country.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
In a typical election, religious identity is a big factor at the polls. Surveys show that people who are more religious are more likely to vote Republican. But Donald Trump is not a typical Republican presidential nominee. So NPR's Tom Gjelten went to North Carolina to find out how some religious voters are choosing between two candidates they're not thrilled about.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: We can all identify in different ways - by our age, perhaps, or by our gender or ideology or ethnicity.
JUDITH MARTINEZ: (Speaking Spanish).
GJELTEN: Judith Martinez - a U.S. immigrant from Mexico, newly married, 51 years old, devout Christian.
MARTINEZ: (Speaking Spanish).
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Speaking Spanish).
GJELTEN: She's preaching this evening to about 25 Latino men and women in the basement of Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Boone, N.C. This is her ministry.
GJELTEN: "Don't think you can accomplish something without Jesus," she says. "You might say, I can stop drinking on my own, but without Jesus it won't work."
GJELTEN: Judith herself is a naturalized U.S. citizen. The immigrant men and women to whom she ministers have only temporary work permits.
MARTINEZ: (Through interpreter) Many of them are worried. They wonder what will happen after the election. They are afraid they'll be deported. And they're afraid they'll be separated from their families.
GJELTEN: The election worries them because the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, says he wants to deport immigrants here illegally. Last year, he said many of the Mexicans who've come are bringing drugs and crime. Judith doesn't like Trump.
MARTINEZ: (Through interpreter) He's crude, very crude. Mexicans are some of the people here who work the hardest. He doesn't value their effort.
GJELTEN: And yet, Judith is a registered Republican. And when the election comes around, she expects to vote for the Republican candidate - for Donald Trump. She says her religious beliefs, her opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, influence her thinking.
MARTINEZ: (Through interpreter) I've always felt that the Republicans align with my beliefs. The Bible is very clear in telling us the way we should live, and we're not respecting that.
GJELTEN: Judith's inclination to support Donald Trump in spite of what he has said about Mexicans holds with a pattern identified by the Pew Research Center. How religious someone is can predict how they're likely to vote. The more religious lean Republican, the less religious, Democrat, regardless of age, gender or education.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Let your voice be heard.
GJELTEN: Here in Boone, N.C., that brings some surprising voter preferences.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Hi, is your voter registration up-to-date? Would you like to register...
GJELTEN: Volunteers are staffing a voter registration table at this community shelter serving people who are homeless or experiencing other poverty-related crises. It's called Hospitality House.
RENEE MILLER: And I am finished with my voter registration.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Yep.
MILLER: Awesome, thank you so much.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Thank you.
GJELTEN: Among the Hospitality House residents prepared to vote this fall is Renee Miller, a 34-year-old single mom.
MILLER: I've been here a year. I came here homeless and pregnant and addicted to drugs. And the Hospitality House has really been helpful. I have a healthy baby - beautiful girl.
GJELTEN: Hospitality House gave her a free place to stay, three meals a day and enrolled her in a treatment program. In politics, Renee leans Republican, even while acknowledging a Republican president like Donald Trump might be less likely than Hillary Clinton to support government spending for places like Hospitality House.
MILLER: At this point, you know, if I had to vote today, I definitely probably would say I would vote for Trump. And that still scares me because it's the Democratic Party that I feel like reaches out for these programs, you know, and stuff. But I just have a lot of mistrust for Hillary right now.
GJELTEN: In part, it has to do with her Christian upbringing in a conservative Pentecostal tradition.
MILLER: I definitely want a leader who does believe in God or, you know, believe in the higher power that's out there, you know. And I want people to be able to have religious freedom.
GJELTEN: Hillary Clinton is a Christian and speaks often of her faith. But for Renee, as for others, religion goes with Republicanism. That's the pattern Pew Research found. Now, there is an important exception. One factor weighs more than religion - race.
FRED BROWN: African-Americans, you say? I think they're going to vote for Hillary.
GJELTEN: Fred Brown, a black man, is another Hospitality House resident.
BROWN: I don't like Trump at all, can't stand him. He got a big mouth, you know. And he hides behind his money. I don't like that. I don't like any man that hides behind his money.
GJELTEN: Brown says he loves and respects the Lord, but with African-Americans, whether they're religious doesn't really predict their vote. Recent surveys show Donald Trump getting only about 5 percent of the African-American vote regardless of religious affiliation. For others, a strong faith does go with a slight Republican tilt. But here in Boone, N.C., this year may be a little different. What a strong faith seems to predict here more than anything else is disenchantment.
That's a widely shared feeling in the electorate this year, even with nearly half of Trump supporters feeling very enthusiastic about him, according to a new ABC/Washington Post poll. A smaller share of Clinton supporters, about a third, say the same of her. But it's hard to find any enthusiasm among religious voters here in Boone. Indeed, of a more than two dozen religious voters we interviewed here, including Judith Martinez and Renee Miller, not one is a hardcore supporter of either Trump or Clinton.
JACK LAWRENCE: It's a real shame to me that with the country that we have that this is the best we can do.
KRISTENE MARTIN: I think it's a scary election for me. And there's part of me that wants to check out.
DAVID CUTHBERT: I'm struggling very much in this election. And I don't necessarily think that the values that I hold dear are necessarily represented.
GJELTEN: Jack Lawrence, Kristene Martin and David Cuthbert - members of an interdenominational church in Boone called The Heart, committed Christians who say their faith is central to their decision making. This is David.
CUTHBERT: That's where we find our identity first and foremost is being a Christian. It's not an extra ingredient or a separate aspect of our life. It is our entire identity.
CUTHBERT: Of the six people gathered at The Heart this evening, two say they'll probably vote for Hillary Clinton, one for Donald Trump, three are still undecided. None has found their Christian beliefs dictating a clear choice. Dejah Miranda Huxley says the question is who she votes against.
DEJAH MIRANDA HUXLEY: That's a tough way to look at it. But I know neither side will reflect my faith. I know that. I totally understand that.
GJELTEN: She'll vote against Trump. And here is Jack Lawrence.
LAWRENCE: I'll tell you this, I will not vote for anybody. I will cast a vote. But I will not vote for anybody.
GJELTEN: In his case, a vote against Clinton. Guided in life by their faith, but not finding it much of a guide in this election. Tom Gjelten, NPR News, Boone, N.C. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Possession of a Weapon by a Felon
One of the freedoms that were guaranteed with the adoption of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution contained in the Bill of Rights was the right of the people to keep and bear arms. However, a person who has been convicted of a felony offense can be legally prohibited from possessing or owning a firearm or weapon.
In the state of Texas, convicted felons are not always subject to lifetime bans from possessing firearms. However, they are subject to some extremely harsh penalties if they possess a weapon before their civil rights have been restored.
Austin Possession of a Weapon by a Felon Lawyer
Were you previously convicted of a felony offense and are now facing charges relating to the possession of a weapon in Texas? The Law Office of Kevin Bennett fights to defend clients accused of firearm crimes all over Austin and surrounding areas like Pflugerville, Lago Vista, Lakeway, West Lake Hills, Bee Cave, and Sunset Valley.
Kevin Bennett received the prestigious Clients’ Choice Award in 2013 from the legal service’s website Avvo in recognition of his outstanding client satisfaction rating. He can review your case and discuss all of your legal options when you call (512) 476-4626 to schedule a free, confidential consultation.
Travis County Possession of a Weapon by a Felon Overview
When can a person be charged with this offense?
What are the possible consequences if convicted?
Can the Second Amendment be used as a defense against these charges?
Possession of a Weapon by a Felon Charges in Texas
Unlawful possession of a firearm is defined in Texas Penal Code § 46.04(a)(1) as an alleged offender who has been convicted of a felony possessing a firearm after conviction and before the fifth anniversary of his or her release from confinement following either conviction of the felony or his or her release from supervision under community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision—whichever date is later. This crime is classified as a third-degree felony.
After five years of passed, a person who has been convicted of a felony can possess a weapon only on the premises at which he or she lives but may submit an application to Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles seeking restoration of firearm rights. A convicted felon can also have his or her civil rights restored through a pardon issued by the governor of Texas, although this extremely rare.
Travis County Penalties for Possession of a Weapon by a Felon
While unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is classified as a third-degree felony, it is important to understand that Texas Penal Code § 12.42 imposes aggravated consequences for individuals deemed habitual felony offenders. Under this statute, if the alleged offender has been previously convicted of a felony other than a state jail felony, he or she can be punished for a second-degree felony if convicted for unlawful possession of a firearm.
The respective possible punishments for these classifications of offenses are as follows:
Third-Degree Felony — Maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and maximum fine of $10,000
Second-Degree Felony — Maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and maximum fine of $10,000
Second Amendment Rights and Defenses to Texas Possession of a Weapon by a Felon
The Second Amendment may state that a person’s right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but the United States Supreme Court has ruled that this right is not unlimited and does not prevent federal, state, or local laws from prohibiting convicted felons from possessing firearms or weapons. If you have been previously convicted of a felony offense, there is very little chance that invoking the amendment will prove to be much of a beneficial defense against criminal charges—especially in cases involving weapon or firearm possession during a time in which you were prohibited from doing so.
This is not to say that a person who has been charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm or weapon does not have other legal defenses. In fact, he or she could have multiple valid defenses that could possible include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
Alleged offender did not knowingly possess weapon or firearm
Alleged offender only possessed firearm or weapon in moment of necessary self-defense or while taking it from individual committing a crime
Weapon or firearm was discovered through an illegal search and seizure
Insufficient evidence that alleged offender actually possessed firearm or weapon
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles restored alleged offender’s firearm rights
Find A Possession of a Weapon by a Felon Lawyer in Austin
If you have been arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm or weapon in Texas, you will want to seek the help of an experienced criminal defense attorney as soon as possible. Kevin Bennett fights to protect the rights of every person he represents, and he will strive to achieve the most favorable outcome to your particular case.
The Law Office of Kevin Bennett helps clients throughout the greater Austin area, including such areas as Oak Hill, West Austin, and Manchaca. Call (512) 476-4626 right now to set up a free consultation that will let our firm review your case and begin developing a formidable legal defense.
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In Fast Figuring, She Plays It by the Numbers
By DAN MORAIN
Times Staff Writer
SUNNYVALE, Calif. —
Shakuntala Devi is a distracting passenger to have in your car.
The problem is that there are all those numbers on the license plates of the cars in other lanes.
“Look, there’s 720,” Devi says, as if she has just seen an old friend. Riding the freeway from Sunnyvale on an errand to San Francisco, she produced a piece of paper and pen and began playing with the number. In an instant, she had the answer: 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 equals 720.
If that answer was a snap, so is multiplying two 13-digit numbers; or coming up with the root of 2,373,927,704 (the answer is 1,334); or naming the date on which every Thursday will fall in 1989, or, for that matter, any other day or any other year--past or future.
Devi, 43, is a sari-clad diva of numbers, a math prodigy who can calculate as fast and accurately as any hand-held contraption. She is one of those rare people who somehow--even she does not know how--possesses a skill with figures that amazes computer wizards, intrigues academics and dumbfounds those of us who have difficulty balancing checkbooks.
She is in the Guinness Book of World Records for a 1980 feat at a London university--multiplying two 13-digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 by 2,465,099,745,779. In 28 seconds. The answer:
18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730.
In 1977, she came up with the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds--faster than a powerful Univac computer, although since then, some people have scoffed that the computer would have won if only it had been properly programmed.
A Brahman from Bangladore, India, she takes her act on the road worldwide for several months each year. She was in the Silicon Valley most recently, performing at Stanford University, Cal State San Jose and at a computer company, Excelan. The outgoing and witty Devi was due in Los Angeles today.
Along the way, Arthur R. Jensen, professor of educational psychology at UC Berkeley, persuaded her to stop by his laboratory so he could study her.
Jensen said Devi’s skills with numbers are like those of a writer who does not think about the location of typewriter keys, or a musician who reads music and simultaneously sounds the correct notes. “The actual calculations are almost automatic,” he said.
After watching her both at Stanford and in his lab, Jensen concluded: “No one knows exactly how she does these things. I don’t think she knows.” He is, however, certain that “it’s not any kind of magic trick.”
Jensen tried to stump her by asking the day of the week for Jan. 30, 1948. It was, she answered in an instant, a Friday, and then noted its significance, the day Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
Her technique offers little clue to her ability. Before a performance, she clears her mind by lounging and shunning television, books and conversation. She must see the number on a blackboard or on paper, but does not like the numbers broken up by commas. Smaller numbers are harder to dissect than larger ones. She apologized for taking roughly five seconds to come up with the cube root of 131.
“It’s 5.09, or .08. It’ll be approximate,” she said.
One of Devi’s explanations for her ability is one that her mother suggested. As an infant, Devi swallowed the family’s small clay likeness of Ganesh, the Hindu god of wisdom, including mathematics. She prays daily at an altar of flowers, incense and a likeness of Ganesh, and in deference to the deity, will not venture to Communist countries. She fears that Ganesh might take away her gift if she goes to a land “where they don’t believe in God.”
Travels World Performing
She first displayed her flair for numbers as a toddler and became part of her father’s magic act in India. The theatrics learned in the act serve her well as she travels the world performing.
“You’d expect someone who could do what she does to be a little nerdy. She isn’t nerdy at all. She worked the crowd,” said Vish Mishra, vice president of Excelan, the San Jose computer company where she performed. Excelan paid her $1,000 for a one-hour performance.
“The computer people are fascinated that a human mind can do this,” Mishra said. “We’ve got brilliant people . . . mathematicians, and they wonder how can it be done.”
OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD . . .
From the speedy mental calculation file of math whiz Shakuntala Devi: 28 Seconds
X 2,465,099,745,779
18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 10 Seconds
Figure the Cube Root of
1,334 40 Seconds
Figure the 7th Root of
455,762,531,836,562,695,930,666,032,734,375
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A new strategy to drive growth in Scotland’s food and drinks industry has been launched
The First Minister made the announcement at Scotland Food and Drink's 10th annual conference in Glasgow.
A new, ambitious strategy to drive growth in Scotland’s farming, fishing, food and drink industry has been unveiled by industry body, Scotland Food & Drink.
Food and drink has been Scotland’s best performing sector in recent years, with record export figures released last weekend and sales at home increasing rapidly too.
The sector is worth £14.4 billion annually, 119,000 people are working directly in the industry and food manufacturing in Scotland is growing at twice the rate of the UK average for the sector.
‘Ambition 2030’, launched yesterday (Thursday), establishes a vision to cement food and drink as Scotland’s most valuable industry, with the opportunity to more than double turnover in the sector to reach £30 billion by 2030.
The strategy has been developed by the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership, an industry-led partnership of the main organisations in the farming, fishing, food and drink sector, alongside The Scottish Government and its key agencies.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership in Glasgow to launch the strategy.
She said: “Scotland’s food and drink sector has enjoyed phenomenal success over the past ten years with unprecedented growth in turnover and exports, including food exports alone doubling to £1.5 billion.
“Our nation is blessed with all the ingredients we need to achieve greater success. We have a fantastic natural larder, the skills and expertise, and the complementary strengths in tourism, innovation and research.
“Yet the risk of leaving the EU and the single market means these are uncertain times, while revoking the free movement of people could have a profound impact on our food and drink industry.
“That is why we are doing our utmost to support the industry - working in partnership with Scotland Food and Drink, the industry bodies, and our producers - and this new £10 million investment will support the industry realise its ambition to double its value by 2030.”
The industry’s focus will be on building Scotland’s national brand as a Land of Food and Drink and driving sales within Scotland, across the rest of the UK and globally.
To unlock the £30 billion potential of the industry, the strategy focuses on three areas:
People and Skills: raising attractiveness of the industry as a career destination and investing in the existing workforce; Supply Chain: ensuring farmers, fishermen, manufacturers and buyers work in closer partnership, to ensure greater profitability is shared across the industry and Innovation: embracing a new culture of developing new products and processes to drive growth.
In addition, the industry has made a renewed commitment to responsible growth, committing to deliver broader benefits to the country beyond just sales growth. This includes an offer of a new partnership with Government and its agencies to drive improvements in Scotland’s health and wellbeing and to commit again to embracing world-leading standards of environmental sustainability.
The 2030 strategy identifies collaboration as the most important ingredient in the sector’s success to date with plans to deepen joint-working between the industry, government and its agencies in the coming years, as well as to make support easier to access for businesses.
James Withers, Scotland Food & Drink chief executive, said: “Ten years ago, when the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership was formed, our sector was relatively static. It is now one of the country’s best performing industries and it’s our fastest growing export sector. However, today sets out a new vision to build further on that.
“As an industry, we have identified an opportunity to more than double the size of our sector to £30 billion by 2030, making it Scotland’s most valuable industry.
“A huge amount of work is required to unlock that potential and it will not come easily. There is uncertainty ahead, with Brexit in the forefront of everybody’s mind. Whilst big political upheavals are out of the industry’s control, we can control how we develop the Scottish brand, the markets we want to sell to and the investments we make in improving skills, innovation and supply chains.
“Food and drink is now a national success story for Scotland, yet there are areas requiring more work. Too few view our industry as a top career choice, many farmers feel detached from the success story and we can do more to support improvements in Scotland’s health.
“The focus we now place on all of that means we approach the coming years with real optimism. It will take a huge amount of dedication from industry, government and its agencies, but working collaboratively, there is every reason we can make Scotland the best place in the world to run a food and drink business.
“Whether you are on a tractor or fishing boat, on the factory floor or around the boardroom table, I believe this is the industry to be in over the next few years. There will be challenges ahead, there always are, however the clear vision and strategy we are setting out today creates a foundation for profitable, responsible growth in the coming years.”
Julie Hesketh-Laird, Scotch Whisky Association acting chief executive, said: “Scottish food and drink is of significant importance to the country’s economic and export performance, with Scotch Whisky playing a leading role in growing the industry further.
“The new strategy – Ambition 30 – will ensure that the whole sector will become even more substantial in years to come. And we’re confident Scotch Whisky – which accounts for around three quarters of Scottish food and drink exports – will remain the biggest contributor to the sector. We are committed to helping others grow their businesses, for example through our Export Collaboration Charter with Scotland Food and Drink. Our award-winning Scotch Whisky Industry Environmental Strategy can also provide a blueprint in helping the entire sector achieve its sustainability aims.”
Professor Wayne Powell, principal and chief executive of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) said the college is committed to helping the food sector in Scotland achieve its strategy for 2030.
he said: “Our recognised expertise along the food supply chain and the established relationships with primary producers, processors and SMEs can support the kind of innovation, efficiency and business growth needed to bring new ideas to the market. This also helps our leading role in attracting, training and educating the enthusiastic and industry-ready future workforce so critical for Ambition 2030.
“SRUC consultants are active in initiatives like “Connect Local”, the Scottish Government’s food and drink advisory service while our researchers are supporting Agritech and other public private partnerships that can help farmers connect more closely with the food industry and consumers.”
Andrew McCornick, NFU Scotland president, added: “The ambition launched aims to continue the growth of Scotland’s food and drink industry and bridge the gap between our food producers, our farmers and crofters, and the rest of the supply chain so that all enjoy the success of Scotland’s most successful industry.”
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ROBERT L. FREEMAN
1983- 1984 136 Democrat
FREEMAN, Robert L., a Representative from Northampton County; born in Easton, Northampton County, Pa., March 5, 1956; graduated, Easton High School, 1975; B.A., magna cum laude, history and political science, Moravian College, 1978; M.A., history, Lehigh University, 1984; member and shop steward, UFCW; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1983 term and served 6 consecutive terms; appointed, Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission (1989-1994); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1994); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1994); executive director, Policy Committee, Democratic Caucus, Pennsylvania State Senate (1995-1997); executive director, Local Government Committee, Democratic Caucus, Pennsylvania State Senate (1997-1998); reelected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1999 term; reelected to serve 11 more consecutive terms; appointed, Local Government Commission (2007-present).
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Basement Sanctuaries
Basement Sanctuaries explores the ways in which superintendents decorate the basements of apartment buildings in the Northern Manhattan by illuminating the process of migrant adaptation to the metropolis from an intimate perspective.
In many ways, basements are special sanctuaries for supers and their families. Supers often live in basements that are hidden from the public and from visitors, which creates a form of privacy. However, the basement is also a space of work for supers and their environment is on display for the residents of the building. Under these circumstances, the supers’ decorations function as a territorial claim over the basement’s semi-public/private space.
Most of the supers in Northern Manhattan are migrants from Latin America or the Caribbean, and images from their home countries might connect their new home to a past they have left behind. This can be especially important given the grueling nature of their work and the difficulty of establishing themselves in NYC.
When photographing the basements I was interested in what decoration I would encounter, how the supers would curate the space by using found objects (in fact, most of the objects were discarded by tenants) and what references I would find to each super’s culture and/or dreamscape. The images encourage viewers to think in new ways about how space functions in New York City apartment buildings and broaden our understanding of the relationship among migration, semi-public/private space, and the everyday landscape.
Basement Sanctuaries was published by Schilt Publishing in Spring 2014 and has been initially supported with grants form the Northern Manhattan Arts
Alliance (NoMAA) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). The images were shot on film with medium format cameras. Only available light was used to show the conditions the supers work and live in.
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2013-05-17 Linde to refuel world's first hydrogen-powered race car
Linde to refuel world’s first hybrid hydrogen race car
Munich, 17 May 2013 – The Nürburgring 24 Hours Race on 19 and 20 May 2013 will see the world premiere of a very special Aston Martin race car - the first hybrid hydrogen-powered race car to compete in an international motorsport event. The technology company The Linde Group will be responsible for refuelling the car with hydrogen at the race track. Linde has developed a mobile hydrogen refuelling unit, ideally suited for locations without a stationary hydrogen infrastructure. The 14 metre-long truck and trailer unit trailH2-gas™ is equipped with two separate high-pressure couplings for gaseous hydrogen (CGH2) and stores the gas at 300 and 450 bar in cylinder packs. The trailH2-gas™ can further compress the hydrogen on-board to reach pressures of up to 700 bar, depending on requirements. For this project, however, a pressure of 350 bar is needed.
For racing purposes, the usual automated refuelling procedure, which takes a few minutes, will be replaced by a manual, supervised refill, reducing the necessary stopover to less than a minute.
Markus Bachmeier, Head of Hydrogen Solutions at Linde said: “With this event Linde shows that already today fuelling of hydrogen vehicles is not limited to pre-commercial passenger cars, busses and forklift trucks but is also feasible under the challenging requirements of an internationally renowned motorsport event.”
Together with clean drive technology experts Alset Global, headquartered in Graz, Austria, Aston Martin engineers have developed a hybrid hydrogen racing prototype, running on gasoline, CGH2 or a blend of both fuels. The hydrogen used at the Nürburgring 24 Hours Race will be sourced from Linde’s pilot plant in Leuna, Germany, where it is manufactured from raw glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel manufacturing. Advanced to industrial scale, this production path has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 50 and 80 percent compared with conventional hydrogen production processes using natural gas. In addition, Linde is working together with partners to develop more renewable hydrogen production pathways such as water electrolysis using wind-generated electricity.
The flexible trailH2-gas™ fuelling concept means that hydrogen-powered cars can fill up at almost any location. Demand for trailH2-gas™ is high and it was successfully deployed, for example, at this year’s HANNOVER MESSE. But Linde is also helping to advance a stationary hydrogen infrastructure to support the introduction and commercialisation of mass-produced hydrogen-powered cars in the coming years. Innovations such as the ionic compressor and the cryopump are already helping to make hydrogen refuelling ever more energy-efficient and user-friendly.
So far, Linde has supplied the fuelling equipment for more than 80 hydrogen stations in 15 countries. The company also participates in an initiative organised by the German Ministry of Transportation to increase the number of public hydrogen fuelling stations in Germany to 50 by 2015.
In addition, Linde is the largest constructor of hydrogen plants worldwide and has been producing hydrogen for the most varied of applications for more than 100 years. These include the desulphurisation of fuel in the petrochemical industry, which makes a valuable contribution to reducing carbon emissions from today’s vehicles.
The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 62,000 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2012 financial year, Linde generated revenue of EUR 15.280 bn. The strategy of the Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
Under the ”Clean Technology by Linde“ label, the company offers a wide range of products and technologies that help to render renewable energy sources financially viable, and significantly slow down the depletion of fossil resources or reduce the level of CO2 emitted. This ranges from specialty gases for solar module manufacturing, industrial-scale CO2 separation and application technologies to alternative fuels and energy carriers such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen.
For more information go to http://www.linde.com/cleantechnology.
Uwe Wolfinger
Phone: +49.89.35757-1320
Dr Dominik Heger
Stefan Metz
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In this short chapter, Ishmael addresses the reader and points out that the man at the helm of the Pequod, as it first left shore, was Bulkington, under orders from Starbuck—the same Bulkington who was referred to in adulatory tones in the Spouter Inn in New Bedford. Ishmael tells the reader that Bulkington goes down with the Pequod at the end of the tale—an early reference to the ship’s demise—and that boats and human souls seem designed for adventure, even when those adventures end in death and destruction. Ishmael states that “the highest truth” is “shoreless and indefinite,” like God—that man must seek for this highest truth out in the waves, in the terror of the unknown. And he leaves this chapter as a “six-inch stoneless grave” to Bulkington, brave pilot of the doomed vessel.
In one of the novel’s stranger passages, Ishmael sings the praises of the man, Bulkington, whom he mentioned very briefly in an early chapter regarding the Spouter Inn. Critical theories abound about Bulkington: some critics contend that he was to have a larger part in the narrative, but Melville simply forgot about him. Others claim that Bulkington is a symbol of the many crewmembers of the Pequod whose stories were not told in the novel—who were simply subsumed into the hunt for Moby Dick, and whose lives could form the basis for other books not yet written. In any event, Bulkington is to remain a mystery in the novel—never fully explained or characterized.
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Schlegel, Chris. "Moby-Dick Chapter 23: The Lee Shore." LitCharts LLC, August 11, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2019. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/moby-dick/chapter-23-the-lee-shore.
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Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 3 Act 1, Scene 4 Act 2, Scene 1 Act 2, Scene 2 Act 2, Scene 3 Act 2, Scene 4 Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 2 Act 3, Scene 3 Act 3, Scene 4 Act 3, Scene 5 Act 3, Scene 6 Act 3, Scene 7 Act 4, Scene 1 Act 4, Scene 2 Act 4, Scene 3 Act 4, Scene 4 Act 4, Scene 5 Act 5, Scene 1 Act 5, Scene 2 Act 5, Scene 3 Act 5, Scene 4 Act 5, Scene 5
All Themes Power The Throne and the State Language Women Time
All Characters Richard, Duke of Gloucester, King Richard III Richmond, King Henry VII Duke of Buckingham Queen Elizabeth Queen Margaret Lady Anne, Queen Anne
All Symbols The Boar The Clock
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On a London street, three citizens discuss King Edward's death. Two are optimistic about young Edward Prince of Wales future reign, pointing to the example of King Henry VI crowned at nine months old. Yet the third protests that baby Henry had "virtuous uncles" to protect his grace whereas young Edward's maternal and fraternal uncles are factious and include the dangerous Richard and haughty relatives of Elizabeth. "…were they to be rul'd, and not to rule," the citizen speculates, "This sickly land might solace as before." They exit.
The first of the play's scenes featuring common people's opinions on courtly power struggles. The citizens' conversation shows that the general population knows what a dangerous, evil character Richard is, and that they consider him a poisonous influence on the health of the state. Calling the land "sickly" refers to the oft-used metaphor of political state as human body. The citizens here seem to believe that neither Elizabeth's inner circle nor Richard is fit to rule, and that only if all of them were ruled by someone else would the state be "healthy."
Ross, Margaret. "Richard III Act 2, Scene 3." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 17 Nov 2013. Web. 2 Jun 2019.
Ross, Margaret. "Richard III Act 2, Scene 3." LitCharts LLC, November 17, 2013. Retrieved June 2, 2019. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/richard-iii/act-2-scene-3.
Richard III in Plain English
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Writer Zoe Mitchell offers Worthing talk
Phil Hewitt
Excavating the Past for Poetry with Zoe Mitchell offers a talk at West Sussex Writers on Thursday, November 8.
Spokesman Phil Williams said: “In this talk and workshop session, poet Zoe Mitchell will discuss the value of using history and mythology as a means of expressing modern concerns through poetry.
“Her talk will include a discussion of various research techniques used to generate inspiration, how to shape a poem and a number of workshop exercises. Zoe will be sharing examples from leading poets and her own work.
“As a prolific writer, Zoe will also share her techniques for maintaining motivation and generating the creative spark which supports her writing She will offer thoughts on the importance of taking work public and her personal process for managing submissions to magazines.
“Zoe Mitchell is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in a number of prestigious magazines including The Rialto, The Moth and The London Magazine. She was commissioned to write poems for the Chalk Poets Anthology which she performed at the Winchester Poetry Festival in 2016. She is also a creative writing PhD student at the University of Chichester, focusing on witches and their presentation by female poets.”
The West Sussex Writers meeting will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday, November 8 at the Church Hall, Goring Methodist Church, Bury Drive, Goring, BN12 4XB. Tickets £5 for non-members, £3 for members.
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https://www.chichester.co.uk/whats-on/music/david-walliams-recalls-happy-chichester-childhood-memories-as-city-welcomes-world-premiere-1-8674712
https://www.chichester.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-and-comedy/working-with-david-walliams-to-deliver-the-midnight-gang-on-chichester-s-stage-1-8669718
https://www.chichester.co.uk/whats-on/arts/record-entries-for-worthing-open-art-exhibition-1-8684727
https://www.chichester.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-and-comedy/chichester-loses-its-pearl-with-the-passing-of-actress-writer-and-artist-pearl-goodman-aged-98-1-8684716
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Cross out to cement her place in the England side
Lancashire bowler preparing for tour of New Zealand, with the Ashes series looming next summer
Chris Ostick
Kate Cross
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Kate Cross may have an England central contract, but the Lancashire bowler admits she is far from guaranteed a place in the side.
The Red Rose seamer, from Heywood , made history when she was one of 18 players to be given the first set of contracts by the ECB back in May – allowing her and her team-mates to become full-time professionals.
Cross, 23, has played 12 internationals for England across the three formats and is currently preparing for the tour to New Zealand in February when they take on the White Ferns in five ODIs and three T20s. But she knows she has plenty of work to do to get into the side.
“I still don’t feel like I’ve got a cemented place in the team,” said Cross, who helped Lancashire’s women's team to promotion to the top flight of the County Championship last season.
“I know that I am certainly behind Katherine (Brunt) and Anya (Shrubsole) as strike bowlers, so I know my place in the team is the third strike-bowler position.
“But I am only 23 so I’m hoping if I can keep myself fit and strong then I will have a long career and that kind of cemented place will come in a few years’ time.
“I am just enjoying my time with the girls and training pretty much every day now. It is really nice to be able to train frequently with the girls and to challenge each other.
“That is how we are getting better because everyone seems to be upping their game in training. That is pushing everyone in the right direction.
“I have been trying to get a lot fitter and stronger to try and gain some extra pace.”
Although the tour to New Zealand is important, the bigger prize comes this summer with an Ashes series.
But Cross admits they can’t look too far ahead.
“Every country is improving in the women’s game now. We are professional so we have got some pressure to perform all the time,” said Cross, who was the first girl to be named in Lancashire’s Academy seven years ago.
“Everyone else is also starting to improve so the competition in women’s cricket is getting really, really strong.
“We know that New Zealand are a really strong team, they are strong girls. They have got some really experienced players.”
After a hectic schedule over recent years, Cross and the England squad have been able to hone their skills and their team spirit this winter.
“Last winter it was just tour after tour after tour and it was about keeping yourself in the mind frame of competition,” said Cross. “This winter we have been able to step back from that and really work on our skills and develop.
“It is nice to have some time to get fit, I know that sounds a bit strange, but it’s purely just fitness and strength that we have been able to work hard at. That has been quite nice.
“We have had some team building days.
“We did a psychological test in the morning, something they do in the pit stops in Formula One. We were in the gym doing an ironman challenge and then we did some prep for New Zealand.
“Then we did a Come Dine With Me challenge. We were all given a certain amount of money to spend and had to make a two-course meal. It was really good.
“We just made far, far too much food. We catered for around 90 people in the end when there was only 30 of us there!
“It was really nice to do something different with the team and to work together in different environments.”
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Lubbock County officials to consider venue tax to fund event center to host dirt events
By Matt Dotray A-J Media
A Lubbock group is crafting a proposal to increase the county's hotel occupancy tax by 2 percent to fund a multi-purpose event center to host dirt events.
The group hopes Lubbock County commissioners will put it on the ballot for a public vote as soon as this November during the general elections.
There's no name for this group leading the charge for a dirt arena, but a Lubbock banker described it as a grassroots organization made up largely from people in the business community. And details of their proposal aren't yet completely clear — things like the design, location and total cost haven't been disclosed.
The last day commissioners can vote to place a special election measure on the November ballot is Aug. 20, so the group has less than two months to make their case.
Randy Jordan, market president at Western Bank, was at the Lubbock County Commissioner's meeting Monday morning representing this new group. Jordan gave a presentation to the commissioners regarding the possible Sports & Community Venue Tax for Lubbock County. Jordan said the group will have more details in the coming months, but they're wanting the commission to consider a 2 percent increase to the county's hotel/motel tax - up from 13 to 15 percent. An increase to the short-term motor vehicle rental tax was also discussed.
"The bottom line is it'll be a venue that will be used for a multitude of things — all dirt events, any type of equestrian activities, as well our ABC Rodeo and our Lubbock County Junior Livestock Show," Jordan said after the commissioner's meeting Monday. "What we're talking about is a venue that we don't have right now. It'll take the place, if you will , of the coliseum — except it'll be better."
What Jordan continued to stress when talking with commissioners and the media is that the group are not proposing an increase to property taxes. He said a venue tax is something many counties use to fund arenas, and it'll be paid for the most part by visitors and tourists.
Jordan said a 2 percent increase to Lubbock County's hotel occupancy tax is projected to yield about $2.7 million annually.
"Right now, Lubbock has a hotel/motel tax, and what we're proposing is to increase that by 2 percent," Jordan said. "That visitors tax would be levied to people that visit and stay in our hotels and motels. This would be a visitors tax, we've got to emphasize that. We're not proposing to the voters of Lubbock County to increase their taxes, we're talking about increasing the revenue coming from visitors."
He said there has always been a want for a new dirt arena, but now there's a need following the vote in May to abandon the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and Coliseum. In May the citizens of Lubbock narrowly approved a proposition allowing the city to give the half-century old auditorium and coliseum, and the land it was build on, back to Texas Tech. The university said it intends to demolish the facilities.
But the university said it intends to honor the facility's current contracts through 2019, so events like the ABC Rodeo are only guaranteed now for one more year. Jordan said this narrow timeline is why the group is pushing to have the measure on November's ballot. Monday's presentation comes ahead of this Thursday's Lubbock City Council meeting at which the council will consider a resolution to move forward with plans to abandon the facilities.
He said the group envisions an arena with a large exhibit hall that will hold about 6,000 people.
Jordan and his group have visited over 10 of these types of arenas to get a sense of what they're looking for. Some are privately owned, but he said the majority are built through avenues like the one they're proposing. If it gets built, he said a third-party would be hired to run the facility. That funding would largely come from the arena's daily revenue, he added.
After the meeting, commissioners said this venue tax is something they're considering, and applauded the group for taking a lead.
"There's lots of equestrian events, and now there's going to be a void there," Commissioner Patti Jones said. "We know we're going to have to do something, and this is something that's not going to change anybody's tax bill. It's not anything to do with ad valorem taxes, it's to do with the HOT tax, the hotel occupancy tax."
Jones, along with Commissioner Bill McCay, said there are details they need to know before the vote — such as who will run it once it's built, the costs, and what the local hotels and motels say about this proposed new tax.
"It's something for us to consider," said McCay. "It's interesting how much grassroots support there is for this."
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Blind dates and heart break in “Becky Shaw”
Gracie Griffiths (‘19) performs in Storre Theaters.
Photography by Brittany
Sam Mitchell, Staff Writer
In the play “Becky Shaw,” a blind date implodes and relationship drama explodes. The show, written by Gina Giofriddo and directed by Visiting Director Jennifer Thomas, was performed in Storre Theatre on April 28 and 29. Two more performances hosted by Visual Performing Arts will take place on May 5 at 7:30 and 6 at 1:30.
The play is set in a modern society and explores the lives of Susanne Slater, performed by Steffi Sea (‘19) and Max Garrett, performed by Josh Weisenburger (‘17).
The story focuses on Slater’s economic situation after the death of her father. In the first scene, the relationship between Slater and her family friend, Garrett, a financial shark, is explored, which sets the intimate tone for the rest of the play.
Eva Gemlo (‘17) who portrayed Slater’s mother, drew a connection between “Becky Shaw” and this year’s Paideia theme “Who Do You Trust?”
“The people in the show are normal people,” Gemlo said. “They’ve been through stuff that has shattered their lives and it is that kind of thing that makes people do desperate things. Then you have to question who you can actually trust.”
Gemlo’s character had multiple sclerosis, and found portraying her bitter personality challenging.
“I was just filled with frustration and anger,” Gemlo said. “That’s how the character works. So it’s trying to balance between this really cruel character who says awful things to her daughter and people that she loves, but also finding the weakness within that because she is the villain.”
Sea found playing Slater difficult because she did not identify her character.
“What you find out in the show is that every character in the show has a dark side,” Sea said. “It’s hard to find the balance of how to play with the character so that you don’t judge them and can play them effectively.”
Ryan Pierce (‘17) and Gracie Griffiths (‘19) perform an emotional scene in “Becky Shaw.”
Audience member Kate Morin (‘18) enjoyed the production.
“‘Becky Shaw’ was a great play with complex characters and an engaging plot,” Morin said.
Thomas was chosen as a visiting director from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. She wanted the audience to realize that all of the characters are flawed and working to try and make a connection with each other.
“The thing to take away from this play is finding where the people are in our lives that carry that weight with them of feeling flawed or unworthy, and where can we alleviate that,” Thomas said.
The student performers said that they learned a great deal from the experience.
“The main thing we learned is how to actively release these emotional maneuvers that we put ourselves into all the time,” Weisenburger said.
Weisenburger found the show to be indicative of life itself.
“These are different people in a different world trying their best to figure life out,” Weisenburger said. “No one in the show is perfect and they don’t have to be.”
Weisenburger felt that the show was a success with the audience.
“If a show like this can cultivate empathy or recognition in its audience where they begin to have a really good discussion about these complex feelings that people have, then I feel that we’ve done our job,” Weisenburger said.
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Paul Blackburn selected for NCAA Student Immersion Program
Paul Blackburn ('18)
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Olivia Enquist, Staff Writer
Paul Blackburn (‘18), a member of Luther’s men’s basketball team was selected by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to participate in the NCAA III Student Immersion Program. The program provides training for those interested in coaching with the hope that they will work in NCAA Division III athletics after graduating from college. The convention will take place in January 2018.
The program began in 2015 as a recommendation from the Division III Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, which is the Division III governance staff and the NCAA Office of Inclusion. The program’s goal is to encourage minority students to participate in Division III coaching and administration, by encouraging diversity in the division. Every year, the top 40 applicants are selected to participate in the NCAA III Student Immersion Program. These applicants are students that have been nominated by administrators from their colleges or universities.
Blackburn described the process of applying to the program, a process that lasted about two weeks.
“It was brought up to me by the head coach of our basketball team, Mark Franzen.” Blackburn said. “The Women’s basketball team coach Amanda Bailey brought it to his attention. He told me that I would be nominated which is exciting because the school is only allowed to nominate one person per school. The head of Division III has a committee where they go through and pick the top forty candidates that applied. I was just lucky enough to get in.”
The NCAA program is fully funded and will take place in Indianapolis, IN. The participants will be familiarized with Division III athletics, including its members and governance processes. Participants will also receive training in various areas, and attend meetings.
Blackburn described some of the things that he was he was looking forward to gaining from the experience.
“I am super excited to network with some of the higher-ups within the NCAA and people who know a lot about the sport,” Blackburn said. “I am looking to become a graduate assistant next year, so it would be nice in January to build on some of those connections and network with people.”
Head Men’s Basketball coach Mark Franzen commented on Blackburn’s transition from player to coach.
“Paul started out as a player for us and has transitioned to an outstanding student assistant coach,” Franzen said. “He has responsibilities coaching on the floor every day and is also involved in the recruiting process. This year, he will take on the added role of coaching our junior varsity team that will play a 14-game schedule.”
Blackburn also commented on this transition and hopes the program will provide guidance as he continues his role as a coach.
“When you are a player, you will sit on the bench and listen to the coach, but when you are a coach you have to know what to do and what to tell your players,” Blackburn said. “It will be interesting to learn more about the game especially since it’s something that I love. I am just taking it all in.”
Co-captain Christian Wright (‘18) is thrilled for Blackburn.
“I was really excited for him,” Wright said. “He’s fitting recipient and definitely deserves an award like that. Since he’s been on coaching he’s done a lot. He works out with multiple guys more than once a week, so he’s very generous with his time in that way. Even before games he’ll work one-on-one over basketball handling, which is helpful. From last year to this year he’s had a lot more responsibilities and I’ve seen him grow a lot as a coach.”
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Glencoe, one of the smaller villages comprising New Trier Township, with a population of approximately 8,762. Located 22 miles north of the Loop, the village began as an experiment in building the “perfect suburb”. Alexander Hammond, a retired physician and farmer from Rockford, led the quest to create a village with parks, homes and streets following the natural and beautiful topography of the land. Residents would agree that the experiment was an unmitigated success.
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Jobs to Remain Closely Involved in Apple's Product Strategy
Wednesday August 24, 2011 4:27 PM PDT by Arnold Kim
In the wake of the news that Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO, the Wall Street Journal spoke with their sources who said that Jobs has remained actively involved, and that is not expected to change.
People familiar with the situation have said that Mr. Jobs continues to be active at Apple and is closely involved in the company's product strategy. Apple watchers don't expect that to change even after Mr. Cook takes over.
Tim Cook has been made Apple CEO at the recommendation of Jobs.
Update: AllThingsD also reports a similar sentiment:
Extremely well-informed sources at Apple say he intends to remain involved in developing major future products and strategy and intends to be an active chairman of the board, even while new CEO Tim Cook runs the company day to day.
AIP5
103 months ago
Well, Tim Cook has been temporary CEO ever since Jobs announced his medical leave... so he is probably now taking over completely. It was probably only a matter of time before SJ handed him the CEO position.
Either way... I am in shock. I really had hoped to see SJ on the stage announcing the iPhone 5 among other things at the Sept conference... This is just... wow. :(
adztaylor
This can only be good news that he will still be involved, and also implies that his health hasn't deteriorated from first thought.
Warbrain
In other words, nothing has changed compared to the last 8 months.
It's like everyone is at a funeral. This should be a celebration of his success as CEO.
Ivy is Apple personified. He should have been the new CEO.
AND PLEASE CLONE STEVE!
Being CEO requires the person to be a manager of so many different parts. Ive wants to design, not run a company.
matthew12
no death soon!
Probably similar to his role now. I have a feeling Jobs will always have a strong influence and be a part of product innovation until he dies.
You are correct in saying that Steve Jobs is still in his same role. But hopefully he will not die for a long time!
nagromme
Exactly. This is like making his medial leave (which has been this entire year) permanent. But he’s remained involved all year anyway.
We can imagine all kinds of terrible news, or even really good news, but we just don’t know. From what little we do know, the big change for Apple was in January (and has gone great) not today. I hope it was a change that worked out for him too!
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In the wake of the news that Steve Jobs has resigned (https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo/) as Apple CEO, the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576528981250892702.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories) spoke with their sources who said that Jobs has remained actively involved:Tim Cook has been made Apple CEO at the recommendation of Jobs.
Article Link: Jobs to Remain 'Closely Involved' in Apple's Product Strategy (https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/24/jobs-to-remain-closely-involved-in-apples-product-strategy/)
Thank you, Steve Jobs, for defining an epoch. There are only a handful of people alive in the world about whom that can be said.
cmassage
All the best, Steve. We love you.
I have held the image since his medical leave in January that Steve's wife, family and close friends held an "Intervention" with him, saying, in effect:
"If you keep working at the pace that you have been working, that stress on top of your pancreas health issues will kill you in 2 years. Give up being in total control, meditate, go to the beach and guide Apple from a greater distance and you can live to an old age and continue to have a big impact."
I think that is what he has been doing, giving the presentation at the WWDC, creating agreements with China Telecom etc. and he now has confidence that Apple can prosper with him being 'navigator' and without his hand on the tiller at all times.
May it be so.
longofest
This honestly feels kind of like when Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO and became chief software architect... minus the philanthropy.
Both are stepping down from day to day CEO activities, but both stay involved in the company, at least for a while.
chrmjenkins
It's obvious they've been grooming Tim Cook for this role. His role as temporary CEO over the past several months shows that Apple's performance will hold strong. They announce this right before the iphone 5 launch so that the positive press will drown out lingering speculations and show Apple is still on top form.
Shareholders demanded a succession plan. This is it. Tim Cook is CEO and Jobs can stay chairman until the day he dies if he pleases and it won't cause panic as a capable man is still at the helm.
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8th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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Leopold Ruzicka (1958)
On the Biogenesis of Natural Organic Compounds (German presentation)
Leopold Ružicka was in many ways a remarkable person - be it his excellence in organic chemistry, his unique presentation style, his fight for better education, or his interest in art collection, which he manifested via the funding of the Ružicka foundation.
His scientific achievements include the first-time synthesis of the hormones androsterone and testosterone (for which, amongst other things, he received one of the 1939 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry) as well as the first-ever structural elucidation of lanosterol, which represents the base compound that all steroids (e.g. cholesterol and the male and female sex hormones) are biosynthetically derived from. For many years, Ružicka’s laboratory at the ETH Zürich was the prime research location for organic chemistry in the world.
His work strongly influenced Nobel Laureates such as Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen (1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the elucidation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism), Robert Woodward (1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) or Derek Barton (1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). With Barton, Ružicka competed for the structural elucidation of lanosterol and won. Vladimir Prelog, who was awarded one of the 1975 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, was Ružicka’s student.
In the present lecture, Ružicka gives a review of his work, starting from a “reckless” claim he made at a conference in 1923. Back then, he had predicted that bile acids are biosynthesized from cholesterol and not from fatty acids, as postulated by 1927 Nobel Laureate Heinrich Wieland at the same conference. Ružicka further claimed that cholesterol is made from triterpenes. It took him and others several decades to deliver the proof for these hypotheses, but of course, Ružicka was right. Here, he discusses the experiments that led to this insight, following the entire biosynthetic route from carbon dioxide to cholesterol.
A clearly audible passion for his subject and a fine sense of irony make the talk a pleasure to listen to. They are exemplified in many classic quotes such as:
“Die Natur arbeitet streng nach den Regeln der organischen Chemie.” -
“Nature works strictly according to the laws of organic chemistry.”
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Arne Tiselius (1958)
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Marie Price
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Marie Price, a Nonresident Fellow, is an Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at the George Washington University, where she has taught since 1990. Formerly the Director of Latin American Studies from 1999-2001, she is Chair of the Department of Geography.
In 2006, Dr. Price was a visiting scholar at the Migration Policy Institute focusing on immigration to world cities and Latin American migration trends. In addition to her research on human migration, she has written about natural resource use, environmental conservation, and the geographical unevenness of globalization.
Among her many publications, she is a co-editor of Migrants to the Metropolis: the Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (Syracuse University Press, 2008) and a co-author of Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Envrionment and Development (Prentice Hall, 2008). Her research on global urban immigrant destinations has appeared in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Geo-Journal, and the Migration Information Source.
A native of California, she earned her BA in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in geography from Syracuse University in 1991.
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André Derain Window at Vers 1912
51 1/2 x 35 1/4" (130.8 x 89.5 cm)
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, purchased in memory of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan
© 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
André Derain has 68 works online.
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Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition November 19, 1934–January 20, 1935
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection October 19, 1954–February 6, 1955 1 other work identified
30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum November 18–29, 1959 7 other works identified
André Derain in the Museum Collection June 28–September 30, 1963 1 other work identified
Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection May 27, 1964 1 other work identified
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1912, André Derain.
1912 - before December 12, 1914, Galerie Kahnweiler (inv. no. 906), Paris, acquired from the artist.
[Before December 12, 1914] By 1921 - 1924, John Quinn (1870-1924), New York, probably acquired from Galerie Kahnweiler.
1924 - by 1926, Estate of John Quinn, New York.
By 1926 - 1939, Mrs. Cornelius J. [Mary Quinn] Sullivan (1877-1939), New York, acquired from the Estate of John Quinn and sold at auction, Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Prints by Modern Artists…The Entire Collection of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 6-7, 1939, lot 54.
1939, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased at Sullivan auction through Parke-Bernet Galleries.
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Karate Master 2 Knock Down Blow
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BlazBlue Revolution Reburning
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Jump Ultimate Stars
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Dead or Alive Dimensions
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Ultimate Robot Fighting
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ACA NeoGeo: Waku Waku 7
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Samurai Shodown SEN
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Kung Fu All-Star VR
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Skullgirls 2nd Encore
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Mortal Kombat: Deception is a Fighting, Online, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Midway Games for multiple platforms. The game serves as the sixth entry in the series of Mortal Kombat video game, and it follows the story from the 5th title, Deadly Alliance. The story of the game mainly revolves around the revival of the Dragon King Onaga, who struggles to dominate the realms included in the series after demolishing the sorcerers named Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. The legendary warriors from the previous entries join forces to face the antagonist. There are more than twenty-six characters available each with its unique appearance, strength, weakness and skills. The game comes with several new changes like chess and puzzle-like gameplay MK characters and online mode. The Konquest mode returns from the previous title, Deadly Alliance, but revolves around the life of Shujinko, who is a warrior deceived by the antagonist to find for artifacts to make him more powerful. Now, in the game, the player can use a variety of new weapons to take down opponents within a time limit. Mortal Kombat: Deception includes prominent features such as Mini-Games, Fighting Gameplay, New Modes, Exciting Characters, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
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Stephen A. Jannetta
An active member of the local legal and business communities, Stephen A. Jannetta provides clients in the life sciences, healthcare and healthcare insurance, health information technology, technology, energy, and financial services industries with corporate advice and counsel. His clients include public and privately held corporations and Steve regularly advises them on complex matters, including financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities law issues, joint ventures, corporate governance, and technology licensing transactions.
Extended Profile
In his practice, Steve advises medical device, biotechnology, healthcare, utility, financial services, and technology companies in capital raising, licensing, and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He represents major healthcare corporations, as well as technology, biotechnology, and medical technology companies in large transactions and assists smaller, emerging companies in all industries in all aspects of their life cycles.
Steve has been an active member of the board of directors for Life Sciences Pennsylvania, the state’s trade association for the life sciences industry, and he twice chaired the association’s annual life sciences conference. He is the honorary consul of the Kingdom of Belgium for the Philadelphia region.
Serving on various other boards, Steve has been a member of the board of trustees of his alma mater, The Episcopal Academy, a private, coeducational school; and a member of the campaign cabinet of the United Way of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey. He also is a member of the advisory board for the Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Classic, an annual event benefiting Melmark Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides educational services to children and adults with intellectual challenges.
In addition, Steve previously served on the attorney advisory committee to the Pennsylvania Securities Commission. He was a board member of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, and of the board of trustees of Camp Tecumseh, a boys’ summer sports camp. Additionally, he served on the board of directors of the Haverford Civic Association, his local civic association.
As an adjunct professor at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Steve taught a seminar on the Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship for eight semesters.
selected representations
Represented a major healthcare company in a buyout of a 50% general partner
Represented a major healthcare company in its sale of a pharmacy benefits management company to a publicly traded company
Represented a publicly traded medical device company in several matters, including various public offerings of common stock, a $200 million credit facility, and in its $1.5 billion sale
Represented a Canadian publicly traded dermatological company on its Nasdaq listing
Represented an emerging ophthalmologic company on a convertible debt financing
Represented a major healthcare company in its minority investment in a Medicaid-focused venture
Represented a medical device company in its $48 million initial public offering
Represented a publicly traded energy company in various billion dollar credit facilities
Advised a number of technology, biotechnology, and medtech companies in venture capital financing transactions involving an aggregate of more than $300 million
University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1989, J.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, 1986, B.S. Economics
Board Member, Life Sciences Pennsylvania
Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Belgium, Philadelphia area
Member, Philadelphia Bar Association
Life Science Leader, "Best Consultant" category, Philadelphia Business Journal and Pennsylvania Bio (2012)
President’s Service Award, Pennsylvania Bio (2015)
9/27/2018 - Morgan Lewis Partner Elected to Life Sciences Pennsylvania Board
3/14/2014 - Morgan Lewis Partner Awarded Pennsylvania Bio’s President’s Service Award
11/13/2013 - PA Bio Life Sciences Future Conference
10/22/2012 - 12th Annual Biotech Symposium
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Diana the mother
As soon as I sat down to watch ‘Diana Our Mother’ on TV, I knew I had to share my thoughts on her.
Diana was the same age as me. She would be 56 had she not died tragically that night 20 years ago in Paris. I remember vividly the moment I heard the news on the radio. I was working alone in our small business which involved customer service and for the rest of my shift I was inconsolable. It seemed the whole world was in shock for months. Theories about conspiracy to assassinate her were and still are making headlines but the reality remains that Diana was taken too soon and will be forever young in our memories.
Diana was an inspiration to many young women back in the 80’s. From the way she wore her hair to the clothes she dressed herself and her boys in, we pawed over every magazine who had the sense to put her on the cover. She was big news.
Imagine her now. Imagine the type of woman she would be. When I imagine her today, I see a woman who has the ability to change world views. I see her thriving in Grand Motherhood, immersing herself in her love for George and Charlotte. I see her as a friend and mentor to her daughter in-law, Catherine and soon to be daughter in-law Megan. I’m sure Catherine would have had the utmost support from Diana in her Royal role and Megan would have been welcomed with open arms. But mostly, I see Diana as one of the most influential woman of this Century. I speak of her as though she could have been my BFF. I loved her. I loved everything about her and I mourned her death.
As Diana’s sons grew up, one can’t help but be proud of these men she nurtured as boys. It proves that empathy and compassion are virtues instilled as young children. William and Harry are Diana’s legacy and they have inherited her sense of duty to the people while staying very Royal. Everyone has an opinion on the Royal Family. Like them or loath them, they seem to give hope and stability to a wild and unpredictable world. I stand proudly as a supporter of The Royals and look forward to this fresh generation gaining acceptance from the broader community. I’m very grateful for the 20 year anniversary insight into William and Harry’s memories of their mother, as they now share a duty to keep Diana’s memory alive for future generations.
In memory of an extraordinary woman.
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Current: Elaghmore and Mills & Reeve display investment prowessElaghmore and Mills & Reeve display investment prowess
Elaghmore and Mills & Reeve display investment prowess
Mills & Reeve advises Elaghmore on acquisitions of display and visual solutions companies.
Elaghmore, a private equity fund, has acquired Gardners, a Cardiff-based outdoor display company and SFD, who offer a complete visual needs solution to the retail industry.
The deals make up the sixth and seventh acquisitions made by Elaghmore from its £60 million initial private equity fund, with Mills & Reeve providing a full service on six of the acquisitions.
The acquisitions of Gardners and SFD follows on from the purchase of Kesslers in 2017. Kesslers designs and manufactures retails displays and merchandising. The three companies will work closely together while continuing to operate autonomously. The recent acquisitions have resulted in a group that employs over 300 people and has annual sales of more than £60 million.
The Mills & Reeve corporate team advised on all three acquisitions, including SFD, which was completed in just seven days.
Corporate partner Junaid Haroon, who led the team for Mills & Reeve, said: “Elaghmore have a fantastic reputation for talent spotting, identifying business that not only work well together but also promises a healthy return on investment. The combination of these businesses will create world-leading design and displays solutions for brands globally.
We have worked with Elaghmore on a number of their investments and look forward to continuing to support them with their goal of creating strong growth and long term value in the companies they invest in.”
NorthEdge Capital invest in multi-million management buyout
We have acted for NorthEdge Capital on the purchase of Phoebus Software, the second investment for their SME fund.
£1m investment in a new cell therapy company
Mills & Reeve has advised on an investment in a new cell therapy company as part of a £35m Series A funding round for UCL Technology Fund.
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Harrow's reaction to Baby P
With the tragic case of tortured Baby P hitting the headlines we look at the measures in place to stop similar horrors happening in Harrow.
My London
Updated 15:27, 1 OCT 2013
Baby P
The picture of a blond angelic boy known as Baby P has been a fixture in newspapers since his mother and two men were found guilty of causing his death.
The tragedy of the toddler from Haringey occurred after 17 months of horrific abuse, which social workers failed to stop, and has led to inquiries being launched into the roles of the agencies involved.
The children’s services department in Harrow oversees all issues related to the welfare of young people from adoption to internet safety. In five years, there has not been a death of a child in care, however director of children’s services Paul Clark says the department remains vigilant.
He said: "I would be foolish to say it (Baby P) would never happen here, but we work very hard at Harrow to not accept what we are told and challenge people we are working with and each other."
By challenge, the director means questioning the variety of agencies that work with children on the Local Safeguarding Children Board which includes the police, social workers, teachers and healthcare officials.
There are currently 144 children in the borough who are in residential accommodation or foster care.
There are a further 144 children on child protection plans who are living at home and monitored by social services.
In addition there are a further 150 families who have approached the council for help and are currently being offered support.
The main reason children are in care is because of neglect or abuse, with
43 per cent of cases involving parents failing to care for children or subjecting them to emotional or physical abuse.
This is followed by absent parenting at 18 per cent, when a parent abandons a child.
Mr Clark regularly meets with social workers and children to ensure the
system is working well.
He said: "In the care protection plans it could be something as simple as a child needing to learn how to ride a bike or take drama classes.
"We deal with emotional issues, but also the everyday aspects of being a child."
The NSPCC has called for an urgent review of child protection plans at local councils to find those at risk of the most serious harm.
Solicitor Amanjit Lalli, head of the childcare department at Duncan Lewis and C Solicitors, which has offices in Peterborough Road, Harrow, has acted on behalf of parents and guardians of children. In her experience, early intervention is the key to protecting young people in danger.
She said: "Recently I have noticed that local authorities are not issuing proceedings and that is a concern as they are not taking steps to protect children.
"It is encouraging that the authorities will work with the families and try to help them, but they do not start proceedings quickly enough."
In Harrow, Mr Clark believes in putting the child at the centre of all proceedings to ensure they are safe.
He said: "I always think – in the words of Lord Laming who did the inquiry on Victoria Climbie – what is life like for this child every day?
"We put the child at the centre of our proceedings."
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Home Front Page News Tribute for Sgt. Elliott Robbins Marks Latest Local Casualty of Afghan War
A large crowd of veterans and local citizens turned out to memorialize the life of local resident, Green Beret Sergeant Elliott Robbins, who was killed last week in Afghanistan along with two of his comrades.
It was a chilly morning when more than 100 people turned out at 5:30 a.m. to honor Robbins in front of the Costello Street Coffee House in Florissant, which he and his wife Vickie Robbins own.
The popular coffee shop, located at the junction of Teller 1 and U.S. Hwy. 24 is an acclaimed local hangout. The Robbins’ bought the business a year and a half ago, as part of a way to live their version of the American dream.
Photos by Cindy Valade
But that dream has taken a drastic turn. However, locals and veterans came out in force last Thursday morning to offer their support to the Robbins family. Throngs of friends and strangers gathered around the coffee house to write cards, pray, give emotional farewells, hug each other, and to celebrate the heroic deeds of a former veteran. American flags donned the community of Florissant, a town that is not afraid to exhibit patriotism on its sleeves.
Elliott Robbins was one of the soldiers reported killed in Afghanistan on June 30th. Heartbreakingly, he was only three weeks away from coming home. He and Vickie had just had their first son, Elliott Jr, just a few weeks before this deployment began. Elliott Jr. will be growing up without knowing his father. But the child will certainly learn plenty about his father through the network of area veterans.
Elliott Robbins had a remarkable military career.
According to the website, Miltary.com, “Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins, a medical sergeant with the 10th SFG (A), died Sunday from “non-combat related injuries” in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, Lt. Col. Loren Bymer, U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman, said in a July 1 press release.
The 31-year-old Ogden, Utah native’s death occurred five days after Master Sgt. Micheal B. Riley of 2nd Battalion, 10th SFG (A) was killed in a June 25 gun battle with suspected Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province. Sgt. James G. Johnston of the 79th Ordnance Battalion (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), 71st Ordnance Group, was also killed in the June 25 engagement.
The three deaths, which are under investigation, bring the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 10, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
Col. Lawrence Ferguson, commander of 10th SFG (A), described Robbins as a “skilled soldier with three combat deployments.”
“We mourn the tragic passing of Sgt. 1st Class Elliott Robbins. The 10th Special Forces Group has paid a heavy toll in recent days,” Ferguson said in the release. “While we mourn, we will support Sgt.
1st Class Robbins’ Family and honor his service.”
Robbins joined the Army in June 2006 and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as an infantryman. He completed the Special Forces Qualification Course and was assigned to 10th SFG (A) in 2016, according to the release.
Robbins deployed to Iraq with the 101st in 2007, and twice to Afghanistan in 2017 and 2019 with 10th SFG (A), the release states.
Robbins’ awards and decorations include the Army Commendation Medal with Combat Device and one Oak Leaf Cluster; Army Achievement Medal with one Silver and two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters; Valorous Unit Award; and Army Good Conduct Medal with Bronze Four Knot Device, the release
Robbins also received the National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Iraq Campaign Medal with Campaign Star and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, according to the release.
His awards also include the Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon with Numeral 2; Overseas Service Ribbon with Numeral 2; NATO Medal; Special Forces Tab; Ranger Tab; Combat
Infantryman Badge; Expert Infantryman Badge; Military Freefall Parachutist Badge; and Parachutist Badge, according to the release.
But the July 4th memorial in Florissant wasn’t about these awards.
According to reports, Army officials reportedly came to the door of Vickie Robbins’ home on the evening of June30 to deliver the tragic news. While she visited with her family away from Colorado in mourning her husband’s death, locals and neighbors organized a gathering to offer their support on July 4.
It wasn’t hard to generate many attendees, as Teller County is an area that takes care of their veterans. Altogether, it is estimated that more than 200 attended throughout the morning.
The gathering featured a number of tribute speeches and special memories of Elliot Robbins. One of the most emotional speeches came from Don Bartron, a retiree of the 10th Special Forces Group, who also served as a Green Beret before Elliott. The latest Afghan casualties have hit the Special Forces group hard.
Bartron stressed the importance of viewing July 4th as “Independence Day” and a way to “come together.”
It is still unclear if other special tributes will be organized in the future to honor Elliott Robbins. But if history repeats itself in Teller County, the life of the former veteran and Florissant business owner won’t be forgotten.
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Mitigating the Defects in Metal AM Parts
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers, along with scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) have discovered a solution to a major type of defect in metal 3D-printed parts.
Combining high-performance computer simulations with X-ray imaging of the laser powder bed fusion (LBPF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) process obtained with SLAC’s synchrotron, researchers have found a way to negate the formation of pores — tiny holes created under the surface of a build that can initiate cracking in the finished part under stress. The mitigation strategy involves reducing the power of the laser as it slows down to make its turn along the serpentine path it takes to scan and build a metal layer. By varying the laser power throughout the build, they found, they could keep the laser’s depression depth shallow and constant. The research is described in the journal Nature Communications, published online on April 30.
“We found in a lot of parts that at the end of that area where the turnaround is, there’s a huge concentration of pores, which affect the material quality. We’ve had simulations that show this, and we needed some experimental validation,” lead author and LLNL researcher Aiden Martin explained. “We now have a mitigation strategy where we measure the speed of the laser as it makes that turn, and we change the power dynamically during the turnaround. If we know the speed, we can adjust the power of the laser, and that keeps that depression nice and stable at the surface, and we don’t get that depression that forms the pore at the end.”
Researchers found that during the printing process, as the laser melts the metal powder and makes the turn, the laser’s power density intensifies, penetrating deep under the surface, forming a “keyhole depression” and leaving tiny bubbles of gas trailing behind it in the solidifying metal. These bubbles then cause pores to develop under the surface of the printed object.
“It’s been a known problem, but this is the first demonstration that we can correct it in a predictive way,” said principal investigator Ibo Matthews, who has analyzed melt pool dynamics for several years. “Most important is the fact the pores are always created at a distinct point in time, as the laser accelerates out of the turn. The timing is quite interesting. The assumption was that pores formed only at the deepest part of the melt pool. The fact that the pores occurred after the turn was a surprise to everybody.”
The mitigation technique the team developed, Matthews said, is part of a suite of tools tied to the Lab’s “intelligent feed-forward” strategy, which relies heavily on simulations and model validation prior to printing and is already being adopted by companies in the automotive and aerospace industries, among others. Researchers said the strategy could be deployed on “virtually any commercial machine” by constructing power maps with a 3D slicer software that converts the parameters defined by a computer-aided design (CAD) file into machine instructions.
LLNL computer scientist Saad Khairallah developed the simulation model behind the mitigation strategy using a multi-physics code called ALE3D. The further addition of laser ray tracing to the model, improved the fidelity of the predictions.
“The way you fix the problem is adding ‘cruise control’ to your simulation,” Khairallah said. “I simply told the simulation to maintain the melt pool depths constant. That fixed the problem. You don’t see pores; you don’t see keyholes. And as an added benefit, you get a power map — an output of the simulation model that indicates the power needed as a function of location along the track to prevent pore formation.”
One of the best methods for examining porosity as the laser scans a part is to use X-rays to see below the surface of the melt pool. Using a test chamber built at LLNL that allows researchers to spread a single thin layer of powder, LLNL and SLAC researchers captured images of the laser scanning on a synchrotron beamline. Inspired by the results of the simulations and the power map, they performed experiments showing pore formations under the surface when they kept the laser’s power constant, and a consistent melt pool depth with no pores when they reduced power at the turn. The experiments were then compared to the simulations to verify them.
The work, researchers said, provides further insight into the laser powder bed fusion process and demonstrates the potential for science-based approaches to increase confidence in metal components produced by the process.
“The pores are a real initiator of failure, like cracking and other processes that occur at the pore sites,” Martin said. “So, if we can eliminate the pores in the part, we have a harder part and something we can ultimately certify for use.”
Because laser powder bed fusion is the preferred method of metal 3D printing for many larger automotive and aerospace companies, Martin said he anticipates the mitigation strategy will be adopted for use by industry.
“Right now, it requires additional electronics, but in the future it’s something that could probably be incorporated directly into the software,” Martin said. “We’re hoping with some fine tuning that can slowly be incorporated into the builds.”
The next step for the team is incorporating the strategy into actual part builds that can involve more complex scan patterns. Matthews said they are interested in leveraging these methods to print lattice structures and using thermal, acoustic and tomographic methods to detect where pores begin to form in multi-layered parts.
The work was performed with funding from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Ames Laboratory contributed to related work by completing design of the powder feed system for in-situ X-ray characterization during the directed energy printing process and participating in the X-ray diffraction studies.
Other LLNL contributors included Nick Calta, Jenny Wang, Phil Depond, Gabe Guss and Tony van Buuren. SLAC collaborators were Anthony Fong, Vivek Thampy, Andrew Kiss, Kevin Stone, Christopher Tassone, Johanna Weker, and Michael Toney. The Ames team included researchers Matthew Kramer and Ryan Ott.
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Harbor Group Buys Baltimore’s Belvedere Towers for $26.1M
Harbor Group International LLC continues to enhance its presence in Baltimore with the acquisition of Belvedere Towers Apartments.
Barbra Murray
Oct 13, 2011
Baltimore, Md.—Harbor Group International LLC continues to enhance its presence in Baltimore with the acquisition of Belvedere Towers Apartments. The real estate investment and management firm picked up the 234-unit high-rise for $26.1 million. The asset last traded in 2007 for $23 million.
Belvedere occupies 5.5 acres just a few blocks from I-83 in an area of well-established and affluent neighborhoods. The property features 12,200 square feet of ground-level retail space and another impressive attribute—the largest apartment units in the submarket. Residences average 1,169 square feet.
HGI plans to make improvements to Belvedere, which first opened its doors in 1965, through an investment of approximately $2.6 million. “The seller had started a significant interior renovation, but for strategic reasons they needed to exit the asset before they had finished,” T. Richard Litton, Jr., president of HGI, tells MHN. “So we will complete the interior renovation process and then we think that the property will be very well positioned to capitalize on the improving market from a rent and occupancy perspective.”
Indeed, the Baltimore apartment market is on solid ground. Although the current rate of annual effective rent growth has dropped from its peak in February, it is still at a respectable 4.2 percent, according to numbers released by apartment market data provider Axiometrics in August. And there’s more good news. Despite the slowdown in rent growth, the occupancy level continues on the upswing as it has since January. The current occupancy rate is 95.7 percent.
It’s all about jobs. “We still feel, as most people do, that there’s significant money through the government and the different federal agencies that will spur on the Baltimore economy,” Litton explains. “There have been tremendous things going on in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore Corridor, so overall we just feel like the federal government impact will continue to be very positive for the whole region. And Belvedere is located near very high-end retail, has tremendous access to the interstate and the main road systems in Baltimore. I think it will continue to be an attractive place for tenants to live relative to their job locations.”
Belvedere marks HGI’s second apartment transaction in Charm City in three months. In July, the company expanded holdings in the market by 1,984 units through the acquisition of a six-property portfolio for $190 million. It was a good deal. “Sometimes a lot of transactions that are inside the Beltway get priced up and bid up and are very tough from a pricing perspective, but we think we’ve been able to find opportunities in the Baltimore submarket that are very compelling from a price perspective,” he says.
But HGI has its eye on areas beyond Baltimore. “If there’s one region where we don’t have a lot of assets and would like to buy more it is Orlando, Tampa and South Florida. That is where we plan on spending a lot of time.”
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James Buss
FH 295F
bussj1@nku.edu
Prior to being named SU’s inaugural Dean of the Honors College, Dr. Buss served as chairperson of the Department of History and director of the University Honors Program at Oklahoma City University, where he was named both Full-Time Teaching Faculty Member of the Year and Distinguished Honors Professor of the Year. He serves serves on the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC)’s Assessment and Evaluations Committee, as well as their Advocacy Committee. In 2017, he was elected to the Board of Directors for NCHC.
Dr. Buss is the author of “Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes” (2011) and co-editor of “Beyond Two Worlds: Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America” (November 2014), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His scholarly interests center on the intersections of settler memory, Native American history and public commemoration. Dr. Buss previously served on the executive board of the American Society for Ethnohistory as the organization’s secretary and continues to work toward the advancement of scholarship on Native American and indigenous issues. He has appeared on NPR, C-Span 2’s “Book TV” and Zócolo Public Square to speak about his work.
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Noerr Newsroom Press American Lawyer awards prize to Noerr’s litigation team in Global Legal Awards
American Lawyer awards prize to Noerr’s litigation team in Global Legal Awards
Noerr was honoured in New York for successfully advising and representing the City of Leipzig’s Water and Wastewater Utility (Kommunale Wasserwerke Leipzig, “KWL”) in litigation conducted before the High Court of Justice in London. A judging panel of the renowned U.S. magazine “American Lawyer” selected the case as the “Global Dispute of the Year: U.K. Litigation”. The case concerned claims of € 350m made by major international banks under financial derivatives transactions.
The judgment came after nearly five years of litigation in Germany and England. On 4 November 2014, the London High Court handed down its judgement after a trial lasting almost three months, saying that the banks were not entitled to any payments from KWL under the collateralised debt obligations (“CDOs”) concluded in 2006 and 2007.
On KWL’s side, the Noerr team had acted together with English lawyers of Addleshaw Goddard as well as with barristers Tim Lord QC and Simon Salzedo QC of Brick Court Chambers. All teams operated under the lead of Noerr’s Munich-based partner Christine Volohonsky.
This year, Noerr has already received several international awards. In addition to the American Lawyer award, Chambers selected the firm as “Germany Law Firm of the Year 2015” and The Lawyer chose Noerr as “Law Firm of the Year: Germany”. In Germany, the legal publisher Juve declared Noerr “Law Firm of the Year” and “Law Firm of the Year for M&A” in 2014.
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Leaving Hillsborough
I am a proud fan of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. But I don’t go to the matches any more.
Football has always been a part of my life. From playing with a crumbling old ‘casey’ ball in the streets in the seventies, trying out and failing to get into the school team, playing Sunday League for pub teams, playing in the park with my son, and later watching him captain his school’s football team, watching him score a goal which I still say would have won any professional goal of the season competition… And then of course watching TV football; Match of the Day, Sky, BT, Eurosport. Reading books about tactics, and autobiographies of players and managers. And even living the dream on a computer, playing Football Manager. But best of all, an afternoon or evening at Hillsborough, watching my beloved Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
As a schoolkid, playing fourteen-a-side kickabouts with whoever wanted to turn up, the match was always an FA Cup Final between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. Those were the days.
With the names of those two football clubs in mind, I want to throw a few other football clubs into a list of kinds. What do the following football clubs have in common?
Sheffield Untied
Here’s a clue: Port Vale is one of a few football clubs that could never make it onto this list. I’ll let you have a think about it, while I move on. We’ll come back to it shortly.
There was a time when my club, Sheffield Wednesday, was considered to be one of the biggest football clubs in England. In the early 90’s, after finishing 3rd in the top flight, and missing out on winning the league by little more than a whisker, we went on to be regular visitors to Wembley. Chelsea were an easy six points, and a plus-six goal difference, for us in a season. Alex Ferguson described us as Man United’s bogey team. In fact, when Man United waved a cheque book in the direction of Wednesday’s legendary striker David Hirst, they were sent packing. Top players came to the club; Chris Waddle, Des Walker, Roland Nilsson, John Sheridan, Carlton Palmer, Mark Bright… Hot property Andy Sinton famously turned down Arsenal to join SWFC. The list just went on. They were good times, and attendances at Hillsborough were high, as you’d expect when things on the pitch were so awesome.
But the good times didn’t last. Wednesday suffered relegations, and for a while were back in the third tier. I’m not a rich man - I’ve always had to work for a living, and my job meant I worked most Saturdays. I had to fight tooth and nail to get the time off - and the money - to see Wednesday play. And I still kept fighting, and shelling out my meagre wages, when the club was relegated… and relegated again. Even when Alan ‘badges’ Irvine instilled tactics which were based around SWFC players standing still while the opposition, quite literally, ran rings around them, I was at Hillsborough regularly, cheering and groaning in equal measure.
Why did I put myself through that? Well, the answer is that football is about more than football. A football club is a hub in the community. People talk about football so passioantely with their friends, family, and colleagues, congratulating on good results, commiserating - or taking the piss - when things aren’t so good. It’s a well-known phenomenon that when England lose an important match, there is an increase in work absence the next day; it makes people feel that bad. Football fans live and breathe the game, and feel every turn of a match in their hearts. Football clubs have become increasingly aware of their place in, and responsibility to, the community. It is a regular thing for professional footballers to visit children’s hospitals, and get involved in charity projects. I repeat; football is not just about football. It’s about tribalism, about pride, about belonging.
Now, keeping those values in mind: Tribalism, pride, and belonging, have a look back at the list of clubs above. The thing they have in common - the thing almost all football clubs have in common, with a few notable exceptions - is that they are named after places. The supporters of these football clubs recognise this geo-cultural aspect of their passion. It plays a part in local pride, and this is why derby matches - matches between local rival teams - are generally the most heated and passionate sporting spectacles around.
There have been occasions when the decision-makers at the top of a football club have lost sight of the vital importance of this geo-cultural aspect. The effect when this happens can be quite startling. A legendary example is that of Wimbledon FC. This club was formed in 1889, and so accrued a certain amount of history and geo-cultural loyalty over the years. A small club that spent a lot of time in the lower leagues of the game, they suddenly hit the big time with a surge of promotions through the divisions, and a famous FA Cup Final win over the mighty Liverpool in 1988. Wimbledon, for a while, became an established top-flight team. Due to league restrictions, they were forced play their top flight home games at Selhurst Park; home of Crystal Palace FC, but the fans were prepared to put up with that - they were still in their patch - South London - and they were playing week in, week out, against the best teams in the country. It all went wrong after relegation in 2000. The Wimbledon hierarchy decided to up sticks, and move the club 56 miles away to Milton Keynes. They even changed the club name to MK Dons. What did the Wimbledon fans do in response? They refused to accept that their club had moved and changed its name. The club belonged to the fans and to the geographical location; the southwest London district of Wimbledon. And so was born, in 2002, the ‘phoenix’ club, AFC Wimbledon. This club currently plays at Kingston Upon Thames - in southwest London - in League 2. The club has worked its way up through the non-leagues into the football league, just like Wimbledon FC originally did. There can be no more powerful illustration of the way in which a football club belongs to its fans and to its geographical location than this.
What does this have to do with Sheffield Wednesday? To start with, I want to remind you that I stuck with my football club through some pretty dark times, seasons played in the lower divisions, with poor players and tactics. I wasn’t a fair-weather fan. Toward the end of those horrible times, the club was bought up by footballing legend Milan Mandaric. Mr Mandaric is an extremely wealthy, heavily Westernised, Serb who became a US citizen, and made his fortune in the states. SWFC is a northern English football club with a largely working-class fan base. The city of Sheffield, despite being one of the greenest and most beautiful (formerly) industrial cities around, has an unfair reputation of being as grim as it gets when people trot out the old phrase, It’s grim up north. Sheffield, and Sheffield Wednesday FC, are quintessentially English. The club is rooted in the city; in northern English tradition. So, it hardly seemed - to many - that Mandaric and SWFC was a marriage made in heaven. But Milan Mandaric is a man steeped in football. After football dealings in the USA and France, he came to England, and is widely regarded as the driving force behind success that came to clubs such as Portsmouth and Leicester. Importantly, Mandaric embraced English culture. He spoke good English, and understood both what English football fans wanted, and the importance of the geo-cultural considerations of a football club. The SWFC fans welcomed Mandaric with open arms, and the whole thing had the feel of a kind of mutual admiration verging on a love affair.
Under Mandaric, SWFC returned to the second flight of English football with a sense of stability and optimism that had been absent for years. The fans wanted more. SWFC fans believe that the club’s rightful place is in the top tier, rubbing shoulders on an equal footing with the biggest of big clubs; the way we did it in the early 90’s. Mandaric appeared to feel that he couldn’t make those dreams come true himself. Having purchased the club on the brink of a winding-up order for £1, he now sold it on (for a modest profit) to equally wealthy Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri. The price: £37.5 million. I was sorry to see Mandaric sell the club after the good work he’d done, but at the same time, I felt we’d been used. A £37.5 million profit (all but a single quid)? Come on! All the love I felt for Mandaric kind of evaporated on the back of that. There’s still gratitude for the way he turned around a club on the brink of folding entirely, but coupled with an understanding that Mandaric was, in the end, a hard-nosed businessman, with his own interests at the top of his priorities (which is fine), and who could never fully and completely immerse himself in, and be part of, the culture of SWFC. At the end of the day, he was a Serbian-American, with his own life and priorities, and his association with SWFC was just one pleasant chapter in his busy and complex life.
The purchase of the club by a new, rich and seemingly ambitious owner sparked excitement among many SWFC fans, who were put in mind of the way other clubs had been transformed by wealthy owners; Chelsea by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, for example. For me, the optimism was mixed with a slightly hollow feeling. A Thai businessman? What did he know about England - or more to the point - northern England, and Sheffield? What did he know about Sheffield Wednesday that didn’t come from reports put together by advisers? There were stories - I don’t know how true - that the idea of Chansiri buying a football club in England came from his young son, a fan of English football, who perhaps had played the Football Manager computer game, and fancied a go in real life. Chansiri had had no previous involvement in football. It didn’t feel right to me.
It got worse.
The popular Stuart Gray, head coach of SWFC, was sacked. Gray had originally joined the club as an assistant to manager Dave Jones. After a good start, Jones faltered and lost his job. Gray stepped up to fill the void, and with little or no funds, guided the club to their highest league finish for six years, along with equalling the club record for clean sheets. A lot of SWFC fans were wondering what Gray would be capable of with cash to spend in the transfer market. But he was never given the chance by this new, foreign owner from the other side of the world. But hey, the club was now Chansiri's train set now, and maybe he was going to bring in some high-profile manager to turn the club around. Some of the names that were speculated upon were hilarious… Sam Allardyce? Kevin Keegan? Harry Redknapp? But no. The new manager appointed by Chansiri was someone pretty much no English football fan had ever heard of; one Carlos Carvalhal, a Portuguese coach with a chequered background, whose one claim to fame what the he was mates with Jose Mourinho.
My traditional English football club, soaked in footballing history, now had a foreign owner from the other side of the planet, a foreign manager, and a number of foreign coaches. Next: Boom! The ticket price controversy...
The club announced a new structure for ticket prices that had many SWFC fans shaking their heads in disbelief. Many football fans around Europe are now familiar with Uli Hoeness’s damning summary of the way English fans are milked over ticket prices. He was referring to the Premier League, but here we had the same thing happening at a second-tier club. Hoeness made himself very clear on the subject of ticket prices:
"We could charge more than €130 (£104). Let's say we charged €380 (£300). We'd get €2.5m (£2m) more in income, but what's €2.5m to us? … In a transfer discussion you argue about the sum for five minutes. But the difference between €130 and €380 is huge for the fans. … We do not think fans are like cows, who you milk. Football has got to be for everybody."
In English football, ticket prices are, whilst not exactly a drop in the ocean, secondary to the funds that are generated by TV coverage and sponsorship. And yet the whole house of cards that is football economics crumbles if the fans lose interest. Which makes you wonder what can be gained by charging fans high ticket prices. Incidentally, it’s not only SWFC fans who are concerned, as can be seen from the recent demonstration at Liverpool, in which supporters walked out of the stadium on 77 minutes after the announcement of a £77 ticket prices. Maybe football hierarchies have a secret plan to drive most fans out of stadiums, forcing them to watch TV at home, increasing demand for TV coverage, and therefore driving up the prices… and the revenue for clubs. Who knows?
So where are we now? SWFC are currently in a playoff position, and have a realistic chance of promotion to the top flight. Carvalhal has managed to get some decent results and performances out of his players. But here’s the thing. It doesn’t fee like my football club any more. They might as well have moved the club to Milton Keynes. SWFC feels like the puppet of a foreign millionaire who just doesn’t get it. I’m a working class family man, and I cannot justify paying the current ticket prices. I want the club to be under English ownership, because I believe in the geo-cultural tradition of football. Remember that list of clubs? Remember my point that football clubs are tied to their geographic location, and to their communities? Dejphon Chansiri and Carlos Carvalhal may understand the concepts of tradition and community - all human beings do - but do they really get SWFC? Ideally, I’d like the club to be owned by a Sheffielder - or better still, by a consortium of fans! Just now, I’m not even excited by the prospect of promotion - that would only lead to higher ticket prices anyway.
Will Chansiri own SWFC forever? Or will he sell the club for an even bigger profit than Mandaric? Do I want to be paying over the odds to help fund that kind of parasitic profiteering?
If SWFC get promoted back to the top flight, or if they win some silverware, I will be delighted for all the fans that still attend the matches. But until two things happen, I won’t be attending any more. Those two things are: Fair ticket prices, and a club ownership that understands, participates in, and originates from the community that SWFC represents.
© Darren R. Scothern 2016
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Your Hummus Habit Could Be Good For The Earth : The Salt High in fiber and protein, chickpeas are playing a starring role on menus. They're also good for soil health — and growing demand could help restore soils depleted by decades of intensive farming.
Your Hummus Habit Could Be Good For The Earth
July 10, 20197:00 AM ET
Whitney Pipkin
High in fiber and protein, chickpeas are playing a starring role on menus at fast-casual chains like Little Sesame in Washington, where hummus bowls abound. Chickpeas also are good for soil health — and growing demand could help restore soils depleted by decades of intensive farming. Anna Meyer hide caption
Anna Meyer
High in fiber and protein, chickpeas are playing a starring role on menus at fast-casual chains like Little Sesame in Washington, where hummus bowls abound. Chickpeas also are good for soil health — and growing demand could help restore soils depleted by decades of intensive farming.
Hummus is having a heyday with American consumers, and that could be as good for the soil as it is for our health.
Formerly relegated to the snack aisle in U.S. grocery stores, the chickpea-based dip has long starred as the smooth centerpiece of Middle Eastern meals and, increasingly, plant-based diets. Occasionally, it even doubles as dessert. Last year, Americans spent four times as much money on grocery store hummus as they did a decade before, according to the latest consumer surveys, and a growing number of snacks and fast-casual concepts also feature the fiber- and protein-rich chickpea as their pièce de résistance.
Part of a subcategory of legumes called pulses, chickpeas — along with lentils, dry peas and several varieties of beans — have been a critical crop and foodstuff for centuries in Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The crops are so promising that the United Nations deemed 2016 the Year of Pulses to expand interest in these ancient foods and their potential to help solve dueling modern-day conundrums: hunger and soil depreciation.
Some American farmers were already well on their way to embracing pulses, seeing the role they could play in improving soil health and setting the stage for better harvests of cash crops like wheat. Last year, U.S. farmers planted more chickpeas than ever to satisfy growing demand for plant-based protein alternatives — which, in turn, could help restore soils depleted by decades of intensive farming.
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Unlike corn or wheat, these pulses fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere, leaving extra stores of the nutrient in the soil for future crops to consume. For this reason, pulses can play a vital role in crop rotations, especially those that don't rely on chemical fertilizers. What's more, if managed well, these crops can be part of a farming system that sequesters carbon from the atmosphere and helps mitigate climate change.
"I see this diversification and these legumes as a way to get away from the use of synthetic nitrogen," says Casey Bailey, a farmer in Fort Benton, Mont., who grows organic chickpeas as the linchpin of a rotational planting program. "They're a tricky crop to grow, but I'm a huge proponent of trying to figure out how to do it."
Chickpeas are often called by their Spanish name, garbanzos or garbanzo beans, in the United States. Inga Spence/Getty Images hide caption
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Chickpeas are often called by their Spanish name, garbanzos or garbanzo beans, in the United States.
He sells about 2,000 pounds of chickpeas each month to Little Sesame, a fast-casual concept serving hummus bowls topped with seasonal vegetables at a pair of locations in the District of Columbia. Chef-owners Nick Wiseman and Israeli-born Ronen Tenne soak the dried chickpeas for hours before cooking and blending them (with tahini, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice) into daily batches to satiate the city's lunch and after-work crowds — often without adding meat.
"We don't say it much, but 80% of the menu is always vegan," Wiseman says. "It's awesome to see people who would probably eat meat every day come in here and be satisfied without it."
For Wiseman, the cherry on top of opening a second location this year is getting to buy more kabuli chickpeas from Bailey, whom he'll visit this summer during a road trip in Little Sesame's 1978 Volkswagen van. Creating markets for such legumes — particularly those grown without chemicals such as desiccants used to dry chickpeas in the fields — is a growing interest for Wiseman.
"These (chickpeas) are helping restore the grasslands of the West, which are this huge carbon sink," Wiseman says over a bowl of hummus topped with snap peas and Aleppo chili oil at his Chinatown location. "They're a very powerful plant."
Bailey planted his first few hundred acres of chickpeas a dozen years ago, after a retailer looking to sell more of the healthful legumes reached out to him on LinkedIn, making him a pioneer in Montana's grain-heavy Golden Triangle region. But word was spreading that the chickpea could pull in more money per pound than other legumes, while reducing the need for chemical inputs compared with crops like wheat.
When Tim McGreevy started working in 1994 as the CEO of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council and the American Pulse Association — a trade group that trumpets the power of chickpeas, lentils, dry peas and beans — the country was harvesting about 30,000 acres of chickpeas annually, primarily in the hilly Palouse agricultural region of Washington, Idaho and Oregon. By last year, that number had swelled to 859,000 acres.
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"That's a pretty big difference in 25 years," says McGreevy, who also grows chickpeas on a small farm in Eastern Washington.
Last year in particular, Bailey says, "it seemed like the entire state of Montana was chickpeas."
While about half of the country's chickpea harvest is still shipped overseas, a growing number of chickpeas are going to domestic markets as demand increases. Trade disputes also are making international markets less reliable. In 2019, U.S. farmers reduced for the first time in years the number of acres they planned to plant in chickpeas, down to 519,000 acres. Volatile trade riffs with countries such as India in 2018 left much of that year's harvest sitting in silos, where an oversupply has continued to depress chickpea prices this year.
"The saving grace — and why I'm still optimistic — is the domestic market continues to grow for all pulse crops," McGreevy says. He thinks the lower price could also spur even more innovation of chickpea-based foods. "Chickpeas have, in particular, shown significant growth in sales over the past decade."
Americans spent nearly $800 million on hummus from retail stores in 2018, McGreevy says. That's compared to just under $200 million in hummus sales a decade before and only $5 million in the mid-1990s, placing the popular dip among food retail's fastest-growing sectors.
Sabra, a joint venture between Strauss Group and PepsiCo., has led hummus' parade into U.S. markets over the past decade and is still one of the sector's largest players. A Sabra production plant in Chesterfield County, Va., where the company also has encouraged more farmers to grow chickpeas, was expanded in 2014 to produce more than 8,000 tons of hummus a month in anticipation of market growth.
The chickpea invasion has gone beyond the dip aisle, too, with crunchy roasted versions from companies like Hippeas and The Good Bean competing with potato chips as a healthful alternative. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines suggest Americans eat 1 ½ cups of cooked pulses per week, McGreevy notes. High in protein, dietary fiber and essential amino acids, pulses can play an even larger role in diets focused on reducing meat consumption.
Hummus already looms large on American snack tables, replacing ranch dressing as a healthier, cut-vegetable accompaniment. And, now, it's staging a takeover of the main meal, too. Hummus-based bowls are the centerpiece of chains like New York City's The Hummus & Pita Co., and a staple ingredient at the ballooning number of fast-casual Mediterranean concepts such as Cava and Roti. Chickpeas are cropping up on menus in Asian noodle dishes, French fries, soft-serve "ice cream" and dessert-like frostings.
But perhaps the easiest way to wade into the chickpea fray is to find a really good bowl of hummus — which doubles as the Arabic word for chickpea — and shovel it in.
Whitney Pipkin is a freelance journalist living just outside Washington. You can find more of her work here. Follow her on Twitter at @WhitneyPipkin.
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Ancient Shipwreck Off Greek Island Yields A Different Sort Of Treasure : The Two-Way Divers exploring the famous Antikythera shipwreck, 200 feet beneath the water's surface in Greece, have turned up a heavy object they think might have been a powerful weapon in the first century B.C.
Ancient Shipwreck Off Greek Island Yields A Different Sort Of Treasure
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DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Two hundred feet below the Mediterranean Sea lies the wreck of an ancient Roman ship. Divers found it in 1900 and retrieved life-sized marble and bronze statues. And now a team has made startling new discoveries there. Here's NPR's Christopher Joyce.
CHRISTOPHER JOYCE, BYLINE: It's known as the Antikythera wreck after the island where it went down just over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologist Brendan Foley just returned from diving on that wreck.
BRENDAN FOLEY: I've looked at 40 or 50 ancient shipwrecks all around the Mediterranean, and there's nothing else like the Antikythera shipwreck.
JOYCE: In 1900, sculptures found in the wreckage stunned the world. Even more amazing was the Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious metal device the size of a wall clock. It turned out to be a sort of clockwork computer that predicted planetary movements and seasons with remarkable accuracy. The wreck wasn't explored again until 1976. Divers had scuba gear then and could search more carefully.
FOLEY: It was full of luxury items, the best stuff available in the first century B.C. - gold jewelry, glassware, perfume bottles, medicine bottles, sort of the floating bazaar of the 1 percenters of the early Roman Empire.
JOYCE: Then in 2012, the Greek government asked Foley and his colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to help Greek scientists look for more artifacts. Woods Hole brought underwater robots and sophisticated diving gear so they could dive deeper and longer. They mapped the entire site and found more stuff.
FOLEY: Beautiful stuff - a marble hand from a sculpture which had broken off emerged, and that was exciting.
JOYCE: The ship was massive, about 180 feet long with hull timbers 5 inches thick - as thick as ships built centuries later during the American Revolutionary War. Foley says the vessel probably traded grain and luxury goods between Rome and far-flung parts of its empire. On one dive, they found something in the sediment that was definitely not a luxury item. They thought at first it was ceramic.
FOLEY: But then we tried to move it and it was unbelievably heavy.
JOYCE: It was a torpedo-shaped cylinder made of lead with a hole through it. No one recognized it. So Foley went back to the literature to the Greek historian Thucydides.
FOLEY: And he writes how the biggest ships in antiquity had these defensive armaments known as dolphins.
JOYCE: Foley suspects that when an enemy ship pulled alongside to board, sailors would hoist the dolphin up to their own yardarm and drop it on the enemy ship to put a hole in its hull.
FOLEY: It would have been truly a wrecking ball. And it's the only one in existence if that's in fact what it is.
JOYCE: In September, the team returns to the site where another wreck they found nearby awaits exploration. Christopher Joyce, NPR News.
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National Memorial South Dakota
Why These Four Presidents?
Discover why Gutzon Borglum decided to carve these four presidents into Mount Rushmore.
Memorial History
Learn more about the people that supported and the events that led to the completion of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
When did it start? When did it end? What happened in between? Find out here.
Historical Letters and Legislation
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Carving History
Explore a brief summary of the carving of Mount Rushmore.
Learn about Gutzon Borglum's plans for and his attempt to construct the Hall of Records.
Memorial Lighting History
Explore the different methods used to illuminate Mount Rushmore during its history.
Keeping Up With The Times
Learn more about the how the grounds around Mount Rushmore have evolved.
The Entablature Idea
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/08/news-invasive-species-ride-plastic-across-ocean.html
Photograph by Gail Ashton and Katherine Newcomer, Smithsonian
Pelagic gooseneck barnacles hang like ropes off a plastic basin that washed onto the beaches of San Francisco in 2014. The basin was one of many pieces of debris that crossed the Pacific after the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
Invasive Species Are Riding on Plastic Across the Oceans
Crustaceans and mollusks foreign to the United States have survived up to six years riding on ocean trash.
By Whitney Pipkin
We know plastics are as plentiful in parts of the open ocean as they are in our everyday lives. But, until recently, scientists didn’t consider that such debris could also be carrying a new wave of invasive species to the shores of the United States. Now they're finding that not only is that happening, but they suspect that some of the species will thrive.
Not long after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the east coast of Japan, a surge of floating trash—shellfish cages, portions of piers, entire fishing vessels—started washing onto the West Coast of North America and Hawaii. The tsunami had dragged Japan’s plastic infrastructure out to sea, where it bobbed toward North America. (Related: Japan Tsunami: 20 Unforgettable Pictures)
Scientists largely expected the debris to land, knowing the pace and direction of ocean currents. But they didn’t know that Japanese mussels, barnacles, and sea squirts could survive for six years on a trek across the Pacific Ocean and arrive not only alive, but ready to reproduce.
Marine invertebrates, such as these invasive tunicate species, are commonly found by researchers in marinas and ports far from their native habitat.
Photograph by Brianna Tracy, Smithsonian
“Until then, we didn’t really think these coastal organisms could survive at sea long enough to make the transit,” says Greg Ruiz, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s marine invasions lab (SERC). “This showed us that they can and do—and that we should expect to see this more often as the amount of debris in the ocean continues to increase.”
Researchers collected as much of the debris as they could over the six-year period during which it continued washing onto West Coast shores. One study documented the creatures that came with the trash and found 289 Japanese species had survived the ride.
Christina Simkanin, a research biologist with SERC’s marine invasions lab, is now studying the fallout of that incremental invasion to see whether any species might establish new populations where they landed. Many of those species that arrived had not yet been introduced to the West Coast and, like any non-native, could cause harm in their new environments.
A Japanese algae species, for example, that had already spread to San Francisco and San Diego landed with the debris in Oregon. A Japanese shore crab, native to several parts of Asia, also rode the tsunami of trash to the West Coast. And scientists feared a shore mussel originally from the Mediterranean Sea could have carried with it a parasite that is not yet known to the West Coast of the U.S. and Canada. (Related: Edible Conservation: Eat the Enemy)
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When researchers ring the alarm bell that a new non-native species has arrived, they usually make an educated guess as to how it got there. Historically, many marine species make the trip in the ballast water a ship collects on one coast to give it stability until it reaches the next (though legislation requiring ships to drain their tanks at sea has helped reduce the number of foreign travelers reaching U.S. shores). Other unwelcome visitors have been introduced by humans looking for a new fish to catch or dumping a tropical creature from their tanks into a lake back home.
But the wave of new species that followed the Japanese tsunami got researchers thinking: How many other invaders have taken the floating-trash train to new waters?
“It’s probably been happening for a while,” says Simkanin. The debris “would have been floating in Japan, gathering this coastal community of species, and then the extreme event basically dislodged and sent them out to the sea.”
“That likely happens during any storm,” she says, “and will continue to happen.”
These mounds of coastal trash are a new frontier for the scientists who study invasive species. In the past, coastal critters have traveled on driftwood that often decomposes at sea. But the proliferation of plastics along more foreign shores makes possible longer journeys as long as the plastic exists, which can be hundreds of years.
But the abundance of ocean plastics poses new scientific questions. How do these species subsist on plastic and polystyrene? Do large pieces of debris become microcosms of their coastal ecosystems, like a floating hotel with food? What if their trash raft gets stuck at sea in gyres like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
The nudibranch, a soft-bodied, marine gastropod, is an organism commonly found on marine debris washed ashore. Photograph by Brianna Tracy, Smithsonian
Linsey Haram, a postdoctoral fellow with the invasions lab, is among the scientists trying to find answers during a research tour through the open ocean this year. The work, funded by NASA, is part of an interdisciplinary study of the unique ecosystems that may be forming on floating debris.
This fall, she’ll work with The Ocean Cleanup—an audacious project to remove some of the 80,000 metric tons of trash swirling in the Pacific gyre—to study the organisms that might be living there. Researchers expect to find communities of coastal life similar to what washed up on the West Coast. But they also wonder if some have evolved to survive on a patchwork of manmade structures.
“Our hypothesis is that many of the organisms that are coastal can survive at sea, and that there is reproduction that happens at sea,” says Ruiz, who still wants to know more about what these species are eating while they float. “Up until now, we thought they required coastal areas where there are more nutrients.”
Mussels, clams, and crustaceans have long made their way to new coasts in the ballasts or on the hulls of ships, which travel from one shore to another over a few days or weeks. But the idea that those same organisms can survive after a years-long float through the Pacific is still, as Simkanin puts it, "mind blowing.” It also makes it hard to predict where they’ll wind up.
Whitney Pipkin is a journalist based in Northern Virginia covering food, agriculture, and the environment.
This article was produced in partnership with the National Geographic Society, which is committed to reducing plastics pollution. Learn more about our non-profit activities at natgeo.org/plastics
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Affordable Care Act Enrollment Begins
Health Insurance Within Reach For Bipolar Sufferer
By KELLI KENNEDY
Published Sep 12, 2013 at 9:18 AM | Updated at 9:21 AM PDT on Sep 12, 2013
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 photo, 32-year-old Jessi Spencer-Hammac poses with her dog Rocco, in Tampa, Fla. Decades before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Spencer-Hammac thought she was just moody, a restless dreamer with grand plans who had trouble finishing projects.
Before she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, 32-year-old Jessi Spencer-Hammac thought she was just a moody, restless dreamer who had trouble finishing projects.
At times, she alternated between being hyper-social and abruptly ending relationships. She also made rash decisions, such as moving across the country and losing contact for a couple years with her young daughter, who was living with the girl's father at the time.
Up one day, she could swing quickly to sad and withdrawn.
Spencer-Hammac said she did not seek mental health treatment until a few years ago. Because she cannot afford health insurance, she pays for the counseling and prescriptions out-of-pocket.
But under the Affordable Care Act, insurers will be prohibited from turning away Spencer-Hammac and millions of other Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, as they can now. Insurers that do offer coverage to those with existing conditions typically charge such high premiums that the cost makes it unaffordable.
For Spencer-Hammac, the provision in the federal health care law could mean an end to buying her $100-a-month mood-stabilizing medication at a discounted price in Canada, as well as the chance to see her therapist more regularly.
Her husband Chris, a 40-year-old bartender who makes about $35,000 a year, has health insurance through the Veterans Administration, but his policy does not cover family. He was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer and underwent surgery in August, further stressing the family's finances. Their 12-year-old daughter, Marley, has coverage through her step-mother's job.
The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that 6 percent of Americans live with a serious mental illness. One in four adults, or about 57.7 million Americans, experience a mental health disorder in a given year. Many don't have access to treatment or lack insurance plans that cover mental illness.
The Tampa mom tried to get health insurance about eight months ago and was told by one consultant that she would never get coverage for mental illness as an individual. She searched for plans online but was inundated with phone calls from insurance companies she said were so manipulative that she gave up.
"I felt marginalized, like I didn't matter, and mad ... that my struggle and the things that I deal with don't matter," she said.
Spencer-Hammac, who is about to start working again as a waitress, pays $40 for a family physician to write the prescription for her mood stabilizer. She can't use the generic brand, so she buys it in Canada and orders several months' worth to avoid high shipping costs. Sometimes, she worries the order will not arrive on time, so she regulates her dosage.
"If I stop it abruptly, I'm looking at being very unstable. That's always been a stressor," she said.
When she's feeling overwhelmed and needs to talk to her therapist, it costs about $100. That's why she's only been twice in the past five months.
A few months ago, she attended a town hall meeting and learned she might be able to get affordable insurance through the new state health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act. She also might also qualify for a federal subsidy to help offset the cost.
"I know I'll feel relieved," she said. "It's a burden to walk around and hope that nothing happens to you, and then with bipolar that you don't do anything drastic and stupid."
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North Korea Demanded US Pay $2M for Captured Student in Coma
The bill went to the Treasury Department, where it remained — unpaid — throughout 2017
By Matthew Lee
Published Apr 25, 2019 at 3:22 PM | Updated at 7:01 AM CDT on Apr 26, 2019
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In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea.
North Korea insisted the U.S. agree to pay $2 million in medical costs in 2017 before it released detained American college student Otto Warmbier while he was in a coma, a former U.S. official said Thursday.
An envoy sent to North Korea to retrieve the 21-year-old student signed an agreement to pay the $2 million on instructions passed down from President Donald Trump, the former official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive diplomatic matter.
The Washington Post, citing two people familiar with the situation, first reported the demand and that the envoy signed the agreement.
The bill went to the Treasury Department, where it remained — unpaid — throughout 2017, the newspaper said. It is unclear whether the Trump administration later paid the bill, or whether it came up during preparations for Trump's two summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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(Published Monday, June 19, 2017)
Trump on Friday said on Twitter that "No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else." He went on to criticize the Obama administration for its $1.7 billion payment cash payment of Iranian assets that had been unfrozen. That January 2016 payment came on the day Iran released four American prisoners.
Trump also criticized the Obama administration for the 2014 prisoner trade with the Taliban for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had deserted his post in Afghanistan.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had said the administration does not comment on hostage negotiations. U.S. policy is to refuse to pay ransom for the release of Americans detained abroad.
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While the majority of Americans detained by North Korea have been released in relatively good condition, Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, died in June last year shortly after he was flown home comatose after 17 months in captivity.
Warmbier was seized from a tour group while visiting North Korea in January 2016 and convicted on charges of trying to steal a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
North Korea, which has denied accusations by relatives that it tortured Warmbier, has said he was provided "medical treatments and care with all sincerity."
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Fred Warmbier, the father of the American college student who spent the last TK months as a prisoner in North Korea, Otto Warmbier, spoke to the press on June 14. Otto is in stable condition.
(Published Thursday, June 15, 2017)
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said the United States doesn't owe North Korea anything.
"Otto Warmbier was mistreated by North Korea in so many ways, including his wrongful conviction and harsh sentence, and the fact that for 16 months they refused to tell his family or our country about his dire condition they caused," Portman said. "No, the United States owes them nothing. They owe the Warmbier family everything."
Parents Fred and Cindy Warmbier are from suburban Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Robert Lewis, a spokesman for the law firm that filed suit against North Korea on behalf of the Warmbier family, declined comment.
Yun told CNN on Thursday that he could not discuss details of his diplomatic discussions. He said his orders from Trump were to "do whatever" he could to get Warmbier back.
Asked if it would be unusual for the U.S. to pay medical costs of detainees, Yun said: "There was some expectation the North Koreans might raise hospital costs." He said that in past instances not involving Warmbier "some money could have been handed over, yes."
Tillerson Confirms North Korea Has Released American Student
American college student Otto Warmbier has been released from North Korea after being held captive there since January 2016, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed during a Senate hearing on the State Department budget.
(Published Tuesday, June 13, 2017)
Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann contributed to this report.
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Massive Blackout Hits Tens of Millions in South America
Argentina's power grid is generally known for being in a state of disrepair
By Paul Byrne and Luis Andres Henao
Published Jun 16, 2019 at 12:34 PM | Updated at 7:16 PM CDT on Jun 16, 2019
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Hallways of Buenos Aires's subway are lit only by emergency lights during a blackout, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, June 16, 2019. Argentina and Uruguay were working frantically to return power on Sunday, after a massive power failure left large swaths of the South American countries in the dark.
A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday in what the Argentine president called an "unprecedented" failure in the countries' power grid.
Authorities were working frantically to restore power, and by the evening electricity had returned to 90 percent of the South American country, according to Argentine state news agency Telam. Power also had been restored to most of Uruguay's 3 million people.
As the sun rose Sunday over the darkened country, Argentine voters were forced to cast ballots by the light of cell phones in gubernatorial elections. Public transportation was halted, shops closed and patients dependent on home medical equipment were urged to go to hospitals with generators.
"This is an unprecedented case that will be investigated thoroughly," Argentine President Mauricio Macri said on Twitter.
Argentina's power grid is generally known for being in a state of disrepair, with substations and cables that were insufficiently upgraded as power rates remained largely frozen for years.
The country's energy secretary said the blackout occurred about 7 a.m. local time when a key Argentine interconnection system collapsed.
The Argentine energy company Edesur said on Twitter that the failure originated at an electricity transmission point between the power stations at the country's Yacyretá dam and Salto Grande in the country's northeast.
But why it occurred was still unknown.
An Argentine independent energy expert said that systemic operational and design errors played a role in the power grid's collapse.
"A localized failure like the one that occurred should be isolated by the same system," said Raúl Bertero, president of the Center for the Study of Energy Regulatory Activity in Argentina. "The problem is known and technology and studies (exist) to avoid it."
By mid-afternoon, power had been restored to most of Uruguay's 3 million people. But in Argentina, only 72% of the nation's grid was back up and running as of 7 p.m. local time, the national news agency Telam reported.
Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui said workers were working to restore electricity nationwide by the end of the day.
"This is an extraordinary event that should have never happened," he told a news conference. "It's very serious."
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Uruguay's energy company UTE said the failure in the Argentine system cut power to all of Uruguay for hours and blamed the collapse on a "flaw in the Argentine network."
In Paraguay, power in rural communities in the south, near the border with Argentina and Uruguay, was also cut. The country's National Energy Administration said service was restored by afternoon by redirecting energy from the Itaipu hydroelectric plant the country shares with neighboring Brazil.
In Argentina, only the southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego was unaffected by the outage because it is not connected to the main power grid.
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Brazilian and Chilean officials said their countries had not been affected.
Many residents of Argentina and Uruguay said the size of the outage was unprecedented.
"I was just on my way to eat with a friend, but we had to cancel everything. There's no subway, nothing is working," said Lucas Acosta, a 24-year-old Buenos Aires resident. "What's worse, today is Father's Day. I've just talked to a neighbor and he told me his sons won't be able to meet him."
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"I've never seen something like this," said Silvio Ubermann, a taxi driver in the Argentine capital. "Never such a large blackout in the whole country."
Several Argentine provinces had elections for governor on Sunday, which proceeded with voters using their phone screens and built-in flashlights to illuminate their ballots.
"This is the biggest blackout in history, I don't remember anything like this in Uruguay," said Valentina Giménez, a resident of the capital, Montevideo. She said her biggest concern was that electricity be restored in time to watch the national team play in the Copa America football tournament Sunday evening.
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The husband of a missing San Antonio, Texas, woman was charged with murder after authorities confirmed they'd found the remains 29-year-old Andreen McDonald. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office arrested Andre McDonald, 40, just two days after authorities found a human skull and bones Thursday night.
(Published Tuesday, July 16, 2019)
Since taking office, Argentine President Macri has said that gradual austerity measures were needed to revive the country's struggling economy. He has cut red tape and tried to reduce the government's budget deficit by ordering job cuts and reducing utility subsidies, which he maintained was necessary to recuperate lost revenue due to years-long mismanagement of the electricity sector.
According to the Argentine Institute for Social Development, an average family in Argentina still pays 20 times less for electricity than similar households in neighboring countries.
The subsidies were a key part of the electricity policy of President Néstor Kirchner's 2003-2007 administration and the presidency of Kirchner's wife and successor, Cristina Fernández in 2007-2015. Fernandez is now running for vice president in October elections.
Associated Press writers Patricia Luna and Natalie Schachar contributed to this report.
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Wayne Memorial probing lost patient information Over thousand patients affected
By Peter Becker
A compact disc containing private information for over 1,000 patients at Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH) from the past five years is missing, Hospital officials reported Jan. 22. The unencrypted CD was sent in the mail to another office but the package arrived opened, without the disc.
Wayne Memorial Hospital began sending out notification letters on January 18, to patients affected by the incident. On December 3, 2012, WMH discovered that this CD containing patient information had gone missing. An investigation was launched immediately. The hospital assured patients every step was being taken to address the incident and to protect their privacy.
The CD was included in a package sent by certified mail to WMH’s government authorized Medicare Administrative Contractor. The contractor received the package damaged and without the CD. Upon learning this, WMH conducted a diligent search for the CD with both the United States Post Office and the contractor. To date, WMH has been unable to locate the CD. The investigation confirmed that the CD contained names of patients who used WMH services between 2007 and 2012, account balances and, in some instances, Medicare numbers.
The notification letters were sent to 1,182 affected patients, who had had account balances pending.
WMH administrators said they have no reason to believe that any of the information has been accessed or used improperly. However, in an abundance of caution, the Hospital has established a dedicated call center for those affected. WMH is also offering to eligible individuals one year of credit monitoring services provided through Experian. More information can be found at the WMH website at www.wmh.org.
According to the website, anyone who thinks they are affected by this but who does not receive a letter by Feb. 8, call 866-221-0150 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Lisa Champeau, public relations manager for the hospital, said they are investigating why the information on the CD was not encrypted.
She said all of the normal procedures were followed in mailing the information to the company.
Government regulations require that information be "reasonably protected," she said. However, Champeau said the hospital is being proactive when it comes to studying the procedures and what changes need to be implemented.
"We submit this type of information annually to the authorized Medicare Administrative Contractor. The list includes account balance information and identifying information prescribed by Medicare for accounts that meet certain criteria," said Chief Financial Officer Michael Clifford.
A statement released by Wayne Memorial reads, "WMH deeply regrets any inconveniences or concerns that this incident may cause those affected. The Hospital takes this incident very seriously and is reviewing its policies and procedures to ensure patient information is protected. The Hospital is committed to protecting all patient information and educating staff hospital-wide on the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of patient information entrusted to Wayne Memorial."
--- Greg Little, Group Editor, contributed to this report
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New statues, education center honor Neil Armstrong in Ohio
Visitors stand before the spacesuit worm by astronaut Neil Armstrong that was used on his Gemini VIII mission at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Neil Armstrong helped put Wapakoneta on the map July 20, 1969, when he became the first human to walk on the moon. The late astronaut remains larger than life in the city 60 miles (96.56 kilometers) north of Dayton, where visitors are greeted by the space base-shaped top of the space museum named for him as they exit Interstate 75. less
Visitors stand before the spacesuit worm by astronaut Neil Armstrong that was used on his Gemini VIII mission at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Neil Armstrong ... more
Photo: John Minchillo, AP
WAPAKONETA, Ohio (AP) — New statues of astronaut Neil Armstrong will be displayed and an education center dedicated in his name as his small Ohio hometown celebrates its native son's history-making moon mission 50 years ago this month.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine plans to take part in festivities Sunday at the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta (wah-puh-kuh-NET'-uh). New statues at the museum depict Armstrong as a boy and as a test pilot.
The museum will dedicate the Neil Armstrong STEM Inspiration Center, promoting science, technology, engineering and math learning.
The western Ohio city of some 10,000 people has already begun commemorations of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 mission when Armstrong became the first man to step onto the moon.
Follow AP's full coverage of the Apollo 11 anniversary at: https://apnews.com/Apollo11moonlanding
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Protests turn violent outside Trump rally in NM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In one of the presidential campaign year's more grisly spectacles, protesters at a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades.
Police responded by firing pepper spray and smoke grenades into the crowd outside the Albuquerque Convention Center.
During the rally, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was interrupted repeatedly by protesters, who shouted, held up banners and resisted removal by security officers.
The banners included the messages "Trump is Fascist" and "We've heard enough."
Donald Trump: Violence Surrounding the Candidate | Graphiq
At one point, a female protester was physically dragged from the stands by security. Other protesters scuffled with security as they resisted removal from the convention center, which was packed with thousands of loud and cheering Trump supporters.
Trump responded with his usual bluster, instructing security to remove the protesters and mocking their actions by telling them to "Go home to mommy."
He responded to one demonstrator by asking, "How old is this kid?" Then he provided his own answer: "Still wearing diapers."
Trump's supporters responded with chants of "Build that wall!"
Trump later tweeted "Great rally in New Mexico, amazing crowd!"
The protesters in New Mexico were thugs who were flying the Mexican flag. The rally inside was big and beautiful, but outside, criminals!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2016
The altercations left glass at the entrance of the convention center smashed.
Albuquerque attorney Doug Antoon said rocks were flying through the convention center windows as he was leaving Tuesday night. Glass was breaking and landing near his feet.
"This was not a protest, this was a riot. These are hate groups," he said of the demonstrators.
Albuquerque police said several officers were treated for injuries after getting hit by rocks thrown by protesters. At least one person was arrested from the riot, police said.
During the rally, protesters outside overran barricades and clashed with police in riot gear. They also burned T-shirts and other items labeled with Trump's catchphrase, "Make America Great Again."
Tuesday marked Trump's first stop in New Mexico, the nation's most Hispanic state. Gov. Susana Martinez, head of the Republican Governors Association and the nation's only Latina governor, has harshly criticized his remarks on immigrants and has attacked his proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The governor did not attend the rally and has yet to make an endorsement.
Trump read off a series of negative statistics about the state, including an increase in the number of people on food stamps.
"We have to get your governor to get going. She's got to do a better job, OK?" he said, adding: "Hey, maybe I'll run for governor of New Mexico. I'll get this place going."
The governor's office fired back, saying Martinez has fought for welfare reform.
"The potshots weren't about policy, they were about politics," said spokesman Michael Lonergan. "And the Governor will not be bullied into supporting a candidate until she is convinced that candidate will fight for New Mexicans, and she did not hear that today."
Trump supporters at the rally said they appreciated his stance on boosting border security and stemming the flow of people crossing the border illegally, but some said they were frightened by the violent protests outside.
Karla Molinar, a University of New Mexico student, said she participated in disrupting Trump's speech because she felt he was attacking members of her family who are living in the country illegally. She said she believes Trump is using them as scapegoats for the nation's problems.
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Q&A: What went into swimmer's sentence
Posted: 5:12 PM, Jun 07, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California judge is facing demands for his removal after sentencing a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman behind a campus dumpster.
Some questions and answers about the furor:
Q. What's the debate?
A. The main question is whether 20-year-old Brock Turner, a blue-eyed white Olympic-caliber swimmer from Dayton, Ohio, with a privileged upbringing, received lenient treatment from a white judge who also played sports at Stanford. Critics argue that a minority or others less fortunate than Turner would have received a stiffer sentence.
The suspicions of special treatment were further fueled when the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department released a booking photo Monday of a clean-shaven, neatly dressed Turner taken about two weeks after his arrest. On Tuesday, the sheriff's department released without explanation a second booking photo from the night of Turner's arrest that that shows him disheveled, shaggy-haired and red-eyed.
Q. What, exactly, did the judge decide?
A. Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky gave Turner six months in the county jail and ordered him to register for life as a sex offender, citing his lack of a criminal history, his numerous character references, and what the judge said was the unlikelihood of his committing another such crime.
California jail inmates are general freed after serving half their sentences, meaning Turner could be out in about three months. The judge also placed Turner on three years' probation.
Q. What happened next?
A. The case triggered outrage and fury online, especially after the release of a letter to the judge from Turner's father, who said his son had already paid a steep price for "20 minutes of action."
Recalling an elected official is rare in California. The judge's opponents would have to collect signatures from about 80,000 registered county voters to put the question of his removal on the ballot.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen said he is disappointed with the sentence but believes the judge should remain in office.
Court spokesman Joe Macaluso said Persky cannot comment on the case because Turner is appealing the jury's verdict.
Q. What do judges consider in imposing punishment?
A. In addition to weighing whether the defendant is likely to break the law again, a judge typically looks at the person's age, criminal history, the severity of the crime, the effect on the victim, and any evidence of remorse. Judges sometimes use sentences to deter others from committing similar crimes. They are also required to take into account the punishments meted out in similar cases.
Deputy public defender Gary Goodman said Turner's sentence was "right in line" with other similar cases.
Q. What did other parties to the case ask for?
A. The district attorney's office argued for six years in prison. Prosecutor Alaleh Kianerci urged the judge to consider the assault of an intoxicated woman Turner had just met at a party no differently than had Turner attacked a complete stranger on a downtown street.
Turner's attorney asked for probation, citing his client's spotless criminal record and the support of his family. Family members, friends and former teachers wrote letters urging leniency.
The county probation department interviewed the victim and Turner, researched sentences in similar cases and recommended Turner get less than a year in jail.
Q. And what did the victim want?
A. The probation officer interviewed the 23-year-old woman on May 3 and quoted her as saying she preferred Turner receive counseling: "I don't want him to feel like his life is over and I don't want him to rot away in jail; he doesn't need to be behind bars."
But on Thursday, she disputed the officer's account and complained to the judge that Turner failed to show remorse or take responsibility for the assault.
"I did not say he does not deserve to be behind bars," she said. "The probation officer's recommendation of a year or less in county jail is a soft time-out, a mockery of the seriousness of his assaults, an insult to me and all women."
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O'Neill has 4 RBIs, Cardinals beat Diamondbacks 4-2
Steve Overbey, Associated Press
St. Louis Cardinals' Tyler O'Neill hits a two-run home run during the third inning of the team's baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, July 13, 2019, in St. Louis.
Photo: Jeff Roberson, AP
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tyler O'Neill said it wasn't actually a promise. However, the St. Louis Cardinals' outfielder did tell cancer patient Preston Dobbs he "would try" and hit a home run for him.
O'Neill came through Saturday night with a two-run homer and a career high-tying four RBIs as the Cardinals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2.
His two-run double in the first inning gave the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. He added the homer off Merrill Kelly (7-9) in the third to push the advantage to 4-1.
O'Neill, born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, met Dobbs before the game. A resident of the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Dobbs got to speak with several players before the contest thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri.
The 11-year-old Dobbs' ability to keep fighting through the toughest of circumstances impressed O'Neill.
"I was able to put that ball in the air for Preston," O'Neill said. "It was just a good feeling."
O'Neill, recalled from Triple-A Memphis on June 29, also drove in four runs in a 6-0 win over Kansas City on May 21, 2018.
Dakota Hudson pitched six effective innings to help St. Louis break a three-game losing streak.
Eduardo Escobar hit his 19th homer for Arizona, which snapped a four-game win streak.
Hudson (8-4) gave up three hits and two runs in a 94-pitch stint. He struck out five and walked four. Hudson wriggled out of a bases-loaded no-out jam in the second after giving up a run-scoring hit to Nick Ahmed.
"When you're tested in uncomfortable situations, he figures out a way to bear down and execute," St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said. "He gutted it up - did his part."
Hudson struck out Jarrod Dyson and then got Ketel Marte to fly out to preserve the 2-1 lead.
"It was a day where I didn't have my best pitch and had to battle through it in order to get outs and keep us in position to win a good ball game," Hudson said. "It's kind of how it was - we had to make adjustments early."
Carlos Martinez got the last four outs for his fourth save in six chances.
Kelly surrendered just one earned run over five innings. A two-out error by third baseman Jake Lamb in the first allowed the inning to continue.
"I would like things to be a little smoother than it was," Kelly said. "Sometimes that's just baseball. It was just kind of not my night."
Ahmed has reached safely in a career-best 14 successive games.
St. Louis first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, who played eight seasons in Arizona (2011-2018), reached on the error by Lamb but went 0 for 3 at the plate and is hitless in seven at bats in the series.
Goldschmidt is hitting .249, the lowest average of his career at this point in the season.
Diamondbacks: RHP Jon Duplantier was scheduled to throw in an Arizona League game on Saturday. He has been sidelined since June 12 with right shoulder inflammation.
Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright will start on Sunday after missing a scheduled start on Friday with back spasms.
"I could have gone (Friday), but they said don't push it," Wainwright said. "I was fine with it."
RHP Miles Mikolas (5-9, 4.53 ERA), who was slated to start Sunday, will go on Monday.
RHP Wainwright (5-7, 4.31 ERA) will face Arizona RHP Zack Greinke (10-3, 2.73) in the final of the three-game series on Sunday. Greinke won 10 games before the All-Star break for the fourth successive season. He has not allowed an earned run in three starts against NL Central opponents this season covering 20 2/3 innings.
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A Critic at Large
June 7, 2010 Issue
Islamismism
How should Western intellectuals respond to Muslim scholars?
By Pankaj Mishra
Ayaan Hirsi Ali says that Muslims must choose between Islam and the secular West; Tariq Ramadan speaks of integration.
Illustration by Mark Ulriksen
Was the prophet Muhammad a pervert and a tyrant? Does Islam promote terrorism and enslave women? Does Islam oblige its followers to wage jihad on Westerners whose roots lie in the secular Enlightenment? Should Muslims consider converting to Christianity? For the Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the answer to all these questions is a resounding “Yes!” Hirsi Ali, who renounced Islam in her thirties, speaks from experience of bigotry and intolerance among her former co-religionists: she was genitally mutilated as a child in Somalia, briefly radicalized by a preacher of jihad in Kenya, nearly forced into a marriage, threatened with death in the Netherlands by the Muslim assassin of her collaborator, the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and is still hounded by murderous fanatics in her new home, America. In her latest book, “Nomad: From Islam to America” (Free Press; $27), she reminds her readers of the West’s tradition of intellectual revolt against clerical tyranny and warns of the insidious, intransigent enemies in their midst. “The Muslim mind today seems to be in the grip of jihad,” she writes.
She is not hopeful that Americans will heed her warning. Her initial job interviews in the United States were discouraging: the Brookings Institution, she writes, worried that she might offend Arab Muslims. (The conservative American Enterprise Institute, however, immediately appointed her as a fellow.) On college campuses, Muslim students accuse her of wanting to “trash” Islam, while Western feminists, convinced that white men are “the ultimate and only oppressors,” lack the “courage or clarity of vision” to help her knock down the mental “hovels” of the East. Pointing to Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous rampage in Texas, last November, she deplores the “conspiracy to ignore the religious motivation for these killings” in America.
Muslims today, Hirsi Ali believes, must be forced to choose between the darkness of Islam and the light of the modern secular West. In her new book, which bears the additional subtitle “A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations,” she takes an uncompromising line with her own relatives, who remain faithful to their benighted religion. The book opens with an account of her visit to her father’s deathbed, in Whitechapel, in London’s East End, in 2008. Her father, a highly respected political opponent of Somalia’s Soviet-backed military dictator, became more religious during exile and old age. Father and daughter hadn’t spoken since 2004, when Hirsi Ali and van Gogh made the film “Submission,” about the oppression of Muslim women, and she learned that he was fatally ill only a few weeks before his death. She didn’t want to visit him at his home, since it was in “a mostly immigrant area and overwhelmingly Muslim,” and had to be escorted by policemen to his hospital. In a brief but moving scene, she describes her father longing, but physically unable, to communicate with her.
The emotions of the moment dissipate soon after she leaves the hospital, when, driving down Whitechapel Road with her bodyguards, Hirsi Ali glimpses covered Muslim women on the pavement and long-bearded men outside a large mosque. Overcome by “an instant sense of panic and suffocation,” she feels as though she were “the only true nomad.” The Muslims in Whitechapel “had brought their web of values with them,” values of a culture that she has left behind. She deplores her “conflicted” half sister Sahra, who is interested in studying psychology in London while remaining a devout Muslim, and who has an annoying habit of saying “Inshallah” after every phrase. “How long will Western societies . . . continue to tolerate the spread of Sahra’s way of life?” Hirsi Ali asks. Considering her vain and financially needy brother, she laments, “This is the tragedy of the tribal Muslim man.” She writes a letter to a deceased grandmother in Africa, educating her about the enviable ways of the Western “infidel”: “He may take care of his parents but has no use for a memory filled with an endless chain of ancestors. All the seeds of his toil are spent on his own offspring, not those of his brothers or uncles.”
“The only difference between my relatives and me is that I opened my mind,” Hirsi Ali writes. The book ends with a letter to an imagined unborn daughter, which is also a tribute to her fellow anti-Islam agitator Oriana Fallaci, who memorably claimed that Muslims “breed like rats” in Europe. Hirsi Ali worries that her daughter will confront “the bleakness of having no challenges in life,” in “an America of many posts: post-civil rights, postfeminism, post-cold war.” She wonders, “What will you fight for? What will you fight against?” Yet there are plenty of dangers that remain, and she warns her child about being brainwashed by “Allah and his agents,” and by the “many isms” that she will be exposed to in America: “socialism and communism and all sorts of cults and collectivisms.”
“Nomad” is unlikely to earn Hirsi Ali many Muslim admirers. Neither will her recent support for the proposed French ban on face veils and the Swiss referendum outlawing minarets. In denouncing Islam unreservedly, she has claimed a precedent in Voltaire—though the eighteenth-century scourge of the Catholic Church might have been perplexed by her proposal that Muslims embrace the “Christianity of love and tolerance.” In another respect, however, the invocation of Voltaire is more apt than Hirsi Ali seems to realize. Voltaire despised the faith and identity of Europe’s religious minority: the Jews, who, he declared, “are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts,” who had “surpassed all nations in impertinent fables, in bad conduct and in barbarism,” and who “deserve to be punished.” Voltaire’s denunciations remind us that the Enlightenment was a much more complex and multifaceted phenomenon than the dawn of reason and freedom that Hirsi Ali evokes. Many followed Voltaire in viewing the Jews as backward, an Oriental abscess in the heart of Europe. Hirsi Ali, recording her horror of ghettoized Muslim life in Whitechapel, seems unaware of the similarly contemptuous accounts of Jewish refugees who made the East End of London their home after fleeing the pogroms.
Whitechapel has much in its past—oppression, bigotry, poverty, radicalism—that would have helped Hirsi Ali understand not only the neighborhood’s newest inhabitants but also her own family. But “Nomad” reveals that her life experiences have yet to ripen into a sense of history. The sad truth is that the problems she blames on Islam—fear of sexuality, oppression of women, militant millenarianism—are to be found wherever traditionalist peoples confront the transition to an individualistic urban culture of modernity. Many more young women are killed in India for failing to bring sufficient dowry than perish in “honor killings” across the Muslim world. Such social pathologies no more reveal the barbaric core of Hinduism or Islam than domestic violence in Europe and America defines the moral essence of Christianity or the Enlightenment.
Islamic fundamentalist groups have long terrorized many Muslim countries, especially those, such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, that were ravaged by blowback from the Cold War and the war on terror. These extremists, who now assault the West as well, have always lacked popular support within their own countries. The anarchic vivacity of contemporary Muslim societies—featuring such figures as Ali Saleem, Pakistan’s cross-dressing television host, and Cairo’s hijab-wearing sex therapist Heba Kotb, whose talk show is beamed across the Arab world—does not quite match Hirsi Ali’s description of an incurably medieval people busy devising ever-harsher laws for themselves while plotting mayhem for the infidels. In recent years, Islamist movements, led or assisted by women activists, have helped democratize Indonesia and Turkey; innumerable Muslims, such as Asma Jahangir, in Pakistan, and Shirin Ebadi, in Iran, fight to defend the rights of women against both Islamic fundamentalists and secular autocrats.
Nor do Hirsi Ali’s simple oppositions—traditional societies versus democracy, Islam versus Western secularism—sum up the experiences of Muslims in Europe, who are the Continent’s most globalized minority, with multilayered identities that are usually influenced less by the Koran or Sharia than by the politics, culture, and economy of various nations and transnational networks. Her praise for the United States, her new home, shows a growing familiarity with right-wing touchstones (self-reliance, distrust of government, family values, gun ownership, Christianity). But when she writes that a Muslim can be “an American patriot” only if he doesn’t “care very much about being a Muslim,” she seems suspicious of the country’s un-European traditions of cultural and religious pluralism. Eager to reëducate her “fellow nomads” in “the ways of the infidel,” Hirsi Ali is convinced that “lingering between the two value systems,” as her half sister does, “stunts the process of becoming one’s own person.” But those privileged enough to find refuge in the West rarely find it easy or desirable to abandon their ancestral culture and convert to the Randian individualism that she appears to uphold as the noblest form of human existence. The fate of the truly modern nomad is, rather, a ceaseless inner conflict between ways of life and value systems; this very quality has made the nomad an emblematic figure of the contemporary age.
If Hirsi Ali’s rhetoric has earned her critics among Western liberals, she has a fierce defender in Paul Berman, whose new polemic, “The Flight of the Intellectuals” (Melville House; $26), hails her as a “classic example of a persecuted dissident intellectual.” He upbraids such writers as the Anglo-Dutch journalist Ian Buruma and the British academic Timothy Garton Ash, who, he says, “sneered at Ayaan Hirsi Ali for having taken up the ideas of Western liberalism.” Berman also condemns Buruma and Garton Ash for “grovelling” to Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss-born Muslim professor at Oxford University, whose work seeks to integrate observant Muslims into secular Western societies, and whom Berman sees as an apologist for extremism. For Berman, the spectacle of writers attacking Hirsi Ali while embracing Ramadan points to a dangerous “reactionary turn in the intellectual world” of Europe and America.
Berman, who started his intellectual career in the early nineteen-seventies, as an anthologist of anarchist quotations, has emerged as a prominent critic of liberal-left pieties. In “A Tale of Two Utopias” (1996), he reprimanded the American student radicals of the sixties for failing to recognize the evil of Communism. In “Terror and Liberalism” (2003), he scolded liberals too timid to join what he saw as America’s crusade for liberal democracy in Iraq. His recent writings call for unambiguous ideological commitment in what he describes as a worldwide clash between liberalism and totalitarianism (or “fascism,” which Berman prefers, since to hear the “pungent” word “is to flare your nostrils”).
There is no doubt that 9/11 announced a new enemy of liberal civilization—an enemy far more obscure than, say, Prussian militarism, Nazism, or Communist totalitarianism, all of which were embodied by territorial states and standing armies. What was one to make of men who hid in caves and spoke in apocalyptic tones, mixing modern anti-imperialist rhetoric with invocations of a glorious Islamic past? Were they rootless and marginalized revolutionaries trying to realize an Islamic myth of community, or did they express a deeper pathology of backward tradition-bound societies? Had the Muslim world produced a modern totalitarian ideology called “Islamism”? “Terror and Liberalism” offered answers that could seem consolingly simple.
“Don’t look now, but those onion bagels are following us again.”
During the Vietnam War, Hannah Arendt noted that members of the Democratic Administration had frequent recourse to phrases like “monolithic communism,” and “second Munich,” and deduced from this an inability “to confront reality on its own terms because they had always some parallels in mind that ‘helped’ them to understand those terms.” Similarly, Berman, who wasn’t known previously for his expertise on modern political movements east of Europe, identified Islamism as a derivative version of the totalitarian enemies—Fascism and Communism—that liberalism had already fought throughout the twentieth century. After “trolling the Islamic bookstores of Brooklyn,” he offered a genealogy of “Islamism” that rested almost entirely on his reading of Sayyid Qutb, an ideologue of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. According to Berman, liberal intellectuals were obliged to do battle with the new nihilistic Fascism, which included secular dictatorships like Iraq’s as well as pan-Islamist movements. “I’m happy to be a laptop general,” he wrote, and his work quickly united a variety of public figures, from Richard Holbrooke to Martin Amis, in the cause.
The book had its liberal critics. Writing in The New York Review of Books, Ian Buruma rejected Berman’s “radical vision of an American state, filled with revolutionary élan and military steel, battling heroically and alone with outside enemies,” and wrote, “There is something in the tone of Berman’s polemic that reminds me of the quiet American in Graham Greene’s novel, the man of principle who causes mayhem, without quite realizing why.” In 2007, when Buruma published a profile of Tariq Ramadan in the Times Magazine, Berman responded with a twenty-eight-thousand-word article in The New Republic that presented his own appalled discovery of the academic’s ideas and inspirations. He focussed on Ramadan’s “family relations that shape everything he writes and does,” particularly Ramadan’s grandfather Hasan al-Banna, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In “The Flight of the Intellectuals,” Berman expands his original indictment, arguing that Ramadan makes the right noises but is actually quite vague about women’s rights, and his reinterpretations of Islamic texts do not sound very liberal or moderate. In Berman’s account, the modern Islamic thinkers whom Ramadan is related to or admires turn out to be promoters of jihadi violence against Israel and the West. Ramadan’s grandfather, for instance, was an early supporter of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, who tried to create an Arab-Nazi alliance. Berman concedes that Ramadan himself doesn’t advocate terrorism or anti-Semitism, but says he is soft on those who do, which makes it more inexplicable that liberal intellectuals should depict Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the “admirer of the West,” as a loose cannon while hailing Ramadan as “a long-awaited Islamic hero—the religious thinker who was going, at last, to adapt Islam to the modern world.” According to Berman, intellectuals like Buruma and Garton Ash have helped Ramadan “become a representative man of our age.”
Ramadan, a prolific author who has preached a “European” Islam in the heart of secular France, has certainly attracted the attention of journalists and academics, along with those uncompromising secularists who use him as a foil. But Berman, assessing Ramadan from within this echo chamber, is prone to overestimate his resonance in the wider world. “In the eyes of a vast number of European Muslims a more glorious ancestry than Tariq Ramadan’s does not exist,” he writes. It is more likely that the majority of European Muslims worry more about unemployment, discrimination, and inequality than about setting up an Islamic caliphate, and have never heard of Hasan al-Banna. Ramadan himself is virtually unknown among many of Europe’s Muslim communities, not least the South Asian Muslims in Britain, who, in the age of the Internet and satellite television, have their own transnational reformist thinkers, Urdu-speaking pop preachers, and charismatic evangelists. Ramadan’s over-all reputation in Europe and the Middle East can’t begin to compare with that of a reformist “satellite sheikh” like Egypt’s Amr Khaled, or, for that matter, a figure like Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based theologian who justifies suicide attacks on Israel and whose program on Al Jazeera reaches tens of millions of people.
It seems irrational to fear, as Berman does, that a lukewarm profile in the Times Magazine, a favorable mention or two in The New York Review of Books, and a teaching job at Oxford would help Ramadan “break into . . . the American conversation,” not to mention force a “reactionary turn” in the country’s intellectual life. Sooner or later, just about every writer of non-Western background finds himself taken to be a representative of, or spokesperson for, his community, nation, race, or religion. Ramadan, who has solemnly, even pompously, embraced this role, seems no more than one of the many academics struggling to fulfill the West’s post-9/11 demand for “moderate” Islam. Berman clearly wants him to prove his credentials by unconditionally repudiating various Islamist grandees. Ramadan is evidently fearful of losing credibility in the very community of conservative Muslims that he wishes to reconcile with the West. But Berman reads volumes into Ramadan’s silences and pursues him with inquisitorial zeal. He suggests that Ramadan supports the Taliban, even while admitting that Ramadan never mentions the Taliban. He says that Ramadan not just “admires” but “worships” Qaradawi, although the citations of Ramadan that he produces to illustrate this claim reveal nothing more fervent than the standard lexicon of scholarly attribution: “Yusuf al-Qaradawi aptly notes that . . . ”; “For details, see Yusuf al-Qaradawi. . . .” Berman’s fulminations against Ramadan—“He is imprisoned in a cage. . . . He cannot think for himself. He does not believe in thinking for himself ”—cause his usually sprightly prose, finally, to crack. What is he trying to accomplish?
It’s possible that, by building Ramadan up as a treacherous enemy of liberal civilization, Berman hopes to vindicate his own earlier role as a laptop general. After nearly a decade, the Bush Administration’s global war on terror, which Berman saw as a crusade for liberal democracy, seems a fiasco. In addition to destroying innumerable lives, it has helped an initially small band of fanatics multiply and mutate (Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Pakistani Taliban) in new locations (Waziristan, Connecticut). Of course, the proliferation of extremists could be taken as further evidence of a worldwide Fascist conspiracy, and this, it seems, may be Berman’s larger project. In rummaging through the “hidden corners” of Ramadan’s thought, he seems less interested in describing a “new twist . . . in the history of the Western intellectuals” (a melodramatic and unconvincing move) than in finding as many examples of Muslim extremism as possible—the “murk,” as he described it in “Terror and Liberalism,” of people “drunk on the idea of slaughter.” This sets him off on a long exploration of the virulent hatred of Jews manifested by Ramadan’s grandfather and his Islamist allies.
Certainly, this malignity does still fester in the proclamations of Hamas and Hezbollah; and Berman deftly summarizes a revisionist history that emphasizes “centuries of Muslim cruelty toward the Jews,” challenging the conventional view that European-style anti-Semitism was unknown under the Ottoman Empire. But he misses an opportunity to enrich his genealogy of hate by setting it within the modern history of the Middle East and Asia. For instance, he makes a passing reference to Rashid Rida, a prominent Islamist thinker at the turn of the twentieth century and al-Banna’s revered teacher, expressing curiosity about his praise for early Zionist settlers, but doesn’t explore the matter further. Although, ultimately, Rida turned against Zionism as Jewish immigration to Palestine surged in the wake of the Balfour Declaration, he had been an outspoken critic of European anti-Semitism during the Dreyfus trial and made early attempts, including an exchange with Chaim Weizmann, regarding an agreement between “the Arabs and their Hebrew cousins.” Berman rightly points out that the mufti of Jerusalem showed an obscene eagerness to help extend the Final Solution to the Middle East, and hatred of British colonialists and Zionist settlers certainly provoked Naziphilia among many Arabs of the nineteen-thirties and forties. But it is worth noting that, by 1941, when the mufti sidled up to Hitler and, soon afterward, began to air his anti-Semitic rants on the radio, reactionary pan-Islamists like him had to contend with overlapping groups of liberal Westernizers, Marxists, and secular Arab nationalists; far from being representative of the larger Arab world, the mufti was a fast-diminishing figure even in his own small sphere of influence—forced out of Palestine by the British in 1937 and blamed for a series of political debacles there. Berman himself relates that Arabs comprehensively failed to respond to the mufti’s exhortations to kill the Jews.
What you wouldn’t guess from Berman’s account is how common it was for anti-colonialist leaders to stumble into such unlikely alliances. In the nineteen-twenties, Mahatma Gandhi, a devout Hindu and pacifist, vigorously campaigned for the restoration of the caliphate. And in 1941 an old colleague of his, Subhas Chandra Bose, travelled to Berlin and enlisted Indian P.O.W.s who later fought in the Waffen S.S. The expedient notion that my enemy’s enemy is my friend even motivated the Jewish militant leader Avraham Stern to try, in 1940, to enlist Nazi support against the British rulers of Palestine.
Bose, who went on to collaborate with Japanese militarists against the British in the Japanese invasion of India, remains a great nationalist icon, while Winston Churchill, the resolute anti-Fascist so admired in the West, is reviled as a crudely racist imperialist who delayed Indian independence as long as he could and inflicted death on millions with his callous policies during the Great Famine of Bengal, in 1943. These Janus reputations should remind us that what Berman casts as an epic moral struggle between liberalism and Fascism in the West has been experienced and remembered very differently in the East.
In “Terror and Liberalism,” Berman invoked Woodrow Wilson’s liberal internationalist intervention in the First World War, rebuking weak-kneed liberals unwilling to join what he saw as a new American crusade for liberal democracy beginning in Iraq. Wilson had asserted, “Liberalism is the only thing that can save civilization from chaos,” even after he led the United States into the bloodbath that inaugurated the extraordinary violence of the twentieth century. Declaring his support for national self-determination, Wilson briefly enjoyed unqualified reverence, from Cairo to Peking. At home, he had his most vociferous supporters among the liberal intelligentsia, then a new force in American life, which believed that America’s entry into the war would make not only Prussia and Europe but also the world safe for democracy. But war, which follows its own grim illogic, is rarely subservient to virtuous intentions; and peacemaking can be an even dirtier business. Outwitted by his French and British allies at the postwar peace conference in Paris, Wilson ended up surrendering his immense moral prestige among colonized peoples to European imperialists. By 1919, the presumed beneficiaries of liberal internationalism—India, China, and the Middle East—instead felt betrayed. As the Harvard historian Erez Manela explains in a recent book, “The Wilsonian Moment,” to many leaders and thinkers of the colonized world who had viewed Wilson as their savior, Western liberalism now appeared synonymous with imperialism.
In light of these alternative histories, “The Flight of the Intellectuals” seems to be laboring merely to underline the obvious: that a Muslim with a political subjectivity shaped by decades of imperial conquest, humiliation, and postcolonial failure does not share the world view of a liberal from Brooklyn. Yet there has long been such a chasm between Western intellectuals and their counterparts in formerly subordinate countries, an incompatibility of historical memories. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the war on terror have hardened prejudice and suspicion on all sides; now more than ever it is necessary for Western intellectuals to find real interlocutors among Muslim thinkers and activists. Tariq Ramadan may not be ideal, but the impulse to engage with him seems to exemplify the best kind of liberalism—unself-righteous and aware of its own inadequacies.
Certainly, Berman’s hopes for delivering reason and freedom at gunpoint have proved calamitous. Lamenting many similar flights of the intellectuals in the long twentieth century—their noisy ideological identifications and terrible political choices—the late Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski once pointed out that, however much intellectuals yearn to be both “prophets and heralds of reason,” those roles cannot be reconciled. “The common human qualities of vanity and greed for power” are particularly dangerous among intellectuals, he observed, and their longing to identify with political causes often results in “an almost unbelievable loss of critical reasoning.”
This was never a risk for Kolakowski’s model thinker-activist, Erasmus of Rotterdam, a “peace-loving incendiary,” who was at once engaged in the major conflicts of his day and “withdrawn and careful, unwilling to go to extremes”—the great promoter of religious reform who declined to join the Reformation. Those wishing to stage worldwide revolution and force open Muslim and Western minds may not see the appeal of Erasmus’s sixteenth-century decorum. But, in these volatile times, intellectuals would do well to reacquaint themselves with what Kolakowski described as the “history of many deceitful hopes”—the crimes of ideological passion in which even liberals have been complicit. ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the June 7, 2010, issue.
Pankaj Mishra has written several books, including “From the Ruins of Empire” and, most recently, “Age of Anger: A History of the Present.”
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Annals of Religion
What Do the Church’s Victims Deserve?
The Catholic Church is turning to outside arbiters to reckon with its history of sexual abuse. But skeptics argue that its legacy of evasion continues.
By Paul Elie
U.S. dioceses are turning to independent compensation programs to earn back Catholics’ trust and heal a “festering wound.”
Illustration by Brian Stauffer
Some time before Brooklyn was incorporated into New York City, in 1898, it was dubbed the City of Churches. Houses of worship remain thick on the ground in the borough. In the part of Brooklyn where I live, churches outnumber grocery stores, pet shops, and nail salons together. There’s the Institutional Church of God in Christ (red brick, stained glass) and the Revelation Church of God in Christ (a converted movie theatre); the French-Speaking Baptist Church, founded by Haitian immigrants; the Zion Shiloh Baptist Church, whose members come from all over the metropolitan area, parking their cars in a long row; and the Ileri Oluwa Parish, where congregants of Nigerian descent worship shoeless and in long white robes. And there are the Catholic places. Queen of All Saints Church and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School face each other across Lafayette Avenue. Up the hill is the walled-in motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy; down the hill is the old church of St. Boniface, now the home of a community called the Brooklyn Oratory, where I go to Mass on Sundays.
A few blocks away is St. Lucy–St. Patrick Church, on Willoughby Avenue. Over six years, beginning in 2003, Angelo Serrano, a religious educator at the church, sexually abused four boys. He raped or molested them in the church’s offices and at his apartment, in a brick schoolhouse converted to low-cost housing by Catholic Charities. Eventually, one of the boys told his mother, who told the police. In 2011, Serrano was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. The victims then sued the Diocese of Brooklyn; in a settlement reached last September, they were awarded $27.5 million.
My wife and I have been raising three sons in this part of Brooklyn, and the morning that the news about the settlement broke I cycled up Willoughby Avenue toward the church. St. Lucy–St. Patrick’s is one of the oldest Catholic churches in the borough, dating from 1843, and it has a haunted, left-behind aspect. On the edge of a row of restored brownstones, it is notably unkempt: pink paint is peeling from the doors, and the iron fence along the sidewalk is broken in places.
When I arrived, a correspondent from “Noticias Univision 41,” a Spanish-language news program, was standing nearby. A white car rolled up, the flag of Puerto Rico dangling from the rearview mirror, and a large middle-aged man stepped out, wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. “If I had my way,” the man hollered, “he would get raped every night at that prison where he is, for what he done.”
I cycled on, unsure how to respond. The situation was straight out of a college course on justice. A legal settlement had expressed an idea of justice as financial restitution; my neighbor had expressed an idea of justice as physical retribution. Neither felt like a way forward.
Back at home, scrolling through BishopAccountability.org, which aggregates material about priestly abuse, I counted more than a dozen churches within easy cycling distance of our Brooklyn apartment that had been served at some point by priests accused of sexual misconduct. In Bushwick, Father Augusto Cortez touched a twelve-year-old girl’s breasts at St. John the Baptist Parish School. Father George Zatarga, long the chaplain at Bishop Loughlin, the high school on Lafayette Avenue, later admitted to “inappropriate behavior” with boys on trips to a cabin north of Albany (behavior he recorded lyrically in a “travel log”: skinny-dipping and the like). Father Anthony J. Failla, who served at St. Michael–St. Edward Church, near Fort Greene Park, was accused of sexually abusing a young orphan who slept in the rectory bedroom next to Failla’s quarters. Father Francis X. Nelson, while serving at St. Mary Star of the Sea, in Carroll Gardens, visited the home of a teen-age altar girl on the pretext of paying a pastoral call to her sick grandmother, and molested the girl. Father Romano Ferraro was posted to St. Francis Xavier, in Park Slope, after committing acts at other churches that later led to allegations of abuse; during his time at Xavier, Ferraro, on yearly Christmas visits to a friend in Massachusetts, raped the friend’s son (a crime for which he is serving a term of life in prison). A more recent incident caught my eye: in 2011, when my sons were in elementary school, the Brooklyn diocese removed Father Christopher Lee Coleman from the ministry for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor, though the diocese waited seven years to disclose its reason. Coleman had once been in residence at Queen of All Saints, down Vanderbilt Avenue from our apartment.
Like many Catholics, I wonder whether this story will ever be over and whether things will ever be set right. Often called a crisis, the problem is more enduring and more comprehensive than that. Social scientists report that the gravest period of priestly sexual abuse was the sixties and seventies, and the problem has been in public view for the past three and a half decades. For most American Catholics, then, the fact of sexual abuse by priests and its coverup by bishops has long been an everyday reality. Priestly sexual abuse has directly harmed thousands of Catholics, spoiling their sense of sexuality, of intimacy, of trust, of faith. Indirectly, the pattern of abuse and coverup has made Catholics leery of priests and disdainful of the idea that the bishops are our “shepherds.” It has muddled questions about Church doctrine concerning sexual orientation, the nature of the priesthood, and the role of women; it has hastened the decline of Catholic schooling and the shuttering of churches. Attorneys general in more than a dozen states are investigating the Church and its handling of sexual-abuse allegations. In February, New York State loosened its statute of limitations for sex crimes, long the Church’s bulwark against abuse claims. And that is just in the United States. Priestly sexual abuse has had grave effects around the world, including in Rome, where the three most recent Popes have been implicated in the institutional habits of concealment or inaction, and where Pope Francis has yet to find his voice on the problem.
It’s not that the bishops in this country haven’t responded. They’ve cycled through one crisis-resolution strategy after another. They’ve consulted experts, set up review boards and hotlines, issued charters and reports, trained parish staff in “best practices” for avoiding and reporting sexual abuse. They have met with survivors and led Masses of penitence and healing; they have apologized and begged for forgiveness. And they’ve made payments, through settlements and court-ordered damages, amounting to three billion dollars.
All that crisis response has worked, and it hasn’t. As questions about restitution arise, the bishops’ responses feel inadequate, insincere, or off point. The Vatican, meanwhile, now regards American bishops as masters at handling abuse allegations. At a meeting in Rome in February, Pope Francis and his deputies, addressing a “global crisis” of “the protection of minors,” suggested that the rest of the world could learn from the American Church. “Church moving from ‘American problem’ to American solutions on clergy abuse,” a recent headline from a Catholic news service declared.
In all of this, a distinctly American solution to the problem has emerged—the commissioning of an independent, secular authority to arrange settlements between the Church and survivors of abuse. This strategy has been taken up by an unlikely advocate: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, and a traditionalist who generally relishes defending the Church against its adversaries.
Nearly three years ago, Cardinal Dolan decided to hire Kenneth Feinberg, an arbitration and mediation expert who has led programs to compensate victims and relatives of victims from the 9/11 attacks, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Boston Marathon bombing, and other disasters. Under Feinberg, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund distributed more than seven billion dollars to fifty-five hundred claimants. After the Deepwater Horizon spill, in the Gulf of Mexico, Feinberg and his longtime associate Camille Biros distributed more than six billion dollars to two hundred and twenty-five thousand claimants. After the shootings at the Pulse night club, in Orlando, Florida, they worked, pro bono, to help distribute charitable donations to those affected.
An Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, run by Feinberg and Biros, began hearing and processing claims of priestly sexual abuse for the Archdiocese of New York in the fall of 2016. Feinberg and Biros subsequently established compensation programs in the Dioceses of Brooklyn (which includes Queens) and Rockville Centre (Long Island), and upstate, in the Dioceses of Syracuse and Ogdensburg. Their portfolio is expanding dramatically: five dioceses in Pennsylvania and all five dioceses in New Jersey have signed on, and multiple dioceses in Colorado and California are expected to do so later this year. Other I.R.C.P.s, which are similar to Feinberg and Biros’s template but are not under their supervision, have been established elsewhere, including the Dioceses of Buffalo, in New York, and Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania. Soon there will be Feinberg-branded I.R.C.P.s in the dioceses of two-fifths of American Catholics. His and Biros’s model for reconciliation and compensation is becoming the standard approach to priestly sexual abuse just as bishops worldwide are looking here for standard approaches.
“It’s so nice to be stressed about work outside for a change.”
The Church has paid survivors for decades. What makes this strategy different? Part of the answer is that Feinberg and Biros do. Over many years, they have maintained a reputation for probity and independence while disbursing some twenty billion dollars in funds. And the Church’s use of external, worldly arbiters is meant to assuage suspicions of self-protection. Much rides on Feinberg and Biros’s independence, and yet this independence may define the limits of the I.R.C.P.s’ success. Critics of Catholicism from Martin Luther onward have faulted the Church for dealing with matters of sin and repentance through mechanical means: the system of indulgences, the confessional booth. Is the Church today essentially outsourcing a reckoning with its past?
“Ken and Camille,” as Feinberg calls the duo, have worked together since 1979, when Feinberg was serving as Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s chief of staff and hired Biros as an assistant. I met with them several times in recent months, at the Willard Office Building, in Washington, D.C., where their six-person law firm is based. Feinberg, who is seventy-three, grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts, and he speaks in a chowdery accent unsoftened by fifty years among the power brokers of New York and Washington. He is bald, wears tortoise-shell eyeglasses, and leaves his shirts open at the neck. Biros, three years younger, has long, dark hair and favors loose blouses, slacks, and weapons-grade heels. Both are opera enthusiasts, and they (with their spouses) have followed many long days at their desks with long nights at the opera. The walls of their offices display framed newspaper articles in which Feinberg is referred to as the “Master of Disaster” and the “Compensation Czar.” Mediation runs deep for Feinberg; to spend time with him is to see him mediate continually between different aspects of his character—between a wish for humility and a taste for publicity, a commitment to produce agreeable outcomes and an instinct to tell the whole truth.
“The Cardinal called, and he wanted to brainstorm,” Feinberg told me. Pope Francis had spoken of a Year of Mercy, urging Catholics to undertake acts of reconciliation and forgiveness, and Cardinal Dolan saw this as an opportunity to address priestly sexual abuse, at a time when the Church was under great pressure concerning the issue. The 2015 film “Spotlight,” about a team of Boston Globe reporters who uncovered priestly sexual abuse in the Boston area, stirred public anger against the Church, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The watchdog group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) characterized Cardinal Dolan as “among the most secretive” of the roughly three hundred U.S. bishops on matters of priestly abuse. New York state legislators nearly passed a bill loosening the strict statute of limitations on sex-abuse lawsuits. When he was the archbishop of Milwaukee, from 2002 to 2009, Dolan had instituted a settlement program of sorts, but it had gone awry. Engaging Kenneth Feinberg gave the Cardinal a chance at a dramatic, high-profile do-over.
Feinberg and Biros met with Cardinal Dolan at the archbishop’s residence, joined by the chief counsel for the archdiocese. “The Cardinal discussed with us his desire to create a program to promote reconciliation and healing between the victims and the Church, as well as his hopes that this will help bring back to the Church those who have been alienated due to the Church’s past conduct,” Biros recalled, choosing her words carefully. “Of course, not lost on us was the secular issue of the ongoing possibility of a change in the statute of limitations opening a window which would allow time-barred cases to move forward in the courts.”
The new program would offer compensation to survivors and would require them to sign releases forfeiting the right to sue the Church if the law changed later. It would take care of cases, Biros told me, “that were ‘in the drawer,’ as Ken likes to say, and were known to the archdiocese—going back, in some cases, as far as thirty-plus years.”
The New York archdiocese, with 2.8 million Catholics, is the second largest in the United States, after the one in Los Angeles, and its fifteen hundred or so clergymen and the value of its real estate would make its Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program one of precedent-setting scale. To fund it, the archdiocese took out a short-term loan against the mortgage on some property it owns: the block of Madison Avenue between Fiftieth and Fifty-first Streets, occupied by the Lotte New York Palace hotel. “We’ll have to do like any other family at a critical time,” Cardinal Dolan said, when he announced the program. “We’ll borrow the money.”
Feinberg’s approach to mediation, outlined in a 2005 book about his 9/11 work, “What Is Life Worth?,” is rooted in the belief “that a third-party magician can help us bridge our differences.” That magic often involves math. As the special master of the 9/11 fund, Feinberg typically employed a formula that estimated the deceased’s lost future lifetime earnings, accounted for other sources of household income, and gave weight to the number of dependents. Then he would use his discretion in order to “narrow the gap between high-end and low-end awards”—between, say, awards made to the families of highly compensated investment bankers and those made to the families of restaurant workers who had been paid by the hour. In the end, the median award was a little under $1.7 million.
The compensation programs for priestly sexual abuse are comparatively inexact: they involve weighing intangibles to determine, first, what happened, and then what sum of money represents appropriate compensation. When a diocese agrees to work with Feinberg and Biros, it sets aside a sum of money for compensation to survivors or indicates that it will pay claims as assessed. Biros evaluates each claim of abuse, taking into account the priest’s history and the quality of the claimant’s evidence that the abuse took place. A diocesan review board (usually made up of faithful Catholics in public life: judges, psychologists, law-enforcement officers) may also provide an assessment. If Biros approves the claim, she decides how much compensation to offer, weighing the nature of the abuse, how long it went on, how it affected the life of the claimant, and other factors. If the claimant accepts the offer, he or she relinquishes the right to sue the diocese but is not bound to confidentiality. “The program is not adjudicatory,” the archdiocese’s spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, told me. It doesn’t make any recommendations about measures against accused priests still in active ministry; it passes those claims to the diocese, which then conducts its own assessment and decides whether or not the priests should be disciplined or removed.
The Archdiocese of New York’s program proceeded in two phases: one for people who had already accused priests of abuse, and another for people who were making accusations for the first time. “The Cardinal was delighted with the program,” Biros told me—Feinberg nodded his assent—and set out the numbers in support. Three hundred and ninety-four people applied. Biros accepted all but forty-eight claims. More than half the claimants were represented by counsel, such as Mitchell Garabedian, the lawyer who was featured in “Spotlight,” and a bitter foe of the Church. Only one declined the I.R.C.P.’s offer of compensation. Individual payments ranged from twenty-five thousand to five hundred thousand dollars. In total, the program awarded more than sixty-three million dollars to claimants, with little controversy.
One reason for the high level of participation that Feinberg and Biros saw was a lack of alternatives: most claimants could no longer sue, because the alleged acts of abuse lay outside the statute of limitations, which, at the time, required a person to make a claim of abuse by the age of twenty-three. Another reason was what Feinberg calls “our lenient standards of evidence.” In “What Is Life Worth?,” he described his ideal stance toward victims as “compassionate and generous but not profligate.” He maintains that compensation programs must pay on “weak claims” as well as strong ones, in order to lead to a collective sense of resolution. This strategy costs more, but it keeps dissension to a minimum. It’s part compassion, part public relations.
Drawing the line is tricky. In the 9/11 program, there was seldom any dispute that a claimant’s relative had been killed in a terrorist attack. In a claim of priestly sexual abuse, however, it is often hard to determine exactly what happened. Typically, the person who applies for compensation reports that he was sexually abused decades ago, without witnesses, by a priest who is dead, and offers corroborating material that wouldn’t stand up in court. This is where “lenient standards” come in.
“What are we looking for?” Biros said. “Some form of documentation from before the program was announced: correspondence, a medical record. You told your therapist and the therapist made notes. You told your best friend: not as good, but we’ll take it if the priest in question is a recidivist.” She has reviewed claims for two decades, and she makes her assessments with confidence that a pretender or a scam artist won’t slip through. When she and her staff meet claimants in person, she told me, “we can tell in thirty seconds whether you are telling the truth.”
A claim is rejected, Biros said, mainly if there are no other claims against the priest and if there is no evidence for the claim other than the accuser’s recollections.
In theory, by reviewing claims and setting compensation, I.R.C.P.s have freed the Church to take up reconciliation. In practice, Biros has done plenty of reconciling. Six decades after her own Catholic girlhood, in Brooklyn (“We were not particularly devout,” she says of her family), she has engaged personally with about two hundred claimants, either face to face, on the phone, or via Skype, doing the work of listening and reflecting that the bishops have struggled to perform credibly.
“We hear it said that ‘all the cases are old cases,’ ” Feinberg said. “But there are sixty-five-year-old men sobbing in Camille’s office. These are people in damaged emotional states.”
“Abuse at the hands of a priest was the defining experience of the Church in their lives,” Biros said. “Their families didn’t believe them. They find themselves questioning their sexuality, their self-worth. We see P.T.S.D. We see people who have attempted suicide.” In her view, this aspect of the I.R.C.P. model, in which claimants recount their experiences, is no small part of what it delivers. “The program is limited but beneficial,” she said. For the victims, “the benefit is the ability to tell two individuals what happened and for us to believe that they’re telling the truth. It says to the victims, ‘No more hiding. This happened. We believe you.’ ”
Last year, a claimant told the New York I.R.C.P. that, in the early nineteen-seventies, he had been abused as an altar boy by Theodore McCarrick. The abuse took place in the sacristy of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on two successive Christmases. McCarrick, who was born and raised in upper Manhattan, served as secretary to Cardinal Terence Cooke, the archbishop of New York, and then rose in the hierarchy under four Popes: he was made a bishop by Paul VI; hosted John Paul II’s visit to Newark, in 1995; helped elect Benedict XVI, in 2005; and became a trusted emissary of Francis, representing the Church in informal negotiations with China and taking a hand in the selection of American archbishops. Since 2001, he had been a cardinal and the leader of the Washington, D.C., archdiocese. Throughout his episcopal career, he was trailed by talk that he routinely made seminarians under his supervision sleep in the same bed with him. That history was kept semi-suppressed until the former altar boy came forward to the New York I.R.C.P. Feinberg and Biros notified the archdiocese’s chief counsel, who went to Cardinal Dolan and notified the Manhattan district attorney. Dolan notified the Vatican and then initiated an internal investigation. The archdiocese’s review board for sexual abuse produced a report, which Dolan sent to Rome.
“It was the first claim we had involving a cardinal,” Biros told me. “And clearly the processes had to go beyond an internal, in-house investigation. It came to us, and it was a big deal, and it went up the chain, all the way to the Vatican.”
In June, when Cardinal Dolan announced the “credible and substantiated” claim against McCarrick, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, disclosed that the Archdiocese of Newark and the smaller Diocese of Metuchen had negotiated cash settlements in 2005 and 2007 with two former seminarians claiming abuse by McCarrick, and that the archdiocese was aware of a third. Meanwhile, a lawyer for the former altar boy in New York told the accuser’s story to the Times; soon afterward, a second accuser came forward and told the Times another appalling account. McCarrick, a family friend who had baptized him as an infant, began sexually abusing him in his teens. The abuse went on for many years, taking place in summer houses, a beach parking lot, hotels, cathedral rectories, and an apartment over Mount Sinai Hospital. A photograph accompanying the article showed McCarrick, who was about forty years old, and his teen-age victim in swimsuits, the man’s arm around the boy’s waist. McCarrick was beaming.
Once the story was out, Pope Francis and the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith responded decisively. Last summer, McCarrick was removed from the College of Cardinals and exiled to a friary in Kansas; earlier this year, he was laicized—defrocked. A painful episode for the Church, it was a big win for the I.R.C.P. At a moment when it had become axiomatic that the Church was incapable of policing itself, a Church-sponsored program had pushed the archdiocese to acknowledge a truth that it might otherwise have continued to ignore. The result also had an unexpected benefit for the archdiocese, firming up Cardinal Dolan’s bona fides: he had established himself as a churchman willing to turn in a fellow-churchman for the greater good.
Theodore McCarrick is now just another Catholic. His full history isn’t out, however.
“We have a few more against McCarrick,” Biros told me offhandedly.
I asked how many.
“I think I have four or five.”
“All minors?”
“Fine Facebook friend you turned out to be.”
“Including the two we know about?”
“Are you asking about those specific cases? That I can’t answer. But there are three more. I think we have a total of five.” (Biros said later that the program had a total of seven claims against McCarrick. Barry Coburn, McCarrick’s lawyer, declined to comment.)
The archdiocese’s files are subject to examination by the New York attorney general and by Barbara Jones, a retired judge and prosecutor whom Cardinal Dolan engaged, in September, to review the archdiocese’s practices on sexual abuse. No matter what their scrutiny turns up about McCarrick, it is clear that Feinberg and Biros compelled the Church to take action against a powerful prelate whom it had protected for decades.
The Church’s response to abuse scandals has had false starts before, however. “For thirty years, the Church has been doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that,” James Marsh, an attorney who has represented many victims of clerical sexual abuse, told me. Skeptics wonder whether the I.R.C.P.s will prove to be just one more way for the Church to control information about abuse while admitting as little culpability as possible.
Priestly sexual abuse first got widespread attention in 1985, when Jason Berry, a journalist and a Jesuit-educated Catholic from New Orleans, reported in depth on the issue in Louisiana. In Abbeville—Creole country—Berry sat in on the trial of Father Gilbert Gauthe, a priest of the Diocese of Lafayette who had sexually abused dozens of boys over a decade, while a bishop who knew of his behavior simply transferred him from parish to parish.
In Washington, Father Thomas Doyle, an aide to the papal nuncio, followed the case against Gauthe, and concluded that priestly sexual abuse was more prevalent than the U.S. bishops realized. A few months later, with another priest and an attorney, Doyle produced a report called “The Problem of Sexual Molestation by Roman Catholic Clergy.” Doyle has since turned against the bishops and had a vibrant second career as an activist and an expert witness against the Church, but at the time he was a canon lawyer advising the bishops on how to deal with an imminent crisis. The report described priestly abuse as “probably the single most serious and far reaching problem facing our Church today.” Yet the real “problem” it identified was not that of priests sexually abusing children; it was “the possible cost to the Catholic Church of many millions of dollars and the potential devastating injury to its image.” The solution, then, was to devise a legal strategy to avoid discovery and testimony, and a public-relations strategy to cast the Church “as a sensitive, caring and responsible entity which gives unquestioned attention and concern for the victims.” Although the report was never officially sanctioned, the bishops adopted its approach, managing accusations of priestly abuse in secret.
In the next decade and a half, the scope of the problem became impossible to minimize. Early in 2002, the Boston Globe published its “Spotlight” investigation, revealing patterns of abuse that implicated at least seventy priests, and establishing that Cardinal Bernard F. Law and his subordinates in the Boston archdiocese had disregarded warnings and repeatedly placed abusive priests in range of children. Cardinal Law sought to turn the controversy into a demonstration of his crisis-management prowess. He promised “zero tolerance” for such priests, visited parishes to apologize, and vowed that the archdiocese would commence “reviewing the past in as systematic and comprehensive a way as possible.” He said that he hoped his approach would “become a model for how this issue should be handled.”
In April, 2002, Law and the other American cardinal archbishops went to Rome for an “extraordinary summit” on priestly sexual abuse, hosted by the Pope. ABC’s “Nightline” devoted a program to the summit, featuring Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, as the guest. Ted Koppel asked him if he was pleased with how things had gone.
“My—my hope is that we’ve turned the corner,” McCarrick said. “The Holy Father’s talk yesterday, I think, made it very clear, as his language was, no one who is harming children or young people will—will ever be able to serve as a priest in the Church. And I think that’s a—that’s a—a clear statement.”
What McCarrick offered was not a clear statement. It was a squirrelly evasion. He referred only to the example of a cleric who “is harming” young people in the present (not to one who did so in the past), and he referred only to priests (not to bishops or archbishops). That is, he phrased his answer to exclude the great majority of clerical abusers, himself first of all.
Asked when an offender might be removed from the priesthood, McCarrick offered something like an inadvertent mea culpa for crimes not yet revealed: “If thirty years ago, a—a young priest fell in love with a seventeen-year-old and—and—and had improper conduct, and it was the last time this ever happened and everything worked out well after that, and the people get to know that he had done that and the people say, ‘We love him. Give him another chance. He’s been fine for thirty years,’ then, I think, you’d take a look at it.”
At a meeting in Dallas that June, the bishops adopted the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” affirming “a commitment to transparency and openness” and pledging that priests would be removed “for even a single act of sexual abuse of a minor—past, present, or future.” They also engaged John Jay College of Criminal Justice to conduct a study of priestly sexual abuse. Its report, released in February, 2004, presented a trove of data about abuse allegations across four decades. More than a third involved penetration or oral sex. Nearly a quarter involved abuse of children ten years old or younger. Bishops allowed most accused priests to continue in the ministry without treatment or discipline. The head of the bishops’ conference at the time, Wilton D. Gregory, the bishop of Belleville, Illinois—named the archbishop of Washington last week—presented the report in reductive, Church-protecting terms. “The terrible history recorded here is history,” he said.
Nationally, Catholics’ attention to priestly abuse flagged. Pope John Paul II, eighty-three and afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, was failing physically, and the urgency of change within the Church in the United States was displaced by the imminence of change within the Church in Rome. When the Pope died, in 2005, traditionalist Catholics called for him to be canonized, and he was, within eight years. His indulgence of Father Marcial Maciel—Legion of Christ founder, serial child abuser, the subject of formal complaints submitted to and buried by the Vatican in 1998—was seen as a peccadillo.
Today, two Popes later, bishops ritually invoke both the Dallas Charter and the John Jay report as transformative moments in the Church’s handling of abuse. But the bishops haven’t reckoned with the question of restitution systematically or as a group; instead, they have operated in patchwork fashion, through their various compensation programs and other efforts. And they have declined to address the problem of priestly sexual abuse in frank human terms. Instead, they have fallen back on the very practice that enabled abusive priests to thrive: dealing with sexual conflict through a blend of prudery, euphemism, and evasion. The Dallas Charter did not name a single act of abuse, relegating the crime itself to a footnote about “delicts” (a Latin term used by canon law for any sort of violation). The John Jay report, full of tables and totals, addressed no specific incidents, stressing the need to preserve the anonymity of priests and their “alleged victims.” Again and again, the bishops vowed to solve a grave problem that they wouldn’t describe.
This habit of evasion has carried over into the bishops’ posture toward their own reconciliation-and-compensation programs. The programs are expressly designed to elicit claimants’ accounts of particular acts of abuse. They place no restriction on the freedom of claimants to speak about what priests did to them. Camille Biros pointed out to me that this means claimants can tell people—including members of the media—that their accounts of abuse “have been validated by an independent entity and by the Church itself.” Cardinal Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, told me that the programs are a means “for the voices of victims to be heard by the whole Church.” With the I.R.C.P.s, then, the Church—which, in the Dallas Charter, sixteen years ago, generally swore off gag clauses—is taking credit for allowing survivors to exercise their right to speak and is touting that right as a benefit of the programs. Meanwhile, Feinberg, Biros, and the bishops categorically decline to address particular claims that come in through the programs—except when the accusations are made against active priests.
Last October, a claim of sexual abuse made through the New York I.R.C.P. led to the departure of John Jenik, a Bronx pastor who had been made an auxiliary bishop in 2014. Although the archdiocese’s review board judged the claim “credible and substantiated,” Cardinal Dolan, in a pastoral letter announcing the departure, essentially came to Jenik’s defense. He noted that “the alleged incidents occurred decades ago,” and that “this was the first time any such allegation” had been made against Jenik, who insisted on his innocence and, Dolan suggested, was not being removed but was stepping down voluntarily, “loyal priest that he is.” Of the abuse itself, Dolan said nothing. That fell to the survivor, Michael Meenan, who, in a press conference outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, described Jenik’s taking him, as a teen-ager, to X-rated movies, getting him drunk, and sleeping in the same bed with him at the priest’s cottage upstate.
The John Jay report found that many victims of priestly sexual abuse had come to know their future abuser outside of church, often because he was a friend of the family. This is a truth well known to American Catholics. For us, priestly sexual abuse and its concealment is not an episode from “history” or a sociological phenomenon. It is part of our personal story.
My father’s father was a monument dealer, working with cemeteries in upstate New York, and my father’s maternal uncle, Robert F. Joyce, was the bishop of Burlington, Vermont. My father went to a Catholic seminary and then entered the civil service. In 1963, Bishop Joyce, fresh from Rome and the Second Vatican Council, officiated at my parents’ wedding, at St. Peter’s Church, in Saratoga Springs. “The happiest day of your grandfather’s life, that was, with the bishop up on the altar,” my uncle Bill told me. My uncle Eddie, an altar boy that day, was less happy in the Church. Years later, he told his sister that Father Joseph DiMaggio, who taught in the parish school, had nuzzled his face. When Eddie went home and told his father about it, his father told him never to speak that way about a priest again.
The church of my childhood, in a suburb of Albany, was oblong, carpeted, and brightly lit. Unknown to most of us in the parish, a priest who served there, Gary Mercure, was a sexual abuser: in 2011, he was convicted of raping two boys in the nineteen-eighties, during trips to rural Massachusetts.
When I enrolled at Fordham University, in 1983, there were nearly a hundred Jesuits in residence, and I came to know a dozen of them, ranging in age from a septuagenarian English professor who was saving “Finnegans Wake” for Heaven to the “baby Jebbies,” in their twenties. As a sophomore, I volunteered at a Catholic community center run by Father Joseph Towle, S.J., in the South Bronx. Father Towle was a street priest, trim and no-nonsense in his clerical blacks. He was later accused of abusing a boy back in 1971.
During my junior year, I had a more direct encounter with priestly abuse. I had fallen under the spell of Thomas Merton, the author of “The Seven Storey Mountain” and other books of Catholic spirituality, grounded in the discipline of silent self-emptying called contemplation. When I spotted a flyer for a Saturday retreat dedicated to Merton, led by Father Edward Zogby, S.J., I signed up. Shortly after the retreat, Zogby offered to guide me in spiritual direction—a centuries-old Jesuit tradition. I accepted, and after that we met weekly, in the evenings. He was fifty, large, and bald, and he dressed in an oxford shirt and tie rather than a black suit and Roman collar. He would close the office door, hug me, and pour two Scotches while we talked. He spoke of his wish to combine contemplation with the “body work” of Werner Erhard. He said that many of “us Catholics” had trouble integrating spirit and body, and that it took years to work these things out. We closed our eyes and prayed side by side in the small office. “Wasn’t that good?” he would ask before I left. It was clear to me where things were going, but Father Zogby liked to say that the first step in the contemplative life was letting go of preconceptions and expectations—so I pushed my suspicions aside.
On a Monday in March—St. Patrick’s Day, 1986—I met again with Father Zogby, and he invited me to a dinner party that evening at the West Side Jesuit Community, on Ninety-eighth Street. For once, other people would be around. I said I would go. A Scotch, a prayer, another Scotch. When I arrived at the party, a little drunk, I sat down in an easy chair away from the other guests and dozed. I woke up with Father Zogby bent over me, breath Scotchy and near, hands advancing—neck, arms, chest, penis. I sprang up and speed-walked to the subway. I never met with him again.
I was married at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, on Mott Street, in 1999. The celebrant, Keith Fennessy, was a friend of a friend; he had served at St. Gabriel’s parish in the North Bronx, where my fiancée had grown up. Father Fennessy was smart, funny, distinctly Catholic, but not self-righteous or condescending toward women. It was a surprise when, sixteen years later, the archdiocese removed him from public ministry, saying that he had downloaded pornography onto a parish computer.
In Rome, in 2005, reporting on the Vatican, I had a caffè granita in Trastevere with Cardinal George Pell, the archbishop of Sydney (recently convicted of sexually abusing two minors at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne); had lunch with a Jesuit priest accused of inappropriate conduct toward a teen-age student before joining the order; and had a long interview with Cardinal McCarrick at the Pontifical North American College, the finishing school for ambitious American clerics in the making. It was a holiday in Italy, and the seminarians had no classes. “Let’s sit here, by the window, so we can watch the boys play baseball while we talk,” McCarrick said.
That’s eight clerics accused of sexual misconduct in my personal experience—eight out of the couple of hundred priests that I have known. Eight out of two hundred is four per cent, which matches the percentage of priests who have been accused, according to the John Jay report. That my experience is typical doesn’t make it any less disturbing.
Three of those clerics are dead, two are in prison, one was defrocked, one has agreed to leave the priesthood, and one is still in active ministry, in Rome. I often ask myself: How should I judge such men—as sinners, as products of a Catholic sexual culture, as statistical outliers, as frail human beings like the rest of us? I repeat the mantra that committed Catholics have repeated for a third of a century: “Remember the good ones,” the priests we know who strive to live holy lives. How to sort the good ones from the bad ones—the saved from the damned—is a question that religions exist to answer. And yet my personal history suggests that there’s no clear way to know who the good ones are.
My great-uncle, Bishop Joyce, of Burlington, was one of the good ones; he was a staunch advocate for workers’ rights, served as a trustee of the state university, sent handwritten notes to my siblings and me for two decades, and elicited our best behavior during Sunday dinners at our house, a bishop’s pectoral cross swagged across his chest and a twinkle in his eye. But, during the years that he took part in Vatican II, in Rome, the Catholic orphanage on North Avenue in Burlington was a house of horrors. Nuns allegedly disciplined children entrusted to them in a manner best described as torture—beating them with sticks and paddles, confining them in closets, pushing them out of high windows, making them eat their own vomit—and sexually abused them. I learned about the orphanage last August, when BuzzFeed published a report. A photograph showed Bishop Joyce, in cassock and biretta, standing in front of a Christmas tree with children on each side. He was a lifelong Vermonter who knew every parish in the state. Either he was aware of the abuses at the orphanage and abided them or he ought to have been aware but remained in willful ignorance.
The Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program of the Brooklyn diocese received two hundred and eighty new claims of abuse in about fifteen months, beginning in October, 2017. One of them, according to the diocese, involved Christopher Lee Coleman, the priest whose 2011 removal had caught my eye because he had been in residence at a church not far from where I live. Coleman’s ouster epitomized the Church’s classic mode of coverup: he’d been removed from active ministry without any explanation to the parish, the diocese revealing the underlying accusation of abuse only years later. Then, last fall, the diocese issued a warning to the faithful, posted online and published in the diocesan newspaper, the Tablet, declaring that Coleman was still acting as a priest and wearing clerical attire. It added that, “with the release of the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, a new allegation against a minor has surfaced” and “has been found to be credible.”
Who was Christopher Lee Coleman? I found the outlines of the ex-priest’s career visible on social media. He had a Twitter account and a LinkedIn profile. On a Facebook page, Coleman had written, “I live a vowed life.” He listed a Ph.D. in sociology from CUNY and ten years of teaching sociology at St. Joseph’s College, in Clinton Hill. The Catholic Directory indicated that Coleman was assigned to six New York parishes after he was ordained, in 1994: St. Rose of Lima, in Far Rockaway; Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians, in Woodside; St. Ann–St. George, in Vinegar Hill; Our Lady of Monserrate–St. Ambrose and St. Martin de Porres, in Bedford-Stuyvesant; and Queen of All Saints, near St. Joseph’s College and the gated mansion that is the residence of the bishop of Brooklyn, Nicholas DiMarzio.
I called Raymond D’Angelo, the chair of the social-sciences department at St. Joseph’s. He told me that he had found out about Coleman the same way I had—from a news story, six years after Coleman left. At the time, Coleman told him “he had to deal with a medical issue and was going for treatment for that.”
Then I paid a visit to Father Joseph Ceriello, the pastor of Queen of All Saints, where Coleman was in residence until 2010. Ceriello, a Navy man, is sixty-seven and tightly built, with broad shoulders and thick graying hair. “Coleman was living here when I came,” in 2009, he said. The two priests ate separately; Father Coleman left early, returned late, kept to his room, and had no clerical duties at the church, apart from a men’s prayer group he was said to lead nearby. “I hardly saw him,” Ceriello told me. “I’ve had more words with you just now than I had with him the whole time he was here.”
One day, Ceriello said, Coleman left, carrying out his belongings with another man. Why did he leave? Ceriello said he didn’t know, but assumed Coleman was changing residences: “It’s not my business to ask why or what the reason was.” In the Dallas Charter, bishops pledged to inform parishioners when a priest was removed owing to abuse allegations, in case any children were, or had been, in danger. But, if Father Ceriello’s account was accurate, the diocese removed Father Coleman from the ministry owing to credible abuse allegations and never informed the people of the parish where he lived—not even the pastor.
I called Sister Sally Butler, who, during her seventy years as a member of the Dominican Order, provided social services and pastoral care in Fort Greene’s housing projects. “Oh, I knew Chris,” she said. “I liked him. He was very, very bright.” Butler said that when he was serving at the now demolished St. Ann–St. George, near the Navy Yard, he was the only adult who engaged with the community. Did she know what prompted his removal? She didn’t, but she recalled an episode in which “he was in the rectory, and there were several boys there, playing, African-American children.” She found the sight disturbing. The next time she saw him, she recalled, “he said to me, ‘Sally, they’re telling me that I have too many young boys around me at the house.’ ”
When I spoke to the communications person at the diocesan headquarters—called the chancery, as it is the office of the chancellor, or record keeper—it was proposed that I sit down with the chancellor himself, Monsignor Anthony Hernandez. The chancery is housed in a plain brick building near Prospect Park. I met Hernandez there one morning last November. He is fifty, of Puerto Rican heritage, and stocky, with thinning hair. He told me that Coleman had been a classmate of his at a diocesan seminary in Huntington, Long Island, and that they had seen each other in passing during their first parish postings in Brooklyn. Frequent reassignment is often a sign that a priest has a problem, such as substance abuse or sexual misconduct. I asked why Coleman had been moved so often. “I’m not sure what specific issue caused him to change assignments,” he said. I asked whether any of the issues had to do with sex, and he told me that pornography had been spotted on a computer Coleman used at St. Rose of Lima, in the nineties. “It wasn’t criminal, but it certainly wasn’t appropriate,” Hernandez said.
He then told me that someone called a sex-abuse hotline in 2009 and said that, on multiple occasions, Coleman had given him money for physical contact—Coleman wanted his stomach rubbed—and taken pictures of him and his friends without clothes, supposedly for artistic reasons. According to the caller, this started when he was a student of Coleman’s at LaGuardia High School and continued past Coleman’s ordination as a priest.
“I was surprised—I wouldn’t have expected it,” Hernandez said. “He was the kind of guy who always projected himself as an intellectual, a very spiritual guy, a very prayerful guy.” He told me that, after the hotline accusation, diocese officials called Coleman in for a meeting. They then examined Coleman’s personal computer and found pornographic images on it. “They appeared to be of minors,” Hernandez said. “But, when we brought it to law enforcement, they said it would be very difficult to prove.” After the diocese’s review board recommended Coleman’s removal, the diocese decided to go further and ask the Vatican to defrock him. “Because it was difficult to prove that he had committed a delict, we began to pressure him. He got a canon lawyer. We wanted him to go voluntarily, but we threatened him with a canonical trial.” Coleman eventually gave in and left the priesthood.
Why didn’t they tell the people in the parishes where he had lived and served? “We did not have, at the time, a person who was accusing him as a cleric,” Hernandez said. “So we went back and forth about an announcement, because we had some concern that he might turn around and sue us.” It was a liability concern, then.
I said, “It’s reasonable for the Catholic people to expect after the Charter that, if a priest had been laicized for a problem having to do with sexuality and minors, the pastor of the church from which he is removed is notified.”
“Yeah, it’s not unreasonable.”
“So, correspondingly, if the diocese did not do that, then that’s wrong?”
“I can see why you would see it that way.”
I told Hernandez that I’d been raising three sons in the neighborhood. The absence of a public announcement—the fact that I’d found out only years later, in the newspaper—troubled me.
“It’s a very complicated case,” Hernandez said.
I had been following Coleman through Twitter and the Facebook page of the Hermitage of Peace—a convent of sorts in Ashford, Connecticut, which, until recently, was maintained by two elderly nuns. (One died a few months ago.) According to the Hartford Courant, the two women were estranged from the Church; they have been accused of maintaining the pretense of a religious institution, which does not have to pay property taxes. I called a phone number on the Facebook page and reached Coleman. He told me that during the week he lives in New York City and acts as a spiritual guide to people in need. On weekends, he joins the remaining nun and an eighty-one-year-old monk at the Hermitage of Peace.
I asked him about the diocese’s claim of sexual misconduct that led to his laicization. He replied that the allegation was false, but that the bishop refused to give him due process; he checked into St. Luke’s, a treatment center in Maryland, as the diocese requested, but when he was discharged the diocese would not take him back, and it withdrew his stipend and benefits. I asked again about the claim of sexual abuse.
“I never abused anybody,” he said. “The allegation is a false one. What I saw on the computer was not mine. They put it there. If it was child pornography, I would have been arrested. The allegation is based on a lie, and I cannot accept a lie.”
Later, I brought up the fresh claim against him that the Brooklyn diocese said had come in through the I.R.C.P. “I don’t know anything about it,” he said. “Nobody reached out to me, and how could they? There’s nothing there.”
Feinberg and Biros’s work in New York State is well advanced: thirteen hundred and forty-seven claims made across five dioceses, eighty-seven deemed ineligible by the program, eleven hundred and twenty-nine paid, sixty-eight payments not yet accepted by the claimants, five payments rejected by the claimants. More than two hundred and fifteen million dollars has been distributed to victims.
Meanwhile, the legal context in which such compensation programs operate is changing. “The New York statute of limitations was as solid as the granite those old city churches were built with—until it wasn’t,” Paul Mones, a California attorney who has worked on many suits involving priestly sexual abuse in New York, told me. In November, Democrats were elected to the New York State Legislature in a “blue wave”; in January, the legislature passed the Child Victims Act, a revision of the statute of limitations that the bishops, through their policy arm, the New York State Catholic Conference, had spent years lobbying against. Under the new law, people have until the age of fifty-five (rather than twenty-three) to make a claim, and people of any age will be allowed to make a claim during a one-year “look-back window,” set to begin in August. Anyone victimized by priests during the peak years of abuse will soon be able to sue the Church—unless the person has signed away the right to sue through an I.R.C.P. or some other settlement.
Because Cardinal Dolan must have known that changes to the statute of limitations were under discussion when he enlisted Feinberg and Biros, his critics wonder how committed he really is to “reconciliation.” Were the I.R.C.P.s established in bad faith?
Joseph Zwilling, the archdiocese’s spokesman, said, “The I.R.C.P. was established to help victims of abuse, and for no other reason.” But the attorneys who tangle with the Church on sex-abuse claims are skeptical. “For the Church, this is business,” Patrick Noaker, who represents two McCarrick accusers, told me. “Reconciliation is just language.”
Marci Hamilton, a legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, who has worked to reform the statutes of limitations in various states, thinks that the programs are essentially preëmptive. “Seeing the train down the track, they decided to try to pre-settle even out-of-statute cases—a smart move, in my view,” she told me. “But the funds do not deliver the ultimate good to the public: the release of the truth through discovery and the release of records documenting the Church’s coverup and callous disregard for children.”
Mitchell Garabedian put it more bluntly: “Look, Dolan is using the I.R.C.P. as a shield to avoid the release of documents and get publicity.” Garabedian nonetheless supports the programs as an option for clients who wish to avoid the cost and stress of litigation.
“This approach to sex abuse in the Church treats the priests as the problem,” Paul Mones told me, “when really it’s the whole ecclesiastical structure that is the problem.”
On April 1st, New Jersey revised its own statute of limitations for sex crimes, enabling people claiming abuse in past decades to sue. The New Jersey I.R.C.P. will be launched in June. “Now victims will have a choice,” Biros told me. “They can come to our program, see what we offer, and make a determination: either yes, I’ll accept this, or no, I’m going to spend two or three years trying to get my case before a jury.” Biros predicts that ninety-five per cent of claimants will accept the I.R.C.P.’s offers, but the existence of litigation and compensation approaches side by side will be an important measure of what it is that survivors of priestly sexual abuse really want: a semi-amicable settlement with an aureole of reconciliation, or justice through a long legal fight? The Church could wind up offering to pay a claimant through the I.R.C.P., having its offer refused, and defending itself against the same allegation in court.
Critics say that bishops have already found a simple way to resolve such tension between the determinations of independent compensation programs and those of the Church: by making sure that the programs are not truly independent. Claimants’ lawyers stress that Feinberg and Biros are paid by the Church and communicate with a diocese’s review board, an arrangement that, the lawyers say, can enable the dioceses to shape outcomes. In 2017, Thomas Davis, a man in his fifties, asserted that he had been abused in the nineteen-seventies by Father Otto Garcia, who later served as vicar general and is now the pastor of St. Joan of Arc parish, in Jackson Heights. (Garcia has denied all of Davis’s allegations.) The claim went to the Brooklyn diocese’s review board, which interviewed Davis twice and found the accusation “not credible.” An attorney for the diocese wrote to Davis’s counsel, J. Michael Reck, that, “accordingly, Mr. Davis is not eligible to participate in the IRCP.” “It’s a Texas two-step,” Reck told me. “The program’s supposedly independent of the diocese, but the diocese determines whether you are eligible or ineligible for the program.” The following year, Reck did in fact apply to the I.R.C.P., which reviewed the claim twice and rejected it both times. The Daily News then told Davis’s story, implying that Garcia had been given a pass owing to his stature in the diocese.
Biros told me that the program makes its own decisions, with the review board’s findings as only one factor. The I.R.C.P. denied Davis’s claim, she wrote to me in an e-mail, because “1) There was no supporting documentation to corroborate the abuse; 2) There are no other allegations of sexual abuse of a minor against this priest; and 3) There was a finding of Unsubstantiated and Not Credible by the outside investigators for the Diocese.”
Contested accounts like Davis’s point to a quandary that’s bound to arise in the case of events that took place years ago: when the truth of what happened can’t be known for certain, it is hard for justice to be done. Even now, the Church takes shelter in this gray area. In recent months, several Catholic dioceses have responded to outside scrutiny by issuing lists of priests who have been “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors. It’s a gesture of seeming transparency, but the lists are actuarially spare: name of priest, dates of parish assignments, year of accusation, year of alleged incident, action taken. The lists don’t say what the priests did or where or when, and they’re probably incomplete. The list for Illinois names a hundred and eighty-five priests; the former state attorney general Lisa Madigan counted six hundred and ninety accused priests. Either way, the numbers suggest a dismaying order of magnitude. The list for Texas named two hundred and eighty-six priests, the list for New Jersey a hundred and eighty-eight priests. The list for the Diocese of Brooklyn named a hundred and eight priests and deacons; a quick cross-check suggested that five had served at St. Boniface, now the Brooklyn Oratory, where I go to Mass these days—Fathers Thomas F. Brady, Brian Callahan, Francis Gillen, Webster J. McCue, and George Wilders. (The Brooklyn diocese defines “credible” accusations as those its officials believe “may be true.”)
The Jesuits’ U.S.A. Northeast Province released a list of fifty-five credibly accused priests in January. Among them was Father Joseph Towle—the priest who ran the community center where I volunteered in college, and who later co-founded a tuition-free middle school, St. Ignatius. I called the province and was put in touch with Father Philip Judge. Father Towle, he told me, had been “impeded” in 2002—when the Church took action against a number of priests suspected of abuse—and was removed as principal at St. Ignatius. After that, he said, Towle lived at the infirmary for elderly Jesuits on the Fordham campus and engaged in “internal ministry.” He died in 2016. I said that I had worked with Towle and wanted to know what he had done. Father Judge wouldn’t say.
Father Edward Zogby died in 2011. He appears on no such lists. I never made an allegation against him, and, as Biros explained to me, mine was not a claim that would have merited her attention. “The moment you said you were twenty, you were out,” she said. “We probably wouldn’t even have sent you a form.”
When Feinberg served as special master of the 9/11 fund, he was struck by how many relatives were determined to tell him their stories of the dead, and his book about the experience is vivid and persuasive in part because their voices are heard on nearly every page. The independent compensation programs set up for the Church are also rooted in the power of stories—in the human desire to know what happened and to tell others about it. Such programs allow survivors of priestly sex abuse to speak and to feel that they have been heard. Many tell their stories to Biros, directly and at length. Unfortunately, the process generally stops there. In order to regain its legitimacy in the short term, the Church is farming out the work of judgment and moral renewal on which its long-term legitimacy depends. The I.R.C.P. captures the survivors’ stories, prophylactically, rather than entering them into the public record. The act of reckoning ends where it ought to begin.
I asked Feinberg and Biros if the Church hadn’t, in effect, placed the burden of grappling with its history in the hands of lay experts.
“I think that’s right,” Biros said.
“Absolutely right,” Feinberg said. “Implicit in your question is the question: Will the Church ever cleanse itself with transparency? I’ll defer to you on that. That one’s beyond my pay grade.”
Later, I asked Biros what would happen to the I.R.C.P. records. She told me that they would be retained for a period of time, set by “standard operating practices,” and then destroyed.
What the Church calls a crisis consists of thousands of criminal acts, including rape, molestation, harassment, and violation. It’s disturbing to think that the survivors’ accounts of those acts—which priests did what and where and when—become dead letters in the Willard Office Building, where a program framed as an instrument of reconciliation enables the Church to perform one last feat of evasion. It’s like something out of a story by Pope Francis’s Argentine acquaintance Jorge Luis Borges: the personal, generation-spanning accounts of priestly abuse in the United States all going to their final resting place in two claims examiners’ heads.
In 2007, Timothy Dolan, then the archbishop of Milwaukee, moved nearly fifty-seven million dollars from the archdiocese’s books into a trust fund for the perpetual care of Catholic cemeteries in Milwaukee. Documents later released by the archdiocese show that he told the Vatican that the transfer would shield the money from “any legal claim and liability.” (A spokesperson for the archdiocese said that the money was always held in trust in a separate account designated for cemetery maintenance; Dolan simply formalized this relationship by establishing an official trust.) Twelve years later, Cardinal Dolan has paid out more than sixty-three million dollars in compensation to survivors of priestly sexual abuse through the I.R.C.P. of the New York archdiocese.
I spoke to him at the archbishop’s residence, a Gothic Revival mansion toward the back of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In the middle of the last century, when Cardinal Francis Spellman was archbishop—and a confrère of J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Pope Pius XII—the residence was known as the Powerhouse. Today, the power of the office is diminished, but the trappings remain: high ceilings, broad staircases, a grandfather clock that rings on the quarter-hour.
Cardinal Dolan, a native Missourian, gave the benediction at President Trump’s Inauguration, and once joined the Rockettes’ kick line at Radio City Music Hall. At sixty-nine, he is a large man, slimmed by black clothes; he wears eyeglasses with severe black frames. We sat in a salon featuring an oil portrait of Cardinal John O’Connor, the late New York archbishop. Dolan told me of arriving in New York a decade ago, and wishing to enact a spirit of reconciliation around priestly sexual abuse akin to the spirit of unity he had seen in the city after 9/11.
“It was a festering wound here,” he said. “That’s not to criticize my predecessor—I think he did a very effective job, but it was still a huge wound on the mystical body of Christ.” He engaged Feinberg and Biros, known for independence, “because, look, as much as it bothers me to admit it, a lot of people, and a lot of victims, don’t trust the archdiocese. They say, ‘Anything that you’re running: forget it!’ ”
I mentioned Cardinal McCarrick as an example of the program’s success. Dolan replied, “I don’t like to brag about it, don’t like to trumpet it, but, since you said it, I would say yes, bingo, you’re right. A victim had the courage and the trust to say, ‘I’m gonna take Dolan at his word, I’m gonna come forward with something that’s been haunting me for, what, a half century almost,’ and they took it very seriously.”
“You tend to overuse the exclamation point.”
I pointed to the portrait of Cardinal O’Connor. “The question is: What did he know?” I asked, and cited a report that O’Connor, on his deathbed, had sought to block the appointment of McCarrick to Washington. “Can we expect Barbara Jones to look at that?” I pressed, referring to the retired judge Dolan had retained to conduct an internal review. “Is it part of her purview?”
“I had not heard that,” Dolan said, of the O’Connor report, and explained that, after hiring Jones to review the archdiocese’s policies on sexual abuse, he added McCarrick to her mandate: “I was, like, Oh, brother, now I gotta investigate this. I said, ‘Judge, could you do it?,’ and she said, ‘Sure.’ ”
But didn’t his handling of the Bishop Jenik case, minimizing the accusations in his pastoral letter, undermine the independent compensation program?
“I didn’t undermine it,” Dolan said. “I removed him from the ministry, right? But, just as I have an obligation to the victim, I also have an obligation to listen to the priest—we’re dealing with a very good priest who did this.”
“What did Bishop Jenik do that led to a credible and substantiated allegation against him?”
“I know, but I don’t feel free to talk about the details of it. Let’s just say it rose to the level of a violation of the Dallas Charter.”
“So we can’t talk about what he did? Why not?”
“I’m not sure—we can. What he did was a violation of the Dallas Charter.”
“You removed a bishop for a violation that you can’t discuss?”
“It’s hardly secretive. The victim will tell you.”
I said, “You’ve asked, ‘Why don’t my people believe me?’ Well, I think part of the reason is that you’ve outsourced the telling of the story to the victims and the attorneys. Can you tell me, what did Bishop Jenik do that led to his removal? You can’t say in plain English what he did?”
“No. Well, I could, but I’m not going to.”
When Pope Francis convened the first-ever Meeting for the Protection of Minors, at the end of February, there were panel discussions, Masses, and testimony from survivors of abuse. The papal audience hall rang with the discourse of “best practices”: the mission and the road map, oversight and ownership. For once, Catholic women were allowed to speak: the Nigerian mother superior Veronica Openibo said that “Spotlight” had brought “tears of sorrow” to her eyes; the Mexican Vatican reporter Valentina Alazraki scolded the hierarchs for having called the abuse crisis a “plot” fomented by the press.
The meeting was heavy on rhetoric and light on specifics. It produced no churchwide norms for the prosecution of abusive priests, and gave no indication of how the Church would reckon with abuse and coverup in its past. In a concluding address, Pope Francis said, “In people’s justified anger, the Church sees the reflection of the wrath of God, betrayed and insulted by these deceitful consecrated persons.”
The language was sonorous but vague. More than any other recent Pope, Francis has found ways to address complex situations in clear human terms. Why hadn’t he done so this time? Perhaps he felt that he had adequately addressed the situation simply by calling the meeting. Other clerics suggested as much: Archbishop Mark Coleridge, of Brisbane, likened the Church’s new grasp of sexual abuse to “a Copernican revolution,” and Father Hans Zollner, a German Jesuit who is the Vatican’s sexual-abuse czar, said that the meeting was “a quantitative and qualitative leap” forward. And yet Father Zollner told me last month that he hadn’t spoken with Francis since the meeting about what Francis thought of the proceedings and how they had affected his outlook.
What would count as a revolution, or, at least, a leap forward? It’s hard to say, given the multifaceted nature of the problem. It is a problem of celibacy and sexual ethics. It is a problem involving a subculture of secrecy surrounding gay men in the priesthood. It is a problem stemming from male institutional power over women and children, such as the power that led priests in France to coerce nuns into having sex with them—part of a wider practice that Francis likened to “sexual slavery.” It is a problem of “clericalism,” as Francis has put it, whereby clergy are elevated, protected, and given the benefit of the doubt. Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova, sees it as a problem akin to those of postwar Europe, and proposes that the Church, although it is “not a Nazi or Fascist regime,” must undergo “something similar to a process of ‘de-Nazification’ and ‘de-Fascistization.’ ” Robert Orsi, a historian of Catholicism at Northwestern, sees it as a premodern problem. He told me, “This has been the Catholic normal since the sixteenth century, a culture of sexual permission, in which priests carve out exceptions—with women, with men, with boys—through the idea that sexual experience in those areas is ‘outside the vow.’ As in, ‘I keep the vow when I’m in my clerical blacks, but not outside.’ ”
Beneath all these problems is a problem of truth. With the Second Vatican Council, the Church accepted the vernacular, and with it modern standards of truth in politics, economics, social science, and the like. But, when it comes to sex, the Church still defines truth its own way. A third of a century of abuse and coverup, of crisis and reform, has made that obvious. People are Catholics because they believe there is truth to the story that the Church tells and has told for a very long time. Nothing is more corrosive to this faith than the drawn-out spectacle of a Church that shrinks from the truth about its own past.
Shortly before the meeting in Rome, the Vatican announced that John Henry Newman would be canonized. Cardinal Newman, who died in 1890, is renowned as a founder of the Oxford Movement for religious reform; as an illustrious convert from Anglicanism; as a stirring homilist; and as the figure who brought the Oratorian tradition—priests living in community in cities without taking vows—from Europe to the English-speaking world. He also was almost certainly gay; at his request, he was buried alongside his “earthly light,” Father Ambrose St. John, whom he called the one great love of his life. But Newman is known above all for his spiritual autobiography, the “Apologia pro Vita Sua,” which he wrote in 1863, in response to a critic’s claim that Newman, because he was a Catholic priest, could not be trusted to tell the truth, for “truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.” A century and a half later, that critic, not Newman, seems to have been vindicated.
The Oratory Church of St. Boniface, in downtown Brooklyn, has a chapel dedicated to Cardinal Newman, with an oil portrait, a prie-dieu, and a gold-leaf etching of his poem “Lead, Kindly Light.” One Sunday evening not long ago, I locked my bicycle outside the church, climbed the steps, kneeled in front of the portrait of Newman, and prayed to be led to wherever it is I ought to be going. This old church is small and lovely. The clergymen here are intelligent and devoted—good men, as far as I know. The Masses are full of the faithful. And yet this church is haunted by the spectres of priests accused of sexual abuse who served here when it was the faltering St. Boniface parish, and by the anguish of the victims. The Mass began: I tried to focus on the readings, I tried to listen to the priest’s homily, but I wanted to cry out—to say in a few words what happened here. ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the April 15, 2019, issue, with the headline “Acts of Penance.”
Paul Elie is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He is the author of “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” and “Reinventing Bach.”
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Olympic Medal Presentation for Rob Heffernan
On 3rd November 2016, at 7-00pm Rob was presented with his London 2012 Olympic Bronze Medal in the Concert Hall, City Hall, Cork.
The event was hosted by the Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Des Cahill and the medal was presented by Acting President of the Olympic Council of Ireland William O’Brien.
It was a tremendous occasion for Olympic Sport in Ireland and it was a truly Olympic Occasion in Rob’s home city of Cork.
The event was attended by Cork City dignitaries, Representatives of the Olympic Council of Ireland, Athletes Ireland, top Irish Athletes from many sports but most important of all Rob’s wife and family and friends.
Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Des Cahill: “ As Lord Mayor of Cork, I am honoured on behalf of the people of Cork to facilitate the Presentation of an Olympic Bronze Medal by the Olympic Council of Ireland to one of our own Rob Heffernan, a proud Corkonian and a model and inspiration to the youth of today. It is only right and fitting that we recognise the tenacious efforts by Rob in representing his country on an international stage. We all take pride in his achieving this most coveted Olympic Bronze Medal.”
Rob Heffernan: “This is always what I dreamt about, being presented with an Olympic Medal. It would of course have been wonderful to have received it in London but now to receive it on Irish soil in my home City of Cork, with my own family, friends, supporters on the 100 year anniversary of 1916, is a fitting and very special way for Irish people to celebrate Irish Olympic Sporting success”.
Willie O’Brien, Acting President Olympic Council of Ireland: “This occasion is very special indeed. It’s the first time an Olympic Medal was presented on Irish soil. It’s a very proud occasion of the Olympic Movement in Ireland, Athletics Ireland and of course for Rob, his family, friends and supporters”.
It was a long overdue presentation but it was as real as if it happened in the London Olympic Stadium. It was a very proud night for Olympic a Sport in Ireland, for Cork, for Athletics and of course for Rob Heffernan and his entire family and great friends.
Olympian Rob Heffernan celebrates with his bronze medal in Cork last night Pic Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
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ONE YEAR NEW ZEALAND!
Live The Kiwi Lifestyle - Let The Dream Come True
How to prepare your adventure
How much does all the fun cost?
1. Collect your favourite regions of New Zealand
2. Find a good school for your children
3. Get a visa with help of a registered adviser
4. Find a cosy place to stay
5. Book the shortest flight you can find
6. Find a house-sitter for your home
7. Buy a travel insurance, just in case
8. Organize a car, or you won’t go anywhere
9. Pack your stuff and get on that plane
10. Make yourself comfortable and enjoy the time of your life!
Motueka & Nelson/Tasman Region
Where do I get…?
Our first New Zealand road-trip
It all started with a 3 and a half-weeks honeymoon holiday trip to New Zealand in November 2005. Before we arrived, we knew that the country was beautiful, with lots of green and lots of sea. But something was different to our previous holidays in Italy, Switzerland, France, Greece or the United States. We experienced a feeling of freedom and peace in New Zealand that we have never had anywhere else before.
We did an extended road-trip across both Islands, driving 4000 km or more. You know, when you’re travelling 18,000 km from home, you want to make sure you don’t miss anything. Who knows when you’ll have a chance to come back again? Though, after those almost 4 weeks it was clear for us: We have to come back here again!
We’ll be back!
Our second New Zealand road-trip – lesson learned
Time went by and after the arrival of our second daughter in 2006 we thought it would just be too difficult to do such a long flight again. But 3 years later, we couldn’t wait any longer and asked Christian’s parents to look after the girls while we would spend some time off on a second, 5-weeks journey to New Zealand. We had a great time, doing less kilometers on the road, only on the North Island. But in retrospective it was a stupid move. We realized that we had a family now and travelling without the kids just felt wrong. At least that trip helped us to get clear about that…
Spending a year in New Zealand – the best idea ever!
December 2011: The days were short, winter hit us early, and the grey half of the Austrian year was just about to get really nasty and annoying. To top that, we found a new issue of the German travelling magazine 360° Neuseeland in our mailbox. There it was again, that incredible desire to go to New Zealand. Now! Is it possible to fall in love with a country?! Yes, totally. (Here you can read why.)
What we did next, is described in detail in our “How to prepare your adventure“-guide.
Our girls were at the age of 6 and 8 by the time we arrived in July 2012. The younger one attended the Motueka Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten for a few more months and the older one joined class 2 at the Motueka Rudolf Steiner Lower School. It didn’t take them long to adapt to the new language and the environment and they enjoyed going to school and finding new best-friends.
In our year, we had an awesome time, managed to develop a stronger family bond, got much more relaxed and learned a lot about the Southern Pacific culture. We’ve also seen the less amazing aspects of New Zealand (to say it nicely) that you normally don’t see as a tourist. Such as the horrible methods used in agriculture (which may cause an urge to only buy organic food once you’ve seen the spraying activities in large fruit orchards) or the lack of technical standards that we were used to from Europe (now it makes more sense to us that the EU spends massive effort in defining standards that ensure product quality and safety).
When we went back to Austria, we were pretty much done with New Zealand. Our year was actually never intended to be the start of a permanent immigration process. But on departure day, there it was again, that weird sad, but divided feeling in the gut area. Should you laugh or cry to go ‘home’ after such a crazy and amazing year?
We were confident that we would be able to continue our new, more relaxed lifestyle in Austria, and we actually did it – but only for 3 weeks, not a single day more. The truth is, you automatically jump back into the same boots that you have left a year ago. The same habits, the same thinking and the same overly perfect, but boring environment that doesn’t leave much space for creativity, uniqueness and different thinking.
After a few months it became clear to us that we don’t fit the system anymore and we wouldn’t be willing to accept certain things that were normal before, but were now put in a different light after seeing how life can be elsewhere.
Unfortunately, there is no sea in Austria
Our one year New Zealand adventure was the foundation for us to get clear about what we want. If we had immigrated immediately, we probably would have always thought about the “what if…?”-questions which often lead to moving back after a couple of years. Several of our friends who directly immigrated to New Zealand with all their stuff, still have this occasional urge to move back to Europe. Interestingly, most of them who really moved back to Europe came back to New Zealand after a while again. They experienced the same problem that we had after leaving New Zealand. Though, moving all your household stuff back and forth again and again is definitely the most expensive way to learn the lesson.
Let’s be clear about that: Going to New Zealand requires some sort of pioneering and adventuring spirit. If you expect to find paradise here, you will only be able to find it if you make it one – New Zealand will not make it for you. You will have to work hard for finding your luck, but it will pay off, promised!
Moving permanently requires 10 times more planning, expenses and nerves, than just spending an adventure year. That’s why we can just recommend doing a trial period first, to everyone who tinkers with the idea of leaving the Old World.
It took us about 10 months from getting clear that we want to relocate, to actually sitting in the airplane. New Zealand immigration law is very strict and the procedures to apply for an Entrepreneur Visa (the only one possible for self-employed people who would bring their own job rather than applying for a job at another company) are utterly complicated and complex. Selling your house and basically everything you own, except the things you can fit into the shipping container, is another major step to take.
In October 2014 we finally arrived in New Zealand. We bought a typical lifestyle section on a hill near town to build a new house. We have got almost 14,000 m² of land for a reasonable price (totally un-thinkable in Austria!) where we currently live the dream of having some sheep and chickens, a large garden with more than 100 different types of fruit trees, and an extensive veggie plot that provides a big part of our food throughout the year. In late 2015 we moved into our newly built home that follows eco-house design guidelines. We still enjoy travelling around.
The four of us at Castle Point in April 2016
That’s where we are now. We still love it to be here.
Christian, Eva & the girls – Motueka
PS. All pictures on this website are our own ones that we took during our many travels across the country. Please drop us a message if you’re interested in licensing any of them. All funds will be donated to the new campus project of the Motueka Rudolf Steiner School.
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Petition: Increase the fines for breaking electoral law
Let's deter cheating in elections, and protect our democracy
Why May's "Net Zero" commitment won't survive her successor's trade policy
This week the Prime Minister committed the UK to "net zero" carbon emissions by 2050. But the "independent trade" policies supported by her likely successors include a key mechanism to stop environmental efforts.
Theresa May visiting Imperial College to launch her "Net Zero" emissions 2050 target
Stefan Rousseau/PA Images
Theresa May is understandably keen to cement her legacy in her final month as Prime Minister. This week she announced that the UK will become the first G7 country to commit in legislation to being carbon-neutral by 2050. This is one of the most ambitious climate change goals set by a major polluting nation, and has subsequently been warmly received by many environmental groups.
However, it is difficult to square the government’s 2050 commitment with its trade policy. The Conservative Party continues to support Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), mechanisms in trade agreements which are used by investors to sue government for changes in policy which harms their profits. The UK has ISDS agreements with 106 countries around the world, and is likely to sign more such agreements after Brexit. This is not just Theresa May’s idea: of the Conservative leadership candidates who are actually in with a shot, all are campaigning for the UK to adopt a fully independent trade policy after Brexit.
ISDS severely hinders progress on climate change. It has been used by dozens of multinational companies, many of them headquartered in Britain, to challenge environmental legislation - sometimes successfully. Furthermore, ISDS can lead to ‘regulatory chill’, where governments choose not to bring in environmental legislation (such as a ban on fracking) for fear that they will be challenged by investors.
In 2009, Swedish energy firm Vattenfall sued Germany for introducing policies designed to curb water pollution and carbon emissions - both of which, unsurprisingly, affected the profitability of their coal power station. The case resulted in a settlement where the local authority repealed the environmental legislation despite the fact that this led to Germany being found in breach of the EU habitats directive.
More recently, in 2012, US energy firm Lone Pine sued Canada over a ban on fracking in Quebec, under Canada’s free trade agreement with the US (NAFTA, since replaced by USMCA). The case went ahead despite local opposition to fracking, and evidence of the risks of fracking to the environment and human health. Although the outcome of the case is still pending, the precedent is likely to discourage other local and national authorities from regulating fracking.
There are many other cases of companies using ISDS to challenge environmental legislation, which has led environmental campaigners to oppose the inclusion of ISDS in trade agreements. It is difficult to see how ISDS clauses are consistent with the objectives of international action on climate change, such as the Paris agreement, and this week’s proposals for the UK to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
But despite the opposition from civil society and environmental experts, the Government remains firmly pro-ISDS. Indeed recently the Trade Secretary Liam Fox said that civil society groups’ suggestion that it should be banned is “nonsensical”.
After Brexit, the UK is likely to pursue ISDS in new trade agreements. The Government has repeatedly stated its aim that Britain will strike rapid, ambitious new trade deals after Brexit, including with the United States. Dominic Raab, for instance, has stated that the UK must have a “buccaneering” approach to trade after Brexit - which presumably means pursuing new deals with new countries.
A US trade deal is likely to be pursued most zealously by Boris Johnson, who has the backing of President Trump himself, and has stated his desire for Britain to look beyond the EU for new trading relationships. Indeed, pursuing a US trade deal is likely to be a priority in a no-deal scenario, as a political signal that the UK does not rely on the EU for trade.
The potential for inclusion of ISDS means that a US-UK trade deal could be disastrous for the environment. US firms would be able to sue the UK government in the same way that they sued Canada over its fracking legislation.
It is difficult to see how the UK would be able to introduce the new environmental policy required to achieve net-zero by 2050 if these policies can be legally challenged by foreign investors through ISDS mechanisms in trade deals. Until the Government listens to environmental campaigners’ concerns about its post-Brexit trade policy, it is hard to take this latest pledge seriously.
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Police: Man Raped Minor At Least 250 Times (Photo)
A Delaware man was indicted after allegedly raping an underage girl several hundred times over a period of five years.
Richard "Ricky" White Jr., 41, was indicted by a New Castle County grand jury on a number of charges, including 11 counts of second-degree rape, four counts of sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography, according to The News Journal.
White reportedly had sex with the girl no less than 250 times since 2012. She was 12 when the alleged abuse began.
Court documents state that White started communicating with the girl via text message in fall 2012, eventually steering the conversations toward the topic of sex.
The victim told police she first met White in person when he picked her up from her house on a day that she didn't have school. She said he drove her back to his house where they watched television together.
That's when White reportedly started kissing the girl, which led to the two of them having sex.
For the next five years, police say White had regular sex with the girl, sometimes as often as once a week.
The sexual encounters took place in a variety of settings, according to the affidavit. At first White would bring her back to his house, but after he was arrested for driving while intoxicated, the two began meeting in a secluded area of the woods, The News Journal reports.
Then, when White lost his house, he started picking her up from school and having sex with her behind a Popeyes restaurant. Once the girl got her driver's license, they would meet at a public park, as well as a convenience store along the highway.
White allegedly took photos and videos of himself having sex with the girl, which he used to blackmail her into complying with his demands. He also threatened to commit suicide if the girl stopped seeing him.
During her interviews with investigators, the girl said she felt "threatened" by White and felt as though she was "obligated" to have sex with him.
In one text message obtained by police, the girl explained to White that she was afraid of him and requested they end the sexual relationship. She also asked him to stop contacting her.
White was arrested after the girl discussed the alleged abuse with another person, who notified the police.
Under Delaware state law, second-degree rape is a class B felony. A person convicted of second-degree rape faces a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, according to FindLaw.
Sources: The News Journal, FindLaw / Featured Image: Pixabay / Embedded Images: Delaware Department of Justice via The News Journal, Emily Poisel/Flickr
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Laid-off radio hosts get a chance on KCMD-AM
Motoya Nakamura/The Oregonian
Tim Riley, former KCMD-AM news director, spends time blogging each day from his home, under the watchful eye of his dog, McGee, but Riley's always looking for another shot at radio.
When Tim Riley saw the black Mercedes in the parking lot on Dec. 5, he knew his life was about to take a turn.
The car belonged to Dave McDonald, the CBS Radio executive who oversees the affairs of KCMD (970 AM), the radio station that had employed Riley as its news director and primary on-air news reader since March 2006.
Riley had been a fixture on the Rick Emerson show, the centerpiece of the station's local programming, going back to 2001, when the show was on KOTK-AM. But as he already knew, no amount of history can compete with the numbers on a corporation's profit-and-loss statement. Particularly when the economy is in free-fall and cutbacks are in the air.
"I just knew it," Riley said. "I knew that sinister black Mercedes had come for me."
He was right. McDonald and Emerson, who also serves as KCMD-AM's program director, gave Riley the news after they got off the air at 3 p.m. Both were obviously stricken, but they all knew how dark the financial horizon has become.
"It was a general layoff," McDonald said. "I've been in the radio business for 35 years, and this is just a very difficult time."
And not just for the radio industry. The economic collapse has cast a chill over every sector of the media industry, leading to budget cuts, layoffs and bankruptcies at media outlets across the nation. Here in Oregon, dozens, perhaps hundreds of Oregon media workers have lost their jobs in the past few months.
Each new departure reveals another dimension of the financial crisis, even as it silences voices that once helped describe, and even define, life in Oregon.
For Emerson, the loss of Riley's quirky sensibility -- he reads the silliest celebrity stories with the histrionics of a newsreel narrator -- was almost too sad to contemplate. They gave the newsman a chance to say his farewells on the air, but that only made it feel worse. "Everyone was very glum," he said.
Then Emerson had an inspiration: With so many Portland voices going unheard, he started inviting the displaced news people to spend a day reading the news on his show.
He had no money to offer; just a sheaf of stories, a pair of headphones and access to the Oregon airwaves for a few hours.
For most of them that was more than enough.
When KCMD-AM host Rick Emerson heard that Tim Riley, his veteran news director, was a victim of layoffs, Emerson turned to other displaced talent and offered them a chance to get their voices back on the air, although without pay.
It's just past noon on Tuesday, and Heidi Tauber, until last May the morning news voice on KPOJ-AM, is perched behind a microphone in Emerson's studio, sifting through printouts of news stories as the host and his producer, Sarah Dylan, prepare to kick off the news-dominated portion of the four-hour show. A commercial ends, and once Emerson introduces Tauber ("the laid-off Heidi Tauber, filling in for the laid-off Tim Riley!"), they chat for a few moments, then she drifts easily into a story about interest rates.
They keep the lights low in the studio, but the place seems to vibrate with electricity. Lights dance across the telephone lines, up the transmitter panel and on the half-dozen or so computer screens arrayed around the room. The light reflects in Tauber's wire-framed glasses, and it might be coming from behind her frames, too.
"I'm just giddy!" Tauber said. "This is something you never get out of your system."
Maybe that's why Tauber didn't mind volunteering a service she was once paid to perform.
"I just miss being somebody," she said. "It's hard to admit. It sounds so conceited or shallow. But it's definitely true."
Tom Parker, a fixture on Portland's airwaves for more than two decades, most recently at KPAM, also was delighted to take up Emerson's offer.
"It's the immediacy of it, the connection," Parker said. "You get entree into all kinds of things, and then you get to tell your story on the air. It's a kind of magic."
The people who fall under its spell start young. Many of them tell variations of the same story, most often starting in a small town somewhere (Parker hails from Lebanon; Tauber from Libby, Mont.; and Emerson from the dusty streets of Kennewick, Wash.) that has a low-watt station willing to give a teenager a shot spinning records after school, or late on a weekend night.
From there they find their way to the professional ranks, bouncing from station to station and city to city, guided by equal parts professional ambition and a hard-wired compulsion to fill the silence with a sound that makes the people take notice.
Sometimes they're a part of events no one will ever forget. Tauber remembers being on the air the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, relaying the horrible news to untold thousands of Oregonians. Parker helped tell San Franciscans about the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978. And they can all describe the thrill of informing and easing listeners through earthquakes, fires, floods and riots.
"People tune in to us to find out what's going on," Tauber said. "You know they're counting on you, so you've got to be calm and informative. You're there to help people hold things together."
"For some people the voice on the other end of the radio is the most involved relationship they have," Parker said. "That's what I loved -- making that connection."
Longtime (but laid off) radio voice Heidi Tauber takes her turn doing the news on the midday show of Rick Emerson (right). "I just miss being somebody," she admits.
Emerson and Tauber zigzag through the news hour, Tauber introducing news stories, then stepping back while her host tosses in his own, often elliptical, commentary. The subject turns back to the radio industry and the near-certainty that any job you have will end with an abrupt firing.
"You know it's bad when the general manager's door is closed," Tauber said. "Then the part when he says, 'Can I talk to you for a minute?'"
Even more disconcerting is the speed with which your former employers delete every trace that you ever existed in the first place. For no matter how much time and money a station invests in building an on-air personality into a trusted, even beloved, local icon -- the sort of trusted and even beloved figure a listener feels comfortable having in their cars, homes and showers -- when they're gone it's like they never existed.
"They literally scrub your face off the Web site and off the picture at the station that same night," Tauber said.
When listeners at KPOJ began to call her former on-air partner, Thom Hartmann, to ask where she had gone, Tauber continued, the staff was coached to mute their voices before the words "Heidi" and "Tauber" could reach the air. "Then," she added, "they'd cut the whole thing out of the podcast."
And that's the way the heads roll in the media, with a combination of corporate efficiency and Soviet-style revisionism.
Which may have been why veteran radio host Bill Gallagher, who spent nearly 40 years on the air in Portland and San Francisco until being fired by KPAM in September, turned down Emerson's offer in no uncertain terms.
"I've kicked the radio habit," he said. "It would not be wise for me to go back, even for a day."
Tim Riley, on the other hand, still has stories to tell. He blogs every day from home (timrileylive.wordpress.com) and figures it's just a matter of time until things turn around.
"People will live beyond their means to stay in the business," he said. "You know you'll come back. You always will, once it's in your blood."
Peter Ames Carlin: 503-221-8562; petercarlin@news.oregonian.com
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Review: Great Expectations, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford
“A gentleman should never be discourteous”
At the heart of Tilted Wig’s new version of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is the real box of delights that is James Turner’s set design. Endlessly practical (much needed for a touring show) and versatile in its use of space, I reckon it could either be marketed to IKEA for its storage solutions or to the London housing market as a bijou starter home!
Frivolity aside, it really does epitomise the playfulness of Sophie Boyce Couzens’ production which uses a cast of eight, plus a musician, to depict the coming-of-age of young Philip Pirrip with an elegant take on its theatrical invention. The focus is on storytelling – narrative interjections split between the company, the switch between the multiple characters they all play evoked with simple but effective change of an accent or hat or suchlike. Continue reading “Review: Great Expectations, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford”
There’s all sorts of big productions arriving in the months to come (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the return of Amadeus, PATTI LUPONE!) but I’m using this spot to highlight some of the shows on the London fringe and around the UK (and Amsterdam…) that have piqued my interest and which I hope to get to review.
So in no particular order… Continue reading “20 shows to look forward to in 2018”
Album Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002 Original London Cast Recording)
“What a happy time we’ll spend”
I’m pretty sure that if you could distil the warmth of Emma Williams’ voice, it would be the basis for the cure to the world’s ills. There are few singers who have that kind of effect on people and it is a travesty that isn’t better known to the world at large. Part of that is a consequence to her admirable devotion to new musical theatre writing which means that her projects haven’t always quite broken through to the mainstream but to those in the know, she’s a real champion of British musical theatre.
Which is a long-winded but deserved introduction to the Original London Cast Recording of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the production in which she made her debut as an 18 year old in 2002. The Sherman Brothers’ film has long turned into an enduring classic and its score here, enhanced by new numbers for the stage, remains a thing of unalloyed joy. The delicacy of lullabies like ‘Hushabye Mountain’ and ‘Doll On A Music Box’ are just beautiful and in the hands of Williams and Michael Ball, they shimmer gorgeously. Continue reading “Album Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002 Original London Cast Recording)”
There’s something perhaps a bit perverse in some of the strongest episodes of new Who emerging from the series which (arguably) had the weakest companion. Freema Agyeman was ill-served by writing that couldn’t let her be a companion in her own right, as opposed to the-one-in-Rose’s-shadow, and consequently never felt entirely comfortable in the TARDIS.
Series 3 has real highs and certain lows – the introduction of Doctor-lite episodes (to ease the production schedules) produced the inventive wonder that was Blink (and further proved Steven Moffat’s genius), the unashamed grab for the heartstrings was perfectly realised in the Human Nature / The Family of Blood double-header, and the re-introduction of one of the Doctor’s most enduring foes was well-judged. That said, we also had the inevitable return of the Daleks who already feel like they’re in danger of over-exposure.
Continue reading “Countdown to new Who: Doctor Who Series 3”
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'Hazardous' Asteroid Will Barely Miss Earth in a Few Hours—Why Did It Take NASA So Long to Find It?
Matthew Loffhagen
Tuesday, 02 January 2018 - 10:22AM
It seems like the Earth's new global asteroid defense system is doing its job: we've spotted an approaching asteroid the size of a truck that's heading right for our planet. But with NASA admitting it's potentially "hazardous" to Earth, why did it take us so long to find it?
This large asteroid, which is between six and 21 meters in length, was only discovered on December 28, when it was spotted by the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. Named 2017 YD7, this is going to be one of the first big rocks to head towards our planet this year.
The bad news is that despite our planetary defense system now monitoring the asteroid, there's not much we can do about it. We haven't yet built a proposed Death Star-esque method for dealing with these rocky intruders, and there's no way to stop the asteroid from brushing up against the Earth at its anticipated arrival time of 0:40 UTC on January 3 (7:40 pm EST).
The good news is that the asteroid should just barely miss our planet, whizzing past while remaining out of reach. It's anticipated that the asteroid won't come any closer than 1 million miles from Earth—about five times as far as the distance to the moon, but in cosmic terms that's still quite close (NASA classifies anything that comes within 4.6 million miles of Earth as "potentially hazardous").
That said, as much as humanity lives in perpetual fear of facing the same kind of extinction-level asteroid threat that played a part in the dinosaurs' forced evolution into birds, we really shouldn't worry too much about threats like 2017 YD7.
While the asteroid would create a very pretty light show, it's by no means large enough to wipe out all life on the planet. The exact circumstances that killed the dinosaurs remains a mystery, but it probably involved a much larger rock, hitting a very specific location, to create the kind of event that would ruin our planet.
Truck-Sized #Asteroid 2017 YD7 to Fly By #Earth on Wednesdayhttps://t.co/HFlHh4dXak@AsteroidEnergy @AsteroidWatch @AsteroidDay @AsteroidMisses pic.twitter.com/3Hrl20fMHl
— Astro Watch (@Astro_Watch) January 1, 2018
If 2017 YD7 were to collide with Earth, it's most likely that the asteroid would plop into the ocean, with minimal disturbance to us on the land.
This particular asteroid won't be seen again for a long time to come. Once 2017 YD7 grazes our planetary comfort zone, it'll be off on its travels around the solar system for the better part of a century - by which point, we can assume, humanity will have finally built our own laser defense Death Star (and possibly wiped ourselves out with it, as well).
Asteroids are not an uncommon sight in the night's sky, and even bigger rocks are seen regularly without incident. Over 2,000 asteroids were discovered last month alone, as there's so much debris and flotsam swirling around the solar system that it's hard not to spot something if you keep a close enough eye on the stars for long enough.
2017 YD7 might be a close visitor, but it's not going to be the one big rock that will put an end to humanity's time as the dominant species on Planet Earth.
Perhaps that's a shame—when the dinosaurs were snuffed out by a big asteroid, they got the consolation prize of learning to fly. There are plenty of humans who'd trade internet access for a similar perk, if only it was offered.
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Technology Issues on Back Burner in US Congress
With a huge fight over health-care reform unresolved, many observers of technology-related legislation before the U.S. Congress have low expectations that major bills will be passed in the remainder of 2009.
Issues including net neutrality, cybersecurity mandates and patent-litigation reform may sit on the back burner late this year as Congress continues to debate controversial plans to provide health insurance to more U.S. residents. "I don't think this is a big telecom session," said Jot Carpenter, vice president for public policy at CTIA, a trade group representing mobile carriers. "Too many of the key players ... are busy with other projects."
Congressional staffers for two tech-savvy lawmakers agreed, saying health care was likely to take up much of Congress' bandwidth. "It's tough to say what will move after Congress deals with health care and appropriations," added Colleen Ryan, a Dell spokeswoman.
Still, it's hard to predict what could still happen as congressional leaders promise to keep lawmakers in Washington, D.C., until late November, said Ari Schwartz, vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), an advocacy group focused on a free and open Internet.
"October and November could be very long months," he said Tuesday. "You have a lot of staff not working on health care, who have a lot of time to do other things."
In addition, Congress could move forward some tech-related legislation to set it up for passage in 2010. Unlike in an election year, legislation approved in committee in 2009 can carry over and be approved in the full Senate or House of Representatives without having to be reintroduced.
And while health-care reform may not be directly related to the IT industry, a lot of tech vendors are watching that debate closely, said Ginny Terzano, a spokeswoman for Microsoft in Washington, D.C.
"Companies like Microsoft care about the health-care legislation," she said. "Microsoft has expressed support for improvements that will increase access to quality, affordable health care. In addition, we think good legislation can help meet reform goals and create incentives that will drive adoption of innovative information technologies to enhance efficiency and help lead to cost savings."
Here are some tech-related issues that Congress could still tackle late this year:
Lawmakers have introduced several bills related to cybersecurity, the most controversial being the Cybersecurity Act, introduced in April by Senators Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican.
The first version of the legislation would have allowed the U.S. president to shut down or limit Internet traffic to critical infrastructure information systems during cyber emergencies. A new draft of the legislation would allow the president to declare a cyber emergency and direct a national response, but the power of the president over private networks is undefined.
The new version waters down a provision that would allow the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish software security standards, but it continues to give the U.S. Department of Commerce the authority to develop or coordinate a national licensing and certification program for cybersecurity professionals.
Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, seems committed to pushing the legislation forward, but many people in the tech community have raised concerns about the bill. Symantec is concerned that the bill is "too prescriptive," said Adam Rak, senior director of public affairs at the cybersecurity software vendor. "The government having some control over private networks is a concern."
Data-breach notification
Related to cybersecurity legislation, data-breach notification bills would require breached companies or government agencies to notify people whose personal information has been compromised. There are three bills currently in Congress, one of which would require U.S. agencies, as well as interstate businesses, to notify affected people, but none of the three has been voted out of committee.
However, Representative Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat, is the main sponsor of a House data-breach notification bill, and he'll push for the full committee to act on the bill. The bill has a chance of passing in the House, said Joshua Lamel, senior vice president for commercial policy and government affairs at TechAmerica, a large tech trade group.
Still, Congress has been pushing for data-breach notification legislation since a rash of breaches in 2005, and lawmakers haven't been able to pass a bill. About 45 states now have breach notification laws, and some cybersecurity experts have questioned the need for a national law.
In July, Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, which would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to create so-called net neutrality rules. The bill says broadband service providers have a duty to "not block, interfere with, discriminate against, impair, or degrade the ability of any person to use an Internet access service to access, use, send, post, receive, or offer any lawful content, application, or service through the Internet."
The FCC, however, has already taken action against alleged violators of its own net-neutrality policy statement. Just over a year ago, the FCC ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network, with officials there saying the cable provider was "invasive" in its network traffic management.
Comcast has filed a lawsuit appealing the decision, and there doesn't seem to be much momentum in Congress to pass net-neutrality legislation unless the court rules that the FCC doesn't now have the authority to enforce net-neutrality rules. If that should happen, expect a "fairly quick response" from Democrats in Congress, Lamel said.
"I would be very surprised if the ... net-neutrality bill moves during the fall, given the more pressing efforts to reform health care and increase the effectiveness of financial industry regulation," added Barbara Esbin, a senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF), a free-market think tank. "Although interest groups in favor of net-neutrality mandates are running a huge publicity campaign in support of it, at the end of the day, I think that there will be more heat than light on the Hill on this issue."
Privacy/behavioral advertising
Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, has repeatedly said he plans to introduce online privacy legislation this year. The bill would apparently target behavioral, or targeted, advertising practices. The goal of legislation would be to help online users better trust advertisers and give them more control over how their personal information is used, he has said.
Privacy groups have said it's too difficult for consumers to opt out of behavioral tracking, and during a hearing in June, several Republicans joined Democrats in calling for new behavioral advertising rules.
Online advertising companies including Google and Yahoo have said that self-regulation efforts are working. "As one company leads, many others follow or leapfrog by innovating in other ways," Anne Toth, Yahoo's vice president of policy and head of privacy, said in June. "Self-regulation then raises the bar to bring the rest of industry along with commitments in the areas of notice, choice, security, and enforcement."
Patent reform
Some large tech vendors and groups are still holding out hope that an impasse on patent reform can be broken. A Senate Judiciary Committee bill would create new ways of challenging patents and limit damages in patent lawsuits that have passed out of the committee, but groups on both sides of the issue seem unwilling to compromise. The debate has largely pitted large tech vendors against pharmaceutical companies, small inventors and some small tech vendors, who oppose the changes.
TechAmerica's Lamel called on U.S. President Barack Obama to support patent reform and innovation. Large tech vendors have argued that it's too easy for patent holders, some of whom aren't the original inventors, to sue tech companies for a small piece of a product and win huge damages.
"This is a clear opportunity for the administration to show some leadership," Lamel said.
Congress still appears to be interested in patent reform, added Tom Sydnor, a senior fellow at PFF. "But it remains difficult to see broad support for solutions to some of the most difficult remaining questions, like apportionment of damages," he said.
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Russia: The Wild East
Martin Sixsmith (Read by)
Power struggles have a constant presence in Martin Sixsmith’s story of Russia. Collected here in 50 episodes, he chronicles the Mongol hordes invading in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive Tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia’s re-emergence as a superpower.
Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great – all left their mark on a nation that pursued expansion to the East, West and South. Many Tsars flirted with reform, but the gap between the rulers and the ruled widened until, in 1917, the doomed last Tsar, Nicholas II, abdicated. After the whirlwind of the revolution, the Bolsheviks struggled to consolidate their victory. To rescue the economy and save the regime, Lenin made concessions to the people. But after his death, Stalin introduced forced collectivisation and industrialisation, condemning the Soviet people to conditions worse than those experienced under the Tsars. Nikita Khrushchev reversed the worst excesses of Stalinism, and in 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev embarked on radical reforms of the communist system – unleashing unforeseen consequences that swept him from power and destroyed the USSR.
Martin Sixsmith brings his firsthand experience of reporting from Russia in the 1980s and ‘90s to his narrative, witnessing the critical moment when the Soviet Union lost its grip on power. He asks if the recurring patterns of Russian history can help us understand what has happened since 1991, when the promise of Western-style democracy aroused so many hopes for change. Eyewitness accounts, archive recordings and personal testimony enrich his narrative, as well as readings from Russian authors and historians such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman, plus music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev and others.
Martin Sixsmith studied at Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he was the BBC correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary to Harriet Harman, Alistair Darling and Stephen Byers. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. He has written two novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh, and is the author of three non-fiction titles - Moscow Coup: The Death of the Soviet System, The Litvinenko File: The True Story of a Death Foretold and The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search. He lives in London.
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DANN, George
May 1, 1924 – April 12, 2007
George passed away peacefully after a brief battle with cancer. By his side were his step-daughter Laurel Houniet and his special companion Norma Jubb. He will always be lovingly remembered by his family Laurel (Nick) and granddaughter Amanda Houniet, His two sons Bob (Diane) and Bill (Bonnie) and his six grandchildren and two great grandchildren, plus his companion Norma Jubb and all his friends. After his retirement in 1989 as a Geologist, and following the death of his first wife Dawn Ellis, George married Janet Ritchie on November 29, 1991 and moved to Sidney in 1993. George loved the outdoors and could be seen everyday walking Sammy (his dog) all over Sidney. He also loved the arts and theater and was actively involved with the Peninsula Players and on the Arts Council for Sidney and North Saanich. After the death of his second wife Janet Ritchie-Dann, he lived with his step family until October 2006, and spent his remaining time with his special companion Norma Jubb.
We wish to thank Norma’s daughter Paula for all her help during the last few weeks of George’s life, and a special Thank-you to Dr. Ambrose Marsh and the staff at the Pallative Care Unit at Saanich Peninsula Hospital.
A memorial service will be held on May 12, 2007 and details will be announced shortly.
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Steward of the Family Business
Frank Sinatra’s granddaughter, AJ Lambert, brings the memory of ‘Ol Blue Eyes and her own set of music to Modernism Week.
Lydia Kremer December 13, 2018 Arts & Entertainment, Current Digital
AJ Lambert, whose mom is Nancy Sinatra and whose grandfather is Frank Sinatra, will appear at the Annenberg Theater Feb. 19.
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY AJ LAMBERT
Modernism Week as a stage for entertainment? Just peruse the schedule of events and you’ll find that the event that sings everything midcentury modern has begun to incorporate a bevy of entertainment options and musical performances for its 2019 edition.
One in particular features a desert tie to the Rat Pack days and Frank Sinatra. AJ Lambert, whose mom is Nancy Sinatra and grandfather is Frank Sinatra, will appear at the Annenberg Theater Feb. 19. Lambert has appeared in the desert before at Michael Holmes’ Purple Room several times since 2015. She is currently on a concert tour of her recent album Careful You and will make a stop in Palm Springs.
Lambert also hosts Third Generation on Sirius XM’s “Siriusly Sinatra”. She took time to talk about her upcoming appearance during Modernism Week and what it’s like to have the Sinatra family legacy attached to her name.
You grew up surrounded by show business. Was your father a performer?
Yes, my father (Hugh) was in the original Broadway productions of Flower Drum Song and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He also had the Hugh Lambert Dancers on The Ed Sullivan Show, and he was the choreographer for Laugh In. My father died when I was 11.
“I wanted to be able to honor my grandfather’s approach to his music — he felt it was important to do a service and justice to the songwriting.”
Was music always a foregone conclusion for you growing up? At what age did you start your music career?
I started when I was about 19. I was a bass player for a really long time, mostly playing other people’s music, then I started properly singing about three years ago. I didn’t feel like I had the chops to call myself a singer until I got better at it. Especially when it comes to doing standards like my grandfather did. It’s kind of a minefield. People understandably expect you to be perfect, having my legacy in the forefront as it is.
But I feel like it’s time for me to be able to do that now. It took some age and maturity to get to this point. I wanted to be able to honor my grandfather’s approach to his music — he felt it was important to do a service and justice to the songwriting.
Your first solo album Careful You is coming out in January. How does that fit in with your live performances?
I have two tracks of performance: one is the work I do with my band, which is the show that I’m touring with right now. Then I have another show I do with a pianist, John Boswell, in which we perform complete Sinatra albums live.
You recently performed two of Frank Sinatra’s notable albums Only The Lonely and In the Wee Hours in Las Vegas. Why those two? Are you planning more of these concerts?
I feel those are the kind of records that I can do and translate to a woman’s perspective; some of the other music with swagger like Fly Me to the Moon and those hits don’t really fit my style. Trying to do that type of music from my voice, my personality, and age isn’t right for me. I feel I owe it to my legacy to do justice to the music I’m doing, absolutely.
What is the experience of performing in Palm Springs like for you?
Michael Holmes has become a dear friend. I love playing at the Purple Room. He’s made it feel like a great blend of “throwback” and “now” with his style and the acts he books. I kind of grew up in Palm Springs so I love it so much here. My sister, Amanda Erlinger, and I spent a lot of time in Palm Springs where my grandfather lived.
How did your performance during Modernism Week come about? What do you have planned for this performance?
I know Jim Burns, who is the director of the documentary that is screening about Jimmy Van Heusen, who a lot of people credit for bringing Frank Sinatra to Palm Springs in the first place. He had a plane he flew down here onto a little airstrip when there was hardly anything here and brought my grandfather out here — and he fell in love with it immediately. And, of course, much of his career was spent singing Jimmy’s songs and so it’s a really cool opportunity for me to pay tribute to that partnership in this performance. (Director Jim Burns’ Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin’ with Frank & Bing will screen at 1 p.m. Feb. 19.)
Did you ever perform with your mother, Nancy?
I did. I played bass with her a couple of times, and we were also in a Sopranos episode together. I co-wrote the song they wanted to use, which was called “Bossman.” When I found out it was going to be an on-camera performance of that song, I kind of forced my way into the scene as a backup singer since I do sing background vocals on the track! It was on my mom’s last studio album, Nancy Sinatra (2003), which I also co-produced.
2018 is the 20th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s passing. What do remember most about your grandfather?
He was doting, loving, and really funny. He had great sense of humor; he was silly and very affectionate and warm. We called him Pop Pop.
The Music of Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Van Heusen Featuring AJ Lambert
7 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Annenberg Theater, 101 N. Museum Drive, Palm Springs. For tickets and more information, visit modernismweek.com.
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Intertape acquiring assets of Tesa plant
Joseph Pryweller
Intertape Polymer Group Inc. will take advantage of a decision by Tesa Tape Inc. to exit the retail adhesive-tape market by purchasing the assets of one of Tesa's plants.
Tesa, based in Charlotte, N.C., said Dec. 4 that it will focus on the industrial market for its North American business and get out of retail sales. The company will close its Middletown, N.Y., plant that makes retail masking and duct tape and lay off about 122 people. The plant is to close by Feb. 1.
Intertape will pick up those assets, primarily packaging production and slitting equipment, and will gain some Tesa customers. Montreal-based Intertape also signed a three-year supply agreement with Tesa's parent company, Tesa AG of Hamburg, Germany, to supply masking and duct tape to Tesa globally.
The agreements will add about $22 million in annual sales to Intertape, according to Intertape Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Melbourne Yull in a news release.
Intertape plans to integrate most of the tape operations into its Columbia, S.C., facility, the company said.
``It is an exciting opportunity to leverage our current manufacturing capabilities,'' Yull said in the release.
The deal, which was for an undisclosed price, was an easy one to make for Intertape, a company that dwarfs Tesa in size in North America, said equity analyst Michael Van Aelst of CIBC World Markets Inc. in Montreal. Van Aelst estimated that Intertape paid less than $10 million for the Tesa assets.
The customer additions could make the acquisition greater than its current value to Intertape, Van Aelst said.
Tesa had reasonable exposure to large home-retail stores, an attractive growth area for Intertape, he said.
For Tesa, the decision to exit the retail end also was not difficult, he said. By cutting its costs and reducing capacity, Tesa will be a better position to capture sales in the industrial market. The general tape market is weak in North America but could be gaining a little ground as the economy recovers, Van Aelst said.
Other players, including 3M Co., have cut jobs in that sector as a response to sluggish sales, he said.
While Intertape's size in the retail market makes it less vulnerable to slow sales, Van Aelst said, the Tesa plant was underutilized and not diverse enough to weather the slowdown.
``Tesa did not see a bright light at the end of the tunnel,'' Van Aelst said. ``They didn't have a lot of opportunities to increase volumes throughout the plant in the next few years.''
Intertape recorded sales of $463.6 million for the first nine months of 2003.
The company also makes paper-based packaging products and flexible intermediate bulk containers.
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This Landscaping Project Quiets Airport Noise
Land art as soundproofing
By Michael Rowe
Your Captain Aerial Photography
It's not one of our more celebrated scientific axioms, but it's true nonetheless: Plowed fields dampen noise. After this fact was discovered in 2008 by a group trying to reduce ground-level noise at Schiphol Airport outside Amsterdam, architects, designers, and engineers decided to build a landscape in the airport's surrounding fields that could quiet plane traffic for communities adjacent to the international hub. As Gizmodo reports, the project enlisted the aid of Dutch artist Paul de Kort, who designed an 81-acre park that has reduced noise at Schiphol by 2 or 3 decibels.
Following the 2003 construction of Schiphol's Polderbaan runway, which is more than 2 miles long, ground-level noise intensified at the international airport. Some of this noise could be heard 18 miles away. To solve the problem, de Kort took inspiration from an unusual source: 18th century German physics.
In 1787, the German physicist and musician, Ernst Chladni (sometimes called the father of acoustics), demonstrated the relationship between noise and geometry with what are now called Chladni figures. Running a violin bow across the edge of a metal plate covered in sand, Chladni found that the sand particles vibrated into coherent geometrical patterns. De Kort designed a series of ridges at Schiphol inspired by Chladni's geometrical work. The result is 81 acres of interlocking creases that dampen the roar of the Polderbaan.
The distance between the ridges, 36 feet, is equivalent to the wavelength of the airport noise. Rising to a height of 10 feet, they make an impressive sight from the air, but it's what they accomplish on the ground that truly makes a difference. As airports get bigger and bigger and serve larger and larger populations, it remains to be seen if other airports take up Schiphol's landscaping answer to noise pollution.
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AAAS 2: What's Happening To Ice?
That was a question addressed in a couple of different sessions at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in St. Louis this weekend. Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets—the two biggest wild cards in scientists' ability to predict sea level rise—are beginning to increase their contribution to the world's oceans.
Greenland's glaciers are now marching faster toward the ocean, says Eric Rignot from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Increased meltwater, caused by warming air temperatures (more than 5° F over the last decade), has acted as a lubricant, speeding the ice sheet's progress across the landmass. As a result, the amount of ice Greenland has dumped into the ocean has more than doubled in the last five years.
According to the Director of British Antarctic Survey, Chris Rapley, glaciers in both the West and East Antarctic ice sheets have also experienced significant change in the last five years. Glaciers that sit on a layer of bedrock and below sea level have begun to thin rapidly.—J. Bogo
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PSNI say man at GP Out of Hours stand-off was ‘taken to safety’
Published: 12:23 Updated: 14:11 Wednesday 16 January 2019
A stand off at a GP Out of Hours Surgery has ended after a man barricaded himself into the building close to Craigavon Area Hospital.
Police and the NI Fire and Rescue Service were called to deal with the man who is understood to be in his 40s.
Police surround GP Out of Hours Service at Craigavon Hospital
There were concerns for the man’s welfare and staff from the Southern Health Trust were involved with the PSNI in negotiating with him.
A Tweet from the Southern Trust this morning said: “Incident has now been stood down. Traffic is getting back to normal now. Sorry for any disruption.”
PSNI Inspector Gary Moore said: “Police received a report of concern for safety of a man at Craigavon Area Hospital shortly after 8:35am this morning (Wednesday, 16th January).
“Police attended, along with other emergency services, and located the man at the Out of Hours GP surgery. The man was subsequently taken to safety and there have been no reports of any injuries.”
Pacemaker Press Belfast 16-01-2019: Incident at Craigavon Hospital. Emergency services are at the scene of an incident at Craigavon Area Hospital. In a message on Twitter the Southern Health Trust said: "There is an incident ongoing on the Craigavon Area Hospital site.'Picture By: Arthur Allison. Pacemaker.
DUP MLA Carla Lockhart said, after speaking with local police: “This was a very concerning incident for all involved.
“A male in his 40s did barricade himself in an area of the Out of Hours surgery in Craigavon Area Hospital.
“The police were concerned for the individuals safety and therefore police and health professionals were called to deal with the situation.
“I am thankful that the operation has been stood down and that no one was injured. I would thank the PSNI and others involved for their swift and effective response.”
Sinn Féin MLA John O’Dowd has expressed relief that a stand off at the Out of Hours surgery in the grounds of Craigavon Hospital ended with no one being injured.
Mr O’Dowd said: “The police and health service staff had been negotiating with a man who had barricaded himself into the health facility for several hours.
“Thankfully the incident has come to an end with no one being hurt.
“I am sure this was a shocking incident for health staff and members of the public who were caught up in it.”
Mr O’Dowd praised the professionalism of the PSNI officers involved and the health staff who helped bring the incident to a peaceful ending.
SDLP activist Thomas Larkham said: “I want to praise the swift actions of all emergency service personnel involved in this morning’s incident in protecting the public and Trust staff.”
A spokesperson for the NI Fire and Rescue Service said it was tasked to the incident at 9.39am this morning and two appliances from Portadown and Lurgan attended.
“Fire Crews were called to an incident at Craigavon Area Hospital. No action was required by Firefighters. The incident was dealt with at 11am.”
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Camera IconToronto Raptors' head coach Nick Nurse will coach Canada at the upcoming World Cup.
NBA title-winning coach heads to Australia
Justin ChadwickAAP
NBA Championship-winning coach Nick Nurse will be heading to Australia in August after being named as Canada's new head coach.
Nurse led the Toronto Raptors to this season's NBA Championship - the franchise's maiden title.
The 51-year-old will now lead Team Canada into battle against the Boomers in Perth on August 15 and 16, as well as matches against New Zealand (August 20 and 21) and the US (August 26) in Sydney.
Canada are yet to name their squad for their tour of Australia, but it's expected to be stacked with NBA talent as the country gears up for this year's World Cup in China.
Minnesota Timberwolves star Andrew Wiggins, Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray, Los Angeles Clippers guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Indiana Pacers guard Cory Joseph, and Miami Heat forward Kelly Olynyk are among the names who have been floated to represent Canada.
Australia's squad will also be bursting with NBA players also, led by the likes of Ben Simmons, Andrew Bogut, Patty Mills, Aron Baynes, and Joe Ingles.
After taking on Canada in Perth, Australia will face off against Team USA at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on August 22 and 24.
The Boomers' first game of the World Cup in China is against Canada on September 1.
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Royals who once wandered through The Valley
Five Royals who have represented the Addicks
A first away game in just over three weeks sees Brian McDermott’s side make the trip to The Valley on Saturday to face Jose Riga’s Charlton side.
The hosts currently lie bottom of the table with 25 points, and a win on Saturday could take the Addicks to within four points of safety. A win for Reading could see them climb as high as eleventh place.
Over the years, there have been many a Royal that has also donned the shirt of the Addicks during their career. So with many to choose from, below we’ve selected and profiled five that have played for both…
Hughes’ footballing career began as a trainee with Oldham, before moving to Notts County and winning promotion to Division Two whilst on loan with the Meadow Lane side. He made the move permanent at the end of that season, and went on to make 104(+26) appearances before joining Reading in 2001 on a three-year deal. Most readily deployed as a wide midfielder during four years at Madejski Stadium, Hughes helped Alan Pardew’s men find their way back into the second tier, and the season after his ‘never say die’ attitude helped the Royals to a play-off semi-final against Wolves. He parted with Reading to join Norwich City in 2005, and three successful years, including a promotion at Leeds was to follow. A season at Scunthorpe came before a move to Charlton, all prior to a step into coaching with Bolton in 2014.
Yann Kermorgant
Kermorgant began his career in his native France, representing Stade Rennais at youth level, then Vannes, Chatellerault, Grenoble and finally Stade Remis, all prior to an arrival in England with Championship outfit Leicester City in August 2009. After a spell loan spell back in France with Ligue 1’s AC Arles-Avignon, the Frenchman put pen to paper on a two-year deal at The Valley, going on to make 82(+14) appearances and a League One promotion during his time. He became a prolific goal scorer with Bournemouth, joining the Cherries in 2014, and secured back to back 17 goal seasons and promotion to the Premier League in his final year on the south coast. He now plies his trade for the Royals having signed an 18 month contract at Madejski Stadium in the 2015/16 winter transfer window.
Leroy Lita
An acquisition brought in by Steve Coppell for the start of that 2005/06 Championship season, Lita was an instinctive goal machine. He scored on his debut in one of only two defeats all season and played a vital part in a side that was to embark on a record-breaking run to title glory. He began his career on the books at Chelsea, but swapped London for Bristol City to join the Robins at the start of the 2002/03 season. 30 goals in his last year at Ashton Gate prompted the Royals to swoop for the striker’s signature, and the rest, as they say, is history. In his debut season at Madejski Stadium Lita scored 15 goals, and made that tally 32 in 73(+27) appearances by the end of his Reading days. It was during his time in blue and white hoops that he made 8 starts on loan for the Addicks, scoring three goals during his time at the Valley.
Nicky Forster
Former Royals forward Forster, whose Reading career spanned 1999 to 2005, is lesser known for his days with Charlton, where he made 10 first-team appearances towards the latter stages of his playing career. Spotted by Gillingham as an 18-year-old playing for Horley Town, he came through his trials and quickly established himself as a canny goalscorer for the Gills. He arrived at Madejski Stadium via three years with Brentford and a further two with Birmingham – Forster’s six-year stint with the Royals began with a contribution that helped Reading clamber away from the Division Two relegation zone and achieve a top-half finish in 1999/2000. After falling short of promotion in the play-offs the following season, he notched 18 goals as Reading earned a place in Division One in 2002. After exiting Reading, he later represented Ipswich, Hull, Brighton (from which he moved on loan to the Addicks in 2010) and Brentford (again), before non-League spells with Lingfield and Dover.
Graeme Murty
We don’t often get to feature our former skipper in any ‘played for both’ sections – only York, Charlton and Southampton were the other clubs blessed with his services over a 17-year career; no other player has featured more often at Madejski Stadium. Beginning with the Minstermen, where he had trained as a youth player, the Middlesbrough-born defender featured in some notable results for the side, including League Cup wins over Manchester United and Everton in successive seasons for the then-Division Two side. Joining Reading in 1998, he established himself as an integral squad member, and then became captain. In over a decade with Reading, he scored just twice from right-back – the first was an opener in what would be an eventual 3-1 defeat at home against Bristol City; the second was a match-winning penalty against QPR on the final day of the 2005/06 season, ensuring that Reading would set a record 106-point haul from that incredible season. The defender joined Charlton on loan in the winter window in 2009 in order to get some game-time, before spending the last year of his career with Southampton. 339 of his 500 professional club games came in Reading colours and eight in those of Charlton; he also represented Scotland on four occasions.
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Magnitude 6.19 Records
Magnitude 6.19 Records is an independent record label based in San Diego, California. Historically Southern California has been the melting pot of punk rock music. Over the last 10 years there has been a movement away from punk rock music resulting in a depleted scene with music that is intolerable. Our mission is to regain the punk rock scene by once again making Southern California the epicenter of punk rock music. To achieve this, we are looking for the best punk rock bands in and around the Southern California region. We will help produce, promote, and distribute our artists' music with the goal of making their music generate seismic waves felt worldwide.
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The Fellowship for Winter International Travel offers the chance to pursue a passion, a professional development experience, or a service opportunity - complementing Reed's rigorous academic offerings with the opportunity to develop new skills and expand beyond Reed, beyond the U.S. and into the world!
The program awards fellowships of up to $3000 to students to travel for approximately three weeks over winter break. Students have proposed projects to pursue that will expand their perspectives, foster multi-cultural competence, and involve a personal development component.
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Joohee Bang: Exploring Carbon Fiber and Its Applications
The study of the physical properties of new materials and their applications are crucial to various fields ranging from biotechnology to computer industry. From microprocessors to biomedical sensors, challenges in overcoming the small dimensions and achieving complexities are directly related to discovering new materials and their unique characteristics. The extent to which the new composite materials can impact is wide and the ways they can be adapted are limitless. With my research experience in inorganic and physical chemistry, I have been accumulating interest in new materials and their industrial applications. The material of my specific interest is carbon fiber, which is known for its low weight, high conductivity, and high stiffness. I plan to join a program offered by Korea Mirae Technology in South Korea, through which I will learn the properties and applications of carbon fiber. I will also obtain skills to run various manufacturing techniques to make carbon fiber composites. As a chemist who is pursuing academic career in materials science and engineering, I hope to gain further insights into new materials with industrial purposes and their applications.
Kammy Chiu: Tracing the Birth of Porcelain
This winter, I will be attending a 4-week residency program with The Pottery Workshop (TPW) in Jingdezhen, China, known as the “the birthplace of porcelain”. Not only was kaolin, a key ingredient in porcelain, first discovered in Jingdezhen, but the city also has over 2000 years of history in porcelain production. During my residency with TPW, I will have the opportunity to rigorously trace the origin and processing of the material I work with as a potter. From kaolin mining on Gaoling Mountain, to clay mixing, throwing, firing and glazing in the studio, I will hone the skills necessary to become a self-sufficient potter. More importantly to me, this project will allow me to explore customs and traditions of a Chinese-based ceramics community. As a Western-trained potter born and raised in Hong Kong, a four-week immersion in Eastern-styled ceramics will allow me to connect my cultural heritage with my passion for ceramics - a crucial experience that will allow me to develop my own artistic style. As the co-founder and leader of the Ceramics Club at Reed, being equipped with both Western and Eastern training in ceramics will allow me to serve as a more knowledgeable and skillful mentor.
Ian Connelly: Documenting Taijiquan
My project is to travel to Beijing to study Wu Taijiquan under Grand Master Zhen Zhongshan, and to experiment with DV recording technologies to document my experience. Taijiquan is an ancient internal martial art influenced by Daoist philosophy which privileges flexibility over rigidity, reaction over initiation. I began studying taijiquan two years ago while studying abroad in Taipei. At that time, I practiced daily in the mornings with a small group of older Taiwanese. The experience of practicing with this community taught me the importance social interaction has in establishing one’s understanding of taijiquan. The site of practice is a venue for practitioners to chat and connect, but also to talk about how taiji principles intersect with other aspects of their lives. Having the opportunity this winter to study with one of China’s most highly respected masters gives me an ancillary opportunity to revisit this intersubjective social space, which I believe is the lived domain whereby taiji is transmitted and preserved. No tool is better than the DV camera in attempting to capture these subtleties. My final product will be a 40 minute diary-style documentary which explores these intersections, and examines how taiji intersects with my own life.
Irene Globus Harris: HI Line Analysis of NGC 6798 at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Radio astronomy is a study of the universe that reaches beyond the visible spectrum of light. Thanks to observations in the radio wavelengths, phenomena such as non-thermal radiation, pulsars, and proof of the big bang, such as cosmic microwave background radiation, are possible to observe. ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, studies such phenomena. ASTRON’s analysis of galaxies hydrogen emissions decodes the cosmology of the universe. In my three week stay, I will analyze data gathered from the Westerbork Telescope, with a focus on a lenticular galaxy in the Cygnus constellation, NGC 6798. I will simultaneously improve my Dutch language skills, and use my weekends to travel around the Netherlands to deepen my cultural appreciation for the country.
Kate Hilts: The Fleeting Ecology of Madagascar: Photographing Species Endangered by Climate Change
Climate change threatens much ecology globally, but the threat is not evenly distributed. Tropical countries along the equator are especially susceptible to the changing climate, and nations stricken by poverty, with little infrastructure, have fewer means to respond and adapt. Madagascar fits all of these criteria. Climate change threatens the island and its hundreds of rare plant and animal species, some of which exist nowhere else on the globe. Through digital photography, I plan to capture those threatened species and habitats now. I plan to explore the 14,000-acre Ambohitantely Reserve in central Madagascar, one of the most biologically diverse areas of the one of the most biologically diverse nations in the world. Home to rare birds, forty types of orchid, and a species of frog not found outside the reserve, Ambohitantely is the perfect place to catalog the beautiful wildlife that we stand to lose through climate change. I would stay in the nearby capital, Ambohidratrimo, formerly Tananarive. When not at the reserve, I would document the expanding industry and deforestation in and around the capital that exacerbates the risk for these rare species.
Isabel Meigs: Ukrainian Language in L'viv
I will travel to L'viv, Ukraine to participate in a two-week long intensive Ukrainian language program through the Ukrainian Language and Culture School. As part of this program, I will take part in beginner Ukrainian lessons, and learn about traditional Ukrainian culture as presented by the program. I will live with a Ukrainian-speaking host family in the center of the city. In addition to the program, I propose to spend my free time traveling in central and Western Ukraine. As part of a more independent project, I plan on visiting Berdichev, a town located in between Kiev and L'viv. Although a small town, Berdichev features heavily in Russian-Jewish literary imagination, and experienced all the devastation of the 20th century. I hope to see the town in its modern state, visit Jewish and historical landmarks, and interview Jewish residents.
Sydney Scarlata: Cuba and the United States: Navigating a Complicated History
In 1959, the United States responded to the success of the Cuban revolution with a 55-year long policy of isolation and sanctions. In 2014, President Obama formally declared a renewal of U.S. relations with Cuba. For my project, I'd like to focus on these two turning points in Cuban history. I will follow the path of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement from southern Cuba to Havana. Along the way, I will explore the effects the revolution and subsequent 55 years of hostile relations with the United States have had on Cuban identity and Cuban opinions of the United States. Through a combination of photography and mini-interviews, I will capture a moment of life in Cuba at a crucial transition point at the end of decades of animosity but before the floodgates of U.S. capitalism fully open.
Josh Tsang: A Glance Through the Translucent Lens of Chinese Porcelain
Over winter break, I will be completing an artistic residency with The Pottery Workshop (TPW), a Chinese ceramics center based in Jingdezhen – the ‘Porcelain Capital’ of the world. I have been in contact with TPW to design a program that fits my interests in ceramics while also taking advantage of the opportunity to study the abundance of ceramic art in Jingdezhen. The first part of my residency will consist of studying traditional styles of Chinese porcelain pottery. This research will range from examining the techniques used to form clay vessels to replicating the glazework and decoration methods still in use by contemporary artists today. I will then incorporate my research into a body of work that I will create at TPW facilities. As the leader and one of the main instructors of the newly formed Ceramics Club at Reed College, the insights that I will gain in Jingdezhen will directly benefit the Reed community.
Savanah Walseth: From Yoga to Film Therapy: An Exploration of Mental Health Care in India
With a population of over 1 billion people, India has the largest number of individuals with a mental illness in the world—about 50 million. For that many people, India had no choice but to create a comprehensive mental health policy to deal with the crisis. In October 2014, they did just that. Today, India has some of the most innovative treatments for those with mental disorders in the world. Training for community members has improved drastically and evolved in ways that allow the system to treat a person psychosocially, involving family members and a person’s full body, not just their mind. Treatment has moved from the couch to the yoga mat and from talk therapy to film therapy. This January, I will travel from Mumbai to Chennai, from an international conference to grassroots non-profits to discover how India is reinventing mental health care. I will immerse myself in the complexities of health and sickness, healing and psychology to find improvements, solutions and hope to bring back to Portland and Reed College. With the Winter International Fellowship, I will have the opportunity to explore firsthand how another country handles a complex, systemic crisis with dignity and respect for every individual.
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Internal Auditing is an independent and objective assurance and consulting activity that is guided by a philosophy of adding value to improve the operations of Queen’s University (“University”). The Office of Internal Audit (“Internal Audit”) assists the University in accomplishing its objectives by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the organization’s governance, risk management and controls.
The internal audit activity is established by the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Trustees (“Board”). The internal audit activity’s responsibilities are defined by the Audit and Risk Committee as part of their oversight role.
The internal audit activity will govern itself by adherence to The Institute of Internal Auditors' guidance including the Definition of Internal Auditing, the Code of Ethics and the Institute's International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (“Standards”). This guidance constitutes principles of the fundamental requirements for the professional practice of internal auditing and for evaluating the effectiveness of the internal audit activity’s performance.
The Institute of Internal Auditors’ Practice Advisories, Practice Guides and Position Papers will be adhered to as applicable to guide operations. In addition, the internal audit activity will adhere to University policies and procedures and the internal audit activity’s standard operating procedures.
The internal audit activity, with strict accountability for confidentiality and safeguarding records and information, is authorized full, free, and unrestricted access to any and all of the University’s records, physical properties, and personnel pertinent to carrying out any engagement, including organizations under the control[1] of the University. All employees are requested to assist the internal audit activity in fulfilling its roles and responsibilities. The internal audit activity will also have free and unrestricted access to the Principal and the Board.
The Director, Internal Audit will report functionally to the Audit and Risk Committee through its Chair and administratively (i.e. day to day operations) to the Vice Principal (Finance & Administration).
The Audit and Risk Committee will:
Approve the internal audit activity charter.
Approve the risk based internal audit plan.
Review the internal audit budget and approve the resource plan.
Receive communications from the Director, Internal Audit on the internal audit activity’s performance relative to its plan and other matters.
Review and concur decisions regarding the appointment, reassignment and dismissal of the Director, Internal Audit.
Make appropriate inquiries of administration and the Director, Internal Audit to determine where there is inappropriate scope or resource limitations.
The Director, Internal Audit will communicate and interact directly with the Audit and Risk Committee and the Board, including in executive sessions and between Audit and Risk Committee and Board meetings as appropriate.
INDEPENDENCE AND OBJECTIVITY
The internal audit activity will remain free from influence by any element in the University, including matters of audit selection, scope, procedures, frequency, timing, or report content to permit maintenance of a necessary independent and objective mental attitude.
Internal auditors will have no direct operational responsibility or authority over any of the activities audited. Accordingly, they will not develop nor install systems or procedures, prepare records, or engage in any other activity that may impair an internal auditor’s judgment.
Internal auditors will exhibit the highest level of professional objectivity in gathering, evaluating, and communicating information about the activity or process being examined. Internal auditors will make a balanced assessment of all relevant circumstances and not be unduly influenced by their own interests or by others in forming judgments.
The Director, Internal Audit will confirm to the Audit and Risk Committee, at least annually, the organizational independence of the internal audit activity.
The scope of internal auditing encompasses, but is not limited to, the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the University's governance, risk management, and controls as well as the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities to achieve the University's stated goals and objectives. It includes:
Evaluating risk exposure relating to the achievement of the University’s strategic objectives.
Evaluating the reliability and integrity of information and the means used to identify, measure, classify, and report such information.
Evaluating the systems established to ensure compliance with those policies, plans, procedures, laws, and regulations which could have a significant impact on the organization.
Evaluating the means of safeguarding assets and, as appropriate, verifying the existence of such assets.
Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency with which resources are employed.
Evaluating established systems of internal control to ascertain whether they are adequately designed and operating effectively.
Evaluating operations or programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established goals and objectives and whether the operations or programs are being carried out as planned.
Monitoring and evaluating governance processes.
Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the University’s risk management processes.
Performing consulting and advisory services related to governance, risk management and control as appropriate for the organization.
Reporting periodically on the internal audit activity’s purpose, authority, responsibility, and performance relative to its plan.
Reporting significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters needed or requested by the Audit and Risk Committee.
Evaluating specific operations at the request of the Audit and Risk Committee or the University’s administration, as appropriate.
INTERNAL AUDIT PLAN
At least annually, the Director, Internal Audit will submit to senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee an internal audit plan for review and approval. The internal audit plan will consist of a work schedule as well as budget and resource requirements for the next fiscal year. The Director, Internal Audit will communicate the impact of resource limitations and significant interim changes to senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee.
The internal audit plan will be developed using a risk based methodology, including input of senior management, faculty administration, the Board of Trustees and the Audit and Risk Committee. The Director, Internal Audit will review and adjust the plan, as necessary, in response to changes in the University’s business, risks, operations, programs, systems and controls. Any significant deviation from the approved audit plan will be communicated to senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee through periodic activity reports.
A written report will be prepared and issued by the Director, Internal Audit following the conclusion of each internal audit engagement and will be distributed as appropriate. Internal Audit results will also be communicated to the Audit and Risk Committee.
The internal audit report may include management's response and corrective action taken or to be taken in regard to the specific findings and recommendations. In cases where management action plans are not included within the audit report, management of the audited area should respond, in writing, to the Director, Internal Audit within thirty days of publication. Management's response, whether included within the original audit report or provided thereafter should include a timetable for anticipated completion of action to be taken and an explanation for any corrective action that will not be implemented.
The internal audit activity will be responsible for appropriate follow-up on engagement findings and recommendations. All significant findings will remain in an open issues file until cleared.
The Director, Internal Audit will periodically report to senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee on the internal audit activity’s purpose, authority, and responsibility, as well as performance relative to its plan. Reporting will also include significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters needed or requested by senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee.
[1] As of April 30, 2014, the University controls PARTEQ Research and Development Innovations, the Bader International Study Centre, the U.S. Foundation for Queen’s University at Kingston, QCED Inc., and Queen’s University Pooled Trust Fund. Source: Note #1 to Consolidated Financial Statement for the Year ended April 30, 2014.
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United States v. DiNapoli
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
8 F.3d 909 (2d Cir. 1993)
Six concrete construction companies (defendants) were accused of bid-rigging in the bids for concrete superstructure work in New York City between 1980 and 1985. A grand jury investigating the matter returned indictments of all six defendants on March 20, 1986 on RICO charges. The grand jury continued the investigation to identify additional defendants and additional projects that may have been subject to bid-rigging. In this phase of the investigation, the grand jury called Frederick DeMatteis and Pasquale Bruno as witnesses. DeMatteis testified on three occasions and denied awareness of the bid-rigging scheme. The prosecutor was skeptical of the denials and asked DeMatteis a few questions in the nature of cross-examination, but in order not to reveal the names of undisclosed cooperating witnesses or the existence of undisclosed wiretapped conversations, did not reveal evidence that refuted DeMatteis’s denials. Bruno testified once before the grand jury. Bruno also denied awareness of the bid-rigging scheme. After a break, Bruno was told by the prosecutor that the grand jury was concerned that his testimony had not been truthful. The prosecution also did not counter Bruno’s testimony with evidence that would have revealed the names of undisclosed cooperating witnesses or the existence of undisclosed wiretapped conversations. At trial, the defendants attempted to call both DeMatteis and Bruno, who both invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. The defendants then offered DeMatteis’s and Bruno’s grand jury testimony under Federal Rule 804(b)(1). The district court ruled it inadmissible. The defendants were convicted and appealed.
Holding and Reasoning (Newman, J.)
Beckman, 3rd Ed.
Fisher, 3rd Ed.
Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(1)
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Health And Safety Breach Injury Compensation Claims
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Find out everything you need to know about making a successful No Win, No Fee health and safety breach injury compensation claim.
The following guide sets out what you need to know about making a health and safety breach-related injury compensation claim.
What are the legal obligations of employers?
Typical injuries and illnesses
Proving liability for a successful claim
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in 2013/14 approximately 1.2 million people were suffering from a work-related illness or injury. In a large majority of these cases, the cause is an accident, or insufficient working conditions, which resulted from a breach of health and safety.
As all employers are legally bound to ensure the health and safety of employees in the workplace - as stipulated, primarily, in the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 - if they are negligent in doing so, a compensation claim could be brought against them.
Do I have a claim for a health and safety breach?
If you were injured in a health and safety breach in the last three years and someone else was to blame, then we can help you make a compensation claim.
A wide range of legislation is in place to guide employers in ensuring that they are providing safe and healthy working conditions for their employees. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was also set up to help regulate and enforce it, which includes offering practical information on implementation.
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
The basis of British health and safety law, this act has a number of clear provisions for ensuring workplace safety. These require employers, as far as is ‘reasonably practical' to:
Carry out full and ongoing risk assessments of work roles and the work environment
Implement adequate preventative measures and controls to avoid or minimise risk - including providing suitable personal protective equipment (PPE)
Appoint competent persons to help with implementation and ongoing inspections
Provide clear and regular instruction and training to employees on the risks and control measures
Set up emergency and accident reporting procedures
Work together with other employers sharing the same workplace
In addition, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 helps guide how this is applied.
Other more specific legislation aimed at ensuring health and safety at work includes: Noise at Work Regulations 1989; Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1999 (COSHH); The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994; The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Regulations 1992; Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998; The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
With the legal framework and practical information available to employers, there is no reason why breaches of health and safety should occur. So, any injury received or ill health suffered should be reported and changes made. And, importantly, any person affected is encouraged to make a claim.
Health and safety breach claims encompass a wide reaching range of illness and injury. Essentially, they include any possible accident or illness that could occur across all industries.
According to a recent report by the HSE, the most frequent causes of workplace injury are manual handling and slips, trips and falls from height. Of all workplace injuries occurring, manual occupations have the highest rates, with sewerage and waste supply, agriculture, construction and transport being the most likely industries to sustain them.
In the same report, the HSE categorised the most common types of work related health conditions as:
They also identified long latency conditions which can be caused by previous work activity and often appear years after exposure. These are:
Asbestos related disease
Work related hearing loss
Cancers Vibration-related disease
Other respiratory disease
For each condition, there are higher reported cases amongst certain industries or work environments. For example, work related musculoskeletal disorders are common in construction and healthcare, whilst respiratory diseases are more likely amongst those who work with certain fumes, gases and dusts.
Skin diseases occur more often in people working as florists, hairdressers or cooks, whereas cancers come most often from construction, shift work or exposure to mineral oils, solar radiation or silica.
Safety breaches could be relatively minor, such as not regularly mopping wet floors or the providing the correct type of gloves. They can also be more serious, for example failing to erect scaffolding correctly or to carry-out correct training for a large piece of machinery with dangerous moving parts. But no matter the perceived size of the safety breach, the implications for an individual who suffers an injury or illness as a result of it can be huge.
If an individual has been injured or made sick at work, they must be able to prove first that the employer did make a breach of health and safety - that they were negligent - and second, that the breach of safety directly contributed to the illness/injury.
To do this, relevant information would need to be gathered as evidence such as: medical reports citing symptoms, treatment and prognosis; accident book reports; company health and safety information; witnesses to any accident or identified procedure or lack of; and photographs. A solicitor can help advise on what exactly is required for each individual case.
As complaints can be so vastly different - from headaches and hearing loss to muscle pain, broken bones and long-term illnesses - as well as varying greatly in the effect they have on a person's life, so too does the amount of compensation fluctuate depending on the case.
Making a No Win, No Fee health and safety breach claim
A No Win, No Fee agreement, also known as a CFA or "Conditional Fee Agreement", is the start of a claim for injury compensation.
The CFA sets out the service the lawyer provides and a percentage-based "success fee" that will be taken from the award if they win your case.
There will be absolutely no hidden costs when using a Quittance solicitor. You are able to focus on your recovery, knowing that you will never be out of pocket.
Calculate my health and safety breach compensation
The amount of compensation you will receive depends on a number of factors. Our personal injury compensation calculator provides an accurate estimate of your likely compensation.
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Rival South African parties unite at anti-Zuma protest
(UPDATED) Zuma's recent sacking of respected finance minister Pravin Gordhan unleashes public anger over government corruption scandals, record unemployment and slowing economic growth
Updated 10:55 PM, April 12, 2017
JACOB ZUMA. South African President Jacob Zuma answers questions at the South African Parliament, on September 13, 2016, in Cape Town. File photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP
PRETORIA, South Africa (UPDATED) – Rival South African opposition parties joined forces on Wednesday, April 12, when tens of thousand demonstrators marched through the capital Pretoria calling for President Jacob Zuma to resign.
The march to Union Buildings, the official seat of government, was organized on Zuma's 75th birthday and came after nationwide rallies against the president last week.
Zuma's recent sacking of respected finance minister Pravin Gordhan has fanned years of public anger over government corruption scandals, record unemployment and slowing economic growth.
Supporters of the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), and smaller parties mingled at Wednesday's demonstration in a display of unity.
Police said the event had been peaceful.
"You came out in large numbers and sent a strong message," EFF leader Julius Malema told the crowd.
"We are here to defend the future of our children whether you are black (or) white. We are united on the purpose of winning back our beautiful country."
Gordhan's sacking triggered unprecedented criticism from senior figures within the ruling African National Congress (ANC), including from Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The ANC has since tried to close ranks behind Zuma and has vowed to defeat a no-confidence vote against him in parliament.
The vote is scheduled for next Tuesday but may be delayed due to a legal tussle over whether it should be a secret ballot.
'Moment of crisis'?
"At this moment of crisis, we, as political parties, put our differences aside for one common cause – to save South Africa from Jacob Zuma," said John Moodey, DA leader in Gauteng province, which includes Pretoria and Johannesburg.
"(Zuma's supporters) will do everything to stay in power, even intimidating MPs. With a secret ballot, we could put Zuma out by a huge majority.
"Even if it doesn't succeed, I can guarantee you that we will have a coalition government in 2019."
Zuma, who came to office in 2009, is due to step down as head of the ANC in December, and as national president ahead of the 2019 general election.
He is seen as favouring his ex-wife, former African Union chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to succeed him.
Protesters on Wednesday held placards reading "Zuma must fall", "Hamba tsotsi" ("Go away thief"), and "Zuma liar".
"I came because Zuma has to step down. He sold the country. I don't want him anymore," Mavis Madisha, a 37-year-old EFF supporter, told AFP.
Zuma has been accused of being in the sway of the wealthy Gupta business family, allegedly granting them influence over government appointments, contracts and state-owned businesses.
The Constitutional Court last year found Zuma guilty of violating the constitution after he refused to repay taxpayers' money used to refurbish his private rural house.
He is also fighting a court order that could reinstate almost 800 corruption charges against him over a multi-billion dollar arms deal in the 1990s.
The dismissal of Gordhan saw the Fitch and Standard & Poor's agencies cut South Africa's sovereign credit rating to junk status due to fears of political instability and growing corruption.
The ANC has lost popularity in recent years and slipped to 55 percent of the vote in last year's local elections -- its worst ever result.
Zuma has easily survived previous parliamentary votes against him due to the ANC's majority.
The president branded last week's protests, which attracted tens of thousands of marchers, as racist. – Rappler.com
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Betty Chew Chan
August 22, 2014 Jeffrey Wiecek
Death Notice - Betty Chew Chan, age 92, passed away peacefully on August 22, 2014 at Hudson Pointe at Riverdale in Riverdale, NY where she had lived for the past few months. Born in Hong Kong, she was educated in a French convent school where she learned to speak English. As a teenager, she was a long distance swimmer. She was practicing to swim across Hong Kong Harbor when she was stung by a jelly fish and suffered a severe allergic reaction. After that, her swimming career was cut short.
During World War II, the Japanese attacked Hong Kong on December 8, 1941 right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the Governor of Hong Kong was forced to surrender, life became very difficult. The Japanese ruled by martial law. They terrorized the local citizenry and committed numerous atrocities. Food was scarce and many people died. Somehow her family escaped and they came to America. Like many other immigrants, she entered this country through Ellis Island, where her name appears in the immigration arrival records.
She was married to Ham Din Chew in 1943 until his passing in 1977. She had five children, Richard (Marion), Phillip (Maureen), Robert (Clara), Irene (Morris- deceased), and Alice (deceased). In 1950 the family moved to Riverdale, NY where she lived for the next 64 years. Although she was primarily a homemaker, she also assisted her husband in his work as a Chinese herbalist. After her children were grown, she enjoyed her new-found independence by exploring her personal interests such as gardening, traveling, going to movies, and walking her pet dog. For many years, her beloved companion was a white poodle named Mickey. She was proud of her success as a gardener and loved to share photos of her flowers and flowering trees.
She is survived by four of her children, seven grandchildren, Lisa(David), Diana (Michael), Christopher (Jeanne), Brian(Simon), Kim, Kelly (Aalap), and Jacqueline, and nine great grandchildren, Jacob, Amanda, Corinne, McKenzie, Christopher, Jackson, Colton, Sonia, and Olivia. She was predeceased by her youngest child, Dr. Alice Chew who died on December 7, 2009 after a long illness. The family wishes to express their gratitude to the staff of Hudson Pointe at Riverdale who were very kind to her during her final days.
Family and friends may call at Riverdale-on-Hudson Funeral Home, 6110 Riverdale Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471 on Friday, August 29, 2014 from 5pm to 7pm. The family will gather at Riverdale-on-Hudson Home on Saturday August 20, 2014 at 10:30am. Interment will follow in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, N.Y.
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Cozumel requests larger boat docking permission
By Gills Turnbull, Sports on November 28, 2017
Cozumel, Q.R. — The head of the Port Administration of Quintana Roo (Apiqroo), Alicia Ricalde Magaña, said that all operating rules have been changed at the maritime terminals of the state, and that specifically in the case of Cozumel, Apiqroo are hoping for larger vessles.
“We changed all the rules of operation of all the terminals. In the case of Cozumel, they were in a straitjacket because they only allowed the docking of boats of 43 meters in length,” said the official, “Today we take the straitjacket off the dock, meaning it does not have limits”.
Alicia Ricalde said that with these new rules, which still have to be approved by the General Directorate of Ports, better boats may arrive on the island.
“In 2018 we can contemplate having decent, luxurious, beautiful boats of any investment. We want Cozumel to have the opportunity to have boats of that level, ” she said.
“The sea of Cozumel is not the same as that of the bay of Isla Mujeres. For Cozumel, you need strong boats,” she added.
“We have already done our task of consensus, of making rules that allow the coexistence of companies. Now it is up to the General Directorate of Ports to approve them.”
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South Bay Developer Pleads Not Guilty To Laundering Campaign Cash
PALOS VERDES, CA – A real estate developer from Palos Verdes Estates – whose $72 million apartment complex in the Harbor Gateway area was approved three years ago by the Los Angeles City Council – pleaded not guilty Monday to using straw donors to channel tens of thousands of dollars to more than a six local politicians' campaigns.
Samuel Leung, 67, is charged with one felony count each of conspiracy to commit campaign money laundering and offering to bribe a legislative body member. He faces up to four years and eight months in prison if convicted as charged.
Leung has remained free on his own recognizance, thanks to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Teresa Sullivan, despite objections from the prosecution. The defendant is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 2 to get a date for a preliminary hearing that will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed to trial. The preliminary hearing is expected to take as long as four weeks, according to the attorneys involved.
Leung's secretary, Sofia David, 58, is charged with a felony count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of three years behind bars. A warrant was issued for her arrest in February and she did not appear in court Monday morning.
The felony complaint alleges that Leung and David "caused multiple individuals working for Leung along with Leung's business partners, Leung's relatives, and relatives of Leung's employees and business partners, to make campaign contributions to Los Angeles area politicians with the power and ability to change zoning rules, specifically an industrially-zoned property located at 1311 W. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, which Leung wished to develop into an apartment complex."
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The complaint alleges that the contributions included payments to candidates for office, re-election campaigns and payments to political action committees and office holder accounts, including the campaigns of then-Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who is now a county supervisor, City Council members Joe Buscaino, Mitch Englander, Jose Huizar, Gil Cedillo and Nury Martinez, and an independent political action committee that supported Mayor Eric Garcetti.
The complaint also alleges that Leung and David "caused multiple campaign contributors in Los Angeles County to be unlawfully reimbursed for their campaign contributions," and that Leung used pseudonyms and aliases, as well as a co-worker's identity without her knowledge or permission, to make campaign contributions between 2009 and 2015 to current and prospective Los Angeles-area politicians "who had the power to vote on zoning rules affecting property he owned."
The prosecution alleges that tens of thousands of dollars were contributed by more than two-dozen people and companies connected to Leung over a seven-year period beginning in 2009.
State law bars contributions to a political campaign using someone else's name.
Leung's 352-unit Sea Breeze project was eventually approved by the Los Angeles City Council in February 2015. Garcetti and the City Council overruled planning commission officials in changing zoning rules to allow the project to move forward.
An investigation by the Los Angeles Times identified some of the donors as being working-class residents without the obvious financial means to pay $500 or more to a political campaign. Leung told the newspaper that he did not reimburse any campaign contributions and declined to comment further.
The state's Fair Political Practices Commission opened an investigation into the campaign contributions after receiving a complaint letter in October 2016.
Leung has been ordered to surrender his passport and not to travel outside the seven counties of Southern California, and defense attorney Daniel Nixon told the judge that his client has complied with that order.
City News Service and Patch staffer Emily Holland contributed to this post; Image via Shutterstock
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Russia to lay Saudi rails for $US 800 million
Published time: 21 Jan, 2008 17:12 Edited time: 21 Jan, 2008 20:12
Russian Railways has won a tender to lay a railway line in Saudi Arabia. The overall weight of the contract is to be around $US 800 million.
According to the Russian railway monopoly, it's received a letter from the Saudi Finance Ministry inviting it to talks on signing a contract to build the line.
The new railway will connect Az-Zabira with the Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. That's 520 kilometers of line, including bridges, camel crossings, and other related construction.
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Increased Government Scrutiny Expected for Medicare and Medicaid Providers in 2015
By Brian T. Gannon and David A. Valent
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), recently released its “Work Plan” for fiscal year 2015. The Work Plan summarizes new and ongoing endeavors that the OIG plans to pursue with respect to HHS programs and operations during this fiscal year. The OIG’s announcement identified 135 areas of focus, including many initiatives targeted at increased oversight of Medicare and Medicaid providers.
Indeed, the OIG takes responsibility for protecting the integrity of the HHS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, by detecting and preventing fraud, waste and abuse, by identifying opportunities to improve the program, and by holding accountable those who do not meet program requirements. In fiscal year 2014 with programs directed by the OIG, including audits and investigations, the government recovered $4.9 billion dollars.
In 2015, areas of focus identified in the “Work Plan” include: hospital billing, hospital quality and safety issues, and hospital privileging issues. With regard to nursing homes, the focus will be: Medicare Part A billing by skilled nursing facilities, questionable billing patterns for Part B services during nursing home stays, improved background checks for long term care employees, and hospitalization of nursing home residents for manageable and preventable conditions. With regard to other providers and suppliers, there will be a focus on: ambulatory surgical centers, end stage renal disease facilities, ambulance services, transport issues, anesthesia services, chiropractic services, ophthalmology services, clinical laboratories, and sleep clinics.
While the emphasis on ensuring program compliance in some of these mentioned areas has already been a priority identified in previous Work Plans and/or initiatives taken by the OIG, many of the initiatives identified in this year’s ninety page Work Plan are new.
Provided above is just a brief highlight of some of the many aspects of healthcare expected to be subject to increased scrutiny and attention by the OIG in 2015. To illustrate the scope of these new initiatives, the OIG is seeking a $400 million budget for 2015 to carry out its work. This is up from $300 million that was available to the OIG in 2014. The OIG clearly intends to justify the $100 million increase in budget, by paying for that amount through its recoveries from its new and existing oversight practices. For more specific information concerning the OIG’s oversight plans, or on any health care compliance issue, please do not hesitate to contact David Valent, Brian Gannon, or any Healthcare Law Practice Group attorney at Reminger.
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May 27, 2013 / 4:15 AM / in 6 years
Kids' genes, environment affect sleep differently
Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study based on pairs of Canadian twins suggests that genetics play a strong role in how long kids sleep at night, but their environment may be more important for afternoon naps.
Shawna Ellis (L) cradles her two-month-old son Aiden as she and Tianna Rogers (R), 10, wait in line for a computer to go on sale at WalMart on the Thanksgiving Day holiday in Salem, New Hampshire November 22, 2012. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
Researchers compared sleep patterns for close to 500 sets of identical or fraternal twins. They found that especially as kids got older, environmental influences - which include when parents put kids in bed, for example - explained more and more of their napping differences.
“Even though the results do not explicitly state which are the environmental factors,” said Sonia Brescianini, “researchers in the field think that familial habits at bed time, sleeping routines, and in general sleep hygiene measures are for sure a means of improving sleep in children.”
Brescianini, a researcher with the Italian Twin Register at Rome’s Istituto Superiore di Sanità who was not involved in the new study, told Reuters Health in an email that past research has also suggested a child’s environment may be more important than genetics for daytime sleep habits.
The new study involved 983 individual children born in greater Montreal, Canada, from 1995 to 1998. Mothers were asked about each twin’s daytime and nighttime sleep patterns at age 6, 18, 30 and 48 months.
By comparing sets of identical and fraternal twins, Dr. Jacques Montplaisir from the University of Montreal and his colleagues were able to determine how much of kids’ sleep variation was due to genes - which are the same in identical twins - and how much to environmental factors.
For example, Brescianini explained, the more identical twins are similar and fraternal twins are not for a given trait such as sleep schedules, the more that trait is likely to be genetic. But if both types of twins resemble each other in similar ways, the trait is likely affected by a child’s environment.
At three of the four time points, genetics accounted for between 47 and 58 percent of nighttime sleep duration. The majority of children slept 10 or 11 continuous hours at night.
The one age when environment seemed to play a strong role in overnight sleep was at 18 months. That suggests that age “might be an appropriate time of intervention in children with not satisfying sleep duration and quality,” Brescianini said.
But genes never explained more than about one-third of daytime nap length, the researchers reported Monday in Pediatrics.
Family routines and other shared environmental influences, on the other hand, accounted for between 33 and 79 percent of whether or not twins were napping during the day, and for how long. That association became stronger as children got older and average nap length shortened.
The researchers said a similar study needs to be done using more exact tools to measure sleep, such as movement sensors or laboratory monitors.
In addition, it will be helpful to look at what family-related factors may affect daytime sleep, Montplaisir and his colleagues wrote.
“Good sleep duration and quality is very important for children’s physical and mental health because sleeping behavior has been associated with obesity, poor school performance and other behavioral disorders,” Brescianini said.
“In order to promptly intervene, more knowledge is needed on how sleeping behavior changes through childhood.”
SOURCE: bit.ly/cxXOG Pediatrics, online May 27, 2013.
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June 29, 2019 / 5:12 PM / 18 days ago
Ship carrying waste arrives back in Canada from the Philippines
Tyler Choi
The ship Anna Maersk is docked at Roberts Bank port carrying 69 containers of mostly paper and plastic waste returned by the Philippines in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Redmond
TORONTO (Reuters) - A ship carrying 69 containers of waste mislabeled as plastic recyclables returned to Canada on Saturday from the Philippines, closing a chapter on a dispute that started in 2013 and sparked a diplomatic furor between Ottawa and Manila.
The shipment was taken off the container ship Anna Maersk docked close to Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal and arrived at GCT Deltaport in Delta, British Columbia, part of Greater Vancouver, GCT said in a statement.
Sarah Lusk, Metro Vancouver spokeswoman, said the waste would be sent to a Waste-to-Energy facility in Burnaby where it will be incinerated, but added that there was “uncertainty with respect to timing” and the facility may not receive the waste over the weekend.
The waste containers became part of a diplomatic dispute between Manila and Ottawa, as the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Canada with war and withdrew top diplomats from Canada after Canada missed a May 15 deadline to take back the waste.
The waste was shipped to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014 and mislabeled as recyclable plastics. Instead, it was filled with garbage including used diapers and newspapers. A Philippine court ruled in 2016 that it be returned.
Canada made arrangements in late May to accept the containers and said they hired Bollore Logistics Canada to safely bring them back as soon as possible.
Waste disposal has emerged as a topic of political dispute between Southeast Asian countries and the developed world, with Malaysia in May becoming the latest to demand nations such as the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Australia and Britain take back 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste.
The government department Environment and Climate Change Canada told Reuters earlier this month that the government was in talks with Malaysia to recover the plastic waste that originated from Canada.
Reporting by Tyler Choi; Editing by Daniel Wallis
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Father, son sentenced to life terms in slaying
The former owner of the Palomino strip club defiantly spoke out in court Tuesday, saying he was innocent of killing an ex-employee believed to be bad-mouthing the business.
Luis Hidalgo Jr., who stood shackled next to his son, Luis Hidalgo III, said during his sentencing that he was merely “a trophy” for prosecutors who wanted a high-profile defendant in the 2005 slaying.
“I had no reason at all whatsoever to go ahead and do any harm to this gentleman,” he said. “I don’t function that way.”
At the end of the hourlong hearing, District Judge Valerie Adair sentenced Hidalgo Jr., 58, and his 27-year-old son to spend life in prison.
Both will be eligible for parole in 20 years.
A jury convicted them of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit battery with a deadly weapon or battery resulting in substantial bodily harm in connection with the death of 44-year-old Timothy Hadland.
Hadland was found shot in the head in the middle of a deserted road near Lake Mead on May 19, 2005. Fliers for the club, located on Las Vegas Boulevard in North Las Vegas, were littered around his body.
Authorities said Hadland, a former Palomino doorman, was killed because he was bad-mouthing the club to cab drivers. That in turn cost the Palomino thousands of dollars in lost revenue, authorities said.
The contract on the victim’s life was for about $5,000, authorities said.
But Hidalgo Jr. denied he had a grudge against Hadland, whom he described as a “good man.” He said he rarely saw the victim at the club.
His son declined to speak at the hearing.
Hidalgo Jr., who once worked as a civilian employee for a California sheriff’s office, moved to Las Vegas in the 1990s. He opened Simone’s Auto Plaza and became involved in the Palomino through his friendship with a previous owner.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo told the judge that both defendants were responsible for Hadland’s death. The prosecutor asked for the stiffest sentence possible.
“Mr. Hadland and his family are entitled to a life sentence,” he said.
Hadland’s relatives packed the courtroom Tuesday. His daughters described Hadland as a loving father of four whose death left a huge hole in their lives.
His daughter Allana, who is serving in the military, said she called Hadland’s voice-mail for months after his death just to hear his voice.
“I don’t understand how someone’s life could be valued at $5,000,” she said. “My father’s life could not be valued in dollar amounts.”
The victim’s other daughter, Jennifer, was 14 when her father was killed. She said she still has trouble accepting that he won’t be able to walk her down the aisle at her wedding or be a part of her life.
“I’ll never be able to have him hug me. I’ll never be able to see him,” she said.
Several co-defendants involved in Hadland’s slaying have already gone to trial or have taken plea deals.
The man accused of shooting Hadland, Kenneth Counts, 33, was acquitted of first-degree murder charges but was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. He is serving an eight- to 20-year sentence.
Hidalgo Jr.’s ex-girlfriend, Anabel Espindola, was facing first-degree murder charges but took a plea in exchange for her testimony. She pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon.
Another defendant charged with murder, Deangelo Carroll, 28, is scheduled to go to trial next year.
John Arrascada, who represented Hidalgo III, said he plans to appeal the verdict. So will Dominic Gentile, who represents Hidalgo Jr.
“I believe in the innocence of my client,” Gentile told the judge. “Hopefully, someday, this verdict will be changed.”
Contact reporter David Kihara at dkihara@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-1039.
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Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini[note 1] (Spanish pronunciation: (listen);[A] born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has a record-tying five Ballon d'Or awards,[note 2] four of which he won consecutively, and a record six European Golden Shoes. He has spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he has won a club-record 34 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles and six Copas del Rey. A prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga (419), a La Liga and European league season (50), most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League (8), and most assists in La Liga (169) and the Copa América (11). He has scored over 695 senior career goals for club and country. Born and raised in central Argentina, Messi
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Maria Rosaria Omaggio (born 11 January 1957) is an Italian actress and writer. Born in Rome, Maria Rosaria Omaggio debuted in 1973 in the Italian show Canzonissima.[1] In 1976 she made her film debut with two "poliziotteschi" alongside Tomas Milian, Rome Armed to the Teeth and The Cop in Blue Jeans, and later starred in numerous films and TV series. She is also active on stage, and in 2011 celebrated her 25th year in theater with the recital Omaggio a voi.[2] Her latest film is Walesa. Man of Hope (2013), directed by Andrzej Wajda, where she stars as Oriana Fallaci. She is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.[3] Selected filmography Rome Armed to the Teeth (1976) The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976) La segretaria privata di mio padre (1976) La lozana andaluza (1976) La malavita attacca... la polizia risponde! (1977) El virgo de Visanteta (1979) Visanteta, estáte quieta (1979) Los locos vecinos del 2º (1980) Nightmare City (1980) Culo e camicia (1981) The Adventures of Hercules (1985) Rimini R
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Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress, producer, activist, and former singer. She is known for her roles as Samantha Micelli in Who's the Boss?, Jennifer Mancini in Melrose Place, Phoebe Halliwell in Charmed, Billie Cunningham in My Name is Earl, Savannah "Savi" Davis in Mistresses, Renata Murphy in Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, and Coralee Armstrong in Insatiable. Early life Milano was born on December 19, 1972,[1] in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn,[1][2] the daughter of fashion designer and talent manager Lin Milano and film-music editor Thomas M. Milano.[1] She and her brother, Cory,[3] who is a decade her junior,[4] are of Italian ancestry.[5] She was raised Roman Catholic.[6] Career 1980–1996 Milano began her career at age 7, when her babysitter, without notifying Milano's parents, took her to an audition for one of the four principal parts in a national touring company of Annie. Milano was one of four selected from more than 1,500 girls. During the course of her work
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Önder Sisters
Ferzan and Ferhan Önder after a concert in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria, 2017. Önder Sisters at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2011 after a concert in Kiel, Germany. The twin sisters Ferhan & Ferzan Önder (born October 2, 1965 at Tokat, Turkey) are Austrian pianists who perform mostly as a piano duo. At the age of seven, they moved to Ankara to study in the State Conservatory. Already at the age of 14, they won a Jury Special Award at the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Alessandro Casagrande in Terni, Italy. Next, they won the "First Prize" at the International Piano Duo Competition in Hamburg, Germany. In 1985, after winning a competition, which led to a concert in Vienna, the twins decided to move to Austria, where they studied at the Academy of Music in Vienna with Noel Flores and Paul Badura-Skoda.[1] In the academy, they also met Alfons Kontarsky, who became their mentor and a close friend until his death. The twin sisters produced a number of CDs. Their CD Vivaldi Reflections, which
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Natalia Marisa Oreiro Iglesias (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 19 May 1977) is a Uruguayan singer, actress, and fashion designer. Oreiro began her career in telenovelas. Since 2008 she has switched to work primarily in films. Oreiro has worked on social awareness shows and events for organizations like Greenpeace and UNICEF, the latter of which designated her as ambassador for Argentina and Uruguay in September 2011. She has been included in Esquire magazine's "The Sexiest Woman Alive Atlas" list.[1] Life and career 1977–2000: Early life and career beginnings Daughter of Carlos Florencio Oreiro Poggio and Mabel Cristina Iglesias Bourié, was born on 19 May 1977. Natalia studied drama at the age of eight and at twelve started auditioning for advertisements. During her teens she appeared in more than 30 television commercials for such trade marks as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Johnson & Johnson. At the age of 16 she moved to Argentina to work there and unleash her ambition to be a star. She worked as an MTV VJ an
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Effie Owuor
Effie Owuor (born 1943) is a Kenyan lawyer and judge who was the country's first female State Counsel, Magistrate, High Court Judge, and Court of Appeal Judge. Early life and education Owuor was born in 1943 in Kakamega and attended Butere Girls High School and Alliance Girls High School.[1][2] She graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1967, which was at the time the only university offering law degrees in East Africa.[2][3] Career Owuor became a State Counsel in the Attorney General's Chambers in 1967.[2] She became Kenya's first female magistrate in 1970 and senior magistrate in 1974.[3] In 1982, Owuor was appointed by President Daniel arap Moi to the High Court of Kenya, the first woman to sit on the bench.[3][4] In 1983, she was appointed alongside Cecil Miller and Chunilal Madan to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate corruption allegations against former Attorney General Charles Njonjo.[1] Owuor was also appointed a goodwill ambassador to UNICEF.[2][5][6] In 1993
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Eva Padberg (born 27 January 1980) is a German fashion model, singer, and actress. Early life Padberg was born in Bad Frankenhausen and grew up in Rottleben, Germany. In 1995, she applied for Bravo's Boy & Girl contest; she made it among the best ten models and gained the opportunity to do a test shooting for Louisa Models in Munich. In 1998, after having finished her Abitur, she started her professional modelling career. Eva worked in Paris, Tokyo, and New York City, e.g. for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and walked for different Prêt-à-Porter shows. Career Eva Padberg, Life Ball 2013 Besides the catwalk and the photo shootings, she became a frequently sought model for commercials and advertising campaigns: Since 2003, she has been the face of the world-renown make-up-brand Astor. In May 2005, she appeared in the TV commercial of the candy brand "Gletscher Eis" and in September of the same year she became not only the new face of the Korean automobile manufacturer Kia Motors, but also the new cov
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Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress, producer, and designer.[1][2] She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. She later reprised the role in films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical Annie in 1979. She made her first major film appearances in the 1984 dramas Footloose and Firstborn. Her other film roles include L.A. Story (1991), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Ed Wood (1994), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Failure to Launch (2006
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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin. After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007. Perry rose to fame in 2008 with the release of her second album, a pop rock record titled One of the Boys, and its singles "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold". The former track also sparked controversy for its sapphic themes. Her third album, Teenage D
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Daniela Poggi
Daniela Poggi (born October 17, 1954) is an Italian film and stage actress and television presenter. Background Born in Savona, at young age Poggi studied ballet, then graduated from Linguistic High-school.[1] Following her family she moved in Milan where she started working in commercials;[1] resumed her ballet studies, after a few minor film roles Poggi had the first great opportunity in 1978, chosen by Walter Chiari to star with him in the revue Hai mai provato nell'acqua calda?.[1] In 1979 she got a huge popularity thanks to the participation to the Raiuno variety television La sberla, that was seen by an average of about 20 million viewers.[1] Poggi started her cinema career in genre films, especially starring in roles of sexual object in several commedie sexy all'italiana,[1] then, from late 1980s, she switched into more dramatic roles. She was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.[2] Filmography Film Son tornate a fiorire le rose, directed by Vittorio Sindoni (1975) L'ultima orgia del II
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Rania Al-Abdullah (Arabic: رانيا العبد الله, Rāniyā al-ʻAbd Allāh; born Rania Al-Yassin on 31 August 1970) is the queen consort of Jordan. Born in Kuwait to a Palestinian family, she later moved to Jordan for work, where she met the then prince Abdullah. Since marrying the now King of Jordan in 1993, she has become known for her advocacy work related to education, health, community empowerment, youth, cross-cultural dialogue and micro-finance. She is also an avid user of social media and she maintains pages on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. She has two daughters and two sons and has been awarded various decorations by governments. Personal life Early life Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait, to Palestinian parents. She received a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo. Upon her graduation from the American University, she worked briefly in marketing for Citibank, followed by a job with Apple Inc. in Amman.[1] Marriage and family She met Jordanian Abdullah bin Al
Diletta Rizzo Marin
Diletta Rizzo Marin (born in Vicenza) is an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano admired for the quality of her voice and her skills in acting.[1][2] She has appeared frequently at the Festival Internacional de Santander. Biography Diletta Rizzo Marin was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Roberto Scandiuzzi, is also an opera singer.[3] She studied piano and she received her laurea in theatrical performance from L'Università Ca' Foscari in Venice. Her official debut was in July 2004 in a solo recital at the 53rd Festival Internacional de Santander. She returned to the Festival again in 2005 appearing in a concert with Roberto Scandiuzzi, the Coral Salvé de Laredo, and the Orchestra 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino. The live recording of the concert was issued by the RTVE-Música label in February 2006.[4] (A further performance of the concert took place at the Festival de Úbeda in June 2007.)[5] Her most recent appearance at the Festival Santander was in August 2007 when she sang the leading role of Amina
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Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan
Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan, Crown Princess of Iraq (born Sarah Antonia Butler on 1 August 1972) is an American humanitarian and maternal and newborn health activist. Through her marriage to Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, she is a Jordanian princess and a member of the House of Hashemite. Her husband is the heir apparent to the pretender of the abolished throne of Iraq. Early life and education Princess Sarah was born as Sarah Antonia Butler on 1 August 1972 in Houston, Texas to Dr. Godfrey Phillip Butler, a British petroleum geologist and consultant to international oil companies, and Jean Hamilton Butler.[1][2] She was educated at Hurtwood House in Surrey, England.[3] She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from the University of St. Thomas and a master's degree in development studies from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.[4] Career Princess Sarah is a global health advocate whose work focuses on maternal and newborn health.[5] She has work
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Teimour Radjabov
Teimour Radjabov (also spelled Teymur Rajabov; Azerbaijani: Teymur Rəcəbov; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. As of June 2019, he is ranked as No. 2 in Azerbaijan and No. 12 in the world rankings. A chess prodigy, Radjabov earned the title of grandmaster in March 2001 at the age of 14, making him the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time.[1] In 2003, Radjabov gained international attention after beating the-then World No. 1 Garry Kasparov in the Linares tournament, followed by victories over former World Champions Anand and Ponomariov all in the same year. Radjabov continued his progress over the years and became one of the top chess players in the world. In November 2012, he achieved his peak rating of 2793 and was rated as #4 in the world. He has twice competed at the Candidates Tournaments in 2012 and 2013 and won the European Team Chess Championship with Azerbaijan in 2009, 2013 and 2017. His major tournament achievements include winning the 2008 Elista FIDE Grand Pri
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Bilaal Rajan
Bilaal Rajan (born September 7, 1996 in Toronto, Ontario) is a fundraiser, motivational speaker, author, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Canada's child ambassador,[1] and founder of the Making Change Now organization. Rajan began fundraising when he was four years old, selling clementines door-to-door in his neighborhood to raise C$350 in funds for the victims of the earthquakes in the Gujarat province of India in 2001.[2] He later sold handmade plastic plates to raise $1,200 for HIV/Aids orphans, sold cookie boxes to raise over $6,000 for the affected people and children of Hurricane-devastated Haiti, raised $50,000 for the victims of the tsunami in south-east Asia,[3] and more than $50,000 for the World Partnership Walk. In 2004, Rajan launched the Canada Kids Earthquake Challenge for UNICEF, raising the total funds for tsunami relief to around $1.8 million.[4][5] To date, he has helped raise over $5 million for various causes, and since March 2005 is an official ambassador for UNICEF. Rajan visi
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Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Graciela Rodo (born 1935 in La Paz) is a Bolivian painter. She is noted for her artworks featuring stylized renderings of children. Early life Her love of art was influenced by her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur. She studied music and art throughout childhood, giving her first piano recital at age 15, and her first art exhibitions in Vienna and Salzburg at age 18. Artistic career Pursuing her dream to be both a great artist and musician, Rodo soon found that time would not permit the necessary devotion to both her passions. At 22, she turned all of her energy to painting. She studied etching and printmaking along with René Carcan under Johnny Friedlaender in Paris. She married a Frenchman, Boulanger, so that her public name became Graciela Rodo de Boulanger (Spanish) and Graciela Rodo Boulanger (French). In 1966, her artistic ambition began to be realized when she published her first editions of engravings and first exhibited in the United States. In 1979, UNI
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Eva Röse
Eva Röse (born 16 October 1973 in Vårberg) is a Swedish actress and television host. She is best known internationally for her role as the sinister android Niska in Season 1 of the Swedish science fiction TV series Real Humans. She was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 2007.[2] Filmography Adam & Eva (1997), One of Tove's girl friends Längtans blåa blomma (1998), Beata 'Betty' Tollman Magnetisörens femte vinter (1999), Sofie Blå Måndag (2001), Eva Lindgren Me and Morrison (2001), Sophie Kopps (2003), Jessica Villmark (2003), Elin Storm (2006), Lova Att göra en pudel (2006), Rita Göta Kanal 2 (2006), Petra Andersson Rallybrudar (2008), Ulla Sthlm (2008) Maria Wern (TV series) (2008-2016) Göta kanal 3 (2009), Petra Submission (2010), Herself – documentary by Stefan Jarl Real Humans (TV-series, 2012) The Paradise Suite (2015) References "Eva Röse" (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 25 January 2010. "Eva Röse ny UNICEF-ambassadör" [Eva Röse Ne
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Magdalena Różczka
Magdalena Różczka, 2018 Magdalena Różczka (born 27 July 1978 in Nowa Sól) is a Polish actress. She appeared in the comedy television series Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi in 2003.[1] On May 2010 she was appointed as the UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador.[2] References "Bao-Bab, czyli zielono mi". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-05-17. UNICEF people External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Magdalena Różczka. Magdalena Różczka on IMDb Official website
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Agnes Samaria
Agnes Maryna Samaria (born 11 August 1972 in Otjiwarongo[1]) is a retired Namibian middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. Samaria has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2005. Competition record Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes Representing Namibia 1995 Universiade Fukuoka, Japan 25th (h) 400 m 57.63 25th (h) 800 m 2:11.61 1999 All-Africa Games Johannesburg, South Africa 17th (h) 800 m 2:11.58 2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 16th (h) 800 m 2:03.11 2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, United Kingdom 3rd 800 m 1:59.15 (NR) African Championships Radès, Tunisia 2nd 800 m 2:03.63 2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 7th (sf) 800 m 2:01.29 World Championships Paris, France 23rd (sf) 800 m 2:02.66 2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 16th (h) 800 m 2:05.05 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 8th (sf) 800 m 1:59.37 2005 World Cham
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (, Spanish: ; born 2 February 1977)[5] is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Born and raised in Barranquilla, her first studio albums, Magia and Peligro, failed to attain commercial success in the 1990s; however, she rose to prominence in Latin America with her major-label debut, Pies Descalzos (1996), and her fourth album, Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998). Shakira entered the English-language market with her fifth album, Laundry Service in 2001. Its lead single, "Whenever, Wherever", became one of the most successful singles of 2002. Her success was solidified with her sixth and seventh albums Fijación Oral, Volumen Uno and Oral Fixation, Volume Two (2005). Shakira's eighth and ninth albums, She Wolf and Sale el Sol, were released in 2009 and 2010 respectively. Her official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", which featured a South African band Freshlyground, became the biggest-selling World Cup song of a
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Batyrkhan Shukenov
Batyrkhan Kamalovich Shukenov (Kazakh: Батырхан Қамалұлы Шүкенов, Russian: Батырха́н Кама́лович Шуке́нов; May 18, 1962, Kyzylorda, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic — April 28, 2015, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Kazakhstan and Russian singer, musician, saxophonist, composer, poet.[1] Honored Worker of Arts of Kazakhstan (2010).[2][3] Goodwill ambassador UNICEF of Kazakhstan (2009-2015).[4][5] Co-founder and lead singer of the Kazakh-Russian pop music group A-Studio, a part of which has gained wide popularity (1987-2000).[6][7][8] After leaving the group in autumn 2000 started his solo career.[6] Batyrkhan Shukenov died at age 52 in his apartment in Moscow from a heart attack.[9][10][11][12] He was buried in his native Kazakhstan.[13] On 29 April 2015 in Moscow the ceremony of farewell to Shukenov was attended by hundreds of people.[14] In Almaty at that time, thousands of fans gathered in the square in front of the Palace and the evening singing his songs.[15] References Биография Батырхана Шукенова. Оф
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Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore (born 8 December 1944) is an Indian film actress known for her works in Hindi cinema as well as Bengali cinema. She has received two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards for her performances. She was one of the highest paid actresses in 70s and also one of the iconic veteran actresses of Indian Cinema. She led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011. In December 2005 she was chosen as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.[2] She was one of the International Competition's Jury Members at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, she was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.[3] Early life Sharmila was born in Kanpur, India, the daughter of Gitindranath Tagore, a general manager in the British India Corporation, by his wife Ira Tagore (née Barua).[4] While Tagore's father belonged to a Bengali family, her mother came from an Assamese family, and both of them were distantly related to the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.[5][6] Gitindranath was the grandson of
Tayfun Talipoğlu
Tayfun Talipoğlu (1962–2017) was a Turkish journalist and writer. He was born in Kars. Aftar primary education in Malatya and Eskişehir, he graduated from Atatürk highschool in Ankara and Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University in 1983. Although he applied for a civil servant post, his application was rejected because of his political views. After trying many jobs, he finally chose journalism. He served in Milliyet newspaper, Star TV and ATV TV, Kanal 8 TV and Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) [1] He had been primarily known for his TV series, Bamteli , which began in 1995 and which was aired on various TV channels,[2] Talipoğlu was a columnits at the newspapers Takvim, Yeni Yüzyıl and Cumhuriyet.[3] He also wrote a number of poetry books and recorded albums of traditional Turkish music. He was appointed UNICEF goodwill ambassador in October 2007.[3] Upon his death, UNICEF published the notice: "We are deeply saddened by the sudden demise of our distinguished national Ambassador Tayfun
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Gary Al-Smith
Gary Al-Smith is a Ghanaian sports journalist who reports locally and for international media – with a focus on African football.[1] He is also a global shaper and a UNICEF ambassador.[2][3] He initially worked with Citi FM however moved and is currently with Joy FM.[4] He does stories for Guardian, BBC, CNN, the New York Times and SuperSport.[5][2] References "Gary Al-Smith". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-12-23. "Gary Al-Smith | Global Shapers Community". www.globalshapers.org. Retrieved 2016-12-23. "UNICEF Ghana appoints Gary Al-Smith on a water project". OC SPORTS NEWS. Retrieved 2016-12-23. "EXCLUSIVE! Joy FM pays almost GHC 100, 000 for Gary Al-Smith... joins after AFCON| ENewsGh". Proudly Ghanaian! | ENewsGh. 2015-01-10. Retrieved 2016-12-23. Myjoyonline.com. "FULL LIST: Joy FM's Manasseh Azure, Gary Al-Smith join Anas among 2015 Ghana's Most Influential - MyJoyOnline". www.myjoyonline.com. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
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Amy Paulette "Amii" Stewart (born January 29, 1956) is an American disco and soul singer and dancer most famous for her hit disco record cover of Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood". Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown[1] and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta. Career Amy Stewart was born 9th out of 11 children.[2] Her father, Joseph Stewart II, signed her up for singing and dancing lessons in 1960, when she was four. There already was an Amy Stewart registered with Actor's Equity, so she changed the spelling of her name to Amii. She began attending Howard University in Washington but soon left to work with the D.C. Repertory Dance Company, studying ballet and modern dance.[2] Before being signed to Ariola Records, Stewart was in the touring company of the stage production Bubbling Brown Sugar in 1975, firstly in Miami, then Broadway, and eventually London's West End, where she met Barry Leng, a record producer for Hansa records. At the end of 1977, "You Really Touched My Heart"
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Jo-Ann Strauss
Jo-Ann Cindy Strauss (born 3 February 1981 in Cape Town) is a South African model, public speaker and businesswoman. In 2001, she represented her country as Miss South Africa at the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico as well as at the Miss World pageant hosted at Sun City in her home country in 2001.[1] Career Strauss obtained her bachelor's degree at the Stellenbosch University. During her reigning year as Miss South Africa, she started her media career with the Afrikaans TV magazine programme Pasella before anchoring the English lifestyle magazine show Top Billing (TV show), for which she has interviewed the likes of Charlize Theron, Antonio Banderas and George Clooney. She featured as cover girl for many South African magazines.[2] A year after Strauss was crowned Miss South Africa, she took part in the first and only celebrity version of Celebrity Big Brother (South African TV series), where she finished runner-up. In 2010, Jo-Ann presented the opening ceremony for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South A
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Francesco Totti Ufficiale OMRI[4] (Italian pronunciation: ;[5][6] born 27 September 1976) is an Italian former professional footballer who played for Roma and the Italy national team. He is often referred to as Er Bimbo de Oro (The Golden Boy), L'Ottavo Re di Roma (The Eighth King of Rome), Er Pupone (The Big Baby), Il Capitano (The Captain), and Il Gladiatore (The Gladiator) by the Italian sports media.[7][8] He played primarily as an attacking midfielder or second striker, but could also play as a lone striker or winger. Totti spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. He is the second-highest scorer of all time in Italian league history with 250 goals, and is the sixth-highest scoring Italian in all competitions with 316 goals.[9] Totti is the top goalscorer and the most capped player in the club's history, holds the record for the most goals scored in Serie A while playing for a single club, and also holds the record for the youn
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors in Turkey
The following names in Turkey are good will ambassadors of UNICEF.[1] Year Name Occupation 2003 Gülsin Onay Concert pianist 2003 Ferhan and Ferzan Önder Piano duo 2007 Ayşe Kulin Author 2007 Müjdat Gezen Theatre actor 2007 Tayfun Talipoğlu Journalist 2007 Yıldız Kenter Theatre actress 2009 Bilkent Symphony Orchestra 2010 Türkan Şoray Movie actress 2011 Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ Move actor 2011 Şefika Kutluer Flutist 2012 Ali Poyrazoğlu Theatre actor 2012 Ferhat Göçer Musician 2014 Tuba Büyüküstün Movie actress Gallery Ferhan & Ferzan Önder Ayşe Kulin Müjdat Gezen Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Türkan Şoray Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ Şefika Kutluer Tuba Büyüküstün References UNICEF page ‹See Tfd›(in Turkish)
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Liv Rundgren Tyler (born Liv Rundgren; July 1, 1977) is an American actress and former model.[3] She portrayed Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–03). Tyler began a career in modeling at age 14. She later decided to focus on acting, and made her film debut in Silent Fall (1994). She went on to achieve critical recognition with roles in Heavy, Empire Records (both 1995), That Thing You Do!, and Stealing Beauty (both 1996). She then appeared in films such as Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Armageddon (1998), Cookie's Fortune, Onegin (both 1999), Dr. T & the Women (2000), and One Night at McCool's (2001). Following the success of Lord of the Rings, Tyler has appeared in a variety of roles, including the films Jersey Girl (2004), Lonesome Jim (2005), Reign Over Me (2007), The Strangers, The Incredible Hulk (both 2008), Super (2010), Space Station 76 (2014), and Wildling (2018). Outside of film, she played the part of Meg Abbott on HBO's The Leftovers (2014–2017), and has since starred
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Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938)[1] is a Norwegian actress and film director. She was one of the 'muses' of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.[2][3] Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants (1971), and has been nominated for another four. In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless. She has also received two BAFTA Award nominations for her performances in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and Face to Face (1976), and two Academy Award nominations for The Emigrants and Face to Face. Early life Ullmann was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Erik Viggo Ullmann (1907–1945), a Norwegian aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time, and Janna Erbe (née Lund; 1910–1996), also Norwegian.[4] Her grandfather was sent to the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War for helping Jews escape from the town where he lived in Norway; he died in the camp.[5] When she was two
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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, FRSA (, ; [1] 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004), was a British actor, voice actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter. He was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. An intellectual and diplomat, he held various academic posts and served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement. Ustinov was the winner of numerous awards over his life, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Emmy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards for acting and a Grammy Award for best recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. He displayed a unique cultural versatility that has frequently earned him the accolade of a Renaissance man. Miklós Rózsa, composer of the music for
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Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events
Tourism and major events
Big-time boxing is coming to Bendigo with superstar Jeff Horn and world-rated Victorian Michael Zerafa to battle it out at Bendigo Stadium on Saturday, 31 August.
The fight was secured with support from the Andrews Labor Government’s $20 million Regional Events Fund and is expected to draw fans from around the country to the newly-refurbished Bendigo Stadium.
Horn become an Australian great after he claimed the world welterweight championship in 2017 with a famous victory in Brisbane over superstar Manny Pacquiao. His opponent in Bendigo, Zerafa, will claim home-state favouritism due to his Melbourne roots.
With the fight to be broadcast on Foxtel throughout Australia, as well as in New Zealand, the United States and China, it will raise the profile of Bendigo as a premier sporting and tourist destination.
Bendigo Stadium was re-opened in 2018 after a major redevelopment made possible by a $5 million investment by the Labor Government.
The expanded stadium includes three international-standard show courts, with retractable seating that can be extended to create a 4,000-seat arena.
The 31 August fight is the latest big event locked in for Bendigo Stadium. The stadium hosted its first international sporting event – a Boomers v. Kazakhstan men’s basketball match – last September.
Securing the fight is a major coup not only for Bendigo, but also regional Victoria.
Major events are crucial to the state’s economy, generating an estimated $1.8 billion each year and bringing visitors from across Australia and around the world to Victoria.
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“Victoria is unmatched as the sporting and event capital of Australia and we’re excited to be able to bring such a high-class fight to the brand-new Bendigo Stadium.”
“Sporting events like this are more than just great spectacles, they’re a big driver of the regional economy and offer great opportunities for local businesses.”
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“This event will be broadcast across Australia and throughout the United States, China and New Zealand. It’s a terrific opportunity to showcase all that our region has to offer.”
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Prison Legal News v. Berkeley Co Sheriff Dewitt, SC, MIS Intervention, censorship, 2011
2:10-cv-02594-MBS
Date Filed 04/12/11
Entry Number 35-1
DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CHARLESTON DIVSION
PRISON LEGAL NEWS, et. al.,
Plaintiffs;
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Applicant for Intervention
BERKELEY COUNTY SHERIFF’S
OFFICE and SHERIFF H.
WAYNE DeWITT
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 2:10-02594-MBS
MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND
AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF
UNITED STATES’ MOTION TO
INTERVENE PURSUANT TO
42 U.S.C. § 14141 AND
42 U.S.C. § 2000cc
(CIVIL RIGHTS)
The Berkeley County Detention Center (“BCDC”) deprives persons incarcerated at that
facility from access to religious texts, books, newspapers, magazines and other expressive
materials in violation of the Constitution and federal law. The United States has the authority
pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 42 U.S.C. § 14141
(“Section 14141”), and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, 42
U.S.C. § 2000cc (“RLUIPA”), to bring an action to enforce compliance with the Constitution
and federal law and to protect the rights of the inmates incarcerated at BCDC. In the interests of
judicial economy, rather that file a new action, the United States seeks to intervene in this
litigation. The United States requests declaratory and injunctive relief against the Berkeley
County Sheriff’s Office (“BCSO”) and Sheriff H. Wayne DeWitt (collectively, “Defendants”).
FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Defendants enacted and enforce BCDC’s prohibition on inmates’ receipt and possession
of virtually all forms of expressive materials. According to BCDC policies and practices,
inmates may not receive books, magazines, newspapers or other expressive materials through the
mail, regardless of whether the materials are routed directly from commercial publishers or sent
by friends or family members. Defendants have repeatedly denied inmate requests for a variety
of publications, including educational materials needed for a correspondence education course,
more than a dozen legal newsletters, and copies of religious texts such as the Koran and Torah.
Defendants exacerbate these restrictions by not operating a library or providing any other
resource for inmates seeking access to expressive material at BCDC.
Indeed, the only book, magazine or newspaper that Defendants consistently permit
inmates to possess is the Bible. Defendants distribute copies of the King James Bible to inmates
at no cost and allow inmates to purchase other versions of the Bible from BCDC’s on-site
Commissary. The ready availability of Bibles contrasts sharply with the barriers Defendants
erect to accessing other religious texts. BCDC officials have informed multiple inmates that they
may possess other religious texts, including the Koran and Torah, only if family members
personally deliver the desired books to the facility. And even inmates able to arrange an inperson delivery may not gain access their desired religious text. Despite its purported “family
member delivery policy,” BCDC officials recently refused to deliver a Koran brought to the
facility by an inmate’s girlfriend.
BCDC’s policies and practices implicate important federal interests in protecting the
Constitutional and statutory rights of institutionalized persons under Section 14141 and
RLUIPA.
Federal law recognizes the important rehabilitative role religion and the
communication with outside parties can play during a person’s incarceration, and that
discrimination and deprivation of religious texts and educational materials are inimical to these
rehabilitative goals. See, e.g., Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817, 822-25 (1974); 146 CONG. REC.
S6678-02, at S6689 (daily ed. July 13, 2000) (statement of Senator Kennedy) (“[s]incere faith
and worship can be an indispensible part of rehabilitation.”); 146 CONG. REC. S7774-01 (daily
ed. July 27, 2000) (joint statement of Senators Hatch and Kennedy) (describing purpose of and
need for RLUIPA). Section 14141 empowers the Department of Justice to bring an action to
enjoin conduct by law enforcement officers “that deprives persons of rights, privileges, or
immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” 42 U.S.C.
§14141(a). Here, Defendants’ pattern or practice of broadly prohibiting inmates’ receipt of
books, magazines, newspapers and other expressive material contravenes the rights afforded
inmates by the Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Further, Defendants’ pattern or practice
of favoring the religious exercise of Christian inmates over non-Christians violates the First
Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
In addition to Section 14141, the United States has authority under RLUIPA to enforce
compliance with that statute’s command that a government may not impose a substantial burden
on an inmate’s religious practice unless the burden is the least restrictive means to achieve a
compelling state interest. 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1, 2(f). The United States has a strong interest in
enforcing RLUIPA in this matter, where Defendants’ censorship of religious texts other than the
Bible substantially burdens the religious exercise of non-Christians. Accordingly, the United
States moves pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 24 to intervene in this action. 1
Pursuant to Rule 24(c), the United States has attached its proposed Complaint in Intervention,
which sets out the claim for which intervention is sought, and names the Berkeley County
Sheriff’s Office as an additional defendant. BCSO is an appropriate defendant to a RLUIPA and
This litigation presents legal and factual issues that overlap with those the United States
will raise as intervenor. PLN 2 alleges that Defendants’ repeated failure to deliver books and
magazines to persons confined at BCDC violates the publisher’s First and Fourteenth
Amendment rights. See Complaint, Prison Legal News, et. al. v. DeWitt, et. al, No. 2:10-cv02594-MBS (D.S.C., filed Oct. 6, 2010). Specifically, Plaintiffs contend that Defendants enforce
restrictive censorship policies that bar inmates from receiving any materials from outside the
detention center except for personal letters, photographs and copies of the Bible, in violation of
the Speech and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment, and that Defendants failed to
notify PLN of their refusal to deliver expressive materials, in violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
To date, the parties have not filed substantive motions nor taken any depositions. On
March 21, 2011, this Court entered an Amended Scheduling Order allowing discovery to
continue through September 6, 2011, providing for the parties to identify expert witnesses by
June 3, 2011 (Plaintiffs) and July 5, 2011 (Defendants), file dispositive motions by September
14141 claim, as RLUIPA provides that no “government” shall impose a substantial burden on an
inmate’s religious practice. 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1(a). Similarly, Section 14141 provides that
“[i]t shall be unlawful for any governmental authority . . . to engage in a pattern or practice of
conduct by law enforcement officers . . . that deprives persons of rights, privileges, or immunities
secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” 42 U.S.C. § 14141(a)
(emphasis added). Pursuant to Rule 20(a)(2), joinder of the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office is
proper because the right to relief asserted against this defendant arises out of the same
transaction or occurrence, or series of transactions of occurrences, namely its pattern or practice
of censoring inmates receipt and possession of religious and other expressive materials. Thus,
the RLUIPA and Section 14141 claims present questions of law or fact common to all
Prison Legal News is a wholly owned subsidiary of Human Rights Defense Center, a 501(c)(3)
corporation registered in the state of Washington. Human Rights Defense Center is also a named
plaintiff in this action. In the instant motion, the United States refers to these entities collectively
as “Prison Legal News,” “PLN,” or “Plaintiffs.”
19, 2011, and file pretrial briefs by December 29, 2011. Jury selection is slated to begin on
January 3, 2012.
APPLICABLE LEGAL STANDARDS
Section 14141
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Section 14141) provides
that “[i]t shall be unlawful for any governmental authority, or any agent thereof, or any person
acting on behalf of a governmental authority, to engage in a pattern or practice of conduct by law
enforcement officers . . . that deprives persons of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or
protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” 42 U.S.C. § 14141(a). Section
14141 authorizes the Attorney general to “obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to
eliminate the pattern or practice” of unconstitutional conduct by law enforcement officials
whenever the Attorney general has “reasonable cause to believe” that such a pattern or practice
has occurred. § 14141(b).
RLUIPA
RLUIPA provides that no government institution, including correctional facilities, “shall
impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a [resident].” 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1(a).
This prohibition includes a substantial burden on religious exercise resulting from a rule of
general applicability. Id. “Religious exercise” is broadly defined to include “any exercise of
religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief.” 42 U.S.C.
§2000cc-5(7)(A).
To justify a substantial burden on religious exercise, a government must demonstrate that
the burden is: (1) “in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest”; and (2) “the least
restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1(a).
RLUIPA confers jurisdiction upon the Department of Justice to enforce compliance with
§ 2000cc-1 by instituting an action for injunctive or declaratory relief. 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-2(f).
Intervention Pursuant to Rule 24
Fed. R. Civ. P. 24 provides for two forms of intervention: “Intervention of Right” and
“Permissive Intervention.” Specifically, Rule 24 provides:
(a) Intervention of Right. On timely motion, the court must permit anyone to
intervene who: . . .
(2) claims an interest relating to the property or transaction that is the
subject of the action, and is so situated that disposing of the action may as
a practical matter impair or impede the movant’s ability to protect its
interest, unless existing parties adequately represent that interest.
(b) Permissive Intervention: . . .
(2) By a Government Officer or Agency. On timely motion, the court
may permit a federal . . . governmental officer or agency to intervene if a
(A) a statute or executive order administered by the officer or
agency . . .
(3) Delay or Prejudice. In exercising its discretion, the court must consider
whether the intervention will unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the
original parties’ rights.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 24.
This Court should grant the United State’s motion to intervene. The United States
satisfies the requirements for both intervention as of right and for permissive intervention. In
considering a motion to intervene, courts construe Rule 24 broadly in favor of potential
intervenors. See, e.g., Feller v. Brock, 802 F.2d 722, 729 (4th Cir. 1986) (“[L]iberal intervention
is desirable to dispose of as much of a controversy ‘involving as many apparently concerned
persons as is compatible with efficiency and due process.’ ”); United States v. Ritchie Special
Credit Invs. Ltd., 620 F.3d 824, 831 (8th Cir. 2010 ) (“We construe Rule 24 liberally and resolve
any doubts in favor of the proposed intervenors.”); 6 James W. Moore et al., MOORE’S
FEDERAL PRACTICE 24.03[1][a], at 24-22 (3d ed. 2008) (“Rule 24 is to be construed liberally
. . . and doubts resolved in favor of the intervenor.”). Given the posture and facts of this case, as
discussed below, the Fourth Circuit’s liberal standard for intervention under Rule 24 weighs
heavily in favor of granting the United States’ Motion for Intervention of Right, or, alternatively,
for Permissive Intervention.
The United States is Entitled to Intervention of Right
The United States is entitled to intervention of right. Intervention of right is appropriate
when an applicant satisfies a four factor test: (1) the application for intervention is timely; (2) the
applicant has a significantly protectable interest relating to the subject of the action;
(3) disposition of the action may impair or impede the applicant’s ability to protect its interest;
and (4) the applicant’s interest is not adequately represented by the existing parties in the lawsuit.
See Gould v. Alleco, Inc., 883 F.2d 281, 286 (4th Cir. 1989). The United States’ application for
intervention of right satisfies all four requirements.
The United States’ Motion is Timely
The United States’ Motion to Intervene in this case is timely. Courts assessing the
timeliness of a motion to intervene consider how far the suit has progressed, the prejudice which
delay might cause other parties, and any reasons for tardiness in moving to intervene. Gould,
883 F.2d at 286. “The mere passage of time [] does not render an application untimely.”
Mountain Top Condo. Ass’n v. Dave Stabbert Master Builder Inc., 72 F.3d 361, 369 (3d Cir.
1995) (citing Wright, Miller & Kane, FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE § 1908, at
272-274 (1986)). Instead, “the critical inquiry is: what proceedings of substance on the merits
have occurred?” Id.; see also Midwest Realty Mgmt. Co. v. City of Beavercreek, 93 F. App’x
782, 786 (6th Cir. 2004) (“The progress made in discovery and motion practice” is “more
critical” than the time elapsed since the filing of the complaint.). Indeed, the Fourth Circuit has
explained that “[a] motion for intervention is not necessarily untimely” even if it is filed “after
judgment was entered in the case. The most important consideration is whether the delay
prejudiced the other parties.” Patterson v. Shumate, 912 F.2d 463 (4th Cir. 1990) (per curiam).
Here, trial is at least eight months away, the Court recently entered a discovery schedule
providing for an additional five months of fact discovery, and no party has filed a substantive
motion or taken a single deposition. The suit has not progressed significantly and the United
States’ intervention at this juncture would not prejudice the existing parties. Indeed, intervention
here would promote judicial economy by consolidating the United States’ claims with those at
issue here and avoid the necessity for parallel litigation.
In Patterson, the Fourth Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of a motion to intervene
filed five days after entry of judgment. 912 F.2d at 463. There, Patterson – the trustee in
bankruptcy for Joseph Shumate – intervened in Shumate’s suit seeking compensation for
services rendered to a furniture company.
Patterson asserted that Shumate had concealed
$45,000 from his bankruptcy estate, giving Patterson an interest in placing the money in a secure
account until a court resolved the estate’s interest in the judgment. Id. Noting that Patterson’s
motion was “only five days after judgment was entered” and before the furniture company had
paid the money to Shumate, the Fourth Circuit held that the motion was timely. Id. More
recently, the Fourth Circuit reversed the denial of a motion to intervene filed after the original
parties had completed summary judgment briefing. See JLS, Inc. v. Pub. Serv. Comm’n of West
Virginia, 321 F. App’x. 286 (4th Cir. 2009). In JLS, the district court concluded that several
motor passenger carrier companies lacked a sufficient interest to intervene in another carrier’s
suit seeking a declaration that its transportation activities constituted interstate commerce and
thus were governed by federal regulations. Id. at 287-288. The Fourth Circuit reversed, finding
that the proposed intervenors’ had an adequate interest in the litigation. Id. Neither the district
court nor the Court of Appeals criticized the timing of the intervention, even though three parties
sought intervention after JLS moved for summary judgment and two additional companies
moved to intervene after the completion of all summary judgment briefing. Id. at 288. See also
Felman Prod. v. Indus. Risk Insurers, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 117672, at *15 (S.D.W.V. Dec. 16,
2009) (granting motion to intervene where no depositions had been taken and “only one
dispositive motion has been filed”).
Unlike these cases, the present litigation remains at a preliminary stage with ample
discovery remaining, no pending or decided substantive motions, and at least eight months until
the beginning of trial. Indeed, discovery presently consists only of the exchange of initial
disclosures and one set of document requests. The United States’ application to intervene in
such circumstances is timely.
The United States’ Has a Substantial Legal Interest in this Action
In addition to filing a timely motion for intervention, the United States has a substantial
legal interest in this case because it implicates the rights secured by two federal statutes,
42 U.S.C. § 14141 and 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc. Section 14141 confers authority upon the United
States to seek declaratory and injunctive relief for the pattern and practice of unconstitutional
restrictions on inmates receipt and possession of religious and expressive materials at the
Berkeley County Detention Center. The United States likewise has authority under RLUIPA to
enjoin Defendants’ practices that impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of
inmates at BCDC. This interest satisfies Rule 24(a)’s requirement that a party have “an interest
relating to the property or transaction which is the subject of the action.” In re Sierra Club, 945
F.2d 776, 779 (4th Cir. 1991) (citing R. Civ. P. 24(a)).
The United States’ interest here is particularly acute because the present litigation
involves the protection of individual liberties, such as the freedom of speech and religion. See
Edmisten v. Werholtz, 287 F. App’x 728, 735 (10th Cir. 2008) (It is well-settled that “the public
has an interest in protecting the civil rights of all persons.”). “There is the highest public interest
in the due observance of all the constitutional guarantees.” United States v. Raines, 362 U.S. 17,
27 (1960). The federal government’s interest in protecting individual liberties is paramount in
the context of protecting religious liberty, one of our society’s most fundamental rights. See
Mayweathers v. Newland, 314 F.3d 1062, 1067 (9th Cir. 2002) (RLUIPA is designed to “guard
against unfair bias and infringement on fundamental freedoms”). As President Clinton said in
signing RLUIPA, “[r]eligious liberty is a constitutional value of the highest order, and the
Framers of the Constitution included protection for the free exercise of religion in the very first
Amendment. This Act recognizes the importance the free exercise of religion plays in our
democratic society.” See Statement by President William J. Clinton Upon Signing S. 2869, 2000
U.S.C.C.A.N. 662 (September 22, 2000). In short, the United States has a strong interest in the
subject of this action.
Disposition of This Action May Impair the United States’ Interests
The United States also satisfies Rule 24(a)’s third requirement that its interest may be
impaired if it is not permitted to intervene in the present litigation. United States v. Exxonmobil
Corp., 264 F.R.D. 242, 246 (N.D.W. Va. 2010) (Rule 24 “does not require, after all, that
[potential intervenors] demonstrate to a certainty that their interests will be impaired in the
ongoing action. It requires only that they show that the disposition of the action may as a
practical matter impair their interests.”); see also Northeast Ohio Coalition for Homeless v.
Blackwell, 467 F.3d 999, 1007 (6th Cir. 2006) (Applicant for intervention must “show only that
impairment of its substantial legal interest is possible if intervention is denied.”).
The potential negative precedential effect of an adverse ruling constitutes a sufficient
impairment to justify intervention. The United States’ claims in intervention involve similar
questions of law as those presented by Plaintiffs and arise from predominantly the same facts.
Both Plaintiffs and the United States allege that Defendants’ policies and practices contravene
the Speech and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Because of this high degree of overlap, the precedential effect of an adverse ruling on the merits
of Plaintiffs’ claims could impair the United States’ ability to remedy BCDC’s violations of
federal law in separate litigation.
The United States’ Interest is Not Adequately Represented by the Existing Parties
Finally, the United States satisfies Rules 24’s requirement that an applicant for
intervention show that the existing parties may not adequately represent the United States’
interests. As with Rule 24’s impairment requirement, an applicant for intervention satisfies the
“inadequate representation” element merely by showing that “representation of its interest may
be inadequate.” Sierra Club, 945 F.2d at 779 (quoting Trbovich v. United Mine Workers, 404
U.S. 528, 538 n.10 (1972)); see also JLS, Inc., 321 F. App’x. at 289 (An applicant for
intervention “need not show that the representation by existing parties will definitely be
inadequate.
Rather, he need only demonstrate that representation of his interest may be
inadequate.”) (internal citations omitted). “For this reason, the Supreme Court has described the
applicant’s burden on this matter as minimal.” JLS, 321 F. App’x. at 289.
Although the United States and Prison Legal News share some ultimate objectives in the
present litigation, the parties’ interests are not wholly aligned. Unlike Plaintiffs, the United
States asserts a claim under RLUIPA to enjoin the substantial burden placed on the religious
exercise of non-Christian inmates at BCDC. See JLS, 321 F. App’x at 291 (finding inadequate
representation of interests where “[m]ovants have also advanced some significant legal points
that [existing plaintiff] did not present.”).
Nor do the interests underlying Plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims mirror those of the
United States. While Plaintiffs and the United States arguably seek the same ultimate outcome
on their claims that Defendants’ practices violate the First Amendment’s Speech and
Establishment Clauses, courts recognize that private parties have “more narrow, parochial
interests” than the government. Forest Conservation Council v. U.S. Forest Serv., 66 F.3d 1489,
1499 (9th Cir. 1995). As the Fourth Circuit explained, “even when a governmental agency’s
interests appear aligned with those of a particular private group at a particular moment in time,
the government’s position is defined by the public interest, not simply the interests of a particular
group of citizens.” JLS, 321 F. App’x. at 291. The United States’ interests go beyond Plaintiffs’
individual interest in the delivery of books and newsletters. Instead, they are tethered to the
correct application of Section 14141 and the First Amendment generally, and to the uniform
application of these provisions nationally. The Fourth Circuit articulated the analog of this
principle in Sierra Club, acknowledging that while the “Sierra Club and South Carolina DHEC
may share some objectives,” intervention was appropriate because “we would expect Sierra Club
to offer a different perspective.” 945 F.2d at 780.
Finally, a private plaintiff seeking an injunction and damages – as Plaintiffs seek here –
may inadequately represent the United States’ interest in obtaining an injunction that vindicates
rights protected by the Constitution and federal law because the nature of a private plaintiff’s
lawsuit might understandably encourage the plaintiff to concentrate on recovering damages.
Given the United States’ differing interests, the United States satisfies the inadequate
representation element.
Permissive Intervention
Alternatively, the Court should grant the United States “permissive intervention” under
Rule 24(b). Rule 24(b) establishes that, upon a timely motion, a district court may grant
intervention to a party that “has a claim or defense that shares with the main action a common
question of law or fact.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 24(b)(1)(B). Under Rule 24, a court weighing
permissive intervention must consider whether intervention “will unduly delay or prejudice the
adjudication of the original parties’ rights.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 24(b)(3). As with intervention of
right, courts liberally construe requests for permissive intervention “to dispose of as much of a
controversy involving as many apparently concerned persons as is compatible with
efficiency and due process.” Felman Prod., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 117672, at *7-8 (quoting
Feller, 802 F.2d at 729) (granting motion to intervene).
The United States’ motion to intervene satisfies each of the three requirements for
permissive intervention enumerated by Rule 24(b)(1): (1); that its claims share a common
question of law or fact with the underlying litigation; (2) ; that the motion to intervene is timely;
and (3) that intervention will not unduly prejudice or delay the adjudication of the original suit.
First, the United States’ claims pursuant to Section 14141 and RLUIPA share a common
question of law or fact with Plaintiffs’ assertions that Defendants’ practice of censoring inmates’
receipt and possession of expressive materials violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. In
this case, the claims presented by both the United States and the Plaintiffs require determining
whether the Defendants are engaged in a policy, pattern or practice of unlawfully restricting the
materials that may be sent to and possessed by inmates housed at BCDC. Resolution of this
legal question depends upon the same factual evidence that will be produced during discovery,
such as the facility’s written policies, grievances filed by inmates, and testimony from
Defendants about their censorship practices. Thus, the United States’ claims share questions of
both law and fact with Plaintiff’s original action.
Second, the United States’ motion is timely. “The purpose of the timeliness requirement
is to prevent a tardy intervener from derailing a lawsuit within sight of the terminal.” Greene v.
Bartlett, 2010 WL 2812859 (W.D.N.C. 2010) (quoting Scardelletti v. Debarr, 265 F.3d 195, 202
(4th Cir. 2001)). As set forth more fully in Section IV.A.1 above, the United States files this
motion to intervene in the early stages of litigation. The Court’s recently adopted scheduling
order provides five additional months of discovery and does not contemplate trial until at least
January 2012. To date, neither party has taken a single deposition or filed a substantive motion.
Finally, the United States satisfies the third Rule 24(b) requirement for many of the same
reasons. Given the early stage of the present suit and the dearth of meaningful discovery or
motions practice, granting the United States’ motion would not prejudice the original parties to
the action. Intervention by the United States will not require the Court or the parties to conduct
any additional proceedings. Nor will intervention by the United States require the Court or the
original parties to address a significant number of new claims. Indeed, two of the three claims
asserted by the United States challenge the constitutionality of the Berkeley County Detention
Center’s censorship policies, a challenge also presented by Plaintiffs’ original action.
For the foregoing reasons, the United States respectfully requests that this Court grant its
Motion to Intervene.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM N. NETTLES
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
s/Barbara M. Bowens
BARBARA M. BOWENS (I.D. 4004)
Assisted United States Attorney
THOMAS E. PEREZ
Civil Rights Division
SAMUEL R. BAGENSTOS
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
JONATHAN M. SMITH
Special Litigation Section
TIMOTHY D. MYGATT
Michael J. Songer
AMIN AMINFAR
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
michael.songer@usdoj.gov
Attorneys for the United States of America
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George William Roy
May 29, 1937 ~ April 14, 2019 (age 81)
George William Roy, 81 of Punxsutawney, passed away Sunday, April 14, 2019 at home.
He was born on May 29, 1937 in Rossiter, a son of the late Alexander and Julia (Dividock) Roy.
George’s parents owned “Roy’s Café” in Rossiter for many years. Following the death of his parents, he continued to operate the business and live in Rossiter until the business closed.
Through his daily conversations with the patron’s, George formed many life-long friendships and had a sense of humor about him. He then moved to Punxsutawney, where he developed additional friendships through the years. He also had a private, quiet side with a strong- will that he maintained until the end, “He did things his way, and faced each day bravely when they became difficult.” He had a great appreciation for his family that lovingly looked after him to the extent he would allow.
He is survived by one brother, Albert J. “Toots” Roy and wife Loretta of Punxsutawney, two sisters, Delores “Honey” Urchuck of Punxsutawney and Dorothy Freno of Chesterland, Ohio; numerous nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, Frank, Alexander, John and Paul Roy; three sisters, Sophia Hamelin, Margaret Shaffer and Pauline McDaniel.
In accordance to George’s wishes, there will be no visitation or viewing. Arrangements entrusted to Shumaker Funeral Home, Inc., Punxsutawney.
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Stella Tillyard is a British novelist and historian. She was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her bestselling book Aristocrats was made into a miniseries for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre, and sold to over twenty countries. Winner of the Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Longman-History Today Prize, and the Fawcett Prize, Tillyard has taught at Harvard University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her latest novel is Call Upon the Water (published in the UK under the title The Great Level).
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CLAWSON, Patrick Michael Swartz Creek Age 60, died Thursday, October 29, 2015, at his home. A tribute will be held at Sharp Funeral Homes, Miller Road Chapel, 8138 Miller Road, Swartz Creek on Friday, November 6, 2015 from 6-9 PM. Pat was born in Reed City, MI on November 5, 1954, the son of Thomas and Marian (Henderson) Clawson. He began his career at age 13 as the science writer at the Flint Journal and later as a DJ at WFBE. He also worked at CNN, Metro Media, NBC, Radio and Records, and other notable news organizations. He was a gifted investigator and journalist earning countless awards including Emmy and Janis Awards. Pat was courageous, articulate, meticulous, and loyal to a flaw. He is survived by wife, Laurie; sons, Ryan, Christopher, and Jonathan; stepdaughter, Sal Spanier (Shane); and granddaughter, Shay Linae Spanier. He is also survived by brother, Steven Clawson. He leaves beloved family members and friends to cherish his memory. In lieu of cards and flowers, pay a good deed forward in Pat's name. Those desiring may make memorial contributions to a charity of one's choice.
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Stepping Back in Time in Georgia
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By Meena Ramakrishnan on December 09, 2015
Historic haunts spook and entertain around the state
In Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel, Gone with the Wind, young Scarlett O’Hara struggles with loss, heartbreak and poverty during a time of war and destruction that nearly tore the United States apart.
By 1861, Union troops had halted the export of cotton and import of manufactured items by sea and rail, virtually cutting off any means of survival. Plantations, rails and livestock were destroyed, save for a few cities spared during the March to the Sea in 1864. Civil War-ravaged Georgia is the backdrop for the book, which depicts life in the South before, during and after the war.
Nearly a century later, Atlanta was caught in the midst of a powerful movement that swept up the nation with visions of long-awaited progress, equality and social change. By the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had become the face of the civil rights movement. At his birthplace in the Sweet Auburn district of Atlanta, King emerged as a beacon of hope from his pulpit in Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached about nonviolence and the importance of serving humanity.
Visitors that come to Georgia can relive those moments forever etched in America’s psyche—from Atlanta’s socially significant museums, such as Center for Civil and Human Rights, to antebellum architecture that has made Savannah’s town squares into tourist attractions.
In other parts of the state, including College Park, Athens and the Sea Islands, vestiges of the past lurk among old artifacts and places that still have stories to tell. Meeting groups can discover national sites, grand architecture and immersive experiences that bring the past full circle for a visit they’ll never forget.
Atlanta History Center
Atlanta was burned to the ground during the Civil War, one of the nation’s most tumultuous times. But the city was also a major railway hub, connecting the South to the North and the Midwest. Atlanta was able to rebuild itself from the ashes and has since become a major metropolitan center of business and commerce with a population of more than 5 million, making it America’s ninth largest city.
Atlanta lacks some of the traditional Southern architectural styles present throughout the rest of Georgia, but make no mistake—there is a host of historically significant landmarks and museums for groups to see, such as Atlanta History Center in the Buckhead district.
“With more than 1,500 Union and Confederate artifacts including cannons, uniforms and flags, groups can experience the Civil War through the eyes of soldiers and civilians,” says Rachel Peavy, director of public relations and communications for Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Swan House, Atlanta
For an elaborate place to hold events, consider the Swan House, which was recently featured in the film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The 1928 mansion has an opulent interior with 13,400 sq. ft. of function space; there’s also 33 acres of manicured gardens for outdoor gatherings. Fans of Gone with the Wind can also visit Mitchell’s former house, where the Atlanta native penned her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel in 1936.
Mitchell is also one of the most famous residents of Oakland Cemetery, in the historic Grand Park district. She is buried there alongside several notable citizens and Civil War soldiers. The 48-acre cemetery is a peaceful hillside botanical preserve with old oak and magnolia trees. Groups can take a docent-led tour of its 55 elaborate mausoleums and approximately 70,000 grave sites.
Memorial at Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta
Tribute to Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site serves as an emblem of the civil rights movement, which has deep roots in the city that says it’s “too busy to hate.” Groups can walk in the footsteps of the civil rights leader who changed the course of history during an era of segregation.
The 35-acre site includes King’s birthplace, his former church, his burial place, the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame and a visitors center. “Atlanta is considered the birthplace of the American civil rights movement,” Peavy says. “Visitors can explore the evolution of the movement and how it relates to modern global human rights.”
Morton Theatre, Athens
This spunky college town likes to be known for its vibrant nightlife and eclectic music scene, which spawned famous bands such as R.E.M. and the B-52s. But it couldn’t have been possible without the University of Georgia, the United States’ first state college, chartered in 1785, which helped put the city on the map. Groups can tour Athens through the ages by visiting any number of neighborhoods on the National Register of Historic Places.
Morton Theatre is one of the oldest vaudeville theaters which first had an African-American owner. Monroe Bowers Morton built the theater and hosted early performers, including Butterbeans and Susie, Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver. When it’s not hosting live theater and concerts, the facility, which seats 500, can be rented for events.
Athens was also the site of various Civil War skirmishes. Groups can visit many traces of the past, from an old double-barrel cannon in front of city hall to well-preserved period dwellings. “Athens is home to four antebellum house museums representing the first four decades of the 1800s with their four distinct architectural styles,” says Rachel Watkins, information and public relations coordinator for Athens Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Taylor Grady House is a popular venue for rentals. The Greek-Revival structure was built in the 1840s as a summer home and retains its original furnishings and tall white columns. It holds up to 350 people and has a large conference room and ballroom. Ware-Lyndon House was Athens’ first recreation center and remains an important community institution. Constructed in 1856, the arts center displays a mix of historic artifacts and collections from emerging artists. Tours, art classes and event spaces are also offered.
Antebellum Trails
During the Civil War, few states witnessed as much military action as Georgia. Athens is one of seven places that was spared when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman led a burning march through the state. Groups can participate in the Antebellum Trail Bicycle Route, which spins through 170 miles of picturesque sites and town squares. Guided tours and maps are offered at Athens Welcome Center.
Pirates’ House, Savannah
More than 40 years before the United States declared independence from Great Britain, Savannah was established in 1733. The oldest city in the state was declared America’s 13th colony by English Gen. James Oglethorpe, whose name still graces city streets and buildings. Every year, Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its historic squares and cobblestone streets, where they can experience its lengthy history of swashbuckling pirates, ghostly tales and stately architecture.
“Savannah is an extremely walkable destination with the Historic District that’s only 2.5 sq. mi., in which you can find attractions, restaurants, historic sites, 22 park-like squares, hotels and meeting space,” says Taylor Castillejo, communications associate for Visit Savannah.
Groups can visit many restored Southern homes that were spared during Gen. Sherman’s March to the Sea. During the Union occupation, Sherman stayed at the Green-Meldrim House, one of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture. The grounds are popular for tours and space rentals for up to 200.
The Sorrel-Weed House, built in 1837, is another antebellum masterpiece better known for its paranormal occurrences. Visitors claim they have seen figures appear in the windows, heard sounds of disembodied voices and had eerie feelings of being touched. If brave enough, groups can go on an evening tour of one of the most haunted locations in the city, which has been shown on HGTV and the Syfy channel.
Ahoy, Matey!
To experience the life of a buccaneer, head to the Pirates’ House, a historic restaurant and tavern founded in 1753. One of the oldest standing buildings in the state, the house earned its name as a boarding place for sailors, pirates and society’s underbelly.
Beneath the building is a network of tunnels that served as a morgue during the yellow fever epidemic. It was later purportedly used to smuggle liquor and capture unsuspecting sailors thought to have been taken to China, or “shanghaied.” Groups can dine in one of 15 dining rooms, and on weekends Savannah Community Theatre takes command of the ship for a night of Murder Mystery Theater.
Georgia’s historically significant cities remain on the top of meeting planners’ favorite destinations. Several large convention centers spread throughout the state—including Georgia World Congress Center, The Classic Center and Savannah International Trade & Convention Center—are in close proximity to area attractions that are sure to enrich any group’s travel agenda. Visitors will come away with thrills and adventure, seaside relaxation and an unequivocal appreciation for American history.
Seaside Retreats
Pristine beaches, rare wildlife and mossy oak trees are what groups will find if they decide to venture from the mainland. A chain of barrier islands lie scattered along the Georgia coast. Places such as Sea Island and St. Simons Island boast prime beachside real estate, perfect for weekend excursions.
Visitors will find this island, which was first discovered by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, to be chock-full of old places to explore. Monumental battle sites, historic churches and plantation homes still remain intact, along with plenty of tall tales and folklore. Take a historic trolley tour or visit Colonial sites at Cannon’s Point Preserve and Fort Frederica. The adventurous might take St. Simon’s Island Ghost Walk, filled with stories of tragic endings, deathly love and lost souls.
Groups can experience more of the island’s historic charm with a stay at The King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort. It was originally a seaside dance club when it opened in 1935, and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the Mission Revival-style resort features 195 luxurious guest rooms and 10,000 sq. ft. of oceanfront meeting space.
Golf enthusiasts can stay at The Inn at Sea Island, which has 85 guest rooms and is next to three 18-hole courses at Sea Island Golf Club. The Lodge at Sea Island is another exclusive option, with 40 secluded guest rooms including two suites in the style of an English country manor.
Adjacent to and east of St. Simons Island sits a little seaside getaway that was intended to be a resort town. In 1928, the first hotel opened at what would become The Cloister at Sea Island. It offers 204 guest rooms and boasts more than 25,000 sq. ft. of meeting space with expansive ocean views. Sea Island has received four Forbes Five Star awards for the past seven years. The Cloister, The Lodge, the Georgian Room restaurant and The Spa at Sea Island were all Forbes Five Star recipients during that time.
Between Past & Present in College Park
Just outside Atlanta, College Park meets the demands of large conferences within a quaint suburban locale. It’s home to the world’s busiest airport, has the state’s second largest convention center and is Georgia’s fourth largest urban historic district. Although there are no universities in College Park, it is a meetings campus with a wealth of ways to visit the past.
Made for Meetings
This year, Airports Council International gave Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) the highest ranking for the 17th consecutive year. Last year, more than 96.17 million passengers passed through, putting the airport at the top of the list. That’s 1.7 million more travelers than in 2013. It also expanded the number of international flights by 10 percent to 74,791 in 2014.
Convenient access to almost any major city around the world is College Park’s calling card. Georgia International Convention Center (pictured) is located close to the airport, also making the city a popular choice for meetings. A short transit ride away from the airport’s MARTA station, the convention center offers 400,000 sq. ft. of flexible space, including a 150,000-square-foot exhibit area and a 40,000-square-foot ballroom. There are more than 8,000 hotel rooms within a 2-mile radius of the convention center.
Take a stroll through College Park’s beguiling neighborhoods. From Dutch and Spanish Colonial to Victorian and Craftsman styles, there are 853 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This planned community was established in 1890 to suit its namesake, and six years later, Cox College and Conservatory opened. College Park also became the home of Southern Military Academy. While neither college exists today, Woodward Academy, a private college preparatory school stands in place of the former military academy.
While many of the landmark buildings are homes, schools and city hall buildings, meetings can be held at College Park Woman’s Club. The historic Colonial Revival-style structure was built in 1924 and offers a ballroom adorned with antique brass chandeliers hanging from an 18-foot barrel ceiling. It can accommodate up to 220 people. Groups can later take some swings on College Park Golf Course, a historic nine-hole course that first opened in 1929.
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Major Meeting Venues
Graduate Athens
Historic boutique hotel; Foundry Bar & Mill has nightly entertainment; 122 guest rooms; more than 12,000 sq. ft. of flexible space; signature spa.
Hilton Garden Inn Athens Downtown
Downtown hotel across from The Classic Center; 185 guest rooms; 5,566 sq. ft. of meeting space; fitness center; business center; indoor pool; Pavilion Lounge.
The Classic Center
Walking distance to 1,500 hotel rooms; one of the largest event facilities in northeast Georgia; 105,000 sq. ft. of function space; 56,000-square-foot exhibit hall; 8,000-square-foot atrium; 2,100-seat theater; 35 meeting rooms.
University of Georgia Conference Center and Hotel
Located at Georgia Center for Continuing Education; 200 guest rooms; 38,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; 16,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space; 26 meeting rooms; free Wi-Fi; courtesy shuttle.
Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart
500,000 sq. ft. of centrally located meeting space; 47 breakout rooms; can accommodate 3,000 attendees; VIP wholesale shopping at AmericasMart.
Near Georgia Dome; skybridge connects to Hilton Atlanta and Hyatt Regency Atlanta; 1,569 guest rooms; 160,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.
Georgia Dome
Downtown domed stadium and current home of the Atlanta Falcons; largest cable-supported dome stadium in the world; seats 71,250; 102,000-square-foot floor; five meeting rooms.
Georgia World Congress Center
World’s largest LEED-certified convention center; 200-acre campus includes the Georgia Dome and Centennial Olympic Park; 3.9 million sq. ft. spread among three buildings; 12 exhibit halls; 106 meeting rooms; five auditoriums; two ballrooms.
Georgian Terrace Hotel
Historic property opened in 1911; luxury hotel with floor-to-ceiling windows and white marble columns; 326 guest rooms and suites; 5,514 sq. ft. of IACC-certified meeting space, including three ballrooms; contemporary dining at Livingston Restaurant & Bar.
Hilton Atlanta Airport
AAA Four Diamond Award hotel; five-minute drive from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL); 507 guest rooms; 34,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; fitness center.
Loews Atlanta Hotel
Forbes Four Star property in Midtown; 414 guest rooms, including 44 suites; 40,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; two ballrooms; 10 breakout rooms.
Omni Hotel at CNN Center
AAA Four Diamond hotel; next to Centennial Olympic Park and linked to Georgia World Congress Center; 1,059 guest rooms; 120,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.
Renaissance Concourse Atlanta Airport Hotel
Newly renovated AAA Four Diamond hotel; 387 guest rooms, many with private balconies; 35,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; 35 meeting rooms.
The Westin Peachtree Plaza
73-story building near Atlanta Convention Center at AmericasMart; 1,073 guest rooms; 80,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; rooftop bar offers city views.
Andaz Savannah
Contemporary hotel in Ellis Square; near shopping, dining and attractions; 151 guest rooms; 6,600 sq. ft. of function space; 2,800-square-foot-outdoor terrace; 24-hour gym; market-to-table dining at 22 Square.
Hampton Inn & Suites Savannah Historic District
Short walk to historic attractions, including Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum; decorated with Old Savannah bricks and gas lamps; 154 guest rooms; 2,686 sq. ft. of meeting space.
Mansion on Forsyth Park
AAA Four Diamond Marriott Autograph Collection boutique property; 125 guest rooms in a Victorian Romanesque mansion; more than 13,000 sq. ft. of flexible function space; 15 meeting rooms; six meeting galleries; art collection includes more than 400 original artworks.
Savannah International Trade & Convention Center
Conference center boasts views of Savannah River; 330,000-square-foot waterfront complex; 100,000 sq. ft. of divisible exhibit space; 50,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, including 13 meeting rooms and four boardrooms; 25,000-square-foot ballroom; 367-seat auditorium.
The Brice, a Kimpton Hotel
Trendy and colorful hotel surrounded by Antebellum architecture; 145 guest rooms, including 26 suites; 6,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; 1,700-square-foot garden courtyard; custom bike rentals; signature spa services with organic products.
The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa
AAA Four Diamond resort; accessible by complimentary water ferry service; Green Seal Silver Level certified; 403 guest rooms; 35,000 sq. ft. of meeting space; 18-hole PGA golf course.
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ARU announces first woman on board
By Ben Horne
July 19, 2012 — 11.39am
Australian rugby's governance review is still months from completion but the game took an historic step on Thursday when it was announced a female director would join the ARU board for the first time.
Ann Sherry joined ARU Chairman Michael Hawker as the second independent director nominated by the board.
Sherry, the chief executive of cruise ship operator Carnival Australia and a former CEO of Westpac New Zealand, will vacate a board position on the Australian Sports Commission to take up her new role in rugby.
Hawker said the governance review being headed by General Peter Cosgrove and former federal senator Mark Arbib was still a long way off, but said Sherry's appointment to the board was a significant moment for rugby.
"The first female director of the Australian Rugby Union (has been appointed) and it shows we're trying to move the governance of the organisation," Hawker said.
"We've got a governance review and this is a forerunner of what is going to come through the governance review.
"But we felt it was very important our sport moved further forward in having a more balanced board.
"They're (Cosgrove and Arbib) are in the process of talking to as many people as they can and making sure that every stakeholder that has an interest in rugby has an opportunity to provide their views and we're in the middle of that process.
"That's going to take another couple of months until that process is finished. We don't want to miss anyone out and then Mark Arbib will put a report together and that will come back to the board for publication."
Sherry said she had experience in sport from a commercial perspective and believed she could bring a fresh set of skills to the ARU board, which had long been viewed as a boys' club.
Her main objective was to increase participation in the sport, particularly amongst women leading into the entry of Sevens Rugby, including women's Sevens, to the next Olympics.
"It's a fantastic signal I think about rugby in the 21st century. Changes to the game both as an Olympic sport with the advent of Sevens and more women playing rugby but also more contemporary governance and I'm very pleased to be part of that," Sherry said.
"Clearly I've never been a player or a coach ... but I've been engaged in sport at a whole lot of levels over a long period of time."
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Data set: American Community Survey Tables: 2007 -- 2009 (3-Year Estimates) (ACS09_3yr)
Table: C20005B. Sex by Work Experience in the Past 12 Months by Earnings in the Past 12 Months (In 2009 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars) for the Population 16 Years and Over (Black or African American Alone) [39]
Universe: Black or African American alone population 16 years and Over
C20005B. Sex by Work Experience in the Past 12 Months by Earnings in the Past 12 Months (In 2009 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars) for the Population 16 Years and Over (Black or African American Alone)
C20005B001Black or African American alone population 16 years and Over
C20005B021 Female
C20005B022 Worked Full-Time, Year-Round in the Past 12 Months
C20005B023 No Earnings
Black or African American Alone Population 16 Years and Over (ACS09_3yr:C20005B001)
Excerpt from: Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey 2007-2009 Summary File: Technical Documentation.
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Sex
The data on sex were derived from answers to Question 3. Individuals were asked to mark either "male" or "female" to indicate their biological sex. For most cases in which sex was invalid, the appropriate entry was determined from other information provided for that person, such as the person's given (i.e., first) name and household relationship. Otherwise, sex was allocated from a hot deck.
Sex is asked for all persons in a household or group quarters. On the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire for households, sex is asked for all persons listed on the form. This form accommodates asking sex for up to 12 people listed as living or residing in the household for at least 2 months. If a respondent indicates that more people are listed as part of the total persons living in the household than the form can accommodate, or if any person included on the form is missing sex, then the household is eligible for Failed Edit Follow-up (FEFU). During FEFU operations, telephone center staffers call respondents to obtain missing data. This includes asking sex for any person in the household missing sex information. In Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) instruments sex is asked for all persons. In 2006, the ACS began collecting data in group quarters (GQs). This included asking sex for persons living in a group quarters. For additional data collection methodology, please see www.census.gov/acs.
Data on sex are used to determine the applicability of other questions for a particular individual and to classify other characteristics in tabulations. The sex data collected on the forms are aggregated and provide the number of males and females in the population. These data are needed to interpret most social and economic characteristics used to plan and analyze programs and policies. Data about sex are critical because so many federal programs must differentiate between males and females. The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services are required by statute to use these data to fund, implement, and evaluate various social and welfare programs, such as the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) or the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Laws to promote equal employment opportunity for women also require census data on sex. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must use census data to develop its state projections of veteran's facilities and benefits. For more information on the use of sex data in Federal programs, please see www.census.gov/acs.
The sex ratio represents the balance between the male and female populations. Ratios above 100 indicate a larger male population, and ratios below 100 indicate a larger female population. This measure is derived by dividing the total number of males by the total number of females and then multiplying by 100. It is rounded to the nearest tenth.
Sex has been asked of all persons living in a household since the 1996 ACS Test phase. When group quarters were included in the survey universe in 2006, sex was asked of all person in group quarters as well. Beginning in 2008, the layout of the sex question response categories was changed to a horizontal side-by-side layout from a vertically stacked layout on the mail paper ACS questionnaire.
Beginning in 2006, the population in group quarters (GQ) was included in the ACS. Some types of GQ populations have sex distributions that are very different from the household population. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the sex distribution. This is particularly true for a given geographic area. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. The Census Bureau tested the changes introduced to the 2008 version of the sex question in the 2007 ACS Grid-Sequential Test (www.census.gov/acs). The results of this testing show that the changes may introduce an inconsistency in the data produced for this question as observed from the years 2007 to 2008.
Sex is generally comparable across different data sources and data years. However, data users should still be aware of methodological differences that may exist between different data sources if they are comparing American Community Survey sex data to other data sources, such as Population Estimates or Decennial Census data. For example, the American Community Survey data are that of a respondent-based survey and subject to various quality measures, such as sampling and nonsampling error, response rates and item allocation. This differs in design and methodology from other data sources, such as Population Estimates, which is not a survey and involves computational methodology to derive intercensal estimates of the population. While ACS estimates are controlled to Population Estimates for sex at the nation, state and county levels of geography as part of the ACS weighting procedure, variation may exist in the sex structure of a population at lower levels of geography when comparing different time periods or comparing across time due to the absence of controls below the county geography level. For more information on American Community Survey data accuracy and weighting procedures, please see www.census.gov/acs.
It should also be noted that although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties.
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Work Experience
The data on work experience were derived from answers to Questions 38, 39, and 40. This term relates to work status in the past 12 months, weeks worked in the past 12 months, and usual hours worked per week worked in the past 12 months. To comply with provisions of the Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Department of Justice uses these data to determine the availability of individuals for work. Government agencies, in considering the programmatic and policy aspects of providing federal assistance to areas, have emphasized the requirements for reliable data to determine the employment resources available. Data about the number of weeks and hours worked last year are essential because these data allow the characterization of workers by full-time/part-time and full-year/part-year status. Data about working last year are also necessary for collecting accurate income data by defining the universe of persons who should have earnings as part of their total income.
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Cash Public Assistance -> Earnings
Earnings are defined as the sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. "Earnings" represent the amount of income received regularly for people 16 years old and over before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc. An individual with earnings is one who has either wage/salary income or self-employment income, or both. Respondents who "break even" in self-employment income and therefore have zero self-employment earnings also are considered "individuals with earnings."
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Race -> Black or African American
A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black, African American, or Negro," or provide written entries such as African American, Afro-American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.
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No charges recommended against RCMP officer involved in Port Hardy arrest
Independent Investigations Office investigated incident in which intoxicated male broke ankle
Alistair Taylor
Apr. 2, 2019 1:30 p.m.
A Port Hardy RCMP officer will not face any charges after a January, 2019 arrest of a man who broke his ankle during the incident.
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of B.C. released a report Tuesday saying the Jan. 15 arrest was lawful and the RCMP officer involved used force that was justified and appropriate.
“I do not consider that any officer may have committed an offence under any enactment and therefore the matter will not be referred to Crown counsel for consideration of charges,” Ronald J. MacDonald, IIO Chief Civilian Director, wrote in his April 2 report.
The investigation arose from an incident on Jan. 15 in Port Hardy in which the police responded to a call from a resident at an apartment building alleging disruptive behaviour on the part of an intoxicated male who was not named in the report. The male was reported to have been yelling and throwing chairs. Two officers attended the call where the perpetrator was in a home with a group of several other intoxicated people.
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One of the officers – the “subject officer” of the investigation who was not named – told the aggressive individual that he was under arrest for breach of the peace. That didn’t calm the individual down, however, and he continued to shout and swear loudly. The officer reported that the perpetrator approached the officer waving his arms with fists clenched. The Mountie testified that he took the arrestee “to the floor using an ‘armbar’ and handcuffed him, telling him he was now under arrest for resisting arrest,” the IIO report says.
The arrestee admitted to behaving in a manner that could have been called “aggressiveness” but “it wasn’t … I don’t know what I thought … like I said, I was drunk.”
The other officer on the call had been outside at this point dealing with another man and was called in to assist the first Mountie who then got the intoxicated male to his feet and walked him out of the residence. According to the second officer, the arrested man was unsteady but he attributed that to intoxication, rather than injury. Witnesses in the room said that the drunk man did not appear to be injured when he left with police.
The man was placed in the RCMP cells where his injury was soon observed. His ankle was swelling and he asked to see a doctor but medical staff were not available at the local hospital until the morning.
A third officer began his shift the next morning and found the arrested individual sufficiently sober to be released and offered to take him to the hospital. The man first agreed and then declined, preferring to go home. Later that morning he was taken to hospital via ambulance from his home.
He was diagnosed with a broken right ankle which was subsequently repaired by surgery.
During the investigation by IIO personnel, the injured man was unable to determine when or how he broke his leg. From the apartment door to the front door, he was fine, he told investigators, but from front door to the police vehicle was all “a blackout.” When he arrived at the cells he said he had a limp and his ankle was throbbing and swelling.
He speculated that he had injured his ankle on the way to the police vehicle or that the arresting officer might have closed the vehicle door on his ankle but there is no evidence to support or contradict that speculation, the IIO report says. The takedown by the arresting officer is the only evidence of an incident which could have caused the injury.
The purpose of any IIO investigation is to determine whether an officer, through an action or inaction, may have committed any offence in relation to the incident that led to the injury of the intoxicated male.
“A police officer who is acting as required or authorized by law is, if he acts on reasonable grounds, justified in doing what he is required or authorized to do, and in using as much force as is necessary for that purpose,” the report says. “In this case, the issue is not the amount or nature of the force used by SO (subject officer), which appears to have been moderate, but whether the officer was acting lawfully in the execution of his duty in arresting AP, initially, for breach of the peace.”
The investigator concludes that “the arrest was lawful and there is no evidence that SO’s use of force was other than justified and proportional.”
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SHINee’s Jonghyun And Onew Top Gaon’s Weekly Album Chart
by D. Kim
On December 27, Gaon revealed chart results for the week from December 15 through 22.
SHINee’s Jonghyun and Onew topped the week’s album chart recording physical album shipments. Jonghyun’s “Poet | Artist” rose 56 spots to No. 1, while Onew’s “VOICE” rose six spots to take No. 2.
“The Only” by The Boyz, “Mark” by BTOB’s Changsub, and “Love Yourself: Answer” by BTS round up the top five. BEN’s “180 Degree” remained on top of the digital chart and streaming chart, with Song Mino’s “Fiancé” at No. 2 on both charts. On the download chart, WINNER’s “Millions” made a strong debut at No. 1, and Heize’s “First Sight” rose five spots to take No. 2.
For the social chart, which is a result of data from YouTube, Twitter, and YinYueTai, BTS’s “IDOL” placed No. 1, followed by “DNA” and “Fake Love. TWICE’s “YES or YES” took No. 4, and the Steve Aoki Remix of “MIC Drop” took No. 5.
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Strong Earnings Push KSE-100 to Highest Level in 4 Years
A string of strong earnings announcements by Karachi Stock Exchange listed companies and the Central Bank's 1.5% rate cut have helped the KSE-100 index gain 32% year to date. In the week ended on August 16, the benchmark index surged by 238.59 points, or 1.61 percent, to 51-month high of 15,000.08 points. This was the highest close since April 30, 2008.
Strong Earnings:
Last week, KSE-listed Indus Motors announced 57% jump in profits on record sales of Toyota Corolla cars. It was followed by Lucky Cement Ltd. (LUCK), Pakistan’s largest producer of the building material, announcing 71 percent surge in profits to a record as an increase in domestic sales offset a decline in exports. Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), the country’s second largest oil and gas explorer, said its profits soared 30% to Rs40.9 billion in fiscal 2012. Strong earnings have also been reported by Unilever Foods and Bata shoes in the last few days.
Best Performing Market:
So far in 2012 Pakistan is the best performing market in Asia surpassing the Philippines which was the top performer until June of this year. Karachi stocks have also significantly outperformed all emerging stock smarket indexes, including Mumbai and Shanghai, in 2012.
Rising Consumer Demand:
Meteoric rise of Engro Foods symbolizes strong consumer demand in growing package food sector. Its CEO Muhammad Afnan Ahsan has forecast 81% increase in net income in the current year ending December 31, 2012. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 65 percent and a planned infrastructure investment in 2012 of eight billion rupees, Engro Foods has become the country's fastest growing local company catering to a wide range of consumers in Pakistan and overseas.
Undeterred by the gloom and doom reports in the media, Pakistani consumers are continuing to spend and private consumption has now reached 75 percent of GDP. It rose 11.6% in real terms in 2011-12 compared with just 3.7% growth a year earlier , according to Economic Survey of Pakistan. In fact, many analysts believe that Pakistan's official GDP of $220 billion is understated by as much as 50%, buttressing a recent claim by the head of Karachi Stock Exchange that Pakistan's real GDP is closer to $300 billion.
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Here's a DNA story on India's declining savings rate:
Slowing growth and stubborn inflation have begun eating into the net financial savings of the country, which sharply fell to 7.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) in fiscal 2012 from 9.3% in 2011 and 12.2% in 2010, the central bank’s annual report revealed on Thursday.
The last time the figure reached this level was in fiscal 1990.
Net financial savings comprise cash investments, deposits with banks and non-bank companies, investments in shares, debentures, mutual funds, small savings, life insurance, provident fund and pension fund.
According to experts, net financial savings consist of three sources: household savings, government savings and corporate profits.
With the economy slowing considerably, corporate profits have come under tremendous pressure. Moreover, the government’s fiscal condition is not allowing it to save further.
There is something far more worrying, though. “According to the preliminary estimates released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the drop in net financial savings can be attributed to an absolute decline in small savings and lower growth in households’ holdings of deposits, currency and life insurance funds,” wrote Morgan Stanley analysts Chetan Ahya and Upasana Chachra in their report on Friday.
Owing to high inflation, a typical Indian household is witnessing more consumption and is therefore saving less. Moreover, inflation is also eating into the returns from current savings, which is why people are investing in assets like gold which give high returns.
“They are trying to protect their savings by investing in gold, real estate, commodities, et cetera.
The change in consumer behaviour is also visible in bank deposit growth, which has weakened,” says Brinda Jagirdar, general manager (economic research department), State Bank of India.
The central bank had also raised concerns over the dependence on gold as a safe asset class. Despite high prices, demand for gold in India has been strong as the metal is seen as a hedge against inflation and a safe asset to invest in difficult times.
In the past 11 years, gold has given compounded annual return of 18.5%, which the RBI noted is a worrying trend. Moreover, such investments in gold do not add to capital formation either, it said.
With depleting financial savings, a capital-starved nation like India has to depend on foreign fund flows. However, with global economy now in doldrums, the only hope is to revive domestic savings, experts said.
“Keeping these things in mind, the financial regulator has adopted certain measures to revive sectors like mutual funds. Also, the RBI is mulling financial instruments that will give gold returns,” said Abheek Barua, chief economist, HDFC Bank.
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_india-not-saving-enough-says-rbi_1732430
Here's Reuters on KSE-100 continuing to climb higher:
Pakistani stocks ended higher on Monday after the Supreme Court gave the prime minister breathing space in a case that could see him charged with contempt of court and disqualified.
The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index ended 0.88 percent, or 132.48 points, higher at 15,171.66, on volume of 14.84 million shares.
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf appeared in court over his failure to comply with orders to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
The case has fuelled tension in a long-running standoff between the government and increasingly assertive judiciary. The court adjourned proceedings until Sept. 18.
It said Ashraf must ensure a letter is written to Swiss authorities asking them to reopen corruption cases against Zardari. Justice Asif Khosa said Ashraf did not have to write the letter himself. He could nominate someone else to write it.
"Markets have improved because the Supreme Court has given another few weeks to the prime minister. Investors believe this time may help in resolving the ongoing issue with the judiciary," said Mohammad Sohail, chief executive at Topline Securities.
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited was the biggest winner in terms of volume, gaining 6.54 percent to close at 16.29 rupees.
In the currency market, the Pakistani rupee ended slightly higher at 94.80/94.85 to the dollar, compared to Friday's close of 94.87/93.
Overnight rates in the money market ended at 7.5 percent, compared with 9.5 percent on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/financial-pakistan-idUSL3E8JR2QP20120827
Standard Charter (Pakistan) profits rise 45%, reports Business Recorder:
Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited has earned a profit (before tax) of Rs 3.9 billion, which has risen by 45 per cent, in H1 2012 as compared to same period of the last calendar year. Earning per share has also surged to Rs 0.65 per share from Rs 0.44 per share in H1 2011.
Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited has announced its H1 2012 results. The Bank has successfully executed its strategy of focused growth, improved cost discipline and prudent credit expansion, resulting in improved financial performance with steady revenue and decreasing loan impairments. Administrative costs of the bank have again remained more or less flat despite continuing double digit inflation. Deposits have increased by 6% to Rs 249 billion from Rs 236 billion, while advances (net of provisions) have grown by 4% to Rs 135 billion from Rs 130 billion in December 2011.
The quality of assets remains good with a high coverage ratio of 82 per cent for non-performing loans. The Bank thus remains well-capitalised and highly liquid, with surplus funds that continue to be deployed in Government Securities. Interim cash dividend of 7.50% (Re. 0.75/- per share) in respect of the half year ended June 30, 2012 has been declared by the Board of Directors in their meeting held on August 28, 2012.
Commenting on the results Mohsin Nathani, Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited, said, "The Bank continues to deliver a strong set of results for the first half of 2012. The growth in revenue is encouraging, while we continuously endeavour to keep cost growth at moderate levels, ensuring necessary investment in our businesses to keep the momentum rolling. The Bank is dedicated to continuing to grow their business and to provide high quality of service and products to their customers."
http://www.brecorder.com/money-a-banking/198/1231966/
Here's BMI's Q3/2012 report on rising food consumption in Pakistan:
Our near-term domestic demand outlook for Pakistan is looking brighter than before. Declining costs of credit and disinflationary pressures should prove supportive of domestic demand. However, we acknowledge a near-term risk to our domestic demand outlook, which is the impact of deteriorating macroeconomic conditions on remittance inflows. Should a slowdown in global demand weigh on remittance growth, this could dampen domestic consumption in the near term. Longer term, the business environment challenges of a destabilising insurgency, chronic lack of electricity generation capacity and an unskilled labour force will continue to hold back the consumer sector from realising its full potential. We therefore expect the liberalisation of the Pakistani consumer sector to occur at a glacial pace going forward.
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2012 food consumption growth = +12.1%, compound annual growth rate (CAGR) forecast to 2016 = +9.3%
2012 alcoholic drinks value sales growth = +19.0%, CAGR forecast to 2016 = +10.4%
2012 soft drinks value sales growth = +15.2%, CAGR forecast to 2016 = +8.8%
2012 mass grocery retail sales growth = +20.9%, CAGR forecast to 2016 = +12.2% Key Company Trends Pakistan A Fledgling But Growing Force On Global Halal Scene: Pakistan has not been able to gain much from its US$2trn halal brand market, and has a small share in the global halal industry. The country’s exports have improved from zero-level during the past two years; however, it is still insignificant. However, with the Pakistani government now putting its weight behind the development of the domestic halal industry, there is certainly a cause for optimism in the sector’s future prospects.
The Sindh Board of Investment has entered an agreement with the Halal Department of Malaysia to provide training of certification to its staff. The government also announced that it will be engaging in a project to ensure the credibility of the country’s halal certifications in a bid to tap into the global halal market, which is valued at over US$1trn.
BMI Bullish Coca-Cola’s Prospects In Pakistan: US soft drinks giant The Coca-Cola Company is planning to invest another US$280mn by 2013 in Pakistan. According to Coca-Cola, it plans to channel the bulk of its capital expenditures towards increasing the production of its existing brands as well as expanding its overall beverages portfolio. Coca-Cola plans to introduce more juices and mineral water in the Pakistani market over the coming years. This strategy could diversify Coca- Cola’s presence beyond the carbonates sector and help it secure early footholds in the higher-value bottled water and fruit juice segments, which boast tremendous long-term promise.
http://www.marketresearch.com/Business-Monitor-International-v304/Pakistan-Food-Drink-Q3-7011717/
PTCL income up 36% on strength of broadband business, reports Businessweek:
Pakistan Telecommunication Co. (PTC), the country’s biggest phone service provider, reported a 36 percent rise in annual net income because of higher revenue from broadband services.
Net income rose to 11.4 billion rupees ($120 million) or 2.24 rupees a share in the 12 months ended June 30, from 8.41 billion rupees or 1.65 rupees a year earlier, the Islamabad- based company said in a statement to the stock exchange today. Revenue increased 8 percent to 110.8 billion rupees.
“Their broadband business grew this year because they offered more products,” said Ayub Ansari, a research analyst at AKD Securities Ltd. in Karachi.
The company’s focus on high-speed Internet and television services has helped boost broadband customers to almost one million contributing about 20 percent to total sales, Walid Irshaid, chief executive, said in October. Pakistan Telecommunications has faced competition from telecom providers including Telenor ASA and China Mobile Communications Ltd. since 2004 when the government allowed the entry of private operators, ending a monopoly.
The company’s broadband business grew 44 percent from a year earlier, Ansari said.
Pakistan Telecommunication’s shares fell by the daily limit of 5 percent to 18.63 rupees because the company skipped a dividend payment for the first time since the year ended June 2008, Ansari said. The shares have risen 81 percent this year compared with a 38 percent gain in the benchmark KSE100 index.
Emirates Telecommunications Corp., the United Arab Emirates state-owned phone company, won management control of Pakistan Telecom in April 2006 after buying a 26 percent stake in the company for $2.6 billion.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-11/pakistan-telecom-net-income-rises-as-broadband-business-grows
In addition to adding $500 million to Google's revenue, young Pakistanis are making significant voluntary contributions to Google offerings like Google Maps. This has attracted the attention of Google bosses like Eric Schmidt who recently visited Pakistan and described Pakistan's young demographics as a great asset.
http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/11/online-digital-maps-petaluma-to.html
Here's an ET report on Google in Pakistan:
Google earns an estimated $500 million in revenues from its users in Pakistan, about 1.3% of the firm’s global total, according executives at Google Pakistan, who held their first ever public event in the country to highlight the technology giant’s interest in the country.
“Pakistan is Google’s next big market in the region,” Google’s head of Emerging Market Development, Southeast Asia, Jana Levene told a gathering of IT experts, bloggers, businessmen and selected journalists at Pearl Continental hotel in Karachi on Monday.
The gathering comes after Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt visited Pakistan in June to meet with the country’s politicians and businessmen. “It was just a regular visit. He wanted to find out how important the use of technology for the country’s leadership and businessmen is,” said Badar Khushnood, Google’s consultant in Pakistan.
Moreover, Google has intensified its operations by getting involved in a lot of projects – especially with the Punjab government – in the country recently. “Innovation Punjab” is one example where Google has partnered with Punjab Information Technology Board. It has launched a social innovation fund – in collaboration with Pakistan Software Houses association, also their partner for the event – to support young entrepreneurs struggling to get their ideas public.
Google’s increased interest in the country, Schmidt’s visit of Pakistan and now this event sends very strong signals to the country – the giant may consider opening an office in Pakistan. Khusnood denied if Google was opening its first office in the country anytime soon but added it couldn’t be ruled out. Google’s representatives attributed Pakistan’s growing importance to multiple factors.
“To enter a market, the first thing we look at is its demographics – number of internet users in that country,” Jana Levene said, explaining why Google is interested in Pakistan. “Twenty-two million internet users is a huge number. It’s more than Australia’s whole population. That’s why we are here,” she said.
The second thing Google is interested in, Levene said, is the size of the market. “Pakistan is a $400 to $500 million market for Google,” she said. Currently, four of the top 10 most popular websites in Pakistan are Google’s sites.
But the key takeaway from the event was not the information, but the fact that it was addressed by six senior Google executives, a strong indication that the technology giant wants to expand further in the Pakistani market.
“We are calling you to help us bring more Pakistanis online,” Jana Levene said addressing country’s leadership as well as the technology sector. “Tell the world Pakistan is economically viable. It’s a safe place to do business,” Levene said.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/434461/up-and-coming-google-pakistan-earns-500-million-in-revenue/
Here's a Dawn report on Pakistan's declining inflation & rising stock market:
Pakistani stocks closed higher on Monday after the inflation rate hit a 33-month low, boosting the confidence of investors, traders said.
The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index ended 0.80 per cent, or 123.91 points, higher at 15,568.73 – a four-year high – on total volume of 135.80 million shares.
“Investors are hopeful that because inflation came down sharply, there is a high probability that the state bank will reduce the interest rate,” said Mohammad Sohail, chief executive at Topline Securities.
The central bank is expected to announce a monetary policy decision on October 5.
Pakistan’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 8.79 per cent in September from a year earlier, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
The year-on-year rate in August was 9.1 per cent. On a month-on-month basis, the CPI increased by 0.79 per cent from August, according to the bureau.
In the currency market, the Pakistani rupee ended weaker at 94.88/94.94 to the dollar compared to Friday’s close of 94.75/94.80.
Overnight rates in the money market ended at 7.50 compared to 10.40 per cent on Friday.
http://dawn.com/2012/10/01/pakistani-stocks-close-at-four-year-high-as-inflation-hits-33-month-low/
Here's BMI report on vehicle sales in Pakistan:
Pakistan’s auto industry suffered mixed fortunes over FY12, which ended in June 2012. Passenger carsales and production were both up strongly, while the commercial vehicles sector continued to lag. EndFY12 sales figures released by the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA) showed thatpassenger car sales were up by 23% y-o-y, to reach 157,325 CBUs. Jeep and pick-up sales were up by17.6%, at 21,472 CBUs. This was slightly ahead of BMI’s forecasts and reflected the robust nature ofdemand in the new car market. The past year also saw a one-off boost to sales from the Punjab Province’s‘Yellow Cab’ taxi purchasing scheme, which saw Pak Suzuki deliver some 20,000 Bolan and Mehranmodels. Total vehicle sales for FY12 stood at 231,545 units, an increase of 6% year-on-year (y-o-y).
Breaking down the headline figure, sales of passenger cars with engine size less than 1000cc increased by41.6% y-o-y, to 61,528 CBUs. Mid-size engine cars (1,000-1,300cc) saw sales growth of 28.3% overFY12, to reach 29,981 CBUs, with larger engine cars (1,300cc+) showing the smallest growth, up just7.6%, at 65,816 CBUs.
Over FY12, long-time market leader Pak Suzuki retained its dominance of the Pakistani new passengercar and pick-up sales market, selling 112,166 units for a market share of 62.7%. Indus Motor retained itsposition as the second most-important player in the local market, with sales of 54,477 CBUs over FY12,up by 9.9%, for a market share of 30.5%, with Honda Atlas suffering a 22.2% annual decline in sales,down to just 12,119 CBUs, for a market share of 6.8%.
Turning to commercial vehicles sales, sales of trucks were down by 18.6%, at 2,394 units, while bus saleswere up by 13.1%, at 609 units. The worst performing sub-segment of the industry over FY12 was farmtractors, whose sales fell by 28.1% y-o-y, to just 49,745 units. This reflected the collapse in demandduring H1FY12, following the government’s decision to implement a 16% general sales tax on tractorpurchases, which was later reduced to 5% as of January 2012. Since this time, tractor sales haverebounded strongly, from a year-low of just 369 tractors sold in January 2012, back up to 8,368 tractorssold in June 2012. However, with the government still planning to increase GST on tractors to 10% in2013 and then to 16% in 2014, it remains to be seen what effect these staggered tax hikes will have ontractor sales over the medium term.
Turning to production, passenger car production stood at 154,255 CBUs for FY12, an increase of 15.1%y-o-y. This was a strong performance, given the disruption to supplies suffered by Honda Atlas over theend of 2011 and the start of 2012. Indeed, Honda did not produce any cars in Pakistan between December2011 and February 2012. Pak Suzuki remained the dominant producer, producing 107,736 passenger carsand pick-ups. In second place was Indus Motor, on 54,917 passenger cars and pick-ups, with Honda Atlasin third place, on 12,484 passenger cars (Civic and City models).
Looking forward, BMI is targeting new vehicle sales growth of 3% for FY13, to reach 238,491 units,with production set to increase by 5%, to reach 235,689 units.
http://www.marketresearch.com/Business-Monitor-International-v304/Pakistan-Autos-Q4-7131013/
Here's a Businessweek story on record profits for DG Khan Cement in Pakistan:
D.G. Khan Cement Ltd. (DGKC), Pakistan’s second-largest producer, reported a fourfold surge in net income on record prices of the building material.
Net income increased to 1.42 billion rupees ($14.8 million), or 3.23 rupees a share, in the three months ended Sept. 30, from 355.5 million rupees, or 0.81 rupee a year earlier, the Lahore-based company said in a filing today. Sales rose 15 percent to 6.1 billion rupees.
Cement makers have relied on price increases amid stagnant sales in the past five years, a move that led the country’s competition commission conduct searches in January this year to investigate price manipulation. Manufacturers of the building material were fined 6.3 billion rupees in August 2009 for price monopoly by the watchdog.
“Cement prices rising to a record saved the day as the quantity sold remained almost the same,” said Syed Asad Ahmed, analyst at IGI Finex Securities Ltd. in Karachi. Local prices on average rose 12 percent to a record 438 rupees per 50 kilogram bag (110 pounds) in the quarter versus 391 rupees in the same period last year, IGI’s Ahmed said.
D.G. Khan’s shares rose 1 percent to 52.30 rupees at the close of trading in Karachi. The stock has rallied 175 percent this year, compared with a 40 percent gain in the benchmark KSE100 index.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-24/pakistan-d-dot-g-dot-khan-cement-profit-rises-fourfold-on-record-prices
Here are latest cement sector profit reports in The Nation of KSE listed firms:
Lucky Cement Limited declared a profit after tax of Rs2,014 million for the quarter ending 30th September 2012. The Earnings per Share (EPS) of the company increased to Rs6.23 per share versus Rs4.66 per share achieved in the same period last year.Gross profit for Lucky Cement, which is Pakistan’s largest cement manufacturer increased by 32.87pc during quarter as its net sales revenue improved by 18.09pc to Rs 8,852 million against Rs. 7,496 million of the same period last year. Higher sales volume in the domestic markets in line with the company’s strategy attributed to the increased profits.The local sales volume during the quarter under review registered a growth of 5pc that rose to 0.86 million tons sold as compared to 0.82 million tons sold during the same period last year. However, the export sales volume declined by 9pc from 0.62 million tons to 0.56 million tons during the first quarter ending 30th September 2012. This was mainly due to intentional focus on the domestic markets, which contributed in increasing the overall profitability of the company. The company also managed to decrease its financing cost by 76pc during the quarter under review as compared to the same period last year.Meanwhile, Nishat Chunian Limited (NCL) has announced an impressive 1QFY13 result, posting a PAT of Rs375m (diluted EPS: Rs2.06) compared to a loss of Rs86m (diluted loss per share: Rs0.47). Main reason for the growth in bottom line was high gross margins of 17.6pc compared to 8.7pc in 1QFY12. Meanwhile, 1) other income of Rs70m (up 19pc YoY) and lower finance cost of Rs302m (down 5pc YoY) further supported the growth in core operations. Note that QoQ EPS is down 6pc sequentially. This is primarily due to lower other income mainly due to exchange gains. On the margins front gross margins are up 480bps. Meanwhile, Nishat Mills Limited (NML) announced its 1QFY13 result. As expected, the company posted a growth of 3pc YoY in its bottom-line to Rs1.1b (EPS: Rs3.02). Higher gross margin in 1QFY13 was the major reason behind this growth. Recall that margins during last year came under pressure as the company had booked expensive inventory of the previous year.
Other than the core operations, lower finance cost and healthy dividend income continued to lend support to cumulative profits of the company. Although, dividend income in 1QFY13 was on the lower side due to lower payout of Pakgen Power, it still provided support to the bottom line.
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/31-Oct-2012/lucky-cement-ncl-earn-profits
http://www.mrsecurities.com.pk/PakistanCementSector.pdf
Here's an excerpt of a report on Bangladesh cement consumption:
Bangladesh cement industry is the 40th largest market in the world. Currently capacity of the industry is about 20 mn tonnes (MT). Top 13 players are alone controlling over 78% of the total industry capacity. However, the balance capacity still remains quite fragmented.
Per capita consumption remains poor when compared with the world average; only 65 kg (FY2009) while our neighboring countries, India and Pakistan, have per capita consumption of 135kg and 130kg respectively. This underlines tremendous scope for growth in the Bangladesh cement industry in the long term....
http://www.idlc.com/sector_coverage/1332569363Research%20Report%20on%20Cement%20Sector%20of%20BD-Initiation,%20April%2005,2011.pdf
Here's an except of a report in The Hindu on India cement consumption:
The per capita cement consumption in India stands at 156 kg against the world average of 356 kg. Rising against the odds and seeking relief to allow the sector to expand to its potential, Vinita Singhania, Managing Director, JK Lakshmi Cement, and President, Cement Manufacturers' Association (CMA), in a chat with Sujay Mehdudia, unfolds her vision, plans and investments for the future.
http://www.thehindu.com/business/article3287799.ece?css=print
Here's a News report on Lucky Cement's expansion plans in Middle East and Africa:
KARACHI: Lucky Cement, which claims to be the largest manufacturer of cement in Pakistan, has entered into a couple of joint ventures for making investment in international projects, besides expending and diversifying its business locally, according to a notification of the company to the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) on Thursday.
Muhammad Abid Ganatara, secretary of Lucky Cement, said that the company has entered into joint ventures in cement plants in DR Congo, Africa, and Iraq.
“The plant and machinery for the project [in Africa] has been negotiated and finalised with a renowned European supplier and the terms of the project financing are under process of negotiations with the development financial institutions and multilateral agencies,” the notice said.
Besides, the company has also entered into joint venture investment in cement grinding facility in Iraq.
“The contract for the supply of plant and machinery for this project has been signed and the project team, as well as civil contractors, have been mobilised at the project site,” it said.
An industry source said that the demand for Pakistani cement is on the higher side in Africa and Lucky Cement aimed at capturing that opportunity. The project would also help the company save logistic cost of cement exports to the African countries, said source.
“The logistic cost of cement exports remained one of the major hurdles in increasing such exports from Pakistan,” said another industry source, on the condition of anonymity.
“The cost factor is causing continuous decline in exports for the last several quarters.”
Moreover, Iraq has been destructed due to the war on terror and it needs to be reconstructed. Therefore, making investment in cement plant in Iraq would also help the company realise higher earnings. Besides, the company could also export cement to nearby countries such as Qatar and other GCC countries, he said.
Lucky Cement also reported to investment equity in an associated company for 50MW wind farm project. “The power generation licence and the requisite approval from the authority concerned for the acceptance of upfront tariff have been obtained.
The project team is actively engaged in negotiations of concession documents and financing close with the stipulated timeframe,” according to the company notice.
The company also reported successful supply of uninterrupted electricity to Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) with effect from July 1, averaging a supply of over 20MW per hour during the quarter ended September 30.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-3-139511-Lucky-Cement-enters-into-international-joint-ventures
Here's Daily Times on KSE-100 crossing 16000 level:
Hopes for cut in policy rate boost KSE by 289 points
KARACHI: The Karachi stock market witnessed a historic trading week by breaching the psychological level of 16,000 points on back of hopes for further decline in the State Bank of Pakistan’s policy rate after consumer price index (CPI) inflation figures for October 2012 clocked in at 7.66 percent.
The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) 100-share index gained 288.83 points or 1.82 percent to close at 16,101.55 points as compared to 15,812.72 points of the previous week.
Analysts said investor sentiment was upbeat at the market throughout the week on expectations that October 2012 CPI figure will slide further.
The market opened on Tuesday after prolonged Eidul Azha vacations on a negative note as Hurricane Sandy that lashed US East Coast triggered uncertainty in global markets and propelled local investors to offload their holdings. The 100-share index shed 16.79 points or 0.11 percent to close at 15,795.93 points as compared to 15,812.72 points.
On Wednesday the market made another historic high level of 15,910 points as hopes for lower inflation for the month of October and better-than-expected earnings of Pakistan Petroleum Ltd and Hubco triggered across-the-board buying. The 100-share index gained 114.18 points or 0.72 percent to close at 15,910.11 points.
The record-breaking spree continued at the market on Thursday as investors went for buying on hopes that lower inflation figure will force the State Bank of Pakistan to reduce the policy rate. The 100-share index gained 52.26 points or 0.33 percent to close at 15,962.37 points
The market continued its record-breaking streak on the last trading day of the week Friday by crossing the psychological level of 16,000 points. The 100-share index gained 139.18 points or 0.87 percent to close at 16,101.55 points. The weekly turnover went up by 40.79 percent and traded 191.49 million shares compared to previous weeks 136.01 million shares.
“Market expectations were realised on Friday with October 2012 CPI clocking in at 7.66 percent as against 8.79 percent in September 2012, thus raising hopes of another rate cut in the next monetary policy (due in December),” said JS Sec analyst Furqan Ayub. “Investors’ interest was concentrated in the cement and textile sectors with Lucky Cement and Nishat Mills outperforming the market by 1.1 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively.”
Net buying by foreigners this week amounted to $12.6 million, he added.
Analysts said the market is at a historic high level and any untoward development can drag the market into the red zone, analysts said and added that technical correction is, however, due next week as usually when the 100-share index breaches psychological levels consolidation is seen and with this historic high it is evident.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\11\04\story_4-11-2012_pg5_16
Barron is reporting that Vanguard has set up an ETF for FTSE emerging market index that includes KSE-100 stocks Abbott Pakistan and Unilever Pakistan.
Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates are probably two markets many U.S. investors haven't given much thought to, but that's beginning to change after news that one of the most popular emerging-market ETFs will have some exposure to these countries.
Vanguard recently said it would start tracking the FTSE Emerging Markets index rather than the MSCI Emerging Markets index for its popular Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (ticker: VWO), which will soon be renamed. That means the fund won't have exposure to Korea, which FTSE doesn't consider an emerging market, and it will now have some holdings in Pakistan and the UAE. With those countries combined only making up about half a percentage point of the index, investors won't exactly be loading up on the Middle East. But the switch is already attracting interest to a region that has largely been ignored by investors.
That attention may be warranted. Despite the turmoil in Syria and concerns about Iran, the region has plenty to offer investors, including some of the world's best-capitalized banks, a young population, and governments spurred by the Arab Spring to invest in infrastructure and try to address high unemployment. So says Julie Dickson, equity product manager for emerging-markets specialist Ashmore Investment, which oversees $68 billion in assets. The MSCI Pakistan index is up 20% this year; MSCI UAE is up 21%.
Even with the run-up, Andrew Brudenell, manager of the HSBC Frontier Markets fund (HSFAX) in London, says Pakistan is one of the cheapest markets he follows, at about seven times earnings. He notes that earnings growth has kept pace with the market. The firms, he adds, are typically cash-rich, boast strong return on equity levels in the 20% range, and pay good dividends.
In Pakistan, the informal, cash-based economy for goods and services is larger than the formal economy. Consumer-oriented firms can tap into that demand, so they are a favored play for managers, especially subsidiaries of well-respected global firms like Abbott Pakistan (ABOT.Pakistan) and Unilever Pakistan (ULEVER.Pakistan) that give them more comfort about governance.
While the story attracting investors to Pakistan is domestic, the United Arab Emirates is more of a play on the rest of the Middle East, since it is increasingly a trade and financial hub and has recently acted as a safe haven for people elsewhere in the region. Many people associate the UAE with lavish construction projects and a property bubble, but that bubble popped and the industry is on the mend, with occupancy rates beginning to rise. The country's firms are also well managed and attractively priced, says Brudenell, who favors property developers, banking-service firms and global-ports operator DP World (DPW.Dubai).
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704526104578115020941413196.html?mod=BOL_twm_col#
Here's Bloomberg on outsize returns of KSE-100:
The KSE 100 Index, the benchmark for Pakistan’s $43 billion equity market, rose 7.3 percent in the past three years when adjusted for price swings, the top gain among 72 markets worldwide, according to the BLOOMBERG RISKLESS RETURN RANKING. Pakistan had lower stock volatility than 82 percent of the nations including the U.S. (SPX) Over five years, Pakistan’s risk- adjusted returns ranked eighth.
The country’s 190 million people are boosting purchases three times faster than Asian peers as higher rural incomes and record remittances outweigh fighting on the Afghan border, violence in Karachi that led to at least 2,100 deaths this year and power outages that sparked rioting. The region’s fastest earnings growth may increase economic stability, according to Karachi-based Atlas Asset Management Ltd. Foreign investors added to holdings for five straight months, lured by Asia’s lowest valuations and biggest dividend yields.
“Stocks are very cheap and there are some very good businesses in Pakistan,” said Andrew Brudenell, whose HSBC Frontier Markets Fund has returned 18 percent this year, beating 92 percent of peers tracked by Bloomberg, and holds more shares in the country than are represented in benchmark indexes. “We still think there’s some positive growth to come from the markets.”
Earnings in the KSE 100 index advanced 45 percent during the past year, the largest gain among 17 Asian equity indexes, and this month hit the highest level since Bloomberg began tracking the data in 2005.
Consumer spending in Pakistan has increased at a 26 percent average pace the past three years, compared with 7.7 percent for Asia, according to data compiled by Euromonitor International, a consumer research firm. While the growth in Pakistan may slow to 6.6 percent in 2012, it will still exceed the 5.3 percent pace in Asia, according to Euromonitor estimates.
Engro Foods Ltd. (EFOODS), a Karachi-based seller of dairy products, reported a 214 percent jump in net income for the third quarter, while Unilever Pakistan Ltd. (ULEVER), a unit of the world’s second- biggest consumer-goods company, had a 36 percent gain, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Dividends in Pakistan have also climbed at the fastest pace in the region. Payouts increased 49 percent in the past 12 months, giving the KSE 100 index a dividend yield of 6.6 percent, double the 3.3 percent average in Asia, Bloomberg data show.
Foreign investors have purchased a net $153 million of Pakistan shares since the beginning of July, according to data from the Karachi Stock Exchange. Overseas holdings amount to about 20 percent of the bourse’s free float, or shares available for trading, according to Adnan Katchi, the head of international equity sales at Arif Habib Ltd.
Bond investors are also growing more confident. Pakistan’s international debt, rated Caa1 at Moody’s Investors Service, or seven levels below investment grade, has returned 32 percent this year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Next Generation Markets Index. Yields hit a two-year low of 8.5 percent on Oct. 26.
The country is luring more of the world’s biggest consumer brands as spending increases. Debenhams Plc (DEB), the U.K.’s second- largest department-store chain, and Nine West Group Inc., a seller of women’s shoes and handbags owned by New York-based Jones Group Inc. (JNY), opened their first Pakistan outlets this year.....
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-20/pakistan-stocks-best-as-violence-ignored-riskless-return.html
Here's a Daily Times story on a report about Pak stocks and bonds historic performance:
Magnus publishes first comprehensive study on Pakistani stocks and bonds
KARACHI: The first comprehensive study about returns of stocks and bonds in Pakistan has been recently published by Magnus Investment Advisors Limited. The research provides data for equities starting July 1965 and for bonds starting January 2001. The study shows that long term real Pakistani rupees return (after inflation adjustment) on local equities ranges between 4.82 percent to 5.69 percent. The treasury bills have provided negative returns. The real return on 5 year and 10 year PIBs is 2.19 percent and 3.43 percent respectively. The study also provides nominal and US dollar returns. Issues such as 'Equity Risk Premium' and relevance of 'Purchasing Power Parity' in the context of local securities market are also dealt with. The study also provides an asset allocation frame-work for local trustees. The most interesting part is the analysis of equity returns in Pakistan with other emerging markets and investment in Pakistani equities from the perspective of foreign investors. The study conclusively demonstrates that Pakistan stocks do not represent any unusual risk in the universe of emerging markets. Pakistani stocks should get one of the highest allocations among emerging markets from the perspective of US investors. The study is not only useful for local trustees of retirement funds and charitable institutions but it also fills a major gap for local business schools where so far graduates had little knowledge and understanding about risks and returns of local capital markets. The study is also a useful read for the Ministry of Finance, SECP and BoI officials who are called upon to promote investment in Pakistan from time to time. Magnus is a boutique investment advisory firm based in Karachi. It acts as an investment advisor to retirement funds sponsored by large companies (mostly MNCs) in Pakistan.
Here's a report on Karachi's KSE-100 hitting new highs:
Pakistani stock market surged by over 500 points today to a record high of 21,500 points on heavy buying by overseas investors, amid reports government plans to sell treasury bills worth USD 5 billion to pare debt.
The Karachi Stock Exchange's benchmark 100-share index closed 2.59 per cent, or 542.86 points, higher at 21,501.72.
"The market was buoyed by reports today that the new government plans to sell USD 5 billion in treasury bills to pay off a chain of debt that has led to power crisis and is affecting the economy," Sohail Ahmed, a market analyst, said.
The new government is planning to pay off the debt within the first 100 days in power as it believes the economy will only be lifted and foreign investments will grow if the power shortage crisis is dealt with immediately, said experts.
In Lahore, Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif pledged that the incoming PML-N government would make efforts to overcome power problem as soon as possible.
The stock market rally came after two straight days of decline.
On the previous two trading days, the stock market saw profit-booking after a wave of massive buying saw investors betting big that the crisis-ridden economy would revert back to high growth under Sharif, set to become premier for an unprecedented third term.
The Pakistani rupee also remained stable on Tuesday ending in the market on 98.43/98.49 against the US dollar.
Sharif, himself an industrialist and co-owner of diversified multi-million dollar conglomerate Ittefaq group, has said that revival of economy would be among his top priorities. He is seen by many in Pakistan as someone who can fix the country's bleeding economy.
There are only 569 listed companies on the Karachi Stock Exchange, as against about 5,000 in the Indian stock market, where total investor wealth is close to Rs 70 lakh crore.
The number of companies listed on KSE has come down in the past few years, from more than 650 in 2009, as the country's economy has been struggling amid a turbulent political scene.
However, a clear mandate in the just-held historic polls is expected to revive the economic activities and therefore the stock markets as well.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/pakistan-stock-markets-zoom-to-record-high-of-21-500-113052801027_1.html
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Pakistani Students Win Silver in International Genetic Engineering Competition
A team of undergraduate students representing Peshawar has won a silver medal in a genetic engineering competition organized recently by the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts.
Source: iGEM Peshawar Facebook Page
iGEM Team:
The team was made up of students from several cities and towns across Pakistan including Lahore, Attock, Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Khyber Agency, Nowshera, Charsadda, Peshawar, Swabi and Mardan.
The team was hosted by Institute of Integrative Biosciences of CECOS University of IT and Emerging Sciences Peshawar. It was sponsored by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP)’s Directorate of Science and Technology, according to media reports.
The team's silver-medal-winning 2017 entry is a genetically engineered fish called "Reporter Fish" that can detect five different heavy metals and change color to indicate the presence of metal contamination in the water. It used an Arduino electronic circuit board with bacterial-human interface device that enables bacteria to detect and report contamination.
The Peshawar team also participated in iGEM 2016 competition and won a Bronze medal. The 12-member team last year was made of 5 female and 7 male students.
Stanford Challenge:
Earlier this year, a 3-person team of Pakistani students, including a female student from Islamabad's National University of Science and Technology (NUST), won first place in a contest organized by Stanford Center of Longevity. The team's entry is a device they designed and prototyped that enables tremor patients to perform daily routine tasks.
Higher Education in Pakistan:
Wins such as the iGEM silver medal and the first place in Stanford Challenge are the result of improvements in higher education in Pakistan since the year 2000.
There are over 3 million students enrolled in grades 13 through 16 in Pakistan's 1,086 degree colleges and 161 universities, according to Pakistan Higher Education Commission report for 2013-14. The 3 million enrollment is 15% of the 20 million Pakistanis in the eligible age group of 18-24 years. In addition, there are over 255,000 Pakistanis enrolled in vocational training schools, according to Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA).
Graduation Day at NED Engineering University For 1300 Graduates in 2013
Pakistani universities have been producing over half a million graduates, including over 10,000 IT graduates, every year since 2010, according to HEC data. The number of university graduates in Pakistan increased from 380,773 in 2005-6 to 493,993 in 2008-09. This figure is growing with rising enrollment and contributing to Pakistan's growing human capital.
Source: UNESCO's Global Education Digest 2009
Higher education in Pakistan has come a long way since its independence in 1947 when there was only one university, the University of Punjab. By 1997, the number of universities had risen to 35, of which 3 were federally administered and 22 were under the provincial governments, with a combined enrollment of 71,819 students. A big spending boost by President Pervez Musharraf helped establish 51 new universities and awarding institutions during 2002-2008. This helped triple university enrollment from 135,000 in 2003 to about 400,000 in 2008, according to Dr. Ata ur Rehman who led the charge for expanding higher education during Musharraf years. There are 161 universities with 1.5 million students enrolled in Pakistan as of 2014.
R&D Investment:
Rise of research and publications at Pakistani universities began during Musharraf years when the annual budget for higher education increased from only Rs 500 million in 2000 to Rs 28 billion in 2008, to lay the foundations of the development of a strong knowledge economy, according to former education minister Dr. Ata ur Rehman. Student enrollment in universities increased from 270,000 to 900,000 and the number of universities and degree awarding institutions increased from 57 in 2000 to 137 by 2008. Government R&D spending jumped seven-fold as percentage of GDP from 0.1% of GDP in 1999 to 0.7% of GDP in 2007. It has since declined as percentage of GDP.
Pakistani students, scientists and researchers are continuing to produce highly recognized and cited research in spite of serious economic and security challenges. Enrollment in higher education is rising and giving a boost to innovation. With better policy focus and more investment in higher education, Pakistan can make an even greater impact with its young demographics.
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125 #IT Jobs Just Moved From #Noida #Delhi #India To #Islamabad, #Pakistan. #Tech
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/noida-to-islamabad/299532
On the night of November 1, stretching into early next morning, close to half the workforce at the Noida office of a US-based IT service provider was informed that their services were no longer needed. A former employee says salaries for the staff at the Noida office were declared delayed by a day on October 31. The official explanation was that the servers were not working. “They weren’t clear about how many people were going to be laid off,” he says. The next night, they “axed 125 people in half-an-hour.” They all got a severance package—a cheque for October and another two months of salary—and a termination letter. Rumours of layoffs had started doing the rounds four to five months ago. The talk was that the company was opening offices in a neighbouring country.
Curiously, the day the workforce in Noida was sacked, almost the same number of employees for the same low-level IT-enabled jobs logged into their systems, 676 kilometres away, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Job cuts have plagued the Indian IT sector for about two years now and have begun to get pretty serious from the start of this year. “Bloodbath in Bangalore” has been the recurring headline. But the trend of these jobs going to techies in Pakistan is more recent. Away from all the noise of ceasefire violations and surgical strikes, where Pakistan could really hurt India is in taking away low-end IT jobs. The neighbour has a budding IT industry, growing in its own space, looking to emulate the Indian IT success story where right now data operators and BPO callers come much cheaper.
Pakistan’s biggest Science Olympiad LUMS PsiFi set to kick off this Friday
https://www.techjuice.pk/pakistans-biggest-science-olympiad-lums-psifi-set-to-kick-off-this-friday/
The biggest science Olympiad of the country, PsiFi, which is hosted by the Lahore University of Management and Sciences’ Society for Promotion of Engineering and Sciences is set to start from tomorrow.
PsiFi is entering into its 9th edition, thus the name “PsiFi IX”. The first edition of the series gave LUMS the honour of being the pioneer of Science Olympiads in Pakistan. Since then, PsiFi has been held on an annual basis and each event promises a better experience than before.
SPADES’ executive body is determined to make this year’s event a success, putting in days and nights to ensure that the participants have an exhilarating start to the year. PsiFi consists of a bundle of science-oriented competitions. It revolves around 16 academic events and 4 socials spread over 4 days, starting from the 13th till the 16th of January, 2018.
SPADES quotes the drive to counter the narrative of science being a “boring” field as the root cause of the efforts to make Psifi a “Feast of Fun”. It has set out with all the right weapons required to convince everyone that science is fun and interesting.
The 16 academic events are spread over a wide array of backgrounds and are not confined to one branch of science. Some of them are:
See also: Upcoming Lahore Science Mela is all about blending science with culture
1. Diagnosis Dilemma
This event is based on 3 rounds, starting off from a Crisis scenario wherein participants will take up the role of a paramedic and try to counter the crisis situation, participants will put their surgical ability to test and pull out a tumor from a dummy without damaging internal organs.
2. Galactica
This event aims to bring out the Matt Damon in everyone and test their knowledge of space and planets. Nowadays, space travel and the possibility of people living on other planets is constantly being explored by governments and firms like SpaceX. Now, students have the chance to present their proposals in front of a learned judging panel. Galactica, where limits extend beyond the sky.
3. Geek Wars
This event is bound to exploit the movie and seasons knowledge of the participants. Based on 5 rounds, this event will bring out the sci-fi movie nerd inside everyone. The rounds will comprise of MCQs, riddles and dares, all of them aiming to bring the Sci-Fi element in Psifi!
4. Vine’d Up
This event is all about laughter, humor and the best thing in our lives: Memes! Based on 3 rounds in addition to a bonus round, this event will comprise of participants making memes out of images given to them and using imaginary gadgets in (hopefully) funny videos. This event promises to be one of the most enjoyable of the roster of events, and rightfully so. After all, what’s life without laughter, right?
Other than the academic events, Psifi will also host 4 social events including a concert which is bound to be the highlight of the event. Starting from the amazing opening ceremony all the way up to the Black and Gold themed Closing Dinner, the socials will be an amazing remedy for the stress from the academic events.
Pakistani student’s ‘sonic eye’ a ray of light for the visually impaired
Hifza is also working on a mobile app that can help the partially blind find their way around
http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/pakistan/pakistani-student-s-sonic-eye-a-ray-of-light-for-the-visually-impaired-1.2162995
Two years ago when Faizan Khan woke up in hospital following a car crash, he rubbed his eyes hard but still couldn’t see a thing. He initially thought it was an effect of the trauma from which he would recover with time but he had in fact been blinded.
Today, the horrors of his car accident are long gone but he is still learning to live in a world he cannot see anymore. “I had great difficulty at first as I simply wasn’t prepared for it” says Faizan. “One of the most detrimental impacts of vision loss is that you’re not able to move around like before. The fact that you are dependent on someone for movement is the worst feeling.”
Faizan and millions of visually impaired people like him now have a chance to make sense of their surroundings with the help of Sonic Eye, a device that acts as a navigational prop through the medium of sound.
The innovative device has been developed by 23-year-old Hifza Jamal, a student from Peshawar in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — signifying how young Pakistani women in the field of technology are transforming society.
Talking to Gulf News, Hifza explained that Sonic Eye is basically a stick that is attached to a navigation system. “This navigation helps to identify the objects in the path. These sensors alert the visually impaired with a loud sound when an object is nearby,” she said.
“The device releases frequencies in the shape of a cone, which when they come in contact with any object in a certain range, activate the buzzer,” said Hifza detailing her invention.
The device can indicate obstacles ahead and makes it easier for visually impaired people to find their way around. The device could be extremely useful for not only the blind but also the partially blind or people with complex eye diseases.
During her research for the project, Hifza spoke to several visually impaired persons as well as eye therapists to understand the problems faced by people with vision loss.
“What struck me most was that vision loss can have a debilitating impact on the mobility and independence of people. They are stuck in one place and become dependent on other people.”
Determined to instil hope in the physically challenged population of Pakistan, Hifza decided to resume work on her university project. “Sonic Eye was basically my university final year project made with the help of my colleagues under the supervision of my professors,” said Hifza, who completed her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar.
“I am perhaps the first one to launch this technological device in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” she reckons.
Hifza is currently busy working to develop a mobile app that will be able to offer a navigational aid for the blind without even having to use the stick. The app has image processing, face recognition and object detection features, which will help partially sighted persons perceive their surroundings with the use of a mobile camera. “The app is basically aimed at partially blind people,” Hifza explained.
“The app will also recognise currency by speaking the denomination, enabling visually impaired people to easily identify and count bills.”
Hifza is also the co-founder of Sympathizers, an organisation working to provide better education, health and everyday facilities to special people in Peshawar.
Armed with the Sonic Eye and the app she is working on, Hifza aims to bring about a phenomenal change in the lives of people with visual impairments. “This technology can allow sightless people to live an independent life,” she said.
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Clayton & McKervey, P.C. Announces Two Additions to Management Team
HomeNewsClayton & McKervey, P.C. Announces Two Additions to Management Team
CPA firm Clayton & McKervey, P.C. is pleased to announce the additions of Elizabeth (Beth) Butchart and Greg Schulte to the management team.
Supporting the Clayton & McKervey, P.C. goal of being a global resource for our clients, these professionals will continue to support the firm’s mission of providing specialized accounting, auditing, and tax services to growth drive, middle market companies who compete in the global marketplace.
“We are excited to see these talented young professionals continue to grow in their careers. Beth and Greg are great individuals who will no doubt be valuable future leaders of the firm,” said Kevin McKervey, President of Clayton & McKervey, P.C.
Elizabeth (Beth) Butchart, CPA, MSA
Beth’s primary focus is assisting foreign-owned companies establish subsidiaries in the United States. As part of the European Inbound team, she offers a unique array of “hand holding” services to assist inbound startup companies, which can vary based on industry, size, and resources of the parent company. Beth has worked with companies from around the globe, including France, Germany, and Italy. Her industry experience includes closely held companies in the manufacturing, distribution, software, engineering services, media services, and automotive sectors. Beth received her Masters in Accountancy from Walsh College and Bachelors in Business Administration from Western Michigan University.
Greg Schulte, CPA, MSA
Greg provides corporate tax compliance and financial statement reporting services to companies from around the globe, including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. His industry experience includes closely held companies in the manufacturing, distribution, software and hardware, service, and engineering sectors. In addition to helping global companies, Greg is an adjunct professor of accounting at Walsh College. Greg received his Masters in Accountancy from Walsh College, an additional Masters in Communications from Wayne State University, and Bachelors in Business Administration from Arizona State University.
About Clayton & McKervey, P.C.
Founded in 1953, Clayton & McKervey, P.C. is an accounting, tax, and business advisory firm that focuses on assisting privately-held, middle market companies that compete in the global marketplace. The firm’s clients include US companies that have established subsidiaries in foreign countries and the US subsidiaries of foreign companies from locations around the world. Clayton & McKervey, P.C. is a member of PKF International, a worldwide network of legally independent accounting firms.
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Lawrence Tech to Start Construction on $11.6 Million Residence Hall in Spring
HomeNewsLawrence Tech to Start Construction on $11.6 Million Residence Hall in Spring
Construction will start in the spring on the third residence hall at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). The $11.6 million project is scheduled for completion in time for fall classes in 2015.
The Southfield City Council has approved the university’s plan, and LTU’s Board of Trustees gave the green light for the project at its Jan. 30 meeting.
The 47,545-square-foot, two-story building will have a capacity of 160 students. It will be located north of LTU’s current North Housing residence hall and will face the university’s largest parking lot and the Northwestern Highway service drive. The building will have a 4,000-square-foot partial basement for mechanical systems and storage.
Lawrence Tech currently has capacity for 600 students at its two residence halls.
University Housing Solutions and Adena Corporation, both of Mansfield, Ohio, are the developer-design-builder and construction manager for the project, respectively. JPRA Architects of Farmington Hills developed the plans and are the architects of record.
The new residence hall will have five pods with 16 double-occupancy units. Each pod in the new building will have its own common lounge with fireplace and kitchenette space complete with range, refrigerator, and microwave appliances. Amenities include cafe/retail space on the first floor, central laundry on both floors, a multi-purpose room, a game room, and two conference-type spaces.
“The building is designed to encourage students to be out of their rooms with plenty of space for interaction and collaboration. One of the goals is to get new students involved in campus life by fostering collegiality on a regular basis,” LTU President Virinder Moudgil said.
Lawrence Tech’s addition of varsity athletic programs and more student activities has created a greater demand for on-campus housing. During the current academic year, LTU is leasing residential suites for 80 students at Arbor Lofts located near campus on Civic Center Drive in Southfield.
“We anticipate 100 percent occupancy when we open our new residential hall in 2015,” said Dean of Students Kevin Finn. “We look forward to having more students living on campus.”
The building will be underwritten with a bond through PNC Bank.
Lawrence Technological University, www.ltu.edu, is a private university founded in 1932 that offers more than 100 programs through the doctoral level in its Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Management. PayScale lists Lawrence Tech among the nation’s top 7 percent of universities for return on undergraduate tuition investment, and highest in the Detroit metropolitan area. Lawrence Tech is also listed in the top tier of Midwestern universities by U.S. News and World Report and the Princeton Review. Students benefit from small class sizes and experienced faculty who provide a real-world, hands-on, “theory and practice” education with an emphasis on leadership. Activities on Lawrence Tech’s 102-acre campus include over 60 student clubs and organizations and a growing roster of NAIA varsity sports.
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