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I’m working to make education fairer. But I’m still not sure what ‘fairer’ means
The questions my father asked about meritocracy still don’t have good answers
Toby Young
Civitas has just published an interesting book called The Ins and Outs of Selective Secondary Schools. Edited by Anastasia de Waal, it’s a collection of essays by the usual suspects in the never-ending argument about grammar schools.
De Waal points out that the two sides have more in common than you’d think. In particular, they share a common goal, which is to sever the link between a child’s socio-economic status and attainment. In 2009, according to the OECD, the variance in the scores of British children in the Pisa international tests in maths, reading and science that could be explained by their backgrounds was 13.8 per cent. By this measure, the best-performing region in the world is Macau (2 per cent) and the worst is Peru (27.5 per cent). Britain is close to the OECD average of 14 per cent.
As you’d expect, those who believe in school selection, such as the Conservative MP Graham Brady, argue that clever children from poor families are likely to do better at grammars than comprehensives. Exhibit A in the case for the defence is the dominance of the professions by the products of independent schools, something that wasn’t true before Tony Crosland set out ‘to destroy every fucking grammar school in England’. In response, Fiona Millar and others point out that the number of working-class children at grammars rarely climbed above the 15 per cent mark, even in their heyday, and that the proportion of children on free school meals in the 164 that remain is just 2 per cent. Today, the main beneficiaries of selective education are still the middle classes.
It’s easy to rebut this argument. A majority Conservative government could make it a condition of allowing an existing grammar to expand — or a new one to be set up — that it set aside some places for children on free school meals. Millar also argues that the 11-plus isn’t a true intelligence test — private tutors etc., etc. — and that intelligence isn’t fixed at 11, but continues to develop in adolescence. It is easy to deal with these objections. Design a better test and allow for more movement in and out of selective schools as children mature.
A stronger argument against grammars is that the gains made by the children who benefit in a two-tier system are offset by the losses inflicted on the ones left behind. Failing the 11-plus can leave you with a lifelong inferiority complex, as John Prescott can testify, and children at secondary moderns gets poorer GCSE results on average than children at comprehensives. Against this, defenders point out that it’s not just the recipients of a selective education who benefit. Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel Prize-winning president of the Royal Society, has made a succession of discoveries that may lead to a cure for cancer. Would he have gone down the same path if he hadn’t attended Harrow County Grammar School? The more deeply I delve into this discussion, the harder I find it to take sides. But the argument that troubles me most is one that applies to both camps. Suppose we invent a new type of school that meets the objective of nearly everyone in this debate, namely, it severs the link between background and achievement? If we succeed in neutralising all the environmental factors that go hand-in-hand with socio-economic status — postcode, diet, parental engagement etc — what are we left with? The answer is a meritocratic school in which achievement is solely the product of IQ and effort.
The trouble is that IQ and an aptitude for hard work are largely inherited characteristics. Why is a school in which success is dictated by a child’s genes fairer than one in which it’s dictated by socio-economic status? More importantly, there’s quite a lot of evidence that children of intelligent, hardworking parents are likely to be smart and industrious, a correlation that’s becoming stronger as university graduates engage in ‘assortative mating’. (People with similar genotypes pairing up with each other.) This was the shortcoming of meritocratic societies that my father drew attention to in his book on the subject — once assortative mating kicks in, social mobility grinds to a halt. All meritocracy succeeds in doing is replacing one hereditary elite with another. Why, then, is it desirable?
Instinctively, I like the idea of this new type of school and I’ve spent the past six years trying to invent it. But I still haven’t answered the question posed by my father.
Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.
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Ysenda Maxtone Graham
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The best way to end the ‘poshness test’
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Former President Clinton Boosts Obama In New TV Ad
Aug 23, 2012 at 9:03 AM Aug 23, 2012 at 10:22 AM
LAS VEGAS � Former President Bill Clinton's popularity is peaking � and just in time to give Democrats an election-year boost.
LAS VEGAS � Former President Bill Clinton�s popularity is peaking � and just in time to give Democrats an election-year boost.
Clinton is starring in a new TV ad that promotes President Barack Obama�s re-election, saying he�s the �clear choice� over his GOP challenger Mitt Romney.
�This election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment,� Clinton says in the ad, where he speaks directly into the camera.
The ad, released Thursday, is the first time Obama is using Clinton in a 2012 campaign commercial, capitalizing on the former president�s cross-over appeal. The 30-second spot is airing in eight battleground states � Nevada, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Colorado.
A recent Gallup poll in June found Clinton�s popularity matching his record high of 66 percent among Americans surveyed nationwide. Clinton first enjoyed a 66 percent favorability rating when he was inaugurated in January 1993 as the man from Hope who defeated a sitting GOP president, George H.W. Bush. Clinton served two, four-year terms.
Clinton enjoys broad support across the board � from most Democrats, two-thirds of independents and even about four out of 10 Republicans, Gallup found.
In the new ad, Clinton criticized Republicans � without using Romney�s name � for wanting to return to GOP policies he said helped tanked the economy before Obama took office in 2009.
�The Republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation,� Clinton says. �That�s what got us in trouble in the first place.�
Clinton said he agrees with Obama�s governing philosophy of helping the middle class, something the former president said he did with much economic success during the 1990s.
�President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up, investing in innovation, education and job training,� Clinton says in the ad. �It only works if there is a strong middle class. That�s what happened when I was president. We need to keep going with his plan.�
Four years ago, Clinton and his wife helped Obama win the White House after the former U.S. senator from Illinois defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. Hillary Clinton is now secretary of state while the former president is reprising his role as promoter-in-chief for Obama. Clinton also is scheduled to introduce Obama at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
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FHP investigating two-vehicle crash on I-10 involving a semi-truck and tow truck
Florida Highway Patrol is currently investigating a two-vehicle crash that took place 2:17 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 10 at mile marker 209.
FHP investigating two-vehicle crash on I-10 involving a semi-truck and tow truck Florida Highway Patrol is currently investigating a two-vehicle crash that took place 2:17 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 10 at mile marker 209. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/06/18/florida-highway-patrol-investigating-two-vehicle-crash-10/1485456001/
MarKeith Cromartie, Tallahassee Democrat Published 8:57 a.m. ET June 18, 2019 | Updated 1:59 p.m. ET June 19, 2019
Here are tips about what to do if you are involved in a traffic crash. Tallahassee Democrat
A tow truck was side swiped by a semi-truck at about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 10 in Leon County, sending two people to the hospital.
According to The Florida Highway Patrol, the tow truck driven by Everett York, 48, of Tallahassee was in the emergency lane loading a vehicle and was sideswiped by a semi-truck driven by, Donald Davis, 38, of Fort Worth, Texas. The semi went off the south grass shoulder and into the wood line where the trailer rolled onto its side.
Davis was taken to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and treated for minor injuries while his six-year-old passenger didn't sustain any injuries.
According to a friend of York, he suffered serious injuries and is currently in the Intensive Care Unit at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
Florida Highway Patrol was initially assisted by Leon County Fire and Rescue, Leon County EMS and Leon County Sheriff's Office.
"This story has been updated with correct details regarding the crash."
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A look at accidental child shooting cases in Colorado
Regional | May 24, 2017
DENVER — Colorado recorded four accidental shootings involving children under 12 from 2014 through 2016, including two that resulted in charges being filed.
Nationwide, there were 152 accidents in which children under age 12 either killed themselves or were mistakenly shot and killed by another child.
Research by the USA TODAY Network and The Associated Press found that about half of those deaths led to a criminal charge, usually against adults who police and prosecutors say should have watched the children more closely or secured their guns more carefully. The rest of the time, officials decided the grown-ups had broken no laws.
Twenty-one states, including Colorado, have enacted laws allowing prosecutors to bring charges against adults who fail to safely store their loaded guns, especially when they are obtained by minors and used to harm.
Colorado law stipulates that a person commits a felony if he or she intentionally, knowingly or recklessly provides a handgun to any person under age 18.
Here’s a look at the Colorado cases:
A man and his girlfriend have been charged in the death of her 2-year-old son last November in Park County. The boy died from a shotgun blast. The case remains in the courts. The two were initially charged with several felony counts, including reckless or knowing child abuse resulting in death and negligent child abuse resulting in death. Police say loaded weapons were found within easy reach of children in the home. The initial investigation indicated that the shotgun may have fallen from a rack and discharged, killing the child.
An Aurora teen received two years of probation for negligent child abuse resulting in death and juvenile in possession of a handgun in the June 2016 accidental shooting death of his 10-year-old brother. The shooting occurred in the family’s apartment after the teen retrieved and started handling a loaded handgun. A toy gun was found next to the younger brother.
The 3-year-old son of a Steamboat Springs police officer was shot in the master bedroom of his parents’ home on July 14, 2016, when his mother was upstairs and his father was outside. Michael Stiles told investigators his son, Gavin Stiles, could’ve climbed on furniture to access a bag in the closet that contained the police department-issued weapon. The department requires officers to keep firearms locked and secured in a way “that will keep them inaccessible to children.” A grand jury declined to indict the boy’s parents.
A 9-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the head in Trinidad while he and his 8-year-old brother were waiting in a parked car on Jan. 4, 2016. Investigators say the two boys were in the care of a family friend because their parents had a medical appointment. The car the boys were in was parked near a natural gas station where the caregiver works. No charges were filed.
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Mainstream Respect: Eddie Aikau
Gary Kewley | May 6, 2019| No Comments Yet Share Tweet
The Legendary Eddie Aikau would have been 73 on May 4th.
Google Doodle paid homage with a nice Gif on the giant tech search company’s home page (Duke Kahanamoku was the first to be honored on his 125th Birthday).
There have been over 2000 doodles that ad spice and life to the Google Logo homepage.
The Google Team of Artists in this way celebrate famous people who have a major impact.
Eddie was one of those humans.
Few surfers we ever speak of rise to his status level.
He was the ultimate Big Wave Rider, a true life saver…willingfully manifesting the ultimate sacrifice & greatest love…
Born Edward Ryon Makuahanai Aikau in Kahului, May 4, 1946, the hero was lost at sea March 17, 1978, while trying to find help for the crew of the capsized Hokule’a.
He was trying to paddle in stormy seas to Lana’i and was never seen again.
As the first lifeguard at Waimea Bay on the island of Oahu, Eddie saved well over 500 people and was famous for his ability in big Hawaiian surf.
He won many contests including the 1977 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship.
He was at his peak when the tragedy occurred.
For more GO HERE
Iconic Photo by Dan Merkel/Sunset Beach A-Frame
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IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice
Restricted Stock Unit Award under the
Amended and Restated 2010 Employee, Director and Consultant Equity Incentive Plan
Name and Address of Participant:
Award Number:
Plan: 2010 Plan
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby grants to the above-named Participant an award of restricted units of Class A Common Stock of the Company (the “Award”), subject to the additional terms and conditions in the Restricted Stock Unit Agreement and the Amended and Restated 2010 Employee, Director and Consultant Equity Incentive Plan (the “2010 Plan”) which are delivered concurrently herewith and incorporated by reference, as follows:
Grant Date:
Total Number of Restricted Stock Units Subject to this Award (the “Restricted Stock Units):
Vest Dates:
Vesting Schedule: Unless earlier terminated, forfeited, relinquished or expired, the Award shall vest as follows, provided in each case that the Participant has remained in continuous service as an Employee, director or Consultant of the Company or of an Affiliate from the Grant Date through the applicable Vest Date:
By your acceptance of this Award, you acknowledge receipt of this Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice, the Restricted Stock Unit Agreement, the 2010 Plan (collectively, the “Award Documents”) and the prospectus for the 2010 Plan, and you further agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of the Award Documents.
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT (together with the Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice, the “Agreement”) made as of the date of grant set forth in the attached Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice (the “Grant Date”), between Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, and the individual whose name appears on the attached Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice (the “Participant”) pursuant to and subject to the terms of the Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated 2010 Employee, Director and Consultant Equity Incentive Plan (as amended from time to time, the “Plan”).
WHEREAS, the Company has adopted the Plan to promote the interests of the Company by providing an incentive for Employees, directors and Consultants of the Company;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of the Plan, the Company desires to offer to the Participant restricted units of Common Stock (“Restricted Stock Units”) in accordance with the provisions of the Plan, all on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth;
WHEREAS, the Participant wishes to accept said offer; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto understand and agree that any terms used and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual covenants contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and subject to the Participant’s continued compliance with any restrictive covenants contained in the Participant’s Employee Agreement or other agreement with the Company, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1. Grant of Restricted Stock Units. The Company hereby grants to the Participant on the Grant Date an award for the number of Restricted Stock Units indicated on the attached Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice (the “Award”) consisting of the right to receive, on the terms provided herein and in the Plan, one share of Common Stock with respect to each Restricted Stock Unit forming part of the Award, in each case, subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 20 of the Plan in respect of transactions occurring after the date hereof.
2. Vesting. The term “vest” as used herein with respect to any Restricted Stock Unit means the lapsing of the forfeiture rights described herein with respect to such Restricted Stock Unit. Unless earlier terminated, forfeited, relinquished or expired, the Award shall vest as indicated on the attached Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice, provided in each case that the Participant has remained in continuous service as an Employee, director or Consultant of the Company or of an Affiliate from the Grant Date through the applicable vesting date.
3. Forfeiture Rights. If the Participant’s service as an Employee, director, or Consultant of the Company or of an Affiliate ceases for any reason other than the death of the Participant, any then outstanding and unvested Restricted Stock Units acquired by the Participant hereunder shall be automatically and immediately forfeited. In the event of the death of the Participant while an Employee, director or Consultant of the Company or of an Affiliate, the outstanding and unvested Restricted Stock Units acquired by the Participant hereunder will accelerate and vest in full upon the Participant’s death. No later than the date thirty (30) days prior to the first vesting date set forth on the attached Restricted Stock Unit Award Notice, the Participant must activate his/her Company stock plan account with Agent (as defined below). If the Participant fails to activate such account in accordance with the foregoing sentence, the Participant hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Company may, in its sole discretion and without notice, terminate and cancel the Restricted Stock Units and the Award in their entirety, such cancellation to be deemed a forfeiture of the Restricted Stock Units and the Award by the Participant.
4. Delivery of Common Stock. The Company shall deliver to the Participant as soon as practicable upon the vesting of the Award (or any portion thereof), but in all events no later than thirty (30) days following the date on which Restricted Stock Units vest (or no later than seventy-five (75) days following the date on which such Restricted Stock Units vest in the event of the Participant’s death), one share of Common Stock with respect to each such fully vested Restricted Stock Unit, subject to the terms of the Plan and this Agreement. No fractional shares shall be issued.
5. Dividends, etc. The Participant shall have the rights of a shareholder with respect to a share of Common Stock subject to the Award only at such time, if any, as such share is actually delivered under the Award. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and for the avoidance of doubt, the Participant shall not be entitled to vote any share of Common Stock subject to the Award or to receive or be credited with any dividend or other distribution declared and payable on any such share unless such share has been actually delivered hereunder and is held by the Participant on the record date for such vote or dividend (or other distribution), as the case may be.
6. Nontransferability, etc. Except as set forth in Section 13 of the Plan, neither the Award nor the Restricted Stock Units may be transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated in any way. In the event the Award or the Restricted Stock Units are transferred, or in the event a spouse or domestic partner has or is deemed to have any community property rights with respect to the Award or the Restricted Stock Units, the transferee, spouse, or domestic partner, as applicable, will be subject to and bound by all terms and conditions of this Agreement and the Plan.
7. Certain Tax Matters; Sell to Cover.
The Participant expressly acknowledges and agrees that the Participant’s rights hereunder, including the right to be issued shares of Common Stock upon the vesting of the Award (or any portion thereof), are subject to the Participant’s promptly paying, or in respect of any later requirement of withholding being liable promptly to pay at such time as such withholdings are due, to the Company in cash (or by such other means as may be acceptable to the Administrator in its discretion) all taxes required to be withheld, if any, relating to the Award (the “Withholding Obligation”).
By accepting this Award, the Participant hereby acknowledges and agrees that he or she elects to sell shares of Common Stock issued in respect of the Award and to allow the Agent to remit the cash proceeds of such sale to the Company (“Sell to Cover”) to satisfy the Withholding Obligation, to the extent that the Company chooses to satisfy the Withholding Obligation by such means.
If the Withholding Obligation is satisfied through a Sell to Cover, the Participant hereby irrevocably appoints E*Trade, or such other registered broker-dealer that is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as the Company may select, as the Participant’s agent (the “Agent”), and the Participant authorizes and directs the Agent to: (i) sell on the open market at the then prevailing market price(s), on the Participant’s behalf, as soon as practicable on or after the date on which the shares of Common Stock are delivered to the Participant pursuant to Section 4 hereof in connection with the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, the number (rounded up to the next whole number) of shares of Common Stock sufficient to generate proceeds to cover (A) the satisfaction of the Withholding Obligation arising from the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units and the related issuance and delivery of shares of Common Stock to the Participant and (B) all applicable fees and commissions due to, or required to be collected by, the Agent with respect thereto; (ii) remit directly to the Company the proceeds from the sale of the shares of Common Stock referred to in clause (i) above necessary to satisfy the Withholding Obligation; (iii) retain the amount required to cover all applicable fees and commissions due to, or required to be collected by, the Agent, relating directly to the sale of the
shares of Common Stock referred to in clause (i) above; and (iv) maintain any remaining funds from the sale of the shares of Common Stock referred to in clause (i) above in the Participant’s account with the Agent. The Participant hereby authorizes the Company and the Agent to cooperate and communicate with one another to determine the number of shares of Common Stock that must be sold to satisfy the Participant’s obligations hereunder and to otherwise effect the purpose and intent of this Agreement and satisfy the rights and obligations hereunder.
The Participant acknowledges that the Agent is under no obligation to arrange for the sale of Common Stock at any particular price under a Sell to Cover and that the Agent may affect sales under any Sell to Cover in one or more sales and that the average price for executions resulting from bunched orders may be assigned to the Participant’s account. The Participant further acknowledges that he or she will be responsible for all brokerage fees and other costs of sale associated with any Sell to Cover or transaction contemplated by this Section 7 and agrees to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from any losses, costs, damages, or expenses relating to any such sale. In addition, the Participant acknowledges that it may not be possible to sell shares of Common Stock as provided for in this Section 7 due to various circumstances. If it is not possible to sell shares of Common Stock in a Sell to Cover, the Company will assist the Participant in determining additional alternatives available to the Participant. In the event of the Agent’s inability to sell shares of Common Stock, the Participant will continue to be responsible for the timely payment to the Company of all federal, state, local and foreign taxes that are required by applicable laws and regulations to be paid or withheld with respect to the Restricted Stock Units or the Award. In such event, or in the event that the Company determines that the cash proceeds from a Sell to Cover are insufficient to meet the Withholding Obligation, the Participant authorizes the Company and its subsidiaries to withhold such amounts from any amounts otherwise owed to the Participant, but nothing in this sentence shall be construed as relieving the Participant of any liability for satisfying his or her obligations under the preceding provisions of this Section.
The Participant hereby agrees to execute and deliver to the Agent or the Company any other agreements or documents as the Agent or the Company reasonably deem necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of this Agreement, including without limitation, any agreement intended to ensure the Sell to Cover and the corresponding authorization and instruction to the Agent set forth in this Section 7 to sell Common Stock to satisfy the Withholding Obligation comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act. The Agent is a third-party beneficiary of this Section 7.
The Participant’s election to Sell to Cover to satisfy the Withholding Obligation is irrevocable. Upon acceptance of the Award, the Participant has elected to Sell to Cover to satisfy the Withholding Obligation, and the Participant acknowledges that he or she may not change this election at any time in the future.
The Participant expressly acknowledges that because the Award consists of an unfunded and unsecured promise by the Company to deliver Common Stock in the future, subject to the terms hereof, it is not possible to make a so-called “83(b) election” with respect to the Award.
8. Plan; Form S-8 Prospectus. The Participant acknowledges having received and reviewed a copy of the Plan and the prospectus required by Part I of Form S-8 relating to shares of Common Stock that may be issued under the Plan.
9. Section 409A of the Code. This Agreement shall be interpreted and administered in such a manner that all provisions relating to the grant and settlement of the Award are exempt from the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
10. No Obligation to Maintain Relationship. The Company is not by the Plan or this Award obligated to continue the Participant as an Employee, director or Consultant of the Company or an Affiliate. The Participant acknowledges: (a) that the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be suspended or terminated by the Company at any time; (b) that the grant of the Restricted Stock Units is a one-time benefit which does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of restricted stock units, or benefits in lieu of restricted stock units; (c) that all determinations with respect to any such future grants, including, but not limited to, the times when restricted stock units shall be granted, the number of shares subject to restricted stock unit award, and the vesting terms, will be at the sole discretion of the Company; (d) that the Participant’s participation in the Plan is voluntary; (e) that the value of the Restricted Stock Units is an extraordinary item of compensation which is outside the scope of the Participant’s employment or consulting contract, if any; and (f) that the Restricted Stock Units are not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.
11. Notices. Notices hereunder shall be mailed or delivered to the Company at its principal place of business and shall be mailed or delivered to the Participant at the address on file with the Company or, in either case, at such other address as one party may subsequently furnish to the other party in writing.
12. Benefit of Agreement. Subject to the provisions of the Plan and the other provisions hereof, this Agreement shall be for the benefit of and shall be binding upon the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.
13. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof. For the purpose of litigating any dispute that arises under this Agreement, whether at law or in equity, the parties hereby consent to exclusive jurisdiction in Massachusetts and agree that such litigation shall be conducted in the state courts of Middlesex County or the federal courts of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
14. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, then such provision or provisions shall be modified to the extent necessary to make such provision valid and enforceable, and to the extent that this is impossible, then such provision shall be deemed to be excised from this Agreement, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the rest of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby.
15. Entire Agreement. The Plan is incorporated herein by reference. This Agreement, together with the Plan, constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior oral or written agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter hereof. No statement, representation, warranty, covenant or agreement not expressly set forth in this Agreement shall affect or be used to interpret, change or restrict the express terms and provisions of this Agreement; provided, however, in any event, this Agreement shall be subject to and governed by the Plan.
16. Modifications and Amendments; Waivers and Consents. The terms and provisions of this Agreement may be modified or amended as provided in the Plan. Except as provided in the Plan, the terms and provisions of this Agreement may be waived, or consent for the departure therefrom granted, only by written document executed by the party entitled to the benefits of such terms or provisions. No such waiver or consent shall be deemed to be or shall constitute a waiver or consent with respect to any other terms or provisions of this Agreement, whether or not similar. Each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which it was given, and shall not constitute a continuing waiver or consent.
17. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
18. Data Privacy. By entering into this Agreement, the Participant: (a) authorizes the Company, and any agent of the Company administering the Plan or providing Plan record keeping services, to disclose to the Company such information and data as the Company shall request in order to facilitate the grant of the Award and the administration of this Agreement and the Plan, (b) waives any data privacy rights he or she may have with respect to such information, and (c) authorizes the Company to store and transmit such information in electronic form.
19. Acknowledgments. The Participant hereby consents to receive Plan documentation by electronic delivery and to participate in the Plan through an online system designated by the Company. By accepting the Award through electronic means, the Participant agrees to be bound by, and agrees that the Award is, and the Restricted Stock Units are, subject in all respects to, the terms of this Agreement and the Plan. The Participant further acknowledges and agrees that (a) the signature to this Agreement on behalf of the Company is an electronic signature that will be treated as an original signature for all purposes hereunder, and (b) such electronic signature will be binding against the Company and will create a legally binding agreement when this Agreement is accepted by the Participant. The Participant further acknowledges and agrees that unless the Participant notifies the Company in writing that he or she does not accept his or her Award before the first vesting date, he or she will be deemed to have accepted the Award as of the Grant Date, and to be bound by, and have the Award and Restricted Stock Units be subject in all respects to, the terms of this Agreement and the Plan.
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A new show at the Bayview Opera House
Arts & Entertainment // Entertainment
Caille Millner Sep. 23, 2016 Updated: Sep. 23, 2016 2:38 p.m.
The South San Francisco Opera House is pictured in the Bayview on Saturday, September 10, 2016.
Photo: Gabriella Angotti-Jones, The Chronicle
The Bayview Opera House is officially open to the public — again.
I went by the reopening ceremony Saturday, Sept. 17, to see what the neighborhood thought. After all, the Opera House, an 1888 National Historic Landmark building, has been under renovation since 2007. That was the decade during which the San Francisco that exists outside of the Bayview was remaking itself into a global innovation capital.
Many other San Francisco cultural institutions reaped the rewards of this wealth. The SFJazz Center completed a $64 million capital campaign and opened a spectacular building in Hayes Valley. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art came up with $610 million and built a grand expansion in South of Market. But San Francisco’s public cultural institutions haven’t done as well, and none more so than the Bayview Opera House. It took years of struggling to produce $5.7 million — mostly in public funds — for the restoration.
Such are the realities of life in the Bayview, a neighborhood separated from the rest of San Francisco by both geography and mythology. The neighborhood was eagerly awaiting the return of the Opera House: By the time the first speech had been given, every seat in the outdoor performance plaza was taken. A new fence, which some people told me they found confusing and constricting, protected the outdoor plaza from the street.
I stood against the fence and talked to Kevin Williams, 62, a Bayview native and the son of Ruth Williams, a theater producer and community activist for whom the theater within the Opera House is named.
Ruth Williams, who died in 1995, is much loved in the Bayview for the countless hours she put into saving the Opera House from destruction. I asked her son what she would want from the renovation. He said, “She would want this place to be every bit as vibrant as it once was. She believed that the talent in the Bayview was every bit as good as it was in the rest of the city and in the world.”
Williams smiled at the memory of his mother. “She demanded excellence from the actors who came here. That’s why she turned down Delroy Lindo for a role. That’s why she put Danny Glover through the paces.”
The conversation was my first hint that there was a disconnect between the official narrative about the Opera House and the community’s memory of it.
When I went into the Opera House, I found a “welcome” banner hung on the wall for the reopening. On it had been printed a truncated timeline for the Opera House, starting with its birth in 1888, thanks to the work of a Masonic lodge, making it San Francisco’s oldest theater. But Ruth Williams’ heroism had gotten short shrift on the banner, along with a number of other names, dates and remembrances that community members felt were important.
They wrote on the official timeline with their own histories. One woman had identified herself as a founding member of a choir that sang at the Opera House decades ago. Another noted the beginning of Glover’s acting career.
As I stood there reading, a man walked in and called out, “Where’s my picture?”
I immediately walked over and asked him what he’d performed. Pierre Moss, 53, was only too happy to tell me that back in the 1990s, he’d been a star along with Cindy Herron, a founding member of the R&B group En Vogue. En Vogue went on to sell more than 20 million albums worldwide.
“In fact, she was my girlfriend,” Moss told me. “We performed at the Fillmore, and then our last performance was right here. Wow, they moved the balcony.”
They did, indeed, move the balcony. That was one of the few major architectural changes done during the renovation, and it was necessary because of sagging and deterioration. Other historic walls were shifted to be compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act, but for the most part, the theater looks the same.
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That’s a good thing — Bayview residents certainly have strong memories of what it looked and felt like to be there. Moss stared at the stage for a long time. I asked him if he was still in show business.
“I’m an EMT now,” he told me. “I pick up dead bodies for a living.”
I scrawled my name on the banner and urged Moss to do the same.
“Cindy’s name should be here too,” he said.
He wrote both of their names. I put an exclamation mark next to his writing.
A few days later, I asked Barbara Ockel what the reopening of the Opera House would mean for the Bayview and the rest of southeastern San Francisco. Ockel is the executive director of the Bayview Opera House, and her team is in charge of programming and rentals for the building.
“There’s really no other place for people to come together in Bayview,” Ockel said. “And everyone can come together around the arts. I heard from a lot of people, especially older people, about how they took an African dance class here and it was hugely important to them. Or that they were in a play here when they were young. So I’m hoping it can become a big cultural hub.”
To go by the neighborhood’s memories, the Opera House never stopped being that cultural hub. What remains to be seen is whether the rest of San Francisco will recognize that.
Caille Millner is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: cmillner@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @caillemillner
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Professor J.M. ROTTER was born in Chesterfield, England and graduated at Cambridge University when he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study in Australia. He got a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Sydney. His main specialty is the Buckling of Shells.
As Chairman of the Buckling Shells Group, he has been publishing up to five editions of the well-known ECCS Technical Report “European Recommendations on Shell Buckling”.
Professor Rotter has published over 330 papers and produced more than 60 investigation reports on failures. He is member of a long list of societies and organizations, such as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Convenor of various CEN TC250 sub committees and many others.
Jouko KOUHI is expert in Connections, welding, stability and fatigue of steel structures. He has been an active member of various ECCS Technical Committees since 1979, working on ENV 1993 part 1.8 from 1999 to 2002.
Recognised both at National and European level, Advisor for more than 18 different national and European organizations and Institutions such as
Nordic Committee for Building Regulations;
Federation of Finnish Metal, Engineering and Electrotechnical Industries (FIMET);
Ministry of Environment;
European Committee for Standardization (CEN);
European Commission DGXII Science, Research and Development.
Despite his retirement, Jouko Kouhi is an untiring advisor/worker who is frequently seen around in the offices of the Finnish Construction Steelwork Association.
Frans BIJLAARD, Professor of steel structures at the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences at Delft University of Technology. His main specialties are on stability of steel structures, structural behaviour of joints in steel structures and design of greenhouses.
From 2000 to 2007 he was chairman of the Dutch organization “Bouwen met Staal”. He was Chairman of the ECCS-Technical Committee “Structural Connections” from 1998 till end of 2012 and continued after that as member.
In addition to this, he was chairman of CEN-TC250-SC3 “Eurocode 3: Design of Steel Structures” from beginning of 2001 till end of 2009. Up to now he has been promoter of 10 researchers all over Europe. He is still active professionally by providing advisory services and organizing advanced courses in his country and in Europe.
The involvement of Professor Jean Pierre MUZEAU in Education and his strong motivation in promoting the use of steel in construction over his career have to be underlined. He has been qualified as “Passeur de Connaissances” (Ndt : conveyor of knowledge) by the Members of the Jury who have underlined his prominent role among the young generations of civil engineers.
He is:
Honorary Professor from Polytech’ Clermont-Ferrand, Blaise Pascal University (France)
President of the « Association pour la Promotion de l’Enseignement de la Construction Acier”, a pedagogical network ;
Professor of Structures, School of Architecture, Clermont-Ferrand.
Professor Muzeau has been editor or co-editor of 24 books, author or co-author in 15 published proceedings, 50 publications in scientific journals and 77 oral scientific presentations in France and abroad.
Member of Editorial boards in several French and international scientific journals (e.g. Construction Métallique, European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Advanced Steel Construction)
Member of several management committees or scientific committees of national and international conferences.
Expert in the “Construction” field for the “Techniques de l’Ingénieur”, since 2012.
Dr.-Ing. Joachim LINDNER got a 40-year academic career and extensive experience in civil engineering from lateral torsional buckling through contact splices, historical grey cast iron columns, fatigue behaviour, stability design of glass-beams, scaffolding design, crane girders, plate buckling problems, composite beams and columns, corrugated webs, connection problems and imperfection regulations. He signed around 220 publications.
Prof. Lindner became a nationally and internationally known expert in Standardization Organizations as DIN, ISO or CEN and made a great and lasting contribution to European codification. He participated and/or chaired many technical committees, amongst others: DIN 18800-2 and DIN 18800-3, DASt-Guideline 015 and DASt 016. Prof. Lindner was head of the German delegation of CEN/TC 250/SC 3 and member of the related German mirror committee.
For more than 36 years he has been a member of ECCS TC “Structural Stability” and chaired this committee for 16 very successful years. In the USA, he was active in the Social Science Research Council. He also gave advice as an independent expert in special scientific committees in Germany to promote the financial support of research projects, especially within Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG (German Research Association) and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen / AIF (Association of industrial research corporation). Furthermore, he successfully worked at the Deutsche Institut für Bautechnik (DIBt) in SVA Expert Committees (Sachverständigenausschüssen).
Professor Reidar BJORHOVDE has an impressive academic background, including two Ph.D. in the area of Civil Engineering, and a remarkable professional career which includes several years as a Professor in various universities in North America. He also been the Director of Bjorhovde Group since 1998.
Professor Bjorhovde also has an exciting research work, being author of more than 300 archival publications. His study of column stability and reliability was an international landmark study that yielded what is now known as the SSRC Column Curves.
Professor Carlo URBANO has been active on ECCS committee “Stability of steel structures” since 1975. He has been also present on CEN, IABSE, SSRC committees. Graduated at the Politecnico di Milano in 1963, he dedicated his career to the “Strength of Materials”. He developed scientific research mainly on the general theory of elasticity, stability of elastic equilibrium, response to dynamics and elastoplastic vibrations, shell structures, solutions for steel and reinforced structures. Lately, he has focused his works on the elastic and elastoplastic stability of compressed simple or composed steel members in the presence of mechanical and geometrical imperfections and damages due to cyclic actions. He is the author of an incredible number of papers and publications.
Prof. Ing. Jean-Baptiste SCHLEICH will always be recognised as “Mr Fire” of Europe. He was the leading professor in the development of the “Natural Fire Safety Concept”. Under his leadership, the relationship of the fire load to the risk to a structure and its occupants was researched and tested. It is due to his work that structures can now be fire engineered with a significant benefit to the industry, building owners and users.
Prof. J-B Schleich also has had a very considerable influence on the development and production of the Eurocodes and has been the author or co-author of a large number of publications for Eurocodes 1, 3 and 4. He has been the ECCS President on three occasions and the representative of his country on the Executive Board from 1981 to 2006. Chairman of the Promotion Management Board from 1996 to 2003, Chairman of Technical Committee on CAD-Cam from 1993 to 2000, Chairman of Technical Working Group on EC1.2 and 3.
Professor Manfred HIRT had been member of the various ECCS Technical Committees. He wrote more than 130 publications as author or co-author. Director of the Steel Structures Laboratory (ICOM) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Prof. Hirt was known on the international scene for his expertise in the field of fatigue and fracture mechanics of steel structures, loads and action on structures, structural safety and serviceability and steel-concrete composite construction. In August 2003, he had been elected President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).
Professor Giulio BALLIO was born in Rome, on 4 March 1940, and graduated in Aeronautical Engineering at the “Politecnico of Milan”, in 1963. He was Ordinario of the Science of Construction at Pavia University and, subsequently, of Construction in Steel at the Politecnico of Milan, where he has also been responsible, since 1985, for the Material Tests Laboratory.
Prof. Ballio occupied various positions at national level as well as at international level. He participated to various ECCS Technical Committees and in the Editorial Board involved in drawing up the European Recommendations for Steel Structures, published in 1978. He is also Member of the Joint Committee for the Planning and Design of Tall Buildings of IABSE (the Working Commission II, Steel, Metal and Timber Structures), ESDEP (member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Steel Design Education Program).
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard SEDLACEK, was a leading and opinion-forming person in various ECCS technical committees and subcommittees. He was one of the most active person in the European steel research sector as well as in the European codification field. His various activities covered a huge range beginning from intelligent design of steel and composite structures to researching, applying of research results, safety requirements, teaching and training of students and engineers, promotion and developing of steel structures and design tools for a better market share.
Prof. Sedlacek has played an outstanding role in the international development and establishing of the Eurocodes for steel structures, loading and earthquakes. He international aura combined with strong engineering competences initiated most positive effects on the European steel construction developments.
Professor Patrick DOWLING started his working life as an employee of BCSA and subsequently worked both in industry and academia. He was extensively involved with ECCS in plate buckling research and was Chairman of the CEN Eurocode 3 Committee.
Professor Dowling was the “British Steel” Professor at Imperial College London. He has been the author of many books and technical papers on steel construction. Fellow of BCSA, Chairman of the UK Structural Steel Design Awards Judging Panel, Chairman of SCI and Vice Chancellor of the University of Surrey.
When awarded, Professor Federico MAZZOLANI was Director of the “Institute of Technique of Construction” at the Engineering Faculty of Naples, Italy. Born in Milan, in 1938, and graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Naples, Prof. Federico M. Mazzolani co-operated since 1970 with ECCS, assuming the responsibility of Committee chairmanship. His activity has been characterised by the issue of several fundamental documents, which played a leader role in the development of the European codification at the level of both national codes and Eurocodes.
Prof. Mazzolani is well known for his publications and works on seismic design. He is also very much involved in the International Conference on the “Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas” (STESSA).
Scientific Manager and Deputy General Manager of the French Technical and Industrial Centre of Steel Construction (CTICM), Professor Jacques BROZZETTI contributed highly to the development of the European Steel Construction. He had a long involvement with various research projects including stability problems, composite construction, fatigue and fire behaviour of steel structures. As a result, he had been involved with many Codes and design guides comprising writing activities. He worked with the profession to promote the steel construction on its various aspects.
Professor Jacques Brozzetti has been teaching advanced steel and composite structures at the “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées”.
Prof. Jan W.B. STARK, from the University of Delft, The Netherlands, had made substantial contributions to the construction industry in general, and more specifically with regard to steel and composite structures. For many years, he had been an active member of CEN and served ECCS in various committees. The Charles Massonnet Award was presented to him to express our gratitude for his high standard and valuable contribution to the steel construction industry.
Close collaborator of Professor Charles Massonnet, Professor René MAQUOI, was awarded in recognition of his efforts for the development of steel and composite construction. Indeed, Professor Massonnet was his “master” and conducted his first step in the ECCS activities.
Oasis of the Light – The Dome of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Structural engineering firm: Buro Happold
Architectural firm: Ateliers Jean Nouvel, HW architecture
Steel contractor: JV Arabtec, Oger Abu Dhabi, San Jose Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG, Vienna, AT
Project owner: Tourism Development & Investment Company
Bolt Tower in Ostrava-Vitkovice
Structural engineering firm: EXCON, a.s
Architectural firm: Josef Pleskot – AP Ateliér
Steel contractor: Hutní montáže, a.s. , Mija-Menmark, s.r.o, Ingsteel spol. s r.o
Project owner: Dolní oblast Vítkovice, z.s.
Amager Bakke
Structural engineering firm: MOE A/S
Architectural firm: BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
Steel contractor: Züblin Stahlbau GmbH
Project owner: ARC – Amager Ressourcecenter I/S
Burj Al Arab Terrace
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Structural engineering firm: Sweco Structures Ltd, Bluetech Finland Ltd
Architectural firm: Sigge Architects, Kudos Dsign
Steel contractor: Admares Ltd
Project owner: Jumeira
Bordeaux Stadium/ Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux
Structural engineering firm: Société EGIS, Société INGEROP
Architectural firm: Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Groupe 6
Steel contractor: Fayat Metal: Entreprise Castel & Fromaget
Project owner: City of Bordeaux & SBA
Sartorius Building 13
Structural engineering firm: DREWES SPETH Berantende Ingenieure im Bauwesen
Architectural firm: Bünemann & Collegen GmbH
Steel contractor: Stahl Verbundlau GmbH, Haslinger Stahlbau GmbH
Project owner: Sartorius SIV
Atrium in Office Complex De Resident
Structural engineering firm: Antea Group
Architectural firm: Cepezed
Steel contractor: Heijmans
Project owner: Rijksgebouwendienst
Kimen Kulturhus
Structural engineering firm: Rambøll AS
Architectural firm: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, Lusparken Arkitekter
Steel contractor: Skanska Stålffabrikk
Project owner: Skanska Bygg Trondheim
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
Structural engineering firm: Afaconsult
Architectural firm: Amanda Levete Arhcitects
Steel contractor: Bysteel, S.A
Project owner: Fundação
Architectural firm: 3XN
Steel contractor: Smederna
Project owner: Trafikverke
Murat Karamancı Student Center
Structural engineering firm: Werkraum ingenieure
Architectural firm: Ahmet Alatas Workshop
Steel contractor: Algan Celik
Project owner: Robert College
Frantisek Wald concentrates on the connection and fire design of steel structures. He prepared the component model for column bases and the component based finite element model of joints. He works in ECCS Technical Committee 10 – Structural joints and in Project team for preparation of standard – EN 1993-1-8:2020.
He also prepared and validated an analytical model for fire design of roof sheeting using membrane action. After Sept 11, he studied experimentally the robustness of multi-storey building in Cardington during the sevenths fire test on building. He served as Chairman of the EU COST TU action Integrated fire engineering and response (IFER) which focused to cooperation between the research community and fire brigades.
In his career, Frantisek supervised 17 PhD, 117 Master and 125 Bachelor theses. He created Leonardo da Vinci project and educational materials CeStruCo (Continuing Education in Structural Connections) and is currently the manager of Erasmus Mundus Master Program Sustainable Constructions under Natural Hazards and Catastrophic events – SUSCOS_M.
Frantisek works at Czech Technical University in Prague as Professor and Head of the Department of Steel and Timber Structures.
The HPSSR Council focuses on the structures and their joints using bolted and welded connections. Topics of fabrication and execution are included for sustainability assessments of HPSS. For the time being topics of steel metallurgy and welding technology are not included although they are very important.
The main objectives of the council is to systematize existing knowledge and encourage new
research activity using HPS, by organizing workshops and preparing e-books to disseminate
research results for ease of use of HPS in the construction sector.
Prof. Dr. Gang SHI from Tsinghua University,
Prof. F.S.K.Bijlaard, from TU-Delft,
Prof. Dr. M.Veljkovic from TU-Delft.
The Council has to be extended to other partners involved in the steel construction industry.
Worshops: Organization of Workshop every two years to make the point on the latest research results.
E-books: Guidelines and proceedings of Workshops
Website: www. Steelconstruct.com (including a members-only area)
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St Ives Bay Holiday Park > Towns and villages > St Austell
The curve of St Austell Bay with its many sandy beaches is a haven for watersports and family holidays. The area is also fantastic for walking and cycling with many woodlands and trails. The white peaks of the China Clay industry overlook the market town of St Austell, Cornwall’s largest town dating back to the 13th century. St Austell town is situated about a mile from the coast. Walk along Fore Street and you reach the historic core of the town to discover the fine Holy Trinity Parish Church and opposite, the Italianate facade of the Market House. The shopping centre in the town centre has a cinema, restaurants, cafes and shops. Nearby is the beautiful Georgian village of Charlestown and the popular fishing village of Mevagissey. Local attractions include the world-famous Eden Project and Heligan Gardens.
The Eden Project. Now one of the most famous attractions in the world, a visit to Cornwall would not be complete without walking through the tropical biome in wonder at the amazing plants that tower above you
Pop into the St Austell Brewery Visitor Centre near the main railway station. It’s an interactive museum telling the story of the pubs, beers, wines and spirits of Cornwall and the families who created them
At the Georgian village of Charlestown a mile away visit the Charlestown Shipwreck Centre packed to the gunnels with historical artefacts relating to HMS Victory, Titanic, smugglers and pirates making it the largest private collection of its type on public display in Europe
Learn all about the china clay industry at Wheal Martyn Museum and Country Park an excellent open air museum dedicated to the area’s all-encompassing industry. Apart from displays of bygone work practices, you can see the breathtakingly massive modern working pits that use high-pressure hoses to blast the clay from the ground
Pinetum Park on the outskirts of the town is packed with exotic plants that grown in a unique microclimate. Painstakingly cultivated by ray and Shirley Clemo and planted out with seeds brought pack from their travels across the world, Pine Lodge is a gardener’s paradise
For older kids and teens Kidzworld and Cornish Market World complex is a covered outdoor leisure area with full size dodgems, mini-golf, foam shooters, pool tables, arcade games, table tennis and lots more
Get some lucky strikes at the 8 lane at Ozzell Tenpin Bowling near the town centre. Open 12 hours a day during school holidays
There is a cycle/walking path that takes the old mineral tram route from the town centre all the way to the Eden Project just under 7 miles away. On route you’ll pass a bizarre landscape of disused china clay pits, bright white walls and luminous turquoise water. It’s all looks a bit lunar is quite fascinating.
https://www.visitcornwall.com/places/st-austell PL25 5BU
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Ex-NFL star wishes he never played the sport
Jan 23, 2016, 5:00 am SGT
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PITTSBURGH • Long-time National Football League (NFL) wide receiver Antwaan Randle El, whose trick-play touchdown pass famously helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL, said he regrets having ever played football.
The 36-year-old told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he struggles to walk down the stairs and has contended with memory loss since retiring in 2012.
"If I could go back, I wouldn't," the former Indiana University quarterback said of the sport that brought him roughly US$40 million (S$57 million) in career earnings. "I would play baseball. I got drafted by the Cubs in the 14th round, but I didn't play baseball because of my parents. They made me go to school.
"Don't get me wrong, I love the game of football. But right now, I could still be playing baseball."
A star quarterback at Indiana University, Randle El was converted to wide receiver after being drafted by the Steelers in the second round of the 2002 NFL draft. He finished his nine-year career with 370 receptions for 4,467 yards and 15 touchdowns.
His most famous play came in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XL against the Seattle Seahawks. With the Steelers nursing a 14-10 lead with nine minutes remaining, his 43-yard touchdown to Hines Ward on a gadget play would prove the game's decisive moment.
Still, he insists the glory was not worth the personal cost. "I ask my wife things over and over again, and she's like, 'I just told you that'," he told the Post-Gazette.
"I'll ask her three times the night before and get up in the morning and forget. Stuff like that. I try to chalk it up as I'm busy, I'm doing a lot, but I have to be on my knees praying about it, asking God to allow me to not have these issues and live a long life.
"I want to see my kids raised up. I want to see my grandkids."
An outspoken critic of the NFL and plaintiff in a 2013 lawsuit claiming the league "has done everything in its power to hide the issue and mislead players concerning the risks associated with concussions", Randle El believes the sport is inherently dangerous and beyond fixing.
"The kids are getting bigger and faster, so the concussions, the severe spinal cord injuries, are only going to get worse," he said. "I tell parents, 'You can have the right helmet, the perfect pads on, and still end up with a paraplegic kid.'
"There's no helmet that's going to correct it... It just comes down to it's a physically violent game."
He added: "I wouldn't be surprised if football isn't around in 20, 25 years." '
Don't underestimate the knocks that could kill you
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 23, 2016, with the headline 'Ex-NFL star wishes he never played the sport'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Formula One: Bottas tops the practice timesheets in Brazil
Valtteri Bottas powers his car during the second free practice session.PHOTO: REUTERS
Verstappen during practice for the Brazilian grand prix.PHOTO: REUTERS
Nov 9, 2018, 11:35 pm SGT
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SAO PAULO (REUTERS) - Mercedes returned to the top of the timesheets on Friday (Nov 9) in practice for a Brazilian Grand Prix that looks set to deliver them a fifth successive Formula One constructors' world championship.
Finland's Valtteri Bottas, who has yet to win in a season dominated by team mate Lewis Hamilton, set the fastest time of one minute 08.846 seconds on an overcast day at Interlagos with a few spots of rain.
Hamilton, who clinched his fifth title in Mexico last month with two races to spare and now has five stars on his helmet, was a mere 0.003 slower in a session briefly halted after Renault's Nico Hulkenberg crashed heavily at the tight Juncao left-hander, one of the key bends on the track.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was third fastest, 0.073 off the pace after complaining of something loose around his feet, and ahead of the Red Bulls of Australian Daniel Ricciardo and Dutch youngster Max Verstappen.
"The car's been OK, but not good yet so still some work to do," said Vettel.
"We are in the ball park but I think we can still launch forward from where we are."
Mexican Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen had been fastest in the opening session, with a lap of 1:09.011, but was sidelined at the start of the second session as Red Bull worked to fix an oil leak.
"They think it's something that might have actually started in Mexico," said team boss Christian Horner.
"It compromised his track time but we got enough to get some good data."
Verstappen can still become the youngest driver to take a pole position on Saturday, but the 21-year-old played down the chances of that happening.
"I had to go a bit too quickly through my programme initially and I had some traffic as well. It's not ideal but I don't think we are going to fight for pole position anyway," he said.
GRID DROP
Ricciardo will have a five-place grid penalty after the team changed the turbocharger on his car before the start of track action. Horner said it had been damaged in Mexico by a marshal spraying foam on the car after he retired from the race.
"It ruined the turbo and the other turbo that Daniel has in his pool was on the engine that failed in Austin," said Horner.
"And Renault say that every time they've run a turbo after a failure like that, they usually stop after 400km.
"We don't really want to put him in that position."
Mercedes will retain the constructors' championship on Sunday if Ferrari fail to outscore them by 13 points.
Hamilton finished fourth in Mexico and has a habit of not winning again in a season where he takes the title early, something he is keen to end.
Haas were best of the rest in the morning, with Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen seventh and eighth. The pair were then split by Sauber's Charles Leclerc in the afternoon.
Magnussen's car also shed a wing mirror during the session.
Antonio Giovinazzi, who will replace Ferrari-bound Leclerc next season, took Marcus Ericsson's car and was 13th fastest in the opening session.
British teenager Lando Norris, another 2019 rookie, was also on track in Fernando Alonso's McLaren for the first session and was faster on the quicker soft tyres than the team's departing Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne on mediums.
Force India also gave a practice outing to Canadian Nicholas Latifi, who was bottom of the timesheets.
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Elated McIlroy blitzes Bay Hill
Rory McIlroy punches the air after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on 18 under, three strokes ahead of Bryson DeChambeau. Tiger Woods, an eight-time winner of the event, was eight shots adrift.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Mar 20, 2018, 5:00 am SGT
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World No. 7 claims first victory in 18 months with bogey-free 64 as Woods finishes tied 5th
NEW YORK • This is not the biggest win of Rory McIlroy's career, but it is without question among the most significant.
A day supposedly to confirm Tiger Woods' status as the returning hero instead belonged to McIlroy, for whom, too, injuries have dogged much of his recent past but he confirmed his key part in the narrative for the Masters next month.
Victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, McIlroy's first tournament success in 18 months, transpired after the kind of rocket-fuelled Sunday which sceptics suggested he could no longer produce.
And it came despite hecklers trying to throw him off his game, with the Northern Irishman calling for a cap on alcohol sales at Tour events.
"There was one guy out there who kept yelling my wife's name... it has gotten a little much... they need to limit the alcohol sales," he added.
But the world No. 7 managed to ride the hostility with an eight-under 64 for an 18-under total of 270. He sealed a three-stroke win, having started two adrift of the lead.
Bryson DeChambeau claimed second place, one stroke clear of Justin Rose. Henrik Stenson, the 54-hole leader, was fourth at 13-under. Yet this was McIlroy's day, his first win since the Tour Championship in September 2016.
Tournaments Rory McIlroy played without winning before Sunday's victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
It seemed somehow fitting that McIlroy won - and in such swashbuckling style - at the event presided over by the golf legend for so many years. He said he had felt good at his events in the Middle East at the start of the year.
"I kept telling everyone I was close. Nobody would believe me but I knew it," McIlroy said.
"It was awesome to feel the buzz of being around the lead on the back nine. I have missed it.
"To play the golf I did under that pressure, I'm so proud of myself and happy to get the win. I gave myself a chance for birdie on almost every hole. I played a perfect round."
After a run of four birdies from the 13th, he holed out in style from 25 feet at the last and his celebrations illustrated how much this win meant.
"I have seen Tiger make that putt on 18 here so many times, I knew what it was going to do," the four-time Major winner said. "I wanted to create my own bit of history."
Woods was within one of the lead on the par-five 16th, a hole he had birdied on each of the previous three days but, this time, it was a bogey six, ending his hopes of winning the tournament for a ninth time as he carded a three-under 69 for a total of 10-under 278.
The former world No. 1, who rose to 105th with his joint-fifth finish, has now posted 10 consecutive rounds of par or better and top-10 finishes in back-to-back weeks.
"If you had said to me at the beginning of the year that I'd have a chance to win two golf tournaments, I would have taken that in a heartbeat," said Woods, who finished second at the Valspar Championship two weeks ago.
McIlroy's odds on ending his wait for the completion of a career grand slam at Augusta - four years after winning his last Major, the PGA Championship - have suddenly become a whole lot shorter.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, THE GUARDIAN
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on March 20, 2018, with the headline 'Elated McIlroy blitzes Bay Hill'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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By Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen Editor
Over-the-Top Solutions Abound, But the Term Is Losing It's Meaning
At this year’s IBC in Amsterdam, discussion of over-the-top video was, well, over the top. That much was apparent simply by looking at every stand in almost all of the trade show’s 14 halls, not just in the pop-up Hall 14, the one supposedly dedicated to IP video called IBC Connected World.
But perhaps we should take it as a sign that OTT is a buzzword that has almost lost its meaning. Waiting to board a canal cruise departing from the enormous RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, I started making small-talk with someone from a shortwave engineering services company who began telling me about her company’s OTT solution.
As a colleague of mine joked, we wouldn’t have been surprised to see a microphone accessory manufacturer touting its OTT wind sock. With so many truly innovative solutions and services helping publishers deliver their content via public IP (even if, at some point, the signal was transmitted via shortwave), it’s distressing that OTT has become just another buzzword that companies feel they have to slap on their marketing materials.
Maybe it’s not so much that OTT has lost its meaning as it’s lost its distinctiveness. It’s just another delivery method, one with its pros and cons, neither a savior nor a doom-bringer. In other words, as the term has become more ubiquitous, the hype surrounding it -- both positive and negative -- has diminished.
And that’s undoubtedly a good thing, as is a parallel development I saw for the first time at IBC. Previous years’ events have featured sessions with titles referring to the death of broadcast or the war between it and OTT. Save for one company’s use of the phrase, “It’s time for SDI to die” on its banners, the overarching theme of IBC this year might have best been summed up as, “Can’t we all just get along?”
Over and over, discussions with vendors and content players turned to the fact that the worlds of broadcast engineering and IP video engineering -- long separated by terminology and culture -- are going to have to start learning each others’ languages and working together to solve really sticky problems such as systems integration and getting archival content from Hollywood’s vaults where it needs to be for today’s multichannel, multidevice world.
All of this means that the Digital Natives in streaming media are going to have to turn to unfamiliar places for help, and none of us can afford to be digital isolationists. The “connected world” might have gotten its own hall at IBC, but many of the companies that you might see at a Streaming Media event weren’t there. They were in with the broadcast solutions providers and the satellite dishes; really they were anywhere and everywhere at the conference.
It also means that Streaming Media’s world is getting bigger, and you’re going to see coverage of things that one person at IBC said might have been previously considered “too broadcasty” or “too cably” for our pages. In order to do this, Streaming Media is growing from six issues to nine issues annually, giving us the ability to go further in-depth on more topics. Not just the media and entertainment stuff that you might see at IBC or NAB, either; we’re upping our coverage of all applications of online video, including enterprise and education, in our 2014 editorial calendar. It will also give us a chance to include more content from the Streaming Media Producer side of our editorial purview than ever before. I’ll fill you in more on what’s in store for 2014 in our next issue.
These changes are also reflected in the 2013 Streaming Media 100 and 2013 Streaming Media Europe 100 lists. It’s the most diverse group of companies we’ve presented in our 3 years of doing this list, and I’m already looking forward to seeing what 2014’s lists looks like.
This article appears in the October/November 2013 issue of Streaming Media magazine as "Over the Top."
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Review: NewTek TriCaster Pro
NewTek’s TriCaster Pro builds on the solid base of the initial TriCaster but adds features that make it worthy of use in a professional environment. The $6,995 price point positions the product well below the price of other all-in-one products currently on the market, most of which have been created by streaming-centric companies. Given NewTek’s background in video, audio, and RGBHV, the TriCaster product line—with a few tweaks—could rival and outdo products of many times its cost.
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Several products on the market today offer all-in-one capture, encode, and output solutions with streaming audio, video, and RGBHV signals. All of these products offer professional audio inputs, including balanced (XLR), and limited gain control, primarily through simple code created by the audio/video card manufacturer. These products also offer not-quite-broadcast-quality video inputs (composite and S-video) and limited local monitoring of the "out to air" signal that will be streamed, although none offers downstream output showing graphics, titles, video overlays, and the like. If the video and RGBHV content are to be displayed locally as well as streamed, however, even these high-priced systems require an outboard audio/video mixer and an RGBHV distribution amp.
The NewTek TriCaster Pro seeks to solve those problems and does so quite admirably in the audio and video categories but with a few tweaks needed on the RGBHV side. The product builds on the original TriCaster, introduced in 2005, as well as on NewTek’s tradition as an early innovator in live production with its indispensable Video Toaster, which it introduced in the early 1990s.
Those of you who’ve been following developments in this space for some time will remember that a group left NewTek in the late 1990s and founded Play, Inc. Play started making standalone frame grabbers but ended up finding nominal success with its Globecaster product, which was spun out into a company called Play Streaming Media Group. This group then received about $22 million in funding in early 2001 and was rejoined to Play, Inc. under the Globecaster moniker. They created another product called the Globecaster that combined streaming with live video switching, at a price point aimed at high-end broadcasters.
Meanwhile, NewTek saw an opportunity to build on its success with the Video Toaster while also moving into a new area: streaming. After porting its Video Toaster product line to the Windows platform, NewTek began addressing customers’ requests for a product that would allow them to do live switching and limited postproduction work while also providing an opportunity to move into the new world of streaming content.
Enter the TriCaster
NewTek listened and created a product called TriCaster; since its launch in 2005, it has won numerous awards, including a Streaming Media Editors’ Pick earlier this year.
The first TriCaster was missing several key tools that are a part of professional-level streaming systems. First, it lacked balanced audio (XLR) connections. Second, to meet demanding professional video production requirements (and the challenges of other all-in-one streaming products), NewTek needed to add a vectorscope and waveform monitor. Finally, in order to surpass other products currently on the market, the TriCaster needed to provide high-resolution (XGA, SXGA, and widescreen) inputs and outputs.
When NewTek began shipping the TriCaster Pro at InfoComm in early June, all these features, plus several others, were included, moving the TriCaster into the professional production realm.
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Global SVOD subscriptions to reach 777 million
London(25 Sep 2018)
Worldwide paying SVOD subscriptions will increase by 409 million between 2017 and 2023 to total 777 million. Eleven countries will have more than 10 million SVOD subscriptions by 2023.
China and the US will together account for more than half the world’s SVOD subscriptions by 2023. China will have the most SVOD subs from 2019– despite multiple subscriptions being commonplace in the US. China will have 235 million SVOD subscribers by 2023 – up from 97 million in 2017.
Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “The US will have 208 million SVOD subscriptions by 2023; up by an impressive 76 million on 2017 despite its relative maturity. Its share of the global market will fall from 36% in 2017 to 27% by 2023.”
By 2023, Netflix will contribute 192 million subscriptions (25% of the 777 million subscriptions), Amazon Prime Video 120 million (15%), China 235 million (30%. Neither Netflix or Amazon Prime Video operate in China) and 230 million “others” (30%). Netflix will add 82 million subs between 2017 and 2023.
Amazon Prime Video launched in 200 countries in late 2016 – like Netflix, not in China. We forecast 120 million Amazon Prime Video’s subscribers by 2023 – double the 2017 total. However, 110 million of the 2023 total will be in Amazon Prime territories, and therefore will not directly pay for the video platform.
SVOD revenues will reach $69 billion by 2023; up by nearly $44 billion since 2017. The US will remain the SVOD revenue leaderby a considerable distance – adding $17 billion between 2017 and 2023 to take its total to $29 billion.
The Global SVOD Forecastsreportprovides detailed forecasts for 694 platforms across 138 countries – covering movie and TV episode subscriptions, but not other services such as dedicated sports platforms. The figures are for paying subscriptions only and do not include trialists.
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Cloze Test Quiz -15
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Directions:(1-5) Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.
Industrial America is a product of the decades succeeding the Civil War; yet even in 1865 we were a large manufacturing nation. The leading characteristic of our industries, as compared with present conditions, was that they were individualized. Nearly all had ______ (1) _______ the household stage, the factory system had gained a/an _______ (2) ______ in nearly every line, even the corporation had made its appearance, yet small-scale production _________ (3) ______ in practically every field. In the decade preceding the War, vans were still making regular trips through New England and the Middle States, leaving at farmhouses bundles of straw plait, which the members of the household fashioned into hats. The farmers’ wives and daughters still __________ (4) _______ the family income by working on goods for city dealers in ready-made clothing. We can still see in Massachusetts rural towns the little shoe shops in which the predecessors of the existing factory workers soled and heeled the shoes which shod our armies in the early days of the Civil War. Every city and town had its own slaughter house; New York had more than two hundred; what is now Fifth Avenue was frequently ________ (5) ________ by large droves of cattle, and great stockyards occupied territory which is now used for beautiful clubs, railroad stations, hotels, and the highest class of retail establishments.
rallied
dwindled
On reading the paragraph, we understand that the industries developed from the household stage. Hence, the word ‘outgrown’ fits the blank correctly.
The blank should be filled with a word which expresses the meaning that the factory system had its influence on every line. This is conveyed in the lines preceding and succeeding the blank. Hence, the blank should be filled with the word ‘foothold’.
diminished
boycotted
prevailed
The word ‘yet’ gives us an indication that though the factory system was ubiquitous, small-scale production still survived in every field. The word ‘prevailed’ conveys this exact meaning. Hence, option E is the correct answer.
upended
complimented
complemented
squandered
On reading the sentence containing the blank, we understand that the wives and daughters added to the family income. Hence, the word ‘supplemented’, which means ‘to add’ should come in place of the blank. Option A is the correct answer.
encumbered
The word should describe the action caused by the cattle. The word ‘visited’ does not go with ‘cattle’. Only the word ‘encumbered’, which means ‘to restrict the free movement’, fits the blank correctly. Option C is the correct answer.
Directions:(6-10) Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.
Luxemburg in 1815 was not merely severed from the Netherlands; it, as a sovereign grand-duchy, was made a state of the Germanic confederation. By virtue of the exchange _________ (6) _______ by the treaty of 1839, the _________ (7) ________ portion of Limburg became a state of the confederation. But with the revision of the Dutch constitution, which in 1840 followed the final separation of Holland and Belgium, by the wish of the king his duchy of Limburg was included in the new Fundamental Law, and thus became practically a Dutch province. The Limburgers had thus a strange and ________ (8) _________ position. They had to pay taxes, to furnish military contingents and to send deputies to two different sovereign authorities. This state of things continued with more or less _________ (9) ________, until the victory of Prussia over Austria in 1866 led to the _________ (10) _______ of the Germanic confederation. At the conference of London, 1867, Luxemburg was declared to be an independent state, whose neutrality was guaranteed by the Great Powers, while Limburg became an integral portion of the kingdom of the Netherlands.
surrendered
ceased
On reading the sentences before and after the blank we understand that the exchange was facilitated by the treaty. Hence, the word ‘sanctioned’ fits the blank correctly and expresses the same meaning. Option C is the correct answer.
differed
ceded
reputed
prayed
appended
On reading the sentences in the passage, we understand that the blank should be filled with a word which means ‘annexed’. Hence, the word ‘ceded’ fits the blank. Option B fits the blank correctly.
prevaricate
The blank is ‘They had a strange and _____________ position. “ On reading the sentences after the blank, we see that they had a confusing situation. Thus, the word ‘ambiguous’ fits the blank. Option E is the correct answer.
travesty
On reading the sentences before and after the blank we understand that the state of things, though not smooth continued until the Prussian victory. Hence, the word ‘friction’ fits the blank correctly.
feign
On reading the sentences after the blank, we see that the German Confederation was broken and Luxemburg was granted independence. Hence, the word ‘dissolution’ fits the blank correctly. Option D is the correct answer.
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Plan to build up to 320 homes and community centre on former Banbury farm approved
Up to 320 homes and an accompanying community centre will be built on a former Banbury farm as long as the developer pays more than £5m for local services.
Cherwell District Council’s planning committee unanimously granted outline planning permission for the development on Drayton Lodge Farm on Warwick Road on Thursday (June 20)
Cllr Colin Clarke, the council’s lead member for planning, said: “This site has long been earmarked in our adopted Local Plan to help provide the homes that Banbury needs
“This is a balanced proposal which will include significant green spaces and community facilities to support residents.
“It’s vital that as new homes are approved, we plan for the infrastructure needed to support them. That is why conditions have been set to fund a new school, healthcare, public transport and sports and play areas.”
The permission is subject to Trinity College, Oxford, entering into a legal agreement to provide contributions for education, leisure and healthcare provisions.
Amenities are expected to include a community hall, shopping centre, playing fields and allotments.
While 30 per cent of the houses must be affordable and the developer must pay £3,552,751 towards schooling, £276,480 to support primary care infrastructure and £267,182 for off-site sports facilities.
The Local Plan allocates 250 homes for the site, but the committee agreed with the assessment that the overall number could be accommodated by building more of the small and medium-sized homes that are most needed locally.
The estates bursar from Trinity College told the committee: “We’ve worked hard to create what we believe is a great scheme.
“If consent is granted, we will continue to work hard to ensure the great living environment which we aspire to create is actually delivered.”
Drayton Parish Council and Cllr George Reynolds raised concerns about the development adding to the encroachment from Banbury on the village, asking for more trees to screen the homes and bungalows.
But Cllr Cassi Perry congratulated Trinity College for having a permanent buffer zone between the site and Drayton.
Several councillors questioned how the open space will be managed as it seems the development is under Drayton parish, rather than Banbury, so it should be changed so the town council can maintain it.
Another application with more detailed plans on exactly how many homes there will be, what they will look like and what else will be on the site will need to be approved before building works can start.
Drayton Lodge Farm used to have a caravan park, nine-hole golf course and a fishing lake before closing in 2014 with the land to be used for housing.
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ACC Summer League roundup: Williamson out, White scoring, Barrett struggling and Hoard efficient
By Brant Wilkerson-New bwilkerson-new@greensboro.com
New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson played just nine minutes before bumping knees with another player. He will sit out the remainder of Summer League.
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The NBA’s premier Summer League got started in Las Vegas over the holiday weekend as several high-profile rookies debuted as pros while other free agents began the long road to making a roster. Here’s a breakdown of how North Carolina’s ACC players and notable players with local ties have fared.
Full Summer League schedule
Big Four Rookies
Zion Williamson (Duke) had his Summer League cut short after bumping knees, scoring 11 points and grabbing three rebounds in nine minutes before New Orleans decided to remove him as a precaution. GM David Griffin announced Williamson will not play for the rest of Summer League.
RJ Barrett (Duke) has struggled in his first two outings, hitting 7 of 33 field goal attempts with 10 turnovers on his way to averaging 9 points for the New York Knicks. Barrett has been active on the boards though, averaging 7.5 rebounds.
Coby White (North Carolina) has had no trouble scoring, averaging 16 points in the Chicago Bulls’ two games, but he’s turned the ball over 10 times and hit 13 of 34 field goal attempts. White has been active in other areas, averaging 4.5 rebounds and 4 assists.
Cam Reddish (Duke) won’t play in Summer League as he continues to recover from surgery on a core muscle.
Nassir Little (Carolina) is off to a quiet start for the Portland, averaging 4 points and 4 rebounds over two games, hitting 4 of 11 field goal attempts.
Jaylen Hoard (Wake Forest) has been efficient for the Portland Trail Blazers, making 9 of 14 field goal attempts on his way to averaging 9.5 points and 5.5 rebounds.
Luke Maye (Carolina) didn’t get into Milwaukee’s first game, but scored 5 points and grabbed 4 rebounds in his debut for the Bucks.
Kenny Williams (Carolina) has averaged 3.5 points and 3 rebound in a total of 20 minutes for San Antonio in two games.
Antonio Vrankovic (Duke) was a little-used reserve for the Blue Devils, but has averaged 7.5 points and 5 rebounds in two games for Team Croatia, including 12 points and 8 rebounds in 20 minutes in a loss to Brooklyn on Sunday.
Torin Dorn (N.C. State) has yet to play for the Charlotte Hornets.
Tony Bradley (Carolina) had a huge night in his lone outing for Utah, posting 19 points and 14 rebounds.
Theo Pinson (Carolina) scored 14 points to go with 6 rebounds and 6 assists in one game with the Brooklyn Nets.
Gary Trent Jr. (Duke) is off to a hot start in his second season with Portland, averaging 20.5 points in two games, including 31 points on 7 of 8 from 3-point range in Sunday night’s win over Houston.
Frank Jackson (Duke) stole the show from Williamson and Barrett in his first Summer League game, putting up 30 points as New Orleans topped New York. Jackson, a third-year pro, sat in the Pelicans’ second game.
Codi Miller-McIntyre (Wake Forest) has averaged 11 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in two games with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Amile Jefferson (Duke) has posted 10.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in two games for the Orlando Magic.
In two games with Charlotte, Kennedy Meeks (Carolina) is averaging 4 point and 7.5 rebounds while Isaiah Hicks (Carolina) is averaging 6 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists.
Doral Moore (Wake Forest) played 9 minutes in his first game with Memphis, scoring 4 points and grabbed 5 rebounds.
In-state players
Chris Clemons (Campbell) has been one of the stars of Summer League for the Houston Rockets, averaging 23.5 points over two games, hitting 12 of 24 3-point attempts along with several highlight-reel plays.
Devontae Cacok (UNC Wilmington) has settled in for the Lakers, averaging 14.5 points and 9 rebounds in Las Vegas.
Francis Alonso (UNCG) was released by the Hornets on July 3.
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Distribution of mental health diagnoses among veteran patients U.S. 2013
Distribution of mental health diagnoses among Veteran Health Administration (VHA) patients in the U.S. in 2013
by Statista Research Department, last edited Oct 6, 2016
This statistic shows the distribution of mental health diagnoses among Veteran Health Administration (VHA) patients in the U.S. in fiscal year 2013. In that year, 4.2 percent of the veteran population in VA care were diagnosed with PTSD.
Percentage of patients
October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013
All values are for the fiscal year 2013.
Physicians, Hospitals & Pharmacies
Top hospitals for adult psychiatry in the U.S. 2018
Mental health treatment facilities by setting of services in the U.S. 2017
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Leading therapy areas for U.S. drug spending 2018
State of Health
Major depressive episode in the past year among U.S. adults by age and gender 2017
Statistics on "Mental health issues in the U.S."
Regions and states
Mental illness and substance use
Services and treatment
Percentage of U.S. adults with any mental illness in the past year as of 2017, by age and genderAny mental illness in the past year among U.S. adults by age and gender 2017
Percentage of adults in the U.S. with depression from 2013 to 2016, by ageShare of adults with depression in the U.S. from 2013 to 2016, by age
Percentage of adults in the U.S. with depression from 2007 to 2016, by genderShare of adults with depression in the U.S. from 2007 to 2016, by gender
Percentage of U.S. adults with a major depressive episode in the past year as of 2017, by age and genderMajor depressive episode in the past year among U.S. adults by age and gender 2017
Percentage of adults in the United States with poor mental health as of 2017, by ethnicity*Percentage of adults with poor mental health in the U.S. by ethnicity 2017
Percentage of U.S. youths with a major depressive episode in the past year from 2004 to 2017, by genderMajor depressive episode in the past year among U.S. youths by gender 2004-2017
Percentage of persons with serious psychological distress in the past month in the U.S. from 1997 to 2016*Persons with serious psychological distress in the U.S. 1997-2016
Percentage of persons with serious psychological distress in the past month in the U.S. from 1997 to 2016, by gender*Persons with serious psychological distress 1997-2016, by gender
Percentage of persons with serious psychological distress in the past month in the U.S. 2008-2016, by region*Persons with serious psychological distress in the U.S. by region 2008-2016
U.S. states with the highest percentage of adults reporting poor mental health as of 2017*Top U.S. states with the highest percentage of poor mental health among adults 2017
U.S. states with the lowest percentage of adults reporting poor mental health as of 2017*Top U.S. states with the lowest percentage of poor mental health among adults 2017
Rate of mental health providers in the U.S. in 2016, by stateU.S. mental health workforce rate 2016, by state
Alcohol dependence or abuse among adults in the United States as of 2017, by level of mental illness*Alcohol dependence or abuse among U.S. adults by level of mental illness 2017
Substance dependence or abuse among adults in the United States as of 2017, by level of mental illness*Substance dependence or abuse among U.S. adults by level of mental illness 2017
Co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder among U.S. adults as of 2017, by age and gender*Co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder - U.S. adults by gender 2017
Co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder among U.S. adults as of 2017, by employment status*Co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder U.S. 2017, by employment
Substance use among adults in the United States as of 2017, by any mental illnessSubstance use among adults in the U.S. by any mental illness 2017
Substance use among youths in the United States as of 2017, by major depressive episode*Substance use among youths in the U.S. by major depressive episode 2017
Percentage of U.S. adults that had ever received treatment for a mental health condition as of 2018Adults that have been treated for a mental health condition in the U.S. as of 2018
Type of professional seen by U.S. adults with a major depressive episode who received treatment in 2017*Type of professional seen among U.S. adults with a major depressive episode 2017
Mental health service use in the past year among U.S. adults from 2002 to 2017, by type of careMental health service use by U.S. adults 2002-2017, by type of care
Receipt of mental health services in the past year among U.S. adults in 2017, by level of mental illnessReceipt of mental health services among U.S. adults by level of illness 2017
Percentage of adults in the United States who received mental health treatment in 2017, by poverty status*Share of U.S. adults who received mental health treatment by poverty status 2017
Reasons for not receiving mental health services among U.S. adults in 2017*Reasons for not receiving mental health services among U.S. adults 2017
Type of treatment received by U.S. youths with a major depressive episode in the past year in 2017, by genderTreatment received by U.S. youths with major depressive episode by gender 2017
Reasons for receiving specialty mental health services among U.S. youths in the past year as of 2017*Reasons for receiving specialty mental health services among U.S. youths 2017
Top 10 hospitals for adult psychiatry in the United States as of 2018*Top hospitals for adult psychiatry in the U.S. 2018
Percentage of mental health treatment facilities accepting specific age groups for treatment in the U.S. in 2017Mental health treatment facilities treating specific age groups U.S. 2017
Number of mental health treatment facilities in the U.S. in 2017, by service setting*Mental health treatment facilities by setting of services in the U.S. 2017
Percentage of U.S. mental health facilities offering specific services and practices in 2017Share of mental health facilities offering specific services and practices U.S. 2017
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Total mental health funding by the National Institutes for Health (NIH) from FY 2013 to FY 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)Total mental health funding by National Institutes for Health 2013-2019
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Percentage of adults in the United States with poor mental health as of 2017, by ethnicity*
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Percentage of U.S. adults that had ever received treatment for a mental health condition as of 2018
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Percentage of U.S. mental health treatment facilities accepting Medicare in 2017, by region
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As of July 2017, there are 967 members enrolled in the Tejon Tribe, a vast majority residing in in Kern County, many life-long residents in the Bakersfield area.
Our Tribe went underserved for decades, many of our people are underprivileged, and have been for generations. Our push for federal re-affirmation was driven in great part to help our tribal members with the challenges they face.
We are now focused on strengthening and empowering our Tribe through health care, education, quality housing, and economic development.
Eligibility for membership in the Tejon Indian Tribe requires direct descent from the documented membership of the historic “El Tejon Band,” which is the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1915 census of Tejon tribal members. It listed 81 tribal members. The Tribe also uses the “California Indian Roll,” which was prepared in 1933 by the Department of the Interior at the direction of Congress.
Today, all members of the modern Tejon Indian Tribe easily trace our ancestry back to tribal members identified on the 1915 census by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the 1933 California Indian Roll.
The Tejon Indian people are of the Kitanemuk nation, we lived at the most Southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley as well as the Tehachapi mountains. We share bloodlines with tribes of the region, including bands of the Chumash, Tataviam, Tubatulabal, Paiute, and Yokuts.
Tejon tribal members, past and present, have seen many changes to our traditional lives and lands over the years, however, maintaining our heritage by passing down teachings generation to generation will assure that our Kitanemuk history and ways remain forever.
In this present time, we find Tribal members serving as elected council members, tribal committee members, and tribal volunteers, each of these positions assisting our tribal government in its ability to function and govern as a sovereign nation.
Tribal sovereignty describes the existence of a government-to-government relationship with the United States. The federal government has a trust responsibility to protect tribal lands, assets, resources and treaty rights.
Tribal members have the same rights to vote and hold public office just as all other U.S. citizens do, and we have the same obligations for military service as other U.S. citizens.
Tejon Indian men and woman have fought and served with honor on behalf of the United States in many wars.
Our Tribal members are also active in many local community organizations and non-profits, such as the Kern Economic Development Corporation, Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce, and Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Tribal members also have careers in many professions; we are local business owners, farmers, cooks, laborers, and homemakers.
Today, as in the past, education, the family circle, and traditional ceremonies are important aspects of our Tejon Tribe culture and daily lives. Tribal meetings and other sacred and traditional gatherings take place in Bakersfield and on the aboriginal homeland of the Tejon Tribe in the Tejon Canyon.
Tejon Tribal members held our first annual Pow Wow at California State University, Bakersfield, in September of 2015 to honor our ancestors and share Native American culture with the community. Our Tribe’s Pow Wow is held on the weekend that Californian Indian Day is celebrated which is every fourth Friday in September. Pow Wows are held regionally throughout the Nation to share Native singing and dancing as well as other cultural customs according to where or who is hosting the Pow Wow. While Pow Wow did not originate in California, Californian Indian Tribes held gatherings, ‘fiestas’ and ceremonies – some lasting for over weeks at a time. Pow Wow begins with a Grand Entry, leading the dancers into the arena is an Eagle Staff, nations’ flags are ceremoniously carried in the dancing arena, an opening prayer and songs follow. Pow Wows can be competition or non-competition based, there are different dance styles and age categories exhibited throughout the event for dancers to compete or exhibition in. The youth of Tejon are learning dance and song through a class devoted to cultural teachings.
Our Tribe’s future vision of creating a cultural center to share our rich history and our Tribe’s cultural revitalization, will be an exciting endeavor to bring to the community.
Currently, the Tribe’s cultural work involves the reclamation of the Kitanemuk language. The language itself is called Kitanemuic, efforts to learn Kitanemuic by tribal members began in 2010. Our language had not been spoken since 1940. Kitanemuic was a ‘sleeping’ language, not extinct, but sleeping, waiting to be picked up again. With no living language speakers, tribal members learned from the few remaining written records of Kitanemuic, as we have yet to discover any oral record of Kitanemuic. Kitanemuic belongs to the Uto Aztecan language family, under the Takic branch, and shares the phonetic sounds similar to the Serrano language. Meeting weekly, the Tribe received the assistance of a Native American linguist who guided our tribal members through the language learning process. Efforts to reclaim Kitanemuic so that we can talk again; talk, sing, and pray in our ancestral language continue.
Although the Tribe has no communal land, Tejon members gather monthly for tribal membership meetings and attend annual gatherings and ceremonies, including an annual ceremony to honor those who have passed on. We take great care to maintain upkeep for our traditional cemetery in Tejon Canyon in southeast Kern County, as it is the final resting place of our ancestors.
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TV show produced by Leonardo DiCaprio set to film in Florida city
By Laura Jazmin Tolliver The Palm Beach Post
The Hollywood film scene is coming to Florida.
"The Right Stuff," a new television series adapted from Tom Wolfe's iconic account of the early days of the U.S. space program, will start filming this fall on the Space Coast, according to Florida Today.
Space Coast Film Commissioner Bonnie King said she got confirmation recently that "The Right Stuff" would film on the Space Coast and in the Orlando area.
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the executive producers.
Appian Way Productions, a film and television production company founded by DiCaprio, is collaborating on the series with National Geographic Partners LLC and Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
From Apollo 13 to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, this isn’t the first time the Space Coast has been the site for famous films.
King said she is pleased that the Space Coast was selected as a filming location, since "this is where it all happened. It's the right thing to do for 'The Right Stuff.'
The premiere episode of "The Right Stuff" will also have David Nutter, whose credits include “Game of the Thrones” and “Band of Brothers,” as a director and executive producer.
The first season takes place at the height of the Cold War in 1958.
The season focuses on how "the public is in fear of a nation in decline, so the U.S. government conceives of a solution — NASA’s Project Mercury — creating the country’s premier astronauts from a handful of the military’s adrenaline-junkie test pilots,” said National Geographic.
Laura Jazmin Tolliver is a digital reporter for GateHouse Media Group’s Florida team, based in West Palm Beach, Fla. Jaz’s stories, which run across digital, print and video platforms, are syndicated across the 22 Florida newspaper markets.
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FIRE > Newsdesk > University of Michigan Considers Major Restrictions upon Student Publications
University of Michigan Considers Major Restrictions upon Student Publications
by Azhar Majeed
The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) is contemplating new regulations that would severely impinge upon the fundamental liberties of all student publications on campus. As reported in both the Michigan Daily and the Michigan Review, LSA’s Facilities and Operations Department seeks to limit the distribution and posting of student-created print material, such as publications, fliers, and informational signs, in all LSA buildings.
The proposed policies would limit distribution and posting to those organizations and publications that are under the oversight of the Board for Student Publications or are recognized by the Michigan Student Assembly. Each organization or publication would additionally have to apply to and gain permission from the Facilities and Operations Department before it could post or distribute any printed materials. They would also be subject to separate university policies, such as a ban on displaying or distributing advertising that promotes the consumption of alcohol or other drugs. Finally, LSA would completely prohibit the distribution of print materials between the dates of April 14 and September 15.
It is difficult to decide where to even begin with these proposed regulations. What alarms me perhaps more than anything else is the flimsiness of the university’s proffered justification. Detailed in the Daily article, it might properly be labeled the "newspapers as banana peels" theory:
Bob Johnston, director of the LSA Facilities and Operations Office, said the new policy was created in part to limit the amount of loose papers scattered on the floors of LSA buildings. He said students could potentially slip on papers and injure themselves, creating a possible liability for the University.
Really? Has it come to the point where such a speculative concern paves the way for the kind of broad, far-reaching regulations at issue here? As a recent LSA graduate, I can say with certainty that I never witnessed anyone slipping on printed materials or being otherwise physically harmed or endangered by their presence. And how could this concern possibly justify, say, a complete ban on distribution during five months of the year?
Indeed, the reach of the proposed regulations is staggering. For one thing, they would completely exclude non-student publications, which in a wonderful college town like Ann Arbor means that worthy community publications (such as the Ann Arbor News‘ "Food, Fun & Fitness") would be cut off from the LSA student populace. Of course, this is to say no less of the fact that student publications that are not under the oversight of the Board for Student Publications or are not recognized by the Michigan Student Assembly would similarly be excluded from LSA buildings. These results would be inimical to Michigan’s stated approach to freedom of expression, as FIRE’s Will Creeley pointed out in the Daily:
Implementation of the policy would be "a worrisome development at a university that not only is bound by the First Amendment, but also boasts of ‘an especially strong commitment to preserve and protect freedom of thought and expression’ in its Fundamental Tenets of Membership in the University Community," he said.
In other words, Michigan, in addition to being legally bound by the First Amendment as a public university, is morally bound to follow through on its promises for the benefit and enrichment of its student body.
So how can a university with "an especially strong commitment" to free speech prohibit any and all distribution of printed materials inside LSA buildings for nearly half of the calendar year? Such a policy goes well beyond addressing any concerns about newspaper clutter and the like, and proceeds instead into the realm of stifling student expression. And why did LSA choose those five months? What makes them so different from the rest of the year? What is it about that time period that could possibly necessitate a complete ban?
Regarding the application process for distribution approval, there is a palpable danger of selective censorship, no matter what the university might say. As proposed, the LSA regulations would grant distribution requests on a "first come, first serve" basis, but they stipulate that "LSA reserves the right to limit the number of times per academic term and/or per year in which a recognized student organization will be granted permission to distribute publications in LSA facilities." Once again, the Daily quotes Will on the dangers of the suggested framework:
"As proposed, the policy would subject student publications to an arbitrary and opaque application process, allowing administrators entirely too much discretion to control what publications are allowed to reach the student body," Creeley said.
While the application process purports to accommodate the needs of all publications and organizations, the lack of defined selection criteria means that officials would have plenty of latitude in deciding whether or not to grant a particular request. So if a publication has in the past been critical of the university administration, challenged LSA policies, or discussed disfavored topics, might it face the danger of being denied distribution requests in order to "accommodate" other publications? One would hope not, but the application process proposed by the LSA regulations makes this a possibility.
It is one thing for a university to regulate the distribution of student publications on campus. But when those regulations create even the potential for censorship based on publication content and ideology, student free speech rights have been endangered. I sincerely hope that Michigan retracts the proposed regulations, as they are currently formulated, before this fine institution becomes the target of public ridicule and shame.
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https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/New-SIUE-police-officers-have-Edwardsville-area-13634333.php
New SIUE police officers have Edwardsville-area ties
Four sworn in Wednesday at ceremony
The Intelligencer
Updated 6:02 pm CST, Thursday, February 21, 2019
Photo (L-R): SIUE Chief of Police Kevin Schmoll, officers Samantha Jones, Jeff Wooldridge, Darius Smith and Shane Mason, and Vice Chancellor for Administration Rich Walker.
For The Intelligencer
EDWARDSVILLE — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Police Department has added four officers to increase its squad to 44. All of the new officers have direct ties to either SIUE or the Metro East.
The officers were sworn in Wednesday, Feb. 20 by Vice Chancellor for Administration Rich Walker. Chief of Police Kevin Schmoll also participated in the ceremony.
“We are pleased to have these officers join a team of SIUE officers who are proud to serve,” Walker said. “We pledge to each of their families that we will do our best to provide them with the proper equipment, training and support to keep them healthy and safe as they help keep our students, employees and guests safe on all three campuses.”
The new officers are:
• Samantha Jones earned a bachelor’s in exercise science from SIUE in 2015 and achieved a master’s in sports management from the University of Indianapolis in 2017. A Florissant, Missouri resident, Jones was a dual-sport student-athlete for the Cougars’ women’s soccer and softball teams, and an NCAA Scholar All-American
• Shane Mason earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice from SIUE in May 2018. A Paris, Illinois native, Mason was a community service officer with the O’Fallon Police Department.
• Darius Smith earned a bachelor’s in applied communication studies in May 2016 with a minor in criminal justice. He earned a master’s in education/college student personnel administration from SIUE in December 2018. A Chicago native, he was a Cougar student-athlete on the men’s track and field team.
• Jeff Wooldridge earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Western Illinois University in August 2014. A Jerseyville resident, he was a police officer in Aledo.
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Texas Prisons Deny Making Execution Drugs
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday shot down allegations that it is manufacturing its own hard-to-find execution drugs after federal defense attorneys in an Oklahoma death row case accused the Texas prison system of doing exactly that.
by Terri Langford, Houston Chronicle and Jordan Rudner, The Texas Tribune Sept. 25, 2015 4 PM
The view of Texas' execution chamber from a witness viewing room.
A court filing reported late Thursday by Buzzfeed in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip — scheduled for execution on Wednesday — claimed Texas is making its own pentobarbital, the drug it uses for lethal injections.
"The TDCJ is compounding or producing pentobarbital within its department for use in executions," wrote Patti Palmer Ghezzi, an assistant federal public defender for Glossip. "There are no known obstacles to ODOC (Oklahoma Department of Corrections) compounding or producing pentobarbital in the same manner as does TDCJ."
Ghezzi's filling included an invoice showing that TDCJ provided three vials of pentobarbital to the Virginia Department of Corrections.
But Texas prison spokesman Jason Clark said TDCJ gave Virginia the drugs, which were purchased, not made by the state prison agency.
"The agency’s supply of pentobarbital was purchased from a licensed pharmacy that has the ability to compound," Clark said. When asked for more information about the supplier, Clark declined, citing a new state law that allows information about execution drug providers to remain secret.
In 2013, Virginia gave Texas a supply of pentobarbital when its caches were running low.
Asked for proof of the claim that one of the nation's largest prison system now makes pentobarbital, Dale Baich, an assistant federal public defender in Arizona whose office is assisting its counterparts in Oklahoma, said only: "We stand by the statement in our pleading."
The Oklahoma court filing stems from a lawsuit filed on Glossip's behalf challenging that state's use of midazolam, a sedative, that his lawyers argue subjects death row inmates to cruel and unusual punishment. This past June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the three-drug execution cocktail used by Oklahoma — midazolam, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride — does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Its use, therefore, would not violate Glossip's Eighth Amendment rights. The high court said Oklahoma had made a good faith effort to find other drugs.
In order to prove that Oklahoma did not try hard enough to find more humane alternatives to its execution cocktail, Glossip's attorneys must establish that alternatives are available. Their claim that Texas is manufacturing pentobarbital essentially argues that Oklahoma could do the same and abandon its other execution drugs.
"Not only does the prisoner have to show the drug is bad but the prisoner has to put up a readily available alternative," said Baich. "It's one of the twisted consequences of the Supreme Court decision in Glossip."
To mix, or "compound," pentobarbital on site, TDCJ would be required to have a sterile compounding license issued by the State Pharmacy Board of Texas.
"We do not have a pharmacy license," Clark said.
Although the two medical centers contracted to provide health care to inmates — Texas Tech University and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston — do have compounding licenses, Clark said neither of them has been asked to provide the drug. "We would not utilize them," Clark said.
Pharmacies with the appropriate licensing can mix a batch of pentobarbital, and Texas turned to compounding pharmacies in 2013 because manufacturers of the drug stopped selling to the prison system.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers passed a bill to keep the names of execution drug providers secret. The legislation, Senate Bill 1679, was intended to protect the companies providing the drugs from harassment and threats, according to author state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston.
"Discussion in the public area has led to a chilling effect for companies who want to supply this compound to the state of Texas," she told The Texas Tribune in May. "There are very few doses left of the drug that’s currently being administered.”
During his tenure as Attorney General, Gov. Greg Abbott ruled in support of the prison system and said he was convinced drug suppliers could be subject to “real harm” if their names were made public. Abbott cited a state Department of Public Safety threat assessment as the primary factor in his decision.
For the last four years, Texas has relied on a variety of makeshift drug combinations for its executions. In 2011, the European Union put severe restrictions on exports of drugs commonly used in executions, while several domestic drug manufacturers began cutting off supplies. Later that year, TDCJ turned to in-state compounding pharmacies, which can mix certain drugs on-site. Those drugs are not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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July 12th, 2019 - By Renee Jackson - Comments Off on Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) Lifted to “Sector Perform” at Scotiabank
Filed Under: Analyst Articles - US - Finance
Scotiabank upgraded shares of Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) from an underperform rating to a sector perform rating in a research note released on Tuesday, The Fly reports.
A number of other equities analysts also recently weighed in on VNO. SunTrust Banks reaffirmed a buy rating and set a $20.00 price target on shares of ANGI Homeservices in a research note on Wednesday, May 22nd. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of GALP ENERGIA SG/ADR from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research report on Monday, May 6th. BMO Capital Markets increased their price objective on shares of Dollarama from C$35.00 to C$45.00 and gave the stock a market perform rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 5th. Morgan Stanley lowered shares of Silicon Motion Technology from an equal weight rating to an underweight rating in a research report on Monday, April 22nd. Finally, Deutsche Bank dropped their price objective on shares of Vornado Realty Trust from $80.00 to $73.00 and set a hold rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 10th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. The stock has an average rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $75.38.
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NYSE:VNO opened at $65.48 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.06, a quick ratio of 3.93 and a current ratio of 3.93. The stock has a market capitalization of $12.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 17.41, a P/E/G ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 0.96. Vornado Realty Trust has a fifty-two week low of $59.48 and a fifty-two week high of $77.59. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $66.32.
Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE:VNO) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April 29th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.13 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.91 by ($0.78). The company had revenue of $534.67 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $583.32 million. Vornado Realty Trust had a return on equity of 10.19% and a net margin of 28.76%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was down .3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.30 EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Vornado Realty Trust will post 3.8 earnings per share for the current year.
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Family Firm Inc. acquired a new stake in Vornado Realty Trust during the 1st quarter valued at $535,000. Swiss National Bank grew its holdings in Vornado Realty Trust by 2.6% during the 1st quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 570,743 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $38,491,000 after purchasing an additional 14,500 shares in the last quarter. Commonwealth Bank of Australia grew its holdings in Vornado Realty Trust by 8.9% during the 1st quarter. Commonwealth Bank of Australia now owns 20,788 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,394,000 after purchasing an additional 1,700 shares in the last quarter. Cleararc Capital Inc. acquired a new stake in Vornado Realty Trust during the 1st quarter valued at $284,000. Finally, Gotham Asset Management LLC acquired a new stake in Vornado Realty Trust during the 4th quarter valued at $382,000. 77.29% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Vornado Realty Trust Company Profile
Vornado's portfolio is concentrated in the nation's key market New York City along with the premier asset in both Chicago and San Francisco. Vornado is also the real estate industry leader in sustainability policy. The company owns and manages over 23 million square feet of LEED certified buildings and received the Energy Star Partner of the Year Award, Sustained Excellence 2017.
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Movie Review: Wolf Creek 2
Way back in 2005 the screens were graced with a little movie called Wolf Creek. The film told the tale of an unfortunate group of tourists who entered the Australian Outback and never exited. It was a tale loosely based on an actual Australian serial killer and the movie proved to be quite satisfying, with its slow build and ever increasing sense of dread. The highlight was Mick Taylor, the resident killer, played like an offshoot of The Devil’s Rejects family by John Jarratt. The sequel took eight years to come out, but the wait was worth it. Wolf Creek 2 is a worthy follow up, taking what we know and just amping it all up. I may just like this one better.
Wolf Creek 2 was written and directed by Greg Mclean, who also spearheaded the original and is slated to return for a third outing into the Outback. In between the two Wolf Creek films he made the killer croc flick, Rogue. More recently he directed the awful The Darkness and the Battle Royale meets Office Space film The Belko Experiment from Guardians of the Galaxy mastermind James Gunn.
With this sequel the slow build of dread was scrapped in favor of something a bit more immediate and intense. Wolf Creek 2 seems to feed off of films like Mad Max, The Hitcher. and The Devil’s Rejects filtered through some real life fact and an Aussie sensibility. The result is a movie with a sense of immediacy, a grim energy that is given life through Mclean’s grim and highly detailed gritty photography. Wolf Creek 2 has a sense of scope in the gorgeous widescreen establishing shots. However, even with that, he is sure to remind us of horrific things going on as good old Mick sets out to clean up the Outback of tourists he sees as desecrating the land.
As the movie opens we are presented with a couple of opportunistic police officers looking to make sure they reach their quota. They target Mick as his old truck cruises down an empty highway through the expanse. All throughout the exchange, we, the audience knowing what Mick is capable of, watch and wait to see what he will do to the offending officers. It comes in an unexpected fashion and sets the table for what this sequel is going to be.
The scene shifts to a pair of German tourists backpacking through the Outback. We never really learn much about them, but they are a likable couple, making their ultimate fate that much more effective. We follow them as they hitch rides, walk, and camp where they have to. It is that fateful night that the initially affable Mick happens across them that their fate is sealed.
The Germans’ storey crosses paths with Paul Hammersmith (Ryan Corr), a British tourist who becomes our protagonist in the latter half of the film. Again, we do not learn all that much about him, but he still presents a likable and formidable adversary. It really is a credit to Mclean’s writing and direction that he is able to wring such suspense and empathy for characters we know next to nothing about. It is an impressive feat and just makes me like this movie more.
Where the first Wolf Creek was all slow burn dread up to the pay off, the sequel keeps the energy up and does not give you much time to breathe. There is no need to play the same games they did the first time around. He knows what we want, and that is John Jarratt front and center. That’s exactly what we get.. His performance is amazing and rather chilling. Jarratt gives Mick life and personality, an affability and menace. You never know what to expect from him and it is terrifying.
Wolf Creek 2 is a great sequel that improves on its predecessor in almost every way. The combination of road rage and close up gore, humor and menace, and characters to actually like. This is a movie to relish, to enjoy, to wallow in every blood soaked moment. My biggest regret is taking so long to see it.
Labels: 2010s, 2013, Australian, Foreign, Greg McLean, Horror, John Jarratt, Movie Review, Sequel, Slasher
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The Man Who Saw Everything
A new exhibit celebrates Lawrence Schiller’s most unforgettable photographs—from Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrest to O.J.’s acquittal, RFK’s cat nap to Marilyn’s skinny dip. View a gallery.
A new exhibit celebrates Lawrence Schiller’s most unforgettable photographs.
Like a photojournalistic Forrest Gump, Lawrence Schiller always seemed to be at the right place at the right time in the 1960s. He witnessed Lee Harvey Oswald being brought into the Dallas police station, was there when the Jackson 5 recorded their first album, and even watched Marilyn skinny dip. Now American Icons, a new exhibit at London’s Asprey, celebrates the man who changed the way we saw an era.
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Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for Life magazine and the Saturday Evening Post. He has published numerous books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. He collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce, and with Norman Mailer on The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale. He has also directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.
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12:00 AM, December 01, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 01:04 PM, December 04, 2017
BCL SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Leave the kids alone
Children should be allowed to grow naturally, without undue interferences. Photo: STAR
Badiuzzaman Bay
Just when we thought we've seen enough of Bangladesh Chhatra League, an organisation that has been the subject of one shocking headline after another over the last eight years, the student wing of the ruling Awami League has found a way to send us into collective shock again. The organisation has recently announced that it is moving ahead with a plan to form committees at high schools across the country, after having occupied every available space in the public colleges and universities, both general and specialised.
In a press note dated November 21, the BCL central committee said the objective behind the move is to “spread the ideology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman” among the schoolchildren and “give further impetus” to the organisation. Asked whether it would cause in schools the kind of violence witnessed in higher public institutions, BCL president Saifur Rahman Sohag waxed lyrical about how his organisation, contrary to popular belief, is changing the landscape of our education sector for good. “It is because of Chhatra League that universities have healthy student politics, and classes and exams are held properly,” he said (The Daily Star, November 23, 2017).
His opinion, clearly, is not borne out by the facts on the ground or the views held by the general students. The truth is, the country's higher education is crumbling—in large part because of the brand of politics now in practice by an organisation whose legitimacy lies solely in its association with the ruling party and a legacy from the pre-independence period. BCL continues to be relevant not because of its pro-student activism, but because, like its rivals in the not-so-distant past, it wouldn't allow student politics to be “healthy” for anyone but its own leaders and members.
If this sounds like a platitude, it is because bad things keep happening around student politics. Every time it is in the news, you know something bad has happened. Someone has been beaten because he wouldn't follow an instruction; someone has died—a political rival, a general student, or a random guy who has had the misfortune of being in the crosshairs of a leader; a teacher assaulted because he or she took a position against the university administration; a classroom vandalised because an exam wouldn't be postponed. Or somewhere, in the back alley of some university, a question paper has been leaked—just to mention a few reported incidents.
That being said, apart from BCL, there are also many other players trying to grab a piece of the pie that is student politics.
According to an estimate, in the last eight years, incidents of violence and conflicts in different universities and colleges have caused at least 125 deaths, of which at least 60 were due to internal feuds in BCL (The Daily Star, November 23). If this violent and exploitative politics is now transported to the corridors of schools, what will happen to our secondary—and primary, by extension—education system is anybody's guess.
As for the fate of the children, the columnist Syed Abul Maksud, in a satirical piece published by Prothom Alo, offered his thought on how school politics might shape our future generation. The president, general secretary and other office-bearers of each school committee, he said, would be selected from the most “unbrilliant” of students. They will have their first lesson in “raising funds” even before the committee's inauguration ceremony, and in fist fights during a battle over who will preside over that ceremony. The battle will also spill over into classrooms. Teachers will be under threat.
Inspired by the BCL, continues Maksud, other political parties will also soon form their own school committees. Since each neighbourhood has several schools, there will be a war for territory control, not only among the rival groups but also within different factions of each committee. Political connection, for the children, will be viewed as a springboard for successful careers in the future. The whole school system will be in a mess.
This may be an exaggerated version of what the future holds for our schools if the students are exposed to violent politics at such an early age, but the possibilities are endless, and decidedly less inspiring.
The BCL logic behind the move also raises some moral questions: is it right to subject children to political indoctrination? Is it the responsibility of a student body to spread a particular ideology? How ethical is it to use children to extend one's party influence? The Awami League leadership has previously denied having any patience for organisations using children for political purposes, especially after news surfaced that a new organisation by the name “Shishu League” has emerged. Can they take the same moral stand now?
Clearly, BCL is too valuable for Awami League to disaffiliate from, whatever the crime, nor will it ban student politics in general despite its harmful effects on our education sector. In the political equation, student bodies are extensions of their mother parties, and help them solidify their control over the future generation of leaders. But given the sensitivity of this issue, Awami League will be expected to send a clear message that it will not stand for anything that embroils the children—in schools or colleges—in political activities.
Personally, I have nothing against student politics. In many countries today, there are student unions campaigning on behalf of students to impact policy decisions affecting their life and career. Bangladesh also has a rich history of student bodies waging important socio-political movements and serving the general students. But since the reinstatement of parliamentary democracy in the 1990s, with the political parties targeting students to advance their own interests, the reality has changed, and what we have now are the remnants of a system that has left its best days decades ago.
Whether Bangladesh will be able to revive the lost glory of its student politics and have unions that will truly represent the students and fight for their rights across the board is for the scholars to work out. Right now, the priority is to allow children to grow naturally, without undue interferences, and involve themselves in healthy life activities so they can serve their country better.
Badiuzzaman Bay is a member of the editorial team at The Daily Star.
Email: badiuzzaman.bd@gmail.com
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Flights to Brindisi land against a stunning backdrop of historic architecture that’s set the scene for this splendid Italian city for decades.
With spectacular scenery within easy reach and much history to uncover, the region has plenty to offer, including an impressive Roman road...
A historic and picturesque city set in the Puglia region of Italy, Brindisi is a port which benefits from beautiful architecture and some exceptional gothic and baroque churches such as the Church of Santa Maria del Casale. There’s also an incredible cathedral which is well worth a visit for its awe-inspiring features.
The Appian Way is certainly not to be missed and is a significant old Roman road, which once connected the great city of Rome to Brindisi. The Fontana Grand is a gem which can be found along its route and this ornate fountain is well preserved and shows a typical example of its time. The road is notorious for many reasons, including the crucifixion of Spartacus and his army.
Another important attraction is the Castello Grande, which dates to the 13th century and is a fine and solid structure. It’s been used in the past as a navy base, prison and also as the royal residence of King Victor Emmanuel III.
The Monument to the Italian Soldier is also unique to Brindisi and was built in 1933 by Mussolini to commemorate the lives of the 6,000 fallen soldiers of WW1.
Flights to Brindisi arrive at Brindisi Papola Casale Airport BDS and ferries to Greece, Albania and former Yugoslavian countries are within easy reach, making the city well-connected. The beautiful Puglia region is a stone’s throw away and offers opportunities for excursions further afield. When travelling to Brindisi flights are flexible allowing for the best possible experience.
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The flights take around two and a half hours and operate from London Stansted.
Additionally, there are connecting flights with Alitalia from London via Rome or Milan, or with Swissair via Zurich from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. These connecting flights take four hours or more.
Just four miles from the centre of town, and close to major road networks, getting in and out is a simple affair...
Once disembarked from your flight to Brindisi, you’ll find a range of options for getting into town and further afield.
For €3 (about £2.30) you can hop on to one of the regular buses that shuttle to and from the centre of Brindisi. The journey takes less than 15 minutes. From here, you can also get the bus to Lecce, which is 45 minutes down the road, for €6.
Taxis are available 24 hours a day and offer the most flexible option for getting to and from Brindisi and other nearby destinations. Expect to pay around €25 euros to get into town. Some firms may charge more, so be prepared to agree a price before setting off.
Car hire could work out to be a good investment. As well as being able to transfer quickly to and from the airport, you’ll also have freedom to roam and take in some of the sights that can be found around the heel of Italy.
From luxury to wallet-friendly, Brindisi offers a wide selection of hotels to suit all budgets and tastes...
With a great deal of culture, excellent sightseeing opportunities and much natural scenery to admire, Brindisi stands proud as one of Italy's most glorious cities. As a great base to explore the wider Puglia region, the city offers plenty to travellers, eager to uncover the best of this area.
Luxury hotels tend to be found on the seafront, enjoying prime views of the port and the Adriatic. Further into town you’ll encounter a healthy mix of luxury and budget accommodation.
Away from the city, you’ll find several fishing villages with quieter hotels and countryside villas dotted along the coast towards the southern city of Lecce. Places such as Casalabate and Torre Chianca are also close to some fantastic beaches.
Inland from Brindisi, most towns have hotels, although the choice can be limited. However, there is an abundance of private villas, many with pools, which can be used as a base to explore the wider region and to visit destinations such as Bari. A 75-minute drive north-west of Brindisi, the capital of Puglia offers a lively nightlife, a gaggle of excellent restaurants and plenty of shopping.
A 50-minute drive to the west of Brindisi will see you in Taranto. This fairly gritty naval port has an industrial skyline but a fascinating history. A wealth of authentic restaurants can be found amid the warren of its medieval streets.
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M'sian diplomat's return to NZ to face charges may be delayed
Mr Muhammad Rizalman Ismail, who was allowed to leave New Zealand after an alleged sexual assault in May 2014, will return to the country to face charges. The former Malaysian Defence Ministry official attached to the High Commission in Wellington, was accused of sexual assault with intent to commit rape, and burglary. The Star
Muhammad Rizalman Ismail, the defence staff assistant with the Malaysian High Commision in Wellington New Zealand, may not be well enough to be returned to New Zealand to face a sex charge.
The New Zealand Herald, quoting a source inside the military hospital where Muhd Rizalman was being treated, said that he was "not looking good" and might need further tests.
A senior doctor from the hospital later confirmed with them that he will need further psychiatric evaluation.
According to media reports he was supposed to to be flown back to New Zealand on Monday (July 7).
Muhd Rizalman is alleged to have followed a 21-year-old female back to her home in Wellington, New Zealand on May 9, and assaulted her with intent to rape her.
He returned to Malaysia on May 22 with his family amid confusion about whether or not New Zealand had formally asked to waive diplomatic immunity.
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Miss Amazing pageant puts girls with disabilities first
Miss Amazing pageant celebrates girls with disabilities
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By Jillian Eugenios
At one very special pageant, it isn’t about who has the best voice or the prettiest dress. It is, however, still about the tiara.
“Every girl at the Miss Amazing pageant receives a crown because every girl to an extent in her own way is Miss Amazing, just by participating in the event and really pushing her limits,” said Jordan Somer, the founder of the Miss Amazing pageant, which is just for girls with physical and mental disabilities.
“We have participants who have Downs Syndrome, we have participants who have autism, high-functioning, low-functioning. We have participants that don't use words to talk,” Somer told TODAY.
Somer created the Miss Amazing pageant when she was just 13 years old, and now, seven years later, pageants are held across the country. Events, which include an introduction ceremony, evening wear and talents like martial arts and singing, are designed to help build confidence and self-esteem.
Gabby Arthurs, 11, was born with a rare genetic disorder, and is just one of the girls who participated in the pageant. She took to the stage in a multicolored tutu.
While Arthurs' mom held back tears, her father Ched Arthurs said, “To see how much happiness it brings her, to see her meeting all these new friends, just to see that smile on her face, it just melts my heart.”
Somer said that she hopes that after a Miss Amazing pageant, every contestant can go back to everyday life and remember that in that one moment, they were accepted -- and that there’s no reason that shouldn’t always be the case.
“I like it because it puts myself out there and I'm not just this girl in the wheelchair,” said contestant Abby Wiegand. “I'm me.”
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Home /Zionist Rally and Concert Draws 5,000
Zionist Rally and Concert Draws 5,000
Approximately 5,000 people attended Jerusalem United, a rally and concert to keep Jerusalem completely under Israeli sovereignty, held on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at The Armory in the Washington Heights section of New York City. The event was presented by the National Council of Young Israel, the Jerusalem Reclamation Project, and the Israel Solidarity Fund of America. All proceeds from the event will benefit victims of terror in Israel, displaced families of Gush Katif, and future projects in Jerusalems Old City.
For three hours, the capacity crowd joined together in unison to voice its opposition to the division of Jerusalem. In addition, the event served as a tribute to the eight young students who were killed on March 6, 2008, when an Arab gunman opened fire inside Yeshiva Merkaz Harav Kook in Jerusalem.
The program featured musical presentations by Jewish musical sensation Yaakov Shwekey, the world famous group Shalsheles, and an-up-and-coming band, Yaakov Chesed. In addition, there were inspirational guest speakers and heartwarming videos of Jerusalem. Guest speakers included Former Member of Knesset Natan Sharansky, Rabbi Benny Eisner of Yeshiva Merkaz Harav Kook in Jerusalem, National Council of Young Israel President Shlomo Mostofsky, and Daniel Luria, the Executive Director of Ateret Cohanim in Israel.
The program opened with National Council of Young Israel Executive Vice President Rabbi Pesach Lerner leading the crowd in the recitation of a chapter from Psalms, followed by a tefillah on behalf of the Israeli MIAs †Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev, Gilad Schalit, Yehuda Katz, Tzvi Feldman, Guy Hever, Ron Arad, and Zachary Baumel. Rabbi Lerner also led the crowd in a special prayer, composed by the Chief Rabbi of Israel, on behalf of Jonathan Pollard.
One of the most memorable moments of the afternoon came when Rabbi Benny Eisner, a teacher at Yeshiva Merkaz Harav Kook, addressed the crowd. Rabbi Eisner taught the eight young men who were tragically killed in the recent terrorist attack at Yeshiva Merkaz Harav Kook. At the funeral for the young boys, Rabbi Eisner led the mourners in the recital of Psalms. During the week of shiva which followed the attack, Rabbi Eisner spent his days going from house to house to visit the families of the young victims.
Rabbi Eisner discussed how just two weeks ago he had been learning with the boys, and spoke about the fact that he could never have imagined that just two weeks later he would be speaking at a rally and concert in New York City held in their memory. He also spoke about the inconceivable notion of dividing Jerusalem.
Jerusalem does not belong to the Israeli government; it belongs to the Jewish nation - to Am Yisrael, said Rabbi Eisner.
Following the rally and concert, Yudi Zuller of the Israel Solidarity Fund of America noted how heartwarming it was to see the tremendous number of young people in attendance for such an important event. In fact, on several different occasions during the concert, musical performer Yaakov Shwekey invited young children up on to the stage and danced with them as he sang songs about Jerusalem.
The inspiration behind the Jerusalem United rally and concert came from Yudi (Jay) Zuller and his wife Aviva, who run the Israel Solidarity Fund of America (ISFA). Established in 2002 after a rash of terror bombings in Israel, the ISFA is a private tzedaka organization based in the Willowbrook section of Staten Island, New York. Yudi and Aviva Zuller have made the welfare of their brothers and sisters in Israel victimized by Arab terror their lifes work and primary mission.
The ISFA is unique in that virtually every dollar that is raised through its efforts gets distributed directly to Israeli victims of Arab terror and/or their families. These families, which have to first endure the shock and pain after an attack, often later find themselves in dire financial situations due to the loss of income and additional medical expenses. They need continuing financial support to help them with their long-term recoveries.
The main source of the funds distributed by the ISFA has been the Shirei Shalom Concert Series. Staged at the Center for the Performing Arts at the College of Staten Island for four consecutive years and at the Colden Center at Queens College in 2007, these sold-out concerts that feature Jewish musics most popular performers have raised close to $1,000,000 for victims of terror in Israel. That is the equivalent of close to 2,000 families who have received funds from Mr. Zuller and the ISFA.
At the Jerusalem United rally and concert, Yudi Zuller recalled how as a young boy his parents would bring him to Solidarity Sunday events on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Zuller discussed the importance of having people involved in causes that are vital to the survival of the Jewish nation, and thanked the many students from numerous Jewish high schools throughout the New York metropolitan area who volunteered to help make the Jerusalem United event a tremendous success.
Zuller also spoke about the importance of speaking out to make sure that Jerusalem remains united and the dangers of dividing Jerusalem. You cannot divide the indivisible, Zuller said.
According to the Young Israel website, "Since the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, it has become absolutely clear to all that Jerusalem, in its entirety, belongs and will belong to the Jewish nation forever. Jews throughout the world recognize how fortunate they are to be able to freely visit Jerusalem with their families, and how wonderful it is that so many Jews are now able to own real estate in the eternal capital.
"However, the fate of Jerusalem suddenly appears to be in jeopardy. Political leaders in Israel, who in the past loudly proclaimed that Jerusalem would forever remain united under Jewish sovereignty, have reversed their position and are now willing to give parts of the holy city away in the hopes of achieving a lasting peace. They have not learned the tragic lesson of giving away Gush Katif, as they seem to ignore the fundamental truth that there are no true partners for peace and no amount of concessions will satisfy those whose ultimate goal is the destruction of the State of Israel.
"Jews in the Diaspora have pondered how to respond to this troubling turn of events. There are those who are wrapped up in their own busy lives and hope that someone in Israel will take care of Jerusalem. There are those who have argued that the final fate of Jerusalem is an internal Israeli matter for those who live within her borders and not meant for Diaspora Jews to concern themselves with."
According to Zuller, Jerusalem belongs to all Jews, irrespective of where they reside, and it is therefore incumbent upon Jews throughout the world to cry out together, in unison, for Jerusalems sake.
Rabbi Lerner concurred. We cannot remain silent as the unthinkable threat of a divided Jerusalem begins to take shape, said Lerner, We need to voice our deep opposition with a renewed sense of purpose and let everyone know that we will do everything in our power to ensure that Jerusalem remains united and is not taken from us.
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Jerusalem does not belong to the Israeli government; it belongs to the Jewish nation - to Am Yisrael, said Rabbi Eisner. A rather odd comment, given that the goal of the entire event was to advocate the entire Jerusalem being under the sovereignty of the Israeli government. If he really does not care about the Israeli government, only about Jerusalem and its connection to the Jewish people, he should be just as happy with Jerusalem under a Palestinian government. The centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish religion would not change then, just as it did not change when Jerusalem was ruled by the Romans, the Byzantines, the Caliphs, the Crusaders, the Mongols, the Ottomans or the British.
But later in the article the real reasons for this insistence on Israeli sovereignty are revealed: "Jews throughout the world recognize how fortunate they are to be able to freely visit Jerusalem with their families, and how wonderful it is that so many Jews are now able to own real estate in the eternal capital." So it's about vacations and real estate. That is why Jerusalem is central to the Jewish religion!
In general, we must keep in mind that the Zionism of these Young Israel groups is born of ignorance and patriotism, not of analysis of the facts of Jewish texts and Jewish history. Jews Against Zionism have already made efforts to reach out to educate Jews in religious Zionist environments by placing the book "In the Footsteps of the Flock" in Young Israel and similar synagogues throughout Brooklyn. Now we call upon our dedicated readership to help us extend this project outside Brooklyn as well. If you live near a Young Israel or other Zionist-oriented synagogue, and are willing to place a copy of "In the Footsteps of the Flock" on the shelf there, please write to us in the "ask the rabbi" section of this site, give us your address, and we will mail you the book for no charge.
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News: youtube orchestra, a wonder to behold!
A brilliant idea, I always wondered how the orchestra was laid out, and youtube have created a special interface to the videos... very clever:
We called for professionals and amateur musicians of all ages, locations and instruments to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra by submitting a video performance of a new piece written for the occasion by the renowned Chinese composer Tan Dun.
Finalists are selected by a judging panel which is comprised of the worlds most renowned orchestras and your vote on YouTube (Feb 14-22).
Winners are announced on March 2nd and will be invited to travel to New York in April 2009, to participate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra summit, and play at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
All the Tan Dun submissions will be compiled into a mashup video which will be premiered at Carnegie Hall on April 15th and will be hosted on this channel on April 16th.
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TCC’s Theatre Department Performs Play by Tulsa-born Playright
Tulsa Community College’s Theatre Department steps into the world of paranoia, schizophrenia and conspiracy theories with the upcoming production, “Bug.” Written by Tulsa-born playright Tracy Letts, this play explores the deeper, darker side of humanity with graphic and mature themes.
“Bug” is the final production in the 2016-2017 Tulsa Community College Theatre Department season. The performance is at the VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education Main Theatre on the TCC Southeast Campus located at 10300 E. 81st Street.
The play is set in rural Oklahoma and shows how easily individuals can be persuaded by another person’s overpowering personality. The show is directed by Mark Frank.
“Everyone has some type of bug in their life that they are dealing with, some are real and some are in our imaginations,” Mark Frank, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Theatre at TCC said. “This production is a great example of what happens when we are not confident in our own beliefs and convictions.”
Performances are 8 p.m., April 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22 with 2 p.m. matinee performances on April 15, 22 and 23. The performance on April 20th will be an American Sign Language interpreted performance.
Tickets for all theatre performances are $15 adults, $10 seniors, $6 students, and TCC faculty. Student rush tickets are available one hour before performance for $5. Tickets can be purchased at the VanTrease PACE ticket office on the TCC Southeast Campus. For more information call 918-595-7777.
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Home headline Bild: Two Turkish generals applied for asylum in Germany
Bild: Two Turkish generals applied for asylum in Germany
Two Turkish generals who are accused of taking part in a failed military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 applied for asylum in Germany on Tuesday night, the German Bild daily reported on Wednesday.
The paper said that after the initial processing of their applications, the generals would be taken to a refugee camp in the German town of Giessen.
According to a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel in early May, at least 450 Turkish diplomats, military personnel, judges and other civil servants have been seeking asylum in Germany in a bid to escape a post-coup crackdown back home.
“Currently the Federal office for migration and refugees [BAMF] considers relevant about 450 applications from Turkish diplomats, military personnel, judges and other civil servants,” Der Spiegel reported, saying that most of them are linked to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt.
More than 7,700 Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in Germany in total, according to the report.
Based on information from the German Interior Ministry, several German media outlets jointly reported last week that applications filed by Turkish citizens who hold diplomatic passports have been evaluated and that some of the military officers included in that group were granted political asylum status.
The development has angered Ankara, with the Turkish Foreign Ministry releasing a statement later last week voicing its regrets over Germany’s decision to grant asylum to the Turkish officers.
The military coup attempt killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement despite the lack of any evidence to that effect.
Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.
According to a statement from Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on May 6, 149,833 people have been investigated and 48,636 have been jailed as part of an investigation targeting the Gülen movement since the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey.
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Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo of United States - Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Rosemary DiCarlo of the United States, President of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs.
Mrs. DiCarlo succeeds Jeffrey Feltman of the United States, who completes his assignment on 31 March 2018. The Secretary-General is deeply grateful for Mr. Feltman’s dedicated, inspirational leadership of the Department of Political Affairs and his diplomatic skills in exercising the good offices of the Secretary-General to defuse crises and identify just and durable political solutions around the world.
Mr. Feltman’s tenure coincided with dramatic developments across the international landscape, giving rise to intense demands on the United Nations. Regardless of the challenge, the Secretary-General knew that he could always turn to Mr. Feltman for sound advice, creative thinking and trenchant analysis. Mr. Feltman’s support in giving new impetus to the prevention agenda, not least by strengthening DPA’s capacity for mediation, was indispensable.
Mrs. DiCarlo brings more than 35 years of experience in public service and academia. During her distinguished career with the United States Department of State, she served, inter alia, as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. In that capacity, she represented the United States at the Security Council, General Assembly and other UN bodies.
Prior assignments included Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Director for United Nations Affairs at the National Security Council in Washington D.C. Her overseas tours took her to the US Embassies in Moscow and Oslo.
Mrs. DiCarlo graduated from Brown University with a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, as well as Slavic Languages and Literature. She speaks French and Russian.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Mrs. DiCarlo is married.
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The Furnace of Affliction
Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America
By Jennifer Graber
248 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 7 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.
Initially, state and prison officials welcomed Protestant reformers' and ministers' recommendations, particularly their ideas about inmate suffering and redemption. Over time, however, officials proved less receptive to the reformers' activities, and inmates also opposed them. Ensuing debates between reformers, officials, and inmates revealed deep disagreements over religion's place in prisons and in the wider public sphere as the separation of church and state took hold and the nation's religious environment became more diverse and competitive. Examining the innovative New York prison system, Graber shows how Protestant reformers failed to realize their dreams of large-scale inmate conversion or of prisons that reflected their values. To keep a foothold in prisons, reformers were forced to relinquish their Protestant terminology and practices and instead to adopt secular ideas about American morals, virtues, and citizenship. Graber argues that, by revising their original understanding of prisoner suffering and redemption, reformers learned to see inmates' afflictions not as a necessary prelude to a sinner's experience of grace but as the required punishment for breaking the new nation's laws.
Jennifer Graber is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
For more information about Jennifer Graber, visit the Author Page.
“Graber makes a convincing argument that Protestant prison reformers were central to the development of the idea that prisons exist to rehabilitate convicts.”--The Historian
“One of the first in-depth studies of Protestant prison religion in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. . . . [It] raises important questions about the extent to which antebellum Protestant success or failure in influencing public policy hinged on the ideologies put forward by reformers, their decision to conform to political demands, and the willingness of the public to support their efforts.”--Church History
"Provocative and interesting."--Journal of American History
"Graber's book is a well-crafted historical case study . . . . [She] has done full justice to these historical conversations in her excellent book."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
“The book has much to recommend it.”--Journal of Church and State
“A well-researched, clearly articulated historical account of the struggle over Protestant Christianity’s religio-social role in the antebellum prison.”--Conrad Grebel Review
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Rumor Has It
Watch the MTV Movie Awards Rap That Revived the Leonardo DiCaprio “Bear Rape” Rumor
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MTV Movie Awards Winners List and Highlights, Spoilers and All
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Millennials Welcome
Endless Reruns of Beavis and Butt-Head, Laguna Beach, Daria Are Coming to a Rebranded MTV Classic Channel
The MTV Movie Awards Aren’t Just for Movies Anymore
The network is rebranding its second-best-known awards show, which will now cover TV as well as film.
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Melissa McCarthy accepting an award at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards.By Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images.
The Video Music Awards have always been the jewel in MTV’s crown, a highly anticipated annual affair that knows how to combine spectacle and substance—sometimes, within the very same performance. The same network’s yearly Movie Awards, by contrast, have long been something of a redheaded stepchild—a sometimes-slapdash telecast allegedly dictated at least in part by the celebrities slated to be in the audience, and which for years was taped days before it aired—perhaps so editors could surreptitiously massage the night’s events in order to make the show more exciting. (After a nearly decade-long experiment with live broadcasting that kicked off in 2007, the show returned to its pre-taped roots in 2016.)
Maybe a rebranding will help. On Monday, MTV announced in a press release that 2017’s Movie Awards have been “newly reimagined” as the slightly more cumbersome MTV Movie & TV Awards, “the ultimate celebration of young Hollywood’s best WTF to WOW performances across film and TV.”
Translation: perhaps realizing that television has taken up much of the cultural capital that once belonged to film alone, the awards have broadened to recognize TV shows as well as movies. (Or MTV just wanted to guarantee that the Stranger Things kids would show up to this year’s telecast, whichever.)
It’s a natural evolution, given just how scripted offerings have proliferated during the age of peak TV—although it’s unclear how an awards show that tends to value “OMG” moments over actual awards will deal with ostensibly having to hand out twice as many statuettes. One likely solution: the show simply won’t present every award during the telecast, much as in years past. In 2016, for example, the awards nixed an on-air best-male-performance presentation, probably because the prize was won by Leonardo DiCaprio, who didn’t attend the ceremony. (You know who was there, though? A certain bear.)
In any case: TV shows are eligible for MTV Awards now! What a time to be alive! The show, which will once again be broadcast live this year, is set to air May 7.
MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet Fashion 2016
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Host an Awards Show? Asks Hollywood: “What’s the Fucking Point?”
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Paleologos on the Poll: Will third-party voters decide the 2020 presidential election?
Paleologos on the Poll: Voters disillusioned with the two major parties could be the deciding factor in 2020, David Paleologos says.
Paleologos on the Poll: Will third-party voters decide the 2020 presidential election? Paleologos on the Poll: Voters disillusioned with the two major parties could be the deciding factor in 2020, David Paleologos says. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/22/paleologos-poll-third-party-voters-could-decide-2020/3233830002/
David Paleologos, Suffolk Political Research Center Published 7:05 a.m. ET March 22, 2019
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked an audience in Seattle Thursday night if 'we need to disrupt the system' as he ponders an indy bid for the White House. Outside, protesters shouted 'pick a party' saying he would only be a spoiler. (Feb. 1) AP
David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk Political Research Center, takes a look at the new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll.
Voters disillusioned with America’s major parties could be the deciding factor in the 2020 presidential election.
The latest Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll shows 38.5 percent of voters would choose to reelect President Trump; 35.9 percent plan to vote for the Democratic nominee; 11 percent of voters would vote for a third-party candidate; and 14 percent were undecided.
The third-party preference was particularly strong among independents: 26 percent of self-described moderate independent voters said they’d take that route, and 33 percent of independent voters who consider themselves liberal prefer a third-party candidate. Pass the Tums.
Poll: Democrats care more about victory than ideology in 2020 nominee
The big shots in the Democratic and Republican parties are going to spend the next year or so ignoring third-party candidates as each tries to define its core values and key issues for 2020. Over the next year you’ll hear “third-party candidates won’t decide this election,” “people will either vote for or against Trump” and “third-party candidates very rarely get on all 50 state ballots.”
As challengers, Democratic candidates will need to reconcile positions not just on a host of traditional issues, including the economy, health care and education, but also on progressive issues like the Green New Deal, taxing the wealthy, breaking up tech companies and free college tuition.
President Trump will be focused on insulting his way through what projects to be token Republican opposition, and he will use the GOP primaries to run up big margins in various states and tweet about them.
If history is any guide, the last 90 days of the presidential campaign will show us a Democratic and Republican nominee abandoning their far-left and far-right political bases and tacking to the center in order to win over swing voters and independents.
Meanwhile, third-party candidates won't find many potential voters among those who trust cable news outlets like CNN, MSNBC or FOXNEWS: 4 percent to 10 percent of these viewers prefer independent candidates. However, 16 percent of voters who trust traditional network news—ABC, NBC and CBS—would choose a third-party candidate.
And then there are the third-party candidates. You don’t need a long memory to know that the presence of third-party candidates can play a big role in determining an election’s outcome.
Third-party votes in 2016 surpassed Trump’s or Clinton’s margins of victory in many states. For example, Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes in Michigan, while 250,124 votes—nearly 25 times the margin of victory—were cast for third-party candidates. In Minnesota, Clinton defeated Trump by 44,765 votes, while 226,883 were cast for third-party candidates. In Wisconsin, Trump won by 22,748, while 153,180 votes were cast for third-party candidates. And this just didn’t happen in the blue wall states. Independent voters exceeded margins of victory in a total of 13 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Virginia. Even in New Hampshire, Clinton defeated Trump by 2,736 votes, while 38,900 votes were cast for third-party candidates.
This isn’t anything new. In 1992, independent Ross Perot won almost 20 million votes, and in 1996, he won 8 million, which was enough to keep the popular President Bill Clinton under 50 percent in his landslide win over Republican Bob Dole. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore beat Republican George W. Bush by about a half million votes nationally, while nearly 4 million people voted for third-party candidates. And in the disputed Florida count, Bush prevailed over Gore by just 537 votes after more than a month of counting ballots, while more than 135,000 votes went to other candidates, resulting in the election being tipped to Bush.
Today you can be assured that both Democrats and Republicans will agree on one important item come debate time: making it impossible for an independent candidate to reach the debate stage. And the League of Women Voters and other debate sponsors will oblige by setting rules to block out everyone else.
In this week’s poll, Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party all had higher negatives than positives. For survey respondents, the third-party nominee is an outlet for disdain.
According to the U.S. Elections Project, about 90 million Americans—all eligible to vote—did not cast ballots in the 2012 and 2016 Presidential elections, either because they were not registered to vote or because they were registered and just skipped voting. Suffolk University polled nonvoters last year. Asked whether the two major political parties do a good job representing America’s views or if a third party or multiple parties are necessary, 22 percent said that the two parties are good enough, while 30 percent said a third party is necessary, and nearly 27 percent said multiple parties are necessary. That’s 57 percent crying out for more than two party choices. No wonder they don’t vote.
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22 days, 236 years ago
An 1840 canvas painted by Eugene Louis Lami depicting American forces led by the Marquis de Lafayette during the 1781 Battle of Yorktown.
An 1840 canvas painted by Eugene Louis Lami depicting American forces led by the Marquis de Lafayette during the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. (Courtesy of the Library of Virginia)
About 7,000 British and German soldiers surrendered at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781, 236 years ago, marking the formal end of the Revolutionary War.
Still, most Americans didn't believe it was over.
The Marquis de Lafayette wrote home to France and said "the play is over … the fifth act has ended," according to Edward Ayres, a historian for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
But news of the British surrender following the Battle of Yorktown would have been news to residents on Virginia's Eastern Shore. There, British troops were still raiding farms for food and other supplies for more than a year after Yorktown, according to an account by the late author Kirk Mariner in his book, "Slave and Free on Virginia's Eastern Shore: From the Revolution to the Civil War."
Ayres said few viewed it as decisive until some time later. And indeed, the Treaty of Paris, formalizing the British surrender, was not signed until September 1783.
Other skirmishes took place on the western frontier, in the northeast and in the Carolinas, mainly between organized loyalist groups and patriot militia forces, Ayres said. Still, Yorktown was the last major military encounter between regular British forces and the Continental Army.
Before the Battle of Yorktown, British General Cornwallis occupied the town to establish a defendable deepwater port.
The Battle of Yorktown lasted 22 days, with Gen. George Washington, aided by French Gen. de Rochambeau leading a combined fighting force of about 17,600 troops, against British general Lord Cornwallis and his approximately 8,000 troops.
Washington and Rochambeau marched toward Virginia from New York in mid-August, while the French navy fought off the British in the Battle of the Capes, which proved significant because it prevented the British from bringing in reinforcements.
On Oct. 9, 1781, the American and French armies began bombing British positions, and within about a week, had moved their artillery close to remaining British fortifications, close enough to cause numerous British casualties. By Oct. 17, a British officer waved the white flag and told the Americans and French that he wanted to discuss surrender terms. At that point, the bombing of the British stopped, and surrender negotiations began. Two days later, the British signed the Articles of Capitulation.
After the British surrendered, they still had about 30,000 troops in America, even as American and French troops left Yorktown. Only Rochambeau's four regiments of French infantry stayed the winter in eastern Virginia. He wrote that the British could have continued to occupy coastal bases indefinitely, but they were unable to destroy the Continental Army or defeat the colonies.
Britain did not maintain its support of the war in America following the Battle of Yorktown. Growing sentiment in Parliament was that trying to defeat the colonies had been a failure, with war costs on the rise.
It wasn't until March 1782 that the British Parliament passed a resolution agreeing that the British should not continue the war against America; it took until September 1783 for the British to ratify the surrender, fully conceding America's independence.
"The allied victory at Yorktown seems to have been the final straw for Great Britain, which finally accepted the existence of the new American nation," Ayres wrote.
What: The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
Where: Route 1020 in Yorktown, near Yorktown Battlefield.
Admission: $12 for adults; $7 children 6-12.
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Portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald (U.S. Library of Congress)
LETTER: Sir John A. Macdonald’s role in residential schools
Canada’s first prime minister was progressive for his time
Aug. 9, 2018 11:00 a.m.
Re: Victoria to remove Sir John A. Macdonald statue from city hall
An open letter to Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and council:
Hearing of council’s action to remove the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, I was surprised that one would even exist in Victoria. The city should attribute its creation more to Sir James Douglas and the Lekwungen peoples, the Songhees and the Esquimalt Nations, as Douglas was the Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company when Fort Albert (later to be called Fort Victoria) was built back in 1843.
As a historian of Macdonald, I am fully aware of his role with First Nations, starting with the removal of Mississauga First Nations people from what is now the Fort York site and the forced movement of some of them to land just west of Kingston, something young Macdonald learned about while going to grammar school in the 1820s. That was his introduction to how society at the time felt that First Nations should be dealt with.
As he grew up and became a lawyer and then a politician in the Province of Canada and then the country itself, he was in a society that, unfortunately, did not pay the respect to First Nations that they should have. Hence, history has only recorded the more ‘promoted’ aspects of what has happened in our past as it has done with him and many others.
As for the residential school system and its development, that must be attributed to Edgar Dewdney moreso than Sir John. It seems that Sir John must take the heat for the residential schools phenomenon that was really the creation of Anglican, Methodist, and Roman Catholic institutions in Upper Canada (Ontario).
One has to wonder what actions are being taken regarding reconciliation that address the roles of the various churches that wanted to change the mindset of so many First Nations throughout the country, making them into ‘white men’.
There could even be a school of thought that would like to have the name ‘Victoria’ changed to ‘Camosun’, which would much further respect the role of the three First Nations in the area that is now encompassed by the city. But seeing that Sir John was the Prime Minister at the time, it always seems that the most senior person in governance must take responsibility for the decisions made by the legislative body of which that person is the ‘leader’.
Most people are benignly ignorant of Sir John’s complete legacy. That included considering extending the franchise to women and various ethnic groups that were minorities in what was quickly becoming a neo-European society, decades before the franchise was so extended, due to the myopic view of the male dominated society at the time.
I trust that council will remove the statue carefully, rather than like some instances in the southern U.S. states.
Graham Evan MacDonell, Scottish-Canadian Genealogical Research Services, Abbotsford
More action for homeless in Chilliwack
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Lyth looking forward to UAE tour
Whitby's Adam Lyth in action for Yorkshire CCC
Andrew Eric Bloomfield
Adam Lyth is looking to get his 2016 season off to a flying start during Yorkshire CCC’s tour of the United Arab Emirates this month.
The club head out today on a 13-day trip that will include the prestigious Champion County match against the MCC, the traditional curtain-rasier to the English season.
Whitby’s Lyth, who won the top male achiever and Mavis Clayton Memorial Trophy at the Scarborough News Scarborough & District Sports Council 2015 Sports Awards last week, said: “I am really looking forward to getting some games under my belt after a lot of indoor work over the winter months.
“This is a very important pre-season for me and the chance to get as many games in as possible.
“The MCC game will be a tough one, they are captained by England batsman Ian Bell and will have a strong line-up.”
Yorkshire won the corresponding fixture last year by nine wickets before successfully defending their Championship crown.
In addition to that four-day match at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, beginning on Sunday March 20, the Tykes will also be looking to retain the Emirates Airline T20 Cup.
The four-team tournament, which Yorkshire won last year by beating Lancashire and Sussex, takes place in Dubai on Friday March 18.
Yorkshire take on MCC in the second semi-final this year, with the UAE national side hosting Lancashire in the other semi-final.
Yorkshire also face Lancashire in a two-day game in Dubai starting on Monday, and Leicestershire in a T20 warm-up in Dubai on Thursday.
Lyth was also quick to praise Whitby’s Ryan Gibson and former Scarborough CC wicketkeeper Jonathan Read after their call-up to the 18-man squad for the tour.
“It is great to see that there is plenty of cricketing talent in this area with the likes of Read being called up to the tour, and also Ryan Gibson going on his first-ever pre-season trip with Yorkshire,” he added.
“They will both get plenty of experience from competing at this level and it will also give them the opportunity to shine with the likes of Jason Gillespie and Martyn Moxon, and the rest of the coaches looking at them both.”
Staxton boosted by return of star batsman Pinder
Read and Gibson are also both previous winners at the Scarborough Sports Council Awards.
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Beatrice Gibson: The Tiger's Mind
The Tiger's Mind was developed as part of a publishing project initiated by Gibson and Will Holder in 2010. It employed a 1967 score of the same name by British composer Cornelius Cardew as a means for producing and documenting speech.
A group of practitioners (John Tilbury, Jesse Ash, Beatrice Gibson, Alex Waterman, Céline Condorelli and Will Holder) took part in a series of week-long character driven conversations, set up by Gibson and Holder and hosted in turn by Serpentine Gallery, London, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstverein, Amsterdam and CAC Brétigny. After the final conversation at CAC Brétigny, the project shifted away from the verbal to being a collective framework for a film's production.
The Showroom and CAC Brétigny commissioned Beatrice Gibson to make the film in 2012 and it premiered at the BFI the same year. It was exhibited at The Showroom between 14 November 2012 – 19 January 2013, before touring to Pavilion, Leeds, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm and CAC Brétigny, with the film reiterated differently at each institution.
The exhibition at The Showroom was accompanied by a series of events including a concert by AMM (John Tilbury and Eddie Prevost).
A publication, also titled The Tiger's Mind, edited and produced by Holder, and documenting the process of the project, was published by Sternberg Press in 2012.
Holder also produced a limited edition, The Tiger's Mind Score.
The Tiger's Mind has been screened at many international festivals and venues and it won the 2013 Rotterdam Film Festival Tiger Award.
The Tiger’s Mind was co-commissioned by The Showroom and CAC Brétigny, and produced in partnership with Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm and Somesuch & Co.
The exhibition was supported by Pavilion, Leeds, Kunstverein, Amsterdam (with support from Straat van Sculpturen) and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
The film was supported by Fluxus, a Franco-British Fund for Contemporary Art, Arts Council England, Outset Contemporary Art Fund as The Showroom’s Production Partner 2012, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm and CAC Brétigny.
The project was realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission Culture 2007–2013.
Beatrice Gibson
Based in London, Gibson is an award-winning artist and filmmaker.
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Exhibition Beatrice Gibson: The Tiger's Mind
14 November 2012 – 9 January 2013
Event A concert by AMM: John Tilbury and Eddie Prevost
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Shocking footage of a Mother’s Day road crash caused by rubbernecker that left a mum paralysed
Marilyn McKnight was left with life-changing injuries after horror smash
By AMANDA DEVLIN
A DISTRACTED driver left a mum paralysed after momentarily taking his eyes off the road to watch the aftermath of an elderly woman driving the wrong way down the motorway.
Cops have released dramatic footage of the moment Craig Harding, 44, who ploughed into the back of a Ford Ka at speed to look across at the crash scene on the other side of the road.
Marilyn McKnight, 67, who was travelling in her Ford Ka with her son, Kevin, and daughter-in-law,
Rachael, can no longer walk after suffering life-changing injuries in the horror smash.
She was also left with internal injuries, severe spinal injuries and is blind in one eye since the crash on the A19 northbound on March 15 last year.
The carnage was captured on CCTV, which shows Mrs McKnight's car at a standstill when Harding race towards her - propelling the Ka onto its roof - trapping both her and her son.
Cleveland Police hope the shocking footage will help highlight the dangers of drivers becoming distracted on the roads.
Watch the Dangers of Being Distracted Whilst Driving in Dramatic Footage here: https://t.co/kmGK7B3J1U pic.twitter.com/WPp8QcOL9f
— Cleveland Police UK (@ClevelandPolice) May 23, 2016
Inspector Harry Simpson, from the Cleveland and Durham Specialist Operations Unit, said: “This footage shows what could happen should you not be giving your full attention to the road ahead.
Marilyn’s life has been altered beyond recognition and her son and daughter-in-law are still suffering from the effects of that day.
"It’s worrying to think that a family day out could end up in such carnage."
He added: “Both collisions that took place on that day were completely avoidable and had Craig Harding been paying attention to the road in front of him, the devastation that this family has suffered would never have happened.
“Distraction is part of the ‘fatal four’ contributing factors in serious and fatal collisions, alongside speeding, seatbelts and intoxication. Whether it be mobile phones or any other form of distraction, police would urge drivers to give the road ahead of them their full attention and concentrate on what’s happening ahead.
This is the moment a car slammed into the back of a Ka sending it flying onto its roof
“It only takes a split second for something like this to happen. Whether you’re travelling at speed or not, please bear in mind the damage that can happen if you take your eyes off the road. I think the footage that we have released following this incident speaks for itself.”
Harding was jailed for causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
His original sentence was lowered to ten months in prison following an appeal. He also received a driving ban for two years and five months, and will need to pass an extended test.
Mrs McKenna was left with life-changing injuries following the tragic crash
In the last five years, there have been 73 people injured in Cleveland and Durham in collisions involving a driver using a mobile phone. Of these, 65 suffered slight injuries, five were seriously injured and three were killed.
Over the same period, there were 499 people injured in collisions involving a driver who was distracted by something inside their vehicle other than a mobile phone, for example, a satellite navigation system, the radio, children, and even a wasp.
A total of 460 of these people were slightly injured, 34 were seriously injured and five were killed.
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Michaela Coel Isn’t Going to Tweet This
The Chewing Gum creator on racial fetishes, Brexit, avoiding Twitter, and Black Earth Rising.
By E. Alex Jung@e_alexjung
Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Image
Michaela Coel is napping in the car when I arrive to our interview, but she is immediately and irrepressibly ready to go when we sit down to talk. She’s in New York doing press for Black Earth Rising, Hugo Blick’s limited series that premiered on BBC Two last year and is now available in the U.S. on Netflix. After beginning her career as a poet, Coel made her name in 2015 with the fantastic, elastic comedy series Chewing Gum, a TV adaptation of her one-woman show. From there, she’s continually expanded her breadth, doing a rom-com musical (Been So Long), written by her mentor Ché Walker, and heightened science fiction (Black Mirror). Black Earth Rising is another turn — all prestige drama, with slowly panning shots and deep reservoirs of historical trauma.
Coel has a near-religious intensity when she speaks — striking, in part, because what she tells me over the next hour is how she has lost a sense of certainty in her life. Doing Black Earth Rising was a watershed moment, rearranging her perspective on the world. Coel plays Kate Ashby, an adoptee who was rescued during the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s and raised by a prominent human-rights attorney in Britain. As a war-crimes tribunal against a Hutu leader unravels, so does her personal life. The messiness of historical responsibility, legacies of colonialism, and the watery lines between right and wrong, friend and enemy, was something she took to heart.
“[Kate] thinks she’s one thing, and she has to change the narrative and learn a new way of empathy,” Coel says, as tears stream down her face. “I’ve had to learn a new way of empathy, and I don’t know if everybody is into that.”
What does she mean by that, exactly? Coel has a hazy way of speaking about politically charged issues; she’s reluctant to assign blame or point fingers. Still, she’s game to talk about anything, including all the ways her internal compass on politics and justice have evolved, Brexit, Twitter (and how the two have collided in her mentions), advocating for more equitable pay for writers at Channel 4, sex, racial fetishes, and why she won’t do a third season of Chewing Gum.
My understanding is that you auditioned for Black Earth Rising. Many actors of your stature might only consider “offer only” roles, and I wondered if you felt that you had something to prove?
Yes. I had to audition for that job. Three times. I have been offered one TV job — the second character I played in Black Mirror — and one theater job. I’m not in that “offer” arena. I know your IMDb gets to a point where you just receive offers. That is not where I am, and I don’t know if it’s where I want to be. The audition process is hard, but it’s a bit like the difference between walking home and getting an Uber home. You get an Uber, you don’t even really register getting out of the car and going into a house, but when you walk and if you don’t have your Google Maps on, you are literally trying to find your way home, and it takes you 45 minutes. You feel this amazing sense of, Wow! I’m home. It feels great. That’s auditioning. When you’re just offered, it’s just like, Oh, so what jobs have I been offered today? Let me have a look in my office. I feel like that euphoria and terror and fear goes away. I do like uncertainty, because life is uncertain.
Even after I got [Black Earth Rising] I kept saying to the director, “Are you sure?” In fact, I was offered Been So Long, the musical, and they hadn’t auditioned me as a singer, and I said, “You have to audition me as a singer.” They said, “No, no. We don’t need to.” I said, “You have to.” It’s like, “Guys, don’t get gassed. Calm down. I may not deliver.” I made them audition me.
Black Earth Rising is about how personal trauma and historical trauma intertwine. Did it in any way help you process trauma yourself?
I’m getting a bit teary just thinking about it. [Voice breaks.] It did. It took me like a year-and-a-half after we filmed to realize how much I’d learned from playing this woman. I’m very much like her in a lot of ways in that I sometimes am not aware of my own trauma, so [I focus on] a wider thing: race, politics, war, TV, subconscious bias, prejudice, colorism, and kind of, We’ve got to sort this out! We’ve got to! It’s a way of not looking at you, maybe because you’re not aware.
There’s some disconnect I went through where I was literally looking for enemies, looking for who is to blame for all of this shit. Looking, looking, looking. Calling, calling, calling. Going at war, going at war. It sounds really strange, and it sounds like I’m not making sense. But in looking for my enemies I became surprised to find a mirror, and I saw myself. I realized you can chase people for doing bad things, but while you do that, you have to realize there’s probably someone running after you. You are not just a victim. I had to learn this. Once I found the ignorance and complicity in myself, the thoughtlessness that I have, I began to see other people that I saw as thoughtless or [blamed] for things, I saw the common threat. I’ve had to see things through two lenses at the same time and go, There’s good and bad in everything and everyone. I hope that makes sense.
Could you give me an example?
Yes. For example, I gave something called the MacTaggart Lecture. I decided to reach out to a lot of new writers and say, “Send me your first contracts.” I don’t wanna get Channel 4 in trouble … There were things like regulations put in place that no writer could be paid anything under this. Then when you saw the contracts you see, “I didn’t know that was regulation. I was paid under that. So were you?” They weren’t. I want to be clear, but I also don’t want to attack. I have no issue with cash, but what I do have an issue with is, it looks like sometimes there seems to be some pay discrepancy between people who are darker or working class and people who are perhaps middle class, male, Anglo-Saxon.
You can see there’s a little pattern, and I don’t know if that pattern really means anything, but then to call the people that I saw as responsible, call the heads of department, call the people who run the finance — you imagine these people as monsters, people that are intentionally doing something. Then you face them and you just see a thoughtless little person who doesn’t know what’s going on, and they’re flustering around, and then they start talking about all the other things they had to do. They’re going through stress and you go, Oh God! You’re not even intentionally fucking shit up. You’re just not thinking.
And I, sometimes, don’t think. What do I do now? I throw you off a cliff because you didn’t think? As if I’m always thinking. I had to have a little bit of empathy, which has changed the way I navigate my life. I’ve realized that everybody has different life experiences, and we all end up with different perspectives. My perspective isn’t better than anybody else’s, it’s just another perspective. If I try to suggest my perspective as better, I’m wrong because it’s just mine. Knowing that, it makes it hard to really talk about things because everybody is doing what they have to do.
One of the concerns people could have is that there’s a both-sides-ism to this.
It’s a problem, because there are two sides?
Right, because those two sides aren’t equal.
What are the two sides?
Well, if we’re talking about systemic racism …
Yes, the two sides aren’t equal, so we should try to make the two sides equal? I learned I cannot draw conclusions for the other side. I can just show them what I can see. For example, I can’t call up those people and go, “Systemic racism.” They switch off, because it’s an attack. But if you go, “Oh, look at the payments here. What do you think?” If my aim is to try to bring us a bit closer to a form of justice, I have learned that I can’t draw conclusions for the people who are responsible for injustice. It doesn’t work. It’s seen as an attack. I’m not just trying to shout at people; I want the next writers to have some equal pay. That might feel good to call up and say, “You’re racist,” or, “This is systematic racism.” But how does that bring equal pay?
It sounds like what you’re talking about is how to be more strategic, and how to be more effective. Did these conversations result in more equitable pay?
Definitely resulted in more opportunities. I know so many writers, and it did resolve in more equitable pay. Some writers say, “We use your lecture as receipts.” They’re execs and they’re new writers. I don’t know if it’s resulted in pay equality. I would have to see contracts; I would have to have that kind of power to even work. I don’t have any power in this industry. It seems to have been more effective than when I would attack, which I used to do a lot.
You can chase people for doing bad things, but while you do that, you have to realize there’s probably someone running after you.
I feel like I understand your Theresa May tweet a little bit better, where you wrote, “I did not vote for Theresa May, but that chick is handling her shit right now in house of commons like a QUEEEEN.” Did you feel like the reaction was misunderstood?
How was it understood?
Well, you deleted it.
I’ve deleted all my tweets because I realized I was having dialogue and going, Oh, literally we are coming from two different perspectives and we can’t agree. I don’t mind that. I’ve learned on Twitter, just don’t talk anymore. Don’t write anything, Michaela. Don’t write any tweets. Just, “Hey, this is happening. Here’s the show coming out.” Be that person. I’ve never voted Conservative in my life. I’ve never said anything nice about Theresa May. I learned don’t ever say anything nice. Don’t ever try to understand people who have a different perspective publicly. Never do it.
How then do you view pro-Brexiters who voted to leave? I assume you’re not …
I’m all for remain.
I grew up in London. I’ve grown up in Europe. The last time I was attacked for being black was only four years ago, 2015 in Bulgaria, walking around carrying groceries home. Being chased down the street with stones thrown in my path. Do you think Brexit surprises me? That people want to do things like leave? No. This is where I live. I understand where I’m from. It’s very hard to have a black community in the U.K. There’s 3 percent of black people in the U.K. There’s not enough of us. I’ve been in British Anglo-Saxon spaces since I was born, and, no, they haven’t always been fun. They’ve been very, very, very hard. When you are in the hardness, you have to try to see something good or you’ll kill yourself. How many times can your face be rubbed in the mud because you’re a nigger? It’s where you belong and you just go, Why would you stay alive? You have to keep looking and go, “Okay, you hate me. You want me to go. Why? I see fear. You’re afraid of me.” Once you see someone is scared, it really does something to your perspective of the person hurting you. What do you do when people are afraid, and they don’t even know they’re afraid?
All I know is, I saw Theresa May, and they were laughing and scoffing. They were just men laughing, scoffing, telling her, “You are humiliated.” If people were doing that to me, I don’t know how well I’d manage. I’m like, Let me just pretend for a second that I’m in this really posh-ass building and people are laughing and scoffing at me while I tried to explain a point. Whether the point is wrong or right, whether the person is a queen or a pauper. If you imagine being that person, how would I handle that? I don’t know.
Was there a specific moment when you had this realization?
It was through this bloody show, I’m telling you. Looking at the genocide, the fearmongering, the propaganda, you realize fear is at the heart. Why do we protect things? Why do we lie? Why do people in places of privilege keep these secrets? To avoid sharing things because they’re scared of losing things; they’re scared of losing legacies. It doesn’t make these people innocent. It doesn’t make these people not incredibly destructive in the damage that they can do to the world, but you just have to go, I don’t know if anybody’s born evil.
Do you think there should be a second referendum?
I don’t know. I think everything is very interesting. I’m really intrigued to see what the outcome would be, and I think it would be really more of the same embarrassment this country is facing if we have the same results again. I’m like, “So what’s it gonna be now? It’s gonna be 48 percent leaving? Is it going to be that big a difference, guys?” Once again, it goes back to perspectives. I know my vote wouldn’t change. Would anybody’s vote change? Would anybody go, “I admit I was ignorant”?
Did you feel ready for the sudden acclaim that came with the first season of Chewing Gum? How did you handle that level of attention?
It came in waves because it was Channel 4 first, and the show was received very well, but by a very small group of people. I think it was a maximum of 500,000 views. I was so proud. It felt like a cult classic. It’s strange; you’re an actor and a writer, so there’s a part of you that likes being onstage and telling stories, and there’s a part of you that much prefers to be in the middle of nowhere in a cabin by yourself for a month with no contact with the outside world. You don’t quite know how to respond to the level of exposure, but you do know that that’s what you wanted. You wanted everybody to see it, and they did and they loved it, and that’s amazing. It can overwhelm because it doesn’t feel natural. So many people know you.
I used to go out — I didn’t brush my teeth; I wouldn’t shower. I would be able to sit on the street. I remember once I had an eye infection, and I went to the emergency doctor in Shoreditch. It was like 9 at night, and I really just sat on the bench, and somebody threw me change. I just looked like a very invisible spectator of the world. I was able to really do those things and I loved that. I could go anywhere and not be noticed, and now that’s really gone. I can still get around, but I’m known for things that I consider nice things. Things to be proud of. But look, I’m fine. I’m not Beyoncé. It’s not a problem. I can leave my house. I don’t need security.
Something that resonated with me about Chewing Gum was that it was a show about a woman, Tracey, who gets to explore her sexuality, which is something that can be foreclosed to a lot of people. I liked how weird and painful and funny and gross that journey was for her. Could you talk about how the character first emerged out of that sense of repression?
We lived quite sexually repressed childhoods in teenage years. Even in secondary school among me and my black friends, it was not cool to do sexual things. It was like, “Somebody let some guy suck her tits.” That’s like you disrespect the person. We’re going to get those opinions from our culture, [and] even from people who aren’t religious. There’s no dialogue about sex. In my house, it was never mentioned — it’s biology; it’s unavoidable. I wonder if knew more about sex I would’ve made fewer mistakes.
For example, there are a lot of girls, they talk about sex, and they say things like they love real big dicks. I mean huge ones. I’m always like, “That’s really intense for me.” And I always ask, “Have you orgasmed while having sex?” And they go, “Oh, no.” They like big dicks and tricks. All these positions, positions, positions, positions, positions. Like, sex is so simple. You don’t have to be tricky, and you can tell they haven’t been allowed to get their orgasm while they’re having sex. It’s almost like a pretend, where [they] are not pursuing pleasure in the sex. It’s the man who is pursuing the pleasure in the sex, and the man thinks you want this version of events, which is tricks and tricks, and they pretend that they like it. I don’t think we really think sex is pleasurable for us, too, as women.
I was lucky enough to have a relationship where I was allowed to figure things out. This goes beyond heterosexual relationships. It’s this habit of going, You have to please; you do not say what you want; you let the other person do their thing. One person takes dominance, and the other person doesn’t get much after that. I don’t like that because it’s not fun for both parties. It’s not equal. Not that domination is bad. If both parties like it, great. But putting Tracey there and maybe not putting her in a sexual energy that we always see, I think it freaked people out, and it relieved some people. But it did freak people out. People didn’t want to see that. I’m [prouder] of doing that than I am of many other things I’ve already done. It’s freeing.
Could you talk about writing the character Ash (played by Jonathan Bailey) on the second season of Chewing Gum, who has an African fetish?
I had a period before Chewing Gum went to Netflix. I said, this is my last chance to really just be out there having sex with strangers. Once it’s on Netflix, it’s done for me; it’s over. So I’m gonna live this period; I’m gonna do it. That’s when I encountered Ashes. People who have only had sex with a particular kind of person or never had sex with a particular kind of person.
Sexual energy is an energy. It doesn’t have a color or a face, and some people only see what you look like. It was easy to write Ash because there are so many of them. I’ve experienced it and many other people have.
Was he a composite of experiences?
Oh, yes. Also, just not real. The dressing up, that’s not real. It’s an exaggerated version of trying to please someone who you know is fetishizing you. Some guys love long weaves and contact lenses and eyelashes and big lipstick and all this kind of stuff. I’ve had situations where a guy’s been running his fingers through my wig, and I’ve said, “This is a weave,” and they’re like, “Oh, no. I know.” They just wanna run their fingers through it. I’ve had guys that are like, “No, I love you natural.” For me, this is all a form of fetishizing me. I wanna do what I wanna do. It’s a very exaggerated telling of something true.
Do you feel like you can get to a truth through exaggeration?
Yes, if you see it. Many people don’t see it. Underneath every comedy is a tragedy, but some people don’t see the tragedy, and I assumed that more people would see the tragedy than they did. It’s very funny, yes, but there is a lot of social-political references happening all the time in the show, and some people don’t see that. This happens with a lot of artists.
My communication skills are really something I’m working on show by show, interview by interview. People see season two as darker. Maybe it is darker, because maybe my communication wasn’t quite effective in season one. People laughed, but they didn’t see everything. I’m realizing maybe that exaggerating and being absurd, it works, but it doesn’t work for everybody watching. It doesn’t quite get to everybody.
Do you feel like you’ve made it?
I’ve always felt like I’ve made it even when I was a poet who was cleaning in banks. I was a poet cleaning in the food court. I saw myself as very successful, to be honest with you. I’m just finding ways to tell stories and ways that I want to connect. We’re trying to make things en route, so there’s no destination.
You don’t know your future, so I try to just stay in this moment, which doesn’t have a conclusion. I’m making things. I’m trying to write. My friends say I don’t enjoy things enough. Maybe it’s to do with being the child of an immigrant.
Nothing is taken for granted.
Nothing is taken for granted because the floor underneath your feet, any second it can go. You have to just keep pedaling.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on a show for BBC Two. It’s 12 episodes. I’ve done all of them though. It’s about sexual consent, but it’s about trauma and grief and the seven stages of grief, and how we get to the final stage.
Would you do a third season of Chewing Gum?
No. It’s so strange, I kind of relish in this news. It’s like I love giving this bad news. I love telling people it’s over. The party is over. I don’t know why I love it so much because it’s not real, but look you’re still alive, right? It’s like, I get messages from people, they say the wanna kill themselves. “I’m gonna kill myself if you don’t do another season.” You’re still here though, right? Look at that.
Would you do it for Netflix?
No. Listen, I had a message from someone saying, “I hope you don’t mind, I’ve done a season three.” I’m like, “Good. Do it.” I’m not doing another season. Anybody else can do it. Please, anybody. I’m just not doing it. That’s all. Everybody has permission. I’m just not. For real. [Giggles.]
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Louisiana braces for slow-moving possible weekend hurricane
Posted: Jul 11, 2019 / 08:38 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 11, 2019 / 08:39 AM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi — the possibility that the flooded Mississippi River will be lapping at the tops of levees this weekend, and a danger of flash floods like the one that unexpectedly walloped New Orleans on Wednesday.
The Gulf of Mexico disturbance that dumped as much as 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain in just three hours over parts of metro New Orleans was forecast to strengthen into a tropical depression Thursday, then a tropical storm called Barry Thursday night, and, possibly, a weak hurricane by Friday.
By Thursday morning, the weather system had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph (56 kph), according to National Hurricane Center advisory. It was centered about 115 miles (185 kilometers) south-southeast of the mouth of Mississippi River.
A hurricane watch was in effect for the Louisiana coast from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Cameron.
The biggest danger in the days to come is not destructive winds, but ceaseless rain, the National Hurricane Center warned: “The slow movement of this system will result in a long duration heavy rainfall threat along the central Gulf Coast and inland through the lower Mississippi Valley through the weekend and potentially into next week.”
Forecasters said Louisiana could see up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain by Monday, with isolated areas receiving as much as 18 inches (46 centimeters). And the storm’s surge at the mouth of the Mississippi could also mean a river that’s been running high for months will rise even higher.
Southeastern Texas also was at risk of torrential rains.
New Orleans got an early taste Wednesday of what may be in store. News outlets said a tornado may have been responsible for wind damage to one home, while floodwaters invaded some downtown hotels and businesses as streets became small rivers that accommodated kayakers. The floods paralyzed rush-hour traffic and stalled cars around the city.
“I must have got to work about a quarter to 7,” said Donald Smith, who saw his restaurant on Basin Street flood for the third time this year. “By 7:15, water was everywhere.”
It brought memories of a 2017 flash flood that exposed major problems — and led to major personnel changes — at the Sewerage and Water Board, which oversees street drainage. City officials said the pumping system that drains streets was at full capacity. But the immense amount of rain in three hours would overwhelm any system, said Sewerage and Water Board director Ghassan Korban.
The Mississippi is already running so high that officials in Plaquemines Parish at Louisiana’s southeastern tip ordered evacuations of some areas to begin Thursday. A voluntary evacuation was called on Grand Isle, the vulnerable barrier island community south of New Orleans. Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a statewide emergency in light of the gathering storm.
A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans said the agency was not expecting widespread overtopping of the levees, but there are concerns for areas south of the city. The weather service expects the river to rise to 20 feet (6 meters) by Saturday morning at a key gauge in the New Orleans area, which is protected by levees 20 to 25 feet (6 to 7.6 meters) high.
The Corps was working with local officials down river to identify any low-lying areas and reinforce them, spokesman Ricky Boyett said. He cautioned that the situation may change as more information arrives.
“We’re confident the levees themselves are in good shape. The big focus is height,” Boyett said.
Edwards said National Guard troops and high-water vehicles would be positioned all over the state.
“The entire coast of Louisiana is at play in this storm,” the governor said.
New Orleans officials have asked residents to keep at least three days of supplies on hand and to keep their neighborhood storm drains clear so water can move quickly.
As the water from Wednesday morning’s storms receded, people worried about what might come next.
“This is going to be a slow storm … That’s what I’m concerned about,” she said.
Tourists Floyd and Missy Martin of Raleigh, North Carolina, were trying to make the best of it at a store with puddles on the floor where they were buying an umbrella, chips and peanuts, and two bottles of merlot.
“We could drown out our sorrows or make an adventure of it,” Floyd Martin joked.
by Greg Shoup / Jul 17, 2019
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Temperatures by Friday and Saturday may be the hottest highs we've seen since 2012.
An excessive heat warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for our entire area from Thursday Afternoon through Saturday Evening.
Weakened Barry still poses flood, tornado risks
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even though Tropical Depression Barry did not unleash catastrophic flooding in Louisiana, many across the Gulf Coast were urged to take heed of tornado and flash-flood warnings Monday as the storm moved north.
Barry was downgraded from a tropical storm on Sunday afternoon but continued to pose a threat. Much of Louisiana and Mississippi were under flash-flood watches, as were parts of Arkansas, eastern Texas, western Tennessee and southeastern Missouri.
Barry strengthens to hurricane; storm surge feared
by The Associated Press, KEVIN McGILL, JANET McCONNAUGHEY / Jul 13, 2019
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carrying "off the chart" amounts of moisture, sprawling Barry strengthened into a hurricane Saturday as it crawled slowly toward shore, knocking out power on the Gulf Coast and dumping heavy rains that could last for days in a test of flood-prevention efforts implemented after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 14 years ago.
As natives and tourists in the Big Easy, Baton Rouge and other heavily populated areas in the storm's path hunkered down or wandered through quiet, emptied streets waiting for the worst, the Coast rescued more than a dozen people from the flooded remote island of Isle de Jean Charles. Water on the island had risen so high that some residents were clinging to rooftops by the time help arrived.
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Pre-Season 2018/19: Hornets XI To Visit Boro
A Watford XI will take part in a pre-season fixture at Stevenage on Friday July 27 as part of the Hornets’ 2018/19 preparations.
The friendly match, which is likely to feature a mix of first team and Under-23 players, will kick-off at 7.30pm at the Boro’s Lamex Stadium.
Tickets are available to purchase from borotickets.co.uk and are priced as follows:
Adults/Concessions*: £12
Under-19: £10
Under-12: £5
*Concessions are aged 60 and over, students (with valid ID), members of the Armed Forces/emergency services (with valid ID). Ambulant and wheelchair disabled tickets are priced at the relevant concession rate, with a complimentary ticket offered for a carer.
Tickets can also be purchased by calling 01438 223223 ext.62, or via the pay-on-the-day cash turnstiles.
Confirmation of this fixture follows the announcement of a pre-season friendly at Brentford on Saturday July 28 (3pm KO) and The Graham Taylor Matchday – further details to follow on watfordfc.com in due course – at Vicarage Road on Saturday August 4.
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Trust: Meriden Play Area Unvelied
Watford FC's Community Sports & Education Trust recently officially unveiled a brand-new play area at the Meriden Community Centre, specifically designed for pre-school and Key Stage 1 children, with the help of Elected Mayor of Watford Peter Taylor.
The play area, which aims to promote recycling and the importance of looking after nature, was built largely thanks to the financial support of the Veolia Trust.
Further funders involved in the project include Awards For All, Tesco Bags of Help, and Meriden Ward Councillor Kareen Hastrick.
As the play area was officially unveiled, the Trust’s Head of Facilities Steve Williams led the tributes to a job well done in his ceremonial speech, before joining Mayor Peter Taylor, who had his two young children with him, for the ribbon cutting.
“Watford FC’s CSE Trust can be proud of the work they have done with the Meriden Community Centre,” said the Mayor. “Thanks to the support of local Meriden councillors and the Veolia Trust.
“In Watford, we are lucky to have so many fantastic parks and open spaces like this one for everyone in the town to enjoy.
“As a father myself, it’s great to see another excellent open space for my children. My son and daughter certainly gave it the thumbs up!”
The refurbishment of the play area was the third phase in the Trust’s project to breathe new life in to the Meriden Estate, and specifically the Community Centre.
With both the previous phases successfully completed back in 2016 (a 3G artificial grass pitch and a complete refurbishment of the centre itself), this provided the finishing touch to an outstanding hub for local people.
The play area was subject to a number of consultations with Watford Borough Council, Meriden Ward Councillors, Meriden Residents Association, Watford Housing Trust, Hertsmere Leisure, the Veolia Trust and the Green Canteen to ensure its community focus.
The project has certainly achieved its goal, with young families and local children already making good use of this newest facility.
To find out more about the work of the Trust, visit their website or follow them on Twitter.
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New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, B.F.A., 1996
New York Law School, J.D., 2001
2002, New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Marc A. Lavaia
mlavaia@wbny.com
Mr. Lavaia represents clients in a broad range of real estate and corporate transactions across industries. He counsels his clients on mergers, acquisitions and corporate formations, and oversees the expansion of established businesses. Mr. Lavaia represents both sellers and purchasers in a variety of real estate transactions and has expertise in commercial leasing. In addition, Mr. Lavaia represents clients in the areas of intellectual property, copyright and trademark, communication, media and technology, and licensing for film, television, music and fashion.
Mr Lavaia's work also includes litigation experience. He has prosecuted and defended both state and federal cases involving intellectual property, breach of contract, commercial transactions, real estate, corporate litigation and invasion of privacy.
Mr. Lavaia has served as the Treasurer of Campaign Finance for Friends of Eric Gioia 2005, where he managed the 2005 re-election campaign accounts for New York City Council Member Eric Gioia. He is active in New York City local politics.
Prior to his legal career, Mr. Lavaia spent several years working in the entertainment industry as an independent film producer, and performed lighting, scenic and staging work for Broadway theater and television.
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Two top DHS officials reverse course, say they'll stay on following leadership shake-up
Willmar men accused of beating a man, stealing his car
Written By: Linda J. Vanderwerf | Jul 11th 2019 - 6pm.
WILLMAR – Three Willmar men face felony charges for allegedly beating a man and stealing his car Tuesday afternoon.
Mohamed Daud Ahmed, 20, Ahmed Sulub Anshur, 22, and Ayab Mohamoud Iman, 22, made their first appearances in Kandiyohi County District Court Thursday.
A male juvenile was allegedly involved in the incident and is in custody at Prairie Lakes Youth Programs. If the juvenile is 16 or older, felony charges against him will be public.
The men face felony charges of aggravated robbery, motor vehicle theft and assault, as well as other lesser charges related to the incident.
The next court date for Anshur will be Sept. 11. Ahmed and Iman will be in court July 23.
All three are in the Kandiyohi County Jail.
Iman and Anshur are held on $70,000 bail for release without conditions and $5,000 for release with conditions. Ahmed’s bail with conditions is $7,500.
According to court records, a man called Willmar Police Tuesday afternoon to report that four men had approached his car while he was parked in an apartment building parking lot in southwest Willmar. He said they had beaten him and drove away with his car.
The stolen car, a 2004 Nissan Altima, was found in southwest Willmar shortly after the incident. The contents of the glovebox were disturbed, and the keys were gone, according to court records.
The man told police that one of the men punched him through the open driver’s window, yelled at him and told him to get out of the car. The man also allegedly struck the car owner with a rock and brandished a knife.
When he was outside the vehicle, all four suspects punched and kicked him, the man told police. He ran away to get away from the assault but left his car running. He described seeing the four men get into his car and drive away.
The man said he had recognized some of the men and knew where they lived, according to court records.
Willmar Police took the alleged victim to the home. While the victim watched, an officer knocked on the front door. People could be heard talking inside the house before the knock, but it was silent except for scuffing and scraping noises.
One of the house’s residents answered the front door, and an officer who had been stationed at the back of the house caught a juvenile who ran out the back door.
According to court records, Anshur came out of the residence without a shirt on. He asked if he could get a shirt, because insects were biting him. When Anshur came back out, according to the criminal complaint, he was wearing the same blue shirt the victim had described earlier.
As more occupants of the house were brought out to the front lawn, the victim identified the four people who had assaulted him.
According to court records, all four said they had been at the house the entire day.
Ahmed Sulub Anshur
Kandiyohi County Jail photo
Mohamed Daud Ahmed
KANDIYOHI COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
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Christina Crawford Visits @NELSON'S
This week's episode of @NELSON'S, hosted by We Love Soaps contributor and international entertainment reporter Nelson Aspen, was released on Friday and features special guest Christina Crawford, who starred as Joan on THE SECRET STORM in the late 1960s.
The author & pop culture icon herself sits down with Nelson for a wide-ranging & fascinating conversation about "Surviving Mommie Dearest" and her notorious Oscar-winning mother, Joan Crawford. No holds barred in this tough, touching and sometimes funny afternoon with one of the most famous and controversial figures in Show Business history.
On her mother subbing for her as Joan in THE SECRET STORM for a few episodes in 1968 when she was put into the hospital, Christina says, "I thought it was a terrible dream but it turned out to be reality."
"It was awful," she continues, "I couldn't do anything about it; I was in a hospital bed for a week almost. And I had to watch my show on the television set in my hospital room and, poor woman, why they allowed her to do that, why she wanted to do that, I can't tell you. All I know is it was an unmitigated disaster. She couldn't remember her lines. She wasn't sober. She was a middle-aged woman and I was in my 20s."
Check out the entire interview below including more on THE SECRET STORM:
- FLASHBACK: Joan Crawford Takes Daughter's Soap Opera Role 1968 (Audio)
Categories: Christina Crawford, Daytime, Joan Crawford, Nelson Aspen, The Secret Storm
Greeneb2 July 6, 2013 at 3:54 AM
I'm sure she's grateful that she survived all that damnable hell with her Dear Mother Joan--Sigh!
Brian :-)
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posted on Mon 24 Jun 2019 5:44 PM
UN Mission in South Sudan: Briefing and Consultations
Tomorrow (25 June), Special Representative for South Sudan and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) David Shearer will brief the Security Council on the Secretary-General’s 90-day report on the situation in South Sudan (S/2019/491). Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour is also expected to brief, as well as a civil society representative (via VTC from Juba, South Sudan). Consultations will follow the briefing.
Shearer is expected to highlight key aspects of the Secretary-General’s report, which covers the period from 27 February to 28 May, in relation to political and security developments, the humanitarian and human rights situation, and progress in the implementation of the mission’s mandate. On the political situation, Shearer will likely refer to the decision on 2 May by the parties to extend the pre-transition period set out in the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) by six months to enable the implementation of critical pending tasks. According to the terms of the R-ARCSS, 12 May was to mark the end of the eight-month pre-transition period and the start of the 36-month transition period, with elections to be held 60 days before the end of this transition period. A statement by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on 3 May observed that pre-transition tasks critical for the formation of the Revitalized Government of National Unity, such as the cantonment, screening, training, unification and deployment of forces and the determination of the number and boundaries of states, are pending. The statement identified a lack of political will and financing as well as time constraints as major challenges to implementation.
Shearer is expected to emphasise that the R-ARCSS remains the only option for a political solution to the crisis in South Sudan. He may welcome the commitment made by the parties to implement the outstanding tasks in the additional six months by which the pre-transition period was extended, and stress that the opportunity afforded by this extension should not be wasted. As stated in the Secretary-General’s report, “significant political investment” by the parties and the region is required to avoid missing the new deadline, with priority given to resolving the transitional security arrangements, including the security of the opposition members of the reconstituted transitional government. Council members may be interested in hearing further details from Shearer on what specific steps the parties have recently taken—as well as what steps the mission is taking—to support the peace process in light of resolution 2459 adopted on 15 March, which specified “advice or technical assistance, within existing resources” as part of the mission’s mandate.
On the security situation, Shearer will likely refer to the permanent ceasefire which continues to hold across most parts of the country and the ongoing subnational rapprochements between government and opposition forces and officials noted in the Secretary-General’s report. However, he may caution that the situation remains precarious with increased movement and reinforcement of troops; sporadic clashes; skirmishes along the border between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces; cattle raids; attacks on civilians; intercommunal violence; and persistent sexual and gender-based violence being reported.
Despite improvement in the overall security situation since the signing of the R-ARCSS, Shearer will likely emphasise that the humanitarian situation remains serious. The Secretary-General’s report estimates that between February and April 6.45 million people (57% of the population) faced acute food insecurity or worse, and an estimated 45,000 people were believed to be in phase 5, “catastrophe”, of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, with these estimates expected to rise during the height of the lean season (May to August). On 14 June, the IPC issued updated figures for May, with 6.96 million people (61% of the population) facing crisis (phase 3) and above food insecurity. The permanent ceasefire has generally improved humanitarian access, except for areas of Western and Central Equatoria, the report said.
Shearer may also note that more internally displaced persons are expressing a willingness to leave UNMISS protection sites, as well as refer to the unverified reports of the return of over 147,400 South Sudanese refugees. In spite of this encouraging information, the overall numbers of internally displaced persons and refugees remained the same as the previous reporting period at 1.9 million and 2.3 million respectively. As of 13 June, there were 181,096 civilians seeking safety in the six protection of civilians’ sites located on UNMISS bases. Council members may welcome more information on potential returnees, as resolution 2459 added language calling on the mission to “support the facilitation of the safe, informed, voluntary, and dignified return or relocation of [internally displaced persons] from United Nations protection of civilian sites, in coordination with humanitarian actors and other relevant stakeholders, and within existing resources”.
In relation to the implementation of the mandate of UNMISS, Shearer may emphasise the continued need for mission personnel to be allowed free and unhindered movement. The Secretary-General’s report notes that during the reporting period, UNMISS recorded 42 incidents constituting violations of the status-of-forces agreement, compared with 20 in the previous reporting period. Shearer may refer to a recent incident in which an UNMISS force protection team accompanying a World Food Program convoy was held for almost a week, pending various permissions to proceed.
In his briefing to the Council, Gilmour is expected to express concern over the human rights situation in South Sudan. He may refer in particular to the Central Equatoria region, where clashes continue between government forces and non-signatory opposition armed groups and inter-communal violence persists. According to the Secretary-General’s report, UNMISS verified 81 incidents that resulted in the killing of 154 civilians and the injury of 125 others during the reporting period, although access restrictions continued to impair the mission’s ability to monitor and investigate alleged human rights violations and abuses. Gilmour may refer to incidents including the killing or wounding of civilians, state-sanctioned executions, abductions, forced and child recruitment, conflict-related sexual violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and ill-treatment, forced displacement, and the looting and destruction of civilian property. Gilmour is also likely to discuss curtailment of freedom of expression and highlight that a culture of impunity continues to fuel acts of violence against civilians. The government has yet to sign the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan.
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Kourtney Kardashian is one of the three celebrity sisters who star in the E! Online show Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Kourtney appears on the show with her better-known sister Kim (b. 1980) and their younger sister Khloe (b. 1984), as well as assorted other friends and relatives. Her father was Robert Kardashian, a wealthy businessman and longtime friend of O.J. Simpson who also served as one of O.J.’s attorneys during his notorious 1995 murder trial. Kourtney Kardashian attended Southern Methodist University before getting a degree from the University of Arizona in 2002; meanwhile, her sister Kim was getting noticed as a friend of celebrity Paris Hilton. Kourtney gained her own fame when the family began filming the “reality” show Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2007; as the years have passed, the show became an institution and More petite than her sisters, Kourtney is regarded as the quieter member of the boisterous TV family. Kourtney and her younger sister got their own show in 2009, Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami, centered on the opening of their DASH clothing boutique in Miami, Florida. (The show ran for two seasons, followed by a third season in which Kim Kardashian replaced Khloe.) A second show, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, ran from 2011-13.
Kourtney Kardashian has three children with her longtime boyfriend, Scott Disick: a son, Mason Dash Disick, was born in December 2009; a daughter, Penelope Scotland Disick, born in July of 2012; and a son, Reign Aston Disick, born in December 2014. Kourney Kardashian and Scott Disick broke up in 2015… Kourtney Kardashian is 5’0″ tall, according to an interview her sister Khloe gave with PR.com in 2009… Kourtney’s mother Kris divorced Robert Kardashian in 1989, and in 1991 married Bruce Jenner, the gold medalist in the decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics. They were divorced in 2015, the year that Jenner transitioned to her female identity as Caitlyn Jenner… Kourtney’s father, Robert Kardashian, died in 2003… Kourtney Kardashian also has a brother, Robert Kardashian Jr., born in 1987, and two half-sisters from her mother’s marriage to Jenner: Kendall Jenner (b. 1995) and Kylie Jenner (b. 1997)… Kourtney Kardashian is also co-owner of the children’s boutique known as Smooch.
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Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.
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Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
An intellectually nonconformist monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
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Jigsaw locks a few unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also.
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A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.
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A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War.
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A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston
The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.
James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon
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A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible.
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Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head
A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image.
Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson
A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life.
Mystery, Sci-Fi
Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
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https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/sports/article/A-title-and-legacies-on-the-line-for-Heat-Spurs-9253739.php
A title, and legacies, on the line for Heat, Spurs
Brian Mahoney, AP Basketball Writer
Published 3:12 pm CDT, Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Miami Heat forward LeBron James works against, from left, San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard, forward Tim Duncan and guard Danny Green during the first half of Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday in Miami.
Photo: Kevin C. Cox
MIAMI — Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.
No matter what happens Thursday night, LeBron James and the Miami Heat, and Tim Duncan’s San Antonio Spurs, have already won NBA titles and secured a place in history.
Now is their opportunity to elevate it.
The truly memorable teams won the hard way, and that will be the case for the one celebrating at center court this time. It’s either a Heat repeat, possible only after James led them back from what seemed certain elimination in the closing seconds of Game 6, or the Spurs shaking off as gut-wrenching a loss as a team can have to become just the fourth club to win a Game 7 of the NBA Finals on the road.
“As a competitor you love it because you know you have an opportunity and it’s up to you,” Heat guard Ray Allen said. “We have a chance in our building to make something great. All of our legacies are tied to this moment, this game. It’s something our kids will be able to talk about that they were a part of. Forever will remember these moments, so we want to not live and have any regrets.”
Allen played in the game the last time the NBA’s season went down to the very last day, the Boston Celtics fading at the finish and falling 83-79 to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010. That made home teams 14-3 in finals Game 7s, with no road team winning since Washington beat Seattle in 1978.
Overcoming those odds, not to mention the NBA’s winningest team, would make this more memorable than the Spurs’ previous four titles, though this is a franchise that never dwells too much on the past or looks too far into the future.
All that matters is now.
“You know what, it’s all about just winning the title. It’s not about situation or what has led up to it,” Duncan said. “It’s a great story for everybody else, but we’re here for one reason, one reason only: it’s to try to win this game (Thursday). We have had a very good season thus far, and I think we just want to get to the game more than anything. We just want to see what happens and be able to leave everything out there.”
The teams trudged back to the arena Wednesday, some 12 hours after the Heat pulled out a 103-100 overtime victory in Game 6 to even the series. The Spurs, five points ahead with 28 seconds left in regulation, had to fight off fatigue and heartbreak, insisting neither would linger into Thursday.
By far the best game of this series, Game 6 immediately took its place among the best finishes in finals history, with everything from James’ triple-double to Allen’s tying 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in regulation.
It had close calls, debatable decisions and the NBA’s best player at his very best when his team needed him most.
Games 2-5 in the series had been ugly, but that one was a beauty.
“I think — I know — that game will go down as one of the best finals games that’s been seen,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. “But I think this series will go down as being one of the most competitive, bizarre series that’s been seen. So, this is what you pay for to watch. You pay to watch two great teams battle to the very, very end, and that’s what we’ll do (Thursday). It will be to the very last second.”
The Heat could become the NBA’s first repeat champions since the Lakers in 2010. James and Chris Bosh moved to Miami to join Wade a few weeks later and they are in the finals for the third time in three chances.
But playing for titles is more expected than celebrated now in Miami, and a 66-win season that included a 27-game winning streak — and perhaps the whole Big Three era — goes down as a failure if the Heat fall Thursday. Yet James said he doesn’t need the victory to validate his decision to take his talents to South Beach.
“I need it because I want it and I only came here — my only goal is to win championships,” he said. “I said it, this is what I came here for. This is what I wanted to be a part of this team for.”
He, Wade and Bosh are going for No. 2, while San Antonio is getting a second shot at what would be a fourth together for Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. All their years together have given the Spurs’ trio the belief they can bounce back from Tuesday’s collapse.
The team went to dinner after the game, Duncan figuring that was better than guys sitting alone with their thoughts in their rooms. Parker and Boris Diaw discussed a similar situation with the French national team in the 2005 European championships, when they blew a late lead against Greece in the semifinals but then came back to beat Spain for the bronze medal.
“We just have to be positive and forget Game 6,” Parker said. “It was a great opportunity, but that’s life. It’s basketball and everybody will be ready.”
So will James, who was planning a relaxing night with family and friends Wednesday. He has the most at stake in the game, and when it’s over he’ll be either a two-time NBA Finals MVP or a two-time loser in a Heat uniform.
“I want to go down as one of the greatest. I want our team to go down as one of the greatest teams. And we have an opportunity to do that,” James said. “Hasn’t been many teams to win back-to-back championships. It’s so hard. It’s the hardest thing. I said last year it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, winning my first. Last year don’t even come close to what we’ve gone through in this postseason and in these finals.
“So, I’ll be there (Thursday) night. I’m going to give it my all.”
The Spurs have never lost in the finals, but they’ve never faced a situation quite like this. They won a Game 7 for the 2005 championship, but that victory over Detroit was at home. The last five finals that went the distance all went to the home team.
“I don’t really care what it’s been like for anybody else at any time,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “All I know is we have had a hell of a year and we have an opportunity to win a championship. That’s all that matters.”
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Iran’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) Ranking To Be Improved
Iranian officials have been spending a lot of time in recent years increasingly focussing on transportation strategies to enhance transport infrastructure and build international logistics capacity, with the aim of boosting trade with Iran. By improving transportation development, Iran will inevitably improve its Logistics Performance Index (LPI) ranking. LPI is a World Bank indicator to assist in development planning. This benchmarking tool is interactive to help Tehran identify the challenges and opportunities the country faces in trade logistics performance and what they can do to improve Iran’s trade. In 2016 the World Bank listed the country 96th among 160 nations.
Amir Amini, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Amir Amini has given Iranian companies the following assurances: “Our target is to reach 75th position by the end of the sixth five-year development plan [2017-22]”, according to the Financial Tribune. This is part of a long-term economic growth plan whereby Iran can “…regain its stature in international transportation”, he said.
Amini was referring to policies such as expansion of transportation and logistic parks and dry ports, development of harbors and inviting international air freight forwarder companies, who are increasingly doing business with Iran.
The Significance of LPI Measuring Practical Progress
The LPI index is an objective measurement tool based on a worldwide survey of logistics operators on the ground, such as global freight forwarding agents and express carriers. They regularly provide feedback on the logistics ease and accessibility of the countries in which they operate and with whom they trade.
Performance right throughout the logistics supply chain within a country can be measured by LPI. This can then be broken down into the categories of domestic and international trade. It also provides qualitative evaluations of a country in six areas by its trading partners i.e. logistics and freight shipping companies working outside the country.
Improving Iran’s LPI, according to Amini means: “… we should prepare the ground for inbound transportation of valuable goods and shipments via air. We will grant the opportunity to foreign cargo airlines to come and operate in Iran’s cargo sector…. Iran’s potential in the aviation sector is unexploited. We can offer some of our airports to regional countries to use them as cargo transport hubs.”
TRACECA Trading Communications Partnership
Iran currently operates five international airports as part of the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) economic corridor, which Iran is a member of. This is an international transportation and logistics, trade enhancement programme which includes the European Union, a major trading bloc, together with 14 member States of the Eastern European, Caucasian and Central Asian region, including: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Iran’s Maritime Push
Container shipping capacity “…is of utmost importance in LPI listing, besides the presence of equipped rail facilities to load and discharge containers,” said Amini.
According to Mohammad Saeedi, the CEO of Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, sea freight transportation accounts for around 87% of Iranian trade with the world; (currently it stands at 85%).
The Port of Chabahar Port in the south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province has secured development investment and expansion is underway at this massive project to create a major regional container port, connecting Iran and its neighbours to India and China via a network of rail freight routes, as well as sea freight channels. Other maritime ports, including Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea ports, are also undergoing significant construction activity in alignment with Tehran’s overseas trade expansion strategy.
Almost 145 million tons of goods passed through Iranian ports in the last year (ended March 20, 2017) and the White Rose Group expect this rising trend to continue.
The World Bank reviews LPI ranking every two years and Iran’s LPI has been improving since the end of U.S. and EU sanctions. Certainly, Amini expresses the Government’s intentions to keep momentum building in terms of capacity to boost the country’s World Bank ranking.
The end of sanctions against Iran meant international shipping lines could resume services to Iran, which has had a major impact on sea freight volume, with major international freight forwarders establishing agreements. Re-engagement with international logistics companies will have a positive impact on growing Iran’s transport sector and related industries.
The TRACECA bloc and connection with the International North-South Transport Corridor offer huge scope for Iranian companies looking to find new markets abroad. Boosting Iran’s LPI can only help us get better at what we do.
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Notes on "The Impassive Hermit" and VICE
At the foot of the Southern Patagonian ice field in Chile (the second largest such ice field in the world outside of a polar region), and on a remote peninsula of Lago O'Higgins, a man named Faustino Barrientos has carved a stoic, almost entirely solitary existence since 1965. I do not know if he is alive today.
Faustino sipping yerba mate in his home made from an upturned boat.
Faustino Watched the Mountains Rise
When the world at large last heard from him in 2011, he was 81 and still living the as a gaucho. Another gaucho, George Lancaster, who was living nearby, would inherit his land. Even with the presence of this relatively new companion, it would be splitting hairs to argue over referring to Faustino as a proper hermit. Since 1965 he lived alone, and only traveled to the nearest town every few years to sell cattle, before retreating once more.
In the long history of people "leaving the world," the motivations generally boil down to either seeking a spiritual state of being, or avoiding other humans. The spiritual type, from Siddhartha Gautama to Thomas Merton, in general, paradoxically feel that leaving the world brings them closer to to it.
Those that leave the world because they are uncomfortable with society have a variety of perspectives. From a cabin in Montana, Ted Kaczynski lashed out with bombs sent through the mail at what he saw as a world led astray by technology. Christopher Knight, the North Pond Hermit, who simply felt he didn't fit into society, haunted a relatively populated lake area in central Maine for decades, pilfering food items and belongings from the hundreds of surrounding homes and cabins.
Whoever they are, and whatever their motives, it seems clear that they all just want to be left alone - yet we insist on looking in. To many of us who cherish companionship of loved ones, the thought of someone who would prefer unending solitude is too strange to ignore. Even Heimo Korsky, who started a family in the far reaches of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska, said, "The stomach needs food, the mind needs people."
The Impassive Hermit
A reporter, Roberto Farías, talked to Faustino in 2oo8 and wrote "The Impassive Hermit," a compelling article that explored Faustino's contemplative nature, and inscrutable exterior. VICE caught on to this story and sent a film crew for their program Far Out in 2011. They did a decent job of documenting Faustino's life at 81. It's truly impressive to see the man wielding a chainsaw, or jumping up onto a horse, but they did not delve into his contemplative ways. VICE was successful at bringing him plenty of media attention, how much of it ever reached his shores I don't know.
I believe the more compelling study of Faustino is the original by Farías, which I've had to roughly translate from Spanish. Even with my incomplete understanding, I find it far more helpful to understanding Faustino, though VICE's video serves as a beautiful illustration.
Since 1965, Faustino Barrientos has lived alone on the shores of Lago O'Higgins in a house built from the remains of a fishing vessel. He's a pastoralist, living mostly off the land and his livestock, with few modern amenities. His nearest neighbors are in Villa O'Higgins, a small community of several hundred people, 25 miles away, accessible only by a two-day horseback ride through rugged mountain animal paths.
Every few years, Faustino makes this ride to sell his cattle in town. At 81 years old, Faustino's self-imposed isolation was being increasingly encroached upon by the forces of government, economy, and tourism. However, Lago O'Higgins is one of the most remote areas of Patagonia and is the least populated region in Chile. It is also one of the world's most sparsely populated places outside Antarctica.
Faustino's land has two buildings - a small hut where he sleeps, eats, listens to the radio and pours over stacks of newspapers when they are delivered to him twice a year. The other building stores boxes of food - tins of soups and desserts, bags of sugar and flour, tubs of lard - which are delivered by a boat that has started passing his quiet corner every ten days.
Glaciers Retreat, Mountains Rise
Excerpted from a follow-up article written by Roberto Farías, the observant Faustino witnessed isostasy, a fluctuating geologic equilibrium between topography and the weight of ice upon the earth's surface, in this case:
The first time I was with Faustino, in January 2008, among many silences and monosyllables, he showed me a rock on the beach in front of his house where he sat down to watch the sunrise on the same day in October for many years, and he released the first of many deep thoughts:
"The shadow of the mountain range has run from here to there," he said. The shadow of a peak range that the October sun projected to reach the rock, had run, oddly, a few centimeters in those years. He had not told anyone, but from the shadows, had deduced something alarming or the mountains was rising or soil beneath our feet was sinking. Maybe mention it again all day, but the puzzle was more than enough for me. We talked about a few other things, showed me around his daily life, I left and began the long walk back. Then I checked with scientists that their observations were correct: the mountains were rising.
Here's the original conversation about the mountain's shadow and the full original article here: The Impassive Hermit
On the frigid, barren shore of Lake O'Higgins, at the foot of the homonymous glacier, at the end of the Aisen region, in a great nothingness, the hermit Faustino Barrientos lives in a house made from the remains of a boat's cabin. With Tibetan patience, for more than 15 years he sits on the same day of October on the same stone to see how the dawn casts the shadow of a mountain peak on a rock of the ground.
"In the last ten years the shadow of that peak that is there-points to a very noticeable curved tusk, 10 km on the other side of the lake, has run from here to here-accurate.
In principle, look at the small and supposed displacement of the shadow, does not produce anything. It is a subtle 2 cm increase.
"Tell me if I am correct - continues. Is the mountain range rising or is the ground sinking?"
"It is a riddle?"
"No, then. It is true. I'm asking you"
The wind that comes down from the Southern Ice Fields curtains the skin. The calypso water of the lake is half Chilean and half Argentine. Waves splash icy drops that burn the face. In winter, small icebergs pass by the wind. On the shore there is no grass, just some stoic bushes and charred trees. Difficult to take the question seriously.
The overwhelming intrigue is deep and enigmatic for Faustino Barrientos. He is 77 years old and has spent the last 51 living alone in the middle of Patagonia avoiding contact with people. He is, strictly speaking, a hermit.
Again, the above quote is from the original article which can be found through this link.
Below, is a follow-up article by Roberto Farías, shared in full. I have only been able to locate it on a random Facebook page, in a very unrefined state. I have no idea where this was originally published, but I do believe it to be written by Roberto Farías after Vice's Far Out documentary. I have attempted to edit for clarity, as the original was likely pushed through Google Translate:
APOLOGIES FOR A HERMIT Four years ago the journalist Roberto Farías published The Impassive Hermit for Paula magazine, the story of a lone inhabitant of Patagonia, who had detected subtle signs of climate change. The article was replicated many times and even a television station in New York made a documentary about the character. Now, Farías tells how to emerge from anonymity, the hermit was harassed, threatened and even invaded. This report is a mea culpa and a reflection on how journalism, when reporting a story, you can dramatically interfere in the lives of its protagonists.
Bernardo, Adriana, Peter and John: a director, a journalist, a photographer and a producer from New York come to Patagonia to do a documentary for the Far Out program, agency and editorial vice on Faustino Barrientos, a kind of hermit on which I wrote four years ago and that Paula had 51 living alone in O'Higgins Lake at the foot of the Southern Ice Fields in southernmost region of Aysen. I, on principle, I'm just going to visit Faustino Barrientos and accompany to guide them on their land.
The article that I wrote about him four years ago, entitled The Impassive Hermit, took flight itself. It was replicated on many websites and even an artist made drawings with Faustino's impassive face with their lenses as the last century. Other students wanted to make a visual for his thesis. And from New York wanted to make this documentary.
Finally, last December, we went to record it for a week. VICE had recently been in Alaska with a bear hunter Heimo and his Arctic refuge. For the next chapter the choices were between Faustino and a horse breeder in Siberia. The mini documentary came out this March in 30 languages, in the Far Out program, which was reissued in cable television and internet. It is directed by Bernardo Loyola, a neoyorquinomexicano (New Yorker/Mexican) filmmaker, who has worked with Michael Moore. It's called: The Withdrawal of Faustino in Patagonia, and can be seen on youtube (you can watch it below this article).
Since my trip four years ago, I had not returned to the land, until now, accompanying the documentary. As we went deeper into Patagonia, from Coyhaique, Cochrane, Villa O'Higgins, the difference with my companions Americans became increasingly marked. For them everything was new and surprising. Each waterfall or river jumped from the truck as astronauts reach Mars. For me, however, soon took a turn that had not foreseen: I began to notice the dramatic changes that my article had caused in the life of Faustino. Much more dramatic than the melting-threatening environment.
NEW GOGGLES
"The shadow of the mountain range has run from here to there," he said. The shadow of a peak range that the October sun projected to reach the rock, had run, oddly, a few centimeters in those years. He had not told anyone, but from the shadows, had deduced something alarming or the mountains was rising or soil beneath our feet was sinking. Maybe mention it again all day, but the puzzle was more than enough for me. We talked about a few other things, showed me around his daily life, I left and began the long walk back. Then I checked with scientists that their observations were correct: the mountains were rising. I spoke about in the article I wrote.
I remember on that first visit, the wind from blowing the Southern Ice Fields ruthless on the shores of Lake O'Higgins. Sometimes reached 90 km per hour and the faint sparks of water given off by the waves turned into hurtful ice projectiles reach the shore. To get around it, Faustino had done with his own hands a beautiful goggles browser horsehide and glass lanterns he saw in a magazine. As a geographer who visited him after his appearance in Paula gave him better, high mountain goggles, on this second trip gave me the old ones. Before I had given some maps of 1900.
REACH THE INVADERS
When I wrote that story did not know what this intelligent man separated from the rest of the world was a subtle balance that would break like a wall of sand.
The text of the report came over the Internet to Villa O'Higgins, the last village of the southern highway and the nearest land-Faustino but the authorities did not seem so good. At six months, police ordered to search his house for guns and the rifle that I had said that he had in his possession. The court cited the Cochrane 400 km north. He did not answer the first call and the second time he was picked up. First taken to Cochrane and then Coihaique. He had 60 years without stepping on the regional capital, and now was again as a defendant.
The world had changed. Vehicles, streets, buildings, light at night seemed day. He did not know how far it was from home, because he still uses as leagues. All were surprised, but still recognized him. "In a store," he recalls, "I was approached by a girl and she said, 'Are you the man from the depths of Patagonia, which appeared in a magazine?' And I said, 'Yes, that's me.' And she hugged me for a long time, as if hugging a tree." He paid a fine, bought clothes, the first mattress of his life and returned to his camp. But, as he had no weapons, animals were at the mercy of thieves and cattle rustlers, and himself, was at the mercy of Twisty Tiznado, his nephew and archenemy with whom, years before, had come close to death in the mountains over a land dispute and cattle. Thirty horses bred in the mountains, only one was left. Of 300 wild cows, only about sixty. He was losing everything.
The simple article suddenly pulled him from obscurity 51 years and shattered their silence and their property. "Until I was afraid they would kill me," he said. "Here nobody knows anything. Would have died without more." And thanks to the report, the government, so jealous of her solitary life, began to reach out: sending food, he donating an installation of hoses for water, installing VHF radio wave that does he not use, and he even had the mayor of Aysen to take a picture with him and give him a pension of grace under President Bachelet.
Then, with Piñera, solar panels led him to give birth to her home, but also because it interferes uses shortwave radio is their only contact with the world. Now, I resigned, stoic he accepts all visits. Years before, he would loose the dogs. And as word spread through Patagonia that he had no heirs, remote relatives came from all over to collect his inheritance in advance. They whet the appetite of uncles, nephews and grandchildren by inheritance or sell their lands in life. Appeared a brother who was living in Argentina, and then came back threatening Tiznado Twisty, his nephew, supposedly claiming unowned land.
Faustino finally realized that all was worth more dead than alive. He was afraid. For me, the article had been a source of satisfaction. For Faustino, it had just brought a ton of problems.
From our first meeting, Faustino has aged. Is now 81 and realize that this time might be his last ride into the mountains where once raising his wild cows. Giving away several rivers, cliffs, forests burned, beaches and lakes to reach the foot of the Ice Fields, which has a seat canoe (a kind of tiles made of hollowed logs), which remained the summer months gathering cattle for undertaken every two or three years the long trip to Villa O'Higgins to sell to traders of meat. Since 2007 not up to the mountains and just did. Basically, it was a farewell.
We arrived in front of Cerro Santiago where the mountainous horn cast its shadow on the stone. They remember it. But Faustino seems indifferent. No longer can go to the beach because your knees hurt a lot, watch the sunrise from her house through a window. He heard, like all Chileans, who in the 2010 earthquake the Earth's axis shifted a few degrees. "I want to develop a facility with a Goldy in the window you could see if it moved the Earth's axis as they say." No one knows, but that thing called gnomon (fin of a sundial) was invented by the Greeks to make the first astronomical observations. After the earthquake did the installation, tightened the Goldy and the floor of his home made a hole to drive the reference point. And set out to observe the October 20, which is the peak that reaches the sun on Cerro Santiago. But the 2010 and 2011 dawned cloudy and has not seen shit.
Difficult to understand the philosophy of life Faustino. It is not just for entertainment, but the basic cordura más allá por mantenerla (something like "to stay sane") survive. I'm not sure I've grasped the director of Far Out, who shows Faustino killing a sheep, sawing a log, crossing rivers on horseback, but nothing more nor nothing less!
THE PHILOSOPHER
In my version, Faustino Barrientos remains a contemplative. You just have to stop and listen. Leaning on the mount overlooking the horizon like those jeans Bonanza, I suddenly said: "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. That there is more to life than us." Nor is there much life at the end of Patagonia where he lives Faustino, almost no human being and it seems that nature had not yet finished form. So its strange conclusion is not surprising at all.
"It amazes me that so many lives on Earth," he continues. "Not only a few animals, but many plants, bugs, fish, bacteria, insects. Life on earth made every attempt to stay afloat you know? He tried all forms and single man could take off from the others. Why is that? "I abyss inexhaustible curiosity. Depth. As frequently heard Faustino science programs for BBC radio, France and Beijing International usually know more than you'd think. In a confusing mess, funny and even magic of atoms, molecules, cloning, fertilization, black holes and particle accelerator, concluded: "I think the man with his intelligence, will be able to create life. It will be his own God."
"Sure do many monsters before we create a similar nature to Patagonia. In their land there are twelve streams. Among the stream does not freeze and dirty stream, there are 1,720 acres of mountains and as many streams as yet unnamed. "This only God could do it," says Faustino. "I do not know why God. But God did." It is the nearness of death that leads to these depths of thought. "I know I will die sooner or later," he says preparing breakfast in the mountains. "But I'd rather die here on this earth before anywhere. So I prefer to give to poor man Villa (O'Higgins) before selling it to a millionaire.
Andronico Luksic has been buying since the beginning of this century thousands of acres each year about Villa O'Higgins, near the lands of Faustino. As the only buyer, everyone wants to sell land, which has sparked a furor unusual trading in the small town. Many relatives or pseudo-relatives of Faustino also pressured into selling their land (valued at approximately 200 million). He had no choice but to give in his own way. Made an agreement with George Lancaster, a settler who sold their land on Lake Alegre Luksic to go to live with him in exchange for aid and protection. So at the end of this chain of changes in your life, now has a neighbor Faustino. Thanks to the media, the hermit ceased.
I apologized for all the trouble I caused. He remained with it a herd of wild horses on the shore of Lago O'Higgins: "It's fate," he said. "What can we do! But now I'll be famous, I will see in theaters around the world," naively ended referring to the program recorded. Now we just need that after seeing the beautiful landscapes on television comes the insufferable "entrepreneur" and after him the obnoxious tourists. My only consolation is that Faustino at this point will be dead.
"While there is a frontier, there's a place for misfits and adventurers," said Thomas Jefferson. Faustino is a mixture of both. I, however, I'm just a journalist who messes up from time to time. My horse, perhaps in retaliation, shot me twice. I know what you meant. Three condors hovering in circles in the sky because down in the cliff, there is a dead cow.
The VICE Far Out: Faustino's Patagonian Retreat Documentary
The Withdrawal of Faustino in Patagonia
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Community shows support for wind farm
Credit: CBC News | www.cbc.ca 25 July 2012 ~~
It was standing room only at a public meeting for a proposed wind farm in Kings County, P.E.I. Tuesday night, with most at the meeting appearing to be in favour of the project.
This is the province’s second effort to find a location for a farm that would include 10 turbines producing 30 megawatts of power. The community council in Eastern Kings rejected the project, despite a small majority of residents voting in favour of it.
There were close to a 100 people at St. Margarets Community Hall to hear Energy Minister Wes Sheridan pitch the project to Hermanville and Clear Springs Tuesday. Resident Patricia McLean-Ettinger spoke up in favour of the plan.
“We can’t let this opportunity slip from our fingers. I think it’s going to help the community area,” said McLean-Ettinger.
Sheridan said the community and landowners in Hermanville will receive $9 million over 15 years. He was pleased to see support for the project.
“There is quite a majority in the room tonight who are in favour of moving forward with the economic development piece in this area,” said Sheridan.
The sentiment was not unanimous. Jack MacDonald, who owns a vacation property in the area, accused the province of rushing the plan.
“For any of us, anyone in this room, to develop an informed opinion, to do that due diligence, that is what I think is severely lacking in this whole process,” said MacDonald.
An environmental assessment will take place, and another meeting is planned at that time. The province plans on opening the wind farm before the end of next year.
Source: CBC News | www.cbc.ca 25 July 2012
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Michelle Viscusi joins Team Glock
Glock USA is introducing Michelle Viscusi as the newest addition to Team Glock, the handgun manufacturer’s practical pistol shooting team. Viscusi gained notoriety as a contestant on History Channel’s TOP SHOT season 4 and is currently an E4 in the Arizona National Guard. She joins Team Glock competitors KC Eusebio and Tori Nonaka.
Photo courtesy of History Channel
Along with other female shooters from around the world, Glock evaluated Viscusi during the 2012 summer as they sought to rebuild their shooting team after the departure of Randy Rogers earlier this year.
The 22-year-old will have served three years with the Arizona National Guard come January 2013 and is an E4 31B Military Police Officer with the 856th Military Police Company.
“The most I’d ever trained with a firearm was going through basic. I really enjoyed shooting the M4 and once I got out of basic I started shooting for fun.” That’s when she decided to apply to Top Shot.
She got the casting call while in the middle of a year-and-a-half deployment in support of Operation Copper Cactus. She was working as part of a Joint Counter Narcotics Task Force run out of Fort Huachuca. Viscusi’s role was to observe and report activity along the Arizona-Mexico border.
She ended up taking 10 days of leave for the television show in August 2011. She says her involvement in Top Shot was an exciting experience at the time but it didn’t strike her as an entry point to a career in competitive shooting until she had some time away from it. At the time, she viewed the exposure as a great way to start the modeling career she’s had her sights on since she was a teenager.
“I didn’t care to get involved in competition shooting,” she explains, “I was more interested in becoming a model in the firearms industry.” She ended up getting a modeling job with Red Star Arms and appeared in Maxim magazine after Top Shot. Her modeling career was beginning.
Read the full article at Military Times.
Courtesy of Girl’s Guide to Guns.
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United States / Chicago Travel Guide / History
The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, translated as "wild onion" or "wild garlic", from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time. Henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called "chicagoua," grew abundantly in the area.
During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples. The 1780s saw the arrival of the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who was of African and European (French) descent.
In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over to the United States for a military post by native tribes in accordance with the Treaty of Greenville. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the War of 1812, Battle of Fort Dearborn and later rebuilt. The Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were eventually forcibly removed from their land following the Treaty of Chicago in 1833.
Founding and 19th century
On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200. Within seven years it would grow to a population of over 4,000. On June 15, 1835, the first public land sales commenced with Edmund Dick Taylor as U.S. receiver of public moneys. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837 and went on to become the fastest growing city in the world for several decades.
As the site of the Chicago Portage, the city emerged as an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. The canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River.
A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad. Manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade (established 1848) listed the first ever standardized 'exchange traded' forward contracts, which were called futures contracts.
In the 1850s Chicago gained national political prominence as the home of Senator Stephen Douglas, the champion of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and "popular sovereignty" approach to the issue of the spread of slavery. These issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage. Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
To accommodate rapid population growth and demand for better sanitation, the city implemented various infrastructural improvements. In February 1856, the Chesbrough plan for the building of the United States' first comprehensive sewerage system was approved by the Common Council. The project raised much of central Chicago to a new grade. While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.
The city responded by tunneling two miles (3 km) out into Lake Michigan to newly built water cribs. In 1900, the problem of sewage contamination was largely resolved when the city completed a major engineering feat. It reversed the flow of the Chicago River so that the water flowed away from Lake Michigan rather than into it. This project began with the construction and improvement of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and was completed with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that connects to the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River.
In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire broke out, destroying an area of about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, a large section of the city at the time. Much of the city, including railroads and stockyards, survived intact, and from the ruins of the previous wooden structures arose more modern constructions of steel and stone which would set the precedent for worldwide construction. During its rebuilding period, Chicago constructed the world's first skyscraper in 1885, using steel-skeleton construction.
Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Europe and migrants from the Eastern United States. Of the total population in 1900 no less than 77% were foreign-born, or born in the United States of foreign parentage. Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population (by 1900, whites were 98.1% of the city's population).
Labor conflicts followed the industrial boom and the rapid expansion of the labor pool, including the Haymarket affair on May 4, 1886. Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co‑found Hull House in 1889. Programs developed there became a model for the new field of social work.
During the 1870s and 1880s, Chicago attained national stature as the leader in the movement to improve public health. City, and later state laws, that upgraded standards for the medical profession and fought urban epidemics of cholera, small pox, and yellow fever were not only passed, but also enforced. These in turn became templates for public health reform in many other cities and states.
The city invested in many large, well-landscaped municipal parks, which also included public sanitation facilities. The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M.D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera. Ten years later he became the secretary and then the president of the first Illinois State Board of Health, which carried out most of its activities in Chicago.
In the 19th century, Chicago became the nation's railroad center, by 1910 over 20 railroads operated passenger service out of 6 different downtown terminals. In 1883, the standardized system of North American Time Zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago. This gave the continent its uniform system for telling time.
In 1893, Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition on former marshland at the present location of Jackson Park. The Exposition drew 27.5 million visitors, and is considered the most influential world's fair in history. The University of Chicago was founded in 1892 on the same South Side location. The term "midway" for a fair or carnival referred originally to the Midway Plaisance, a strip of park land that still runs through the University of Chicago campus and connects Washington and Jackson Parks.
20th and 21st centuries
The World War I period and the 1920s also saw a major expansion in industry. The availability of jobs attracted blacks from the Southern United States. Between 1910 and 1930, the black population of Chicago dramatically increased from 44,103 to 233,903. Arriving in the hundreds of thousands during the Great Migration, the newcomers had an immense cultural impact, called the Chicago Black Renaissance, part of the New Negro Movement, in art, literature, and music. Continuing racial tensions and violence, such as the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, also occurred.
The ratification of the 18th amendment to the Constitution in 1919 made the production and sale (including exportation) of alcoholic beverages illegal in the United States. This ushered in the beginning of what is known as the Gangster Era, a time that roughly spans from 1919 until 1933 when the Prohibition was repealed. The 1920s saw gangsters, including Al Capone, Dion O'Banion, Bugs Moran and Tony Accardo battle law enforcement and each other on the streets of Chicago during the Prohibition era. Chicago was the location of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, where Al Capone sent men to gun down members of his rival gang, North Side, led by Bugs Moran.
In 1924, Chicago was the first American city to have a homosexual-rights organization, the Society for Human Rights. This organization produced the first American publication for gays, Friendship and Freedom. Police and political pressure soon caused it to disband.
In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1933 and 1934, the city celebrated its centennial by hosting the Century of Progress International Exposition Worlds Fair. The theme of the fair was technological innovation over the century since Chicago's founding.
On December 2, 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted the world's first controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. This led to the creation of the atomic bomb by the United States, which it used in World War II in 1945.
Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics. Starting in the early 1960s due to blockbusting, many white residents, as in most American cities, left the city for the suburbs. Whole neighborhoods were completely changed based on race. Structural changes in industry caused heavy losses of jobs for lower skilled workers. In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Albert Raby led the Chicago Freedom Movement, which culminated in agreements between Mayor Richard J. Daley and the movement leaders.
Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets. Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower (now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O'Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure. In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected. She helped mitigate crime in the Cabrini-Green housing project and guide Chicago's school system out of a financial crisis.
In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago. Washington's first term in office saw attention given to poor and previously neglected minority neighborhoods. He was re‑elected in 1987 but died of a heart attack a short time later. The balance of Washington's second term was served by 6th ward Alderman Eugene Sawyer.
Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, was elected in 1989. His accomplishments included improvements to parks and creating incentives for sustainable development. After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley declined to run for a seventh term.
On February 23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, won the mayoral election, beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote, and was sworn in as Mayor on May 16, 2011.
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An Honorary Lady Hiltopper
Kerriann Cooper, Jaicie Halleman and Kelsey Traylor.
For these three Hillsboro High School seniors, tonight's basketball game was one they had worked very hard for the past four years. It was THEIR last home game, THEIR senior night.
But as the Lady Hiltoppers prepared to take the court for warm-ups, it turns out it was someone else's night to shine.
Before coming out onto the court, the announcer said that tonight, the Lady Hiltoppers were wearing purple "A Grace Filled Journey" bracelets and were making our sweet little, Grace, an honorary Lady Hiltopper for the game. Wearing purple bracelets was a pretty big deal too, since they were playing a very tough county rival in the Litchfield Purple Panthers (whose school colors are purple and white).
Grace and I sat in the players' chairs as the girls ran out and the crowd cheered. Each of the girls came over to say hi to Grace before starting warm-ups, and presented her with her very own Hillsboro Toppers shirt.
I couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear, so proud of this little girl for her courage and strength, and most of all her beautiful smile.
Mommy and Grace, an honorary Lady Hiltopper tonight!
We headed up to the top of the bleachers (because there was such a huge crowd for the game tonight), and cheered for the Lady Toppers. It was an awesome game, very close the whole time. And Grace loved every minute. In fact, one time, I got out a princess book for her to look at, and she kept looking over the top of it to watch all the action.
Although nothing is impossible, it's not very probable that Grace will ever have her name announced and run out to the court for the Lady Hiltoppers. But, we will always be grateful for this year's team, coaches and parents for making Grace an honorary Lady Topper tonight. We couldn't be more proud of our favorite Topper.
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Family Time!
Family has always been important to me and Kyle. It's probably because we both come from fairly large extended families with lots of time to play with our cousins when we were growing up.
I definitely have more cousins on my mom's side of the family, as she has seven brothers and sisters. However, I have such fond memories of spending time with both sides of the family growing up, and I know that Kyle does too.
We have both been really excited for Grace to share some of those same experiences with our cousin's children. And Grace will actually get her own cousin in June as Kyle's sister, Mikaela, is expecting.
Sometimes, it's hard for me at family functions to see all the little kids running around and playing with each other. That's exactly how I remember family reunions and get togethers. And for Grace, well, it's just not that way.
It makes me sad sometimes, but then I just stop and remember how lucky I am to have Grace in my life.
This past weekend, my cousin, Todd, brought his family down from Naperville, and we all got together for dinner at my aunt and uncle's house. We don't get to see each other nearly often enough, so it was fun to catch up with he and his wife, Tanya, and their kids, Peter, Matthew and Abby. I loved hearing the kids talk about what they were learning in school and what kinds of things they like to do.
They know that Grace likes books very much, and were so sweet to bring her a brand new Elephant and Piggie book. She has one from Kyle's Aunt Karen that we love, so it was fun to get a new one.
Grace's cousins, Peter and Abby, read a new book to her!
My favorite part of the whole evening was when Peter (who is in second grade), sat right next to Grace on the couch and read her the new book. He did an awesome job, and she just loved being a part of it. He also let her play with his St. Louis Cardinals hat, and helped his sister, Abby, take a turn reading to Grace. Then they all settled in to watch some Disney Junior shows together. And it just made my heart smile.
I just love this girl and her sweet smile!
No, watching Grace with her cousins is not exactly how I envisioned it would be. But in true Grace fashion, she found her own way to get to know them better. And I wouldn't trade that for anything.
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Stamp Out Cancer
Wow! We feel so blessed to live in such an awesome community and grateful for all the love and support everyone has shown us. So, we decided it was time to give a little something back to our community!
This weekend, Montgomery County will be home to a HUGE fundraiser for the Montgomery County Cancer Association. For those that don't know about the MCCA, it is an all-volunteer run organization that provides financial assistance to local residents undergoing treatment for cancer, grants for cancer research and scholarship funding. It's an amazing organization that has helped so many people in this year.
Well, this weekend is Stamp Out Cancer, which last year raised $70,000 for the MCCA in just one night!! The event includes a "Dancing with the Stars" theme with five celebrity dancing couples, a live band and a silent auction.
After very little discussion (we were both kind of excited about it), Kyle and I decided to make "A Grace Filled Journey" basket in honor of Grace. It's packed to the brim with so many of her favorite things, including a "Bruce" puppy, donated by her speech therapist, Dana Holshouser.
These are the items inside Grace's Stamp Out Cancer basket.
In addition to Bruce, it has a stuffed Minnie Mouse, two bows, a pink soccer ball, Rapunzel wand, bubbles, two books, a Frozen DVD (the NEW sing-a-long edition), Princess Sofia stickers and of course, M&Ms. We even found a Minnie Mouse trash can to pack it in. And the lucky winner will also get TWO purple "A Grace Filled Journey" bracelets tucked just inside.
All packaged up and ready for bids!
Kyle, Grace and I had so much fun shopping for things she liked to create the basket, and we hope if you are going to Stamp Out Cancer that you will big bid to help out an awesome organization.
And together, we can make a BIG difference!
Prayer Bracelets
We have been so incredibly humbled by the love and support these past few weeks of our family, friends and our community. It touches my heart to know that so many people have lifted our sweet little Grace up in your prayers and continue to do so.
As we continue on our journey, we know that we will need each and every one of you to keep praying for us and encouraging us to find joy and happiness in each and every moment.
My parents, John and Susie Galer, along with some help from my brother, Johnny, and his wife, Emily, bought some bracelets to wear that say "A Grace Filled Journey." Mom wanted them to be either pink or purple for Grace, but since pink is so universally known for breast cancer awareness, we decided on purple.
New prayer bracelets in honor of Grace.
Kyle and I, along with both sets of our parents, are already wearing or bracelets each and every day. Tomorrow, I will be taking some to the kids in Grace's class because they love on her all the time, making her time at preschool so much brighter.
Many of you have asked how YOU can buy a bracelet. Well, they're not for sale. But you're more than welcome to have one. The idea behind it is that when you wear it, you will say a prayer for Grace each time you see it.
Starting on Thursday, the bracelets will be available at The Journal-News office, located at 431 South Main Street in Hillsboro. If you would like to have one, stop in and ask for one, and there is no charge. For those that feel so inclined, you may make a donation, which will be given to "iCan for iNAD," a fundraiser to support a researcher studying this disorder at Washington University.
For those that live outside this area, feel free to contact me, and we will make arrangements to get one to you.
Right now, there is a limited supply of the bracelets, but we will be able to order more if we need to.
We hope you will wear your bracelets proudly, remembering that each and every day is always "a Grace filled journey." And we thank you ALL so much for your love, support and most of all your prayers.
Daddy Daughter Night
So yesterday I got to see Grace all of 30 minutes, maybe. Fortunately I got the chance to make up for it tonight as Grace and I hung out while Mary and Lindsay Wagahoff hit the Fox for Cinderella (the Broadway show, not the mid-80s hair band). It was an awesome night. Here's a few pics.
Chilling out after the Happy Feet class at Fusion.
A little candle light dinner with the Princess.
Bath time.
Post-bath, pre-bed drum solo.
Future drummer for the US Soccer American Outlaws Fan Section.
A little catch before bed.
Fading fast.
A little light reading before lights out.
The Pete the Cat book has a fitting end...
"The moral of Pete's story is: No matter what you step in,
keep walking along and singing your song...
... Because it's all good."
Princess Grace
Our Princess Grace.
I think we have called her the princess since long before she was ever born. The night I was induced with her, the nurses kept coming in to wake me up when Grace wouldn't like the position I was laying in. It's safe to say that she's always had a mind of her own and wanted to do things her own way.
Do you think I could wear that, Sunny? Grace managed to find her way into Queen Sunny's arms at the Montgomery County Fair in June 2012.
It's kind of funny, but even as a newborn infant there were songs she wouldn't let you sing to her and books she wouldn't let you read to her. If it was a song I really wanted to sing, I did it anyway, but she always let me know what she really thought.
Like I said, she's always been the princess.
Our friend Queen Summer (Miss Illinois County Fair Queen) stopped to pose with Grace at the Illinois State Fair this past August.
Since I've always loved dresses, Grace has always had more than one or two to wear. Her grandmas have been fond of shopping for dresses too. Although Grace may never tell me she likes playing dress up with me, I know she likes to be all dolled up. And she especially likes it when people tell her how pretty she is.
When mom needed some ideas for Christmas this year, I told her I wanted Grace to have an Elsa costume (from the Disney movie Frozen) that she could wear when we go see Frozen on Ice in February. And that was exactly one of the things Grace opened on Christmas.
Last week, we saw an ad in the paper for a "princess for a day" fundraiser for Stamp Out Cancer. For a donation to the MCCA, little girls could have their hair done and nails painted, and even get to meet Queen Elsa. While we knew Grace wouldn't like having her hair done, we thought it would be fun to dress her up in her Elsa costume and get her photo taken, especially since it was for such a great cause. And Grace had big smiles for everyone there, and she loved when people stopped to tell her she was a beautiful princess.
Grace got to try out her new princess crown and her Elsa costume when she met Queen Elsa in Litchfield over the weekend.
Did I mention that Grace even has her very OWN princess crown? A friend of mine from Indiana sent her this tiara, that she won in a pageant years ago. She mailed it to Grace so she could have a princess crown of her own. It's such a sweet gift, and one we will always treasure. Our Grace sure is one lucky little princess.
Rooting For Our Home Teams
The generosity of our community continues to amaze us as cards and letters keep coming in since we first shared our journey with Grace. The crazy thing to Mary and I is that it’s not just from the Hillsboro community or Raymond area, where I grew up, but the support comes from all over, especially Montgomery County.
Mary and I really work hard to make the newspaper something to be proud of – not just for Hillsboro, but for Montgomery County as a whole. That work has really helped us build relationships both in our hometowns and outside them, but I don’t think we realized how much people cared until the news about Grace broke.
A testament to that point came last night at the Hillsboro boys basketball game at the Litchfield Invitational Tournament. As we were sitting in the stands at Simmons Gym, Litchfield Assistant Coach and SADD sponsor Jason Cooper stopped by with something for Grace.
“We know she’s not a Panther fan, but we wanted to do something for her.”
Jason gave us a bag from the LHS SADD group, filled with Panther goodies like rally towel, a basketball and pom poms, which Grace played with the entire second half. While we really appreciated the gesture, Jason had one thing wrong. Grace is totally a Panther fan. And a Redskin fan. And a Lancer fan. And a Topper fan.
We are blessed to live in such a supportive community and we are always rooting for Montgomery County too do well.
Grace LOVED her gift from the Panthers Against Destructive Decisions group, especially the pom poms.
More Than A Ball
Grace has always gone with me to games. I think her first one was a volleyball match between Hillsboro and Litchfield just a few weeks after her birth. I had some help on that one - my brother Shane, who watched her and batted away a loose ball that made its way up into the stands, while I was on the floor with my camera.
Regardless of the sport or the season, Grace was there. A brisk October fall football game? There. A late February postseason basketball game? There. An extra-inning college baseball game that ended around midnight? Yup, there too. That one was with Grandpa and Grandma Herschelman though. Grace was often a constant companion on trips to watch Uncle Shane play baseball for Maryville University over the last three years.
Usually she just went along for the ride, happy as can be to be with people that she loved and who loved her more than anything. Sure she would get fussy sometimes and more than once Daddy had to hope that he got a decent shot in the first few minutes because a camera in one hand and a baby in the other isn't a recipe for journalistic success, but overall she has been outstanding.
Of all the sports, I think my favorite to watch live with Grace is basketball. At home, we are much more of a soccer and baseball family in regards to our viewing habits and our play. "Ball" has always been in our vocabulary, whether we were pretending to score the game winning goal in the 2027 Women's World Cup or gunning a runner down at home plate with a pinpoint throw, but as far as in person viewing, basketball takes the cake.
I remember bits and pieces of the first high school basketball game that we took her to. She would have been about four months old and Mary and I sat with my parents and Shane on the far side of the Nokomis High School gym, watching the Redskins take on my alma mater, Lincolnwood, for the 79th time in the history of the two schools.
Admittedly, I didn't remember the score, probably because I had subconsciously blocked out the 50-point thrashing the Redskins handed out to the Lancers, one of the most lopsided losses in a rivalry that is nearly as lopsided (Nokomis holds a 64-21 advantage all-time).
What I do remember is how excited I was to share something that I love so much with my little girl. Decked out in an orange and black tutu, which works for both my alma mater and her current home district of Hillsboro, Grace looked adorable, even if she did sleep through much of the game on my mom's lap.
This was taken at Grace's very first high school basketball game when Nokomis hosted Lincolnwood in January 2012. We still have her orange fan towel.
I remember thinking how cool it would be to have her sitting next to me five years from then, coloring away on the bleachers, or even better 15 years from then, taking stats for her daddy while he gets an action shot or two.
The choice to make the Nokomis/Lincolnwood game Grace's first wasn't by accident either. Watching the Lancers and Redskins battle things out in the Mohawk Classic championship game when I was in junior high and high school are what got me hooked on high school athletics. When it was time to introduce Mary to my parents, I chose a Nokomis/Lincolnwood game as well, saying "This is Mary. She has poor taste in men." A statement that still holds true.
And on Friday, Jan. 9, a new chapter was added to my family's story that is intertwined with that rivalry. Before the game, Lincolnwood Head Coach Matt Millburg, who was just a few years behind me in school, handed me a basketball, covered in the familiar scene of black Sharpie scribbles.
"All the guys from the alumni tournament signed it for Grace," Matt said. "We appreciate all you do."
It's a ball. But it's not. It's more. There are signatures, just names. But they aren't just names. They are way more than that too.
Grace loves her basketball signed by players in this year's Lincolnwood alumni basketball tournament.
These are guys that I went to school with or my family went to school with or that I have covered during my time at the Journal-News. A lot of them have kids that I will cover somewhere down the line, some of them I already have covered.
I'm probably not going to get to cover Grace playing a sport. I know that anything is possible and that if anyone could prove me wrong, it's Grace, but I know the odds aren't in our favor with her recent prognosis.
But this ball may be the next best thing. She's part of a team. She's part of a family that is much bigger than just those with the last names of Herschelman or Galer or Armour or Hutson.
People from every corner of the county have sent us words of hope and support through this Grace-filled journey that we are on. And we need everyone.
Sometimes it's hard not to get down. I've had to stop writing this column three times before pushing forward. But I know, regardless what happens, I'll have that ball. And I'll know that I have an endless line of support behind me, through good times and in bad.
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Doctors And Dinosaurs
While the main reason we started this blog was to share our incredible journey with Grace, we also wanted a place to share all of her experiences. She may only be three, but we've been fortunate enough to do LOTS of cool things.
This morning, we had a very nice follow-up appointment at Shriner's Hospital in St. Louis, followed by lunch with one of my friends from my college days at Mizzou. I haven't seen Karen since she and her husband attended our wedding six years ago, and it was so much fun to catch up. I think she liked meeting our beautiful Grace too.
On days that we have doctor's appointments, we try to take Grace to do something fun afterwards. It doesn't always work, but we sure do like it when it does.
Although the St. Louis Zoo is one of our favorite places, the freezing temperatures kept us indoors today. So, we picked the St. Louis Science Center. We'd never had the chance to take Grace, and decided it had been years since either one of us had been there. And, as a special treat, Aunt Mikaela joined us for a really fun afternoon.
Everyone indulges my LOVE for the birthday cakes in St. Louis.
At Kyle's request, we started in the dinosaur section. In speech therapy yesterday, Dana worked with Grace, telling her that a dinosaur says "ROAR." Grace didn't try to say it herself, but she sure smiled a lot when Dana did. We had lots of fun practicing our roaring looking at the giant T-rex today.
Another favorite section was learning about energy. And one of the coolest parts about the Science Center is that nearly every exhibit is hands on-fun for kids of ALL ages. Just ask Kyle. They had one exhibit about coal power, where "kids" could through black foam shaped like coal to see how long they could power a light. Grace tried several times to throw the coal, and just giggled and giggled as Kyle threw them in. Kyle also tried his hand (and well, legs) at using an exercise bike to see how much energy he could create. We found out he saved us $.0007, and I think we'll keep our service with Ameren.
Grace just giggled and giggled when we touched the "tornado."
No trip to the Science Center would be complete without a chance to build the Arch. Since Grace was snuggling with me, Kyle and Mikaela tried their best to build a free-standing Arch. Unfortunately, it fell before it was completed. Fortunately, no Kyles were harmed during the falling.
The poor Arch just didn't make it.
I would say we spent about two hours exploring just a few parts of the Science Center today, and I'm truly not sure who had the most fun. We are very lucky to live so close to St. Louis and all the things it offers. The best part is that many of those things, like the Zoo and the Science Center are even free of charge!
Although he managed to work up a sweat, moving this tower was one of the highlights of Kyle's trip. Grace liked it too!
But the best part of the whole experience was just enjoying some family time together, which makes every adventure truly worth it.
iCan for INAD
As we turned the calendar over to the new year, Kyle and I began our yearly talk about New Year's resolutions. Last year, I resolved to worry about money less, a resolution which was definitely put to the test in 2014.
We started talking once again about New Year's resolutions, and it was tougher this year. I felt like making resolutions seemed sort of pointless in the face of our reality.
But then I found this challenge, and it was started by a mom in Texas, whom I am just now getting to know. Her son, Jake, is five-years-old, and shares the same diagnosis as Grace. She started a challenge called "iCan for INAD." I will share the link to the challenge as well.
Part of it is a fundraiser. This mom has partnered with a national organization, Ainsley's Angels, to raise money to fund a new treatment study with Dr. Paul Kotzbauer at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, there are no treatment options at all for children diagnosed with INAD, and this study could be very exciting for INAD families. Kyle and I have already made a contribution to help with the funding.
And while the fundraising is a part of the challenge, the part I liked most was the challenge itself. "iCan for INAD." This year, challenge yourself to do five things you "can't" do, and turn them into "i Cans."
Sometimes I get caught up in all the things that Grace can't do. During her Thanksgiving program, I couldn't help but wish she could sing and dance with her classmates at the front of the church. But then I turned to look at Grace. She had a smile on her face the whole program, and loved being a part of it. We feel very fortunate for all the experience she CAN have at preschool and in our day-to-day lives.
So, instead of focusing on the "cant's" this year, let's challenge ourselves to things we never thought we could do in honor of Grace. Kyle and I have already made our lists, and they will appear in this blog. We encourage everyone we know to pick five things to do this year. Because we know you can! Keep in mind that it's not something you have to finish in just one month, you have the whole year.
In 2015, Kyle says he "CAN"
• Run a 10K
• Exercise three or more times a week
• Write a fictional short story
• Write at least 12 columns
• Build something
In 2015, Mary says she "CAN"
• Read five or more books for fun
• Have a guest spot on Kyle's podcast
• Eat healthier
• Do a 5K run/walk with Grace
• Help find a cure for INAD by donating
This is the link for the iCan for Grace page: https://www.crowdrise.com/iCanforGrace
We would love for you to check it out and let us know what you "CAN" do this year. Together, let's make 2015, a year to remember!
For as long as I can remember, I have ALWAYS loved to get mail. As a young girl, I can remember nearly running to the mailbox every day to see if there was anything for me.
I loved pen pals, and had at least two from Japan for a time, as well as others from across the United States. If I met someone that lived far away, I would make it my mission to send them mail, and I just loved when it came back in return. I've also been somewhat of a pack rat, and could probably still find most of the letters and notes I've been sent.
While each card is special, I still have a box full of letters that I used to write back and forth to my Grandma Hutson. She only lived about 30 miles away in Vandalia, but she knew how much I loved to get mail. I also exchanged letters with my cousin Stefanie, who used to make it her mission to write hers in return on the most unusual things she could find. I still have some letters she wrote on toilet paper.
For a time, as I went away to college, I truly tried to keep in touch with everyone I'd ever met. Prior to Facebook, that was quite a challenge. My college roommate's dad used to think I single handedly kept the United States Post Office in business with my Christmas card list.
Funnily enough, one of the first questions that Kyle asked me when we started dating was how much money I spent at Hallmark every year. I told him I had NO idea, and if I did, I probably wouldn't do it. I just considered it a hobby.
I have to admit that marriage and children have somewhat curbed my ability to send as many notes as I used to. I still love when I have the chance to sit down and write notes, it's just not always as often as I would like.
And while I may not send as many notes as I used to, I have been humbled these last few months by the outpouring of support for Grace. Since Kyle's column came out, not a single day has gone by that we haven't gotten a note or a card, either at home or at the newspaper office. It's been amazing.
Just a FEW of the kind notes and treasures we have received recently.
Some notes contain favorite scripture verses, and others contain sweet messages or letters of encouragement about our journey. I have read and re-read them all many times, and keep them next to my bed, so that I can pick the up anytime I'm down.
I hear over and over again how hard it is to live in a small town because everyone knows everything about everyone else. I have to admit that probably has some truth to it. But small communities have their good side too. The support we have received from this community and beyond has truly touched us., and we are so grateful to everyone who has sent a card or a note, left a message on Facebook or said a prayer for us. Your kindness means more than you will ever know.
I know there's no way that I will be able to write a card or a note to each person who has sent one to me. Just know how excited I still am every time I go to our mailbox and find that someone has shared their kindness with us.
1000 Reasons to Smile
"When life gives you 100 reasons to cry, give it 1,000 reasons to smile."
My sister-in-law sent me this quote not long after we found out about Grace's diagnosis. And I must admit I've done my fair share of crying lately.
I cried because my beautiful three-year-old daughter has an incurable, untreatable rare genetic disorder that affects less than 25 children in the world. And I cried because the prognosis is that she might not live until her 10th birthday.
I also cried for all the things I won't get to do with Grace. I won't get to take her shopping for a prom dress or a wedding dress. I won't get to teach her how to drive, how to count or even sing the alphabet song with her.
And then I cried because it's just not fair. I look around and see healthy children running around, making messes, singing songs, saying "I love you." And my heart just aches for what is not to be.
But then I got this quote. "When life gives you 100 reasons to cry, give it 1,000 reasons to smile." In fact, my sister-in-law had shoe tags made for us with just that quote, an ever-present reminder that life is to be lived to its very fullest.
I may have 100 reasons to cry every morning when I get up. But that doesn't mean I can't have a day filled with 1,000 reasons to smile.
Grace takes up more than 900 of those reasons on her own. Despite her own set of challenges, Grace finds a way to love life, and almost always has a huge smile on her face. She loves to play peek-a-boo with you, which is usually followed by lots of laughter. And it's hard not to smile when Grace laughs, maybe impossible.
Grace loves preschool. She loves watching the kids and interacting with them. No, she can't run around in the play room or sing the songs or even open the door when it's her day to be leader. But she brings her smile with her each and every day. When I come to pick her up, she always has a big smile and a hug for me, and I smile as I watch the kids come to tell her bye and that they will see her the next day.
One of my very favorite things is to play with Grace. When she was a baby, I couldn't wait for her to big enough to play Barbies or board games with me. And sometimes I'm sad I may never have that chance. But instead of crying, I choose to play catch with Grace. That's her favorite. She likes to sit in the chair and throw you the ball. She just giggles and giggles with delight (and laughs even harder if I manage to throw the ball at her daddy instead).
Sure, life can give you 100 reasons to cry each and every day. But instead of letting the tears pool up in your eyes, find 1,000 reasons to smile. I bet if you start, you won't even be able to stop smiling.
The Beginning Of A Grace Filled Journey
I think the things that we remember most about our lives are the moments that change it, for better or for worse. Graduations, marriages, births, deaths. Some good, some bad, some that fall in the gray areas in between.
For me, one of those moments was on Sept. 7, 2011, the day Grace Louise Herschelman entered my beautiful wife Mary and I's life kicking and screaming. Granted, if you were being yanked out of your slumber by a pair of guys in masks wielding surgical equipment you'd probably yell too.
Almost every moment since then has been memorable in one way or another. On the outside, Mary and I may have looked like we had this parenting thing down, although the reality of the situation was far from that.
We relied heavily on our parents for advice, support and free babysitting, all of which they gave willingly. We relied on each other when we were at our wits end and didn't know which way was up and which way to turn. And we relied on God. Asking him if we were doing ok as parents and praying for Grace in both the present and future.
Things would get a little more complicated not long after Grace's first birthday. Our moms, independently of one another, noticed that one of Grace's eyes was wandering a bit, so we spoke to our doctor about it and got set up with an pediatric ophthalmologist.
Around that same time, we started to notice that Grace wasn't quite hitting all of her milestones, like walking, number of words spoken and some other skills that we never really thought about.
That set us off on the journey through the state's Early Intervention program, starting with occupational therapy, then adding physical, speech and developmental therapy at different times along the way.
In general it was a taxing, but positive experience and at different times Grace seemed to be making strides. During this whole time, we were still confident that our little girl would walk, talk, run, take over the world and anything else she wanted to do someday.
In addition to the therapies, we also started seeing specialists at St. Louis Children's Hospital - first in orthopedics to get Grace fitted for some braces that her PTs recommended, then in neurology and genetics to try to find out what was causing the delays.
A year ago, a little bit of the wind was taken out of our sails as an MRI showed that Grace's cerebellum was a little bit smaller than that of children her age. The neurologist told us that was what was causing the issues with balance and walking, but it was really more of a symptom than a disease.
In July of this year, we underwent something called "whole exome sequencing" which looks at all 20,000 genes, even though they only know what about 6,000 do. This test would either tell us, what was wrong and how we could fix it, what was wrong and that there was no known fix, or that they still had no idea what was wrong. And it would take almost six agonizing months to come back with the results.
We hardly waited with baited breath. I fully expected that the answer would be inconclusive and that we would still be stuck in neutral on what was causing the delays. In the meantime, Grace had aged out of Early Intervention, but still did physical therapy in Hillsboro at RehabEdge and in Springfield at Kids at Koke Mill, plus speech therapy at Hillsboro Area Hospital.
Everything had pretty much been normal, with a string of doctors appointments and therapy sessions. Grace's progression seemed to slow slightly, but we chalked that up a delay in getting her new leg braces after she outgrew the last pair.
Then on Thursday, Nov. 13, the genetic testing came back with an answer.
As Mary and I sat in the back office at work, we listened to the solemn voice of our genetic counselor tell us that they believed that they had found the problem gene.
It seems that we had each passed on a recessive mutated gene to Grace and that the gene was responsible for depositing iron on Grace's brain. She said that the genetic disorder, which is lumped in a group called INAD (infantile neuraxonal dystrophy) was responsible for such things as slowing of growth and development, slower language development and eye issues, among others. The disease is neurodegenerative and loss of muscle strength and movement continues over time.
And then the nuclear bomb.
"Most children that have this condition don't make it to their second decade."
Just like that, the world seemed to fall apart. How could this bright, smiling, happy little girl all of the sudden receive the equivalent of a death sentence before she even spent her first day in kindergarten?
We learned more about the condition the following day when we met with our genetic counselor and neurologist at Children's. I believe that doctors are taught to prepare people for the worst case scenario, and while they did that, they did a good job of treating us like human beings who just had the rug pulled out from under them in one of the worst possible ways.
The last month or so have been pretty much a blur. We've spent a lot of time with family and friends, telling a few people at a time.
We've prayed a lot as well, mostly for miracles, no matter how slim the chance. They say that having the condition is a one in a million chance, but they tell us that there are only 10 documented cases of what Grace has in the US, so it's really more like one in 30 million, give or take.
Our hesitation to tell people has been in part with our own struggles to grasp the news and in part the fact that this isn't going to be a short term thing. Pneumonia is now our worst enemy, not the disorder, which will weaken the muscles and make it harder to make sure everything goes down the right pipe.
Those that we have told have been extremely supportive. For some reason, people just gravitate to Grace. There are more people in our lives that love that little girl than I can possibly fathom. And we need every one of them.
We are not relying on a miracle (we continue to go to therapy and work to keep Grace as strong as possible every day), but we continue to pray for one every day. But if that never comes, we plan to never take another day with Grace for granted. It's easy to tell yourself that each day could be your last, but I never actually felt the importance of every second until this news.
Whether I have eight years, eight days or eight decades left with Grace, I plan to make the most of it. Every second I spend with her is life changing. And I'll never forget that.
For more information on INAD and similar disorders, visit www.nbiadisorders.org or http://nbiacure.org/learn/nbia-disorders/plan/inad/
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The Patriation of Canadian Corporate Law
Dr. Camden Hutchison, Assistant Professor at the Allard School of Law
Canadian corporate law belongs within a broader Anglo-American legal tradition, sharing many of the features of other common law jurisdictions, most notably England and the United States. This shared heritage raises an important empirical question—namely, which of these two countries has had greater influence on Canadian corporate law? A lecture recently given by Dr. Camden Hutchison, Assistant Professor at the Allard School of Law, addressed this question by presenting a comprehensive citation analysis of all corporate law decisions by Canadian courts of appeal since 1867.
Professor Hutchison spoke about the transition over the last 150 years from Canadian law's reliance on English precedent to its current focus on domestic precedent. The discussion included the effect of abolishing appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1949 as well as the continuing influence of English precedent in cases where Canadian courts are faced with unsettled legal issues. Professor Hutchison also challenged the assumption that American law has had a significant influence on Canadian courts, arguing that Canadian corporate law has shaped its own distinct identity.
This lecture was hosted by the Centre for Business Law at the Allard School of Law and The Law Courts Inn’s Lunching with Leaders discussion series.
Professor Hutchison’s most recent publication, The Patriation of Canadian Corporate Law is available for download.
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India fastest growing ready-made garment market for Bangladesh: Shringla
DHAKA (The Daily Star/ANN) - He said Bangladesh's RMG export to India has seen substantial growth since receiving duty-free and quota-free access in 2011.
India is now emerging as one of the fastest growing markets for Bangladesh's readymade garment export, said Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Indian high commissioner, yesterday.
He said Bangladesh's RMG export to India has seen substantial growth since receiving duty-free and quota-free access in 2011.
Bangladesh's garment exports rose 115 percent to $278.68 million in 2017-18 from $129.81 million a year ago, said Shringla.
He was addressing the inaugural session of three concurrent exhibitions on textile technology, yarn and fabrics and dyeing and chemicals at International Convention City Bashundhara.
Shringla said India was one of the biggest sources of raw materials and machinery for Bangladesh's apparel industry.
Indian suppliers exported over $100 million-worth textile machinery to Bangladesh in 2017-18, he said.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury of Bangladesh Parliament said she appreciated garment entrepreneurs' role in empowering women while the sector contributed to reducing the poverty rate from 40 to 22 percent in a decade. Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, urged Indian investors to set up joint venture industries in Bangladesh.
He said Bangladesh was one of the biggest contributors of remittance for India as a good number of Indians work in this sector.
Mirza Azam, state minister for textiles and jute, said exhibitions help entrepreneurs adopt new technologies for higher production.
Around 1,250 companies from 25 countries are participating in the four-day exhibition, which is open from 10:30am to 7:30pm.
The organisers said it was a one-stop platform showcasing latest developments and emerging technologies for the textile and garment industries.
Among others, Rudra Chatterjee, president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce; Fazlee Shameem Ehsan, vice president of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association; Mohammed Nasir, vice president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, and Meherul N Islam, president and group managing director of CEMS Global-USA & Asia Pacific, addressed the programme.
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News: USA showered by a watery comet ~11,000 years ago, ending the Golden Age of man in America
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050926/mammoth_02.html
Atlantis Online > Forum > General Category > General & Miscellaneous > Cool Cars from the 1980s and 1990s
http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/classic-cars/these-cool-cars-from-the-1980s-and-1990s-are-absolutely-worthless-collectibles/ss-AApDllt?ocid=ientp
Slide 1 of 12: When you think of an '80s or '90s car, what comes to mind? Is it the DeLorean from "Back to the Future"? Is it Tom Selleck's Ferrari from "Magnum P.I."? Is it Steve Sanders's Corvette in Beverly Hills 90210? Your parents' Chrysler K car or minivan? Unfortunately for would-be collectors, the '80s and '90s meant a lot of molded plastic wrapped around underpowered engines. "Cool" cars of the era like the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Lotus Milan, mid-engine GM Pontiac Fiero (ahead of its time in that regard) underperformed. Unique ideas like the compact SUV didn't pan out or, in the case of the Suzuki Samurai, just flipped over. Meanwhile, many of the midsize vehicles of the era -- with the exception of perhaps the Honda Accord and its hidden headlights -- looked and performed as if they should be dropped off by the truckload at retirement villages across the county. We don't even want to get into what subcompacts looked like at the time? Forget Bluetooth, modular seating, moonroofs and some of the other modern small-car perks: In cars like the Hyundai Excel, Geo Metro and Yugo 45, you were fortunate if you got a radio, climate control or an engine that could get you up to highway speeds. Here Is One of My Best Stock Ideas, Doug Kass Explains As a result, there aren't all that many vehicles that made it out of the era as bona fide "classics": cars that you could easily resell for more than you paid for it, regardless of trim. The average cost of a new car today is $34,721, according to Kelley Blue Book. However, there are iconic cars of the '80s and early '90s that not only struggle to reach that mark today, but would make a lousy trade-in for any new vehicle. We had the folks at vehicle valuation site Black Book go through its records and find vehicles from the 1980s and '90s that didn't retain all that much of their value. The models on this list are going to come as somewhat of a surprise to '80s kids who wanted to owner a car like Kitt from Knight Rider, but not to those who understand why that vehicle didn't exactly dominate the streets during that simpler time: Related: 5 Cars Likely To Be Resold Within The First Year Car Enthusiast? Don't miss these galleries.. These Are the 30 Most Expensive Cars Ever Sold at Auction 5 New Convertible Cars You Can Buy Today for Under $35,000 10 Station Wagons That Are Better Than Your New $50,000 Compact SUV 10 Hot Luxury Cars to Buy Instead of a Tesla
Slide 2 of 12: Current value: $8,000 to $10,000 The infamous C4 generation of the Corvette was the first redesign since 1963 and resulted in 51,547 being sold in 1984 alone. The Corvette hasn't sold anywhere near that briskly since, and the underpowered C4 didn't help its case. Even with a 5.7-liter V8, base models only managed 205 horsepower in their first year and less than 250 hp until the 300-horsepower LT1 engines debuted in 1992. Meanwhile, features like glass hatchbacks, LCD displays, flip-up headlights and molded plastic didn't age well. Enthusiasts still love the more musclebound ZR-1 models and the B2K Callaway Twin Turbo (which doubled the price of a Corvette), but maximum horsepower never rose above 405 as General Motors struggled with fuel efficiency standards and innovation. Could Steve Sanders back up his "I8A 4RE" license plate?" Only if his Vette was a more rare model going against a base Testarossa or 328. This is how cars that were selling for a minimum of $21,800 at the beginning of their run in 1984 and $37,225 by the end 1996 lost more than half of their value.
Slide 3 of 12: Current value: $3,500 to $5,000 So, let's talk about the "Iron Duke." Back in the early '80s, Pontiac put an in-line, four-cylinder engine made of iron into the base models of certain vehicles. This is how the Camaro -- one of the stereotypical '80s pony cars favored by folks who knew nothing about cars other than body type -- ended up with a 110-horsepower engine. That's less horsepower than the Nissan Versa, the most stripped-down subcompact being sold today. That garbage engine was retired from the Camaro in 1985, but the damage was done: The "underpowered" label stuck. With the vaunted IROC-Z managing just 215 horsepower and this entire generation of Camaro managing a maximum of 245 horsepower (or less than that of a Honda Odyssey minivan), this car took on vulgar nicknames and was ridiculed as a poser's supercar.
Slide 4 of 12: Current value: $2,000 to $3,000 The Ford Mustang brand is an icon, but the generations of Mustangs can sow discord between the most fervent fans. Aside from Lee Iacocca's Mustang II of the late '70s, perhaps no form of the Mustang divides allegiances as much as the long, Fox-body platform of the '80s and '90s. The four-cylinder base model produced just 88 horsepower, roughly on par with a SmartFortwo. The latter decade, in particular, was an incredibly tough time for the vehicle. Though that four-cylinder was bumped up to 110 horsepower, the last of the original Fox-body generation drew attention from Vanilla Ice, who name-dropped his 5.0-liter dream machine in both "Ice, Ice, Baby" and over a Steve Miller sample in the less-subtle "Rollin' In My 5.0." That 5-liter engine maxed out at about 200 horsepower, so anyone who wasn't up for modifying these Mustangs was getting a divisive, not all-that-pretty pony to play with.
Slide 5 of 12: Current value: $4,000 to $5,000 More powerful than the 5.0, but not by all that much, the Mustang GT was basically a clutch, a slung-back body style and some perks (fog lamps, 15-inch rims). However, that's just the kind of thing that an obsessive Mustang fan pays attention to, which is why it still fetches more than twice the price of 5.0 Mustangs and others of this era.
Slide 6 of 12: Current value: $5,000 to $8,000 We've knocked cars on this list for being neither sporty nor sexy enough and for not being all that rare. However, this two-seater was incredibly curvy, produced more than 200 horsepower from its inline six-cylinder (and nearly 300 from an available V12) and sold fewer than 56,000 models worldwide. So why the price drop? Well, those who've had to maintain a Jaguar of this era before know that you'll need every spare penny just to keep it roadworthy. Consider that current value a starting point.
Slide 7 of 12: Current value: $4,000 to $5,000 There wasn't always a Jeep Wrangler. When American Motors began making civilian versions of the U.S. military's Willys Jeeps after World War II, they were simply that: Civilian Jeeps, or CJs. When Chrysler bought American Motors in 1986, it renamed the CJ the Wrangler and gave it a bigger frame similar to that of its Cherokee. It looked similar, but its headlights were now square instead of round and the windshield wipers just sat in the middle of the window because Chrysler didn't have time to adjust for their arc after upsizing the windshield. These are the Jeeps you see in "Jurassic Park," but the fact that the YJ looks vastly different than any Jeep that came after it (and the fact that there were nearly 700,000 produced) has diminished it value a bit.
Slide 8 of 12: Current value: $4,000 to $5,000 Yes, it looks like a fake Porsche 924, but that was the point. It was a hot 146-horsepower sports car with sleek lines and available turbo packages that bumped it up to more than 210 horsepower. That this little car produced that much power at this time was nothing shy of a miracle, since insurers were penalizing drivers for their turbocharged engines at the time. It might have been more well-received today if Mazda didn't completely improve on its design and make the next (and final) generation of RX-7 a well-balanced, well-handling tuner's dream of a vehicle. The 1992 to 2002 RX-7s are some of the most revered sports cars in the world. That's no knock on the older RX-7s, but it explains why they and their pokier engines and archaic technology come at a discount.
Slide 9 of 12: Current value: $4,000 to $5,000 What did retirees drive before this car existed? Were they all in Cadillacs and Corvettes? Were cheap convertibles like the Chrysler LeBaron just more widely available? There are more convertibles now, but the Miata rekindled this country's love for the drop top after bringing it back to the masses in a sporty package. The Volkswagen Cabrios of this era? Cute, we guess, but not as reliable and beloved as this vehicle. Sold new, it provides Porsche Boxster performance at roughly half the price. In fact, this little roadster got a big boost from Consumer Reports a few years back for not only matching the Boxster's performance, but doing so with fewer repair bills. The original models still make the rounds in sunnier climates, but the fact that more than 410,000 of them have sold in the U.S. since 1990 means there are plenty out there to choose from without going two decades back in time.
Slide 10 of 12: Current value: $7,000 to $8,000 From 1954 to 1963, Mercedes made an iconic coupe with gullwing doors and gave it this name. Boy, are the SL class roadsters of the '90s not that car. A fairly plasticized, bulbous vehicle that aped the Ford Mustang down to its 5.0-liter V8, this low tier of the SL class became a music-video fixture during its era, but this two-seater couldn't maintain its presence. Its 228-horsepower engine was dwarfed by the 500SL's 322-horsepower V8. Considering that the $43,000 people paid for the 500SL comes out to $96,000 today, the 300SL has no business taking that name at that discount price. Owners of the far pricier gullwing SLS have far more claim to the 300SL legacy than this byproduct of a bad era.
Slide 11 of 12: Current value: $3,500 to $5,000 After the "Smokey and the Bandit" models of the late '70s, Pontiac decided to overhaul Camaro clone by giving it a sleeker, more plastic body, pop-up headlights and a glass hatchback. This was the Knight Rider Firebird, but it turned out that Firebird was fairly lame without the LED lights in front, the British talking computer and turbo boost. The base model had the absolute rubbish four-cylinder "Iron Duke" engine at all its 90 horsepower. Even the V6 upgrade only took it to 102 horsepower. If you wanted a Corvette engine without the benefit of actually owning a Corvette, that bumped you up to165 horsepower. Though horsepower would eventually exceed 200 (with modified versions exceeding 350) and a Corvette suspension would make it more fun to drive the Firebird continued to feel like the poor man's muscle car.
Slide 12 of 12: Current value: $2,000 to $3,000 So, coming out of a decade of oil crisis, you say nobody wanted a 1.8-liter, four-cylinder, 110-horsepower hatchback -- despite it being more powerful than most of the four-cylinder ponies on this list? Yeah, even the sporty-looking GTI version was still a boxy two-door compact with no space. It sold so poorly that it forced the closure of an assembly plant in Pennsylvania. Motor Trend named the GTI its Car of the Year in 1985, but buyers still liked the Jetta better (trunks were a big deal at the time). The Jetta went on to become a '90s icon and Volkswagen's most successful U.S. vehicle. The GTI would fare better years later. Car Enthusiast? Don't miss these galleries.. These Are the 30 Most Expensive Cars Ever Sold at Auction 5 New Convertible Cars You Can Buy Today for Under $35,000 10 Station Wagons That Are Better Than Your New $50,000 Compact SUV 10 Hot Luxury Cars to Buy Instead of a Tesla
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AuShadha and its Logo © Dr. Easwar T.R 2012 | License & Credits
AuShadha (औषध)
AuShadha (औषध): Means medicine in Sanskrit.
This is a Open Source Electornic Medical Records (EMR) & Public Health Management System for Small Clinics.
It might be even suited for speciality medical practice after some customisation.
It is developed with Python, Django and Dojo
For Development the code uses sqlite3 database, but with Django DB backend we can extend this to any database ( PostgresSQL is preferred ).
AuShadha code is licensed under GNU-GPL Version 3. Django, Dojo, Icons and other thrid party modules are licensed as per their authors. This should be honoured.
There are many great Open Source EMR and Clinic Management projects, but most of them have very poor front ends.
As in life, beauty and usability are key in medical practice.
It is natural that more visually appealing it is more you want to use it.
AuShadha will strive to achieve a balance between back and front end design.
To achieve that aim Django and Dojo has been chosen.
AuShadha is designed by me, a Medical Doctor in association with other Developers, so usability and practicability will always be foremost.
AuShadha benefits from inputs, feature requests from my medical colleagues as the development progresses.
How to Test
1) For AuShadha requirements please refer to REQUIREMENTS.txt in docs/
2) AuShadha has been tested and developed with Python 2.7, Django 1.4.1 and Dojo 1.7.2 in Linux. It should work as long as dependencies are satisfied.
3) Ideally create a Python Virtual Environment. If virtualenv is not installed, please run in Debian systems sudo easy_install virtualenv
4) After installing virtualenv, Create a Python Virtual Environment virtualenv python_env
5) Change the working directory to the virtualenv folder cd python_env and activate it source bin/activate
6) With Python pip installed, run pip install -r ../docs/REQUIREMENTS.txt if you are in python_env directory . This will install all the necessary dependencies you need.
You may need to install Python development libraries if you are on Linux. Required to compile PIL.
$ apt-get install python-dev #in debian systems.
$ yum install python-devel #in Redhat-like systems.
7) cd into src/AuShadha directory cd src/AuShadha
8) run python manage.py runserver
9) Use your browser to navigate to http://localhost:8000/AuShadha/ . You will be greeted with a login page. Use username = admin, password = admin for a trial run.
10) Please read the issues, license before using. Currently AuShadha is under active development and is not fit in anyway for real world use.
1) AuShadha_logo : Contains the logo, with SVG and .png file along with License.
2) docs : Contains the Requirements.txt, License.txt
3) src : Project Source Code, Media files(Icons,Images, File uploads), Javscript (custom and Dojo)
4) README.md
5) LICENSE.txt
1) I plan to develop the Clinic, Patient, Physician, Nurse modules first.
2) Visit Module will be next followed by Clinical Exam, Investigations, Procedure, Discharge, Prescription
3) Stock and Pharmacy will follow.
4) Allergy and Incident Reports next
5) Admission Module will follow.
6) Specific public health modules like Paediatrics, Neonatology, Gynaecology/ Obstetrics will be last as by then the interdependencies will be solved
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Suggestions and participation are welcome.
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AuShadha would not have been possible without the help of several preexisting projects. AuShadha wishes to thank all of them for their hard work.
AuShadha Developers
Dr. Easwar T.R - Project Owner, Maintainer & Lead Developer (email: dreaswar@gmail.com)
Dr. Richard Kim - UI Lead Advisor, Project Planner
Mr. Kumaran Radhakrishnan - Developer
Mr. Weldan Jamili - Django Developer
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Native AuShadha icons are done by Dr. Easwar T.R using Inkscape Inkscape They are separately licensed. Please see files for details.
Some icons for the CRUD functionality, dashboard, notifications have been borrowed from Elementary Project. Some of these have been modified and some used as such. Please see their license before use. Elementary Icons at DeviantArt by DanRabbit
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ROGER MORTIMER
TE WAHA , 6 - 30 MAY 2015
You know the story: Heaven, but not yet. First, you have to come to your senses in a dark forest and realize you've strayed from the path. You have to lose hope, and then find something bright that renews it... -- Mary Jo Bang from her 2013 translation of Dante Alighiere's 14th century poem Inferno.
The Inferno, with locale transposed to the South Pacific, is the subject of Roger's new exhibition. Bang has described the Inferno, which has attracted artist and writers over the centuries, as "a dramatic, harrowing, and often extremely witty demonstration of the timeless pernicious effects of corruption, malice, selfishness, and nefariousness".
Te Waha, the title of Roger's exhibition translates as mouth, entrance or gate. These paintings tempt us into their metaphorical territory to be the translator and map reader. When Roger won the Wallace Art Award last September, the judges described his work as "medieval in appearance yet utterly contemporary in intent". In these fantastical landscapes and watery coasts we see horror and hope, demons and angels, serpents and dragons, supplicants and sages. But despite the strange and surreal juxtaposition of ancient imagery, the themes are the universal, timeless and current -- the search for peace and meaning amidst inhumanity.
Roger's art is also about beauty, mystery, magic. While the dragon feasts on human flesh, in another part of the picture an angel hovers above a group of lost souls -- and we feel he might just intervene. We might be in the presence of a miracle. That's the other side of what Roger is showing us. -- Jill Trevelyan
We are delighted to present this new body of work that commenced with the Wallace Art Award winning painting, Otago Harbour. After this exhibition, Roger to the United States to take up his prize of a six-month artist residency with the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York.
Roger Mortimer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. He has exhibited steadily for 15 years and has work in collections in New Zealand and overseas.
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Researcher in the Spotlight - Dr Thomas Roulet
Posted in: #thinklist, Business and society, Research
He used the "Spiral of Silence" to predict Trump's election, and is now speaking out about imposter syndrome in management academia. In the second of our "Researcher in the Spotlight" series, we talk to Thomas Roulet about his research, the freedom of academic life and the value of social media.
You’re now in Cambridge – tell us about the path you took to get there
I finished my PhD in 2014 and then did my post doc in Oxford. I’ve taught in various universities – including some time in Bath – and I joined Cambridge in August 2018. I’m a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory at the Judge Business School, but I’m also attached to a college – I’m a Fellow in Sociology and Management Studies at Girton, the college founded by the feminist movement 150 years ago. I enjoyed being part of a college in Oxford so I’m glad that I have that opportunity here too. It means that I teach undergraduates in sociology as well as lecturing in management in the Business School.
What are you working on at the moment?
The main focus of my research is negative social evaluations, things like stigma, scandals and disapproval. I look at this at both the organisational and individual level. I’ve just finished writing a book on the subject which hopefully will be out next year, published by Stanford University Press. Writing a book is a long process – I started this in 2015!
The work around stigma and scandals is very current and pretty scary – for example politicians using controversies to fuel campaigns. Have a look at the new BBC show Years and Years – it’s all about fake news and the rise of new populist politicians. It’s a drama but it’s so close to reality.
I’m also interested in how social evaluation can have an impact on other issues like the environment and waste management. It’s interesting how people compete with each other - people want to be positively evaluated so they start engaging with pro-environmental practices such as reducing their waste, for example.
It was through my work on evaluation and stigma that I became interested in imposter syndrome. How we perceive ourselves, and how others make us perceive ourselves, are major drivers of our behaviours. This is the subject of a recent paper I wrote with Joel Bothello – we were particularly interested in what we saw as a growing phenomenon amongst junior academics like ourselves, this sense of anxiety and self‐doubt about the legitimacy of our profession and our position within it.
In addition to my own academic production, I am the co-editor in chief of M@n@gement – which was founded 20 years ago as the first open access journal in the field of management. I'm trying through my editorial activities to change our publication ecosystem, to make it more inclusive and less profit oriented.
Which piece of work are you most proud of?
While I was at Bath, I published a theory paper on public opinion and the stigmatisation of practices. It was about this theory of the Spiral of Silence. It’s a theory that individuals have a fear of isolation, resulting from the idea that a social group or society in general might exclude members due to them holding what they think is a minority opinion. So people stay quiet rather than voice what they perceive to be unpopular opinions.
At the time, it didn’t seem like it was that relevant or have much practical application. But now, we find that it’s extremely relevant for explaining the polarisation in political opinion that we’re seeing at the moment, and the unexpected triumphs of Trump, Johnson and Brexit.
Before the Trump election, I had an opinion piece published in the Telegraph – I used the theory to explain why we were underestimating Trump’s chances of being elected. He had a huge number of hardcore supporters but they were totally invisible because they didn’t want to admit publicly to their support. So the pollsters didn’t capture what people were really thinking. Things are a bit different now – people are much more vocal, but back then it was impossible to capture how prevalent these opinions were. And so the result was a huge shock for many.
The same theory has been applied more recently to the Indian election. We’re seeing much more polarisation, people becoming more and more opposed to each other – we’re more divided than at any other time.
I made the prediction about Trump to be provocative, because I thought people were not really taking notice of what was happening. I didn’t really believe he would be elected, but then it came true! Brexit had already showed us what could happen. Political mobilisation is now quite high. People realise what can happen, that there are others who might share their apparently unpopular opinions and they’re becoming more vocal. We see people being very controversial to stir up support and encourage opposition.
Who would you say as had the most influence on your work?
There are many academics who have been inspiring – many senior people who are very well known, experts in their field.
But what I have found really helpful is not necessarily looking up to very senior people, but enjoying discussions with my peers and other junior scholars. I’ve taken inspiration from people who are a little bit more senior. For example when I just started my PhD, one of the others who was just finishing theirs was Jean-Phillipe Vergne. He was incredible at looking at new topics and his work really inspired me. He now works on crypto-currency. He was one of a wave of junior people who came up with new ideas, who was interested in new phenomena and really pushed the boundaries of our field. It was he who inspired me to write my book as he himself wrote an exciting book on piracy and capitalism with Rudolph Durand.
What would you have done if you weren’t an academic?
Before being an academic I was in investment banking. It was fun and stimulating, but I did not find clear purpose, and it was too monotonous.
In academia, there’s much more freedom, and there’s space to think. Yes, we’re pressurised to publish and we have teaching responsibilities, but we can also find purpose through other things like public engagement, writing books, doing interdisciplinary research.
It’s a pity that sometimes, due to organisational pressures, we forget what a huge luxury it is to do this job. We get to interact with great minds who then influence you for the rest of your life. I couldn’t do any other job – nothing else would offer so much freedom to think.
You're one of our top thinklisters - is social media still an important part of your work as an academic?
Yes, I still do a huge amount. Over the last couple of years I’d say I’ve seen more of the negative aspects of it. But I still really enjoy it – it bridges gaps between fields, helps me to make connections I otherwise couldn’t make. It’s great for procrastination, for sparking off new ideas to pursue.
I think we should all be engaged academics. A lot of people are shy and don’t want to engage – they’re afraid that they don’t have anything to say. But it’s not about having strong opinions, it’s just about engaging in a dialogue. You just need to be willing to connect with others.
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Agriculture post-Brexit: a battleground for the UK’s constituent nations
Posted in: Brexit, Food and agriculture
Michael Keating is Professor of Politics at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh and Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change.
Agriculture is one of those areas currently both devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and subject to European policy-making. If nothing else were done, these competences would revert to the devolved territories, with little by way of overall UK policies. The EU Withdrawal Bill proposes that these, like other ‘retained EU competences’, should come back to Westminster, with some of them ‘released’ back to the nations. Currently, there is a stand-off on the matter, with the Scottish and Welsh Governments refusing to recommend legislative consent for the Withdrawal Bill and proposing their own Continuity bills to keep the powers to themselves.
Both sides have agreed on the need for UK-wide frameworks, which would cover two areas: support payments for farmers; and regulations. Without this, trade across the UK would be difficult and it would not be possible to include agriculture in future trade agreements, with the EU or third countries. Farming representatives themselves also support frameworks and generally would like to keep the EU regulations to allow continued trade with Europe.
The disagreement is on what form these frameworks would take, whether imposed from London or negotiated among the four nations. The Scottish and Welsh governments, supported by most farming interests across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, insist on the second. They fear centralization and that, if they were to get piecemeal powers released from Westminster, coherent policy making would be made difficult.
In fact, there is already substantial policy divergence across the UK as the full discretion allowed under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is applied at the devolved level. So the devolved nations have already capped the maximum payments to large farmers, something that Michael Gove has recently suggested could be done in England after Brexit. Scotland has retained some production-linked payments. Rural development schemes under Pillar 2 of the CAP have differed.
These variations stem partly from policy choices and partly from objective conditions. Around half of farm incomes in England come from the CAP, but in Scotland it is three quarters, in Wales it is 80% and in Northern Ireland 87%. 85% of farm land in Scotland is in ‘areas of natural constraint’ such as hill farms; this is 81% in Wales and 70% in Northern Ireland, compared with only 17% of farm land in England. In the remoter parts of Scotland and Wales, agriculture has important social and cultural roles, while in most of England the emphasis is on intensive production. If the UK policy frameworks are too constraining and reflect English conditions and priorities, the devolved territories could suffer.
The other key issue is spending. Currently, Northern Ireland receives about £1400 per head of population from the CAP, compared with £860 in Scotland and Wales and £340 in England. Although the money comes from Brussels, it is the UK Government that decides on the final allocation, and last time around they adjusted the sum for each of the nations by the same percentage. The money is earmarked for agriculture and not put into the devolved spending block. In future, the money might be put into the block and then adjusted according to the Barnett Formula, which would allow the devolved nations to keep their advantage. Alternatively, there could be a new hypothecated agriculture grant, which would tie their policies to UK priorities.
It is likely, in any case, that funding will be cut and the UK Government has made it clear that it wishes to move away from the present pattern of subsidies in England. In that case, it might not wish to allow devolved governments to continue to support agriculture, as that would upset fair competition. This, in turn, hinges on what counts as a subsidy and what might be allowed under the UK’s internal market regime or under future trade deals. The present subsidies are permitted under WTO rules but that might change in the future. If free trade deals are signed with low-cost agricultural producers in the Americas and Australasia, that could also undercut higher cost producers around the UK, even if they are allowed to continue to pay subsidies.
There are currently discussions in the devolved nations as to the future of agricultural and rural policy but, until the UK framework is clear and the amount of power they will have is established, it is difficult to progress.
This blog originally appeared on LSE's blog British Politics and Policy, and draws on the author’s report The Repatriation of Competencies in Agriculture after Brexit.
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University of Nottingham > Blogs > Underwater archaeology > Uncategorized > Underwater archaeology documentary wins global prize
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May 1, 2018, by Jon Henderson
Underwater archaeology documentary wins global prize
A documentary following the research of Dr Jon Henderson of the Department of Archaeology and Classics has been awarded the Gold Medal for best documentary in the History and Society section at the 2018 New York Festivals World’s Best TV and Film awards ceremony, which was held in Las Vegas this month.
The National Geographic documentary Drain the Sunken Pirate City follows Dr Henderson as he uses cutting edge digital techniques to record the remains the sunken 17th century town of Port Royal in Kingston Harbour, Jamaica.
Port Royal was the English mercantile capital of the New World, and as such, an important and wealthy centre for trade and commerce for the entire West Indies. Known as the ‘Wickedest City on Earth’, it was famous for being a haven for pirates working under letters of marque for the English crown.
Dr Henderson originally pitched the idea for the film and was the main on-screen contributor and scientific advisor for the production. He has since worked on three further documentaries for National Geographic which are due to be shown on the channel later in the year.
Dr Henderson said: “We are delighted to get this award. The idea of a sunken pirate city is obviously evocative but the production company, MSP Productions, allowed us to tell the real story of the site without reverting to the usual Hollywood stereotypes and we were able to demonstrate the digital underwater survey work we were doing which was really refreshing.
“They knew the project was grounded in hard science and research and they made sure we worked very closely with the CGI company, 422 South, to produce an accurate reconstruction of how the site would have looked in the 17th century.
“The model we produced is based on the actual survey evidence we had gathered in the field and we can now use it for teaching and outreach. It was a brave decision by the company to let the science dominate the show but it is fantastic that this faith has been rewarded. The show has done really well around the world. Last time I was on a long haul flight it was on the in-flight entertainment which was a strange experience! “
More details on the documentary can be found here.
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Post by flblue09 on Feb 7, 2007 6:04:21 GMT -5
NBA's John Amaechi Comes Out
by Cyd Zeigler Jr. & Jim Buzinski, Outsports.com
(New York City) John Amaechi, a former player with the Orlando Jazz and Orlando Magic, has become the first NBA player to come out as gay.
Amaechi will announce publicly for the first time that he is gay on an episode of ESPN's "Outside The Lines" to air Feb. 13, Outsports has learned. His book, published by ESPN Books, "Man In The Middle," in which he chronicles his NBA career and directly addresses the travails of being a closeted professional athlete, will be released the following week.
bluepride said:
<<Sometimes, I think we all take ourselves too seriously. Lighten up folks! >> Well...yeah Jim I agree, ... FIRST one to laugh at myself and others ... under the surface, it bothered me a little.
I tend to agree with TJ here ...
Once again in mass media, the negative socio-political statement was made and reinforced that, the act of two adult males engaged in, or even accidentally nearing the engagement of an "intimate act" is presented as disturbingly abhorrent and deviantly unacceptable. As such, the "act", and anyone who engages in such an act is, with amusingly acceptable permission, deemed reject-able. That the advertisement was broadcast during one of the most important and highly watched "masculine" sports events of the year ... a coincidence?
Every subculture may, and often does, find self-aware or self-defining humor within its own social arena funny. But when the same humor finds a place in other arenas, humor becomes the other edge of the sword. The media, regardless of venue, is a tool ...
Within a baseball stadium a bat aggressively swung is a tool that can result in a winning point home-run for the opposing side, and actuate much cheering, joy and satisfaction. On a city street or an isolated country road, the same bat can produce a different affect of equal joy and satisfaction ...
Last Edit: Feb 7, 2007 7:35:10 GMT -5 by flblue09
Well I see you points, but I still thought it was funny.
I saw it more as a commentary on the stupidity of some het males. I suppose it depends on your perspective. I didn't see any of the alternative endings, so I don't know what they implied. And the fact is, no matter how socially neutral we might become in that Utopian future, I suspect that two hetero males would still feel some discomfort when suddenly and unexpectantly finding themselves in a Gay situation.
How many of you would be that comfortable if the roles were reversed?
Those sort of rude awakenings, uncomfortable juxt a positions are at the root of a great deal of humor.
I somehow can't quite buy into that commerceial fostering an atmosphere of hatred and bigotry that would lead to taking a bat to someone's head. I also think that young people coming out today do it at a much earlier age than many of us, because they're a lot savier than we were at their age. I'm not sure that commercial would have sent that big of a message to them, but that's just my opinion, and since I'm not charging anything for it, take it for what it's worth.
Just to continue with the Colts and Tony Dungy, etc,etc.....
An interesting article/blog regarding Tony Dungy being honored by the AFI in Indiana. At some point someone is going to ask Dungy his views on gays, gay marriage and other issues related to gay people. I wonder how he'll answer. If he's really Christian, he'll say the correct things. If he's a neanderthal Christian, he'll spew the party line. Let's see what happens. The line in the sand is drawn!
TONY DUNGY, THE SAME GOD YOU HONOR MADE GAY PEOPLE TOO
After a couple of months of speculation, we finally have the NBA player who was supposed to come out. It turns out that he's no longer active but in this day and age, it's understandable. To add to the Outsports article that flblue09 [/b]previewed above, heres an article I got from Southern Voice regarding John Amaechi. By the way, if you can do it.....try to watch ESPN on when he appears and talks about his coming out.
(Sorry about the large photo. Wasn't able to resize it. Not that that's a bad thing. He's a handsome man. )
FORMER CENTER BECOMES FIRST OPENLY GAY NBA PLAYER
I made the response I did about the Dungys being a great family to work with in spite of the magnitude and press interest surrounding the circumstances. and the way that I felt I was respected for how I conducted a full and thorough investigation. This was a comment to be taken at face value. Coach Dungy or his families beliefs about homosexuality were never brought to light because it was not an issue.
I have said before and still try to follow the belief that anyone I deal with is equal to myself until they prove themselves otherwise by words or actions. If I learn that they consider homosexuals to be unworthy of having the same rights as heterosexuals (and I'm not saying I expect them to become activists for the cause), then they will lose my respect.
I would hope to keep my opinion of this family, but it sure wouldn't be the first or last time I was proven wrong. I may be an optimist, but not so much of one that I won't change my opinion after learning more information.
If I was conducting an investigation like the one you were involved in, obviously I'd conduct it with all fairness and professionalism expected. I know that's how you did it. No question. And even if Dungy had previously stated some kind of uncomfort with gays (which he didn't) I know you'd conduct your investigation exactly the same way. One's personal feelings shouldn't impact an investigation, as we all know. But if he had expressed some bad feelings towards gays, given his overall personality (being a nice guy and all), I'd probably feel more sorry for him for being misguided in his prejudice. I wouldn't want to get too close to him but I'd still do the job I was supposed to do. But at this point, it's all moot, isn't it? He hasn't been asked (as far as I know) about any gay related topics or about his involvement if any with AFI. It may be just another honor for a public figure. He may not even know about AFI's stances. Fat chance, but possible. I guess maybe we'll find out in a few weeks. I'm sure this award ceremony will be monitored by GLBT organizations in Indiana.
Referring to Amaechi's coming out, this article questions why players don't come out when "active" instead of when retired.
Hey...if Jackie Robinson could break a major barrier, why can't a gay player be as heroic as Jackie??
Read amd think: GAY PLAYERS SHOULDN'T WAIT TO COME OUT
This is another Snickers commercial but this one isn't as offensive (Or NOT,BigJim!) as the one that was shown during the Super Bowl. It's from Australia. 'Ave a look, mate!
AUSTRALIAN SNICKERS COMMERCIAL
Yeah, but I'm sure some one somewhere would take offense.
Post by hoosiercop on Feb 8, 2007 18:34:33 GMT -5
<How many of you would be that comfortable if the roles were reversed?>
Well, Jim, I've experienced the reversal. Well it was intentional on the unattractive woman's part, but not on my part obviously. Yes I did feel unconfortable. But I didnt feel a need to smash her head underneath the hood of a car like the Snickers alternate ending suggests as a solution.
If they had done the commercial a little more smartly, it could have been a funny, thought provoking commentary. But they took that and went too far with it.
As for young people dealing with being gay better nowadays.....I think its more a function of the overall social climate being more accepting and having more examples of gay role models being visible or talked about. I dont think its that kids now are more saavy, just they have a better environment to figure it all out in. When I started figuring things out, I didnt have anything but rupaul and liberace to look at. hehehe No t.v. shows with gay main characters. And I think kids/young adults today may not have a sense of how much harder the environment used to be. I was talking with one guy who couldnt understand why people rarely came out in major positions back in the day. I tried explaining how the environment was different, and he basically told me that was B.S. and that it was just as easy then as now. The irony is that guy isnt even fully out himself. Kids........
In respect to gay professional athletes coming out, but only after they are done playing......
With all due respect, there never was a decision for Jackie Robinson to make about whether or not to "come out" as a black man. He never had a choice, everyone could see it from day one. I'm not saying that to talk bad about him, but to point out you are comparing apples to oranges when drawing comparisons between gay athletes and Robinson.
That being said, I obviously would love to see athletes start to come out while still active in their sport. Thing is, unless they were a real star of their sport, I think theyd get run out of town and made to feel unwelcome. Now if a major star came out, that would do wonders, and would probably even make the bigots keep their mouths closed for no other reason that they realize that guy can help them win, and wouldnt want the team to lose if the star left.
Somehow, Basketball has pushed it's way into this thread! Maybe I'll start a new one to highlight professional players who are gay or who've come out. In the meantime....regarding John Amaechi....
KNICKS ADDRESS AMAECHI ISSUE
By BRIAN LEWIS (NY Post)
February 9, 2007 -- In the wake of former NBA center John Amaechi announcing that he's gay in his upcoming book, predictably it was a topic of conversation at Knick practice yesterday, with the thought of playing with a homosexual teammate provoking a myriad of reactions.
Guard Jamal Crawford admitted it might be "a little awkward." Center Eddy Curry said he'd back a gay teammate but wouldn't comment on a gay opponent, and coach Isiah Thomas passionately called for tolerance.
...........Thomas insisted that he thought a gay player would be accepted in today's NBA.
"I think we will and I think he should," Thomas said. "We're a diverse society; we preach acceptance and we're proud of our diversity, no matter what your sexual preference may be. There's an acceptance and a tolerance level that should be everywhere. No one should be excluded."
Yay, Isaiah Thomas!! Maybe you shouldn't be fired after all!! What a statement of support! Just one thing...it's "orientation" not "preference". But, many thanks for the unconditional support. It helps when a "name" makes a statement like that!
The whole NY Post article: KNICKS ADDRESS AMAECHI ISSUE
Post by hoosiercop on Feb 10, 2007 9:10:00 GMT -5
Yes it just goes to show that a person who may have some shortcomings in his coaching/managing skills, can still have some positive traits to him as well. Kudos to him for expressing his opinion. Though to be honest, maybe his support is more self preservation, if you smell what I'm cooking. hehehe He sets off my gaydar at times. Though my gaydar is not the most reliable either.
"SPORTS AND HOMOPHOBIA" Aug 7, 2007 4:51:08 GMT -5
Post by hoosiercop on Aug 7, 2007 4:51:08 GMT -5
Its always good to hear stories of people feeling comfortable enough to be open, whether as a youth on a sports team, or as an officer on a department. I'm glad to see more kids being open, and more str8 kids not caring about what someone is. Hopefully such dispositions continue to increase. Maybe these youths becoming integral members of adult society eventually will help tip the scales to where we can start seeing the GLBT community getting closer to equality.
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National Book Critics Circle Announces Its Finalists for Publishing Year 2012
by Admin | Jan-14-2013
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Ben Fountain’s wise, surprising Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco), Michael Gorra’s expansive Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (A Liveright Book: W. W. Norton), and Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House), this year’s National Book Award winner in nonfiction, are among the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle book awards for the publishing year 2012. All together 30 books are finalists in six categories—autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The board of the National Book Critics Circle also announced that the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing has been awarded to William Deresiewicz, a contributing writer for The Nation and a contributing editor for The New Republic and The American Scholar. For the first time in its 26-year history, the Balakian Citation carries with it a $1,000 cash prize, thanks to a generous donation by NBCC member Gregg Barrios. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar will receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award for their pioneering work in feminist thought, which revolutionized criticism.
The fiction finalists range widely in venue, from Laurent Binet’s HHhH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman winner about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, to Zadie Smith’s London-set NW (The Penguin Press) and Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House), which offers frightening insight into Kim Jong Il’s North Korea. Like Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Binet’s HHhH, an exploration of the act of fictionalizing history, is a first novel.
The biography finalists include Robert A. Caro’s The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Alfred A. Knopf), as well as books on intriguing corners of history not so often explored: Tom Reiss’s The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown Publishers), about General Dumas, father of the famous novelist; Lisa Cohen’s All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), about early 20th-century trend setters Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta and Madge Garland; and Lisa Jarnot’s Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography (University of California Press).
This year’s autobiography finalists include both profound personal meditation from Maureen N. McLane (My Poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Leanne Shapton (Swimming Studies. Blue Rider Press) and views of cross-cultural experience from Mexican American author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us. Atria Books), Kenya-born Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (In the House of the Interpreter. Pantheon), and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid (House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), who died shortly before release of his memoir about rebuilding his great-grandfather’s estate in Lebanon.
The poetry finalists demonstrated mastery of craft, ranging from David Ferry’s Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press), also this year’s National Book Award winner, to Kings Tufts Award winner D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf Press), and MacArthur fellow A.E. Stallings (Triquarterly: Northwestern University Press), whose work reflects her study of the classics and love of Greece, where she now lives. Nonfiction, too, had masters, including PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel and National Magazine Award winner David Quammen (Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. W.W. Norton) and 2001 National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. Scribner).
Winners of the National Book Critics Circle book awards will be announced on Thursday, February 28, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium. A finalists’ reading will be held on February 27, 2013, also at 6:00 p.m. at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium. Founded in 1974 in New York City, the NBCC is the sole award bestowed by working critics and book-review editors. For a complete list of finalists, see below.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALISTS, PUBLISHING YEAR 2012
Reyna Grande. The Distance Between Us. Atria Books
Maureen N. McLane. My Poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Anthony Shadid. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Leanne Shapton. Swimming Studies. Blue Rider Press
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In the House of the Interpreter. Pantheon
Robert A. Caro. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Alfred A. Knopf
Lisa Cohen. All We Know: Three Lives. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Michael Gorra. Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece. A Liveright Book: W. W. Norton
Lisa Jarnot. Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography. University of California Press
Tom Reiss. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. Crown Publishers
Paul Elie. Reinventing Bach. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Daniel Mendelsohn. Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture. New York Review Books
Mary Ruefle. Madness, Rack, and Honey. Wave Books
Marina Warner. Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights. Belknap Press: Harvard University Press
Kevin Young. The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness. Graywolf Press
Laurent Binet. HHhH. tr. by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ben Fountain. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Ecco
Adam Johnson. The Orphan Master’s Son. Random House
Lydia Millet, Magnificence. W. W. Norton
Zadie Smith. NW. The Penguin Press
Katherine Boo. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Random House
Steve Coll. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. The Penguin Press
Jim Holt. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story. A Liveright Book: W. W. Norton
David Quammen. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. W.W. Norton
Andrew Solomon. Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. Scribner
David Ferry. Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations. University of Chicago Press
Lucia Perillo. On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths. Copper Canyon Press
Allan Peterson. Fragile Acts. McSweeney’s Books
D. A. Powell. Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys. Graywolf Press
A. E. Stallings. Olives. Triquarterly: Northwestern University Press
Nona A. Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: William Deresiewicz
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Profiles of NBCC Finalists
AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALISTS
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: William Deresiewicz
Reyna Grande, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US (Atria Books). In this gripping memoir, Grande recounts her story of coming to the United States from Mexico as an undocumented immigrant, and of how she went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a college degree. A resident of Los Angeles, novelist Grande is a novelist and the author of two previous books: Across a Hundred Mountains, which received the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and Dancing with Butterflies, which was awarded an International Latino Book Award. A sought-after public speaker, Grande is a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz.
Maureen N. McLane, MY POETS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Marking what marked her, McLane writes about the poets whose work most influenced her, both personally and as a poet, in this intimate book about the life of the mind. Writing with fierce intelligence, McLane discusses not necessarily the world’s best or most important poets but rather of those whose work has touched her deeply. The author of poetry collections Same Life and World Enough, McLane is a former Junior Fellow at Harvard University; she teaches at New York University and was a Rhodes Scholar. She has also taught at University of Chicago. McLane received the NBCC’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in 2002. She lives in New York.
Anthony Shadid, HOUSE OF STONE: A MEMOIR OF HOME, FAMILY AND A LOST MIDDLE EAST (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Three generations after his family left Oklahoma City, Shadid was drawn back to Lebanon to rebuild his great-grandfather’s abandoned home in the town of Marayoun. His memoir, also nominated for a National Book Award, told of his painstaking reconstruction of the house amid the olive trees. Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning correspondent for the New York Times, died of an asthma attack on assignment in Syria in February 2012. He was widely mourned as one of the great chronicler’s of the Middle East. An accomplished journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post before that, Shadid was also the author of Night Draws New: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of War, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in 2006.
Leanne Shapton, SWIMMING STUDIES (Blue Rider)
. In her memoir, Shapton reflects on her youth as a national competitive swimmer who made it as far as the 1988 and 1992 Canadian Olympic trials. In this visually arresting book, Shapton includes photographs and images to tell her story. A Canadian artist as well as graphic novelist, Shapton lives in New York City, and her previous books include Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morri, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry as well as Was She Pretty? An art director for newspapers and magazines, she has also worked at the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, as well as at Maclean’s and the National Post.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, IN THE HOUSE OF THE INTERPRETER (Pantheon). This richly drawn memoir is rooted in Ngũgĩ’s experience in boarding school, the first secondary education available in British-ruled Kenya, and is set against the backdrop of the uprising for independence and Kenyan statehood. Imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, Ngũgĩ later moved to the United States, where his career has flourished. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and has taught at a wide range of American universities, including Northwestern University, Amherst College, Yale University, and New York University. One of the most celebrated African writers of the postcolonial period, he is the author of numerous books, including The Wizard of the Crow, Dreams in a Time of War, and Petals of Blood.
BIOGRAPHY FINALISTS
Robert Caro, THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE PASSAGE OF POWER (Alfred A. Knopf). Earlier volumes of Caro's legendary biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, and his previous biography, The Power Broker, have won nearly every major award in American letters, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the National Book Award. This fourth volume recounts Johnson's elevation to the vice-presidency, his humiliation at the hands of the President's brother, and the miraculous rescue of his career by an assassin's bullet in Dallas.
Lisa Cohen, ALL WE KNOW: THREE LIVES (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Cohen's triple biography, her first book, revives the forgotten lives of three women. Esther Murphy, an heiress whose conversation was renowned for its brilliance; Madge Garland, a pioneering fashion editor; and Mercedes de Acosta, a collector and “quintessential fan,” had much in common: as lesbians and as women perceived to be failures. Cohen's sympathetic work rescues their reputations and confronts the reader with a fundamental question of biography: whose lives do we choose to remember, and why? Cohen teaches at Wesleyan University.
Michael Gorra, PORTRAIT OF A NOVEL: HENRY JAMES AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE (W.W. Norton). Gorra, a professor of English at Smith College, deploys the arts of both the critic and the biographer to create a double portrait of a book, The Portrait of a Lady, and its author, Henry James. Alternating between readings of the novel and the circumstances in which James created it, Gorra creates a vivid panorama of two lives—one real (James) and one fictional (Isabel Archer)—as both navigated the world of transatlantic high society.
Lisa Jarnot, ROBERT DUNCAN: THE AMBASSADOR FROM VENUS: A BIOGRAPHY (University of California Press). The author of four highly praised collections of poetry, in her first biography Lisa Jarnot examines the life and work of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan, whose critical fortunes have waxed as attitudes toward homosexuality and the San Francisco Renaissance have changed. Jarnot makes an energetic case for Duncan's lasting importance as a poet and an intellectual, and her biography should further establish him as one of the essential poets of twentieth-century America. Born in Buffalo, New York, Jarnot lives in Queens.
Tom Reiss, THE BLACK COUNT: GLORY, REVOLUTION, BETRAYAL, AND THE REAL COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (Crown). Reiss, the author of The Orientalist, about the exotic life of the Jewish impostor Lev Nussinbaum, has discovered an equally colorful and unlikely figure: General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the half-Haitian father of the celebrated novelist Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The general cut a swath through Europe before being clashing with Napoleon and dying in obscurity. Reiss's expertly researched biography rescues this extraordinary figure from the shadow of his descendants. Reiss lives in New York.
CRITICISM FINALISTS
Paul Elie, REINVENTING BACH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Elie is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center of Georgetown University, where he directs the American Pilgrimage Project; his previous book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2003), examined the lives of four Catholic American writers and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist in biography. A contributor to the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine and other nationally recognized journals, Elie was for many years a senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Reinventing Bach considers the enduring appeal and the unique adaptability of the music of J. S. Bach in its encounter with twentieth-century audiences and twentieth-century technology through prominent interpreters, among them Albert Schweitzer, Leopold Stokowski, Yo-Yo Ma, and Glenn Gould.
Daniel Mendelsohn, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (New York Review of Books Press). Mendelsohn, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, is Charles Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. He has also won the NBCC's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2002. Mendelsohn's prior books include The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), a winner of the NBCC award for autobiography and memoir, and The Elusive Embrace (1999). The holder of a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton, Mendelsohn writes often on Greek and Latin literature and culture and their modern interpreters; his new book also includes essays on Mad Men, Spider-Man, and the nineteenth-century German novelist Theodor Fontane.
Mary Ruefle, MADNESS, RACK AND HONEY (Wave Books). Ruefle’s many books of poetry include Selected Poems (2010), Tristimania (2003), and Cold Pluto (1996); she also creates one-of-a-kind art books (visible on her website) by altering and erasing existing books. This collection of lectures, essays, and aphorisms, with its many digressions, surprises, and asides, considers the evasions and the promises of literature in general, as well as addressing particular poets and poems, such as Giacomo Leopardi and Emily Dickinson; it challenges as it instructs, and instructs as it charms, concluding with several brief “Lectures I Will Never Give.” The collection grew from lectures she gave for graduate students in the MFA program at Vermont College, where she teaches. Ruefle has won, among other awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Marina Warner, STRANGER MAGIC: CHARMED STATES AND THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (Belknap Press: Harvard University Press). A prolific writer of fiction as well as literary criticism and cultural history, Warner is a professor at the University of Essex and was recently visiting professor at NYU-Abu Dhabi. Her studies of fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, narrative, and visual art include Phantasmagoria (2008), Six Myths of Our Time (1996) and Into the Dangerous World (1988); among her novels is The Leto Bundle (2002). Stranger Magic examines the stories commonly called (in English) the Arabian Nights, from their tangle of Near Eastern origins through their tremendous influence in the West, in popular culture, and on such authors as Voltaire, Goethe, and Freud; these wondrous stories, Warner argues, allowed Western readers to imagine mystery—and to enjoy miraculous narrative—as something that could happen, but only elsewhere.
Kevin Young, THE GREY ALBUM: ON THE BLACKNESS OF BLACKNESS (Graywolf Press). Young is Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and the Curator of Literary Collections at Emory University. Among his seven books of poems are Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011), Dear Darkness (2008), and Jelly Roll (2003). Perhaps the most honored poet of his generation, Young also served as editor for the Best American Poetry 2011 and as coeditor for the Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (2011). He has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. The Grey Album, Young's first collection of his own prose, introduces, critiques, and recommends such models and monuments from the African-American—that is, American—past and present as Langston Hughes, Curtis Mayfield, and Danger Mouse (source for the title) while making larger arguments about black and white, modern and contemporary, and (not least) the author's native Kansas.
FICTION FINALISTS
Laurent Binet, HHhH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. Binet lives in Paris, where he teaches French literature at the University of Paris III. He is the author of a memoir, La Vie professionnelle de Laurent B. HHhH, his first novel, won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. HHhH stands for “Himmler’s Hirn heist Heydrich” (“Himmler’s brain is called Heyrich”). In an unusual blend of fiction, memoir, and history, Binet recounts his obsession with the notorious Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and the two parachuters—a Czech and a Slovak trained by the British—who assassinated him.
Ben Fountain, BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK (Ecco). Fountain lives in Dallas, where he set Billy Lynn, his first novel. He has also published a book of short stories, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Fountain quit his job as a lawyer and spent 18 years writing fiction before Brief Encounters was published in 2006, an experience Malcolm Gladwell described in a New Yorker story called “Late Bloomers.” Fountain’s reporting from Haiti has appeared on “This American Life.” In Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, a squad of American soldiers are touted as heroes after a Fox News crew films them during an intense firefight with Iraqi insurgents. The book follows them through one intense, surreal day—which happens to be Thanksgiving and the last day of their U.S. Victory Tour—as they visit Cowboys Stadium in Dallas to take part in the halftime show along with Beyoncé and the Cowboys’ cheerleaders.
Adam Johnson, THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON (Random House). Johnson lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing at Stanford University. He has published two previous books: Emporium, a collection of short stories, and Parasites Like Us, a novel. The Orphan Master’s Son follows the enigmatically named North Korean citizen Jun Do from his childhood in a work camp for orphans to the inner circles of power in Pyongyang. While researching the book, Johnson was one of the few Americans to visit North Korea.
Lydia Millet, MAGNIFICENCE (W. W. Norton). Millet lives near Tucson, Arizona, and is the author of nine novels. Magnificence is the third part of a loose trilogy that began with How the Dead Dream and Ghost Lights. With her wry humor and sense of the absurd, Millet introduces Susan, whose husband has just died when she learns that she’s inherited a ramshackle mansion full of taxidermied animals from a great-uncle and decides to restore them.
Zadie Smith, NW (The Penguin Press). Smith was born in northwest London, the setting for her most recent novel, and teaches at New York University. Her previous books include three novels—White Teeth, winner of the Whitbread First Novel award; The Autograph Man; and On Beauty, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize—as well as a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. In Smith’s exuberant prose, NW follows four Londoners who grew up together in public housing as they make their way as adults in widely different circumstances.
NONFICTION FINALISTS
Katherine Boo, BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: LIFE, DEATH, AND HOPE IN A MUMBAI UNDERCITY (Random House). Boo grew up in Washington, D.C., graduated from Barnard College and worked as a journalist at the Washington City Paper, Washington Post, and Washington Monthly before becoming a New Yorker staff writer. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting and received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant.” For the last decade she has divided her time between the United States and India. She spent more than three years reporting for Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an extraordinary, beautifully written story about the people of the Mumbai slum of Annawadi. Her first book, it received the National Book Award for nonfiction.
Steve Coll, PRIVATE EMPIRE: EXXONMOBIL AND AMERICAN POWER (The Penguin Press). Coll was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Occidental College. During two decades at the Washington Post, he served as a foreign correspondent and managing editor and won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. His second Pulitzer was awarded for his book Ghost Wars, and he was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for The Bin Ladens. He is a New Yorker staff writer and president of the New America Foundation. Private Empire is a meticulously researched and compellingly written look at one of the world's largest and most secretive corporations and its political involvements.
Jim Holt, WHY DOES THE WORLD EXIST? AN EXISTENTIAL DETECTIVE STORY (A Liveright Book: W.W. Norton). Holt is an essayist and critic who is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker. His first book was Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes. His second book, Why Does the World Exist?, couches an abstract and eternal question in lively interviews with philosophers, cosmologists, and a novelist as well as Holt's own journeys. It was named best book of the year by Philosophers Magazine and one of the ten best of the year by the New York Times Book Review.
David Quammen, SPILLOVER: ANIMAL INFECTIONS AND THE NEXT HUMAN PANDEMIC (W.W. Norton). Quammen was born in Cincinnati and graduated from Yale University. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied the works of William Faulkner at Oxford University but has become known as a science and nature writer. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, and other publications, he has won three National Magazine awards and a John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. Spillover, his 15th book, is a thrillingly written and deeply researched look at the history and future of zoonotic diseases, those which make the leap from other species to humans. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Andrew Solomon, FAR FROM THE TREE: PARENTS, CHILDREN, AND THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY (Scribner). Solomon was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University and Cambridge University. He is an activist for LGBT causes, mental health, and the arts. His first book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award for nonfiction and a Lambda Literary Award for memoir and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Based on hundreds of interviews, Far From the Tree is a groundbreaking look at family relationships with children who are radically different from their parents' expectations in physical, mental, and behavioral ways.
POETRY FINALISTS
David Ferry, BEWILDERMENT: NEW POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS (University of Chicago Press). Ferry is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley College and also teaches at Suffolk University. In 2011, he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, an award that honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. Ferry is a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as of the Academy of American Poets. He has published many collections of verse, translations, and essays. His 2000 collection, Of No Country I Know, was awarded both the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. Bewilderment is a heartbreaking book on mortality that cracks a linguistic and emotional code to link the present with the past. In new poems and original translations of Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and others, Ferry finds urgency in the haunted, in the absolute, and the vivified sensations of reality. Bewilderment was honored with the 2012 National Book Award. Ferry lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Lucia Perillo, ON THE SPECTRUM OF POSSIBLE DEATHS (Copper Canyon Press). Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a degree in wildlife management and subsequently worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her collection Inseminating the Elephant. Author of more than half a dozen books of poetry and prose, Perillo offers evocations of the body and myth that unearth deep mordent complexities in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths. The poems wonderfully investigate the ludicrous and the poignant insofar as human, animal, and natural societies connect with and separate from one another. Perillo lives in Olympia, Washington.
Allan Peterson, FRAGILE ACTS (McSweeney's). Peterson is a poet and visual artist. His book All the Lavish in Common received the 2005 Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the State of Florida. Fragile Acts blends a tightly wound style that is by turns meditative and incisive. His visual sense is both exacting and transformative. These poems reiterate a classically transcendental faith that the coolness of the intellect and the warmth of love are at the core of human experience. Peterson divides his time between Gulf Breeze, Florida, and Ashland, Oregon.
D.A. Powell, USELESS LANDSCAPE, OR A GUIDE FOR BOYS (Graywolf Press). Powell is the author of five collections of poetry including Tea, Lunch, Cocktails, and Chronic, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Useless Landscape, Or A Guide for Boys is a hymn to beauty and fantasy, a song-cycle to the Bay Area’s bars and boathouses, and it brings forward a verve and jocularity that is exhilarating, generous, and typical of this deeply sprung lyric poet. Powell lives in San Francisco.
A.E. Stallings, OLIVES (TriQuarterly Books: Northwestern). Stallings has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile, which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax, which won the Poet’s Prize and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin H. Danks Award. She has also published a verse translation of Lucretius’s The Nature of Things. Stallings is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. Olives offers colloquial poems situated in the bittersweet realm of contemporary life and motherhood and clothed in a rich metrical tradition that is at once fresh and earnest. The poems explore grief and extinction, Hank Williams and Persephone, and meander between argument and ode. Stallings lives in Athens, Greece.
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
The National Book Critics Circle presents the Nona A Balakian Citation each year to honor outstanding work by an NBCC critic. Named for a founding member of the NBCC, the award carries a $1,000 cash prizes for the first time this year, thanks to the generous support by NBCC member Gregg Barrios. This year’s recipient is author and critic William Deresiewicz. A graduate of Columbia University, Deresiewicz is contributing writer at The Nation and a contributing editor of The New Republic and The American Scholar, where he also authors a weekly column, All Points. He previously taught at Yale University. Deresiewicz is the author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter. He lives in Portland, Oregon. This year's finalists for the Balakian Citation are Abigail Deutsch, Lev Grossman, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Kathryn Harrison.
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Book Critics Circle presents the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual or institution who has made a significant and lasting contribution to American letters. Named after a founding member of the NBCC (and the organization’s first president), the Sandrof Award is presented this year to Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Perhaps the most influential of all feminist critics, Gilbert and Gubar have shaped what and how we read more than almost any other living Americans. The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) is a ground-breaking and nuanced study of the tenuous position of women writers and women characters within a patriarchal culture. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (1985), which they co-edited, is a landmark attempt to establish a canon of women’s writing but also, by implication, to insist on the integral place of women within the canon of English literature. Their three volumes of No Man’s Land offer a sophisticated and encyclopedic survey of modern women’s literature. Gilbert is professor emerita at the University of California, Davis, where she has served as mentor to several generations of grateful poets and critics. Gubar is professor emerita at Indiana University.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE
The National Book Critics Circle was founded in 1974 at New York’s legendary Algonquin Hotel by a group of the most influential critics of the day, and awarded its first set of honors the following year. Comprising some 500 working critics and book-review editors throughout the country, the NBCC annually bestows its awards in six categories, honoring the best books published in the past year in the United States. It is considered one of the most prestigious awards in the publishing industry. The finalists for the NBCC awards are nominated, evaluated, and selected by the 24-member board of directors, which consists of critics and editors from some of the country’s leading newspapers and magazines. The annual awards ceremony, in which the winners will be announced, will be held in New York on February 28, 2013.
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High school basketball: Willis-Knighton Doc Edwards tournament again features strong fields
The annual Willis-Knighton Doc Edwards Invitational is always the biggest high school basketball tournament in Northwest Louisiana. It also usually boasts very strong fields.
This year, of course, is no exception.
The tournament, hosted by Airline, starts Tuesday. There are 15 boys and 14 girls teams competing.
For the first three days, games will be played at Airline, Benton High School and Benton Middle School.
The consolation, third-place and championship games will be played Dec. 30 at the Centenary Gold Dome.
For several years, those games were played at the CenturyLink Center. Last year, they were moved to Airline and the gym was full for the title games.
Years ago, when the tournament was known as the CNB-Times Classic, the Gold Dome was used on the final day and it was usually full by the start of the championship games.
All four finalists from 2015 are back this year.
Fair Park downed Bossier 36-33 in the boys title game last year. Red River defeated Benton 63-40 in the girls championship game.
Bossier went on to win the Class 4A state championship, and Red River reached the Class 2A semifinals.
All four are off to solid starts this season.
Bossier is 12-3 and has won seven straight. Fair Park is 10-4.
Red River is 10-7. Benton, with a lineup of freshmen and sophomores, is 8-7. Red River faces Byrd in the first round. Benton takes on Captain Shreve (12-3), which has won four in a row, in one of the best first-round games.
Bossier, which has one tournament title under its belt, is one of the favorites to win the boys title.
One of the best games in the boys bracket could come in the second round. If Bossier defeats Southwood and Parkway downs Northwood, the Bearkats and Panthers will meet in the second round.
Parkway (7-3) has already won two tournaments.
If that matchup happens, some of the best players in Bossier Parish will be on the floor.
They include Bossier forward Antonio Davis and guard Tyrese English and Parkway guard Terrace Marshall Jr. and forward Kamren Davis.
Antonio Davis, English and Kamren Davis were first-team All-Parish selections last season. Marshall was a second-team pick.
All four have played well in the first half of the season.
Huntington (7-6) could also do some damage. The Raiders face a Red River team off to a good start in what should be a very good first-round game. In fact, the Bulldogs (9-5) defeated the Raiders 61-56 in overtime on Dec. 20.
Host Airline is also a team to watch. The Vikings are 8-4.
Perennial Class 5A power Southwood is a team to watch in the girls field, but the Lady Cowboys have struggled recently. Southwood won 11 of its first 13 games but has since lost two in a row to Bossier 35-32 and Airine 37-33.
Bossier is another team to keep an eye on. The Lady Kats (8-9) have had to adjust to playing without 6-foot- post player Draunatika Thomas, who suffered a possible season-ending knee injury. But they have won two in a row after losing four straight.
Pineville (11-3) and Huntington (7-4) could also be title contenders. The winner of the Captain Shreve-Benton game also has a good chance to go far.
And don’t count out host Airline (8-7). The Lady Vikings have won five straight.
FIRST-ROUND GAMES
TUESDAY, DEC. 27
AT AIRLINE HIGH SCHOOL
Green Oaks vs. Plain Dealing, 5:30 p.m.
Airline vs. North Webster, 8:30 p.m.
AT BENTON HIGH SCHOOL
Huntington vs. Red River, 5:30 p.m.
Benton vs. Mansfield, 8:30 p.m.
AT BENTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Captain Shreve vs. Many, 4 p.m.
Parkway vs. Northwood, 5:30 p.m.
Bossier vs. Southwood, 8:30 p.m.
AT AIRLINE HIGH SCHOOL
Bossier vs. Plain Dealing, 2:30 p.m.
Byrd vs. Red River, 4 p.m.
Airline vs. Huntington, 7 p.m.
Northwood vs. New Iberia, 4 p.m.
Captain Shreve vs. Benton, 7 p.m.
Southwood vs. Woodlawn, 7 p.m.
Pineville vs. Parkway, 2:30 p.m.
— Russell Hedges, rhedges@bossierpress.com
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Officer, 5th Foot, 1814
Measurements: Height: 28cm (11in)
Saxon Military Porcelain Figures
Of the numerous European porcelain factories that produced military figures during the 19th and 20th centuries, Sachsische Porzellan Manufaktur Dresden (the Dresden factory) stands out as the finest producer in terms of sculpting and painting.
The factory was founded in 1872 by Carl Thieme, an antiques dealer and porcelain retailer who employed porcelain workers from the bankrupt Buxdorf manufactory. By the 1890’s it was under the management of Karl August Kuntzsch, a talented modeller and employee of the Thieme family. Kuntzsch introduced the factory’s wares to foreign markets and it was under his tenure that the production of military figures began in 1912, with the series of French Napoleonic subjects, the first of these being an equestrian figure of Napoleon (an example of which may be seen at Winston Churchill's former home, Chartwell in Kent). However, owing to the antipathy between France and Germany arising from the war of 1870, these early pieces were often marked underneath with the signature of the French Imperial Sevres factory, presumably at the insistence of French retailers to disguise their German origins. In 1913 a series of Italian historical and military figures followed.
Between 1912 and 1914, with the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approaching, the London retailer Thomas Goode & Co., of Mayfair planned to offer a series of figures representing the British regiments of Wellington's allied army. A number of these specially marked, and now rare figures were imported from Saxony into England prior to the Waterloo centenary, but with the outbreak of war in August 1914 steps were taken by Goode and other retailers to disguise the German origins of these figures by covering Dresden factory marks or ascribing them to English porcelain manufacturers, such as the ceramic manufacturer Copeland Spode, which produced a parallel if marginally inferior series of British figures at that time.
At the start of the First World War, the Dresden factory continued its production of military porcelain figures with the introduction of German subjects to emphasize the Prussian martial tradition and the German contribution to the Grand Alliance against Napoleon.
There appear to have been no additions to the military figures until 1929 when the factory's chief sculptor, Reinhold Braunschmitt introduced the series representing the uniforms of the three senior regiments of British Foot Guards from 1660 to 1930. It has been suggested that these figures were the result of a collaboration between Major E.G. Christie-Miller (1880-1967) and Karl August Kuntzsch’s two sons who succeeded him in running the factory in 1920. Christie-Miller was a Coldstream Guards officer with a strong sense of regimental tradition. He was a prisoner of war from 1914 to 18 and upon his release had been commissioned to tour the country and report on conditions in Germany. Accordingly his command of German allowed him to fully communicate his ideas to Braunschmitt and his superiors. The results of their efforts were a fine range of Guards figures for retailer Fortnum & Mason, which may be seen as the high water mark of their military figure production.
The success of these figures resulted in the creation of a further range of figures for the British market designed by Braunschmitt and fellow sculptors Josef Dobner and Fritz Schlesinger (fl. 1928-38), and reflecting the history of the Royal Navy during the 18th and 19th centuries. The coronation of George VI in 1937 provided the Kuntzsch brothers with a substantial order from the British court for their traditional wares and corresponding additions to the existing range of military and ceremonial figures. These included officers of the Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards, Ulster King of Arms, and members of the Honourable Corps of Gentleman-at-Arms and the Royal Company of Archers (Sovereign’s Bodyguard for Scotland). However state interference in all areas of economic production impacted on the factory in 1936 when the use of gold was disallowed on the edges of cups, bowls, boxes, vases and presumably all military figures. An inconspicuous gold-brown color was used as a substitute, which has been seen on French Napoleonic figures.
After 1945, Emil Alfred Kuntzsch slowly restarted production, but came under pressure from Communist officials to submit the business to state ownership. His resistance resulted in his arrest on trumped up charges of criminal economic activity in 1950. The factory was held in trust until 1971 when it became part of a group of state controlled manufacturers. Lack of direct contact with informed retailers in the U.K. and the passing of the skilled military figure painters who had worked at the factory in the heyday of the 1930's coincided with a general decline in the standards of production. In 1972 a number of British military figure moulds, including those of the Guards and Waterloo series' were dispersed to the neighbouring Sitzendorf factory. Sitzendorf's output, however, varied widely in quality and style of painting, in the cutting of details and fitting of accoutrements, such as sword blades, scabbards, and plumes.
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Lac La Hache
Lac La HacheDonald Lovegrove2014-06-02T14:40:58-07:00
Premier Listings for Lac La Hache
One tiny mistake and you’re branded for life! That may well have been the complaint of the luckless French Canadian fur trader who lost his axe here while ice fishing. No doubt, to the delight of his trading buddies, the name (translated as Lake of the Axe) stuck, and will remain so for eternity.
That’s one version of the origin of the town name. Another credits a hapless Hudson’s Bay Company mule that fell through the lake ice, taking its load of hatches with it.
The small, friendly community of Lac la Hache describes itself as the Longest Town in the Cariboo. Highway 97 skirts the entire 19-kilometre shoreline of this beautiful lake in its rolling Fraser Plateau setting, which has many fishing lodges, guest ranches and vacation homes sprinkled along its perimeter.
Location: Lac La Hache is located on Highway 97, approximately 15 miles north of 100 Mile House, 88 miles north of Cache Creek, 35 miles south of 150 Mile House, and 44 miles south of Williams Lake.
Outfit yourself in the latest riding gear in a western specialty store, or browse through the interesting exhibits and artifacts from the past at the Lac la Hache Museum, an old school loghouse from the 1930s.
Lac La Hache Provincial Park, 13 kilometres north of the town, offers 83 vehicle/tent sites set in relatively open Douglas-fir and aspen woodlands beside one of the biggest lakes seen from Highway 97. Campsites are uphill from the highway, while the picnic site and boat launch are right on the lake. This park is great for afternoon munching, swimming and boating.
West of 100 Mile House you’ll find another wonderful wilderness recreation area, Moose Valley Provincial Park. Bring your cameras or binoculars to get a closer look at the bald eagles, sand cranes and the moose you’ll see while you take a few inspiring days to canoe the chain of 12 lakes that make up the park.
Fishing: One of the prettiest lakes in the Cariboo, Lac La Hache Lake is especially famous for its kokanee and trophy sized lake trout fishing. Ice fishing is popular in winter, but hang on to your axe!
Summer: Boaters, swimmers and water-skiers all arrive here during the summer, to vacation on this picturesque lake, and to play in this area that is noted for its fine recreational opportunities.
Golf: Golfers can head south on Highway 97 to 108 Mile Ranch for a game of golf. Rolling hills create a stunning backdrop for the championship 108 Golf Resort. The 18-hole, par 71 course overlooks two lakes on 108 Mile Ranch. Unwind and play a game of golf while enjoying the peaceful views of the rolling Cariboo landscape. Golf Vacations in British Columbia.
Fishing: If fly-fishing is your passion, head to Timothy Lake, a little distance east of Lac La Hache, which is stocked annually to maintain good fishing right through the warmer months. There are three resorts on Timothy Lake offering accommodation, fishing licences, and rental of boats and fishing gear, and one of the lodges features a fully licenced restaurant.
Skiing: Downhill skiers and snowboarders are catered for as well, 24 kilometres east of Lac la Hache. The Mt. Timothy Ski Area operates a family ski hill featuring a snowboard park and a scenic chairlift ride up the 1,635-metre hill. Overnight RV plug-in sites are available.
Cross-country Skiing: In winter, the area is a popular skiing destination, for both downhill and Nordic skiers. The area boasts a 200-km trail system; one of the best, most beautiful and most extensively groomed networks in North America, and one of the longest in Canada. Trail passes are required for use of the groomed trail system. 100 Mile House hosts the annual Cariboo Cross-country Marathon, that draws an international field of between 700 and 1,000 Nordic ski enthusiasts to the second oldest loppet in Canada. The race is held in February, and covers lengths of 10, 20 30 and 50 kilometres.
Snowmobiling: Wide open wilderness and frozen lakes invite snowmobilers to the area during winter to participate in snowmobile races, or to venture out for the pure adventure of it. The 100 Mile Snowmobile Club has developed a scenic touring trail network that stretches from 70 Mile House north to Spout Lake. Another network from 70 Mile House, south of Green Lake, connects with trails in Kamloops. The snowmobile corridor joins into the Trans Canada Snowmobile Trail, a project that will stretch 10,000 km when finished, and link all provinces and territories. Trail passes are required for use of the groomed trail system.
Dog Sledding: Experience the romance and thrill of Dog Sledding through Cariboo Country, where the heavy and reliable snowfalls provide excellent backcountry trails. Local companies will take you on a short tour, or set you up to mush your own team of enthusiastic and friendly huskies.
Circle Tour: See the best of the Cariboo, Chilcotin and BC Coast on the Discovery Coast Circle Tour. Cross to Vancouver Island from Vancouver and head north, boarding the Queen of Chilliwack in Port Hardy. Return to the mainland at Bella Coola, and enjoy the grassy plateaus, rolling meadows, picturesque canyons and high mountain peaks of the Chilcotin. The old Cariboo Wagon Road will lead you back to Vancouver through the heart of the Cariboo region. The Inside Passage Tour, the Native Heritage Tour, and the Circle Tour of Northern BC all incorporate the Cariboo Highway 97 for the journey between Prince George and Vancouver.
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Fishing the Thompson Okanagan
Fishing the Thompson OkanaganDonald Lovegrove2014-07-21T14:20:10-07:00
Fishing Guides: Thompson Okanagan
North Thompson and Yellowhead Highway 5
Paul Lake, stocked with two species of rainbow trout, is easily accessed with a car-top boat. Farther north, Heffley Lake is a great location for rainbow trout. Ice fishing is also possible here. Heffley Lake is located east of the community of Heffley Creek and 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Kamloops, off Yellowhead Hwy 5 on the road to Sun Peaks Resort.
The Barriere Lakes (North, South, and East) are all located about 60 miles (96 km) north of Kamloops and 10 miles (16 km) west of Hwy 5 on Barriere Lake Road. Some of the best trout fishing in this region renowned for its fine fishing lakes can be found here.
You can fish at Rearguard Falls Provincial Park, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Tete Jaune Cache on Hwy 16. The park is on the Upper Fraser River, and the falls are the final barrier to salmon migrating from the mouth of the Fraser River, some 744 miles (120 km) southeast at the Pacific Ocean. Salmon season begins in August and continues through September.
Fly-in fishing lodges are located on some of the 700 lakes in the area; flights depart and return to Kamloops Airport.
Nicola Valley and Coquihalla Highway 5
A lake a day as long as you stay is no idle boast for the Nicola Valley. Close to 50 percent of the province’s total freshwater sportfishing occurs in the Thompson-Nicola region. Relative to its size, this region is unsurpassed in British Columbia for its sports fishery. The Thompson and Nicola Rivers are historic salmon-spawning tributaries of the Fraser River, and the smaller tributary streams are where rainbow trout, dolly varden, and kokanee lay their eggs. It’s the lakes, however, that are the main attraction for anglers.
There are few fishing runs as legendary – or as threatened – as the steelhead run on the Thompson River and one of its main tributaries, the Nicola River. Steelhead are an oceangoing species of trout (or salmon, depending on whom you consult) famous for their size, speed, stamina, and tremendous strength. In order to surmount obstacles in the Fraser Canyon before entering the Thompson River near Lytton, steelhead must possess all of these characteristics.
Chapperon Lake, Douglas Lake, and Nicola Lake have long been noted for their ample fish stocks. Nicola Lake, renowned for its depth, is said to harbour 26 varieties of fish, some weighing up to 20 pounds (9 kg). Nicola Lake is the easiest to reach and is located about 4 miles (7 km) east of Merritt on Hwy 5A. Use the boat launch at Monck Provincial Park for access to the big lake. Douglas Lake and Chapperon Lake are located about 12 miles (20 km) and 18.5 miles (30 km), respectively, east of Hwy 5A on the Douglas Lake Road. Angling is the most popular form of sportfishing in the Nicola area lakes, but ice fishing, spear fishing, and set-lines methods are also used.
In fall, anglers head for two places in particular: Goldpan Provincial Park, located on the Thompson River, and Spences Bridge, located on Hwy 8, just west of Hwy 1, 23 miles (37 km) north of Lytton. Anglers can readily access both the Thompson and the Nicola Rivers from Spences Bridge.
Good river access for fishing makes the Coquihalla River Provincial Park a popular spot. However, there are spawning channels alongside the Coquihalla River in the vicinity of this park, so be sure to consult the current fishing regulations. There are no day-use facilities in the park due to past flooding events of the Coquihalla River. Located 15.5 miles (25 km) northeast of Hope on Hwy 5, the park is closed to private vehicles, but anglers can reach it by parking nearby and walking in. Southbound highway traffic will find it easy to reach the park (via the Carolin Mines exit). Northbound traffic should take Othello Road from Hope to the Dewdney Creek intersection, then a sharp right turn onto the park access road. Leave your vehicle here.
Coldwater River Provincial Park, just north of the summit on the Coquihalla Highway, offers great steelhead fishing. The Coldwater River is shallow and gravel bottomed, providing good steelhead spawning habitat. Nearby are the Coquihalla Lakes, where both the Coquihalla River and Coldwater River have their sources. The Coldwater River runs north alongside the highway. There is a small Forest Service campsite at Zum Peak beside the river. Follow Zum Peak Forest Road for 5 miles (8 km) west from the park to reach the Zum Peak campsite. Coldwater River Provincial Park is located 31 miles (50 km) south of Merritt on Coquihalla Highway 5, with north and south access ramps.
The waters of Lac Le Jeune in Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park are famous for producing fighting rainbow trout. Fly-fishing is also possible in the Stake-McConnell Lakes Provincial Recreation Area – McConnell Lake Provincial Park.
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John Floyd Clayton
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2019 6:27 pm
STAFF REPORT
John "Jack" Floyd Clayton of Cartersville, Georgia, passed away at the Cartersville Medical Center on February 4, 2019 at the age of 92.
Jack is survived by his wife of 72 years, Nell Kay Clayton, daughter-in-law Donna Clayton-Lyle (married to Steven Lyle), granddaughter Kristin Clayton Moffett (married to Jeremy Moffett), grandson John Clayton (married to Kate Taylor Clayton), great-grandson Samuel Thomas Moffett, and great-granddaughter Margaret (Maggie) Lynne Moffett. He was preceded in death by his son, Thomas Craig Clayton, of Cartersville, GA; his mother Lena Cox Clayton, and his father, John Floyd Clayton Sr.; his sisters, Alma Ferguson and Vivian Rice, his brother and sister-in-law, Frank "Bubba" and Shirley Kay, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins all of Richmond, VA.
Jack was born on October 4, 1926, the only son of a farmer in rural Richmond, Virginia. Born premature in the beginning of the depression, he beat all odds during an extremely hard era and graduated from John Marshall High School in 1943 at the age of 17. He was a proud member of the Cadet Corp during his high school years, and he had a deep respect for the United States Military. The same year he graduated high school he joined the Navy and served two years in the South Pacific during some of the most difficult years of World War II.
After being honorably discharged from WWII, Jack worked for Standard Oil Company for 9 years. He then spent the next 33 years working in sales for the AC Delco Division of General Motors, which afforded Jack and Nell the opportunity to live in Roanoke, VA, Syracuse, NY, and Jackson, MS. Upon retirement, Jack and Nell moved to Georgia to be close to their family. Soon after, he founded Distribution Warehouse Corporation (DWC) and Power Express Promotions, Inc. (PEPI) that coordinated automotive parts purchasing. He also served on the Board of Directors of Automotive Information Management (AIM), which was founded by his son, Tom.
Jack enjoyed life and loved people. He was a faithful member of Trinity United Methodist Church (Trinity at the Well) and former Sunday School teacher. He artfully told stories of growing up in the depression, playing semi-pro baseball, his tour in WWII, and how much things have changed in his lifetime. He was loved by many friends and was proud of his golf group at the Cartersville Country Club that played together for 20+ years. He never met a stranger and had great joy in bragging about his wife and his family, who knew they were his priority in life.
A service celebrating Jack's life will be held Friday, February 8, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Steven Lyle officiating at Owen Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends on Thursday, February 7th, from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Owen Funeral Home. The family asks that the Tuesday Golf Group be honorary pallbearers and sit together during the service. Other pallbearers will be Ron Pierce, Rick Wynn, Jeremy Moffett, and John Clayton. In lieu of flowers, a gift to Trinity at the Well in Jack's memory is appreciated.
Please visit www.owenfunerals.com to post tributes and sign the on-line register.
Owen Funeral Home, 12 Collins Dr., Cartersville, GA 30120 has charge of the arrangements.
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The Gloaming
Carolina Theater
Sponsor(s): Duke Performances
Cost: $45, $35, $25, $10 Duke Students
The night that The Gloaming made their onstage debut at Dublin's National Concert Hall in 2011 stands now as a landmark moment in Irish music's fabled history: here was a group, after all, squarely rooted in Irish traditions, actively pulling that past into the twenty-first century, with the pedigree to do it. The concert sold out before any music had been written, let alone heard. During the subsequent seven years, The Gloaming has probed every aspect of Irish folk music, pushing against its historical confines. Founded by three-time Irish fiddle champion Martin Hayes, this ever-imaginative group reconsiders each traditional element in search of fresh interpretations, from medieval Gaelic lyrics to the structure of the songs.
To rethink the idioms of Irish reels and jigs, Hayes recruited a slate of international folk and classical luminaries: hardanger fiddler Caoimhín O Raghallaigh, Chicago blues guitarist Dennis Cahill, and powerful singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, who delivers Gaelic lyrics in the impassioned sean-nós style. New York pianist and producer Thomas Bartlett - best known for his essential contributions to the music of Sufjan Stevens, The National, and St. Vincent - is The Gloaming's Svengali, the one who helps reimagine Ireland's past for the present. The Gloaming, last seen at Duke Performances in 2016, works elements of jazz and experimental music into a distinctly Irish foundation, creating a transcendent experience that recalls the climactic highs of post-rock.
Type: CONCERT/MUSIC and STUDENT
Contact: Gloria Hunt
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What do you do with an ecologically-acclaimed award-winning millennial supermarket? Why, knock it down of course. Welcome to North Greenwich.
When it opened in September 1999, Sainsbury's on the Greenwich peninsula was toasted as the new sustainable face of retailing. This was no big dull shed, this was a low-slung beauty whose construction aimed to maximise energy efficiency. The roof featured north-facing ribbed windows to let in daylight, based on the same natural illumination philosophy used by art galleries. The sides were flanked with earth to provide insulation in winter and ventilation in summer. The delivery area was shielded by trees and gabion walls to minimise the noise of unloading for residents of the neighbouring Millennium Village. They even invited Jamie Oliver to open it, back when he was the Naked Chef and not some jolly bloating celeb. This was Sainsbury's flagship store, and it was even suggested that one day all supermarkets might be built this way. But they weren't, the big dull shed model still predominates, and in ten days' time it officially wins the war.
The building's roof is integral to the design. It is composed of aluminium standing-seam sheets draped over the curved building form. In the exposed location of Greenwich Peninsula, this reduction in wind resistance is especially relevant. The earth mounding which is used to shelter the side elevations further smooths the building form. The glazed panel at the front of the building is flanked on both sides by vertical strips of untreated American white oak cladding. The objective is to soften the entrance.
Supermarkets are typically deep plan containers. Key to the building design for Sainsbury's at Greenwich Peninsula is extensive use of natural lighting within the deep plan building. This serves two of the brief's agenda. The ambience of the resultant space is more natural and conversely less artificial. The difference is most noticeable during the day when the background lighting is turned off, and artificial lighting is restricted to product display close to the merchandising shelves.
I like shopping at Sainsbury's North Greenwich. Stepping through the entrance leads into an unexpectedly open space, and the natural light gives the place a uncharacteristically pleasant air. The store's not so small that it has barely anything in stock, like a bleak Sainsbury's Local, but nor is it so enormous that walking from the milk to the bread takes an age. Everything's stacked off one central aisle, for straightforward navigation, keeping the whole shopping experience the right side of manageable. To me the whole building feels more airport terminal than superstore, its staff somehow more glamorous than the usual checkout drones, in an atmosphere that retains an intangible element of cool. I'm wrong, alas. [7 photos]
It took Sainsbury's management barely ten years to decide they wanted to move on. The Greenwich peninsula retail park grew more popular than they'd imagined, clogging the aisles more than architects had planned. Online grocery shopping took off, meaning customers expect a wider range of products so prefer to shop from home. And there wasn't enough room for an in-store bakery, or fishmonger, or for racks of clothes, which meant that profits in North Greenwich weren't as high as they could have been. So they identified a larger site up the road, on the Charlton borders between Sports Direct and Makro, and built themselves a replacement supermarket there. That finally opens its doors on Wednesday June 24th, which means your last chance to shop at the 'old' new Sainsbury's is by 6pm on Tuesday 23rd.
A spokesman for Sainsbury’s said: “The old Sainsbury’s store garnered national interest and praise for its sustainable design. However, after almost 15 years of operation, sustainable technologies have moved on. We are relocating our Greenwich store to a bigger site so that we can offer our customers the full Sainsbury’s range. Our new store, which has already successfully gained planning permission, will be fully fitted with modern sustainable technologies.”
I've read the blurb to see what 'modern sustainable technologies' actually means. It means solar panels rather than natural daylight. It means rainwater harvesting rather than drawing water from an underground aquifer. It means electrical vehicle charging points in a new car park rather than a woodland nature trail out the back. And it means a Bee Hotel, not because this epitomises sustainability but because a few cheap bits of holey wood look good in a greenwash press release. In truth the new building is three times bigger than the old solely for reasons of economics, and Sainsbury's environmental legacy is being essentially trashed.
A clause inserted in the lease before departure ensures that North Greenwich's next tenant will be a non-food retailer. Indeed it's highly likely that what'll appear next is Inner London's first IKEA. It only has outline planning permission at present, so it'll be a while before you can drop in to buy tealights, a kitchen table or a flatpack bed. But its construction will commence with the demolition of the entire existing Sainsbury's site, because English Heritage failed to get the building listed earlier in the year. And in a further snub to sustainability what's almost certain to follow is an increase in traffic hereabouts, as a shop you leave with plastic bags is replaced by a warehouse that requires you to bring your car.
I did my shopping in the decade-and-a-half-old supermarket yesterday. I found everything I wanted, and snapped a few photos for posterity when nobody was really looking. The girl on the till didn't seem overly upset that the store was closing, and reassured me that the new place wouldn't be too far away. But for me it'll be two buses from home rather than one, so instantly off-limits, plus I'm not expecting it to have any atmosphere that'd encourage me to travel miles. It's a shame that economic reality has caught up with brave millennial dreams, but such are the priorities of modern life. And it's ironic that a building which was supposed to be an architectural gamechanger is to be replaced... by a big dull shed.
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“Jacob the Jeweler” was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring.
Jacob Arabov, 43, pleaded guilty in October to falsifying records and giving false statements as part of a deal with federal prosecutors, who asked U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn to impose a minimum sentence of three years and one month.
But Cohn decided to shave off seven months from that recommendation, citing Arabov’s extensive charity work. Cohn also ordered “Jacob the Jeweler” to pay a $50,000 fine and to make a $2 million forfeiture payment to the government. (DAMN IT!)
Authorities accused Arabov and others of conspiring to launder drug profits for the “Black Mafia Family,” a ring that operated out of the Detroit area beginning in the early 1990s.
The seven-year investigation resulted in the indictments of Arabov and at least 41 other people, federal authorities say.
They say about 1,100 pounds of cocaine and $19 million in cash and other assets were seized beginning in 2000.
Lady Rach said...
I'm happy to look after his jewels whilst he's on lockdown...
Tamiko said...
Shame.
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Interview in Dance Direct
Through Ariane Oiticica’s excellent PR work for Fiya House’s Popcity UK vol.4, I was interviewed for a blog feature on Dance Direct in December 2018.
Visit the blog page here or read my answers below.
Have you always wanted to be involved in dance?
Definitely. I’ve been around dance since I was very young – my Nan has had her own dance school in Wolverhampton since she was 14 and she still teaches now (age 89!), she even received a British Empire Medal in 2016 for services to dance and charity. My dance journey started there.
Did you train? What was it like?
I trained at Sheila Groom School of Dance, then at my secondary school through GCSE and A-Level Dance. I did a lot of dance outside of this too, I was in a Hip Hop crew called Dot Co Dot UK and was introduced to Dancehall through my friends.
I went on to study Dance and Culture at the University of Surrey and specialised in Dance of the African Diaspora. I took extra training out in Jamaica and completed a placement at Sadler’s Wells working on the new National Youth Dance Company. My training has been really varied, but has prepared me brilliantly for what I do now.
Describe a day in your life.
My days vary a lot! I’m working on a number of different projects at the moment, so I could be doing anything from:
· Being in a studio watching company rehearsals giving feedback
· Communicating with venues to book tours
· Writing funding applications
· Programming classes and performances
· Arranging logistics for international artists/projects
· Managing project budgets
I also try to go to as many dance performances and classes as I can, to keep myself in the loop as to what’s going on in the sector, and also because I love it!
I’m very lucky to be working with some brilliant artists at the moment, so no two days are ever the same.
What has been the defining moment of your career?
I’m still very early on in my career, so I’m hoping there will be big moments to come! However, if I had to choose something up until now, I would say… setting up my first independent project Dancehall Origins.
Dancehall Origins (or DHO for short) invites dancers, performers and teachers from Jamaica to come to the UK to share Dancehall culture. Since its inception in 2016 I’ve hosted five international events connecting 200 British artists with Dancehall pioneers. Of the seven Jamaican artists who have delivered at DHO, six had never taught in the UK before. This is a huge achievement!
I created the project for a number of reasons, but a key incentive is that there are many people who are interested in Dancehall in this country, who can’t necessarily travel to Jamaica to experience the culture in person. I wanted to find a way to bring Jamaica to the UK, exclusively for sharing knowledge and to build a community that is keen to learn from and celebrate Jamaican artists.
I’m really proud to make Dancehall Origins happen and hope it continues to grow!
What has been the most challenging?
The most challenging moment of my career to date, would be leaving my full-time job at a dance organisation to become Freelance.
At first, I was quite worried about the transition and the prospect of finding clients. Turns out, I need not have worried at all! I’m fortunate to be working with five independent dance artists plus MOVE IT, so I’ve been very busy since I made the leap!
What’s the most rewarding thing about working in dance and with dancers?
One of the most rewarding things is seeing the process and journey that dancers take, and how it changes them as artists. Whether that’s seeing them work with a Composer or a Dramaturg for the first time, or securing a tour date in a brand new venue, or having the audience erupt at the end of a show. Dance can be a really challenging career path, so it’s always important to celebrate the ‘small’ wins and recognise that they have a knock-on effect for any future work.
Another rewarding thing for me, is creating opportunities for whole communities of people, whether they’re dancers or from any other walk of life, to come together through dance and cultural events. Having over 400 people come out for a Hip Hop event like Popcity is a big deal – it’s incredible to see young and old sharing a vibe in the same space, all because of dance.
What’s the worst thing?
I would expect the worst thing for me is the worst thing for many people who work in Performing Arts more generally – managing egos.
In this line of work, sometimes you come up against particularly challenging individuals whose expectations don’t align with the project at hand, or who struggle to see the bigger picture and only consider their own preferences and demands.
There are some incredibly talented people in the world, but at the end of the day everyone is a human being. I always try to foster an environment of mutual respect, so that projects can move forward and the end result is what it needs to be.
Never Stop Doing Your Best
Who or what inspires you?
For dance specifically, I would say the brilliant teachers that I’ve had throughout my training. People like Sheila Groom, Nicola Stapleton, ‘H’ Patten and more.
I’m always inspired by artists who are working to make things happen for their communities, particularly in styles that don’t get as much recognition or support as more main-stream forms. Fiya House has been doing brilliant work for the Popping community in the UK since 2012; Andre Bright is devising work internationally that interrogates Black cultural identity; and Duwane Taylor has been pushing the UK Krump scene both underground and on stage for over six years – these are some of the artists I’ve been working with to support their community-focused ambitions. I also want to mention Artists 4 Artists, an inspirational collective that has provided a range of training, commissioning and performance opportunities for Hip Hop dancers since 2016. I think Dancehall Origins ties in to this as well, creating a platform to support the development of Dancehall and its communities in the UK and Jamaica.
Bringing artists together for events like these is a big inspiration and is why I work to help make them happen.
What are you most looking forward to in watching the battles?
It’s really hard to describe the energy and vibe in the room at Popcity! There’s hundreds of people of all ages and levels of experience that are there to compete, support the scene and jam with each other.
The categories feature some truly excellent dancers: I’m always mesmerised by Popping, there’s some brilliant characters that come through in the Afrobeats rounds, Hip Hop gets everybody hyped and the Under 16s are so talented – it’s hard to believe their age!
Popcity is a great way to start the year and we have an incredible line-up of British and international judges. I would go and watch even if I hadn’t worked on it!
Fiya House presents Popcity UK, vol.4
What is your advice to an aspiring dancer?
My advice would be to take as many opportunities as you can. Whether that’s extra training, shadowing somebody in an organisation, or anything else that comes your way. It’s said a lot, but the dance world is really small and you never know what an opportunity like that could lead to.
Another key bit of advice is to always ask for help when you need it, and to make sure that you are kind to yourself (and others) – particularly if things don’t go the way you’d hoped.
After Popcity, I will still be working with Fiya House to develop a yearly programme of events. I’ve also got Dancehall Origins activity coming up, alongside touring and development work with independent artists Holly Noble, Victor Fung, Duwane Taylor and Andre Bright.
MOVE IT takes place at the ExCel Centre in London 8-10 March with over 260 classes and 150 performances across the three days, and over 25,000 people attending.
I’m hoping to keep working with brilliant artists to achieve big things!
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Bishop Oster: 'Pope pursues path of holiness, leads the Church on right path'
Bishop Stefan Oster
By Christa Pongratz-Lippitt/ la-croix.com
A conservative-minded Catholic Church leader in Germany, who admits he has hitherto questioned much of Pope Francis’ teaching, says he is now fully convinced that the current Bishop of Rome is pursuing the path of holiness.
Bishop Stefan Oster SDB, who heads the Diocese of Passau on the Bavarian-Austrian border, has expressed gratitude for the way Francis is leading the Church on the right path.
Oster, a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco and bishop of Passau since 2014, made his comments on Sept. 2 in three-page blog post. Under the title “Why I believe Pope Francis,” the bishop explained how he came to the conclusion that history’s first Jesuit pope is genuinely trying to renew the Church.
He confessed that he now fully accepts the pope’s “sincere endeavors to deepen the faith, spread more hope, greater love and mercy – and his indefatigable commitment to justice, peace and the preservation of creation.”
Bishop Oster says he reached this conclusion by re-studying what he calls “the four most significant texts of Francis’ pontificate thus far” – Evangelii gaudium (the 2013 apostolic exhortation on renewing the Church), Laudato si’ (the 2015 encyclical on care of creation) Amoris laetitia (the 2016 exhortation and marriage and the family) and Gaudete et exsultate (the 2018 exhortation on the call to holiness).
Oster points out that Francis’ writings have caused wide and heated discussion within the Church. For example, they have prompted Catholics to debate whether the 81-year-old pope is liberal or conservative and to question whether he is seeking to preserve, develop or even change Church teaching.
The German bishop said liberals, for instance, tend to interpret Evangelii gaudium as an effort to decentralize the Church more than as a call for evangelization.
They see Amoris laetitia as a paradigm shift in the Church’s view of sexual morality. And, in their eyes, Laudato si’ is basically a summons to make political, ecological and social concerns the Church’s first priority.
“For traditionalists such views are very worrying,” said Oster.
“They are most concerned that too much change is a threat to the Church, or that the wrong issues are being prioritized, which, in the end, will lead to a totally different Church and totally different church teaching,” he continued.
“They question whether the Magisterium, faith, liturgy and the call to conversion are not getting too raw a deal,” the bishop said, adding, “and I must admit that I am familiar with such questions since I have asked them myself.”
Bishop Oster has been labeled a conservative because he has (“for the moment”) instructed priests of the Passau Diocese not to allow re-married divorcees to receive communion under any circumstances.
Oster is also one of the seven German bishops, including Cardinal Woelki of Cologne, who wrote to Rome for clarification on whether to allow interdenominational couples to receive the Eucharist at Catholic liturgies after two-thirds of country’s bishops voted in favor of doing so.
But in his latest blog post he said it was especially after studying Gaudete et exsultate, that he felt “more deeply and less fearfully” that Francis is following Christ’s path of holiness.
“Holiness is neither banal liberalization nor simple cementation of what already exists, but living one’s every day life with Jesus and taking up the ever-changing challenges the world presents and urges the Church to find new answers,” Bishop Oster wrote.
“I am therefore also confident that, by virtue of his office, he (Francis) has that special charism which is given to the Church’s leader,” he said.
And he expressed his conviction that much of what is “vain, mendacious or even evil and criminal in the Church” has come to light not “because the pope has made mistakes in his leadership.”
Rather, he said, it is actually the way Francis “proclaims and practices the faith (that) has caused a light to shine on how much in the Church is abysmal.”
In the final paragraph of his blog post, Bishop Oster explained why he is now deeply thankful to Pope Francis:
“No, I do not see a pope who wants to overturn church teaching nor do I see a pope who wants to hush anything up or to establish an old boys’ network. I see a pope who resolutely wants to pursue a path of renewal and one who is neither liberal nor conservative.”
In conclusion, the bishop said: “I am thankful to Pope Francis for his service and for this witness!”
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View: tournament/tour totals [change view]
Ordered by: matches won (descending)
overall 1987-1995 69 68 1 4 1 0 0 0 48 20 1 70.28 Profile
Tournament/Tour
Five Nations (England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Wales), 1991
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 100.00 19 Jan 1991
Rugby World Cup (in South Africa), 1995
6 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 66.66 27 May 1995
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 75.00 20 Jan 1990
Rugby World Cup (in England/France/Ireland/Scotland/Wales), 1991
5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 60.00 3 Oct 1991
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 75.00 5 Feb 1994
England tour (in Australia/Fiji/Ireland), 1988
4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 50.00 23 Apr 1988
British and Irish Lions tour, 1989
3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 66.66 1 Jul 1989
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 4 Apr 1987
Calcutta Cup (Scotland in England), 1987
Rugby World Cup (in Australia/New Zealand), 1987
Calcutta Cup (England in Scotland), 1988
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 5 Mar 1988
Millennium Trophy (England in Ireland), 1988
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 23 Apr 1988
Australia tour (in England/Italy/Scotland), 1988
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 5 Nov 1988
1 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 18 Feb 1989
England tour (in Romania), 1989
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 13 May 1989
Fiji tour (in Belgium/England/Samoa/Scotland/Tonga), 1989
Millennium Trophy (Ireland in England), 1990
England tour (in Argentina), 1990
2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 50.00 28 Jul 1990
England tour (in Australia/Fiji), 1991
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 1 Feb 1992
South Africa tour (in England/France), 1992
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 14 Nov 1992
2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 50.00 26 Jun 1993
New Zealand tour (in England/Scotland), 1993
Canada tour (in England/France/United States of America), 1994
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 10 Dec 1994
England tour (in South Africa), 1994
2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 50.00 4 Jun 1994
Romania tour (in England), 1994
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 100.00 18 Mar 1995
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 17 Mar 1990
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 19 Feb 1994
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Film Screening and Discussion: "Act and Punishment," a film by Evgeny Mitta
Film - Documentary | March 2 | 6-8 p.m. | 188 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker/Performer: Evgeny Mitta
Sponsor: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Act and Punishment is a documentary that historically and culturally grounds the protest actions of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot. The film, which the Russian government has banned, juxtaposes interviews with members of Pussy Riot who tell their own stories alongside commentary by Russian art historians, curators, and artists who contextualize their work. The film makes extensive use of raw footage depicting Pussy Riots actions and Pussy Riot-inspired demonstrations in Russia.
This will be the first time that filmmaker Evgeny Mitta will be in the United States to present his film. Evgeny Mitta will discuss the history of Russian performance art and music, the making of his documentary film, and the queerness of femme holy fools, while providing some context on Russia-US relations. As a friend to the Pussy Riot collective and many other Russian political artists, Evgeny can speak on the intersections of politics, sexuality, class, and gender that are portrayed in the film.
Link to film trailer: https://vimeo.com/144609378
Evgeny Mitta is a visual artist, documentary filmmaker, scenographer, and actor. Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, he graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute of V. Surikov. Soon after graduating, he co-founded First Gallery the first private artist gallery in Russia and since then he has opened the Paperworks Gallery. In 1994 he became a member of Moscow Artists Association and he has had his paintings sold at Sotheby's London 'Contemporary East' in 2013. His movie, Act and Punishment, is a part of a documentary series Anthology of Contemporary Art which includes two other movies, Vinogradov and Dubosarskiy: Commissioned Painting, and Oleg Kulik: Challenge and Provocation. Evgenys next film focuses on the protests of 2012 in Moscow, and is titled 2012.
Sponsored by the Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Film & Media, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Event contact: CA, etyerman@berkeley.edu, 917-993-1112
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Post code: 1000
Intl dial code: +359 2
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Vitosha National Park
Vitosha is the most visited Bulgarian mountain. It rises immediately above Sofia and is one of the symbols of our capital city. Few are the big cities in the world, and capitals are even fewer, that possess such a natural advantage. Vitosha Mountain is the most significant part of the Plana-Zavala Mountain System. With its highest peak - Mt. Cherni Vrah (The Black Peak) (2290 m) it occupies the fourth place among Bulgarian mountains.
Vitosha is the cradle of hiking tourism in Bulgaria. The date 27 August 1895 is considered the beginning of the organised tourist movement in the country. After the invitation of the renowned writer and democrat Aleko Konstantinov 300 men and women then climbed Mt. Cherni Vrah - something incredible and unbelievable in those times. Since then thousands of hikers climb the peak every year on this day.
In ancient times the mountain was named Sko-mios, Skopios, Skombros, meaning in Old Greek "the sharp, steep mountain". These names are preserved in the present name of Mt. Skoparnik. The name Vitosha appeared in the Middle Ages and for the first time it was used in a document from the 11th century. There are two versions about its origin: the first of them says that the name is of Thracian- Old Bulgarian origin and means a "binary", "dividing" mountain; the second (more likely to be true and acceptable) says that Vitosha comes from the personal name Vitosh.
Vitosha is a typical dome-like mountain - one of the few in Bulgaria. It has a slightly prolonged profile from north-west to south-east. It consists primarily of granite rocks, but there are karst rocks as well especially in the southern part. A unique natural phenomenon are the so-called "stone rivers" (moreni) - piles of huge rounded granite stones along many of the river valleys, reaching up to 2 km in length and 50 m in width. Especially expressive and beautiful are the moreni in the Zlatni Mostove area (Golden Bridges). Similar phenomena can be seen in other Bulgarian mountains, too, the Vitosha moreni however being unique. They are the symbol of the mountain.
Since 1935 a meteorological station has been operating on Mt. Cherni Vrah, with many services, mostly in the chalets. Comparative data about Sofia and Mt. Cherni Vrah weather conditions: the average monthly and annual temperature - for the coldest month - January - in Sofia is 1.7°C below zero and on Mt. Cherni Vrah - 8.3°C below zero. For the warmest month - July in Sofia - 21.2°C and for Mt. Cherni Vrah - August - 9.0°C. The average annual temperature in Sofia is 10.5°C and at Mt. Cherni Vrah - 0.3°C. A characteristic feature of Vitosha climate is the inversion (mostly in December and January). When Sofia is covered by thick fog and cold, the Vitosha Mountain shines in sun and warmth. This happens in an average of 15 days per year. An average of 140 days per year are very cold on Mt. Cherni Vrah - the maximum values in these days are below zero and there are 222 frosty days (when only the minimum temperatures are below zero). The winter in the high parts of the mountain lasts between 5 and 7 months, and truly summer months are only July and August. The average precipitation rate on Mt. Cherni Vrah (mostly snowfalls) is 1178 litres per sq. m. and June is the most rainy month - 142l per sq. m., while September has the lowest precipitation figure - 71 litres per sq. m. Most thick snow coverage is formed in March. Mt. Cherni Vrah is quite inhospitable,an average of 250 foggy days in the year and only 50 clear ones and it is one of most windy peaks in Bulgaria. With an average wind speed of 9.3 m/s it occupies the second place among the monitored peaks after Mt. Mourgash in Stara Planina (10.3 m/s) and before Mt. Botev (9.1 m/s) and Mt. Mussala (7.6 m/s). Only 7 per cent of the days on Mt. Cherni Vrah are windless.
Clockwise, the borders of the mountain are as follows: to the north and north-east - the Sofia Plain, to the west - the Egulo-Palakari Saddle (1195 m above sea level) separates the mountain from the Plana Mountain; to the south it reaches to the Samokov Plain, and the Buka Preslav Saddle (1090 m) separates it from Verila Mountain, the next to the west is the Pernik Plain, and to the north-west the border with the Lyulin Mountain passes through the Vladaya Saddle (860 m above sea level). Vitosha has an area of 278 sq. km - 18 and 20 km in length and width. In spite of its expressly compact nature, the mountain is conditionally divided into 4 main ranges - Northern, Eastern, South-Western and North-Western.
The four main ranges of the mountain pile together to Mt. Cherni Vrah (2290 m) as a true centre of the mountain.
Part of the Balkan watershed, dividing the basins of the Black Sea and the White Sea (Aegian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea) passes along the mountain. The south-western rivers flow to river Struma and thenon to the White Sea, while the eastern, northern and some of the western - through Iskar River and then the Danube flow to the Black Sea. The longest, the biggest and the most popular river taking its rise from the Vitosha Mountain is Struma River. Its total length is 415 km, 290 of which - on Bulgarian territory. Matnitsa, Kladnishka and Rudarshtitsa Rrivers are among its biggest tributaries from Vitosha. Among the bigger rivers flowing to Iskar are Palakaria (39 km long), Valchi Dol River, Selskata (Zheleznishka) River, Bistrishka (Stara) River, Yanchevska River, Simeonovska River, Dragalevska River, Boyanska River, Perlovska River and Vladaiska River. There are no lakes in Vitosha. There were lakes in the past but they have been drained due to ore mining. A lot of artificial lakes have been built in the lower parts of the mountain near the resort villages, the most beautiful among which is the Boyana Lake ( since 1906).
The year 1934 saw the establishment of the first national park in Bulgaria, covering the greater part of Vitosha and aimed at preserving for the next generations the beauties of the mountain. Vitosha, nevertheless, has been developed. There are more than 100 places for accomodation with almost 6000 beds (not counting beds provided in near-by villages), two cabin elevator lines, numerous open-seat lifts, catering facilities, mountain shelters, kilometres of asphalt roads. All these are concentrated mainly along the northern slopes of the mountain, facing Sofia. There are two main tourist centres - Aleko and Zlatnite Mostove (The Golden Bridges). The first is at about 1800 m above sea level in the eastern part of the mountain and is one of Bulgaria's biggest ski-centres. There are several hotels - the 3 star Prostor and Aglika Hotels, the 2-star Moreni Hotel. There is also Aleko Chalet offering 88 beds in 3 suits and rooms of 2, 3, 4, 8 and more beds. The chalet is the starting point of the Bulgarian section of European hiking route E-4. Above it is the huge slope Stenata - the biggest natural ski-track in Bulgaria. Of course, there are lots of facilities to add to the comfort of skiers - open-seat lifts, snow-levelling trucks, special marking, etc. Near-by shops, booths, coffe-bars and restaurants offer wonderful opportunities for a pleasant stay. Behind the Aleko Chalet is the office of the Mountain Rescue Service (phone: 02 9671155). Aleko is also the starting point for climbing the highest peak of Vitosha - Mt. Cherni Vrah. The steep climb, at a difference of altitude of approximately 500 m typically takes 1.30 hours, and for those who think it is difficult, there is an lift to Mt. Malak Rezen, from where they can proceed along a flat route and reach the dreamed peak in 30 minutes only. All routes to the peak are marked by high metal pickets or pass by skiing facilities, thus reducing to the maximum the possibility of one getting lost. Still it is not recommended to climb the peak in bad weather!
On the peak itself, besides the meteorological station and the base of the Mountain Rescue Brigade (phone: 02 9671128), there is a tourist station where one can find shelter in bad weather (no beds, however). Tea and warm cooked food are also offered. Marked hiking tracks start from Aleko: to Zlatnite Mostove (2-3 hours, passing through the Platoto, Bor Chalet, Tintyava Chalet, Momina Skala Chalet), Academic Youth Base (1.30-2 hours), to the village of Bistritsa (1.30-2 hours), to Simeonovo Quarter (1.30-2 hours), to quarter Dragalevtsi (1.30-2 hours), to Prespa Chalet (30 min). Besides on foot, from above villages and Sofia quarters, one can reach Aleko by car - 16 km on a road starting from Dragalevtsi Quarter, or by regular bus line No. 66 starting from Hladilnika Quarter; by Bai Krustyo-Goli Vrah chair-lift, whose first station is above Dragalevtsi and can be reached with bus line No. 93 starting from Hladilnika Quarter or with bus ¹ 64 and then 20 minutes walk from the central square of Dragalevtsi; by the modern cabin-lift Simeonovo, starting in Simeonovo Quarter (to which one can take bus line No. 122 from Hladilnika or No. 123 from Durvenitsa).
Zlatnite Mostove (Golden Bridges) is the another popular tourist centre, located at an altitude of 1400 m above sea level in the Vladaya sub-part of the Northern Range of Vitosha. Most notorious here is the phenomenon we mentioned above - the moreni.
There are marked hiking routes in other directions as well: the chalets Planinarska Pesen, Borova Gora and Boeritsa (1 hour); the chalets Edelvais and Zvezditsa (about 1 hour), Ostritsa Chalet (a little bit more that 1 hour) and Selimitsa Chalet (yet another 1 hour), Bor Chalet (45 min), the chalets Septemvri (25 min), Momina Skala (30 min), Rodina (35 min) and Tintyava (45 min), the chalets Sredets (40 min.), Esperanto (45 min), Kamen Del (1 hour), Planinets (45 min), Kikish Shelter (1.15 hours), Belite Brezi Chalet (15 min) and Sofia quarter Knyazhevo (1.30 hours), quarter Vladaya (1 hour), the Kopitoto Area with the TV tower (1 hour). There are signs showing all tracks, and occasionally - information boards. Besides on foot from Sofia quarters Knyazhevo and Vladaya, to Zlatnite Mostove one can also drive along a 14 km road, starting from Boyana Quarter. A city bus line No. 261 is also available starting in Ovcha Kupel Quarter (by Slavia Stadium). There is a station of the Mountain Rescue Service in the Ofeliite Area - no phone line.
Another smaller tourist centre is established in the area of Kopitoto (1350 m above sea level - in the Knyazhevo part of the Northern Range) with a TV tower, newly built hotel-restaurant, shops, catering establishments, etc. The cabin-lift starting from Knyazhevo reaches this place, bus line No. 62 from Ovcha Kupel is also available. It takes 1.30-2 hours walk from Knyazhevo and about 1.30 hours from Boyana to reach the area. Marked tracks start here to Zlatnite Mostove (1 hour), Planinets Chalet (40 min), Momina Skala Chalet (45 min), Esperanto Chalet (40 min), etc.
A small tourist centre is formed around Selimitsa Chalet (1300 m above sea level, in the north-western range of the mountain). There are several rest houses and restaurants there. It takes a 15 minutes walk from there to reach the interesting Kladnitsa Monastery "Saint Nicola". Marked tracks lead to Ostritsa Chalet (1 hour), Edelvais Chalet (1.30 hours), Mt. Selichitsa (1.30 hours), Mt. Cherni Vrah (2.5-3 hours), the village of Chuipetliovo (2.5-3 hours). A starting point for this tourist centre is the village of Kladnitsa (3 km road, 1 hour walk along the road and then along a marked path). The village of Kladnitsa is 22 km away from Sofia and is connected to it by bus line No. 60, starting from Ovcha Kupel Quarter, and 16 km away from Pernik, with which it is also connected with a regular bus line. 3 km before Kladnitsa is the resort village of Rudartsi with an open-air mineral water pool.
All chalets in Vitosha (about 15) offer tasty dishes from the Bulgarian cuisine. The marked tracks are typically broad alleys, very good for mountain biking. There are two special ski-tracks down the hill (Aleko - Dragalevski Monastery and Mt. Ushite - Knyazhevo).
Almost the whole mountain is surrounded by small resort villages and villa areas, who were picturesque mountin villages in the past and now some of them are Sofia suburbs. Chuipetlovo, Bosnek, Kladnitsa, Rudartsi, Marchaevo, Vladaya, Knyazhevo, Boyana, Dragalevtsi, Simeonovo, Bistritsa, Zheleznitsa, Yarlovo are starting points to the mountain, connected with Sofia and Pernik with regular bus lines, and offering lodging in family hotels and food in attractive restaurants. Sofia quarters of Knyazhevo, Dragalevtsi and Simeonovo are first stations of cable lifts (cabin- and open-chair).
There are a number of valuable historical monuments here, the most popular among them being the Boyana Church (1259), whose frescos in the traditions of the Tarnovo Art School are the best of their kind in Europe retained from these early times. The church is included in the list of UNESCO of most valuable works of art. It is open from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday (phone: 02 685304. It is in the centre of Boyana Quarter (bus lines No. 64 and No. 107).
The Dragalevtsi Monastery was founded under the reign of Tsar (King) Ivan Alexander in the middle of the 14th century. It had been one of the prominent monesteries of the so-called Mala Sveta Gora. During the Turkish yoke it was a centre of culture and dissent. Vassil Levski was often sheltered here and a secret revolutionary committee was established in the monastery in 1873. It is located 3 km above the village of Dragalevtsi on the road to Aleko. It takes 30-40 min walk from Dragalevtsi. The monastery is open to visitors all week round.
The Church of Sveti Georgi (St. George) in Bistritsa is located on the place where the main monastery of Mala Sveta Gora was in the past.
There are mineral water springs in some of the villages mentioned above - Rudartsi, Knyazhevo, Zheleznitsa.
Even though it is smaller in area than the other high mountains in Bulgaria, Vitosha has a lot of attractive advantages - high and beautiful peaks, thick woods, many tourist and two alpine sites, sufficient snow fall ensuring stable snow cover, pure air, hundreds of kilometres of well marked tracks, numerous lodging places and restaurants, comparatively well preserved nature, clean potable water, wonderful skiing facilities, rich history. Adding to all these its closeness to the biggest city, which is the capital of Bulgaria - this explains why this mountain is so often visited and so much loved.
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The armed struggle has become armed propaganda
by Kathryn Johnston • 7 June 2017 • 0 Comments
Death at London Bridge
On Thursday, the United Kingdom goes to the polls in a snap general election called by Theresa May in what could turn out to be a fatally flawed strategy to show she has a mandate to negotiate for a hard Brexit.
It is an election no-one but May wanted. It is nothing but an arrogant attempt to manipulate the narrow majority who voted to leave the European Union in last June’s European Referendum and to copper fasten the Little Britain mentality that marks out the Tories.
It is a risky strategy. And one which she may well lose. As the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for – you might not like what you get.
Last Saturday night’s murderous attack in London, where seven civilians were brutally killed before the three suspected terrorists who had attacked them were themselves shot dead by armed police was the third attack in Britain in as many months. On March 22, Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Briton, drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing three people and injuring at least 50, before emerging from his vehicle and fatally stabbing a police officer. On May 22, a bomb was set off outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester by 22-year-old Briton Salman Abedi, killing 22.
The armed struggle becomes armed propaganda
Gerry Adams, former IRA leader and Sinn Fein President once said, ‘The tactic of armed struggle is of primary importance because it provides a vital cutting edge. Without it, the issue of Ireland would not even be an issue. So, in effect, the armed struggle becomes armed propaganda.’
On the morning of August 27th, 1979, two Irish plainclothes detectives watched through binoculars as Mountbatten’s boat, the Shadow, silently sailed past them. Suddenly the silence was shattered by a massive explosion. Lord Mountbatten and most of the others on the boat were killed instantly. That afternoon Parachute Regiment trucks drove to an army base at Newry. Their route took them past Narrow Water, on the shore of Carlingford Lough, marking the boundary between NI and the Republic. As the rear vehicle passed by a trailer, an IRA team detonated an 800lb bomb. Simultaneously an IRA unit on the southern side of the Border opened fire. A civilian, Michael Hudson, was killed in the crossfire. Six soldiers were killed. Several more Land Rovers and two helicopters arrived. As a Wessex helicopter took off to ferry injured soldiers to hospital, a second 800lb bomb was detonated, killing 12 more soldiers. It was the Paras’ biggest loss since Arnhem. The significance of the IRA’s coup was soon scrawled all over gable walls in Belfast and the Bogside: “Thirteen dead and not forgotten, we got eighteen and Mountbatten.” It was an echo of the graffiti that appeared after Bloody Sunday when British soldiers had boasted, “We got one, we got two, we got thirteen more than you.” It was payback.
Why are you calling me from New Zealand?
The next day one journalist rang the Sinn Fein press office to ask why did the IRA kill a helpless old man. With chilling economy, the press officer replied ‘Why are you calling me from New Zealand?’ Margaret Thatcher had just been elected as Conservative Prime Minister. The man expected to become her first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Airey Neave had been assassinated by the Irish National Liberation Movement shortly before the election.
Barely two years after the murder of Lord Mountbatten, the IRA developed a new tactic. In 1981 ten IRA prisoners in Northern Ireland went on hunger strike to starve themselves to death in what became a showdown between the prisoners and the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. One hunger striker, Bobby Sands, was elected as a Member of Parliament during the strike, prompting media interest from around the world. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death—including Sands, whose funeral was attended by an estimated 200,000 people. The hunger strikes transformed the political context of Northern Ireland, radicalising national politics, and was the driving force that enabled Sinn Féin to become a mainstream political party.
As Sinn Fein Publicity Director, Danny Morrison, told the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (annual conference) later that year, ‘Who here really believes we can win the war through the ballot box? But will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite in the other, we take power in Ireland? Punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. Twenty years earlier, in August 1971, the British government had introduced internment without trial in reaction to the IRA campaign. As Michel Foucault pointed out in ‘Discipline and Punish’, ‘The guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.’ The introduction of internment in 1971 was followed by the bloodies year of the troubles, 1972, when 497 people were killed in the Troubles – almost ten a week. Internment had indeed been directed at all the potentially guilty and turned out to be a powerful recruiting sergeant for the IRA.
At least 3,000 people should immediately be sent to internment camps
After all the years of the Troubles, after three thousand plus deaths, after the tens of thousands injured, crippled and traumatised, after the entire tragic legacy of austerity, death and division, you might think that we had learned a lesson from history. But predictably enough, the third terror attack in as many months led to immediate kneejerk calls for internment without trial to be immediately introduced in Britain. A Muslim ex police chief from Scotland Yard, Tarique Ghaffur, said that there are ‘thousands of suspected terrorists in the UK who should be placed in internment camps, as the threat of terrorism in the UK has reached an unprecedented level.’ At least 3,000 people, he said, should immediately be sent to internment camps.
A militarisation of security is what radicals want
It was left up to a former Police Head of Counter Terrorism in Belfast, Jim Gamble, one of the most senior former police officers in the UK, to put the argument in perspective. He wrote in the Huffington Post this week: ‘Putting soldiers on our streets cannot be the answer. It sends the wrong message and a militarisation of security is what radicals want. It feeds into the myth that we are about oppressing others, appears desperate, and the symbolism of images of troops on our streets being edited and broadcast around the world feeds fanatics’ fantasies.
‘Business as usual is not what they want to see, so let’s force feed it to them? They want to see division, and work hard to hide behind and within a community that are no more responsible for their terror than the Catholic and Protestant communities living in Northern Ireland were for the IRA and UVF. This is about terrorists, individuals who use violence for their political ends. Only the fool with no knowledge of terrorism would associate criminal acts with a faith or community. ‘The real value in British policing, and what we lacked from a large section of the community in Northern Ireland, was consent. We lose that now at our peril.’
The first results of the General Election will start to come in around midnight on Thursday evening. Most commentators believe that Theresa May, far from getting the victory she believes she is due, will in fact haemorrhage votes to Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, who has been closing the gap between Labour and Conservatives in the polls. The most likely outcome is a much-reduced Tory majority, in a state already deeply divided by the narrow victory of the Leave side in the Referendum. Regardless of the result, the immediate future looks bleak. We have already seen an increase in hate crimes throughout the United Kingdom, particularly in the North of Ireland, which is the only region in the UK which shares a land border with another state, the Republic of Ireland.
And the spectre of violent Irish republicanism continues to stalk the North. Last week Irish police charged two dissident republicans with possession of a cache of explosives in Dublin. The explosives were expected to be used to stage a paramilitary ‘spectacular’ in Belfast to coincide with the General Election. As Gerry Adams pointed out all those years ago, the tactic of armed struggle provides a vital cutting edge. The armed struggle has indeed become armed propaganda. The real shame of this election is that little will change. The post Trump, post Brexit west will continue to condemn the deaths of children in Manchester, while refusing to condemn them in Syria. Theresa May will continue to pursue arms deals with Saudi Arabia, regardless of the price that must be paid by others. And the British people will continue to sleepwalk into disaster.
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Pearl’s Hill is an enclave in the Outram area bounded by the Central Expressway, Outram Road, Eu Tong Sen Street and Upper Cross Street.1 Initially the location of Chinese-owned gambier plantations, the hill was first called Mount Stamford, after Sir Stamford Raffles. Its current name is taken from Captain James Pearl, owner and commander of the Indiana, the ship in which Raffles sailed from Penang in January 1819 on the expedition that culminated in the founding of Singapore.2 Colonial institutional buildings located here have included the Seamen’s Hospital (predecessor of the Singapore General Hospital), the first Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Outram Prison (also known as H. M. Jail), and the Upper and Lower Barracks of the Sikh contingent of the Straits Settlements Police.3
In the early days of Singapore, the yet unnamed hill was the location of gambier plantations owned by the Chinese, some of whom had occupied and settled there before the arrival of Raffles in 1819. Captain Pearl had been looking to settle down in Singapore, and, liking the look of the hill, began acquiring plot after plot on the hill from the gambier planters until he owned the entire hill in 1822. Pearl then built his house atop the hill, and Chinese and Malay workmen cleared the slopes and grew pepper vines for him.4
Pearl called the hill Mount Stamford, as a compliment to Raffles. However, when Raffles heard how the hill had been acquired without his approval, he ordered its repossession by the government. Although Raffles quickly relented and accorded ownership of the hill back to Pearl, the disgruntled captain renamed the hill after himself after the incident. In 1828, Pearl’s agents sold the hill to the government for Rs 10,000 (Indian rupees) after Pearl retired to Europe, but his name has remained associated with this hill.5
The hospitals
At the eastern foot of Pearl’s Hill, the Chinese Pauper Hospital (present-day Tan Tock Seng Hospital) was designed and built by John Turnbull Thomson from 1844 to 1846. Next to the hospital, from 1844 to 1845, Thomson had also designed and built Seamen’s Hospital, the fourth general hospital in Singapore. The hospital buildings at Pearl’s Hill were commandeered in 1858 by the government and military authorities as temporary barracks for the European Artillery Corps, brought to Singapore from India to man Fort Canning after the 1857 Indian Mutiny. Consequently, the Chinese Pauper Hospital (CPH) moved to Balestier Plain and the Seamen’s Hospital moved to the Kandang Kerbau district. The European Artillery stayed at the Pearl’s Hill barracks until Fort Canning and its barracks were constructed in 1861. It was only upon the completion of Fort Canning that authorities discovered that Pearl’s Hill overlooked Fort Canning Hill from a greater height. In order to ensure that enemies could not attack Fort Canning from Pearl’s Hill, the chief engineer cut off the top of Pearl’s Hill with the help of a Chinese coolie force.6
The barracks7
The barracks on Pearl’s Hill were used for some years as the Commissariat Store and Arsenal, and then as barracks for the European police (1908) and Sikh police (1914). By the late 1920s, the barracks consisted of about 13 separate blocks, erected nearly 100 years earlier, and housed unmarried Sikh policemen, while married Sikh policemen lived in wooden sheds at the corner of Havelock Road. In the early 1930s, the Straits Settlements government embarked on one of the most extensive facilities building schemes in the history of the Singapore Police Force. By 1934, the new Upper Barracks were erected on the original site of CPH on Pearl’s Hill Terrace to house the married Sikh policemen. Meanwhile, the new Lower Barracks were built at Eu Tong Sen Street over part of the People’s Park that had been acquired specifically to house the non-married Sikh policemen. Both barracks were designed in the neo-classical style that was popular in the 1930s for major government buildings and were constructed with reinforced concrete.
The five-storey Lower Barracks was an imposing sight in its time as it towered over the low-rise shophouses in Chinatown, which were mostly two or three storeys high. The three-storey Upper Barracks was one of the longest pre-war civic buildings at 160 m in length. Being perched higher on the hill, the Upper Barracks dominated the Chinatown landscape at a time when skyscrapers were yet to be built in the vicinity. The Upper and Lower Barracks served as the quarters of the Sikh contingent until the latter was disbanded in 1946.
Following Singapore’s independence in 1965, the Ministry of Interior and Defence (predecessor of the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home Affairs) was housed in the Upper Barracks until the late 1970s. In 1948, the Police Radio Division moved into the Lower Barracks and the top floor was used to house the Operations Room. For years, police response to public calls and emergencies was coordinated from Pearl’s Hill. Both barracks were occupied by government agencies until 2001, when its last occupants – the Singapore Police Force (Upper Barracks) and the Criminal Investigation Department (Lower Barracks) – moved to New Phoenix Park at Irrawaddy Road and the new Police Cantonment Complex at New Bridge Road, respectively. Both barracks were put up for lease in 2007 as office space and gazetted as conservation buildings in 2008.
Completed in 1976, the 38-storey Pearl Bank Apartments, with its unique horse-shoe shaped design, was then the tallest residential building in Singapore. Designed by pioneering post-Independence Singapore architect Tan Cheng Siong, it was located at Pearl Bank Road, on the government’s first land-sales site launched exclusively for residential development in 1969. Tan was charged to fit the maximum number of apartments within the small triangular hill-top site. As a result, Pearl Bank Apartments houses the largest number of units contained in a single block in Singapore – 280 apartments and eight commercial units.8
In 2018, Pearl Bank Apartments was sold to property developer CapitaLand – its fourth en bloc attempt – for $728 million, despite appeals by some residents and its architect to accord the development conservation status. CapitaLand said that it intends to redevelop the site into a residential development.9
Tucked behind Pearl Bank Apartments, on a 45-metre-tall knoll, is a belt of lush greenery called Pearl’s Hill City Park. Perched on the hilltop park is a medieval fortress-like structure which is the Pearl’s Hill Reservoir, a high-level service reservoir built in 1898 to supply drinking water to Chinatown. Today, it remains the main source of freshwater to Chinatown and is one of 13 service reservoirs in Singapore gazetted under the Protected Areas and Protected Places Act (Chapter 256).10 There is a future plan for Pearl’s Hill City Park to be transformed into a hilltop and mid-level park. The mid-level park will form part of a green chain linking Duxton Plain Park through Pearl’s Hill and York Hill to the Singapore River.11
Prison and park
The western slope of Pearl’s Hill once housed the infamous Outram Prison, or H. M. Jail. Built in 1847 by Charles Edward Faber based on plans by J. T. Thomson, the prison was demolished in 1968 and replaced by Outram Park, a residential-cum-shopping complex built by the Housing and Development Board in 1969.12 This complex was later demolished under the Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme, with residents and shopkeepers relocated to Cantonment Road in 2001.13
After it was taken over by the municipality in 1889, there was an open space at the foot of Pearl’s Hill on Eu Tong Sen Street. It was then the only public park apart from the Esplanade. It later became the People’s or Pearl’s Market with outdoor stalls, but the market was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1966. The People’s Park Complex, built in 1970, stands on this site today.14
Pearl’s Hill Care Home
On 28 September 2016, Pearl’s Hill Care Home officially began operation on Pearl’s Hill. It was refurbished from a school (formerly Pearl’s Hill School) and is Singapore’s first government-run nursing home for seniors to recuperate before eventually returning to their homes.15
Chinese names: chin-chu sua in Hokkien and chan chὒ shan in Cantonese, both literally mean “Pearl Hill”.16
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13. More flats for hilly Outram. (2003, March 19). The Straits Times, p. 5. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
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Serial (Bad) Weddings – French cinema’s top film for 2014
French director Philippe de Chauviron’s Qu’est ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu Serial (Bad) Weddings is the most successful French language film of 2104 chalking up over 12 million admissions in France so far – more than double its nearest rival Supercondriaque.
But it’s not only French audiences who are flocking to see this tale of a bourgeois white couple whose four daughters decide to marry men of different religions and ethnic backgrounds. International box-office figures show the film has drawn an audience of five million outside France and it has entered the table of the 20 most successful French films internationally since 2000.
In Germany it has topped the box office for several weeks with 3.3 million admissions seeing off strong competition from several US blockbusters. In Belgium the film has had 420,000 admissions, followed by Austria (373,000), French-speaking Switzerland, 195,000, South Korea (170,000), Quebec (152,000), German-speaking Switzerland (150,000) and Greece (126,000). International box office figures are set to increase with the imminent release of the film in Scandinavia.
While Qu’est ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu enjoys huge success at home and a number of countries abroad it has not been picked up by film distributers in Britain and the US who claim the film is politically incorrect and possibly racist. The production company behind the film, TF1 International, says English-speaking audiences “would never allow themselves these days to laugh at blacks, Jews or Asians.”
The influential US cinema industry magazine Variety described the film as “perpetuating racist stereotypes and feeding into France’s ambient xenophobia”. In a review in The Hollywood Reporter, the jokes were condemned as “heavy-handed – the Jew calls the Arab ‘Arafat’ and then is karate chopped by the Asian”.
Meanwhile Chauveron claims the film is about “deflating” the prejudices peddled by the anti-immigrant Front National party whose support in on the increase in France.
Fans of the film around the world will be delighted to learn a follow-up is already planned for 2016.
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How the growing krona helped to balance the passenger traffic in Keflavik
Next year, Isavia is waiting for record figures. For the first time in history, the country’s main airport will overcome the mark of 10 million passengers per year. In Keflavik, every effort now is made to ensure that the process will not be stuck in a bottleneck.
To the new records…
Isavia presented the figures for 2017. The year is still going on, and so far the passengers who used the airport from January to October have been counted. Nevertheless, the company believes that the trend is obvious. According to their forecast, by the end of December the passenger turnover in Keflavik for 2017 will reach 8,797,939 passengers, which is 29% more than the previous year. Of these, 2.981.293 are transit passengers.
Statistic of paxflow in Keflavik airport // Source: Isavia
The figures for 2018 are even more impressive. According to Isavia, their forecast for Keflavik Airport in 2018 provides analyzes and assessments of factors affecting passenger demand for flights to and from Keflavik Airport as well as estimated airline availability for the coming year. They emphasized, that the assumptions based on the forecast can change on a relatively short notice and should therefore be taken with the proviso that current forecasts of airline companies are met.
Next year, four new airlines will launch scheduled flights from Keflavik Airport. Two of America’s largest airlines, American Airlines daily from Dallas and United Airlines daily from Newark, New York. In addition, the airline S7 will start flying to Moscow and Luxair will fly once a week to Luxembourg. Isavia expects, that Icelandair and WOW airlines will add some destinations next year also. These include new cities in the west like Cleveland, Dallas and Cincinnatti. In total, 29 airlines will be scheduled from Keflavík Airport next summer with 101 direct flights.
With such assumptions, Isavia estimated that next year Keflavik Airport will be used by 10,381,281 passengers. According to their calculations, a record mark of 10 million people will be passed in mid-December. Of this amount, the transit passengers will be 3.971.969 people.
It is interesting to note that 2018, according to Isavia’s forecast, will be the most balanced year for Keflavik in the distribution of passenger traffic over the seasons for the last 7 years. According to their data, in 2010 half of the entire passenger traffic accounted for three summer months – from June to August. However, during the five winter months (from January to March, then November and December), the airport received only 23% of the annual statistics.
Distribution of passenger traffic in Keflavik over the seasons // Source: Isavia
Over the years, the share of winter passengers increased. In 2017, taking into account the forecast, it should equal the summer months. 35% will come for the winter and summer periods, the remaining 30% will go to the off-season – spring and autumn months. 2018 will be unique in the sense that the proportion of winter passengers for the first time will be more than the summer: 36% and 32% respectively.
…through “bottlenecks”
However, the rapid growth in passenger traffic turns into a problem for the airport in the event that it lacks the capacity to service it. To avoid getting into the “bottle neck” Keflavik is actively being built. Hlynur Sigurdsson, commercial director of Keflavik airport, told to Flugblogger, that the main terminal building was expended from 56 000 sq. meters in 2010 to 70 000 sq. meters in 2017.
In addition, most time wasting processes, such as check-in and security control, were automated where it is possible. As a result, according to Isavia, around 88% of passengers spent less than 5 minutes during highest pick in a summer traffic in 2017. However, not problems are solved.
“The other “bottleneck” maybe a space at the gates”, Hlynur Sigurdsson said, “When we boarding several aircrafts in the same time in the same area, we know that the area is quite crowdie and not comfortable. But we are working on that, and that is part of our long time development plan of building the airport and the terminal”.
Plans for the development of the airport are understandable, given that even the growth of the crown was not able to stop the growth of passenger traffic. According to Sigurdsson, despite of the strengthening krona, which started in midyear of 2016, Iceland seems to be such popular destination, so Keflavik has so nice increase in this year.
“It’s really difficult to say if it would be a more traffic, if Icelandic krona wouldn’t get that strong”, Hlynur Sigurdsson said, “Maybe it is even good that we don’t have too much traffic, which is difficult to handle with. So, we still have steady grow of 33-34%. Tourists continue to come to Iceland. And it is still a lot of them”.
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2nd, Chapter 1
SECOND PART
In the country of the Golden Harp
Breton Refugees in Ireland
The Irish adventure was well and truly beginning.
The arrest and expulsion of Dr.Moger, the Breton refugee, by the British authorities, had aroused strong feelings in Welsh public opinion. A number of Welsh and British newspapers had echoed these feelings, publishing articles and letters from their readers. “Wales does not even have the right to welcome and entertain whoever it likes,” had cried out Gwynfor Evans on the radio. Welsh sympathy for Breton refugees had been enhanced by it. However the incident made the situation even more precarious for the few Bretons still in Great Britain, in more or less legal positions as I had been. Also, not long after, those who had not succeeded in finding a steady job or regular work, this being a condition for a residence permit, also finally left for Ireland. This was the case of Feutrenn and Yann L’Haridon. The first refugees in Wales, Bob Le Helloco and Gildas Jaffrennou, were the only ones who succeeded in passing mostly unnoticed and settling there. It was probably decided to turn a blind eye where they were concerned.
After his stay in Cenarth, Bob Le Helloco had joined Gildas Jaffrennou at Harlech College. The College obtained a grant that subsequently allowed them to attend the Coxham College of Art, near Bath. They completed three years of studies there: enabling them to find positions as professors of Art and Design afterwards, the former in Darlington in Devon, where he settled in 1953, and the latter in Kent. Gildas Jaffrennou obtained British nationality and both switched back to their original names. They were both acquitted in Paris a few years later, purged in absentia by court martial. At one stage Bob contemplated, as I did, the idea of returning to Brittany where he could have taken up his profession as lawyer again. But he had taken a liking to artistic activities and to a calmer way of life; the accumulation of new legislation in France since 1945 discouraged him. He decided to settle permanently in Darlington where he appreciated the surroundings and peace of the countryside.
Contrary to the way things work in France, where education is strictly centralised through the Ministry of Education, schools, educational establishments and universities are free to establish their own programs in Great Britain, and also to recruit their own professors on the basis of qualifications. Many years later, Gildas Jaffrennou was even elected Mayor and member of Deal City Council, a small town in southern England where he had taught.
A few days after my forced and hurried return to Ireland, I prepared another issue of our small press bulletin detailing the events leading to my expulsion in order to feed the press campaign it had triggered off. I also had to see about sorting out my situation as political refugee and the conditions of my stay in Ireland. The problem was considerably simplified by the fact that I was far from being the first Breton to apply for asylum there. The Bretons themselves had already been preceded by a number of other refugees from various European countries, fleeing war and repression.
Cearbhuil O’Dalaigh arranged an interview for me with Abraham, one of the senior civil servants attached to the Ministry of Justice, in charge of foreigners’ services. I explained my situation to the latter, the sentence in absentia that had been issued in France and my recent expulsion from Wales. I left him with my expired true-false passport, which was replaced on the spot with a foreigner’s residence permit.
I had confided also in Cearbhuil O’Dalaigh and Paul Shorman, both important members of the St.Vincent de Paul Society, regarding my family situation. One of the more immediate urgencies was to bring over Marie-Madeleine and the children with a view to a permanent settlement in the country. They both indicated that the St.Vincent de Paul Society would take charge of Rozenn and Jean’s school expenses to start off with, as both were of school going age: that spring of 1948 Rozenn would be turning seven, and Jean six, some months later. But it was first necessary to find a roof for them and a means of earning a living.
I managed to find some private French classes, through newspapers advertisements. One of my first pupils was a chef’s apprentice, employed in the kitchens of one of the big Dublin Hotels, where only French was spoken, he told me. He therefore felt it was essential for him to learn it. One of his first questions was to ask me for the translation of ‘Merde, which he felt must be a very important word as it was used a lot in the kitchens! The Welsh section of the BBC, by way of helping me, had asked me to prepare to prepare a fortnightly report on the political and cultural situation in Brittany. I also succeeded in having some articles printed in the ‘Irish Independent, which mainly dealt with Europe’s national minorities. I had never lost contact with my friend Francois Dausset, who had started an organisation in Paris for international exchanges and travel and, who now asked me to be their representative in Ireland. It involved the placement of young French people au pair or as paying guests with Irish families, for which I would earn a commission. All of this did not amount to much, but it could all be developed and extended.
Madame Clarke was a French lady who had lost her Irish husband and lived with difficulty from the preparation of pork liver pâtés, which she sold to some of the best grocery shops in Dublin. She wished to return to France and, in order to finance her journey, wanted to sell her clientele, her recipes and her small kitchen equipment for a modest sum. I had certainly very little aptitude or liking for cooking, and Marie-Madeleine had not much more than I had. But this could also be developed. I told her I was interested and at her place, under her direction, I prepared my first liver pâtés and my first hare pâtés; I would deliver them personally to the clients.
At the time, although grocery shops in Ireland were better stocked than their counterparts in Great Britain, they were remarkably lacking in cheeses, vegetables, lettuces, fruits and any other products that were out of the ordinary. It was only a few years later that the food and agricultural industry finally developed. On the other hand, the market was well supplied with meat, milk, butter and potatoes. I was surprised to find that pork was more expensive than beef or mutton and that veal was unknown.
The end of the school year was approaching and I had to find a place for us to live. It was out of the question for us all to live at Daisy Bank, which Jacques de Quelen was about to leave. Yann Goulet wanted to have the place for himself and his family. Thomas De Bhaldraite, who had become professor of Irish at University College Dublin, was spending three months’ holiday west of Galway, in that part of Connaught where Irish was still the everyday language. Many years previously he had been a member of the Breton students’ circle at the Cité Universitaire in Paris. He had offered to place his house in Dublin, which would not be occupied for those three months, at the disposal of Breton refugees who would thus act as caretakers. It was therefore decided that I should avail myself of this offer, which would allow me to bring Marie-Madeleine and the children over, until I found another place to stay in Bray at the end of the tourist season, when rentals for furnished accommodation would be more affordable.
I therefore advised Marie-Madeleine to prepare her departure for the beginning of July and to bring with her, in the large wickerwork trunk she had already used to come over to join me in Swansea, all our meagre possessions. Together with our three little ones she would take the boat from Fishguard to Rosslare, which meant that she would have the help of D.J.Williams in Fishguard and, after an overnight journey on the boat, would be able to catch the train in Rosslare direct to Dublin. That train used to go through Bray on its way to Harcourt Street in Dublin, a railway line and station that ceased functioning later on. It used to stop at Ranelagh, the last stop before the center of Dublin, a short walk from Cullenswood Gardens where Thomas De Bhaldraite’s house was situated.
A few days before the arrival of Marie-Madeleine and the children, I left Daisy Bank to settle into the house in Ranelagh. I did not have much to bring with me, apart from my suitcase, my briefcase and my papers. I had called on Job Hirguair and Charles le Gaonac’h to help me welcome the family and carry suitcases and trunks from the little station to the new house. The handcart belonging to the station enabled us to easily cover the distance. What a joy it was to see all four of them again! Marie-Madeleine as attractive as always, though tired after the journey, Rozenn, a calm little girl full of life but already thoughtful, Jean, a bundle of energy as always, Erwan, a lovable chubby baby who still had to be carried frequently. He had just turned two years old. However my joy was still mixed with worry and apprehension as to the uncertainties of the immediate future.
De Bhaldraite’s house was relatively small but comfortable, situated in a calm little street near the centre of Ranelagh, a suburb close to Dublin within a half hour’s walk from the centre of the city. The house was close to being luxurious compared to what we had experienced so far since the beginning of our exile. A small front garden and a larger one at the back were easy outlets for the children. A fairly large kitchen, a living room and dining room on the ground floor, a bathroom and three bedrooms upstairs provided for us comfortably. Though our stay would be short, as we had to leave by the middle of September, it gave us a breathing space and a chance to recover our equilibrium.
It also made it possible for my parents to come and visit us during the summer for a couple of weeks. I had not seen my father for three years! They had travelled via England and accompanied by Rozenn and Jean I went to meet them early one morning at Dublin harbour, for the arrival of the boat from Liverpool. They had brought me some financial assistance, and in spite of my usual occupations I was able to show them around Dublin, which neither of them had been to before. The private French classes were at a standstill during the summer season: but I continued to prepare and deliver my pork pâtés and see to the placing of young French people as au pair’s or paying guests. Thanks to a bicycle I was able to obtain, I continued to search Dublin for a boarding school where my two older children could start at the beginning of the next school year. I finally found one in Mount Sackville in Chapelizod, near Dublin, on the other side of Phoenix Park. Sisters of St.Joseph of Cluny, an originally French order, ran the boarding school. The nuns accepted them both for September. This would at least simplify our accommodation problems when the time came to leave Cullenswood Gardens. Neither Rozenn nor Jean had been to boarding school before and we were dreading a little this first experience, as they were still very young to be separated from their parents. But it would have the advantage of giving them a feeling of stability that had been lacking these past two years because of our successive moves. They already both spoke fluent English, which was the language used in Mount Sackville. Alas! Two months had been enough for them to have practically forgotten Welsh, as we both continued to speak to them in French, their maternal language.
1948 Yann Fouéré with his family, reunited in Ireland, taken by Jacques de Quelen.
September came quickly and the beginning of the school year. As soon as we had settled Rozenn and Jean in their school, which coincided with the return to Dublin of the Bhaldraite family, we moved to Bray. On leaving Daisy Bank, Jacques de Quélen had found a “Basement Flat” to rent. This was the name given to accommodation situated partly underground, below street level. The furnished Basement Flat of the adjoining house belonged to two elderly ladies who lived in the upper part of the house. It was also available after the season. I decided to rent it for the modest price of thirty shillings a week. Thus towards the end of September 1948 we settled into Claremount Terrace and became Jacques de Quélen’s close neighbours. Around the same time I had the good fortune of finding a temporary post standing in for a professor of French at Belvedere College, a secondary school run by the Jesuits, right in the centre of Dublin, on the far side of Parnell Square. At the rate of nine pounds a week plus my midday meal, it was practically a fortune. But I was careful not to abandon my pâté business or any of my other activities. The post at Belvedere College was only temporary and there was no guarantee of it being renewed for the first term of 1949.
When I settled in Bray in autumn of 1948, the situation of Breton refugees had well nigh stabilised . However, they were all still struggling to make a living, in spite of the help from friendly Irish families. Delaporte even had to take his overcoat to the pawnshop on one occasion! After the July 1947 Celtic Congress, Delaporte withdrew to Cork, where Millarden had entrusted him with the editorship of the Celtic Times. This publication came at the right time to replace our little press bulletin Breton National News Service, which I had been obliged to abandon through lack of time, owing to the many daily tasks necessary to ensure our survival. Unfortunately Millarden’s project was not a success:, it was costing him money and he finally tired of it. A typical Breton, in spite of his practical nature, he quickly got carried away. Like many others of our compatriots, he would start a business or a project which most of the time had no future. What the Bretons are mostly lacking in, is a spirit of perseverance. They tire quickly of the daily tasks and efforts that are required for any activities whose output and results seldom attain the hopes and dreams that inspired their inception. The association with Ireland where imagination and improvisation play an important role in history, society and daily life, was not conducive to curing this shortcoming. Millarden finally gave up the Celtic Times. The last edition under his direction is dated November-December 1952. The Scotsman he gave it to,Thomas Mac Neill, proved to be incapable of ensuring a regular publication and only published one edition in the space of a year. He undoubtedly realised that the project needed a lot of work and was not profitable: he passed it on to another Scotsman named MacPherson, who also only published one edition in March 1954, under a reduced format. That was the last one. It was this disappearance that incited me a few years later, when my personal situation had stabilised, to create with Alan Heusaff in 1959, the press bulletin Breton News, which coincided with the foundation of the Celtic League and had its first edition in 1960. Breton News continued to be published until 1972, after 70 editions: it was subsequently more or less replaced by Carn, the official three monthly publication of the Celtic League with Alan Heusaff as secretary, whose name remained linked to that organisation. The Celtic league had previously published, between 1963 and 1972, a series of annual brochures whose first editor was Cenvein Thomas. The Scotsman, Frank Thomson succeeded him: thus over time continuity of international information was established and a necessary link in the English language concerning the problems relating to Celtic nations with their respective struggles.
Raymond Delaporte , who had assisted Millarden with the Celtic Times, found a post as professor in the school founded by Terence Mac Sweeney, the heroic Mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike in a British goal at the time of the national war of liberation. Raymond’s wife, Madeleine, soon established a hairdressing salon under the name of Madame Duval; she had the necessary training for the running of this business. It was fair game to take advantage of the well-established French reputation in fashion and beauty treatments. The hairdressing salon in Cork flourished.
In Dublin, Alphonse Le Boulc’h had set up his own business; he had opened a small workshop for car repairs near the Piatt’s place, in a spot that was very difficult to get to, practically under the bridge over the river Dodder in Clonskeagh. He remained the only boss and only worker there during the few years that the business lasted. He settled permanently in Ireland, as he married a widow who was not without means and provided him with the necessary additional material security. She soon asked him to give up his work, as his hands were too dirty when he came home and he was invariably late for his tea. The primitive shed with its rusty corrugated iron roof that was both his workshop and his garage was knocked down shortly afterwards by the city authorities who were laying out gardens along the banks of the Dodder. There is no trace of it now. From then onwards, Alphonse became a well known character of Dublin harbour, where nearly every day he wandered about on his bicycle and fulfilled the role of unofficial “Consul” of Brittany for the Breton fishermen and sailors who docked there. From Guilvinec to Concarneau and Lorient to La Turballe, most of the fishermen knew him. Free of charge, he acted as their interpreter and facilitated their dealings with the harbour authorities. The services of this man condemned to death by the French, were even used by the French Embassy on occasions to appease or sort out differences between the Breton fishermen and the coastal authorities for illegal fishing in Irish territorial waters. Some boats, as a precaution, even took to flying the Breton flag instead of the French flag when they drew near to Irish waters, although it did not bestow them with immunity.
Yann l’Haridon also settled in Dublin. After his stay in Wales, with the same difficulties that I had experienced for the renewal of a residence permit, he had thought it wiser to return illegally to Paris. From there he came to Ireland at the beginning of 1949. He lived there by taking on a variety of jobs including that of taxi driver. The studies in pharmacy that he had started were hardly conducive to this sort of activity. He finally married an Irish girl and with his wife set up a small business cleaning office buildings. He died in Brittany, having returned there after the death of his wife.
Germain Breton had been an important executive of the Parti National Breton in Loire Atlantique. Through the other refugees, he met Helen O’Shaughnessy, who lived in Delgany not far from Bray, and was the niece of the ardent Breton militant Comtesse Saint-Pierre. Helen had settled in Ireland where she had married. Thanks to her help, Germain had found work on a farm in Wicklow. He delivered milk from the farm, which was hard work as he had to get up in the middle of the night, a much more exceptional occurrence in Ireland than on the continent. He would get up when many Irish people, who are fond of staying up late, would be going to bed. He finally found work as live-in gardener of a large property in Dundrum, near Dublin. His employer was more than happy with his work. His wife, a rather mystical and eccentric person, came to join him: she succeeded in dragging him off to Tangier in Morocco, where one of her “gurus” lived. After a short while, Germain, who was of a calmer spirit, preferred to return to Ireland alone and take up his work again. He also had free lodgings there in a small house at the entrance to the property, which was rather dark but reasonably comfortable.
If Germain Breton was the calmest, most gentle and most accommodating of the Breton refugees, Gwion Hernot had the most drive, the most energy and the most enthusiasm. He had retained all the militant fervour that he had displayed in the ‘Jeunesses du Parti National Breton’ and in the ‘Bagadou Stourm’. He possessed a natural ease and was a fine figure of a man, accentuated by his great height that prevented him from passing unnoticed. He became engaged to a young Irish girl, an embassy secretary, Roisín O’Doherty, and finally found a post as full time professor of French at St. Clonleth College in Dublin. He was unfortunately the victim of a fatal accident in 1950, whilst horse riding on the outskirts of Dublin.
Gwion Hernot had teamed up with Charles Le Goanac’h, one of the ex leaders of the P.N.B., originally from Plonevez-du-Faou, who was close to the Delaporte brothers, his neighbours from Châteauneuf. Gwion and Charles were still sharing a place in Dublin when the former lost his life. They had already shared a Basement Flat in Buckingham Street when they first started up, and were making frames for Jacques de Quelen’s photos.
They were sharing a small noisy place in North Circular Road when I first arrived in Ireland and was Yann Goulet’s guest. We would pool our information and some of our efforts. Through his profession as an Insurance Agent and also as “klasker bara”, or fund-raiser for the P.N.B., as he described his functions of militant, Charles was well used to public relations. He was the most sociable of us all, the most open and helpful. He made a living from French classes and a numerous variety of other temporary work for one or other of our Irish friends. He was still sharing a place with Gwion, this time a basement in Merion Square, right in the centre of Dublin, when the latter’s tragic death occurred. A policeman was waiting in front of their place that day to advise him of the death of his friend. Charles naturally took over Gwion’s post as professor of French at St. Clonleth .
Jacques de Quélen was, along with Charles and Raymond Delaporte, one of those I had known the longest, since the struggle before the war and the ‘Ar Brezoneg er Skol’ campaign. We were also all around the same age. Dr. O’Kelly and his family had taken in Jacques, when he arrived in Dublin after his landing in Cork by boat. He had set out to do photography and started by going from house to house offering to touch up and colour old family photographs.
In order to welcome his wife Andrée and his son Youenn, only six months old at the time, and still remain close to his clientele, he had at first rented a small bed-sitter in Merion Row, right in the centre of the city. His wife and son had arrived in February 1947, after having traveled across Wales in the conditions I have described. The exceptionally harsh temperatures they endured during their journey had caused Youenn to catch bronchial pneumonia that was only checked thanks to the vigorous care of Dr.O’Kelly, who immediately had the baby admitted to the Harcourt Street Children’s Hospital. The conditions under which the couple and their baby lived were difficult and uncomfortable. Oscar Mac Uilis, one of the regular attendants at our Celtic congresses, offered them the use of his house by the sea in Dalkey during the summer holidays of 1947. Youenn completed his recovery there. It was then after the arrival of Yann Goulet and his family, during the second half of 1947, that the two families rented Daisy Bank, the house in Bray where I had been welcomed in March of 1948.
1948 – Andrée de Quélen and Marie-Madeleine Fouéré with her 3 children seated, and Youenn de Quélen in the foreground.
Jacques had taught his wife the art of touching up and colouring photographs, but this could never be much more than an extra income. He was lacking the capital that would have enabled him to set up a well-equipped studio and business. He was therefore very happy to find a post replacing Miss Fox, an Irish friend who was retiring, teaching French at St.Gerard’s, a private school in Bray. The boarding school was mainly popular with the children of wealthy families. He wanted to remain in Bray and when relations deteriorated between the two families in Daisy Bank, he decided to rent the basement flat in Claremount Terrace and I became his immediate neighbour. We saw them quite often: both of our youngest children were about the same age and we helped each other out in various small ways.
Jacques de Quélen
Jacques was a straightforward, unpretentious and stoical fellow. His features and bearing bore the distinction of his lineage: but he never mentioned his degree of noble descent that, in actual fact, would have impressed the English far more than the Irish. Unwittingly probably, he was faithful to his family’s motto, E bep amzer Kele – A Quelen carries on no matter what – and faced up to all the blows that fate dealt him, with apparent indifference. The separation from his older children, Patrick and Hervé whom he had left behind in Brittany in the care of his sister in Locarn, and Mona, (comma!) entrusted to the care of his wife’s mother, Madame Le Restif, was certainly very distressing for him. Fortunately however, he had an optimistic nature. He was convinced that these blows dealt by fate would come to an end. After all, the long lineage of his ancestors had seen worse, throughout the revolutions, coups d’États and wars. His wife Andrée also shared his stoicism and patience, and endeavoured to help him in his efforts and his work.
It was whilst we were in Claremount Terrace that Jacques de Quélen and I had a visit from Joseph Chardronnet, a member of the Oblate Fathers, whom I had not met before. In spite of his stern appearance, he was and still is a true priest, loyal to his faith, his opinions, his friends and his country. We were delighted with his visit, which was a great comfort. It demonstrated that we had not been totally forgotten in Brittany, at a time when many Bretons did not even dare to write to us directly, for fear of the police surveillance that was still in place.
At the time that I arrived in Ireland, another Breton refugee, a colourful character who kept to himself, was already there. He considered himself to be a Breton militant, though he was not recognised as such by the others. Ernest Le Landais, who was called Nenesse by everyone, had once assiduously associated with Breiz Atao militants in Saint Malo where he lived. Everyone was a bit wary of him, though without calling his sincerity into question: his financial affairs were obscure and dubious, and it was said that he never paid the numerous debts that he incurred. He could have been described as an opportunist with an eye for making a profit. During the Occupation he had joined l’Organisation Todt, in charge of recruiting workforces for the needs of the German army. He had undeniably gained by it, as after the routing of the German army, he had arrived in Dublin by plane from Zurich, a luxury that none of us could afford at the time. It was not surprising that the Swiss did not want him.
Elegant, friendly and handsome, always well dressed; he had started earning a living in Dublin by working in the café-nightclub Four Courts, under the very French name of Georges de Villeneuve. Wearing the famous straw boater and the bow tie around his neck, he sang imitating Maurice Chevalier to perfection. The number was a great success: though the repertoire and program had to be changed around sometimes. In the modest furnished apartment in Mount Street that he occupied, Nenesse had started making yogurts and then chips in packets, foodstuffs that were unknown at the time in Dublin’s groceries and cafés. He had brought a young woman out from Marseille, probably to help him, who was not his wife but was very much in love with him and joined him with her little daughter. I had occasionally been one of his salesmen to try and complement my meagre resources. I quickly gave up as I never saw the commissions he so generously promised. Had he been more scrupulous and straight in his affairs he could have made, if not a fortune, at least a very good living. A few years later Irish manufacturers made profits from the products he had initiated. Nenesse finally left for Tangier, where business was probably even shadier but maybe easier. None of us were ever able to work out the real reason for his departure, nor did any of us ever hear of him again.
The last ones to arrive, nearly all of them thanks to the “true/false” passports, were mainly a number of members of the Formation Perrot, most of them already heavily sentenced in absentia by the French tribunals. They had been obliged to go into hiding on the continent, exposed to the risks and precariousness of that situation. From one stage to the next after their departure from Alsace, fighting a rear guard action alongside the German army, the remaining men of the Bezen, as their supporters called them, finally reached Tübingen and partially regrouped. They were officially demobilised under their nom de guerre after the routing of the German army in April 1945. At first Célestin Lainé, Alan Heusaff, Louis Feutren, Ange Peresse and a few others remained grouped around Tübingen, and then they dispersed. Most of them found temporary, precarious work in the countryside of English and American occupied zones: at all cost they had to avoid the French occupied zone. After various adventures and much poverty shared with the German people around them, Ange Peresse and his wife Germaine managed to settle down permanently in Munster in Germany with their three sons, Budoc, Hamon and Gerhart. However many of the others, who had no family to take care of, could not see any outcome to their situation other than to return.
The Bezen Perrot refugees at first formed a group a little apart: the quarrels and divisions that had marked the final years of the Parti National Breton in 1943 and 1944 had left their mark. A certain number of personal and individual relations were finally established between the two groups, those attached to the P.N.B. and those of the Bezen. But there was no question of Lainé associating with Delaporte and Goulet. Aside from these exceptions, cordial relations, though not always warm, developed between all these exiles from the same nation, drawn together through similar misfortune. This did not prevent certain intractable divisions from persisting, making any effort at common action or concerted planning impossible. The very existence of the ‘Conseil des Bretons de l’Etranger’ was a victim of it.
Few in fact thought about any action of this nature, each one being taken up with the fundamental and constant concern for survival. Apart from Celestin Lainé, the ex members of the Formation Perrot that Ireland took in were very young militants, who had been attracted by the struggle and the action. They had barely started out in their lives: some had not done any studies or had not been able to finish them. However they all remained with the tragic experience of their first battles, the perils they had faced, the memories of poverty, cold and hunger, that of the fugitive and the outlaw which befell them as a result of the routing out and finally the crushing of the German army.
Feutren and Luec left Germany first. Feutren as I have reported, reached Wales at the beginning of 1947. Luec continued to live illegally in France, without legal papers or social benefits for many years, living in the region of Paris in the company of Denise Guieyesse until his death, which occurred recently.
The role of scouts played by Luec, Feutren and some others had smoothed the way for the use of the “true/false passports”, to which was soon added the “true/false identity cards”. Separately or in small groups of twos and threes, those members of the Bezen who wanted to leave Germany began little by little to head west, retracing as I also had done the march of the Celts towards the country where the sun sets. This did not always take place without incidents, adventures and dangers. A small group was arrested at the Belgian border and spent a few weeks in prison there before being able to continue their exodus. Some had to walk several hundred kilometers before reaching their objectives, continuing to hide during their journey, crossing roads by crawling through drain pipes under roadways. Patrols of the Allied occupation authorities were suspicious of all documents the men had been given by any of the German services. Some of them got lost, disappeared and never returned.
Louis Feutren, Célestin Laine, Christian Hirguair, Anton Leroy, Youenn Noac’h, Maurice Lemoine, Yann Guyomar and Yann Bourc’hiz thus arrived from 1947 to swell the contingent of Breton refugees already in Ireland.
Christian Hirguair known to all as Job was the first of them that I met. He was also the youngest of the refugees and was at the time the guest of Oscar Mac Uilis, professor of Irish, and violinist from time to time. He lived in Dalkey with his governess in a large old family house, whose garden stretched down to the fairly steep rocky seashore. He was a neighbour of the Schorman family, whose devotion to the St. Vincent de Paul Society had led them to also care for our little group. Hirguair had joined the Bezen Perrot early in 1944. at the very young age of eighteen. He had joined his first cousin, an active nationalist Breton militant, whose father had been assassinated by the French Résistance because of his son’s militant activities. It was after this crime that Job had joined his cousin in action.
He was a not a visionary militant, although it was idealism and loyalty that had driven him to join the Bezenn and to take up arms against those he considered enemies of his country and of his people. He quickly found work with an electrical business. His practical mind led him to set up a small shop in Dalkey, under the name of “Christian Radio”, selling and repairing radios. Later on he brought out his aunt, Anna Hirguair, who some said was his mother. She ran his household and settled down with him. Forty years later “Christian Radio” still existed in Dalkey, though its founder has long since disappeared. Job, his friends would say, is destined to make a fortune. Maurice Lemoine, one of his friends from the Bezen who does not lack a sense of humour, would say that Job’s business could be compared to a one-way sluice gate: it allowed the money in but it never allowed it out again. Job returned to Brittany as soon as he could, acquitted by the military tribunal in Paris, owing to his young age at the time of the charges against him. Before leaving, he sold his radio business to Le Boulc’h. Unfortunately, he disappeared shortly after, the victim of a sudden death in May 1957.
Like many of those who did not want to remain in Germany, Maurice Lemoine had reached Innsbruck in Austria after his departure from Tübingen and the routing of the German army. He met Mordrel there who was also trying to cross into Switzerland or Italy. He managed to obtain false papers as a workforce deportee, in view of the return to France that he was planning. After being imprisoned for a month in Salzburg, he finally reached Nantes in July 1945. He succeeded in passing unnoticed there, in spite of the heavy sentence in absentia inflicted on him by the special courts of Rennes in January 1946. A “true/false passport”, obtained through the intermediary of Perrin and l’Abbé Henrio, allowed him to reach Paris without too much danger in August 1947. From there he reached Cork after crossing through England and Wales. After spending six months with Millarden who employed him for various work, he went to Dublin in March 1948, at about the same time as I arrived there.
For two months he peeled potatoes for Nenesse to supply the chips manufacturing business the latter had started. Nenesse only provided him with a bed and board and never paid him. Therefore, with Antoine Leroy, his friend from the Bezen who had recently arrived, he moved to the uncomfortable basement of a run down building in Cumberland Street, behind Westland Row station. They literally slept on the floor and rolled up their mattresses during the day to make some space. They tried making wooden toys with inadequate tools, and sold them to small shops and children in the area. Their immediate neighbour was a shoemaker as badly equipped to practice his trade as they were for their toy making. The business lasted six months.
Antoine Leroy went to live with Roparz Hemon who had moved into a furnished ground floor apartment in Leeson Park, in Ranelagh, and Maurice Lemoine continued to live by doing various kinds of work and from French classes, leading a difficult lifestyle, as was our common lot. He obtained his Irish citizenship in August 1955: this allowed him to return to France without being arrested and through the intermediary of his lawyer to make contact with the military court in view of removing the sentence inflicted on him in absentia nearly ten years previously. In the meantime he worked as a painter with a civil engineering firm in Paris and stayed a few months with Yvonne Galbrun before being tried again. Sentenced to four years in prison, but with immediate amnesty in March 1958, he married an Irish girl in Paris whom he had met during his stay in Ireland. He settled in Brest where he found a teaching post at the Red Cross school.
Feutren’s stay in Wales had allowed him to organise a stopping off point for Célestin Lainé with the Daniel family in Bangor where he had also found shelter. I was advised of their forthcoming arrival in Ireland. On his arrival Célestin Lainé first saw to the publication of four issues of Breiz Atao , considering himself its legal trustee with Marcel Guieysse. He had received from Paris, through the intermediary of a Frisian nationalist, the funds necessary for the publication together with the layout for these issues that had been prepared by Denise Guieysse and her father. Lainé, a distinguished and competent chemical engineer from the École Centrale in Paris, soon found a post as chemical engineer in Galway. He owed it mainly to the Andrews family who actively supported the Breton refugees, one of whose descendants, Neil Andrews, is now a deputy in the European parliament. The small Hygea factory where Lainé found work, manufactured chemical products and detergents and was founded in Galway by D.Coyle, an important businessman of the place. He had interests in a multitude of businesses from chemical products to the manufacture of construction materials and the hotel business. Louis Feutren followed Lainé to Galway. He enrolled at the University there to continue studies he had not been able to complete in Brittany.
Alan Heusaff, who had started third level studies under a false name in Germany, also went to Galway to complete them. He registered with the same University after his arrival some time later in 1950. They both settled permanently in Ireland and married, the former with a Miss Martin, whose sister, Dame Agatha, was a Benedictine nun at Kylemore Abbey, the latter with Bridie O’Doherty, originally from Donegal and also a student in Galway. On completing their studies they both settled in Dublin. Feutrenn took over the post of professor of French at St. Clonleth after Le Gaonac’h returned to the continent in 1954. Heusaff joined the National Meteorological service. He operated from Dublin airport. Youenn Noac’h also settled in Dublin and got married there, though he first spent a long time in London.
Yann Guyomard, originally from Guingamp, joined Feutren and Lainé in Galway, shortly after their arrival in that city. He also settled down there. He got married and had a family, as Alan Heusaff did. He had departed from Tübingen with seven of his comrades. The little group had reached Gottingen, from where two of them decided to leave for France without delay; the other six reached Wolfhausen, in the American Occupation zone, after a long walk of three weeks, covering over six hundred kilometres. There were no able bodied men between the ages of thirty and seventy left in the villages and farms of the region. The Bretons therefore had no problems hiring themselves out as farm labourers. They had to leave these first places of refuge eight months later, due to the careless action committed by one of them. They took the coal trains, the only ones still operating, to reach Bavaria and then doubled back to Münster in the English Occupation zone. They were taken on as woodcutters and given lodgings in the farms around the town. They stayed for nearly three years, during which Yann Guyomard was brought to court in Münster for poaching.
From 1948, thanks to the network of “true/false passports”, departures for Belgium of the Bezen’s ex fighters became more regular. But there were not enough for everyone. Rather than wait any longer, Yann Guyomard and Yann Bourc’hiz decided to do without, taking a different route and heading directly towards France, crossing the border and the Vosges illegally by night when there was no moon. In Alsace, a contact they had been given before leaving furnished them with “true/false identity cards”. Fortunately, as a few moments after he had left them, some local French gendarmes hailed them in German. The gendarmes thought they were Germans looking to escape from their country as many of them were doing at the time.
Thanks to their new papers and this time speaking in French, they were able to explain that they were students on holidays and were thus able to carry on to Strasbourg and then Brittany without any difficulties. Their idea was to find a passage to Ireland on a fishing boat from Douarnenez. They had some friends at the harbour and amongst the fish and seafood wholesalers there. After waiting for a week they were able to board one of the last small trawlers leaving to fish off the Irish coast. The crossing was so difficult that the journey took a week. The storm forced them to put into port at Penzance, just as a similar storm in the Bay of Biscay had forced Hernot, Le Goanac’h and Quelen two years previously to put into port in Concarneau. On arrival in Castletownbere in the south of Ireland, the two Bretons went ashore after advising their skipper that they were definitely not cut out for the work of fishermen and would return to Brittany another way. They reached Galway where Lainé put them up and helped them through this initial stage. The local police gave them permission to stay there whilst they awaited the legalisation of their situation.
Subsequently, Yann Bourc’hiz settled near Dublin where he lived from various kinds of work he was able to obtain, mainly thanks to Helen O’Shaughnessy. He died in July 1953 of a stroke after a swim in the cold Irish Sea.
Yann Guyomard settled permanently in Galway. Having begun his new photographic trade with a borrowed Leica, he finally opened a photographic studio, under the name of Studio Yann, in one of the city’s main streets. After the creation of the first Irish television channel, Yann became the region’s R.T.E. correspondent and cameraman. He held this post for fifteen years until his retirement. Well known on the square in Galway and well liked, he also became the representative on the Lorient-Galway twinning committee.
As for C. Lainé, he also settled in Ireland. He only returned to Brittany on various visits to his brothers when he was allowed to do so after the circumstances used as motives for his sentence to death in 1947 had lapsed. He had lost his battle and probably felt he had done his time. He died near Dublin some years ago. His brother Albert together with Feutren, Alan Heusaff and some loyal friends saw to it that his ashes were scattered on the battlefield of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, mingling with those of the six thousand Bretons who took up arms to defend the independence of their country on that moor of La Rencontre.
During that last term of 1948, I would set off to give my classes at Belvedere College by taking the early train from Bray that took me to Westland Row station. I would leave my bicycle in the care of Maurice Lemoine and Anton Leroy, in the basement they lived in behind the station. By doing this I was able to get from the early train to my classes in time. The college was situated on the other side of the Liffey, in a district on the north side of the city.
Belvedere was a Dublin day school, run by the Jesuits. The order had another college in Clongowes, in the countryside, one of the largest boarding schools in Ireland. Belvedere and Clongowes were both secondary colleges with several thousand pupils, all boys. Belvedere was comprised of blocks of buildings around rather dismal schoolyards, surrounded by brownish-red brick buildings not far from the Parnell monument situated at the extreme north end of O’Connell St., the main street of Dublin. The lay professors took their meals together in a large rather dark room looking on to the street, which was also their rest or workroom. The classes were comprised of a relatively large number of pupils and it was difficult to maintain order, particularly amongst the younger ones. For me, it was hard work for which I was not in any way predisposed. But the master of studies, an athletic priest with a stern bearing and features, was never far away. He frequently moved around the corridors, listening to the silence in the classrooms, distributing slaps on the palms of open hands with a ruler or a cane to the more unruly pupils. To do this, he would take them out of the classroom where an immediate and deathly silence descended. From inside the classroom the whistling sound of the supple cane could be heard distinctly beating down on the palms.
A number of personalities throughout the last century who had made names for themselves in politics, the arts or in letters had come from Belvedere College. One of the most famous was James Joyce, whose name had, with some exaggeration, reached literary heights at the time. But it was not advisable to speak of him other than on the quiet: one had to beware of mentioning the name of this voluntary emigrant. In 1909, Joyce had tried to start up the first cinema in Dublin. He had already emigrated to Trieste at the time. He had only returned to start up this enterprise with some capital he had received from an Italian businessman. But the enterprise was a fiasco. At the same time, the Irish censors blacklisted his first works. He finally left Ireland and never set foot there again. In a way he was an ex pupil of the College who had not turned out well.
I had plenty of work to do during this last term of 1948. The preparation of my French classes and corrections of the homework took up most of my free time. I spent my days off every week making and delivering the pâtés. Saturdays and Sundays were often spent writing my articles and correspondence. The welcoming of young girl au pairs and the placing of paying guests in Irish families was expanding. It became increasingly necessary to maintain these activities at the beginning of 1949, as the professor of French I had replaced at Belvedere had returned to his post: I was therefore deprived of this fixed salary that represented the best part of my income.
On her side, Marie-Madeleine tried to find temporary work as a model for fashion shows, or as a representative for beauty products. A fashion shop in Mary St. and a hairdresser in Grafton St employed her part-time. Little Erwan could not be left alone when I was obliged to go out and the baby-sitters available were hardly satisfactory. None of them, including the young French au pair girls, seemed to have that conscientiousness and sense of responsibility necessary for this simple task. All of these jobs, both Marie-Madeleine’s and mine, were in reality only a means of dealing with our immediate needs and preventing us from dropping on the wrong side of that tortuous and uncertain dividing line separating poverty from destitution.
The apartment or basement flat of Claremont Terrace was comprised of a large room, brighter than the others though it was below street level. This street was a fairly large one with only single storey private residences. We had made our living room in the large room and I had fixed a long shelf under the window ledge that I used as my desk. I had also stripped from the walls and the few pieces of furniture a number of hideous pictures, poor-quality colour prints and artificial flowers that were gathering dust. The kitchen on the other hand, situated at the back of the house, was very dark and the light had to be on all the time. The same applied to the bedroom, which was quite large and we had no problem fitting in our bed and Erwan’s.
It was by no means a modern house. There was only a washbasin in the bedroom, though we did have the use of an antiquated bathroom situated off the landing between the ground floor and the first floor. In order to have hot water, one had to light the fire in the fireplace of the bedroom. The only other forms of heating were a few low powered electric heaters.
We went regularly to fetch Rozenn and Jean from their school to spend the half term holidays as well as Christmas and Easter with us. We would set up some camp beds for them in the living room. Time and weather permitting, we would take the children for long walks along the sea front between the small harbour and the imposing hill of Bray Head at the far end of the beach, or through the wooded valleys beyond the river Dargle that separated Bray Head from the small Enniskerry centre in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains. In the summer we frequently went on these walks together with Jacques and Andrée de Quelen and also with Charles Le Gaonac’h, Gwion Hernot and Germain Breton who would join us. It was thus easier to maintain the links between our small group of exiles.
1948 – In the woods near Bray, a small group of Breton refugees: Charles Goanac’h and Gwion Hernot facing the camera, with Yann Fouéré in profile. The little boy is J.F. Fouéré.
One day we climbed the Sugar Loaf whose harmonious silhouette in the shape of a sugar loaf as its name indicates, stands out at the bottom of the large bay lined with beaches and the Shankhill golf course that stretches from the Dalkey cliffs to those of Bray Head. From the doors of the train linking Bray to Dublin, hugging the coast practically the whole way, I seldom failed, except when rain or drizzle hid it from sight, to admire the beauty and majestic harmony of the bay that has been compared by some to that of Naples, dominated by the volcanic cone of Vesuvius. On a fine day, the silhouette of the Sugar Loaf, blue-grey or navy-blue, outlined on the horizon over the sea, is similar to it.
I had made contact again with my friend William Walsh after meeting him by chance in Grafton St., although he could not help me very much. He lived mainly in Bective, near Navan in the Boyne Valley where he ran the farm of a fairly large estate owned by an American. He had been unsuccessful in his inquiries from the latter regarding the possibilities for my family and me about the idea of emigrating to the United States if there were better prospects of work there. I thus met his wife, the writer Mary Lavin. To help me understand the Irish frame of mind, half way between reality and dreams at times, and also its distinctive sense of humour, she had told me that when she was a little girl she was walking with Lord Dunsany one day along the banks of the Boyne. A soldier was guarding the bridge at Oldebridge that straddles the river.
“I can not allow you to cross”, said the soldier. ”We are on manoeuvres and this bridge has just been blown up by an imaginary mine.”
“Well then, you can let us pass: as this young girl and I are in an imaginary boat to cross the river.”
I compared this story to remarks attributed to Brendan Behan, poet and dramatist, always on his way from one glass of Guinness to the next, wandering around Grafton St. and pubs in the vicinity. Anarchist and libertarian, but patriot, he had been a member of the I.R.A. who had got rid of him because of his notorious indiscipline and misconduct. They had finally sentenced him to death in absentia. On being advised of this sentence, Brendan took up his pen and wrote a few polite words to the leadership of the illegal organization.
“You have sentenced me to death in my absence,” he wrote. “Can I now ask you to have the kindness to execute the sentence in my absence.”
It was also while we were in Bray, where he came to find me to do the translation for a national air pilot conference, that we met Maurice, Count Fitzgerald, born to a half French half Breton mother and an Irish father, a member of one of the oldest and most famous Irish families. His house was in the upper part of Dalkey, looking over part of the Irish Sea; beyond which on a clear day one can sometimes make out the Welsh mountains and the higher slopes of Snowdon.
During those first months of 1949 there were no noticeable alterations in our situation, still particularly difficult. In April I had been able to attend the proclamation of the Irish Republic. At the time, Ireland since 1922 had only been a free state within the territorial boundaries of the twenty-six counties of the South and West. Having assumed power in 1936, De Valera had organised the adoption by referendum in 1937 of a constitution that converted the Free State to a sovereign State. This conversion had allowed Ireland to maintain her neutrality during the Second World War. The coalition government that had succeeded De Valera’s in 1948 had considered it an astute move to make some political capital by proclaiming the Republic in 1949 on the anniversary day of the 1916 Easter Rising. By doing this, Ireland left the British Commonwealth and broke the last links that still united it to the English crown.
This was a sort of posthumous revenge of Michael Collins and of the partisans of the Treaty that had put an end to the 1922 war of liberation, whilst those in favour of carrying on to the bitter end, led at the time by De Valera himself, were opposed to it and wanted to continue a hopeless armed struggle.
In the life of a people there is a time for everything and it is often necessary to be patient: violence and armed conflict can not continue indefinitely, even if at times they may appear to be useful and necessary. Through the Treaty, Ireland unfortunately still separated from Northern Ireland, had acquired the means to freedom. There had been no reaction from England: King George VI simply sent his congratulations and his best wishes to the new republic.
On that Easter Monday of 1949, I attended the celebration for this event with mixed feelings of melancholy, watching the flags being hoisted and the army marching past, listening to the playing of the bagpipes and the brass instruments, and the sound of the drums and cymbals of victory. I dreamt of La Place du Parlement in Rennes, that of the Ducs de Nantes’ castle, of the banks of La Vilaine, of L’Edre, La Loire and La Penfeld, equally decked and black with people, celebrating under our flags deployed for the return of our freedom. At the ends of O’Connell St., O’Connell and Parnell contemplated the crowds with their bronze gaze from the heights of their monuments. It was barely half a century since the latter had cried out that no man “had the right to place limits on the march of a nation“.
I had looked into the possibility of industrialising the manufacture and sale of my liver pâtés: but I soon realised that this would demand a capital that I did not have and it was unlikely I could raise. It was also a case of mastering techniques and methods that were completely foreign to me. Taken up by the necessities of daily life and the ups and downs of a material nature, I did not have the time to devote to it that was needed. The tourist season in Bray was approaching, automatically bringing an increase in the price of our furnished accommodation during the summer months, an increase that I could not afford.
We therefore resigned ourselves to another move around the beginning of June. We settled in Dunbar Terrace, into a working-class house, sparsely furnished, in a row of terraced houses, all the same. The street was quiet, bleak and without charm, but it was situated halfway between the station and the main street used by the buses. The house was tiny. Apart from the kitchen that took up half of the ground floor, extended by a lean-to onto a small yard, and a small room christened the living room, the first floor only had two attic bedrooms situated right under the roof. The toilet was in the yard in the lean-to extension to the kitchen and one had to wash and shave in the sink. Space was very limited. Under the skylight that allowed light into the larger of the two bedrooms, I set up a makeshift desk with planks on trestles. I used a couple of old empty wooden orange boxes salvaged from the grocer’s shop and placed one on top of the other as shelves for my books and my files. The width of our bed pushed against one wall just fitted along the other wall of the room. The second bedroom, even smaller, was Erwan’s. The two older children who would soon be on holidays could at a pinch sleep on mattresses in the small living room downstairs.
During the summer of 1949, aside from the preparation of my pâtés, I was particularly busy with the welcoming of young au pair girls and the placing of paying guests with Irish families. From that point of view Bray was hardly practical. Also the rents for furnished accommodation in Dublin did not fluctuate with the seasons as they did in Bray. We therefore decided to look for a larger furnished house to rent in Dublin, where we could help cover the cost by organising a “Bed and Breakfast” for casual guests, and, out of season, by letting rooms to students for the university year. At the same time it would provide the children and us with more comfort and facilities. We finally found one that was available at the end of the summer, simply furnished but comfortable. Although it had been built relatively recently, it had four bedrooms, two of them quite large that were suitable for the children and us.
It was similar to, though larger, than De Bhaldraite’s house, with a large kitchen on the ground floor, two other rooms and an entrance hall, a small front garden and a back garden. It was situated in Glenayr Road, in a quiet cul-de-sac with similar houses opening on to Bushy Park Road, a residential area situated a little aside from but about half-way between the small Rathgar centre and the larger Terenure one. Regular tramways, soon to be replaced by buses, linked both places to the centre of the city. The house also had a telephone. Marie-Madeleine was particularly pleased at the thought of not having to put Rozenn and Jean back into boarding school. Whilst still very young, having lost her father, she had been placed as a boarder in Lannion, only seeing her mother for the summer holidays, so that she had bad memories of that period of her life, which she wanted as much as possible to avoid for her children.
Rozenn and Jean, still under the aegis of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, were therefore registered as day pupils at Muckross Dominican primary school. We moved and settled into Glenayr Road around the end of August.
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U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano Holds Town Hall Meeting in Eastie
by Times Staff • April 22, 2017 • 0 Comments
By John Lynds
Last Thursday evening at East Boston High School, U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano held a town hall meeting to field questions and address concerns from his constituents in East Boston.
Capuano, who is serving his tenth term in Congress from Massachusetts 7th Congressional District, started off thanking Rep. Adrian Madaro, City Councilor Sal LaMattina and Sen. Joseph Boncore for their support and reaffirmed their close working relationship on issues affecting the neighborhood.
Before taking questions, Capuano gave a brief description of the realty for Democrats in Washington D.C. right now.
“Thank you for coming and I know there are a lot of anxious people in the country today and I’m sure it’s no different here,” said Capuano. “One of the reasons I hold these meetings a few months into a new administration is to give that administration some time and gage were they want to go. I think we can see where this administration wants to go.”
Capuano said that having a Republican Majority in the House and Senate has and will make life difficult for Liberal Progressive Democrats like himself.
“Not a single Democrat amendment was allowed or taken into committee during the Health Care debate,” said Capuano. “I can file a bill but the likelihood of it getting to the floor for a vote is minimum. It’s important for you to know the process and the politics. We have no choice but to compromise with our own team and on occasion with the other team but the other team has made it clear that they do not believe in compromise.”
The first question of the night came from Bernadine Joslin who was concerned about her inability to get into senior housing and worried about the soaring cost of rent in her hometown of Eastie.
Capuano said there is not enough affordable housing in Boston or Greater Boston for that matter.
“It’s true around the city and most, not all, but most housing funding comes from the Federal Government,” said Capuano. “But since the Reagan Administration, Republicans have been trying to squeeze that commitment and the people running Washington now feel society does not owe you anything. I’m a Progressive Democrat who feels as a member of society we owe each other and no one should be denied an affordable and decent place to live, or denied health care or education but the majority now feels differently.”
With escalating tensions in the Middle East and on the Korean Peninsular, Capuano said he thinks Congress should always be consulted before military action is taken like the 50 plus tomahawk missile launched into Syria two weeks ago.
“I really think the Constitution is clear only the Congress can declare war,” said Capuano. “They have a right to oversee the military once war is declared and defend us if there is imminent danger. That wash;t the case in Syria. There was no imminent danger to our security or our interest…maybe to our psyche but not to us. The danger really is you have Russians on the ground and tinderbox in the Middle East so do you really think it should be up to one person to take us into WWIII? That includes Barack Obama (who Capuano sued for military action in Libya)..no one person should have that authority on their own. That’s what we did in Iraq and throughout history.”
Capuano also took questions concerning Logan Airport and increase in noise.
“I’ve been fighting with Massport and the FAA since I took this job,” said Capuano. “Lately the fight has been about the way they have came up with more concentrated flight paths. That issue does;t really impact East Boston because no matter what you are going to get airport noise to some degree. But part of it is to finally get Massport and the FAA to work with the communities to do something. Massport is now more open to some discussion looking at what can be done. I’m not asking the impossible. There are always going to be planes so we can’t stop that. My argument has always been that you (Massport) are here but don’t have to be the bad guy. But it’s a matter or flight take off and landing timings, alerting the neighborhoods to changes in flight patterns and what is going on. They have gotten better, they are not great yet but they are getting better.”
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U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano at last week’s town hall meeting in Eastie.
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High Drama Surrounds County’s I-73 Agreement with SCDOT
High drama surrounded a recent decision by the Horry County Council Infrastructure and Regulation Committee to consider changes and/or cancellation of the Financial Participation Agreement the county signed with SCDOT last December for the Interstate 73 project.
Like many issues in the political arena these days, this one included its share of drama queens heightening and confusing the discussion while voicing veiled threats about possible state government retaliation should local government officials significantly alter or cancel the agreement.
According to local council members who spoke with Grand Strand Daily, Reps. Russell Fry and Alan Clemmons as well as former representative and current Myrtle Beach Chamber lobbyist Mike Ryhal quickly took to phone calls and texts when they heard of the planned I&R discussion earlier this week.
Their collective message, reportedly, was leave the agreement alone or face the possibility of the General Assembly altering current state law to remove control of hospitality and accommodations tax revenue from local governments in favor of control in Columbia.
Ever since July 2017 when former county council chairman Mark Lazarus and members of county government senior staff led council down the path to partial funding of the I-73 project by removing a sunset provision from the county’s hospitality tax law, this controversy has been inevitable.
Despite massive propaganda efforts through the years by the Chamber and a few elected officials about the necessity of I-73 to provide a connection to Interstate 95, local residents have remained unconvinced of the purported benefits of the project.
Many of those who cried the loudest – the Chamber, Clemmons and U.S. Congressman Tom Rice – have been collectively unsuccessful at acquiring funding for the project at the state and federal levels.
The I-73 Rush Is On for County Tax Dollars
The Horry County Council Fall Planning Retreat scheduled for Wednesday November 28, 2018 has an interesting agenda item regarding I-73.
Innocuously called “A Resolution Authorizing the County Administrator to Execute a Funding Participation Agreement with the South Carolina Department of Transportation”, the agreement would provide DOT with Hospitality Fee revenue in an amount up to $25 million per year for things such as right of way purchases, engineering and construction on the proposed road.
While it is called a funding participation agreement, Section IV B of the agreement specifically states “SCDOT makes no financial commitment pursuant to this agreement.”
In other words, Horry County will be the only governmental agency providing funds for the I-73 project if this agreement is signed. Horry County officials often complain about being a “donor” county to the State Treasury. Yet, in this agreement, they would consent to sending even more county tax revenue to Columbia.
Proponents of this agreement have argued that I-73 is an important road to Horry County and that the Hospitality Fee revenue will only fund right of way purchases, engineering and construction for the Horry County section of the road, which ends in the vicinity of Hwy 917 at the Marion County line.
There is absolutely no economic benefit nor evacuation benefit Horry County citizens will receive from a road that ends in that rural section of Horry County.
Marion and Dillon counties, the other two counties in the Southern Corridor of the proposed I-73 to Interstate 95, are in no position to spend even one dollar of tax revenue toward the project. The only way construction of the road is going to be funded through those counties is with state and federal tax dollars.
Grand Strand Daily has spoken with legislators around the state over the past several months regarding funding for I-73 from Columbia. The only conclusion that can be drawn from these conversations is that the SC General Assembly has no plans to provide funding in the near term future for construction of I-73.
County Council Votes Hospitality Tax Funds for Public Safety and I-73
Last Tuesday’s special meeting of Horry County Council provided some interesting insights into ongoing deliberations about the future use of hospitality tax revenue.
Technically called a hospitality fee by Horry County Government, the two and one-half percent tax is collected on all tourist accommodations, prepared foods and attraction tickets sold throughout the county. The revenue is split with one cent per dollar going to the jurisdiction (municipality or unincorporated county) in which it is collected.
The remaining one and one-half cent per dollar goes to the county to pay off Ride I bonds. Those bonds are expected to be paid off in the first half of calendar year 2019.
A sunset provision was placed on the one and one-half cent per dollar tax, when legislation implementing the tax in Horry County was passed, providing that portion of the tax would end when the bonds were paid off.
County council voted in Spring 2017 to remove the sunset provision and extend the tax indefinitely. The one and one-half cent per dollar tax is expected to generate $41 million revenue in calendar year 2019.
When the sunset provision was removed by a three reading ordinance of county council last spring, council chairman Mark Lazarus stated he would like to use the revenue to fund construction of Interstate 73. The projected revenue would have allowed the county to bond approximately $500 million for a 20-year period to help fund the I-73 project. It is expected completion of the I-73 portion from I-95 near Dillon to U.S. 17 in Myrtle Beach will cost approximately $1.2 billion.
This spring, Johnny Gardner challenged Lazarus for the Republican nomination for council chairman on the November 2018 general election ballot. During the primary campaign, Gardner focused on the public safety and infrastructure needs of the county, proposing using a portion of hospitality tax revenue to help meet those needs. Gardner won the nomination in June 2018 primary voting.
An Open Letter to the Citizens of House District 56
I would like to thank any media and individuals who have chosen to post this letter to allow it to be read by the citizens of House District 56.
When I first decided to run for political office, many of my friends and coworkers questioned my sanity wondering why I wanted to get into such a corrupt, dirty business.
I told them because I believed District 56 needed someone who cared about fixing the crime and road problems in the district and who wouldn’t let the needs of District 56 be ignored anymore.
I said I may not win, but I was not going to be outworked. I was determined to meet and really talk to as many citizens as possible to hear their comments and complaints.
Going door to door in a political campaign allows you to meet many people who you otherwise may never meet in everyday life. I want to say it has been a privilege to meet many fine citizens in District 56 who care about their homes, neighborhood and quality of life as much as I do.
What I didn’t anticipate, as a novice candidate, is the extent to which big money and special interests were willing to go to influence the outcome of the race. That money is effectively paying for the campaign of one of my opponents, not by contributing directly to him, rather by paying for television and radio ads and direct mail pieces encouraging people to vote for him.
Regardless of how my opponent has attempted to claim ignorance of what is going on and to distance himself from the ads, the Myrtle Beach Chamber and its associates can be tied directly to his campaign.
Tom Rice and Private Equity Tax Increases
(The following is a op-ed piece sent to Grand Strand Daily. Pictured above is the writer.)
By John Bonsignor
Recently, Rep. Tom Rice caught flack for his support of certain tax increases being discussed in Washington D.C., and rightfully so.
He rebuffed those claims, stating in a McClatchy news article “that his goal was to tackle tax code changes by making the American economy competitive without increasing taxes.”
A specific example of this is his support of increasing taxes on private equity partnerships’ carried interest. Carried interest is currently taxed at a capital gains rate. Rice, along with many Democrats, want to raise it to the level of ordinary income rates. It’s currently (and appropriately) taxed at the capital gains rate due to the long-held nature of the investment and the sweat equity poured into a business, all principles that are the cornerstone of our American economy.
Rice is a real estate investor and tax accountant. While his tax increase wouldn’t impact his investments, it would hurt private equity investors and their ability to reinvest into our economy.
Is Rice looking out for the economy? Or himself?
It appears Rice is in love with tax increases when he should be against them.
Final AvCraft Chapter?
The Horry County Transportation Committee voted earlier this week to write off $113,687 in unpaid rent from AvCraft Technical Services that the county will never collect anyway.
AvCraft filed for bankruptcy in March 2015 after an 11 year history of failing to make good on its promises to Horry County.
This should be the final chapter in the saga of local and state politicians, especially Horry County Council, looking at AvCraft through rose colored glasses in the name of economic development.
Since arriving to much hoopla in 2004, AvCraft was consistent in only two areas – it consistently failed to meet job goal promises and it consistently requested and received rent reductions on the three hangars at Myrtle Beach International it rented from the Horry County Department of Airports.
After eight years of failing to meet goals, Horry County Council tried one last time in January 2012 to help AvCraft save itself with the recommendation of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation.
One of the main items in that agreement was a $1.25 million reduction in rent on the county hangars over a five year period. This came after three earlier rent reductions, agreed to by the county, failed to make AvCraft profitable.
The following four comments made after the 2012 incentive package was approved demonstrate how far from reality politicians and their economic development arms exist from reality:
“I am thankful for the company’s commitment to Horry County and proud of our economic development team for this terrific announcement.” – Rep. Tom Rice.
“It’s another great day in South Carolina, and we are going to celebrate AvCraft’s decision to expand and create 150 new jobs in Horry County.” – Gov. Nikki Haley.
“AvCraft is a tremendous asset to our community, and this project is just the beginning for aviation-related businesses locating and expanding in the Myrtle Beach region.” – Doug Wendel, MBREDC board chairman at the time.
Potential Buyer Looking at PTR Industries
(Above Gov. Nikki Haley with a special edition assault rifle presented to her by PTR Industries}
A firm from New York state is reportedly looking at the possibility of buying PTR Industries, a deal that could save the company’s operations at Horry County’s Cool Springs Business Park.
PTR Industries was recruited to relocate from Connecticut to Horry County in 2013 by the Myrtle Beach Regional Development Corporation. This was touted as a major coup by MBREDC as Horry County was a successful bidder over several other states in landing PTR Industries.
A package that included an approximately $1 million upgrade of a county spec building at Cool Springs Business Park and incentive based job creation credits was put together by MBREDC and the SC Department of Commerce for PTR Industries.
The company brought approximately 21 workers with it from Connecticut and promised to create an additional 145 jobs in Horry County within three years.
PTR Industries commenced operations in Horry County in January 2014 and hired approximately 28 additional employees in the first months of its operations.
However, it quickly fell behind in its rent payments to Horry County for the Cool Springs Business Park building that is its headquarters and manufacturing location. One week after a Grand Opening celebration, in July 2014, that included appearances by Gov. Nikki Haley and local Congressman Tom Rice, PTR Industries laid off some workers and instituted a 10% across the board pay cut to those remaining.
Since then, PTR Industries has struggled. According to several sources, Horry County Council restructured its rent deal with PTR Industries last fall in order to help the company become current.
7th Congressional District GOP Convention Report
The 7th Congressional District GOP Convention held in Florence on Saturday April 9, 2016, to select a new 7th C D Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary as well as Republican National delegates (6) to the National Convention in Cleveland on July 18-21 2016 at the “Q” Arena, was hectic.
There is no question Horry County who had 39 voting delegates with 3 alternates (42 total) who attended, came home with only 2 elected National delegates–Alan Clemmons delegate and Gerri McDaniel alternate.
Meanwhile Florence County, who only assembled 23 attending delegates, received the lion share of National delegates and an alternate. There’s no question that the members of the delegation from Florence out maneuvered Horry County as they pooled their votes, having only 6 people running and had 3 delegates making it to the top.
Horry County had 19 delegates running, which cut into its vote count. Consequently no one received more than 20 votes. Hard ball won the day. The other National delegate went to Jerry Rovner of Georgetown who is the present chairman of the 7th CD. With regards to Clemmons and McDaniel they had the good fortune of getting some votes from other delegates.
Some of Horry’s convention attendees are blaming Chairman Robert Rabon for the blow out. To be fair it is NOT Rabon’s fault, and anyone suggesting or saying it is just doesn’t know the facts. Prior to the meeting Chairman Rabon urged the Party members who were going to go to Florence, to only select 6 delegates and as such with 39 voters; the 6 that were chosen would have won handily.
Rabon tried to caution the delegation about this, but it landed on deaf ears. Hopefully, Horry County will learn from this experience and be better organized in the future; no one enjoys losing especially when they are holding all the aces.
At the opening of the meeting at 10:15 AM the chairman of the 7th C D Jerry Rovner gave a extra-ordinary powerful message, one of which was right on point, the essence of which was:
Bubba Owens Camp Requests Investigations
The Bubba Owens campaign team is requesting investigations into the attempted bribes and illegal robocalls that have plagued the Horry District 3 special election.
After receiving opinions from two respected attorneys of good standing with experience in the workings of both state and federal election law in particular, the Owens camp is in the process of turning over to authorities all information it has with respect to the Bob Kelly campaign’s attempt to get Owens to drop out of the primary runoff.
According to the Owens camp, this information will include the key November 6, 2015 voicemail that enunciates the bribe along with other supporting voicemails, emails and other documents.
After reviewing the November 6th voicemail sent by Kelly campaign consultant Jim Wiles to Owens campaign consultant Donald Smith, and other evidence, both attorneys came to the same opinion. They stated there is no other way to interpret the November 6th voicemail than that it was a clear attempt to induce Owens to drop out of the race in exchange for receipt of something of value.
A portion of that voicemail states, “… give Kelly a shopping list of what they (Owens and his consultants) want for downtown Myrtle Beach in exchange for Bubba dropping out…”
Both said to say there must be an exchange of money to constitute a bribe, as a college professor opined in a local media, is to totally misunderstand the law. The laundry list for Bob Kelly to commit to represents value in their opinion.
Kelly told several local media outlets that he knew nothing of the Wiles voicemail until it was reported in the media. However, other voicemails and emails included in the evidence appear to contradict that position.
Kelly and his campaign consultant are complaining of recent robocalls, made by a group calling itself “Friends of Bob Kelly”, as being negative hits on him.
Extra Courts Planned for Atlantic Beach Bikefest
Increased numbers of bond hearings are being planned for as the Atlantic Beach Bikefest over Memorial Day weekend draws near.
Part of planning for the weekend includes special bond hearings beginning at 6 a.m. Friday morning and convening every six hours thereafter through Sunday night.
The only conclusion that can be drawn from these preparations is that many more arrests are expected this year.
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JARED SIMS
Full Name: Jared Phillip John Sims
Born: 16 October 1993
Came from: Trainee Went to: Released
First game: 09 August 2011 Last game: 09 October 2012
Appearances: 6 (5/1) Goals: 0
Born in Truro, Sims was a product of the Argyle development centres at Newquay, St. Austell and Bodmin, progressing to the Centre of Excellence in 2005. He played representative football for West Cornwall and Cornwall schools and after impressing for the Argyle youth and reserve sides, was promoted to the first team squad. He made his first team debut against Millwall in the League Cup in August 2011 and went on to make three league appearances that season, signing a professional contract at the end of the campaign after also helping the club's under-18 team win the South West Conference of the Football League Youth Alliance.
Sims made just two further first team appearances before he was released at the end of the 2012–13 campaign. In June 2013 he signed for his hometown club, Truro City, ahead of their first season back in the Southern League following relegation from the Conference South, and a year later he moved on to St Austell to spend the 2014-15 season in the South West Peninsula League Premier Division.
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WHILE THE ORGANIC “certification wars” will continue ad infini- tum, it’s the communication— the advertising of “natural” products and their countless iterations—
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mental principles. Since then, entrepreneurial natural lines by the dozens have sprouted and struggled in the only channel that could/would accommodate them: health food stores. Still, it was just a ripple. The birth of Whole Foods in the 1980s and, to a lesser extent, spas in the 1990s, broadened consumer realiza-tion that natural equals health, which was later fortified with the emergence of organic, its highest form. Since then, a proliferation of aromatherapy and botanical products in all distribution channels created acceptance of a new generation of natural/organic products.
Yet, until green beauty products broke into mainstream distribution, they were unable to gain legitimacy as a business category. Hence the perennial problem: mass distribution requires advertising dollars to create consumer awareness, but you need the sales volume of mass distribution to generate advertising funds. You can’t get volume without mass distribution; around and around it goes.
Thus, there is not that much advertising in the natural/organic/green category (of which the latter is now becoming a vibrant partner). It has been a consumer-powered movement and not one created by big marketers, with big budgets. Health and well-being transcend all business categories and lifestyles, because they embody the ultimate consumer benefit: life. Now comes the explosion of established brands into mass distribution, requiring those big budgets to go beyond the early adopters and provide strong mass sell-thru. This is the most powerful global beauty trend of the generation. We can not recall a beauty business category that was powered by consumer interest alone, and not
by technology, product innovation, packaging, dramatic positioning or advertising, and/or specif-ic/perceivable benefits. Yes, the No. 1 consumer concern (after jobs and the economy) is health in all of its constituents—thereby creating significant validation (boost) to the natur-al/organic/ green beauty business.
The entrepreneurial days are giving way to the big marketers entering the fray with their huge communication needs—pari passu. Established marketers also have the considerable challenge of introducing natural/organic/green without denigrating their established brands— you know, the ones that pay the rent.
Origins answers that question to consumers by saying, “Origins Organics offers a choice,” etc. Maybe that’s why its introductory ads last year, didn’t offer any (real) product performance benefits beyond the (imagined) “feel good” of using organics. So far, there are not many adver-
EverPure focuses on product benefits.
which will determine consumer perception, acceptance, purchase and realized benefits and hence, their ultimate value and loyalty.
Consider the evolution of natural. It started in the late 1960s with the huge success of Lemon Cleanser, the star product of a mass cosmetic line, Love, which was geared to young women (Smith, Kline & French). The line was born during the hippy/love generation. Aveda came on the professional scene in the late 1980s, with its aromatherapy and environ-
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Error diffusion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Error diffusion is a type of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighboring pixels that have not For this reason the term dithering is sometimes used interchangeably with the term halftoning, particularly in association with digital printing. One common misconception is that individual atoms, ions or molecules move randomly, which they do not. Each coded value is a discrete step...
For every pixel in the image the value of the pattern at the corresponding location is used as a threshold. In both these devices the ink or toner prefers to clump together and will not form the isolated dots generated by the other dithering methods. To gather this data I used madvr's built in stats (ctrl + j) and played a short 1080p video, waited about 1 minute and recorded the average render time per frame Ordered Dithering Ordered dithering seems to produce a sharper image, at least compared to random.
Without dithering, the colors in the original image might simply be "rounded off" to the closest available color, resulting in a new image that is a poor representation of the original. Dithering is an attempt to solve this problem. For example, it could be rounded to 5 one time and then 4 the next time. Unfortunately, however, it still results in repeatable and determinable errors, and those errors still manifest themselves as distortion to the ear (though oversampling can reduce this).
Another downside of the JJN filter is that it pushes the error down not just one row, but two rows. The relevant thermodynamic potential is the free energy (or the free entropy). The biggest difference with a color palette is that you must track separate errors for red, green, and blue, rather than a single luminance error. The concentration of this admixture should be small and the gradient of this concentration should be also small.
Williams and S.H. Bibcode:1935PNAS...21..152T. External links[edit] Error diffusion in Matlab Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Error_diffusion&oldid=683158202" Categories: Printing terminologyImage processing Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history But even when the total number of available colors in the display hardware is high enough to "properly" render full color digital photographs (such as those using 15- and 16-bit RGB
It spreads the debt out according to the distribution (shown as a map of the neighboring pixels): [ ∗ 7 16 … … 3 16 5 16 1 16 … ] I did many different things to get MPEG video to play in real-time on those machines (initially 68030, then early PPCs) but of all the work I did, the most viscerally Ordered dithering has special properties over the more complex error diffused dithering. (which isnt much harder - but start with ordered.) That are interesting in compression. Others use ([r+g+b] / 3) or one of the ITU formulas.
Electrons have higher diffusion constant than holes leading to fewer excess electrons at the center as compared to holes. Since a web browser may be retrieving graphical elements from an external source, it may be necessary for the browser to perform dithering on images with too many colors for the Unfortunately, the divisor of 48 is not a power of two, so bit-shifting can no longer be used - but only values of 1/48, 3/48, 5/48, and 7/48 are used, so Two dimensional error diffusion reduces the visual artifacts.
Personally I like option 1 over option 2, but everyone has their own preferences, so choose whatever option looks better to you. See also non-diagonal coupled transport processes (Onsager relationship). If the particles all randomly move around ("diffuse") in the water, they eventually become distributed randomly and uniformly, and organized (diffusion continues, but with no net flux). The use of an optimized color palette can be of benefit in such cases.
e., corrosion product layer) is semi-infinite – starting at 0 at the surface and spreading infinitely deep in the material). That might give you slightly better output, but it might also be a lot of work for minimal gain… no way to know for certain without trying. :/ Good luck either For its density, n {\displaystyle n} , the diffusion equation has the form ∂ n ∂ t = − ∇ ⋅ J + W , {\displaystyle {\frac {\partial n}{\partial t}}=-\nabla \cdot Both of these new dithering options for madVR perform about the same.
doi:10.1002/andp.19053220806. ^ Diffusion Processes, Thomas Graham Symposium, ed. Although this method doesn't generate patterned artifacts, the noise tends to swamp the detail of the image. He formulated the essence of his approach in the formula: the flux is equal to mobility×concentration×force per gram ion. This numerical effect takes the form of an extra high diffusion rate.
Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. 6 (05): 184−262. Rather than predictably rounding up or down in a repeating pattern, it is possible to round up or down in a random pattern. Another plausible solution would be to take 4.8 and round it so that the first four times out of five it rounded up to 5, and the fifth time it rounded Schuchman (December 1964). "Dither Signals and Their Effect on Quantization Noise" (abstract).
Subtle gradients in the original image may be replaced with blobs of uniform color, and depending on the restrictions of the device, the original image may become unrecognizable. ISBN9780131274983. ^ Patankar, Suhas V. (1980). Korn (1952). When calculating the fluctuations with a perturbative approach, the zero order approximation is Fick's law.
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This is spatial Hilbert dithering on a Hilbert curve and on a Hilbert 2 curve. Chance Noble 1�423 visningar 5:12 An Extended Visual Cryptography Scheme Without Pixel Expansion For Halftone Images - L�ngd: 13:22. This can make text in images more readable than in other halftoning techniques. The error is then added to the next pixel in the image and the process repeats. It's not that difficult, however, to approach this problem in a way that is more suitable to a multi-threaded approa...
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Engadget. Retrieved 2016-08-11. ^ a b Kishnani, Priya S.; Austin, Stephanie L.; Arn, Pamela; Bali, Deeksha S.; Boney, Anne; Case, Laura E.; Chung, Wendy K.; Desai, Dev M.; El-Gharbawy, Areeg; Haller, Ronald; Retrieved 2008-02-01. ^ "Inside Source Reveal the Truth About Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" Failures". Secondary error codes¶ An Xbox 360 with three flashing red lights will not power on, so the error message must be obtained by an alternate method. please help. We will examine...
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But even when the total number of available colors in the display hardware is high enough to "properly" render full color digital photographs (such as those using 15- and 16-bit RGB J. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. In this case, the final noise floor is the sum of the flat dither spectrum and the shaped quantisation noise. One common application of dithering is to more accurately display graphics containing a greater range of colors than the hard...
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Why the Right to Privacy May Be Taken Away by a New Supreme Court
by Ellen Chesler
Ms. Chesler is a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute and author of a 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger.
The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the still possible retirement of ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist may threaten long-established judicial protections of personal privacy and undermine the foundations on which women’s reproductive freedoms rest. Forty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled decisively that married women have the right to use contraceptives. That historic case, Griswold v. Connecticut, led to dramatic changes in American life that we are still sorting out, and also provided the foundation for later expanding privacy protections to the unmarried and to early abortion.
Current controversy over replacing Justice O’Connor, a moderate on most social issues and a fierce defender of women’s rights, tends to focus on abortion. In fact, the much broader doctrine of privacy could be at stake if two new conservative justices join the Supreme Court.
The story of Griswold begins in 1961, when Estelle Trebert Griswold, then 61 and the executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and Dr. C. Lee Buxton of Yale University’s Medical School, opened a small birth control clinic in downtown New Haven. They intended to challenge the validity of the state’s ban on birth control and, indeed, several days later, they were arrested for dispensing contraceptives to a married couple and were fined $100 each.
When their case reached the Supreme Court in 1965, seven of nine justices agreed that a zone of privacy protecting birth control inheres in what the justices variously called a"penumbra" (a shaded rim between darkness and light) of the Constitution or in"emanations" from specific provisions in the Bill of Rights, such as protection from unwarranted search and seizure. In other words, although the Constitution and the Bill of Rights do not explicitly guarantee privacy rights to individuals, such rights were said to be implicit within them.
Griswold v. Connecticut paved the way for Eisenstadt v. Baird in 1972, which extended the same privacy protections—and thus the right to birth control—to unmarried women. It opened the door the following year to the historic 7 to 2 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which expanded the privacy doctrine to abortion, granting women and their doctors the legal right not just to prevent, but also to terminate, unwanted early pregnancies. In 2003 the Court once again drew upon the Griswold doctrine of privacy, in Lawrence v. Texas, to protect the right to consensual homosexual relations.
In Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, however, the court narrowly (5-4) upheld the core privacy doctrine of Roe , but also introduced a new standard, allowing restrictions on abortions even in the first trimester, so long as they do not present what the justices called an"undue burden" on women. This has allowed many states to enact 24-hour waiting periods, mandatory scripts expressing reservation about abortion, and parental consent laws, among other requirements.
The Casey close call was a warning. Since the appointment of Justice Ruth Ginsburg, the Supreme Court has had a 6-3 margin of pro-choice support. However, Justice Anthony Kennedy voted against the majority in the recent abortion decision in Carhart v. Nebraska, which knocked down restrictions on so-called partial birth abortion procedures. And we have since learned that even in Casey, Justice Kennedy wavered and was strongly influenced by Justice O’Connor.
This means that appointment of just one new conservative justice to the Court could threaten constitutional protections, not just for abortion, but for the privacy doctrine, which protects contraception as well.
Remember that Griswold overturned an 1879 Connecticut law restricting sexual speech and commerce in all materials related to sexuality, birth control and abortion. It was the final blow to Anthony Comstock—a self-appointed moral arbiter whose evangelical fervor had captured Victorian-era politics and left a web of state and federal statutes intended to root out and prohibit behavior that he, and those who embraced his cause, considered obscene or sinful.
Comstock exploited the tensions of gender, race and class that beset American society after the Civil War, a turbulent era rather like our own. In his later years, he famously indicted (though failed to convict) birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger for publishing information about contraception, though she did later go to jail for actually dispensing it in America’s first family planning clinic. In those days, a typical woman’s life included four to eight pregnancies.
Margaret Sanger’s coalition of women’s rights advocates, civil libertarians, physicians and social scientists has grown into an enduring global family planning movement. These pioneers of modern feminism understood that the ability to plan and space one’s children is a necessary condition for women to achieve equality. But now, one or certainly two new conservative Supreme Court justices could send the responsibility for regulating abortion and all family planning practices back to state legislatures, where the intrusive Comstock laws originated.
Even today, nearly half of all U.S. pregnancies remain unintended, and nearly half of those result in abortion. This is why polls show that the vast majority of Americans reject the extremism of any minority and do not want a reversal of the judicial decisions that protect their privacy and their rights. Doctrines of privacy and equality for women are simply not separable: eroding one imperils the other. And all this may rest on the shoulders of just one new justice.
This article was first published by tompaine.com and is reprinted with permission of the author. The article was adapted from the cover story of the summer issue of Ms. Magazine. Read the full article online: http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2005/birthcontrol.asp
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Arnold Shcherban - 7/27/2005
Oh, it absolutely is: the right of a woman to make an informed personal decision is not a privacy issue?
So, if somebody/something else may be affected (like fetus) by the personal decision it removes privacy protection?
Then, since a man definitely has rights, and he kills
himself after being rejected by a woman it makes that
woman guilty of a murder?
Besides, what right can a fetus have?
Right to be recognized as a human being, and therefore
right to live?
But this is absurd going beyond science and human reason, in general.
Being definitely a scientific issue, not a legal issue, the status of a fetus cannot be and never is decided (even in theoretical sense) by voting within scientific community, not mentioning by legal authorities.
Therefore, your pseudoscientific/pseudolegal comments, are nothing more than bright manifestation of religious and political fanaticism.
Frederick Thomas - 7/26/2005
Your point about Teri Schiavo was interesting, ethically.
One major difference is that the 3 month foetus responds to changes in its environment: movement, mother's mood, light, dark, cold, hot, pain. Teri apparently, depending upon which "expert" witness one believes, may have lacked perception of some of these.
A complete brain which is in early development may be superior to a severely damaged brain which is comparitively larger in mass of its cortex.
On the other hand, I have seen a few severe headshots, Mr. Brady of the "Brady Bill" for example, with much tissue loss which regained speech, sight, movement and many of the rational facilities. The brain is a self-programming computer, and its ability to adapt to severe damage is both awesome and unpredictable.
I suppose in conclusion that I honestly cannot make the distinction between the two. I do know that Teri probably would not have gained in intellect, but that, left alive, the "little creature" surely will.
E. Simon - 7/26/2005
Thanks Mr. Thomas for your comments, particularly regarding the point on birth control in impoverished countries.
With the 2 - 3 month quote, would it seem that this "little creature," although significantly unlike a tumor in many respects, is actually a bit biologically, anatomically and neurologically closer to Terri Schiavo?
Mr. Simon,
Thank you for a well argued rejoinder. I would say in response:
It seems that you argue as if all aborted foetuses were 2 weeks old. That at least is the last point at which one can make the argument for a "group of cells" appearance. The average actual age at abortion is 2-3 months. This little creature has characteristic human nervous activity, circulation, metabolism, movement, arms, legs, hands, fingers, toes, and feelings-it detects and responds to changes in its environment. What I describe is the average development representing 80% of abortions. It is, I would ask you to agree, nothing like a tumor.
To the contrary, birth control, including IUDs, condoms pills, implant, etc. are even more important in the third world, and abortions even more expensive and potentially disastrous. The village medic can be instructed in a day to implant an IUD, which costs less than $5, but would require a full medical education and $700 or so to give a "safe" abortion. Which is the more feasible and practical?
Thank you again for your comments.
Tumors, like embryos, exist within someone's body, and therefore with both, the preponderance of discretion should lie with said person in determining what use their body should serve in relation to them, their biological assignments. Pregnancy is not a form of punishment.
I have made no argument against birth control, although its preference vis a vis abortion is not a strong point when considering the situation in third world countries; literacy rates, and the availability of pre- vs. peri-natal care - important considerations which I'm not sure why you would ignore or omit, especially in light of your repeated, condescending and presumptuous use of the term "floozies." Under other circumstances perhaps it would be but I don't see this dialogue as a matter of comparison.
Also, I extrapolated none of my arguments to the third trimester, and contrast that decision against your deliberate reference to the phrase "group of cells" and the attributes which you (choose to) ascribe them. I'm comfortable that the enlightenment helped rid us of the idea of predestination and I'm no more a fan of now applying that idea to "special" cells as a contemporary, psychological substitute.
Thank you both for your comments.
It seems that the desgraziate who write hit pieces for extremist web sites are getting desperate in using this french fry case as ammunition against Roberts. That can be dangerous when most actual court decisions end up on the internet.
The Roberts decision is quoted below. Mr. Lederer's characterization is very close.
Roberts did not support the policy, nor did anyone, which was changed anyway almost immediately by the city council long before any trial began.
In these cases it is well to examine the primary information readily available before playing back malicious mis-characterizations from move-on.org or whatever.
Thank you both again for your comments.
"ROBERTS, Circuit Judge: No one is very happy about the
events that led to this litigation.
"A twelve-year-old girl was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted, and detained until released to her mother some three hours later — all for eating a single french fry in a Metrorail station. The child was frightened, embarrassed, and crying throughout the ordeal.
"The district court described the policies that led to her
arrest as ‘‘foolish,’’ and indeed the policies were changed after those responsible endured the sort of publicity reserved for adults who make young girls cry.
"The question before us, however, is not whether these policies were a bad idea, but whether they violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. Like the district court, we conclude that they did not, and accordingly we affirm."
John H. Lederer - 7/22/2005
You and I are in agreement -- in all save the end result (smile)
Thank you again. This is more like it.
However, I will add two additional points to my original post based upon your above response.
First, the point of differentiation between the "group of cells" in a human embryo and a tumor is that a tumor will not, if undisturbed, grow up to be a human being. While the rights of the embryo may be less than that of a born human, they nonetheless exist simply because of the potential.
Second, you cannot make any of these arguments for third trimester abortions, when the foetus has all of the features, organs and bio-functions of born human beings.
Third, please respond and explain why you are tacitly against the idea of ordinary birth control, to eliminate the entire issue at far less cost and risk to everyone than abortion. No one has credibly explain why the floozies of this world cannot simple take the pill or get their tubes tied, when that is so much less expensive, rather than aborting.
James Spence - 7/22/2005
sorry, typo in next to last line. "a government of law and men..."
I take it we can agree, to a certain extent, that we don’t want prejudiced judges on the supreme court who use their personal or political beliefs to color their judgments on making laws. Of course, where we might disagree is how to go about making certain this happens without infusing the issue with partisan politics. But generally, I agree with what you have just said, among them, that judges must apply the law equally.
But I do have mixed feelings about this statement, unless I misunderstand it: "I don't want judges that are on the side of the environment against the pollluter, the employee against the employer, small business versus big business, the poor against the rich, the liberal against the conservative, the rural against the urban, black against white. " Well, that depends, doesn’t it? If the polluter is really polluting, if the employee really does have a legitimate grievance, than I want a judge who sees the truth when it smiles. As for the poor against the rich, I’m not sure the poor ever had or ever will have the clout to go up against the rich.
My statement on my first post on this page was that Roberts could be bad news if my instincts about him are right. I hope not. The french fry thing, although never the question before the court, was its end result. For me, character and personality as well as political indoctrination play a large role in judges decisions, whether they’re suppose to or not, because I believe we have a government or law and men which is as difficult as separating the "soul" from the body. So, sometimes, the devil is in the details.
Of course I would not want my 12 year old arrested for eating a french fry.
That was not the question before the court. The question was whether the police officer and the District were liable for violating her Fourth Amendment rights by restraining her when she was arrested.
The question of whether it was wise to arrest her was decided by the District of Columbia city council which, in its infinite wisdom, decided that the officer would have the option have issuing a citation to an adult, but would have no option to do so in the case of a minor. It was, as Roberts recognized, a lousy law.
If you believe that the federal courts should strike down lousy laws, you believe in substantive due process -- which was the doctrine that so inflamed Franklin Roosevelt that he advanced his unwise plan to pack the court.
I don't want judges that are on the side of the environment against the pollluter, the employee against the employer, small business versus big business, the poor against the rich, the liberal against the conservative, the rural against the urban, black against white. I don't even want judges that are on the side of 12 year old girls against the corrupt and abysmally inept District of Columbia City Council. I don't want judges, whom I can't fire, deciding that those whom I can fire should have made other policy decisions.
I want judges that will apply the law equally regardless of who is before them, that will have open minds, and that will judge fairly. And, yes, I want them to be lenient, but not at the expense of letting the law become little more than judge's opinion of what ought be done in each case, until we no longer have a government of law, but one of men.
And I want those SOB's on the City Council to have "napkins enow about you, here you will sweat for it".
Mr. Lederer,
I am not an attorney stating cases here. Like most of us, I’m giving bystander’s opinions based on past events which I'm hoping are factual.
Your conclusions or assumptions about me are incorrect because you are failing to see that I am only speaking of the spirit of the law, whether it’s about the french fry case, privacy, the environment, or anything else. Let’s be serious. Would you like it if you had a daughter that was handled in the same way for eating a french fry? Yes, the 12-year old broke the law but it’s a law the handmaidens of justice can handle better by using a little of their own common sense. You can have a little compassion in a civil society without turning it into a criminal morass. It doesn’t have to be brought to such a ridiculous conclusion. Regardless, the real point here is that the french fry incident, too me, speaks volumes about a judge’s principles, on letter or spirit of law. We don’t need a police-state mentality hunting down every child for minor delinquent acts and tying up the justice system.
Robert’s statement about Roe v Wade was for his client’s sake and even though I’ve made a judgment based on his past actions, as I stated earlier, I’m waiting to see what he has to say and remain open. So far his image in DC is that of the amiable guy who has groomed and maintained his appearance for the sake of political and communal equanimity.
In Robert’s ruling in the environmental case your quote about a rehearing to consider a legal decision which supposedly is conflicting with a prior decision doesn’t cut the mustard with this bystander. He ruled against the environment, for whatever reason.
Mr. Spence, I conclude that it is your belief that Judges should refuse to obey the precedent of a superior court, act unethically when representing their clients, and not seek to find ways to sustain Environmental Acts of Congress when challenged.
These conclusions are based on your statement of Robert's cases.
1. The principal claim in the french fry case was that the girl's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when she was held after arrest -- a back door way of challenging the arrest which was required by D.C. law. As the unanimous panel of three judges declared, that issue had recently been disposed of by the Supreme Court. A secondary claim of age discrimination was also rejected.
"Ansche [the girl] finally challenges her arrest on the ground that it was an unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment. This claim quickly runs into the Supreme Court’s recent holding in Atwater."
2. Lawyers are ethically required to present the views of their cvlients, not their own personal views. Roberts presented the view of the government on Roe v. Wade in his brief representing the government-- a view which had been repeatedly stated by previous lawyers representing the government.
3. The issue in the toad case was whether a full en banc hearing should be accorded when a 3 judge panel decision conflicted with a 5th Circuit decision. Roberts said, inter alia, in his dissent from a decision not to hear the case before the full Circuit,:
"En banc review is appropriate because the approach of the panel in this case and NAHB now conflicts with the opinion of a sister circuit - a fact confirmed by that circuit's quotation from the NAHB dissent. See GDF Realty, 326 F.3d at 636 (quoting NAHB, 130 F.3d at 1067 (Sentelle, J., dissenting)). Such review would also afford the opportunity to consider alternative grounds for sustaining application of the Act that may be more consistent with Supreme Court precedent. See Rancho Viejo, LLC v. Norton, 323 F.3d at 1067-68 n.2."
As I inferred earlier, the Bush administration was looking for an advocate for its ever-expanding executive branch powers. Because there’s a truckload of antiterrorism and Patriot Act cases in the judicial pipeline coming up and Bush needs Roberts on the Supreme Court, someone who shares the view that the "war on terror" is above judicial review, and counts more than acts of Congress or international treaties.
Roberts was a protégé of Rehnquist and his conservative version of expanding the authority of presidents while stripping back federal regulations on business and civil rights and so probably shaped Roberts's views. Also, Roberts spent years in the executive branch arguing cases in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Reagan and first Bush administration in their effort to promote school prayer, restrict abortion and punish flag desecrators.
A most revealing point on Roberts’track record had to do with an incident several years ago when DC police arrested a 12 year old kid for eating a French fry on the Metro. After arresting her they handcuffed her and locked her up for hours treating her like a dangerous felon. Judge Roberts, who was on the federal bench at the time rejected the mother’s plea who made the pint that if an adult had been caught he or she would just have been issued a ticket. His logic was that by arresting a kid in this manner promoted parental awareness and got them involvement when they committed delinquent acts. Apparently he sees public consumption of McDonald fries on the DC metro as a delinquent act. This, too me, and others, reveals a doctrinaire personality.
It also seems he was hostile to environmental regulation as in the of his ruling in a California land-development case in which he sought to weaken the Endangered Species Act. He’s also hostile to reproductive rights. When he was deputy to solicitor general Ken Starr in the Reagan years, he sided with the antiabortion right by adding a footnote to his briefs in a family-planning-funding case arguing that Roe v. Wade was "wrongly decided and should be overturned." So far this is his track record. As they say, if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck… Of course, like any human being, he deserves a fair hearing. Let’s see what he says.
Thank you as well for your comments.
I will respond first, briefly, as I may have more time to put something to the keyboard later, but think these ideas are important to discuss and respond to.
First, I think it's important to point out that the reductio is being bandied about as a first line of attack primarily by the "pro-life" side, which would go so far as to confuse biological identity with personhood. There is no other explanation I can fathom for opposition to stem-cell research or for supporting the position that a single-celled zygote is more "special" in the eyes of human existence than the equally living sperm and egg cells that united to form it. Cells are cells. They are constituent parts of the autonomous, rights-bearing, individual entities we call human beings, and not merely miniature versions thereof. Same goes for balls of cells, which can be split indefinitely into an infinite number of potential identical twins. If one wants to incorporate the nature of the development of specifically multicellular ("human") attributes into their argument, then let him be explicit about this - and let the burden for doing so fall on him. Unless that stipulation is fulfilled, any talk of the morality of abortion or the rights of biological whisps of existence is as moot as is peripheral the position of the Clintons, and the advantages of oral contraception. Political and medical considerations shouldn't befuddle an ethical analysis.
More later if you want, but hopefully this is a sufficient start in at least touching on the points you raise for now.
Clayton Earl Cramer - 7/21/2005
Roe v. Wade could have been decided based the state of abortion laws in 1791 and 1868--an originalist argument can be advanced that because only abortion after "quickening" (the baby starts to kick) was criminal under English law, first trimester abortions were protected under the Ninth Amendment. This wouldn't work for partial-birth abortions, however, which are performed very late--usually when the baby is capable of surviving outside the womb. (Hence, the need to take scissors to the brain.)
If you want to make an argument for a right to privacy based on the Ninth Amendment, that would be an interesting argument. My experience, however, is that few advocates of the right to privacy mean anything other than a right of sexual privacy. There is no right to privacy when it comes to gun ownership, for example. There is no right to privacy when it comes to property ownership, or how much income a person makes, or any of a number of other areas in which the left believes that the government's job is to poke into the private affairs of others.
"Forget about his 'conservative,' 'textualist,' 'original intent' for a moment and look at his past viewpoints on issues and you’ll find a stiff, rigid ideological mind, a man for the times, according to the Bush camp, intent on expanding the executive powers."
Could you give some examples? Remember that the entire dispute about abortion is about legislative power--not executive power. Does the majority have authority to regulate abortion or not, or does a "stiff, rigid ideological" minority have the right to overrule the majority? You can make strong arguments for either majority rule or for limiting governmental authority, but "expanding the executive powers" isn't what this right to privacy argument is all about.
M. Simon:
Thank you for your post, but I feel you fail badly in this line of argument.
You argue that a foetus is equivalent to a tumor is more than a little ridiculous. It reminds one of the Fraternity Council meeting in "Animal House". There are credible arguments for the case you are trying to make, but this is not one. If one is to use "reductio ad absurdum", one must do so with valid analogies.
Further, no one has argued that sperm, unfertilized eggs, and tumors are human in the sense of fertilized eggs. Please find one example of anyone who believes this. This is a "straw man" argument in its most unreal form.
Why can the women you presume to represent, the 1,400,000 women who abort each year, use the available methods of contraception which have been there, safe, available and cheap, since the 1960's? Would not this option be better than carelessly getting knocked up like a floozy and killing the result?
Forgetting the foetus for a moment, would oral contraception not represent a vastly less expensive, medically much safer, and vastly more humane approach from the woman's perspective? I think that the ball is in your court on this issue. Even the Clintons believe that abortion should be rare. It certainly is not rare today.
if a fetus has rights why shouldn't embryos? what about sperm cells, eggs, and tumors? if we can indefinitely extend "rights" to any vaguely humanoid piece of biota why not delimit the scope of said rights - and allow children, for instance, to vote? who are we to say that is not their right? and if a woman doesn't carry an embryo in _her_ body, why shouldn't that ball of cells have the right to be implanted into someone who might care more for it - would someone such as yourself care to volunteer? after all, adoption is a legal precedent for uncared for children - all pro-lifers should do the right thing, put the money down to perfect the technology, coordinate the process involved, and volunteer their bodies for surrogate pregnancy.
"polls show that the vast majority of Americans reject the extremism of any minority and do not want a reversal of the judicial decisions that protect their privacy and their rights."
Yes. I believe Ms. Chesler is correct, the attitude of not only most Americans but also the deeply religious in America is changing, that is, they believe that "religious" politicians have to compromise in our society. You can’t run a country by minority rule in the long run.
And now the nomination of Judge Roberts could be bad news for most Americans. Forget about his "conservative," "textualist," "original intent" for a moment and look at his past viewpoints on issues and you’ll find a stiff, rigid ideological mind, a man for the times, according to the Bush camp, intent on expanding the executive powers.
The right to privacy is not the same as the right to abortion. The Court could remove the right to abortion while leaving the right to privacy alone -- one method would be to decide that a foetus has rights.
In any event using the phrase "right to privacy" is an attempt to prejudice the question.
Ms. Chesler:
It is rare and gratifying to read such fine prose as yours in defence of any cause. You summarize the legal arguments as succinctly as possible, and make them intellectually available to the widest possible audience.
You do so quite better than the original justices (actually, mostly clerks) did. Yours is a wonderful verbal gift which any such Celt as myself must admire.
This is a cause in which we differ, however:
According to Guttmacher, about a million four hundred thousand human foetuses are aborted yearly in the US. Your article states that about half of the children conceived here never see light.
Assuming that one believes a 2-3 month old feotus to be human, this adds up to a holocaust of dead human beings every 4.5 years-about the same time frame as the original. This figure cannot make anyone happy, and it does not seem to be going down, despite improved contraceptives, and contrary to claims of some early supporters, who said it would decrease with education.
Most of these abortions are D&Es, a brutal procedure which dehumanizes the medical professionals who perform it and the girl or woman who receives it. Essentially, following dilation of the cervix, the foetus is removed by pulling it apart. The parts are stacked in a petrie dish until all have been removed. If the patient sees her former child in this condition, the emotional scarring can be permanent. Usually, it is hidden from her.
Then the interior of the uterus is scraped of any remnant of the placenta, to prevent infection. There is danger to the woman as the placenta is removed, because at this point fragile arteries which had previously nurtured the foetus may be accidentally torn. In this case emergency surgery may be needed.
As pregnancy progresses, the danger and complexity of the procedure increases, until the argument that the foetus is not human can no longer reasonably be made. All in all, this killing is brutalizing to everyone.
While I am as liberal as anyone as regards human rights, in this case I see one claimed right-abortion, or privacy if you will, trumped by another more basic right-to remain alive. Such supercedences take place all the time. Your right to keep and bear arms is superceded by my right to keep living, if you should attack me.
In the case of abortion, the long term harm to society is what I most fear. The brutalization of the Civil War undoubtedly made the Indian wars more devastating and cruel, and cruel World War I made way for the Second. I fear that the brutality of abortion on this holocaustic scale and scope can only have the same effect upon the society which allows it-brutalization.
I do not believe that you will change your mind, but on the slight chance that you may change a little and employ that wonderful prose in what I feel is a better cause, I make the effort anyway.
Thanks again for a beautifully written article...
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