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Samuel Dalembert Wants to Play for the Miami Heat
by SLAM Staff November 28, 2011
by Marcel Mutoni / @marcel_mutoni
Once the new Collective Bargaining Agreement is ratified by both players and team owners, the NBA’s free agency sprint is going to be one wild ride. Under League rules, players are the only ones allowed to discuss the matter at the moment, and they haven’t held back.
Samuel Dalembert tells Fox Sports that he’d like to join a title contender this season, and for a number of basketball and person reasons, the Miami Heat would be his top choice:
The team desperately needs a center, and the 6-foot-11 Dalembert is a free agent. And the Heat is high on his list as the free agency signing period is expected to begin Dec. 9 following a five-month lockout. Joining the Heat “would be fantastic,” Dalembert said Sunday night from Haiti. Miami is where more than 50 of his relatives live and is about one hour south of his home in Boca Raton.
As for the volunteering part, Dalembert likely would require a big pay cut to join the Heat, which will be over the salary cap. Dalembert, who made $13.43 million last season for Sacramento, might have to sign for the $5 million mid-level exception. Dalembert wouldn’t say he would agree to that. But he did say “what is best for you might not be for the most money.” And he definitely likes the Heat. “I’m keeping all my options open, but Miami could be a good fit for me,” Dalembert said.
“If you look at the playoffs with Dallas, you saw what Tyson Chandler did,” Dalembert said, referring to the 7-foot-1 center who helped the Mavs beat the Heat in six games for the title last June. “He was basically a key ingredient for them to win a championship. And Miami didn’t have somebody like that. Somebody able to stop (foes from) getting second shots and somebody able to rebound and finish. I could fill that role and be an asset for that team.”
Other cities the 30-year old Dalembert could see himself playing in also include New York and Houston.
The linked article is a worthwile read, as it delves into Samuel Dalembert’s charitable work in Haiti, with the country trying to rebuild following the January 2010 earthquake disaster.
Free Agency Miami Heat Samuel Dalembert
Report: J.R. Smith ‘Unlikely’ to Join the Los Angeles Lakers
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CWC'19: Key players to watch out in England-Australia clash
New Delhi [India], Jun 25 (ANI): Arch-rivals England and Australia will lock horns in the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup at Lord's on Tuesday.
Host England lost their last match to low-ranked Sri Lanka and are now placed in the fourth position with eight points. They have won four games and lost two. England have never lifted the World Cup.
England are yet to bag a semi-final spot. After Australia, they will face India and New Zealand which have not lost any game in the tournament so far.
On the other hand, defending champion Australia stands at the second position with ten points. They have only lost to India in their World Cup campaign.
Here are the key players to watch out in the England-Australia match:David Warner: He has returned to the Australia team after a year's ban for involvement in a ball-tampering scandal. Warner was the leading run-scorer in the recently concluded Indian Premier League (IPL) with 692 runs in 12 innings. In the six World Cup matches the Australian team has played so far, Warner has scored 447 runs. He is the second-highest scorer after Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh.
Ben Stokes: An all-rounder, the 27-year-old was the man of the match in the opening game between England and South Africa. Stokes scored 89 runs to help England post a target of 312 for South Africa and later took two wickets.
Aaron Finch: Australian skipper Finch has played all the six matches and contributed 396 runs besides taking a wicket. He had earlier amassed 451 runs in five matches to guide his side to beat Pakistan in the recently concluded bilateral series.
Jofra Archer: Archer, who did not find a spot in the preliminary squad, has proved that his inclusion in the final 15-member team was a wise decision. He took three wickets in the opening World Cup match and conceded just 27 runs in his seven overs against South Africa. The 24-year-old has bagged 15 wickets in six matches.
Mitchell Starc: The 29-year old left-arm pacer has been in exceptional form in the tournament. Starc has taken 15 wickets in the World Cup so far. He returned with the figure of 5-46 against West Indies. (ANI)
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Bastrop animal control director charged with DWI
Julie Chang @JulieChang1
Feb 24, 2013 at 12:01 AM Sep 26, 2018 at 4:39 PM
The director of Bastrop County animal control was charged with driving while intoxicated over the weekend, according to Bastrop County Jail records.
Diane Marie Mollaghan, 40, was arrested on Saturday and released the same day after posting bail of $5,000.
The Bastrop County sheriff’s office did not release any further details.
Mollaghan, who became director in September, came under fire this year after former volunteers and animal rights groups accused her of mismanagement. They said that she put animals’ health at risk and alienated volunteers.
On Feb. 11, county commissioners unanimously accepted Mollaghan’s management plan, but said they would review her job performance in 60 days.
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Britain considers clamping down on social media to curb riots
Aug 12, 2011 at 12:01 AM Dec 12, 2018 at 8:06 AM
After a spate of riots, Britain is weighing whether to censor social media sites and give police authority to order people to remove face coverings in troubled areas, Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday.
The potential interventions in public privacy and expression demonstrate how deeply the riots and looting have disturbed Britons' sense of law and order.
"Everyone watching these horrific actions will be stuck by how they were organized via social media," Cameron told lawmakers in an emergency session of Parliament. "Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them."
Cameron said authorities would employ the kind of court restraining orders used to limit gang activities in the U.S. He vowed to escalate police efforts to track down the looters and arsonists who, starting Saturday, ran wild for four nights and to keep courts open round-the-clock to process the 1,200 people already arrested.
While Britain's streets were quiet Thursday, the toll continued to rise. A 68-year-old man who was attacked Monday in west London as he tried to put out a fire died late Thursday, police said.
Britain's Home Office said it planned to hold talks with police chiefs, Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry's messaging service was used by rioters to coordinate their activities, Cameron's office said.
Facebook looks forward to meeting with the home secretary, the company said, adding that it has taken steps in recent days to ensure that any credible threats of violence are removed from the social networking site.
Government officials said they were discussing with spy agencies and communications companies whether messaging services could be disabled in specific areas or at specific times.
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Divorce and unreasonable behaviour – Time to change the law
In order to apply for a divorce in England and Wales, there is only one ground, and that is irretrievable breakdown of the marriage.
The court cannot confirm that the marriage has irretrievably broken down, unless the person applying (the petitioner) satisfies the Court in one or more of five facts being:
The spouse has committed adultery with another person of the opposite sex;
The spouse has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with them;
The spouse has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years;
The parties have lived apart for a period of at least two years and the parties agree to a divorce;
The parties have lived apart for a period of more than five years.
Often couples believe that they can simply file for divorce on the basis of their agreement; however, this is not the case. Divorce law dates back to 1973, which subsequently causes the above facts to be outdated.
Resolution, a national organisation of family lawyers, has for some time been campaigning for a change in legislation, to bring about ‘fault free divorce.’
A recent case has catapulted this subject into the news, following the case of Mr and Mrs Owens. Mrs Owens petitioned for a divorce from her husband of 37 years in 2015, on the basis of Mr Owens’ unreasonable behaviour. The parties had married in 1978 and Mrs Owens moved out of their family home in February 2015. Mr Owens defended the divorce and the Court listed a trial in January 2016. The Judge who heard the case refused to grant Mrs Owens a divorce and dismissed her petition. It was found that Mrs Owens could not go on living with her husband, but the facts relied on by her were “minor altercations of a kind to be expected in a marriage”.
Therefore Mrs Owens appealed. The Court of Appeal upheld the Judgment with the President of the Family Division, stating the court could not interfere. “Parliament has decreed that is not a ground for divorce that you find yourself in a wretchedly unhappy marriage, though some people say it should be”.
Recently, Mrs Owens has been granted commission to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision. She will argue that the Court’s emphasis on trying to find that a Respondent’s behaviour is in some way unreasonable, is wrong. It will be argued that this is a “linguistic trap” and that the statue does not require unreasonable behaviour, but simply behaviour such that the Petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the Respondent.
Steeles Law family team are in full support of fault free divorce. Emma Alfieri joined in with a parliamentary ‘fault free divorce’ campaign last year to raise awareness. Emma Alfieri firstly stated that “this case further highlights our outdated divorce law in this country.” She then went onto comment “Clearly Mr & Mrs Owens are not going to reconcile and cannot live together, however the law is so old fashioned, that Mrs Owens has been prevented from obtaining a divorce”. “Since 1973 when the current divorce law came in force, the outlook has changed in regard to marriage and relationships, and what is now socially acceptable is different. Therefore, to be bound to this old fashioned approach to divorce can be frustrating, as it only results in animosity, where couples are often forced apportion blame upon the other”.
The family team continue to support Resolution’s campaign for change in the law in order to provide modernisation.
Emma Alfieri
Associate Legal Executive - Family
Emma joined Steeles Law in May 2004 and specialises in family law matters. She is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
Emma deals with a wide range of family matters including divorce and associated financial matters, disputes between unmarried couples, dissolution of civil partnerships and the preparation of pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements. As well as dealing with issues involving children including disputes regarding residence and contact.
Emma’s approach is to listen carefully to what her clients want, supporting and advising them through their problems, whilst also working hard to reach the best possible outcome in a cost effective and timely manner. Many of Emma’s cases settle without any court involvement. She achieves this by encouraging a non-confrontational approach and by aiming to build good working relationships.
Often she is praised by clients for her approachability and efficiency.
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Straight croissant brews storm in a teacup
Croissants. PHOTO: CHRIS TAN
Feb 22, 2016, 5:00 am SGT
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LONDON • The croissant, the buttery breakfast pastry, means "crescent" in French. But do not tell that to the British.
Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket chain and a bellwether of sorts for popular tastes, last Friday stopped selling the traditional curved pastry, selling instead only straight ones. It offered a decidedly British rationale: It is easier to spread jam on the straight variety.
That spurred no shortage of dismay on both sides of the English Channel.
"Is this a foretaste of Brexit?" French newspaper 20 Minutes asked, referring to the possibility that British voters might decide in a referendum to leave the European Union. It added that it appeared that Tesco's move was not done "to antagonise the French (well, not solely)".
An editorial in The Daily Telegraph, a conservative British newspaper, noted that the virtue of the traditional French croissant was its foreignness.
"They must not be sliced in two, like buns to be buttered," it observed. "They must be torn, and each morsel eaten with jam, even alien apricot jam, if wanted."
It added: "Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle. Or we could just stick with toast."
But Tesco's croissant buyer Harry Jones cited what he called the "spreadability factor". He said that sales of crescent-shaped croissants had been falling.
"The majority of shoppers find it easier to spread jam, or their preferred filling, on a straighter shape with a single sweeping motion," he said in a statement.
"With the crescent-shaped croissants, it's more fiddly, and most people can take up to three attempts to achieve perfect coverage, which increases the potential for accidents involving sticky fingers and tables."
But in a week when Prime Minister David Cameron was in Brussels trying to wring concessions from fellow European Union leaders over Britain's future in the 28-member bloc, The Times of London called the timing of the "major culinary snub" to the quintessentially French pastry "indelicate to say the least".
Among the experts, divisions run deep on the question of whether croissants should be curly or straight.
Benjamin Turquier, who was voted the best butter-croissant maker in Paris and the surrounding Ile-de-France region by the Paris- based association of professional bakers, said he baked only straight croissants because they were easier to roll and fit neatly in a baking tray. "I can understand the importance of symbolism and tradition, but straight croissants are more practical to make," he said on the telephone from Paris.
Richard Bertinet, whose Bertinet bakeries in Bath are renowned for their French bread and pastries, said he sold only straight croissants.
"A real croissant should be straight," he said. "In France when I was working as a baker's apprentice, I learnt the cheap croissant should be curved and the straight ones were always made with butter. So the parents would have a straight croissant and the kids would have a curved croissant."
While the croissant is associated with France, the pastry originated in what is now Austria, as a crescent-shaped roll called a kipferl.
According to Heather Arndt Anderson's Breakfast: A History, the croissant was introduced to France in the late 1830s, when an Austrian artillery officer named August Zang founded a bakery that sold kipferl. The rolls caught on and the croissant was born, along with a name befitting its distinctive shape.
Some observers on Twitter expressed their disbelief that British jam-spreaders were unable to navigate a traditional croissant's curved edges.
"Utterly preposterous. Croissants are curved traditionally. Must be another EU directive!" wrote Timothy William of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Others mocked what they saw as a marketing tactic by the retail chain.
Meanwhile, Jean-Christophe Novelli, the former personal chef to the French Rothschilds, who now runs a cookery school in Hertfordshire that has been hailed as one of the world's best, said the French would "absolutely not" spread butter or jam on their croissants.
"A croissant is something that you dip into a bowl of chocolate or coffee," he said. "But never in my whole life have I met someone from France who eats a croissant with jam."
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10-year-old takes Zurich university maths class
Oct 3, 2013, 6:23 am SGT
http://str.sg/ZmhT
GENEVA (AFP) - A 10-year-old boy who passed a Swiss final high school maths exam for fun is taking a special course in the subject at prestigious Zurich University, the institution said on Wednesday.
Maximilan Janisch, whose father is a retired maths professor, is the youngest child to ever be allowed to follow such a course at the university, its president Michael Hengartner told AFP.
"He's a very intelligent child," Mr Hengartner said, pointing out that the boy, whose parents are German, "understands a lot of concepts for his age".
Gifted Janisch has already skipped three grades in primary school, but cannot officially enrol at the university since he does not have a complete high school diploma.
Instead, he will follow a specialised course aimed at talented high school seniors wanting to get a leg-up on the university curriculum.
The boy told the SonntagsZeitung weekly earlier this year that he was "not a specialist at making friends" since his classmates were so much older than him.
"I can't find anyone with whom I can discuss Archimedes (a mathematician in ancient Greece), and most people don't even know who (renowned 19th-century German mathematician Carl Friederich) Gauss is," he complained.
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Sponsor for Indonesia's Copa Dji Sam Soe 2006
The Indonesian Football League Board (BLI) and cigarette company PT HM Sampoerna have signed a memorandum of understanding to hold the Copa Dji Sam Soe Indonesia 2006. BLI chairman Nirwan Dermawan Bakrie and Sampoerna managing director Angky Camaro signed the MOU, witnessed by Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) acting chairman Agusman Effendi, the Jakarta Post recorded.
"Copa Dji Sam Soe 2005 was a successful competition participated in by teams from all divisions. We are pleased to be holding it for a second year," Nirwan said. Arema Malang won last year's Copa, which entitled the club to compete in the ongoing Asian Champions League. However, the team was banned from the competition by the Asian Football Confederation due to late registration.
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Chelsea FC supports expansion of Right to Play
An unspecified number of officials from English FA Cup winners, Chelsea FC will lead eight players of the club to visit Ghana from 29 May to 2 June. Though the identities of the players are not immediately known, officials say they will include two from the senior team and six players from the London club's junior side. The team of officials and players are visiting as part of a recent pact signed between the English Premier League club and Right to Play, an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation that uses sports and play as a tool for development of children and youth in the most disadvantaged areas of the world, All Africa reported.
At a pre-visit media briefing held last Wednesday, Rose Annan, Regional Communications Coordinator, empahsised that sport and play are essential development building blocks that help to foster healthy physical, social and emotional development of the child. She said sport and play could be used to: promote children's health and well-being; further social inclusion and cohesion; and contribute to health, education and economic development.
Last January, the Blues agreed a 6-year partnership deal with Right to Play, making the humanitarian body the football club's first ever global charity partner. And four players of the club namely; Ghanaian international Michael Essien, English pair Frank Lampard and Joe Cole, and Ivorian Salomon Kalou accepted to be Chelsea Ambassadors for Right to Play. The partnership aims to raise more than £2 million over the period to support Right to Play's extensive humanitarian activities in 22 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Thrilled at the deal, Johann Olav Koss, President and CEO of Right to Play said "this partnership is a testament to our shared belief in the power of sport to make a positive impact on the lives of children."
Chelsea England Social Programs
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LEP sets out international vision
Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has set out its international vision with the creation of a dedicated team to focus on international investment and lead on the coordination of trade support for the city region.
The ‘international’ team, which is charged with driving jobs, growth and productivity across inward investment and trade in the city region, has been created following the transfer of former members of the Leeds and Partners inward investment and marketing and communications teams, into the LEP in April 2015.
The closure of Leeds and Partners and transition to the LEP, followed a strategic review of the inward investment provision in the city region, which identified that the development of a formal city region function which better coordinated trade and investment activity would deliver enhanced outcomes and better maximise the potential for economic growth.
The LEP will build upon the work done previously by Leeds and Partners, which delivered over 1200 jobs in its three years of operation, to develop a coordinated international strategy that will further drive inward investment, raise the profile of the city region and ultimately provide trade support across key international markets.
LEP Chair, Roger Marsh, said: “The internationalisation of our economy is critical to driving good growth in Leeds City Region and the development of the LEP’s international team presents us with an opportunity to build on the excellent work already undertaken and drive our global competitiveness to the next level.
“I’m delighted that the inward investment and marketing communications teams of Leeds and Partners have joined the LEP. The latest figures from the EY Attractiveness Survey demonstrate the impact of their work over the last three years and we are determined to build on this, to stay focused on converting our FDI pipeline and to integrate trade and investment activity to maximise efficiency and effectiveness.
“From this starting point it’s clear that there is a lot to be excited about and the international team is ready to showcase our scale, diversity and expertise to the global market place.
“A recent example of the international team’s work came when the City Region hosted a business delegation from China, which included the Governor of the most advanced development zone in China, Guangzhou Development District (GDD), which outputs in excess of £20bn a year. This offered myself and colleagues from both the public and private sector, a fantastic opportunity to explore how the GDD, which covers an area of 218km2, operates, the similarities that exist between it and our City Region and how we might better work together.”
The region’s strong inward investment performance was reflected in EY’s 2015 ‘UK Attractiveness Survey’; which reported the region’s most successful year for inward investment since 1998 and the highest rate of growth recorded by any of the UK’s 12 regions. Leeds is ranked joint fourth most successful city outside of London in attracting FDI projects, demonstrating a significant increase after it failed to make the top 10 in 2013.
Leeds City Region’s international success is also evident in its export figures which are around £9.6 billion for goods and £6.2 billion of services, approximately 30% of its GVA. As such, the international team’s renewed strategic approach towards international investment and trade offers a wealth of opportunities for the region and the businesses based here, helping to deliver the LEP’s strategic economic plan and create significant economic growth.
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'Beautiful, unique talent and character': Tributes flow for suspected murder victim Cecilia Devine
By Matthew Kelly
May 16, 2019 — 7.56am
Matt McLaren and Cecilia Devine spent hundreds of hours collaborating in an inner Newcastle music studio between 2015 and 2017 crafting Ms Devine's debut solo album Liberty.
The 10 tracks showcased Ms Devine's prodigious singing and songwriting talents but also served as a personal memoir and window into her battle with mental illness.
Cecilia Devine was last seen leaving a hotel in Katoomba on September 6. Her remains were found in a nearby dam. Credit:NSW Police
"Those sessions with her were some of the best work I've ever done in the studio," McLaren told the Newcastle Herald.
"Music was her therapy for what happened in her past."
He awoke on Wednesday morning to the news that human remains found in a Blue Mountains dam in March belonged to his friend who had been missing for almost eight months.
"It's so sad; she was such a beautiful, unique talent and character," McLaren said.
"I feel we got pretty close when we were working together. There were some pretty heavy moments but mostly we didn't stop laughing."
Social media was flooded on Wednesday with an outpouring of grief for the 41-year-old Waratah resident who had been reported missing from her Turton Road address on September 5, 2018.
"Such sad news and a devastating outcome for her and her family. She was a very dear friend of my daughter and our family," one friend wrote on Facebook.
"I hope they catch who is responsible for this cruel act may you be resting in peace sweetheart my thoughts and prayers are with her family xx."
Police released a public appeal for help to locate Ms Devine on December 21 last year - the date of her 42 birthday.
The appeal said family and friends called police when they couldn't find her and it was believed she might have travelled to Sydney.
There were reported sightings of her in the Hornsby and Blue Mountains areas shortly after she was last seen.
Sydney Water Catchment Authority employees discovered Ms Devine's skeletal remains in remote bushland at North Katoomba on March 18 this year.
"It had been there a fair while," Detective Inspector Scott McAlpine said on Wednesday.
"It's a closed-off area, it's not open to the public because it's a catchment area for the Sydney water authority. Tourists wouldn't probably go there as a matter of course."
Police have searched the dense bushland and dam several times for clues without success.
While the cause of her death has still not been determined, Inspector McAlpine said police believe Ms Devine was murdered.
Strike Force Eking, comprising local police and homicide squad detectives, was launched to investigate Ms Devine's disappearance and murder.
Police are presently attempting to piece together her last movements.
Inspector McAlpine said Ms Devine had shopped at the Rivers store in Katoomba and Coles supermarket on September 6, 2018.
"One of the last known sightings of Cecilia Devine was her leaving this hotel and walking down one of the main streets of Katoomba," he said.
CCTV footage also captured her buying some food, a scarf, a jumper and shoes from shops in Katoomba.
But nothing was found with her body or nearby.
Her brothers Nathan and Troy Pearson made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for information about their sister's disappearance.
Nathan Pearson said his sister, who was also known as Kristen Pearson, loved making music and was "probably way too easygoing".
"She just loved being part of the social life, that's where she was devoted with her singing," he said.
"She'd assimilate with anyone."
Troy Pearson described his sister as "very much family based."
"We wouldn't see a harmful bone in her body," he said.
Ms Devine spoke about her 'run in with mental illness' in New York in 2013 during an interview in the lead up to her album launch.
"I was psychotic through three or four episodes while I was over there on my own," she said.
"It was very serious. Thankfully I had a good network of people to get me back safely.
"I made a promise to myself to remember everything that happened to myself. I would try to write an album that basically told my story, to give me permission to feel the feelings that I felt and the brutality that I experienced."
Mr Pearson confirmed his sister had suffered from bipolar disorder.
"That plays a big part in her issue," he said.
Detective Inspector McAlpine urged anyone with information about Ms Devine to speak with police.
"We believe there are people out there who spoke with Cecilia or saw her at the time and we urge them to come forward," he said.
"We're all wanting the same outcome - to find answers for Cecilia's loved ones. They need to know what happened to her and how she came to be where she was."
Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au.
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Tradeoffs
Apparently The New Yorker now runs web-only articles (who knew?) and one of them is this great James Surowiecki piece about the Laffer acolytes of the world. Since I've sort of blogged this general subject to death already, though, it's worth echoing a point that Hacker and Pierson make in Off Center, namely that this bogus idea about tax cuts and revenue is just one of several arrows in a quiver that's designed to obscure the existence of real tradeoffs when the subject of tax policy gets debated.
At the end of the day, it's just very hard to get people agitated about even the most regressive tax cut imaginable simply because the number of people motivated by pure resentment against the hyper-rich turns out to be pretty small. On top of that, these cuts are usually structured so as to at least throw a bone to the common man. I get $50 while some much richer person gets $50,000 and though I might wish I'd gotten more, at least I'm walking away with $50. But if the proposal on the table were structured explicitly as a choice between that and a different plan wherein the $50,050 goes to guarantee health insurance and a day care subsidy for me and for the rich guy, then suddenly the programs look like a much better deal.
Thus even when spending cuts are put on the table legislatively, it's always done as a separate piece of legislation from the tax cuts. Meanwhile moderate (i.e., vulnerable) Republicans who wouldn't necessarily embrace Lafferite dogma explicitly have a tendency to vote for tax cuts but then against the spending restraint measures required by the logic of tax cutting. Obviously, trying to avoid explicit discussion of tradeoffs is a trick of the trade beloved by politicians of all stripes all around the world, but the Laffer concept is an uncommonly effective tactic since the US press adamantly refuses to treat it as a "gaffe" when a Republican politician goes and puts patently untrue claims at the center of his economic policy.
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An Appetite for Painting @ National Museum of Norway
by etienne macret
Painting is central to the National Museum’s collections. It was the dominant medium in the museum’s exhibitions during the first half of the 20th century.
As postmodernism gained ground in the latter half of the century, painting became steadily more marginalised. In contemporary art discourse it was sometimes claimed that it had become an obsolete medium. Since the turn of the millennium, however, interest in this much maligned art form began to revive, and various indicators suggest that contemporary artists are once again embracing painting on its own terms. For the first time in fifteen years, the Museum of Contemporary Art devotes an exhibition to new contemporary painting, with an exhibition that explores a range of expressive styles that is broader now than ever before.
The new interest is global. "An appetite for Painting" joins the ranks of several recent exhibitions of contemporary painting, like "Painting Forever!" in Berlin, "Why Painting Now?" in Vienna and "Painting Now!" at Tate Britain in London.
Prior to the exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art held two major international conferences to highlight and examine contemporary painting. The first, "Paradox: Painting" was organized in collaboration with LNM (National Association Norwegian Painters) in September 2012, and the other "Painting Forever" followed in September 2013. Below is a short version of the latter of the two conferences.
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HomeLifestyleLifestyleThe Oscar de la Renta Legacy
The Oscar de la Renta Legacy
October 29, 2014 Lifestyle
On Monday November 20th, the fashion world fell silent as news broke of the passing of one of its most influential designers.
When a person hears the name Oscar de la Renta, immaculate and intricate designs appear in their imagination, the iconic ladies such as Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn and Oprah spring to mind. Not to mention the A-list celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Adams and most recently Mrs. Amal Clooney who adored de la Renta’s exquisite work.
At 82 years, Mr de la Renta accomplished more in his life than other designers would only dare to imagine. Not only did he produce beautifully structured and fantastic designs, but he also paved the way for so many other designers and the industry itself.
In 1988, de la Renta’s designs became an international phenomenon when Nancy Regan wore one of his designs at the President’s dinner. Fast forward to Paris Fashion week 1991 where Mr de la Renta is named the first American designer to showcase his work at the prestigious event. Afterward his designs were propelled into mainstream culture; everywhere from Sex and the City to the stars on the red carpet.
Yet although being associated with the Hollywood icons of the past, the designer never lost his sense of the present, and he consistently strived to create modern and fresh garments, which is most noticeably seen on Amal Clooney’s wedding day.
While this week we had to say farewell to the beloved designer, we are left with the memory that his work will continue to be equally as wonderful in future generations. “When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.” – Oscar de la Renta
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In Commentary, Issue 2017 September By Doug Luciani
The Myth of ‘Overdevelopment’
It didn’t take long for hot button issues to emerge as candidates began to come forth for this year’s Traverse City election. The city’s so-called “overdevelopment” was among the first talking points in the election run-up – making it an issue that deserves a closer look.
It’s unfortunate the extent to which this fear-based rhetoric regarding the city’s impressive growth has gained traction in some parts of the community. For whatever reason, the private and public investment Traverse City has experienced – growth many regions would give their figurative right arm for – are seen as damaging the city’s “small town character.”
But like too many sound bites and simplifications in political discourse these days, it doesn’t hold up. To assert that the city’s growth is somehow excessive begs for specifics on how what’s happened isn’t a significant improvement over what’s been replaced.
Is the Hagerty/River’s Edge/Midtown area along Cass Street a vast upgrade from an abandoned smelting plant and row of deteriorating warehouses? Are Radio Centre and the adjacent public parking deck better than the old gas station there before? Is the 101 North Park Street project preferable to the tire shop that preceded it? Is downtown more exciting with the State Theatre and City Opera House as vibrant community attractions – or was it better when downtown had no suitable performance venues? Would we prefer NMC’s Great Lakes Campus on Front Street rather than the ice house and factory site it replaced?
Are the downtown’s pedestrian- and bike-friendly streetscapes better than the crumbling and often empty sidewalks of decades past? Is Old Town improved with a public parking deck providing workers and visitors access to this unique slice of the city’s business center? Is the amazing evolution of downtown’s Warehouse District and Hall Street corridor preferable to the checkerboard of weedy lots and deteriorating eyesores being replaced?
In every instance, the answer is a resounding “yes!” And don’t even get me started on the quality of the open space compared to having a power plant sitting on it.
But don’t stop there. Taking it to the end, which area companies, jobs and residents who’ve relocated here over the past 10 to 20 years made it too “crowded” and we’d be better off without; and how much home and commercial property value would people be willing to give back to have things more “the way they used to be?”
The reality is that in many ways, the city is still “underdeveloped.” The community hasn’t kept up with building the infrastructure needed to support its commercial and residential population growth. It hasn’t created the housing stock needed across its wide income levels. Our public transportation system needs to continue its positive evolution, the education system must be maintained, and access to quality child care has never been more critical.
There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to the popularity of the Traverse City area. Unique natural features and resources, quality of life and national and international recognition as a premiere destination will shape this region for generations to come. The questions aren’t how do we turn back the clock or blunt the gains that have been made. The real progress will come from leaders – public and private – who will work to make the region the best it can be to ensure everyone in our community can share in its success.
Doug Luciani is the CEO of TraverseCONNECT and the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce. Contact him by email at doug@traverseCONNECT.org
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from Accenture Newsroom
Bouygues Construction teams with Accenture and Dassault Systèmes to accelerate the digital transformation of its construction project activities
Via Accenture Newsroom
PARIS; Dec. 12, 2017 – Bouygues Construction is accelerating the digital transformation of its project activities by collaborating with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) to enable it to centrally manage construction projects from start to finish. The initiative is a logical extension of the company’s commitment to further industrialise its operations and enhance collaboration with its supply chain partners. It follows the company’s adoption several years ago of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology, a framework for integrating technologies and processes to drive end-to-end efficiency in construction operations.
To support Bouygues Construction in this pioneering initiative for the construction industry, the three companies have signed an agreement to develop a digital environment for collaborative construction project management, based on Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, already used in other industries including automotive and aerospace.
The initiative is designed to help Bouygues Construction:
centralise information throughout the project lifecycle, from design to operation, and share it with all internal and external stakeholders,
better structure its operating methods through the use of more standardised processes.
Philippe Bonnave, Chairman and Chief Executive of Bouygues Construction, said:
“The transformation programme we are launching with Dassault Systèmes and Accenture marks a fundamental change for Bouygues Construction, signifying a modernisation of our businesses. By providing our employees and our supply chain with a digital work platform, employing all our project data across the board, this solution will guarantee greater efficiency to help us satisfy our customers’ expectations.”
Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman and CEO of Dassault Systèmes, said:
“Smart and sustainable cities include complex networks of systems that require a new way of thinking in the construction industry. Natural resources must be used more efficiently, construction costs reduced, and designers, contractors and operators brought closer together. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform gives Bouygues Construction a unique opportunity to be the pioneer in the construction sector with business processes and a holistic approach integrating the company and its supply chain into a value creation chain. Thanks to the parallel exchange of data between the virtual world and the real world, Bouygues Construction will be able to set new standards of efficiency and capture all the business value expected from its digital transformation.”
Christian Nibourel, Accenture’s Country Managing Director for France and Benelux, said: “This is one of the very first such initiatives in the construction sector. By using the latest digital technologies to enable the simultaneous collaboration of the whole ecosystem of a construction project, Bouygues Construction will have better control of costs and deadlines while minimising risks and adapting to subsequent changes in customers’ needs and in the standards in force, which can be very numerous during the construction process.”
About Bouygues Construction
Bouygues Construction is a global player in construction, with operations in more than 80 countries. It designs, builds and operates projects in the sectors of building, infrastructure and industry. As a responsible and committed leader in sustainable construction, Bouygues Construction sees innovation as its primary source of added value: this is “shared innovation” that benefits its customers at the same time as improving its productivity and the working conditions of its 50,100 employees. In 2016, Bouygues Construction generated sales of €11.8 billion.
About Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 220,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.
Bouygues Telecom,
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Men’s Soccer Extends Winning Streak to Three with 7-0 Rout of Vermont Tech
Vermont Tech
Vermont Tech (3-6-0) 0 0 0
Southern Vt. (3-7-0) 2 5 7
1st - 1:05 - Ray Awusi (Southern Vt.)
1st - 5:45 - Connor Kristiansen (Southern Vt.)
2nd - 57:20 - Jimmy Thach (Southern Vt.)
2nd - 61:35 - Nikolas Joseph (Southern Vt.)
2nd - 62:42 - Nick Langat (Southern Vt.)
2nd - 63:45 - Jared Lacoste (Southern Vt.)
2nd - 83:21 - Carlos Rivera (Southern Vt.)
Sh: Shepherd, Scott - 3
Sv: Alvin, Jonathan - 7
G: 7 Players (#2, #8, #9, #10, #11, #13, #14) - 1
Sv: Dylan Berg - 5
BENNINGTON, Vt. – A five-goal second half led the way for Southern Vermont College to walk out with a big, 7-0 win over Vermont Technical College Wednesday evening in non-conference men's soccer action at Everett Field.
The victory makes way for the Mountaineers' first three-game winning streak since October of 2015.
Southern Vermont (3-7) now looks ahead to a New England Collegiate Conference game on Saturday at Mitchell College with kickoff slated for 1 p.m. The Knights (3-6) return to Yankee Small College Conference action on Saturday with a 4 p.m. start at the University of Maine at Machias.
SVC junior captain Nikolas Joseph (Coventry, Conn.) had a great day as he assisted the eventual game winner before adding another assist and a goal of his own in the second half. Freshman Jared Lacoste (Arlington, Vt.) also had a pair of helpers and a score in the win for him to now sit at second in the NECC with 14 points on the year.
Mountaineer freshman keeper Dylan Berg (Tampa, Fla) registered his first collegiate shutout while making five saves in the win (3-7). His freshman counterpart Jonathan Alvin finished with seven saves in the loss.
It was just 1:05 into the game when Southern Vermont would get—what proved to be—all that was needed for the victory. Joseph made a long run with the ball up the right edge of the pitch before cutting back across the top of the box; his attempt at net would be saved, but a rebound opportunity fell in front of freshman Ray Awusi (Gaithersburg, Md.) who got dirty and slid it home before the VTC keeper could corral it. Awusi's second score of the year ended up being his second game winner in the last week and also of the campaign.
The Mountaineers extended their lead less than five minutes later with Lacoste's first assist of the day. He carried the ball deep down the left side of the field before playing it backwards and towards the middle to sophomore Connor Kristiansen (Shelton, Conn.); Kristiansen took two touches to settle and set up his shot from 25 yards, and he fired a great take that dropped into the upper-right side of the frame for his first of the season.
That would be all of the goals in the first half, however, as the teams played a scoreless 39:15 to finish out the opening stanza. The SVC defense helped the hosts maintain momentum as it allowed just five total shots (two on net) in the period.
It took the Mountaineers over 12 minutes after play resumed to find the back of the cage once again, but once they did, the team scored four goals in a span of 6:25 of clock time. The first of those came when sophomore captain Lee Dennis (Chocorua, N.H.) played a great pass down the gut and through the Knight defense; freshman Jimmy Thach (Phoenix, Ariz.) read the play perfectly and was already in mid-stride to meet the ball once it got into the clearing. Thach used his first touch to hit a shot from the top of the box into the lower-left corner of the frame for his second of the year to come in the 58th minute.
Just over four minutes later, Joseph got his first of the season to go for the 4-0 upper hand. Lacoste took a pass from Thach at the top-left edge of the box, went at a defender, and played a square pass along the 18; Joseph ran on and met it with the keeper coming at him, and he fired a shot into the upper-right part of the net.
1:07 later in the 63rd minute, freshman Nick Langat (Silver Spring, Md.) got on the scoresheet with his second of the year. Classmate Esteban De La Cruz (Granada Hills, Calif.) hit a free kick from 57 yards away—a soaring ball that went all the way to the left side of the six-yard box; Langat leapt up and put his head on it to pop the ball across the frame and over the keeper for the 5-0 advantage.
The scoreboard could barely keep up as SVC changed it once again just 1:03 later. Langat played the ball into the middle of the box from the left side of the field, and Joseph met it there to switch directions and get Alvin to leave the net open. Joseph sent the ball back towards the goal, and Lacoste came sprinting on to leave it undoubted for his sixth of the year.
The Mountaineer offense wasn't done yet as it capped the scoring with one final tally in the 84th minute. A cross was sent in from the left side of the field to the back of the penalty area where sophomore Carlos Rivera (Washington, D.C.) was waiting. It ricocheted off him and a VTC defender, but Rivera got to it again and poked it home for his first collegiate goal.
– #LetsGoSVC –
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Home » Attractions » Kids » Sydney Olympic Park
The Sydney Olympic Park is an iconic sporting and entertainment venue located in the western part of Sydney city. The park’s name makes it synonymous with one of the most significant sports events globally – the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. These games marked the park as a hub for world-class events in the entertainment field as well as in the sports arena.
The park is home to many venues. These include ANZ Stadium, the Sydney Showground, the aquatic centre, as well as the archery centre.
Sydney Olympic Park, Accommodation, Hotels, Restaurants & Parking Map, NSW
In addition to this, there are fields available for hockey, mini golf and volleyball. These unique collections mean that all sports lovers meet at the park for the sporting experience of a lifetime.
It is no surprise therefore, that the park hosts major sporting events and matches all through the year. Catch up with all the action as both local and global athletes gear up for different titles in their respective fields. These include the rugby union, tennis, soccer and the AFL (Australian Football League).
As an entertainment centre, it is little surprise that a vast array of events are held here. These include the Sydney Royal Easter Show, the Sydney Festival, music festivals, as well as the extravagant Supanova Pop culture Expo. For game lovers who appreciate good entertainment, the EB Games Expo has been held on site from 2012 to-date.
As a vibrant cultural hub in the heart of Sydney, the park is home to a significant program in arts and is the most prominent art collection made public. Visit the Armory Gallery and Theatre for all things art. Additional features include a state of the art theatre, an artist studio and even a BMX track for cycling enthusiasts. For those after a bit more excitement, the Monster Skate Park is a fun place for an adventure.
One of the best things about visiting the Sydney Olympic Park is the availability of accommodation that makes it a one-stop destination for holidaymakers in Sydney. These include Hotel Ibis and Novotel, Pullman Hotel, as well as the Ibis Budget Hotel. So, whether you would love to cheer on your favourite team or enjoy skating at the park this place is a must visit.
Click on the link below to find great accommodation options nearby.
Sydney Olympic Park Images & Photos
Sydney Olympic Park Map
Sydney Olympic Park Information
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Original article published here
In the context of universal health coverage, gender takes on two dimensions and, without due consideration to both, the movement’s progress will be severely limited
By Ilona Kickbusch
Universal health coverage, as the essential foundation for attaining health for all, has long been seen as an issue for national or even sub-national governments. At the international level, it has largely been left to the World Health Organization, its regional affiliates and the members’ health ministers that govern these bodies to provide the necessary encouragement and practical support.
Universal health coverage is a very tangible thing – its presence (or absence) is experienced by people in a community in so many ways. First, when available, it provides a feeling of security. In its essence, it means that there is support available should a person experience a health problem – support that will not endanger the economic survival of the household, and will not hinder access based on factors such as sexual orientation, ethnicity or migrant status. We look too frequently to health policies only to ensure the right to health, whereas a complex web of policy decisions requires attention as many elements intersect.
That is why it is important that heads of state and government are fully aware of the many political dimensions of universal health coverage. The political choices they must make include many different and often highly controversial policy agendas.
One central and often overlooked policy dimension is gender. Economists and development specialists highlight the historical opportunity of a youth dividend in many developing countries. Yet the gender dividend – particularly relevant for health – has not yet gained the attention it deserves.
Universal health coverage is inextricably linked to many other features of a society – especially its economic development and social cohesion. The economists in this book argue forcefully for this. That is why the strategy of many health advocates has been to reach out to finance ministers to invest more in health. This is also a key feature of Japan’s G20 activities in 2019 to support universal health coverage.
But if we consider that countries must also invest better, there is one defining feature that moves to the centre: gender. It has two key dimensions: addressing gender equality in health systems design and delivery and in the health workforce. ‘Women in Global Health’ has summarised this in a simple message: universal health coverage will not be achieved anywhere without addressing gender equality, women’s rights and the role of women in the global health workforce.
Economic growth, finance, employment and education
The World Bank draws attention to the fact that societies can only substantially boost their gross domestic product if they increase female workforce participation. Most of the people working every day delivering health care – front-line health workers, community health workers, community nurses, service delivery providers – are women. Half of women’s contribution to global health is unpaid as part of their family duties. Health workers play an integral role in improving health and supporting the wider economy.
A deeper understanding of the gendered composition of the health and social workforce is imperative to achieve efficient, effective, resilient and sustainable health systems. Unless societies invest in the education and workforce participation of their girls and women, they will not be able to resolve the challenges they face in expanding universal health coverage, which in turn relies on being able to meet other demands for economic growth. In health – as in other workplaces – work needs to be decent and well paid and workplaces need to be safe.
And a wide range of ministries need to be engaged far beyond the health sector to address social norms – such as the age of marriage, women’s right to decide to work, the gender division of labour as well as many of the other structural barriers that keep women out of the workforce. Ministries of justice and constitutional courts can play a pivotal role in taking these agendas forward.
The World Health Organization recently reported that globally total health spending is growing faster than GDP. It is increasing more rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (close to 6% on average) than in high-income countries (4%). The global health economy is one of the fastest growing investment sectors, and global healthcare expenditures are likely to continue rising as spending is projected to increase from $7,724 trillion in 2017 to $10,059 trillion in 2020.
In middle-income countries, average per capita public spending on health has doubled since 2000, as these countries progress in their transition to domestic funding. With this health coverage expansion, the demand for health workers is expected to double to 80 million health workers by 2030. But if present trends continue, that expansion may well be thwarted by a shortfall of 18 million health workers, primarily in low- and lower-middle income countries.
This situation applies especially to nurses and midwives, who account for nearly 50% of the global health workforce.
Already today 50% of WHO members report having less than three nursing and midwifery personnel per 1,000 population, and about 25% report having less than one per 1,000. As policies for universal health coverage are put into place, the role of the health sector as among the biggest and fastest growing employers of women – estimated at 70% of the health workforce – must be central to any development plan.
Investments in the health and social workforce creates much-needed jobs for women, contributes to their economic independence and is part of a societal dynamic to improve their role in society. This requires the full involvement of the education sector to ensure that girls are provided with the educational opportunities and the professional training to participate in the health labour force.
Ministries of labour also need to be fully involved in addressing the growing demand for health workers in all countries. Effective health labour market policies need to be developed and to consider the root causes – such as gender – of key workforce challenges. There will need to be strategic investment to remove structural barriers that presently do not allow women to take on senior leadership positions.
Migration, refugees and asylum seekers
Ministries of labour will also be confronted with regulating an increasing migrant health workforce, with female nurses globally making up the dominant number of health worker migrants. This often includes managing migration and improving the retention of health workers at the same time, or, as in some countries, explicitly training health workers for export.
Implementing the 2010 WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel requires extensive intersectoral cooperation – including the ministry of foreign affairs, as bilateral agreements are crafted between countries that need to be based on it to ensure fairness and social justice for all health workers and professionals and to ensure their rights in the receiving and sending countries. New initiatives at the global level such as ‘Nursing Now’ are focusing on the required policies.
Tensions can emerge particularly in countries that receive high remittances from health workers abroad. Gender dynamics play out here as well: a not inconsiderable part of the estimated $465 billion in remittances flowing into developing countries comes from women health workers abroad. Women migrants tend to remit higher proportions of their income and do so more frequently than do male migrants. They also tend to allocate more resources for the benefit of their children, which is critical for the intergenerational effects of social development. Increasingly tax, banking and insurance laws are being adjusted to take these factors into account.
Countries will need to establish supportive working and living environments and opportunities for professional growth so that health workers are less likely to migrate. Unless this is done with a clear understanding of the role and needs of women in the health workforce, no such strategy will be successful. One way is to involve representatives from the extensive female health workforce in shaping these plans. This means including not only female doctors, nurses and midwifes but also the community health workers – paid and unpaid – in decision making.
The new initiative ‘Communities at the heart of UHC’ is leading an effort to elevate the visibility of community health in the context of universal health coverage and provide women community health workers with voice and leadership roles. That critical dialogue shines a light on the need to provide paid work for women. As one community health worker said, “In Ethiopia we have managed to push out a very strong community agenda with CHWs at the heart of health care delivery because Ethiopia as a country made a political commitment to integrate CHWs into the formal health system and compensate them. Therefore, we are held accountable by the fact that we are salaried, which in most African countries is not the case; CHWs are volunteers. Why don’t other countries pay their CHWs so that they can be held accountable too and deliver results for UHC?”
Addressing the gender dimension and dividend of universal health coverage lets us understand better the span of the challenge between community health care and the cross-border dimensions of universal health coverage. Such factors – which again are highly gendered – include in particular the global care chains and the growing number of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, many of them women. A quick glance shows us that:
As the absolute numbers of those migrating to work in health and care abroad increases, a ‘care drain’ is created in the global South, in poorer parts of the European Union and other developing regions, and in the rural areas of countries with large internal (rural–urban) migration. This tilts care resources towards cities and the global North, as WHO’s Women on the Move illustrates.
Many of the 258 million international migrants and 763 million internally displaced people lack proper access to health services as well as financial protection. Many migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls have been exposed to various forms of gender-based violence. Due consideration needs to be given to their needs and circumstances and gender-responsive measures should be adopted.
The UHC2030 global asks call on political leaders to legislate, invest and collaborate with all of society to make universal health coverage a reality. If this is done with keeping the principles of gender equality and equity in access in mind and acknowledging the role of women as 70% of the health workforce when formulating policies, then societies will reap a tremendous gender dividend.
Investing in programmes that improve income-generating activities for women can return $7 for every single dollar spent. Apply this to the health sector, where the social benefits generated can be manifold if they are part of a strategy to build quality health systems that people and communities trust.
The Sustainable Development Goals – especially SDG 5 to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’ – reiterate that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Advancing gender equality is critical to all aspects of a healthy society, from reducing poverty to promoting the health, education, protection and well-being of all. This is an agenda that the upcoming G20, G7, United Nations and other high-level meetings need to take up with determination.
Re-imagining health systems for better health and social justice
The theme for the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems...
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Trump suggests that US recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. accept Russia's annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State militants.
That view runs counter to the Obama administration, which imposed economic sanctions against Russia for annexing the territory in Ukraine two years ago. The United Nations also doesn't want countries to recognize Crimea as part of Russia, and some top Republicans staunchly defend Crimea against what they consider Russian aggression.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Trump suggested that the people of Crimea would rather be part of Russia. However, the U.S. hasn't recognized the legitimacy of Russian referendums in Crimea and believes they were not conducted fairly.
Trump also said he wasn't involved in the effort that softened support in the Republican Party platform on assisting Ukraine. Although the platform is not pro-Russia, Trump supporters succeeded in preventing a reference to arming Ukraine from being added.
In the past, Trump's campaign manager, political strategist Paul Manafort, lobbied on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, a Ukrainian president and supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Manafort has said neither he nor anyone else with the Trump campaign pushed for the platform changes.
In response to other questions about U.S.-Russia relations, Trump dismissed suggestions that he has any kind of relationship with Putin, saying he has neither met Putin nor spoken on the phone with him. Asked why he had said several times in the past that he had a relationship with Putin, Trump said he doesn't know what "having a relationship" means.
"He has said nice things about me over the years," Trump said of Putin. "I remember years ago, he said something, many years ago, he said something very nice about me. I said something good about him when (broadcaster) Larry King was on. This was a long time ago."
Trump said it would be a "great thing" if the United States got along with Russia and if Russia would help fight the Islamic State group.
"We'll have a better relationship with Russia," he said. "And having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing."
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Improv, Sketch, Stand-up: A Guide
August 13, 2017 by Amber Petty
Comedy. It’s just making people laugh, right? Turns out there’s a bit more to it than that. Since you’ll probably be exploring the city’s comedic potential during TodayTix Comedy Month, here’s a little more info on what makes each type of comedy unique.
Improv Comedy
Photo Credit: UCB
The most common question improv actors are asked after a performance is, “But who wrote the show?” The answer is: no one! Improv is comedy that’s completely made up on the spot. Some shows have a half hour of comedy inspired by one word from the audience, while others might begin with an interview with a stranger and the cast will perform an improvised show based on that interview. It’s funny, surprising, and often the most hilarious stuff you’ll ever see. “Yeah, but who really wrote the jokes?” you may ask. I promise, it’s not written, the performers are just that good.
Photo Credit: The Second City
If you’re not sure about improv, you might want to try the more familiar comedic form — sketch. If you’ve ever seen Saturday Night Live, you’ve seen sketch! In sketch, a team performs short written scenes. The scenes may be entirely unrelated, all connected to a theme, or tell an overarching story. No matter what, it’s always hilarious. Though you won’t get Broadway-quality set design, you will get more characters, props, and costumes than your average improv show. The best part is that when you see a sketch show in a big city, you can be pretty sure you’re seeing at least one actor before they break into the big time.
Photo Credit: NY Comedy Club
Stand-up is probably the most popular type of live comedy. It involves a comedian, a microphone, and jokes. Standing up is optional (wokka wokka). If you haven’t seen a stand up show since Jerry Seinfeld hit the scene, now is a great time to check it out. Stand up has come a long way from airplane food jokes and “What’s the deal with…” material, and you can see the best in their prime seven days a week.
Want to explore stand-up, sketch, and/or improv? Well gee whiz, lucky you! It’s TodayTix Comedy Month after all, where comedy tix are no-fee from August 10 – 31.
Comedy Month
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Archaeological Sites in Israel >
The Sea of Galilee (the Kinneret) is a magnificent geographical marvel surrounded by pretty rural agricultural settlements. Famous because of its prominence among New Testament writings (as is the whole of the Galilee as the place Jesus lived), the Sea of Galilee is one of the earliest settled areas in the Land of Israel and boasts archaeological ruins sitting alongside some of the first pioneering settlements in Israel, as well as religious sites, modern cities, and endless outdoor pursuits.
Places to visit at the Sea of Galilee
Net Fishing in the Sea of Galilee. Courtesy of James Emery via Flickr
Whilst Tiberias, the largest city around the Sea of Galilee, and a holy city in Judaism, is nothing special in itself, it is here that you can visit the Tiberias Hot Springs, ancient pools filled with water from 17 natural springs, for some pampering. The springs also have massage and mud treatments and Turkish Baths. From Tiberias, and elsewhere on the lake, it is possible to rent a bike and cycle around the Sea of Galilee. The region also has loads of hiking trails, including Sea of Galilee Trail which encircles the lake (and can be biked along), and the Jesus Trail which runs from Nazareth to the ancient, and Biblically important site of Capernaum, on the northern shores of the Sea of Galilee.
The coolest place we know around the Sea of Galilee is Rob Roy’s Canoes. Near Kibbutz Kinneret, and on the banks of the Jordan River south of the lake, this oasis is a relaxing spot. Canoes can be hired for the lake, or you can just sit on a bedouin rug, with Bob Marley music playing in the background, under the shade of a tent, and watch the water flow through a river which is so steeped in and important in the history of the world. Nearby, Kibbutz Degania, the earliest kibbutz in Israel, is an interesting place to visit.
Jesus Boat on the Sea of Galilee. Courtesy of Allan Lee via Flickr
For an extreme view of the Sea of Galilee, above the Eastern shores of the lake, Switzerland is a forest and driving trail. Suitable for all cars, this tarmacked road affords fantastic views of the lake. And for a more unique way of exploring the lake itself, take a Jesus Boat, which is a wooden boat in the style of the time of Jesus for a ride on the lake and get a unique perspective of the geography and scenery, in surroundings which are out of the Bible.
About 5 miles east of the Sea of Galilee is Hamat Gader – Hot Springs one of Israel’s most popular attractions. With mineral springs of up to 50 degrees, there have been ancient baths here for almost 2000 years. There is also an alligator and exotic bird reserve!
There are lots of open access points to the beaches surrounding the Sea of Galilee, although these are unserviced. If you dont require facilities, the best beach is Tsemach Beach on the eastern shore, where you can also rent basic facilities for a small fee.
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New archeology wing at Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. June 27, 2018
Belvoir Fortress
Visiting the Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock
Tel Gezer & Carmei Yosef
Jerusalem Tours
Masada & Dead Sea Tours
Petra & Jordan Tours
Northern Israel Tours
Israel Tour Packages
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2680 Grants Villa Rd, Victoria, KS 67671
Originally a successful silk merchant, George Grant came to America in 1872 in search of a place to build a country estate on which to retire. What he discovered was a new vision to turn the country into a major agricultural and livestock producing area. So, in the fall of 1872, Grant purchased 700,000 acres from the Kansas Pacific Railroad and then returned to England to organize a colony of British and Scotch noblemen. The group left England on April 1, 1873 with the necessary provisions, including several head of black polled Aberdeen bulls, a red shorthorn bull, thirty sheep and some horses. Upon their return to the area, Grant named the city after Queen Victoria, and he and his companions began construction on homes and town buildings.Grant’s hope for a country estate wasn’t forgotten in all of this. His Villa became the center of social activities during the rest of his life and the original structure, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, remains today. The house and surrounding land has been in the Paul and Lucy Baier family for over one hundred years, ever since it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Moritz Baier from Grant’s niece and her family in the spring of 1897. Although there have been some updates made in the home, the original structure made of native limestone is still intact. Black Angus cattle even still roam the pasture land around the Villa. The Baiers welcome guests to the Villa either for a simple drive through or for a pre-arranged guided tour. It is their hope to preserve the memory of George Grant and his contributions to the agricultural life of Western Kansas.Guided tours available by appointment.
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Neo-Gothic Metropolitan Building Becomes First Michigan Element Hotel
Home Featured Neo-Gothic Metropolitan Building Becomes First Michigan Element Hotel
DETROIT—Element Hotels, part of Marriott International, along with Detroit-based Roxbury Group and Means Group, announced the opening of Element Detroit at the Metropolitan, marking the debut of the stylish and eco-focused hotel brand in Michigan. The hotel, which has been incorporated into a renovated 92-year-old neo-Gothic building in the heart of Detroit’s entertainment district, aims to fuel a balanced life for travelers on the road. Designed for today’s healthy, active traveler, Element Hotels has redefined the longer stay experience with a nature-inspired design philosophy that is clean, modern and bright.
“We are thrilled to be bringing Element Hotels to Michigan for the first time with the opening of this property that is steeped in so much history,” said Toni Stoeckl, Vice President, Distinctive Select Service Brands, Marriott International. “The Metropolitan has sat vacant for nearly 40 years and was destined for demolition, making the opening particularly special for us—we’re so excited to have played a role in bringing this iconic building back to life for the city of Detroit.”
The Metropolitan Building, was originally opened in 1925 and previously was a destination for jewelers and shoppers alike. The Element Detroit at the Metropolitan boasts 110 studio and one-bedroom guestrooms. The hotel will also be home to a rooftop bar and patio, The Monarch Club at The Metropolitan, with private event space and unparalleled views of downtown Detroit and Comerica Park, the home of the Detroit Tigers. The Monarch Club will be the first of three food and beverage venues to open in the building and is slated to debut in the first quarter of this year. The property is being managed by Azul Hospitality of San Diego.
Storefronts of Jewelry Stores Preserved
Care was taken throughout the renovation process to preserve as many of the original features of the building as possible, including the exterior façade, an ornate vaulted ceiling in the interior lobby, interior decorative stair cases, and original terrazzo flooring on the guest corridors. The original storefronts of the jewelry stores have also been preserved on the second floor and repurposed as meeting rooms.
“The restoration and rebirth of this building with the Element Detroit at the Metropolitan as its centerpiece is a testament to the resilient spirit of Detroit,” said David Di Rita, Co-founder and Principal of The Roxbury Group. “When the building closed 40 years ago, it would have been hard for Detroiters of that era to have imagined that it would come back to life in this way, particularly with so many of its beautiful original features still intact. We’re delighted to be able to offer Detroit’s first extended-stay hotel to the city’s residents and visitors and look forward to adding some fantastic social destinations to our increasingly vibrant Theatre District soon.”
The new hotel provides guests with many eco-friendly amenities that are an important part of the Element Hotels experience. It features decor and artwork from repurposed and recycled materials, low VOC paint, and every light bulb in the building is LED. All guestrooms provide travelers with a filtered water system within each room. In the bathroom, guests will find low-flow faucets and toilets, as well as environmentally conscious body lotion, shampoo, conditioner and soap, containing certified organic ingredients by Pharmacopia, an all-natural vegan and cruelty-free brand. The hotel’s standard rooms are outfitted with a mini-fridge, microwave and sink, while the studios and one-bedroom guestrooms are outfitted with a refrigerator, sink, microwave, dishwasher and two burner cooktops.
The hotel also features more than 5,000 square feet of meeting space, including three event rooms for conferences and gatherings, and 7,000 square feet of ground floor and lower level retail space.
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Volunteers an integral part of Merriment on Main festivities
Kimberly K. Fu — The Reporter Dorothy Aschenbrenner, volunteer and staff member with the Vacaville Police Department, enjoys her volunteer time with Merriment on Main.
Kimberly K. Fu — The Reporter Bob Hewitt with the Vaca Valley Radio Club translated his ham radio skills into a form of outreach as a Merriment on Main volunteer.
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PUBLISHED: November 16, 2017 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2018 at 12:00 am
Like cogs in the clocks counting down the minutes left until Christmas, volunteers are an integral part of the annual Merriment on Main festivities in Vacaville.
Just ask Bob Hewitt and Dorothy Aschenbrenner, who have been enmeshed in the annual tree lighting event with their respective groups for years.
“Just seeing the excitement of all the people coming together,” Aschenbrenner mused. “I’m going to take my grandson this year.”
Slated for the night of Nov. 28, the 3-year-old will enjoy the fun even more because his grandma is off this year, allowing her to take in Merriment in a different way.
A volunteer with the Vacaville Police Department since 2009, Aschenbrenner first embarked on her Merriment assignment three years later.
It was fun, she said, as she and another volunteer roamed downtown Vacaville together, eyeing the crowds and ensuring that all was well.
“One of us would carry a radio and radio in what we see,” she advised. “We’re there specifically to help with the crowd control.”
Her first year, she was surprised by the congestion near the Merriment Christmas tree.
But as the event has grown, foot traffic plans have been tweaked to ensure improved traffic flow.
Always, she said, she’s taken by the beauty of the tree and the festive surroundings. But she can never dwell on the sights and sounds because her focus is elsewhere.
“It’s a serious thing,” she said, of being a volunteer representing the Police Department. “We’re always looking (around).”
Hewitt’s focus is equally laser sharp.
A ham radio on hand and his glasses smartly perched on his nose, the Vaca Valley Radio Club member and Navy veteran adds an extra layer of security to Merriment.
“I enjoy doing public service stuff,” he shared. “I’ve been doing this since the 1990s.”
Keeping an eye on the crowd was a whole different ballgame back in the day.
“There were no cell phones then,” he said, which made it hard to call in a potential issue.
Which is why ham radios are still all the rage, it seems, because they still work.
“I’ll be carrying a $30 one in my pocket,” he advised.
Volunteers are everywhere, he said, though he’ll be at a command post helping to transmit messages.
Representatives from all manner of agencies will be there, he said, passing on various transmissions to the people who need to get them.
Outside, other volunteers will act as extra “eyes and ears,” he said, perhaps even patrol with their spouses.
It’s a fun event that allows him to use his skills, he said, adding that he built his first transmitter in 1952 and honed his technique through the years.
He’s yet to come across a serious issue at Merriment, he said, and enjoys the community interaction.
Merriment, both volunteers said, is the place to be this season.
“I would just encourage the community to come and enjoy the family spirit, the family atmosphere,” Aschenbrenner said.
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Commission Details Why War on Drugs Must End
By The Skanner News
NEW YORK – A high-level international panel slammed the war on drugs as a failure Thursday and called on governments to undertake experiments to decriminalize the use of drugs, especially marijuana, to undermine the power of organized crime.
Compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, the report concludes that criminalization and repressive measures have failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.
"Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won," the report said.
The 19-member commission includes former presidents of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia, Greece's prime minister, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former U.S. officials George P. Schultz and Paul Volcker, the writers Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, and British billionaire Richard Branson.
At a news conference launching the report, former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who chairs the commission, said ending the war on drugs does not imply complete liberalization.
"The fact is that the war on drugs is a failure," he said. "Being a failure is not saying that you have nothing to do with drugs. You have to act. The drug are infiltrating the local power in several parts of the world. Corruption is increasing and the consumption of drugs is also increasing."
Cardoso said the commission's goal is "to open a debate and to say: Stop the war on drugs and let's be more constructive in trying to reduce the consumption."
Instead of punishing drug users, the commission argues that governments should "end the criminalization, marginalization and stigmatization of people who use drugs but who do no harm to others."
The commission urged governments to experiment "with models of legal regulation of drugs to undermine the power of organized crime and safeguard the health and security of their citizens." It said this recommendation applies especially to marijuana.
Cardoso said the commission called for regulation rather than legalization "because we don't think that's the moment's come for legalization." Even regulation and decriminalization are not a solution, he said, unless they are accompanied by information, publicity campaigns, and improved health care and treatment.
Branson, speaking at the press conference, highlighted the drug wars' high cost.
"It's estimated that over one trillion have been spent on fighting this unwinnable battle," Branson said. "The irony is that a regulated market — one that is tightly controlled, one that would offer support not prison to those with drug problems — would cost tax payers much less money."
The report called for drug policies based on methods empirically proven to reduce crime, lead to better health and promote economic and social development.
The commission is especially critical of the United States, which its members say must lead changing its anti-drug policies from being guided by anti-crime approaches to ones rooted in health care and human rights.
"We hope this country (the U.S.) at least starts to think there are alternatives," former Colombian president Cesar Gaviria told The Associated Press by phone. "We don't see the U.S. evolving in a way that is compatible with our (countries') long-term interests."
The office of White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said the report was misguided.
"Drug addiction is a disease that can be successfully prevented and treated. Making drugs more available — as this report suggests — will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe," Office of National Drug Control Policy spokesman Rafael Lemaitre said.
That office cites statistics showing declines in U.S. drug use compared to 30 years ago, along with a more recent 46 percent drop in current cocaine use among young adults over the last five years.
The report cited U.N. estimates that opiate use increased 34.5 percent worldwide and cocaine 27 percent from 1998 to 2008, while the use of cannabis, or marijuana, was up 8.5 percent.
Gaviria responded to the White House criticism saying there is agreement with the U.S. on reducing consumption, and the drug czar agrees that the phrase "war on drugs" doesn't help produce good policy.
"But they need to go further," Gaviria told reporters. "They need to mobilize resources from law enforcement ... (and) to move from the jail system to education, treatment and the health system. Just changing language is not enough."
Several European members of the commission cited evidence from Portugal, Germany, Switzerland and other countries that shifting from criminalizing drug users to treating and supporting them has reduced drug deaths and has either stabilized or reduced drug use.
Marion Caspers-Merk, a former German health official, said there are four pillars to tackle drug use — invest in prevention, invest in better treatment, implement "harm reduction programs" like methodone and needle exchanges, and law enforcement.
At the press conference, the commission received an online petition collected by the global campaigning organization Avaaz and signed by 544,961 people from countries all over the world calling for an end to the war on drugs and backing its recommendations.
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Simon Callow to direct Shakespeare anniversary gala at Southbank Centre
Simon Callow will both direct and perform in the concert at the Southbank Centre. Photo: Piers Allardyce
by David Hutchison - Jan 22, 2015
Simon Callow is to direct a gala concert at the Southbank Centre to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, as part of the centre’s new classical music season.
The concert will feature “leading actors” performing readings from Shakespeare’s plays, with one from Callow himself. The other actors involved have not yet been confirmed.
Taking place in the Royal Festival Hall on April 23, the gala will be set to music inspired by the playwright’s texts from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
The line-up for the 2015/16 season was announced by the Southbank Centre’s artistic director Jude Kelly, who revealed a new festival at the London venue that promises to explore the link between artists’ creativity and mental health.
Altered Minds: Arts, Health, and Mental States will take place at the centre in February, and follows the launch of the Arts and Minds initiative last year, which aims to raise awareness of mental health issues in the entertainment sector.
Elsewhere, Opera North will bring their production of Wagner’s complete Ring cycle to the centre for the first time, running over four nights from June 28 to July 3.
Speaking about the new season, Kelly said: “We constantly seek to reinvent the notion of what a concert hall should be and do, whether that means providing a platform to discuss mental health…or presenting stunning dramatic performances of opera in a way that speaks directly to audiences.”
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Tekmira Strengthens Senior Leadership Team With Key Executive Appointments In Corporate Affairs, Chemistry And Biology
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 18, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq:TKMR), an industry-leading therapeutic solutions company focused on developing a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection (HBV), today announced three executive appointments: Adam Cutler has been appointed Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs; Dr. Bruce Dorsey has been appointed Vice President, Chemistry; and Dr. Rene Cornelis Rijnbrand has been appointed Vice President, Biology. Each of these executives brings to Tekmira broad biopharmaceutical industry experience and a track record of success, with complementary skills and talents that strengthen the Company's senior leadership team.
"We are delighted to welcome Adam, Bruce and Rene to our executive team at this exciting time in Tekmira's evolution and emergence as an HBV solutions company," said Dr. Mark J. Murray, Tekmira's President and CEO. "Adam has an unparalleled reputation as a top-ranked biotechnology sell-side analyst and advisor, with extensive experience in capital formation, corporate positioning and reputation management. Bruce and Rene each has more than 10 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, leading high-profile discovery research teams spanning multiple therapeutic areas, with strong focus on virology and HBV. Tekmira's leadership team today is comprised of highly creative, productive and accomplished professionals with a shared commitment to advancing novel, combination therapeutic solutions and establishing Tekmira as a global industry leader pioneering a cure for HBV."
Adam Cutler joins Tekmira from The Trout Group LLC and Trout Capital LLC, where he successfully executed financings and advised a wide range of life science companies on investor relations, business development, and capital raising strategy. Mr. Cutler spent almost 12 years as a sell-side analyst with firms including Credit Suisse, Canaccord Genuity, JMP Securities, and Banc of America Securities, with prior analytical and consulting experience at The Frankel Group and Ernst & Young, Healthcare Consulting. Mr. Cutler holds a BA in Economics from Brandeis University.
Bruce Dorsey was most recently Vice President, Chemistry with OnCore Biopharma, focusing on HBV and building the company's US operations. Dr. Dorsey previously held senior-level positions with Teva Pharmaceuticals, Cephalon, Locus Discovery and Merck & Co, where his therapeutic focus included virology, oncology, CNS, inflammatory and gastrointestinal disorders, and pain. He has been the recipient of multiple grants, academic and professional honors, has published more than 60 scientific papers and has been an inventor on more than 40 patents. Notably, Dr. Dorsey is an inventor of CRIXIVAN TM, an HIV protease inhibitor which works by blocking the replication of HIV. The impact of CRIXIVAN TM on HIV/AIDS was acknowledged with two distinguished awards; a gold medal from The American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (1999) and the PhRMA Discoverers Award (1999). Dr. Dorsey holds a BA in chemistry from Rutgers University, a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and at Yale University.
Rene Rijnbrand most recently served as Vice President and Head of Biology at OnCore Biopharma, where he led efforts in virology and immunology to develop curative approaches for chronic HBV infections. He previously directed the virology program at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and at Immusol/Itherex Pharmaceuticals. He also held academic positions in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Rijnbrand is the recipient of academic honors and awards, and is an author on nearly 40 publications and an inventor on six patents. He holds an MSc from the University of Utrecht and a PhD from the University of Leiden, Netherlands
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and forward looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements in this press release include statements about three new executive appointments; advancing novel, combination therapeutic solutions and establishing Tekmira as a global industry leader pioneering a cure for HBV; the potential of RNAi and LNP technology; and Tekmira's intent to maximize the value of their non-HBV assets.
With respect to the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, Tekmira has made numerous assumptions regarding, among other things: the continued availability, suitability, and willingness to serve of the three new executives; stability of economic and market conditions; and the continued demand for Tekmira's assets. While Tekmira considers these assumptions to be reasonable, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, market and social uncertainties and contingencies.
Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause Tekmira's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Known risk factors include, among others: economic and market conditions may worsen; the three new executives may become unable, unsuitable, or unwilling to serve Tekmira; anticipated pre-clinical and clinical trials may be more costly or take longer to complete than anticipated, and may never be initiated or completed, or may not generate results that warrant future development of the tested drug candidate; Tekmira may not receive the necessary regulatory approvals for the clinical development of Tekmira's products; and market shifts may require a change in strategic focus.
CONTACT: Investors Julie P. Rezler Director, Investor Relations Phone: 604-419-3200 Email: jrezler@tekmira.com Media Please direct all media inquiries to: media@tekmira.com
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Tekmira Provides Corporate Update And Announces First Quarter 2015 Results
Conference Call at 4:30 pm Eastern Time Today
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq:TKMR), an industry-leading therapeutic solutions company focused on developing a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection (HBV), today announced its first quarter 2015 audited financial results and provided a corporate update.
"Since the closing of the merger between Tekmira and OnCore on March 4, 2015, we have integrated our combined teams and strengthened our balance sheet with a $152 million equity financing," said Dr. Mark J. Murray, Tekmira's President and CEO. "We are working diligently to progress our HBV product pipeline and we are committed to maximizing the value of our non-HBV assets."
Recent Company Highlights
As a result of Tekmira's merger with OnCore BioPharma, the company today is focused on developing a cure for HBV by combining multiple therapeutic approaches. Uniquely in the industry, Tekmira has eight drug candidates (or assets) under one roof targeting HBV;
On March 25, 2015, Tekmira completed an underwritten public offering of 7.5 million common shares at a price of US$20.25 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately US$152 million;
Tekmira reported positive preclinical data with two product candidates:
TKM-Ebola-Guinea, which demonstrated 100% survival of nonhuman primates infected with the West Africa Makona strain of the Ebola virus, previously referred to as the Guinea strain. The results were published in Nature, April 22, 2015 and were presented at the 7th International Symposium of Filoviruses in Washington DC;
TKM-HTG for the treatment of severe hypertriglyceridemia. The results demonstrated super-additive effects on plasma triglyceride lowering by silencing ApoC3 and ANGPTL3 genes; and were presented at the Keystone Symposia Conference on Liver Metabolism and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases in Whistler, Canada.
The FDA modified the partial clinical hold on Tekmira's Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for TKM-Ebola to allow repeat dosing of healthy volunteers in the Phase I study;
Tekmira's partner, Alnylam, announced on April 21, 2015, positive 12-month clinical data from the ongoing Phase 2 open-label extension (OLE) study with LNP-enabled patisiran in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). Importantly, the results demonstrate that multi-dosing using Tekmira's LNP technology has been well-tolerated with treatments out to 17 months.
Upcoming 2015 Pipeline Milestones
HBV Assets
TKM-HBV (RNAi) – Phase I trial assessing the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics is ongoing in healthy subjects. Phase I results and selection of an LNP formulation to advance into a multi-dosing trial is expected in 2H 2015;
OCB-030 (cyclophilin inhibitor) – Preclinical activities are ongoing with an expected IND, or equivalent filing, planned for year end 2015;
CYT-003 (TLR 9 agonist) – Initiation of preclinical studies is anticipated in 1H 2015. Pending positive preclinical results, Tekmira expects to advance CYT-003 into clinical studies leveraging the existing safety database already accumulated in prior studies and open INDs.
Non HBV Assets
TKM-PLK1 – Final data are expected to be reported in 2H 2015 from Phase IIa development programs in gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors (GI-NET) and adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC);
TKM-PLK1 – Results for the Phase I/II dose escalation study in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are expected in 2H 2015;
TKM-Ebola – Initiation of the repeat dosing cohort in healthy subjects is planned for 2Q 2015. The study is fully funded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD);
TKM-Ebola-Guinea – Tekmira expects to provide an update in 2H 2015 on the Phase II study in West Africa being conducted by the University of Oxford, a representative of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC), and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Investments
As at March 31, 2015, Tekmira had cash and cash equivalents of $232.3 million, as compared to a total of $112.2 million in cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments as at December 31, 2014. On March 25, 2015, Tekmira completed an underwritten public offering of 7.5 million common shares, at a price of $20.25 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $151.9 million. The cost of financing, including commissions and professional fees, was approximately $9.7 million, which gave net proceeds of $142.2 million. The Company plans to use these proceeds to develop and advance its product candidates through clinical trials, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Non-GAAP Net Loss
The non-GAAP net loss for Q1 2015 was $10.8 million ($0.36 loss per common share). The non-GAAP net loss for the three-months ended March 31, 2015 excludes the aggregate of $1.2 million non-cash compensation expense included in research, development, collaborations and contracts expenses, and general and administrative expenses in connection to certain share repurchase provisions and arising from the acquisition method accounting related to the merger with OnCore, described below.
GAAP Net Loss
For Q1 2015, net loss was $12.0 million ($0.40 loss per common share) as compared to a net loss of $18.0 million ($0.91 loss per common share) for Q1 2014.
Revenue was $4.7 million for Q1 2015 as compared to $4.4 million for Q1 2014.
Under the DoD contract to develop TKM-Ebola, Tekmira is being reimbursed for costs incurred, including an allocation of overheads, and is being paid an incentive fee. For this contract, Tekmira recorded $3.0 million in revenue in Q1 2015 as compared to $3.2 million in Q1 2014.
Under the Monsanto contract, Tekmira earns revenue from research and collaboration activities, as well as a license fee related to Monsanto's use of the Company's delivery technology and related intellectual property in agriculture. Tekmira recorded $1.1 million in aggregate Monsanto revenue recognized in Q1 2015 as compared to $0.8 million in aggregate Monsanto revenue recognized in Q1 2014.
In November 2014, Tekmira entered into a collaboration with Dicerna for the use of its technology to develop, manufacture, and commercialize products related to the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1). Tekmira recorded $0.5 million in revenue in respect of the Dicerna collaboration in Q1 2015.
Research, Development, Collaborations and Contracts Expenses
Research, development, collaborations and contracts expenses were $10.6 million in Q1 2015 as compared to $8.2 million in Q1 2014.
In Q1 2015, Tekmira increased spending on TKM-HBV as the Company initiated a Phase I clinical trial. Activities of partner programs also increased as discussed in the Revenue section above.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expenses were $2.7 million in Q1 2015 as compared to $2.1 million in Q1 2014. The increase in general and administrative expense was due to an increase in compensation expense with the growth in employee base to support the expanded portfolio of product candidates, as well as incremental corporate expenses to support the growth of the Company following the merger with OnCore.
Acquisition Costs
In Q1 2015, Tekmira incurred $9.3 million in costs related to the merger with OnCore, which was completed on March 4, 2015.
Other Income (Losses)
In Q1 2015, Tekmira recorded a foreign exchange gain of $7.0 million with the significant appreciation in value of U.S. dollar funds, as compared to a foreign exchange gain of $1.4 million in Q1 2014.
The aggregate increase in fair value of Tekmira's common share purchase warrants was $1.2 million in Q1 2015 as compared to an increase in the fair value of common share purchase warrants outstanding of $13.6 million in Q1 2014. The increases are a result of increases in the Company's share price from the previous reporting dates.
Conference Call Today
Tekmira will hold a conference call and webcast today Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) to provide a corporate update and report its audited first quarter 2015 financial results. A live webcast of the call can be accessed through the Investor section of Tekmira's website at www.tekmira.com. Or, alternatively, to access the conference call, please dial 1-914-495-8556 or 1-866-393-1607.
An archived webcast will be available on the Tekmira website approximately two hours after the event. Alternatively, you may access a replay of the conference call by calling 1-404-537-3406 or 1-855-859-2056 and referencing conference ID 20892540.
About Joint Project Manager Medical Countermeasure Systems BioDefense Therapeutics (JPM-MCS-BDTX)
Tekmira's Ebola program is being conducted under a $140M contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Project Manager Medical Countermeasure Systems BioDefense Therapeutics (JPM-MCS-BDTX). JPM-MCS-BDTX, a component of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, aims to provide U.S. military forces and the nation with safe, effective, and innovative medical solutions to counter chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. JPM-MCS facilitates the advanced development and acquisition of medical countermeasures and systems to enhance biodefense response capability. For more information, visit www.jpeocbd.osd.mil.
About Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health. We provide more than £700 million a year to support bright minds in science, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as education, public engagement and the application of research to medicine. Our investment portfolio gives us the independence to support such transformative work as the sequencing and understanding of the human genome, research that established front-line drugs for malaria, and Wellcome Collection, our free venue for the incurably curious that explores medicine, life and art. www.wellcome.ac.uk.
About Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division
Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division is one of the largest biomedical research centres in Europe, with over 2,500 people involved in research and more than 2,800 students. The University is rated the best in the world for medicine, and it is home to the UK's top-ranked medical school. From the genetic and molecular basis of disease to the latest advances in neuroscience, Oxford is at the forefront of medical research. It has one of the largest clinical trial portfolios in the UK and great expertise in taking discoveries from the lab into the clinic. Partnerships with the local NHS Trusts enable patients to benefit from close links between medical research and healthcare delivery. A great strength of Oxford medicine is its long-standing network of clinical research units in Asia and Africa, enabling world-leading research on the most pressing global health challenges such as malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS and flu. Oxford is also renowned for its large-scale studies which examine the role of factors such as smoking, alcohol and diet on cancer, heart disease and other conditions.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and forward looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements in this press release include statements about progressing Tekmira's HBV product pipeline; maximizing the value of Tekmira's non-HBV assets; the expectation of Phase I results of TKM-HBV (RNAi) and selection of an LNP formulation to advance into a multi-dosing trial in 2H 2015; an expected IND, or equivalent filing, for OCB-030 (cyclophilin inhibitor) planned for year end 2015; the anticipation of initiation of preclinical studies for CYT-003 (TLR 9 agonist) in 1H 2015, with possible clinical studies to follow; the expectation for final data on TKM-PLK1 to be reported in 2H 2015 from Phase IIa development programs in gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors (GI-NET) and adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC); the expectation of results in 2H 2015 for TKM-PLK1 from the Phase I/II dose escalation study in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); initiation of the repeat dosing cohort of TKM-Ebola in healthy subjects in 2Q 2015; an update in 2H 2015 on the Phase II study in West Africa being conducted by the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC); the use of proceeds from the March 25, 2015 financing to develop and advance Tekmira's product candidates through clinical trials, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes; continuing the clinical development of TKM-PLK1 for advanced gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors, adrenocortical carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma; continuing the clinical development of TKM-Ebola, and TKM-Ebola-Guinea for ebola virus disease; and exploring ways to maximize the value of Tekmira's non-HBV assets as well as its partnered programs.
With respect to the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, Tekmira has made numerous assumptions regarding, among other things: the effectiveness preclinical and clinical trials, and the usefulness of the data; the ability to effectively combine the businesses of Tekmira and OnCore; the continued demand for Tekmira's assets; the stability of economic and market conditions. While Tekmira considers these assumptions to be reasonable, these assumptions are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, market and social uncertainties and contingencies.
Additionally, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause Tekmira's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Known risk factors include, among others: anticipated pre-clinical and clinical trials may be more costly or take longer to complete than anticipated, and may never be initiated or completed, or may not generate results that warrant future development of the tested drug candidate; Tekmira may not receive the necessary regulatory approvals for the clinical development of Tekmira's products; there may be unforeseen obstacles to the timely and effective combination of the Tekmira and OnCore businesses; economic and market conditions may worsen; and market shifts may require a change in strategic focus.
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
March 31, December 31,
Cash and cash equivalents $ 232.3 $ 72.2
Short-term investments -- 40.0
Accounts receivable 4.6 1.8
Other current assets 2.8 2.4
Property and equipment, net 1.8 1.8
Intangible assets 389.7 --
Goodwill 155.9 --
Total assets $ 787.1 $ 118.2
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 14.0 9.3
Total deferred revenue 13.2 15.8
Warrant liability 5.6 5.1
Contingent consideration 4.7 --
Deferred tax liability 155.9 --
Total stockholders' equity 593.7 88.0
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 787.1 $ 118.2
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
Three-months ended March 31,
Total revenue $ 4.7 $ 4.4
Research, development, collaborations and contracts 10.6 8.2
General and administrative 2.7 2.1
Depreciation of property and equipment 0.1 0.1
Acquisition costs 9.3 --
Loss from operations (18.0) (6.0)
Other income (losses) 6.0 (12.0)
Net loss (12.0) (18.0)
Cumulative translation adjustment (9.2) (2.1)
Comprehensive loss $ (21.2) $ (20.1)
UNAUDITED GAAP TO NON-GAAP RECONCILIATION:
NET LOSS AND NET LOSS PER SHARE
(in millions, except per share amounts)
GAAP net loss $ (12.0) $ (18.0)
Adjustment:
Compensation expense of expired repurchase provision rights 1.2 N/A
Non-GAAP net loss (10.8) (18.0)
GAAP net loss per common share (0.40) (0.91)
Non-GAAP net loss per common share (0.36) N/A
The Company's consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (US GAAP) on a basis consistent for all periods presented. In addition to the results reported in accordance with US GAAP, the Company provides additional measures that are considered "non-GAAP" financial measures under applicable SEC rules. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be viewed in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP net loss and basic and diluted net loss per common share.
The company evaluates items on an individual basis, and considers both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the item, including (i) its size and nature, (ii) whether or not it relates to the Company's ongoing business operations, and (iii) whether or not the company expects it to occur as part of its normal business on a regular basis. In the period ended March 31, 2015, the company's Non-GAAP net loss and Non-GAAP net loss per common share excludes the compensation expense related to the vesting of repurchase provision rights connected with certain common shares issued as part of total consideration for the acquisition of OnCore. The Company believes that the exclusion of this item provides management and investors with supplemental measures of performance that better reflect the underlying economics of the Company's business. In addition, the Company believes the exclusion of this item is important in comparing current results with prior period results and understanding projected operating performance.
This selected financial information should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Tekmira's Annual Report on Form 10-K which includes the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014.
CONTACT: Investors Adam Cutler Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs Phone: 604.419.3200 Email: acutler@tekmira.com Julie P. Rezler Director, Investor Relations Phone: 604.419.3200 Email: jrezler@tekmira.com Media Please direct all media inquiries to: media@tekmira.com
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‘Jeopardy!’ Winner Austin Rogers on Online Trolls: ‘I Take the Haterade With a Grain of Salt’
“People are like, ‘He is so annoying,’ and I’m like, ‘I know; I feel the same way too.'”
Tim Kenneally | October 5, 2017 @ 6:30 PM Last Updated: October 11, 2017 @ 4:46 PM
As of Wednesday night, “Jeopardy!” contestant Austin Rogers had racked up $278,300. Judging by the reaction to the New York bartender’s seven-days-and-counting run on the game show, he’s also won the attention of the show’s fans, who have lit up Twitter over his performances.
While most of the response has been in admiration of his “Jeopardy!” skills and quirky antics, as with anything, there has been some trollery tossed in Rogers’ direction.
TheWrap spoke to Rogers on Thursday to discuss, among other things, how he handles the criticism, what he plans to do with his “Jeopardy!” windfall and the now-infamous “sherbert” flub.
Also Read: Austin Rogers Extends 'Jeopardy!' Winning Streak Despite 'Sherbet,' Taco Flubs
You’ve received mixed reactions from the public on social media. How do you react to the criticism?
You know what? It’s been overwhelmingly positive, and I take the Haterade with a grain of salt. And I also will engage you if you are not playing ball. Not in a mean-spirited way, but in a snarky, self-deprecating way.
People are like, “He is so annoying,” and I’m like, “I know; I feel the same way too.” There was one like, “I hate Austin Rogers,” and I go, “Me too; I wake up feeling that way every morning.”
What else are you going to do? And some of those tweets have turned into converts from that sort of self-deprecation.
That’s all you can do with the haters, because they’re going to be there anyway.
Yeah. What’s up with people not liking winning?
Also Read: 'Jeopardy!' Contestant and Bearded Bartender Austin Rogers Crosses $250,000 Total With Massive Final Bid (Video)
People have really reacted to your antics — such as your feigning a phone call during your introduction on Wednesday’s episode. How much of that is planned, or is it off the cuff?
They’re completely off the cuff. While you’re up there, before the camera pans over to you, you forget that, “Oh no, I’ve got 11 seconds.” I forgot every single time. Every single time I stepped up to position No. 1 [and] they introduced the other two contestants and I go, “Oh, no; I’ve got 11 seconds to stare awkwardly into the camera.”
It is an unbearably long time; it’s like; “…and Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, whose six-day winnings total 200 and blah-bity blah blah, blah-bity blah blah.” Do you see how long that just was? When you’re staring at a red light on a camera for that, you can’t hold a real smile that long, you can’t fake a smile for that long. because it just looks fake.
So I’m just like, “Oh; crap; I forgot. So what am I going to do? I’m just going to do something to kill this time.” It’s not so much showmanship, it’s really awkward to stand still and stare at the camera for 11 and a half seconds.
Also Read: 'Jeopardy' Contestant and Bearded Bartender Austin Rogers Just Won $65,600 in a Single Game (Video)
As a bartender, you’re probably used to getting free drinks. Have you been getting a lot more of them since you’ve been appearing on the show?
Oh, no! The bars I go to, they still charge me! Of course. They’re all my friends, of course they’re gonna charge me, because they know I’m gonna tip the hell out of them!
And they’re aware you have some cash on you these days.
Got a little bit of the cash; got a little bit of the cash flow.
You taped these episodes months in advance. So it was complete serendipity that you came up with the “What is a taco?” reply during Final Jeopardy on National Taco Day?
Complete randomness. One hundred percent kismet, serendipity, randomness.
Have you heard from Ken Jennings or any of the big winners of the past?
On Twitter, they’re talking about me obliquely, but not directly. I have met some of the other big players in the history of the game, because as word of my momentum spread, they started coming to my tapings.
Also Read: 'Jeopardy' Winner Ken Jennings Under Fire for Mocking Barron Trump in Tweet
Have they been supportive or offered advice to you?
There is this intimate fraternity of “Jeopardy!” players, and they’re all immensely, immensely supportive. Every single one has been really supportive and enthusiastic in meeting me and finding out that I’m the one who unseated them from such-and-such a record. Or I’m the one who surpassed them at such-and-such a total.
No one in this “Jeopardy!’ fraternity is ever jealous. Everyone is always, “It’s fantastic to see someone who out-excelled me.” When another person beats another person in “Jeopardy!” it’s almost exclusively, “Wow, you deserve that.” No one is ever like, “I got robbed, I want a replay.” It’s really enthusiastic. I like that a lot.
What has been your most disappointing moment during your “Jeopardy!” run?
“Sherbert” is disappointing. [During Wednesday’s episode, Rogers was penalized for pronouncing “sherbet” as “sherbert.”] It didn’t even occur to me; I saw the phrasing, I saw what they were going for, but that’s just how I say that word.
By the way, Twitter is overwhelmingly on my side. I thought it was maybe a Northeast regional dialect, but I’m seeing people from Idaho, and Iowa and Georgia and California all chiming in, saying, “We say ‘sherbert.'”
Also Read: Watch Alex Trebek Rap Kanye West, Drake, Kendrick Lamar on 'Jeopardy!'
What do you plan to do with all of the money you’ve won on “Jeopardy!”?
I am going to be incredibly judicious. You hear all these terror stories of lottery winners bankrupt within years, blah blah blah blah blah. I have to pay my taxes, and therefore I am not touching a single dime of the money until all of my tax obligations are fulfilled.
Unlike most other contestants, I have zero encumbrances. I do not have a mortgage. I do not have a kid. I do not have college debt. I do not have car payments. I do not have grandma in the hospital. This is just literal free money for me.
So I can use it for leisure, or I can more likely, and better-thinking, use it for the foundation for a future of something bigger, beyond “Jeopardy!” This is now the concrete structure upon which I can build the home.
Are you still tending bar, despite the windfall?
Oh yeah, I love it! Why wouldn’t I?
16 Embarrassing Game Show Fails From 'Family Feud' to 'Jeopardy' (Videos)
The first question on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" is generally the easiest, but this sleep-deprived college student still couldn't manage to get it right.
Former “American Idol” contestant Kellie Pickler tried to figure out where Budapest is in a November 2007 episode of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” However, after she determined Europe isn’t a country, it all went downhill.
According to this contestant on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" from January 2010, owls squirt ink. Yes, you read that correctly.
"Catch 21" contestant Kimberly was determined not to give her competitor Beau five points because she didn't want him to be 10 points closer to 21. So she gave her fellow contestant Shawn five points, which boosted his score of 16 to a 21. Someone needs a basic math lesson.
According to one contestant on "Jeopardy!," the electronic music duo LMFAO introduced us to "It's a Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)." Erm, nope, that was definitely Jay-Z.
This contestant on “Wheel of Fortune” in May 2012 made it to the bonus round, but failed to guess the magic "thing" before time ran out. Clue: It rhymes with wand.
"Black" was this "Family Feud" contestant's answer to "What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of zombies?" Host Steve Harvey looked even more astounded when she justified her answer by saying, “I don’t know if they’re white.”
In April 2014, Julian from Indiana was on "Wheel of Fortune" and lost the round by mispronouncing the winning phrase ... and then blew the next two rounds, too.
In the fast money round of "Family Feud," two family members need to get 200 points combined by answering a series of survey questions. In this episode from May 2014, the first member scored a whopping 182 points, meaning the second member only needed 18 points to win ... which she failed to get.
Sometimes buzzing in first isn't always the best idea, especially when the question is "Name something a doctor might pull out of a person" and you respond with "gerbil."
You get a car, you get a car, everybody gets a car! “Price Is Right” model Manuela Arbelaez thought she’d lost her job (she didn't) when she accidentally gave away a free car in April 2015. Luckily, the producers thought the goof was hilarious.
We’ll take “You’re All a Bunch of Losers” for $500, Alex. Unfortunately, "Springf" isn't a city in the United States.
If this woman on "Family Feud" could ask the Wizard of Oz one thing to give her husband it would be -- "a really big thing." Could you be more specific?
This wasn't an accident. "Jeopardy!" contestant Viraj Mehta from Stanford Unviersity said that he subtly flipped off the camera during his February 2017 episode on purpose. Luckily for us, it wasn't censored.
We guess he just isn't a Tennessee Williams fan? Missing any "Wheel of Fortune" puzzle with just one letter missing would hurt, but this "A Streetcar Naked Desire" gaffe from March 2017 is just embarrassing.
EMINEM AND JACK WHITE ARE NOT THE SAME, JULIE! #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/eLVyk1TNn2— Hunter Alek Homistek (@HunterAHomistek) January 12, 2018
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Yes, both Eminem and Jack White have roots in Detroit, but come on, Em is not the guy who wrote "Seven Nation Army."
Everyone says and does dumb things, but some of us unfortunately do it on national TV
Austin Rogers Extends ‘Jeopardy!’ Winning Streak Despite ‘Sherbet,’ Taco Flubs
By Tim Kenneally | October 4, 2017 @ 5:08 PM
‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant and Bearded Bartender Austin Rogers Crosses $250,000 Total With Massive Final Bid (Video)
‘Jeopardy’ Contestant and Bearded Bartender Austin Rogers Just Won $65,600 in a Single Game (Video)
By Brian Welk | October 2, 2017 @ 6:40 PM
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Book Bus Tickets From Udumalapet To Chengalpattu
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About Udumalapet
Udumalaipet
Udumalaipet also popularly referred to as “Udumalai “ is a part of the Udumalaipettai taluk which belongs to the Tirupur District of Tamil Nadu. This place is known for its resorts and together with Pollachi is one of the twin cities that is segregated from Coimbatore,
Budget Hotels in Udumalapet
Ananth Lodge, Annai Lodge, Ganesh Lodge and Priya Lodge are some of the budget hotels having tariffs between Rs.500-Rs.100o where one can stay while visiting Udumalaipet.
The official language of Udumalaipet is Tamil.
Events in Udumalapet
Udumalpet Car Festival is the main festival of this town which is celebrated every year with great pomp and show.
Places to See in Udumalapet
Chinnar 25 km , Pollachi 29 km, Palani 35 km Thirumoorthi Dam 20 Kms are some of the tourist spots near Udumalaipet that are worth paying a visit.
Coimbatore is about 69 Km from Udumalaipet and is the nearest airport.
Railway Station Udumalpet Coimbatore Tamilnadu is about 1.1km from this city and is the main railway station of Udumalaipet.
SM Travels, Arasu Travels, Sri Hari Travels are some of the popular bus operators that run regular buses to and from Udumalaipet to cities like Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore, Erode, Salem etc. To book bus tickets online, you can log on to ticketgoose.com.
About Chengalpattu
Chengalpattu is a suburban area of Chennai in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It comes within the Kanchipuram district. The main centre of Chennai lies at a distance of 56 km away from Chengalpattu along National Highway 45. Local sayings narrate that the area has been named after a lily, Chenkazhuneer Poo, which is found abundantly in the region.
One can always head to Mahabalipuram (at a distance of 29 km) in order to put up for the night. There are a couple of good budget hotels in the town. Some of the options which are worth a try are Lakshmi Lodge (Tariff – Rs. 600), RamaKrishna Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 500), Joe Beach Resort (Tariff – Rs. 1,000), Blue Breeze Guest House (Tariff – Rs. 750) and others.
The official language of the area is Tamil. English is also widely spoken and understood.
The important festivals of the area are Pongal in Januray, Ganesh Chathurthi in August-September and Diwali in October-November.
The Kolavai Lake is the most visited and a must-see spot in Chengalpattu. Other places of tourist interest mostly lie in the coastal temple town of Mahabalipuram, the most famous among them is the Seashore Temple.
The nearest airport is the Chennai International Airport at a distance of 45 km.
Chennai Central Railway Station is the nearest major railway station at a distance of 75 km.
Various state transport buses as well as private buses connect the town to different cities in the region. Parveen Travels is one of the major operators in the area. Making use of bus ticket discounts while booking your tickets can help you save money.
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The Importance of Small Decisions (Simplicity: Design) (Hardcover)
By Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley, William A. Brock
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news.
Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how small or innocuous a decision might seem, there's almost no way to guess the effect it might have. The authors of The Importance of Small Decisions view decisions and their outcomes from a different perspective: as key elements in the evolution of culture. In this trailblazing book, they examine different kinds of decisions and map the outcomes, both short- and long-term. Drawing on this, they introduce a map of social behavior that captures the essential elements of human decision-making.
The authors look at the New England Patriots' decision in 2000 to draft an underachieving college quarterback named Tom Brady; they consider Warren Buffett's investment strategy; and they chart the "dancing landscape" of a college applicant's decision-making environment. Finally, they show that decisions can be ranked according to transparency of choice and social influence. When fake news seems indistinguishable from real news and when the internet offers a cacophony of voices, they warn, we can't afford to crowdsource our decisions.
Publication Date: March 12th, 2019
Series: Simplicity: Design
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Anthropology - Cultural & Social
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Shawnee is named for the Shawnee Indians that were relocated here in the late 1820’s. The westward push of white settlement had weakened and geographically divided the Shawnees by 1825 when the first of three treaties forced them to relocate to Kansas. Here they found an abundance of timber and free-flowing springs. Because the Shawnee wisely lined the springs with gum tree logs to keep them free of contaminating silt, the settlement was called Gum Springs.
In an 1825 treaty with the Indians, the U.S. Government gave the Shawnee Indians 1,600,000 acres of land in eastern Kansas, including all of Johnson County, in exchange for their lands in Missouri. By 1854, a new treaty was negotiated, with the Indians selling back to the United States all of the land with the exception of 200,000 acres reserved for their homes, amounting to 200 acres for each member of the tribe. In 1854 the Kansas Territory was opened for settlement. The newly repossessed territory was sold by the government to the incoming home-seekers. Shawneetown (later shortened to Shawnee) was platted soon after in 1856.
One of the state’s earliest towns, Shawnee was also the site of the first territorial legislature, and home to the first territorial governor. Located at the intersection of early military and territorial roads leading to the Santa Fe Trail, Shawnee also became the first county seat of Johnson County.
In 1862, Shawnee found itself in the middle of Civil War border struggles. The town was virtually destroyed, when it was burned and looted by southern guerillas led by William Quantrill just months before his infamous raid on Lawrence. After the county offices moved to Olathe in 1866, Shawnee became a small farm market center. During the 1950’s, the population began to grow as people began moving away from congested urban areas to the smaller outlying towns. People quickly discovered the merits of the city and the population has continued to grow ever since, more than tripling in the last three decades. The current population of Shawnee is more than 65,000 residents.
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Chris von Wangenheim Out-Edged Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin—Go Inside a New Book of His Work
by Maya Singer
Photo: Chris von Wangenheim / Courtesy of Rizzoli New York
There was a sea change in fashion photography in the seventies. What had been polished, bright, and straightforwardly glam gave way, in that decade, to a darker tone. Chris von Wangenheim’s work exemplified the new mood: Alongside his (now) more-famous peers Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, von Wangenheim drew sex, violence, and irony to the surface of fashion imagery, shooting eyebrow-raising editorials for the likes of Vogue and Interview and equally provocative campaigns for houses such as Valentino and Christian Dior. Von Wangenheim’s career was brief—he died in an automobile accident in 1981—but his oeuvre’s mix of perversion and sheen continues to assert an outsize influence. Steven Klein is one ardent fan, and he provided the foreword to the new book Gloss (Rizzoli), the first complete monograph of Von Wangenheim’s work. “Chris’s work doesn’t shock me,” says Roger Padilha, who coauthored the book with his brother, Mauricio. “But it does haunt me. His photos have tremendous staying power.” Here, Roger and Mauricio talk about Von Wangenheim and why his risqué photos deserve to be seen afresh.
Chris von Wangenheim archival images
To the extent I was familiar with Von Wangenheim before I paged through Gloss, it was because I’d come across some of his most notorious images, like the campaign for Dior with Patti Hansen standing by a burning car. So I was surprised to find that his early photos, like the editorials he produced for Anna Piaggi at Italian Vogue, were actually pretty chipper. What do you think accounts for his shift in tone?
ROGER PADILHA: I think he reacted to what was going on around him. He moved to New York just before the seventies, and although it’s hard to remember now, the city was really seedy back then. It felt dangerous. I mean, it was also very glamorous—you had Warhol’s whole scene and all that—but there was always the threat of violence.
MAURICIO PADILHA: Think about the blackout, the riots . . .
RP: Yeah, and what we found, in fact, going back through the archives, was that we could line up the dates of photos with events going on at the time. Like the blackout, for example, or like when Deep Throat was showing at theaters in Times Square. He was really reflecting and interpreting his environment.
How on earth did he get away with doing those outré shoots—like the one with Christie Brinkley getting bitten by a Doberman—for a magazine like Vogue?
RP: Grace Mirabella was editing Vogue back then, and what she told us was that the subversiveness of what he shot was matched by the sheer technical accomplishment of his craft as a photographer. He was just very, very good. But—yeah, to your point, when we went back through the magazines and looked at the work in context, I mean, it’s shocking. Imagine opening up a Spiegel catalog and finding a Steven Klein shoot. It’s like that.
But then again, it’s not like Chris von Wangenheim was the only photographer pushing those buttons back then; that was also the heyday of Bourdin and Helmut Newton’s breakthrough era. Why do you think Von Wangenheim’s reputation has been so eclipsed by theirs?
RP: A lot of it does come down to the fact that he died relatively young. And his wife—the model Regine [Jaffry]—who had the rights to his work, was more consumed with raising their daughter than establishing his legacy. But when he was alive and working, he was as busy and as famous as Bourdin and Newton.
MP: And his reputation has definitely survived among photographers. Steven [Klein], Mert & Marcus, Terry Richardson—they all told us what an inspiration he’d been to them. They saw those images as kids and they remembered.
Given that Von Wangenheim trafficked in similar themes to Newton and Bourdin, how would you describe what made his work feel so different from theirs?
RP: The way we like to think of it, Helmut Newton’s work has a sense of foreboding, like something’s about to happen, and Bourdin is more crime scene–y, as though the thing has already taken place. With Chris von Wangenheim, you’re right in the middle of the action. It’s in-the-moment.
This book is seriously NSFW. It’s tempting to call a lot of these images pornographic—except there’s something so clinical about the way Von Wangenheim shoots, you feel like someone would have to be very off to be turned on.
RP: It’s a hard thing to wrap your head around, what exactly gives his sexual images such a sense of coldness. I think, in part, it’s because he liked to use models that had a kind of coldness to them. And when you pose those models on brushed silver floors, there is a surgical quality. His pictures are also sort of voyeuristic, and that, plus the models—it adds up to this quality of unattainability, which is what takes the sexuality out of a porn context and makes it right for fashion.
MP: He was painting a picture. And the model was an object within the picture.
Most of the overtly sexual images in this book are outtakes from shoots, like the nudes of Gia Carangi behind the chain-link fence. Was that a typical practice for Von Wangenheim? He’d wrap the stylist, send back the clothes, and get the models to strip off and keep shooting?
RP: Pretty much. Those Gia images, they were shot after they’d wrapped a shoot with her in streetwear, like, a bomber and a pair of jeans. But I think what he liked about working with someone like Gia was, it wasn’t hard to get her to do the crazy stuff. She was actually living in a subversive way—she hung out at CBGB’s, she dated girls—and that’s what he wanted to capture, in the most immediate way possible. It’s like, Gia naked behind a chain-link fence, making out with a woman—that’s probably not far from the truth of what she’d have been doing that night, anyway.
Speaking of nudity. . . . For a fashion photographer, Chris von Wangenheim did not seem to be overly concerned with, you know, clothes. Or selling them.
RP: It’s true that he wasn’t so interested in clothes. I mean, he got sent to Europe once to shoot the couture collections, and the photos he came back with are of two women naked on a bed together, with dresses hung up behind them. But he understood that what he was selling wasn’t the clothes—it wasn’t, “Oh, look at that great coat, I’d like to own that.” He was selling an allure. He was very, very good at creating these situations that seemed strange and somehow out of reach but that you’d like to be a part of.
Did you get the impression that the models liked working with him?
RP: Well, he was married to one of them. And all the models we spoke to, like Christie Brinkley, for example, they all said, yes, he’d put us in these awkward positions, but he really loved women. And he’d work with the same models again and again.
That dark mood in fashion photography that Von Wangenheim helped to establish was on the wane when he passed away. How do you think he’d have reacted to the sunnier tone of the eighties? Would he have changed course? Or was the darkness baked-in with him?
MP: My guess is he would have found a way to adapt. I mean, he was a great observer of that dark world around him, in the seventies, but no one we spoke to described him as a dark person. They all said he was a workaholic. He’d hang out at places like Max’s Kansas City or with the Warhol crew, but he didn’t party. He was just taking it in.
RP: We came across an interview with Chris, from shortly before his death, where he said, “I’m moving in a different direction. I’m not doing images like this anymore.” Who knows why he said that—he’d just become a father, maybe that had something to do with it?—but it seems like he was ready to move on. And he would have had to, because the seventies, you know, they just ended.
MP: The AIDS epidemic, Reagan—
RP: Studio 54 shut down . . . It was like, okay, done. It would have been interesting to see how he’d bring his aesthetic to what was going on around him in the eighties, which just felt so, so different. And I’d really love to have seen what he would have made of our celebrity culture today. I’m sure he would have had something very interesting to say.
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What's it like dating as a young Muslim American? Hulu's 'Ramy' shows hard, funny truths
Hulu's new comedy "Ramy," streaming Friday, shows the realities of dating for two millennial Muslims living at home with their strictly religious parents.
What's it like dating as a young Muslim American? Hulu's 'Ramy' shows hard, funny truths Hulu's new comedy "Ramy," streaming Friday, shows the realities of dating for two millennial Muslims living at home with their strictly religious parents. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/04/18/hulu-comedy-ramy-tackles-dating-sex-young-muslim-american/3493661002/
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY Published 9:00 a.m. ET April 18, 2019 | Updated 11:26 a.m. ET April 18, 2019
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As an Egyptian American and Muslim, comedian Ramy Youssef has had his fair share of awkward experiences dating non-Arabs.
"There was this girl I hung out with a couple times who always wanted to go to Middle Eastern restaurants, and she'd keep asking me if the stuff was authentic," Youssef says. "She also had roommates who were excited by the idea of me. They kept asking me questions about Egypt, which was fine at first, but it was the only thing they seemed to be into. That was interesting."
Youssef, 28, laughs about such encounters, which are at the heart of his new Hulu comedy "Ramy" (streaming Friday), which he created and stars in as a character loosely based on his own life. The 10-episode first season follows Ramy, who still lives at home in New Jersey with his immigrant parents, as he grapples with relationships, religion and finding his purpose after he gets laid off from a failing tech startup.
Ramy (Ramy Youssef) attempts a month-long spiritual cleanse in the "Ramadan" episode of Hulu's "Ramy." (Photo: Barbara Nitke, Hulu)
When it comes to depicting the romantic lives of Muslim Americans onscreen, recent movies such as 2007's "Arranged" and 2017's "The Big Sick" have shown characters facing the prospect of arranged marriages, often leading to conflict within their strictly religious families. But Youssef wants to show that's not the case for all millennial Muslims.
"A lot of the stuff I see (in media) is people trying to erase where they came from or distance themselves from their parents, but that’s just not what I’ve experienced in my life," he says. "What I wanted to highlight was someone struggling to adhere to their faith but also wanting to be in the present moment and experience other things. That’s something a lot of us go through, whether you’re Muslim or anything else."
In early episodes, Ramy's friends ask him why he's OK having sex with a woman before marriage, even as he avoids alcohol and recreational drugs. Ramy doesn't have a clear answer and wrestles with where to draw the line.
Reluctant to move too quickly, he turns down the advances of one frustrated Muslim woman who wants to have sex on their first date. Later in the season, he tables his relationship with a cool Jewish girl so he can observe Ramadan, a 30-day fast in which Muslims abstain from worldly pleasures (in Ramy's case, that would be sex and porn).
"He's trying to find clarity, and realizes that he should be trying to be spiritually focused instead of diving into a relationship," Youssef says. "Showing a character who's Muslim having spiritual struggles is really important because it gives you a deeper context to what our problems are. People think all our problems center around, like, violence or terrorism."
Ramy (Ramy Youssef, left) eagerly gets together with Sarah (Molly Gordon), but refuses to take molly with her at a party one night. (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn, Hulu)
The show gets a much-needed female perspective from Ramy's 25-year-old sister Dena (May Calamawy), who also lives at home. Their parents are more strict with her, demanding to know where she is at all times and scolding her for leaving the house with straightened hair.
Although Calamawy's own family is more lenient – she says she started dating in high school – the actress relates to many of Dena's frustrations and feelings of stunted emotional growth.
"As a girl, you don't have the same rights as your brother, whether he's younger or older. It's extremely common, and I experienced that growing up," Calamawy says. "You hear about a lot of (non-Muslim) people in the States having their coming-of-age story in their teens, but as an Arab, you experience that in your late 20s or 30s, if you're lucky. There's this aspect of Dena that's super mature, but then there's this premature side to her that's shocked her friends have sex."
Ramy's sister Dena (May Calamawy, right) butts heads with parents Maysa (Hiam Abbass) and Farouk (Amr Waked). (Photo: Craig Blankenhorn, Hulu)
In the season's standout sixth episode, "Refugees," Dena attempts to lose her virginity to a handsome white barista (Jake Lacy). But her quest hits a cringeworthy speed bump when they get in bed together and he fetishizes her Egyptian heritage, asking her to speak Arabic as they hook up.
Fortunately, Calamawy hasn't run into similar suitors. ("I have a strong screening process when it comes to that, and can tell if they're open-minded or not," she says.) But she hopes that "Ramy" helps normalize Arabs and Muslims to those less familiar with their culture.
"I hope that people can view us from a more universal perspective and relate to us more," Calamawy says. "Most people I know (who) live here and become friends with Arabs start gravitating toward Arabs because they just love the culture. If anything, I want people to get more of a taste of our culture that's separate to everything we've been seeing on the news."
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Remington employees join rally against gun law in Albany
MICHAEL VIRTANEN
Thousands gathered in front of the state office building in Albany on Thursday to protest the recently passed state Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act.
Several officials and members of the public spoke to the crowd, who cheered each time the possibility of repealing the act was mentioned or quotes supporting the Second Amendment were read.
A large group of Remington Arms employees from Ilion were among those in attendance. But they certainly weren't the only ones.
Two lines in the morning stretched through the underground concourse of Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany, with a mass of demonstrators waiting to pass through checkpoints and metal detectors to enter the Capitol. Several held signs with slogans like, "Don't tread on me."
"We believe Gov. Cuomo jumped on the bandwagon to become president of the United States," said Tom Moriarty, a retired New York City police officer from Orange County. He said the criminal laws already on the books should be enforced to the fullest, rather than infringing on people's Second Amendment rights and guns they have for hunting and security.
"There's a lot of people here. There's more people coming right now," said Moriarty, who arrived with 125 members of the Black Rock Fish & Game Club in Cornwall on two buses.
At least 5,000 protesters were gathered in a park west of the Capitol late in the morning, listening to speakers and carrying signs with slogans including "Repeal the law, no amendments" and "We the people, don't forget."
Barbara Teeter and Don Crane, who came from Columbia County on a bus with members of the Columbia-Greene Sportsmen's Association, said the issue is taking guns from people who haven't done anything wrong and not getting illegal guns off the street. "It won't interfere with mass shootings, this law won't," Crane said.
Extra state troopers were on duty.
Organizers say the afternoon rally will include an address by National Rifle Association President David Keene.
The new law sets a seven-bullet limit on magazines, tightens the definition of illegal "assault weapons" and requires owners of formerly legal semi-automatic guns to register them.
About 500 opponents rallied outside the Capitol two weeks ago, chanting they won't comply. The New York Rifle & Pistol Association, organizer of the rally, and other opponents have filed notice of their intent to sue in an attempt to overturn the law.
Cuomo has said the new law "will limit gun violence through common sense, reasonable reforms that include addressing the risks posed by mentally ill people who have access to guns and banning high capacity magazines and lethal assault weapons." He advocated it after authorities say a troubled 20-year-old killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school using a semi-automatic rifle and large magazines illegal under New York's law.
While the Cuomo administration and legislators are discussing possible amendments, the only ones disclosed so far would clarify that exemptions for filmmakers firing blanks and for police will continue under the new law.
Contributing: Amanda Fries, O-D
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memory May 5, 2015
The Science of ‘Accidental’ Joke-Stealing and Plagiarism
By Douwe Draaisma
Dane Cook. Photo: Jared Milgrim/Corbis
Over the past 20 years, attempts have been made to understand through experimentation a phenomenon known as “cryptomnesia,” whereby you arrive at an apparently original idea that you later turn out to have heard from someone else or to have read somewhere. It can occasionally be the cause of what has perhaps rather generously been called “unconscious plagiarism.” In the laboratory, cryptomnesia can be replicated through subtle manipulation of the processes of forgetting. The trick is to mix just enough forgetting with remembering at just the right moment, such that the memory concerned does not disappear but is no longer recognized as memory.
Cryptomnesia, which means “hidden memory,” is fairly common. A person may be firmly convinced he or she has thought of a solution that was in fact proposed by a colleague at an earlier meeting. Cryptomnesia has been suggested as an explanation for the publication in a plastic surgery journal of a “new” surgical technique that in reality had been part of the training given to surgeons over many years. Rather more everyday examples might include thinking you had invented a new cocktail, an original pun or an exercise for basketball training. Bitter conflicts can arise in the workplace as a result of our tendency to come up with other people’s ideas from time to time.
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The most famous example of cryptomnesia concerns George Harrison. In 1969 he wrote “My Sweet Lord,” which topped the charts worldwide. A writ was issued against him by the production company Bright Tunes, pointing out the song’s resemblance to “He’s So Fine,” a major number one hit for the Chiffons in 1963. Bright Tunes accused Harrison of plagiarism, saying the melodies of the two songs were virtually identical. Harrison admitted that he knew the number by the Chiffons but denied having copied it. The judge – perhaps he had dabbled in psychoanalysis – issued a verdict that was worded in such a way as to spare Harrison’s feelings. It must, he said, be a case of “inadvertent copying of what was in Mr Harrison’s subconscious memory.”5 But unintentional or not, it was still copying. Harrison was ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in royalties. To be done with the whole business he later bought the rights to “He’s So Fine.” Anyone clicking on that song on YouTube can indeed sing along to it with the lyrics of “My Sweet Lord.”
In 1989, two American psychologists, Alan Brown and Dana Murphy, attempted to gain an experimental grip on cryptomnesia. They developed an approach that set the pattern for later researchers. In the first session, test participants are asked to come up with ideas. Typically they have to brainstorm about solutions to complex problems, such as a medical diagnosis. During the second session, several weeks or months later, they are required to indicate what their contribution was on the previous occasion. In a third and final session they are challenged to come up with ideas that have not been proposed before.
Several dozen experiments along these lines have been carried out over the past 20 years and every time it turns out that in the second session participants tend to present other people’s ideas as their own. In the third session they often come up with ideas that they think are new but in reality have been proposed before, usually by one of the other participants. The cause is not simply confusion about ownership, since occasionally participants attribute their own ideas to others, although the number of times that happens is negligible compared to the times when ideas generated by other people are claimed by participants as their own. All this happens in good faith. Even when test participants have the chance to win considerable sums of money by attributing ideas correctly (and know this in advance), they still claim now and then to be the source of other people’s ideas. Sincerity is not the same as impartiality. The unavoidable consequence is that all individuals gain the impression that cryptomnesia is mainly something their colleagues suffer from. People who repeatedly see themselves cheated out of their own ideas must surely feel like an honest person surrounded by thieves.
The basic form of this kind of experiment is borrowed from earlier research into “source amnesia,” or forgetting the origin of things you recall. Source amnesia can mean that you tell a piece of juicy gossip you have just heard to a number of different acquaintances and eventually to the person who told it to you (who, you suddenly recall, impressed upon you that you must tell no one else). Cryptomnesia is rather different. With source amnesia you forget the origin of what you have heard or read, but you remember that there was a source. In a pure and authentic case of cryptomnesia you forget even that. The brilliant plan, the great invention, the timely bright idea that suddenly comes to you actually has its origins in your memory yet is not recognized as a memory.
It is of course true that forgetting who or what the source was will take you a long way in the art of coming up with other people’s ideas. Research shows that the factors that contribute to source amnesia increase the likelihood of cryptomnesia as well. The longer the interval in time, the more cases of cryptomnesia there will be. If the sources closely resemble each other, because they are all fellow students for example, this too makes cryptomnesia more common. Even sex makes a difference; it is easier for women to appropriate the ideas of other women, men those of other men. There is a “next-in-line” effect: those who came immediately before you in the brainstorming session run a slightly higher risk of having their ideas stolen by you, probably because you were already thinking about your own contribution as you listened. Ideas presented in chaotic circumstances, such as during brainstorming sessions or disorganized meetings, are also more likely to be incorrectly claimed at a later date.
Most likely of all to increase the occurrence of cryptomnesia is an invitation to participants to improve on ideas already proposed. Nothing separates the true owner so rapidly and efficiently from his or her ideas as a minimal addition or insignificant variation. Even after just a few weeks, the slightest contribution is sufficient to convince you that you have improved upon an idea of your own.
The identification of factors that contribute to cryptomnesia is not the same, of course, as an explanation. What actually happens?
Imagine you were at a meeting last week about some kind of complicated problem to which you proposed a clever solution. Then the conversation moved on, no one picked up on your idea, a colleague presented a different solution and the decision was made to try that first. At the next meeting it becomes clear that the solution is not going to work. Fortunately your colleague has come up with a different idea in the meantime, a better idea, a brilliant idea: yours. You glance around the table. To your horror you see that you are the only person who realizes it was your idea. What has gone on in your colleague’s brain?
A case like this is the result of that intriguing difference between two types of memory: semantic memory and autobiographical memory. The semantic memory contains material we might tend to call “knowledge” rather than recollection, such as knowing what “incubation” means, what a “joint and reciprocal will” is, or what the stretch of water between Britain and France is called. You once acquired that knowledge, but in most cases you will have forgotten the circumstances in which you learned it. Few people can say how or when they discovered that Stockholm is the capital of Sweden.
Autobiographical memory deals with the things we experience. This type of memory records the circumstances, or at any rate makes a valiant attempt to do so. Over time all kinds of things may be forgotten, but often you can still recall where something happened or who was there, whether it took place in the evening or during the day, at home, outdoors or at work. Recollections drawn from our autobiographical memories usually have a context.
When you presented your idea at the previous meeting you remained for a very short time in your colleagues’ autobiographical memories as part of their recollection of the suggested solution. The solution itself went into their semantic memories and there, with yourself as the rapidly fading context, it became linked up with all the knowledge they already had of the issue at hand.
Cryptomnesia is therefore not simply the consequence of a failing memory. It arises because a different part of the memory – in the case of your colleague the semantic memory, in the case of George Harrison the musical memory – has retained it extremely effectively. It is the discrepancy between the two memory processes that produces cryptomnesia. Seen from a broader evolutionary perspective, there is something to be said for such an arrangement. Confronted with a problem, it is not particularly helpful for the survival of the individual or group to remember just who came up with the brilliant idea, but it may prove invaluable to be able to recall what it was.
Adapted from Forgetting: Myths, Perils and Compensations by Douwe Draaisma, published in 2015 by Yale University Press. Copyright ©2015 by Douwe Draaisma. Reprinted by permission of Yale University press.
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Our community began as a mission parish of St Elias Orthodox Church in downtown Austin. In the fall of 1993, Father James Kenna, the pastor of St Elias, gathered a group of interested people, and, with the blessing of our Archbishop, Metropolitan Philip Saliba, Father Stephen Rhudy was appointed as our first priest. Soon after, we started offering services on Saturday evenings in a classroom graciously donated by a local Episcopal parish, and, in January of 1994, we were able to offer Sunday services in the conference rooms of a local hotel. In April of 1995, we moved to our first permanent location, a storefront which was located in a small shopping center in northwest Austin.
In fact, our community was originally called the “Northwest Mission”, but we officially became “The Mission of St. John the Forerunner” when Metropolitan Philip granted our request to name St. John as our Patron and Protector in December of 1996. In June of 1998, we left the storefront and moved to a larger facility, a former Baptist church building on Adelphi Lane, in northwest Austin.
In July of 2002, Father Rhudy was transferred to a different community, and Father Aidan Wilcoxson was assigned to our mission. In February of 2003, we purchased a house on 4.2 acres in Cedar Park, which is a suburb north of Austin. From June through September of that year, while the house was being remodeled, we offered services at various temporary locations, but, in October, we began having services at our new location, and, early in 2004, Metropolitan Philip notified us that we were no longer a mission, but a full-fledged parish.
It wasn’t long at all before we filled up the house in which we were meeting, so, in the fall of 2004, we formed a building committee; in 2006, we began a three year capital campaign, and, in 2009, we started construction on our current facility. We held our first services in this building in January of 2010. In 2017, we named the facility The Long Hall, in honor of Father Deacon Basil Long, the first deacon to serve our parish, and Shamassy Josie Long, our community’s first choir director.
In 2011, we installed the first section of our playground. In 2016, we began remodeling our parish house. We completed that project in 2017, and the fully redesigned structure now features new classrooms, a refurbished bookstore, and a beautiful common room. Over the next decade, we will be constructing an actual church building, and we will continue to work on our current facilities so that they can be used more effectively for education and fellowship.
Of course, that’s just the bare bones outline of our history, and it focuses primarily on geography and real estate. What it doesn’t address are the many wonderful stories of faith and courage and generosity and perseverance. But even in this brief format, the providential care and great mercy of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are clearly evident, because despite all sorts of challenges and obstacles, our community has grown in a way that is both steady and healthy. We currently have over 250 members, a third of whom are children, and we are looking forward to a bright future here in Central Texas, and also in the Kingdom of God.
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‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men?
Only four female writers appeared in the list of top 50 bestselling history titles in the UK last year. And women are still perceived as more suited to writing about drawing rooms than battlefields. Why? Leading historians and biographers discuss sexism and subject matter
Mary Beard, Simon Schama, Antonia Fraser, Antony Beevor, Claire Tomalin, Amanda Foreman and others
Sat 6 Feb 2016 04.00 EST Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 09.20 EST
Women’s Land Army girls on a farm in Somerset during the second world war. Photograph: Local World/Rex/Shutterstock
So many women write great general history books, why don’t they sell in the vast numbers that they should? My guess is, rather gloomily, that this is another aspect of the “women’s voices” problem; that public authority is still very largely vested not just in what men say but also what they write (and for the most part, white, middle-class men at that).
The point is that big sales are heavily dependant on off-the-cuff, unplanned purchases, on people choosing the book out of any number they might buy from the bookshop display before Christmas. I am afraid that time and again, the man’s name signals knowledge and reliability. The average punter, armed with little more information than the name of the author and the blurb, will tend to trust a woman author to write about women (just as they listen to them on childcare or health). Their instinct would be to turn to a male author on the Napoleonic wars or early 20th-century economic policy.
The average punter will tend to trust a woman to write about women. They would turn to a man for the Napoleonic wars
It is something like this that underlies what I slightly unfairly call those “big books by blokes about battles” that dominate the bestseller lists (they’re not all about battles, but you know what I mean). So how have those of us who have bucked the trend managed it?
I wish I knew. It can’t be a straightforward issue of quality, or of good reviews. How much influence reviews have on sales is utterly imponderable. I think I must thank my publishers for giving SPQR an elegantly authoritative jacket. And I must thank TV programme makers for presenting me as “someone who knows what she’s talking about when it comes to the Romans” (however much in need of a makeover).
But none of us are immune to the power of stereotypes or the desire to cast history into one particular mould. When people write to me about SPQR they are often warmly appreciative. When they do complain, it’s mostly to say that there is too much on ancient obstetrics (there’s actually very little) or the lives of the urban poor (there’s more on that) – and not enough on Hannibal, the second Punic war or how the emperor Trajan thrashed the Dacians.
Mary Beard’s most recent book is SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile).
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser. Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images
When I wrote Mary Queen of Scots, I did it out of passion, without for one moment reflecting that we were both female. My motivation was that she was a romantic queen, and I was a humble would-be biographer. However, when it was published in 1969 I believe it was a great advantage that I was a comparatively young woman (I was 36), and publicists made much of the fact. The original reason that I chose Oliver Cromwell as my next subject, which would be published in 1973 under the title Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, was that I didn’t want to be pinioned as only writing about romantic queens. Like everyone else, I felt I should be free to write about anyone who excited me regardless of sex, nationality, century or whatever.
One distinguished historian reviewer asked what this nice, sensible woman could know about the torments of Cromwell
This time I believe being female was a disadvantage. One distinguished historian in a review asked in effect what this nice, sensible downright woman could know about the torments of a man like Cromwell: there was condescension – but not necessarily accuracy – in every word, starting with “nice’’. I wrote four full-length biographies, two about women and two about men, the order being: female (Mary Queen of Scots), male (Cromwell), male (Charles II), female (Marie Antoinette). Today I feel more strongly than ever that biographers should not be limited by their own perceived identity – including age, sex, race, profession and so on. Although I should add that I still want the highest standards to be maintained, and it still worries me when a minor character is elevated in importance purely for the sake of her/his sex. Cats can write biography as far as I am concerned, so long as they do the research and write well.
Antonia Fraser’s latest book is My History: A Memoir of Growing Up (W&N).
On the whole in non-fiction, even more than in fiction, men tend to write about men and women tend to write about women, presumably because they understand their own sex better. A male preponderance in historical biography is thus fairly predictable for the obvious reason that, until very recently, women had little chance of distinguishing themselves because of ignorant prejudice. And since books on major historical figures sell better than those on the lesser known, there is almost inevitably a self-perpetuating element there.
Female authors on military history are still in a small minority. I long for there to be more
As for military history, the idea of a woman being interested in military subjects, let alone writing about them, was more or less unimaginable. Nothing struck most women as more boring than the “military buff”. This was largely because military history always used to be written in a top-down, collectivist and dehumanised way. Only in the last 20 years or so, when the study of warfare widened and deepened dramatically to include the fate of individuals – civilians as well as soldiers – have women started to show an interest. Female authors on the subject are still in a small minority. They may have lacked military experience, but that is not necessarily a disqualification for an author. Lyn MacDonald’s books on the first world war set the standard for a generation, and Catherine Merridale’s superb description of life in the Red Army, Ivan’s War, is unlikely to be equalled. What they managed to achieve came from empathy and understanding, and not from facile attempts to pass moral judgment on an organisation they disliked. Those who approach the subject from outside, attempting to impose an ideological grid on a subject they do not try to understand are bound to make serious mistakes. I long for more MacDonalds and Merridales to bring fresh perspectives.
Antony Beevor’s latest book is Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble (Viking).
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian
I began writing about women because I felt that there wasn’t much good historical biographical information about them – there was a huge gap. I was inspired by JE Neale, who published a biography of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1930s. It was one of the great biographies, and it blew me away as a child. I was also inspired by Eileen Power, a great historian who died young in the 1940s.
Writing about humans, the way they struggle through life – the sex seems to me not the thing we should be looking at
When I started, people asked, “Why aren’t you writing about men?” I replied, “You may have noticed that you can’t write about one sex without writing about the other too.” My great friend the poet and writer Dennis Enright once asked, “Why are you writing about Nelly Ternan and not about Dickens?” I said, “Because there was a story to be told there about them both.” But I don’t see a difference between writing about men or women. Writing about human beings, looking at the way they develop, the way they struggle through life, the way they achieve, the price they pay, the price those around them pay for their achievements – the sex seems to me not the thing we should be looking at.
There are lots of very good female historians writing now: Caroline Moorehead is outstanding, Jessie Childs, who wrote God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England is wonderful, Alison Light’s Common People is terrific and original history, but got some very mean-spirited reviews, and of course Jenny Uglow and Antonia Fraser.
Claire Tomalin’s most recent book is Charles Dickens: A Life (Penguin).
Margaret MacMillan
I never set out to be an anomaly. Most of what I have written is about war, peace and international relations, although I have also written about women. I am still not quite sure how this happened. When I was a student in Toronto women were expected, as the joke had it, to aim for the degree of MRS. The History Society, where they were rumoured to drink port and smoke cigars, was for men only. And although I had some wonderful male professors (the only woman in the history department had given up and fled to a chair in the US) none of them asked me where I planned to do graduate work, as they did the men. Yet somehow I did go off to Oxford, where I did imperial history.
I know what the obstacles are to women doing certain kinds of history, the men, for example, who ask how a woman can possibly understand war. (If I want to be unkind I ask what was the last war they fought in.) The hiring committees (they are better now) that used to assume that female candidates weren’t worth it because they would let their hormones run their brains and only go off and get married. Or the seminars where the male professors would take all the men to the pub afterwards.
I taught at a polytechnic where there were not expectations that we should publish. So I just wrote what I wanted
What helped me was reading great female historians such as CV Wedgwood and Barbara Tuchman, who wrote so wonderfully about war and politics. I was very lucky too in that my parents treated their sons and daughters the same. We had family canoe trips in the wilderness of Canada where my sister and I paddled and carried packs just like our brothers. We were encouraged to read, voraciously, whatever we wanted. And our parents left us alone to choose our careers. Although it didn’t feel like it at the time I was also lucky in getting a job at a polytechnic where the teaching load was heavy but there were not expectations that we should research and publish. So I just wrote what I wanted. My other piece of luck was finding a publisher – a man – who was prepared to take a chance on my book on the Paris peace conference.
Looking back at my own trajectory, I can’t offer easy solutions. I have had female mentors and publishers who have helped me a lot – but as many or even more men. If I have advice for young women it is do what you want and not what is expected of you.
Margaret Macmillan’s History’s People: Personalities and the Past (Profile) is published on 18 February.
David Kynaston
David Kynaston. Photograph: REX Shutterstock
Chaps like writing about chaps. I should know. Between 1976 and 2001 – one book on the Victorian working class, two on offices of state, three on cricket, four on the City of London, plus four institutional histories – women barely featured in my books. In the 1990s my editor at Chatto, Jenny Uglow, gently pointed this out to me, and I could not deny the soft impeachment.
I suspect I was far from alone among historians of my generation. Looking back, I realise that the key historians of my formative years were all men: GM Young, AJP Taylor, GR Elton, EP Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm. And overwhelmingly, those historians wrote about men. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class (1963) is widely recognised as the greatest British history book of the 20th century, yet it is striking to turn to the index and count the number of women: just eight, in 939 pages. All this represents a huge impoverishment. Those five historians wrote many fine books, but with one massive omission. Nor was it just down to the staying-in-their-comfort-zone subjects – ultimately it was down to an idea of history that privileged predominantly male worlds of activity over female worlds.
For myself, I have become convinced of the wrongness of that privileging in the course of researching and writing my “Tales of a New Jerusalem” series of books about postwar Britain. What matters in an account of a society is what mattered to people at the time; and in, say, the 1950s, “female” domestic concerns (often articulated by wonderful women diarists such as Nella Last or Judy Haines) mattered just as much as “male” more public concerns.
Female biographers have given us a golden age of literary biography, but so far very few biographies of male politicians
Clearly things are changing. Not only in the sense of men and women now living in much less separate spheres than half a century ago, but also with the emergence of impressive female historians, often approaching the discipline in a strikingly different – and more insightful – way from their male counterparts. Historians such as Juliet Gardiner, Selina Todd and Alison Light, to name just a few from my own field. If there is a reluctance on the part of female readers to read history books – unsurprising after being in effect frozen out for so long – I suspect that will diminish.
The next frontier is biography. Female biographers have given us a golden age of literary biography, but so far very few biographies of male politicians. The living politician who will one day be the subject of a truly fascinating biography is Gordon Brown. If I was a publisher, I’d be looking for the right woman to write it.
David Kynaston’s latest book is Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 (Bloomsbury).
Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman. Photograph: BBC/Silver River
First of all, let’s not get sidetracked by quantity over quality. There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally “male” subjects, but they are outstanding in the field – like Margaret MacMillan. So I don’t see a crisis in history. Nor is there a conspiracy to keep women out. Many female historians, quite rightly, are interested in the gaps – in those areas that have been ignored. So of course they are going to write about so-called female subjects, because for centuries women were written out of history. When writing about war, if you only look at tank battles, troop movements and military strategy then all you’ve presented is the facade, without the larger meaning. To give you an example from my own field, the American civil war really lends itself to armchair enthusiasts because it has so many set-piece battles. Such questions as what on earth General Robert E Lee thought he was doing at Gettysburg in 1863 offers lots of scope for fun analysis, no doubt about it. But the war was won when General Sherman took the fight into the heart of the South – specifically to demoralise the civilian population. He perfected the modern idea of total war. That essentially means a war on women and, to some extent, children. Any book that treats the female aspect as a side show to the “real” events completely misses the point about how that war was won.
When writing about war, if you only look at strategy then all you’ve presented is the facade, without larger meaning
But just because there’s no conspiracy doesn’t mean there isn’t a glass ceiling in operation. When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here’s one: Max Hastings’s review in the Sunday Times in 2009 of Miranda Carter’s book The Three Emperors. The language he used says it all: “This time around she offers a romp through the palaces of Europe...”. His use of “romp” signals to the reader that this a woman’s book, stuck in the superficial world of balls and dances – Jane Austen territory. Hastings goes on: “but there is little here to surprise any student of modern history”. So now we have a clear division between Miranda Carter the “amateur lady writer” and real students of modern history – ie she’s no professional, she doesn’t belong to the club, dear boy. Hastings ends on a coup de grace: “She has shown that she is capable of writing a much better book than this one, but perhaps it should have been within a less ambitious compass.” Hastings’s review deserves a place in the now-classic book by Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women’s Writing. While we are still in the situation of having to fight every step of the way for legitimacy, you are going to see an imbalance.
Amanda Foreman’s A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War is published by Penguin.
Alexandra Harris
I don’t think there’s any shortage of brilliant history being written by women, but more can be done to get people reading it. How is a general reader to know what kinds of mind-changing work is waiting on the library shelves if what he or she sees promoted in bookshops is mainly the season’s big war book and the biography of an 18th-century mistress? Let’s hope Waterstones’ superb efforts towards variety can be sustained and deepened, and that university presses help by continuing to make attractive titles available at (almost) trade prices.
The writing of private, domestic and forgotten histories has powerfully changed the shape of “grand sweep” narratives, but these kinds of writing need not be opposed. Look at Jenny Uglow’s vast panorama of life in the Napoleonic wars, and Margaret MacMillan on the first world war, and Jane Stevenson on women’s use of international Latin. These live on my desk beside (yes) Simon Schama and Peter Conrad, and I don’t plan to separate them out.
TV documentaries are influential. I hope that more female presenters will be trusted to set out arguments on screen
As an academic I know that humanities research tends towards extreme specialisation: if you want to be taken seriously it’s best to devote a lifetime’s study to one particular period or issue, and I suspect women worry about this more than men. We need intense focus, but we also need to foster young scholars who want to think across a broad spectrum, or write six completely different books, and who will be respected for doing so.
Television documentaries are clearly influential in shaping the tastes of readers, and I hope that deeply learned female presenters will be trusted more often to set out detailed arguments on screen. If only they were allowed to talk about more and walk about less. I’m not sure that we always need to be told stories or taken on journeys: ideas can be gripping too. And I am boycotting the term “costume drama”, which makes “costume” the defining feature of any drama set before about 1960. With language like this, no wonder women are associated (in the minds of both men and women) with sprigged cambric dresses rather than the history of ideas, to which we have so much to contribute.
Alexandra Harris’s latest book is Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies (Thames and Hudson).
Richard J Evans
As a long-time judge of the Wolfson history prize, which is worth a total of £50,000 each year, I can report a marked change in the gender balance of the winners in recent times. Nine out of the 21 winners in the last 10 years have been women, whereas in the previous 10 years there were only four women out of a total of 24. The prize, often awarded jointly to two books, rewards the all too rare combination of scholarly excellence and readability and is open to authors who are UK citizens living in Britain.
If you take quality history with an appeal beyond the academic, then women are finding readers and winning prizes, too
It’s striking that the female historians who have won the prize have written about a whole variety of subjects: they have included military history (Joanna Bourke’s An Intimate History of Killing), French politics (Ruth Harris’s The Man on Devil’s Island), the history of religion (Alexandra Walsham’s The Reformation of the Landscape), the biography of a man (Susie Harris’s Nikolaus Pevsner, Susan Brigden’s Thomas Wyatt and Rosemary Hill’s God’s Architect), Russian politics (Catherine Merridale’s Red Fortress), cultural history (Margaret McGowan’s Dance in the Renaissance and Evelyn Welch’s Shopping in the Renaissance) and archaeology and memory (Pompeii by Mary Beard). True, these are not all books that have topped the bestseller lists. But that’s only a crude and rather misleading yardstick. If you take quality history with an appeal beyond the academic, then women are finding publishers and readers and winning prizes too.
Richard Evans’s latest book is The Third Reich in History and Memory (Little, Brown).
Ruth Scurr
Ruth Scurr.
I find the notion of a “preserve” – male or female – troubling. I’m suspicious of all historians who act in a territorial way towards their subjectHistory is our common inheritance; it is about sharing and communication, not ownership or control. The idea that history can be divided – by publishers, authors or bookshops – into topics suitable for girls and for boys is just ridiculous.
I wrote my first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, because I’m interested in power and politics. My second daughter was born before I had finished. I didn’t find it difficult thinking about the reign of terror while sterilising feeding bottles and washing baby clothes, but I was extremely tired. Cyril Connolly was right – the pram in the hall can be an enemy – but not an invincible one. In this regard, I think things have got better for female writers than they were in previous generations; and I hope that by the time my daughters are having children they will be better still.
The idea that history can be divided into topics suitable for girls and for boys is just ridiculous
My second book, John Aubrey: My Own Life, was anything but a safe and natural progression from my first. It involved a change from the 18th to the 17th century and a return from France to England. In addition to those upheavals, I decided to write Aubrey’s life in the form of a first-person diary. For a long time I didn’t tell anyone what I was doing in case they thought I had gone mad. I think good books result from taking risks. My advice to younger women is to write only about what most interests you, and if an agent or publisher tries to persuade you to write a safe book on a suitable topic, run as fast as you can from that poisoned apple.
Ruth Scurr’s latest book is John Aubrey: My Own Life (Chatto & Windus).
Michael Holroyd
I do not recognise that part of history called biography as being dominated in Britain by male authors writing about male subjects. Those readers who, in the urge to gather controversial statistics, do not get further than the title pages of books may easily add me to their misleading list of men-on-men. In fact I prefer writing about women – they teach me more than men can. Women often take over from the men who occupy the title page as Carrington took over the last half of my Life of Lytton Strachey. But since Carrington refused to use her first name, Dora, she was in danger, at a quick glance, of being added to the army of men. Later on, when I published a group biography of women and men, I used as my title a line from the “seven ages of man” speech in As You Like It. I hope that is not used as evidence of some kind.
If I made a list of two dozen most distinguished contemporary biographers, half of them at least would be women
If I made a list of two dozen most distinguished contemporary biographers, half of them at least would be women. Those who, in alphabetical order, immediately come to mind are Lara Feigel, Victoria Glendinning, Lyndall Gordon, Selina Hastings, Rosemary Hill, Hermione Lee, Ruth Scurr, Frances Spalding, Hilary Spurling, Claire Tomalin, Jenny Uglow and Frances Wilson. And there are another dozen women waiting to take their place. Nor is it true that all of them write solely about women. Even the lives of Angus Wilson and Arnold Bennett, I am reminded, were written by a woman. I rest my case.
Michael Holroyd’s latest book is A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (Vintage).
Amanda Vickery
Amanda Vickery. Photograph: Andrew Hayes Watkins/BBC
As an academic historian I went all out to pursue the thing that the discipline most values – originality. For me that meant seeking out new or neglected sources in endless local record offices and using them to create fresh interpretations about society and culture. It is pure scholarship that gets you promoted to a professorship, and that was always worth more to me than writing bestsellers. Of course I always hoped that my books would have crossover appeal and the royalties still dribble in, but book sales are dwarfed by the benefits of a regular salary, paid maternity leave and pension rights, as freelance historians are painfully aware. I have also found that the academy can be much more open-minded and imaginative than some popular publishers, whose vision of “historical importance” lags generations behind the research frontier, and in some cases would not be out of place in the Victorian senior common room.
If the mood takes me I will research war, but not because death in battle is more significant than death in childbirth
Of course publishers are in the business of selling books and have their own views and research on what the market can bear. Popular histories of war, regimes, empire building and so on appeal to a core of hardback history buyers, predominantly white professional men in their 50s and 60s. A glance at the book jackets of recent publications tells you everything you need to know about the target audiences – general syntheses of Big Historical Events have dominant covers and severe san serif type, while focused studies rich in personal commentary usually have a pretty image, possibly a sepia photograph, and a scrolling font. Popular history is bifurcated – the Nazis versus Call the Midwife. Graphic design itself seems to reinforce and police a divide between masculine significance and feminine inconsequence. My own tastes are Catholic (my guilty pleasure at the moment is Mark Urban’s Tank War), but when choosing the next book subject I am always on the look out for something neglected or disregarded – which noone could claim for the Second World War or the Tsars. I am grateful for the academic freedom to pursue my own hunches into the archive. I have a day (and evening job) teaching, administering, dealing with constant bureaucracy and bashing out articles, so I am spared the need to churn out a bonkbuster to pay the mortgage.
Above all though, I reject the ominous subtext about importance and triviality at work here. It is almost a century since Virginia Woolf exposed the systematic privileging of masculine interests over feminine. “This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room. A scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop – everywhere and much more subtly the difference of value persists.” How can it be that a hierarchy of critical value still prevails that diminishes anything associated with the lightweight concerns of women? If the mood takes me I will research war, but not because male death in battle is more significant than female death in child-bed. It is rigour and scholarship that make a book heavyweight, not manly theme and butch cover.
Amanda Vickery’s latest book is Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale).
Lara Feigel
This year I am judging the PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize, and I have on my shelf the longlist of 35 history books published in 2015. It’s notable that only seven are by women, because far more history books have been published this year by men. Looking back over the prize’s past, of the 15 winners only three have been women (Jenny Uglow, Clair Wills and Jessie Childs).
Perhaps it’s a question of expanding our sense of history to include books that find new ways of writing about the past
Yet in my own career, I have never felt discriminated against in tackling historical themes. As I teach in an English literature department, I became a historian by accident. I think of myself as writing about life rather than history, but lives are inevitably shaped by the times in which they’re lived, so I’ve become more and more interested in looking at a particular moment of transformation: the second world war and its aftermath. My new book, The Bitter Taste of Victory, combines cultural history and collective biography to explore the way that a group of writers, film-makers and artists confronted the rubble in postwar Germany by attempting to transform the mentality of the nation through its art.
In writing this, I’ve found that the (predominantly male) second world war historians are happy to welcome me into the field. And newspapers are happy for me to review the kind of history books I’m interested in, which often approach the past from an oblique (usually cultural) angle, and are often written by women. Many of these books aren’t easy to categorise as history at all. When Jenny Uglow won the PEN prize it was for The Lunar Men, a collective biography that is nonetheless a fascinating portrait of an era. Perhaps in the end it’s not a question of persuading more women to write traditional history or of validating those that decide to do so, but rather of expanding our sense of history to include books that find new ways of writing about the past.
Lara Feigel’s latest book is The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich
(Bloomsbury).
Kathryn Hughes
British writer on cookery and domestic management Mrs Beeton. Photograph: Popperfoto
I certainly don’t think there’s a conspiracy afoot to stop women tackling big, broad historical subjects. You only have to look at Linda Colley (Britons) or Margaret MacMillan (Peacemakers). Both are exemplary scholars doing original work who manage not only to master big questions – the founding of nations, the fracture of continents – but who speak to a huge non-academic audience through their books and broadcasts.
Having said that, I do believe there’s a danger that women’s historical work gets pigeon-holed and downgraded unless it comes out with a certain swagger, wearing pantomime breeches. I did my PhD and first book on the Victorian governess because I wanted to use the figure of these excluded citizens as a way of unpicking the social, economic and political forces at play in the construction of bourgeois Victorian Britain. In fact, what I mostly get asked about is how likely it was that Mr Rochester would fancy Jane Eyre.
I wrote a biography of Mrs Beeton. As far as everyone else was concerned it was a manual on how to bake a sponge cake
I had the same situation with my last book, a biography of Mrs Beeton. Again, I thought I’d used the cookery book writer’s iconic status as a way of understanding how a hugely expansionist Victorian Britain needed to lodge a particular reading of domesticity at its very heart. As far as everyone else is concerned I’d written a manual about how to make a Victorian sponge. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked to appear on the Great British Bake Off, and one TV company wanted me to dress up as Mrs B while demonstrating how to make scones.
My forthcoming book is about the Victorian body – men’s as well as women’s, beards as well as breasts, and is based on a decade of work in archives around the world. It’s designed to be about everything – not just “culture”, a category that has a slightly female skew to it, but proper “boy” stuff – politics, religion, economics. I’m quite resigned, though, to the fact that someone will ask me to get dressed up as a Victorian or, worse still, undressed.
Kathryn Hughes’ The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton is published by Harper Perennial.
Alison Light
When I was writing my last book, Common People, I spent a summer reading naval history. Many of my forebears were sailors and I wanted to know more about their lives. Most naval history turned out to be about the great battles, diplomacy, ships, weaponry, conquest; far less was written about the crew apart from the officers or the navy after the glory days of Nelson. And the women married to sailors or living with them? I found one book, by a woman, again mostly about the wives of the upper ranks. A few paragraphs on prostitutes. The research was invaluable but often infuriating.
Can women write naval histories? Of course. But what matters is whether those histories are just more of the same
Yet it was relatively easy, using census and other records, to track down individuals. I could discover if seamen were village boys or townies, or migrants from further afield. They could be located in their families - every sailor has a mother if not a wife - and their lives traced across time. Standard histories treat the worlds of ship and shore separately but they are always joined. Family history is one way of connecting them and a study of sailortowns is another. Though I hadn’t realised it at the time, my book was part of a new wave of ‘coastal history’.
Can women write naval histories? Of course. Just as there are women historians of royalty and of empire, or of the thirty years’ war. But what matters is whether those histories are just more of the same. The odds in publishing, as in academic life, are stacked against women, but gender doesn’t automatically confer a radical or even a democratic politics. The grand sweeps of the past are maps of power. They can be written by men as well as women with an awareness of the vested interests, or not. History is an argument, and not set in stone.
Alison Light’s most recent book is Common People: The History of an English Family (Penguin).
Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images
There’s enough constant low-level sexism in my daily social, public life – in social media, on the street, in meetings, on stage or on television, in the letters and emails I get from strangers – to know it operates in my life. It’s much harder to measure how influential it’s been, whether my writings would have had more traction if they’d been published by a man, or if they’ve just found their appropriate level.
Having a PhD gives me some structural authority, but it hardly inoculates me from sexism
Having a PhD and the rank of “professor” definitely buffers me to a certain extent – it gives me some structural authority, but it hardly inoculates me from sexism. For example: my recent book on F Scott Fitzgerald was assumed by several male reviewers to be merely “popularising” others’ research. In point of fact it has an enormous amount of original research (as attested to by actual Fitzgerald scholars). The reviewers were not experts in the field; they knew they weren’t, but they felt entitled to pronounce on the originality of the research of a female professor in her field of specialism without doing any homework at all. Would they have felt so comfortable dismissing the work of a John Carey or a Simon Schama, or would they have said: “I’m not an expert in his field and so can’t adjudicate his scholarship, but here’s how it strikes me as a book to read”? I think they would have. Maybe I just strike them as not very original. Or maybe it was sexism doing its preconceived, insidious, undermining, work.
Sarah Churchwell’s latest book is Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby (Virago).
The statistics tell us what we always knew: serious non-fiction – notably history and biography – tends to be written by men. Statistics aren’t everything: think of Claire Tomalin on Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy; Miranda Seymour on Robert Graves and Henry James; Antonia Fraser on Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. But the pattern is clear. And it does seem to be linked, partly, to the predominance of men presenting big television series.
If there are 'gynaecological moments' for which men are not best placed to make judgments, the reverse must also be true
It just never occurred to me when I wrote biographies of Mary Queen of Scots or of Margaret More (Thomas More’s eldest daughter) or chose the later years of Elizabeth I as the main focus for a fresh “warts-and-all” biography that I was bucking a trend. I’m intrigued, mildly annoyed, often shocked, when fellow academics or authors invite me to justify my choices, as if they needed explanation. I choose topics because they have good stories, usually involving collisions of big personalities and big ideas. That’s why I also wrote a life of Thomas Becket.
Although I’m happiest now writing biography rather than history, I use life writing to unlock the clashes and controversies of the past as much as to write a subject’s life. I did feel I had a duty, in the case of Mary Queen of Scots, to put the record straight, since the sources clearly justified that. If it’s true there are “gynaecological moments” in writing women’s lives for which men are not best placed to make judgments, then the reverse must also be true – at which point the debate gets rather silly. No one surely thinks in the 21st century that a man cannot write intelligently about the birth of a child?
John Guy’s new book, Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years, is out in May (Viking).
Patrick French
All writers need to be encouraged early on to stretch their talent. If they are women, they are less likely, for embedded cultural and social reasons, to be told they should be writing a big and ambitious nonfiction book. Women whose work broke through in the 20th century, such as Gertrude Stein, Margaret Mead or Rachel Carson, faced different barriers from those faced by women today. What we have now is a more nebulous obstacle. Stereotypically in non-fiction, women write about the domestic and men write on world wars and politicians. In these nostalgic and sometimes regressive times, we follow the contours of our upbringing and produce what is familiar. It is no surprise to learn that Mark Zuckerberg’s reading circle prefers titles on subjects like technology and international power politics that are written almost exclusively by men.
Britain is not short of female editors. But like their male colleagues, they are failing to push female writers
British publishers, along with other creative and media companies, draw their talent from a comparatively small social pool: it is possible at a London literary event to find that every person is white and well heeled, bar those who are serving the drinks. Britain today is not, though, short of female editors and agents. Like their male colleagues, they are failing to push talented female writers to go for broke. Think of an older generation, unconstrained by what was expected in fiction or non-fiction. Margaret Atwood said Doris Lessing’s “outland origins” had made her a model “for every writer coming from the back of beyond”. Starting in the 1940s, Lessing happily took on subjects ranging from genetics and imperialism to revolutionary activism and ideas of space and time. To quote Atwood: “Doris did everything with all her heart, all her soul, and all her might.” So storm the citadel.
Patrick French’s latest book is India: a Portrait (Penguin). He is currently writing the authorised biography of Doris Lessing.
Simon Schama. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
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Eurozone economies: as Italy struggles how are other countries faring?
German has flirted with recession, while growth is returning to Portugal and Spain
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Alexis Tsipras has announced the first increase in Greece’s minimum wage in nearly a decade. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP
Italy’s recession has raised doubts over the strength of the eurozone. Here is a health check on some of the key eurozone economies – and the UK.
The German economy has been flirting with recession in recent months, as vehicle emissions tests – introduced in the wake of the VW scandal – and a drop in car sales in China act as a drag on industrial output. While official figures are yet to be published, analysts believe the eurozone’s largest economy probably contracted for the second quarter in a row in the final three months of 2018 – enough for a technical recession. Jobs growth has, however, remained strong. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates the economy expanded by 1.5% last year, while growth will slow to 1.3% in 2019.
The country’s economy ended 2018 on a stronger footing than expected, despite the headwinds from the gilets jaunes anti-government protests, first started as a backlash against plans to raise fuel taxes. Rising export volumes offset sluggish household consumption in the final quarter of the year. GDP rose by 0.3% in the three months to December, contributing to annual growth of 1.5%. The IMF forecasts growth will remain steady at that level in 2019.
Like much of Europe, Britain has suffered from a downturn in manufacturing linked to new vehicle emissions tests and faltering demand in China. However, Brexit poses additional problems. Despite this, unemployment is the lowest since the mid-1970s and wage growth has accelerated to the highest level in a decade. After robust growth in the summer, GDP growth is expected to ease to about 0.3% in the fourth quarter as mounting Brexit fears act as a drag on activity. The IMF forecasts GDP growth of 1.4% in 2018 and 1.5% should Brexit pass smoothly. The Bank of England warns that a disorderly no-deal Brexit could trigger an immediate recession worse than the 2008 financial crisis.
Anti-Brexit campaigners in Ireland. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
Like Italy, Greece, Ireland and Spain, the Portuguese economy tanked during the 2011 eurozone debt crisis, with the country needing a bailout from the IMF and the EU as unemployment soared. Since then the socialist government under prime minister António Costa has overseen a robust recovery. Unemployment has fallen to 6.7%, below the eurozone average, while GDP growth of 1.8% in 2018 is forecast by the European commission, expected to moderate to 1.7% this year. However, debt-to-GDP levels – at 120% – remain the highest in the EU apart from Italy and Greece.
Still bearing the scars of a decade of austerity, Greece raised money last week on the bond markets for the first time since exiting its support programme from the EU and IMF late last year. Real wages remain as much as 3% below their pre-crisis peak, though GDP growth has gradually returned and is projected to reach 2.4% this year. Unemployment remains at an eye-watering 18.1%; however, it is falling slowly. Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, announced the first increase in the country’s minimum wage in nearly a decade last week.
In a dramatic recovery from the financial crisis, when its banks went into meltdown, Ireland is set to record the strongest growth in the EU for 2018. After an international bailout and unemployment hitting 16%, the jobless rate has dropped to 5.3% and is forecast to improve further. GDP growth is forecast at 6% for last year and 4.1% in 2019. However, there are risks from Brexit, given Ireland’s close links to the UK, with the central bank warning that a no-deal scenario may knock four percentage points off the growth rate in the first year.
Now the strongest performer of the big four euro economies, Spain saw GDP growth of 0.7% over the final three months of 2018, up from 0.6% in the third quarter, in a marked contrast to the slowdown elsewhere. GDP in 2018 was 2.4%, versus average growth in the eurozone of 0.2%. But household spending is expected to ease – meaning growth is forecast to slow to about 2.2% this year, according to the IMF.
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Credibility where it's due
Julie Flint
Suleiman Jamous is the most impressive figure in the Sudan Liberation Army. While he is detained, a solution to the Darfur crisis is even more remote.
A few days after helicopter gun ships attacked the village of Amarai in North Darfur recently, a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) put out a statement alleging that the attack had killed 26 civilians, including four pregnant women. Within an hour or so, I received a telephone call from the humanitarian coordinator of the SLA, Suleiman Jamous. The correct death toll, he said, was three.
"I do not think we have to convince the world that there are abuses in Darfur," Jamous said. "We have to keep ourselves honest, or we will lose our credibility."
I have been a harsh critic of the SLA, whose leaders have cared for little except their own positions and who have encouraged, in the case of one, and ignored, in the case of another, gross abuses committed by their underlings. But the SLA has some impressive figures and it is arguable that Suleiman Jamous is the most impressive of them all.
Yesterday Suleiman Jamous marked the first anniversary of an imprisonment so ambiguous that those responsible for it - the Sudan government and the United Nations Mission in Sudan - can both claim that his lack of liberty is not their fault. The truth is that both are to blame - not only for the psychological suffering inflicted on an elderly man who is denied all human contact except with those who are holding him, but also for the shrinking of humanitarian space caused by his absence from the field.
The facts are these:
In September 2005, Jamous attended the sixth round of the Darfur peace talks in Abuja and threw his weight behind a negotiated settlement to the conflict. On his return to Darfur, the rebel leader Minni Minawi, who was at the time opposed to a negotiated settlement of the war, had him arrested in the village of Bir Maza. Seventeen villagers who dared to ask why their relief deliverer had been detained were told by Minawi's chief of staff: "I can shoot Jamous and sodomise any of you." The 17, aged between 35 and 60, were stripped naked, put in the sun and beaten. Shots were fired into the air around them. Three were driven around Bir Maza naked on open trucks.
UN officials succeeded in negotiating Jamous's release from Minawi after a little more than a month and flew him to a UN military hospital outside Darfur, in the Kordofan region east of Darfur. It was, they said, for his own safety and would be for four days only. But the UN did not obtain Khartoum's permission to transport Jamous and Khartoum responded by briefly disrupting relief operations.
A year later, the 62-year-old Jamous remains in the UN hospital in the town of Kadugli with an unarmed guard inside his room and an armed guard outside. He has access to a telephone and is treated well. But he sleeps badly and is unable to get medical treatment that UN doctors have certified they cannot provide in Kadugli: specifically, a biopsy for an abdominal complaint that began during his third period of detention by the Sudan government in 2003.
Until recently, UN officials told Jamous he was not at liberty to leave the hospital, adding that it was for his own good. The African Union, which has peacekeepers in Darfur, was negotiating his release with the government official in charge of the Darfur file, Majzoub al-Khalifa. A few days ago, however, there was a development: a relatively junior UN official told Jamous that he can walk out any time he wants.
"I was told I am free to go out if I wish," Jamous told me last week, "but they are not responsible for what will happen to me outside their fence. I asked if this is a kind of turning over" to the government. "Walking from here to Darfur is not possible" - even if he got past the army car and motorcycle that seem to be permanently stationed only a few hundred yards away from the hospital.
In the three years that he served as humanitarian coordinator of the SLA, Jamous facilitated the delivery of relief swiftly, smoothly and honestly, enabling tens of thousands of civilians to stay in their villages and not to trek to the camps for the displaced that are so insecure and overcrowded today that they are themselves a source of conflict. He helped scores of journalists get in and out of Darfur, safely, and facilitated numerous international missions including the UN commission of inquiry.
The head of one the largest humanitarian agencies operating in Darfur says Jamous was a "very important" colleague - not only "because he arranged for access but also because he understands humanitarian principles and human rights and was an interlocutor on a number of issues including releasing child soldiers." An NGO worker with whom he worked closely says: "You could contact him in the morning and be delivering aid the same day, anywhere in the rebel areas of North Darfur."
He never carried a gun or wore a uniform.
In the three years that I have known Jamous, he has never given me a piece of information that has proved to be wrong. He has been frank about rebel abuses when they have occurred and in the last two years has worked tirelessly to mend the divisions that bedevil the SLA, Darfur's largest rebel group but now so fragmented that the name is virtually meaningless.
Jamous added clarity of purpose and a sense of principle to a rebel leadership that was consumed by a brutal power grab. He is one of the very few individuals to emerge from the Darfur crisis with moral integrity. All serious analysts concur that solutions to Darfur must come from Darfurians, with the international community in a supporting role. The enforced silence of Suleiman Jamous means that a just and lasting settlement to the crisis is that much more remote.
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Sons for sale
As the world marks the 200th anniversary of the end of the slave trade, Sarah Left says Ghanaian boys as young as four are still being sold as cheap labour
Sarah Left
Thu 22 Mar 2007 09.08 EDT
Kofi and Favour Azadavor. Photograph: Sarah Left
Kofi Azadavor is sitting stiffly on a bench under a mango tree on his family's compound, getting up every so often to tend the fire in the open-air kitchen. He looks smart in his school uniform of brown shorts and a blue-and-white checked shirt, but both school and family life are still fairly new experiences for the 10-year-old.
Kofi only returned home to his village near Sogakope, a small town in south-eastern Ghana, in June. When he was just four years old, his mother sent him and his older brother, Mawuta, to live with their uncle in a fishing town 250km away. It was the end of Kofi's childhood and the start of his life as a slave.
Kofi explains that while living with his uncle, he and Mawuta would get up very early in the morning, wash dishes and sweep the house, then head straight out onto Lake Volta to fish. They would spend the day casting out the heavy fishing net and checking for the catch.
When the net snagged on the branches and stumps at the bottom of the lake, Mawuta was made to dive into water to untangle it. It was a dangerous and delicate task, and the boys' risked drowning, contracting the disease bilharzia, and, if they damaged the net while setting it free, a beating from their master.
"My uncle would beat us sometimes," Kofi says. "If he said we should go to fish or farm and we said we were too tired, then he would beat us." When asked if he likes his uncle, Kofi just silently shakes his head.
This Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, an event being commemorated in Ghana at Elmina castle, the country's most notorious slave trading fort, and in a series of events around the UK.
But across Ghana, and most stubbornly in fishing communities on Lake Volta, Ghanaian children are still being sold for as little as 200,000 cedis (£12) into a life of forced labour, malnutrition, physical abuse and no schooling.
Raymond Tchia was seven when his future master woke him from his bed and took him away to a life of fishing and diving into the deep water to untangle nets. Raymond lived in a one-room mud hut with 20 other boys and says they were fed only one meal a day. Now 17, Raymond was released only two months ago. He has never been to school before now.
"I did not enjoy living with that man. The man uses force. When I was young, I was very scared, so if I was to dive into the water and was afraid, he would beat me," Raymond says.
The International Organisation for Migration has rescued 612 trafficked children from Lake Volta since 2002, and it estimates that there are hundreds, and possibly thousands, more trafficked children still fishing on the lake.
Through a programme of community education and persuasion, IOM convinces fishermen to release trafficked children, and then reunites them with their families.
To secure their cooperation, IOM offers the fishermen help in improving their fishing business without relying on child labour, or help in setting up alternative businesses. The children's parents are offered micro-credit loans to help them keep the children at home, and the returned children are guaranteed school or vocational training.
Both parents and fishermen are also warned that Ghana passed a law against child trafficking in December 2005. Just last month, the country's authorities secured their first conviction under the new law.
Most of the children, mainly boys between the ages of 6 and 17, come from communities near Ghana's central and eastern coast, and are sent to live either with relatives who have migrated north onto the lake in search of better fishing, or with unrelated fishermen looking for cheap, obedient labour.
IOM project manager, Joseph Rispoli, says the trafficking of children to Lake Volta is a distortion of the much older practice of placement, where West African parents would send children to live with wealthier relatives to secure their education or training in a trade.
But the children doing the fishing almost never go to school, are generally fed only one meal a day, and are beaten on a regular basis, Mr Rispoli says. The work itself is dangerous as well as backbreaking, he adds.
"Sometimes it's just a bunch of eight-year-olds out on the lake alone in a rickety canoe with no supervision," he says.
Sharon Abbey, an assistant director at Ghana's department of social welfare, runs a shelter for trafficked children at Madina, just outside the capital, Accra.
After IOM and its partner NGOs rescue the children from the lake, they are sent to Ms Abbey's shelter for two to three months for counselling and an introduction to the classroom while their families are traced.
She introduces us to Joel Adinortey. He does not know how old he is, but she estimates he is about six. Joel cannot remember the name of the town he was in, and cannot yet speak about the experience.
"You wonder how a mother can take a child this young to be subjected to this. You wonder what sort of mother that is. When he came here, he was crying all the time," she says.
The children also have a hard time coming to terms with their parents' decision. Raymond Tchia says he thinks his father is dead, and he has no memory of his mother, not even a picture of her in his head. He is not angry with her for sending him away, he says, he feels nothing about her.
Kofi's mother, Favour Azadavor, insists she never received money from her brother for sending Kofi and Mawuta to him, only food parcels. In the six years they were away, she did not see them once.
Ms Azadavor, who scrapes a living as a subsistence farmer, has 10 surviving children and says she simply could not cope financially. "I sent the two because the father could not take care of them and, looking at the numbers, I could not afford to take care of them," she says.
The return of Kofi and Mawuta has clearly been less than a joyful occasion for Ms Azadavor. She says she was happy to have them back and regrets sending them away, but providing for them is still a worry now, despite IOM providing a school uniform, supplies and any fees.
"There has been no reduction in the suffering," she explains.
In Kofi's hometown of Sogakope, Julius Kwadzo Ameku runs a local NGO, Fysso, that has reunited 50 children with the parents who sold them or sent them away.
He says that some of the parents were angry with Fysso for returning their children without additional money (Fysso is just beginning to offer micro-credit and training to the parents of trafficked children).
"The parents say that if you brought them back, you must take care of them. They say, it is your duty because we did not ask you to bring them here."
Mr Ameku feels the solution lies in tackling three problems. The parents need education about child welfare, how to keep the children safe and the importance of sending them to school.
He points towards a group of children selling loaves of bread on the main road, in full view of police at a checkpoint. "It's not just about poverty. It's about mindset and attitude," he says. "The parents should be made to feel the full rigours of the law if the children are not in school."
Second, he says, much more work needs to be done to promote family planning. "People give birth to so many children and with that they have the problem of taking care of them. So to give them out is a relief. Those children work and the masters send the parents some money, and they use the money to take care of the remaining children."
Finally, there needs to be greater employment opportunities for the parents, so that they can afford to take care of their children at home.
Ms Abbey just hopes that the children passing through her shelter will be able to make something of their lives, and that they will find the self-confidence they need.
"They should not think that life is like that and that adults can always push you around. We are not all like that. They should know that they have rights," she says.
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Sunni candidates ban threatens Iraq election
• Sectarian tension grows after 400 nominees barred
• Move justified as a push against Saddam loyalists
Martin Chulov in Baghdad
Leading Sunni politicians tonight warned that Iraq was sliding towards a "dark unknown" in the wake of a decision to ban more than 400 Sunni candidates from contesting the upcoming general election. The move is increasingly being seen as a test of the poll's legitimacy and a direct threat to the Shia-led government's attempts at reconciling the country's warring militant and political factions.
On Thursday the country's independent electoral commission banned about 500 candidates from running in the 7 March poll. But more than 80% were today revealed to be Sunni nominees who had been courted to take part in a bid to prevent a re-run of the 2005 election, which saw a Sunni boycott and a subsequent slide towards sectarian war.
The ban comes almost seven years after the US introduced "de-Ba'athification", and has been portrayed by some as a fresh push to rid Iraq of any remaining Saddam Hussein loyalists. Among those banned are prominent figures including the defence minister, Abdul-Kader Jassem al-Obeidi, and Saleh al-Mutlak, who is the head of the National Dialogue Front.
"Reconciliation has always been a farce," said Mutlak, who is appealing against the decision. "This government cannot be nationalists. They are made up of members who have been brought up to be sectarian from childhood."
Mutlak has been banned by the Accountability and Justice Commission, an organisation that emerged from the once omnipotent De-Ba'athification Commission. The new body is directed by Ali Faisal al-Lami, a close aide to former deputy prime minister and one-time American ally, Ahmed Chalabi, who is again a candidate in the upcoming poll.
Lami defended the decision to ban Mutlak, claiming the government had been too weak to move against "Ba'athist remnants". It is believed that all 500 names of those banned were provided by Lami's commission.
Sunnis have felt increasingly disenfranchised in recent months, despite being embraced throughout 2009 by prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's Reconciliation Committee, which aims to offer legitimacy to former members of sectarian militias. Both Britain and the US had feared the approaches to the Sunnis were fragile and that piecemeal security gains in formerly violent Sunni regions could collapse without political gains being made.
Mutlak said Shia support for the poll was fast ebbing. "I would expect that not only the Sunnis, but a high percentage of the Shias will now reconsider their positions and will not participate in the poll. This is a divergence from what we all had expected and is now approaching worst fears. I think the attitude of the people will slide towards a dark unknown."
Another Sunni politician, Osama al-Najafi, said there was now a serious threat to the election, which is being hailed by the US as a democratic breakthrough that will lead to the withdrawal of the 125,000 US forces remaining in Iraq. "There has been a drastic change in the political situation in Iraq," Najafi said. "There will be a severe public backlash to this, reconciliation will end, and the election will fail. Any results will clearly be seen as illegitimate."
The Iraqi government has recently mounted an intense military and political campaign against what it says are Ba'athist elements behind a series of three mass bombing campaigns. Hussein Kamal, the director of the interior ministry intelligence service, said a series of raids this week foiled a planned fourth bombing campaign allegedly directed by former Saddam loyalists in exile in Syria.
"There has been no political decision taken to freeze Sunnis out," he said. "But there is a conflict between parties. Sunnis are a strong part of Iraq and without them no one can rule this country."
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Russian billionaire senator under investigation in France
Resources magnate Suleiman Kerimov was arrested in Nice on suspicion of aggravated laundering of tax fraud proceeds
Wed 22 Nov 2017 20.38 EST Last modified on Wed 22 Nov 2017 20.51 EST
Suleiman Kerimov: the Kremlin said it would ‘do everything in our power’ to protect him. Photograph: Sergei Rasulov/Reuters
A French judge has placed the Russian businessman and senator Suleiman Kerimov, whose interests the Kremlin has pledged to defend, under formal investigation after his arrest in a tax evasion case.
The investigation, a step that often but not always leads to a trial in the French legal system, was opened on suspicion of aggravated laundering of tax fraud proceeds, a crime that carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
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The judge in Nice decided that Kerimov could be released from detention but had to turn in his passport and could not leave the immediate area. He was also ordered to post a bail of five million euros ($5.9 million) and to check in with police several times per week.
A French judicial source said the investigation centred on the purchase of several luxury residences on the French Riviera via shell companies, something that could have enabled Kerimov to reduce taxes.
The Kremlin said earlier that it would spare no effort to defend the rights of Kerimov, a 51-year-old billionaire who was arrested at Nice airport on Monday night.
Suleiman Kerimov is escorted by French police to the Nice court where he faced a day of questioning over alleged tax evasion. Photograph: Yann Coatsaliou/AFP/Getty Images
Shares in Polyus, Russia’s biggest gold producer which is controlled by Kerimov’s family, fell on the news of his detention.
“We will do everything in our power to protect his lawful interests,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters. “Intensive work is now being undertaken by the foreign ministry.”
The prosecution had requested that Kerimov be kept in custody. A second person was also put under formal investigation.
A representative for Kerimov in the upper house of Russia’s parliament, where he sits as a lawmaker, declined to comment on the case on Wednesday when contacted by Reuters. Polyus also declined to comment.
Russia’s state-run Rossiya 24 TV station, citing an unnamed source, reported that Kerimov had denied any guilt.
In the lower house of parliament, lawmaker Rizvan Kurbanov complained that there had been no explanation about the detention from France
and hoped the Russian foreign ministry would issue a formal protest.
Originally from the mainly Muslim Russian region of Dagestan, Kerimov built his lucrative natural resources business through a combination of debt, an appetite for risk, and political connections.
He owned the football club Anzhi Makhachkala until he sold it in 2016.
Kerimov’s fortune peaked at $17.5bn in 2008 before slumping to $3bn in 2009, according to Forbes magazine, due to so-called margin calls on his assets triggered by the 2007-2009 global financial crisis.
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Requiescat in pace: Finland's Yle radio axes Latin news show after 30 years
Public broadcaster cancels weekly summary Nuntii Latini as original presenters retire
AFP in Helsinki
Nuntii Latini newsreader Laura Nissinen joined the programme as a part-time correspondent in 2001. Photograph: Jari Tanner/AP
Finland’s public broadcaster Yle has ended its weekly Latin language news bulletin, after three decades on the air, the broadcaster announced.
Since its debut in 1989, Nuntii Latini has offered a five-minute summary of the week’s national and foreign news in the classical language.
In later years the show was also made available online, garnering it around 40,000 listeners around the world, including some from the Vatican.
The last bulletin was broadcast on June 14, and detailed the agreement between the US and Mexico on immigration, talks between the presidents of China and Russia and the end of the Latin programme, which “post ferias aestivas non continuabuntur” (will not resume after the summer holiday).
Reijo Pitkäranta, one of the three producers of Nuntii Latini, prepares to read the news in Latin at the Yle Radio 1 studio. Photograph: Jari Tanner/AP
“Some of my most memorable moments have been writing about the Estonia ferry disaster, the twin towers in New York and the Indian Ocean tsunami,” said Reijo Pitkäranta, one of three producers who made the show since its inception.
Kaj Farm, head of programmes for Yle Radio 1, said they had decided to cancel the show since the producers were unable to continue.
“The same people have been doing it week for week now for 30 years, and they are not that young anymore,” he told AFP.
Farm said the show had originally started as somewhat of an “inside joke,” and since it was hard to find suitable replacements for the ageing staff they decided it was time to pull the plug.
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In addition to Finnish and Swedish, Yle produces news in English, Russian, Sami, Roma, simplified Finnish, Karelian and sign language.
Finland has distinguished itself as a bastion of the language of ancient Rome in other ways and is the home to academic Jukka Ammondt, who translated Elvis Presley’s repertoire into Latin.
In 2007, Ammondt told AFP that Pope John Paul II “thought it was a very good idea to promote Latin in this way”.
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Home Economics Is “The American Century” Over?
May 15, 2015 Columnists
Is “The American Century” Over?
Joseph S. Nye Jr
Is “the American century” over? Many seem to think so. In recent years, polls have shown that in 15 of 22 countries surveyed, most of the respondents said that China either will replace — or has replaced — the United States as the world’s leading power.
In 1941, in an effort to resist the isolationism that followed World War I, Henry Luce of Time magazine published a famous editorial on “the American century.” After the war, when Britain was too weak to support Greece and Turkey in 1947, the U.S. took its place. It invested heavily in the Marshall Plan in 1948, created NATO in 1949 and led a United Nations coalition that fought in Korea in 1950. To this day, American troops are still welcome in Europe, Japan and Korea. From 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union balanced each other’s power. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States became the world’s only superpower.
There has always been a lot of fiction mixed with the facts of “the American century.” The peak of America’s share of world power resources was from 1945, when the U.S. had nearly half the world economy as a result of World War II, to 1970, when the U.S. share of world product returned to its prewar level of a quarter of world product. Yet, during this period, the U.S. often failed to get what it wanted: witness Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons, communist takeover of China and half of Vietnam, stalemate in the Korean War, Soviet suppression of the revolts in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Castro’s control of Cuba and so forth.
The U.S. is likely to remain the central actor in the global balance of power in 2041. But on the new transnational issues — financial stability, climate change, pandemics, terrorism and cyber strife — while American leadership will be important, success will require the cooperation of others. In this sense, power becomes a positive sum game. If the American century is to continue, it will not be enough to think in terms of American power over others. One must also think in terms of power to accomplish joint goals, which involves power with others such as Japan, China, Europe, India, Brazil and others. On many transnational issues, empowering others can help the U.S. to accomplish its own goals. In this world, networks and connectedness become an important source of our power.
This is not a post-American world. “The American century” will continue in the sense of the centrality of the United States to the balance of power and American leadership in the production of global public goods, but it will look very different from what it was in the 64 years since Henry Luce proclaimed it.
Joseph S. Nye Jr. is a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and author of “Is the American Century Over?”
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Track By Track: C Duncan on The Midnight Sun
Words: Laurence Day / 06 October 2016, 12:00 BST
Glasgow-based composer C Duncan writes for Best Fit about the origins of wonderfully constructed new record The Midnight Sun.
The Midnight Sun is a very intimate album, although the music is very spacious and at times cold. Unlike Architect, it has a sound world of its own and it deals with more personal matters. Although it isn’t a break up album, the lyrics regard the trials (and often sublime parts) of a relationship, constant self assessment, coping with another’s depression, self acceptance, parting of ways, and change amongst many other things. Lyrics aside, the music is heavily influenced by the ominous character, stark stylisation and brooding atmosphere of the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone from which the title of the album is taken from my favourite episode.
With the opening track to the album I wanted to set the scene for the rest of the record, beginning with a large choral passage. I was trying to solidify the style for the new album when I was working on this and questioning my own abilities as a composer. The result is a sombre hymn-like track that incorporates my growing love of electronic instruments into a sparse and atmospheric track that continues throughout the album.
Like You Do
This, for me, is one of the more unsettling songs on the album. It’s about being deprived of satisfaction and suffering as a result. Someone close to me was suffering from depression when I wrote this and it reflects their daily efforts to battle it.
Perhaps the most poppy track on the album, this song is lyrically reminiscent of the first album. It is about leaving troubles and woes behind and escaping to somewhere far away. By this point I had toured many different countries and wanted to experience life outside of Glasgow.
Wanted To Want It Too
I wanted to write something dark and disco-y. This is what came out. A dirgy dance number that’s too slow to dance to…
Who Lost
This song is about sibling rivalry. Not anymore, but my brother and I used to compete in many ways and would try to gain praise from our parents. We have very proud parents and we now respect each other highly. "Who Lost" is me harking back to the days when this stuff mattered, and also, when you have someone else in your life that none of this rivalry really matters at all.
On Course
This is the iciest song on the album, and has some of the highest vocals I have ever sung! I wrote this about half way through recording the album. It is almost a song of encouragement for myself, as the name suggests. I had reached a point in my production of the music that I was happy with and this song set the benchmark for the rest of the album.
Last To Leave
This song simply maps out the progression of my relationship with my ex, beginning with the honeymoon period, moving through day to day life, troubles, consolidation and finally questioning if our relationship would or could last. The melody for this is loosely based on "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music.
Do I Hear
"Do I Hear" is a reworking of a song that I wrote for soprano and voice a couple of years ago. I had always wanted to do something else with it so I record it myself and it fits the style of the new album. It is basically about being yourself and coping with and embracing your quirks, sexuality, and character. I was in a new relationship when I wrote the lyrics, which are about reigning myself in and adapting to a new life with someone else, without losing my own identity or principals.
I had already come up with the name of the album before I recorded this. It was a slow-burning song which I had tried to record on and off over the past few years, under the same name, each sounding different to the last. But the style of this album really suited the material I had and it all just fell into place. It is about romanticising the moon and asking too much of our muses, personifying the moon. It is also tied up with The Twilight Zone episode in its style and dramatic imagery.
Last year I played at a festival in Hamburg - a very vibrant and beautiful city. We stayed there for four days in the red light district (which was where the festival was taking place). My partner at the time and I decided that we should experience some of the night life, which resulted in us going to a gay cruising party. Us being reserved Scots didn’t realise what this would entail… the club was packed and almost completely pitch black and comprised of lots of interlinking corridors with small rooms off them where, with doors wide open, men were having their way with other men. It was a strange experience for us and the night ended with us being followed by a gentleman around the club and into the streets, trying to drag us back in for some ‘fun’. Jupiter is an almost romanticised recount of this night, which was anything but romantic. It is a euphoric song, yet slimy and unnerving.
In a funny sort of way this song sums up the whole album for me. It was mid winter in Glasgow which was especially grey, cold, and bleak, where I was struggling a little and had isolated myself. Everything was building up - work, relationship strains, a crisis in direction and value - but as the song progressed I realised that whatever was happening around me, I just had to persist and cope somehow, which was a great revelation for me. No matter what trials are thrown at you in life, there is an almost serene middle ground - once you have accepted and understood your problems. It is bittersweet musically and incorporates my love of chamber pop/baroque pop and slightly off kilter tuning. For me it was an obvious choice for the final track on the album.
The Midnight Sun is released 7 October via FatCat Records.
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Prenatal Vitamins May Lower 2nd Child Autism Risk
By Serena Gordon
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Something as simple as taking prenatal vitamins during the first month of pregnancy might lower the odds of having a second child with autism.
As researchers explain in a new report, once one child has been diagnosed with autism, any subsequent children face a higher risk of having the developmental disorder.
But the study found that when moms in high-risk families took prenatal vitamins during the first month of pregnancy, their children had half the risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). And in children who did develop autism, early prenatal vitamin use was linked to less severe autism symptoms, and higher thinking and memory skills.
"Mothers who used prenatal vitamins, especially in the first month of pregnancy, had a reduced risk of having another child with autism," said study author Rebecca Schmidt. She's an assistant professor of public health sciences at the MIND Institute of the University of California, Davis.
The researchers suspect that certain nutrients found in prenatal vitamins -- such as folic acid and other B vitamins or iron -- may play a part in the lowered risk. However, this study wasn't designed to prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
"We don't know for sure what nutrients make the difference. We do know that folic acid is really important for neural tube closure and that it plays a role in oxidative stress and mitochondrial function -- a lot of important things," she said.
Schmidt said that folic acid or any other nutrient that might contribute to the reduced risk seen in this study isn't likely to be solely responsible for preventing autism. She said a lot of factors are suspected to contribute to autism, such as genetics and environment.
Still, "a prenatal vitamin might mitigate some of the risk that's already there," Schmidt added.
Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center, in New Hyde Park, N.Y., noted that the risk of having a second child with autism is a very significant concern for parents who already have one child with the disorder.
"Whereas other studies have shown that prenatal vitamins reduce the overall likelihood of having a first child with ASD, this new study suggests that mothers who already have a child with ASD can reduce their risk of having another, similarly affected child," he said.
"Although there are already many good reasons for women to begin taking prenatal vitamins … this study lends further support to their potential benefits for women already at increased risk for having another child with ASD," Adesman added.
"If the findings from this study are replicated by other researchers, then something as simple and inexpensive as taking prenatal vitamins prior to conception can significantly reduce the likelihood of a woman having a second child with ASD," he said.
Another autism expert agreed the finding has to be confirmed in further research.
"This is a small study that needs to be replicated in a larger sample before true risk-reduction calculations and public health policy decisions can be made," said Dr. Kristin Sohl. She is vice chair of the department of pediatrics at University of Missouri Health Care, part of the Autism Speaks' Autism Treatment Network.
"Women planning to get pregnant should have discussions with their doctor about prenatal vitamins prior to getting pregnant, as we know that certain nutrients like folic acid are vital to optimal brain growth and development from the earliest days of a pregnancy," Sohl added.
Schmidt said that the women in the study used a variety of prenatal vitamins, but the researchers didn't look to see if one type was better than the others when it came to autism risk. While vitamin brands may vary, most will contain similar nutrients, she noted.
The study included more than 300 mothers who already had children with an autism spectrum disorder. The younger siblings were born between 2006 and 2015, and completed testing for autism within six months of their third birthday. Fifty-eight percent of the younger siblings were male.
Ninety-six percent of mothers reported taking prenatal vitamins during their pregnancy, but only 36 percent started taking vitamins in the recommended time frame -- six months before getting pregnant, the researchers said.
In women who took a prenatal vitamin during the first month of pregnancy, the autism rate in their subsequent children was 14 percent compared to 33 percent for children of mothers who didn't use prenatal vitamins at that time.
"Women who are planning to have more kids, or if it's possible they might get pregnant, should talk to their doctor about getting a prescription for a prenatal vitamin," Schmidt recommended.
The findings were published online Feb. 27 in JAMA Psychiatry.
SOURCES: Rebecca Schmidt, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health sciences, the MIND Institute and the University of California, Davis; Andrew Adesman, M.D., chief, developmental & behavioral pediatrics, Cohen Children's Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.; Kristin Sohl, M.D., vice chair, department of pediatrics, University of Missouri Health Care, Autism Speaks' Autism Treatment Network; Feb. 27, 2019,JAMA Psychiatry, online
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Australia foreign interference law seen aimed at curbing ‘Chinese influence’
By World Tribune on June 28, 2018 Australia, China, Exclusives, NE Asia, Top Stories, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2018 Australia on June 28 passed legislation aimed at preventing interference by foreign governments in Canberra’s affairs. The new law, which mirrors similar rules in the United States, will require lobbyists for foreign countries to register, and makes them liable for criminal prosecution if they are deemed to be meddling […]
Kim Jong-Un warns U.S. ally to keep distance from ‘reckless’ Trump
By World Tribune on October 22, 2017 Americas, Australia, Exclusives, NE Asia, North Korea, Rest of The Best, Stateside, Top Stories, Washington, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, October 22, 2017 North Korea cautioned Australia against backing the “reckless moves” of U.S. President Donald Trump. A letter from North Korea’s Foreign Affairs Committee sent to Australia’s embassy in Indonesia urges the U.S. ally and other nations to “discharge their due mission and duty in realizing the desire of mankind for […]
Trump, Xi huddle by phone on Korea; Pyongyang threatens Seoul for aligning with West
By World Tribune on August 13, 2017 Americas, Australia, China, Exclusives, NE Asia, North Korea, Stateside, Top Stories, Top Story, Washington, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Aug. 12 and reached an agreement that North Korea “must stop its provocative and escalatory behavior,” the White House said in a statement. Trump and Xi “also reiterated their mutual commitment to the denuclearization of the […]
As Trump returns, McCain embarks on overseas apology tour
By World Tribune on May 30, 2017 Americas, Australia, BB NE Asia, Exclusives, NE Asia, Stateside, Top Stories, Washington, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 The 2008 GOP candidate who lost to a two-term U.S. president known for expressing regrets about his country while abroad has gone down under to apologize for Barack Obama’s Republican succcessor. Sen. John McCain, in a May 30 speech in Sydney, Australia, said President Donald Trump had unsettled some […]
‘Meaningless’ without U.S.: Japan rejects plan to salvage TPP
By World Tribune on January 25, 2017 Americas, Australia, BB NE Asia, Exclusives, Japan, NE Asia, Rest of The Best, Stateside, U.S. Economy, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2017 Saying the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is “meaningless” without the United States, Japan on Jan. 25 rejected Australia’s effort to salvage the trade agreement. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had suggested China be brought in as a replacement for the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the […]
Syria’s Assad in interview claims secret coordination with U.S., hits ‘double standard’
By World Tribune on July 1, 2016 Africa / Europe, Australia, BB Middle East, Exclusives, Mideast, Russia, Stateside, Syria, Terrorism, Top Story, U.S. Military, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2016 Syrian President Bashar Assad accused the United States and other Western nations of a “double standard” for secretly dealing with him while publicly criticizing him and calling for him to step down. “This is the double standard of the West in general: They attack us politically and they send […]
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Woman lived with dead mother for 3 years in Texas home, police say
Updated: Sun 2:29 AM, Jul 14, 2019
SEGUIN, Texas (KSAT/CNN) - A Texas woman is under arrest after authorities found the body of her mother decomposing in a bedroom at the home they shared.
Authorities say in 2016, 71-year-old Jacqueline Crayton injured herself in a fall in the bedroom of the Seguin, Texas, home she shared with her daughter and granddaughter. (Source: KSAT/CNN)
Delissa Crayton, 47, was arrested Wednesday in connection to the investigation into the death of her 71-year-old mother, Jacqueline Crayton. Investigators found the remains during a Child Protective Services investigation.
In 2016, Jacqueline Crayton injured herself in a fall in the bedroom of the Seguin, Texas, home she shared with her daughter and granddaughter, according to authorities.
Police believe Delissa Crayton failed to provide adequate help for her mother after the fall, even though the injuries were not life-threatening. Jacqueline Crayton died on the floor several days later, according to a news release from the Seguin Police Department.
The body was allegedly left to decompose for three years while Delissa Crayton and her teenage daughter continued to live in the home.
Neighbor Joel Vasquez, who lives next door, can’t believe the body was found just feet from his home.
"It’s probably like, what, 10 feet away from my bedroom window?” Vasquez said. “I don’t even like coming to this side of the house anymore.”
Neighbors still have a lot of questions about what happened in the clutter-filled home and wonder if Jacqueline Crayton had any other loved ones.
"I’ve never seen anybody come and knock on our door, questioning, ‘Hey, have you seen my grandma?’... It’s like everybody forgot about her,” Vasquez said.
Delissa Crayton was charged with a second-degree felony of injury to a child under the age of 15. Police say more charges are anticipated. She is currently being held on a $200,000 bond.
The suspect’s teenage daughter has been placed with family members, according to police.
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Dealing with the Past to Promote Peacebuilding
As we progress through the second decade of the twenty-first century, the protracted nature of conflict around the world illustrates the urgent need to effectively deal with the past, resist war and consolidate peacebuilding. This article will discuss the challenge of dealing with the past, which has been a major issue for WRI groups in countries emerging from war or authoritarian regimes, such as the apartheid regime or military dictatorships. There is a perpetual tension between the pursuit of peace through recovering the truth and utilizing this as a basis for reconciliation, and the use of the evidence generated through this process to prosecute those who are alleged to have committed war crimes. In other words, there is a tension between investigating war crimes with a view to determining responsibility and sanctioning perpetrators, on the one hand, and establishing a new basis for coexistence through acknowledgement and reconciliation.
Peacebuilding in Context
At the heart of the peacebuilding project is the identification of more effective ways of stabilizing and improving the livelihood and well-being of war-affected citizens. In 1992, the Agenda for Peace, published by the then United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, defined peacebuilding as the medium to long-term process of rebuilding war-affected communities. It defined peacebuilding as ‘action to identify and support structures which will tend to strengthen and solidify peace to avoid a relapse to conflict.’1 Over time the definition of peacebuilding has ‘gradually expanded to refer to integrated approaches to address violent conflict at different phases of the conflict cycle.’2 At a fundamental level peacebuilding involves addressing the root causes of the conflict and enabling warring parties to continue to find solutions through negotiation and when necessary through mediation. These activities are ultimately striving to bring about the healing of a war-affected community through effectively dealing with the past and promoting reconciliation. Reconciliation, however, is not sustainable without socio-economic reconstruction and development. All of which cannot be done without the mobilization of resources. Peacebuilding is effectively a political activity but one that seeks to unify the judicial, social and economic spheres.
Understanding Dealing with the Past
Dealing with the past includes establishing processes of justice and redress as a means to promoting peacebuilding and reconciliation. In 1997, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (predecessor to the UN Human Rights Council) approved the Joinet Principles on Combating Impunity which established the rights of victims and the obligations of states. The Joinet Principles identify four key parallel processes that are necessary to mitigate against impunity, namely:
the right to know;
the right to justice;
the right to reparation; and
the guarantee of non-recurrence.
The processes are premised on confronting the atrocities of the past and undertaking certain judicial and quasi-judicial measures to safeguard against the potential recurrence of similar abuses in the future.
Some of the processes for dealing with the past fall under the rubric of the still contested term ‘transitional justice’.3 In particular, transitional justice seeks to advance processes and establish mechanisms and institutions to confront the past and to address the key issues that have sustained political repression or fuelled conflict.4 Transitional justice ‘seeks to address challenges that confront societies as they move from an authoritarian state to a form of democracy’.5 More often than not such societies are emerging from a past of brutality, exploitation and victimisation. In this context, transitional justice does not seek to replace criminal justice, rather it strives to promote ‘a deeper, richer and broader vision of justice which seeks to confront perpetrators, address the needs of victims, and start a process of reconciliation and transformation towards a more just and humane society’.6
The ultimate purpose of a process of transitional justice is to establish a quasi-judicial framework to undo the continuing effects of the past. South Africa remains an important model in this regard. At the heart of the South African transition was the need to deal with a past through procedures that were acknowledged and accepted by the key interlocutors who were affected by the deep divisions of the past. It is also necessary not to loose sight of the fact that transitional justice is just that, a ‘transitional process’ and it should not be viewed as a permanent solution to addressing the atrocities of the past. It is rather a transient process that will have to give way to the rule of law and the restoration of a constitutional order that will manage and resolve the social, political and economic tensions within society. Bodies such as truth and reconciliation commissions and special courts are temporary and time-bound institutions and should not be considered as a permanent solution.
There are at least five components of dealing with the past through transitional justice processes identified in a publication entitled Pieces of the Puzzle: Keywords on Reconciliation and Transitional Justice compiled by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, based in Cape Town, South Africa. These include:
ensuring accountability in the fair administration of justice and restoring the rule of law;
the use of non-judicial mechanisms to recover the truth, such as truth and reconciliation commissions;
reconciliation in which a commonly agreed memory of past atrocities is acknowledged by those who created and implemented the unjust system as a prerequisite to promoting forgiveness and healing;
the reform of institutions including the executive, judiciary and legislative branches of government as well as the security sector to ensure that a degree of trust is restored and bridges between members of society can be re-built;
the issuing of reparations to victims who had suffered human rights violations, including gender-based violence, as a way to remedy the harm suffered in the past.
Cultural Approaches to Dealing with the Past
Different cultures have developed their own models for promoting peace and reconciliation, as well as pursuing punitive justice. What is evident is that justice and reconciliation models that have been developed in one culture cannot be transplanted into another society. This suggests that each society has to determine which cultural approach to reconciliation is most likely to sustain peace and advance the cause of justice and redress for past violations. It is necessary for each culture to excavate the lessons that it can learn from its peacebuilding and reconciliation processes so that this knowledge can be shared with the global community.
The Rwandan context
Rwanda had hit the bottom rock, twenty years ago. We lost one million people; ten thousand people were dying every day at the hands of Rwandans. The genocide is an example of the worst human beings can do. Reconciliation is showing us the best human beings can be as we work to leave this tragic past behind us.
The Genocide destroyed Rwanda's social fabric which had been deliberately damaged over decades. Our work as a new nation in the last twenty years has been about restoring social cohesion and the dignity of Rwandans.
For us, what came out of that tragedy is energy and renewal. We have gained power to work in coherence. If you don't learn from the tragedy you went through, it is another way to invite another tragedy.
Some of home grown initiatives that inspired by the Rwandan culture are:
INGANDO:(solidarity camps):
A civic education activity that has facilitated the smooth reintegration of former returnees, X-FAR, provisionally released prisoners back to their communities. Target group include Women, Youth groups, students joining university and local leaders.
INGANDO provide forums to Rwandans to come to terms with their past by facing history, forging a common vision for a united future.
ITORERO RY’IGIHUGU:
This is also a homegrown initiative inspired by the Rwandan culture that was formerly a traditional Rwandan school to instill moral values of integrity, and capacity to deal with ones problems.
Itorero ry'Igihuguhas today been revived to promote values of unity, truth, culture of hard work.
GACACA
GACACA are traditional community courts. GACACA COURTS initiative is very timely because it will make the following possible:
It will enable the truth to be revealed about Genocide and crimes against humanity;
It will put an end to the culture of impunity in Rwanda;
It will reconcile the people of Rwanda and strengthen ties between them;
It revives traditional forms of dispensing justice based on Rwandese culture;
It demonstrates the ability of local communities to solve their own problems;
Helps solve some of the many problems caused by Genocide.
ABUNZI:
Community reconcilers who resolve day to day conflicts before refer in them to Courts.
Dealing with the past is a vital part of the overall strategy to resist and prevent war in the future. In a real sense justice postponed can become reconciliation deterred. However, a blind pursuit of prosecutorial interventions can also increase tensions in a country and undermine the prospects of consolidating peacebuilding. Citizens are often the direct targets of previous oppressive and repressive regimes and therefore they need to become actively engaged in monitoring and raising awareness about the efficacy of dealing with the past mechanisms and peacebuilding processes. Therefore, a progressive shift of emphasis is required towards the active participation of citizens in monitoring the incorporation of strategies for dealing with the past. Ultimately, war will continue to be a dominant form of human interaction unless we can understand and establish effective processes for dealing with the past in order to promote peacebuilding.
There is no future in the past. You can never live in the present and create a new and exciting future for yourself if you always stay stuck in the past.
Recovery from wrongdoing that produces genuine forgiveness takes time. For some, it may take years. Don't rush it. It helps to focus your energy on the healing, not the hurt!
Being willing to forgive can bring a sense of peace and well-being. It lifts anxiety and delivers you from depression. It can enhance your self-esteem and give you hope.
Forgiveness offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace of mind- the potential healing of old emotional wounds and peace with others… the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in the future.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Tim Murithi is Head of the Justice and Reconciliation in Africa Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation based in Cape Town, South Africa, www.ijr.org.za; Dora Urujeni is the Legal Representative of MEMOS, Learning from History in Rwanda.
1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping, New York: United Nations, 1992.
2 Necla Tschirgi, Peacebuilding as the Link between Security and Development: Is the Window of Opportunity Closing?, (New York: International Peace Academy, 2003), p.1.
3 United Nations Security Council, The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, Report of the Secretary-General, S/2004/616, 23 August 2004, p.3.
4 N. Kritz (ed), Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, (Washington, D.C.: 1995; and A. J. McAdams, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in Democracies, (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1997).
5 Alex Boraine, ‘Transitional Justice’, in Charles Villa-Vicencio and Erik Doxteder (eds), Pieces of the Puzzle: Keywords on Reconciliation and Transitional Justice, (Cape Town: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2004), p.67.
6 Boraine, ‘Transitional Justice’, p.67.
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Despite the cholera epidemic and devastating fire in 1849, a resilient St. Louis continued to grow in 1850, becoming the largest city west of Pittsburgh. It also was the second largest port in the United States, with commercial tonnage exceeded only by New York. The economy was boosted by the sheer number of Forty-Niners, those heading to California for the gold rush, who came to the area. In addition to outfitting the would-be gold seekers passing through St. Louis, local merchants also shipped supplies to Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, the jumping-off points for the trail west.
John Murdoch was living in the 3rd Ward with five other non-related people, according to the 1850 census. That same year, on January 19th, his firm established the John J Murdoch and Charles K Dickson Addition. The ten block area ran between Randolph and Market Streets, with Adolph Street as the eastern property line.
In 1851, construction began on the Pacific Railroad (known as the Missouri
Pacific Railway by 1872). The Pacific Railroad was chartered by the State of Missouri in 1849 to extend from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. St. Louis City and St. Louis County contributed $5,000 each, and the County also issued $875,000 in bonds. Murdoch and Dickson both participated in the financing of the railroad. Ground was broken on July 4, 1851, and on December 9, 1852 the first passenger train west of the Mississippi River ran on the initial section of track from Fourteen Street to Sulphur Springs - a distance of five miles. Sulphur Springs was located in St. Louis County, and was later renamed Cheltenham. By 1853, the line had extended through Webster Groves and Kirkwood, and out to Franklin (later called Pacific).
On September 9, 1851 the seventy-two block Stoddard's Addition, established by Henry Stoddard and including purchases by John Murdoch and Charles Dickson, was dedicated by Stoddard and Murdoch. Bounded by Jefferson, Laclede, Leffingwell Avenue and Dayton Street, its lots were sold in the first great auction of real estate in St. Louis. The elevated location of Stoddard's Addition made it a desirable place for the city's wealthier residents to build fashionable mansions. Stoddard was later sued by the heirs of the original owner of the property, Amos Stoddard, with the litigation lasting for many years. There is no indication that either Murdoch or Dickson were parties to the lawsuit, though they were mentioned in the proceedings.
Old Cathedral
At the age of 41, Murdoch married Julia Hull on January 31, 1855 at the Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, more commonly known as the Old Cathedral. Julia was the twenty-year-old niece of Charles Dickson, his sister Susan Dickson Hull's daughter. Marcia Smith, first bridesmaid, described the wedding festivities to her sister in a letter written April 7, 1855.
"They were married in the Catholic Cathedral at half past six in the evening-afterwhich we all went to Mrs. Dickson's and had a most magnificent wedding [reception]. The bride's dress was a white silk, with a thule dress over, made with three skirts, each embroidered with chenille, and a large thule veil embroidered in the same manner with the skirt. She looked sweetly, but her dress was very plain indeed, (at least so considered there, for everyone was so elegantly). She selected this dress because it was plain; she desired something different from what bridal dresses had been this winter: her veil was fastened on with three or four white Japonicas, and [she] held in her hand a very beautiful bouquet of flowers and a silver holder. I being the first bridesmaid, wore a white silk made with low neck and short sleeves, and a double skirt of thule, each skirt with a wide hem and looped up on one side with a bunch of artificial flowers."
Miss Smith goes on to describe in great detail the dresses of the other bridesmaids, the decorations, the music that was played, and the interior of the rooms in the Dickson house where the dining and dancing occurred. She ends by stating, "Mr. Dickson's house is an immense one and so well adapted to giving a large party. There were about 476 invitations out."
Things were going quite well for Murdoch & Dickson.
Labels: Charles Dickson, family history, family history writing challenge, genealogy, history, John Murdoch, Julia Hull, Pacific Railway, st. louis, writing
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Ear Shot
Couple brought together by music plays at jazz festival
By Mona Seghatoleslami • Jun 17, 2019
Antonio Guerrero and Laura Dubin
Courtesy of the artists
Two young people from different backgrounds meet and fall in love -- and society tears them apart. You may recognize that as "West Side Story."
Here's another story: Two young people from different backgrounds meet and fall in love -- and end up making music together all over the world.
Pianist Laura Dubin grew up playing classical music and jazz in Rochester. Antonio Guerrero played percussion in bands around Mexico. Then they both took jobs playing in jazz groups on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean in 2011.
"The story starts there," Antonio recalls. "Just having the opportunity to share the music on the ship … and then we decided to go a little farther than that in our relationship. Since then, we are sharing love and musical life."
Laura echoes his recollection.
"We were playing literally every night on the ship together, so that's a good way to get to know a person and a musician, playing together all the time," she says.
Beyond meeting each other, the experience shaped them in other ways, both personally and musically.
Laura Dubin and Antonio Guerrero
Credit Courtesy of the artists
Laura says it was "special to meet people from another culture that you can connect with, sometimes even if you don't speak the same language very well. You can connect through music."
Antonio notes that "there are so many different ways to even play jazz, because in these days, jazz is all around the world. And when you play with someone from a different country, even the same tune ... from the American Songbook, sounds completely different."
These two have developed a unique sound over the years together. And they often combine classical music with jazz in new ways. At home, Antonio would hear Laura practicing classical pieces on the piano, and he encouraged her to find a way to bridge these worlds.
Antonio says he finds it to be a challenge to fit new drum parts into these existing pieces, while trying to be respect the music.
"Everything is just perfect," he says, "But what I'm trying to do is just respond to the dynamics, and think a little bit if I was in the orchestra, and emulate all the sounds with my drum set. But keeping in mind, this music is already perfect."
Laura, on the other hand, says these parts all seem very natural to her.
"What’s funny to me now (is that) I can't imagine these pieces without drums," she says. "We play these together so often. If I hear the actual, the original version -- something's missing now, because I'm used to it, and I love what he's done with it so much. He's added so much to it in our own way of playing and performing these pieces."
Their latest project is playing "West Side Story," and Leonard Bernstein's music has given them a chance to find new ways to reinvent familiar melodies. They play with the harmony and rhythm, as well as finding ways to capture the full orchestral score into something that works for piano, drums, and bass.
Laura says their partnership continues to inspire her to write new music, as well as in their performances.
"Having the rhythmic support, and dialogue there, has inspired a lot of my arrangements and compositions," she says. "And I think we have grown together a lot, with different musical ideas. ... It was a challenge at first, and now it's something that is a natural part of musical being together."
You can hear the Laura Dubin Trio play "West Side Story" as part of the jazz festival (6 and 10 p.m. Friday night at the Wilder Room) and on their recently released album.
2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival
A Jeff Spevak preview: the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival
By Jeff Spevak • Mar 19, 2019
Famous actors – Jeff Goldblum and Dan Ackroyd – playing musicians.
Longtime favorites – Bill Frisell, Catherine Russell, Jake Shimabukuro and Trombone Shorty – meet unknowns such as Girls in Airports, which is actually five guys from Denmark.
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Cuomo signs pay equity bills
By Karen DeWitt • Jul 10, 2019
Credit Governor Cuomo's office
Gov. Andrew Cuomo used the occasion of the ticker tape parade for the U.S. women’s soccer team in Manhattan to sign two bills Wednesday that will make it easier for women in New York to receive pay equal to men.
The measure mandates equal pay for all employees in New York who do "substantially similar work" regardless of their gender. It also extends the equal pay provision for workers who are in a protected class which includes race, gender identity, or disability.
Just before the parade for the women’s soccer team began, Cuomo issued a warning to New York’s employers.
"If you don't pay women what you pay men then you have no business in the state of New York," Cuomo said as the crowd cheered. "Because we are going to sign a bill that says equal pay for equal work."
Senate sponsor Alessandra Biaggi (D-NYC) said the expansion of the equal pay protections helps to address what she says is a systematic issue of pay discrimination that is plaguing marginalized communities. She also noted the new law places more responsibility on the employer to remedy a pay discrimination issue rather than having an employee prove a pay discrepancy.
"It’s shifting the burden of proof from the employee to the employer," Biaggi said. "And, also making sure that the burden is not on the person who is coming forward."
The women’s soccer team, which has won the World Cup four times since 1991, has raised the issue of pay inequality after it was revealed that they are earning 38% of what the U.S. men’s national soccer team is paid, even though the men have never won a World Cup. The women have sued the U.S. Soccer Federation, saying, in addition, they bring in more revenue for the sport than the men do.
Cuomo condemned FIFA, soccer's worldwide governing body, saying they did the women a disservice and an injustice by paying them less.
"These 23 champions are banging on the glass ceiling that is still in existence in the United States of America," said Cuomo. "And, they are going to keep banging until they break it."
Cuomo also signed into law a second measure that says an employer can’t ask a prospective worker's pay history at prior jobs, because, he says, that could perpetuate the initial injustice of lower pay.
Sen. Biaggi said even with these new protections, she understands why some women or members of protected class might still be reluctant to ask their bosses for the same amount as men for similar work.
"This is a first step toward closing the wage gap in New York State," Biaggi said. "Culture sometimes takes a while to catch up, and often times when you pass a law, the law can change the culture."
Biaggi said it’s still a good idea to consult an attorney to make sure the process is followed correctly to protect the employee, and if that’s unaffordable, to try to seek out a lawyer who would do the work pro bono.
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It is hard to believe that March is almost over. How could the first three months of 2017 disappear like that? I had been told that as people get older, the time passes more quickly, but I wasn’t quite expecting this! It is true that I had been rather busy, at least from mid-January for various reasons, and I have found it hard to find a time to sit down and relax.
In a piece of good news, the world has not ended. Well, not yet. Donald Trump’s presidency has had a controversial start with the attempted travel ban, and it feels as if the wheels are coming off Mr Trump’s administration faster than many people had anticipated (including myself), as allegations about his and his associates’ closeness with Russia persist, and he has had a rude reality check as the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act came to an unceremonious end, because the Republicans in the House could not come to an agreement. It is not a particularly promising beginning: there were great hopes and fears – depending on your political persuasions – that things will be done as the same political party is in control of the executive and legislature, yet it may be the case that both the president and the Republicans in the Congress are playing the opposition, leading insurgency, than being responsible actors in government.
It is likely that the United Kingdom will face its reality check as it formally starts the process of leaving the European Union tomorrow. British politicians appear to be either dim-witted, deluded, or duplicitous about the enormous political, legislative, administrative, and economic burdens of the process. In other words, they are either too stupid to comprehend the enormity of the task, believe naively that somehow things will turn out OK so long as Britain shouts loudly and slowly enough at the Europeans and push through legislation, or know very well the difficulties involved but are not talking about them honestly to the people. Calling them dim-witted is probably too uncharitable, and I hope, for the sake of the country, that they have been duplicitous, but I somehow cannot rid the feeling that they are deluded.
The British government must do its absolutely best to obtain the best possible deal for the UK in the Brexit negotiations, as that is its duty to the British people, however the process is not going to be easy. The UK is not owed a good deal. It needs to fight and negotiate for it. The other EU member states and their governments owe the same duty to their people that they get the best out of the Brexit deal. Aligning the interests of the EU member states – and in some cases regions within states as the Wallonian opposition to CETA demonstrated – is no easy task, and the UK may be cornered into making concessions, as it is doubtful the national governments or leaders of other European countries would want to expend their political capital on behalf of Britain.
Brexit and its repercussions on their own would stretch any government’s political, legislative, and administrative capacities to the limit. The process is further complicated by two constitutional crises: Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scotland is likely to have another referendum on independence in the next few years, be it before or after Brexit is complete, but regardless of the timetable, Westminster and Whitehall will have to deal with the prospect of Scottish independence, which will need to be factored into the Brexit negotiations. Due to the existence of a land border on the island of Ireland, coming to an agreement on this border issue should be quite central in the Brexit negotiations. I am currently struggling to see how Britain will square the circle of leaving the single market, yet keeping the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic open as it is. No power-sharing agreement has been reached in Stormont and Brexit may add further dimensions to the politics in Northern Ireland, and that in turn may affect Westminster. Another Scottish referendum, and keeping the devolution going and maintaing peace in Northern Ireland, each on its own would tax any UK government, but Theresa May’s government will have to deal with them in addition to Brexit.
The economic implications of Brexit will start to become clearer. If Britain does well, then all will be well, but if the economy struggles, then the government will be in a difficult position. The options for public finances, broadly speaking, are to borrow more, tax more, and/or spend less. The second option looks out of question as Philip Hammond found out recently. The government does not seem to be keen on borrowing more either: depending on the circumstances it may not be a viable option. So that leaves option three, spending less, which has been the mainstay of government policies since 2010, but there is likely to be less and less room for cuts without really hurting people: there are indications that people are already suffering quite grievously.
Uncompromising opposition is easy, because keep saying no is seen as an unswerving and principled course of action, but being in government and getting things done are not, because such requires making deals and accepting that compromises are necessary. It is easy to unite against something, and blame someone or something for all the ills afflicting the society, but that unity in opposition does not necessary hold together once the incumbent is removed, since the opposition itself is often split into different groups with different and conflicting narratives and visions. Perhaps on both sides of the Atlantic, the insurgents who had been railed and rallied against the establishment – and won – are now finding out for themselves how difficult it is to do things, get things done, and manage the consequences.
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Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer
By Ashley Parker ,
Ashley Parker
Carol D. Leonnig ,
Carol D. Leonnig
National investigative reporter focused on the White House and government accountability
Philip Rucker and
Philip Rucker
Tom Hamburger
Investigative reporter focused on the intersection of money and politics in Washington
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump’s advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump’s oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign — a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.
The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn’t be repudiated later if the full details emerged.
But within hours, at the president’s direction, the plan changed.
Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said that he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared an article, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”
The claims were later shown to be misleading.
(Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
Over the next three days, multiple accounts of the meeting were provided to the news media as public pressure mounted, with Trump Jr. ultimately acknowledging that he had accepted the meeting after receiving an email promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father’s campaign.
The extent of the president’s personal intervention in his son’s response, the details of which have not previously been reported, adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.
As special counsel Robert S. Mueller III looks into potential obstruction of justice as part of his broader investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, these advisers worry that the president’s direct involvement leaves him needlessly vulnerable to allegations of a coverup.
“This was . . . unnecessary,” said one of the president’s advisers, who like most other people interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. “Now someone can claim he’s the one who attempted to mislead. Somebody can argue the president is saying he doesn’t want you to say the whole truth.”
Trump has already come under criticism for steps he has taken to challenge and undercut the Russia investigation.
He fired FBI Director James B. Comey on May 9 after a private meeting in which Comey said the president asked him if he could end the investigation of ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats told associates that Trump asked him in March if he could intervene with Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on Flynn. In addition, Trump has repeatedly criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the FBI’s Russian investigation — a decision that was one factor leading to the appointment of Mueller. And he has privately discussed his power to issue pardons, including for himself, and explored potential avenues for undercutting Mueller’s work.
A look at the second half, so far, of President Trump’s first year in office
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A look at the second half of the president’s first year in the White House.
Jan. 24, 2018 President Trump speaks to a group of mayors in the East Room of the White House. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
[Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe]
Although misleading the public or the news media is not a crime, advisers to Trump and his family told The Washington Post that they fear any indication that Trump was seeking to hide information about contacts between his campaign and Russians almost inevitably would draw additional scrutiny from Mueller.
Trump, they say, is increasingly acting as his own lawyer, strategist and publicist, often disregarding the recommendations of the professionals he has hired.
“He refuses to sit still,” the presidential adviser said. “He doesn’t think he’s in any legal jeopardy, so he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself.”
Trump has said that the Russia investigation is “the greatest witch hunt in political history,” calling it an elaborate hoax created by Democrats to explain why Clinton lost an election she should have won.
Because Trump believes he is innocent, some advisers explained, he therefore does not think he is at any legal risk for a coverup. In his mind, they said, there is nothing to conceal.
[Trump’s legal team faces tensions — and a client who often takes his own counsel]
The White House directed all questions for this article to the president’s legal team.
One of Trump’s attorneys, Jay Sekulow, declined to discuss the specifics of the president’s actions and his role in crafting his son’s statement about the Russian contact. Sekulow issued a one-sentence statement in response to a list of detailed questions from The Post.
“Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent,” Sekulow’s statement read.
Trump Jr. did not respond to requests for comment. His attorney, Alan Futerfas, told The Post that he and his client “were fully prepared and absolutely prepared to make a fulsome statement” about the meeting, what led up to it and what was discussed.
Asked about Trump intervening, Futerfas said, “I have no evidence to support that theory.” He described the process of drafting a statement as “a communal situation that involved communications people and various lawyers.”
Peter Zeidenberg, the deputy special prosecutor who investigated the George W. Bush administration’s leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity, said Mueller will have to dig into the crafting of Trump Jr.’s statement aboard Air Force One.
Prosecutors typically assume that any misleading statement is an effort to throw investigators off the track, Zeidenberg said.
“The thing that really strikes me about this is the stupidity of involving the president,” Zeidenberg said. “They are still treating this like a family-run business and they have a PR problem. . . . What they don’t seem to understand is this is a criminal investigation involving all of them.”
Advocating for transparency
The debate about how to deal with the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting began weeks before any news organizations began to ask questions about it.
Kushner’s legal team first learned about the meeting when doing research to respond to congressional requests for information. Congressional investigators wanted to know about any contacts the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser had with Russian officials or business people.
Kushner’s lawyers came across what they immediately recognized would eventually become a problematic story. A string of emails showed Kushner attended a meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in the midst of the campaign — one he had failed to disclose. Trump Jr. had arranged it, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort had also attended.
To compound what was, at best, a public relations fiasco, the emails, which had not yet surfaced publicly, showed Trump Jr. responding to the prospect of negative information on Clinton from Russia: “I love it.”
Lawyers and advisers for Trump, his son and son-in-law gamed out strategies for disclosing the information to try to minimize the fallout of these new links between the Trump family and Russia, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
[Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting: What we know and when we learned it]
Hope Hicks, the White House director of strategic communications and one of the president’s most trusted and loyal aides, and Josh Raffel, a White House spokesman who works closely with Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, huddled with Kushner’s lawyers, and they advocated for a more transparent approach, according to people with knowledge of the conversations.
In one scenario, these people said, Kushner’s team talked about sharing everything, including the contents of the emails, with a mainstream news organization.
Hicks and Raffel declined to comment. Kushner attorney Abbe Lowell also declined to comment.
The president’s outside legal team, led by Marc Kasowitz, had suggested that the details be given to Circa, an online news organization that the Kasowitz team thought would be friendly to Trump. Circa had inquired in previous days about the meeting, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The president’s legal team planned to cast the June 2016 meeting as a potential setup by Democratic operatives hoping to entrap Trump Jr. and, by extension, the presumptive Republican nominee, according to people familiar with discussions.
Kasowitz declined to comment for this article, as did a Circa spokesman.
Consensus overruled
Circumstances changed when the New York Times began asking about the Trump Tower meeting, though advisers believed that the newspaper knew few of the details. While the president, Kushner and Ivanka Trump were attending the G-20 summit in Germany, the Times asked for White House comment on the impetus and reason for the meeting.
During breaks away from the summit, Kushner and Ivanka Trump gathered with Hicks and Raffel to discuss Kushner’s response to the inquiry, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Kushner’s legal team joined at times by phone.
Hicks also spoke by phone with Trump Jr. Again, say people familiar with the conversations, Kushner’s team concluded that the best strategy would be to err on the side of transparency, because they believed the complete story would eventually emerge.
The discussions among the president’s advisers consumed much of the day, and they continued as they prepared to board Air Force One that evening for the flight home.
But before everyone boarded the plane, Trump had overruled the consensus, according to people with knowledge of the events.
It remains unclear exactly how much the president knew at the time of the flight about Trump Jr.’s meeting.
The president directed that Trump Jr.’s statement to the Times describe the meeting as unimportant. He wanted the statement to say that the meeting had been initiated by the Russian lawyer and primarily was about her pet issue — the adoption of Russian children.
Air Force One took off from Germany shortly after 6 p.m. — about noon in Washington. In a forward cabin, Trump was busy working on his son’s statement, according to people with knowledge of events. The president dictated the statement to Hicks, who served as a go-between with Trump Jr., who was not on the plane, sharing edits between the two men, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
In the early afternoon, Eastern time, Trump Jr.’s team put out the statement to the Times. It was four sentences long, describing the encounter as a “short, introductory meeting.”
“We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up,” the statement read.
Trump Jr. went on to say: “I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.”
Over the next hour, word spread through emails and calls to other Trump family advisers and lawyers about the statement that Trump Jr. had sent to the Times.
Some lawyers for the president and for Kushner were surprised and frustrated, advisers later learned. According to people briefed on the dispute, some lawyers tried to reach Futerfas and their clients and began asking why the president had been involved.
Also on the flight, Kushner worked with his team — including one of his lawyers, who called in to the plane.
His lawyers have said that Kushner’s initial omission of the meeting was an error, but that in an effort to be fully transparent, he had updated his government filing to include “this meeting with a Russian person, which he briefly attended at the request of his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr.” Kushner’s legal team referred all questions about the meeting itself to Trump Jr.
The Times’ story revealing the existence of the June 2016 meeting was posted online about 4 p.m. Eastern time. Roughly four hours later, Air Force One touched down at Joint Base Andrews. Trump’s family members and advisers departed the plane, and they knew the problem they had once hoped to contain would soon grow bigger.
Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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Antigo man sentenced for dealing drugs to teachers
A 36-year-old Antigo man has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for dealing marijuana and cocaine to several employees of the Merrill and Antigo school districts, including teachers and coaches.
Antigo man sentenced for dealing drugs to teachers A 36-year-old Antigo man has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for dealing marijuana and cocaine to several employees of the Merrill and Antigo school districts, including teachers and coaches. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: http://wdhne.ws/1CFeriG
Daily Herald Media Published 9:30 a.m. CT Dec. 3, 2014 | Updated 11:02 a.m. CT Dec. 3, 2014
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ANTIGO — A 36-year-old Antigo man has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for dealing marijuana and cocaine to several employees of the Merrill and Antigo school districts, including teachers and coaches.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge William C. Griesbach issued the 30-month sentence to John M. Hunter, who had previously pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Hunter distributed more than 50 kilograms of marijuana and more than 1,500 grams of cocaine in the Langlade County area and in southeastern Wisconsin between May 2009 and August 2011. Hunter's drug distribution network included numerous employees of the Merrill and Antigo School Districts, many of whom were charged in state court for drug-related crimes and were fired from their jobs.
In handing down the sentence, Griesbach noted the serious nature of the offense, the effect that Hunter's actions had on his community "and the scourge that illegal drugs present to society," according to a statement issued Wednesday by U.S. Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin. In addition to his prison sentence, Hunter was placed on 48 months of supervised release.
This case was investigated by the Langlade and Marathon County sheriff's departments and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel R. Humble.
Note: This story will be updated with further details.
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Bakery Says Employee’s FMLA Claims Don’t Rise to the Occasion
October 10, 2018 | Jason M. Knott
Under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), employers are required to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to employees with certain family or medical issues. These issues include attending to serious health conditions that make the employee unable to work, or caring for newborns or family members.
A frequent dilemma that employers often face is what to do when an employee has exhausted all available FMLA leave and still cannot return to work. One employer, Gold Medal Bakery, currently finds itself in litigation surrounding this issue.
Four Employment Law Issues to Watch in 2018
January 24, 2018 | Jason M. Knott
When the calendar flips from December to January, it’s a good time to take stock of what to expect over the next 12 months. Here are four major issues in employment law that we’ll be watching in 2018:
Pro Wrestling Photo Not Enough to Pin Employer
An employer isn’t immune from a discrimination claim when an employee quits instead of being fired. An employee who quits can still bring a “constructive discharge” claim, arguing that his working conditions were intolerable and that he had no other option but to quit.
This is a high bar to clear. For example, in the recent case of Coleman v. City of Irondale, the employer won summary judgment on a constructive discharge claim, despite racial slurs, inappropriate screensavers, and—yes—a pro wrestling photo.
Fifth Circuit Derails Reverse Discrimination Claims Against Amtrak
White male discontent has been a major media talking point since the presidential election, and even long before. This talking point has made its way into the workplace, where tech firms are now being targeted for allegedly discriminating against white males in favor of women or non-white males.
Of course, discrimination lawsuits aren’t just for women or minorities; a white male can also sue for discrimination. A claim of discrimination by a white male based on gender or race is sometimes referred to as “reverse discrimination”—discrimination based on membership in a historically majority or advantaged group.
What Makes a Work Environment “Hostile”?
May 15, 2017 | Jason M. Knott
Federal employment law protects against a number of different types of discrimination, including treating employees differently because of age, gender, or race.
More and more often, employees bring discrimination claims based on harassment, rather than (or in addition to) claims based on employer decisions that appear to be discriminatory.
However, an employee can only bring a harassment claim under federal law if the employer has engaged in "discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult" that was "sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment." See Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., 510 U.S. 17 (1993).
Can Employers Discriminate Against Employees Based on Sexual Orientation? No, According to this Key Court
April 6, 2017 | Jason M. Knott
Federal law—specifically, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—prohibits employers from discriminating against employees based on a number of protected characteristics, including sex, race, national origin, and religion.
One major open question, however, is whether Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation. For example, if a job candidate is openly gay, can the employee refuse to hire that person because of his sexual orientation without violating federal law?
The Supreme Court has never spoken on the issue.
Kiss Your Retaliation Suit Hello: Company Faces Trial after Changing Explanation for Firing
October 4, 2016 | Jason M. Knott
When an employee brings a lawsuit alleging that his employer retaliated or discriminated against him, courts typically assess the claim by using a burden-shifting approach. Under this approach, after the employer offers a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason” for its actions, the employee has to come forward with evidence showing that the reason was pretextual.
The recent decision in Stephenson v. Potterfield Group LLC serves as an example of how an employee can meet this burden.
The Inbox – Spin It Your Way
July 5, 2016 | O'Neill, Ashley
It is the norm for high-achieving employees to strive for and tout their successes. Recently, however, one person’s novel reaction to failure—his own termination—may show a future employer as much about his character as any of his considerable accomplishments.
Sree Sreenivasan was plucked from Columbia’s School of Journalism a few years ago to become the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chief digital officer. According to Quartz, Mr. Sreenivasan brought the famed museum into the digital age through inventive social outreach efforts and a revamped, mobile-friendly website.
Five Things You Should Know about the EEOC’s Proposed Changes to the Employer Information Report
Employers with an eye to the regulatory horizon are aware that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has proposed expanding its annual Employer Information Report (EEO-1) to include data on employees’ pay.
The existing EEO-1 requires private employers with 100 or more employees to report the number of employees within 10 job categories by seven race and ethnicity categories, as well as by sex.
The proposed changes will further refine reporting to include employee counts as well as total hours worked by 12 pay bands.
The Inbox – Dissing the Qualified
March 15, 2016 | O'Neill, Ashley
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission scored a victory last week against PMT Corp., a Minnesota-based medical device and equipment manufacturer. According to the commission’s complaint filed nearly two years ago, PMT Corp. engaged in systematic discriminatory hiring practices by refusing to hire women and individuals over the age of 40 in violation of Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. According to Law 360, PMT agreed to settle the suit for $1.02 million payable to a class of applicants and a former PMT Human Resources professional who brought the company’s hiring practices to the EEOC’s attention.
Suits by Suits’ 2015 Greatest Hits
January 7, 2016 | Jason M. Knott
The turn of the calendar is always a good time to reflect on what has come before and preview what lies ahead. In this post, we count down our most popular posts of 2015 about executive disputes. Later, we’ll look at what to expect in 2016.
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The Trojan War: After Alcohol-Related Firing, Coach Steve Sarkisian Sues USC
When the 2015 college football season started, Steve Sarkisian was a rising star in the coaching firmament. He had led the University of Washington Huskies and his current team, the University of Southern California Trojans, to winning records and bowl games.
In late August, however, reports surfaced that Sarkisian had behaved inappropriately at a booster event, the Salute to Troy. And by mid-October, USC had terminated Sarkisian “for cause,” with athletic director Pat Haden explaining that Sarkisian’s use of alcohol had impaired his performance of his job.
This week, Sarkisian struck back, filing a 14-count complaint against USC in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The Inbox – The “Pao Effect”
April 13, 2015 | O'Neill, Ashley
Ellen Pao may not have won her gender discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins, but she may have inspired numerous women working in Silicon Valley who identified with her cause. According to Fortune, employment lawyers are seeing a heightened awareness among women that the workplace issues they face, and that Ms. Pao articulated in her case, are perhaps more widespread than not. This “Pao Effect” has Kay Lucas, a San Francisco-based employment law attorney, fielding twice as many calls each week from potential clients with workplace gender discrimination concerns. Kelly Dermody, a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, has litigated gender discrimination cases for a decade, and told Fortune that her clients now have a heightened willingness to speak out. Lucas also said that companies are more inclined to settle instead of allowing information to become public, and as we observed with the Pao trial, highly publicized. Lucas noted that many of her clients’ complaints share similar themes involving exclusion from important meetings and denied access to the circles of influence. Yet, she said to Fortune, “these women are not particularly angry; they’re ambitious. They’re not victims; they want to be participants.”
A quick search of legal news gives this “Pao Effect” additional credibility. According to Law 360, Heather McCloskey recently sued Paymentwall, Inc. for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and failure to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment and discrimination. Ms. McCloskey alleged that executive Benoit Boisset routinely harassed her, calling attention to her physical appearance in a demeaning manner. As she became more vocal in her objections, Boisset used expletives when referring to her, and ultimately terminated her employment. McCloskey also described the workplace environment as young, predominantly male and lacking any formalized set of rules or policies. Kelly Dermody cited these kinds of workplace dynamics as partially to blame for the volume of complaints arising from Silicon Valley. She opined to Fortune that many tech companies take off “really quickly without a lot of attention to human resources.” Consequently, “you have a lot of young managers who make young managers’ mistakes,” which might encompass many of the alleged missteps in the Paymentwall case.
Pao v. Kleiner Perkins: Some Lessons for Employers Thus Far
March 13, 2015 | Jason M. Knott
The ongoing trial in Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers has made headline news across the country. It’s being covered by the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, among other national publications. Those interested in following the trial can monitor the #ellenpao hashtag on Twitter, or watch liveblogs from Re/code or the San Jose Mercury-News.
Why is the trial so newsworthy? As we reported here, Pao claims that Kleiner Perkins, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, discriminated against her because of her gender and then retaliated because she complained. She claims that she was not promoted to a plum senior partner position because she was a woman, and that the firm fired her because she complained and later sued it. Her story involves sex, boorish behavior, and office intrigue that ranges from the mundane to the highly dramatic.
With that introduction, here are some -- of many -- takeaways for employers from what has transpired thus far:
The Inbox – This One’s for the Birds
March 2, 2015 | O'Neill, Ashley
Craig Watts, a chicken farmer from North Carolina, recently brought a whistleblower complaint against Perdue, claiming that the poultry seller retaliated against him for bringing certain animal welfare claims to light. Mr. Watts owns the farm on which the chickens are raised, but, according to the Government Accountability Project, the terms and conditions of the farm operations are strictly governed by the poultry giant. The Food Integrity Campaign (a program operated by the Government Accountability Project) filed the action on behalf of Mr. Watts, defending his right to speak out about the conditions on the farm, which Watts claims run far “afowl” of Perdue’s marketing claims of “cage-free” and “humanely-raised” chickens. After publicizing the conditions on his farm, Watts was placed on a performance improvement plan and is routinely subjected to surprise audits of his farm.
A former executive at L.A.’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising is seeing red over the school’s termination of her employment, which allegedly came after she demanded more diverse branding in the school’s publications. Tamar Rosenthal filed a civil rights complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that the school, seemingly interested only in shades of white, opposed her attempts to showcase student diversity on the website and explicitly advised her not to showcase gay, black or non-white students in any school publications. According to My News LA, the complaint further alleged that Ms. Rosenthal’s supervisors created an “ultra-conservative, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim political atmosphere in the school’s front office.”
In Argument in Abercrombie & Fitch Case, Court Offers Solutions for Headscarf Issue
February 26, 2015 | Jason M. Knott
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument in the religious discrimination case of EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., which made our list as one of our five issues to watch for 2015. The case arises under Title VII, the federal law that makes it illegal for an employer “to discriminate against any individual with respect to h[er] compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s . . . religion.” The EEOC alleges that Abercrombie, purveyor of “authentic American clothing,” discriminated against Samantha Elauf on religious grounds. The company refused to hire Elauf because she wore a headscarf, or hijab, to her job interview, and the company’s “Look Policy” prohibited employees from wearing “caps.”
In earlier depositions in the case, Elauf’s interviewer at Abercrombie testified that she “assumed that [Elauf] was Muslim,” and “figured that was the religious reason why she wore her head scarf.” The interviewer said that she went to her district manager to discuss the headscarf issue, and told him that “[Elauf] wears the head scarf for religious reasons, I believe.” The interviewer testified that the district manager then told her not to hire Elauf because of the headscarf and said, “[S]omeone can come in and paint themselves green and say they were doing it for religious reasons, and we can’t hire them.” As a result, the interviewer lowered Elauf’s “appearance” score on her evaluation, and Elauf didn’t get the job.
Despite this testimony, the Tenth Circuit still entered summary judgment for Abercrombie, holding that the EEOC’s discrimination claim could not proceed to trial because Elauf “never informed Abercrombie prior to its hiring decision that she wore her headscarf or ‘hijab’ for religious reasons and that she needed an accommodation for that practice, due to a conflict between the practice and Abercrombie’s clothing policy.”
The fact that the Tenth Circuit granted summary judgment, even though the interviewer admitted that she assumed that Elauf wore the scarf for religious reasons, helps explain the concerns, and potential solutions, that the Justices raised in yesterday’s argument.
Former Venture Capital Partner Gets Her Day (Actually, Month) in Court
Silicon Valley is buzzing about the trial in Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers LLP, which got underway on Tuesday. According to USA Today, a UC-Berkeley professor says that you “can’t be within a stone’s throw of the Valley without hearing” about the case.
The cast of characters (described here by the San Francisco Business Times) includes a number of heavy hitters, including Pao herself. Pao, a graduate of Princeton, Harvard Law, and Harvard Business School, is now the CEO of Reddit. Kleiner Perkins is a well-known venture capital firm in Menlo Park, a city that has been described as the “center of the venture capital universe.”
Pao’s allegations are explosive. She contends that she had a brief affair with a married junior partner who continued to harass her after she broke off their relationship. Her claims about the firm go deeper than just this harassment; she contends that the firm had an overarching culture of discrimination against women, culminating in her dismissal in October 2012.
The Inbox – Netflix and the stream scheme
December 5, 2014 | O'Neill, Ashley
Netflix, the internet media giant, sued its former vice president of IT Operations, Mike Kail, in California Superior Court, claiming that he “streamed” kickbacks from vendors and funneled them into his personal consulting company. According to the complaint, Kail—who is currently the CIO of Yahoo—exercised broad latitude in both vendor selection and payment. Netflix alleges that he took in kickbacks about 12-15% of the $3.7 million that Netflix paid in monthly fees to two IT service providers, VistaraIT Inc. and NetEnrich Inc. According to the Wall Street Journal, one line in particular from the complaint piqued experts’ interest: “Kail was a trusted, senior-level employee, with authority to enter into appropriate contracts and approve appropriate invoices.” According to Christopher McClean, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., this suggests Netflix allowed Kail too much freedom. McClean opined that when individuals are empowered to both choose a vendor and then approve payment, corporate malfeasance can follow. This is particularly important in the field of information technology, where tech companies vie for business in an ever-competitive market by lavishing incentives on CIOs. Companies that do not incorporate an audit function into vendor selection and payment should consider revisiting their policies going forward.
We recently discussed the hefty $185 million judgment against AutoZone in favor of a former store manager who alleged discrimination and retaliatory discharge following her pregnancy. While this case arose in California, it appears the auto parts retailer is zoned for another similarly-themed legal showdown, this time across the country in West Virginia. In the recent complaint, the plaintiff, Cindy DeLong, claimed that she was placed on a 30-day performance improvement plan for hiring too many women in the stores she managed. She was ultimately fired before the 30 days expired. As you may recall, in the California case, plaintiff Rosario Juarez claimed AutoZone enforced a “glass ceiling” for its female employees, denying them opportunities for promotion. It seems Ms. DeLong managed to chip away at the ceiling as a district manager. But, according to Courthouse News, she now alleges that her practice of hiring women rendered her “not a good fit for the company.”
You’re In the Zone… Of A Massive Punitive Damages Verdict for a Pregnant Manager
November 19, 2014 | Jason M. Knott
On Monday, AutoZone found itself on the wrong end of a $185 million verdict in favor of a former store manager, Rosario Juarez. Yes, you read that right. $185 million. This stunning verdict appears to have been the result of Juarez’s allegations of discrimination and retaliatory discharge, combined with an insider turned witness who provided extremely damaging testimony against the auto parts retailer.
In her complaint, Juarez alleged that AutoZone had a “glass ceiling” for women employees, which it kept in place through a hidden promotion process where open positions were not posted. According to Juarez, she succeeded in cracking the glass ceiling, securing a store manager position, but when she became pregnant, she was treated differently by her district manager. After giving birth, she complained about the unfair treatment and was soon demoted by the manager, who told her that she could not be a mother and handle her job. Later, she was terminated as the result of a loss prevention inquiry, in which she refused to participate in a “Q&A” statement about a theft at the store. Juarez alleged that the loss prevention department’s request for a statement was a pretext to fire her.
We’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing allegations of pregnancy discrimination like these. The short of it is that a company can’t treat pregnant women, or women who have given birth, differently than it treats other employees. But we’ve never covered a verdict for pregnancy discrimination that looked more like a Powerball win than a litigation result.
Dov Charney’s Pants And A Sexually Charged Workplace – What Is A Company Seeking To Minimize Litigation Risk To Do?
We at Suits by Suits are so excited by American Apparel’s dispute with its recently-fired CEO and founder Dov Charney that we can barely keep our shirts on. After all, the dispute between the clothing manufacturer and its controversial former leader is bursting at the seams with takeaway points for feuding companies and C-suite employees (and those wanting to avoid having feuds). For example, as we described in an earlier post, the dispute illustrates that terminating a key company officer may jeopardize company financing. The dispute also presents the question: can a company like American Apparel, which knew that Charney was apparently known for not being able to keep his pants on, decrease its exposure to the inevitable sexual harassment lawsuit by having all of its employees acknowledge in writing that the company’s workplace is sexually charged? It depends.
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Новости Истории успеха Taking the lead with composites
Taking the lead with composites
Bike Ahead is a premier supplier of bicycle parts made from carbon fiber. Established in 2012, this young enterprise has relied from the start on state-of-the-art digital cutting equipment from Swiss manufacturer Zünd. The precision and reliability of the Zünd G3 are one of the reasons Bike Ahead has been competing successfully against suppliers in the Far East. (Text: Zünd Systemtechnik AG, Images: ©Bike Ahead)
While many well-known bicycle manufacturers have long since moved their production to the Far East, Bike Ahead, a young company in Würzburg, Germany, has successfully been bucking the trend. The company's founder and mastermind, Christian Gemperlein, has a degree in plastics engineering in his pocket, a passion for biking in his blood. Gemperlein lay the foundation of his company in 2010 with a six-spoke carbon wheel he developed as part of his degree requirements. With the help of a private investor, he started Bike Ahead two years later and is now building carbon bicycle frames on a contract basis while continuing his own production. Bike Ahead has grown to a staff of 17, four of which, including Gemperlein, in engineering, marketing & distribution, while the others are involved in production.
A complete production workflow - all in house
Bike Ahead takes care of its entire value chain in house. In doing so, the company benefits from a unique competitive advantage: "From idea to development and all the way through the production process, we have everything in house. This makes us a perfect candidate for customer-driven projects, especially in prototyping for applications that go well beyond bicycling, i.e. sports-related automotive, machine design & construction, as well as medical technologies," explains Christian Gemperlein. Nevertheless, 75% of our turnover comes from building bicycles in small series. Our team has a wealth of knowledge in each phase of production. "We have come to be intimately familiar with the carbon fiber materials themselves and the way they behave in relation to the particular part we are building."
"Reliable and precise since the very first day"
For cutting pre-preg parts, Gemperlein put his money from the start on state-of-the-art digital cutting technology made by Swiss manufacturer Zünd. The G3 L-2500 cutter has been at the center of the production workflow from the very beginning, points out Gemperlein: "The G3 cutter was our most important start-up investment besides the autoclave. I already had some experience with digital cutting and it quickly became clear to me that Zünd technology was the only way to go. From day one, the Zünd cutter has been operating with exceptional precision and reliability. “ Another plus was the intuitive user-interface and workflow software that comes with Zünd Cut Center – ZCC. The software is well designed and exceedingly user-friendly. Because of this, the time it took to train the operators and have them become comfortable with the equipment was very quick. The open interface also makes the Zünd G3 very easy to integrate in an existing production workflow.
Even though "carbon manufacturing", as the name implies, involves many steps that are still performed manually, cutting by hand was out of the question. After all, the Zünd cutter is able to process the material so much faster than would be possible manually, using templates. Nevertheless, for Gemperlein, production speed was not the primary concern. "Even more important than performance were the precision and reliability the Zünd G3 cutter could offer. For the super light-weight parts we make, fiber orientation is extremely important. The cuts have to occur at precisely the perfect angle to the fiber. At the same time, the cutter's high precision also guarantees perfect repeatability.“
The company also depends on the Zünd G3 cutter for maximum material usage and a high level of automation. State-of-the-art nesting functionalities ensure optimal parts placement even with parts with highly complex contours. This reduces setup time, optimizes yield, and reduces waste. "It quickly runs into some serious money when you mis-cut materials and end up creating twice the amount of labor. This hasn't happened to us in the five years we have had a Zünd cutter." What's more, once we have started a cutting job, the cutter completes it all by itself, without any further intervention. This frees up the operator for other tasks. "The machine operates so reliably, we can let it run all by itself without any qualms."
In the rare event a technical problem arises, things have to get taken care of quickly. Because of Zünd's extensive service and distribution network, we can count on a technician being here in short order. This, along with the easy serviceability of the machine, helps keep downtime to a minimum.
From zero to hundreds of thousand
Five years after its founding, Bike Ahead has become a known entity well beyond the borders of Germany; nonetheless, resting on its laurels is not what the the young team surrounding Gemperlein is fond of doing. It is determined to once again make European manufacturing of bike components for the premium market viable and profitable. "This will only be possible if we continue to minimize the manual components of our production processes, which is why we must continue to automate. The way things are, we have enough capacity to make a few hundred bike frames per year, besides our other manufacturing projects. Within five years, we would like to be able to produce a few thousand per year. At that point, we become interesting even to producers geared towards higher volumes. The production numbers in Asia continue to be out of reach, but Gemperlein is nonetheless convinced there are many companies who would like to bring more manufacturing back to Europe. Modern technologies, flexibility, top-quality design and construction, as well as shortened supply chains, are just a few of the advantages he believes the European market has to offer. And these should only gain in importance as time goes on.
The G3 cutter is a perfect match for the high standards digital cutting systems have to meet when processing carbon fiber materials. All the electronics on the machine are protected against damage that can be caused by conductive carbon fiber particles. In addition, the recommended tooling for carbon fiber applications was developed specifically for this purpose. These tools, too, are protected with positive pressure from abrasive dust and any resulting damage.
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Introducing 3 New Window Genie Locations
Window Genie is your leader in home services!
We’re always excited to introduce the newest members of TEAM GENIE… so here’s THREE new locations to share with you!
Ray Shero opened his Window Genie franchise in Fredericksburg, VA on August 10th
After Ray, Barry and Mazie Ellis opened in Fayetteville, NC on August 24th
Last but not least, we look forward to the grand opening of Jorge Torres’ franchise in The Woodlands, TX this September!
RAY SHERO:
Before purchasing a Window Genie franchise, Shero worked for many years in retail management and more recently, construction management. Finding the construction industry to be volatile, based on the unstable housing market, Shero began exploring his next move. He said, “I’ve reinvented myself many times throughout my career, but this time I was ready for something different. I always had it in the back of my mind that one day I’d like to be my own boss.”
With the guidance of a franchise coach at Matchpoint, Shero was able to determine which business opportunities best fit his strengths, weaknesses, interests and goals. By the end of 2014, the list was narrowed down to a handyman/repair franchise, a home inspection franchise and Window Genie. Initially, Shero says he was unsure about Window Genie, “Window Genie was my last choice of the three franchises at first. The other options felt more in my comfort zone; I’d spent so many years in construction and had a lot of experience in home repairs, that at first glance it felt they’d be more well suited for me. I’m glad I had a franchise coach to help me keep an open mind, because after some investigation I found Window Genie was exactly what I was looking for.”
What it came down to for Shero was Window Genie’s simple business model that allowed for steady growth alongside a support team he could trust. Shero said he prayed on it and decided to trust his instincts. He said, “There was never a red flag during my time researching and getting to know the business and people behind Window Genie. The culture at corporate is very family-like. The support staff is genuinely invested in the system’s success, and it’s a team I wanted to be a part of. It was one of those gut feelings I had to trust. Also, from a business standpoint it’s a simple concept and I can run the business from home. Offering a few different services means there’s something for every home’s needs and budget, so my business has multiple revenue streams. I’m confident in my relationship building and customer service skills, but I’m not an expert at everything. Having a team at corporate I can trust to assist me in the other aspects of the business I might struggle with means everything. When you buy into a franchise you’re truly going into business for yourself, but never by yourself.”
BARRY & MAZIE ELLIS:
Before purchasing a Window Genie franchise, both Barry and Mazie served in the Army. Barry retired after 20 years of service and has since been working in IT. Mazie is approaching her 20 year milestone in November and plans to retire from the military. Mazie said, “For the past year I’ve been planning on my next move after 20 good years of service to my country. Being a business owner was always a dream of mine, but not with the purpose of simply being my own boss or making a lot of money. It’s about having the opportunity to give back and serve my community every day.”
While researching business opportunities, Mazie received a grand opening announcement about Window Genie of Killeen Texas. The Killeen franchise location is owned by Army Veteran Eric Stewart and his wife Nydia, old friends of the Ellis’. Mazie said, “I began reading everything I could about Window Genie once I heard the Stewarts opened their own location in Killeen. Window Genie seemed to have everything I’d been looking for, so I called Barry and while he wasn’t immediately convinced, I knew I was onto something.”
It wasn’t until Barry visited Killeen this year that he realized Window Genie was the right fit. He said, “I went to see Eric at his home office and saw the trucks, the equipment, how he had everything set up. Hearing a genuine testimony from the Stewarts helped me see into the real day-to-day life of a Window Genie owner. It finally clicked and I had a change of heart; I was able to really imagine myself doing this in Fayetteville.”
Barry and Mazie look forward to connecting to the community they love through their new home service business. Mazie said, “I’m excited to interact with so many different people every day. I’m a people person, I love talking with customers and solving problems. Coming from an IT background, Barry possesses a whole other set of skills that I lack so we’ll make a great team. Any aspects of the business we’re unsure about or need help, Window Genie’s corporate office is there to support us. There’s a lot of unknown but we’re not afraid of a challenge.”
JORGE TORRES:
From Mexico to The Woodlands, Jorge Torres made a big change to start this new chapter in his life. After over 30 years as a corporate lawyer in Mexico City, Jorge and his family decided to permanently relocate to The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston where they’d vacationed many times. “With my sons moving onto university in the states, my family and I decided it was time to make a permanent move. We have friends and family in the Houston area, it’s really been our second home for years.”
Obtaining a work permit was a slow process. “It took about 8 months total because you need to present a completed business plan to be approved. I had to purchase my franchise before I was even granted permission to work in Texas, so while it was risky and took a long time, it was certainly worth it,” said Torres.
What drew him to Window Genie was the family-like atmosphere and the fact that Window Genie is a proven business, 21 years in the making. Jorge worked with a franchise coach to help narrow down his search based on his strengths, weaknesses, interests and goals. “My coach assured me I’d be working with very decent people at Window Genie, and she was right. I feel I made a safe choice not only because it’s a mature franchise with years of success but because I trust and like the people. The corporate support staff is very helpful and genuine, but also the franchise partners take pride in being a nationwide team. I made the right choice.”
Jorge opens his franchise this September. After months of waiting, he’s excited and ready to connect to his new hometown.
You may have noticed that each of our new franchise partners in this post come from a very different background… and we love it! We’re proud to have a system of individuals who came from different walks of life. Their unifying factor is they all had the dream of being their own boss… and they’ve achieved it! The freedom and fulfillment that comes with business ownership is like none other! Nearly ANYBODY can be a Window Genie franchise partner. We’re looking for motivated individuals with the ability to follow our proven system to grow their business. People skills, sales skills and time management skills are a plus, but with our all-star support team, succeeding with Window Genie is easier than ever. We’re here to assist in all aspects of the business; from operations, to administrative duties, to accounting and marketing. To learn more about the Window Genie opportunity, call 800-700-0022 or browse our franchise site now!
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Building South Africa's innovation ecosystem
by Catherine Jewell, Communications Division, WIPO
Dr. Sibusiso Sibisi, President of
South Africa's Council for Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR) is a
member of the Advisory Board to
co-published by INSEAD and WIPO.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a leading scientific and technology research, development and implementation organization, is at the forefront of the country's quest to become a fully-fledged knowledge-based economy. WIPO Magazine recently met with the CSIR's President, Dr. Sibusiso Sibisi, to find out more about the organization's approach to innovation and the opportunities and challenges it faces in fostering a culture of innovation to deliver widespread economic and social benefit.
The CSIR is a multidisciplinary organization responsible for generating new knowledge, applying existing knowledge, and developing and leveraging technologies to generate positive socioeconomic impact in line with national priorities. “While we quite rightly speak about innovation as a means of stimulating economic growth, our innovation efforts must seek to improve the lives of all South Africans,” Dr. Sibisi stresses.
“We have high levels of youth unemployment in South Africa and huge disparities in wealth, so we need to constantly think about how our innovation strategies can help address these deep-rooted social problems,” he observes. “When I speak of innovation, I am speaking not only of economic growth but also of lifting people out of poverty. I am not just talking about setting up a company that employs people, but about creating an enabling environment where people use the innovation process to set up their own companies.”
The CSIR's role
The CSIR plays a key strategic role in shaping the country's research and development (R&D) agenda. It places great emphasis on catalyzing the development of as yet non-existent or nascent industrial sectors to fully realize South Africa's innovative potential and achieve sustained economic growth. “Rather than short-term employment-creation projects, our role is to undertake R&D and technology transfer that will stimulate sustainable industrial activity and job creation in the longer term,” Dr. Sibisi explains. In this respect, the CSIR is not necessarily driven to maximize commercial returns by licensing technologies offshore. Instead, it seeks to identify and develop technologies with the potential to create local enterprises, generate long-term employment and respond to local needs.
Serving economic and social interests
The organization seeks to address industrialization at every level, working with groups at the grass roots as well as those in high-tech spheres. For example, it is working with small farmers to develop the production of essential oils for the fragrance industry in France. “The kind of support we are providing is, first, to identify the plants that have essential oil potential, and then to help manage all the steps in the value chain – from growing the plants through to export and customer relations with high-tech perfume producers in Europe,” Dr. Sibisi explains.
“The formal technology step is but one part – and can be a very small part – of the full set of support mechanisms that are necessary,” he notes. “It is not necessarily about doing anything new, it is about thinking innovatively about what we do and broadening the scope of the role of an institution like CSIR to ensure that an innovative technology actually begins to serve the economic and social interests of the country.”
Fostering new industries
Similarly, the CSIR has been working with rural communities to produce and process sisal for various components used in Mercedes C class cars that are assembled in South Africa for sale worldwide. The aerospace industry is now also considering using sisal components to fit its airplanes.
The first titanium test part produced through
additive manufacturing. (Photo: CSIR)
The aerospace industry also increasingly seeks light, strong metals, such as titanium, for the manufacture of aircraft. South Africa has vast mineral wealth, including rich deposits of titanium and platinum, but these resources have traditionally been extracted and exported to other countries where they are transformed into higher value products. South Africa's mining sector currently employs some 495,000 workers and earns some 162 billion rand (some US$19.6 billion) in annual export revenue.
With a view to further leveraging the value of this vast mineral wealth, the CSIR is setting up a pilot plant to develop the country's titanium manufacturing capacity as a commercially viable proposition. “We can get to the point of producing titanium powder, which is then used in injection molding machines to produce various components; that's where the airline industry comes in,” Dr. Sibisi explains. “It is one thing to show that you can make a component from titanium in a lab in South Africa, but it's quite another to scale-up and industrialize production,” he notes. He anticipates that, within five years, the CSIR will be able to demonstrate that it is possible to viably produce titanium components “on a scale and of a quality required by commercial suppliers.”
Dr. Sibisi is unequivocal about the importance of this groundwork. “Unless we do this we will simply continue to export our raw materials, and we wouldn't be doing justice to our resource base or to our potential to create a stronger manufacturing base for the country's long-term economic growth.”
“The important thing for us at the CSIR is not just fostering new start-up companies around a piece of technology, but to stimulate whole new areas of industrial activity that have not previously existed in South Africa. This is arguably the single most important role that we can fulfill,” Dr. Sibisi stresses. In this way, the CSIR bridges the gap between rhetoric and reality, “taking steps beyond policy frameworks to pilot concrete initiatives to see whether or not they work in practice. We won't know until we've tried,” Dr. Sibisi explains. This is a crucial role in areas “where the risk is too high for industry to get involved because the returns lie many years further downstream. We can nonetheless begin to pilot what is possible and, in making the commercial case, attract large industry partners further down the line.”
CSIR Principal Researcher Dr Hulda Swai and her
team are developing a slow-release mechanism for
drugs within the body to simplify drug treatment
regimens, improve patient compliance rates and
minimize drug resistance. (Photo: CSIR)
Similarly, the CSIR is working to build up South Africa's capacity to tackle some of the continent's worst diseases, including HIV and tuberculosis (TB). South Africa has the highest incidence of TB infection in the world with over 70 percent of TB patients co-infected with HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with strategic partners, the CSIR is developing a new method of delivering TB drugs to patients, using nanotechnology to simplify treatment regimens, improve patient compliance and thereby minimize multidrug-resistant TB.
Strategic alliances between universities, the public sector and industry are central to the success of these initiatives. The CSIR engages with the private sector in two ways: on a contractual project basis and, more strategically, to investigate new areas or activities. Dr. Sibisi believes there is enormous scope to further develop its strategic partnerships both at home and abroad. Within Africa, he notes the CSIR's work with institutes in Ghana and Kenya to fortify the food staple, sorghum, in a project funded by the Gates Foundation. “We would indeed like to do more of this type of work, because there are many common challenges in areas such as nutrition, transport, environment and water management.”
As a multidisciplinary research organization with a mandate to advance the fortunes of South African industry and its people, the scope of the CSIR's activities are limitless. “That's a strength in that you can identify your own priorities and go as far down the innovation chain as you deem necessary,” Dr. Sibisi notes. “The weakness, however, is that you can end up stretching yourself too thin and being less effective as a result.” This is a constant challenge for Dr. Sibisi and his colleagues at the CSIR. The more effective and successful the organization becomes, the more it is called upon by government to do.
Although a public institution, the CSIR is not fully publicly funded. Thirty percent of funds come directly from the public purse, and an additional 70 percent is derived from contract work commissioned by public and private-sector entities.
Intellectual property challenges
The CSIR's intellectual property (IP) strategy is shaped by a national legal framework, similar to the Bayh-Dole Act in the US, whereby publicly-funded research must be protected and exploited in the public interest. The organization currently holds over 400 patents comprising some 160 patent families. While filing for national patent protection is straightforward, filing for international patent protection “is a big challenge because of the costs involved,” Dr. Sibisi reveals. Each year, the CSIR has to take tough decisions about which patents to maintain and which to discard in line with the prospects for commercialization. “We may be throwing away something that is important, but we can't keep paying for a large portfolio of international patents unless we are exploiting them in some way,” Dr. Sibisi observes. Enforcement of IP rights poses a further challenge.
CSIR is breaking new ground in titanium metal
production. It has developed a process for producing
titanium powder directly from titanium tetrachloride
(TiCl4) – on a commercial scale. CSIR is setting up a
pilot manufacturing plant to develop South Africa's
titanium manufacturing capacity as a commercially
viable proposition. (Photo: CSIR)
The CSIR has actively licensed its IP assets for the past decade. These often complex negotiations have caused it to continually hone its licensing practices. “We recognize that we need to grow, but we must grow organically in a way that is commensurate with our activities and our successes, but we are not going to have successes unless we have resources,” Dr. Sibisi notes. An even bigger challenge, however, beyond clarifying IP ownership, is “simply whether there is a sufficient flow of IP, particularly patents that are making their way to commercial success.”
“While we quite rightly speak about innovation as a means of stimulating economic growth, our innovation efforts must seek to improve the lives of all SouthAfricans.”
The CSIR has a three-pronged commercialization strategy: setting up a start-up company, in which the organization has a stake; outright sale of IP assets; and IP licensing. Within the licensing stream, when technology has a perceived broad public benefit, a dual licensing model is adopted. For example, the CSIR's orbital eyeball implant - an artificial eye that synchronizes movements with the healthy eye for improved cosmetic appearance - was licensed to both the national health system on a royalty-free basis and to the private sector on a commercial basis.
The CSIR's chief executive needs no convincing about the place of IP in the innovation equation. “IP is extremely important. It is a basis for the growth and competitiveness of nations and, in a world where a lot of what we do and make is so strongly dependent on knowledge input, it would be foolhardy to ignore it,” he observes.
Building an innovative economy
While South Africa is fortunate in that it has significant mineral resources, a very strong financial sector and a robust regulatory framework, Dr. Sibisi underlines the need to continue to strengthen the country's innovation ecosystem and, in particular, to develop the skills that underpin an innovative economy. “We need to continue to develop practical skills in entrepreneurship beyond what you might learn, important though it may be, at business school. We need to emphasize those skills that support the emergence of dynamic, innovative companies.”
In terms of funding innovation, Dr. Sibisi underlines, “it is not just about inputs. We need to begin to pay greater attention to ensuring that there is the right funding and support at the right places and that it is distributed correctly.” This, he notes, is a particularly important gap for public funding to fill given the general absence of an “angel investor culture” in South Africa, and on the continent as a whole. “It is one thing to encourage people to patent, but there is a lot more to commercialization and to actually reaping the social benefit of that patent.”
A man on a mission
Dr. Sibisi is a man on a mission. “In the future, I want to be able to point to a whole new vibrant sector that has resulted from the groundwork the CSIR has laid in South Africa. I want to be able to highlight different examples of where, through our intervention, there is more inclusion, more jobs and less poverty. I want to see that the country is fully embracing a culture of innovation and that we are a serious player in the innovation game.”
The organization's comprehensive engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, and the rigor with which it exercises its multidisciplinary strengths, means that it is well placed to rise to today's complex innovation challenges. “We have an obligation to do this as a representative and a leader of a continent that has great potential,” Dr. Sibisi notes. “If we don't do it in South Africa, then we would be defeatist and passing up on an opportunity that we ought to be embracing.”
The WIPO Magazine is intended to help broaden public understanding of intellectual property and of WIPO’s work, and is not an official document of WIPO. The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of WIPO concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. This publication is not intended to reflect the views of the Member States or the WIPO Secretariat. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by WIPO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned.
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Talking the Geeky Side of Hop With Russell Brand and James Marsden
Author: Matt BlumMatt Blum
It's sort of amazing when you think about it, but there really has never been a mainstream kids' movie about the Easter Bunny. When you consider how many movies there have been featuring Santa Claus, and the number of years Cadbury has been making commercials starring clucking rabbits, it really does make you wonder why this particular sector of the Holiday Movie genre has remained unexplored. Until now, of course.
I will freely admit that I didn't have high hopes for Hop when I was invited to go on a press junket for the film. I mean, my favorite holiday film is The Nightmare Before Christmas, which has a slightly... different tone from most other holiday films. And Easter isn't my holiday, though my wife and kids celebrate it – albeit not religiously. Despite Hop's casting of Russell Brand as the voice of the main bunny character, I was afraid the film would be cloyingly sweet, too preachy about its message, or both.
I needn't have worried. I'll provide more detail* *in a "10 Things Parents Should Know About Hop" post tomorrow to coincide with the movie's premiere, but for now suffice it to say that *Hop *is funnier, better-acted and more flat-out charming than it has any right to be. But is it geeky?
And the answer to that is: Not particularly. I mean, it's 2011, and movies that seamlessly integrate CGI characters and settings with real settings and actors are no longer cutting-edge technology. But the film does star James Marsden, aka Cyclops/Scott Summers in the X-Men films, so there is at least that connection. And, as I found out at the roundtable discussion with him at the junket, Brand has a somewhat geeky side to him that you might not expect.
Marsden, who has two kids aged 10 and 5, had this to say about his kids' reaction to his X-Men fame:
I have a 10 year old boy and a five year old daughter and when my son was five he started to get to be that age where he was watching movies. And everyone was saying, “Wow, your son must love the fact that you're, you know, an X-Man.” I said, "No. He doesn't."
Now he’s old enough to get it, but my daughter is in that place now. She’s five and she likes Enchanted. Even in Enchanted, she will fast forward through all my scenes and get to the dragon. She doesn’t want to see me on screen. It’s weird for her.
Brand – who was even funnier and more charming in person than I'd expected (and who after the roundtable interview kissed all of the bloggers present on the cheek, myself and the other dad blogger there included) – has no kids, but got philosophical and even a bit geeky about the characters and story of the movie, particularly when asked whether he believed in the Easter Bunny (either when he was a kid or now):
I believe in the possibility of all things because of the nature of infinite space. If the universe is infinite, that means, inevitably, all possibilities exist.
So, somewhere, there is an Easter Bunny. Somewhere else, there's a one-legged Easter Bunny. Somewhere else, there's a robot Easter Bunny. There's an Easter Bunny crossed with Darth Vader because of infinity. With infinity, everything would occur.
I'm not sure his logic quite holds up under close scrutiny, but no matter. The important thing is that I wasn't able to find any crosses between the Easter Bunny and Darth Vader online (the closest I found was some mediocre videos of them "fighting"). If I were a visual artist, I would consider this a challenge. I'm just saying.
I hope I've managed to whet your appetite for Hop. Come back tomorrow for more details about the film itself – trust me, you'll be glad you did. As I said, it's not particularly geeky, but it's good enough at what it is that that doesn't matter: It has a good shot at becoming a classic of the Holiday Movie genre. And that's a heck of a thing.
Check out the latest Hop trailer below:
Photos courtesy of Chris and Kristen Photography.
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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture. He’s the author of the book This Machine Kills Secrets, about WikiLeaks, cryptography, and the cypherpunks, which was selected as an editor’s choice by The New York Times Book Review in 2012. Before coming to WIRED he worked as a senior reporter for Forbes magazine. Greenberg received his bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a master’s degree from New York University’s business and economic reporting program. He works in WIRED's New York office.
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For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face. At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed off its […]
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U.S. Indictment of Chinese Hackers Could Be Awkward for the NSA
It's no secret that the Chinese military represents a real threat to online security here in the U.S. Over the last several years, state-sponsored Chinese hackers have broken into hundreds of American targets--both inside the U.S. government and across the private sector. But when the Department of Justice announced criminal charges against five hackers working for China's military this morning, it came at an awkward time. After a year of revelations from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, it's clearer than ever before that America's own government hackers have been running rampant through the world's networks.
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Digital gunsmiths motivated by a mix of libertarianism, gun rights advocacy and open-source experimentation have in the past year created rifles, derringers, multi-round handguns and the components needed to assemble semi-automatic weapons.
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5 Bitcoin Projects That Could Make Payments Far More Anonymous
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Seinfeld Season 1 Episode 2
Jerry meets an attractive woman at a party but by the time she leaves, he has only learned where she works. Jerry stakes out the mystery woman’s office with George so that he can “casually” bump into her.
Serie: Seinfeld
Director: Tom Cherones
Guest Star: Liz Sheridan, Philip Bruns
Episode Title: The Stakeout
Determined to bring a Zika vaccine to the remote Pantanal, three doctors clash with a faith healer and are pulled deeper into the mysteries of his cult.
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they’re surrounded by hidden dangers.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby,…
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.
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A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
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A story of trials and tribulations of four young entrepreneurs who quit their day jobs in order to pursue their start up venture.
A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth…
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Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
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At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and…
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Porsche resumes Camp4 Canada promotion
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Costa Rica Tourism Board breaks new campaign
The Costa Rica Tourism Board has begun a new advertising campaign in the United States and Canada, intended to encourage visitors to consider the Central American country as a destination for travel, study abroad and second homes. The campaign, called "Costa Rica's Million Dollar Gift of Happiness," will run until Feb. 5, 2012. During the initiative, the board will award US$1 million worth of one-week trips to Costa Rica to consumers in the US and Canada. Consumers can enter the contest via the board's Facebook page. The campaign also includes social media activities and media relations. The campaign includes five online videos depicting various themed vacations winners can select. According to the board, the campaign is based on Costa Rica's ranking as one of the happiest places in the world by the New Economic Foundation's Happy Planet Index, which rates satisfaction based on a country's quality of life, life expectancy and carbon footprint. "Costa Rica has long embraced American and Canadian visitors with open arms," said Costa Rica Tourism Minister Allan Flores. "Sharing our country with others is one of the things that make Costa Ricans most happy, and this campaign will demonstrate that we really mean it when we say it." This is the first time in 16 years that the Costa Rica Tourism Board has conducted an institutional advertising campaign in the US and Canada. The campaign was developed by 22squared of Atlanta.
Costa Rica Tourism Board breaks My Choice campaign June 2, 2017
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Company Name: St Paul's Cathedral
Contact: Matthew Taylor
Job Title: Travel Trade Sales and Marketing Manager
Web: www.stpauls.co.uk
Other contacts: Mark McVay, Director of Visitor Services, Marketing & PR, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
St Paul's is an architectural masterpiece and its dome a landmark of the London skyline. It is a symbol of the hope, strength and resilience of the city and nation it serves. A cathedral has stood here since 604AD with the present cathedral now over 300 years old.
The cathedral has hosted events of national significance such as services of thanksgiving for HRH Queen Elizabeth II's Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, and state funerals for Admiral Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Winston Churchill.
Explore and enjoy the beautiful décor of the vast cathedral floor with its ambulatories and chapels such as the American Memorial Chapel before climbing to the famous Whispering Gallery with its unique acoustics. Continue climbing to the Golden Gallery on top of the dome for a photo opportunity of the breathtaking panoramic views across London.
The crypt is the resting place for famous Britons such as Nelson, Wellington, JMW Turner, William Blake and the cathedral's architect – Sir Christopher Wren. Visitors will also find the award winning 270° film experience, Oculus – an eye into St Paul's.
Visitors can explore using an included IPod touch multimedia guide (available in English, Spanish and Portuguese as well as 8 other languages), join a guided tour led by cathedral guides, or visit with their own local guide or tour leader.
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Music Calendar, Singer Songwriter
Beck is 44 Happy Birthday
July 8, 2014 Hallgeir
“I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?”
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) , singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, is known by the stage name Beck.
The four-time platinum artist rose to underground popularity with his early works, which combined social criticism with musical and lyrical experimentation. He first earned wider public attention for his breakthrough single “Loser”, a 1994 hit. Beck is known for creating musical collages of a wide range of styles.
Loser (official video):
Beck’s 1996 album Odelay was awarded Album of the Year by the American magazine Rolling Stone and by UK publications NME and Mojo. Odelay also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Both Odelay and Sea Change appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Beck – Live at Union Chapel, 2003 (Full Show):
00:48 – The Golden Age
05:01 – It’s All In Your Mind
08:30 – Guess I’m Doing Fine
14:22 – Lonesome Tears
19:00 – Nicotine & Gravy
24:34 – Lost Cause
28:18 – Ship In A Bottle
32:54 – Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods
36:48 – Loser
44:03 – Nobody’s Fault But My Own
48:53 – Lord Only Knows
My top 25 Beck songs (Spotify):
Allmusic (Stephen Thomas Erlewine):
Initially pegged as something as a voice of a generation when “Loser” turned into a smash crossover success, Beck did wind up crystallizing much of the post-modern ruckus of the ‘90s alternative explosion, but in unexpected ways. Based in the underground anti-folk and noise-rock worlds, Beck encompassed all manners of modern music, drawing in hip-hop, blues, trash-rock, pop, soul, lounge music…pretty much any found sound or vinyl dug up from a dusty crate, blurring boundaries and encapsulating how ‘90s hipsters looked toward the future by foraging through the past.
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Day 54: Thursday, July 11, 2013
Pueblo to Ordway: 54 miles
The topic of the day - and season - here is the drought. The countryside for miles around Pueblo is parched. Fields look like sand. Farmers are plowing their crops under. Irrigation systems in dry, sandy fields look incongruous.
Parched fields, no water
I stopped at a country store for a Pepsi, and talked - about the drought - with a man who was sitting out front. He said that Colorado had sold a lot of water rights to Kansas, with the implication that Colorado farmers were being shorted to honor those rights. I'd seen pickup trucks carrying tanks full of water to replenish stock tanks that were unable to be replenished from wells. He said that, by law, ranchers had to keep stock tanks covered, and they could not have catchment basins to collect rainwater - that the rainwater belonged to the state. Pumping water from wells - if there was any to pump - was okay. It didn't make sense.
I just can't imagine any water in this dip.
And it's hot cycling. Temperatures are up around 100. The humidity is low, so it's not really that uncomfortable. Sweat doesn't get a chance to congeal. I'm drinking several gallons of fluids a day: water, Gatorade, Pepsi, OJ, milk.
Some crops could grow.
I think this was clover.
This cow couldn't make it.
In 1981, Guy was on his way to graduate school in Manhattan, Kansas. And he had a sister in Denver. So we left the TransAmerica trail back around Walden, and took a route through Rocky Mountain National Park and Big Thompson Canyon before dropping down into Denver. We then took US 24 east across Kansas. This time around, I followed the TransAmerica trail around Denver on the west side, coming out of the loop at Pueblo. But I wanted to visit Gib and Nancy, who had put us up in 1981. They live in Flagler, which is almost directly north of Haswell. So today would be a short day to Ordway; tomorrow would be even shorter to Haswell, and Google Maps said that the next day would be a 75-miler up to Flagler.
The town park in Ordway had restrooms, but they were locked. It also had a small water park, which looked refreshing, and in the heat I was tempted to play. But there were two young girls there, being watched by their dad, and my propriety got the better of me.
I found out later that the Wounded Warrior group was in town, as well. But they stayed in a commercial campground - and wished they hadn't. In addition to other faults, it smelled like raw sewage.
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Quiz: How Many Architectural Styles Can You Identify From an Image?
How Many Architectural Styles Can You Identify From an Image?
Image: Interior Design Magz
Have you ever built a house? Worked construction? Maybe you're an HGTV junkie and spend hours upon hours watching people take broken down old houses and turn them into million-dollar architectural and design showpieces? If so, this quiz is right up your alley! Let your inner Frank Lloyd Wright out to play and tackle our architectural styles quiz!
In this quiz, you'll be asked to identify what style a house or building is based on a single picture and a hint, if you need to have one. What does that house with the big, white columns holding up a gabled roof represent? Of course, you can probably guess that the house that looks like a giant golf ball is a geodesic dome, but does your design knowledge go a little deeper than that?
How many of these styles can you pick out? What's the style of the house with the low, sloping roof, the tapered four-sided porch pillars, and the big porch? Can you tell a Gothic from a Victorian from an American ranch style? Some of these will leap out at you right away, but some of them require some specialized knowledge to figure out.
So, hitch up your tool belt, grab your roll of blueprints and tackle our architectural styles quiz!
Which architectural style is this?
Ranch Style
Contemporary architecture is a modern architectural style used today. Most often, contemporary buildings are designed to fascinate and impress and thus many feature unusual, twisted and asymmetrical shapes covered in glass. With the advanced technology of the 21st century, the structures are first created virtually using 3D design systems. This architectural style is commonly used in museums, concert halls and towers.
Shingle Style
Originating in England during the Tudor period, this architectural style was first used in the early 17th century. Modern buildings adapted this architectural style during the late 19th century and are therefore referred to as "mock Tudor" in the United Kingdom. Tudor buildings most commonly feature a symmetrical structure with several windows, multiple gabled roofs and half-timber frameworks.
Victorian architecture refers to architectural styles which emerged during the reign of Queen Victoria during the 19th century. Gothic revival, Queen Anne and Italianate are all Victorian styles. Built for beauty, homes styled in Victorian architecture have a complex asymmetrical design with intricate trims and bright colors.
Colonial architecture is a style that came about during the 1700s when European settlers erected houses to mimic those left behind in their home countries. As a result, there are many variations of colonial architecture which include but are not limited to Dutch Colonial, French Colonial, Spanish Colonial and British Colonial. A popular feature of colonial structures are symmetrical builds with a centered front door and evenly spaced windows and pillars.
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Pueblo Revival
Emerging from a post-war era, the Mid-century Modern architectural style was born; this architectural style was very popular during the second half of the 20th century. The new industrial building materials, plywood, and steel, created after World War II, were the primary materials used for the construction of Mid-century homes. Introducing a new style of thinking, these houses were built with flat planes, flat roofs, low-lying windows and large glass doors to allow for a better view of nature.
Used in the 20th century for universities and government buildings, neo-classical architecture was derived from architectural styles used in Greece and Rome. Residential homes designed in this architectural style usually belonged to those of the upper class, as the design signified wealth. Neo-classical structures are usually symmetrical with tall columns and highly detailed entrances.
As the name suggests, Oriental architecture originates from the Oriental countries like China, Japan and Korea. This architectural style stemmed from Chinese architecture and was adopted by Western countries. Its key characteristic is a large roof which stretches out past the walls. Oriental homes also feature a bilateral symmetry which signified balance to the Chinese.
French Provincial homes were first built in the French countryside in the 1600s during King Louis XIV's rule. These homes or manors were often built quite large, with steep rooftops, symmetrical portions and a brick exterior.
The American Craftsman or American Arts and Craft movement is an architectural style developed in the late 1800s. Influenced by the British movement, this architectural style focuses on the use of natural material and handcrafting. These homes are typically made of wood, stone or brick and feature low-pitched roofs and wide front porches.
Contemporary architecture is a modern architectural style used today. Most often contemporary buildings are designed to fascinate and impress and thus many feature unusual, twisted and asymmetrical shapes covered in glass. With the advanced technology of the 21st century, the structures are first created virtually using 3D design systems. This architectural style is commonly used in museums, concert halls and towers.
Influenced by the homes of ancient Pueblo Indians, this architectural style became popular in the 20th century. These homes are built of natural materials such as adobe, mortar, wood and stucco. Pueblo-style structures have low, flat roofs and inside courtyards resembling the original Pueblo homes.
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival was first introduced in the 1700s, copying styles from Gothic architecture used for medieval churches. The first Gothic Revival home was built by English writer Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, England. This architectural style showcases steeply pitched gables and decorative pointed windows.
The most common of the colonial architectural style, the Georgian architecture trend coincided with the reign of kings George I, II, III and IV between the 1700s and 1830. The use of symmetrical shapes and proportions, as well as decorative entrances, can be seen in Georgian styled homes.
Named after its place of origin, this architectural style mimics the haciendas of the Spanish regions. This style became very popular in the 1900s in areas with a warm Mediterranean-like climate. Mediterranean-style architecture makes use of red tiles, stucco plastered walls and ornamental details.
Cape Cods were first built by English settlers in America in the 1600s. Designed with English thatched cottages in mind, the Cape Cod homes were slightly altered to withstand the harsh winters. Most homes of this style feature a central chimney and steep cedar-shingled rooftops.
Art deco, derived from "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs" (a showcase for new inspiration), was an architectural style popular from 1925 to 1940. Art Deco was most commonly used for public and commercial buildings rather than for residential homes. The buildings were rectangular in shape and well embellished with art pieces, sculptures, ornaments, and handmade decorations. Another common feature was rounded edges.
Very often confused with Contemporary architecture, Modern architecture is quite different and refers to an architectural style introduced in the first half of the 20th century. After the rejection of the neo-classical style, Modern architecture became the dominant architectural style using new construction materials such as steel, glass and concrete. The key features of Modern structures are open floor plans and functionality.
Storybrook
Influenced by the homes of ancient Pueblo Indians, this architectural style became popular in the 20th century. These homes are built of natural materials such as adobe, mortar, wood and stucco. Pueblo-style structures have low flat roofs and inside courtyards resembling the original Pueblo homes.
Hometowns And Heroes
Emerging from a post-war era, the Mid-century Modern architectural style was born; this architectural style was very popular during the second half of the 20th century. The new industrial building materials, plywood and steel, created after World War II, were the primary materials used for the construction of Mid-century homes. Introducing a new style of thinking, these houses were built with flat planes, flat roofs, low-lying windows and large glass doors to allow for a better view of nature.
Victorian architecture refers to architectural styles which emerged during the reign of Queen Victoria during the 19th century. Gothic revival, Queen Anne, and Italianate are all Victorian styles. Built for beauty, homes styled in Victorian architecture have a complex asymmetrical design with intricate trims and bright colors.
Designing Idea
The most common of the colonial architectural style, the Georgian architecture trend coincided with the reign of kings George I, II, III and IV between the 1700s and 1830. The use of symmetrical shapes and proportions, as well as decorative entrances, can be seen in Georgian-styled homes.
Contemporary architecture is a modern architectural style used today. Most often contemporary buildings are designed to fascinate and impress, and thus many feature unusual, twisted and asymmetrical shapes covered in glass. With the advanced technology of the 21st century, the structures are first created virtually using 3D design systems. This architectural style is commonly used in museums, concert halls and towers.
Used in the 20th century for universities and government buildings, Neo-classical architecture was derived from architectural styles used in Greece and Rome. Residential homes designed in this architectural style usually belonged to those of the upper class as the design signified wealth. Neo-classical structures are usually symmetrical, with tall columns and highly detailed entrances.
Very often confused with Contemporary architecture, Modern architecture is quite different and refers to an architectural style introduced in the first half of the 20th century. After the rejection of the neo-classical style, Modern architecture became the dominant architectural style using new construction materials such as steel, glass, and concrete. The key features of Modern structures are open floor plans and functionality.
Used in the 20th century for universities and government buildings, Neo-classical architecture was derived from architectural styles used in Greece and Rome. Residential homes designed in this architectural style usually belonged to those of the upper class as the design signified wealth. Neo-classical structures are usually symmetrical with tall columns and highly detailed entrances.
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Entries in Economic Club of Minnesota (1)
Fed’s Ben Bernanke Still Mum About Stimulus
Alex Wong/Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered his usual Sphinx-like remarks to the Economic Club of Minnesota on Thursday, revealing little detail on how the central bank could stimulate the U.S. economy.
The chairman said the Fed was “prepared to employ” stimulus at the next meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Sept. 20 to 21. But he did not say what he would do.
He also described what economists have been saying for months: the country has weak consumer demand, while the business sector is stronger.
“Bernanke issued his second consecutive awaited speech in which he more or less said nothing,” said Guy LeBas, Janney Capital Markets’ chief fixed income strategist.
LeBas said he expected the Federal Reserve chairman to be restrained in his policy implications. The Fed chair didn’t allude to the recent reported disagreement among the Federal Reserve Board of Governors about how to respond to the weak economy.
“The Committee also continues to anticipate that inflation will moderate over time, to a rate at or below the two percent or a bit less that most FOMC participants consider to be consistent with the Committee’s dual mandate to promote maximum employment and price stability,” Bernanke said.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 3:29PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Ben Bernanke, Economic Club of Minnesota, Economy, Federal Reserve, Stimulus in Business General, Economy
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Entries in France (10)
US CEO Berates French Workers’ 3-Hour Days
PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An American CEO is jostling café au lait cups in France after declining to invest in a struggling French factory because its “so-called workers” get high wages for working three-hour days.
Maurice Taylor, chairman and chief executive of tire company Titan International Inc., based in Quincy, Ill., wrote a letter to French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, declining to buy a Goodyear tire factory that is being closed in Amiens, France.
“I have visited the factory several times,” Taylor wrote in the letter, as reported by Bloomberg. “The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. I told the French union workers this to their faces. They told me that’s the French way!”
According to Titan’s website, “Taylor was nicknamed 'The Grizz' by Wall Street analysts for his tough negotiating style.”
He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996.
Titan International Inc. did not return a request for comment.
“The workers of Goodyear would have considered themselves insulted had the author of the letter been someone credible,” the General Confederation of Labor, or CGT union, said in an e-mailed statement to Bloomberg.
Unemployment in France is at a 15-year high and the closing of the plant means the loss of another 1,173 jobs.
Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 12:29AM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged France, Goodyear, Titan International Inc. in Business General
What Would France’s 75% Tax Rate Look Like in US?
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The French government’s budget presented Friday, which is imposing a 75 percent tax rate for income exceeding 1 million euros ($1.39 million), is expected to inspire a number of wealthy French to move their residency to other countries. The 75 percent rate seems shockingly high, but if it were instituted in the U.S. it would still not be enough to even balance the budget.
How much money would a 75 percent tax rate for people with incomes over $1 million earn in the U.S.?
It’s tough to say, says William McBride, chief economist of the conservative think-tank, The Tax Foundation. In the “rosiest” scenario of a higher tax-rate, millionaires would continue working, not renounce their citizenship nor find tax shelters, he said.
In France, one’s tax status is mostly based on residency, as opposed to the U.S., which requires all U.S. citizens regardless of residency to file with the Internal Revenue Service.
If the U.S. were to tax 75 percent of millionaires’ entire incomes, not just their income over $1 million, that would yield around $532 billion in tax revenue, he said.
McBride points out that such a tax rate here would make only a 48 percent dent in the nation’s deficit, which is expected to reach $1.1 trillion this year, the Congressional Budget Office said in August. And that still would not pay down by one dime the $16 trillion plus national debt.
Again, that is in the “rosiest” situation. In France, the 75 percent tax rate is levied on millionaires' incomes only over €1 million and will last only for two years.
“It’s not as if it comes at no cost. The cost is a huge waste of resources in the form of tax planning, investors leaving the country, or investors who stay will stop investing,” McBride said. “There would be a loss in investment over time due to lower productivity, lower wages for everyone. It would cause massive harm to the economy with little or no gain in revenue.”
The top marginal tax rate in the U.S. has ranged from a high of 94 percent during World War II to 91 percent from 1950 to 1963 then gradually falling to the current rate of 35 percent.
Friday, September 28, 2012 at 3:20PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Federal Budget, France, Tax Rates, US in Business General, Economy, Taxes
How Elections in France, Greece Can Affect Your 401(k)
Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Voters in Greece and France went to the polls and sent the same message, punishing leaders who pushed through austerity plans -- drastic cuts aimed at saving Europe's economy.
Why should the U.S. care about rejected austerity measures in Europe? Economists say it could have an effect on your 401(k).
Much of Greece's debt, for example, is financed by the major French banks. The French banks are insured by American banks. So if the banking system in Europe cracks, says Art Cashin of UBS Financial Services, 401(k)s in the U.S. will be dragged down with it.
"Money flows like water and if a dam breaks someplace, that could flood your home," Cashin told ABC News.
But the results of the rejection of these austerity plans may not be all bad. According to a Wall Street Journal report, some analysts say voters' rejection of austerity in France and Greece could boost the global economy if governments feel pushed to do more in stimulating economic growth, rather than enforce stiff budget cuts.
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 11:10PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged 401(k), Austerity, Elections, Europe, France, Greece in Business General, Economy, Politics
Wall Street on Edge as Markets React to French, Greek Elections
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Investors on Wall Street could be in for a rough day on Monday as the market reacts to elections results out of Greece and France. Stock futures were down ahead of the opening bell.
On Sunday, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande defeated French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the country's presidential elections and vowed to shift how the debt crisis there was being handled.
"Austerity can no longer be the only option for Europe," Hollande said Sunday in his acceptance speech in reference to Sarkozy’s policies to cut government spending.
Meanwhile, Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Greece also cast new doubts on Europe's ability to fix its debt crisis.
After months of violent anti-austerity rioting, many Greek voters ditched the two parties that have led the country for decades, supporting austerity and securing European bailout funds.
According to the exit polls, the radical leftwing party Syriza has made strong gains and the far-right Golden Dawn party has won enough votes to enter parliament. This puts the Greek austerity plan in jeopardy, and, consequently, the Euro zone and global markets.
Already overseas, stocks have reacted poorly to the news. European and Asian markets were down on Monday.
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:39AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Debt Crisis, France, Greece, Stocks, Wall Street in Business General, Wall Street/Stock Market
Oil Prices Hit Nine-Month High
Comstock Images/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Oil prices have risen following Sunday’s announcement by the Iranian oil ministry of a halt in oil exports to Britain and France in response to the European Union’s sanctions on the nation in January.
Oil prices hit a nine-month high reaching $105 a barrel and could increase further if Iran proceeds with its threat to halt oil exports to other European nations. Gas prices have increased to 18 cents a gallon in the past month.
"The increase in price is a direct result of European importers of Iranian oil looking round to find alternative sources," said Professor Paul Stevens from Chatham House, reports BBC.
However, the increase in price is also attributed in part to an improvement in the economies of China and the United States.
Monday, February 20, 2012 at 6:25AM by Wadzanai Mhute Permalink
tagged Britain, Crude Oil, European Union, France, Gas Prices, Iran in Business General, Oil/Gasoline
Moody's Downgrades Six European Countries, Warns Three Others
Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Moody's downgraded the credit ratings of six European countries on Monday and warned that three others, including Britain, could be next.
The credit ratings agency cut Italy's grade to A3 from A2, Spain's to A3 from A1, Portugal's to Ba3 from Ba2, Malta's to A3 from A2, Slovakia's to A2 from A1, and Slovenia's to A2 from A1. All six countries were also given negative outlooks.
Meanwhile, Moody's gave negative outlooks to the United Kingdom, France and Austria, meaning that the countries could lose their AAA ratings in the future if the economy remains weak.
Monday's downgrades and warnings are a reminder that the region continues to be plagued by debt problems.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 8:09AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Credit Ratings, Downgrade, France, Italy, Moody's, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom in Business General
S&P to Downgrade France's 'AAA' Credit Rating
Datacraft Co Ltd/Getty Images(PARIS) -- Standard & Poor’s downgraded France's credit rating Friday from AAA to AA+, French Finance Minister François Baroin confirmed.
Story developing...
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 2:21PM by jc Permalink
tagged Credit Rating, France, Standard & Poor's in Business General, Economy
Fitch Places Six Eurozone Countries on Ratings Watch
Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images(PARIS) -- On Friday, the credit ratings agency Fitch put six European countries on a downgrade watch list, causing further threat to the Eurozone which has been facing a debt crisis.
Despite affirming France's triple A rating, Fitch downgraded the country's outlook from stable to negative which could mean a ratings downgrade in two years.
Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Cyprus were placed under Rating Watch Negative with the probability of a downgrade at the end of a review in Jan. 2012.
Fitch said the region's crisis has been on a negative decline since July causing concern about the financial stability of member nations.
"In the absence of a 'comprehensive solution', the Eurozone crisis will persist and likely be punctuated by episodes of severe financial market volatility," said the agency in a statement.
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 6:50PM by Wadzanai Mhute Permalink
tagged Belgium, Cyprus, Eurozone, Fitch Ratings, France, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain in Business General, Economy
Wall Street Report: Stocks Surge, Dow Up 400 Points
Mario Tama/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Dow Jones industrial average finished up 423.37 points, or 3.95 percent, to 11,143.31 on Thursday. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index shot up 51.88 points, or 4.63 percent, to 1,172.64. The Nasdaq was up 111.63 points, or 4.69 percent, at 2,492.68. U.S. stocks moved sharply higher Thursday after nearly a week of steep losses over debt fears here and in Europe.
Investors reacted positively to a bit of good news among the gloom: New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a four-month low last week, the government reported Thursday. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 395,000, the Labor Department said, the lowest level since the week ended April 2.
Tech giant Cisco turned in an earnings report with better-than-expected sales, sending the shares up 17 percent. CEO John Chambers reported "solid progress" on the networking equipment firm's turnaround effort.
The markets here and abroad were also buoyed by an announcement that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet in Paris next Tuesday to discuss euro zone governance and other international issues.
Investor worries over French banks have weighed on the stocks over the past two days.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 4:08PM by jc Permalink
tagged Cisco Systems, Dow Jones Industrial Average, France, Gold, Oil, Prices, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street in Business General, Economy, Wall Street/Stock Market
French Finance Minister Working with U.S. to Avoid Second Near-Collapse
Photo Courtesy - ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde says she's hopeful that the proper mechanisms have been put in place to prevent another near-collapse of the worldwide financial system.
"We've been working really hard in the last two months to put in place what our leaders decided was needed: an alert control system, a supervisory system, discipline in the markets," the minister said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. "But it's a constant job because markets are very agile and they reinvent new schemes."
Lagarde spoke to ABC following a meeting with her U.S. counterpart, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
“In terms of growth versus austerity, it's the policy that we've adopted in pretty much all European countries [that] we need to address both issues. If we do not reduce the public deficit, it's not going to be conducive to growth,” she said.
“People worry about public deficit. If they worry about it, they begin to save. If they save too much, they don't consume. If they don't consume, unemployment goes up and production goes down. So we need to attack that circle from the deficits," Lagarde said.
Recently named to Forbes' list of 100 most powerful women, Lagarde is the only female finance minister in the Group of Seven industrialized countries.
Copyright 2010 ABC News Radio
Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 10:45AM by jc Permalink
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Entries in President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (1)
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to Chair New Economic Recovery Board
Photo Courtesy - Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images(SCHENETADY, N.Y.) -- Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO and chairman of General Electric, is set to be named as chair of the new economic recovery board, according to the White House.
President Obama will officially appoint Immelt to the position while touring a GE plant in Schenectady, New York Friday. Immelt will head the new President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which Obama will sign into creation during the tour.
The new board will replace the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board that was created in 2009 and is set to shut down on Feb. 6, 2011. It will "focus on finding new ways to promote growth by investing in American business to encourage hiring, to educate and train our workers to compete globally, and to attract the best jobs and businesses to the United States."
Immelt has been the chairman of GE since 2001. Obama said his "experience at GE and his understanding of the vital role the private sector plays in creating jobs and making America competitive makes him up to the challenge of leading this new Council."
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 8:00AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
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'What's Your Number?,' '50/50,' 'Dream House,' 'Courageous' Open Friday
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Here's a look at the new movies opening nationwide Friday:
-- What's Your Number?: Based on the book of the same name, Anna Faris' Ally digs through her romantic past to find out which of her ex-boyfriends was her best partner. Chris Evans, Joel McHale, Chris Pratt and Blythe Danner also star. Rated R.
-- 50/50: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a man who deals with a cancer diagnosis with the help of a friend, played by Seth Rogen. The comedy also stars Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston. Rated R. [Click here to read a review]
-- Dream House: Daniel Craig and his real-life wife, Rachel Weisz, play a married couple who move with their kids into a New England home haunted by a person who once murdered a mother and her children there. Naomi Watts also stars. Rated PG-13.
-- Courageous: The faith-based drama revolves around four law enforcement officers struggling with fatherhood. Rated PG-13.
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:48AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged 50-50, Courageous, Dream House, Movie Releases, What's Your Number? in Entertainment General, Movies
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Video Conference Room
The College of Business and Management Sciences (COBAMS) Library, formed as a result of an operational merger between the former Faculty of Economics and Management (FEMA) and the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ISAE), the college has two library sections; One on block B, Ground floor (School of Business) and the other at the School of Statistics and Applied Economics (SSAE).
The College library has a sitting capacity of over 90 which it offers to students on top of the vast reading space provided by the university main library and other university branch libraries.
Library Collection.
COBAMS library collection consists of print books and periodicals in economics, statistics, business management and population studies. It also consists of the book bank collection, in addition to the wide array of books in the main library and other branch libraries. It has students’ theses and dissertationas and research papers. It also has publications donated by the various projects such as African Capacity Building Foundation, African Economic Research Centre, the Joint Japan and World Bank projects. Government publications especially from the Ministries of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Education and Sports and Uganda Bureau of Statistics are also part of the collection. The above collection is beefed up by the broad variety of electronic resources that are provided by the University Library and can be accessed online at (http://mulib.mak.ac.ug) while on campus. Through the Document Delivery Service also provided by the University Library, users who fail to get full-text articles from the available databases, can make requests for the articles at no cost (Library has paid for it)
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Protesting effectively illegal
CNN reports that Cindy Sheehan has been arrested for unlawful conduct, a misdemeanor charge that potentially carries a one year prison term. Her offense? Refusing to cover up a t-shirt with an anti-war slogan when requested by the U.S. Capitol Police.
Just think about that. Even if you disagree with politics or position, on what grounds can you possibly justify this? I guess Bush thinks he can just rule by decree, like his predecessor.
You're next.
Update: The U.S. Capitol Police is in fact the only federal law enforcement agency that reports to Congress instead of the Executive branch, so I guess the GOP and it's policy of stifling any dissent is more directly to blame than Bush.
Also, CNN is now reporting that her t-shirt read "2,245 Dead. How many more?". Last night the content of the t-shirt hadn't been reported yet, and there was a correction that said it was originally reported she unfurled an anti-war banner (apparently not true).
Sheehan was released after four hours; I wonder if the charges will be dropped. I doubt they are stupid enough to make a martyr out of her. Wait, what am I saying? It could happen.
Update: Cindy Sheehan's version of how and why she was arrested.
I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled; "Protester." He then ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly (with my hands behind my back) shoved me up the stairs. I said something like "I'm going, do you have to be so rough?" By the way, his name is Mike Weight.
The officer ran with me to the elevators yelling at everyone to move out of the way. When we got to the elevators, he cuffed me and took me outside to await a squad car. On the way out, someone behind me said, "That's Cindy Sheehan." At which point the officer who arrested me said: "Take these steps slowly." I said, "You didn't care about being careful when you were dragging me up the other steps." He said, "That's because you were protesting." Wow, I get hauled out of the People's House because I was, "Protesting."
Last update (I hope): FOX News actually has decent coverage of Sheehan's arrest, and the expulsion of a Congressman's wife:
Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young of Florida — chairman of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee — was removed from the gallery because she was wearing a T-shirt that read, "Support the Troops — Defending Our Freedom."
She was sitting about six rows from first lady Laura Bush and asked to leave. She argued with police in the hallway outside the House chamber.
"They said I was protesting," she told the St. Petersburg Times. "I said, "Read my shirt, it is not a protest.' They said, 'We consider that a protest.' I said, 'Then you are an idiot."'
They told her she was being treated the same as Sheehan, a protester ejected before the speech Tuesday night for wearing a T-shirt with an antiwar slogan. Sheehan wrote in her blog Wednesday that she intends to file a First Amendment lawsuit.
Sounds like a Cover-Your-Ass manuvuer for the U.S. Capitol Police, which probably realized they screwed up mightily by tossing Sheehan, and needed to show she wasn't being singled out.
Note in the CNN photo of Sheehan being hauled out that you cannot see her t-shirt because she has her jacket on; she only had it half-off before being pounced upon.
Final update (for sure now):Capitol Police say they goofed on arresting both Sheehan and Young. Charges against Sheehan were dropped; Sheehan might sue anyway. They apologized to Young.
Also, now that I've seen a TV interview with Sheehan, you can see her t-shirt. It's just that it's black and her jacket is also dark, and she has her arm across her chest. All I can make out is part of a white "2".
PyCon 2006 coverage
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Vegas Shooting: Mandalay Bay Security Guard Bolts, FBI Wipes Witnesses Phones, Timelines Change, And Now, Eyewitness To Multiple Shooters Found Dead In Bed
- 'Bullets Were Coming From Every Direction'
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
The Mandalay Bay security guard shot by Stephen Paddock, Jesus Campos disappears just moments before scheduled to give an interview, Route 91 witnesses and vendors are claiming the FBI gave them their phones and laptops and other devices after completely wiping them of all images and messages from October 1, 2017, the night of the Vegas massacre where over 50 people were slaughtered and nearly 500 others injured, and now a 28 year woman that described how she and her friends ran for their lives that devastating night, saying that "Bullets were coming from every direction," was found dead in her bed on Monday.
All this on top of changing timelines, and the MGM Resorts disputing the official police timelines, in a case that nearly two weeks later, see more questions popping up than answers provided.
WITNESS THAT CLAIMED MULTIPLE SHOOTERS, FOUND DEAD
There was no ambiguity to 28 year old Kymberley Suchomel's assertion that there was more than one shooter, she specifies it and highlights multiple times in her Facebook post, offered just 72 hours after the massacre in Vegas, describing what happened when the bullets started flying on October 1, 2017, at the Route 91 Harvest festival, as people scrambled to get to safety.
It is a long post explaining the events found here, and the Archive.is page to this account can be found at http://archive.is/8cc1M, just in case her official Facebook page suddenly gets taken down, but the relevant portion is quoted below: [Update] Original Facebook post has either been removed or made private as now a message saying page is unavailable shows, so use the Archive.is link to see it.
We were rounding some sort of corner maybe- and I looked to the right and I saw this large cowboy sitting down with his legs spread, holding a blood-soaked woman. I thought to myself “we NEED to hide”, but as I looked quickly for somewhere to go, the gunfire once again got closer and closer. We couldn’t hide because they (and I do mean THEY) were chasing us. That exact moment is when I started to really panic. That is the exact moment in which I thought this was it, I was going to die, I was never going to see my family again. So, as we are running, we approach this fence where men are throwing women over, and we ran up to it as they had knocked It down, so we were able to get out. As we crossed the threshold of the venue, my mind went straight to other mass shootings and hearing the victim’s families in my head talk about how they never got to say goodbye. I did not want this for my husband (who was at work) & my grandma (who had my daughter, Scarlett). So, at 10:07pm I called my husband franticly leaving him a voicemail- telling him that I loved him and was in the middle of a shooting & I wasn’t sure if I would make it out alive. Next, while still running, I called my grandma to tell her the exact same thing. But the gunfire wasn’t stopping this whole time. It wasn’t ceasing. It wasn’t slowing down. And It was directly behind us, following us. Bullets were coming from every direction. Behind us, in front of us, to the side of us. But I know, I just know, that there was someone chasing us. The entire time I felt this way. The farther we got from the venue, the closer the gunfire got. I kept looking back expecting to see the gunmen- and I say MEN because there was more than one person. There was more than one gun firing. 100% more than one. As we were running, we kept changing direction, because it felt like no matter what direction we took, we were being followed. So we ended up running in a weird triangular path. The first place I remember getting to was a parking lot, and I told Casie (who was slightly in front of me) we needed to get under one of the trucks. She turned to me and started her way back to me, and that is when the gunfire got even CLOSER than ever before. It was RIGHT THERE. It was within the parking lot. Everyone around us was panicking once again. So we ditched the idea of getting underneath a vehicle, and we continued the run for our lives. If you know me, you know I am a big girl, who is out of shape, and who definitely does not run for any reason. But I can tell you I ran like I have never run before.
Another interesting statement made in that post was how about 15 second before the first volley of shits were fired into the crowd, someone set off firecrackers, and Ms. Suchomel made it very clear, in caps, they were indeed firecrackers, stating "From about 50 feet in front of us, and a little to the right, fire crackers were set off. Let me repeat that… FIRE CRACKERS WERE SET OFF. I verbally stated “some a**hole just shot of fire crackers in close proximity to so many people”. I was literally pissed off. You could see Jason Aldean look to his left kind of startled by it, but he was also clearly irritated. I would say about 15 seconds later, the first volley of gunfire was released."
Subsequent posts described how her and her family were dealing with such a life-altering event, the last of which was posted on October 8, 2017. Slightly after 8:30 am the next morning, Ms. Suchomel was found dead in her bed. According to a report from a local news affiliate, her husband left for work around 4:30 am, and her grandmother came to care for their child and found her.
According to the grandmother, Suchomel suffered from epilepsy, specifying that her granddaughter had suffered a few "focal seizures."
“Kymberley had epilepsy and she’s always been prone to seizures — she told her friend that she recently had three focal seizures,” Norton told the Daily Press. “I believe the stress from the shooting took her life.”
Focal seizures are commonly referred to as "simple partial seizures," and are different from Grand Mal seizures. You can find out more on different types of seizures here.
While the local news report about Suchomel's death speak of a few of her statements regarding the shooting, her assertion of multiple shooters is not stated in any of the reports I have found regarding her death.
Suchomel's assertion is not the only witness account that indicates more than one shooter either, as Rocky Palermo who was one of the shooting victims has clearly stated that the gunfire "started getting closer and closer", and he knew "we were getting gunshots that were closer to us than where they originally started." He also points out that the same exits they entered and left on Friday and Saturday night, were mysteriously closed on Sunday as the concertgoers were trying to leave. At the end of the his video statement below, he says "I definitely believe there were at least 3 to 5 shooters," and then he says the exact same thing Mrs. Sochumel said, "100 percent there was not just one person shooting from the 32nd floor."
Other witnesses are also saying there was at least one shooter on the ground, as at the 17 second mark in the video below, another woman describes the events, eventually saying there is no "physically human possible way that that guy was the only shooter" as she explains how they were hidden and how it would have been impossible to reach where they were hidden.
BET shows others that were there asserting the same thing, multiple shooters, yet law enforcement continues to maintain there was only one shooter, despite the multiple witness testimony to the contrary. Disturbingly, as law enforcement claims that they are aware of the "internet rumors" and social media claims, they never once acknowledge publicly that many of those claims are coming from eyewitnesses and shooting victims.... those that were there at the time of the shooting, when the police were not.
As many witnesses that were and are still claiming there were multiple shooters, it makes the reports that the FBI wiped witnesses phones, laptops and devices of images and messages from the night of the Vegas massacre, all the more concerning.
While many stories are out there, many hoaxes being pushed regarding the shooting, and more and more questions arising, there is no doubt in the minds of these witnesses that there was more than one shooter, with some indicating there were definitely shots coming from ground level.
One of those witnesses is now dead.... we hope the others stay safe.
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American Conservative Republican
The American Conservative Republican puts God and Country before Party and Principle before Politics. This blog is for serious commentary about public policy issues.
CAP Opposed to Gambling Expansion in AZ
From Cathi Herrod, Center for Arizona Policy.
CAP Asks Governor and Arizona Legislature to Oppose Gambling Expansion
Today, Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) asked Governor Jan Brewer and state legislators to oppose any expansion of gambling in Arizona. Expanding gambling would have harmful consequences for Arizona families and communities, while doing nothing to help the ailing state economy. Two major new gambling enterprises are being considered by elected officials.
First, gambling proponents at state dog and horse racetracks and some state legislators have suggested expanding gambling to solve our state budget deficit. The proposed expansion apparently would allow racetracks to build casinos or to have slot machines and table games. Because many of these discussions have been brewing behind closed doors at the Capitol, gambling expansion could slip into the budget under the radar. That is why CAP is speaking out now to oppose any such proposals.
Expanding off-reservation gambling would break the agreements that Arizona currently has with the Indian tribes. As a result, the tribes could expand their gambling operations all across the state with no limits - making Arizona far worse than Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Gambling will not help our economy, our families, or our communities. Studies repeatedly show that the costs of gambling outweigh the benefits by at least a 3:1 ratio.
Additionally, the Tohono O'odham tribe has announced plans to build a casino in the heart of Glendale's major economic development area and directly across the street from a local high school. CAP is urging state legislators and Gov. Brewer to voice opposition to this new casino. For the casino to become a reality, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior must authorize the tribe's land to be placed in trust.
Bob Haran, Publisher, American Conservative Republican at 1:05 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Brewer, Center for Arizona Policy, Gambling
GOP Poll Finds Support for Tax
From the Arizona Republican Party.
Statewide Survey Shows Support for Balanced Budget Approach
Results show support for statewide sales tax as part of comprehensive plan
including cuts and use of stimulus funds.
PHOENIX – The Arizona Republican Party released results from a recent survey today showing strong public support for a temporary 1% statewide sales tax as part of a balanced budget approach.
The statewide survey conducted in partnership with Margaret C. Kenski, Ph.D. of Arizona Opinion and HighGround, Inc. was conducted over March 6 - 12, 2009, interviewing 607 high-efficacy, likely voters. When it came to taxes, here was the comprehensive question that was asked:
“I’d like to ask you how acceptable or unacceptable you find the following measures which would be considered in addition to spending cuts in order to preserve critical education and public health funding while the economy begins to recover. These taxes would be in the form of a constitutionally limited tax that would last for no more than three years and would automatically be eliminated without another public vote.
Let’s assume for the purposes of these questions that the Legislature and the Governor have already cut nearly $1 billion dollars in State spending by 2010, used all of the federal stimulus funds to balance the budget and still have a billion dollar per year budget deficit. All of the funds raised from these taxes would be dedicated towards maintaining 2010 spending levels for K-12 education, universities, community colleges, and health care for the poor. Each of the following measures would raise approximately a billion dollars per year.”
The results showed that 66.6% of the electorate supported a temporary 1% increase in the statewide sales tax to help bridge the gap to economic recovery, with nearly 40% considering it a very acceptable option.
39.7 % Very Acceptable
26.9% Somewhat Acceptable
9.1% Neutral
5.9% Somewhat Unacceptable
18.0% Very Unacceptable
.5% Unsure
The question gathered widespread support spanning party lines - Republicans found the sales tax 62.5% acceptable, Democrats 71.6% acceptable and Independents 64.6% acceptable.
“We were surprised by the level of support expressed by the electorate. It appears that Arizona voters would support a balanced approach in solving the budget crisis,” said Randy Pullen, Chairman of AZGOP. “Former Governor Napolitano and the Democrats in the legislature left us with a financial crisis on our hands. We all recognize Arizona government must learn to live within its means by reducing spending and reforming government. This Governor and Republican legislature have already made larger budget reductions and reforms than any previous governor and legislature. However, with continuing bad news on all fronts about declining tax revenues and the state having to borrow money next month to make payroll, the sooner the budget is balanced the better it will be for all Arizonans.
“We encourage the Governor and the Legislature to pursue any and all means necessary to right our current budget crisis and restore fiscal sanity to the state of Arizona,” concluded Pullen.
Bob Haran, Publisher, American Conservative Republican at 11:17 AM 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: Democrats, GOP, Napolitano, Polling, Pullen, taxes
Napolitano to enforce Employer Sanctions
The Los Angeles Times has reported that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will soon direct that the department's agents emphasize targeting employers that hire illegal workers for arrest and prosecution.
During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama claimed that past enforcement efforts failed because they focused on the illegal immigrant rather then the employers that hired them.
There are an estimated 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the United States, no one really knows how many. Even hard core immigration control and enforcement advocates admit that millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is unacceptable, however, rounding up that many people and deporting them is not practical.
Those of us that have been advocating immigration control and enforcement have long realized that the primary cause of massive illegal immigration has been an unsecured border with Mexico and the availability of jobs for undocumented workers in the United States.
Before the Minuteman Project of April 2005, security at our southern border was a bad joke. The patriotic members of the Minuteman Project and Members of Congress, like Tom Tancredo of Colorado, helped spotlight our lack of security at the border. The Minuteman themselves, who merely observe and report infiltration of illegal aliens into the United States, proved that the border can be better secured, more importantly however, by the use of gesture politics, they got the Congress and the federal government to finally get serious about securing the border.
No amount of security at the border can keep people, trying to improve their lives, from illegally entering the country if jobs are available for them in the U.S., however. As a member of the original Minuteman Project, before everyone claimed to be a Minuteman, I have to admit that if I were born on the other side of the border, I too would be trying to get into the United States if jobs are available. Build a 50 foot wall and I'll find a 51 foot ladder.
Some Washington politicians with higher ambitions, such as John McCain, were more concerned with pandering to the growing Hispanic population for votes and also accommodating the desire for cheap labor by business interests, who make large campaign contributions, then combating the crisis of massive illegal immigration.
Most politicians responded to the demand by the American people for increased border security, Others however, like John McCain, claimed that the solution to illegal immigration was to make illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, which made about as much sense as removing any speed limit to reduce speeding violations. McCain insisted that making illegal immigrants, legal immigrants was not an amnesty however.
McCain tried to justify illegal immigration by claiming that those in the country illegally were merely doing the jobs Americans wont do, sidestepping the fact that they were here illegally and working for substandard wages and taking jobs from American workers.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted an amnesty to 2.8 million illegal aliens who met certain criteria, put employer sanctions into place for hiring undocumented workers. The 1986 amnesty was followed by other amnesties but the sanctions against employers were not enforced, therefore, employers, with a wink and a nod, continued to illegally hire undocumented workers and the invasion of illegal aliens continued and increased in anticipation of the next amnesty.
Clearly, the lack of enforcement of employer sanctions has been the primary cause of massive illegal immigration into the United States.
The American Conservative Republican supports employer sanctions and applauds former Arizona Governor Napolitano and the Obama administration for their intent to emphasize arrest and prosecution of the greedy employers who exploit and profit from cheap illegal immigrant labor. It is still important to continue to deport those employees in the U.S. illegally, however, to reduce the supply of cheap labor for the greedy employers profiting from illegal immigration.
Bob Haran,
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Labels: American Conservative Republican, Employer Sanctions, immigration, McCain, Mexico, Minuteman Project, Napolitano, Obama, Tom Tancredo
Phil Gordon and Wife File for Divorce.
The Arizona Republic has reported that Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, 57, and his wife, Christa Severns, 45, will file for divorce.
This is the second divorce for Gordon, who has three adult children from his first marriage to Debbie Gordon.
Gordon and his wife will continue to share custody of their 9 - year old son, Jake, the Republic reported.
The mayors wife and son, Jake, will continue to live in the family's central Phoenix home. Mayor Gordon has been renting an apartment in downtown Phoenix but is in the process of buying a home for himself, according to his wife.
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Tax Hike Could Cost AZ 14,400 Jobs
The Goldwater Institute today said that a new economic model shows a tax hike could cause 14,400 lost jobs as Arizona's economic output would fall by $1.2 Billion.
To close the state's budget deficit Governor Jan Brewer has proposed a $1 billion tax increase. New findings announced today show that if the State of Arizona were to implement a $1 billion sales tax increase, 14,400 private jobs would be lost.
These new findings are the result of economic modeling conducted by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. The Goldwater Institute (GI) asked Beacon Hill to examine the impact of a $1 billion sales tax increase on employment, state economic output, and incomes.
Beacon Hill found that a $1 billion sales tax increase would cause the state to lose 14,400 private sector jobs; the state's real economic output would decline by $1.2 billion; and Arizonans would see their total after-tax income, already hit hard by recession, fall by $760 million, or almost $300 per household on average.
In addition to the $1 billion tax increase proposed by the governor, Arizona property owners face a tax increase in July when the state equalization tax comes back on the books. Lawmakers and the governor could decide to permanently repeal this tax. In the event that lawmakers choose not to repeal it, and even if it becomes the only tax increase to go into effect this year, almost 4,000 private jobs and $385 million in after-tax income will be lost.
"The Beacon Hill Institute has an excellent reputation for modeling the real effects of tax changes," said economist Dr. Byron Schlomach, Director of the Goldwater Institute's Center for Economic Prosperity. "These numbers show that these tax increases will hurt our economic recovery by putting more Arizonans out of work."
In a December 18, 2008 policy brief, http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/AboutUs/ArticleView.aspx?id=2460 , "A Fresh Start for Arizona: Proposals for Closing a Billion-Dollar Budget Gap," the Goldwater Institute says that tax increases are not an option and should not be on the table for discussion.
In just the last five years, Arizona General Fund spending increased 66 percent, while population and inflation grew at just 33 percent. The Goldwater Institute policy brief claims that in many cases returning agency budgets to fiscal year (FY) 2006 levels would do much to put Arizona on a more secure financial footing.
Some of the cuts suggested by the Goldwater Institute include; elimination of the Office of Tourism for a $10 million saving, elimination of the Department of Mines and Mineral Resources for $500,000 in savings, abolish the Board of Medical Students Loans to save $400,000.
Essential governmental services, such as courts and public safety, also didn't escape the Goldwater Institute's suggested cuts. The policy brief included a $5 Million cut to the Arizona Supreme Court and a 10% cut to the Department of Public Safety to save $6.3 Million and a 10% cut to the Department of Corrections to save $95 Million.
Labels: Goldwater Institute, taxes
Half a Million Rally for Life in Spain
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
Madrid, Spain (LifeNews.com) -- Hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates rallied in Spain over the weekend against the government's plans to expand abortions. The government has taken the first step to expand the nation's already-lenient laws to essentially allow abortion on demand throughout pregnancy.
Under Spanish law abortion is technically illegal and abortion is only allowed in case the pregnancy supposedly is a threat to the physical or mental health of the woman (despite the fact abortions typically cause medical and mental health issues).
Though the law has been flouted by abortion centers and abortions have been routinely done throughout pregnancy, Prime Minister Jose' Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wants the statute removed.
Tens of thousands of people have protested in Madrid on Sunday and they marched through the city and rallied outside the Equality Ministry, which has been leading the push for more abortions.
"Get out of here and let the children live," protesters shouted.
"The government wants to approve a free abortion law that leaves the unborn completely unprotected," Gador Joya, a spokeswoman for Right To Life, told the crowd. The changes "will only lead to more deaths and more suffering by thousands of women."
They asked for Bibiana Aido, the socialist government's equality minister, to resign.
Media outlets put the numbers at 100,000 but organizers said as many as 500,000 people showed up to the rally.
The Catholic Church has launched a campaign against the legalization but Angeles Alvarez, spokeswoman for the State Network of Feminist Organisations said abortion advocates are planning a response.
"We are going to flood Spain with posters in response to the church's alarmist campaign," she told AFP.
As a result of the lax laws, abortions are on the rise as there were 53,847 abortions done in Spain in 1998 but 112,138 last year, according to the Spanish health ministry. The figures also show that abortions increased more than 10 percent from 2006 to 2007.
Backers of the new law say it would make it so women don't have to worry about being prosecuted if they run afoul of the current requirements.
Pro-life advocates say the laws are already too pro-abortion and they point to evidence showing abortion centers routinely filled out patient intake forms ahead of time without evaluating women beforehand.
As proof that abortion is already essentially legal on demand, the Institute for Family Policy released a report in 2007 showing an increase in the number of abortions of 90.5 percent. That puts Spain third, behind Belgium and Holland, with the greatest increase in the abortion rate during that time.
“If this trend continues, in 2010 one out of every five pregnancies (125,000 annually) will end in abortion,” IFP president Eduardo Hertfelder said in the report.
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Hezbollah Crossing U.S. - Mexican Border
Source: Washington Times
Author: Sara A. Carter
America’s porous southern border is an entry point for more than Mexican cartels and their illegal drugs — the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has been smuggling drugs and people into the U.S. as well.
Hezbollah has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America, and is now using the same routes into the U.S. that the Mexican cartels use for smuggling, according to an exclusive report in The Washington Times.
The group relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers, and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who recently retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
“They work together. They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected,” he said.
Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, funds its operations in part from a large Lebanese Muslim diaspora, and some of that funding comes from criminal enterprises.
Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, was arrested in 2002 for smuggling 200 people, including Hezbollah supporters, into the U.S. He was sentenced last year to 60 years in a Mexican prison.
But the cross-border flow of drugs and people has intensified since the U.S. reduced access to the country by air and water following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And the drug wars between the cartels have claimed the lives of more than 8,000 people since January 2008, destabilizing Mexico along the border and prompting President Barack Obama to send additional agents there.
Adm. James Stavridis, commander of U.S. Southern Command, recently told a House committee that the connection between drug traffickers and “Islamic radical terrorism” is a growing threat to the U.S.
Braun said members of the Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been operating in South America and “could be commanding and controlling Hezbollah’s criminal enterprises from there.”
And a senior U.S. defense official said that in addition to Hezbollah, al-Qaida could also use the Mexican cartels’ trafficking routes to smuggle operatives into the U.S.
“The Mexican cartels have no loyalty to anyone,” another official told the Times. “They will willingly or unknowingly aid other nefarious groups’ [entry] into the U.S. through the routes they control. It has already happened. That’s why the border is such a serious national security issue.”
To read the full Article go to : http://www.firecoalition.com/forum/yaf_postst5245.aspx
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Labels: Hesbollah, immigration
April 1 Internet Worm Warning
From Yahoo News:
Giant Internet worm set to change tactics April 1 (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO - The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday — April Fools' Day.
That's when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about "phoning home" to the worm's creators over the Internet. When that happens, the bad guys behind the worm will be able to trigger the program to send spam, spread more infections, clog networks with traffic, or try and bring down Web sites.
Technically, this could cause havoc, from massive network outages to the creation of a cyberweapon of mass destruction that attacks government computers. But researchers who have been tracking Conficker say the date will probably come and go quietly.
More likely, these researchers say, the programming change that goes into effect April 1 is partly symbolic — an April Fools' Day tweaking of Conficker's pursuers, who for now have been able to prevent the worm from doing significant damage.
"I don't think there will be a cataclysmic network event," said Richard Wang, manager of the U.S. research division of security firm Sophos PLC. "It doesn't make sense for the guys behind Conficker to cause a major network problem, because if they're breaking parts of the Internet they can't make any money."
Previous Internet threats were designed to cause haphazard destruction. In 2003 a worm known as Slammer saturated the Internet's data pipelines with so much traffic it crippled corporate and government systems, including ATM networks and 911 centers.
Far more often now, Internet threats are designed to ring up profits. Control of infected PCs is valuable on the black market, since the machines can be rented out, from one group of bad guys to another, and act as a kind of illicit supercomputer, sending spam, scanning Web sites for security holes, or participating in network attacks.
The army of Conficker-infected machines, known as a "botnet," could be one of the greatest cybercrime tools ever assembled. Conficker's authors just need to figure out a way to reliably communicate with it.
Infected PCs need commands to come alive. They get those commands by connecting to Web sites controlled by the bad guys. Even legitimate sites can be co-opted for this purpose, if hackers break in and use the sites' servers to send out malicious commands.
So far, Conficker-infected machines have been trying to connect each day to 250 Internet domains — the spots on the Internet where Web sites are parked. The bad guys need to get just one of those sites under their control to send their commands to the botnet. (The name Conficker comes from rearranging letters in the name of one of the original sites the worm was connecting to.)
Conficker has been a victim of its success, however, because its rapid spread across the Internet drew the notice of computer security companies. They have been able to work with domain name registrars, which administer Web site addresses, to block the botnet from dialing in.
Now those efforts will get much harder. On April 1, many Conficker-infected machines will generate a list of 50,000 new domains a day that they could try. Of that group, the botnet will randomly select 500 for the machines to actually query.
The bad guys still need to get only one of those up and running to connect to their botnet. And the bigger list of possibilities increases the odds they'll slip something by the security community.
Researchers already know which domains the infected machines will check, but pre-emptively registering them all, or persuading the registrars to neutralize all of them, is a bigger hurdle.
"We expect something will happen, but we don't quite know what it will look like," said Jose Nazario, manager of security research for Arbor Networks, a member of the "Conficker Cabal," an alliance trying to hunt down the worm's authors.
"With every move that they make, there's the potential to identify who they are, where they're located and what we can do about them," he added. "The real challenge right now is doing all that work around the world. That's not a technical challenge, but it is a logistical challenge."
Conficker's authors also have updated the worm so infected machines have new ways to talk to each other. They can share malicious commands rather than having to contact a hacked Web site for instructions.
That variation is important because it shows that even as security researchers have neutralized much of what the botnet might do, the worm's authors "didn't lose control of their botnet," said Michael La Pilla, manager of the malicious code operations team at VeriSign Inc.'s iDefense division.
The Conficker outbreak illustrates the importance of keeping current with Internet security updates. Conficker moves from PC to PC by exploiting a vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft Corp. fixed in October. But many people haven't applied the patch or are running pirated copies of Windows that don't get the updates.
Unlike other Internet threats that trick people into downloading a malicious program, Conficker is so good at spreading because it finds vulnerable PCs on its own and doesn't need human involvement to infect a machine.
Once inside, it does nasty things. The worm tries to crack administrators' passwords, disables security software, blocks access to antivirus vendors' Web sites to prevent updating, and opens the machines to further infections by Conficker's authors.
Someone whose machine is infected might have to reinstall the operating system.
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BEST CONGRESSINAL REFORM IDEA
Forget about term limits and campaign finance reform,
Members of Congress should be required to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, that way voters could easily identify their corporate sponsors.
Sent by a brother Marine and Vietnam vet I served with in Nam, Alan Jarret.
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Pullen Blasts Democrats "Bill of Attainder."
From the Arizona Republican Party:
DEMOCRATS PROPOSE SHREDDING CONSTITUTION IN EFFORT TO SAVE FACE
Phoenix, AZ – Randy Pullen, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, and treasurer of the Republican National Committee, was critical of the Democrats move to seize bonus money paid to AIG employees by legislating punitive tax code.
Pullen believes, as do many others, that passing legislation specifically targeting AIG executives would constitute a “bill of attainder” meaning that a group of people have been found guilty of a crime without having been given a fair trial by a court of law. Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution reads: “No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”
“Using the power of their office to go after individual Americans who have upset them is frightening. It is AIG employees this week and maybe it will be Ford employees next month or maybe Google executives who have angered them about something else next year. This is no way to run a third world country let alone the United States of America.”
Congressional Democrats are in a frenzy to fix this glaring political error on their part. As has been reported, U.S. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), introduced language into the stimulus bill protecting these employee bonuses. Now Democrats want to tax them away in order to cover up the misdeeds of one of their own. “They are willing to trample the constitution and set a dangerous precedent for this country,” said Pullen.
While the Democrats may feel pious and exonerated by their actions, it is contrary to the very fabric on which our great republic was founded. Perhaps next time, the Democrats will do a better job of reading and reviewing, and understanding the ramifications of legislation they pass before it becomes law,” concluded Pullen.
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Labels: AIG, Democrats, Pullen, Republican
Sanctuary City Mayor Gordon Panders to Hispanic Voters - Compares Maricopa County to Selma in '50's and '60's
Phoenix, Arizona is second in the world only to Mexico City in kidnappings; illegal immigrant drop houses are discovered daily, police officers and civilians are murdered by illegal immigrants, thousands march in its streets carry foreign flags and demanding rights for those illegally in the United States, and the mayor of this sanctuary city compares those trying to enforce our immigration laws with racist sheriff's in the south of the '50's and '60's.
The Arizona Republic has reported that Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, a Democrat, who is term limited in 2012, addressed the Reform Not Raids National Summit in Phoenix hosted by Somos America/We are America and said that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's workplace raids and immigration sweeps have given people the impression the state is becoming a hotbed for racial discrimination.
The mayor of America's fifth largest city made his remarks nearly a year after he first denounced the sheriff for enforcing immigration laws at a Cesar Chavez luncheon.
Gordon, who was in Washington, D.C., this week telling lawmakers that more federal money was needed to combat immigration related violence said, "several people told me that, due to profiling and other civil-rights abuses by the Maricopa County Sheriff, Arizona is getting the same reputation as Alabama had in the 1950's." Gordon didn't give any names however of who those several people were.
According to the Republic, Gordon told reporters that Arpaio is "not using dogs or hoses, but he's targeting people of color."
Gordon complained that Arpaio's crime-suppression sweeps that are used to enforce Arizona's employer-sanctions and anti-smuggling laws, have taken place in mostly Hispanic neighborhoods or target day laborers.
Playing the race card and painting everyone who supports enforcement of our immigration laws as nativist and racist is the only card those in favor of illegal immigration have to play and they wont let the truth get in the way.
Danny Ortega, an attorney and the summit's chairman said that he believes Maricopa County is the new Selma, Alabama. "The same thing that was happening to the African-American community in Selma in the '50's and '60's is now happening in Maricopa County today at the hands of Sheriff Joe Arpaio," Ortega said.
Contrary to Danny Ortega's revised history of the United States, Americans of African ancestry did not enter the United States illegally but most were forced over as slaves to provide cheap labor. Illegal immigrants do provide greedy employers with cheap labor, much as slaves once did, slavery was abolished in the United States however, by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1865. To make any comparison of the treatment and blatant discrimination that American citizens of African ancestry suffered with the rights illegal immigrant of today enjoy, insults and minimizes the societal trauma of slavery and the struggle for civil rights in America.
Gordon has wrote to the Justice Department and asked them to look into complaints that sheriff's deputies were using racial profiling in their enforcement of federal immigration laws. In February, four lawmakers who are Democrats asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Republican.
This month the Justice Department notified the sheriff that they had launched an investigation focused on whether deputies are engaging in "patterns or practices of discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures," the Republic reported.
It may take America a long time to get illegal immigration under control as long as we have cheap politicians like Mayor Phil Gordon of Phoenix.
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Bob Haran, Democrats, Employer Sanctions, Eric Holder, immigration, Napolitano
Contaminated Equipment at V A Medical Centers - AP Reports.
From the Associated Press:
by Bill Poovey - Mar. 28, 2009 12:00 AM
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Viral infections, including hepatitis, have been found in 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at Veterans Affairs medical facilities, a department spokeswoman said Friday.
So far, 10 colonoscopy patients from the VA medical center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., have tested positive for hepatitis, VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts said. In a later e-mail, she reported six patients at the VA's ear, nose and throat clinic in Augusta, Ga., tested positive for unspecified viral infections.
Roberts stressed that the source of the infections isn't known, but she said the VA will make sure those who tested positive "get the best possible treatment."
"There's no way to scientifically, conclusively prove they contracted this due to treatment at our facility," Roberts said.
The number of reported infections could rise.
More than 10,000 veterans were warned to get blood tests because they could have been exposed to contamination at those two facilities plus a medical center in Miami. All three sites failed to properly sterilize equipment between treatments, and the problems dated back for more than five years at the Murfreesboro and Miami hospitals
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Dodd's Wife a Former Director of Bermuda-Based IPC Holdings, an AIG Controlled Company
By Kevin Rennie (Kevin Rennie, a former Republican state senator, is a columnist for the Hartford Courant. He can be reached at kfrennie@yahoo.com)
No wonder Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) went wobbly last week when asked about his February amendment ratifying hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives at insurance giant AIG. Dodd has been one of the company's favorite recipients of campaign contributions. But it turns out that Senator Dodd's wife has also benefited from past connections to AIG as well.
From 2001-2004, Jackie Clegg Dodd served as an "outside" director of IPC Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda-based company controlled by AIG. IPC, which provides property casualty catastrophe insurance coverage, was formed in 1993 and currently has a market cap of $1.4 billion and trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol IPCR. In 2001, in addition to a public offering of 15 million shares of stock that raised $380 million, IPC raised more than $109 million through a simultaneous private placement sale of 5.6 million shares of stock to AIG - giving AIG a 20% stake in IPC. (AIG sold its 13.397 million shares in IPC in August, 2006.)
Clegg was compensated for her duties to the company, which was managed by a subsidiary of AIG. In 2003, according to a proxy statement, Clegg received $12,000 per year and an additional $1,000 for each Directors' and committee meeting she attended. Clegg served on the Audit and Investment committees during her final year on the board.
IPC paid millions each year to other AIG-related companies for administrative and other services. Clegg was a diligent director. In 2003, the proxy statement report, she attended more than 75% of board and committee meetings. This while she served as the managing partner of Clegg International Consultants, LLC, which she created in 2001, the year she joined the board of IPC. (See Dodd's public financial disclosure reports with the Senate from 2001-2004 here.)
Dodd is likely more familiar with the complicated workings of AIG than he was letting on last week. This week may provide him with another opportunity to refresh his recollections.
(Source, Maricopa County Republican Committee)
Labels: AIG, Chris Dodd
Op-Ed Against Cap and Trade
Op-ed by Tom Jenny and Phil Kerpe of Americans for Prosperity, arguing against passing a massive tax hike in the guise of climate change legislation.
Don’t Let Cap-and-Trade Become Tax-and-Spend
Tom Jenney and Phil Kerpe
The surprise revenue source to pay for much of the gigantic Obama budget is something known deceptively as “climate revenues,” also known as “cap-and-trade.” But Obama’s cap-and-trade plan is really a tax-and-spend plan. It would mean a trillion-dollar tax increase, with sweeping consequences throughout the economy, both nationally and here in Arizona.
A cap-and-trade tax hike is the worst kind of tax increase, because the tax increase is hidden behind a complex regulatory apparatus that only adds to the cost.
The size of the tax is a mystery. Companies know they have to pay a tax, but they don’t know what the tax rate is, because they will be forced by government to bid at auction for permits to use fossil fuels. The Obama budget initially slated the cap-and-trade auction process to generate approximately $646 billion in revenue for the federal government over eight years.
More recently, however, the deputy director for the White House National Economic Council, Jason Furman, reported that the tax scheme would actually raise two-to-three times that much, bringing in upwards of $1.3 to $1.9 trillion. The truth is that nobody knows how much it will cost — and that’s a large part of the problem.
We do know that the impact on our economy here in Arizona would be staggering. An analysis conducted by the respected forecasting firm SAIC and commissioned by the American Council on Capital Formation projected the economic impact of last year’s version of cap-and-trade for Arizona. They found that by 2020, with the bill in effect just eight years, we would have 23,000 to 34,000 fewer jobs, $800 to $2,600 in lower annual disposable income per household, and an annual hit to the Arizona economy of between $2.6 billion and $3.6 billion.
Much of the damage would be caused by significantly higher energy prices: 20 to 67 percent higher prices for gasoline and 23 to 30 percent higher prices for electricity. The study also found that lower-income families — people who are least able to absorb higher energy costs — would be hardest hit.
Those numbers were the projected impact of last year’s Lieberman-Warner legislation. We don’t have numbers yet on Obama’s new proposal, but it is more extreme and would be even more expensive.
These astonishing economic costs are not an unfortunate side effect of the bill. They are its intended purpose. President Obama explained to the San Francisco Chronicle last year that passing costs on to consumers is an important part of his plan. “Under my plan of a cap and trade system,” he told the Chronicle, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
Worse, these tax increases may not buy us anything of value on the environmental side. Even if emissions targets are met, climate models show that the reductions would have no discernible effect on the global average temperature. The National Center for Atmospheric Research found that the Kyoto Protocol would reduce the global average temperature 0.07 degrees Celsius in 50 years and 0.15 degrees Celsius in 100 years. Feel-good symbolism is not worth trillions of dollars in higher energy taxes.
Lest we be accused of obstructing efforts to deal with climate change, we want to remind readers that AFP’s No Climate Tax campaign simply asks Congress to oppose any environmental schemes that result in a net increase in government revenue. In other words, climate policy should not become yet another excuse to transfer dollars from hard-working citizens to the bureaucrats in Washington and to the beneficiaries of pork-barrel politics.
Arizona Congressmen Jeff Flake and John Shadegg have already signed AFP’s No Climate Tax pledge (www.NoClimateTax.com). But the real fight will be in the U.S. Senate, and we can only hope that Sen. John McCain will decide to vote against any cap-and-trade scheme that raises overall taxes.
We cannot let cap-and-trade become tax-and-spend. The long-term health of our state and national economies may depend on it.
--Tom Jenney is Arizona director and Phil Kerpen is national director of policy for Americans for Prosperity (www.americansforprosperity.org).
Labels: Americans for Prosperity, taxes, Tom Jenney
Hanoi Jane Visit to Montana Restaurant
This is a great story! The radio station America FM was doing one of its 'Is Anyone Listening?' bits this morning. The first question was, 'Ever have a celebrity come up with the 'Do you know who I am?' routine?'
A woman called in and said that a few years a go, while visiting her cattle rancher uncle in Billings , MT , she had occasion to go to dinner at a restaurant that does not take reservations. The wait was about 45 minutes; many ranchers and their wives were waiting.
Ted Turner and his ex-wife Jane Fonda came in the restaurant and wanted a table. The hostess informed them that they'd have to wait 45 minutes. Jane Fonda asked the hostess, 'Do you know who I am?' The hostess answered, 'Yes, but you'll have to wait 45minutes.' Then Jane asked if the manager was in. When the manager came out, he asked, 'May I help you?'' Do you know who we are?' both Ted and Jane asked.' Yes, but these folks have been waiting, and I can't put you ahead of them."
Then Ted asked to speak to the owner. The owner came out, and Jane again asked, 'Do you know who I am?' The owner answered, 'Yes, I do. Do you know who I am? I am the owner of this restaurant and I am a Vietnam Veteran. Not only will you not get a table ahead of my friends and neighbors who have been waiting here, but you also will not be eating in my restaurant tonight or any other night. Good bye."
Only in America , is this a great country or what?
To all who received this, this is a true story and the name of the steak house is:
Sir Scott's Oasis Steakhouse, 204 W. Main , Manhattan , MT 59741 , (406) 284-6929
If you ever get there, give this fellow a sharp salute, buy a steak, and tip the waitress. Keep passing this on. We should never forget our national traitor!
The above was forwarded to ACR by a friend.
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Voters Oppose Tax Increase, Cuts, Support Sending Limits
AFP Arizona Releases Poll Results:
Likely Voters Oppose Tax Increases
Respondents Reject Deficit-Reducing Options,
Support Constitutional Spending Limit
PHOENIX – Likely voters in Phoenix and Glendale rejected sales and income tax increases by large majorities, in poll results released today by the Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP Arizona), a taxpayer watchdog group committed to fiscal responsibility and limited government.
Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposed billion-dollar-a-year tax increase fared badly in the poll, with 62 percent of respondents in Phoenix opposed, and 64 percent in Glendale. Opposition to tax increases crossed party lines, with 47 percent of self-identified “strong Democrats” in Phoenix opposed, and 52 percent in Glendale.
Respondents also rejected by wide margins a ballot proposition that would allow the state Legislature to make cuts to areas of the state budget that are currently protected from cuts, including parts of K-12 education and state health care programs for the poor.
“The poll results suggest that there’s no point in the Legislature trying to fix Prop 105 at the ballot,” said AFP Arizona director Tom Jenney, referring to the constitutional provision that makes it nearly impossible for the Legislature to make reductions to voter-mandated spending programs.
The least unpopular of the short-term deficit fixes was a proposal to sell state assets, including public lands, and privatize state functions. Fifty-five percent of respondents in Phoenix opposed the proposal, as did 52 percent in Glendale. The only short-term deficit fix that won approval of majorities of respondents was a proposal to allow gaming at horse and dog racing tracks to generate new revenues for the state.
“Nearly all of the deficit-reducing options are unpopular,” Jenney said, “so our elected officials may as well vote on principle.” AFP Arizona has urged the governor and legislators to hold fast to conservative principles and balance the budget by reducing spending, privatizing state functions, and selling state assets.
For a long-run solution to the state’s recurring budget woes, the poll asked likely voters how they felt about a constitutional amendment that would keep the state government from increasing its budget faster than the rate of growth of the state economy. Seventy percent of respondents in Phoenix and 78 percent in Glendale supported the proposal.
“The spending limit reform won’t fix our current problems,” Jenney said, “but it would go a long way toward preventing a budget deficit crisis in the next recession. At some point, the state of Arizona needs to get off the fiscal rollercoaster.”
Completed Monday night, March 23rd, the polling effort surveyed 300 likely voters in both Phoenix and Glendale on local and state-level tax and budget issues. The poll was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, a firm with extensive experience in polling Arizona citizens. AFP Arizona released the survey results for local issues yesterday.
For the complete list of polling questions, visit www.aztaxpayers.org.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org
Tom Jenney
Arizona Director
www.aztaxpayers.org
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Labels: Americans for Prosperity, Brewer, Polling, taxes, Tom Jenney
Governor Appoints Chad Kirkpatrick as Agency Head.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer today named Chad Kirkpatrick a the Director of the Government Information Technology Agency ( GITA).
The conservative community is familiar with Kirkpatrick, he served as Chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Arizona, a group he helped grow into one of Arizona's largest grassroots organizations.
Mr. Kirkpatrick's appointment as Director of GITA, places him at the helm of an agency created in 1996 to serve as Arizona's official entity for strategic planning and coordination of all state information technology. He will oversee day-to-day operations of: IT coordination and planning, IT project review and monitoring, and maintenance of e-government.
Kirkpatrick comes to state government service from Wells Fargo, where he has served since 2003, most recently as Vice President and Business Systems Manager of Compliance Services MIS (Management Information Services). While with Wells Fargo, he created the "MIS Roadmap" to assess the current MIS environment, identify MIS goals and develop an action plan to align technology and business needs. He was also responsible for: fully automating the business process for regulatory compliance testing, managing the Information Security process for the Phoenix location; developing an innovative data analysis program to proactively identify potential regulatory issues, tracking corrective action and delivering critical information to the compliance team; working with the finance, operations and marketing teams to develop the next generation of reporting and leading corporate efforts to create common data definitions and corporate reporting standards. He has won two Leadership Excellence Awards: Team Leadership and the annual Excellence in Action Award as well as the 19 Legendary Service awards.
Mr. Kirkpatrick received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from George Washington University and his Master of Arts in Applied Economics from American University.
Governor Brewer said, "Mr. Kirkpatrick is widely respected and recognized in his field and possesses a unique blend and broad range of technical and leadership skills,"
Chad Kirkpatrick is currently a GOP Precinct Committeemen in LD 6.
Labels: Americans for Prosperity, Brewer, Chad Kirkpatrick, GOP
Breaking News From Center for Arizona Policy
Arizona Supreme Court Strikes Down Two School Choice Programs
PHOENIX - Today the Arizona Supreme Court struck down two school choice programs that were helping Arizona families. The Arizona Scholarships for Pupils with Disabilities Program and the Disabled Pupils Choice Grant Program allowed parents of foster children and parents of children with special needs to send those children to the school that best meets the children's needs.
"This is a terrible result for Arizona students and their parents," said CAP President, Cathi Herrod. "The Arizona Legislature acted to provide meaningful education options for students who have special educational needs. Today's opinion from the Supreme Court ignores the needs of students and penalizes parents for choosing religious schools that meet their children's needs."
Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), along with school choice allies, was instrumental in passing the school choice programs in the Legislature in 2006. In December of last year, CAP attorneys filed a "friend of the court" brief with the Arizona Supreme Court in support of the school choice programs.
The Arizona Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court have upheld other school choice programs like these because the private choices of the parents determine which school will receive the tuition money and the ultimate beneficiaries are the students. Today's decision goes against that line of decisions and concludes that the Arizona Constitution provides "a clear prohibition against the use of public funds to aid private or sectarian education."
"The Court's decision ignores the previous rulings that the private choices of parents nullify any constitutional concerns about the use of state money to fund private education," Herrod explained. The case is Cain v. Horne, CV 08-0189. The opinion is available online. CAP's amicus brief is also available online.
CAP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and defending the family by influencing policy, communicating truth, and empowering families to promote timeless values.
Labels: BREAKING NEWS, Center for Arizona Policy, School Choice
Poll: Taxpayers Against Tax Dollar Giveaways
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 25, 2009Contact: Tom Jenney (602) 478-0146, infoAZ@afphq.org
Poll: Phoenix and Glendale Taxpayers Reject Special-Interest Subsidies
Large Majorities Oppose $100 Million City North Subsidy
and Possible Glendale Bailout of Phoenix Coyotes
Results on Gov. Brewer’s Tax Increase Proposal,
Legislative Budget Options to be Released Thursday
PHOENIX – Phoenix taxpayers rejected the $100 million City North subsidy, and Glendale taxpayers rejected a possible bailout of the Phoenix Coyotes, according to poll results released today by the Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP-Arizona), a taxpayer watchdog group committed to fiscal discipline and low taxes.
81 percent of Phoenix respondents expressed the opinion that the City North subsidy was an illegal gift of taxpayer money, compared with only 9 percent who said the subsidy was necessary to help the project land the city’s first Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s stores. 81 percent of Phoenix respondents also disagreed with the proposition that the long-term economic benefits of City North justified rebating $100 million of Phoenix taxpayer money to the project.
In Glendale, 72 percent of respondents preferred to allow the Phoenix Coyotes to move out of state, rather than have the City of Glendale give the team $3 to $15 million annually in local taxpayer subsidies. 24 percent preferred to use subsidies to keep the Coyotes in Glendale. 76 percent of respondents said the prestige of having a pro hockey team in Arizona was not worth the subsidies.
AFP Arizona director Tom Jenney expressed satisfaction at finding that large majorities of taxpayers rejected the Phoenix and Glendale subsidies. “Cities need to get out of the business of using taxpayer money to try to pick winners and losers in the economy,” Jenney said. “We are hoping that city officials around the state will pay attention to these poll results.”
Completed Monday night, March 23rd, the polling effort surveyed 300 likely voters in both Phoenix and Glendale on local and state-level tax and budget issues. The poll was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, a firm with extensive experience in Arizona. AFP Arizona is releasing the survey results for local issues today, and will release survey results on state-level tax and budget issues on Thursday.
In the City of Phoenix, a $100 million tax rebate for the City North mixed-use development near the 101 and Tatum has stirred extensive debate. The legality of the Phoenix subsidy is now being considered by the Arizona Supreme Court, after the subsidy was deemed to be illegal by the Court of Appeals. Yet, it does not appear that any polling information has been done about the attitudes of the people—Phoenix taxpayers—who are being forced to fund the subsidy.
The questions the survey asked about the City North subsidy, and the poll results, are reproduced verbatim here:
Q: As you may know, The Arizona Supreme Court has been asked to review the legality of an approximately $100 million tax rebate that the City of Phoenix agreed to provide the developer of City North, a mixed use development near Tatum and the 101 Freeway in north Phoenix.
Some people say this money was necessary to help pay for a parking garage and to help the project land the city’s first Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s store.
...while...
Other people say that the taxpayer money is an illegal gift of public funds to a private developer and these companies should pay their own way rather than asking for such a huge amount from Phoenix taxpayers. Which statement comes closest to your own opinion?
9% MONEY WAS NECESSARY
81% TAXPAYER MONEY IS AN ILLEGAL GIFT
Thinking more about this issue...
Q: Now, I would like to read you a statement about the City North mixed-use development. After I read the statement, please tell me if you AGREE or DISAGREE with that statement.
The statement is... the long term economic benefit to having a mixed-use development like City North with national chains and other stores like Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s is enough that it is worth rebating $100 million of Phoenix taxpayer money to these companies and the developers.
And do you STRONGLY (agree/disagree) or just SOMEWHAT (agree/disagree) with that statement?
5% STRONGLY AGREE
11% SOMEWHAT AGREE
17% SOMEWHAT DISAGREE
64% STRONGLY DISAGREE
15%^ TOTAL AGREE
81% TOTAL DISAGREE
Meanwhile, the City of Glendale is reportedly considering paying for a bailout for the Phoenix Coyotes franchise, which is losing $30 million a year. As with the City North proposal, AFP Arizona wanted to know where Glendale taxpayers stood on the possibility of spending millions to further subsidize the team—after having already spent $180 million of local taxpayer dollars on the Coyotes’ arena.
Some of the questions the survey asked about further subsidies for the Coyotes, and the poll results, are reproduced verbatim here:
Q: As you may know, the Phoenix Coyotes are having significant financial difficulties, and the current ownership is considering selling the team. I’d like to read you two different options facing team ownership, and please tell me which one you prefer...
…keeping the Phoenix Coyotes in Glendale, even if it costs the city of Glendale three million to fifteen million dollars in local taxpayer subsidies each year, or allowing the team to move out of state?
24% KEEP PHOENIX COYOTES IN GLENDALE
72% ALLOW TEAM TO MOVE OUT OF STATE
Q: Now, I would like to read you a statement about the Phoenix Coyotes’ relationship with the city of Glendale. After I read the statement, please tell me if you AGREE or DISAGREE with that statement.
The statement is... the prestige of having a pro hockey team in Arizona is enough that it is worth having the city of Glendale spend millions of dollars in local taxpayer subsidies to keep the Coyotes here.
21% TOTAL AGREE
Tomorrow, AFP Arizona will release findings on the attitudes towards various proposals that have been set forth to deal with Arizona’s massive budget deficit.
Labels: Americans for Prosperity, taxes
Vietnam Memorial Wall Replica Coming to AZ
A replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., with the names of those who gave their lives during the Vietnam War, is coming to Arizona.
The Traveling Wall Veterans Tribute, welcoming ceremony, will take place on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2 PM at the Verrado High School soccer field, located at 20050 West Indian School Road in the town of Buckeye.
The Wall will be on display from April 1 to April 6, for all patriots to visit, pay their respects and honor those who gave their all for God and Country in Vietnam.
The tribute is being presented by American Legion Post 53, the American Legion Riders and, the Town of Buckeye, Arizona.
For additional information, please contact Bob Lane at 623-694-2455 or Sarah Blank at 623-349-6312.
Obama to Protect Mexico from America.
Smuggle addictive drugs into the U.S. and destroy the lives of Americans, no problem.
Millions of Mexicans invade the U.S. and take jobs from our citizens and lower American wages, no problem.
Violate American sovereignty, no problem.
Murder American citizens, no problem.
Allow illegal immigration to cost state and local government and U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars, no problem.
Trespass and violate the property rights of Americans living near the border, no problem.
Expose Americans to contagious disease, no problem.
Overburden American schools and provide bi-lingual education for the children of illegal aliens at taxpayer expense, no problem.
U.S. guns in Mexico, now that's a problem the U.S. government must take care of immediately by securing our border with Mexico from those troublesome Americans.
In response to the deteriorating situation in Mexico, mostly caused by the corruption of the Mexican government, the United States government has finally decided to get serious about securing the border.
The U.S. will be redeploying over 360 people from various government agencies to the Mexican border. And as part of a $184 million plan, we will be sending more biometric technology equipment, mobile X-Ray machines, license plate readers and other high tech inspection equipment to the border. Not to stop; terrorist, illegal drugs and, illegal aliens from entering the United States, however, but to inspect traffic entering Mexico.
President Barack Obama of the United States, who is responsible for the national security of the United States, told the American people during a televised news conference that , "The steps that we've taken are designed to make sure that the border communities in the United States are protected, and you're not seeing the spillover of violence, and that we are helping the Mexican government deal with a very challenging situation." Obama further said that, "We are going to continue to monitor the situation, and if the steps we've taken do not get the job done, then we will do more."
Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said that, "These are important actions of support for the fight that President Felipe Calderon's government is carrying out."
U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva, who does a better job of representing Mexico then American citizens said, "the long-term issue is to reconnect and redefine our relationship with the country of Mexico, our neighbor, and begin working with that country in order to deal with economic-development issues, health issues, education issues, so that Mexico can sustain its own people and its own workforce."
Gabrielle Giffords, who represents Arizona's Eighth Congressional, blames America first and says, "The money flows south and the guns are flowing south and the drugs flow north because of the big demand that we have." Giffords complained that, "Ninety percent of the weapons seized from Mexican organized crime comes from the United States."
The American Conservative Republican can only pray that some day the demands of the American people for a secure border to protect us from; terrorism, illegal drugs and illegal aliens, will have nearly as much influence with the U.S. government as protecting Mexico from American guns.
The American people shouldn't worry however, the Obama administration is still considering a request from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Texas Governor Rick Perry to boost the number of National Guard troops on the border, to protect American citizens from; terrorist, drug smuggling and illegal immigration.
Bob Haran, Publisher, American Conservative Republican at 8:45 AM 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Brewer, Gabrielle Giffords, Grijalva, immigration, Obama, Rick Perry, taxes
Dramatic Send Off to Man of Honor - but media didn't report it.
This was sent to me by a brother veteran, it is a story of military honor and respect that still lives in the hearts of our nations warriors.
For God and Country,
Bob Haran, USMC
Navy Petty Officer Mike Monsoor
PO2 (EOD2) (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow Seals.(Notice: Mike was not a Navy SEAL, he was EOD. He gave his life to save a group of Navy SEALS.) During Mike Monsoor's funeral in San Diego , as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery , SEAL's were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of two's, with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike's coff in passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.
The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero. This should be front-page news instead of the crap we see every day.
Since the media won't make this news,
I choose to make it news by forwarding it .I am very proud of our military. If you are proud too, please pass this on. If not then rest assured that these fine men and women of our military will continue to serve and protect.
God Bless our Troops
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Bob Haran, Veterans
AZ Senate GOP Leadership Wants to Balance Budget With No Tax Hike.
Arizona Senate Republican leadership has called upon the Senate to tap creative and innovative resources and work in concert with the Senate Appropriations Committee to balance the FY 2010 budget without a tax increase.
Senate President Bob Burns from Peoria said, "As members of the Appropriations Committee are going line by line through JLBC (Joint Legislative Budget Committee) spreadsheets, looking to reduce expenditures and define efficiencies, we are calling upon other members to help us identify new ways to balance this budget."
Senate President Bob Burns
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Gray of Mesa feels that the budget can be balanced without additional taxation, "We are working hard to solve the problem and I am optimistic we can close this gap without increasing taxes," he said. Gray pointed out that, "Even President Obama is not suggesting a tax increase during a recession."
Senator Pamela Gorman of Anthem, the Senate Majority Whip, explained that, "Right now we've got the equivalent of a yellow pad of ideas that we have to winnow down to viable budget solutions." Gorman wants input from the public, "We also need to do what we can to make it easy for the public who have suggestions, especially ones backed by expertise and experience, to get those to us," she said.
Democrats have been complaining that they are being shut out of the budget process, Burns refuted that claim however, "That is not true," he said. Burns went on to explain that his door as Senate President is open to all members who want to talk with him about new ideas to resolve the budget deficit.
Burns said "I meet with Senator Garcia every week." Senator Jorge Luis Garcia of Tucson, is the Democratic Minority Leader. Burns continued, "If Democrats feel they are being cut out of the process, they need to talk to their minority leader."
The American Conservative Republican just wants to remind lawmakers that the people of Arizona are also hurting during this recession, not just state government. Just because the state has the power to reach into the taxpayer's pocket does not mean that it should. Money is a resource that should not be wasted and large organizations, public or private, tend to waste money regardless of how much they try to spend wisely. The individual is the best steward of their own money, not government. Please remember the admonition of Jefferson that, "The government that governs least governs best."
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Bob Burns, Bob Haran, Chuck Gray, Gorman, Republican, taxes
SHADEGG WANTS SOME ANSWERS FROM TREASURY SECRETARY
The following press release from Congressman John Shadegg's office speaks for itself.
Washington, Mar 19 -
WASHINGTON – Congressman John Shadegg (AZ-03) released the following statement after the House vote to retroactively tax the AIG bonuses [H.R. 1598], concerning questions about Secretary Geithner and his prior knowledge of those bonuses:“
What did Secretary Geithner know about the AIG bonuses and when did he know it? Is his claim not to have known about this until last Tuesday believable? Two recent and startling developments seriously call his claim into question.
“Yesterday, in sworn testimony before the House, AIG’s chairman, Ed Liddy, declared that the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Bernanke knew about the bonuses not days or weeks ago – but three months ago. And who was Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve at that time? Tim Geithner.
“And, back in September, when the original AIG bailout was being structured, who was one of its principal architects? Again, Secretary Geithner.
“We have now also learned from no less than Senator Chris Dodd that the Treasury asked him in February to put a provision in the stimulus to protect these bonuses. And who was head of the Treasury at the time? Once again, Tim Geithner.
“These shocking revelations demand immediate answers.“
How could Geithner have been so intimately involved in the AIG bailout, head of the New York Federal Reserve when the Reserve was informed of the bonuses, head of the Treasury when the department asked for the provision that helped secure these bonuses, and supposedly one of the greatest experts on Wall Street today – and not have known about them?
“Sadly, it appears that Secretary Geithner is either dishonest or incompetent.
“Perhaps the Senate should have paid more attention to Geithner’s tax errors after all.”
Labels: AIG, Geithner, Shadegg
McCAIN, Let Mexican Trucks Roll on U.S. Roads
On Friday we reported that Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona's Sixth Congressional District introduced legislation to fund the U.S./ Mexico Border Land Transportation Program that allows Mexican trucks in the U.S., "JEFF FLAKE WANTS MEXICAN TRUCKS IN U.S.," in order to bring the U.S. into compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA).
Flake's bill, H.R. 1611, would repeal language included in the FY 09 omnibus spending bill that prohibits funding for the program to allow Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States.
Under NAFTA, trucks from Canada, Mexico and the United States were to have free access throughout the three nations by 1999, the U.S. however, restricted Mexican trucks to a 20-mile commercial zone at the border. In 2001, a NAFTA arbitration panel ruled that the U.S. was in violation of NAFTA.
U.S. Senator John McCain, in response to Mexico's reaction to raise tariffs on American imports because of the U.S. restrictions on unsafe Mexican truckers on U.S. highways issued the following statement from his Washington office.
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO RAISE TARIFFS ON AMERICAN PRODUCTS
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement in response to the announcement made by the Mexican government to raise tariffs on American products:
"I deeply regret the action taken by the Mexican government and the harm it may cause to American businesses," said Senator John McCain. "Unfortunately, this is a predictable reaction by the Mexican government to a policy that now puts the United States in clear violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and was inappropriately inserted into the Omnibus appropriations bill. We must take steps to prevent escalation of further protectionist measures – actions that only serve to harm American business during these tough economic times when these businesses need a worldwide marketplace to prosper. This is another reason why the President should have vetoed the Omnibus spending bill."
The American Conservative Republican asks that if you see Mexican trucks on our highways, you should thank Congressman Jeff Flake and Senator John McCain for taking those jobs away from American truckers and making our highways more dangerous to travel on.
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Bob Haran, Jeff Flake, McCain, NAFTA
Conservative Activists says "Steele ought to step aside."
Star Parker, and the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, www.urbancure.org was a single mother who went from welfare fraud to conservative crusader after receiving Christ. She returned to college and received a degree in marketing and launched an urban Christian magazine. The 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed her business. As a social policy consultant she regularly testifies before Congress and is a commentator on CNN, CNBC, CBN, FOX News, the BBC, and is a syndicated columnist fro Scripps Howard News Service. She is also the author of three books.
In a recent Op-Ed by Parker titled, "Time for Steels to go as RNC chair," she wrote that, "This is not a time when we can muddle through with a leader who is not sure who he is, who is not clear about the principles of his party, and who is not consumed with the importance of the cultural war that we now confront."
Parker said that the "defining moment" came for her with the recent GQ magazine interview with Steels, (see ACR, March 13, 2009, "RNC Chair Straddles Abortion Issue"), which she says Steele sounded more like a Democrat than a Republican.
In her Op-Ed Parker said, "We now have the most left-wing president in our history using the excuse of a recession and the leverage of his honeymoon, together with decisive democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, to turn our country into the Soviet States of America." She complained that "instead of a clear and articulate message" from the GOP, "the press has been writing about Steele and Rush Limbaugh."
Parker wrote that, "Not only does the RNC chairman not seem to share the values of his party, or even to agree with his party's platform, but also he is a public relations disaster."
All conservatives Parker claims had doubts about Steele. She referenced another interview he had during his 1996 campaign for the Senate with the late Tim Russert, when he said he accepted Roe v. Wade as "stare decisis" meaning accepted legal precedent. Also, Steele's involvement with the Republican Leadership Council, which supports pro-abortion and gay-rights candidates concerned social conservatives.
She concludes her Op-Ed with the statement, "The Republican party needs a chairman who wants to fight this fight. It seems pretty clear that Michael Steels is not that man."
The American Conservative Republican feels that maybe a politician that tries to take both sides of an issue might not be the best choice for GOP chairman and that Michael Steele may serve his party best by steeping aside.
Labels: abortion, American Conservative Republican, Bob Haran, Democrats, Gay Marriage, GOP, Michael Steele, Republican, RNC, Star Parker
Trouble in Socialist Venezuela
The Associated Press has reported that the Socialist President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, sent troops to seize air and sea ports in three Venezuelan states governed by Chavez opponents.
Chavez, who is hostile to the United States, said his government will formulate a, "strategic investment plan", to modernize the ports and to guarantee the jobs of thousands of workers in the facilities.
Last week Chavez warned that any governors who challenged the takeover could end up in prison.
Eliseo Fermin, a Chavez opponent and head of the state of Zulia's Legislative Council said, "They're not using reason, they're using force."
On Thursday, prosecutors in Venezuela requested the arrest of opposition leader and mayor of the city of Maracaibo, Manuel Rosales, who ran against Chavez in 2006, on corruption charges. Rosales has denied the charges and has not yet been arrested.
ACR says that if he talks like a dictator and acts like a dictator, Chavez should be referred to as the Dictator of Venezuela.
Those who want to give more and more power to the government over our lives should remember that wise admonition, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Bob Haran, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
THE PEOPLE Are With ARPAIO - Support Immigration Enforcement
Under constant attack by the mainstream media and under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department because of his aggressive enforcement of illegal immigration laws and the people of Arizona still love him.
A new Ramussen telephone survey of Arizona voters reports that 68% of Arizona voters have a favorable view of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and 46% view him very favorably.
The Justice Department is investigating Sheriff Joe at the urging of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and U.S. Congressman John Conyers of Michigan. They are alleging that the Sheriff's office is racially profiling Hispanics during Arpaio's illegal immigration enforcement efforts in the county.
Arizona voters by huge numbers seem to solidly support immigration enforcement efforts by local police however, with 74% saying that police should automatically check to see if a person is in the country illegally during traffic stops, a common method used by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, (MCSO).
63% of Arizona voters say that law enforcement officers should sometimes conduct surprise raids to identify and deport illegal immigrants at places where they are known to gather to find work, 31% said they oppose such raids.
A contradicting number of Arizona voters however are concerned that efforts to identify and deport illegal immigrants may also violate the civil rights of some American citizens, with 56% saying they are somewhat concerned and 32% responding that they are very worried.
Other findings of the survey indicate that 60% of Arizona voters are more concerned about drug violence from Mexico spilling over into the state then they are about illegal immigration, 29% however say illegal immigration is still their biggest worry.
Three fourths of Arizona voters, or 76%, think that the U.S. military should be deployed to protect American citizens if drug violence continues to escalate along the U.S./Mexican border.
Republican voters in Arizona have an even greater favorable opinion of Arpaio then the average voter with 87% saying they have a somewhat favorable view of him and 76% of GOP voters saying they support surprise raids of illegal immigrant gathering locations.
Bob Haran, Publisher, American Conservative Republican at 10:51 PM 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Arpaio, immigration, Phil Gordon
NRA Defends Right to Carry in National Parks
From the NRA-ILA Daily Site.
NRA Files Notice of Appeal in Federal District Court to Protect Right to Carry in National Parks
Fairfax, Va. – Today, the National Rifle Association filed a notice of appeal in Federal District Court to oppose a preliminary injunction preventing law-abiding citizens from defending themselves in national parks and wildlife refuges.
Chris W. Cox, NRA chief lobbyist, said, “NRA is moving aggressively to protect this common sense rule and that’s why we filed this notice of appeal today. Just as we did not give up the fight to change the old, outdated rule, we will not give up our fight in the courts to defend the rule change. We will pursue every legal avenue to defend the American people's right of self-defense.”
On Thursday, March 19, Federal District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction against the Department of Interior rule that took effect on January 9, 2009. The revised rule allowed individuals to carry concealed firearms for self-defense in national parks and national wildlife refuges located in states which allow the carrying of concealed firearms. It also maintained uniformity within each state, making it easier for law-abiding permit holders to follow the laws.
The Brady Campaign and the National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) filed suit against the Interior Department rule. Judge Kollar-Kotelly granted NRA “Intervenor” status, allowing participation in the case independently from the Department of Interior.
-NRA-
Labels: NRA
JEFF FLAKE WANTS MEXICAN TRUCKS IN U.S.
Congressman Jeff Flake yesterday introduced legislation, H. R. 1611, to fund the U.S./Mexico Cross-Border Land Transportation Program, to allow Mexican trucks in the U.S.
Flake, who represents Arizona's Sixth Congressional District, issued a press release yesterday claiming that the legislation was introduced to bring the U.S. into compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA).
The legislation introduced by the, NAFTA supporting Jeff Flake, would repeal language included in the FY 09 omnibus spending bill that prohibits funding for the program that allows Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States.
In addition to his legislation, Flake sent a letter to President Obama "to express my support for the continuation of the U.S./Mexico cross-border trucking program."
American truckers, besides expressing concerns about their job security and pollution from Mexican truck emissions, have complained about the safety of Mexican trucks and drivers, some of the drivers from Mexico can't read highway signs in English.
In his letter to the president, Flake said, "the safety argument is simply a red herring used by opponents of the program to cater to special interests and advance a protectionist agenda."
Maybe flake didn't get the word, the United States, the country he is supposed to represent, is suffering a recession with the loss of thousands of American jobs. Those special interests he refereed to in his letter to the president are American highway users with their families in the car, who don't want to share the road with unsafe Mexican truckers.
NAFTA is a free trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and, Mexico which took effect on January 1, 1994.
One of the provisions of the NAFTA agreement concerned trucking. Trucks were to have "free" access throughout the 3 countries by 1999, but the U.S. restricted Mexican trucks to a 20-mile commercial zone at the border. In 2001, a NAFTA arbitration panel "ruled" that the U.S. restrictions were in violation of NAFTA. In 2008, the U.S. House terminated the pilot program which granted limited access to Mexican trucks on U.S. highways.
Before NAFTA, the United States had a small trade deficit with Canada and Mexico, after NAFTA took effect, the U.S. developed a large and rapidly growing trade deficit with those countries.
Americans were sold NAFTA with the promise that U.S. exports to Mexico would grow faster then imports, which would create thousands of American jobs with higher wages. Instead of creating more American jobs however, over a million manufacturing jobs were lost and wages were pressured downward for a large number of Americans without a college education.
Exports to Mexico and Canada did increase after NAFTA, however, imports from both countries to the U.S. increased faster. In 1996 the trade deficit with Canada was $21.682 billion, by 2007 it increased to $68.169 billion. The trade deficit with Mexico increased even faster, from a $17.506 billion deficit in 1996 to a $74.622 deficit by 2007, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
NAFTA is truly a riches to rags deal for the United States.
Trade deficits transfer American wealth out of the U.S. economy and into another countries economy, in exchange, we get products that will eventually become worn-out and garbage.
The American Conservative Republican prays that the Republicans in the Sixth Congressional District of Arizona do find someone to replace the, NAFTA friendly, free trade and, open border advocating, Flake by the 2010 primary.
Labels: American Conservative Republican, Bob Haran, Congress, Jeff Flake, Mexico, NAFTA, Obama, Republican
Pelosi: Un-American To Enforce Immigration Laws
Judicial Watch posted this on their Blog. Corruption Chronicles at http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/mar/pelosi-enforcing-immigra
The powerful veteran lawmaker recently exposed by Judicial Watch for using the Air Force as her personal airline says that it’s "un-American" to enforce the nation's immigration laws.
Delivering an emotional speech at a church in her San Francisco district, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience that enforcement of existing immigration laws is "un-American." The Democrat legislator condemned raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and proclaimed that they must stop.
"Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?" Pelosi told the mostly Hispanic gathering—some in the country legally and others illegally—at a local Catholic church. Madam Speaker referred to her audience as "very, very patriotic."
The highest ranking Republican on the House Immigration Subcommittee, Iowa’s Steve King, said Pelosi’s liberal San Francisco values do not reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of Americans who support enforcement of our immigration laws, border security and no amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Pelosi has long used her political clout to help illegal immigrants. She promised to kill legislation shielding employers from lawsuits for requiring English at work, has fought the federal government to keep costly health programs for illegal immigrants and advocates reduced tuition at public colleges for illegal aliens.
Pelosi’s serious ethical lapses have also earned headlines in last few years. She snuck a $25 million gift for her husband in a big water bill, sponsored legislation to financially benefit a pharmaceutical company that she owns stock in and another that has donated heavily to her campaign and threatened to strip a four-term Connecticut senator of a powerful committee chairmanship for criticizing Barack Obama during the presidential campaign.
Earlier this month Judicial Watch released Department of Defense documents detailing Pelosi’s numerous requests for military aircraft to ferry her and her family around the country.
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Mexico Blames U.S. for Drug War
Are We Serious Yet?
by Bay Buchanan
Could America finally be getting serious about our southern border?
Recently, Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Mexico to offer military assistance in their escalating war against the drug lords. This after several US intelligence reports found that Mexico now presented a worse threat to our national security than Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or Pakistan. And President Obama says he's considering putting troops on the border.
According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Mexico now appears ready to accept the kind of help they shunned only months ago. Last week on NBC's "Meet The Press" Gates said, " I think we are beginning to be in a position to help the Mexicans more than we have in the past.....I think some of the old biases against cooperation between militaries and so on, I think, are being satisfied."
Let me translate.
President Calderon and his government are down for the count and without a U.S. rescue operation Mexico will soon be a narco-state. One defense official, according to The Washington Times, explained that Mexican President Felipe Calderon was "fighting for the life of Mexico" and the situation could take a turn for the worse in coming months.
The Times reported that the two largest and most violent cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel and "Los Zetas", the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel, are negotiating a merger of sorts. Together these vicious rivals have 100,000 heavily-equipped ground troops, a force that would be better armed and nearly as large as the Mexican military. In addition the Sinaloa Cartel has successfully infiltrated most all levels of Mexico's federal government.
Admiral Mullen acknowledged the sense of urgency. After meeting with his Mexican counterparts he told the media he would be expediting the delivery of sophisticated military equipment, including helicopters, to Mexico as part of the three year 1.4 billion dollar initiative approved last November. In addition Mullen spoke of the Pentagon's willingness to provide Mexico with new surveillance and reconnaissance support, such as unmanned drones to spy on armed drug gangs, especially along the US border.
Sophisticated aerial surveillance on the border! This is outstanding news--for Mexico and the U.S. if both countries are serious about stopping the flow of all illegal traffic.
But that's not the case.
Last week President Calderon blamed America for the drug war. The primary cause, he said, was having "the world's biggest consumer' of illegal drugs" as his neighbor. "Drug trafficking in the Untied States," he added, "is fueled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities." (Talk about calling the kettle black!) Here is what he wants done: "I think that weapons and cash cross from there to here, and that both countries should strive to make their borders safe and open to trade and workers, but closed to illegal drugs, weapons, and money trafficking."
There you have it-Mexico wants our border "safe and open to...workers", and, of course, their families and friends. But along side these folks come the gangbangers, the drug runners, the criminals-and the drugs. The openness of our border is precisely why the drug cartels set up shop in Mexico.
Law enforcement officials have told us that cartel thugs disguise themselves by hiding among the migrant communities. It is how they get here; it is how they hide in plain sight and safely operate in our communities. And they are here.
Just last week the Houston Chronicle ran a story titled "Mexican Cartels Infiltrate Houston" while USA Today ran one led: "Mexican Cartels Plague Atlanta". "The same folks who are rolling heads in the streets of Ciudad Juarez are operating in Atlanta", says Jack Killorin, the head of Atlanta Office of National Drug Control Policy's Task Force, "here they are just better behaved."
The only way we have a chance to stop the drug industry from thriving in this country is to stop the illegal invasion.
Calderon is correct that the cartels' sophisticated equipment and the billions in drug money fueling the war originate in the US and travels south across the border. But again the only way to stop its flow is to tighten control of the border. While not a sufficient step it is a necessary one.
So what kind of deal have our bold leaders made with Mexico? We know Calderon would never allow surveillance designed to help him be used to disrupt the flow of illegal aliens he is sending north. If aerial surveillance detects, as it surely will, hordes of illegals making their way north, do we simply hope no drug runners are hiding in their midst?
The question needs to be asked. If the U.S. military's surveillance detects crimes occurring on the border-including illegal entry into our country-will they share the information with our border agents? And will the agents be instructed to apprehend the violators? Put another way: Now that open borders have exposed us to an increasingly grave and imminent national security threat are we ready to secure them?
Don't count on it-it would offend Mexico.
Labels: Bay Buchanan, Calderon, Mexico
OBAMA Gives $50 Million to War Against Unborn
Obama Admin Sends UN Population Fund $50 Million, Abortion Backers Want More
LifeNews.com EditorMarch 18, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The American economy is in turmoil but the Obama administration sent a $50 million check yesterday to the United Nations Population Fund. That's the pro-abortion group that has been accused of supporting and working in concert with Chinese family planning officials.
There, the Chinese population control program has relied on forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations and other human rights abuses to enforce its rule that most couples may have no more than one child.
The Bush administration had withheld the funds because of the UNFPA-China population control program ties, but Obama signed a bill reversing those limits and pro-life advocates failed to get the Senate to put them back in place.
The Obama administration move has pro-life advocates up in arms.
"Yesterday, for the first time in eight years, the State Department released $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an organization linked to China's one-child policy and coerced abortions," Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said.
Unsatisfied by the $50 million mark, House members, led by pro-abortion Rep. Louise Slaughter, are asking for even more money in the next budget Congress will consider.
In a letter to the chairman and ranking members of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Slaughter and three other members of the House ask for an increase of $530 million for family planning efforts and a boost to $65 million for the UNFPA.
"We respectfully request that you increase international family planning assistance funding by $530 million from last year's level, including a total of $65 million for the United Nations Population Fund in the Fiscal Year 2010 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act," the letter says.
Perkins calls on Obama to say no.
"Gallup found that an overwhelming majority of Americans object to paying for Obama's new export--overseas abortion. He may not be able to stop AIG from exploiting taxpayers, but the President can certainly keep his party from giving family planning' groups a raise," he said.
Obama won't likely budget as he demonstrated his commitment to funding the controversial pro-abortion UN agency when he overturned the Mexico City Policy during his first week in office.
"I look forward to working with Congress to restore U.S. financial support for the U.N. Population Fund," Obama said in his executive order message in January.
"By resuming funding to UNFPA, the U.S. will be joining 180 other donor nations working collaboratively to reduce poverty, improve the health of women and children, prevent HIV/AIDS and provide family planning assistance to women in 154 countries," he added.
However, President Obama ignored the connection between the UNFPA and the Chinese forced-abortion program.
Following the governmental investigation, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he had no doubt that the UNFPA was complicit in the population control program.
"I determined that UNFPA's support of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allowed the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion," he wrote.
The State Department investigation came after a groundbreaking probe led by the Population Research Institute.
Colin Mason, PRI’s media director, confirmed to LifeNews.com last November that it stands by its probe showing the UNFPA involved in the program.
"Our investigation remains valid," Mason said. "We put boots on the ground, and made the results available to anyone who wanted them. Those who would disregard our findings show an appalling lack of respect for human rights."
PRI's initial report, entitled "UNFPA, China, and Coercive Family Planning," is based on an investigation conducted by PRI researchers in China's Sihui County.
Relying on interviews with over two dozen victims and witnesses, the 2001 investigation found that coercive abortion and sterilization practices were taking place where the UNFPA had supposedly instituted a "client-centered and voluntary family planning program."
In fact, PRI's investigation discovered that the UNFPA shared an office with the very Chinese family planning officials who were carrying out forced abortions.
Related web sites:Population Research Institute - http://www.pop.orgPRI YouTube video about UNFPA - http://www.youtube.com/colinpri
Labels: abortion, Obama
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Tilda Swinton: Childbirth is “murderous”
Childbirth is “a truly murderous business,” the Scottish actress Tilda Swinton told reporters today at the Cannes Film Festival.
“It’s violent. And if one doesn’t embrace that, if one can’t embrace it — and it’s really tough to do that — then you’re up a gum tree because it means you’re going to be cutting off a whole part of yourself,” said Swinton, 50, the mother of teenage twins.
Swinton told reporters that movies and television give people an idealized vision of birth, according to a story by Anita Singh in the Telegraph, a British paper.
“In movies, and particularly in television films, when people have babies, they are sitting in a hospital room and there are flowers everywhere. They are made up, magically, and they have a baby in their arms and it’s all really lovely,” she said.
Swinton made the remarks while discussing her latest film, "We Need to Talk About Kevin," directed by Lynne Ramsay, which is generating major buzz at Cannes. The film is based on a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver.
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This area was previously a part of South Beaver Township (1800) and Big Beaver Township (1802). The area in which the present borough lies was sold by William Grimshaw to Joseph M. Smith in 1831. Smith laid out the town in 1859 and named it Homewood on Homewood Junction for James Wood. Mr. Wood had built an iron furnace along the Beaver River. Homewood Borough was formed September 10, 1910.
Fun facts about Homewood:
-The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad was also constructed through town in 1852. The junction of the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie line was located in Homewood.
-Early settlers to the area were: David Johnston, William Foster, Adam Garner, John C. Chapman and Jonathan Grist.
-The Homewood Stone Quarry was an important industry.
-An ice house was located at Homewood Reservoir.
-The Homewood Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1869 and Rev. J.W. Claybaugh was the first pastor.
–Charles Hunter was elected as the first burgess.
-The Harmony Streetcar Line was built in the borough during 1914.
Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation > Archives > Beaver County Municipality Facts > Homewood Borough
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Susan Lawrence: The Enigma in the Wright House
Author Bookstand is proud to offer Susan Lawrence: The Enigma in the Wright House by Bookstand Publishing. Bookstand Publishing offers books by the best indie authors throughout North America and the world. Bookstand Publishing is dedicated to offering original content to a broad audience and promoting great authors, literacy, and freedom of expression. Susan Lawrence: The Enigma in the Wright House has generated a lot of interest and excitement and we think it would be an excellent addition to your library.
In 1902 Susan Lawrence commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to "remodel" her deceased father's home in Springfield, Illinois. The project grew and became a blonde Roman brick mansion with 35 rooms on 16 different levels. An anomaly in Springfield, the house is a masterpiece that still stands today as one of Wright's finest Prairie designs. Now called the Dana-Thomas House, it is an Illinois State Historic Site that has been visited by thousands. The woman behind the project, Susan Lawrence, lived during a period in history when women were finding their voices and carving out new places in society. As the world changed around her, she assumed several names and played many roles. She entertained lavishly, traveled the world, championed the rights of women and African-Americans, shared her time and money, and led seekers of spiritual truths. With over 50 images, this book captures Susan Lawrence's complex and independent lifestyle that matched the home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for her -- unconventional and dramatic.
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Elijah: A Man Who Could Make It Rain
The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the sky poured rain, and the earth produced its fruit. (James 5:16-18)
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours. Elijah was a man who could make it rain. The Holy Spirit, through this text, is trying to tell us that, if he can do it, we can do it. We can make it rain. But what does that mean?
Rain is a Type of the Holy Spirit Poured Out
In biblical typology, different liquids typify the Holy Spirit in different aspects:
New wine is a liquid which represents the Holy Spirit in the aspect of worship. Another liquid is oil, which speaks of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. But the living water, in Scripture, is always the Holy Spirit outpoured. The rain, outpoured, goes into the water table and becomes living water.
Jesus explained it this way:
"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.'" But this He spoke of the Spirit whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified (John 7:38-39).
Jesus said directly that living water is the Holy Spirit outpoured.
For I will pour out water on your offspring, and My blessing on your descendants (Isa 44:3).
Once again, it says that God will pour out the water – that is rain – on the dry ground. And He says that this means He will pour out His Spirit. Rain is a figure.
Rain in One City, But No Rain on the Other City
And furthermore, I withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city and on another city I would not send rain; one part would be rained on, while the part not rained on would dry up. (Amos 4:7).
Why is it, for instance, that an evangelist like Reinhard Bonnke can preach in Africa and see thousands and thousands of people saved at a single meeting, but if he goes to Germany or England or Australia, nothing much happens? The answer is here in Amos 4:7. God would send rain on one city, but on another city he would send no rain. And the city without rain would have no harvest.
There is a sovereign work of grace in the outpouring of His Spirit. It is raining in Brazil, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, and much of Africa. But in the Western Protestant countries which have had the Bible for 500 years, there is now a drought. God is turning His grace from the rich countries to the poor ones. White, Protestant Christianity is in numerical, moral, financial, theological and spiritual decline all over the world.
The church is growing in the Roman Catholic countries, the black countries, the olive-skinned countries and the yellow-skinned countries. The Anglican Church has declined massively in England, yet most of the African Anglican Bishops are outspoken evangelicals (Bishop Desmond Tutu being the notable exception). African Anglicans are terribly persecuted by Moslems in Nigeria. Throughout Asia the Anglican Church is very much alive. But in Britain, the Church of England is a dead church. The old time fire that happened in the Sunshine Revival in Australia, the Azusa Street Revival in California and the Sunderland Revivals in England with Smith Wigglesworth – that is what is happening now in places like Ecuador, Chile, the Philippines, Indonesia and Kenya. God will send rain on one city, while the city not rained upon will dry up.
Today we have people teaching formulas for Church Growth. That is nonsense. It doesn't work. There is a missing ingredient – the sovereign grace of God; His Spirit being outpoured.
His Word does not return void. (Is. 55:11) Some people will be saved, one here and one there, but, if you're talking about a massive harvest, no rain means no gain! But Elijah was a man who could make it rain and he was a man with a nature like ours. In other words, if he can do it, we can do it.
For the Sake of the Fathers and for His Name's Sake
I am convinced that God wants to give the Western Protestant democracies one more chance to repent before Jesus comes. God wants to give the Western countries another chance – not for our sake, but for His Name's sake. Not because we deserve it; we don't deserve it – our churches are, by and large, backslidden – but for the sake of our fathers.
As it says in Romans 11, God wants to give the Jews one more chance at the end of the world before Jesus comes. Why? Because when God looks at Israel, He doesn't just see Israel's sin and her ongoing rejection of her Messiah. When God looks at Israel, He still sees Jeremiah in prison. He still sees Isaiah being sawed in half by King Manasseh. He still sees Zachariah being martyred in the Temple. He still sees John the Baptist having his head chopped off. And he says "for the sake of their fathers, I want to give this nation one more chance."
Great Britain is the same. When God looks at Great Britain, He doesn't just see Britain as it is today, a so-called Christian country where Hindu gods are worshipped in Canterbury Cathedral whilst bishops deny the resurrection and the virgin birth. When God looks at Britain today, He sees all of it – past, present and future. He still sees John Bunyan chained to the wall of the Bedford County Jail for twelve years and writing The Pilgrim's Progress; He still sees John Wesley being stoned by mobs who were stirred up by the Church of England for preaching the Gospel; He still sees Tyndale being burned alive at a stake by the Church of Rome so we could have the Bible in English; He still sees Charles Haddon Spurgeon; He still sees Ridley and Latimer and Hooper, martyrs of England. And God says "For the sake of their fathers, and for my Name's sake, I want to give this nation one more chance."
This is equally true of the United States. He still sees Jonathan Edwards and D L Moody and Harry Ironside. He sees the faithful Christians. He doesn't just see what we have today with the Prosperity Preachers – the Mammon worshippers and the heretics.
God wants to give these Western Protestant nations one more chance to repent. But for them to have that chance, it has to rain.
First of all, we have to face up to the fact that we are in a drought. And, until this drought ends, all the programs in the world will not bring about repentance and revival in the church. It takes rain. No rain, no grain. No rain, no harvest. Elijah was a man like us who could make it rain. And today, God is looking for men and women like us, who can make it rain.
Now Elijah the Tishite, who was of the settlers of Glead, said to Ahab "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word." And the word of the LORD came to him, saying "Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith which is east of the Jordan. And it shall be that you shall drink of the brook and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there."
So he did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. And it happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Then the word of the LORD came to him saying "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." So he arose and went to Zarephath and he came to the gate of the city; behold a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink".
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said "Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand." But she said "As the LORD your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die."
Then Elijah said to her "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel 'The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.'"
So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days. The bowl of flour was not exhausted, nor did the jar of oil become empty; according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah. Now it came about, after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. So she said to Elijah "What have I to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance and put my son to death!"
And he said to her "Give me your son." Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed. And he called to the LORD and said "O LORD my God, hast Thou also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am staying, by causing her son to die?" Then he stretched himself upon the child three times, and called to the LORD and said "O LORD my God, I pray Thee, let this child's life return to him." And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned to him and he revived. And Elijah took the child, and brought him down from the upper room into the house and gave him to his mother, and Elijah said "See your son is alive." Then the woman said to Elijah "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth."
Now it came about, after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying "To, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth." So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. (1 Kings 17:1- 18:2) And it came about, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" (1 Kings 18:17)
Then Elijah said to them "Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape." So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. Now Elijah said to Ahab "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower." So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees. And he said to his servant "Go up now, look toward the sea" So he went up and looked and said "There is nothing" And he said "Go back" seven times. And it came about at the seventh time that he said "Behold, a cloud as small as a man's hand is coming up from the sea." And he said "Go up, say to Ahab 'Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you'". So it came about in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. Then the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel. (1 Kings 18:40-46)
And it rained and it rained and it rained.
Some Background Information
The three and a half years in which it did not rain is a type of the three and a half years referred to in Daniel and Revelation, when the Spirit will not be outpoured at the end of the world. It is a type of what happens eschatologicallly, when the spirit of Elijah comes back into operation in some way, as predicted by the prophet Malachi. Similarly, the way that Elijah rescued the Gentile woman and her son teaches something about the way that God is going to use the spirit of Elijah, somehow, to take care of the Gentile church at the end of the world.
Elijah, Elisha and John the Baptist all had the same spirit. The Lord told Moses that He would "take of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon" the elders of the people (Num. 11:17).
When events happen in the same geographical location it usually means that there is some spiritual and theological connection between them. Elijah's ministry ended on the plain of Jericho where Elisha received his mantle (meaning his authority), and John the Baptist's ministry occurred at the same place. The wicked woman, Jezebel, is a type of the woman Jezebel in the Book of Revelation – the spirit of false religion – who turned the king, the political power, into someone she could manipulate. On behalf of Ahab, she obtained Naboth's vineyard, which Ahab coveted. (1 Ki. 21) In scripture the vineyard speaks of Israel and, by extension or incorporation, the Church. The wicked woman tried to get the vineyard for the king. This brought her into conflict with Elijah and she persuaded the king to try to destroy Elijah. This is exactly the picture in the story of Herodias (Matt 14:3- 12) – the wicked woman turned the king against Elijah (John the Baptist).
Wicked women in the Bible all point in some way to the character of the wicked woman in the Book of Revelation where the conflict with Elijah is going to be replayed in the Last Days.
Why Did the Rain Stop?
The first thing in our study of how God takes a man like Elijah and turns him into someone who can make it rain is to learn why the rain stopped. The rain stopped because of the sin of God's people. The Holy Spirit is not being outpoured on the Western Protestant world because of its sin, which is identical to the sin of Israel in the days of Elijah.
Abortion replays the sacrifice of children to demons that we see within Israel and Judah in the Old Testament. The worship of other gods – the priests of Baal were not foreigners, they were Jews. Today it is the same. Across the Western Protestant world there is a dramatic increase of the worship of other gods – Islam, New Age, Hinduism. New Age is permeating many of the Evangelical and Pentecostal churches today. People are mixing Christianity with Paganism – that is where Roman Catholicism came from, and that is what is happening today in many Pentecostal churches.
Materialism - the Church is lukewarm, materialistic, filled with crazy doctrines. It has a version of "faith" that is not biblical – the worship of Mammon in Christian masquerade; covetousness disguised as Christianity.
That is why the rain stopped. The first and foremost responsibility for the decline of Western civilization does not lie with secular society, it lies with us. It was the sin of God's people that stopped the rain. the problems proliferating throughout our society – drugs, abortion, divorce, violence, crime – all testify to the failure of the church. God's people compromised and eventual Israel ended up with the priests of Baal. That is what happened in Elijah's day, and that is what is going on today. It is not raining in our countries, because of the sin of God's people.
The first thing God told Elijah to do, was to go to the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan (1 Kings 17:3), and there the ravens would feed him.
Cherith was on the other side of the Jordan. When God told Elijah to leave his land and go to Cherith, he told him to leave behind his national identity, his cultural identity and his home comforts. On top of that, Elijah was to be fed by ravens. Ravens were not kosher – they were an "unclean" bird. God was going to provide for him in ways he would never have expected.
The drought is so critical in the Western world today, that people who would make it rain will have to be willing to go to Cherith.
Sometimes that will mean churches leaving traditional denominations that have compromised. Sometimes it will mean Christians leaving churches that have compromised, or that have gone into error and refuse to repent. And it will certainly mean trusting God to meet your needs in ways and in places you might not expect, even through things we consider to be almost unholy, like the ravens. Elijah had to be willing to put God first and his land second. So often today, the problem is that people are putting their land first – their culture, their identity, their denominations and their loyalties to those denominations – before obedience to the Word of God.
But the people who will make it rain will be the people who are not afraid to go to Cherith and trust God.
It is darkest before the dawn. Things will become much worse before they get better. The brook of Cherith will eventually dry up.
In verse 9 we see that Elijah has to go to a place called Zarephath. The word "Zarephath" comes from the Hebrew root meaning "to burn or to purify by fire". For God to take somebody with a nature like ours and turn them into somebody who can make it rain, He needs to purify them by fire.
There is going to be a very difficult period – not just trial and testing, not just drought, nor even persecution – but all those things together. It will get to the point where the people you try to help will think you have betrayed them, as with the widow at Zarephath. But no matter how bad things get, no matter how dark it becomes, no matter how critical the drought, I can promise you two things: there will be flour in the dish and oil in the jar for those who are willing to be purified. Things are going to get bad before the breakthrough comes. But there is going to be flour in the dish and oil in the jar. You will have the Word of God and you will have the anointing of the Spirit, no matter what happens. You will have your grain and your oil when the others die from famine.
So she said to Elijah…
"What have I to do with you, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my iniquity to remembrance, and to put my son to death!" (1 Kings 17:18)
Her son died. And she blamed Elijah. The very people you try to help will see the hardship and they will blame you. Things have been so bad for so long that the things we love most will have to die before they can be resurrected.
Much of the church in the Western world will have to die before it can be resurrected. New wine cannot go into old wine skins. (Mk. 2:22) That was one of the problems with the Charismatic Movement – they tried to store the new wine in the old wine skins. In order to renew a church you have to replace the wine skin. The things that we have loved the most will have to die before they can be resurrected.
Troublers of Israel
"Is this you, you troubler of Israel?" (1 Kings 18:17).
Is this you, you troubler of the church? Is this you, you troubler of the Baptist Union? Is this you, you troubler of the Assemblies of God?
You who are standing up against ecumenism and Kingdom Now and Faith-Prosperity and Name-It-and-Claim-It.
You who are standing up against false miracles and bogus healings.
You who are standing up against ministers making themselves rich by exploiting pensioners with lies.
You troublers of Israel!
That is what they said to Elijah and, if you want to make it rain, that is what they are going to say to you.
Next they go to Mount Carmel. Here the conflict occurs with Jezebel – the conflict with the spirit of false religion, with Roman Catholicism, ecumenism, Free Masonary, Islam, homosexuality, abortion and New Age. There is going to be a conflict, and those who win that conflict will be those who have been purified at Zarephath.
So much of what we call "charismatic worship" today – with the noise, the ranting and raving, and the hype – looks more like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel than like Elijah. Notice that the priests of Baal really thought it would work, they thought they would get a response.
Our brethren today, caught up in ecumenism, Kingdom Now theology, Restorationism – all unbiblical, false and dangerous doctrines, all associated with hype and with prophecies that don't happen – actually believe these things. But the conflict will come and the people will see who the true prophets are.
The Rain Cloud
It begins small. It doesn't seem like anything is going to happen at first. Where is it?
With the priests of Baal it was all loud boasting and arrogance and cheering and hype. But God doesn't work that way. It begins small. Like a little hand coming out of the sea. It always begins small. But it gets bigger and soon the whole sky is filled with rain clouds. Lightning strikes and God's Spirit falls. And it rains and rains and rains.
There is no easy way to stop the decline of Christianity in the Western world. It has gone too far for too long. We have been sold down the river by our leaders. All the programs and hype and gimmicks in the world will not bring a harvest of souls. That takes rain. But the rain has stopped. Why? Partly because of the sin of society, but mostly because of the sin of the Church. And until there is repentance in the Church, there is not going to be a repentance in the world.
Why has the rain stopped? It is not primarily the fault of pornographers or pimps or prostitutes or drug dealers or homosexuals or abortionists. It is primarily my fault, because I know the truth and I have the message that can make the difference. It is our fault, because the church in the West is Laodicea (s), because we are trusting in this life and this world more than we are trusting in Jesus. It is not raining because of my sin and your sin.
Those Who Make It Rain
Those who make it rain will be those who are not afraid to go to Cherith – people who are not bound by tradition or institutions.
They won't try to put new wine into old wine skins. They will do what God tells them and trust God to provide for them in ways they don't expect.
They will be people who are not afraid to be purified, people who will go to Zarephath, people who are willing to see things that they love die, knowing that these things will be resurrected in purity. It will be difficult. But no matter how difficult it gets, I promise you that there will be oil in the jar and flour in the dish.
And those people who are purified will go to Carmel and stand in front of Jezebel – in front of false religion and Free Masonry and homosexuality and Roman Catholicism and Islam. They will stand in front of the prophets of Baal – those who dare to call themselves ministers of the Gospel, but who compromise with false teaching.
There will be a conflict. And those troublers of Israel are going to win.
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The Russian Church in a post-Soviet world
(The Economist) - Contrary to some impressions, Russian Orthodoxy is not, or not yet, a political monolith. Nor is it an army marching in perfect obedience to President Vladimir Putin. In some ways, its ranks include more openly expressed diversity than the country's legislature or academic establishment. For example, a leading hierarch has given an all-too-rare reminder of Stalin's "monstrous" crimes, though the church (like Russian society in general) includes plenty of people who are nostalgic for the tyrant. But in the view of one of the faith's most articulate public voices, Sergei Chapnin, things are moving in an ominously monolithic direction. This is how he put it in an interview with the magazine Slon:
The parishioners of the Russian Orthodox church are people of different political views, members of different parties and social movements. They are united in Christ, but to say that they should therefore have a single [political] ideology...that is not part of church tradition. In my opinion, even attempting to create such a [single] ideology is extremely dangerous.
Mr Chapnin knows those dangers. Last week, he was fired from a senior job in the publishing arm of the church, which involved editing the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. The immediate cause of his dismissal was a report he wrote for the Carnegie Moscow Centre, a think-tank, which warned of the increasing influence within the church of militaristic movements which glorified the use of force. As Mr Chapnin explained to Slon, he felt obliged to speak out in part because another prominent figure in the Patriarchate had portrayed Russia's intervention in Syria as a "holy war"; the journalist feared that "we are only half a step away" from describing the conflict in Ukraine in similar terms.
Mr Chapnin, who was born in 1968 and joined the church in 1989, gives a longer-term view of the trends at work in the Russian church in an article for First Things, an American journal. In the time-honoured manner of Russian intellectuals, he offers a dazzingly pessimistic analysis. As he recalls, for the first decade or so after the fall of Soviet Union, a reviving church was struggling honestly to become a counter-cultural force. It was part of an effort to overcome the conformist, herd mentality of the communist era and "de-Sovietise" society. It was trying to draw on the rich spiritual resources of Tsarist Russia, whose final years had seen a powerful renaissance of religious thought. At that time, he writes, "most people were attracted by what the church had preserved: a culture that was Russian and traditional, but non-Soviet."
If this effort had been successful, he suggests, the church could have become a powerful factor in exorcising the Soviet ghost. But almost the opposite happened. Instead of the church de-Sovietising society, the church itself became re-Sovietised, and it began to focus its energies on cultivating relations with an increasingly imperialistic state. He writes: "After 2000, the Russian state abandoned the democratic model for an imperial one. It did so out of a desire to play a larger role in international politics and to overcome, in the eyes of Russians, the humiliation it had suffered with the collapse of the Soviet Union. As the state became more imperial, so did the church."
Is there any reason to qualify his pessimism? In Tsarist times, the church was both authoritarian and diverse. As pastor to a Christian emperor and his army, it was "imperial" in a much more literal sense than the current church is. But the pre-revolutionary church also encompassed many shades of cultural and political opinion, from ultra-traditionalist to progressive. Its ranks ranged from sophisticated urban intellectuals to ascetic monks living in remote places to people who straddled both those worlds. Most of that variety was crushed under the Soviet steamroller, or else exported to Russia's quarrelsome diaspora. The very existence of maverick voices like that of Mr Chapnin is a reminder that today's diversity has not yet been crushed. But if he is right, the steamroller is moving.
Jake December 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM
The problem with this viewpoint is that behind it lies a conception of Church, state, and society that is distinctively "protestant" and of the liberal secularized west. In a word, it is a "reformed" view.
The thing is, Russia (and much of the Slavonic Church - and Greece, etc.) are not "reformed" countries - they never suffered (and our modern society reveals just what a "suffering" it is) a protestant "reformation". The Communist revolution was many things, but is was not a classical "reformation" of Church, state, and society in the protestant pattern.
Thus, the author of this piece is simply projecting his reformed prejudices when he uses terms such as "imperialistic state" and accuses the Russian Church of becoming "re-Sovietised". What he really means is that Russia is not become a nice, liberal democracy and the Russian Church is not taking it's place as a small and insignificant partner in to the modern state and it's project of "progress".
Unless one is already committed ideologically to a modernist "reformed" vision of Church, state, society, and "the future", the article is really nothing more than a bunch of (culturally and historically ignorant) whining and complaining that other people actually have a different way of living. The irony of his complaint of a lack of "diversity" is a shiny cherry on top of this intellectual manure pile...
lannes December 25, 2015 at 1:09 AM
He just idolizes "mavericks".
R Michael Warren December 26, 2015 at 6:22 AM
The Economist is the typical Western liberal journal devoted to wasting ink to define opponents it doesn't understand with whatever disinformation it can contrive to label and assault them. The Economist has declared war on the Russian Orthodox Church.
Since I am Russian Orthodox and understand pretty well the difference between Imperial, Soviet and "democratic" models of the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in society, I should like to share a few observations.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian church was tasked with addressing stagnation, persecution and compromise in its historical presence during the Soviet era. It did so by reassessing what the Church's role was during the Imperial period especially, but also by examining what a disestablished, but de facto, state church could look like in a nation pursuing a Western course in the twenty-first century.
The Truth became apparent in two ways:
1). The Church during the Imperial era was functionally just as enslaved but had its identity and rituals interwoven into notions of civic duty.
2). The Western world had regressed to the point to where its ideal understanding of the Church in society has come to coincide with that of Leninists of yore, ie that the Church and its influence must be done away with - it must be deprived of any influence on the culture and society - and by all means possible relegated to the fringes so that its last aspects can be become topics of museum exhibits. Such Western views buttress themselves by advancing the "progressive" elements in the Church to "modernize," "revise," "renovate" the Church, that its influence progessively nominalizes, Faith becomes intentionally, socially disengaged and banal until it is relativized to the point of "revealing its absurdity" and rejected in an atheist future.
So at this juncture both considerations have been weighed where the inertia is moving toward reestablishment of the state church as a civic institution acting in symphonia intentionally using a Soviet model to unite disparate ethnicities to advance a united view of morality, Truth, religion, spirituality within a reassembling multiethnic state.
The peoples' inertia is significantly resting on the restoration of a Soviet peoples' empire, if you will. So there are elements which are leftovers of both imperial nostalgia, which is only valued for the sake of historical linkage, AS WELL AS the would be liberal modernizers of a Yeltsin era seen by today's Russia as a type of Weimar betrayal of the nation, yet whose value tests in creating a language and mechanism of linkage reconciling Imperial, Soviet, Yeltsin "democratic" Russian Orthodoxy into a Neo Soviet Red Symphonia for a reemerging superpower.
Russian Orthodox do not want Renovationism. They want modern tools and modes of expression for historical linkage to make a state church an effective civic, cultural and religious organism. The Church today has a rallying power it hasn't had for centuries. Its challenge is implementing a model of symphonia for a nation wanting it to emerge as an organ of national unity, strength, definition, reconciliation, spiritual rebirth and social justice. Only a NeoSoviet model can make this happen.
With that stated, in the banderofascist Ukraine, open persecution has been brought upon the Church as a means of ethnic cleansing. Churches are seized by schismatics and renovations with slogans of derussification and ukrainization, brutally, oppressively. If they cannot be seized, the courts and state are actively engaging to invalidate deeds, close churches and/or turn blind eyes to violence, corruption, coercion, vandalism, illegal taxation and "protection rackets." Just today in the Rovno oblast a parish loyal to the canonical Church is undergoing a siege where far right Banderofascist paramilitaries are surrounding the building to seize it for a schismatic group or destroy it. They have hospitalized several parishoners by beating them within an inch of their lives. They have threatened the Priest and his family. They have tried to set ablaze the temple with the parishoners in it. The authorities have told the NeoNAZI banderists that it is bad press to burn the people to death so they must not but they, the lawful authorities, will acting with organs of Ukrainian ethnic hygiene "to facillitate a peaceful transfer" of ownership of the parish by forcing the parishoners to obtain hostage replacements if they wish to maintain control of the parish. The banderofascist government is seeking ways to seize historical churches and institutions from the canonical Church either by contesting deeds or rewriting the tax code or by simple eviction. Both the Pochaev and Kiev Caves Lavras are in the crosshairs. The state has begun to pressure the Church into ecumenist compromises and Renovationist modernization with yesterday being used to state that a Ukrainian state must have institutions which celebrate holidays with the West and on the Gregorian calendar. Such is the state of banderofascist, Uniate persecution of the canonical Church founded by St. Vladimir in 988 AD in the city of Kiev.
Western outlets and "willing accomplices" in Russia have in turn began a campaign to turn a blind eye to what the fascist, colonial regime is doing in the Ukraine by spreading articles like this which are fiction, written by people out of the loop and hopelessly lost in understanding what is going on. Disinformation disseminated to spark strife, enmity and infighting in Russian Orthodox circles as well as delegitimizing the image of Russian Orthodoxy in the West.
The second prong in the attack has been broadcasting agitprop to sensationalize such things as patriarchal yachts and posh, episcopal residences to invite class war between believers and the hierarchy of the Church. Information is often from murky sources, does not report popular work toward social justice and ignores hierarchs and other clerics who do not surround themselves with opulence but rather share the hardships of the people.
The sources presenting this information notoriously never report the excesses of Western supported religious groups within Russia and the successor states, and they never curiously look into the luxury excesses of the pope or the Dalai Lama.
But the intent here is to act as a cover for colonial backed banderofascist, Uniate persecution and ethnic cleansing of the Russian Orthodox church. Propaganda like this article hpping to steer public opinion to animus with the hopes of creating a civil war in Russian Orthodoxy.
This hit piece is a classic Western intelligence agency attempt at diversion, deflection, agitprop and destabilization. Any time "democratic elements" or "emigre voices" are cited as authorities to showcase the failures of Russian Orthodoxy beware. Such authorities are disconnected from the reality on the ground and often simply superimposing their ideological templates to intentionally disparage what they personally don't like for money given them by Western institutions opposed to the reestablishment of the Russian Orthodox state church.
Alex Uram December 26, 2015 at 3:44 PM
Thank you for continuing to expose the truth and not these western and Russophobic lies.
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Young Player of the Season 2019
Sam Reach is chosen as Young Player of the Season
This is the first season we have had a Young Player of the Season award up for grabs, it was introduced to combat the declining numbers of young players at and joining the club, in 2017/2018 we had only four players aged 23 or under that made more than six appearances. This season we had 13 players make ten more appearances and a further six play less. So clearly we had a few choices for Young Player of the Season. At the forefront of our consideration were Josh Bolton, who would collect Daryl�s Manager�s Player of the Season for the Reserves along with two players who collected awards last season, Max Juster and George Godlbold.
An honourable mention should go to Freddie Ward who joined in the New Year and proved excellent at centre back for the Reserves. He picked up three Man of the Match awards in 12 matches, including the first on his debut. Had he joined at the start of the season we felt he would have been in the running for any of the end of season awards.
But the inaugural winner of the Young Player of the Season is ironically almost the oldest player eligible. Sam Reach returned for his second spell with the club at the beginning of this season to replace the side-stepping Miles Berry, who had very bravely replaced Steve Zebedee at the end of 2016/2017. Sam played 25 times this season, 17 for the Reserves, and he was happy to cover the First Team whenever needed. His willingness to step-up meant that he played eight games for the First Team and for the whole season they never went without one of the club�s specialist goalkeepers in their squad.
Sam became a bit of a penalty hero this season. He made a penalty save against Westbourne Warriors as the Reserves were kept in the game in the Junior Cup Quarter-Final. In the round before he had kept out all three penalty kicks by Kesgrave Kestrels during the shoot-out.
Sam kept two clean sheets, one for each team. In addition, he was voted as Man of the Match twice, once for each team.
I think we should sum up with Daryl�s reaction when Rich and I suggested Sam for the award, 100% agree with that, [he has] been outstanding this season.
23/07/2018 Playford launch Young Player award for this season
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Life scienceHome > Industry > Life science
Pharmacy & Life Science
Each year, Clead Corporation provides an overview of trends and innovations in the life science industry, encompassing its drugs, biologics, devices and diagnostics sectors. Utilizing a number of in-depth, premium research reports available in the industry, Clead Corporation’s Life Science Trends summarizes and presents a variety of the most up-to-date industry news under several macro headers: Research and Innovation, Fundamental Trends, Investing and Deal Making, Regulatory & Government, and Health Care. The result is a meaningful, “quick-read” newsletter into which our clients, partners and constituents can dig deeper based on their individual interests.
Outlook for Biopharma Industry Optimistic
Although 2010 was a better year for the biopharmaceutical industry than 2009, over the past two years the industry has lost nearly 100 public companies, and tens of thousands of employees. But reason for optimism exists:
√ There was a year-over-year increase in IPOs, as well as a steady stream of venture capital funding.
√ Biopharma supported passage of the health care reform law, which includes a provision for the creation of a regulatory pathway for biosimilars and the Therapeutic Discovery Project Program.
√ The FDA concluded its hearings on AquaBounty Technologies’ biotech salmon meant for human consumption, which if approved would be the first food product from a genetically engineered animal. An FDA analysis of the product found that it was as safe for humans and the environment as its natural counterpart.
√ Industrial and environmental biotech companies are closely watching the legislative debate surrounding investment for alternative fuels. Aside from ethanol subsidies, these firms are hoping for an extension of the infrastructure credit for alternative fuels and want Congress to broaden the scope of the producer’s credit for cellulosic-ethanol to include algae and other emerging feedstocks.
Venture Funding
Opinions on life science investing in 2011 are split closely in the medical device and biotechnology sectors. 330 VCs are almost equally divided as to whether investment in biotechnology and medical devices will increase, decrease, or stay the same.
Reflecting increased optimism, 75% percent of all respondents expect venture investment dollar levels to remain the same or increase from 2010 versus 63% in 2009. Of note, 44% of VC’s say the number of investments they will make into new (vs. follow-on) companies will increase.
Optimism is also more prevalent across stage of development with 51% of the VCs predicting increases in later-stage investment, 49% in expansion and seed investment, and 46% in early-stage investment.
More exits are on the horizon with two-thirds of VCs anticipating more venture-backed companies going public while 81% of VCs expect more acquisitions in 2011. More than half expect IPO and acquisition quality to improve or remain steady in the coming year.
Incremental improvements are no longer enough; the industry will need to make a seismic shift to facilitate further progress in the treatment of disease. It will have to learn much more about how the human body functions at the molecular level and the pathophysiological changes disease causes. This is a huge undertaking – and one that pharma cannot complete alone. It will require the support of academia, governments, technology vendors, health care providers and the regulators.
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The Vision of Transformation Requires Action, Not Just Words
By Tom Murphy
Around the world, CIOs preach the benefits of transformation as choirs of business executives back them up. This change will yield faster app development. It will improve customer service. It will tap into the swelling river of data. It will build a competitive advantage. And, most of all, it will widen the profit margin.
Amen. The capabilities of hybrid IT and other cloud-enabled technology strategies have been clearly documented. When the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network surveyed senior business executives around the world a few months ago, 92 percent said they were making progress in adopting technologies that would increase agility (70%), enhance cost efficiencies (57%) and speed development of innovative new applications (47%).
Yet in a just-completed survey, frontline IT workers – the very people who would make all that happen –said their companies are failing or near failing in their efforts to transform their organizations into response-able corporations. The full BPI report, including data, analysis and comments from executives, is available free at: http://reinventdatacenters.com/frontline-IT-report
The findings show a stunning contrast between the promise of new technologies and the reality of what’s happening in the trenches of companies around the world:
Only 15 percent said they had a clear and detailed IT roadmap. Another 83 percent said their plans don’t exist, need updating or provide only general guidance.
70 percent said they haven’t even begun or were just starting efforts to add new technologies.
Just 18 percent said they meet in cross-functional teams with business counterparts, and 43 percent reported serious communication problems with business-oriented colleagues.
Almost half said they lack the funding to make changes, and 48 percent said weak financial support is throttling innovation in their enterprise.
There were many other signs that things are going badly. Asked their three greatest weaknesses, the IT workers cited long-term planning (47%), application development (37%) and – in a tie – software engineering and data analysis (34%). Those four elements constitute the very essence of transformation. It’s no wonder that just 35 percent of the respondents rated their company’s ability to transform as good (26%) or very good (9%).
The flip side is just as intriguing. There’s a minority of companies that seem to be doing everything right. More than a quarter of the frontline IT professionals said new technological infrastructures were well on the way (21%) or already up and running (7%). This may help explain why executives surveyed a few months earlier said their competitors were already using transformative technologies to offer more choice, convenience and accessibility (45%) or to widen margins (34%).
All this points to a new division between leaders and laggards, those who have mastered these new technologies and those who haven’t even begun to make changes that will keep them in the game. Those who fall behind may be there a long time as leaders add to their knowledge and use of evolving enterprise tools in a way that extends their lead.
The BPI report explains what the laggards must do to catch up, citing examples that have helped some of the leaders get to where they are. In the end, however, it will be up to C-level executives to stop talking about what they want to do and start actively leading the transformations in their companies.
Tom Murphy is the Editorial Director for the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network.
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2012 MLB Season Preview: AL Central
Two Weeks until Opening Day! Here's the AL Central 2012 Preview:
2012 Bro Council AL Central Preview
The White Sox are the destination of big names now possibly past their prime, or trying to regain past success. Gone are stars Mark Buehrle and Carlos Quentin. There is one great player in Paul Konerko (.300, 31 homers, 105 RBI). 2B Gordon Beckham is a former top pick that has struggled mightily the last few years, Adam Dunn had the worst statistical season in MLB history: .159 average, 11 homers, 177 strikeouts and a .569 OPS in 122 games. Former Blue Jay Alex Rios is here, after a .227 average, his career is a roller coaster of modest success and crushing failure.
In the rotation is former NL Cy Young Winner Jake Peavy, who has struggled during his time with the White Sox. For a team filled with big names there really isn't much hope on the South Side of Chicago. Each player needs to return to where they used to be in order for the White Sox to have any success this year, and it's not very likely. Maybe next year White Sox fans.
Prospect to watch: SP Nestor Molina. Molina is the top pitching prospect in the organization, acquired over the offseason from the Blue Jays. He hasn't played above AA, but has the ability to get to the Majors this year.
The Indians got off to a hot start last year, and were in first place at the All Star Break, only to suffer a summer swoon and finish the season under .500 at 80-82. The Indians have some talent, and there are quite a few good players on the team. C Carlos Santana had 27 homeruns last year, SS Asdrubal Cabrera drove in 92 runs, and new addition Casey Kotchman hit .306 last year for the Rays. They aren't the best team in the division but they are near the top.
The rotation took a bit of a hit over the offseason as one of their better pitchers, Fausto Carmona, revealed that he was not 28, but 31 and his real name is Roberto Heredia. The rest of the rotation joins former Brave Derek Lowe with Justin Masterson, Josh Tomlin, Carlos Carrasco and Ubaldo Jimenez, who was acquired at the trade deadline from the Rockies. Jimenez struggled last season, but the Indians are banking on him returning to his 2010 season in which he won 19 games, struck out 214 batter with a 2.88 ERA.
Prospect to watch: SP Zach McAllister. Most of the top prospects have been dealt away the past few years, but McAllister had a good year at AAA last year and could break into the rotation later this year.
The Tigers are stacked from top to bottom this year, following a year in which they won 95 games, had the Cy Young winner and MVP (Both were SP Justin Verlander). The team added Prince Fielder and his 38 home runs to Miguel Cabrera, Alex Avila, Jhonny Peralta, Delmon Young, Austin Jackson and more...all great players. Cabrera hit .344 with 30 homers last year without protection in the lineup. This team is incredible from top to bottom, and we haven't even looked at the pitchers.
Verlander is the class, and the best pitcher in the game right now. He is joined by first round picks Jacob Turner, Rick Porcello and Max Scherzer. The fifth pitcher in the rotation, Doug Fister was acquired from Seattle during the season and turned in a spectacular 8-1 record with a 1.79 ERA in 10 starts after he was acquired. The Tigers are head and shoulders above every team in the division, there's no contest.
Prospect to watch: 3B Nick Castellanos. Castellanos is a few years away from the Majors, but he's not really needed. He just turned 20 and should be in High-A this year, but he'll be a welcome addition in a few years.
The Royals are the Pittsburgh Pirates of the American League, just a year or two ahead of them. They have a great number of extremely talented, young players and are very close to breaking out into a great team. Their lineup boasts 5 former first round picks in 1B Billy Butler, 1B Eric Hosmer, 3B Mike Moustakas, OF Alex Gordon and OF Jeff Francoeur.
The pitching has former first round picks Aaron Crow and Luke Hochevar as well as Danny Duffy who was one of their top pitching prospects last year. The Royals have an extremely bright future, with even more prospects on their way up in the coming years.
Prospect to watch: OF Wil Myers. Myers was drafted as a catcher, but is one of the top outfield prospects. Myers is a year away from the team, but will be another great addition when he shows up.
The Twins were one of the worst teams in the league last year, and it wont get much better this year. A slight improvement could arise if former MVP's Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau return to where they previously were. The team added former Pirates C Ryan Doumit and former Athletic OF Josh Willingham, which gives them an improved offense.
The pitching staff could be good this year, or they could fall flat. Scott Baker had a 3.14 ERA last year, Jason Marquis had a 3.95 EAR with Washington, but the ace of the staff Francisco Liriano had a down year last season, and has seemed to have alternating good and bad seasons each of the past 4 years, so he could be on the way up this year.
Prospect to watch: OF Joe Benson. Benson spent last year at AA, hitting .285 with 16 homers.
Next week is the AL West and then we'll have the predictions for the season!
Be sure to check out the AL East preview here, the NL East preview here, the NL Central preview here, and the NL West preview here.
Charlie is a sports expert, and the Sr. Vice President and Co-Owner of the Texas Revolution.
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Home → Jurisdiction → United Arab Emirates → Economy
Economy of United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates is considered to be a developing nation. The developmental stage of a nation is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, economic prosperity, life expectancy, income equality, and quality of life. As a developing nation, United Arab Emirates may not be able to offer consistent social services to its citizens. These social services may include things like public education, reliable healthcare, and law enforcement. Citizens of developing nations may have lower life expectancies than citizens of developed nations. Each year, United Arab Emirates exports around $368.9 billion and imports roughly $249.6 billion. 1.7% of population in the country are unemployed. The total number of unemployed people in United Arab Emirates is 162,207. In United Arab Emirates, 19.5% of the population lives below the poverty line. The percentage of citizens living below the poverty line in United Arab Emirates is fairly high, but is not reason for complete concern with regard to investments. Potential financial backers should look at other economic markers, including GDP, urbanization rate, and strength of currency, before making any decisions regarding investments. Government expenditure on education is 1.2% of GDP. The Gini Index of the country is 31. United Arab Emirates is experiencing good equality. The majority of citizens in United Arab Emirates fall within a narrow range of income, although some cases may show significant differences. United Arab Emirates has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.827. United Arab Emirates has a high HDI score. This indicates that the majority of citizens will be able to attain a desirable life while providing substantial aid and assistance to citizens with lower living standards. The Global Peace Index (GPI) for United Arab Emirates is 1.805. Due to strong law enforcement presence and high social responsibility, United Arab Emirates is very safe by international standards. The strength of legal rights index for United Arab Emirates is 2. Overall, it is considered to be rather weak - bankrupcy and collateral laws are unable to protect the rights of borrowers and lenders in case of credit-related complications; credit information, if any at all, is scarce and hardly accessible.
The currency of United Arab Emirates is United Arab Emirates dirham. The plural form of the word United Arab Emirates dirham is dirhams. The symbol used for this currency is د.إ, and it is abbreviated as AED. The United Arab Emirates dirham is divided into Fils; there are 100 in one dirham.
The depth of credit information index for United Arab Emirates is 7, which means that information is mostly sufficient and quite detailed; accessibility is not a problem. According to the Moody's credit-rating agency, United Arab Emirates has a credit rating score of Aa2, and the prospects of this rating are stable.
In United Arab Emirates, the institution that manages the state's currency, money supply, and interest rates is called Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates. Locally, the central bank of United Arab Emirates is called مصرف الإمارات العربية المتحدة المركزي. The average deposit interest rate offered by local banks in United Arab Emirates is 3.6%.
Public debt
United Arab Emirates has a government debt of 43.3% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as assessed in 2012.
The corporate tax in United Arab Emirates is set at 0%. Personal income tax ranges from 0% to 0%, depending on your specific situation and income level. VAT in United Arab Emirates is 0%.
The total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) assessed as Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in United Arab Emirates is $617138 billion. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) assessed as Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) per capita in United Arab Emirates was last recorded at $65 million. PPP in United Arab Emirates is considered to be below average when compared to other countries. Below average PPP indicates that citizens in this country find it difficult to purchase local goods. Local goods can include food, shelter, clothing, health care, personal care, essential furnishings, transportation and communication, laundry, and various types of insurance. Countries with below average PPP are dangerous locations for investments. The total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in United Arab Emirates is 402,340 billion. Based on this statistic, United Arab Emirates is considered to have a large economy. Countries with large economies support a wide variety of industries and businesses, providing ample opportunities for investment. Large economies support a substantial financial sector, making it easy to organize investments and financial transactions. It should be very easy to find good opportunities for investment in United Arab Emirates. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in United Arab Emirates was last recorded at $42 million. The average citizen in United Arab Emirates has very low wealth. Countries with very low wealth per capita often have lower life expectancies and dramatically lower quality of living among citizens. It can be very difficult to find highly skilled workers in countries with very low wealth, as it is difficult for citizens to obtain the requisite education needed for specialized industries. However, labor can be found for very low rates when compared with countries with higher wealth per capita. GDP Annual Growth Rate in United Arab Emirates averaged 4.3% in 2014. According to this percentage, United Arab Emirates is currently experiencing significant growth. Countries that are experiencing significant growth offer the best chance for a substantial return on investment, as GDP growth rate is the most important indicator of economic health. As GDP grows, business, jobs, and personal income grow as well. To read more about financial information click on finances of United Arab Emirates.
Major industries in the country are petroleum and petrochemicals, fishing, aluminum, cement, fertilizers, commercial ship repair, construction materials, handicrafts, textiles. The total labor force of United Arab Emirates is 6,447,190 people, wherein 1.7% of population in the country are unemployed. The total number of unemployed people in United Arab Emirates is 162,207. The Industrial Production growth rate of United Arab Emirates is 3.3%.To read more about industrial information within United Arab Emirates click on industry of United Arab Emirates.
There are 644 km2 of arable land in United Arab Emirates, and it comprises 1% of the country's total territory. There are 2542 km2 of cultivated land in United Arab Emirates. The country's major agricultural crops and products are dates, vegetables, watermelons, poultry, eggs, dairy products, fish.To read more about agriculture click on agriculture of United Arab Emirates.
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New Studies Question Safety of Diabetes Drug Avandia
By Alice Park Monday, June 28, 2010
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New studies link the diabetes drug Avandia to heart disease risk.
Why Drugs Don't Help Diabetes Patients' Hearts
The bad news keeps coming for patients taking the controversial diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone). Two new studies released Monday, June 28, confirm earlier data linking the drug to a higher risk of heart disease in diabetes patients.
One analysis found that elderly patients taking Avandia, which is made by GlaxoSmithKline, had an 18% higher combined risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure or death from any cause than those taking Actos (pioglitazone), a competing drug made by Takeda Pharmaceuticals. A second study reported a 28% increased risk of heart attack among patients taking Avandia, compared with those taking either placebos or other diabetes drugs.
(See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2009.)
The studies were released ahead of publication by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the Archives of Internal Medicine because of their relevance to an upcoming Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting on July 13-14 at which experts will review safety data on Avandia and discuss regulatory action.
Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and the author of one of the new studies, has long studied the heart risks of the drug. Based on the latest analysis, he believes the drug should be withdrawn from the market since the Type 2 diabetes patients who rely on Avandia are already at high risk for heart attack and heart-related death.
GlaxoSmithKline maintains that its drug is safe and notes in a statement that data from six recent controlled clinical trials "show that Avandia does not increase the overall risk of heart attack, stroke or death."
Nissen was one of the earliest and most vocal critics of Avandia, publishing the first study, in May 2007, to describe the higher heart risks among Avandia users and helping launch a congressional investigation into the drug's safety and its approval and monitoring process at the FDA.
(See a quick guide to the FDA.)
Because of those efforts, in June 2007 the FDA required GlaxoSmithKline to place a black-box label the strictest safety warning the agency utilizes on Avandia to alert consumers of its heart risks. (The same warning was required of Actos, which belongs to the same class of drugs.) With the warning in place, that July an FDA advisory panel reviewed Avandia's safety and voted overwhelmingly to recommend that the agency keep the drug on the market, despite its risks.
Since then, however, several major studies (including another by Nissen) have confirmed Avandia's heart risks or shown Actos to be significantly safer. Once a $3-billion-a-year drug, Avandia has seen its sales begin to decline, in part because some doctors and patients have started to question its safety.
Now two new studies further assail the troubled drug. The JAMA analysis, led by Dr. David Graham, a drug-safety officer at the FDA, included more than 227,000 diabetes patients age 65 or older who were enrolled in Medicare between July 2006 and June 2009 and were followed for three years. The study compared the risks of taking Avandia to those of taking Actos; both drugs, used primarily to treat Type 2 diabetes, increase the body's ability to respond to insulin, which helps keep blood-sugar levels in check.
See how to prevent illness at any age.
See "The Year in Health 2009: From A to Z."
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Physics And Astronomy (7)
European Astronomical Society Publications Series (7)
Development of Motorized Slewing Mirror Stage for the UFFO Project
J. Nam, the UFFO Collaboration, K.B. Ahn, M. Cho, S. Jeong, J.E. Kim, S. Ahmad, P. Barrillon, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A.J. Castro-Tirado, C.-H. Chang, C.-Y. Chang, Y.Y. Chang, C.R. Chen, P. Chen, H.S. Choi, Y.J. Choi, P. Connel, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. Eyles, B. Grossan, J.J. Huang, M.-H.A. Huang Huang, A. Jung, M.B. Kim, S.-W. Kim, Y.W. Kim, A.S. Krasnov, J. Lee, H. Lim, E.V. Linder, T.-C. Liu, N. Lund, K.W. Min, G.W. Na, M.I. Panasyuk, I.H. Park, V. Reglero, J. Ripa, J.M. Rodrigo, G.F. Smoot, J.E. Suh, S. Svertilov, N. Vedenkin, M.-Z. Wang, I. Yashin
Journal: European Astronomical Society Publications Series / Volume 61 / 2013
Print publication: 2013
The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) is a space observatory for optical follow-ups of gamma ray bursts (GRBs), aiming to explore the first 60 seconds of GRBs optical emission. UFFO is utilized to catch early optical emissions from GRBs within few sec after trigger using a Gimbal mirror which redirects the optical path rather than slewing entire spacecraft. We have developed a 15 cm two-axis Gimbal mirror stage for the UFFO-Pathfinder which is going to be on board the Lomonosov satellite which is to be launched in 2013. The stage is designed for fast and accurate motion with given budgets of 3 kg of mass and 3 Watt of power. By employing stepping motors, the slewing mirror can rotate faster than 15 deg/sec so that objects in the UFFO coverage (60 deg × 60 deg) can be targeted in ~1 sec. The obtained targeting resolution is better 2 arcmin using a close-loop control with high precision rotary encoder. In this presentation, we will discuss details of design, manufacturing, space qualification tests, as well as performance tests.
The Calibration and Simulation of the GRB trigger detector of the Ultra Fast Flash Observatory
M.-H.A. Huang, S. Ahmad, P. Barrillon, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A.J. Castro-Tirado, S.-H. Chang, Y.-Y. Chang, C.R. Chen, P. Chen, H.S. Choi, Y.J. Choi, P. Connell, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. Eyles, B. Grossan, J.J. Huang, S. Jeong, A. Jung, J.-E. Kim, M.-B. Kim, S.-W. Kim, Y.-W. Kim, A.S. Krasnov, J. Lee, H. Lim, C.-Y. Lin, E.V. Linder, T.-C. Liu, N. Lund, K.W. Min, G.-W. Na, J.-W. Nam, M.I. Panasyuk, I.H. Park, V. Reglero, J. Řípa, J.M. Rodrigo, G.F. Smoot, J.-E. Suh, S. Svertilov, N. Vedenkin, M.-Z. Wang, I. Yashin
The UFFO (Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory) is a GRB detector on board the Lomonosov satellite, to be launched in 2013. The GRB trigger is provided by an X-ray detector, called UBAT (UFFO Burst Alarm & Trigger Telescope), which detects X-rays from the GRB and then triggers to determine the direction of the GRB and then alerts the Slewing Mirror Telescope (SMT) to turn in the direction of the GRB and record the optical photon fluxes. This report details the calibration of the two components: the MAPMTs and the YSO crystals and simulations of the UBAT. The results shows that this design can observe a GRB within a field of view of ±35° and can trigger in a time scale as short as 0.2 – 1.0 s after the appearance of a GRB X-ray spike.
The Slewing Mirror Telescope and the Data-Acquisition System for the UFFO-Pathfinder
H. Lim, S. Ahmad, P. Barrillon, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A.J. Castro-Tirado, P. Chen, Y.J. Choi, P. Connell, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. Eyles, B. Grossan, M.-H.A. Huang Huang, A. Jung, S. Jeong, J.E. Kim, M.B. Kim, S.-W. Kim, Y.W. Kim, A.S. Krasnov, J. Lee, E.V. Linder, T.-C. Liu, N. Lund, K.W. Min, G.W. Na, J.W. Nam, M.I. Panasyuk, I.H. Park, J. Ripa, V. Reglero, J.M. Rodrigo, G.F. Smoot, J.E. Suh, S. Svertilov, N. Vedenkin, M.-Z. Wang, I. Yashin
The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) aims to detect the earliest moment of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) which is not well known, resulting into the enhancement of GRB mechanism understanding. The pathfinder mission was proposed to be a scaled-down version of UFFO, and only contains the UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope (UBAT) measuring the X-ray/gamma-ray with the wide-field of view and the Slewing Mirror Telescope (SMT) with a rapid-response for the UV/optical photons. Once the UBAT detects a GRB candidate with the position accuracy of 10 arcmin, the SMT steers the UV/optical photons from the candidate to the telescope by the fast rotatable mirror and provides the early UV/optical photons measurements with 4 arcsec accuracy. The SMT has a modified Ritchey-Chrètien telescope with the aperture size of 10 cm diameter including the rotatable mirror and the image readout by the intensified charge-coupled device. There is a key board called the UFFO Data Acquisition system (UDAQ) that manages the communication of each telescope and also of the satellite and the UFFO overall operation. This pathfinder is designed and built within the limited size and weight of ~20 kg and the low power consumption up to ~30 W. We will discuss the design and performance of the UFFO-pathfinder, and its integration to the Lomonosov satellite.
Design, Construction and Performance of the Detector for UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope
J. Lee, S. Jeong, J.E. Kim, Y.W. Kim, G.W. Na, J.E. Suh, M. Kim, H. Lim, I.H. Park, J. Ripa, J.N. Choi, S.-W. Kim, Y.J. Choi, K.W. Min, P. Chen, J.J. Huang, T.-C. Liu, J.W. Nam, M.-Z. Wang, M.-H.A. Huang, P. Connell, C. Eyles, V. Reglero, J.M. Rodrigo, A.J. Castro-Tirado
One of the key aspects of the upcoming Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) pathfinder for Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) identification is the UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope (UBAT). The scientific propose of UBAT is to detect and locate as fast as possible the GRBs in the sky. This is achieved by using a coded mask aperture camera scheme with a wide field of view (FOV) and selecting a X-ray detector of high quantum efficiency and large detection area. This X-ray detector of high quantum efficiency and large detection area is called the UBAT detector. The UBAT detector consists of 48 × 48 Yttrium Oxyorthosilicate (YSO) scintillator crystal arrays and Multi Anode Photomultiplier Tubes (MAPMTs), analog electronics equipped with ASIC chips, digital electronics equipped with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips, and a mechanical structure that supports all components of the UBAT detector. The total number of the pixels in the UBAT detector is 2304, and the total effective detection area is 191 cm2. We will present the design and construction, and performance of the UBAT detector including the responses of the UBAT detector to X-ray sources.
Design and implementation of electronics and data acquisition system for Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory
A. Jung, S. Ahmad, P. Barrillon, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A.J. Castro-Tirado, S.-H. Chang, Y.-Y. Chang, C.R. Chen, P. Chen, H.S. Choi, Y.J. Choi, P. Connell, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. Eyles, B. Grossan, J.J. Huang, M.-H.A. Huang, S. Jeong, J.E. Kim, M. Kim, S.-W. Kim, Y.W. Kim, A.S. Krasnov, J. Lee, H. Lim, C.-Y. Lin, E.V. Linder, T.-C. Liu, N. Lund, J.W. Nam, K.W. Min, G.W. Na, M.I. Panasyuk, I.H. Park, V. Reglero, J. Ripa, J.M. Rodrigo, G. F. Smoot, J.E. Suh, S. Svertilov, N. Vedenkin, M.-Z. Wang, I. Yashin, on behalf of the UFFO collaboration
The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) Pathfinder for Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) consists of two telescopes. The UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope (UBAT) handles the detection and localization of GRBs, and the Slewing Mirror Telescope (SMT) conducts the measurement of the UV/optical afterglow. UBAT is equipped with an X-ray detector, analog and digital signal readout electronics that detects X-rays from GRBs and determines the location. SMT is equipped with a stepping motor and the associated electronics to rotate the slewing mirror targeting the GRBs identified by UBAT. First the slewing mirror points to a GRB, then SMT obtains the optical image of the GRB using the intensified CCD and its readout electronics. The UFFO Data Acquisition system (UDAQ) is responsible for the overall function and operation of the observatory and the communication with the satellite main processor. In this paper we present the design and implementation of the electronics of UBAT and SMT as well as the architecture and implementation of UDAQ.
In-Flight Calibrations of UFFO-Pathfinder
J. Řípa, S. Ahmad, P. Barrillon, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A.J. Castro-Tirado, S.-H. Chang, Y.-Y. Chang, C.R. Chen, P. Chen, H.S. Choi, Y.J. Choi, P. Connell, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. Eyles, B. Grossan, J.J. Huang, M.-H.A. Huang, S. Jeong, A. Jung, J.-E. Kim, M.-B. Kim, S.-W. Kim, Y.-W. Kim, A.S. Krasnov, J. Lee, H. Lim, C.-Y. Lin, E.V. Linder, T.-C. Liu, N. Lund, K.W. Min, G.-W. Na, J.-W. Nam, M.I. Panasyuk, I.H. Park, V. Reglero, J.M. Rodrigo, G.F. Smoot, J.-E. Suh, S. Svertilov, N. Vedenkin, M.-Z. Wang, I. Yashin, the UFFO collaboration
The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO), which will be launched onboard the Lomonosov spacecraft, contains two crucial instruments: UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope (UBAT) for detection and localization of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and the fast-response Slewing Mirror Telescope (SMT) designed for the observation of the prompt optical/UV counterparts. Here we discuss the in-space calibrations of the UBAT detector and SMT telescope. After the launch, the observations of the standard X-ray sources such as pulsar in Crab nebula will provide data for necessary calibrations of UBAT. Several standard stars will be used for the photometric calibration of SMT. The celestial X-ray sources, e.g. X-ray binaries with bright optical sources in their close angular vicinity will serve for the cross-calibration of UBAT and SMT.
Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory: Fast Response Space Missions for Early Time Phase of Gamma Ray Bursts
I.H. Park, S. Ahmad, P. Barrillon, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A.J. Castro-Tirado, P. Chen, J.N. Choi, Y.J. Choi, P. Connell, S. Dagoret-Campagne, C. Eyles, B. Grossan, M.-H.A. Huang Huang, A. Jung, S. Jeong, J.E. Kim, M.B. Kim, S.-W. Kim, Y.W. Kim, A.S. Krasnov, J. Lee, H. Lim, E.V. Linder, T.-C. Liu, K.W. Min, G.W. Na, J.W. Nam, M.I. Panasyuk, H.W. Park, J. Ripa, V. Reglero, J.M. Rodrigo, G.F. Smoot, S. Svertilov, N. Vedenkin, M.-Z. Wang, I. Yashin
One of the unexplored domains in the study of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is the early time phase of the optical light curve. We have proposed Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) to address this question through extraordinary opportunities presented by a series of small space missions. The UFFO is equipped with a fast-response Slewing Mirror Telescope that uses a rapidly moving mirror or mirror array to redirect the optical beam rather than slewing the entire spacecraft or telescope to aim the optical instrument at the GRB position. The UFFO will probe the early optical rise of GRBs with sub-second response, for the first time, opening a completely new frontier in GRB and transient studies. Its fast response measurements of the optical emission of dozens of GRB each year will provide unique probes of the burst mechanism and test the prospect of GRB as a new standard candle, potentially opening up the z > 10 universe. We describe the current limit in early photon measurements, the aspects of early photon physics, our soon-to-be-launched UFFO-pathfinder mission, and our next planned mission, the UFFO-100.
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OU Institute Awarded $3.9 Million Grant
By Jana Smith
The University of Oklahoma Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing is the recipient of a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust to advance the “Self, Virtue and Public Life Project.” The grant will provide funding for new research projects, conferences, edited volumes and community outreach activities. The project is set to begin September 1, 2018, and conclude on August 31, 2021.
“The Institute is truly grateful to the Templeton Religion Trust for its support of this important project,” said Nancy Snow, director of the institute.
The research will include approximately 10 new research projects at $190,000 each; two conferences for grant awardees to present their work; two edited volumes in “the Virtues” series; two conferences for volume contributors to share ideas and interact; two volumes authored by Snow; and four postdoctoral students who will produce articles and share at conferences.
Community outreach activities funded by this grant include the “Civic Virtues Project,” which will integrate and study the effects of civic virtues education in courses taught at Norman High School, Norman North High School and Irving Middle School. A “Teachers’ Guide to Civic Virtue: Civility, Compassion and Fairness,” will be produced and made available on the project website.
Six two-day workshops in a series entitled, “Beyond Tolerance: Civic Virtues in Nonprofit Leadership,” is planned in collaboration with the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, an organization that reaches 240 nonprofit leaders throughout the state of Oklahoma.
A high-profile speakers’ series entitled, “Faith and Civic Virtue in Public Life,” will include three speakers who will visit the OU campus to discuss the topic. Audiences impacted are academics and teachers, students, nonprofit leaders and the general public.
The Institute seeks to promote awareness and appreciation of the need for civic virtue in public life and to integrate discourse on the civic virtues into the vocabulary of Oklahomans.
For more information on this project, contact Nancy Snow, director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing, at nsnow@ou.edu.
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Grand Theft Auto V Has Nearly Sold 100 Million Units, What's Next For Rockstar?
By Brynjar Chapman
The big sales may be the reason there's no sequel in the near future.
The gap between the release of Grand Theft Auto V and its likely sequel has now become the longest ever between two GTAs. The reason why, according to Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive (who own Rockstar and 2K Games, among others), is that the game is still selling so well that they don't need to make a new one. Why would they? Five years after its release GTA V is inching ever closer to the 100 million mark. People continue to buy new copies of the game and also to play the online version of it, which is updated frequently. The most recent update is called "After Hours" and features the return of GTA IV's Gay Tony.
Zelnick admits that this trend isn't limited to Grand Theft Auto. He says that the release cycle of video games is being drawn out in general, with more ways for developers to update games and engage with players between releases, like the aforementioned "After Hours" or Fortnite's model, where all the transactions happen in the actual game.
However, big releases are still anticipated and Rockstar has another one of its biggest titles coming back with a sequel in October: Red Dead Redemption 2. The open world of the first Red Dead was a joy just to walk through and look at, never mind near-perfect story and zombie DLC and the new one looks to be no different. Watch the interview below:
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Relatively small breaches, but it makes me wonder if there is someone who does not like Ascension Health or if this is part of a broader targeting of health providers because of the type of information they store about their “customers?” (Perhaps details of their medical insurance coverage?)
Seton Family Health notifying 39,000 patients after employee falls for phish; Second Ascension Health member to report breach this week
Is Ascension Health being targeted by attackers successfully acquiring employee e-mail account logins via phishing?
Zach Lozano reports that Seton Family of Hospitals will provide free identity monitoring and protection services for patients who had their personal information leaked in a phishing attack targeting employee emails:
Approximately 39,000 patients received letters about the breach in which hackers accessed protected patient information, including demographic information, medical record numbers, insurance information and Social Security numbers. Seton was notified of the breach on Feb. 26.
Well, that last statement is not quite accurate, as I’ll explain below, but you can read the rest of his report on KXAN.
In looking into this incident, I became suspicious when I noted that Seton is part of Ascension Health. This past week, another Ascension member, St. Vincent Medical Group in Indiana, also reported a phishing attack but they learned of theirs on December 3, not in February. So I started digging more, wondering if Ascension hospitals are being targeted just as we saw both Baylor facilities and Franciscan Health/Catholic Health Initiatives facilities being targeted by phishing attacks. And sure enough, I found a notice on Seton’s site that reports that they actually became aware of the phishing attack on December 4 – the day after St. Vincent’s learned of their breach. Seton’s notification is basically the same as St. Vincent’s notification after adjusting for date of discovery and number affected. Here’s the main part of Seton’s notice:
The privacy and security of patient information is of utmost importance to Seton Family of Hospitals, a division of Seton Healthcare Family (“Seton”), and Seton has implemented significant security measures to protect such information. Regrettably, despite the efforts to safeguard patient information, an email phishing attack has affected Seton’s patients.
Seton experienced an email phishing attack on December 4, 2014, which targeted the user names and passwords of Seton employees. Upon the determination that an email account had been compromised, the user name and password was immediately shut down. Seton launched an investigation into the matter, and the investigation has required electronic and manual review of affected e-mails to determine the scope of the incident. Seton engaged computer forensics experts to assist with the investigation. Through the ongoing investigation of this matter, we determined on February 26, 2015, that the employee e-mail accounts subject to the phishing attempt contained some personal health information for approximately 39,000 patients.
The personal health information in the e-mail accounts included demographic information (i.e., name, address, gender, date of birth, etc.), medical record numbers, insurance information, limited clinical information and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. The hackers did not gain access to individual medical records or billing records.
I wonder whether we’ll learn that other Ascension Health members have been similarly targeted. Ascension Health describes itself as the largest non-profit health system in the U.S., with 131 hospitals. As their site also indicates, Ascension Information Services (“AIS”) was formed as a nonprofit corporation in 2005, and AIS provides information technology infrastructure and software application support services to all member entities of Ascension. But who provides the training to employees how to not fall for phishing attempts?
Wow! Five whole months!
Sony files Motion to Dismiss class-action; argues no ID theft = no standing
Josh Dickey reports:
No one has been the victim of identity theft in the five months since the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment exposed reams of sensitive data, so a class-action lawsuit should be dismissed, the studio argues in court documents acquired Friday by Mashable.
Read more on Mashable.
No one has noticed for 25 years? I wonder if the “new” password procedure came before or after the article on their password? I'm guessing very soon after.
Verifone statement on default password Z66831
Earlier today, DataBreaches.net asked Verifone for a comment or response to the report about an unnamed firm using the same default password for 25 years, as it was pretty easy to figure out from a Google search that an unnamed vendor was them.
Gene Cyranski, Vice President of Zeno Group kindly sent this statement in response:
The Verifone default password is Z66831 and is loaded on all Verifone devices in the field. The purpose of this default password is to simply initiate terminal installation, and it is not intended to serve as a strong security control. The default password made its way over the years into the public domain and can be found on the Internet, along with instructions on programming terminals. The important fact to point out is that even knowing this password, sensitive payment information or PII cannot be captured. To date, Verifone has not witnessed any attacks on the security of its terminals based on default passwords. What the password allows someone to do is to configure some settings on the terminal; all executables have to be file signed, and it is not possible to enter malware just by knowing passwords. While Verifone has not changed the passwords, clients/partners/merchants are always strongly advised to change the “default” password upon terminal installation and set-up. New Verifone products come with a “pre-expired” password, which will require merchants to change the password during installation and set-up.
Still very little on offensive thinking? I can recommend plenty of offensive students.
http://www.securityweek.com/department-defense-unveils-new-cyber-strategy
Department of Defense Unveils New Cyber Strategy
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday unveiled its latest cyber strategy, described as a way to guide the development of DoD's cyber forces and strengthen its cyber defense and cyber deterrence posture.
… “There may be times when the President or the Secretary of Defense may determine that it would be appropriate for the U.S. military to conduct cyber operations to disrupt an adversary’s military related networks or infrastructure so that the U.S. military can protect U.S. interests in an area of operations," the strategy says. "For example, the United States military might use cyber operations to terminate an ongoing conflict on U.S. terms, or to disrupt an adversary’s military systems to prevent the use of force against U.S. interests. United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) may also be directed to conduct cyber operations, in coordination with other U.S. government agencies as appropriate, to deter or defeat strategic threats in other domains."
"In contrast, the 2011 DOD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace made little reference to the Pentagon’s operational or offensive cyber capabilities, although U.S. officials have spoken about the issue, and there are leaked classified documents that outlined U.S. policy and planning for offensive cyber operations," noted Denise E. Zheng, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
… The full transcript of Carter's speech is available online.
As any good accountant would say, “What do you want the cost to be?”
The hotly disputed black magic of data breach cost estimates
Robert Hackett reports:
A single stolen customer record costs probably somewhere between $0.58 and $201. What’s the best model?
A few weeks ago Fortune visited a law firm where one partner lamented the quality of cost estimates for big companies suffering data breaches—a vital consideration for businesses seeking to manage their risk and score reasonably priced insurance policies. (Who and where are unimportant for the purposes of the story.) Prompted by a recent analysis of 10-k filings which concluded that the impact of breaches to corporate bottom lines is trivial, the conversation stirred the lawyer’s excitement—and vexation. There are no good estimates, the lawyer rued.
Read more on Fortune.
How do you start your search? Do you Google “gang” or do you Google “black kids?” Has anyone published guidelines?
Is the online surveillance of black teenagers the new stop-and-frisk?
Rose Hackman reports:
Critics say the NYPD’s trawling of social media for gang activity – affecting children as young as 10 – is disproportionate and may amount to racial profiling.
Read more on Raw Story.
When you have no control, everything becomes more complicated.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/239994-court-reminds-state-to-produce-clinton-emails-in-shortest-time-possible
Court reminds State to produce Clinton emails in ‘shortest’ time possible
An appeals court gently warned the State Department on Friday to release relevant public documents quickly from among the large batch of emails Hillary Clinton turned over to the agency from her private server.
The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia ruled the best way to handle a Freedom of Information Act case involving the emails would be to send it back to the district court, which will determine the “most efficient way to proceed under FOIA.”
… The agency is sorting through the emails for potential redactions in process it says could take months. [State can't rely on the claim that there was “nothing classified” discussed on any of the emails. Bob]
In the meantime, outside groups have argued their previous Freedom of Information Act requests to the State Department were incomplete because they lacked Clinton’s emails.
Something for my students?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-gif-search-engines-tools-havent-heard-yet/
5 GIF Search Engines & Tools You Haven’t Heard Of Yet
GIFs are the language of the web, but some people are better at speaking it than others. If you’ve got a friend who always amazes you with her ability to find the perfect reaction GIFs, you need to find better tools.
Today, Cool Websites and Apps points out five websites for finding, and creating, GIFs – all of which we’ve yet to mention as a site. We’ve shown you obvious things, like the GIF search engine Giphy, but as GIFs (continue!) to grow in popularity more sites pop up.
Even major media corporations are getting in on it.
Eventually, I'd like my Data Management students to understand this kind of analysis as well as purely internal number crunching. (Also for my statistics students)
How Google Searches Can Predict Hockey Ticket Sales
You may have doubts, as some readers did, about whether Google searches are a reliable way to predict that an NHL expansion team would struggle in Las Vegas. But it’s actually a pretty good way to forecast this kind of thing, and there’s another way to prove it:
It turns out that there’s a strong relationship between Google searches and an NHL team’s bottom line. How often fans are Googling the term “NHL” in a metro area reliably predicts how much they’re spending on hockey tickets.
In the chart below, I’ve estimated how much fans spent on tickets at each NHL arena during the past regular season. The process is simple: I just took total home attendance and multiplied it by the average ticket price.1 Then I compared ticket spending against the estimated number of NHL fans in each market based on Google search traffic.2
For my student twits?
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/04/how-to-cite-tweet-in-mla-apa-and.html#.VTuQpfAsr4Q
How to Cite a Tweet in MLA, APA, and Chicago Style
As social media has evolved it has crept into academic work. I've even given research assignments in which I've asked my students to seek out and cite quotes from people on Twitter. More and more I'm asked, "how do I cite a Tweet?" In fact, I was asked this in an email last night. If you're citing for a blog post, you can just embed the Tweet. If you're citing for a more formal work you will want to follow guidelines of MLA, APA, or Chicago Style.
Guidelines and examples for citing a Tweet in MLA style can be found here.
Guidelines and examples for citing Tweets in APA are available here.
If you need guidelines and examples of citing a Tweet in Chicago Style, click here.
Those who use tools like EasyBib or RefMe should note that the Tweet citations generated by those tools don't exactly match the guidelines set by APA, MLA, or Chicago Style. I tried both tools for citing Tweets and found that I had to slightly modify the formatting produced by those tools.
“We have to buy new stuff and we don't have money in the budget. We need people with special skills and we can't find anyone who will work for a state salary. We're not sure who should be responsible and we can't stop arguing about that long enough to actually do anything.” Typical government. What would happen if the data center stopped doing any other work until they had security under control?
Oregon state data center security flaws found in 2012 still not fixed
Hillary Borrud reports:
Three years after state auditors identified security weaknesses at Oregon’s main data center in Salem, the state has yet to fix some of the problems.
The vulnerabilities were outlined in a secret March 2012 letter to Michael Jordan, who, at the time, was director of the Department of Administrative Services, which manages the data warehouse. The facility stores data for multiple state agencies.
Read more on Portland Tribune
[From the article:
Hackers recently accessed data at the center, Gov. Kate Brown revealed last month, but Shelby said that breach was unrelated to the security problems auditors identified. [Even more security vulnerabilities? Bob] However, Shelby said one of the suggestions auditors laid out in the letter would have helped IT staff to more quickly assess which types of data attackers accessed.
I thought this sounded a bit cheap...
Banks seek to block Target’s deal with MasterCard over data breach
A group of small banks and credit unions suing Target Corp over its massive data breach in 2013 are moving to block the retailer’s proposed $19 million settlement with MasterCard Inc, calling it a “sweetheart deal” aimed at undercutting their own claims for losses.
Lawyers for plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, filed an emergency motion late Tuesday asking a federal judge in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a preliminary injunction that would prevent the settlement announced on March 19 from going through.
Read more on Reuters.
“The agreement between Target and MasterCard is nothing more than an attempt by Target to avoid fully reimbursing financial institutions for losses they suffered due to one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history," said a statement on Wednesday from Charles Zimmerman of Zimmerman Reed PLLP and Karl Cambronne of Chestnut Cambronne PA, co-lead plaintiffs' attorneys in the lawsuit.
"It provides paltry restitution for the substantial losses suffered," the statement added.
Why bother with such a trivial “message?”
http://www.securityweek.com/russian-hackers-infiltrated-pentagon-network-us
Russian Hackers Infiltrated Pentagon Network: US
Russian hackers were able to access an unclassified Pentagon computer network earlier this year, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Thursday.
"We quickly identified the compromise and had a team of incident responders hunting down the intruders within 24 hours," Carter said during a speech on technology and cybersecurity at Stanford University in California.
… The Pentagon analyzed the "network activity, associated it with Russia, and then quickly kicked them off the network," he said.
National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers said in March that Russia was pushing for a show of force in the realm cybersecurity as it flexed its muscles in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. [So why waste time on something that is clearly no big deal? Bob]
Like the 470 tolls here in Colorado, I assume there is a discount for allowing this surveillance. Said another way, try to avoid surveillance, pay more to use the bridge. (Also of interest to my Data Analysis students)
Government Surveillance Records Show E-ZPass Readers Around New York City
From the NYCLU:
April 22, 2015 — The New York Civil Liberties Union this morning released a trove of government records that reveal that both city and state transportation agencies have set up E-ZPass readers in locations far from toll plazas. The records are part of the NYCLU’s new webpage that hosts records on how government agencies collect information on innocent New Yorkers, which includes recently released documents on Stingray surveillance equipment.
“New Yorkers have a right to know if our government is collecting information about us, what they’re doing with it and how long they’re keeping it for,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. “One piece of information rarely says much about you, but bits and pieces collected over time can paint a detailed portrait of person – their political beliefs, religious affiliations, medical issues and even personal relationships. The documents the NYCLU is releasing provide a glimpse into some of the information the government is collecting on us every day.”
… Through its FOIL requests, the NYCLU learned that both city and state transportation agencies have set up E-ZPass readers around the state, including in 149 locations around New York City, as part of traffic studies.
View and download the E-ZPass documents
An example of security/privacy on the Internet of Things?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-things-didnt-know-nest-thermostat/
13 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With a Nest Thermostat
There's an App for that, but this one may make you look like a terrorist. (Or am I being paranoid?)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-android-device-help-find-next-home/
How Your Android Device Can Help You Find Your Next Home
Homesnap Real Estate
Homesnap tries to be fun by letting you pull up the details of a house just by taking a picture.
It then pulls up detailed information, including things such as property lines and estimated values.
It's no longer Youtube's market. All the big players are trying to do everything at once. Can they all succeed?
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/onion-vice-now-making-ads-facebook/
The Onion and Vice Are Now Making Ads With Facebook
People watch videos on Facebook—a lot of videos. During its earnings call yesterday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the number of videos watched on Facebook now totals more than 4 billion per day—triple what was being watched on the social network last summer.
With all those eyeballs trained on its moving pictures, the company is now moving quickly to make them pay. Today Facebook announced that it is teaming up with seven popular media companies, including The Onion, Disney and Vice Media, to produce video ads for brands hoping to capture the attention of the social network’s 1.44 billion users.
The future? Hungry? There's an App for that! (If you order it, they will come?) If anyone makes money by delivering, everyone will want to do it.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/24/news/chipotle-delivery/
Chipotle delivers burritos to your door
The fast-casual burrito chain is now offering delivery of online and mobile orders in 67 cities using an app called PostMates.
PostMates, a San Francisco-based startup, works with local businesses to deliver everything from household goods and school supplies to food and beverages.
Another cut to phone companies. Will they die the “death of 1000 cuts” or will they not last that long?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/whatsapp-voice-call-everything-you-need-to-know/
WhatsApp Voice Call: Everything You Need to Know
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has finally launched a new voice calling service, enabling users to make phone calls over the Internet. This is the first time WhatsApp is offering this, which puts it head-to-head against the likes of Skype, Viber, and others.
WhatsApp Call is now available for Android and iOS.
… WhatsApp Call only allows for voice calls, not video chat. You’ll still need to use other apps to make video calls to Facebook friends. WhatsApp Call is just like dialing a number, putting your phone to your ear and speaking—except instead of dialing a number, you will be dialing a WhatsApp contact only.
You can call any Android or iOS user with WhatsApp installed. You cannot call users on other platforms yet.
Calling someone in another country will cost the same as calling someone in your own country—all you need to pay for is the data charge, which is roughly the same regardless of where your call is going.
Download: WhatsApp for Android (Free)
Download: WhatsApp for Android APK from official site (Free)
Download: WhatsApp for iOS (Free)
For my Data Management students. Infographic
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pinterest-is-more-important-to-your-business-than-you-think/
Pinterest is More Important to Your Business Than You Think
Pinterest seems to be the social network that not enough people take seriously. Lots of people ignore it as a place to just find recipes or projects, and not enough people are using it correctly. It’s actually one of the biggest traffic drivers across social media, and anyone (business or individual) who isn’t using it is actually missing out.
The infographic below from the folks over at MainStreetHost provides all kinds of interesting facts and statistics on just how powerful Pinterest actually is. If you do any kind of marketing on social media, the numbers below just might change your perception of Pinterest.
http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/pinterest-infographic-final-05.jpg?6055c3
(Related) Pinterest plus two others.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/using-social-networks-find-amazing-products/
Using Social Networks to Find Amazing Products
I'm tossing this in just because I like the article.
https://hbr.org/2015/04/the-basic-principles-of-strategy-havent-changed-in-30-years
The Basic Principles of Strategy Haven’t Changed in 30 Years
Another week, another chance to be amused.
http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/24/hack-education-weekly-news/
… “A California judge has denied a request for state intervention at six California high schools where students said they had been assigned to multiple contentless classes, were told to go home, or sit idly in classrooms or perform menial administrative tasks.” More on the Cruz v California lawsuit here.
… Via Buzzfeed: “Texas Sends Poor Teens To Adult Jail For Skipping School.” [“That'll larn 'em!” Bob]
… The Online Learning Consortium and MERLOT are merging their scholarly journals. The new journal’s name: Online Learning.
Stonewalling is not a security technique. It does suggest that the problem is greater than we know. When this occurred, I suggested that the information the hacker obtained could help someone place agents in secure positions. Is that what they are hiding?
Dem: USIS data breach affected more than 27K
Elise Viebeck reports:
The number of individuals victimized in a cyberattack on a major background investigation service is higher than previously reported, the House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat said Wednesday.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) reported that the initial estimate of 27,000 federal employees compromised in the breach of government contractor USIS is now believed to be a “floor, not a ceiling.”
Read more on The Hill.
Why are companies still allowed to get away with not being more transparent?
“Unfortunately, investigating the USIS data breach has been particularly challenging because neither USIS nor its parent company, Altegrity, have fully complied with this committee’s requests for answers,” Cummings said.
I agree. Now, how do we educate judges (because clearly the plaintiff’s lawyers didn't)
The Bad News For Infosec In The Target Settlement: OpEd
Giora Engel of LightCyber writes:
The legal argument behind the $10 million Class Action lawsuit and subsequent settlement is a gross misrepresentation of how attackers operate.
Central to the recent Target data breach lawsuit settlement was the idea that cyber attacks are mechanistic and follow a prescribed course or chain of events. The judge hearing the case ruled that Target is liable for not mounting an adequate defense against the 2013 cyber attack that exposed some 40 million customer debit and credit card accounts. Unfortunately, the ruling also may have serious repercussions for many of us in the security profession.
In my opinion, Judge Paul A. Magnuson’s ruling is dangerously flawed and a gross misrepresentation of how attackers operate; it ignores the fact that the breach was conducted by actual people. Preventing one event in a supposed chain will not stop a breach. Attackers will simply find another way to achieve their goal. The challenge is to identify that a targeted attack is under way and then rip the attackers out of the network.
Read more on Dark Reading.
For my IT students. Do you know what software you use? All of it?
http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server-2003-end-support/compliance-and-server-2003
Compliance and Server 2003
For many organizations, compliance might be the most compelling reason to move from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2.
In a nutshell, depending on the jurisdiction that your organization falls under, there is likely to be one or more bits of legislation that dictate that you must be running a supported operating system on certain systems. Depending on the legislation, it could be just computers that host financial data, or in some jurisdictions it could be every computer that is used in the process of conducting business.
The key is that the wording of the legislation usually says that the OS or the application needs to be supported. This is why the name End of Extended Support is quite important. It’s not just a technical term, it has legal meaning.
Social media as an asset of the company.
Man is jailed for refusing to turn over Facebook and Twitter passwords in business bankruptcy case
Martha Neil reports:
Jeremy Alcede personally maintained the Facebook and Twitter accounts for his former Texas gun store and shooting range.
He thought of them as his own, and didn’t hesitate to inject his political views as he publicized Tactical Firearms in Katy.
But a federal bankruptcy judge disagreed, and ordered Alcede to turn over the passwords to the new operator of the gun store, finding the social media accounts to be business assets even though Alcede has removed the Tactical Firearms moniker and substituted his own, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Read more on ABA Journal.
For my Ethical Hacking students.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/04/22/apple-ios-8-no-ios-zone/?ss=tech
Apple iOS 8 Has Serious Bug, Makes Public WiFi Dangerous
iOS 8 has had a tough time. Despite Apple’s relentless release schedule that has seen no less than 8 updates in just 6 months, concerns over major bugs has resulted in the slowest adoption rate in iOS history. And now here’s another big one…
As reported by The Register, professional hackers at SkyCure have unearthed a major WiFi vulnerability in iOS 8 which makes iPads, iPhones and iPod touches crash repeatedly and there’s almost nothing you can do about it.
Dubbed ‘No iOS Zone’ it allows a malicious WiFi hotspot to launch a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack which renders devices unusable. It works by exploiting a flaw in the SSL security certificate of iOS 8 which leaves the device wide open:
“This is not a denial-of-service where you can’t use your Wi-Fi – this is a denial-of-service so you can’t use your device even in offline mode,” explained SkyCure CEO Adi Sharabani in an address to the RSA security conference in San Francisco.
Beyond Oops! (The name of my next blog?)
Intuit lawsuit alleges firm facilitated fraud by lax security
Marisa Kendall reports:
In a suit filed Monday against Intuit Inc., plaintiffs lawyers claim lax security protections in the company’s TurboTax software are to blame for a recent spike in fraudulent tax returns.
Intuit didn’t take adequate steps to stop criminals from using TurboTax to steal customers’ personal information, file false returns on their behalf and cash in their refunds, according to the complaint. The suit, filed less than a week after this year’s tax filing deadline, comes after an uptick in fraudulent state returns briefly shut down TurboTax’s service and reportedly prompted an FBI investigation.
Read more on The Recorder.
With two former employees filing whistleblower statements with the SEC, Intuit may have its work cut out for it defending against this suit. Although it may be difficult to prove that Intuit was the cause of the tax refund fraud the two named plaintiffs experienced, I think there’s enough alleged to make any motion to dismiss for lack of standing a real uphill battle – particularly when there have been so many cases of tax refund fraud that states have linked to Intuit.
(Related) I wanted to know about those whistle blowers...
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/turbotaxs-anti-fraud-efforts-under-scrutiny/
TurboTax’s Anti-Fraud Efforts Under Scrutiny
… Robert Lee, a security business partner at Intuit’s consumer tax group until his departure from the company in July 2014, said he and his team at Intuit developed sophisticated fraud models to help Intuit quickly identify and close accounts that were being used by crooks to commit massive amounts of SIRF fraud.
But Lee said he was mystified when Intuit repeatedly refused to adopt some basic policies that would make it more costly and complicated for fraudsters to abuse the company’s service for tax refund fraud, such as blocking the re-use of the same Social Security number across a certain number of TurboTax accounts, or preventing the same account from filing more than a small number of tax returns.
… “We found literally millions of accounts that were 100 percent used only for fraud. But management explicitly forbade us from either flagging the accounts as fraudulent, or turning off those accounts.”
I think this was inevitable. Still, only someone with real Internet clout (Google, Apple, Facebook) could start the ball rolling.
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/google-make-wireless-carrier-irrelevant/
Google Is About to Make Your Wireless Carrier a Lot Less Relevant
Google’s new wireless phone service, Project Fi, offers a long list of modern day perks. It automatically moves phones between traditional cellular networks and the WiFi wireless networks inside homes and businesses. Once on WiFi, you can still make calls and send texts. And you can pay for all this in small, flat, monthly fees—avoiding the sort of inflated, strings-attached pricing that so often accompanies our cell services.
… “The unique thing is that you’re no longer tied to a network. You can go from a Sprint tower to a T-Mobile tower and back to a Sprint tower. That’s groundbreaking.
… At the moment, Google’s service is only available on the Nexus 6, the company’s flagship Android phone. But it points to a new world where the big wireless carriers—Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and the rest—are pushed even further into the background of our daily lives.
(Related) Convergence: Your phone and one of the most intrusive surveillance systems on the planet.
Facebook's Latest App Is a Dialer With Caller ID For Android
Facebook’s quest to conquer your phone continues with Hello, a new dialer app that replaces the one that comes natively installed on your Android phone.
… But the new Facebook dialer app introduces something you won’t get from any other: Even if you don’t have a number saved on your phone, Facebook can go look at its databases and see if its got a number match. If it does, it’ll tell you who is calling and show you their photo, even if you’re not friends. It also makes blocking numbers as easy as a tap.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.phone
For my Data Management students.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245291?google_editors_picks=true
This Free Tool Can Determine Your Most Valuable Followers on Instagram and Twitter
Brands that focus exclusively on amassing huge social followings may be overlooking the intrinsic value of their existing audiences, according to social media analytics firm SocialRank.
The company, which launched early last year, began as a free web app for Twitter, enabling users to determine their “most valuable” followers (the accounts with the most reach and importance); their “most engaged” followers (based on retweets, favorites and mentions); their “best” followers (a mix of reach and engagement); and their most followed followers.
A brainchild of entrepreneurs Alexander Taub and Michael Schonfeld, SocialRank also allows users to filter their Twitter followings based on keyword, location, interests, activity and verification.
Now, the company is launching a comparable tool for Instagram. Available today for free, the product lets users sort their followers based on engagement, bio keywords, location, follower count and even hashtag use, according to SocialRank.
Something to amuse my geeky students.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/239736-lawmakers-ask-programmers-hack-for-congress
Lawmakers ask programmers: Hack for Congress
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and other congressional offices have submitted challenges to an upcoming “hackathon” encouraging talented programmers to put their talents to good use.
… Thune, for instance, would love to see someone come up with a better way to share photos, charts and slides with the world during a congressional hearing. While members can easily pass out printed copies of those materials to hand out to reporters at a hearing, it can be difficult to quickly distribute them digitally.
… Polis, meanwhile, wanted to see an online approval system to streamline the process of co-sponsoring a bill. He also challenged computer wizards to come up with a way to more easily build a list to distribute information to people depending on which issues they are interested in, such as the environment.
An interesting question. The majority of my IT students are female. The majority of my Computer Science and Computer Security students are male.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/when-women-code/391074/
When Women Code
Code builds things: websites, games, this story you're reading. But what code hasn't built, as the tech industry proves again and again, is gender parity among the coders themselves.
That's the central issue in CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a documentary that premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film dives into why deep-seated cultural stereotypes have permeated an industry that's supposed to think different, to move fast and break things.
[Also see the resources listed at: http://shescoding.org/
Perspective. Yes, I remember the days (nights really) when all we had were shadow puppets. (Good collection of viral videos)
http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/23/youtube-is-10-years-old-today-lets-celebrate-by-watching-some-videos-5163022/
YouTube is 10 years old today, let’s celebrate by… watching some videos
… In celebration of the billions of hours the world has wasted on YouTube in the past 10 years, here are some of Metro.co.uk‘s favourite viral vids.
For my Computer Security students. Unchecked checks and unbalanced balances? This case came from a whistle blower who did a better analysis of the data than the regulators did? How does one small trader have this kind of impact? If it takes five years to figure out he was responsible, will they be able to convince a jury?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-22/mystery-trader-armed-with-algorithms-rewrites-flash-crash-story
Mystery Trader Armed With Algorithms Rewrites Flash Crash
… Navinder Singh Sarao was as anonymous as they come -- little more than a day trader by the standards of the Street.
But on that spring day five years ago, U.S. authorities now say, Sarao helped send the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the wild, 1,000-point ride that the world came to know as the flash crash. By regulators’ account, he was responsible for a stunning one out of five sell orders during the frenzy. On Tuesday, he was arrested by Scotland Yard and charged in the U.S. with 22 criminal counts, including fraud and market manipulation.
… That picture, according to U.S. authorities, belies a years-long history of lightning-quick computer trading that netted Sarao $40 million in illicit profits.
… Regulators initially concluded that a mutual fund company -- said to be Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. of Overland Park, Kansas -- played a leading role. Many in the industry countered that a confluence of several forces, including high-frequency trading, was probably behind the crash.
By all accounts, the flash crash was more than a mere technical glitch. It raised fundamental questions about how vulnerable today’s complex financial markets are to the high-speed, computer-driven trading that has come to dominate the marketplace.
Little is known about Sarao and his trades, beyond what is contained in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. A related civil suit filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission provides a few additional glimpses into his supposed activities. The case stemmed from a whistle-blower who brought “powerful, original analysis” to the CFTC’s attention, said Shayne Stevenson, a Seattle lawyer representing the whistle-blower.
Think Computer Security is “by the numbers” in the military? Think again. This can happen to anyone.
Stolen CentCom computers found on eBay
Patty Ryan reports:
The internal theft of five laptop computers from U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base went undetected until a supplier noticed four of them advertised on eBay, according to federal court records.
A CentCom official ordered an inventory, putting it in the hands of a Riverview man who now admits to being the thief.
Read more on Tampa Bay Times.
For my Computer Security students. Add this to your toolkit, then charge to tweek your friend's account. (Then send me 10%)
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/47683/20150422/twitter-now-allows-total-strangers-to-dm-you-how-can-you-stop-it.htm
Twitter Now Allows Total Strangers To DM You: How Can You Stop It?
As users continue to whine about Twitter's newest software tweak that lets anyone in the Twitterverse directly message anyone else, more than a few others are asking just one simple thing. How can a user opt out of this new messaging free-for-all that Twitter created with supposedly good intentions?
Thankfully, the answer is pretty simple.
I can point you to a few students who flunked the Cryptology class, perhaps they can make you a really crappy encryption tool. But who are you going to get to use it? They are asking for a system that uses: a Public key, a Private key and a Government key.
White House seeks Silicon Valley help on strong yet breakable encryption
Joseph Menn reports:
The Obama administration hopes Silicon Valley technologists can think of a system with strong encryption that could be pierced legally by one party without opening the door to others, a White House official said on Tuesday.
White House cybersecurity policy coordinator Michael Daniel said at the annual RSA Conference on security that he is trying to set starting principles for a broad public discussion on the issue, which has been a major source of tension with technology companies and other cyber experts.
Yeah, you’ll sometimes encounter unexpected pushback when you keep asking for the impossible. Ask for a unicorn instead, maybe?
Not as popular as the Oscars. (Fewer celebrities on the red carpet.
Hello Barbie, NSA win Germany’s “Big Brother” awards
NextGov reports:
Organized by advocacy nonprofit Digitalcourage, the 15th annual BBAs were announced Friday night in Bielefeld, Germany, a northwestern city of about 330,000. The tech prize was awarded to Hello Barbie, a “smart” version of the toymaker Mattel’s iconic doll, that records everything its owner says and allows parents to review the sound clips.
… three Big Brother Awards awards went to the German federal government:
to the Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service) for its collaboration with the NSA and its monitoring of German citizens’ online activities
to the current and former Interior Ministers for “systematic and fundamental sabotage” of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which includes the right to be forgotten
and to the Ministry of Health, for the eHealth program, which BBA said puts doctor-patient confidentiality at risk.
Read more of the award “winners” on NextGov.
Convergence. Internet companies are becoming phone companies. I guess it's easier that phone companies taking over the Internet. Time to sell my phone stocks?
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-may-launch-us-wireless-service-powered-by-t-mobile-and-sprint-as-early-as-this-week/
Google may launch US wireless service powered by T-Mobile and Sprint as early as this week
ZDNet's Liam Tung posted the news that Google was planning to get into the mobile data business back in January. According to a Wall Street Journal report Google's wireless service may launch as early as this week in the US.
The service will reportedly be powered by T-Mobile and Sprint, the third and fourth largest US wireless carriers. Unlike traditional carrier plans, it's likely that Google will only bill customers for the data they actually use each month.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the service will initially only work on Google's Nexus 6 smartphone. The phone will reportedly switch between the two networks to find the optimal signal. WiFi will also be used for phone calls to help keep your bill low.
… There are plenty of other options for consumers, such as Republic Wireless, that give consumers full control over their monthly wireless service with no contract obligation.
We are seeing more and more consumers making the move to such providers so the timing of this Google service may be perfect.
(Related) Another Internet/phone thingie...
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/facebooks-whatsapp-worlds-next-phone/
Facebook’s WhatsApp Will Be How the World Makes Phone Calls
WhatsApp is the world’s most popular smartphone messaging app, letting more than 800 million people send and receive texts on the cheap. But it’s evolving into something more.
On Tuesday, the company, which is owned by Facebook, released a new version of the app that allows people with iPhones to not only text people, but actually talk to them. This built on a similar move the company made at the end of March, when it quietly released an Android update that did the same thing.
… the company is intent on keeping it free (or nearly free). Though it has little traction here in the US, WhatsApp is enormously popular in parts of Europe and the developing world—areas where there’s a hunger for cheap communication. The result is an app that could bring inexpensive Internet calls to an audience of unprecedented size.
… After rolling out voice calling, he says, it may venture into video calling. The app already lets you send files, including videos, and other messaging apps, such as SnapChat, already have ventured into video calls.
None of these tools—video calls, voice calls, file sharing—are new technologies. But not everyone has them. WhatsApp has the leverage to change that.
God knows some of my students could use a bit of help.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-apps-help-anyone-improve-english-grammar/
7 Apps to Help Anyone Improve Their English Grammar
In a world of spellcheck and texting abbreviations, few people want to take the time to learn about subjects, objects, and dangling modifiers. Besides, computers can fix our sentences for us.
However, as anyone who’s suffered an autocorrect embarrassment knows, computers don’t always get it right.
Language is a human tool and requires the insight of human minds. Plus, employers still care about this stuff. From emails to reports, business involves plenty of written communication. Businesses want to hire employees with strong writing skills who will represent their company well to clients.
So what’s the best way to improve your grammar skills?
Perspective. I suspect that formats have not changed to take full advantage of new viewing habits.
http://www.bespacific.com/accenture-the-worlds-love-affair-with-the-tv-may-be-coming-to-an-end/
Accenture – The World’s Love Affair with the TV May Be Coming to an End
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Apr 21, 2015
News release: “The television’s popularity as the go-to entertainment device may be ending, according to “Digital Video and the Connected Consumer,” a new research report from Accenture. The television was the only product category to see uniform, double-digit usage declines across different types of media worldwide among viewers of nearly all ages. It is rapidly being replaced as consumers turn to a combination of laptops, desktops, tablets and smartphones to view video content. The report, developed for communications, media and technology companies, found that video consumption – anytime, anywhere – has become mainstream, accelerating the decline of traditional TV viewing. Viewership for long form video content, such as movies and television on a TV screen, has declined by 13 percent globally over the past year and by 11 percent in the United States. Similarly, the report found sports viewership on TV screens declined by 10 percent globally and nine percent in the United States. Nearly all age brackets reported double-digit declines in TV viewing globally, with 14- to 17-year-olds abandoning the TV screen at the rate of 33 percent for movies and television shows and 26 percent for sporting events. This decline continues for 18- to 34-year-olds at 14 percent for movies and television shows and 12 percent for sporting events, and for 35- to 54-year-olds, at 11 and nine percent, respectively. It does, however, flatten among the 55 and older crowd, at six percent and one percent respectively.”
I used to marvel that individuals in England could become fanatical experts on very narrow areas (teapots made between 1506 and 1515) Today you would think the information is much more readily available. Apparently not.
An Ex-Cop Keeps The Country’s Best Data Set On Police Misconduct
When Talking Points Memo, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post needed data on how often police officers are charged with on-duty killings, they all turned to the same guy: Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson.
Stinson, 50, has become an indispensable source for researchers and reporters looking into alleged crimes and acts of violence by police officers because he has built a database tracking thousands of incidents in which officers were arrested since 2005.
… The whole data-collecting operation is powered by 48 Google Alerts that Stinson set up in 2005, along with individual Google Alerts for each of nearly 6,000 arrests of officers. He has set up 10 Gmail addresses to collect all the alert emails, which feed articles into a database that also contains court records and videos.
… I was taking an ethics class. Somebody in the class — it was a bunch of cops in class, mid-career — somebody made a comment that cops don’t get in trouble much. I said, “That’s just absurd.” I started looking into it and realized there are no government statistics, and no government agency tracking it well.
… I had two and a half years, three years of data in my dissertation, covering 2005 to 2007, with 109 quantitative variables.
And then over time at Bowling Green, we now track 270 or so quantitative variables. Everything is automated now. Because data collection is real-time — you can’t use Lexis Nexis, NewsBank, all these other archival news databases, because lots of stuff has disappeared from the Internet — so because of that it’s very slow and time-consuming. It takes forever to do.
This could be fun for my Excel students. Convert all this paper to a more modern tool.
http://www.bespacific.com/are-you-looking-to-buy-a-home/
Are You Looking to Buy a Home?
“Buying a home is one of the most exciting yet one of the most difficult financial decisions you will make. Understanding the costs of real estate settlement services, defining what affordable means to you, and finding the best mortgage are among the many aspects you’ll need to consider. This new toolkit (PDF) from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), offers a step-by-step guide that includes checklists, conversation starters for discussions between buyers and lenders, and research tips to find more information.”
I like tidbits like this, even if you do have to really search for them. I try to tell my statistics students that improbable things do happen.
http://luckypeach.com/khmerican-food/
Khmerican Food
… The connection between Cambodia and American pastry entrepreneurship is most pronounced in California, where, by one recent count, 90 percent of all independent doughnut shops are owned by Cambodians.
For my Ethical Hacking students. Think of this as “evidence.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/google-now-lets-you-download-your-entire-search-history-n344971
Google Now Lets You Download Your Entire Search History
Google will now let you download and export your entire search history.
The search giant already allowed users to view their history, but now they can download their entire history in just a few simple steps.
As first noticed by the unofficial Google Operating System blog and pointed out by VentureBeat, users just need to go to their Google Account history and then hit the gear icon in the upper right corner and hit "download."
A user's search history will only appear for the time that they have enabled the Web history setting.
Once a user opts to download their history, a window appears warning the user not to download the archive on a public computer.
Computer security for all my students.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-usb-security-key/28868/
Protect your Google Accounts with a USB Security Key
Most big-name web services like Gmail, Microsoft, Evernote, WordPress and Dropbox now support 2-step authentication to improve the security of your online accounts. Once you enable two-factor authentication, a malicious person will not be able to log into your online account even if they know the password – they’ll need access to your mobile phone as well to get in.
The verification codes required for logging into a 2-step enabled account can be generated either using a mobile app – like Authy or Google Authenticator – or you can have them sent to your mobile phone via a text message or a voice call. The latter option however will not work if the mobile phone associated with your account is outside the coverage area (like when you are in a foreign country).
There’s another option that makes the process of logging into a 2-factor enabled account Google less cumbersome. Instead of generating the verification codes on a mobile phone, you can use a hardware based authenticator that can be inserted into a USB port on your computer and you’ll be signed-in automatically without having to hand-type the digits.
The option works for both Google and Google Apps accounts and you don’t even need the mobile phone – watch video demo.
I am using the least-expensive Yubico key though there are more options to choose from. The first stop is to associate the USB security key with your Google Account.
No surprise. Just aggregating all existing resources and simplifying the interface.
St. Louis police working with DHS & Motorola are using private surveillance cameras to create a massive spy network
Frequent contributor Joe Cadillic has more on surveillance in St. Louis – a story first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that was noted last week on this site.
Joe writes:
What police are telling you is, Motorola’s ‘Real Time Crime Center’ is spying on you through numerous platforms:
“Real-Time Intelligence Client brings together streaming video with analytics, resource tracking, social media, voice, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and records information onto a single, intuitive interface with geospatial mapping.“
And it gets worse:
“The Real-Time Intelligence Client lets analysts prepare and distribute live tactical video, recorded video clips, documents, photos and key information to your officers in the field, and to other agencies for multi-jurisdictional response. Push-a-Link and Push-a Snapshot make it easy to distribute video and photos to dispatched units. Real-time analytics monitor video streams and detect user-defined events of interest – to improve response times by alerting RIC operators to crowd formations, dropped bags and other suspicious behavior as it occurs.”
Read more on MassPrivateI.
[Real Time Crime Center brochure:
http://content.motorolasolutions.com/promo/publicsafety/docs/msi/Real-Time%20Crime-Center%20Solution-Brief.pdf
Also for my Ethical Hacking students. Some tools for your toolkit.
http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/04/mobile-app-privacy-insanity-were-still.html
Mobile app privacy insanity – we’re still failing massively at this
… For the uninitiated, what I’m going to show in this post amounts to nothing more than looking at the requests that mobile apps are making over the web to back end services and inspecting the responses that are returned. It’s the mobile equivalent of looking at the network tab in the developer tools of your favourite browser. In this case though, I’m simply proxying my iPhone traffic through Fiddler which you can set up in about a minute. The particular patterns I’m looking for are discussed at length in my Pluralsight course titled Hack Your API First so if you want to understand the process in detail, go and check that out.
Shouldn't this be obvious? You could cut any utility (water, gas, electric) and then pose as a repairman.
FBI can’t cut Internet and pose as cable guy to search property, judge says
David Kravets reports the latest development in a case previously noted on this site:
A federal judge issued a stern rebuke Friday to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s method for breaking up an illegal online betting ring. The Las Vegas court frowned on the FBI’s ruse of disconnecting Internet access to $25,000-per-night villas at Caesar’s Palace Hotel and Casino. FBI agents posed as the cable guy and secretly searched the premises.
The government claimed the search was legal because the suspects invited the agents into the room to fix the Internet. US District Judge Andrew P. Gordon wasn’t buying it. He ruled that if the government could get away with such tactics like those they used to nab gambling kingpin Paul Phua and some of his associates, then the government would have carte blanche power to search just about any property.
Read more on Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/fbi-cant-cut-internet-and-pose-as-cable-guy-to-search-property-judge-says/
You knew that, right? Nothing new, but a fair summary.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81954.html?google_editors_picks=true
Your Lawyer Is Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
Lawyers help their clients as they negotiate confidential business transactions, hold intellectual property, manage funds and litigate disputes, among many other business activities. In the ordinary course of business, lawyers also maintain numerous confidential documents and data of and about their clients.
As a result, lawyers have a big bull's-eye drawn on their backs, visible to cybercriminals. The worst part is that most lawyers do not realize how vulnerable they are, since few lawyers understand IT security and cyber-risks. As a result, many do not properly protect that confidential information.
… "If you're a major law firm, it's safe to say that you've either already been a victim, currently are a victim, or will be a victim. ... The question is, what are you doing to mitigate it?" asked Chad Pinson, a managing director at Stroz Friedberg, according to a Bloomberg report.
At least 80 of the 100 biggest firms in the country, by revenue, have been hacked since 2011, according to Mandiant, the same Bloomberg report noted.
… The ABA established a Cybersecurity Task Force, which published an "ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: A Resource for Attorneys, Law Firms and Business Professionals."
The next “We can, therefore we must?” May be a tad premature.
https://hbr.org/2015/04/should-your-voice-determine-whether-you-get-hired
Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?
Technology is changing every facet of work, including how companies profile and select their employees. The development of different apps, software, and algorithms has produced many novel methodologies for screening job candidates and evaluating their potential fit for a role or organization.
The latest of such methods is voice profiling, the use of computer-based algorithms to predict job fit based on an analysis of a candidate’s voice.
… Although the idea that each voice is unique makes intuitive sense, some voice profiling tools, such as Jobaline, are based on a rather unconventional premise: Instead of trying to decode a candidate’s personality, intelligence, or mood state, they aim to predict “the emotion that that voice is going to generate on the listener.” In other words, the algorithm functions as a mechanical judge in a voice-based beauty contest. Desirable voices are invited to the next round, where they are judged by humans, while undesirable voices are eliminated from the contest.
Perspective. In Japan, the trains do run on time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11551389/Japan-maglev-train-breaks-world-speed-record.html
Japan maglev train breaks world speed record
A Japanese magnetically levitated train has broken its own world speed record for the second time in five days.
The maglev broke the 600 kilometres per hour (372.82mph) barrier for the first time on Tuesday and hit a top speed of 603 kph (374.69mph) on a test track in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.
Operated by Central Japan Railway, the manned test run surpassed the 590 kph (372.82mph) that it recorded on the same track on Thursday.
… Plans are in place for Japanese firms to build a maglev system in the United States, where it would link Washington DC and Baltimore in a mere 15 minutes.
How does this fit into the EU's claim of monopolistic practices? (Also, some design tips for my website students)
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/businesses-at-risk-of-slipping-in-google-results-after-algorithm-tweaks-go-into-effect-tomorrow/?google_editors_picks=true
Big Google algorithm change this week will usher in a new mobile era
New changes to Google’s search algorithms, taking effect this week, have a chance to cause some major headaches for businesses without mobile-ready websites. The company is slated to implement new tweaks to its search ranking tomorrow to prioritize sites that feature “mobile-friendly” designs.
The change has been a long time coming – Google first announced it back in November – but starting Tuesday, companies that haven’t made the switch will start feeling the hit in Google’s search results. The changes will favor sites that avoid technologies like Flash that don’t work on phones, have layouts that automatically scale so that users don’t have to scroll side-to-side or zoom, and have links placed far enough apart that they can be easily tapped with a finger.
… The algorithm change signifies a bigger shift by Google towards separating its mobile and desktop search results, Meyers said, because tomorrow’s change will only affect searches run from mobile devices including smartphones and tablets.
Would you cut off a large share of your market?
YouTube may no longer work on your pre-2013 smart devices
Google is known for its not great support. If you have a problem with a Google account or associated service, good luck trying to talk to someone at Google about it. It’s a very hands-off way of dealing with products, and it looks as though that also extends to support for older devices being able to use those services.
This week Google has retired its Data API v2 for YouTube, which means that a long list of smart devices manufactured in 2012 or earlier will no longer have functioning YouTube apps.
… It’s not as though Google hasn’t given fair warning about this change. The retirement of Data API v2 was announced in March 2014, and a migration guide for developers was made available in September last year. That’s plenty of time for upgrades to happen. However, there’s still a range of devices that will lose functionality, including 2nd-generation Apple TV, Google TV version 3 or 4, Sony and Panasonic smart TVs and Blu-ray players manufactured pre-2013, any device running iOS 6 or earlier, and any game consoles that don’t support Flash or HTML5.
They proved it can be done. Was it worth the expense? Where else could we use this technology?
http://adage.com/article/media/chevy-print-ads-esquire-popular-mechanics-include-video/298085/
Chevy Runs Digital Video Ads in Print (Yes, You Read That Right)
Here's something you don't see every day: Chevrolet bought print ads to show off its digital videos.
The ad, which promotes Chevy's Colorado truck, appears in the May issue of certain subscriber issues of Esquire and Popular Mechanics. And it allows readers to watch one of three short videos, which were created by Chevy's creative agency Commonwealth//McCann.
Some 10,000 subscribers each to Esquire and Popular Mechanics -- those considered likely Colorado buyers -- received copies with a video player embedded inside the print page.
Perspective. Interesting that Warton has jumped in this so quickly.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/live-and-lucrative-why-video-streaming-supremacy-matters/
Live and lucrative? Why video streaming supremacy matters
Two hot new apps will let couch potatoes everywhere live vicariously through other people’s experiences — as they are happening.
Meerkat and Periscope are the latest in socially connected apps that let users broadcast live video. While similar apps such as Ustream have been around for years, Meerkat and Periscope have gained users quickly through the attraction of a minimalist interface, a sense of immediacy, and the ability for viewers to send messages and even bestow their approval of live streams in real time.
If nothing else, Kim Dotcom is a never ending source of amusement.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/kim-dotcom-may-get-kicked-out-of-new-zealand-but-not-because-of-copyright/
Kim Dotcom may get kicked out of New Zealand—but not because of copyright
… An extradition trial, delayed many times, is currently scheduled for June.
Now it's come to light that Kim Dotcom may get kicked out of New Zealand sooner than that, but it has nothing to do with copyright. The New Zealand Herald reports that the country's Immigration Minister has launched an inquiry to decide whether to deport Dotcom because of an unreported driving violation, in which he pled guilty to driving 149 kilometers per hour in a 50 kilometer per hour zone. (That's 93 mph in a 31 mph zone.)
Dotcom pled guilty to the offense in 2009, but when he filed his New Zealand residency application in 2010, it asked if he'd ever been convicted of an offense involving "dangerous driving." He answered "No."
… The inquiry was opened after the Herald revealed the conviction in an earlier article. [Apparently newspapers have better access to government records than the government. Bob]
If Dotcom was deported over the driving matter, it would be to Finland or Germany, not the US, where he would have to stand trial. However, it would clearly complicate his legal case, and it isn't clear how such a move would affect his chances of finally ending up in the US.
For my Data Management students. How would you predict an increase in demand for Ice Cream cones?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-could-predict-emergency-room-rush-hours/ar-AAbjJaE?ocid=mailsignout
Twitter Could Predict Emergency Room Rush Hours
… Research that will be published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics combines Twitter posts and air quality and hospital data to form a model that researchers believe can predict emergency room trends more effectively and immediately than existing disease surveillance models, such as that published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While health and data tools such as Google Flu Tracker have used social media and search engines to monitor the spread of contagions, this new model is the first to look at chronic illnesses such as asthma, the researchers say.
… To find a connection between tweets about asthma and asthma-related emergency room visits, they combed through Twitter streams for 19 keywords, such as “asthma attack” and “inhaler.” After filtering out the tweets that contained the keywords but did not reflect “asthma affliction,” they compared the Twitter post trends to air quality data from the Environmental Protection Agency. Finally, they compared that information to numbers from the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. They found a correlation between tweets about asthma, changes in air quality and asthma-related emergency room visits.
… The global Twitter data set available to the researchers consisted of nearly half a billion tweets, about 1.3 million of which contained asthma-related keywords. They narrowed that pool down to those that had location coordinates (35,152), and from there selected only those from the Dallas area (4,660). They did away with non-English tweets [Strange choice in Texas, especially with online translation tools. Bob] and any “that mentioned asthma in an irrelevant context,” the paper says.
Believe it or not, this is for my Statistics students. (We already discuss the statistics behind the movie “MoneyBall”)
The Scouts And Stats Agree: Kris Bryant Is Going To Be Dope
Even the messiah can strike out three times on his first day in the majors. Last Friday, Kris Bryant, the Cubs’ anointed savior, was called up from the minors after weeks of debate about whether he should’ve just started the season in the majors. There is an aura of myth to Bryant’s arrival, as though the stars have aligned to offer the Cubs a chance to fulfill a prophecy. Yet Bryant is still an untested prospect, and, as Cubs fans know too well, even the best prospects can fail to live up to expectations.
But Bryant really is special — he’s the rare prospect that has both scouts and stats in complete agreement. Because of the unique intersection of scouting know-how and minor league data, Bryant is likely to match the hype.
I assure you I did not play these games. I grew up in New Jersey. We played Cops & Robbers (with real cops)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remember-computer-games-school-play-now-free/
Remember Those Computer Games from School? Play Them Now for Free
… Since most of these titles are at least 20 years old, they’ve become publicly available. Some are clones of the originals, but there’s something here for everyone who enjoyed an educational game during free periods of computer class.
For my students. If they like it, I might actually get a smartphone! (Okay, probably not.)
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/take-back-your-smartphone-with-freedompops-free-phone-plan/
Take Back Your Smartphone with FreedomPop’s Free Phone Plan
… FreedomPop is now offering a truly accessible phone plan with 100% free service, and they’ll even throw in a certified pre-owned Samsung Galaxy SIII for you!
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… If you’re sick of getting played by US mobile phone carriers, it’s time to act. Use this link to join FreedomPop and get started with an awesome free plan. The free plan is perfect for students and those who don’t use their phones often, but if you need unlimited resources, why pay T-Mobile or AT&T hundreds of dollars when FreedomPop lets you have them for $20?
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The National Youth Orchestra of China: A Look at 2019 and Beyond
Remarks & Performance
Q & A and Networking
RMB 20 for students; RMB 60 for Yale alumni; RMB 80 for others.
Walk-ins are not accepted.
Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
On March 27, Robert Blocker, the Henry and Lucy Dean of Music at Yale University, and Vincent Accettola, Managing Director of the National Youth Orchestra of China, will host a discussion about the present and future of NYO-China. The audience will also have the privilege of listening to chamber performances from alumni of the ensemble, as well as learn about the incoming Class of 2019.
The language of the event will be English.
Dr. Robert Blocker
Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, Yale University; Senior Advisor, National Youth Orchestra of China
An internationally-renowned pianist, educator, and administrator, Robert Blocker has served as the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music at Yale University since 1995. During his tenure, he has been active throughout the world in promoting music and the arts, including and especially in China. As a senior advisor for NYO-China, he has been instrumental in helping the organization develop partners within the classical music community. In 2006, Dr. Blocker was named honorary Professor of Piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
Vincent Accettola’16 BS
Managing Director, National Youth Orchestra of China
A recent graduate of Yale University (’16 BS) and Harvard University (’17 EdM), Vincent Accettola has served as the Managing Director of the National Youth Orchestra of China since its launch in 2017. In that capacity, he is responsible for articulating and preserving the mission of NYO-China, as well as overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organization. In 2015, Vincent was elected to serve a three-year term on the board of education for New Jersey’s largest regional high school district.
Guang Chen
NYO-China Teaching Artist, Trumpet Professor of Trumpet,Central Conservatory of Music
Guang Chen is a Professor of Trumpet at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Executive Director of China’s Orchestra Academy, the Visiting Principal Trumpeter of the China National Symphony Orchestra, and a Teaching Artist for the National Youth Orchestra of China. Since graduating from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Guang Chen has performed with numerous acclaimed orchestras, including the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Ballet of China. He was also named by CCTV as one of the “Top Ten Trumpeters in China.”
Speech – Introduction | Robert Blocker
Performance 1 | BACH Unaccompanied Suite No. 3 | Yuanyujie Zhu
Video – NYO-China: A Retrospective
Speech – NYO-China’s 2019 Season | Vincent Accettola
Video - 2019 Admissions Overview
Accepted Students Announcement: Part 1
Performance 2 | HANDEL-HALVORSEN Passacaglia for Two Violins | Hanyu Feng & Shiman Yu
Speech – A Student’s Perspective | Hanyu Feng OR Shiman Yu
Speech – A Teacher’s Perspective | Guang Chen
Speech – Honoring Linda He | Robert Blocker
Speech – Creating a Sustainable NYO-China | Vincent Accettola
Performance 3 | HAYDEN String Quartet Op. 33, No. 2 “The Joke” | Hanbo Wang
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Bush Hacks Interfered With Tobacco Case
In another outrageous story out of the politicized Bush Justice Department, The leader of the Justice Department team that prosecuted a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies said yesterday that Bush administration political appointees repeatedly ordered her to take steps that weakened the government's racketeering case. They even ordered her to read verbatim a closing argument they had rewritten for her.
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Woody Harrelson's Father Dies in Prison - New York Times
Charles Harrelson, died of a heart attack in the Supermax federal prison where he was serving two life sentences for the murder of a federal judge, officials said Wednesday.
Posted by Indefensible at 11:53 PM 1 comment:
Dahlia does it again
The most engaging legal journalism of the day comes, yet again, from Dahlia Lithwick at Slate (disclosure: She's my editor there and a great one.)
Just read this piece. You won't regret it.
Repositioning the Democrats...
Say what you will, republicans aren't stupid. Huffpo is reporting that in just a few hours prominent conservatives will launch an effort to restore civil liberties
Now this is all well and good but it suggests to me that the democrats have failed to sufficiently position themselves as "small government" when it comes to this stuff. Aparently, though the new conservative package will try to "restore congressional oversight and habeas corpus, end torture and extraordinary rendition, narrow the president's authority to designate 'enemy combatants,' prevent unconstitutional wiretaps, email and mail openings, protect journalists from prosecution under the Espionage Act, and more.'"
Just makes me sad that democrats aren't associated sufficiently with these obvious populist positions.
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A part of the PATRIOT Act that must go...
The administration has long used the PATRIOT act to provide some camouflage and even legitimacy to it's loathsome and often unconstitutional activities. So it's high time that the democrats started looking to repeal some portions of it, starting with the Naming of Prosecutors. Mercifully it looks like that's where congress is finally headed.
Bag man Pete...
This excellent New York Times piece details the degree to which Republican senator Pete Domenici was responsible for the dismissal of United States attorney, David C. Iglesias.
Bag man Pete
Here's the good stuff: "Mr. Iglesias said he had believed that his bosses shared his view that United States attorneys should stay above the fray. “I thought I was insulated from politics,” he said in an interview. “But now I find out that main Justice was up to its eyeballs in partisan political maneuvering.”
Since his ouster, Mr. Iglesias has received support from other federal prosecutors, who say the department failed to honor its obligation to ensure that decisions about prosecutions are free of political taint.
“People who understand the history and the mission of the United States attorney and Justice Department — they are uniformly appalled, horrified,” said Atlee W. Wampler III, chairman of a national organization of former United States attorneys and a prosecutor who served in the Carter and Reagan administrations. “That the tradition of the Justice Department could have been so warped by that kind of action — any American should be disturbed.”
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28 Counts?
A sixth-grade science teacher who was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Rachel L. Holt, 35, had pleaded guilty to second-degree rape. She sobbed in court Friday as Superior Court Judge Calvin L. Scott gave her the mandatory minimum sentence. Prosecutors had wanted Scott to sentence Holt to the maximum of 25 years.
Holt was initially charged with 28 counts of first-degree rape. Police accused her of having sex with the boy that many times during an intense weeklong affair.
Oops. It was Rove after all.
Rove e-mailed about the US Attorney firings well before Gonzales was even AG
No--Don't curb your enthusiasm...
Juan Catalan, unjustly imprisoned for nearly five months after being charged with a murder he didn't commit was exonerated by unused daily footage shot for the HBO comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Well, the case was dismissed, .and last week he received a $320,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed against the City of Los Angeles.
Posted by Indefensible at 9:45 AM 1 comment:
What happened to Judge Chase?
I am sure it's often very frustrating being a judge. It's a tough job, but some seem to acclimate better than others. This great piece chronicles the strange decent of one New York immigration judge--Judge Jeffrey S. Chase.
Judge Chase was recently assigned to desk duties after the Second Circuit (in it's second stinging reversal) found that " Judge Chase’s decision show “a plethora of errors and omissions,” and that his tone during the hearing was unacceptable.
The panel pointed to a ”disturbing” incident in which the judge appeared to tread on lawyer-client privilege when he asked Mr. Ba if he had lied to his lawyer: “Yes or no?” “’It is inconceivable,” the panel wrote, that Judge Chase, “as a judge and lawyer, would not know the impropriety of that question.”
Absolutely corrupting power
"The FBI's director, Robert Mueller, admitted the bureau had abused the enhanced powers vested in it through the U.S. Patriot Act.
FBI Cheating on NSL's
According to a recent report, by investigators in the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) “the FBI used NSLs (NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS) in violation of applicable NSL statutes, Attorney General guidelines, and internal FBI policies.” A large number of the infractions, according to the OIG, violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA): “In addition, we found that the FBI circumvented the requirements of the ECPA NSL statute when it issued at least 739 ‘exigent letters’ to obtain telephone toll billing records and subscriber information from three telephone companies without first issuing NSLs.” Exigent letters are produced when FBI agents feel they need immediate information, and the OIG found that these claims were exaggerated in many of these cases.
“Moreover,” the report continues, “in a few other instances, the FBI sought or obtained information to which it was not entitled under the NSL authorities.” These “instances” appear to be clear and quite extreme violations of NSL statutes: using an ECPA NSL to secure educational records; obtaining telephone records that were not part of a national-security investigation; and obtaining credit reports as part of a counterintelligence investigation.
This is why we shouldn't ever surrender powers like this to the government.
Every night is a Saturday night massacre...
There is mounting evidence that the Bush administration regularly pressures supposedly autonomous United States Attorneys when they step into the politically charged arena of republican corruption.
The latest? A former federal prosecutor in Maryland said Monday that he was forced out in early 2005 because of political pressure stemming from public corruption investigations involving associates of the state’s governor, a Republican.
The depravity of this administration and it's willingness to subvert justice seems almost limitless
Posted by Indefensible at 10:24 AM 1 comment:
Andrew Thomas--over everyone's dead body...
Arizona deserves what it gets. Maricopa county already has an imbecilic sheriff who likes to make inmates wear pink underpants
Shameful "Sheriff Joe"
But now come a rabid prosecutor whose Policy Shift on the Death Penalty has overwhelmed the Arizona Court system. According to the NY Times:
"During his two years in office, Andrew P. Thomas, the county attorney, has nearly doubled the number of times that the office has sought the death penalty, even though the number of first-degree murder cases prosecuted by the county has remained more or less the same for a decade.
A policy change that he enacted has contributed to a backlog of capital cases here that has crippled the county’s public defender system, left roughly a dozen murder defendants without representation, and prompted rancor and demoralization in the agencies that defend capital cases."
Mr. Death Penalty Himself
Woody Harrelson's Father Dies in Prison - New York...
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{{Languages|The Role and Responsibility of a Criminal Defense Lawyer}} == Importance of A Defense Lawyer In The Criminal Justice System == The criminal justice system is viewed as a three-part system consisting of the judge and jury, the prosecutor, and the defense lawyer. Each part of this system has a specific role. The role of the judge and jury is to render an impartial decision based solely on the facts presented and the laws applicable to the charged offense. In order to decide impartially, the judge and jury must be able to hear arguments from both sides. The prosecutor's role is to argue the side of the state that seeks to prove the defendant's guilt. The defense lawyer's role is to argue on behalf of the defendant. The defendant has no burden of proof. That is, the defendant need not prove his innocence. It is enough simply to point out ways in which the state has not established guilt (e.g., an eyewitness has poor eyesight or an accuser has a motive to lie). The criminal justice system recognizes that in a criminal proceeding the state is asserting its ultimate authority over a single civilian; the defense carefully observes the use of this authority. Furthermore, different safeguards are in place to prevent abuse of the state's power. * The state bears the highest burden of proof, and must show that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes he is charged with. * No burden is placed on the defendant. That is, he need not present any evidence and he need not testify or give his own version of events. The state may not comment on the defendant's decision not to testify and the jury may not consider it in evaluating the case. * Many procedures are in place related to the investigation and the arrest of the defendant to ensure all evidence is accurate and that the correct person is charged with a crime. * Defendants possess civil rights to ensure they are treated fairly and given an opportunity to argue their case. Safeguards, however, are useless without someone to guarantee or police them. This is the job of the defense lawyer. * The defense lawyer presents all evidence to rebut the prosecutor's arguments and challenges all questionable assertions of facts by the prosecutor to ensure that the high burden of proof is met. * The defense lawyer challenges procedural errors and may seek to have charges dismissed because of unreliable evidence or testimony. * The defense lawyer informs the defendant of his rights and defends those rights to ensure they have not been violated. == The Defense Lawyer as the First Line of Defense for Defendant When Facing the State == It is important for a defendant to obtain the help of a defense lawyer as early as possible. There are many actions a defense lawyer can take to protect and aid a defendant in the early stages that may not be possible as the case progresses. * The defense lawyer can inform the defendant of his rights at the outset (such as the right to remain silent) so that the defendant is aware of them and can benefit from them. * The defense lawyer can seek the temporary release of the defendant through bail, allowing the defendant to better assist in the preparation of a defense. * The defense lawyer can negotiate with the prosecutor to have charges reduced or even dropped. In addition, the defense lawyer is able to counsel the defendant on different strategies and arguments that can be used in the case as well as the benefits and drawbacks for each one. * The defense lawyer works with the defendant and other witnesses to understand the defendant's version of events and to determine an appropriate defense (e.g., alibi, self-defense, misidentification). * The defense lawyer can provide advice on what plea to enter, whether to accept a plea agreement, whether to waive a jury trial, and whether the defendant should testify on his own behalf. * The defense lawyer can determine which witnesses to call and how they should be examined. * The defense lawyer can determine which potential jurors might be biased against the defendant and seek to remove them from the jury panel. ==Other Resources== * [[Defender's Credo]] * [[ABA Ten Principles Of a Public Defense Delivery System]] {{Languages|The Role and Responsibility of a Criminal Defense Lawyer}}
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Solly, David Christopher was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7855 Pine Cone RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 75312.
Solly, Pamela Ann was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10583 Oakmoor CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5694757.
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Solo, Kristine Marie was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1041 Crystal Basin DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601734976.
Solo, Lawrence Gregory was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6333 S Yates CT, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 820206.
Solo, Michael Andrew was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2107 Barnwood CT, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600249961.
Solo, Nicholas A was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6333 S Yates CT, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 820453.
Solo, Nina G was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6333 S Yates CT, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 820978.
Solo, Raymond Jr was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1202 Bordeaux DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600101636.
Solobell, Lena was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7020 E Girard AVE APT 310, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 932003.
Solobell, Sam was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7020 E Girard AVE APT 310, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 931957.
Soloc, Jennifer Rebecca was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3733 Oro Blanco DR APT 207, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601743901.
Soloc, Joshua Paul was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3733 Oro Blanco DR APT 207, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601722462.
Solod, Amy Lynn was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7466 Park Lane RD, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8006827.
Solod, Gail Janice was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4537 Sunnyside PL, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600367089.
Solodar, Goldie Sara was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1521 N Vine ST APT 104, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600897036.
Solodare, Karen Lee was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3755 S Orleans ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5677111.
Solodare, Robert Kevin was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4781 S Flat Rock CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601698144.
Solodky, Barbara K was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1939 W Arapahoe RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 814162.
Solodky, Kimberly Anna was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4224 S Fox ST, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 881934.
Solodky, Stanley M was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1939 W Arapahoe RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 814101.
Soloducha, Andrew Vincent was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1112 E 7Th ST, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601725347.
Solodukhin, Liliana Diaz was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3515 W 7Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7999915.
Solodukhin, Nikita Vladimirovich was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3515 W 7Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601296860.
Solodukhin, Vladimir L was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7058 S Tempe CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601607138.
Solodukhina, Anna L was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7058 S Tempe CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601607526.
Solodunov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich was born in 1935 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2089 E Euclid AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200068385.
Solodunova, Tamila V was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2089 E Euclid AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200022620.
Solof, Arlene S was born in 1940 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 899 Ridge RD, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3973314.
Solof, Erik Keith was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2700 W Louisiana AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2508390.
Solof, William was born in 1935 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 899 Ridge RD, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 3973836.
Soloff, Curt Alexander was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2144 N Gilpin ST APT 2, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200291184.
Soloff, Meira Aviva was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6137 Gale DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601891859.
Soloff, Stephen Mark Ii was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1615 Pierson ST # 302, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601316500.
Solognier, Dominique Carlina was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8115 Summerset DR APT A, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600100149.
Solognier, Haanzs Phillip was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2518 Knob Hill CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 106818.
Solognier, Ingrid was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2512 Knob Hill CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601527737.
Solognier Cerella, Natalie Sahel was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4104 Apollo Village CIR APT D, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 117192.
Sologoub, Alexei was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10531 W 105Th AVE, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601781479.
Sologub Sobering, Colleen Rae was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9349 W 13Th PL, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600329503.
Solok, Igor M was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16854 E Lake PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600738244.
Solok, Meri was born in 1937 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1010 S Oneida ST APT D-203, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2945084.
Solok, Mikhail Igorevich was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16854 E Lake PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601431500.
Solok, Natalya was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16854 E Lake PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600366311.
Solokis, Heidi Lund was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8404 S Newland CT, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600890954.
Solokis, Stephen John was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8404 S Newland CT, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4265225.
Soloman, Amie Denice was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 501 Security BLVD APT 108-B, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601820327.
Soloman, Anthony James was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2816 Norwich AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601698166.
Soloman, Deanna Lynn was born in 1972 and registered to vote, giving the address as 3011 Mandalay GRV # 9, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Soloman voter ID number is 601883051.
Soloman, Moe Sulieman was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11772 E Asbury PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5931266.
Soloman, Pauline Marie was born in 1929 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8871 Cloverleaf CIR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5759090.
Soloman, Sarah Marie was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10265 E Evans AVE # 109, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2709433.
Soloman, Shane Bradley was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1174 School ST, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. His voter ID number is 601304398.
Soloman, Tarek was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13476 E Asbury DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600553613.
Soloman, Victoria Pauline was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18601 E Columbia PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200373702.
Soloman, Virginia was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4280 Apollo Village CIR APT D, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 357806.
Soloman, Whitney Ann was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3095 E Maplewood AVE, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600581707.
Solome, Alex Phillip was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1633 Grove ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601167461.
Solome, Brittany Lee was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17159 E Hinsdale AVE, FOXFIELD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5719757.
Solome, Donna Rae was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1334 Shadow Mountain DR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5814228.
Solome, Marc Albert was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8036 S Kalispell WAY, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5671071.
Solome, Nebiloy Sirale was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1570 Joliet ST APT D201, AURORA, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600697068.
Solome, Tristan Thomas was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6853 Ashley DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 5709268.
Solomich, Debra Sue was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10647 S Hwy 67, CRIPPLE CREEK, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3808631.
Solomich, John Anthony was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10647 S Hwy 67, CRIPPLE CREEK, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 3829177.
Solomie, Yohhnes was born in 2000 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2219 S Waco CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Solomie voter ID number is 601901634.
Solomine, Bonny Lynn was born in 1952 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 501 Corundum RD, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601837161.
Solomine, Christian Manuille was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 54 Spruce CT, EVERGREEN, Clear Creek County, CO. His voter ID number is 828211.
Solomine, Danielle A was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 54 Spruce CT, EVERGREEN, Clear Creek County, CO. Her voter ID number is 828058.
Solomine, Grace Manville was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 53 N Osceola ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200356598.
Solomine, John Arthur was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9495 W 49Th AVE, WHEAT RIDGE, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600672237.
Solomine, Michael was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 501 Corundum RD, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601837265.
Solominsky, Lesa Dianne was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 135 Flower ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3982139.
Solominsky, Michael John was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6103 S Filbert CT, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 786912.
Solomito, Kelly Jean was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2049 Zenato CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 218192.
Solomon, Aaron Bradley was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5454 County Rd 346, SILT, Garfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 6791254.
Solomon, Aaron Donald was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1922 Fisher WAY, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6891237.
Solomon, Aaron Joseph was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1995 E Coalton RD APT 2 202, SUPERIOR, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601461281.
Solomon, Aaron Louis was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4292 Vinca CT, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354512.
Solomon, Adam N was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 309 S Loomis AVE, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 200171240.
Solomon, Alan Candler was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2821 Lagrange CIR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8354513.
Solomon, Alberta Ruth was born in 1931 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1601 N College AVE # 150, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1410381.
Solomon, Alexander David was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3095 White Oak LN, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600299727.
Solomon, Alexis Michaela was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1012 3Rd ST, WINDSOR, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601978764.
Solomon, Alice J was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8733 Alpine Valley DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 210574.
Solomon, Allen J was born in 1942 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 301 S Pine # 316, TELLURIDE, San Miguel County, CO. His voter ID number is 4999393.
Solomon, Amanda Blair was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1376 County Rd 5171, FRASER, Grand County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2682376.
Solomon, Amanda Marie was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5454 County Rd 346, SILT, Garfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601992012.
Solomon, Amanda Nicole was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3451 N Quivas ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601581203.
Solomon, Amber Cemone was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 535 18Th ST APT H104, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600683089.
Solomon, Amber Rae was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1174 School ST, CRAIG, Moffat County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601304384.
Solomon, Amy Beth was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 845 15Th ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8354517.
Solomon, Amy Freyda was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 145 Mohawk DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8354518.
Solomon, Amy Hahn was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9568 La Quinta DR, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5871006.
Solomon, Amy Lee was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4855 W Yale AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2750710.
Solomon, Andrew David was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10794 E Berry AVE, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 770684.
Solomon, Andrew Robert was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3425 Possum CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601595647.
Solomon, Anesty Ann was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 14602 E 2Nd AVE # C109, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6824184.
Solomon, Angela Marie was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2376 S Lupine ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2925588.
Solomon, Angela Marie was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2681 S Newark CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5705896.
Solomon, Anita was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2900 Concord ST APT 107, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600745268.
Solomon, Anita Kay was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2212 Dominic CT, SEVERANCE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3691577.
Solomon, Anna was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5205 E Exposition AVE APT 108, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601940121.
Solomon, Anna L was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 333 S Clarkson ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2775487.
Solomon, Anne Marie was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 323 E 42Nd ST # 14, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1663782.
Solomon, Ann Plaut was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1721 Lindenwood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6406805.
Solomon, Ann Wasserman was born in 1940 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3649 Pointer WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5833182.
Solomon, Anushka Anastasia was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 815 N Sherman ST APT 6, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600924514.
Solomon, Arianna Gabrielle was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 929 N Washington ST APT 9, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600694544.
Solomon, Ariel Mace was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5045 N 51St ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354521.
Solomon, Arthur M was born in 1938 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5169 Crested Hill, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3730403.
Solomon, Asher Joseph was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 17574 E Wesley PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601172752.
Solomon, Ashleigh Marie was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3176 E 117Th PL, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601053255.
Solomon, Ashley Anne was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 600 Crystal Hills BLVD, MANITOU SPGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200143816.
Solomon, Asni was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5184 N Fontana CT, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600910650.
Solomon, Austin Chase was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10554 E Pinewood DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601321618.
Solomon, Barbara Lea was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4900 S Ulster ST APT 21-203, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5667954.
Solomon, Barbara Poulin was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1551 Prouty DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4170789.
Solomon, Barbara Ruth was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 488 N Downing ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2395182.
Solomon, Barry David was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1551 Prouty DR, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4170788.
Solomon, Barry M was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7334 Plowsher WAY, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4162198.
Solomon, Benjamin Nathan was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 331 N Fir, TELLURIDE, San Miguel County, CO. His voter ID number is 601180433.
Solomon, Benjamin Thomas was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 815 N Sherman ST APT 6, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600924517.
Solomon, Bereket Tezare was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1703 S Blackhawk WAY # D, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200028395.
Solomon, Berton J was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 84 Riverbend CT # A, EDWARDS, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 6700142.
Solomon, Beylul was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1648 N Detroit ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600479837.
Solomon, Bobby L was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8733 Alpine Valley DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 208335.
Solomon, Bradley Tyler was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10285 W 74Th PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4298673.
Solomon, Brandon Daly was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1697 S Blackhawk WAY # A, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601458080.
Solomon, Brian Michael was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3633 S Sheridan BLVD # 8, DENVER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601266978.
Solomon, Brianne Elizabeth was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 78 Ponderosa ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601091904.
Solomon, Brittany Marie was born in 1997 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 511 W Lake ST # C409A, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601139112.
Solomon, Brooke was born in 1953 and registered to vote, giving the address as 67066 County Rd T, MOFFAT, Saguache County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 600069925.
Solomon, Bruce Randolph was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2359 Split Rock DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601139521.
Solomon, Bryan Anthony was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 645 Pennington DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 602005976.
Solomon, Cade Maurice was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1039 W Ridge RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601025600.
Solomon, Calla Anne was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1901 E Iliff AVE UNIT 254, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601874526.
Solomon, Candice Marie was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 501 Nome ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2825533.
Solomon, Carissa Townsend was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7144 Beech CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 955038.
Solomon, Carla Francene Rexrode was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4529 Shoreline DR # 4, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600101440.
Solomon, Carli Loraine was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1451 24Th ST APT 527, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600364481.
Solomon, Carl Samuel was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5117 Williams Fork TRL APT 120, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601257636.
Solomon, Carol Thelma was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1800 18Th AVE, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601711638.
Solomon, Carrie Rochelle was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2605 Beartrap RD UNIT A, AVON, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200167264.
Solomon, Charles Fj was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2082 Elizabeth DR, PARKER, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 588538.
Solomon, Charles R was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11520 Cranston DR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 358924.
Solomon, Charles Thomas was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 78 Ponderosa ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5805747.
Solomon, Charlotte Rae was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5200 Fossil Ridge DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600525973.
Solomon, Cherie Lynn was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10554 E Pinewood DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5738876.
Solomon, Cheryl Kaye was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1814 Francis PL, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600764075.
Solomon, Christina Doreen was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3860 E 117Th AVE, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600828457.
Solomon, Christine L was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10285 W 74Th PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4059084.
Solomon, Christopher was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 309 Diamond DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1613362.
Solomon, Christopher Raymond was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7540 Coors ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4256734.
Solomon, Clarence Crail was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1160 Delphi DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354526.
Solomon, Clarence Crail Iii was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1160 Delphi DR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354527.
Solomon, Clifford Earl was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19055 Highway 50 UNIT A, DELTA, Delta County, CO. His voter ID number is 600343427.
Solomon, Constance Lynn was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 557 Logan AVE, PALISADE, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2266448.
Solomon, Craig was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 152 Greeley BLVD, PALMER LAKE, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601939054.
Solomon, Craig H was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2471 S Adams ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2755728.
Solomon, Cristine Terese was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11844 Prairie Harvest CT, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5685250.
Solomon, Curtis Rand was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11520 Cranston DR, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600405830.
Solomon, Cynthia Lynn was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 78 Ponderosa ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5924620.
Solomon, Dana J was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1785 Linden AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354530.
Solomon, Dana Lee was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 408 Verdant CIR, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8354532.
Solomon, Dananne Naylor was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10794 E Berry AVE, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 770685.
Solomon, Dan Eric was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6800 S Sicily CT # 1118, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 200062203.
Solomon, Danielle was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 529 County Rd 5A # A, LEADVILLE, Lake County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8354534.
Solomon, Danielle Marie was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10843 Torreys Peak WAY, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601566080.
Solomon, Daniel Robert was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 27430 E Lakeview DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 730568.
Solomon, Daniel Robert was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 333 S Clarkson ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354533.
Solomon, Daniel Todd was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 746 N Trenton ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 3917509.
Solomon, Dan Randall was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 529 W Galena, TELLURIDE, San Miguel County, CO. His voter ID number is 4998870.
Solomon, Darby Rian was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10794 E Berry AVE, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601087448.
Solomon, Dariann Rachea was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1536 Alexander CIR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600987140.
Solomon, Darrell Ray was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8012 Culebra Peak, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4047963.
Solomon, Daryl Lynn was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4219 Beaver Creek DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601805120.
Solomon, David was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 633 N Birch ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601476930.
Solomon, David Albert was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4962 S Xenia ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 779384.
Solomon, David Benjerman was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6220 S Newbern WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 673395.
Solomon, David Eli was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2653 Courtney DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1402871.
Solomon, David Marshall was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8000 Uptown AVE # 2089, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 600924315.
Solomon, David Neil was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 740 N Pearl ST APT 305, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2958595.
Solomon, David Ray was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2854 N Eliot ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2797750.
Solomon, David Samuel was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5040 Coventry CT, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8354539.
Solomon, Dean Farley was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1785 Linden AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601278326.
Solomon, Dean Joseph was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11844 Prairie Harvest CT, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5802679.
Solomon, Deborah Beth was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5130 Walking Horse PT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601151784.
Solomon, Deborah Jeanne was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1488 S Bahama ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 676457.
Solomon, Deborah Rae was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18598 Northridge RD, CEDAREDGE, Delta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 390004.
Solomon, Dehn Elvaro was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 724 W County Road 74, WELLINGTON, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1556814.
Solomon, Delaney Bea was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10794 E Berry AVE, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601140022.
Solomon, Deon Ray was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4406 Wilderness TRL, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600646630.
Solomon, Derek Anthony was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3653 S Lewiston ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600452614.
Solomon, Derenda was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1420 N Mildred RD, CORTEZ, Montezuma County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6707444.
Solomon, Deron Timothy was born in 1999 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16252 E Flora PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601283991.
Solomon, Deva Avram was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 56 S Holman WAY, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601282448.
Solomon, Diana was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5402 Carr ST # 201, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 73579.
Solomon, Diana Lynn was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 880 Flower ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3991155.
Solomon, Diane was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3604 W County Road 4, BERTHOUD, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8354542.
Solomon, Donald G was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3120 Quasar ST, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4934105.
Solomon, Donna J was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3478 W 30Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2415839.
Solomon, Drake Lindsay was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1039 W Ridge RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600615200.
Solomon, Drew Michael was born in 1996 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1419 Red Mountain DR UNIT 48, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601249229.
Solomon, Dustin Matthew was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2212 Ford ST # 14, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601834237.
Solomon, Earl John was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2082 Elizabeth DR, PARKER, Elbert County, CO. His voter ID number is 568960.
Solomon, Eden Hagos was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2642 S Lafayette ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600255872.
Solomon, Edna was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4768 S Sicily ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601801458.
Solomon, Edward Phillip was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4825 Garden Ranch DR APT 202, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 4224877.
Solomon, Elinor T was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3203 Paseo RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 314629.
Solomon, Elizabeth Michelle was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3400 Lawrence ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600411015.
Solomon, Elizabeth Rocheleau was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6220 S Newbern WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 674723.
Solomon, Ellie M was born in 1941 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18499 E Columbia CIR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1163997.
Solomon, Emily Ann was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7777 E Yale AVE # B302, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601035119.
Solomon, Emily Brooke was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2020 Valley View DR, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600814344.
Solomon, Emily M was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 16020 Buggywhip DR, ELBERT, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600026569.
Solomon, Emily R was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7420 E Ellsworth AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2584092.
Solomon, Erin Elizabeth was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10742 Moore WAY, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4298683.
Solomon, Erin Marissa was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3120 Redhaven WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601435103.
Solomon, Ethan Alejandro was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 525 10Th ST, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601892025.
Solomon, Ethan Micah was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5987 High DR, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600437552.
Solomon, Etta Mae was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 20156 E Williamette LN, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2393161.
Solomon, Faline Marie was born in 1983 and registered to vote, giving the address as 70801/2 Niagara ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601417476.
Solomon, Felicia L was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3729 S Jebel WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 909991.
Solomon, Franklin Cortez was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 25913 E Archer DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 930956.
Solomon, Gabriel Hagos was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2315 9Th AVE APT 3202A, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601701902.
Solomon, Gail Jean was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1021 S 4Th ST, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3557044.
Solomon, Garett Lee was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1039 W Ridge RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600345289.
Solomon, Gary Harold was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1614 Miner ST, IDAHO SPRINGS, Clear Creek County, CO. His voter ID number is 200225247.
Solomon, Gary Meyer was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 959 Treece ST, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600940537.
Solomon, Gayla Anne was born in 1938 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8566 Gold Peak DR # A, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600050926.
Solomon, Geanet was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9723 E Carolina PL, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601191887.
Solomon, Glenn Arthur Jr was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4455 E 12Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600472327.
Solomon, Haimanat M was born in 1979 and registered to vote, giving the address as 17685 E Loyola DR # E, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601832117.
Solomon, Hallie Lynn was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 23420 E Moraine PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 742382.
Solomon, Hannah Rose was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17727 Junegrass PL, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5897570.
Solomon, Harold Jr was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1416 E 96Th DR, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6984384.
Solomon, Harvey D was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 23420 E Moraine PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 741958.
Solomon, Harvey E was born in 1933 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14487 W 57Th PL, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4094510.
Solomon, Harvey J was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2813 Pennsylvania AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 297918.
Solomon, Heidi Lurie was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 56 S Holman WAY, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601282447.
Solomon, Helen was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1648 N Detroit ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2894011.
Solomon, Henock was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1029 Broadway, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601093838.
Solomon, Henry Jacob was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 717 S Emerson ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600440534.
Solomon, Holli Brooke was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4406 Wilderness TRL, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600611171.
Solomon, Holly Jewel was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1800 18Th AVE, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601769122.
Solomon, Holly Wallace Foster was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2467 S Evanston ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2958343.
Solomon, Ian Christopher was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 309 Diamond DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1618439.
Solomon, Ian M was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2582 S Oakland ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 687124.
Solomon, Ilene Nicole was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 820 N Lipan ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600841146.
Solomon, Ira Harry was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9215 Kerry RD, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8350092.
Solomon, Iris Linn was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5987 High DR, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4159818.
Solomon, Isaiah G K was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5396 S Oak WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4219341.
Solomon, Jackson Robert was born in 1998 and registered to vote, giving the address as 626 Marine ST UNIT 4, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601421834.
Solomon, Jack Stuart was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3095 White Oak LN, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200286059.
Solomon, Jacob Samuel was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5987 High DR, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600331775.
Solomon, Jacquie Lynn was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 24590 E Applewood CIR # 1027, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600372403.
Solomon, James B was born in 1944 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 557 Logan AVE, PALISADE, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2334576.
Solomon, James Dean was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5616 Mount Sanitas AVE, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8350094.
Solomon, James E was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13876 W 58Th DR, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4254724.
Solomon, James H was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10487 E Weaver CIR, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 774650.
Solomon, James M Jr was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6271/2 8Th AVE APT 1, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601536881.
Solomon, James Robert Ii was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4980 Dewar DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601613090.
Solomon, James Travis was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 104 E Eads DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600867084.
Solomon, Jamie G was born in 2000 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2709 Willard Hall, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601936932.
Solomon, Jamie Greta was born in 2000 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2709 Willard Hall, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601894541.
Solomon, Janice Lee was born in 1946 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6975 Sulfur LN, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5677703.
Solomon, Jaron was born in 2000 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2471 S Adams ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601785247.
Solomon, Jasmin Dominique was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4885 S Quebec ST APT 125, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601911882.
Solomon, Jason Charles was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1207 Jennifer DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 200345759.
Solomon, Jay Marc was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4125 Galley RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 365172.
Solomon, Jeanine was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6008 Blue Ridge DR # F, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5642847.
Solomon, Jeffrey J was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7420 E Ellsworth AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2584090.
Solomon, Jenna Rae was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 960 University AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601661454.
Solomon, Jennifer Elizabeth was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2020 Valley View DR, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3812070.
Solomon, Jennifer Louise was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1039 W Ridge RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600787320.
Solomon, Jennifer Netty was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 516 S Washington AVE, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600422363.
Solomon, Jeremy Trevor was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 705 Gillaspie DR, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601269481.
Solomon, Jerrie Lynn was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7751 County Road 24, LONGMONT, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6309085.
Solomon, Jerry Prince was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1360 Spring Valley DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601312643.
Solomon, Jerusalem was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 931 S Dahlia ST APT 205, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601260240.
Solomon, Jesse Alan was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5200 Fossil Ridge DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1469457.
Solomon, Jessica A was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 331 N Fir, TELLURIDE, San Miguel County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600425551.
Solomon, Jessica Lynn was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2804 E 16Th ST, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601292761.
Solomon, Jessica Marie was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8201 S Santa Fe DR # 98, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2794140.
Solomon, Jessica Renea was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 614 N Logan AVE, FLEMING, Logan County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200337774.
Solomon, Joe Ann Lee was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1313 N Jackson ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601120575.
Solomon, Joe Gibran was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1020 Merritt ST, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. His voter ID number is 600357912.
Solomon, Joel was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10265 E Evans AVE # 109, DENVER, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5670060.
Solomon, Joel R was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2916 S Paris ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2765241.
Solomon, Joe M was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1721 Lindenwood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1413717.
Solomon, John Carter was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10554 E Pinewood DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600550532.
Solomon, John Douglas was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 307 S 8Th ST APT 3, ROCKY FORD, Otero County, CO. His voter ID number is 601190944.
Solomon, John F was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3980 S Atchison WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 718309.
Solomon, John V was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10554 E Pinewood DR, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5658100.
Solomon, Jonathan Carl was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3712 26Th ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600520695.
Solomon, Jonathan J was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2983 S Verbena WAY, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2506241.
Solomon, Jonathan Robinson was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1338 Donner CT, EVERGREEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4170777.
Solomon, Jon David was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1405 S Ivy WAY, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200149290.
Solomon, Joni Denise was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3095 White Oak LN, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200286056.
Solomon, Joseph Aaron was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 331 N Fir, TELLURIDE, San Miguel County, CO. His voter ID number is 5003407.
Solomon, Joseph Frank was born in 1945 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6975 Sulfur LN, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200124171.
Solomon, Joseph Jordan was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2813 Pennsylvania AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 299551.
Solomon, Joseph Ryan was born in 1978 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6656 Osage ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 600674059.
Solomon, Joseph Tanner was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3120 Quasar ST, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 600041355.
Solomon, Joseph W Iii was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7080 Niagara ST, COMMERCE CITY, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7151326.
Solomon, Joshua was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3645 Dogwood DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601538068.
Solomon, Joshua Ethan was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 623 Marine ST, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601221322.
Solomon, Joshua Scott was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 509 18Th ST # 321, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 200316493.
Solomon, Joyanna Wilhelminia was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7540 Coors ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200287193.
Solomon, Joyce Polk was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 407 Pine AVE, ROCKY FORD, Otero County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2246363.
Solomon, Joyce W was born in 1928 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4855 W Yale AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2710244.
Solomon, Judie Ross was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5926 S Jellison ST # D, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4110452.
Solomon, Julie Ann was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3860 E 117Th AVE, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7072631.
Solomon, Julie Kates was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22661 E Del Norte DR, AURORA, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601725112.
Solomon, Justin A was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 477 Lincoln CT, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8350102.
Solomon, Karen Lynn was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1700 W Mountain AVE # 5, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1425794.
Solomon, Kari Rene was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3435 S Ammons ST # 30-7, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4100929.
Solomon, Karl Frank was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8501 Essex ST, DENVER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 6822598.
Solomon, Kathleen Joy was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1 Smith Gulch RD, WILLIAMSBURG, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3690263.
Solomon, Kathleen M was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3425 Possum CT, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 151367.
Solomon, Kathrine Ann was born in 1993 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2706 15Th AVE, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601497947.
Solomon, Kelly Dawn was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 959 Treece ST, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600940534.
Solomon, Kelly L was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1609 Westmoreland RD, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600010512.
Solomon, Kelsey Christine was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5109 Williams Fork TRL APT 206, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601257448.
Solomon, Kenan Henry was born in 1992 and registered to vote, giving the address as 1191 S Beech DR # 201, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Solomon voter ID number is 601308545.
Solomon, Kenneth was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12432 6040 LN, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 6586313.
Solomon, Kenneth Neal was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2613 Antelope RD, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 200088727.
Solomon, Kenn Scott was born in 1966 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1039 W Ridge RD, LITTLETON, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5759039.
Solomon, Kerry Gallagher was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1020 Merritt ST, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600666228.
Solomon, Kidd Duhe was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 340 Roaring Fork CT, BASALT, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 600944803.
Solomon, Kindra Kay was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 51090 County Road 33, NUNN, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601541543.
Solomon, Kirk William was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8231 W 16Th PL, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4037978.
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Bellator 205’s John Salter: The Storm of the Eye
Twice in a row, the same guy gets hit with a storm less than two weeks before a very important event. Is it a coincidence or a sign?
John Salter is a man with a dream. He wants to be a world champion. He’s been working toward this dream professionally since 2009. In his wake, he’s left a path of destruction. Not once in 15 wins and three losses has he ever had the game clock wind down to zero.
Salter is currently riding a seven-fight winning streak. He is one of the best 185-pound mixed martial artists in the world. His last five fights took place under the Bellator banner, which put him in line for a No. 1 contender spot. However, another storm has been brewing right alongside of him.
In February, Bellator put Salter on a collision course with jiu-jitsu legend Rafael Lovato Jr. for a next-in-line position in the company’s middleweight division. They were set to square off on April 28 at Bellator 198. However, in the final days of camp, Salter got some disheartening and unexpected news.
“That was a nightmare,” Salter told Combat Press. “About a week and a half, or maybe two weeks, before the fight — I had already sent my medicals in — and I got a call from the athletic commission saying they flagged me for an issue with my eyes. My eyesight hadn’t changed, and I hadn’t had any differences or anything like that, so I never really thought it was a big deal. I talked to Bellator, and I had it set up to do another eye exam in Chicago to make sure everything’s taken care of. It wasn’t really anything I was concerned about.
“Right before I left, I was getting my last workout in before I get on the plane and I started getting calls from everybody, because the commission already flagged it so I couldn’t fight. I was off the card before I knew I was off. That’s what happened there.”
The scrapped bout and the problem with his eyesight completely derailed Salter. Lovato went on to fight, and beat, Gerald Harris. On Friday night, at Bellator 205 in Boise, Idaho, Salter will get a chance to take his next step when he finally meets Lovato in the cage.
“I feel like the whole year I’ve been preparing for this one fight,” Salter said. “I think it’s going to be good. And, you can say the same thing for him. We’ve both been preparing for each other since February. I think this is good for the fans. You’ve got two guys who have been focusing on each other for a year now, and that’s going to make for a good fight.”
Salter is bringing in a lot more MMA experience than his opponent. Since 2009, the Wilmington, N.C., gym owner has put together eight submission wins and seven knockouts. He has fought three times in the UFC, too. Salter attributes most of his success to his training partners.
“Wilmington’s really got a lot of good athletes and fighters, but everybody’s at different places, so I started Salty Dog to kind of get everybody together,” Salter explained. “It’s been very good. We’ve had a lot of people coming in to train, and Derek Brunson’s got his own gym about 15 minutes away. We train back and forth with each other. It’s a pretty good setup. We get a lot of good training in. I think the past two years, it’s been really good, because I’ve been able to get everybody together.
“I think it’s all in my training partners. When I was out in California, I had a great group of training partners out there that, every single day, they were going to be there for every single practice. There was never that question [of], ‘Am I going to get pushed?’ And then I came to Wilmington three years ago, and same thing. I got some good, solid guys, and I never have to question whether I’m getting good training or not. It’s just consistent, and the guys are willing to drill with me [and] guys who are willing to go live with me.”
With all of the experience under his belt, Salter understands that training for Lovato is a different animal. This is a multiple-time world champion who isn’t afraid to strike. Lovato will also enjoy a significant height and reach advantage.
“I need long guys,” said Salter. “I can’t train with guys that are like 5[-foot-]10 when I’m training for Lovato. When I’m out in Charlotte and training with Lucas Lepri, he is the best in the world, but he doesn’t have Lovato’s build. So, I got to be able to travel.
“I’ve got some friends in Tennessee and Kentucky. I went to Nashville for a week. They’ve got these tall black belts who are doing really well in all of these jiu-jitsu tournaments. [I’m] getting those guys in there to get that build, so I can grapple with all these guys. I’ve got strikers in there who are longer than him, so I can get that build and striking with guys who are taller. I think that’s really going to be a big factor in this fight — being prepared for a guy his size.”
Preparation is the key to preparing for any storm. As Salter was within two weeks of Bellator 205, Hurricane Florence, which had been brewing in the Atlantic Ocean, started bearing down on the Eastern seaboard with the eye set to make landfall in Wilmington.
“I’m actually in Charlotte right now, finishing up my camp out here, which is great,” Salter said. “I’ve got a lot of friends here and good camps to train at, so I came out here to kind of finish everything up. When I finish training tonight, I have to head to Knoxville, so I can actually fly out in the morning. So, I’m going to be there real early.
“The big thing is just to keep everything high from all that rain. Luckily, our gym and our house is high enough that I think we’re going to be fine. I’ve just been training hard. A lot of people left early, but, luckily, most of my training partners stayed in town, so we were able to get some good training in. We headed into Charlotte last night, so I got up [and] got a good training session in with some high-level guys. I’ve got one more training session in Charlotte and then I’ll be getting into Boise, and I’ll be finding a gym there to get some workouts in.”
The storms keep coming, but Salter keeps pushing through. Neither a hurricane nor his own body can prevent this one from happening. He has remained resilient through it all, too. Salter, a jiu-jitsu black belt and a former NAIA national wrestling champion, is not afraid of anyone. The fight against Lovato will be his chance to showcase his skills and earn a title shot.
“I think it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out,” Salter said. “Neither one of us is scared to stand and strike, and neither one of us is scared to be on the ground. I think that’s one of the things that’s going to be different for him. He’s never had anybody that’s as confident to be on the ground with him. I can put him on his back. I can hold him down. I can punch him. And, he’s not going to throw up submissions and catch me, because I’ve been there so much. Even though he has fought some good grapplers, he’s never fought anyone that can wrestle like I can, who also has a high level of jiu-jitsu.
“I think this is going to be the ‘Fight of the Night.’ If you’re a jiu-jitsu guy and you like jiu-jitsu, you’re getting two guys that have been to the ADCC World Championships against each other, and if you like to just see people beat each other up, neither one of us [is] afraid to stand and throw. I think it’s going to be the best of both worlds.”
On Friday night, Bellator 205 kicks off from the Centurylink Arena in Boise. Salter and Lovato serve as the co-main event. Salter has gotten used to facing the occasional storm, and this is just one more he’ll have to weather as he vies for a shot at Bellator gold.
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Dan Kuhl has been following MMA since the first Ultimate Fighting Championship in 1993. He holds belts in multiple martial arts disciplines, and currently trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under a decorated black belt. Dan has an M.B.A. in Finance and Investment Management and a B.S. in Horticulture. Prior to joining Combat Press, his work appeared on The MMA Corner.
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State Faults is a post-hardcore band from Northern California. Formed in early 2010, the group immediately began writing and recording music for what would become their debut EP, Head In The Clouds. The EP quickly spread through word of mouth and the band began to cultivate a devoted following.
In April of 2012 State Faults signed to North Carolina based indie label Tiny Engines and released their first full length record Desolate Peaks. After touring on the strength of the LP for the better part of a year, the band began preparing new material for their follow up record. They were picked up by No Sleep Records in 2013 and immediately entered the studio with bay area producer Jack Shirley to work on their sophomore LP Resonate/Desperate which they would release following their first full U.S. tour.
Two years after touring on the success of Resonate/Desperate with bands including The Saddest Landscape, State Faults entered a hiatus in 2015. Over the next four years, they would begin quietly compiling music for their third record. In January of 2019 the band returned to The Atomic Garden Studios with producer Jack Shirley and completed work on their upcoming third LP Clairvoyant that is set to be released via No Sleep Records and Dog Knights Productions on June 21st 2019.
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AT&T (NYSE: T) is upping its 1 Gbps FTTH game with plans to build out service to parts of 38 additional metro areas.
Today, the 1 Gbps service is already up and running in 18 metros. Upon completion of this latest build, the service provider will double the amount of metro areas it serves to a total of 56.
AT&T did not specify when it will reach these markets, saying only that it will "more than double (gigabit) availability by the end of 2016."
Already, the service provider has launched the service in two new markets -- Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Fla. -- bringing its current total to 20 of the largest metro markets.
Among the other cities it has planned are San Francisco, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
Since launching 1 Gbps service in Austin, Texas, in 2014, AT&T's GigaPower network has expanded to over 1 million locations.
Given the enormity of this new build, AT&T is taking an leverage-and-extend approach to its FTTH build. The provider plans to extend fiber from its existing fiber-to-the-node infrastructure for its U-verse broadband service to make those network builds fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) capable.
Despite its promise, critics of AT&T's plans like DSLReports say that the service provider will cherrypick specific parts of each of its target markets, meaning it will equip newer housing developments with fiber.
Google Fiber (NASDAQ: GOOG) also announced today that it is considering rolling out its own 1 Gbps service in Chicago and Los Angeles but it has not made a firm commitment to either city yet.
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Arthur Burry oral history interview
Arthur Burry oral history interview audio
Title Arthur Burry oral history interview
Subject United States. Army Air Forces
P-47 (fighter)
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan.
USS Trutta (SS-421)
USS Peto (SS-265)
Description The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arthur Burry. Burry was born in Rocky Ford, Colorado 28 March 1924. He was inducted into the Army Air Forces in January 1943 and received flight training at various bases. After completing gunnery school, he was assigned to the 45th Fighter Squadron, which flew P-47 fighter planes. Traveling by merchant ship, Burry arrived at Iwo Jima in February 1945. He relates an incident where the Japanese made a banzai attack on the air field resulting in several pilots of the 15th Fighter Group being killed. He describes being on a strafing mission to Japan when his plane suffered engine failure and he bailed out. He tells of tying himself to his rubber dingy and surviving a typhoon. On his sixth day at sea he was picked up by the crew of the submarine USS Trutta (SS-421). He was transferred to the USS Peto (SS-265) and taken to Guam. After going to Hawaii for R & R he returned to Iwo Jima and received orders to return to the United States. He was discharged in September 1945.
Creator Burry, Arthur
Contributors Parrish, Bud
Brown, Mary
Title Arthur Burry oral history interview audio
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