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Stay Tuned: This week’s viewing is lots of finales, a few premieres
Melissa Crawley More Content Now
Season finales fill the week, a sneaky conman returns, and an acclaimed Staten Island rap crew get the docuseries treatment.
Dispatches: Weekly TV news
YouTube announced that its original series and specials will soon be available to watch for free with ads. Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl discussed the decision at YouTube’s annual Brandcast event. “While every other media company is building a paywall, we are headed in the opposite direction,” he said.
The “Downton Abbey” team of Julian Fellowes, Gareth Neame and Michael Engler are partnering with HBO for their new series “The Gilded Age.” The 10-episode period drama (previously slated for NBC) follows the orphaned daughter of a Southern general who moves to New York City and quickly gets caught up in the lives of her fabulously wealthy neighbors.
ABC has given an early series order to “Mixed-ish.” The “Black-ish” prequel spinoff will focus on a young version of Tracee Ellis Ross’ Rainbow character and her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1980s.
Elizabeth Banks will host ABC’s “Press Your Luck” reboot, which is set to air June 12.
Kanye West is developing a Showtime anthology series called “Omniverse.” The first season, described as “examining the many doors of perception,” will feature Jaden Smith as a young Kanye West in an alternate reality.
Contenders: Shows to keep on your radar
A slew of ABC, Fox and CBS shows say goodbye for the summer. On Fox, “Empire” ends its fifth season on May 8 at 8 p.m. ET followed by “Star’s” season three finale at 9 p.m. ET. Fox’s other finales take place on May 10 with “Last Man Standing” (8 p.m. ET), “The Cool Kids” (8:30 p.m. ET) and “Proven Innocent” (9 p.m. ET). May 8 on ABC sees the finales of “The Goldbergs” (8 p.m. ET), “Schooled” (8:30 p.m. ET), “Modern Family” (9 p.m. ET) and “Single Parents” (9:30 p.m. ET). On CBS, it’s the season six finale of “Mom” (May 9, 9 p.m. ET), season three ender of “MacGyver” (May 10, 8 p.m. ET) and season nine finale of “Blue Bloods” (May 10, 10 p.m. ET).
“Sneaky Pete” returns for its third season (May 10, Amazon Prime). It’s been 14 months since the premier of season two, so remembering this excellent show’s complicated story structure takes some time but an introductory catch-up in the premiere helps. In the new season, Marius/Pete (Giovanni Ribisi) helps his pretend family save their bail-bond business and a woman from his past persuades him to get back into the con game.
Seminal rap group Wu-Tang Clan is the subject of “The Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men” (May 10, Showtime, 9 p.m. ET). The four-part docuseries explores the globally successful group’s history and impact.
Report Card: A look at ratings winners and losers
Winners: CBS has renewed all five of its daytime shows. The line-up is on track to be the most-watched network daytime slate for the 32nd straight year.
Losers: With mediocre ratings and cast and production issues, Fox’s “Lethal Weapon” may have reached the end of the line.
Melissa Crawley is the author of “Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television’s ‘The West Wing.’” She has a Ph.D. in media studies and is a member of the Television Critics Association. To comment on Stay Tuned, email her at staytuned@outlook.com or follow her on Twitter at @mcstaytuned.
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Hamilton & Schwarzenegger Are Back in First TERMINATOR: DARK FATE Teaser Trailer
Posted Thu May 23, 2019 at 09:55 AM PDT by Steven Cohen
The day after Judgment Day is coming in November.
Paramount has released the first teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate, offering fans a peek at the return of Sarah Connor and the T-800. The movie is set to hit theaters on November 1, 2019.
Linda Hamilton (“Sarah Connor”) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (“T-800”) return in their iconic roles in Terminator: Dark Fate, directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and produced by visionary filmmaker James Cameron and David Ellison. Following the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator: Dark Fate also stars Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, and Diego Boneta.
Check out the official teaser trailer below!
Terminator: Dark Fate will be the sixth entry in the Terminator franchise, following the release of The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), and Terminator Genisys (2015). Likewise, the franchise also includes a TV series titled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which ran for two seasons from 2008 to 2009.
With that said, this new film's plot will serve as a direct sequel to Terminator 2 and is not expected to acknowledge any of the events from the other movies and TV show. In addition to the return of stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film also marks the return of franchise creator James Cameron who helped develop the new story and also serves as a producer. Cameron has not had any direct involvement in the Terminator film series since the second installment.
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Hotels in Figueres, the home of Dalí
When you reach Figueres, you’ll be sure to notice its natural beauty, nestled among vineyards between the Pyrenees and the Costa Brava. But your hotel in Figueres is also your key to the home of internationally renowned artist, Salvador Dalí. Figueres’ most famous son lives on in the city, not least in his surreal theatre-museum.
Your Figueres hotel: door to the world of Dalí
Dalí, born in Figueres in 1904, left a sizeable amount of his legacy in the city, for which he had a special appreciation. His theatre-museum is the chief attraction in the city. The master of surrealism laid out every detail of this red castle, adorned with giant eggs and breads and watched over by suits of armor with baguettes on their heads. Once inside, you’ll be treated to exhibits such as Rainy Taxi, with water gushing over the occupants of an antique Cadillac, or Gala Looking at the Mediterranean Sea, featuring his wife and muse.
Exploring the city
Just outside the city proper lies the Castell de Sant Ferran, one of the largest castles in Europe. Boasting a commanding view of the countryside, its grounds stretch over a mind-boggling 32 hectares, including a subterranean water system that visitors can explore today by boat! Back in town, you can explore the toy museum, the Museu del Joguet, whose 3,500 toys from throughout the ages have something for young and old alike.
Explore the Costa Brava from your hotel near Figueres
Just 12 kilometers inland from the Gulf de Roses, your hotel in Figueres is an ideal base for an exploration of this rugged stretch of the Costa Brava. One popular route is the ‘Dalí triangle’, which will take you from Figueres to the seaside town of Cadaqués.
Cadaqués, a fishing village with sparkling white buildings, was a favourite destination of many famous artists, including Dalí and Picasso, many of whom left their mark on the town. It also boasts numerous beaches and inlets. Púbol is the site of Dalí’s former residence, the Castle of Púbol, which still contains numerous works by the artist and is a window into his later years.
Meanwhile, if mountains are more to your liking, the medieval village of Besalú, now a national monument, offers historical Romanesque architecture side-by-side with café-lined streets and fine dining. The hills of the Empordà region are home to the wine Denomination of Origin of the same name, and a wine route wends its way through the region’s wineries.
With culture and wine, mountains and sea, Figueres awaits your visit. Book your hotel in Figueres with B&B Hotels to see what brings so many to this jewel of Catalonia.
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James Page & Son Handcuffed, Hit by Cops After Car Crashes into His House, Lawsuit Says
Richard Connelly | October 12, 2011 | 4:45pm
You're having a bad day when a car crashes into the front of your house. You're having a worse day when school-district cops handcuff you and your 11-year-old son, giving him a swollen lip and breaking your collarbone.
That's what James page says happened in a lawsuit filed against the North Forest ISD.
Two years ago, the suit says, Page was sitting in his den in the 10300 block of Lera "when he heard tires screeching, a loud bang, and his son Demetri screaming outside."
He saw that someone had driven a car into his house and run away. Bad enough, but the problems were just beginning.
Two cops from the often-troubled North Forest ISD pulled up, the suit says, and as he tried to describe the guy who ran away, they "drew their guns, pointed them at him, and ordered him to the ground."
He told them he lived in the house that had been hit, and neighbors confirmed that to the two officers. The officers told the neighbors to leave, the suit says, and they slapped handcuffs on Page.
When Page again attempted to explain, he says the cops told him to "shut the fuck up," which possibly might be in the official NFISD training manual, but probably not.
After being forced to the concrete driveway again, Page and his son were placed in the back of the patrol car in handcuffs.
Page came out of it with a broken collarbone, the suit says, and his son "suffered a swollen lip and a scratch on his face."
The plaintiffs are asking for damages "from $1 to $10 million."
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Welcoming Synagogues: Queering Jewish Religious Spaces
01/19/2012 01:21 pm ET Updated Mar 20, 2012
Rebecca S. Wax knows what it's like to feel unwelcome.
"I have an Orthodox [Jewish] sister, 14 years older, and when I came out at 22 she brought me straight to the rabbi's wife," said Wax. "It was really scary. She said I would be sad and lonely my entire life, and I sat there and cried."
Wax wasn't allowed to visit her sister's seven children, until the fifth daughter protested to have her invited to her bat mitzvah, saying, "This is not a Jewish way to treat your sister." She attended an Orthodox synagogue in Atlanta, where she hid her sexual orientation, referring to her girlfriend as just a roommate.
"The rabbi of the congregation said he welcomed anyone in his congregation, yet also suggested celibacy and reparative therapy for homosexuals," Wax said. Now 42, and a mother of two, Wax lives with the same "roommate," her partner of 20 years. She joined congregation Bet Haverim, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Atlanta founded by gays and lesbians.
"When I sat down for the first service, I thought, 'Oh, this is what Judaism is about,'" she said. "There's a connection, a warmth I would feel, and just an understanding."
Many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Jews may not have the luxury of a synagogue that welcomes them. However, an ambitious Welcoming Synagogues project, launched in 2007 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, aims to train congregations cross across denominations to become safe and welcoming spaces for Jews of all sexual orientations and gender expressions. Dr. Joel L. Kushner, 48, the director of the Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation, IJSO, at Hebrew Union College, began the pilot version of the project last year, which involves a 12-month curriculum led by a task force of congregants set up in each synagogue with the guidance of an outside consultant. Seven congregations -- in Atlanta, Seattle and California -- are now participating in the pilot program, and some are finishing within two to three months.
"We're in a period of complacency, thinking everything is fine, when I think it is not quite fine at all," said Kushner. On a continuum of inclusion -- from hostile to embracing -- Kushner believes that most Jewish congregations are tolerant of LGBT people, insisting they "welcome everyone" without specifically reaching out to LGBT Jews and addressing their needs. Few congregations are actively welcoming -- saying they want LGBT members, or affirming and celebrating them.
"Inclusion is a common buzzword, everyone says 'let's be more inclusive,' but research on gay and lesbian people show that when a mission statement says we welcome everyone they read it as, 'they welcome everyone but us,'" said Kushner in an interview early November after a tour at the One National Gay and Lesbian Archive, the largest LGBT library in the world. "To say we're welcoming isn't enough," said Kushner. "For LGBT people to feel welcome in a congregation they need to be explicitly identified and affirmed." (Full disclosure: I took a class with Dr. Kushner on Judaism and Sexuality at the University of Southern California.)
The first step of the Welcoming Synagogues project was to survey 3,000 synagogues across denominations in the U.S on their diversity and practices of LGBT inclusion -- including topics covered in sermons, language used in the mission statement and outreach programs offered. The survey was a joint effort of IJSO and Jewish Mosaic, the National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, and the research was conducted by Steven M. Cohen, research professor of Jewish social policy at Hebrew Union College, and Caryn Aviv, a senior instructor on secular Jewish society at Colorado University and co-author of "Queer Jews." The results, released in 2009, were that while most rabbis think their synagogues do a good or excellent job welcoming gays and lesbians, most congregations offer no targeted programming aimed at LGBT Jews. Only 33 percent of rabbis report that their congregations held programs related to gay and lesbian people, and most Orthodox rabbis feel their congregations are minimally or not at all welcoming of gay and lesbian Jews. Aviv doubts the Welcoming Synagogue project will have an effect on Orthodox communities.
"That change has to come from within. It's a hard sell to get an entire congregation to sign up for a program of reflection and transformation when they're really not interested anyway," said Aviv.
Wax was hired as a consultant to three synagogues in Atlanta participating in the Welcoming Synagogues pilot. A Conservative congregation she worked with dropped out of the program early.
"The congregation has two rabbis, wonderful people, and they really felt they didn't need the project, which was very disappointing because I know some lesbian and gay folks there who didn't feel that way," said Wax, who also directs the Rainbow Center, providing resources and support for LGBT people and their families. She thinks many synagogues are afraid they will seem too focused on the one topic of sexuality.
While these strategies of inclusion and organizational change focus on the LGBT community, Kushner noted that they can be applied to outreach that targets any population, such as welcoming teenagers, interfaith families or Jews of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.
"What we know about welcoming in general is that people want to see themselves reflected in the content and programs of an organization," said Kushner.
He outlined four steps to inclusion: content, visibility, training and language. In implementation, this might mean having visual images on the website of two dads and a child, training clergy and staff on services the community offers for LGBT Jews, or ensuring the membership forms don't just say "mother and father" but "parent or guardian."
Kushner's project borrowed inclusion strategies from a Christian model. The Welcoming Church Movement, which began in the early 1980s, is an ecumenical network of Christian communities in the United States that make public statements welcoming persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
"I realized that's what we need for Jews," said Kushner, "we need a Jewish LGBT welcoming congregational movement."
The Welcome Synagogues program is designed to be scalable for any denomination, so a social-justice focused Reform congregation might have different results than a traditional Conservative community participating in the program.
"My agenda is to move them further along the continuum of inclusion but not to set their goals for them," said Kushner.
Lori Gradinger, 56, chairs the Welcoming Synagogues task force at Temple Beth Am, a Reform congregation in Seattle. Gradinger, a lesbian and a mother of three, is a longtime member of the synagogue with her partner. One main concern of the task force at Temple Beth Am is the activity in the children's Sunday school.
"When we started the committee," said Gradinger, "it wasn't long after many gay teen suicides took place cross-country. To me that's really what matters, that kids can find a place to talk, be understood and listened to." To that end, the committee has begun a survey of teachers, parents and students to assess whether children who thought they were gay were safe to talk to someone at the synagogue.
Caryn Aviv questioned whether the effort to make synagogues more welcoming is viable or of any value. "One of the side questions of the research was, are synagogues the best venues to focus on LGBT inclusion?" said Aviv. "The data suggested many LGBT Jews weren't synagogue goers and weren't inclined to become synagogue goers."
Kushner, however, maintained that many Jews do still seek to connect to Jewish life through synagogues. "We've got to the level of tolerance [of LGBT Jews] for a lot of synagogues but I want Jews to be able to choose to affiliate and be fully welcome if that is what they want," said Kushner. As synagogues combat declining membership rates, Kushner said there's a need to draw members by creating a welcoming space for everyone. Quoting Rabbi Denise Eger of Kol Ami, a predominantly gay and lesbian synagogue in West Hollywood, Kushner said, "We don't have a Jew to lose, and we're losing them all the time."
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Hugo calls on the Government and betting companies to tackle gambling-related harm
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Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
East Devon's MP Sir Hugo Swire has called on the Government and betting companies to do more to limit the social costs of gambling.
In a debate in Parliament's second chamber known as Westminster Hall, Hugo said that we cannot understand the gambling industry today and all its associated costs and harms without looking at how Parliament has previously tried to regulate the sector.
Hugo served as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport between 2005 and 2007. During this period the Government of the time admitted it was presiding over "an explosion in online gambling".
In the debate, Hugo argued that the former Labour Government's focus on super-casinos provided for under the 2005 Gambling Act left a vacuum in online-gambling regulation. Since then, legislation has tended to be "one-step behind the curve". It is only in April of this year that fixed odds betting terminals will be limited to a £2 maximum stake.
Hugo listed five policy asks for Ministers at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport:
Treat gambling as a public health issue as we do with mental health.
Tougher verification checks could ensure young gamblers are not drawn online.
Limit gambling adverts during sports match breaks to one-per break per company.
Conduct a full review of the social costs of gambling. For example, the Government has never made an estimate of the cost of gambling-related harm to the NHS.
Ensure that gambling-related harm is included when Health Education is made compulsory in all state-funded schools, as part of teaching on mental wellbeing.
You can watch Hugo's speech in the video.
A challenge to the new East Devon District Council
Today (Wednesday 17th July 2019), East Devon MP Sir Hugo Swire has called on the newly constituted East Devon District Council to review its plans for the expansion of Cranbrook.
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Home About IFAC News & Events IESBA Redefines Accountants’ Ethical Role When Laws and Regulations Broken
IESBA Redefines Accountants’ Ethical Role When Laws and Regulations Broken
The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants® (IESBA®, the Ethics Board) today released a new standard, Responding to Non-Compliance with Laws and Regulations. The standard sets out a first-of-its-kind framework to guide professional accountants in what actions to take in the public interest when they become aware of a potential illegal act, known as non-compliance with laws and regulations, or NOCLAR, committed by a client or employer.
The standard applies to all categories of professional accountants, including auditors, other professional accountants in public practice, and professional accountants in organizations, including those in businesses, government, education, and the not-for-profit sector. It addresses breaches of laws and regulations that deal with matters such as fraud, corruption and bribery, money laundering, tax payments, financial products and services, environmental protection, and public health and safety.
“This standard not only raises the ethical bar for the global accountancy profession but also provides an opportunity for it to demonstrate its unflagging commitment to act in the public interest,” said IESBA Chairman Dr. Stavros Thomadakis. “The standard reinforces the public interest role that professional accountants play in stimulating more trustworthy and accountable organizations, and in helping to protect stakeholders and the general public from substantial harm that may stem from breaches of laws and regulations.”
Among other matters, the new standard provides a clear pathway for auditors and other professional accountants to disclose potential non-compliance situations to appropriate public authorities in certain situations without being constrained by the ethical duty of confidentiality. It also places renewed emphasis on the role of senior-level accountants in business in promoting a culture of compliance with laws and regulations and prevention of non-compliance within their organizations.
“The board carefully calibrated the standard based on the rich and diverse input from a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that it is proportionate and, importantly, globally operable,” said IESBA Technical Director Ken Siong, adding, “The standard fills a gap in jurisdictions where legislation or regulation does not address professional accountants’ responsibilities in these situations, and by providing helpful guidance it may well complement legislation or regulation in jurisdictions that do address it. This has been a long journey, and now it’s time for national standard setters, professional accountancy organizations, and accounting firms to adopt and implement the standard.”
The standard is the result of an extensive six-year consultative process, including two Exposure Drafts, three global roundtables in Hong Kong, Brussels, and Washington, DC, and extensive outreach to the global regulatory community, international policy-making organizations, investors, preparers, the corporate governance community, national standard setters, accounting firms, professional accountancy organizations, and other stakeholders. In developing the standard, the Ethics Board also liaised closely with the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) so that the new standard and the IAASB’s International Standards on Auditing are aligned.
For an overview of the standard, see the At-a-Glance document. For a summary of the board’s decisions in response to significant comments from respondents on the May 2015 Exposure Draft, see the Basis for Conclusions. Additional resources, including a fact sheet and video Q&A series, are available on the NOCLAR web page.
To access the standard, visit the IESBA website: www.ethicsboard.org. The standard will be effective July 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted.
The IESBA is an independent standard-setting board that develops and issues, in the public interest, high-quality ethical standards and other pronouncements for professional accountants worldwide. Through its activities, the IESBA develops the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, which establishes ethical requirements for professional accountants. The structures and processes that support the operations of the IESBA are facilitated by IFAC. Please visit www.ethicsboard.org for more information.
The International Federation of Accountants® (IFAC®) is the global organization for the accountancy profession dedicated to serving the public interest by strengthening the profession and contributing to the development of strong international economies. IFAC is comprised of more than 175 members and associates in more than 130 countries and jurisdictions, representing almost 3 million accountants in public practice, education, government service, industry, and commerce.
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Justice in the forests: Vietnam
Article, 07 April 2011
This short film looks at community forestry in Vietnam.
Local people need legal rights to forests shows how benefits have started to accrue to communities in Vietnam when they were given commercial rights to use forests – and how this provides an incentive for sustainable forest management.
Although many communities in Vietnam have managed their forests for centuries, it is only recently that the government has recognised the legal status of community forest management.
This film compares the case of one village that has received legal title to one that has not. Thon Bon is one of the few villages to have been given legal title under the government's pilot scheme while Pho Trach, which also relies heavily on the forest for its wellbeing, has been managing it successfully for centuries without legal title.
The cooperative has done a good job of looking after the forest yet the village has not yet been issued legal recognition to its rights to the forest. Instead, they must rely on the cooperative system to manage their natural resources and can fall victim to outside exploitation without compensation.
In the current context of global schemes to fight greenhouse gas emissions, these legal titles provide a real opportunity for Vietnam, provided they can be made to work at the community level.
Gaining security and rights will not only ensure the health and well being of the forests themselves, but also for the people who have cared for them for generations and hope to continue doing so far into the future.
Other films in the series
Justice in the forests: Malawi
Justice in the forests: Uganda
Justice in the forests: Ghana
These films have been produced by IIED and Dominic Elliot with the financial assistance of the European Union (EU) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The contents of these films are the responsibility of IIED and can under no circumstances by regarded as reflecting the position of the EU or DFID.
James Mayers (james.mayers@iied.org), director, IIED's Natural Resources research group
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Land and water rights in the Sahel
In the Sahel, rain-fed farming and pastoralism are the main livelihood sources. In the past few decades, efforts have been made to improve the water infrastructure in rural areas – for example through the creation of new water points and irrigation schemes. These efforts have often failed to consider governance and property rights issues - who decides what and how, and who has right over what before and after the water development project.
In some cases, part of the problem lies with inadequate legal frameworks. In much of the Sahel, land and water laws have evolved with very little coordination, and often in different directions. Contradictions between sectoral laws on land, water and pastoralism, and between these and legislation on decentralisation, exacerbate tensions around property rights over land and water.
The Sahel Water Governance Learning Group (PROGRES from its French title - Projet de Gouvernance des Ressources en Eau au Sahel) is tackling these issues in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
The aim of the group is to promote better policy, law and practices that address the governance property rights challenges of improving access to water for farming and herding. We do so by generating knowledge, facilitating learning and exchange, and promoting informed debate among key actors at all levels.
Key outputs and impacts to date include:
analysis of relevant legislation, a literature review and two field-level case studies in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger
establishment of small, informal learning groups that bring together a mix of water governance stakeholders
providing evidence for the 2006 UNDP Human Development Report on water.
Lorenzo Cotula, Principal researcher, Natural Resources research group
Land and water rights in the Sahel: tenure challenges of improving access to water for agriculture, Lorenzo Cotula (2006), IIED | en français
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‘Roseanne’ To Take On #TimesUp In Season 2
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Roseanne has already taken on some hot topics during its nine-episode reboot run—politics, pills, and prejudice, just to name a few. And now it sounds like more hot-button issues will be addressed during the upcoming 11th season of Roseanne Barr’s ABC revival series.
In an interview with TV Guide, Roseanne executive producer Whitney Cummings revealed that producers of the show toyed with the idea of an episode touching on the Time’s Up movement for the current season of the sitcom revival, but opted to hold off until next season at the risk of seeming “opportunistic.”
“It just felt like, ‘Let’s wait until next season where we can get a good story around it’ because it was towards the end of production, and we weren’t going to elbow it into something,” Cummings told TV Guide of addressing Hollywood’s movement against sexual harassment in the workplace.
After the current season’s headline-making episodes that took on today’s political climate and Roseanne’s fear of her Muslim neighbors, it will be interesting to see how Roseanne incorporates Times Up into the Conner family’s storyline. Trump supporter Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) currently works as an Uber driver, while daughter Becky (Lecy Goranson) waitresses at a Mexican restaurant. Roseanne’s sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) is a staunch democrat and self-described life coach.
Yin and Yang right here #Roseanne
A post shared by Roseanne on ABC (@roseanneonabc) on Apr 10, 2018 at 5:28pm PDT
Earlier this year, Roseanne Barr was under fire when she joined hundreds of other stars and wore black to the 2018 Golden Globe Awards as a show of support of the Time’s Up initiative. Some people criticized Barr for showing support for Time’s Up when she also supports Donald Trump, who has allegations of sexual assault and harassment against him.
But with her 30-year history in Hollywood, Roseanne Barr has plenty of her own stories to tell, so it could be high time for a Time’s Up episode on Roseanne. Barr previously told The Daily Beast that she dealt with rampant sexism in her early days as a standup comedian. In the interview, Barr detailed the widespread misogyny she faced as a female stand-up as she tried to make a name for herself in the male-dominated comedy clubs and the late-night circuit.
Not only did Roseanne Barr reveal that she knew many female comics who were allegedly abused by Bill Cosby during his heyday, but the Roseanne star described the “grotesque sexism” she faced as she was introduced at clubs by male comics who delivered crude jokes about the female anatomy as she entered the stage.
Roseanne airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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A Guide to Getting Tattoos Following Ariana Grande’s ‘Tiny BBQ Grill’ Faux-Pas
1:44 PM PST, February 1, 2019 - JOHANNA LI
Playing Ariana Grande's Tattoo Disrespects Asian Culture, Psychologist says
Ariana Grande learned the hard way this week that mishaps can come with getting a tattoo in a foreign language.
After posting a picture of her brand-new “7 Rings” tattoo on Instagram, Grande quickly came to the very public realization that the characters actually translate to “tiny barbecue grill."
She laughed it off, professing her love for "tiny bbq grills," but the incident raises the question: What are the dos and don'ts of getting ink that relates to another person’s culture? From misspellings to microaggressions, Dr. Kevin Nadal, a professor of psychology at the City University of New York, told InsideEdition.com what to keep in mind.
“One of the things that’s really important for us to learn from this lesson is that if you’re going to get a tattoo, it’s important for you to do your research and find out what that tattoo really means,” Nadal said.
The pop star took to social media Tuesday to announce her new tattoo supposedly commemorating her song “7 Rings,” but fans and critics alike were quick to point out that “七輪” or “shichirin” actually translates to “small Japanese charcoal grill.”
“Taking somebody’s language and using it as a form of art without doing any research just goes to show how careless she was,” Nadal said. “The fact that she didn’t have any advisers or friends to tell her that that tattoo meant something else just goes to show that perhaps she’s not familiar with the culture, so it shouldn’t be something she should view so lightly.”
Grande explained she omitted the additional characters in the correct translation because it was too painful to get the entire phrase tattooed, but revealed on her Instagram Wednesday that she did alter the tattoo to a slightly more accurate translation following backlash with the help of a tutor.
While Nadal appreciated Grande correcting her silly mistake in the face of feedback, he said the decisions she and others like Nicki Minaj, Justin Timberlake and David Beckham made to get tattoos of symbols or icons from cultures that do not belong to them is in a larger theme of cultural appropriation.
"Cultural appropriation is so problematic in our country because we have people from dominant Western groups that take things from other cultures, and it's so symbolic of the colonization and the imperialism of the United States – that they feel they can take things that aren't theirs and they can claim them as their own," Nadal said. "Practices and traditions that are very sacred in certain countries and cultures [shouldn't be] viewed as art or as something that can easily be copied and mimicked."
Nadal said that taking iconography from Asian cultures can be especially harmful since the group is oftentimes the victim of exoticization.
"This is when people say things like how Asian people are like orientals, they're like rugs, they're like objects," He explained. "Exoticization is very problematic because what it does is it puts Asian Americans into a category in which they are not American enough. They're different, they're foreign, they're viewed as being cool and interesting as opposed to being part of the group."
Nadal suggested that to avoid a hurtful homage to a culture, one should always avoid religious, tribal or spiritual icons and do more research as to how the tattoo might be perceived by people of that culture.
"You need to understand the history, understand the importance of respecting others' culture," Nadal said. “There’s a way to appreciate a culture that’s genuine.”
And if in doubt, Nadal said to ask yourself the question, "Why is it that you want to get a tattoo of a different cultural group, that you have no affiliation with? Why not get something that might match one of your identities or a group you might belong to, or something that is meaningful to you?”
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Hotel firm Marriott to be fined €110m for customer data breach
Hotel chain Marriott is facing a fine of £99m (€110m) over a data breach which is estimated to have affected around 339 million customers.
The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fine relates to a data breach at the company believed to have originated in the systems of the Starwood hotels group in 2014.
Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 but the breach was not disclosed until November last year.
The ICO said the hotel chain had failed to undertake due diligence when it bought Starwood and should have done more to secure its systems.
Last year, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in Europe, which gave regulators increased powers to levy larger fines against companies for data breaches.
Starwood hotels, include Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire, London’s Park Lane Sheraton Grand, Westbury Mayfair and Le Meridien Piccadilly.
Marriott International’s president and chief executive Arne Sorenson said the company was “disappointed” with the ICO’s announcement and said it would contest the fine.
“Marriott has been co-operating with the ICO throughout its investigation into the incident, which involved a criminal attack against the Starwood guest reservation database,” he said.
“We deeply regret this incident happened. We take the privacy and security of guest information very seriously and continue to work hard to meet the standard of excellence that our guests expect from Marriott.”
When first disclosing the breach, the hotel firm said the guest records of around 339 million people had been accessed and said it believed more than five million un-encrypted passport numbers were part of the information accessed.
Seven million records were said to be related to UK residents.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said: “The GDPR makes it clear that organisations must be accountable for the personal data they hold. This can include carrying out proper due diligence when making a corporate acquisition, and putting in place proper accountability measures to assess not only what personal data has been acquired, but also how it is protected.
“Personal data has a real value so organisations have a legal duty to ensure its security, just like they would do with any other asset. If that doesn’t happen, we will not hesitate to take strong action when necessary to protect the rights of the public.”
On Monday, British Airways was issued with a £183 million fine by the ICO over its own 2018 data breach.
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Remembering the Uganda Martyrs
Icon of the martyrs at the Shrine
In graduate school I first became friends with students and priests from Uganda who greatly enriched my appreciation for the Uganda Martyrs. 22 Catholic martyrs of the late 19th century were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964. They are commemorated on June 3, the anniversary of the burning-to-death in 1886 of St. Charles Lwanga and eleven fellow Christian servants of the Ugandan Kabaka (King). There are ten other Catholic martyrs during this period who are also grouped into today's feast. Each one has an awesome story that was carefully recorded from eyewitness testimony for the beatification proceedings in the early twentieth century.
It is unfortunate that the stories and even the names of their Anglican companions in this dramatic ecumenical gesture of common witness have been lost, as the Anglicans didn't have the kind of rigorous investigative process for beatification or the emphasis on individual saints that is so prominent in the Catholic tradition. The Catholic martyrs, after the collection of the testimony of numerous still-living witnesses, were beatified in 1920. October 18 will mark the 50th anniversary of their canonization, and the Catholic Church in Uganda is dedicating the whole year to a renewal of faith for millions of people who stand today as the heritage of the martyrs.
St. Joseph Mukasa
Among the martyrs who were not in St. Charles Lwanga's group are several outstanding adults, including St. Mattias Mulumba and St. Andrew Kaggwa, both catechists and married men with families. Another of the martyrs who particularly inspires me is St. Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe, who was the personal attendant of King Muteesa and his son King Mwanga II, and head of the royal household. He was able to obtain religious freedom for Christians (for a limited time prior to 1885), and his teaching and example led to a large number of conversions and strengthened the faith of many of the new Christians. But he also fearlessly rebuked King Mwanga for his superstitious and immoral life and in particular for the execution of a Protestant missionary bishop. The King saw this as a challenge to his absolute royal authority, and he turned against Christianity. Joseph Mukasa was brutally tortured and executed for teaching the Christian faith and for his defense of Christians on November 15, 1885. He is a patron saint of politicians.
This led to further executions of prominent Christians, and finally to the young men and boys who served the King. In addition to being pathologically obsessed with his own power, Mwanga was also a serial sex predator and pedophile. The Christians, led by Charles Lwanga, resisted the King's abuse and protected others from it. King Mwanga demanded that they renounce this faith that opposed his desire to turn his servants into a caged harem of boys subjected to his every lustful whim and brutal fantasy. Of course, they refused and were subjected instead to death for the glory of their newly found Lord, Jesus.
Bishops and pilgrims 2014 (from The Observer,
Online news and opinion journal from Uganda)
Today all these martyrs are the heroes of the Catholic people of East Africa. You can read each of their stories here on the website of the Uganda Martyrs Shrine, which is located at Namugongo, the sight of the torture and death of St. Charles Lwanga, 11 Catholic servants of the King (nearly all of them under 20 years of age), and a number of Anglicans as well. The Shrine is a place of pilgrimage all year round but especially on June 3, which is an official holiday in Uganda and is known as "Martyrs Day." This year a million pilgrims gathered at the Shrine from the region and the whole world to celebrate Martyrs Day.
The Shrine of the Uganda Martyrs
The story of the Catholic martyrs of Namugongo, including their final "death march," was preserved in great detail by Denis Kamyuka, one of the Catholic royal pages who was condemned to death with the others and taken all the way to the place where they were burned, only to be pardoned at the last moment because of the pleas of relatives who were associated with the King's family. It is because of his detailed testimony at the beatification process over thirty years later that we have a vivid narrative of their heroic sufferings and deaths.
Denis Kamyuka was present at the beatification of his companions and friends in 1920, and it is said that he wept for not being among them. But he was spared so that the whole world might know the story of the witness that was given on that day. You can read the story here. There is a litany of the Uganda Martyrs that is published by the Shrine; a profound and powerful prayer for the multitude of pilgrims who come from all over East Africa (and the world) to honor and seek help from these saints who are their forebearers in the faith. Click here for the litany and the invocations.
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Chinese artist’s image of dying grandmother vies for BP portrait award
This article titled “Chinese artist’s image of dying grandmother vies for BP portrait award” was written by Maev Kennedy, for The Guardian on Wednesday 6th April 2016 15.48 UTC
A haunting portrait by a Chinese artist of his grandmother lying in her hospital bed in the last stages of cancer, almost beyond speech but gazing at the artist and the viewer, has made the shortlist of three for the National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) annual prize.
While two of the three artists, Clara Drummond and Benjamin Sullivan, are competition veterans who have made the shortlist at last after many appearances in the annual exhibitions, Bo Wang has made the shortlist – chosen this year from 2,557 portraits submitted from 80 countries – on his first attempt. He is only the second Chinese artist to do so.
Bo, 34, is a lecturer at Suzhou University in Jiangsu, and has exhibited at venues throughout China, including the National Art Museum in Beijing. His portrait, Silence, was made just a month before his grandmother died.
“Sometimes she tilted her head and looked at me,” he said. “There was too much emotion in her eyes to be expressed in words. I almost forgot about painting techniques or any specific style, just trying to use my brushes to communicate silently with my grandma. I can strongly feel the state of a dying life when I think of her eyes.”
Detail from Clara Drummond’s Girl in a Liberty Dress. Photograph: Clara Drummond/National Portrait/PA
The two other artists are British, and well known to visitors to the gallery’s annual exhibitions.
Drummond, born in Edinburgh in 1977 and now based in Cambridgeshire, made the exhibition in 2005 with a portrait of the actor Ben Whishaw, a friend of hers, and in 2009 with a portrait of the model Iris Palmer. Making the shortlist is the third time lucky for her portraits of her friend and fellow artist Kirsty Buchanan, depicted wearing a vintage Liberty dress in a William Morris print – she also exhibited portraits of Buchanan in 2013 and 2014.
Benjamin Sullivan, born in Grimsby in 1977, completes the shortlist with a portrait of the poet Hugo Williams, whose work he greatly admires. Despite Williams’s rather glum expression, it was painted at the poet’s Islington home in north London while listening, Sullivan said, to “very loud Elvis and early Cajun music”. Sullivan has been selected for the exhibition on 12 previous occasions, and his portrait of the astrophysicist Prof Martin Rees is in the gallery’s permanent collection.
All three artists are guaranteed a useful sum of money: the first prize is £30,000 plus a £5,000 commission, while second place receives £10,000 and third £8,000.
Detail from Hugo by Benjamin Sullivan, a portrait of the poet Hugo Williams. Photograph: Benjamin Sullivan/National Portr/PA
The new director of the NPG, Nicholas Cullinan, became chair of the judges for the first time this year, and said it was wonderful to see such an international list of entries. “The final selection for the exhibition, including this shortlist, brings together some really striking examples of the contemporary portrait,” he said.
The winner will be announced on 21 June, and the exhibition, which this year includes 53 artists from Britain, the US, Germany, France, Ireland, Spain, China, Russia, New Zealand, South Africa, Lithuania and Colombia, opens to the public on 23 June.
The prize, now the largest in the world for portraits, is sponsored by BP, which has recently announced it was dropping its sponsorship of the Tate and of the Edinburgh Festival, and is reviewing its sponsorship portfolio – which has led in recent years to pickets by environmental campaigners on the institutions. A spokesman for the NPG said the portrait prize sponsorship was guaranteed until the end of 2017. “We are currently in discussion with BP about a potential future partnership beyond our current contract,” he said.
The BP Portrait Award 2016 exhibition is at the National Portrait Gallery in London from 23 June to 4 September 2016, with free entry. It will then tour to Lincoln, Edinburgh and Leicester.
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The Champions Classic will be in its eighth season in 2018 with Kentucky and Duke leading the way with 4-3 records. Kansas and Michigan State are 3-4 in the series.
Since the Champions Classic began in 2011, all four teams have reached the NCAA Final Four at least once, with Kentucky and Duke winning national titles, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Over the last 14 games of the Classic, there have been 13 top-25 matchups, including two games featuring No. 1 vs. No. 2 (according to the AP Top 25).
The four schools feature a combined 18 NCAA titles — Kentucky (eight), Duke (five), Kansas (three) and Michigan State (two) and a total of 56 Final Four appearances.
UK has played Duke in the Champions Classic two times. The Blue Devils defeated the Wildcats 75-68 in 2012 in Atlanta but Kentucky beat Duke 74-63 in 2015 in Chicago.
The Wildcats lead the all-time series vs. Duke 12-9.
Duke has signed the top two recruits in the class of 2018 in R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish. The Blue Devils have also signed five-star point guard Tre Jones, the brother of former Blue Devil Tyus Jones and the No. 1 point guard in the 247Sports composite rankings. All three players are McDonald’s All-Americans.
Kentucky has signed two McDonald’s All-Americans in Immanuel Quickley and Keldon Johnson.
The NCAA moved the start of the season in hopes of creating more scheduling flexibility for schools during the non-conference portion of the year, which conflicts with football. Also, the hope is that schools will have more flexibility in scheduling off days for athletes.
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The history of Witham, Essex
Some Research by Janet Gyford
Tape 185. Miss Margaret Mens, sides 1 and 2
Tape 185
Miss Margaret Mens was born in 1913. She was interviewed on 27 March 1999, when she lived at ‘Cavaliers’, The Street, Bradwell juxta Coggeshall.
For more information about her, see Mens, Margaret, in the People category.
The original recording of this interview is held at the Essex Sound and Video Archive. To listen to the recording, please contact them at ero.enquiry@essex.gov.uk or 033301 32500.
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Later explanatory additions by JG or the transcriber are in square brackets [e.g. explaining locations etc.]
Miss M: So then it was taken over by the Council and that monstrosity put on the site [i.e. the Health Authority Building in Collingwood Road on the site of her family home, number 10, Langleys]
Q: So your father was the, your father was the bank, your grandfather was the bank manager?
Miss M: Bank manager.
Q: Yes, and he was Alfred?
Miss M: Alfred, that’s right.
Q: I remember reading about him, yes. So it was him that had all these children?
Miss M: They had the eight. Apparently he was a lot older than grandma. She was very young and very pretty and very extravagant, so I’m told, when they married, course I don’t know. And my mother said that, you know, he had to put the brakes on quite a lot. [laugh]. She was a very very determined old lady. Actually she was a horror when she got old. But, you know. I can remember lectures at home, ‘You must have your mother for Christmas day, she’s your mother, you’ve got to invite her for Christmas day’. She would come, and tell us that she’d starved herself the day before and eat everything that was put in front of her with about three helpings. And then complain about my mother ‘Such extravagance, never seen anything like it’. In the end they put, I didn’t know anything about it [???] to a hotel for Christmas. And I was horrified you see. But I was about sixteen, seventeen then, and we never stayed at home for Christmas again. No. I think my father thought we’d had enough. [laugh]. Because the language[?] was never her home. Now somebody wrote an article in some book on Witham isn’t it, with a picture of her in a porch, well that is not the porch of Langleys, and I don’t know which porch it was, but I know it’s not Langleys, and she never lived there. It was my father’s house, he bought it in 1917. Now I had an argument with what’s her name, Miss Woollings, she wrote an article about it and said it was it was built in 1917, and I rang her up and said it wasn’t.
Q: No, I see, it was there before.
Miss M: It was built in 1900 for the solicitor Mr Blood and his two sisters, and my father bought it in 1917, and I’ve got a picture of that when it was very wide and open, I was about three. And then, he had half, the solicitor had half for his offices, and he and his sisters lived in the part that we always lived in. And I always remember it because they said ‘We’ve got a pets’ graveyard, would you please not disturb it’. And I can remember being told at three or four ‘Well now it’s a job you can do, you can weed that. And we always left it and the little, they’d got a ‘Chum’ had got a carved stone, he must have been special. The others had slates with the name painted on. And I used to go down there and weed this little bit of garden, and we never disturbed it. Of course it’s all under asphalt now, the car park.
Q: So were you born there then?
Miss M: Well actually my parents lived, for the first few years lived in Avenue Road, which one was it called, is it called the Hawthorns. Let me see, there’s the, you know where Beechknowe is, where Mr Hedley used to live, he doesn’t now he’s gone to Colchester. Well next door to that was, there was a pair and we lived in one of those.
Q: On the right hand side?
Miss M: Yes.
Q: I know someone that lives next to …
Miss M: Well one was Dr Foster’s for a long time, then he moved off. But I don’t, other than that I’ve no recollection really. That’s where they lived, and then we moved to Collingwood Road in 1917. That’s when he bought it and these two, the old people and Mr Blood apparently, was the solicitor, he was always in a wheel chair. That’s why we had such an extraordinary staircase, it was because he had to be got up in, attendance, and it was all turns, squares, not a curve or anything, you went up [???] and then there was a landing and then you went up six and there was another landing, and my mother told me that he used to be taken through into the office part through a swing door, half way up the stairs, and he always slept over the strongroom, she said, which was very important. I don’t know what good a man in a wheel chair would have been [laugh].
But of course when we went the swing door was nailed down and never opened again. So I don’t know what happened after, eventually it became, oh, various offices, and then the Food Office and then the Council.
Q: You told me on the phone I think about having soldiers staying. Was that at Avenue Road or at … [Second World War]
Miss M: No. Yes. First of all, we’d got three stories you see, and there were two big bedrooms up at the top, which we used, and they came round and said first of all we had to have evacuees. And they only stayed ten weeks fortunately, we got rid of them. And then they said, after Dunkirk, we had two soldiers, and eventually they moved on. And my mother said, ‘Now look, we’ve had enough, we’re not going to have this plonked on us like this, I’m going to sell that furniture. If the rooms are empty they can’t say you’ve take anybody in.’ Cause the billeting officer used to come round, if you’d got empty rooms, you’d got to fill them up. So then we got some friends, course I mean even the war, things happened, somebody we knew who lived in Ireland and then Torquay, they got bombed out, so we turned it into a flat for them and after that it always remained a little flat up there.
Q: So the soldiers, were they, were they waiting to go somewhere?
Miss M: They came back from Dunkirk and I don’t know what, they were something to do with the Ordnance, because you don’t, now what was his name, you didn’t say Sergeant Major, he was a, commander, he had some queer name anyway, and their officers or billets or whatever they were supposed to be was up Hatfield Road, I think somewhere where that garage is. But they used to go out every day. But of course both of them that had been through Dunkirk, and the older man was shot to pieces, his nerve had gone, he used to get us out of bed every time the siren went and roar us downstairs into the cellar and sit there, and, oh, he couldn’t help it, but I used to say, for God’s sake I’ll die in my bed, I want to sleep. But he, they eventually moved on and as I say, then we thought, mother said ‘We’ve had enough of this, we’ll do something different’. For one thing, you know, it’s very awkward, they would come in at tea time, we’d be having cups of tea. ‘Well what have you got to do, will you have a cup of tea?’. Well we only had two ounces of tea a week each, and I can remember my mother saying, ‘Look, if you’re going to keep coming in to tea, I’m very sorry but you’ll have to pinch some tea from your canteen’.
Q: Did they not bring their own?
Miss M: Oh no, they were supposed to be, didn’t bring their own food.
Q: Or did they bring their own ration …
Miss M: I don’t think so. I always remember the Christmas, I shall never forget that, I don’t know which Christmas it was now, but they were in the house, and then somebody gave my father a huge turkey, I don’t know whether that was, probably Mr Cullen from Cressing Temple, and so of course then my mother started . Well now, we’d got two friends who were evacuated from Clacton, their son was home on leave so they came, then my mother said ‘Well is there anybody at your Ordnance affair who can’t go home for Christmas?’ ‘Oh yes there was Ian’. Well they hated Ian. Ian must have been a Scottish aristocrat’s son, he’d been to Eton. They hated him. He’d got the most the perfect manners, my dear, very very handsome, charming boy, of course we all thought he was the cat’s whiskers, you see, and they couldn’t bear him, and anyway Ian came. Then mother then rang up somebody up, I don’t know where there were some more soldiers billeted. And in the end we ended up with ten to Christmas dinner. And we had all this Christmas dinner and gave them everything we could, mind you we had lots of veg from the garden, and I can remember my father saying, ‘Now then, all the silver and glass is to go to Margaret in the pantry, and all the dirty plates to come out to the scullery to me. So he made them clear the table, but of course these fellows faded off, and I’ll always remember it because after it all was over and we sat back with our feet up, this wretched fellow, who’d been in the regular army you see, he thought because he was regular army he was the cat’s whiskers.
And he said ‘Well of course, you know, I ought to have arrested young Dudley’, that was our friend’s son. ‘Because’ he said, ‘under Queen’s regulations, you can’t, a serving soldier can’t appear in mufti’. Well of course my mother nearly hit the roof. She said ‘Look here, that boy was in a bank, he flung up his job to join up, he’s just a gunner in the, ‘ I don’t know what, it was artillery of some sort’, she said ‘he’s given up his job to go and serve his country, and you come here and talk like that’, you know, she really gave it to him, and after that we didn’t hear quite so much about what we ought to do. But he eventually moved on.
Q: So, the one who talked like that wasn’t Ian, it was, that was the one that staying with you?
Miss M: No, Ian was charming, you know perfect manners, always pulling your chair out, ‘Can I help you do this Mrs Mens’ and so on and so on. And they didn’t know, they thought it was the thing to sit back and be waited on. And then we had a lot of soldiers in the Public Hall. That was full. And they were a band of the Essex Territorials from Buckhurst Hill or Epping, but they were nearly all W C French employees or had been, from that area. And of course the Con Club, my father was something to do with, not the Conservative, it should be the Constitutional Club, but of course it’s got called the Con Club ever since, hasn’t it. But he said, the officers were made honorary members immediately, and he said, you know, anything we can do for the men, cause there was all these fellows next door you see. [Con Club nearly next door to Mens’ home at Langleys]. And I can never forget, the officer said, ‘Oh, they’d like a bath’. ‘Oh yes’, said my father ‘send them round, send them round’. So he said ‘Well how many can you take?’. ‘Oh ten’ said father. So Saturday afternoon, he stoked up the Ideal boiler, sat by the kitchen, and my cousin was home on leave, [???] invalid, he was hopping about with his foot in plaster, and I know they came out, because they kept saying to my cousin’s husband, ‘Go and fill up the coke thing’, you see. He burned all the enamel off the chimney of the Ideal boiler, you know that thing that goes up. It was nearly red hot you see. I always remember Maurice coming out hopping on one foot, saying ‘I think he thinks he’s driving one of his steam engines’. [laugh]. Anyway, we had ten, they all had baths, well then horror, mother went upstairs to look at the bath, and of course these fellows hadn’t had a bath for lord knows when, and the rim, I mean there were about ten rims all up the, you never saw anything like it. So of course father went round and said ‘You’ll have to send somebody round to clean the bath’, which did, and that was all right, we got over that episode [laugh]. Oh, it was very funny the things that happened.
Q: So did the evacuees, didn’t stay long then?
Miss M: No. My mother was on the welcoming Committee, she was on every blooming committee in Witham, that’s why I keep off committees now, she went down, they had to receive, they knew when the buses were supposed to be expected from London, and they went down to the, is it the Bramston School, it was wasn’t it, and there was a girl there who looked clean, with three little children, a baby eighteen, no, twins three and a half and a baby of eighteen months. And nobody wanted them because she didn’t want to be split up. And in the end, mother thought, ‘Well she looks clean’, which was something, because, you know, we didn’t know what we were going to get. So she said, ‘Look if you can manage in one large bedroom, I’ll take you’. So she arrived home and we, the baby slept in a drawer I remember the first night, course then we had the siren, and I said to the girl, look I will carry the baby if you’ll take the twins downstairs, so we all trooped downstairs and sat in the sitting room and had cups of tea and the all clear went. And mother said ‘Don’t discuss this, if you don’t say anything about it, the children will forget, and we don’t want them to be frightened’. About three days later the little girl said ‘When will the hooter go in the night again and we can all have cups of tea?’. So that was the good of that. Oh we had them, they stayed ten weeks, but she bathed the children and they behaved properly. But the baby used to wet the bed, cause we’d had to borrow, you know, a drop side cot from somebody. The baby used to wet the bed every night, and my father who was very correct about these things, walked up Collingwood Road one morning to see a baby’s blanket flick, blowing out of the front bedroom window.
So he came in and said ‘Look, we don’t that sort of thing, there’s a linen line down the garden’. However she wouldn’t go down the garden, that was too far, so the next day it was hanging out of the side window. Anyway, I don’t know what happened after that, but the room, the mattress was ruined, mother had to go and say to I don’t know it was that lent us this thing, quietly ‘I’m sorry you can’t possibly have it back it’ll have to be burnt’. And we had to have the room redecorated. She didn’t clean the baby’s bed at all. But the children were washed and bathed and fairly clean. And of course they arrived in bathing suits, my dear, with no clothes at all. The day War broke out was very hot, and I think they thought they were going to have a ride in a bus, and [???] [???] suddenly said, ‘Oh look, you’d better get on, you’re going to the country’, and so they arrived, and so mother, my mother was very resourceful, rushed up to Wickham Bishops where they had a rummage sale, and kitted these kids out, cause Wickham Bishops was sort of all the people who were wealthy were evacuated to a safer area, we were considered a bit near the coast, weren’t we. Oh it was very funny. Can’t stop laughing about it now.
Q: So you just had the children or the mother?
Miss M: Oh both. Oh the father used to come every weekend. I mean daddy used to come at weekends. My parents lived like, it was always ‘Come on in’, you know it didn’t matter any time do what you like, you had to pull the things in a bit in a War time, you can’t go on like that. We learnt, or they learnt I suppose, to be not quite so …
Q: What did your father do?
Miss M: He started off, all the boys were all put into the bank, different banks, and he was in various banks at Chelmsford and Southend, anyway he decided that wasn’t for him, he couldn’t make enough money at banking, so he started off in partnership with my mother’s brother, they had a farm down at Ulting, and then they started the Witham Cartage and Coal Company. And from that … Funny, I was reading, I turned out an old magazine, somebody had written an article about them, and it said that at one time he owned twenty cart horses, and I forget how many lorries. And he used to have the stables, which were behind the George, now didn’t Mrs Carr have an antiques shop there at one time?
Q: I don’t remember that but could well have been.
Miss M: But I can remember, and then he also had some stables down Maldon Road, where Mr Revett had his second hand furniture shop, cause I know I went to Mr Revett to buy something one day, and he said ‘You know, the hay racks are still on the wall up, which was where the horses used to have their hay’. But I don’t, I can remember, you know, Sunday afternoons as a little girl, ‘Would you like to come and see the horses, and we’d walk down to Maldon Road and I used to think it was terrific, these great things standing there in their stalls.
Q: That’s not very far down Maldon Road is it, just near the top, yes.
Miss M: I used to like that. And the ones at the, behind the George of course, they were there, and then my Shetland pony was there, he had a blue spot.
Q: That was nice, so you rode quite a bit did you?
Miss M: Not a lot, cause I fell off. I didn’t like it after that. He was, anything he didn’t like he went up, whereas most horses would bolt, but Peter didn’t, and my mother was, I don’t know, she turned nervous, and we, going up the Rivenhall Road one day we met a bus, well of course Peter didn’t like that so he walked through the hedge, which left Peter one side of the hedge and [???] and cart the other. I don’t know who extricated us, somebody did. And after that I began to say ‘I don’t want to go out in it’. So my father said ‘I’ll show you what to do, you get in, I’ll take you out’. So we drove all the way down to Ulting in this lovely little trap we had, little tub thing, and he kept flicking the whip in the trees as we went by, ‘There you are it’s perfectly all right, perfectly all right’. Of course Peter knew damned well who was driving, he wasn’t going to misbehave. So I was a bit reassured. But he flew up in the air, somebody stopped to ask the way when I was being, riding, out with somebody of course, to look after me, and they cracked the whip when they drove of, course Peter went straight up in the air, I fell off backwards, Peter careered down into Witham and was collected by somebody and brought back, and there was this great … [laugh]. So that put me off rather which was a pity.
Q: Did you have brothers and sisters?
Miss M: No. I was a spoilt only child. We had rabbits, or I did, rabbits, pigeons, a canary in a cage that I didn’t like, never liked birds in cages since, erm, cats that were always having kittens, but we always seemed to find homes for them, we never, there was never any bother about that, erm, and a puppy. And then I had a lamb. Somebody brought me a pet lamb, erm, that does tell you how long ago it was, my parents were very musical and I was taken to Colchester to hear Dame Clara Butt sing, and I can remember this, she was an enormous woman, you know she was colossal, did you ever see a picture, she was about six foot three I should think, huge, and of course she’d got this, I mean she’s slated now by all the singers because she sang tripe and she wasn’t a Pavarotti and all the rest of it, but she had a terrific contralto voice, and the lower notes were just like an organ, and as a child, I was very impressed, anyway we went, came home, went in the house, and Mr Upson, John Upson’s father, you know John Upson of Hatfield Peverel, his father arrived, the ewe had had triplets and he said I’ve brought you one, I think you can bring it up. Well of course that was just wonderful for a child. My mother said it was the most expensive pet we ever had, it wanted so much milk. We had to go and buy, it had a lemonade bottle I think, and you could get in those days what they called a lamb teat, and we used to [???] and about four pints a day, and then eventually had bran of course, be was great, I mean he’d follow me anywhere. Then mother thought it’d be a good idea to take him for a walk. My mother was an idiot sometimes. Took him out into Collingwood Road, he saw a child, ‘Oh gracious that was me’, roared up the road ‘Baa’, frightened this poor kiddie to bits. I don’t know how they brought him home. Then he got very clever he could open the latch in his shed, and he used to get out. And I remember coming home in the car, we’d been over to my cousin at Baytree farm, and my father said ‘You’d better get out and take your sheep home’, and there he was prancing down the middle of Collingwood Road. Course the moment I said ‘Billy’ he’d come. And unfortunately, he was afraid of nothing you see, brought up, he used to go and knock the dog over if he didn’t like the look of it, and he got out in the Avenue, and he butted the postman and upset the letters, so we had a letter of complaint from the Post Office, and poor Billy disappeared. I was very upset about it. By that time he’d grown into a sheep. But you know, it was a lovely way to be brought up.
Q: Where did you go to school?
Miss M: Chelmsford County High School. With pride, because now it’s so good, isn’t it. They do well, don’t they. I think, personally speaking, looking back on education today, I would have done better at more of a comprehensive, because the whole school was geared to getting through the Cambridge School leaving certificate or Matric, and the moment you started at ten, that was all that was on every year, was you’d got to get that far, and I mean, I wasn’t frightfully academic, and I think I would have done better with more manual …
Q: Practical, yes.
Miss M: But anyway, I did, and I passed, and we got through and that was the end of that. But they didn’t, there was no career mistress or anybody to advise you on anything you might like to do. I should think ninety per cent went into the County offices, the other ones that went to Higher Certificate went to the University and were teachers, and that seemed to be the end all and be all. I don’t know what it’s like now.
Q: So what about you then, you didn’t …?
Miss M: No, I was very very bad at maths, absolutely daft at maths, in fact so daft that I think I might have been a bit dyslexic on that side because my cousin was dyslexic, only we didn’t discover that till she was about fifty, I mean she just got her head, her ears boxed and told she was a fool. But we’ve discovered since that, the other day she was here actually, she’s seventy eight now, and she picked up the newspaper and was reading me something. And she still has difficulty in reading. And I thought then, ‘By golly, you’ve never got over that, you know’. She can read, she can write and add up and everything all right but … And she’s a very well known international dog show breeder, travels all over the world, very well known and much respected, but she, it must be hard for her at times. Oh, when she was doing this reading I thought golly, you know, you’ve got to put up that façade all through your life, to cover up for the fact that you’re not quite sure you’re reading it correctly.
Q: So when you left school?
Miss M: Oh my mother said ‘Margaret’s going to do something with her hands’. Which was very silly, because I would have liked to have been, I mean afterwards I went to Crittall’s for thirty years, and, I would have preferred that, but I didn’t start that way, so I went, we couldn’t find, ‘Oh, Margaret like’s trimming auntie’s hats, she’d better go to a millinery school’. Well we couldn’t find a millinery school, I don’t think there was such a thing, but we did find the Barrett Street trade school so I learnt dressmaking. Which of course was very nice, has been always, it was a London County Council school, and they taught hairdressing, beauty culture, and manicure I suppose came in it, embroidery, tailoring, dressmaking, and hairdressing, and I did, in the mornings we did sewing, and in the afternoons, which was silly for me cause I’d just done it, we did[???] which was really a revision of the Cambridge Matric course, because we would [???], the only difference was that we were taught the parts of the clothes, which you didn’t learn. I mean I knew the parts of the body in French, and I’d done quite well in French anyway, but we had to learn enough French to be able to converse with a customer. We learnt enough bookkeeping to be able to keep our own books, they thought, if we had a business. What else did they teach us. It was quite a, I thought it was quite an unusual school, and of course it got bombed out in the War, so I don’t know what happened after that, it was just behind Selfridge’s, which was very nice, cause you could always go into Selfridge’s in the lunch hour, and walk round.
Q: So you travelled up there every day did you?
Miss M: No I lived in a girls’ hostel. Weekly. Hated London. Loathed it. All I, I didn’t want to do anything, I wanted to come home and play tennis, that was my ambition, it was all I wanted to do, play with animals and play tennis, so I never stayed, all the time I was in London I never stayed up there for a weekend cause I came home to play tennis. And, you know, I just, I loved the outdoor life and all that sort of thing, still do for that matter.
Q: So when you left there?
Miss M: I came home, and I thought well, I’ll have a little, oh I went to Bolingbroke’s to work for a little while in Chelmsford. My father, I know, I got the sack, I had flu, and they wrote, I forget where I was working, I worked at Jay’s in Regent Street for about a year, and they wrote and said they couldn’t keep the job open, so that was that, so my father said ‘Well that’s enough, you’ll have to get a job locally, cause this is absolutely ridiculous, it’s costing more money to keep you in that hostel than you’re earning. So I came home and about the next week I saw a job at Bolingbroke’s for a dressmaker, so I went and got it, and I worked there for about a year, and then I though I’d start my own, so I did that, but of course war broke out, I had two girls for a time, then war broke out, and course, the whole thing, the bottom fell out almost overnight, because for one thing clothes were rationed, you weren’t allowed to make things, you had to have skirts so many inches from the ground, and, you know, so much material this and that, so that fell out and I went to Crittall’s cause we’d got to do something.
Q: So then you were there for thirty years you said?
Q: What did you do there specially?
Miss M: I started off with transport, to do with the rail, which of course I loved because my father was a great rail enthusiast and I think, brought up with rail. Oh it was quite interesting in a way, because they, they were at the height, they were frightfully busy cause they were making munitions as hard as they could go, and windows, also, for all the RAF camps that were being put up and that sort of thing, you see, so the window trade was busy, we made shell cases, and Bailey bridge parts I remember, and my original part was getting in the railway wagon, we had a special train came down, from the rolling mills at Darlington every night, that was a scheduled run by British Rail apparently at that time. Then of course Dan Crittall, you’ve heard of him, he used to drive engines. Well I hadn’t been in the office about a week, when we were told we’d all got to go over to the station this afternoon, Mr Dan’s driving the, what was it, the East Anglian Express, or something, we’d got to go over to see Mr Dan go through. I didn’t know who Mr Dan was no more than the man in the moon, anyway we carted over there, sit on the platform, and of course this express came roaring through and a smoky face peeped out of the window waving madly and that was Mr Dan. He used to have his own steam roller, didn’t he, he was a great steam enthusiast [laugh]. Oh no, it was funny, all sorts of funny things happened, but I didn’t, in the end I got into the shipping, which was very interesting. Another girl and I were eventually left on our own, they cut down and cut down and we had been in a department of about five, but, as the countries overseas got their independence they didn’t want to import, they wanted to make them themselves, so we started off with Crittall’s building the factories out there, we had a factory in Lagos somewhere, they had another one near Nairobi I think. But eventually they didn’t even want that, so that all sort of petered and we, they were just, we did a lot a lot a lot of work for Aberdan[?] in the Gulf, and of course I still hold forth you see, and say ‘Well of course if the Labour Party hadn’t given the British Empire away, we’d never have had all this trouble, because there would have been a, there was always a garrison at Aden, that would have kept the Gulf in order, where else did we have garrisons, I don’t know, but I mean, I can remember as a child being shown all these red dots on the map of the world and thought it was marvellous. They were saying this morning on the box that it’s no longer, what is it, no longer the thing to be British or something, no longer to be proud of being British, that is the thing now.
Q: Oh I think a lot of people are, it’s a good place, isn’t it.
Miss M: Well, I should think so. Why do all these people want to come here? That’s why, isn’t it. We are, we’ve got a lot of freedom which you don’t get elsewhere, I think. But there you are. Oh Crittall’s was fun in many ways, and I loved the export department because it was, geography, and you know, we had fun, we had, one time there was this girl and I were on our own doing it, and we were told to pack, these windows had to be packed in small packages, sufficiently to go on an elephant [laugh]. We thought this was terrific. And then another thing we had to send some stuff to Ascension Island, which I expect we did quite a lot really cause they must have had a pretty big thing there for the Falklands, I don’t, cause at that time I’d got here by then.
Q: This was in the Witham office all the time was it?
Miss M: Yes, I didn’t, I was fortunate in that way, I never got sent to Braintree. About once to relieve somebody, and I did go to Silver End a little, also when somebody was sick or something. But other than that, no. And then when I retired, I got into a bother with the house, I sold my house in Avenue Road, and it didn’t go through and we got in a bit of a muddle, and they, and they, I forget why, we had a High Court action in the end anyway. I hadn’t gazumped cause I’d under, but I’d sold it to somebody and the other man said he still wanted it, and was a perfect pest, but anway, we got over that in the end, but while that was going on I went back and said ‘Look, can you give me a part time job?’ so I went to Silver End part time for a bit. But if this house [Bradwell] hadn’t belonged to my cousin, I reckon I would have lost it, because I couldn’t complete the sale of the one in Witham, and I rented this from my cousin till I could buy it, cause this was the wheelwright’s house.
Q: Lovely, isn’t it?
Miss M: Outside used to be the village pump which isn’t there now, next door was the shop, that was a Tudor cottage, belonged to my other cousin, and she’d got deeds going right back to fifteen something, it was very quaint. But this we don’t know too much about except it was a wheelwright, and he had a great big shed up there, and also there was a saw pit somewhere. It’s quite interesting the history of the village. Actually somebody’s just lent me a history of Rivenhall aerodrome which is very interesting. Apparently it’s, do you know Carol de Coverley who is the historian for Kelvedon, well his brother in law’s written that, and it’s very interesting, I found it so, apparently was quite a late aerodrome. I can remember the Marauders and the Mustangs being there, the Yanks, and then apparently they had Sterlings at the end, but I don’t remember so much about that. The Sterlings I think had a twin tail didn’t they?
Q: I’m not good on planes.
Miss M: Lancasters had a twin tail.
Q: Did the Americans, did you see much of the Americans?
Miss M: They used to come into Witham, they used to cause us quite a lot of amusement, and they used to have dances in the Public Hall every night, or every weekend, and they used to kick up all sorts of riots in there. One night they turned an Austin Seven right over I remember, but we just used to watch the things and entertainment out of the window, do you know, and they didn’t interfere with us. But I can remember my mother and I, no, they were playing cards one night, that was funny, we had some friends who were evacuated from Clacton because for a long time you couldn’t get within ten miles of the coast, and they came to live in Witham, so they used to come and play bridge with my parents every Saturday, and they were sitting there playing bridge, and I was sitting on the settee with the old dog, and all of a sudden the sitting room door opened and a Yank walked in and said ‘Can you tell me the way to the Dance Hall, please?’ [laugh] And of course, I grabbed the dog, cause he was going to have a go, and my mother, my father’s friend and the gentleman he got up and said ‘Look I’ll show you out’, cause it was pitch black you see, no lights on anywhere, and he ushered him out and he came back in and he said ‘With your permission Mr Mens, I’m going to lock your front door’. Well I mean we never ever locked the door, but you see we had to learn, all sorts of things happened, didn’t they, but we never locked anything?
Q: How long did your parents live for?
Miss M: My father died in ’58. And of course he had all this beastly argument with this rotten Labour Council who wouldn’t let him build a bungalow down the bottom of the garden, cause we’d got this huge garden, you see/
Q: Was your mother still alive then?
Miss M: No, she died the year before, two or three years before.
Q: Oh I see, that was a hard time for you then.
Miss M: Well, she’d been an invalid, in and out of hospital for about ten years.
Q: Did his business?
Miss M: Well it gradually, he got rid of the farm, he got rid of the Cartage Company. But he did keep his insurance agency which was a very big one. He’d taken that over from his father I believe at the bank. And he did that right up till he died. But it was only, it wasn’t of course so big by that time. And I actually, it was a pity because we didn’t really know at the time, but I could have taken it over, cause they did give the relatives a chance. But he’d arranged for Malcolm Smith to have it, so Malcolm Smith took it, and that was the end. But know, he used to sit and have all the [???]. It turned out, Conservatives were back into office and set these papers strewn all over the place, cat’s on his lap, and it was very very nice out the back there cause it was sunny and warm and looked onto the garden, which he loved.
And I was reading a cutting I found in one of these books, said that he was, well he was very interested in birds and wild life, and I am too, I’ve inherited that. But it was a huge garden and this Mr Blood had laid it out with absolutely everything, I mean there was espalier fruit trees all over the place, there were, what else was there, oh one of those sunken greenhouses which the old fashioned people used to have apparently, but we didn’t have that. Then my father built a garage, and I remember the sheds were rolling[?] down where my lamb lived, and so my father liked carpentry, he was always fiddling about with things, he built a new shed sort of over the top, so they didn’t pull the under one down [???] he used to enjoy doing all that sort of thing. And then we had, oh we had a conservatory, a greenhouse, a heated greenhouse there, that was nice, because my mother was always into flowers, and it wasn’t I grew up that I became interested really, and I think in her day it was carrying the water pot, and I didn’t like that of course, not interesting enough, but I did, I remember the flower club came I was delighted, at one stage I belonged to flower clubs all over the place, used to go out two or three nights a week, and I loved it, and [???] I found going to flower festivals very interesting, I always enjoyed that. And I learnt everything I know about flowers from flower clubs, because people who gave these talks had to know the botanical names, for a start, and I learnt everything I know really, because we didn’t do much botany at school.
Q: Did they have help in the garden, your parents, then?
Miss M: Yes, a gardener. You see then the war came, the whole thing fell apart, you couldn’t get anybody. And I can remember coming home from Crittall’s in the evening and digging. We had two old men, there were two lovely little old men, who lived in a frightful, funny little, tiny cottage at the back of Witham High Street, goodness knows, it was a bit of a back yard somewhere, they were two brothers the Grimseys, there was Joe and Bill, and we all, June Osborne, do you remember her, she always called them the gnomes because they were so short and tiny, but anyway they used to come and dig, and they came right up till my father died, and when I left they did everything, the whole garden was left in perfect condition and of course the Council let it go to rack and ruin right away, but there you are.
[chat about photo brought by Q, M825 of group of women indoors, not recognised by Miss M, not noted]
Q: You started to tell me about Gertie Luard, the grey lady.
Miss M: The grey lady, and the one I knew as Gertie. And I know one episode was, she’d been parading about trying to get free milk for some family that had got too many children, and my father said to her ‘It’s not a bit of good you doing this, all that happened was that the man went up to the farm and cancelled his milk order the moment he got free milk’, so he said ‘You’ve wasted your time’. And she was the one was that, she said ‘Don’t have so many children’, and this woman said ‘Well you’d better come and sleep with my old man, see how you get on’. I think their name was Bendall and they lived up Powershall Road somewhere in some cottages.
Q: That’s a lovely story. [laugh]
Miss M: I just remember her, she had some kind of a Sunday school for a time, in what used to be the YMCA hut, now of course that’s long since gone and a house has been built, but that was in a hole opposite what’s now the Labour Hall.
Q: I know, at the top of Collingwood Road, yes.
Miss M: And that used to be let out for parties and things, I remember my parents having a party there. But can’t quite ..
Q: You’ve done well. I think the other two, there were two others at least, they died just after the war I think.
Miss M: I know Gertie, she ran this wretched little Sunday school, and I was in my teens and she went to my mother and said could Margaret go and help her. So I was told off to go up there Sunday afternoons and help with these rather dirty smelly little children which I didn’t care for at all, and anyway fortunately it didn’t last long because my father came to the rescue and said ‘Look here, Sunday afternoon is ruined now, we can’t go out in the car cause we’re waiting for you to come …’
[looking at photos]
Miss M: Oh yes, this was during the War [First War] when Witham Avenue park was an army camp, and that was my mother’s, we couldn’t have a horse so we had a donkey. [re photo M520]. And that’s Captain Cullen who was billeted, they were a Scottish regiment, First World War, they were billeted with my parents. And I’m the baby being passed round apparently. Cause Mrs Cullen [different family] told me when I grew up with great amusement that I didn’t appreciate it a bit. Cause I used to be passed round all these officers to …
Q: What a shame. So that’s you there is it, how lovely.
Miss M: Yes, and that’s my mother driving the thing. Cause they couldn’t, you see you couldn’t have a horse, all the horses went to the army, straight away. That’s Captain Cullen.
Q: What was his first …?
Miss M: I don’t know, it was a Scottish regiment.
Q: That was one of the Scottish ones, I see.
Miss M: I don’t know who these were. There’s also another one.
Q: What was your mother’s first name, I don’t know if I asked you that?
Miss M: Margaret Amelia, and she was always called Milly.
Q: Ah, yes.
Miss M: That’s me as a fat infant. Well, I was a miracle baby you see, so, yes I only weighed three and a half pounds.
Q: Oh, goodness.
Miss M: Of course in those days … yes, this is the outing, isn’t it, now what have I got here.
Q: Oh yes, Baby Welfare. That’s interesting, I’ve seen something like that and wondered what it was. So that’s what it is. [photo M530]
Miss M: Well that’s, I think that’s, some of them I can recognise. Yes, that’s Mrs Percy Brown who lived at the, opposite to us at Collingwood House [15 Collingwood Road]. Now where’s mother, I think mother had a big hat on somewhere. …
Q: And that’s at the Lodge, I don’t think I knew where that was.
Miss M: They used to have, was it every fortnight or every week, at the Congregational Church Hall, there would be a doctor, and the District Nurse would be there, and these women could take their baby, they would weigh it, and advise them on, you know, if they were having difficulties.
Q: So when would that be about then?
Miss M: When I was a child I expect. I can remember going to this thing, I was told off to push somebody’s pram round and round the garden and keep the baby quiet while the lady enjoyed having her photograph taken.
Q: So what happened when they went to the, was this a special ..?
Miss M: This was an outing, a special tea.
Q: A special outing. So they all went there … And was it all outdoors, or did they go in as well.
Miss M: I don’t know, I can’t place anybody. Oh it always seemed to be nice weather in those days [laugh], seemed to have lovely summers always, but I can’t see anybody else I know.
Q: Anyway, you’ve got Mrs Brown.
Miss M: Yes, she don’t forget because she was so huge wasn’t she. I think mother was prancing about there with a hat on somewhere. Now you know there’s that booklet that the Countryside brought out on Witham, there’s a picture in there of something, and we were in fits because I said ‘Oh there’s my great aunt’ and, a hat perched on top of her head, you know, and my goddaughter Jill who comes to stay sometimes, and my goddaughter, she’s sixty now, but she said, ‘I can’t remember aunt at all, but as soon as I saw that picture I knew it was her’. This ridiculous hat perched on top of the head, cause that’s how they wore them didn’t they.
Q: That’s a great one, because as you say you’ve got the tents there [M520 again].
Miss M: Yes, that was an army camp.
Q: I’ve never seen one with the tents on it before, that’s terrific.
Miss M: That was when we used to get, I’m in a deckchair somewhere eating a banana. That was a bought thing, just happened that we were in it. We used to go to Clacton every year.
Q: What, to stay?
Miss M: Yes, we used to have three weeks at Clacton. My mother was always going on holiday. Always.
Q: Very sensible. Where else did she go?
Miss M: Clacton, Clacton, Clacton, then one year we went to Felixstowe and had a [???] beach[?] house. Then I think we sort of grew out of it. Oh then we used to go to Walton, cause we had relations at Walton. So we always went there. Yes, I remember that outing. Cause I can remember being told off. Oh then we had this Pastoral Play in the Park, look [photo M531]. Now I was a tulip, in pink, and they were the schoolchildren in yellow, they were daffodils.
Q: So this is you right on the front (left end)?
Miss M: Yes, that’s me. And that was Miss Maisey’s dancing class, look. [photo M532]
Q: Oh is that what it was?
Miss M: Now that was Betty Page and she was Night. That is me I was a butterfly, with the wings up, yes. Now there was John Pinkham, and I’m not sure whether that was John Pinkham or that one, and the other one I believe was Ray Horner. Now they were in toadstools and they lifted the lid off and then they came out at the beginning of this thing, and we all did our little bits.
Q: Who was that again, sorry?
Miss M: Betty Page. She’s now dead, she married John May and they had a fruit farm at Heybridge. I knew her all my life. Her father was the auctioneer, Page, they lived at the Grange at Witham.
Q: So this is in the Public Hall.
Q: And that was presumably a special …
Miss M: Oh we used to do this, we did lots of things. And then there was an old girl … when grandfather Mens left the bank, Peecock took over, and his wife had been a schoolmistress and she thought to have something to do in the holidays. So every Christmas holiday she put on a show. And, it was musical. And one year we did Jan of Windmill Land, and [???] Pearce … there were three Pearce girls lived up Chipping Hill next to the Church, and they were [???] was just younger than me, Peggy was a bit older and Beanie[?] was the eldest. Albinia I think they called her or something. Anyway, she married Arden[?] Dixon a farmer and went to live at …, now that’s …that was the art mistress, she was the only one who looked respectable and had pretty clothes. You know children do notice. And of course I was practically brought up with the Richardson boys, Karl and Guy, and that’s the three boys. I was always with them, I practically lived there.
Q: And they lived?
Miss M: At Beechknowe [Avenue Road]. But I used to spend, we had the same governess, we all went to school together, until the boys went to boarding school of course. Oh that was Langleys when we first moved in, look, it was all open, right down to what they call the Swiss Cottage, that’s still there isn’t it. [behind Public Hall]
Q: I believe so yes.
Miss M: Well that had been a stable you see, Mr Blood’s stable. And he was very interested in boys’ welfare, and when he gave up carriage horses, and riding I suppose, and got his wheel chair I suppose, I don’t know, he had it turned into a boys’ club room. And he had gas heating and gas lighting, and we actually had a party down there one Christmas. It was, we used to let, oh girl guides used to have it and various things … what I was trying to find was … Oh now that was the original town hall which was burnt down, is there a date on that? [old Constitutional Club in front of Congregational church]
Q: I think it was in 1910.
Miss M: That’s right. Well now my father and my mother got married in 1910. And father had bought a set of carved oak with padded seat, dining chairs, but they were used as a furniture store, so he put five in store there and took one home to show mother, so we lost the five and had the one. And for many years, I eventually sold it. Oh that’s where my father went to school, Uphill[?] Grammar School.
Q: [???] the horse?
Miss M: Well that was at the back, you know Easton Road, when you go down there, and there used to be a large house at the bottom which of course isn’t there now, that was called the Laurels.
And when my mother’s father retired, they went to there to live, and that’s my aunt and her pony which she drove, and I was sat sitting on it. And that was the house. Well then eventually, what happened. Oh when the Everards left, the Brice[?]s bought it, and they stayed, and Olive had it for a time .[???]. That’s my father when he was young.
Q: I’ve forgotten what his first name was, did you tell me?
Miss M: Arthur Charles, but Joe.
Q: Oh I see. Well that’s probably why I got confused cause I’ve heard of Joe Mens, and that’s the same person as Arthur Charles, is it?
Miss M: Everybody, oh Granny hated it. ‘My son’s name’, awful drawl, ‘My son’s name is Arthur but everybody calls him Joe and I can’t think why.’. The reason why was cause my mother had got a brother Arthur, who was much the same age. Oh this was a great event in my young life. Tom Speakman and his twin sister Diana came to spend the day, and I loved it when the twins came over, course I’ve got my pants falling down, I’ve cut my leg presumably, but we had a great day, I can remember that. Then of course Tom only died a few years back. [???] But, what, I did find a picture of Wog[?] and I, first of all we were little baby bulbs and we were dressed up in padded things like brown, with a green sprouting out the top, and supposed to be the ribs[?], everybody thought it was our stuffing falling out apparently. But we did a little bit, ‘We are little baby bulbs, so brown demure and shy’, I can’t think of any more. And then we did ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’, and I had quite a big part in that, I was the lame child that came back and told the story, and my father made a crutch out of a log of wood on a broom handle, for me. My mother said she couldn’t bear to look at it cause she thought I looked [???] was lame. Anyway I can remember doing that and it was quite a long bit I had to recite. Me I wouldn’t go anywhere I had to recite now.
Q: So who organised that then?
Miss M: Oh this Mrs Peecock, she thought we ought to have something to do in the holidays. And it was done for the, I don’t know what, Save the Children or something, charity.
Q: So that one where you a tulip, was that one of hers as well?
Miss M: Yes, that was Jan of Windmill land, then we did, what was the other one, there was one in which they had some gypsies, cause I can remember I was terribly impressed cause to make it look like a fire, they put lime[?] so it smoked you know, water and lime, I thought that was terrific. What else did we do. Pied piper was the last one, I, no I think that was the last one I was in, I grew. Once I went to the High School I mean I didn’t have time for anything else.
Q: So it was mostly little children really?
Miss M: Yes. But, oh they got the older ones in, to do the singing.
Q: I see, yes.
Miss M: They used to do that every year, she thought we hadn’t got enough to do. I think she liked organising. And they retired and lived in, was in Blakenham in Collingwood Road, quite a nice double fronted house. And, I always remember this cause when I was working at Crittall’s, one of the foremen was Cyril English who lived down Maldon Road, and he came back after lunch and he said ‘I’ll have to go back’, I said ‘What’s happened?’, he said ‘Well, I went home to lunch and my wife said “Oh, terrible news, old Peecock has died”. He said ‘I’ve just come by and he’s sitting there eating his dinner.’ He said ‘I must go back and tell her it’s not true cause it’ll be all over Witham’ [laugh]. Oh Witham. Then we had all the scand, did you hear about that, the scandal of the gossip, that was when I was in London at the hostel. Somebody in Witham, I don’t, oh Mrs Thorpe her name was, she was a widow lady and she made a great fuss of one of the curates that we had, poor man was a widow, lived in the Parsonage in Guithavon Street, awfully nice man, we liked him very much. And anyway, she made a bit of a fool of herself over him, and then she found that, I suppose it came to her ears that people were saying she was being a bit foolish, so she wrote this poem.
‘Oh could there on earth be found, some little plot of sacred ground, where village affairs might go on without this endless prattle’ or something, ended up with ‘Stop this gossiping’. And she proceeded to send this anonymously to people all over Witham, and she sent one to my mother. Well we knew exactly who it was, they were pretty sure, and I was in London and it was all in the Sunday, in the evening paper, somebody said to me ‘Is your mother Mrs A C Mens from Witham’ I said ‘Yes’, ‘Well look at this’. And Mrs A C Mens had received it and she’d sent for the police. Well that didn’t of course, this woman came up and confessed, and said please don’t send for the police, that’s why my mother did it. But, her name was Mrs Thorpe, but she was a bit silly, I think a little bit short up her really, I didn’t really know her. I remember that happening. But somewhere in one of my books I found a copy of this thing, as it was sent to mother, all handwritten you know, ridiculous. It was such a joke, cause we couldn’t make it out. But Witham’s always been in the news for one thing and another, or so, look at the murders we’ve had in Coggeshall. I turned that up the other day about Bell, he shot three[?] [???]. He went to school with the man that lives opposite me, which he said ‘He always a loner at school’ but that’s all he could remember. But this is a nice village [Bradwell] It’s getting too urbanised now which is a pity, they’ve put up this … we’ve got a dogooder, I’m typically Essex, I mean if you don’t live in a place for thirty years you aren’t considered, you know, Essex. And I’d got a leg in here cause my relations lived up the road, and my cousin had lived at the cottage on the corner, so I came here and they sort of accepted me cause I was one of the family, and I used to do meals on wheels, and I went to a house up the road and took the lady her dinner you see, she said ‘Oh who are you?’ So I said ‘Well I’m Margaret Mens’ I said ‘You won’t know me’. I said ‘I live in’ Eddie Howell’s the builder[?], I said ‘I live in Eddie Howell’s house’. ‘Oh do you, well now’. So next time I took the dinner the old man was in. He said ‘She tells me that you’re a Mens, well who are you cause I know all them up there’. That’s how they are. [laugh]
Q: So you have to account for yourself.
Miss M: So I said ‘Well I’m one of the Witham, I’m the Witham branch’. ‘Oh’. It was very funny, we used to laugh. Oh it’s the same, but my cousin still lives in the same house there, though she wasn’t born, she was born in Baytree farm, but they retired and built a modern house, which she still lives in, she’s very lucky she’s been able to stay there. And she’s got lots of room so she’s got lots of dogs. And that’s why we’ve got the yellow labrador, she’s chairman of the yellow labrador club, and she has about ten labradors, and four cavaliers which are lovely. They’re lovely little things. I miss mine very much.
[chat about her own last dog and when it died, and about her various friends in Witham]
Course I can remember Dorothy Sayers when she used to be charging about.
Q: Really? What do you remember about her?
Miss M: Oh she always wore these very mannish clothes, and had a stick. My father used to like her cause she used to go into the butchers and say ‘I’ll have a piece of that’, she was a great cook.
Of course she bought that cottage, you know the cottage she lived in, [24 Newland Street] well they were friends of ours who’d lived there before, the Gardners, and their garden came up from the High Street, and then they had bought another bit which came out next to us in Collingwood Road in those old days, which was their orchard. And the old boy used to keep bees. I remember that. But of course after the old lady died and it was built on, it was a very nice bungalow [8 Collingwood Road], there were some nice people in there we were quite friendly with them, but of course this damned Council decided they were going to pull the whole thing down and then they go and sell it for a quarter of a million to the Area Health which I will never forgive them for [laugh]. But there you are.
[chat about buses home, borrowing photos, not noted]
Miss M: Now when that was, [???] you know it was taken over by a local consortium to be made into a cinema. And when we were children, this was …, and then they went broke so they couldn’t finish. And from our garden we used to get through into this, Karl Richardson and I, and we used to get right through into this and peep out of these front windows which we thought was terrific.
Q: That was at the Whitehall [18 Newland Street]
Miss M: But they dug out the sloping bits of the floor but they never finished it, and then all of a sudden Mr Gaze from Chelmsford turned up, and bought it, and turned it into a cinema and used that.
[chat about other photos, not noted]
Miss M: My mother’s relations all lived at the Garretts’ at Blue Posts House, which is Coates shop now [126-128 Newland Street].
Miss M: And then the Crotchet was somewhere there, the pub, I remember that. And it wasn’t a cross person, it was a retired bandmaster from the Bridge Home, and he meant a musical note, the crotchet.
Q: Oh was it, is that right?
Miss M: My mother told me that. That was all wrong she said.
[other photos, not noted]
Miss M: Oh that’s Eleanor Roper, now I met her, we met up again at Christmas, she’s still, her brain’s as clear as a bell, well not, her memory’s very good, she told us all sorts of things, but she gets a bit rambling, because she rang me up one day and I was appalled, she kept me on the phone for an hour, and I thought ‘My godfathers she’s going off her head’, you know, and it was all about some episode which she had with the police, I don’t know, they were rude to her or something, she went to the police station or something and they wouldn’t attend to her, she was very annoyed, but anyway she got over that. She was great fun at Christmas. My friend, they fetched her over, they were very entertained with her, cause she’s a very clever woman, there’s no doubt. I didn’t know that she’d taught at Writtle [agricultural college], she told us she taught there at first. She taught dairying, and then she took a degree in agriculture after, so she did both, and then my, that’s right, that’s how I got to know about this, Dave Park and Sheila[?] both worked for the War Ag [Agricultural Committee] in Chelmsford, and she was there, and you know when we had the 19, well you won’t know but you will have heard of the 1953 floods, well apparently Elinor did a great deal of work in helping the farmers that were flooded with salt water, to getting them, teaching them or telling, arranging for them to get their land back into working order, and she got the OBE for that.
Q: I didn’t know that.
Miss M: No, well I didn’t, but they told me, Sheila and Dave told me. Oh she’s very interesting Eleanor, but she is getting old, she isn’t quite as old as me.
Q: I didn’t ask you how old you were, people don’t always don’t want to let on.
Miss M: I’m 86.
Q: Are you really?
Miss M: Wait a minute, 73, 1913 I was born so I’ll be 86 in August won’t I? That’s right, yes.
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St Luke's Hospital: A week of overcrowding at Kilkenny hospital
33 patients on trolleys and wards today
Sam Matthews
sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie
FILE PIC: There's an unseasonably high number of patients on trolleys this past week
St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny has been consistently among the most overcrowded hospitals in the country during the past week, according to figures from Trolleywatch.
Today, there are 33 patients waiting on trolleys and wards at the local hospital - up from 32 yesterday. This day last week, the figure was 40 people. That had dropped to 19 by the weekend, but rose steadily again this week.
These sorts of figures, recorded by the INMO, are almost unheard of for this time of the year - late July and August. A number of reasons have been offered for the unseasonable spike.
Most significantly, almost 30 beds have been closed in the local hospital’s Surgical One ward. The HSE has said this is for maintenance works and refurbishment as part of infection control policies.
A high number of presentations to the Emergency Department last week also contributed to the overcrowding problem.
A statement from the Ireland East Hospital Group said that staff and management at St Luke’s General Hospital put patient care at the centre of everything that they do. It says the hospital is very busy, and St Luke’s apologises to anyone waiting on beds.
“Due to the current ongoing pressures, we continue to ask the public to please ensure that, when possible, they attend their GPs or CareDoc in the first instance,” said the statement.
“The hospital management would like to thank the general public for their ongoing support of the hospital and current refurbishment works.”
Work to enable compliance with the standards for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections began in the Surgical 1 ward in July, closing 29 beds.
This work is expected to be completed by September 30. To minimise the impact, 14 refurbished beds have been opened in the former gynaecological ward area.
Year-on-year, the number of emergency presentations to St Luke’s has increased. Similarly, the number of emergency medical admissions increased by 6.8% during 2016, however the actual inpatient bed capacity had not increased until the opening of the 14 beds above in July.
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Tuition Fees for Private Schools and the Cyprus Government’s Position.
Posted on 21 Mar 2019, by Savvas Savvides
Private education is a term often used to be compared with public sector education. According to the most common definition, any form of education founded and wholly organised by individuals or non-governmental bodies (associations under private law) are considered to fall within the private sector. Within this sector, there is a distinction made between private education and grant-aided private education.
Whereas private education in its strictest sense of its meaning is entirely financed by persons or non-governmental bodies (associations under private law), grant-aided private education receives funding from public authorities. This funding may or may not be substantial and may cover various types of expenditure.
Depending on the country, either type of private education can be subject to certain forms of state control.
With regards the tuition fee increases in private schools, they have to be approved each year by the Ministry of Education. It should further beemphasised that parents have the right to know the tuition fees from the first year up to the final year. If a school needs to increase tuition fees due to investments (such as buildings, equipment, etc.) the Minister of Education should give his approval.
But what happens to parents who choose private education? Is there a subsidy from the State in the form of sponsorship?
Today, in the public primary schools, there are approximately 49,000 learners who also attend public secondary schools.
There are currently about 9,900 learners in private secondary schools, which are approximately 19% of all secondary school learners, and about 4,600 in private primary education, approximately 10% of all learners.
Private tuition fees range from €5,000 to €7,500 per annum and are well below the cost per learner in comparison to the public schools. The cost per learner in public education, according to the latest data from the Statistical Service, amounts to €6,308 per learner for primary education and €9,428 per learner for secondary education.
Therefore, for each learner who chooses to attend a private school the government saves €10,000 per annum.
In some European and Scandinavian countries each learner receives a money voucher for a certain amount which can be used for a public or a private school. Parents pay the difference accordingly.
Depending on the country, financial assistance can take the form of tax relief or allowances paid to families by the public authorities (at local or national level). In certain countries, grants and/or loans can also be awarded to learners, and thus effectively to their families.
My recommendation is the partialsubsidising of tuition fees to be available to all learners in Cyprus. The annual sum is estimated at €3.000 for Secondary level education and €2.000 for primary level education. The cost to the state for approximately 4,500 learners in primary education is estimated at €9 million and for the 10,000 learners in the Private Schools average €30 million, that is 27% of the €145 million that the state saves due to the existence of private education.
In this way Cyprus will be aligned with the policy followed in central Europe for the operation of private education, where private education relies actively either by providing subsidies to parents who choose private education or by tax exemptions.
The subsidy will give more parents and learners the right to choose between private and public education. The state will also save on spending on new extensions on existing buildings or new school buildings.
Also, the increased work of private schools will bring benefits to the state as a consequence of an increase in the amount of taxes on income and other relevant taxes. In addition, overwhelming tax evasion will be regulated.
Better educated children lead to better performing adults in general, which brings about a stronger community with more opportunity for everyone. It is a heart-breaking decision to have to make. Do you provide the best you can for your own children, or do you invest in the community and hope that your children get the best out of it? If you choose the former, should you not have to make up for it to those that have no option but the latter? Is that not what being a part of a community encompasses?
The content of this article intends to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought on each particular case.
For any further information, please contact Mr Savvas Savvides at savvas.savvides@kyprianou.com or contact number 26930800.
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Grant Simpson playing Ladysmith house concert Nov. 27
Yukoner brings mix of stride piano, vaudeville, gypsy jazz and folk music to Ladysmith.
Lindsay Chung
Grant Simpson is performing a house concert Tues.
Mix stride piano, vaudeville, gypsy jazz and folk music, and you’ve got Grant Simpson.
The Nanaimo-born singer who now calls the Yukon home will perform his unique blend of music during a house concert in Ladysmith Tues., Nov. 27 as part of the Home Routes circuit.
Born and raised in Nanaimo, Simpson has lived in Yukon for 25 years, and he spent he last three years living in a cabin with no running water, mushing sled dogs in the Yukon wilderness for fun when not on tour.
“Life in a cabin in the Yukon changed the way I look at a lot of things in life,” Simpson said by e-mail. “I moved the to cabin with my two kids and we downsized considerably in order to all fit into the cabin. It was a remarkable way to live, and we all fell in love with it … the lifestyle was wonderfully conducive to writing songs and living a creative life.”
Simpson says the only real downside was that the cabin was 30 miles out of town, so he couldn’t tour and leave his kids at the cabin to themselves, and they became very car-reliant. So, the family recently moved back into Whitehorse.
Simpson owns a vaudeville show called Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue in Whitehorse that he says is the longest-running vaudeville show in history, as it is in its 44th year.
As a young boy, Simpson was “deeply immersed” in the study of stride piano, a style that he says came out of Harlem around 1910.
“Although most people don’t know what ‘stride piano’ is, many people have heard it,” says Simpson. “The Charleston, which is the song that marks the roaring 20s, was written by the father of stride piano, James P. Johnson.”
Simpson says Fats Waller was Johnson’s protege, and one day when Simpson was about 15, he was reading a biography on Waller and kept seeing references to all the time Waller and Johnson spent in vaudeville, and he decided he would like to be in vaudeville.
A few years later, Simpson was “starting to get to be an adequate stride piano player,” and he received a phone call from two guys in the Yukon who told him he should come up there and play piano in their vaudeville show.
Simpson performed in the Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue for 16 years and then had the opportunity to buy half the company.
Recently, Simpson has been busy touring in support of his latest CD, Beneath the Yukon Moon, an album of original songs by Simpson and Kate Weekes.
“It is a blend of folk and swing, and the songs are stories of our experiences in the Yukon, China and across Canada,” said Simpson.
On this current tour, Simpson is joined by guitarist Don Ogilvie.
“Don is an outstanding specialist in gypsy jazz, and I am really excited about getting to play with him again,” said Simpson.
Simpson says his house concert will be a mix of stride piano, gypsy jazz and his original songs, “maybe even with a vaudeville song thrown in here and there to keep people on their toes.”
For more information about the concert, contact Jane Vincent at irish_janev@hotmail.com.
The Chemainus Opry is back
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History of the Gründerzeit in Leipzig
GründerzeitWilhelminian Architecture in Leipzig © Andreas Schmidt
Leipzig, the monument capital
With more than 15,000 cultural monuments - including 80 percent of Gründerzeit houses - Leipzig is Germany's capital of monuments and possesses the largest quantitative and qualitative wealth of buildings from the Gründerzeit and Art Nouveau periods. This architectural wealth is due to the city's remarkable growth between 1871 and 1914 when the population grew from about 100,000 to around 625,000. In addition to extensive residential areas and villa districts, a completely new infrastructure was created in the resulting construction boom: town halls, post offices, banks and hospitals.
The main architectural buildings of this period include the new Town Hall, the former Imperial Court of Justice and the University Library. The boom in large-scale industry began around 1865, after guild regulations were abolished in 1861 and freedom of trade was introduced in Saxony in 1862. Private individuals and public limited companies provided great impetus for industrialisation.
Housing development
With the influx of immigrants as a result of industrialisation, demand for housing increased. The Gründerzeit's answer to this were uniform development plans and private-sector apartment block construction. A social mix in these new residential districts was achieved by setting up shop floors and merchant's apartments in the front buildings, apartments for employees on the upper floors and worker's quarters in the rear courtyards. Legislation adopted in 1889 meant that it was attractive for insurance companies to invest in local institutions. Until 1929 there were about 30 building cooperatives.
After the First World War, small, functional apartments, uniformly-sized building complexes and communal amenities such as wash houses and green areas were built. Fortunately, the Second World War did not cause as much damage to Leipzig as to other major cities, so many of the magnificent buildings were preserved.
Waldstraßenviertel, Forest Street Quarter
Waldstraßenviertel - Waldstraße © Andreas Schmidt
A dazzling example of masterful housing construction during Leipzig's historicist era is the Waldstraßenviertel, a neighborhood northwest of the city centre. The name "Waldstraßenviertel" derives from its location as it is situated alongside the Waldstraße (English: Forest Street). Its proximity to the Rosental park made the Waldstraßenviertel district particularly popular as a building site for the apartments of the wealthy bourgeoisie.
The tasteful late classicist, historicist and art nouveau buildings still characterise the Waldstraßenviertel today. The lavishly decorated street facades, the numerous preserved and renewed decorations, the murals in the hallways and reception halls are all particularly impressive. Around 550 houses belong to the Waldstraßenviertel, and most of them are listed historical monuments.
Musikviertel, Music Quarter
Villas on Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße © Andreas Schmidt
The Musikviertel is located southwest of the city centre. The name refers to the musical institutions of the second Gewandhaus (1884) and the Royal Conservatory of Music (1887) which were established in the neighbourhood. Many streets in the district have been named after composers.
The representative district was created on the basis of a development plan from 1880 and is characterised by magnificent historicist buildings, including the Bibliotheca Albertina, the former Imperial Court of Justice and the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Furthermore, apartments were built for the wealthy middle classes.
The Roßbach House, which was designed by Arwed Roßbach in 1892/93, and the villas in Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße, where 13 of 32 villas are still preserved, are architecturally impressive. The villa plots were generously planned and provided space for front gardens and sheds. Thanks to its proximity to Clara-Zetkin Park and the alluvial forest, it offers the best living conditions.
Südvorstadt
August-Bebel-Straße 2 © Andreas Schmidt
The Südvorstadt district covers the area between the city centre and the Connewitz neighbourhood. Because of its proximity to the city centre and the trendy Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, it is popular with young people. The spacious residential area boasts a large stock of Historicist and Art Nouveau buildings.
In addition to Karl-Liebknecht-Straße and the parallel Kochstraße, the August-Bebel-Straße also stands out in terms of urban planning. It was designed after 1870 as a 34-metre-wide avenue between Richard-Lehmann-Straße and Mahlmannstraße and is considered one of Leipzig's most magnificent residential streets. Many of the villa-like apartment buildings with picturesque front gardens have been preserved. Stores were not allowed in the street.
The tree-lined middle road was originally planned as a riding trail and today provides an opportunity to relax. Also worth a visit is Café Grundmann at August-Bebel-Straße 2 with its original Art Déco furnishings from 1930 (residential building from 1880).
View from the Lenné-Anlage © Andreas Schmidt
The Schillerstraße, which adjoins the Petersstraße, is considered a splendid boulevard in Leipzig historicism. The residential and commercial buildings at Schillerstraße 3 to 6, built between 1861 and 1863 in enclosed buildings, represent outstanding architecture.
The houses are characterised by round arched windows, natural stone panelling, relief friezes and straight roof ends. Opposite the ensemble of buildings is a green area designed by the Prussian garden artist Peter Joseph Lenné, which was presented on the occasion of Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday on 10 November 1859.
The Lenné complex houses the Schiller monument, which was created in 1914 by the Leipzig sculptor Johannes Hartmann using white Laas marble. The symbolic figures "Grandeur" and "Tragedy" rest against the pillar bearing the bust of Schiller. The Lenné grounds, also called Schillerpark by Leipzig residents, are especially popular with students as an oasis in the lively city centre.
Nordplatz Historicist Ensemble
© Andreas Schmidt
Located near the zoo, Nordplatz and its striking historical ensemble is considered one of the most beautiful squares of the Wilhelminian era (1890-1918). The St. Michael Church is located at the intersection of several visual axes and is dedicated to the Archangel Michael. The Protestant church was built according to designs by the Leipzig architects Heinrich Rust and Alfred Müller and consecrated in 1904. The church tower, which is around 70 metres high, is of particular significance.
The prelude to the development of the square was the Neo-Baroque residential building Nordplatz 1, constructed between 1888 and 1890. It is simultaneously the end of the Nordstraße, which leads from the city centre to the Nordplatz.
Other splendid historicist buildings follow, including the Neo-Renaissance residential building at Nordstraße 2 and the corner building Nordplatz 3, built in 1904/05. The latter forms the architectural transition to the Art Nouveau façade of the parish office (Nordplatz 4), which is adorned with an unusual entrance door.
Villa Hinrichsenstraße 4 © Andreas Schmidt
St. Michael Church © Andreas Schmidt
Federal Administrative Court © A. Schmidt
Industrial Railway Station in Plagwitz © A. Schmidt
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Landor Association Lecture
On Wednesday 6 February, Lucy Worsley delivered the second Landor Association Lecture to pupils, parents, staff and friends of King’s High and the Warwick Independent Schools Foundation. Lucy Worsley’s passion is History, her subject was Queen Victoria, and she held her audience utterly rapt, in a packed Warwick Hall. From her opener, challenging the myth of Queen Victoria as ‘a little old lady, dressed in black, looking – let’s face it - like a jacket potato’, to an intensely moving account of Victoria’s last days, Lucy Worsley delivered a masterclass on Victoria’s reign, with a wealth of historical detail, and rich new insights.
Lucy Worsley's work as Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces illuminated details, such as how Queen Victoria, an early advocate of the use of chloroform in childbirth, suffered from a massive hernia, which was previously unknown. Lucy and her colleagues discovered this by studying Queen Victoria’s dresses from Historic Royal Palaces’ unique collection of Royal ceremonial dress, charting how Victoria’s body changed throughout her reign. Lucy Worsley ended her talk by answering questions from the girls, and the wider audience. At King’s High, we count ourselves fortunate to have had our very own audience – with Queen Victoria, and Lucy Worsley.
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Newsletter: Today: Mueller’s Complaint
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
(Cliff Owen / Associated Press)
Revelations that Robert S. Mueller III complained to Atty. Gen. William Barr about his handling of the special counsel’s report are sure to fuel more questions in Congress.
Mueller’s Complaint
Democrats were already planning on grilling Atty. Gen. William Barr at a hearing before the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee today over his handling of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on the Russia investigation. Now, they have a fresh line of inquiry, after a Justice Department official said Mueller complained to Barr that the attorney general’s initial letter to Congress about the investigation did not “fully capture the context, nature and substance of this office’s work and conclusions” and sowed “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.” The special counsel’s protest was filed in a letter to Barr on March 27 and was followed up with a phone call. In Barr’s prepared remarks to the Senate committee today, he states that “it is vitally important for the Department of Justice to stand apart from the political process.”
-- Trump has issued new rules to further restrict asylum claims, which include making asylum seekers pay application fees, but the plan will face legal and financial limits.
-- Trump met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer in what both sides called a productive discussion about a comprehensive infrastructure package. The Democrats said they had agreed to seek a $2-trillion legislative package to repair and improve the nation’s roads, bridges and broadband networks, though the White House did not confirm the price tag.
-- Trump is heaping nonstop pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates and provide further support to speed up growth, even though the economy is expanding at a healthy pace and economists widely agree that this is not the time to be taking such actions.
-- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff is making a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince, the founder of the security firm Blackwater, alleging he lied to Schiff’s committee in 2017.
Venezuela in Crisis
The political crisis in Venezuela deepened Tuesday when U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido issued fresh calls for the military to switch sides and protesters crowded the streets demanding the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro. Throughout the day, clashes between protesters and government security forces battered Caracas, where gunshots were heard and tear gas drifted over parts of the capital. But by Tuesday evening, Maduro remained. Here is the latest.
Juan Guaido, center, is joined in Caracas by soldiers answering his call for a military uprising against President Nicolas Maduro.
(Fernando Llano / Associated Press)
A Grim Toll in South L.A.
When rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed outside his Hyde Park storefront last month, the incident brought worldwide attention to South Los Angeles. While his death stirred an outpouring of grief, he was one of 29 people who’ve lost their lives in the area so far this year. Almost all of the victims were black, male and died from gunfire. Here are some of their stories.
The Final Chapter for Another Bookstore
After three decades in the Westside neighborhood of Mar Vista, Sam: Johnson’s Bookshop will close by the end of the month. Its rent jumped this year to $4,000, and the owner put the building on the market. Its story is not unfamiliar. “The shuttering of a bookstore is like a recurring couplet — Caravan Book Store in downtown Los Angeles closed last year; Circus of Books in West Hollywood, in February,” writes Jeffrey Fleishman in the latest Column One feature. “But each has its own peculiarities and enchantments.”
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-- Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was wounded in the attack on the Chabad of Poway, has become a global messenger of faith.
-- The U.S. Army veteran accused of orchestrating a thwarted terrorism plot in Southern California was kicked out of the armed forces several years ago after a clash in Afghanistan, sources have told The Times.
-- The cost of building a 119-mile section of the bullet train in the Central Valley is projected to increase by $1.8 billion, taking the total to $12.4 billion, according to an internal draft report by the state rail authority’s staff.
-- In the capital of car culture, can you envision not needing a car, insurance or a parking space someday in the future? Columnist Steve Lopez ponders the possibilities.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS
-- A medieval warfare expert says Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones” got these five things wrong.
-- Broadway’s “Tootsie,” which turns 1982 gender politics into a post-MeToo musical, has earned 11 Tony nominations. See the full list of Tony nominees here.
-- “The Daily Show’s” Trevor Noah says he wants to make the presidential candidates laugh, because laughter “reminds us of who we are.”
-- A shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte left two people dead and four wounded, prompting a lockdown and chaotic scene in the state’s largest city.
-- Sri Lanka has lifted a social media ban that was imposed after the Islamic State-claimed Easter bombings, a sign of security easing even as a Cabinet minister said he and others could be targeted by the same group in possible new attacks.
-- Egypt has sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood members, including one of the group’s top financiers, to life in prison on charges of joining and funding a terrorist group.
-- In Nigeria, the dream of an independent state called Biafra lives on in underground radio broadcasts.
-- Tesla’s ugly financial results turned uglier after a filing showed its results were goosed by a surge in regulatory credits.
-- Facebook has unveiled a redesign that focuses on the Groups feature of its namesake social network. It’s another sign that the company is moving toward more private, intimate communication.
-- The predicted cost of staging the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has risen to $6.9 billion — that’s up $700 million — according to an updated budget released by the private committee responsible for staging the event.
-- In ruling against runner Caster Semenya, a court found Wednesday that the international track federation may regulate women with naturally high testosterone levels.
-- Canelo Alvarez will be under plenty of pressure to deliver Saturday in his title fight against Daniel Jacobs, a fighter he sees as posing a tougher challenge than Gennady Golovkin.
Heading to Las Vegas for the fight this weekend? The Times invites you to a live recording of our podcast “Arrive Early, Leave Late” from Losers Bar at the MGM Grand Casino from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Friday.
-- Trump’s newest asylum policy has the seed of a good idea buried amid bad ones.
-- California has some of the strongest vaccination laws for children of any state, but we have to do better, as the latest measles outbreak shows.
WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING
-- Five years after the death of his infant son, the Dodgers’ Rich Hill opens up in a heartbreaking essay. (The Players’ Tribune)
-- When a pair of the famed ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” were stolen in a small town, it produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as the film itself. (Washington Post)
ONLY IN L.A.
For more than half a century, Ruben Rueda — the longtime bartender of Hollywood’s legendary Musso & Frank Grill — crossed paths with the likes of Charles Bukowski, whom he’d often drive home when Bukowski was drunk, and Steve McQueen. He made martinis for Orson Welles and served a potent pecan punch to Bing Crosby. Keith Richards once gave him a Gibson electric guitar, and Gore Vidal was hoisted from his wheelchair to a barstool for one last drink from Rueda. Now, Hollywood is remembering Rueda, who has died at 67.
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Live updates: Rockets defeat the Clippers, 119-107
By Melissa Rohlin
Thursday was almost a historical night for the Clippers, who are one win away from advancing to their first conference finals in franchise history. Then the fourth quarter happened.
The Rockets overcame a 19-point deficit in the third quarter to beat the Clippers, 119-107, in Game 6 of their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series, which is now tied at 3-3. The teams will play a winner-takes-all Game 7 on Sunday in Houston.
The Rockets outscored the Clippers in the fourth quarter, 40-15.
They tied the score at 102-102 after Corey Brewer made a slam dunk with 4 minutes 21 seconds left. The Rockets then took their biggest lead of the game at 15 points after Jason Terry made a three-pointer with 11.1 seconds left.
There were seven lead changes and four ties, much more action than we had recently seen in this series. Before Game 6, the teams’ last three games were blowouts, each team winning by more than 20 points.
It looked as though the Clippers had the game in the bank after outscoring the Rockets in the third quarter, 28-17.
But the Rockets recovered to outshoot the Clippers on the game, 42.5% to 41.8%, and from beyond the three-point line, 40.6% to 23.3%. The Rockets made as many free throws (32) as the Clippers attempted, and outrebounded the Clippers, 60-41.
Chris Paul led the Clippers with 31 points on 10-for-19 shooting, 11 assists and seven rebounds. Blake Griffin had 28 points, though he didn’t score in the fourth quarter. Griffin also had eight rebounds.
James Harden led the Rockets with 23 points. Dwight Howard had 20 points and 21 rebounds. And Brewer had 19 points, making five of his seven three-point attemtps.
Only eight teams in NBA history have recovered from a 3-1 series deficit to advance to the next round. Come Sunday, one team will make history or the other will make a very short yet desirable list.
The Clippers, who have missed their last 12 shots, are in desperation foul mode in the final minute. Although the Rockets are one of the worst free-shooting teams in the NBA, they still have a 10-point lead, 114-104, with 53 seconds left and Dwight Howard at the line.
Blake Griffin has fouled out with 28 points and eight rebounds. He did miss his last four shots in the game, though.
It’s suddenly looking bleak for the Clippers, who have been outscored, 24-2, since the 7:38 mark of the fourth quarter and now trail, 112-102.
Josh Smith, who just made another three-point shot, has scored 13 of the Rockets’ 24 points in the run.
The Clippers have the ball with 1:15 left.
The Rockets have extended their run to 18-2 to take a 106-102 lead after Corey Brewer made a three-pointer in the corner and Josh Smith made one of two free throws.
Houston extended its lead to 108-102 with 2:28 left when Jason Terry made a jumper on the ensuing possession after Chris Paul missed a three-pointer in the corner.
The Rockets have a chance to take the lead after tying the score, 102-102, when Corey Brewer dunked in transition following a missed shot by Blake Griffin.
Griffin has missed his last three shots, all on consecutive possessions.
The Rockets are on a 14-2 run and have possession of the ball with 3:59 left. Josh Smith has scored eight of those points and assisted on Brewer’s dunk.
The Rockets went on a 9-2 run midway through the fourth quarter to cut the Clippers’ lead to 102-97 with 6 minutes 25 seconds left.
The Clippers had a 100-88 lead with 7:38 left after Austin Rivers made a driving layup, drew a foul and made the free throw.
Corey Brewer answered with his own three-point play before Josh Smith made a pair of three-point shots for the Rockets. Chris Paul made a driving layup between Smith’s long-range baskets.
The Rockets opened the fourth quarter with a 6-2 run to cut their deficit to nine points, 94-85, with 9 minutes 46 seconds left.
The Clippers led by as many as 19 points in the third quarter.
Clippers 92, Rockets 79 (end of third quarter)
The Clippers outscored the Rockets in the third quarter, 28-17, to take a 13-point lead into the fourth.
The Clippers took their biggest lead of the game at 19 points, 87-68, after Chris Paul made a free throw with just more than 3 minutes left in the quarter.
The Rockets then closed the quarter with a 9-3 run.
The Clippers are outshooting the Rockets from the field, 49.3% to 36.8%.
Blake Griffin has a game-high 28 points on 12-for-15 shooting and seven rebounds. Chris Paul scored 12 of his 22 points in the third quarter. Paul also has 11 assists.
James Harden leads the Rockets with 23 points on five-for-20 shooting -- he’s made each of his 11 free throws. Dwight Howard has 19 points on seven-for-12 shooting and 16 rebounds, though he also has three fouls.
The Clippers have taken their biggest lead of the game at 11 points after Chris Paul was fouled while making a layup and completed the three-point play to put the Clippers up, 77-66, with 7 minutes 9 seconds left.
The Clippers have outscored the Rockets, 13-4, so far in the third quarter.
The Clippers opened the third quarter with a 5-0 run to turn a two-point halftime advantage into a seven-point lead, 69-62, with 11 minutes 19 seconds left in the third quarter.
J.J. Redick made a three-pointer and Matt Barnes made a layup over that stretch.
Clippers 64, Rockets 62 (halftime)
Well folks, after three consecutive blowouts of more than 20 points, the Clippers and the Rockets are finally giving us a good game.
There have been six ties and three lead changes in the first half. Here’s how it went down:
After trailing by as many as nine points in the first quarter, the Rockets took their first lead since 30 seconds into the game after James Harden made two free throws to put his team ahead, 43-41, with 6 minutes 41 seconds left in the second quarter.
The Rockets then went on a 6-0 run to take their biggest lead of the game at six points, 52-46, after Clint Capela made an alley-oop dunk with 5 minutes left.
The Clippers responded by turning to hack-a-Howard, which actually paid off for them. Howard missed four consecutive free throws as the Clippers went on an 7-0 run to take a two-point lead, 60-58, with 1:13 left.
In the final minute, both the Clippers and the Rockets made a dunk and a layup.
The Clippers are outshooting the Rockets from the field, 49% to 46.5%. The Rockets are outshooting the Clippers from beyond the three-point line, 38.5% to 21.4%. The Rockets are outrebounding the Clippers, 26-21. The Clippers have half as many turnovers as the Rockets, who have six.
Blake Griffin leads the Clippers with 22 points on nine-for-12 shooting and five rebounds.
James Harden leads the Rockets with 21 points. Harden is shooting four-for-13 from the field, but he’s made each of his 11 free throws. Howard, on the other hand, has only made one of his six free throws.
After their lead was cut to just one point, the Clippers went on an 8-2 run to push their lead back up to seven points, 39-32, with just over 8 minutes left in the second quarter.
The Rockets opened the second quarter with a 5-2 run to cut their deficit to only one point, 31-30, with 10 minutes 44 seconds left.
The Rockets trailed by as many as nine points in the first quarter.
Clippers 29, Rockets 25 (end of first quarter)
The Clippers led by as many as nine points in the first quarter of Game 6, as they outshot the Rockets from the field, 48% to 36.4%.
The Rockets went on a 9-4 run to cut their deficit to four points, 24-20, after Trevor Ariza made a three-pointer with 1 minute 49 seconds left. But the Clippers answered with a 5-0 run behind two layups from Chris Paul, including a three-point play, to retake a nine-point lead.
The Rockets then closed the quarter with a 5-0 run to cut the Clippers’ lead to four points heading into the second quarter.
Blake Griffin leads all scorers with 11 points on five-for-seven shooting, two rebounds and one assist. Matt Barnes has seven points and three rebounds. And Paul has seven points, three rebounds and four assists.
Dwight Howard leads the Rockets with nine points on four-for-six shooting and six rebounds. The Rockets center, however, is in early foul trouble after picking up his second personal foul with 5 minutes 46 seconds left in the first quarter.
The Rockets are outrebounding the Clippers, 15-11. The Clippers only have one turnover while the Rockets have four.
The Rockets opened the first quarter looking jittery and out of sorts while the Clippers seemed cool and collected.
The first quarter is best described by this sequence that happened with less than 4 minutes left: James Harden stole the ball from the Clippers then passed it to Terrence Jones, who botched a wide open layup; Chris Paul then threw the ball downcourt to Blake Griffin, who made a slam dunk.
The Clippers have taken their biggest lead of the game at eight points, 12-4, after Blake Griffin made a jumper with 7 minutes left in the first quarter.
Griffin leads all scorers with six points on three-for-four shooting.
The Clippers have opened an 8-2 lead with 9 minutes left in the first quarter.
The Clippers are outshooting the Rockets from the field, 57.1% to 16.7%. Each of the Clippers’ starters besides J.J. Redick have scored.
The only Rockets player who is on the scoreboard is Dwight Howard.
The Clippers have a 3-2 lead over the Houston Rockets in their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series, with Game 6 set for 7:30 p.m. PDT tonight at Staples Center.
If the Clippers win, they will advance to the Western Conference finals for the first time in their 45-year franchise history. If the Clippers lose, the teams will play a winner-takes-all Game 7 in Houston on Sunday.
Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said that his team has to play with a sense of desperation, but he added that desperation is not enough.
“I don’t know why you would ever not be desperate in a playoff game, but you still have to execute,” Rivers said before Game 6. “Desperation will make you play hard and dumb sometimes.”
The Clippers won Games 3 and 4 against the Rockets at Staples Center by 25 and 33 points, respectively. The Clippers then lost Game 5 at Toyota Center by 21 points.
“I think we’ve played well in stretches, and I think they have too,” Rivers said.
“We’re going to have to win a game where they play great -- and that’s tonight.”
Melissa Rohlin
Melissa Rohlin is a former sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
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Judge Wilkinson and the Irony of "Judicial Restraint" in Al-Shimari
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Whatever else one might say about Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, I think it's safe to describe him as one of the leading contemporary advocates of judicial restraint on the federal appellate bench. After all, it was the same noted conservative jurist who raised many eyebrows in 2009 when he attacked the conservative majority of the Supreme Court for its Second Amendment decision in Heller v. District of Columbia, writing in the Virginia Law Review that Heller may one day become the conservatives' Roe v. Wade--a landmark case in which the Justices mistook their ideological policy preferences for their more modest judicial obligations. And it was Judge Wilkinson who wrote the Fourth Circuit's opinion earlier this year in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, which repeatedly argued for the need for judicial restraint in national security cases (there, as justification for not recognizing a Bivens remedy arising out of Jose Padilla's allegedly unlawful detention and treatment)...
That's why I found his opinion dissenting from today's en banc Fourth Circuit decision in al-Shimari v. CACI International to be profoundly ironic--if not hypocritical--as I explain below the fold.
In his sharply worded 41-page dissent, Judge Wilkinson sets forth a lucid, coherent, and at times compelling series of arguments for why federal military contractors should not be subject to liability under state tort law. Lest there be any doubt, I think there is much to commend his analysis, at least as a policy matter. Indeed, I don't think it matters whether one is a progressive or a conservative, a hawk or a dove, to believe that, all things being equal, federal--rather than state--law should govern federal national security policy, especially with respect to operations overseas. The problems with Judge Wilkinson's opinion are twofold: First, because no federal law imposes liability in these cases, favoring a federal rule of decision over state law is tantamount to conferring entirely judge-made immunity upon the defendants. Second, in order to get there, he has to engage in two distinct acts of judicial lawmaking for which he is entirely unapologetic: (1) Asserting jurisdiction over an appeal where none exists (as I've explained in some detail before); and then (2) using a series of prudential and policy arguments to justify wholly judicial displacement of state tort law. Whatever else one might say about the merits of each of these two steps, I don't think either can possibly be defended as "judicial restraint." Indeed, this strikes me as absolutely archetypal judicial lawmaking. Again, that's not to condone or condemn it; it's merely to describe it.
The better question, methinks, is what justifies such judicial lawmaking in the typical national security case? Presumably, it's a healthy respect for (and deference to) the role of the political branches in general, and the Executive Branch in particular, in such sensitive questions of national security policy and foreign relations. And that's why Judge Wilkinson's dissent is so ironic in this case, because the Obama Administration filed an amicus brief explaining in detail why it is entirely consistent with Executive Branch policy concerns to allow these suits to at least proceed to discovery and summary judgment. Judge Wilkinson remained unconvinced, noting at one point that "The principle against such interference holds even where the executive branch insists that the state law does not interfere with the foreign relations power." In other words, judges are allowed to decide for themselves when state laws interfere with federal policy, even when the Executive Branch officials responsible for articulation of that policy specifically disclaim the existence of such a conflict.
Thus, Judge Wilkinson believes that courts must sometimes (1) exercise appellate jurisdiction where none exists so that they may (2) recognize principles of judge-made federal common law that displace state tort law and immunize private defendants in order to (3) protect the federal government's interests, and thereby (4) ignore the fact that the federal government itself supports liability.
Reasonable people can surely agree to disagree about many aspects of the al-Shimari litigation. But can we please drop the fiction that what jurists like Judge Wilkinson are doing is "judicial restraint"? It may be "restraint" insofar as it is restraining liability, but only through conscious and repeated lawmaking by judges. And if we're comfortable with it here, mustn't we necessarily also (1) be comfortable with it in other areas, as well, or (2) have a theory for why permissible judicial lawmaking is, at least with respect to civil liability, unidirectional?
Interrogation,
Interrogation: Interrogation Abuses: Civil Liability,
Executive Power,
Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights,
Interrogation: Abuses
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
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Defendant bound over in murder case
John Richmeier jrichmeier@leavenworthtimes.com
Aug 22, 2018 at 8:38 AM
The case of a man accused of murdering his girlfriend in southern Leavenworth County has been bound over for arraignment.
The arraignment for Dan S. Flannagan, 63, is scheduled for Sept. 12.
Leavenworth County District Judge Michael Gibbens ruled there was probable cause to bind over the case Tuesday after listening to testimony during a preliminary hearing.
Flannagan is charged with intentional second-degree murder in connection to the shooting death of Constance Perryman.
Perryman’s body was found April 6 on property located off of 198th Street south of Linwood.
Flannagan and Perryman had been living together on the property.
Four prosecution witnesses testified during the preliminary hearing including Deputy Patrick Horton of the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office.
Horton said the Sheriff’s Office was contacted late April 5, and he took a missing person report concerning Perryman that night. Perryman reportedly had last been seen April 3.
Horton said Perryman was found during a search of the property on the morning of April 6.
Among the other witnesses was Detective Dan Abramovitz of the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office. Abramovitz was the lead investigator in the case.
Abramovitz testified that Perryman’s body was found at the bottom of what he described as a rubble pile near the Kansas River. But he believes Perryman was killed at another location on the property.
He said blood, a cell phone and a flashlight were found in the area where Perryman is believed to have been killed.
Abramovitz testified the coroner determined Perryman died as a result of blood loss from a shotgun wound. The coroner believed a .410 shotgun caused the wound.
Abramovitz said two .410 shotguns were seized during a search of the property where Perryman lived with Flannagan. One of the shotguns was found in a living area used by Flannagan and Perryman. The other was collected from a bedroom of a roommate.
During an interview with investigators, Flannagan said he had become enraged. Flannagan told the investigators he had not been in a rage for 30 years, and the last time he was in a rage, he did not kill anyone, according to Abramovitz’s testimony.
“That is the statement he made,” Abramovitz said.
During a second interview, Flannagan denied killing Perryman, Abramovitz said.
Flannagan asked if the guns could be returned to his son. A lieutenant with the Sheriff’s Office indicated all of the guns except the one used to kill Perryman would be returned. Flannagan reportedly said the gun used in the shooting had been a gift, according to the testimony.
Another witness was David Hagman, who lives in a camping trailer on the property where Perryman’s body was found.
He testified that he heard noises the night of April 3 that he initially thought sounded like explosions.
Hagman also testified he heard someone yelling.
“I figured it was Dan,” Hagman said of the voice he heard.
Hagman described the voice as sounding demonic.
Hagman said the voice told someone to get out and leave. Hagman said the person screaming also may have said he was going to kill someone.
Hagman said he believes he later “heard another shot or something.”
Flannagan remains in custody at the Leavenworth County Jail.
Twitter: @LVTNewsJohnR
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Todd Brassner, Westchester native, dies in Trump Tower fire
Todd Brassner, who grew up in Harrison and attended school in New Rochelle, died in Saturday's fire at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Todd Brassner, Westchester native, dies in Trump Tower fire Todd Brassner, who grew up in Harrison and attended school in New Rochelle, died in Saturday's fire at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2018/04/09/westchester-native-todd-brassner-dies-trump-tower-fire/498267002/
Matt Spillane, mspillane@lohud.com Published 9:53 a.m. ET April 9, 2018 | Updated 4:35 p.m. ET April 16, 2018
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Todd Brassner, 67, died on Saturday.
A firefighter looks out from the window of a damaged apartment in Trump Tower in New York on Saturday, April 7, 2018.(Photo: Craig Ruttle, AP)
Friends and family are mourning the loss of Todd Brassner, a Westchester County native who died in a fire at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Saturday.
Brassner, 67, died after flames ripped through his apartment on the 50th floor of the 58-story Fifth Avenue building shortly after 5 p.m. Brassner grew up in Harrison, according to media reports, and attended Pace University and the defunct New Rochelle Academy, according to his Facebook profiles.
There was no sprinkler system in Brassner's apartment, and he died shortly after being taken to a hospital. The apartment did not have a working smoke detector, according to the fire department. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
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Brassner was an art collector who had been trying to sell his apartment since Donald Trump's presidential campaign and victory brought increased security and activity to the building, according to the New York Times.
A blaze broke out at about 5:30 p.m. ET April 7, 2018, at Trump Tower in New York City's Midtown Manhattan neighborhood. (Photo: NYC Emergency Management)
"It haunts me," Stephen Dwire, a 67-year-old musician and music producer, told the Times, adding that he had been friends with Brassner since they were 14-year-olds in Harrison. "He said, 'This is getting untenable. It was like living in an armed camp.' But when people heard it was a Trump building, he couldn't give it away."
Brassner, according to a few of his Facebook profiles, attended New Rochelle Academy, a private Montessori-method high school that closed in 1987. A member of a Facebook group for New Rochelle Academy alumni posted that Brassner graduated from the school in 1969.
A fundraising campaign has been set up on the website YouCaring to raise money for Brassner's funeral, an effort apparently organized by his friends.
John Bacon and Christal Hayes of USA Today and Journal News reporter Michael P. McKinney contributed to this report.
Twitter: @MattSpillane
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Stay & Play Golf at Fairmont Grand Del Mar
William Bradley doesn’t have much time to play the Tom Fazio-designed course at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego. The avid golfer would like to—he once shot a 74 on the 7,160-yard layout—but his job keeps him too busy. And for that, visitors to the resort should be very happy.
The 40-year old Bradley is the Director and Executive Chef at the resort’s Addison Restaurant, the only Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five Diamond restaurant in Southern California. A dinner there is the highlight of any resort visit, although there are many more reasons to make the trip, including lavish accommodations, four heated pools, a spa (try the golf revitalization massage), and a three-to-one staff-to-guest ratio.
All of which helps explain why Fairmont, which longed for the chance to run the 249-room resort since it opened in 2007, acquired 88 percent of ownership last year. All of which also explains why few major changes were needed at this high-end hostelry 30 minutes north of San Diego International Airport.
Fazio’s layout, which encircles the resort, is a long and winding journey through the 400-acre property. “It’s visually challenging but forgiving at the same time,” says Bradley. “There are a lot of banks around the greens that bring shots back into play. I recommend using a forecaddie your first time here to help with course management.”
The course has a number of high and low points, topographically speaking. Play starts on a downhill par four back-dropped by Los Peñasquitos Canyon, then rises to its apex at the 450-yard 4th hole, which offers a good view of the fog that often hugs the Pacific coastline but never reaches the resort, which is five miles inland. The round continues its up-and-down ride through ravines and hillsides, with one of its highlights the 17th hole, a 242-yard par three with water left of the green. “It’s one of the hardest I have played,” Bradley says of his favorite hole. “I’ve hit everything from a 3-wood to a 4-iron and have only birdied the hole once in all the times I have played it.”
Director of Golf Shawn Cox and head instructor Derek Uyeda teach out of an impressive complex at the back of the driving range, while the resort offers plenty of non-golf activities as well. A complimentary shuttle (complete with beach chair set up and towels) stands ready for the 15-minute drive to Del Mar’s 18th Street beach. And when the thoroughbreds run at Del Mar racetrack from the middle of July through early September and again in November, a shuttle departs the resort an hour before the first race and returns 15 minutes after the last. The resort has its own equestrian center with seven horses available for rides in Los Peñasquitos Canyon, while hikers can traverse 37 miles of trails. The surrounding area is also rich in activities for families, including the San Diego Zoo, LegoLand, and SeaWorld. (The resort can arrange tickets.)
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Thupten Jinpa, Voice for Compassion
by Lindsay Kyte| May 3, 2017
Thupten Jinpa is best known as the Dalai Lama’s translator, but this Buddhist Renaissance man has many roles—scholar, author, and leader in the dialogue between science and Buddhism. Driving them all, says Lindsay Kyte, is his mission to help us all be more compassionate.
Thupten Jinpa. Photo by Christine Guest.
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“It’s in the teachings of my own Tibetan Buddhist tradition where I find many of the tools that help me navigate the challenges of everyday living in the contemporary world,” says scholar and translator Thupten Jinpa.
Ironically, the Buddhist tradition he finds so helpful in the modern world was developed during hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation inside Tibet, scrupulously avoiding contact with outside influences. That changed dramatically in 1958, when a failed revolt against Chinese occupiers drove hundreds of thousands of Tibetans, including major Buddhist figures such as the Dalai Lama, into exile.
Thupten Jinpa Langri was one of that first generation of Tibetans who grew up in exile. Now fifty-eight, he has been a pioneer in helping the Tibetan Buddhist tradition find its place in the world. The bridge he’s found between modern society and his ancient religious tradition is compassion.
Even in the contested political arena, compassion is one value that both sides of the spectrum are eager to claim.
“Compassion turns out to be the common ground where the ethical teachings of all major traditions, religious and humanistic, come together,” says Jinpa, who is the author of A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Change Our Lives. “Even in the contested political arena, compassion is one value that both sides of the spectrum are eager to claim.”
Jinpa defines compassion as “a sense of concern that arises when we are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to see that suffering relieved. Compassion is a response to the inevitable reality of our human condition—our experiences of pain and sorrow—and offers the possibility of responding with understanding, patience, and kindness.”
It’s no coincidence that his words echo those of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, since he is best-known as His Holiness’ principal English translator since 1985. This former monk is now a family man living in a modest townhouse in Montreal. I sipped coffee with him on his backyard patio as he talked about how compassion permeates his personal life and his work as a scholar, author, translator, and leader in the dialogue between Buddhism and science.
Thupten Jinpa was just one year old when his family fled to India in 1959 in the wake of the Dalai Lama’s escape. At a school for refugee children, he had a traditional Tibetan Buddhist education. “Every Sunday afternoon, a monastic teacher would give a dharma teaching,” Jinpa remembers. “He told stories about Buddhism coming to Tibet, the sacrifices great translators made, and the invention of the Tibetan language system. The traditional culture was being preserved with the children.”
At age 11, Thupten Jinpa (far right, with his dog, Dorje) entered Dzongkar Choede monastery in southern India, where he was frustrated by the emphasis on rote learning.
When he was six years old, Jinpa was chosen to walk alongside the Dalai Lama when His Holiness visited the school. “I remember holding his hand and trying to keep up with his pace,” he says. Jinpa asked His Holiness if he could become a monk, to which His Holiness replied, “Study well and you can become a monk anytime you wish.”
When Jinpa was nine, his mother passed away and his father became a monk, which was not uncommon upon the death of a spouse. Two years later, Jinpa decided he wanted to become a monk too. He joined his father’s monastery in southern India, but soon became frustrated with its lack of academic exploration. “The main education consisted of memorizing and chanting liturgical texts without knowing their meaning,” he says. “I felt intellectually restless and increasingly uncomfortable.”
Jinpa realized that learning English was the key to exploring new ideas. “I had a basic ability to read English but my conversational skills were almost nonexistent,” he says. “I made do with comic books and a cheap used transistor radio. The Voice of America had a unique program broadcasting in English, in which the presenter spoke slowly and repeated every sentence twice. This was immensely helpful.”
The early 1970s were the height of the hippie movement in India. Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama’s home and seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, was a favorite spot to hang out, smoke some chillums, and explore Buddhism. His Holiness’ teachings attracted spiritual seekers from across the globe, with whom Jinpa would practice his English, read Western literature, try exotic new foods like pancakes, and learn to use a knife and fork.
In the 1970s, Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama, was popular among Western hippies and spiritual seekers. There, Jinpa (second from left) polished his English and learned about the modern world.
“Through English, I learned to read a globe,” Jinpa says. “That made the news of great countries come to life—England, America, Russia, and our beloved Tibet, which had tragically fallen to Communist China.”
At the same time, Jinpa deepened his knowledge of Buddhism and the Tibetan language with a teacher named Zemey Rinpoche, who recognized the young monk’s restless intellect. In 1978, Jinpa moved to Ganden, a large monastery in southern India renowned for its intellectual rigor. On completing his studies there, he was awarded the degree of Geshé Lharampa, the highest level of academic achievement in Tibetan Buddhism.
Then in 1985, twenty years after he had held the Dalai Lama’s hand as a small boy, Thupten Jinpa got a surprise call. His Holiness was scheduled to teach in Dharamasala but his English translator was not going to arrive in time. Jinpa had been recommended.
At first, he tried to refuse. “I said, ‘No, no. I’ve never done this before,’” he remembers. Though nervous, Jinpa eventually agreed to do it. The audience responded well to his style of translation, and when the official translator arrived, the audience requested that Jinpa continue.
In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would have the honor of serving the Dalai Lama so closely.
Afterward, the Dalai Lama asked to see Jinpa in his office, where he said, “I know you. You’re a good debater. You’re a good scholar. But I never knew you spoke English. How come I never knew?” Jinpa sheepishly explained to His Holiness that he’d kept a low profile because if others in the monastery knew how well he spoke English, he’d be inundated with tasks. His Holiness said, “People tell me that you have a very easy English to listen to. Would you come with me when I need you to interpret, and on my travels?”
Jinpa was in tears. “In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would have the honor of serving the Dalai Lama so closely,” he says. “For a Tibetan who grew up as a refugee in India, serving the Dalai Lama was also a way to honor the sacrifices our parents had to make in their early years of exile.”
Jinpa began translating for the Dalai Lama in India, and two years later traveled to the West for the first time. “The first country we stopped in was West Germany. I had never seen a supermarket or motorways with two lanes. The colors were very muted, even the houses and clothes. There were very few people, whereas in India there are people everywhere. It felt too neat and too clean. On the same trip, we went to the United States. Even the air smelled different.”
Six-year-old Thupten Jinpa once held the Dalai Lama’s hand during a school visit. In 1985, His Holiness asked Jinpa to be his principal English translator, which he has been ever since.
“My relationship with Sophie involved a bit of a learning curve,” says Thupten Jinpa about life as a married man. “It’s funny how the things that become so important in your life tend to happen accidentally.”
Though he was now the Dalai Lama’s principal English translator, Jinpa continued to develop a life independent of this role. He went to Cambridge University to pursue a B.A. in Western philosophy, and eventually got his PhD in religious studies.
Away for the first time, he began to think that his future might not be in the monastery, because remaining a monk meant he would eventually become a teacher. “Right from the beginning, I recognized that in serving His Holiness, I was also serving the world,” says Jinpa. “Whereas, if I tried to be a teacher in my own right, I may be successful, but my reach would always be limited.” He began to see he was in a unique position: “The strange karma I had of being a monk, yet knowing English, was pushing me to be a medium between the two cultures.”
I’d had a yearning for family since my early twenties. The yearning was even stronger after my undergraduate time at Cambridge. So I made the decision to give back my vows.
Jinpa also had to face what his heart was telling him—he wanted a family of his own. “I’d had a yearning for family since my early twenties. The yearning was even stronger after my undergraduate time at Cambridge. So I made the decision to give back my vows.”
Jinpa wrote the Dalai Lama a long letter to apologize if he had disappointed him. A couple of months later, Jinpa got a call that His Holiness wanted him to translate in Switzerland. He explained that he was no longer a monk, but the Dalai Lama’s secretary said that His Holiness had personally requested him.
When he saw His Holiness, Jinpa remembers, “I said, ‘I’m so sorry to turn up like this in trousers instead of robes.’ The Dalai Lama laughed and said, ‘You always had a big head. But now, with hair, it looks even more impressive.’ His Holiness told me, ‘I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed and saddened by your leaving the monastic life, but I know you have not taken this decision lightly. I respect your judgement.’”
Then the Dalai Lama gave Jinpa this advice: “I have no experience in family life. But I have seen enough broken relationships to know that you shouldn’t have children before you’ve found the right partner. There are so many broken families with small children caught in the middle and parents expending so much energy trying to resolve conflicts.”
Jinpa says His Holiness’ reaction to his decision taught him a lot about compassion. “He could have scolded me. But he got to my level, understood me, and looked at the situation from my perspective. That changed everything.”
A year later, when His Holiness couldn’t make a scheduled radio interview in Montreal, he sent Jinpa in his place. Because Jinpa did not speak French, Sophie Boyer, a volunteer for the Canada Tibet Committee, went to the studio to help.
“The first time we spoke was on the radio,” he says. “Later she told me she was planning to go to India to learn Tibetan.” Jinpa arranged for Sophie to stay in his former monastery and he went back to Cambridge, where he was working as a research fellow in Eastern religion. The two stayed in touch and eventually married. Thupten Jinpa now smiles as he remembers the learning curve that being in a romantic relationship entailed.
“In the Tibetan community, once you grow up, there’s not much physical contact,” says Jinpa. “And having been a monk, physical intimacy was not part of my life, nor was the sharing of emotions. My wife, she’s French-Canadian, which is a culture that expects that intimacy. So learning that took a little while.”
Jinpa, his daughters Tara and Khandro, and his wife, Sophie Boyer Langri, with His Holiness.
Jinpa and Sophie have two daughters, now both at university, and Jinpa says becoming a father changed his perspective on compassion, which had been a little theoretical. “It helped me make real many of the sentiments around compassion that we, as monks, visualize and imagine. In the face of an infant’s immediate need, a loving parent is completely there for that child. That unconditionality, that total presence, is the quality of mind and heart that compassion and meditation tries to cultivate for all beings.”
Jinpa’s youngest daughter, Tara, taught him many lessons. “Between ages two and four, she was completely unmanageable sometimes,” he says. “I remember getting caught being very angry and frustrated. In relationships you have with colleagues or teachers, you’re not completely exposed from the personal side, whereas in the context of family life, you are as bare as you can be.”
Being a family man has allowed Jinpa to act as a bridge between the Dalai Lama and lay audiences. “Sometimes a question does not fully capture what an audience member wants to ask,” says Jinpa. “As a lay person with a family, I may be able to translate those unwritten assumptions. Conversely, I may also be able to explain certain points of His Holiness’ to the audience in a way that is more understandable because of my life situation.”
Thupten Jinpa and his wife, Sophie, who works with him on his translation projects as coordinator, administrator, and more. Photo by Christine Guest.
“I’ve always been interested in ideas, but I was never that interested in science,” Thupten Jinpa acknowledges. That changed in 1987, when he translated for the Dalai Lama at the first Mind and Life conference. For the first time, contemplative practitioners and leading scientists came together for a dialogue about how the inner research of meditation and the outer research of science could work together.
“For His Holiness,” says Jinpa, “what science offers is a very empirical way of grounding many aspects of Buddhism—the importance of self-discipline, having mastery of your emotions, having awareness of your own eternal mind. If you’re able to explain these ideas in scientific language and cite scientific findings, it’s a much more accessible way of conveying them to Western minds.”
There was more skepticism on the scientific side. “When the first Mind and Life Dialogues began, compassion wasn’t a major field in science,” says Jinpa. “But more and more research indicated evidence of empathy in animals, so you could no longer say altruism has been put upon us by culture. Until then, that was what a lot of scientists took morality and religion to be—a human invention to keep a lid on this brute nature. Otherwise, we’d be at each other’s throats.”
Jinpa’s role was more than translating mere words. “At the time, the conceptual framework wasn’t there for scientists to understand Buddhist philosophy,” Jinpa says. “If you started using Buddhist jargon, they had no way of appreciating the insights.” To build a foundation for productive dialogue, Jinpa and His Holiness had to create connections beyond the technical language of both worlds.
His Holiness’ message about the importance of compassion began to attract greater interest in the scientific world. Jinpa says that the Mind and Life conference at MIT in 2003 was a milestone. “That represented, from a mainstream scientific community’s point of view, a begrudging acceptance of the role Buddhism has had in shaping science.”
It’s my belief that the preservation and dissemination of classical Buddhist knowledge and its practices, including compassion, is good for the world.
Compassion and the benefits of meditation practice are now considered legitimate subjects of scientific study. In 2005, His Holiness was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Since its first dialogue in 1987, the Mind and Life Institute has held more than thirty events on a wide range of subjects, including ethics, neuroplasticity, altruism, economics, and more. Thupten Jinpa is the chair of its board.
Another organization studying and promoting compassion is the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, which Jinpa helped found with neurosurgeon James Doty. There Jinpa developed the Compassion Cultivation Training program (CCT), combining mindfulness practice, compassion meditation techniques, and Western psychological insights. Free of religious terminology and with testable results, this eight-week training in empathy and compassion has been taught to thousands of people from Stanford students to Google engineers. Many of its principles and practices are found in Jinpa’s book, A Fearless Heart.
Thupten Jinpa’s many projects include preserving and translating key texts through the Library of Tibetan Classics, and modernizing Tibetan grammar to make it easier for future generations of Tibetans to maintain their native language. Photo by Christine Guest.
Thupten Jinpa says that over time he came to recognize that his destiny is to integrate classical Tibetan Buddhism into the contemporary world. He therefore turned his attention to preserving the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, in particular the extensive philosophical teachings that the Dalai Lama refers to as the Nalanda tradition, named after the famed Mahayana Buddhist university of ancient India.
Fearing that this knowledge might be lost as the Tibetan monastic system weakens, Jinpa decided to “translate, reformat, and recreate these Tibetan texts for better and more efficient use, and to make them part of the global literary tradition.” The Library of Tibetan Classics is an enormous project, a thirty-two volume set of translations of key texts. Nine have been published so far by Wisdom Publications, with the others in progress.
Jinpa also has what he calls a “hobby”—reforming classical Tibetan grammar to a more modern system to make it easier for future generations of Tibetans to retain their language. “Between the spoken and the written, there’s a big gap. I did a lot of research and wrote a book to help bridge this gap, and it’s now being used in some of the monasteries.”
A true Renaissance man, Thupten Jinpa says there is a drive that unifies the work he does in so many different fields: “It’s my belief that the preservation and dissemination of classical Buddhist knowledge and its practices, including compassion, is good for the world.” As Jinpa reflects on this, he pats the family dog, who has been sleeping at his feet. The dog wags its tail happily. This makes Thupten Jinpa smile. “Also, you know, I think I’ve just been plain lucky,” he adds, with a characteristic laugh.
About Lindsay Kyte
Lindsay Kyte is the associate editor of Lion's Roar and works as a freelance journalist, playwright, and performer. You can find more about her at lindsaykyte.com.
Topics: Dalai Lama, Lion's Roar - May '17, Thupten Jinpa
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A short meditation for fostering compassion
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Richard Deacon is acknowledged as one of the principal British sculptors who has exhibited internationally since the early 1980’s. The Lisson Gallery is proud to announce the forthcoming exhibition including new large scale ceramic works and selections from the suite of steamed ash sculptures made for Deacon's exhibition in Dundee last year.
Entitled, UW84DC, 2001 these fifteen lyrical wooden floor sculptures illustrate the historic interest Deacon has displayed throughout his career in joinery mixed with a light-hearted appreciation for the gesture. These unfurled and discarded remnants appear to belong to a larger whole yet somehow stand as constituent parts in their own right. Space is not contained within form, but rather form is composed and shaped by the dynamics of the structures themselves.
This corresponds and conflicts to form an interesting correlation with a new body of work of new large scale hand-built ceramic works that are inspired by the simple gestures of how the material reacts to methods of construction and manipulation, where hollowing, carving, piling and squashing become techniques in themselves. His dissatisfaction with the materials commonly associated with outdoor works drove him to explore the use of clay on a large scale, overcoming technical difficulties to produce a body of work that contradicts its materiality and scale. These highly finished forms allow for no procedural traces by which they are built, and in doing so become idealised forms where the appearance is divorced from the means of fabrication.
This preoccupation with methods of construction and uses of materials is one of continual development and the search for expressing new forms. The exhibition illustrates Deacon's abiding fascination in the relationship between the physical and the material, however the work today is less overtly descriptive.
Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, and lives and works in London. He is one of a generation of British sculptors who came to international recognition during the 1980's, and he was awarded Britain’s Turner Prize in 1987.
He has shown extensively in Europe, USA, South America and Japan. His work is represented in major public collections including Tate Gallery, London; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Israel Museum, Jerusalem. He was honoured with a CBE in 1999 and was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts and des Lettres in 1998. He is a member of the Royal Academy.
Recent exhibitions: Richard Deacon, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 28 Apr - 24 June 2001; Medieval Sculpture Show, Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, 2002; Richard Deacon, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 14 Oct, 2001 to Jan 2002; Between The Two Of US, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Rotterdam, 2 Dec 2001 to 25 Mar 2002; Richard Deacon, Oirel Gelf Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 8 Dec 2001 to 7 Apr 2002.
About Richard Deacon
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M2N Research Group Eindhoven
Organic Solar Cells
Perovskite Solar Cells
Organic Flow Batteries
Polaritons in Organic Crystals
Solar Fuels
Photodetectors
National and International Projects
Current Group Members
Rene Janssen
Reinder Coehoorn
Peter Bobbert
Gerwin Gelinck
Kees Flipse
Martijn Wienk
Stefan Meskers
Post doctoral researchers
N.E. Botterhuis, S. Karthikeyan, D. Veldman, S.C.J. Meskers, R.P. Sijbesma
Molecular recognition in bisurea thermoplastic elastomers studied with pyrene-based fluorescent probes and atomic force microscopy
Chem. Commun., 2008, 3915-3917
D.S.H. Charrier, M. Kemerink, B.E. Smalbrugge, T. de Vries, R.A.J. Janssen
Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy modeling – A quest for the real surface potential
ACS Nano, 2008, 2, 622–626,
P.T.K. Chin, J.W. Stouwdam, S.S. van Bavel, R.A.J. Janssen,
Cluster synthesis of branched CdTe nanocrystals for use in light-emitting diodes
Nanotechnology, 2008, 19, 205602 (8pp)
P.T.K. Chin, R.A.M. Hikmet, R.A.J. Janssen
Energy transfer in hybrid quantum dot light-emitting diodes
J. Appl. Phys., 2008, 104, 013108/1-6
C.G. Christova, J.W. Stouwdam, T.J. Eijkemans, A.Y. Silov, R.W. van der Heijden, M. Kemerink, R.A.J. Janssen, H.W.M. Salemink
Photoluminescence enhancement in thin films of PbSe nanocrystals
Appl. Phys. Lett., 2008, 93, 121906/1-3
R. Gómez, R. Blanco, D, Veldman, J.L. Segura, R.A.J. Janssen
Synthesis and photophysical properties of conjugated polymers with pendant 9,10-anthraquinone units
J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112, 4953-4960
G. Fernández, L. Sánchez, D. Veldman, M.M. Wienk, C. Atienza, D.M. Guldi, R.A.J. Janssen, N. Martín
Tetrafullerene conjugates for all-organic photovoltaics
J. Org. Chem., 2008, 73, 3189-3196
J.H.A. Hagelaar, C.F.J. Flipse, J.I. Cerda
Modeling realistic tip structures: Scanning tunneling microscopy of NO adsorption on Rh(111)
Phys. Rev. B., 2008, 78, 161405/1-4
A. Huijser, T.J. Savenije, S.C.J. Meskers, M.J.W. Vermeulen, L.D. Siebbeles
The mechanism of long-range exciton diffusion in a nematically organized porphyrin layer
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 12496-12500
R.T.M. Jakobs, J. van Herrikhuyzen, J.C. Gielen, P.C.M. Christianen, S.C.J. Meskers, A.P.H.J. Schenning
Self-assembly of amphiphilic gold nanoparticles decorated with a mixed shell of oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s and ethyleneoxide ligands
J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 3438-3441
B.P. Karsten, R.A.J. Janssen
Small band gap oligothieno[3,4-b]pyrazines
Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 3513-3516
B.P. Karsten, L. Viani, J. Gierschner, J. Cornil, R.A.J. Janssen
An oligomer study to small band gap polymers
J. Phys. Chem. A., 2008, 112, 10764-10773
M. Kemerink, D.S.H. Charrier, E.C.P. Smits, S.G.J. Mathijssen, D.M. de Leeuw, R.A.J. Janssen
On the width of the recombination zone in organic light emitting field effect transistors
H.A. van Laarhoven, C.F.J. Flipse, M. Koeberg, M. Bonn, E. Hendry, G. Orlandi, O.D. Jurchescu, T.T.M. Palstra, A. Troisi
On the mechanism of charge transport in pentacene
J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 129, 044704/1-5
C.-Q. Ma, M. Fonrodona, M.C. Schikora, M.M. Wienk, R.A.J. Janssen, P. Bäuerle
Solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells based on monodisperse dendritic oligothiophenes
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2008, 20, 3323-3331
S.G.J. Mathijssen, M. Kemerink, A. Sharma, M. Cölle, P.A. Bobbert, R.A.J. Janssen, D.M. de Leeuw
Charge trapping at the dielectric of organic transistrors visualized in real time and space
Adv. Mater., 2008, 20, 975-979
S.G.J. Mathijssen, P.A. van Hal, T.J.M. van den Biggelaar, E.C.P. Smits, B. de Boer, M. Kemerink, R.A.J. Janssen, D.M. de Leeuw,
Manipulating the local light emission in organic light-emitting diodes using patterned self-assembled monolayers
Adv. Mater., 2008, 20, 2703–2706
S.L.M. van Mensfoort, R. Coehoorn
Determination of injection barriers in organic semiconductor devices from capacitance measurements
Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 100, 086802/1-4
Effect of Gaussian disorder on the voltage dependence of the current density in sandwich-type devices based on organic semiconductors
Phys. Rev. B., 2008, 78, 085207/1-16
S.L.M. van Mensfoort, S.I.E. Vulto, R.A.J. Janssen, R. Coehoorn
Hole transport in sandwich-type polyfluorene-based devices – qualitative analysis of the role of energetic disorder
A.M. Nardes, M. Kemerink, R.A.J. Janssen
A morphological model for solvent-induced conductivity enhancement in PEDOT: PSS thin films
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2008, 18, 865-871
A.M. Nardes, M. Kemerink, M.M. de Kok, E. Vinken, K. Maturova, R.A.J. Janssen
Conductivity, work function, and environmental stability of PEDOT:PSS thin films treated with sorbitol
Org. Electron., 2008, 9, 727-734
C.B. Nielsen, D. Veldman, R. Martín-Rapún, R.A.J. Janssen
Copolymers of polyethylene and perylenediimides through ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 1094-1103
V. Palermo, M.B.J. Otten, A. Liscio, E. Schwartz, P.A.J. de Witte, M.A. Castriciano, M.M. Wienk, F. Nolde, G. De Luca, J.J.L.M. Cornelissen, R.A.J. Janssen, K. Müllen, A.E. Rowan, R.J.M. Nolte, P. Samorì
The relationship between nanoscale architecture and function in photovoltaic multichromophoric arrays as visualized by Kelvin probe force microscopy
C. Popa, A.P. van Bavel, R.A. van Santen, C.F.J. Flipse, A.P.J. Jansen
Density functional theory study of NO on the Rh(100) surface
Surf. Sci., 2008, 602, 2189-2196
E.C.P. Smits, S.G.J. Mathijssen, P.A. van Hal, S. Setayesh, T.C.T Geuns, K.A.H.A. Mutsaers, E. Cantatore, H.J. Wondergem, O. Werzer, R. Resel, M. Kemerink, S. Kirchmeyer, A. M. Muzafarov, S. A. Ponomarenko, B. de Boer, P.W.M. Blom, D.M. de Leeuw
Bottom-up organic integrated circuits
Nature, 2008, 455, 956-959
F. Spano, S.C.J. Meskers, E. Hennebicq, D. Beljonne
Using circularly polarized luminescence to probe exciton coherence in disordered helical aggregates
J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 129, 024704/1-/14
P. Stallinga, A.R.V. Benvenho, E.C.P. Smits, S.G.J. Mathijssen, M. Cölle, H.L. Gomes, D.M. de Leeuw
Determining carrier mobility with a metal-insulator-semiconductor structure
J.W. Stouwdam, R.A.J. Janssen
Red, green, and blue quantum dot LEDs with solution processable ZnO nanocrystal electron injection layers
J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 1889–1894
D. Veldman, Ö. İpek, S.C.J. Meskers, J. Sweelssen, M.M. Koetse, S.C. Veenstra, J.M. Kroon, S.S. van Bavel, J. Loos, R.A.J. Janssen
Compositional and electric field dependence of the dissociation of charge transfer excitons in alternating polyfluorene copolymer/fullerene blends
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 7721-7735
D. Veldman, S.M.A. Chopin, S.C.J. Meskers, M.M. Groeneveld, R.M. Williams, R.A.J. Janssen
Triplet formation involving a polar transition state in a well-defined intramolecular perylenediimide dimeric aggregate
J. Phys. Chem. A., 2008, 112, 5846-5857
D. Veldman, S.M.A. Chopin, S.C.J. Meskers, R.A.J. Janssen
Enhanced intersystem crossing via a high energy charge transfer state in a perylenediimide-perylenemonoimide dyad
J. Phys. Chem. A, 2008, 112, 8617-8632
F. Verbakel, S.C.J. Meskers, D.M. de Leeuw, R.A.J. Janssen
Resistive switching in organic memories with a spin coated metal oxide nanoparticle layer
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112, 5254-5257
F. Verbakel, S.C.J. Meskers, R.A.J. Janssen, H.L. Gomes, A.J.M. van den Biggelaar, D.M. de Leeuw
Switching dynamics in non-volatile polymer memories
Org. Electron, 2008, 9, 829-833
M.M. Wienk, M. Turbiez, J. Gilot, R.A.J. Janssen
Narrow band gap diketo-pyrrolo-pyrrole polymer solar cells: The effect of processing on the performance
Adv. Mater., 2008, 20, 2556-2560
Y.Y. Yimer, P.A. Bobbert, R. Coehoorn
Charge transport in disordered organic host-guest systems: effects of carrier density and electric field
J. Phys. Condens. Mat., 2008, 20, 335204/1-8
A.P. Zoombelt, M.A.M. Leenen, M. Fonrodona, M.M. Wienk, R.A.J. Janssen
The synthesis and photovoltaic performance of regioregular poly[3-(n-butoxymethyl)thiophene]
Thin Solid Films, 2008, 516, 7176-7180
Publications in other journals
R.A.J. Janssen, J. Gilot, M.M. Wienk, M. Turbiez
Small band gap and multi-junction polymer solar cells.
Pol. Mater. Sci. Eng., 2008, (ACS Div.), 99, 735
W.J.E. Beek, M.M. Wienk, R.A.J. Janssen,
Metal oxide – polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells, In Organic Photovoltaics. Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies, C. Brabec, V. Dyakonov, U. Scherf (Eds.)
Wiley VCH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-527-31675-5, p 357-398.
M.G.R. Turbiez, R.A.J. Janssen, M.M. Wienk, H.J. Kirner, M. Düggeli, B. Tieke, Y. Zhu
Diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers as organic semiconductors
PCT Int. Appl., 2008, WO 2008000664 A1
H. Sirringhaus, S. Goffri, R. A. J. Janssen, C. P. Radano, P. Smith, C. Muller, P. Wolfer, and N. Stingelin-Stutzmann
Blended polymer FETs
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Poetry, Haggis and bagpipes: MC celebrates Robert Burns and Scottish heritage
A Robert Burns dinner (or supper) is held annually on or around Jan. 25 to celebrate the life and works of Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). Scots and Scots-at-heart have been gathering annually since 1801 for a traditional Burns supper, where the poet’s famous verses are matched with Scottish food and Scotch whisky.
The tradition was celebrated for the first time at Maryville College on Jan. 25, 1992 and was called “Robert Burns Night.” It was held in the House in the Woods and included a Scottish bagpiper, poetry readings and Scottish food.
According to a Dec. 9, 1991 Highland Echo article, the tradition at Maryville College was started by Lew Rudisill, the former director of conferences and special programs who oversaw the College’s non-credit programs for the campus and local community. The non-credit courses for January 1992 included two workshop courses, including “Poetry of the Highlands” and “Foods of Scotland,” both of which culminated in Robert Burns Night.
The “Poetry of the Highlands” course was taught by Dave Powell ’66, former instructor of English at MC, and included a study of Burns’ poetry.
The “Foods of Scotland” class, which was taught by Chef Joseph Lowery, concentrated on traditional Scottish foods that would be served during the Robert Burns dinner. The first course focused on appetizers: green pea and salmon terrine, Scotch eggs and Aberdeen Angus pie. The second class focused on Cock-a-leekie soup and the main dish, Haggis with neeps and tatties. The third class focused on desserts, including shortbread, trifle and Scottish breads.
Rudisill was quoted in the 1991 Highland Echo article, saying she hoped the celebration would become an annual affair because of the College’s location and ties to Scotland.
“We don’t have any opportunities to celebrate our heritage at Maryville College,” Rudisill said. “We’re the Fighting Scots and the Highlanders, and we don’t have a festival or celebration of any kind of why we are called that.”
The College’s Office of Student Development took over the event in the mid-1990s, when Bill Seymour became dean of students. After Vandy Kemp became vice president and dean of students in 2004, she decided to make a few changes. She replaced the cheap wine and blended Scotch that had been served in the past and instead served single malt Scotch, accompanied by a lecture. (Note: alcohol is only served to students who are 21 and older.)
“I knew from my own Scots-Irish heritage that the making of Scotch whisky or wiscobah (‘water of life’) is an ancient, honored and exacting process involving water, toasted barley grain and sugar,” Kemp continued. “I wanted the students to learn the history of the process and the difference between a fine single malt and a wretched blend that mixes up all the inferior leftovers. So, as dean, I personally led them through a proper tasting, with explanation, examination, smell and taste. To my delight, the students responded by not throwing back their shot but lingering over it, the proper way!”
In recent years, the College’s Student Programming Board has planned the annual event, including the 2019 event, which will be held on Jan. 28 in the Clayton Center for the Arts’ William Baxter Lee III Grand Foyer. The event will serve as the student kick-off for the College’s bicentennial celebration and will include an authentic Scottish meal (including Haggis), bagpipes, poetry and Scottish dancing.
Maryville College junior Alyssa Miller ’20, who serves as the traditions team leader for MC’s Student Programming Board, is involved with planning the 2019 event. She said she enjoys the event because “it’s different than any other event on campus.”
“It’s a formal event, which is so fun to be able to dress up and enjoy a nice meal and get to mingle with other students, as well as staff,” said Miller, who is majoring in child development and learning. “I think this is a cool tradition at Maryville College because of the ties to our Scottish heritage and remembering that is key to who we are. This event is a kick-off for our bicentennial year, so that in itself is exciting!”
In celebration of the College's Bicentennial in 2019, this story is part of "Maryville Moments," a monthly feature that highlights special traditions at Maryville College. Stay tuned for next month's feature!
A Robert Burns dinner (or supper) is held annually on or around Jan. 25 to celebrate the life and works of Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). The tradition was celebrated for the first time at Maryville College on Jan. 25, 1992.
Flickr Album: Photos from the 2019 Robert Burns Dinner
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DuoFertility Ovulation Monitor Receives FDA Approval
Gavin Corley Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Medicine
Cambridge Temperature Concepts Ltd. received 510(k) approval for their DuoFertility ovulation Monitor. The DuoFertility monitor has been featured previously on Medgadget and comprises a wearable sensor and reader unit for measuring ovulation patterns. The sensor is worn under the armpit and measures subtle changes in basal body temperature which is indicative of ovulation. The reader wirelessly receives the sensor data and predicts when you are most likely to become pregnant up to six days in advance. A number of additional parameters can also be entered into the reader unit to improve the prediction quality. The recorded data can be visualized by connecting the reader unit to a PC, as shown in the video below.
The DuoFertility has been commercially available in Europe since 2009 and was the subject of a research paper published last year which demonstrated its efficacy in some couples eligible for IVF.
From the product website:
The study followed the first 500 couples using DuoFertility from launch in 2009, including 242 who qualified for IVF/ICSI treatment, of whom 90 had previously had the procedure. The one-year clinical pregnancy rate for those who qualified for IVF was 39%, which is higher than either the UK or EU clinical pregnancy rates for a cycle of IVF (26% and 28% respectively), whilst the corresponding rate for those who had already been through a cycle of IVF/ICSI was 28%.
The study included couples with unexplained infertility, as well as those with mild to moderate male and female factor infertility. This accounts for approximately 80% of all infertile couples, and half of all IVF patients.
Flashbacks: Medgadget Checks Out DuoFertility Armpit Monitor; DuoFertility Decodes Messages Between Armpit, Ovaries
Gavin Corley
Gavin holds a first-class Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Limerick and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is currently a post-doctoral research and project leader at the NUI Galway where he has spent the last 2 years leading the product development and commercialization of two novel technologies for the management of varicose veins and chronic venous leg ulcers. He has published several research papers in the fields of anatomy, physiology and medical physics and is the lead author of one patent application to date. In his free time Gavin has been known to swim, cycle and hum a tune or two.
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Home > Mesothelioma Prognosis
Sadly, it is rare that a favorable mesothelioma prognosis is achieved. This is because malignant mesothelioma remains dormant for 2 to 5 decades after initial exposure to asbestos. This means the cancer has often advanced to Stage 3 or Stage 4 before a physician makes the correct diagnosis. By this time, the cancer has often spread from its original location to other areas in the body, lowering treatment success rates. Similar to other forms of cancer, a person’s mesothelioma life expectancy depends on several factors:
Location and size of tumor
Stage of the cancer at the point of diagnosis
Ability of the patients to receive and respond to treatment
Overall health and age of the individual
Amount to which the cancer has spread or metastasized.
Determining a Mesothelioma Prognosis
There are several factors that contribute to either a favorable or unfavorable mesothelioma prognosis:
The first method by which the cancer is classified is by the type of tissue affected. Epithelial mesothelioma typically results in the most positive prognosis and is also the most common form, comprising 50% of all cases. The second is sarcomatoid mesothelioma, which accounts for 16% of cases, and the third, biphasic, is a combination of the other two forms and accounts for 34%. Other types are extremely rare. Of the three, the epithelial subtype is the most responsive to treatments, while sarcomatoid, the most aggressive, has been unresponsive to chemotherapy and shows early relapse after surgery. The third subtype, biphasic, varies depending on the percentage of sarcomatoid cells mixed with the epithelial variant. The most favorable mesothelioma prognosis awaits those under age 50 with the epithelial subtype and no lymph node involvement. According to research, survival numbers for this group are improving, but they vary depending on the patient’s treatment choice.
The types of cancer can also be differentiated based on the location on the primary tumor. The first and most common form is pleural mesothelioma, which is located in the lining of the lungs. According to research, in cases of pleural mesothelioma, a tumor tends to be present in only one lung at a time, with a right-to-left preference of 60% to 40%. Another common type is peritoneal mesothelioma, which is located in the abdominal lining. The same study found that while pleural mesothelioma occurs four times more often in men than women, both sexes seem to be equally represented with peritoneal mesothelioma. Other mesotheliomas can occur in different locations, including in the pericardial region, or lining of the heart, and (rarely) in testicular tissue. When this cancer has spread to other areas of the body, the prognosis is usually less favorable. Conversely, those with tumors that have not spread and can be surgically removed have a much better mesothelioma prognosis.
Stage of the Disease
Due to its long latency period, mesothelioma is often not diagnosed until its late stages, thus decreasing the likelihood of a positive prognosis. Stage 1 mesothelioma has yet to spread to other areas beyond the area of tumor origin. Because of this, surgery is a popular treatment option. Stages 2, 3, and 4 are characterized by a metastasis (spread) of the tumor. This makes surgery less effective, if even an option at all. While numbers and statistics provide a general picture, it is important to remember that each person is unique, and statistics cannot predict what will happen in individual cases.
Because of the typically late stage of the cancer at the usual point of diagnosis, it is likely that the cancer has spread. The greater the extent of metastasis, the more likely it is that the mesothelioma prognosis will be unfavorable. Because doctors are aware that this form of cancer has a tendency to metastasize, they can keep an eye on the tumor and other areas of the body that may be susceptible to future involvement. Because the origin of the cancer is most frequently the lungs, an organ that allows blood and oxygen to flow through it rapidly and frequently, it is relatively easy for the cancerous cells to receive the nourishment they need and spread.
Patients who have better overall health and are younger in age typically have a more favorable prognosis than those who are older or have other health issues. Additionally, nonsmokers or those who quit smoking tend to have a better prognosis than patients who continue to smoke. Generally those who experience severe symptoms and a lack of relief from palliative treatments have the poorest prognosis. Symptoms such as chest pain and shortness of breath are often signs that the cancer has progressed to a later stage. Mesothelioma is caused by exposure to asbestos. Because asbestos use was common in male-dominated careers, such as chemical and power plants, more men have been diagnosed with the disease than women. Women, in turn, have been in fewer clinical studies, so the information is not as abundant. However, according to the University of South Wales, women may have a better prognosis due to a larger amount of estrogen, which the university believes may lead to tumor suppression.
Survival Rates
While survival rates differ from patient to patient, the American Cancer Society conducted a study of 2,959 mesothelioma patients and found that 37% of those under the age of 45 survived more than 5 years after diagnosis. On the other hand, with patients between the ages of 45 and 54, 20% survived more than 5 years. These statistics are fairly optimistic when compared to other data regarding mesothelioma survival rates. Because the average age for mesothelioma diagnosis is 65, the probability that the cancer is generally more advanced is greater, leaving the 5-year survival rate less favorable. Currently, only 40% of all patients survive 1 year after diagnosis, and only 10% survive past 5 years. These rates have improved greatly over the past 10 years and will hopefully continue to improve as researchers develop new means of diagnosing the illness as well as treating it.
Improving the Mesothelioma Prognosis
Scientists continue to research advances in diagnostic tests, an example of which is the Mesomark assay for quicker diagnoses, as well as new treatment options, such as immunotherapy. The Division of Thoracic Surgery and Department of Pathology of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts recently conducted a study of 636 patients diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma. They found that those who had an extrapleural pneumonectomy experienced extended survival compared to patients who underwent other, less aggressive surgeries and treatments. Although there are risks involved, patients may wish to volunteer to be part of a clinical trial. Clinical trials involve administering to mesothelioma patients new drugs that are currently not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. With these clinical trials, certain risks are involved. However, the benefits of these trials may greatly outweigh the risks.
American Cancer Society - Mesothelioma Overview
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e3 takes trips to Uganda’s largest refugee camp
By Beth StolickerMay 31, 2018
Uganda (MNN) — The Bidi Bidi Refugee Camp, the largest in Uganda, has recently been shrouded in scandal. Reports surfaced that refugees have not been receiving food because officials have been taking what was meant to help these vulnerable people.
Bidi Bidi Refugee Camp
Many of the refugees in the Bidi Bidi camp are from South Sudan, a country currently torn apart by civil war. But it’s here, in this place of corruption and at times despair, that e3 Partners is trying to bring hope with the help of short-term trips. And despite their struggles, the people e3 have met are friendly, compassionate, hospitable, and generous with the little they have.
“They’re looking for hope, and that’s what Jesus is. He is our hope. And so, these people, they’ll welcome you in, they’ll listen to what you have to say, and so many of them have come to know Christ,” e3’s Jeff Johnston shares.
One hope is that once these Christians are able to return home, they’ll bring the Gospel with them and share it with their country people. And e3 is already seeing that hope take root.
Hope Taking Root
A woman named Joy came to the Bidi Bidi Refugee Camp after her entire family was murdered in South Sudan. One night rebel militants came to her home and shot her husband, who was a high-ranking army official, her daughter, and her brother. Her brother-in-law, sister, and their eight-year-old daughter lived nearby, and were at her home during the attack and were also killed.
(Photo Courtesy of e3 Partners via Facebook)
“What happened was they were in their home and all of a sudden these rebel soldiers barged through the door, and in a moment of pure chaos and tragedy, they just started firing their weapons,” Johnston says.
Joy, who was pregnant at the time, was also shot. However, she survived the shooting and went to a hospital where surgery was performed on her. But while Joy’s life was saved, the baby she was carrying was not.
In minutes, Joy’s entire life was ripped away from her. Filled with shock and sorrow, Joy chose to leave South Sudan, acknowledging how she was no longer safe in her home country. Her next destination was Uganda.
“On that journey [to Uganda], she ran into a man who was preaching the Gospel. And this man led her to Jesus. At that point in her life, she felt like she had nothing…and right then, right there she accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior,” Johnston shares
Joy did make it to Uganda, and she’s been in the country ever since. In fact, on e3’s last trip to Uganda, the team met Joy. She had joined the group as one of the locals who were eager to help the team share the Gospel and the love of Christ throughout the camp.
New Life in Christ
“She said, you know, ‘I lost everything in my life that I thought mattered to me. And I’m still sad, I’m still sad about everything that I lost. But, I have Jesus now, and Jesus fills me,’” Johnston recounts.
Joy’s story touched e3 because it shows how even in the most awful of tragedies, Christ’s love and story can still bring hope and redemption.
Short-term trips to the refugee camp in Uganda may seem intimidating; they may even seem scary. But they’re not. The people e3 encounters in Uganda are kind and generous. And if you’re wondering if these short-term trips will do more harm than good, you can have some peace of mind.
“A short-term trip is not really what we’re doing here. We do it through short-term trips, but we’re doing them so often, that we’re really developing these relationships and we’re helping them as they grow as Christian leaders,” Johnston explains.
e3’s goal is to help ignite a fire for the Gospel, but to mainly train these Christian leaders in the camp with sound doctrine, Biblical foundations, and skills for sharing the Gospel. This will enable leaders to take ownership of sharing the Gospel and when they finally return home, they’ll be equipped to plant churches, too.
Be Prayerful, Be Active
So please, lift up these Christians living in the Bidi Bidi Refugee Camp in Uganda through prayer. Pray for their healing, encouragement, and perseverance. Pray for the people of South Sudan and the other refugees around the world, that they’d encounter the hope of Christ and know peace despite their circumstances.
E3 is holding a prayer campaign this year. Learn more about it here!
Interested in being a part of e3’s work? Then consider taking a short-term trip with the organization!
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Climate Shift Is Already Impacting the East Coast: What You Need to Know
Reader Contribution By Kayla Matthews
| 6/13/2018 9:40:00 AM
Tags: climate change, East Coast, sea level, Kayla Matthews,
Climate shift is a phenomenon that people often think about in abstract terms. Even if they accept that it’s happening, they frequently assume its effects won’t be evident during their lifetimes. However, scientific evidence is proving them wrong, especially on the East Coast of the United States.
Coastal Infrastructure Is at Risk Due to Sea Level Rise
Developers frequently built coastal infrastructure on low-elevation land to save money. However, analysts warn that power plants, wastewater treatment facilities and transportation networks could get shut down due to extensive flooding that’s becoming increasingly likely to happen due to climate change.
Scientists point out that as sea levels rise, the amount of rainfall that has to occur before significant problems happen goes down. Plus, the rain or snow generated by storms is different than it once was. Small storms bring the same amount of moisture as larger ones did, while the bigger ones are more intense than ever.
During March 2018 alone, national weather data indicates that four nor’easter storms hit the East Coast region. Plus, some cities in that area had more snow during March than the preceding winter months combined.
Researchers say climate change is not the only factor that contributed to those storms, but it likely gave momentum to their intensity. They bring up the exceptionally high ocean temperatures in areas off the Atlantic coast as an element of climate shift that could cause higher-than-normal snowfalls.
Elevation and Coastal Flooding Risk Factor Into Property Investments
Both scientific research and the experiences of real estate professionals in some East Coast markets confirm that investors are keeping rising sea levels and climate shift in mind when considering whether to invest in properties. Specifically, land that’s at a greater risk of flooding sells for less than properties on higher ground.
One Massachusetts real estate agent even had to sell a home with a private beach for 9 percent less than the list price and said it was on the market for nearly two months, which is reportedly substantially longer than usual. The impact on the real estate market will only become magnified if climate shift ends up causing people to move out of areas with a high probability of flooding or never relocating there at all.
Statistics from the 2017 BDO Board Survey, which polled board members, found that shareholders want more disclosure about the kinds of sustainability efforts made by companies. Shareholders likely balk at investing in companies that do not have sustainability plans in place or believe climate shift will not disrupt their business operations. As a result, organizations typically prioritize environmental sustainability as a long-term aim. They realize that now is the time to start altering their practices and keeping the future in mind.
Urban Planners Stay Mindful of Potential Flooding
A report relied on tidal gauges at 98 locations to see how often tidal flooding rose to or above levels that would probably disrupt daily life. Although regional fluctuations existed, scientists found that the likelihood of high-tide flooding nationwide was double the probability of 30 years ago.
That reality has not escaped the minds of urban planners who know they cannot afford to ignore the ramifications of tidal floods. Boston is in the middle of an initiative to safeguard against flooding that includes elevated streets and new flood walls. Planners in Norfolk, Virginia, want to rewrite the city’s zoning codes, requiring newer buildings to be more resilient against flooding than the current ones.
City representatives in New York are taking a similar approach by writing new guidelines for developers involved in constructing flood-ready buildings. They have also put the subway’s ventilation grates at higher-than-usual positions to protect the transportation system proactively.
Rising Sea Levels Are Not Universal
One factor that makes sea levels challenging to cope with is the fact that they don’t rise at the same levels around the world. Scientists created a model of potential future flooding of 20 global cities and found that places like New York and Boston could experience rates that are twice the national average, while other cities could be up to 25 percent below the mean.
Weather experts believe that by 2100, high-tide flooding could happen as frequently as every other day along the East Coast. They also say factors like melting glaciers could cause a sea level rise of as much as 6 feet this century. The phenomenon of rising sea levels causes what’s known as sunny day flooding because it happens in the absence of storms. Experts believe coastal cities along the continental U.S. will notice the effects of higher sea levels more than any other aspect of climate shift.
Climate Change Cannot Be Ignored
Collective research emphasizes that people cannot afford to think of climate shift as something that’ll be most apparent someday. It’s already happening — particularly along the East Coast — and even destinations in other parts of the country that aren’t primarily affected yet will eventually see stronger signs of the changing climate, too.
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While the dire effects of future floods and falling land values is plainly a worthy topic, I wish that Mother Earth would stick with its coverage of gardening, chickens, and building one’s own windmill with handy stored items from the basement. I am duly informed through daily blogs and newsletters about the ecological failures and social strife our culture has created, and I want a refuge from this and maybe even a therapy for dealing with it. Lots of your articles have encouraged me toward this goal.
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Cocoa Beach to Host Astronaut Parade on Saturday
COCOA BEACH, Fla. — The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing is just days away, and the Space Coast is set to mark the occasion with a weekend full of celebrations.
Astronaut Parade set for July 13 in Cocoa Beach
Event celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing
13 former astronauts will be riding in the parade
Cocoa Beach is holding an Astronaut Parade on Saturday.
The parade runs through downtown and will feature 13 former astronauts and family members of those who donned NASA spacesuits.
Meanwhile, for workers whose dedication made the moon landing possible, the weekend also means a get together. On Sunday some 600 of them will gather for the Apollo 11 Anniversary/Kennedy Space Center workers reunion.
The event is a chance to reflect on when their effort culminated into one of humankind's greatest achievements.
Bill Heink had a front row seat to history. He and his team were responsible for fueling up the powerful Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 crew to moon 50 years ago.
"It was like, my goodness, we did it," Heink said. "No way you can forget that final moment when Neil came down that ladder and set foot on the moon."
"We were all part of a great, great effort," said Roy Tharpe, who was on the launch team for all of the Apollo missions.
He and the world held their breath as Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969.
"For me to be on that launch team, it still gives me goosebumps," Tharpe said. "I would go back and take that console in the Launch Control Center today."
Heink says he expects lots of laughter and tears at the reunion.
"You will see things like 'Oh my goodness, I haven't seen you in 30 years', and then there are bear hugs going on," he said.
The parade will take place 9:30 a.m. through 11:30 a.m. on July 13. The parade route starts at 4th Street North and proceeds down Orlando Avenue, ending at 1st Street South.
The after party will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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5 Famous Canadians Who Married Other Famous Canadians
Remember when Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne were married?
Probably one of the strangest and most intriguing things a person can spend their time thinking about is who they'll marry one day. Sure, you might have a picture-perfect idea in your head of who you want that person to be, but you might be totally surprised by who it ends up being. Here are 5 famous Canadians who married other famous Canadians.
There are definitely some unique pairs on this list, but some super cute ones as well! How many of these 100% Canadian couples do you recognize?!
Celine Dion and René Angélil
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Celine Dion is arguably one of the most well-known singers in Canadian history, but did you know that she also happened to be married to a Canadian for over 20 years? Producer, talent manager, and singer René Angélil was married to Dion from 1994 until he died of a heart attack in 2016.
Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger
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This is definitely one of those couples that nobody saw coming, which might be why it didn't last long. Lavigne and Kroeger began dating in July of 2012 and were engaged just a month later. The couple got married on Canada Day of 2013, and divorced just two years later, in 2015.
Ellen Page and Emma Portner
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Canadian actress Ellen Page came out as gay back in 2014, and since has passionately spoken out about the LGBTQ+ community. In 2018, she married Canadian choreographer and dancer Emma Portner, who is known for her work with Justin Bieber.
Shay Mitchell and Matte Babel
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Ok, these two aren't technically married, but they are about to have a baby together in a couple of weeks, and that's a pretty serious commitment. The pair has been together since early 2017, and are total Canadian couple goals.
Elisha Cuthbert and Dion Phaneuf
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You may recognize Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert from Netflix's The Ranch, and if you're a hockey fan then you'll have no trouble recognizing Dion Phaneuf. The pair began dating in 2008, became engaged in 2012, and were married in Prince Edward Island in 2013. The couple has one daughter together, she was born in 2017.
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National Alliance on Mental Illness Selects Navigant for Inaugural Outstanding Friend of NAMI Award
CHICAGO – The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has selected Navigant (NYSE: NCI) as the first recipient of the Outstanding Friend of NAMI Award. The award honors Navigant for its exceptional efforts to further NAMI’s mission of improving the lives of people affected by mental illness.
“In choosing Navigant for this award, NAMI wishes to express our deep appreciation for their contribution of high-level strategic planning and development expertise,” said NAMI CEO Mary Giliberti, J.D. “Their commitment to mental health and NAMI has allowed us to tap into their expertise and use that knowledge to benefit all levels of the NAMI organization, as well as help people with mental illness and their families.”
According to Dave Zito, Navigant managing director and Healthcare segment leader, “Navigant is committed to working with providers, payers, and life sciences companies to help improve access to treatment and support networks, reduce stigma, and drive towards better health outcomes. We greatly admire NAMI’s resolve to making healthcare better for people with mental health conditions, and we’re proud to receive this prestigious honor.”
Navigant and NAMI have worked together since 2016, and the organizations are currently collaborating on NAMI’s long-term strategic plan. Navigant employees contribute thousands of hours each year in a variety of capacities, including skills-based volunteerism with organizations and communities in need.
“Navigant employees are passionate about mental health, having donated our consulting expertise and personal resources to help NAMI achieve its goals,” said Joanne McHugh, managing director at Navigant. “We’re grateful for the work NAMI does to improve the mental healthcare landscape and experience for patients, families, and caregivers. We look forward to continuing our work together in pursuit of our shared mission.”
The award was presented on June 30 at the 2018 NAMI National Convention in New Orleans.
About NAMI
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness. Join the conversation at nami.org and stay connected with #CureStigma and #StigmaFree on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About Navigant
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global professional services firm that helps clients take control of their future. Navigant’s professionals apply deep industry knowledge, substantive technical expertise, and an enterprising approach to help clients build, manage, and/or protect their business interests. With a focus on markets and clients facing transformational change and significant regulatory or legal pressures, the firm primarily serves clients in the healthcare, energy, and financial services industries. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and technology/analytics services, Navigant’s practitioners bring sharp insight that pinpoints opportunities and delivers powerful results. More information about Navigant can be found at navigant.com.
Global Healthcare Strategy Consulting Expert Sheldon Ng Joins Navigant to Bolster Life Sciences and Provider Collaboration
April 2, 2019 News
Life Sciences Executive Mark J. Stevens Joins Navigant as a Managing Director
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Copa America Semifinal to Resume After Fans Told to 'Seek Shelter Immediately' at Soldier Field During Storms
Published Jun 22, 2016 at 8:17 PM | Updated at 12:36 AM CDT on Jun 23, 2016
Copa America Semifinal Delayed Amid Weather
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Fans were allowed to return to their seats at Soldier Field late Wednesday after being told to seek shelter during the Copa America semifinal game. Lauren Jiggetts reports. (Published Thursday, June 23, 2016)
Fans were allowed to return to their seats at Soldier Field late Wednesday after being told to seek shelter during the Copa America semifinal game.
The stadium tweeted fans should seek shelter immediately amid severe weather in the area, but said the teams were expected to return to the field at 10 p.m. for a 20-minute warm up.
The game is expected to resume at 10:25 p.m.
Copa America Semifinal Delayed Amid Severe Weather
Fans were allowed to return to their seats at Soldier Field late Wednesday after being told to seek shelter during the Copa America semifinal game. Lauren Jiggetts reports.
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Cook County until 9:15 p.m. and a Tornado Watch that was in effect until 1 a.m. was later canceled.
Lightning was spotted near the home of the NFL's Chicago Bears around halftime.
Chile led 2-0 at the time.
No injuries were reported.
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This article is from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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Card, Wilbur Wade
by C. Sylvester Green, 1979
29 Oct. 1873–3 Sept. 1948
Wilbur Wade Card, director of physical education, was born in Franklinton, Franklin County, the son of Sabert Henry and Cecelia Bennett Fuller Card.
His preparatory schooling included attendance at the Franklinton Classical and Military Institute and at the Raleigh Male Academy. At both institutions his scholastic record showed superior grades, with an average consistently above 96; English, Latin, Greek, and mathematics were his major subjects. He entered Trinity College (now Duke University) in the fall of 1895, expecting to study to be a Methodist minister. His maternal grandfather and great-grandfather had been Christian ministers (Fuller Chapel near Kittrell was named for Jonathan Fuller, Card's great-grandfather). Later he changed his program and concentrated on athletics as a profession. That shift demanded an extra year of college, and he was graduated with the B.A. degree in 1900.
With the endorsement of three leading citizens of Durham—Benjamin N. Duke, Thomas J. Lambe, and J. H. Southgate, who became his bondsmen—Card was admitted to Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in the fall of 1900; there he took special courses in hygiene in 1900–1901. The following summer he was a student in the Sargent Normal School of Physical Education at Harvard, and he was graduated at the close of the 1902 summer session with a certificate indicating completion of the equivalent of four years of graduate work. He returned to Harvard every summer through 1913 and during two of those summers was an instructor in Hemenway Gymnasium, directed by the distinguished Dr. Dudley A. Sargent.
During his years as a student at Trinity College, Card was a member of the Columbian Society and competed on the track and baseball teams, the latter for all of his five years there; he was captain of the 1899 baseball team and from then on was known as "Cap." At Harvard he distinguished himself for his athletic prowess: he was ranked fifth among fifty strong men at Harvard and tenth among all collegians and was first in the backlift among all the college students participating in field trials at Harvard.
During the 1901–2 session, Card was director of physical education at the YMCA at Mobile, Ala. In the fall of 1902 he received an invitation from President J. C. Kilgo and returned to Trinity College, Durham, as director of physical education at the Angier Duke Gymnasium, a connection that continued for the rest of his life.
In the summer of 1914 Card worked in Baltimore, Md., in the city's recreation program; in 1915 he did similar work in Boston. During the First World War he was physical secretary at Camp Sevier, S.C., working for the National War Work Council of the YMCA. In appreciation of that work, he received a special certificate of commendation from the national office of the YMCA, signed by William Sloan, chairman, and J. R. Mott, general secretary. Beginning in 1923, he spent several summers as physical director of boys at Camp Etawah, Lake Junaluska, the Methodist Assembly Grounds.
Baseball was Card's favorite participatory sport. In addition to playing on the Trinity team, he played semipro baseball at Tarboro in the summer of 1898 and at Concord the following summer. The Boston National Baseball Team offered him a contract to play professional baseball in 1900, but he went to Harvard instead.
During the regular and summer sessions at Harvard, Card acquainted himself with all types of sports; he then brought back to Trinity for the student body there sports including gymnastics, association football, track, field hockey, bowling, swimming, fencing, volley ball, and basketball. He introduced basketball to North Carolina in 1905, and the first known collegiate game was played at Trinity, 2 Mar. 1906, with the score Wake Forest, 24; Trinity, 10.
Card was widely recognized in his field. Beginning in 1921, he served as state chairman of the American Physical Education Association, and reports furnished by him were published in the American Physical Education Review. His staged gymnasium exhibitions were always popular attractions through the years. He was the marshal for the Collegiate Division of the First Annual Olympic Games held in Durham, 4–6 May 1922.
As his staff increased, and ultimately each sport had its special coaches, Card continued to find many things to keep him busy in the promotion of athletics at Trinity. He kept meticulous records, which, with a vast collection of clippings, are now preserved in special cases in the gymnasium at Duke. Those records served as the bases of a series of intriguing articles he wrote for the State magazine in the early 1940s. He told in fascinating style of the early athletes at Trinity, making multiple comparisons with more recent teams. He was proud of all of them and found it easy to write of superlatives: the best batter, the best fielder, the best pitcher, the best catcher, the best all-round player. He was also the author of Health and Strength, a packet of twenty-four illustrated positions for physical exercise, plus a list of sixteen health hints.
On 15 February 1953, the men's gymnasium on the Duke West Campus was designated the Wilbur Wade Card Gymnasium in memory of the one man who more than any other had framed the physical education and intercollegiate athletic program at Trinity/Duke, during forty-six years of service to that institution. That recognition capped a special ceremony held at the commencement luncheon on 29 May 1942, when a portrait of Card, painted by former student, Paul Whitener of Hickory, was presented to the university. It now hangs in the lobby of the new indoor stadium. In the presentation speech, Professor H. E. Spence of the Duke Divinity School, a member of the first basketball team at Trinity (1905–6), said, among other things: "'Cap's' greatest contribution . . . is in the realm of the intangible and the immeasurable. He has been a personal friend to thousands of discouraged young students. . . . No student was ever too insignificant to share his sympathetic attention. My most vivid recollection of him is his tireless attempt to teach a crippled boy the use of his helpless limbs. And many a man throughout the length and breadth of the world today owes his healthy body and fine frame of mind to the efforts of this man who cheered him on to success."
Card was married on 30 Dec. 1902 to Anna Luella Waldo, in Wyoming, Ohio. She was the daughter of Gersham Henry and Elizabeth Kendrick Waldo and was a prize-winning 1896 graduate of the Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature. She won considerable fame as a professional elocutionist, doing dramatic interpretations on many platforms. She continued her service to the community when she came to live in Durham, where she was a popular vocalist. The Cards had two children: Elizabeth Cecilia, born 17 July 1905 in Wyoming, Ohio, who married Wortham Clarence Lyon in Durham on 17 June 1925; and Helen Kendrick, born 1 Feb. 1911 in Durham, who married Oliver Wingate Upchurch on 24 Sept. 1938. Mrs. Card died 19 Feb. 1945. Both she and her husband were buried in the annex to Maplewood Cemetery, Durham.
Through all his years, Card was an active churchman. He was a member of the Edenton Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Raleigh, and of the Bible class taught there by Mrs. W. H. Bobbitt. In Durham he was a member for forty-six years of the Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, where he taught a Bible class in the Sunday school for thirty-five years and contributed to many other phases of the church's work.
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'Deflategate': Judge's Ruling for Tom Brady Was 'Unfathomable,' NFL Says in Appeal
By Larry Neumeister
Published Oct 26, 2015 at 6:54 PM | Updated at 9:35 PM EDT on Oct 26, 2015
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Official game balls for NFL football's Super Bowl XLIX sit in a bin before being laced and inflated at the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in Ada, Ohio, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.
NFL lawyers told a federal appeals court in Manhattan on Monday that it was "unfathomable" that a judge could decide to lift New England quarterback Tom Brady's four-game suspension in the "Deflategate" controversy.
The lawyers said in papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Judge Richard Berman reached an "inexplicable" conclusion when he determined that the league failed to adequately warn Brady of the potential suspension and made errors in its investigation that required him to nullify the penalty.
The league asked the appeals court to reverse the lower-court judge and reinstate the penalty that would have kept Brady out of the first four games of this season.
Berman's ruling came a week before the start of a season in which the Patriots are undefeated through six games. He found that the league's actions were "premised upon several significant legal deficiencies."
Tom Brady Talks Deflategate, Gisele and Trump
The appeals court isn't scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case before February, meaning this season will not be affected by any outcome.
Attorneys for the NFL Players Association didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Berman ruled after the NFL asked the court to find that it had acted appropriately in its investigation and handling of a controversy that arose after balls were believed to be improperly deflated prior to January's AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. New England beat the Colts 45-7.
Deflate This: Patriots Beat Colts in AFC Rematch
A league investigation found it was "more probable than not" that two Patriots ball handling employees deliberately released air from Patriots game balls. In upholding the findings in July, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concluded Brady conspired with his team's ball handlers and tried to obstruct the league's probe, including by destroying his cellphone.
In its papers Monday, the league said Goodell properly followed the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the union.
"His decision not only walked through all the evidence he considered and credited in painstaking detail, but also explained at length his efforts to determine how the CBA should be applied to the unprecedented situation before him," the lawyers wrote.
They said Berman ignored decades of legal precedents and approached the case through a "fundamentally flawed" analysis, refusing to accept Goodell's view of the facts.
The lawyers wrote that the judge's finding that the league's conclusions were so far outside the bounds of what the contract allows that Goodell's decision must be nullified "is unfathomable."
"The district court egregiously overstepped the bounds of its proper role," the NFL said. "Where lower courts have committed a similar error, appellate courts have not hesitated to reverse. The court should do so here."
Epstein Faces Bail Hearing Following Fake Passport Discovery
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Pakistan's Imran Khan To Meet Trump On July 22
U.S. President Donald Trump will hold his first meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan this month as Washington and Islamabad look to reset strained relations.
Khan will make his first official visit to Washington on July 22. It was not immediately clear how long his trip would last.
The White House said in a July 10 statement that Khan's visit will focus on 'strengthening cooperation between the United States and Pakistan to bring peace, stability, and economic prosperity to a region that has seen far too much conflict.'
The statement said the two leaders will 'discuss a range of issues, including counterterrorism, defense, energy, and trade, with the goal of creating the conditions for a peaceful South Asia and an enduring partnership between our two countries.'
The meeting comes as the Trump administration tries to reach a peace agreement with the Taliban to end the nearly 18 year-war in neighboring Afghanistan.
The United States and Afghanistan have repeatedly accused Pakistan of providing 'safe havens' for the Taliban on its soil. Trump has cut financial and military aid to the country as a result.
Islamabad rejects the allegation. Khan got into an argument with Trump over Twitter last year on the issue.
Khan, a former cricket star, was elected prime minister in August.
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Latest news from North Yorkshire County Council
Ground-breaking new pilot to prevent young people turning to crime
A new scheme is being piloted in North Yorkshire which aims to work closely with families and other agencies in preventing young people from turning to crime.
North Yorkshire County Council has received the go-ahead from the Government to design and pilot a new process of working with young people who have found themselves in the youth justice system.
Currently, when a child or young person finds themselves at risk of criminality, members of the Youth Justice Service will develop an intervention plan using an assessment called AssetPlus.
Now North Yorkshire County Council’s Youth Justice Service has been selected by the Department for Education to trial an alternative approach to preventing young people becoming vulnerable to offending.
The Government selected five high-performing councils in the country to devise their own youth justice assessment to pilot.
North Yorkshire County Council, which has been rated Outstanding by Ofsted, was one of those chosen.
Cllr Janet Sanderson, executive member for Children and Young People’s Services, said: “This is an historic opportunity to try a new and innovative approach to improving outcomes for children.
“We hope that ultimately it will not only prevent young people from reoffending, but provide young people with better outcomes by increasing their resilience, self-esteem and attainment.”
Staff with the council have devised a new assessment process, which enables officers to work out of the office, developing risk and safety plans within family networks.
It is designed to be accessible and easily understood by families, schools, social workers and other professionals working with the young person.
It also aims to enable Youth Justice Service staff to spend the majority of their time working with children and families, who will become more involved in the process than previously.
The new system to be piloted in the county has been drawn up by a number of staff with North Yorkshire County Council. One of those involved, frontline social worker, Sam Fugill, said the pilot looked at creating long-term solutions by working with the young person’s wider family.
He said: “The new assessment allows you draw in and work with a much wider part of the young person’s life.
“Not only will we work on a training session with a young person to address a certain behaviour, we’ll be spending more time working with families and will place the family as the focus of the work.
“It’s about diverting them away from means of offending and high risk behaviour. But there’s also a much bigger game to be played here, which is about developing their aspirations, motivations and opportunities available to them. That’s a very effective way of managing risk.”
Stuart Carlton, director of Children and Young People’s Services, added: “We also want the priority for our Youth Justice Service to be spending time working with children and families.
“Staff can spend up to two-thirds of their time on paperwork. This pilot aims to flip that ratio so staff are spending two-thirds of their time working with young people and their families, supporting them to prevent their child turning to crime.”
This story was published 4 July 2019
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THE first Newcastle light rail vehicle will arrive next month after passing its first round of tests and hitting the road. Built by CAF, the Urbos 100 vehicle is the first of the six-strong fleet that will run between Wickham and Newcastle East through six stations. In July it was driven to the Port of Santander and loaded onto a specialised roll-on roll-off ship bound for the Hunter. The 33-metre long, 45-tonne Urbos 100 can carry a maximum of 270 people and will be the state’s first tram with surfboard racks. Revitalising Newcastle program director Michael Cassel said it was a milestone for the light rail project, which would be “a more attractive transport system than you’ll see anywhere in the country”. “Newcastle will soon be home to Australia's first completely wire-free light rail system, with each of the trams carrying an on-board energy source which is charged by an overhead bar at each stop,” Mr Cassel said. “Our light rail fleet is being produced by a world leader in transit systems with a presence across Europe, the Americas and Australia, and the Urbos 10 model on the way to Newcastle is a sleek and modern vehicle which will look fantastic running through the city.” Fares on the city’s light rail system will start at $2.20 for adults, $1.10 for children and $1.10 for concession passengers using Opal cards. Cash tickets will be slightly more expensive, while passengers changing onto light rail from a bus or train will be charged another 20 cents to use the light rail. Trams testing is due to begin this year, with operations to start early in 2019.
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Newcastle’s first light rail vehicle ships out of Spain
STATION TO STATION: The first Urbos 100 bound for Newcastle is en route to Australia, Revitalising Newcastle has confirmed.
THE first Newcastle light rail vehicle will arrive next month after passing its first round of tests and hitting the road.
Built by CAF, the Urbos 100 vehicle is the first of the six-strong fleet that will run between Wickham and Newcastle East through six stations.
In July it was driven to the Port of Santander and loaded onto a specialised roll-on roll-off ship bound for the Hunter.
The 33-metre long, 45-tonne Urbos 100 can carry a maximum of 270 people and will be the state’s first tram with surfboard racks.
Revitalising Newcastle program director Michael Cassel said it was a milestone for the light rail project, which would be “a more attractive transport system than you’ll see anywhere in the country”.
“Newcastle will soon be home to Australia's first completely wire-free light rail system, with each of the trams carrying an on-board energy source which is charged by an overhead bar at each stop,” Mr Cassel said.
“Our light rail fleet is being produced by a world leader in transit systems with a presence across Europe, the Americas and Australia, and the Urbos 10 model on the way to Newcastle is a sleek and modern vehicle which will look fantastic running through the city.”
Fares on the city’s light rail system will start at $2.20 for adults, $1.10 for children and $1.10 for concession passengers using Opal cards.
Cash tickets will be slightly more expensive, while passengers changing onto light rail from a bus or train will be charged another 20 cents to use the light rail.
Trams testing is due to begin this year, with operations to start early in 2019.
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Google Teams up With UN to Track Environmental Changes
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The aim of the partnership is to develop a platform to enable governments, NGO's and the public to track specific environment-related development targets with a user-friendly Google front-end.
Updated:July 17, 2018, 11:32 AM IST
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The UN has entered into a partnership with Google to monitor the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems by using sophisticated online tools. The aim of the partnership is to develop a platform to enable governments, NGO's and the public to track specific environment-related development targets with a user-friendly Google front-end, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a statement on Monday.
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"We will only be able to solve the biggest environmental challenges of our time if we get the data right," said Erik Solheim, Head of UNEP. "UN Environment is excited to be partnering with Google, to make sure we have the most sophisticated online tools to track progress, identify priority areas for our action, and bring us one step closer to a sustainable world," Solheim said.
The partnership was launched during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the UN headquarters in New York. It has its initial focus on fresh-water ecosystems including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes. These areas account for 0.01 per cent of the world's water but provide habitat for almost 10 per cent of the world's known species and evidence suggests a rapid loss of freshwater biodiversity.
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Google will periodically produce geospatial maps and data on water-related ecosystems by employing massive parallel Cloud computing technology. Satellite imagery and statistics will be generated to assess the extent of change occurring to waterbodies, and made freely accessible to ensure nations have the opportunity to track changes, prevent and reverse ecosystem loss.
Other areas of collaboration include advocacy and capacity building activities as well as the development of partnerships with organisations like the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the NASA. In the long term, the partnership hopes to establish a platform for open-source data and analysis of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
"This partnership announcement builds on a common shared vision between our organisations," said Rebecca Moore, Director, Google Earth, Earth Engine and Earth Outreach. "We are excited to enable all countries with equal access to the latest technology and information in support of global climate action and sustainable development," Moore said.
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Mother-daughter duo draft bill to have ‘consent' taught in sex ed
By: Chris Welch
Less than a dozen states included the topic of “consent” when teaching sex education, as of last school year. But starting this year, Maryland schools will, thanks to a mother-daughter duo, who helped get consent legislation passed.
Maeve Sanford-Kelly says it all started after watching a 2005 Access Hollywood clip that featured now-President Donald Trump, which was posted by The Washington Post in 2016.
“I was 12, but I was old enough to watch it and react to it,” says Sanford-Kelly. “And so was my little brother, and he was 8 or 9. You don’t have to be that old to understand how wrong it is.”
The girl’s mother, Maryland state delegate Ariana Kelly, says it made no sense her daughter and other students weren’t taught the issue of consent in their public school’s sex education classes. So, together, they drafted a bill.
“We wanted the conversation to start with, ‘Sex is something two people who mutually agree to it are doing,’” Kelly says.
“It was less a fixing and more being proactive,” says Sanford-Kelly. “I don’t want the people who are in my generation to act the same as how I’ve seen people in my mother’s generation and grandmother’s generation acting.”
The concept was simple.
“Don’t do something that involves another party if the other party doesn’t also want to do it,” says the young teen. “Pretty straightforward.”
The mother and daughter’s first attempt at passing a bill last year wasn’t successful. However, Sanford-Kelly didn’t give up. This year, they were able to get it through. And with the new year, also brought the #MeToo movement.
“And the scales tipped, right?” says Kelly. “These rhetorical ideas about how terrible sex-ed is sort of became less important than the practical implications of ‘let’s teach our kids about consent so that they don’t accidentally not understand it.’”
Kelly admits that she’s become more cynical over the years, but seeing her daughter’s idealism has reignited her own.
“And with Maeve’s perspective being hopeful and fresh and young, it reminds me that we have to succeed.”
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Citing cyber 'revolution,' Obama issues attack response plan
Posted: 10:34 AM, Jul 26, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House warned Tuesday of a "revolution" of computer-generated threats to the U.S. stoked by growing cyber aggression by traditional U.S. foes like Russia and North Korea, and issued a color-coded response plan for the federal government to use after major cyberattacks.
Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said while Russia and China grow "more assertive and sophisticated" online, Iran has attacked U.S. banks and North Korea is showing a willingness to attack companies and countries alike. She also warned that non-governmental actors, like the Islamic State group and "hacktivists," are finding it easy to advance their goals through the internet.
"To put it bluntly, we are in the midst of a revolution of the cyber threat — one that is growing more persistent, more diverse, more frequent and more dangerous every day," Monaco said at a cybersecurity conference in New York. "Unless we act together — government, industry, and citizens — we risk a world where malicious cyber activity could threaten our security and prosperity. That is not a future we should accept."
Aiming to streamline Washington's response to major attacks, Obama released a presidential policy directive that establishes six levels of severity for attacks, a color-coded system that evokes the terror alert system formally used by the Homeland Security Department.
A high-level federal response following the directive's guidelines will be triggered anytime there's an attack at or above a level three — orange — indicating an attack likely to affect public health or safety, economic or national security or other U.S. interests. A level 5 — black — is an emergency that poses an "imminent threat" to critical infrastructure, government stability or U.S. lives.
The directive lays out which federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies take the lead coordinating the various parts of the response to the attack.
Though long in the works, the directive comes amid heightened concern and attention to cybersecurity following the hack of Democratic National Committee emails, which Hillary Clinton's campaign has blamed on Russia. The U.S. government hasn't formally accused Russia of involvement and Moscow has called the accusations "paranoid."
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What has given this gun bill momentum — besides the persistent backing of the statewide gun-rights Grass Roots N.C. — is advocacy by the National Rifle Association. Promoting permitless carry — also referred to as constitutional carry — laws has become a top priority of the NRA across the country.
Twelve states now have permitless carry laws. Eight of those states enacted the laws in the past two years. At least three more are considering it.
A rapidly increasing number of North Carolinians have gone through the training and background checks required to qualify for permits: currently more than 600,000.
The argument for permitless carry is the same in North Carolina as it has been in other states: that it protects law-abiding citizens who don’t want to break the law simply by putting a coat or sweater over a legal, openly holstered handgun, carried for self-defense.
“Law-abiding citizens in North Carolina can already open carry a handgun without a permit,” NRA spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen said in an emailed statement. “This legislation simply recognizes that it is often more convenient to carry discretely. More Americans than ever are choosing to exercise their Second Amendment right to self-protection and the NRA wants to ensure they can do so in a manner that is most convenient to them.”
Gun-control advocates are chasing the NRA around the country to counter gains the formidable organization might make with state legislatures.
“We watch them very closely, that’s what we do,” Peter Ambler, executive director of Americans for Responsible Solutions, said in a recent interview.
“What’s most important is that permitless carry does not become law,” Ambler said. “... You don’t want folks carrying around an incredibly dangerous consumer product like a firearm without knowing how to use it. That’s not only common sense but a part of the ethos of responsibility in this country that’s accompanied the traditions of gun ownership, that unfortunately the gun lobby is getting away from.”
The gun-control group was formed after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a man who also shot 12 others, killing six, in Arizona in 2011. The organization fought a successful battle in North Carolina in 2015 against efforts to allow people to buy a handgun without a purchase permit from county sheriffs, who check applicants’ backgrounds.
600,000 permits
When Republicans took control of the General Assembly in 2011, gun rights were among the controversial social issues they tackled.
The legislature expanded the self-defense “castle doctrine” to cover cars and workplaces, not just homes. Permitted concealed handguns were allowed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol; district attorneys and administrative law judges can bring them into courtrooms; and they can be brought onto school grounds if secured out of sight in a vehicle.
[Senate passes formerly controversial gun bill with no changes]
Holders of concealed weapons permits can also bring them into public parks and greenways.
A number of Republican House members started pushing for a permitless carry law two years ago, according to former Rep. Gary Pendleton, a Raleigh Republican.
Pendleton describes himself as a hunter, gun collector and 43-year member of the NRA. But he strongly supports the current permitting system because it ensures people carrying concealed handguns are trained and their backgrounds checked out, which protects the public.
“I’m in favor of that,” Pendleton said Monday. “I don’t want to make it easier for criminals to conceal pistols.”
Concealed permit holders have flourished in North Carolina, far outpacing the state’s population growth. The state began issuing them in 1995. In 2000, there were 46,225 permits. As of last week there were 606,377, according to the State Bureau of Investigation. The state’s population, meanwhile, grew from 8 million in 2000 to 10.2 million now.
Across the state, more than 152,000 concealed handgun permits were issued or renewed in 2016. More than 8,000 of them were in Mecklenburg County and more than 11,000 in Wake County.
46,225North Carolina concealed carry permits in 2000.
606,377North Carolina concealed carry permits in 2017.
Like Pendleton, many of those who have gone through the application process, which includes paying for eight hours of training and a background check, want the restrictions to remain in place. David Shimberg of Charlotte said he has a concealed-carry permit and “vehemently” disagrees with the bill.
“The right to carry a handgun is a privilege and double-edged sword which can both lead to self protection or irresponsible or illegal use by individuals without the maturity, training or inclination to carry a firearm safely and lawfully,” Shimberg said in an email.
Rep. Justin Burr, a Republican from Albemarle who is one of the bill’s sponsors, says he recognizes that some people have concerns about the bill, but he says voters back home in his district support it.
“It’s expanding gun rights in North Carolina,” Burr said Tuesday. “They tend to support any legislation doing that. Obviously, there are some that say it goes too far; there are others who say it doesn’t go far enough.”
Burr’s constituents also think they shouldn’t be considered criminals if they put on a raincoat over their openly carried handgun, he said. He said while the bill would eliminate the need for most concealed-carry training, those who buy handguns would still have to go through background checks.
Across the country
Twenty-two states have considered allowing permitless concealed handguns this year, with New Hampshire and North Dakota passing laws within the past few months. Virginia, South Carolina and Wisconsin legislatures are currently considering it. Alabama’s House failed to approve a permitless carry bill earlier this year after the Senate approved it.
An NRA study in three states that have had permitless carry long enough to measure meaningfully — Wyoming, Arizona and Alaska — found no increase in the number of handgun homicides after the laws were eased.
Arizona has had a permitless carry law since 2010. Already a state with relaxed gun laws, Arizona has not seen much fallout from the change.
But Dan Furbee of Mesa, a retired police officer who has been a firearms instructor for 38 years, says the law hit businesses that offer gun safety classes hard.
“It’s hit a lot of people like myself, giving people good information, making sure they comply with state standards. It’s impacted us who teach a great deal,” Furbee said. “Any type of professional understands the value of training. Unfortunately, people don’t seem to get that.”
In general, states are imposing fewer limits on firearms while increasing protections for the gun industry, according to a new study from Boston University. The study also found the rate of homicides involving firearms rose from 2014 to 2015 in every state but West Virginia, and the country had the largest annual increase in 35 years.
In North Carolina
Republican House members Larry Pittman of Concord, Michael Speciale of New Bern and Chris Millis of Hampstead filed bills rolling back concealed carry permit requirements early in the session this year. The bills were ignored, but the legislators worked together with the NRA to cobble together a more sweeping bill.
House Bill 746, sponsored by Pittman, Speciale, Millis and Burr, would make it legal for anyone not otherwise prohibited to carry a concealed weapon in most public places without needing a permit. The permits would still be available for those who travel to other states that have agreements with North Carolina in which each state honors the other’s concealed carry permits. And they would be available for use in places where open-carry is not allowed but permitted concealed-carry is.
North Carolina prohibits concealed weapons in some areas even with a permit: at demonstrations or picket lines, courthouses, legislative buildings, state or federal offices, public schools’ grounds (except secured in vehicles) and anywhere it is posted as prohibited.
HB 746 also resurrected the effort to do away with handgun purchase permits, but that provision was eventually stripped from the bill.
The NRA’s political action committee has spent more than $200,000 to support North Carolina Republican politicians since 2011, mostly the $160,000 to help Gov. Pat McCrory and attorney general candidate Buck Newton just before both lost in the general election in November. The NRA’s lobbying arm spent another $13,000 on direct-marketing phone calls for McCrory and Newton. Senate leader Phil Berger received $5,000 and House Speaker Tim Moore $2,500 since 2011.
As HB 746 began advancing earlier this month, Americans for Responsible Solutions, the state chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the related Everytown for Gun Safety responded quickly with polls showing widespread opposition to permitless carry in North Carolina, and launched a digital ad campaign.
[Gun-control groups muster against concealed-carry bill]
Meanwhile, Grass Roots N.C. reported emailing 120,000 gun-owning voters to contact their legislators, and also posted contact information including home addresses for lobbyists representing gun-control organizations. The two pro-gun groups don’t always work together.
“Frankly, I doubt it really has much to do with the NRA,” Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots N.C., said Tuesday of the bill’s momentum. “They’re sort of Johnny-come-latelys on this. What it has to do with is we worked with the House long and hard to get the bill moving.”
[Gun-rights group targets lobbyists]
Pressure from Grass Roots N.C. and the NRA was enough to move the bill forward.
Valone in May posted a letter on his organization’s website saying it was disappointed that Moore, a Republican from Kings Mountain, had not allowed HB 746 to advance despite Moore’s past support for gun legislation.
“So please tell me, Mr. Speaker, why promises made to gun voters to move the legislation (which they so desperately need) remain unfulfilled,” Valone wrote. “Ugly rumors conjecture that North Carolina Republicans, secure in their super-majorities after redistricting and interested in sitting back to enjoy the spoils of power, now feel they are no longer responsible to the voters who sent them to Raleigh to defend our rights. I pray those rumors are wrong.”
In June, the bill was sent to committees and then to the full House, where it passed despite opposition from eight Republicans and all of the Democrats. The House speaker does not usually vote, and Moore did not on this bill. It passed without enough votes to sustain a veto, which Gov. Roy Cooper has suggested he would use if it comes to his desk.
[House votes to ease concealed handgun law, but not with veto-proof majority]
Strategy ahead
Now the gun groups and bill sponsors are trying to make their case in the Senate, and trying to persuade at least seven of those eight Republicans to override a veto from Cooper if it comes to that, Pittman wrote on his Facebook page. Pittman says he thinks Moore would cast a vote to override if it came to that.
On Monday, Grass Roots N.C. issued an alert saying HB 746 has to clear the Senate this week or there won’t be enough time left in the session to vote on it. The organization provides on its website a letter that supporters could send to key lawmakers, along with their contact information.
Sen. Bill Rabon, the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said last week that a decision on whether to vote on this and other firearm bills hasn’t been made yet.
“We’ll assign some folks to look at the gun bills and see what we’re going to do and what we’re not going to do,” he said.
Craig Jarvis: 919-829-4576, @CraigJ_NandO
News researcher David Raynor and staff writer Colin Campbell contributed
Photos from President Trump’s rally in Greenville
Protesters heckle supporters at Trump rally in Greenville
State Rep. Holly Grange, a West Point graduate, announced her candidacy Thursday morning for the Republican nomination for governor. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest is already a candidate to take on Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
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A Maine court has ordered the state to roll out a Medicaid expansion by February.
Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy said Thursday that the state has until Feb. 1 to adopt rules implementing Medicaid expansion for eligible Mainers who applied starting July 2, the Associated Press reports.
The expansion was approved by voters, but outgoing Gov. Paul LePage asked for a stay to delay the order, which was denied.
Grandson George P. Bush and former secretary of state James Baker paid tribute to George HW Bush in eulogies at Houston funeral services.
Baker, a close friend as well as cabinet member, called Bush a “charter member of the greatest generation” and said, “His incredible service to our nation and the world are already etched into the marble of time.”
He hailed Bush’s work bringing the cold war to an end, signing nuclear arms control deals, and beating back Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
“The world became a better place because George Bush occupied the White House,” he said. “He was not considered a skilled speaker, but his deeds were quite elegant.”
Baker said Bush, who was defeated for re-election by Bill Clinton, is “beyond any doubt our nation’s very best one term president.”
George P. Bush shared the more personal side of the man he knew as “Gampy,” remembering how he made time for his grandkids, organizing horse shoe matchups and fly fishing expeditions and sending them heart-felt letters at school. He would serve of spreads of barbecue, pork rinds with hot sauce, and the “healthy complement” of Blue Bell ice cream and Klondike bars.
“We all grew up in awe of my grandfather,” he said.
Bush hailed his grandfather’s legacy of service, and called him the “most gracious, most decent, most humble man that I will ever know.”
Senators from both parties are meeting Thursday to hash out a deal on legislation to punish Saudi Arabia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Senators from both parties are meeting Thursday to hash out a deal on legislation to punish Saudi Arabia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The measures could curtail US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, suspend arm sales with Saudi Arabia, CNN reported. And a proposed resolution would officially blame Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for the Washington Post columnist’s murder at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The measures could curtail US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, suspend arm sales with Saudi Arabia, CNN reported. And a proposed resolution would officially blame Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for the Washington Post columnist’s murder at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Participating in the meeting were Republicans Bob Corker of Tennessee, Todd Young of Indiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democrats Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Participating in the meeting were Republicans Bob Corker of Tennessee, Todd Young of Indiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democrats Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
“There’s a lot of momentum,” Corker told CNN. “There’s a lot of momentum,” Corker told CNN.
Hillary Clinton is condemning moves by lame duck GOP legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan to limit the power of incoming Democratic governors. Hillary Clinton is condemning moves by lame duck GOP legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan to limit the power of incoming Democratic governors.
Republicans in Michigan and Wisconsin lost elections on Nov. 6. Rather than respect the will of voters, they're using their last few weeks in office to pass laws limiting the power of new governors and put roadblocks on voting. It's not just anti-Democratic. It's anti-democratic. Republicans in Michigan and Wisconsin lost elections on Nov. 6. Rather than respect the will of voters, they're using their last few weeks in office to pass laws limiting the power of new governors and put roadblocks on voting. It's not just anti-Democratic. It's anti-democratic.
This is not in line with American values, and it’s a dangerous path. It's a fundamental building block of democracy that elected representatives respect the outcome of elections. To ignore those outcomes is to silence voters and endanger the health of our democracy itself. This is not in line with American values, and it’s a dangerous path. It's a fundamental building block of democracy that elected representatives respect the outcome of elections. To ignore those outcomes is to silence voters and endanger the health of our democracy itself.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says the election fraud allegations in a North Carolina Congressional race are “undermining the integrity of our elections,” per Talking Points Memo. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says the election fraud allegations in a North Carolina Congressional race are “undermining the integrity of our elections,” per Talking Points Memo.
North Carolina election still undecided amid absentee ballot fraud inquiry North Carolina election still undecided amid absentee ballot fraud inquiry
Funeral services are now beginning for former President George HW Bush at Houston’s St Martin’s Episcopal Church. Funeral services are now beginning for former President George HW Bush at Houston’s St Martin’s Episcopal Church.
The service is kicking off with “America the Beautiful.” Watch live here. The service is kicking off with “America the Beautiful.” Watch live here.
Republican senators have introduced a bill to fully fund Donald Trump’s border wall with $25 billion. Republican senators have introduced a bill to fully fund Donald Trump’s border wall with $25 billion.
The legislation would attempt to raise money toward the total by increasing fines for people caught crossing the border illegally, and tightening requirements to qualify for federal tax credits and welfare benefits, the Hill reports. The legislation would attempt to raise money toward the total by increasing fines for people caught crossing the border illegally, and tightening requirements to qualify for federal tax credits and welfare benefits, the Hill reports.
Sens. Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, James Inhofe and Mike Rounds are sponsoring the legislation. Sens. Ted Cruz, John Kennedy, James Inhofe and Mike Rounds are sponsoring the legislation.
Trump has said he’s willing to settle for $5 billion for the wall in the current round of budget negotiations, a demand Democrats are balking at. Trump has said he’s willing to settle for $5 billion for the wall in the current round of budget negotiations, a demand Democrats are balking at.
Donald Trump claims in a tweet that his approval rating would be at 75% without special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, accusing investigators of “Presidential Harassment.” Donald Trump claims in a tweet that his approval rating would be at 75% without special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, accusing investigators of “Presidential Harassment.”
In the world as it stands, Trump has a 49% approval rating in the daily Rasmussen Reports tracking poll, his favored source, and other polls put him around 42%. In the world as it stands, Trump has a 49% approval rating in the daily Rasmussen Reports tracking poll, his favored source, and other polls put him around 42%.
Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years (Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judge’s, Military, Vets, etc.) my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen. It’s called Presidential Harassment! Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years (Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judge’s, Military, Vets, etc.) my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen. It’s called Presidential Harassment!
A Texas Republican congressman invoked liberal billionaire George Soros’s religion in attacking him during an appearance on Fox Business. A Texas Republican congressman invoked liberal billionaire George Soros’s religion in attacking him during an appearance on Fox Business.
“George Soros is supposed to be Jewish, but you wouldn’t know it from the damage he inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they owned,” said Representative Louie Gohmert. “George Soros is supposed to be Jewish, but you wouldn’t know it from the damage he inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they owned,” said Representative Louie Gohmert.
Holy crap!Appearing on Fox Biz, Louie Gohmert says "George Soros is supposed to be Jewish but you wouldn't know it from the damage he inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews & helped take the property that they owned."Stuart Varney quickly moves on pic.twitter.com/P4KUjOVnKb Holy crap!Appearing on Fox Biz, Louie Gohmert says "George Soros is supposed to be Jewish but you wouldn't know it from the damage he inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews & helped take the property that they owned."Stuart Varney quickly moves on pic.twitter.com/P4KUjOVnKb
Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will meet with Donald Trump next Tuesday about his demand for funding for a border wall, per Politico. Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will meet with Donald Trump next Tuesday about his demand for funding for a border wall, per Politico.
The meeting had been scheduled for this week, but was postponed due to services for George HW Bush. It’s now set for 11 December at 11:30am in the Oval Office. The meeting had been scheduled for this week, but was postponed due to services for George HW Bush. It’s now set for 11 December at 11:30am in the Oval Office.
Trump is demanding $5bn for the wall as part of a bill to fund the federal government, a demand that could lead to a government shutdown if Democrats and Republicans can’t agree to funding legislation. Trump is demanding $5bn for the wall as part of a bill to fund the federal government, a demand that could lead to a government shutdown if Democrats and Republicans can’t agree to funding legislation.
The Houston funeral service for former President George HW Bush is set to begin at 11am. The Houston funeral service for former President George HW Bush is set to begin at 11am.
You can watch a live feed here. You can watch a live feed here.
The supreme court is hearing arguments today in a case dealing with the constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy, or being tried twice for the same crime. The decision could have ramifications for the Trump Russia investigation, the Associated Press reports. The supreme court is hearing arguments today in a case dealing with the constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy, or being tried twice for the same crime. The decision could have ramifications for the Trump Russia investigation, the Associated Press reports.
The appeal comes from a federal prison inmate, Terance Gamble, who was tried separately by both the federal government and the state of Alabama for illegally having a gun after an earlier robbery conviction. The appeal comes from a federal prison inmate, Terance Gamble, who was tried separately by both the federal government and the state of Alabama for illegally having a gun after an earlier robbery conviction.
That was allowed under an exception to the constitution’s double-jeopardy bar that allows state and federal prosecutions for the same crime. That was allowed under an exception to the constitution’s double-jeopardy bar that allows state and federal prosecutions for the same crime.
What does that have to do with the Russia investigation? If Donald Trump were to pardon someone implicated in the investigation, that would spare them from federal charges, but under current rules they could still be charged by a state. New York has been moving to shore up its authority to potentially bring charges against Trump associates. But a ruling from the high court expanding the double jeopardy protection would complicate that effort. What does that have to do with the Russia investigation? If Donald Trump were to pardon someone implicated in the investigation, that would spare them from federal charges, but under current rules they could still be charged by a state. New York has been moving to shore up its authority to potentially bring charges against Trump associates. But a ruling from the high court expanding the double jeopardy protection would complicate that effort.
Prominent Democrats plan on Thursday to begin ramping up calls for stronger gun control after the party took control of the House of Representatives. Prominent Democrats plan on Thursday to begin ramping up calls for stronger gun control after the party took control of the House of Representatives.
The newly empowered Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is expected to introduce sweeping legislation to impose background checks on all gun sales as one of the first priorities in the incoming Congress of 2019, according to a report this week in Mother Jones. The newly empowered Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is expected to introduce sweeping legislation to impose background checks on all gun sales as one of the first priorities in the incoming Congress of 2019, according to a report this week in Mother Jones.
On Thursday Murphy and Blumenthal will be joined on Capitol Hill by House Democrats and gun control advocates to push for stronger regulations. The event will follow the annual national vigil for all victims of gun violence at St Mark’s episcopal church just off Pennsylvania Avenue, close to the Capitol. On Thursday Murphy and Blumenthal will be joined on Capitol Hill by House Democrats and gun control advocates to push for stronger regulations. The event will follow the annual national vigil for all victims of gun violence at St Mark’s episcopal church just off Pennsylvania Avenue, close to the Capitol.
Newly empowered Democrats ramp up calls for stronger gun control Newly empowered Democrats ramp up calls for stronger gun control
Another funeral service will take place Thursday for former President George HW Bush, this time in Houston. Another funeral service will take place Thursday for former President George HW Bush, this time in Houston.
At the Thursday service at Houston’s St Martin’s Episcopal Church, the Oak Ridge Boys will perform Amazing Grace and Reba McEntire will sing The Lord’s Prayer, according to the Associated Press. At the Thursday service at Houston’s St Martin’s Episcopal Church, the Oak Ridge Boys will perform Amazing Grace and Reba McEntire will sing The Lord’s Prayer, according to the Associated Press.
Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge Boys says Bush had personally requested that the group sing Amazing Grace at his funeral. Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge Boys says Bush had personally requested that the group sing Amazing Grace at his funeral.
James Baker, Bush’s former secretary of state, will deliver a eulogy. James Baker, Bush’s former secretary of state, will deliver a eulogy.
More than 11,000 people paid their respects as Bush’s casket lay in repose over night at the church. More than 11,000 people paid their respects as Bush’s casket lay in repose over night at the church.
He’ll be buried later Thursday at his family plot on the presidential library grounds at Texas A&M University in College Station. He’ll be buried later Thursday at his family plot on the presidential library grounds at Texas A&M University in College Station.
The incoming Democratic governor of Wisconsin says he’ll make a personal appeal to outgoing GOP governor Scott Walker to veto lame duck GOP legislation that would strip the governor of powers. The incoming Democratic governor of Wisconsin says he’ll make a personal appeal to outgoing GOP governor Scott Walker to veto lame duck GOP legislation that would strip the governor of powers.
If that doesn’t work, governor-elect Tony Evers said he might sue, the Associated Press reports. If that doesn’t work, governor-elect Tony Evers said he might sue, the Associated Press reports.
“The will of the people has officially been ignored by the legislature,” Evers said. “Wisconsin should be embarrassed by this.” “The will of the people has officially been ignored by the legislature,” Evers said. “Wisconsin should be embarrassed by this.”
Evers said he would speak to Walker, who he defeated in November’s election, as soon as the bills reach his desk. If he won’t veto them, Evers said he’ll consider a lawsuit “to make sure that this legislation does not get into practice”. Evers said he would speak to Walker, who he defeated in November’s election, as soon as the bills reach his desk. If he won’t veto them, Evers said he’ll consider a lawsuit “to make sure that this legislation does not get into practice”.
The Republican-controlled state Senate voted early Wednesday, after an all night session to pass legislation to weaken the incoming Democratic governor as well as the attorney general. The Republican-controlled state Senate voted early Wednesday, after an all night session to pass legislation to weaken the incoming Democratic governor as well as the attorney general.
Donald Trump may have tried to bury his administration’s dire report on climate change, but a large majority of Americans say the findings worry them, according to a new poll. Donald Trump may have tried to bury his administration’s dire report on climate change, but a large majority of Americans say the findings worry them, according to a new poll.
Two thirds of voters said they are very concerned or somewhat concerned about the climate assessment, the Politico/Morning Consult poll found. A 58% majority backed the scientific consensus, disputed by Trump, that human activity is contributing to climate change, while 30% called it a natural phenomenon. Two thirds of voters said they are very concerned or somewhat concerned about the climate assessment, the Politico/Morning Consult poll found. A 58% majority backed the scientific consensus, disputed by Trump, that human activity is contributing to climate change, while 30% called it a natural phenomenon.
67% of voters said they are very or somewhat concerned about the impact of climate change on the economy, and 68% are concerned about the impact on the environment. 46% said it’s a critical threat to the US national interest, and 29% said it’s an important threat. 67% of voters said they are very or somewhat concerned about the impact of climate change on the economy, and 68% are concerned about the impact on the environment. 46% said it’s a critical threat to the US national interest, and 29% said it’s an important threat.
Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick made it official that he won’t run for president this morning, blaming “the cruelty of our elections process”. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick made it official that he won’t run for president this morning, blaming “the cruelty of our elections process”.
“I’ve decided that a 2020 campaign for president is not for me,” he said in a Facebook post. “Knowing that the cruelty of our elections process would ultimately splash back on people whom [his wife] Diane and I love, but who hadn’t signed up for the journey, was more than I could ask.” “I’ve decided that a 2020 campaign for president is not for me,” he said in a Facebook post. “Knowing that the cruelty of our elections process would ultimately splash back on people whom [his wife] Diane and I love, but who hadn’t signed up for the journey, was more than I could ask.”
Patrick has traveled the country this year to stump for Congressional candidates. Patrick has traveled the country this year to stump for Congressional candidates.
“America feels more ready than usual for big answers to our big challenges. That’s an exciting moment that I hope we don’t miss. I hope to help in whatever way I can. It just won’t be as a candidate for president,” he said. “America feels more ready than usual for big answers to our big challenges. That’s an exciting moment that I hope we don’t miss. I hope to help in whatever way I can. It just won’t be as a candidate for president,” he said.
The past few months on the road in support of Democrats during the midterms was humbling. Here are my thoughts on what’s ahead: https://t.co/BrQ8ioTf6O The past few months on the road in support of Democrats during the midterms was humbling. Here are my thoughts on what’s ahead: https://t.co/BrQ8ioTf6O
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Brexit is a far bigger problem than the Conservative Party realises
As a result of Brexit, many people who voted Tory in 2015 did not vote for them in 2017, and won't in 2022 either.
By Stephen Bush
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Why did the Conservatives lose their parliamentary majority? The party has correctly identified most of its problems: that it lost ground with the socially liberal, with affluent ethnic minorities, and with voters aged under 55, and that it suffered as a result of growing political resistance to austerity , particularly the public sector pay freeze and the planned cuts to school budgets.
Not all of the proposed solutions look likely to be effective, but the party can at least comfort itself that it is looking in the right place. But there’s another problem that the party struggles to articulate out loud: it was essentially absent from the party’s numerous post-mortems. That problem is Brexit.
Brexit means that a large number of people who voted Conservative in 2015 did not vote for them in 2017. Yes, the Conservatives got many more votes than they received in 2015, but the British electoral system isn’t about vote share. It’s about how many constituencies you win. As Michael Ashcroft, the Conservative peer and Brexiteer concludes in his excellent book The Lost Majority, the votes that the Tories gained from leavers were predominantly useless under first past the post.
(A good illustration of the problem: the Conservatives gained 7,000 extra votes, predominantly from people who voted Leave, in Iain Austin’s Dudley North seat, but fell short of winning it by 22 votes. They lost 2,000 votes in Kensington, predominantly among people who voted to Remain – and lost the seat by 20 votes.)
Brexit lost the Conservatives’ votes in two ways: firstly, it lost them votes because the Leave vote had decreased the strength of the pound against the Euro and the dollar. This is great news if you are a business that sells to the European Union or the United States, as the money you make abroad now goes further at home. This is bad news if you are a household which buys good from the European Union. As businesses don’t have votes, but households do, this is obviously a problem, electorally speaking.
More importantly, it lose them votes among Remain voters who hadn’t lost out because of the Brexit vote but for whom the issue was a proxy for a wider cultural divide. One of the things people get wrong about Labour and the Remain vote is that the bulk of people who voted for Cameron in 2015, Remain in 2016 and Corbyn in 2017 don’t have a particular affection for the treaties of the European Union – their relationship to the EU speaks to a wider sense of who they are. That shifting vote proved instrumental in seats the Conservatives failed to win, like Wirral South, and ones they lost, like Brighton Kemptown.
That element is also fundamentally misunderstood by people who talk about Brexit being “over” by March 2019. As I’ve written before, Nafta, an American trade deal largely agreed to have been successfully by economists, and agreed in principle before the fall of the Berlin Wall, was a vote-moving issue in the Democratic primaries and the general election in 2016. Brexit will not lose its cultural power to damage Conservative standing with people who backed a Remain vote, who are a larger chunk of the electorate during elections as they are more likely to vote, and they are also the chunk of the electorate that is going to get bigger, not smaller, as time passes.
And even a successful Brexit will create winners and losers. Not every winner will thank the Conservative Party but you can be certain that almost every loser will blame them.
In any case, the Conservatives’ cultural problem isn’t going to go away if Brexit is a success. But what if it’s a failure? The cultural opposition to Brexit among Remainers means that if a slowdown in Japan causes the next recession, Britain’s Leave vote, and by extension the government that did it, will be blamed. If the next recession actually is caused by Britain’s Leave vote, not only will opposition to the government among Remainers increase, but Leave voters aren’t going to blame their vote for it. They will blame the government’s handling of it.
Whatever happens, to win a stable majority, the Conservatives are going to have win more votes from people who backed a Remain vote in 2016. Not only do they have precious few solutions – most of the party isn’t even aware they need one.
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Stephen Bush is political editor of the New Statesman. His daily briefing, Morning Call, provides a quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics.
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Frog Phone
By Jonathan Blitzer
Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog
The ecologist Jeremy Feinberg, who discovered a new species of frog on Staten Island recently, counts himself among New York’s “quirk celebrities.” Friends call to tell him about shout-outs on “The Daily Show” or “The Leonard Lopate Show,” but he knows who’s really being fêted. “It’s never about me,” he said. “It’s all about the frog,” the second new species found in North America since 1986. Feinberg was out in the marshes off the Staten Island Expressway one day when he heard a gurgling noise. “It sounded like the word ‘chuck,’ ” he said. Other naturalists had also been hearing the call, but Feinberg and his team were the first to put a name to the species with the outer-borough accent. Last year, they anointed it the Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog, in a journal article titled “Cryptic Diversity in Metropolis.”
On a Saturday night last month, Feinberg walked along the fringes of a cemetery on Arthur Kill Road, wearing cargo pants held together by duct tape and a T-shirt with a picture of an open-jawed crocodile. The frogs mate for three weeks each April, and are at their loudest while cavorting. It’s a chance for Feinberg to listen in and try to chart new populations. “Let’s get a sneak peek into another orgy,” he said, cupping his hands behind his ears. The frog bacchanal meant yet another roving date night for Feinberg and his girlfriend, Stephanie Jennings, an urban planner who often joins him in the field during mating season. “It’s how we spend our Saturday nights,” she said, decked out in hiking boots and a mackintosh. They wended their way among the headstones and came to a rusted fence, behind which was a secluded pond. “We might be borderline trespassing,” Feinberg said, craning his neck to listen. “His ears go farther than most,” Jennings pointed out. A frog chorus reverberated in the distance. “Those are peepers,” Feinberg said, of the frog that was drowning out the others. “It’s like a rock concert. Their decibels are through the roof.”
“You can’t list your iPhone as your primary-care physician.”
Feinberg is an oddball species himself: an urban ecologist. For three years, he worked as a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Long Island, where he grew up. Now he is finishing a Ph.D. at Rutgers, and lives in Brooklyn. “The most important thing I’ve learned doing fieldwork here over the years is where to park,” he said. There’s another logistical problem. After Feinberg first identified the Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog on Staten Island, he found it in other places, including New Jersey and southern Connecticut, but no new colonies have turned up in New York City or on Long Island. Since 2005, Feinberg has visited more than two thousand potential sites. “I’ve looked for ten years and found one lonely frog calling from one lonely puddle,” he said. “Those are the odds I’m up against.”
This spring, Feinberg and a few colleagues had an idea. They hooked listening devices up to cell phones and placed the contraptions in the three locations where the frogs have been found. Feinberg can call a cell phone and listen in to confirm that the frogs are there. If the system works, he plans to plant phones in other areas, in the hope of discovering more frogs.
“Let’s see if they’re calling from the frog station,” Feinberg said, as he walked back to the car. He pulled out an iPhone and scrolled through his contacts to “Frog 1 Stat (NY),” the Staten Island location. It rang four times, then clicked over to the whirl and buzz of swamp sounds. “There they are! Hi, hi, hi, hi,” he said, imitating their staccato voices. “Just after sunset is the ultimate calling window, but I’ve heard them calling at midnight. Now we can even do this from the convenience of our own bedroom!” He hung up, rejuvenated. “You see the value of the call station? It can be demoralizing to look for frogs when they’re almost never there.”
The car wound through a labyrinth of side streets, then traversed more highway, before pulling up to an unlit stretch of road near Crooke’s Point (named for another naturalist, John J. Crooke). The Verrazano Bridge was visible on the horizon, and farther east were the neon lights of the Coney Island Parachute Jump. Feinberg plunged into the darkness, fighting his way through phragmites and underbrush; he held his hands to his ears. It’s been more than a year since he set eyes on an Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog, and he’s made his peace with that. The real priority is to locate the masses. And if his spirits sink? “I have a special hotline I can call.” ♦
Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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A Room of One’s Own
For Ansel Elkins, who did a writer’s residency at the Standard East Village, breakfast and coffee were complimentary; lunch, dinner, and alcohol were not.
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Ohio Men's Basketball Announces 2018 Non-Conference Schedule
2018-19 Ohio Men's Basketball MAC Schedule
ATHENS, Ohio -- The Ohio men's basketball team's 2018 non-conference schedule has been revealed, as announced by fifth-year head coach Saul Phillips today.
The announcement of the non-conference slate completes the Bobcats' 2018-19 schedule. The 2019 Mid-American Conference schedule was unveiled on July 31.
Ohio's home non-conference schedule features matchups against 2018 NCAA Tournament qualifiers Iona, Marshall and Radford at the Convocation Center. The Bobcats will play non-conference road games at Xavier, the No. 1 seed in the 2018 NCAA Tournament West Regional, and Purdue, the No. 2 seed in the 2018 NCAA Tournament East Regional.
"There aren't a whole lot of nights off," said Phillips of the non-conference schedule. "You look at teams that made the tournament last year like Iona and Marshall coming into the Convo, both quality games. We've challenged ourselves. I think it's going to give this young team a chance to grow, and, obviously, the ultimate goal is to ready yourself for MAC play."
Ohio's new season unofficially begins with a home exhibition matchup against Rio Grande (Nov. 3). The Bobcats faced RedStorm in their 2016 exhibition game, posting an 87-56 win.
The Bobcats begin the regular season with a pair of home games at the Convo, welcoming Wilberforce (Nov. 7) and Campbell (Nov. 12).
Ohio then heads to Montego Bay to compete in the Jersey Mike's Jamaica Classic, where the Bobcats will battle South Florida (Nov. 16) and Loyola Marymount (Nov. 18). Ohio will be facing South Florida for the first time since the Bobcats knocked off the Bulls, 62-56, in the 2012 NCAA Tournament Third Round.
The Bobcats will be back at the Convo for three-straight games to close out the month of November and begin December, hosting Austin Peay (Nov. 24), Iona (Nov. 27) and Marshall (Dec. 1). Ohio will be playing Iona for the third year in a row. The Gaels are coming off of a second-straight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament title and NCAA Tournament appearance. The Bobcats are set to face longtime rival Marshall for the fourth year in a row. Ohio defeated the Thundering Herd, 85-70, in Marshall's last visit to Athens on Dec. 1. Marshall is coming off a 2017-18 campaign in which it won the Conference USA Tournament championship. The No. 13-seeded Thundering Herd upset No. 4-seeded Wichita State in the NCAA Tournament First Round.
Ohio will play its first true road game of 2018-19 when it heads across the state to take on Xavier (Dec. 5) in Cincinnati. The Bobcats are 20-14 (.588) all-time against the Musketeers. The contest will be the first meeting between the in-state foes since Dec. 10, 2008, when then-No. 9-ranked Xavier beat Ohio, 78-56. Last season, the Musketeers went 29-6 and advanced to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.
Ohio is then scheduled to matchup with Radford (Dec. 8) at the Convo. The Bobcats are 3-1 all-time against the Highlanders, but the two programs have not met since Dec. 2, 1997. Radford went 23-13 a year ago and won the Big South Conference Tournament title. After beating LIU Brooklyn in the First Four, the Highlanders fell to eventual national champion Villanova in the NCAA Tournament First Round.
Back-to-back road games are on the docket for the Bobcats before the holiday break, with visits to Detroit (Dec. 15) and Purdue (Dec. 20) scheduled. The Bobcats will be taking on the Boilermakers for the first time since 1969. Purdue finished 30-7 a year ago and advanced all the way to the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen.
Ohio wraps up its 2018 non-conference schedule with a home game against Florida International (Dec. 30), marking the second all-time meeting between the Bobcats and first since 2004.
Tip-off times for Ohio's entire slate of games in 2018-19 will be announced at a later date, as will television, streaming and radio information. Call 1-800-575-CATS (2287) for ticket information. Ohio Athletics will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Convocation Center throughout the 2018-19 season, with the men's basketball team's Jan. 26 matchup against Ball State serving as the anniversary celebration game. Stay tuned to OhioBobcats.com for more information.
Ohio has won 67 games over the past four seasons under Phillips and made back-to-back MAC Tournament semifinal appearances in 2016 and '17. The Bobcats advanced to the College Basketball Invitational Semifinals in 2016. Ohio has tallied 10 All-MAC selections over the last four years under Phillips. Returning for the Bobcats in 2018-19 will be senior guard Jordan Dartis (Newark, Ohio) – an All-MAC Honorable Mention selection each of the past two seasons – as well as guard Teyvion Kirk (Joilet, Ill.), who garnered MAC All-Freshman Team honors in 2017-18. Also returning for Ohio next season is forward Jason Carter (Johnstown, Ohio), who missed all but three games last year due to injury after earning a spot on the MAC All-Freshman Team in 2016-17.
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Saint Patrick Cathedral
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral is an incon in the New York City skyline. Situated in famous Manhattan between the 5th avenue and the 50th street, the Cathedral St patrick is the biggest neogothic cathedral in North America. With 123 meters long, 84 meters wide and 101 meters high, it can welcome to 2400 people and receive 5.5 millions visitors every year.
Built under the initiative of Archbishop John Huges and designed by the architect James Renwick (who also designed the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, DC), its first stone was set down in 1858. Its financing makes it especially peculiar, as it was funded by many immigrants but also by many eminent New-Yorkers. The building lasts 21 years (it will stop during the Civil War) and on May 25th, 1879, the Cathedral opens its doors. However, its construction is never fully completed. In 1888, its spires are finished. The building of the Lady Chapel starts in 1900 and ends in 1908. Many renovation works are done over time. For example, a great renovation is implemented between 1927 and 1931 to install the great organs and to widen the Choir.
Surprisingly, it’s only in 2008, during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, that a pope celebrates Mass for the first time at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.
8 New-York archbishops (including 6 cardinals) are buried in the Cathedral’s crypt, and also Pierre Toussaint, who was transferred there after his canonization.
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May 16 From difficult to impossible: NEB Modernization panel envisions a 3-year review process centred in Ottawa
The NEB Modernization panel released their long-awaited review of Canada's energy regulator.
Back in December, the federal government appointed a 5-member panel to review the mandate of the National Energy Board (NEB) and make recommendations to improve how energy projects are approved in Canada. This latest report is in addition to a similar report released in April on the effectiveness of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA).
THE CURRENT NEB
The NEB is currently in charge of regulating the construction and operation of interprovincial and export pipelines, as well as tolls and tariffs on those lines. There are currently 73,000 km of federally regulated pipelines in Canada. The remaining 767,000 km are under provincial jurisdiction.
The agency also oversees LNG export and import terminals as well as interprovincial power lines.
Aside from being an energy regulator, the NEB also publishes data and trends related to Canada’s energy markets.
TWO BIG PROBLEMS
The panel has concluded that the NEB "has fundamentally lost the confidence of many Canadians." There are two major sticking points:
The government's long-term goals of reducing GHG emissions and eventually "phase out" fossil fuels is completely at odds with plans to build large pipelines. The current NEB is not in a position to decide if Canada, as a country, should continue to develop its natural resources.
There are literally thousands of different aboriginal and First Nations groups across Canada with different points of view, especially on matters of energy development. The federal government has made reconciliation with Indigenous groups a key election promise but unanimous consensus on any project will never happen. The panel concludes the NEB is ill-equipped to resolve issues relating to treaty rights and the use of traditional lands.
In order to correct these deficiencies, the panel recommends abolishing the NEB and replacing it with a "modern" Canadian Energy Transmission Commission (CETC) governed by a Board of Directors, with decisions rendered by a separate group of Hearing Commissioners, similar to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
A LONGER REVIEW PROCESS
Before beginning the regulatory review process, the Minister of Natural Resources, Indigenous groups and various stakeholders would take one full year to determine if the project is in the national interest. This includes impacts on Indigenous peoples, alignment with national economic, energy, and environmental policy and checks against provincial carbon caps. An appointed Governor-In-Council would then take 3 months to either veto the project or proceed with a full regulatory review.
COURTESY NEB MODERNIZATION REPORT
A full regulatory review, if deemed required, would now be a two-year "more detailed" assessment followed by a decision by a joint-panel consisting of both the CETC and the CEAA. The panel would consist of 5 people, two from CETC, two from the CEAA and one independent. At least one panel member must be from the Aboriginal community. The panel's decision would be final and not require additional approvals from the federal government.
The full regulatory review process would therefore move from the current 15 months to a staggering 3 years.
As a point of comparison, the US approval process for federally regulated projects (including interstate pipelines and LNG terminals) is about 12 months. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requires agreement from 3 out of 5 chairpersons rendered after the regulatory review.
MORE INPUT FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
The panel recommends "real and substantive participation of Indigenous peoples, on their own terms and in full accord with Indigenous rights, aboriginal and treaty rights, and title, in every aspect of energy regulation." This would be achieved through the creation of a government-funded Indigenous Major Projects Office.
This group would be responsible for defining "clear processes, guidelines, and accountabilities" for the consultation process during regulatory review.
A CANADIAN EIA
The panel also recommends a separate and independent reporting agency, similar in function to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Canadian Energy Information Agency would have the "ability to tell it like it is on energy matters" and have no say on energy policy or regulations.
The panel says this change would make published energy statistics more "neutral and credible."
LESS "ENERGY" CENTRED, LITERALLY
Various proponents complained that NEB hearings are too rigid and formal, and timeframes too short. The panel says they would like to see more representation from industry, environmental groups, Indigenous peoples, academia, landowners, municipalities and individual citizens of various backgrounds. The "new" regulatory process would allow every Canadian, regardless of proximity to the project, to provide input to the decision-making process.
The panel would like to see board members be less energy focused and instead represent a "broader cross-section" of people with a "wider scope of knowledge and experience", particularly in matters relating to Indigenous traditions and climate science.
Several Canadians apparently also objected to the NEB's head office being located in Calgary. The regulator is currently staffed with too many people from the energy sector which is perceived as a conflict of interest when approving energy projects.
The panel therefore recommends the Board of Directors initially be relocated to Ottawa, where the entire CETC organization and Canadian EIA can eventually follow. The panel thinks that both the energy regulatory and data collector should be located in close proximity to StatsCan, Environment Canada and the Ministry of Natural Resources.
RESTORING CONFIDENCE
The federal government says these reviews and overhauls are required to restore faith in the country's regulatory bodies. Aside from the NEB and CEAA review, another report on the Navigation Protection Act was released in March while a fourth study on the Canadian Fisheries Act is pending sometime this spring.
The Government of Canada is accepting comments on the NEB Modernization until June 14, 2017.
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Sep 26 Alberta remains concerned over new pipeline review process while Trans Mountain remains trapped in regulatory confusion
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This survey claims app devs make more money on Windows Phone than Android or iOS
Hammad Saleem Email @HammadSalim Feb 29th, 2016 in Latest news
App development arena is becoming more and more competitive with every passing day. There are hundreds of thousands of app developers working across the globe, some making tons of money while others just keep it as much as to cover their expenses.
According to a new survey, 55 percent of app developers earn around $1,000 a month with just a minor 4 percent racking up around $100,000 a month. Things are still a little better for those developers residing in North America. The survey suggests the developers on average earn $9,400 a month despite the fact that 49% of developers are still earning less than $1,000. As for those residing in the Asia-Pacific region, 61 percent of them still earn $1,000 at most.
Coming over to the most interesting bit of the survey, developers tied to Microsoft’s operating system earn the most money — Windows Phone developers can net around $11,400 a month as per the report. On the other hand, Android developers make the least money, that is, $4,900 a month. Things are still better for those who are tied to iOS as they can earn, on average, $8,100 a month. Well, the reason cited is that “it has a niche audience and there are not as many apps available to that small segment of the population that have a Windows Phone.”
This makes sense if you think about it. Android is the most popular operating system and has the most number of developers. So finding one in the app marketplace is quite easier compared to Windows Phone, which despite being the third most popular OS, has a very small user base. The report says that Android is still the most preferred operating system where 86 percent of developers are building Android apps while iOS is the focus for 57 percent. Windows Phone is once again the least preferred by developers — only 21 percent are working on it.
As far as the categories of apps are concerned, more than 41 percent of developers are into games followed by entertainment, utilities, education and lifestyle apps.
Thanks Dave for sending this in.
Further reading: Android, Apps, Developers, iOS, Microsoft, Windows 10 Mobile
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Sam, a serial killer for all intents and purposes, methodically picks off the immigrants like deer, taking the role of border patrol into his own hands, shooting them sniper style from atop dusty ridges, aided by his German shepherd, Tracker. A wall definitely isn’t enough for this guy. Cuarón stops just short of a Trump bumper sticker on his truck
The script is sparse, the only character backstory we get is at night, when the hunter and the hunted rest for a few minutes, long enough to flesh out their reasons for being there in the desert. Moises has a son waiting for him; Sam is threatened by outsiders.
At 94 minutes, it’s tight and efficient, though exhausting and relentless — the characters are running through the desert almost all the time, and the sequences unfold in near real time. The cinematography is grounded, at eye level. You feel as if you are scrabbling among the rocks and boulders and cacti along with the characters.
“Desierto” is a generic thriller that just so happens to be wrapped in political packaging. That packaging is sometimes more interesting than the thrills themselves, but the film is bare enough to project what you want onto it. It seems that Cuarón was looking to flex his suspense muscles, and there are a few very good sequences of classic suspense thriller filmmaking. The movie descends into an endless game of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner pursuing each other throughout the desert, chasing each other around and around what seems to be the same rock. But what an apt metaphor for the current climate of political discourse.
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo.
Director: Jonás Cuarón.
Screenwriters: Jonás Cuarón, Mateo Garcia.
An STX Entertainment release. Running time: 94 minutes. Vulgar language, strong violence. In Miami-Dade: Aventura, Dolphin.
President Trump defends racist tweets against Democratic congresswomen
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Pope US Visit Schedule 2015: Cities and Where to Watch Online and on Cable
By Jessica Eggert
President Barack Obama greeted Pope Francis when he arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the first stop on the pope's historic first visit to the United States. During his time in the U.S., the pope, who's known for his progressive views on controversial political issues like same-sex marriage and climate change, will have several speaking engagements, make an appearance at the United Nations and lead a prayer at ground zero in New York City.
He'll also become the first pontiff to address Congress, CNN reports. Here's where to find the pope on his whirlwind U.S. tour.
Source: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Where to watch: While tens of thousands of people will come to see the pope in person, you can watch all six days of his tour live online or on cable TV.
Time Warner Cable is adding a 24-hour channel exclusively covering every event on the pope's schedule while he is in the U.S., including additional analysis and local reports from experts, Syracuse reports. The channel is 199 nationwide. CatholicTV will also have live coverage, and major news channels are expected to broadcast highlights from the trip.
The pope's itinerary: Francis is expected to make stops in three major U.S. cities: Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia.
Washington, D.C.: On Wednesday, the pope will take part in a Papal Parade along the National Mall, a midday prayer with the bishops of the U.S. and lead an evening mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Catholic University will live-stream the entire mass.
On Thursday, the pope will become the first pontiff to address Congress. A live stream of the event will be available here.
New York City: Thursday evening, the pope will fly to NYC for an evening prayer at St. Patrick's Cathedral, which will be live-streamed by the church.
On Friday, the pope will address the United Nations General Assembly at 8:30 a.m, according to the pope's official schedule. You can watch that on the United Nations Web TV Channel. Throughout the rest of that day, the pope will hold a service for all religions at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, visit a Catholic school in East Harlem, lead a procession through Central Park and hold an evening mass at Madison Square Garden.
Philadelphia: On Saturday, the pope will travel to Philadelphia to host a morning mass at Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul and visit Independence Mall and the Festival of Families. On Sunday, Francis will be be at St. Martin's Chapel in the morning, visit Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility and hold mass for the conclusion of the World Meeting of Families.
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Obama's Wall Street speech inspires Rep. Jason Chaffetz to target presidents' pensions
By Chris Sosa
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and co-sponsor of a 2016 bill that would limit presidential pensions, wants to reintroduce the bill in Congress after it was vetoed by President Barack Obama.
According to USA Today, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act "would cap presidential pensions at $200,000, with another $200,000 for expenses."
But here's the catch: "[T]hose payments would be reduced dollar-for-dollar once [the president's] outside income exceeds $400,000."
The $400,000 income provision is noteworthy, because Obama has been under scrutiny for accepting that amount to offer a speech to a Wall Street firm.
Though the provision about presidents making over $400,000 annually having their pensions reduced was included in the original version, Chaffetz tweeted that Obama's speaking fee was a catalyst for the bill's reintroduction.
Chaffetz also said Obama's alleged "hypocrisy" was "revealing" and that his initial veto of the nonpartisan bill was "self-serving."
The bill had no trouble passing the House and Senate last year. Obama's veto was reportedly a "surprise," as the president had given no indication he'd veto it.
While President Donald Trump has yet to comment on the legislation, the chance to needle Obama by capping his pension has to be tempting.
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Interested In BDSM? Here's How To Protect Your Mental Health While Exploring
By Sara Sloan, Ph.D.
Image by Audrey Shtecinjo / Stocksy
Adventurous sex is no longer taboo or uncommon—on the contrary, it's actually a perfectly healthy way to explore one's sexuality, as long as you're being safe about it.
A particularly popular form of kink is BDSM, which refers to bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism. Over one-third of women and men in America have explored BDSM, and there is now scientific evidence that proves BDSM can be a healthy part of any relationship. In a recent study, BDSM practitioners were found to be less neurotic, more extroverted, more open to new experiences, more conscientious, and less sensitive to rejection, and they had a higher subjective well-being.
While this is good news, it's still important to keep in mind some key factors for maintaining your physical and mental health when incorporating BDSM into your sex life, especially if you're experimenting with it for the first time.
The neurobiology of BDSM.
The practice of BDSM physiologically triggers many of the same hormones that sky diving and other extreme sports may invoke. In particular, the stress hormone cortisol is often released, particularly by the receiver of the sensations, which helps to turn off the executive functioning area of the brain leading to feelings of euphoria and increased partner connection.
Heather McPherson, certified sex therapist and CEO of the Sexual Health Alliance (as well as my professional mentor), describes this state as "subspace." "Subspace is a state that some players attempt to accomplish, where you can tolerate more pain and sensation than usual," she explains. "Experienced players often call it, 'flying.'" These are the feelings that often tend to make couples feel more bonded following a session.
Unfortunately, the flip side of this euphoria is all too common in the hours and days following an intense experience, especially for those on the receiving end. For those new to BDSM with a history of anxiety and depression, this is an important fact to keep in mind. In addition to the increase in cortisol, participants have also had an increase in endorphins, which bind to the opiate receptors. The steep drop-off in these chemicals can create a state referred to as the "sub drop."
Sex therapist and erotica writer Dr. Donna Jennings explains that sub drop follows the "endorphin release after a BDSM scene, where the body works to move back to a normal chemical state." She says that chemical drop can create both a physical and emotional reaction. Physically, a person can feel fatigue, aches, and pains. Emotionally, McPherson adds, a person can experience a range of emotions including "sadness, numbness, disconnection, guilt, or shame."
Unfortunately, for those new to BDSM, sub drop can often get misinterpreted and misattributed to other aspects of the participant's life and relationship.
How to prevent the drop.
By understanding what happens in the mind and body during a BDSM session, you can better prepare for the intense psychological ups and downs.
According to certified sex coach Ginger Hart, it's best to mentally prepare ahead of time. Hart says there are two distinct phases people go through when they first begin exploring BDSM: the curious state and the adventurous state.
"The curious state is all about watching, learning, and gathering information to figure out what you'd like to explore, which builds confidence and excitement," Hart explains. "This state is fragile, and [people] should consider adopting the mantra, 'I would like to watch. I'm not ready to play.'"
She says that those new to BDSM shouldn't move from the curious phase to the adventurous state until "they feel secure in their desires and are able to articulate and define personal boundaries."
Once you've engaged in a session, you and your partner should participate in what's referred to as "aftercare" to help prevent and subvert negative feelings associated with sub drops. In aftercare, usually the dominant partner takes care of the sub by participating in caretaking activities. These might include one partner holding and caressing the other, falling asleep in each other's arms, giving a massage, running a bubble bath, or cooking their favorite meal following an intense scene. Participants can also plan to have self-care activities after they play to lessen the effects of sub drop (or top drop, which can also happen). Aftercare following a BDSM session should also help to increase the bond between partners.
If for some reason your partner is not offering you this type of care after your play session, you can still practice self-care on your own, including eating your favorite foods and indulging in your favorite Netflix shows—especially those that make you laugh.
Reaping the psychological rewards.
While BDSM might not be for everyone, McPherson explains, "This area of practice does contain great risks and rewards." Counter to what you might expect, "for those with sexual anxiety, they can feel relief and comfort in BDSM play because it requires in-depth communication about what might happen as well as negotiation about what will happen and what they do not want to happen, which can calm nerves."
Once you've decided to try out BDSM for yourself, it's important to properly educate yourself and to listen to your partner.
"The key to safely expanding and exploring new areas of sexuality such as BDSM is to be aware of your own needs and desires, as well as those of your partner," Hart says, "and to know when to push forward and when to remain curious."
#orgasm
Sara Sloan, Ph.D.
Sara Sloan, Ph.D., is a Marriage Family Therapist pre-grad intern at Respark, a couples and sex therapy practice in Austin, Texas. She is also working on her AASECT sex therapy...
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US Department of Labor's OSHA announces summer 'Construction Incident Prevention Initiative' in Delaware
Region 3 News Release: 14-1188-PHI (osha 14-053)
Contact: Joanna Hawkins Leni Fortson
Email: hawkins.joanna@dol.gov uddyback-fortson.lenore@dol.gov
US Department of Labor's OSHA announces summer
'Construction Incident Prevention Initiative' in Delaware
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a "Construction Incident Prevention Initiative" campaign this summer to curb construction fatalities. Compliance officers will focus enforcement effort on construction sites covered by OSHA's Wilmington, Del., Area Office, which includes the state of Delaware.
"Construction is a high-hazard industry, and when employers do not employ an effective safety and health program, workers are left vulnerable to serious injury and possible death," said MaryAnn Garrahan, OSHA's regional administrator in Philadelphia. "The increased presence of our compliance officers and the immediate inspections conducted in response to unsafe scaffolds, fall risks, trenches and other construction hazards should help to prevent work site fatalities."
The initiative is designed to identify and eliminate safety and health hazards at construction sites and to prevent injuries and fatalities resulting from the four leading causes of incidents: falls, crushing events, electrocutions and caught-in-between events. The initiative will target health hazards involving silica, lead and hexavalent chromium, and will draw on OSHA's national campaigns to prevent fall hazards at construction sites and heat illness among outdoor workers.
During campaign periods, OSHA will provide on-site outreach to educate and encourage employers to continue good practices. OSHA will send its compliance officers into the field to conduct inspections when unsafe working conditions involving the four main hazards are observed at construction sites.
The initiative will be conducted during the summer months of 2014 in OSHA's Philadelphia Region, which includes Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia. This region had 111 fatalities in fiscal years 2013 and 2014, with 16 attributed to falls.
During the first week of June, tens of thousands of employers and more than 1 million workers across the country joined OSHA in safety stand-downs to focus on preventing fatalities from falls. Falls are the leading cause of death in the construction industry, with hundreds of workers dying each year and thousands more facing serious injuries. Lack of fall protection is also the most frequently cited OSHA violation, proving that these deaths are preventable when employers provide the right safety equipment and properly train workers on how to use it.
OSHA is also conducting a national outreach campaign this summer to educate both employers and workers about the hazards of working outdoors in hot weather. Every year, thousands of workers become sick from exposure to heat, and some even die. These illnesses and death are preventable. More information on heat prevention is available at http://www.osha.gov/heat.
To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's Wilmington Area Office at 302-573-6518 or the agency's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742). Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA's role is to promote safe and healthful working conditions for America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, outreach and education. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.
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37th Parliament, 3rd Session (February 2, 2004 - May 23, 2004)
The Standing Committee on Finance met in camera at 3:35 p.m. this day, in Room 536 Wellington Building, the Chair, Roy Cullen, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Roy Cullen, Rodger Cuzner, Nick Discepola, Rahim Jaffer, Hon. John McKay, Hon. Maria Minna, Massimo Pacetti, Pierre Paquette, Alex Shepherd and Hon. Robert Thibault.
In attendance: Library of Parliament: June Dewetering, Principal; Stephen Laurent, Analyst.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) , the Committee resumed its study on Duty Remission and the Zero-rating of Tariffs on Textile Inputs: the Canadian Apparel Industry
The Committee resumed consideration of the draft report.
It was agreed, — That the draft report be adopted.
It was agreed, — That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee request that the Government table a comprehensive response to the report.
It was agreed, — That the Chair, Clerk and researchers be authorized to make such typographical and editorial changes as may be necessary without changing the substance of the report.
It was agreed, — That the Chair present the Fourth Report to the House.
It was agreed, — That the the Governor of the Bank of Canada be invited to appear on the Monetary Policy on Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 3:30 p.m..
It was agreed, — To proceed to the consideration of the Bill C-30 during the week of April 19, if the Bill has been refered to the Committee by the House.
It was agreed, — That, the Committee set aside a meeting on the question of Prior Review of Order in Council Appointments during the week of April 19, 2004.
Richard Dupuis
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Per Steinar Halvorsen appointed "Innovator of the Month" by Helse Sør-Øst
Per S.Halvorsen
(photo: Hedda Holth)
Per Steinar Halvorsen, head of the "Clinical and experimental cardiovascular monitoring" research group at the Intervention Centre at the Division of Emergencies and Clinical Care, was appointed "Innovator of the Month" for the month of October by South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør-Øst).
His work is presented in an article (in Norwegian) entitled "Pacemaker of the future", published on the home page of Helse Sør-Øst.
The "Researcher of the Month" article:
- Fremtidens pacemaker (by Hedda Holth, Oslo University Hospital)
Home page of the "Clinical and experimental cardiovascular monitoring" research group"
Per Steinar Halvorsen's publications
The Intervention Centre
at the Intervention Centre at the Division of Emergencies and Clinical Care
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B. Smith, former model stricken with Alzheimer’s, traveled more than 50 miles before being found, says husband (VIDEO)
By Rich Schapiro
Alzheimer’s-stricken ex-model B. Smith traveled more than 50 miles to the tip of Staten Island — after vanishing.
Alzheimer's-stricken ex-model B. Smith traveled more than 50 miles — from the top of Manhattan to the tip of Staten Island — after vanishing earlier this week, her husband has revealed.
The pioneering celebrity, 65, was found Wednesday at the La Parisienne Coffee House on Seventh Ave. a day after she went missing while heading out to the Hamptons. "Just for the record, here's what B experienced, so there are no rumors," husband Dan Gasby wrote on Facebook.
Gasby went on to describe her mysterious journey:
Smith, after traveling to Midtown from the Hamptons, walked north to Harlem. At some point, she turned around and headed back south, marching all the way to the Staten Island Ferry.
She took the ferry to Staten Island, hopped on a bus and eventually made her way back to the terminal.
After returning to Manhattan, she walked all the way to La Parisienne near W. 57th St. "where a friend happened to see her," Gasby wrote.
B. Smith traveled more than 50 miles — from the top of Manhattan to the tip of Staten Island — after vanishing earlier this week, her husband said. (New York Daily News)
Smith, one of the first African-American models to grace the cover of Mademoiselle, had last been seen about 8 p.m. Tuesday getting off the Hampton Jitney in Southampton.
Her husband called the cops after he learned she had inexplicably hopped off the bus before the Sag Harbor stop. It isn't known how Smith got to Manhattan from the Hamptons.
A frantic search was launched.
Smith, whose first name is Barbara, was located after she was spotted eating at La Parisienne with an older woman.
In June, Smith spoke candidly about her struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
Model-turned-restaurateur B. Smith, reported missing, was found in La Parisienne Restaurant on Seventh Ave. on Wednesday. (Jeff Bachner/for New York Daily News)
"You do try to hide it from everybody," she told CBS News.
Smith — despite not being able to recall the date, month or year — remained hopeful about her prognosis.
"I think the future's going to be fine," she said. "I'm going to do my best to make it work out for me, and for as many people that I can possibly help, too."
Smith couldn't be reached Friday.
Following her modeling career, she jumped into the restaurant business, opening her first B. Smith restaurant in the city in 1986. She launched two others in the year that followed.
Alzheimer’s-stricken ex-model B. Smith traveled 50 miles after vanishing, reports her husband. (Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET)
The tireless Smith was also the host of "B. Smith With Style," a nationally syndicated talk show that aired in the mid-1990s on NBC 4 New York and on NBC affiliates across the country.
In April, after closing her restaurants, Smith and Gasby sold their Central Park West apartment for nearly $6 million and moved east to Sag Harbor.
In his Thursday Facebook post, Smith's husband said he's determined to help steer her through the crippling neurological disorder.
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Archives|The Crony Fairy
The Crony Fairy
By PAUL KRUGMAN APRIL 28, 2006
The U.S. government is being stalked by an invisible bandit, the Crony Fairy, who visits key agencies by dead of night, snatches away qualified people and replaces them with unqualified political appointees. There's no way to catch or stop the Crony Fairy, so our only hope is to change the agencies' names. That way she might get confused, and leave our government able to function.
That, at least, is how I interpret the report on responses to Hurricane Katrina that was just released by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
The report points out that the Federal Emergency Management Agency "had been operating at a more than 15 percent staff-vacancy rate for over a year before Katrina struck" -- that means many of the people who knew what they were doing had left. And it adds that "FEMA's senior political appointees had little or no prior relevant emergency-management experience."
But the report says nothing about what caused the qualified people to leave and who appointed unqualified people to take their place. There's no hint that, say, President Bush might have had any role. So those political appointees must have been installed by the Crony Fairy.
Rather than trying to fix FEMA, the report calls for replacing it with a new organization, the National Preparedness and Response Agency. As far as I can tell, the new agency would have exactly the same responsibilities as FEMA. But "senior N.P.R.A. officials would be selected from the ranks of professionals with experience in crisis management." I guess it's impossible to select qualified people to run FEMA; if you try, the Crony Fairy will spirit them away and replace them with Michael Brown. But she might not know her way to N.P.R.A.
O.K., enough sarcasm. Let's talk about the history of FEMA.
In the early 1990's, FEMA's reputation was as bad as it is today. It was a dumping ground for political cronies, headed by a man whose only apparent qualification for the job was that he was a close friend of the first President Bush's chief of staff. FEMA's response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992 perfectly foreshadowed Katrina: the agency took three days to arrive on the scene, and when it did, it proved utterly incompetent.
Many people thought that FEMA was a lost cause. But Bill Clinton proved them wrong. He appointed qualified people to lead the agency and gave them leeway to hire other qualified people, and within a year FEMA's morale and performance had soared. For the rest of the Clinton years, FEMA was among the most highly regarded agencies in the federal government.
What happened to that reputation? The answer, of course, is that the second President Bush returned to his father's practices. Once again, FEMA became a dumping ground for cronies, and many of the good people who had come in during the Clinton years left. It took only a few years to transform one of the best agencies in the U.S. government into what Senator Susan Collins calls "a shambles and beyond repair."
In other words, the Crony Fairy is named George W. Bush.
So what's the point of creating a new agency to replace FEMA? The history of FEMA and other agencies during the Clinton years shows that a president who is serious about governing can rebuild effective government without renaming the boxes on the organizational chart.
On the other hand, the history of the Bush administration, from the botched reconstruction of Iraq to the botched start-up of the prescription drug program, shows that a president who isn't serious about governing, who prizes loyalty and personal connections over competence, can quickly reduce the government of the world's most powerful nation to third-world levels of ineffectiveness.
And bear in mind that Mr. Bush's pattern of cronyism didn't change after Katrina. For example, he appointed Julie Myers, the inexperienced niece of Gen. Richard Myers, to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- an agency that, like FEMA, is supposed to protect us against terrorism as well as other threats. Even at the C.I.A., the administration seems more interested in purging Democrats than in improving the quality of intelligence.
So let's skip the name change for FEMA, O.K.? The United States will regain effective government if and when it gets a president who cares more about serving the nation than about rewarding his friends and scoring political points. That's at least a thousand days away. Meanwhile, don't count on FEMA, or on any other government agency, to do its job.
A version of this op-ed appears in print on April 28, 2006, on Page A00023 of the National edition with the headline: The Crony Fairy. Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Opinion|Doctor, Shut Up and Listen
Doctor, Shut Up and Listen
By Nirmal Joshi
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — BETSY came to Dr. Martin for a second — or rather, a sixth — opinion. Over a year, she had seen five other physicians for a “rapid heartbeat” and “feeling stressed.” After extensive testing, she had finally been referred for psychological counseling for an anxiety disorder.
The careful history Dr. Martin took revealed that Betsy was taking an over-the-counter weight loss product that contained ephedrine. (I have changed their names for privacy’s sake.) When she stopped taking the remedy, her symptoms also stopped. Asked why she hadn’t mentioned this information before, she said she’d “never been asked.” Until then, her providers would sooner order tests than take the time to talk with her about the problem.
Betsy’s case was fortunate; poor communication often has much worse consequences. A review of reports by the Joint Commission, a nonprofit that provides accreditation to health care organizations, found that communication failure (rather than a provider’s lack of technical skill) was at the root of over 70 percent of serious adverse health outcomes in hospitals.
A doctor’s ability to explain, listen and empathize has a profound impact on a patient’s care. Yet, as one survey found, two out of every three patients are discharged from the hospital without even knowing their diagnosis. Another study discovered that in over 60 percent of cases, patients misunderstood directions after a visit to their doctor’s office. And on average, physicians wait just 18 seconds before interrupting patients’ narratives of their symptoms. Evidently, we have a long way to go.
Three years ago, my colleagues and I started a program in Harrisburg designed to improve doctors’ communication with their patients. This large urban hospital system serves a city with a population of about 50,000, together with the surrounding metropolitan area of more than 550,000 people.
The hospital faces particular challenges: The city has a high poverty rate (32 percent, compared with the state average of 13 percent), and the metro area has a high rate of childhood obesity. Over all, nearly a third of people around Harrisburg are uninsured, compared with about one in 10 for the rest of Pennsylvania.
Our project started with a simple baseline assessment of how we as doctors communicated with our patients. Observation soon revealed that physicians introduced themselves on only about one in four occasions. And without an introduction, it’s no surprise that patients could correctly identify their physician only about a quarter of the time.
Brief, rushed physician encounters were common, with limited opportunity for questions. A lack of empathy was often apparent: In one instance, after a tearful patient had related the recent death of a loved one, the physician’s next sentence was: “How is your abdominal pain?”
We developed a physician-training program, which involved mock patient interviews and assessment from the actor role-playing the patient. Over 250 physicians were trained using this technique. We also arranged for a “physician coach” to sit in on real patient interviews and provide feedback.
Over the next two years, patient satisfaction with doctors, as measured by a standard questionnaire, moved the hospital’s predicted score up in national rankings by a remarkable 40 percentile points. Several studies have found a correlation between higher patient satisfaction scores and better health outcomes. In one, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard health policy researchers reported that higher patient satisfaction was associated with improved outcomes for several diseases, including heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
The need to train and test physicians in “interpersonal and communication skills” was formally recognized only relatively recently, in 1999, when the American Board of Medical Specialties made them one of physicians’ key competencies. Although medical schools and residency programs then began to train and test students on these skills, once physicians have completed training, they are seldom evaluated on them. And doctors trained before the mid-1990s have rarely, if ever, been evaluated at all.
I realize that many colleagues may see methods like ours as too intrusive on their clinical practice and may say that they don’t have the time. But we need to move away from the perception that social skills and better communication are a kind of optional extra for doctors. A good bedside manner is simply good medicine.
A passionate diabetes specialist told me how she sat down with a patient to understand why he was not using his diabetes medications regularly, despite numerous hospital admissions for complications.
“I can’t continue to do this anymore,” he told her, on the verge of tears. “I’ve just given up.”
She placed a hand on his shoulder and just sat with him. After a pause, she said: “You have a heart that still beats, and legs you can still walk on — many of my patients don’t have that privilege.”
Five years later, recalling this episode, her patient credits her with inspiring him to take better care of himself. The entire encounter took less than five minutes.
Nirmal Joshi is the chief medical officer for Pinnacle Health System.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: Doctor, Shut Up and Listen. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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By Ted Chiang
Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon and Ted Chiang
Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
Category: Literary Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Audiobooks
May 07, 2019 | 682 Minutes
About Exhalation
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson Whitehead
From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award –nominated film Arrival: a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction.
“THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD.”
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.
Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.
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Ted Chiang’s fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories. His debut collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, has been translated into twenty-one languages. He was born in Port Jefferson,… More about Ted Chiang
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“Illuminating, thrilling. . . . Like such eclectic predecessors as Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr., Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, China Miéville, and Kazuo Ishiguro, Chiang has explored conventional tropes of science fiction in highly unconventional ways. . . . Individual sentences possess the windowpane transparency that George Orwell advocated as a prose ideal. . . . It is both a surprise and a relief to encounter fiction that explores counterfactual worlds like these with . . . ardor and earnestness. . . . Human curiosity, for Chiang, is a nearly divine engine of progress.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker
“Masterful and striking. . . . A fusion of pure intellect and molten emotion. . . . Represents the ideal definition and practice of all science fiction. . . . [Chiang’s] career thus deservedly joins those of only a handful of past masters who likewise did their best work in miniature: Edgar Allan Poe, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon. . . . His challenging and rewarding fiction proves that a sizable and appreciative audience exists for the kind of speculative fiction that doesn’t merely offer cosmic explosions, but instead plucks both heartstrings and gray matter in equal measure.”
—Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post
“Deeply beautiful. . . . These stories are carefully curated into a conversation that comes full circle, after having traversed extraordinary terrain. . . . [Exhalation] is as generous as it is marvelous, and I’m left feeling nothing so much as grateful for it.”
—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
“A master of the form. [Chiang’s] new collection of nine stories—theming free will and choice, virtual reality and regret—is so provocative, imaginative, and soulful that it makes Black Mirror look drab and dull by comparison.”
—David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly, “The 10 best books of 2019…so far”
“A handful of living science fiction writers have attained godlike status—N.K. Jemisin, Cixin Liu, and Ann Leckie, to name a few. But Ted Chiang is the only one who’s done it without writing a novel. In fact, he’s published far less than his neighbors on the genre’s current Mount Rushmore, usually just one short story every two years. But oh, his stories. They’re a religious experience. . . . In Exhalation, which could be subtitled ‘Black Mirror For Optimists,’ every story seems crafted with one objective in mind—pure awe. . . . A moving book about fate and free will that is destined to become a literary landmark of the 2010s.”
—Adam Morgan, The A.V. Club
“These are humane, skillfully assembled stories, populated by vivid and memorable characters. . . . [Chiang’s] best stories boast a beguiling mix of compassion and awe. . . . His versatility and intellectual restlessness have yielded an immensely pleasing book.”
—Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle
“As much thought experiments as stories, Ted Chiang’s exquisite mechanisms employ science fiction as an instrument to probe the human condition. Like the chronicler of Exhalation’s title narrative, he opens the back of his own head and lays bare its mysterious golden motion for the hushed appreciation of an awestruck audience. Beautifully written and conceived, this is a marvelous, astonishing collection that we would do well to read before the worlds it conjures are upon us. Urgently recommended.”
“Exquisite. . . . The stories in Exhalation are a shining example of science fiction at its best. They take both science and humanism deeply seriously.”
—Constance Grady, Vox
“Ted Chiang writes with such a matter-of-fact grace and visionary power that one simply takes on faith that his worlds and his characters exist, whether they are human or robot or parrot; he is the rare author who makes me feel, also, that he believes in his readers, in our integrity and our imagination.”
—Karen Russell, author of Orange World
“Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver, Poe, Borges, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond. You will inhale Exhalation in a single, stunned sitting, because true genius doesn’t come along nearly as often as advertised. This is the real thing.”
—Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter
“Exquisitely crafted. . . . One after another, Chiang’s stories claim their place in your mind until you’re completely swept up in his provocative and at times even charming world. . . . Each story is a carefully considered, finely honed machine. . . . What makes Exhalation particularly brilliant is that not one of the stories feels like it’s designed to be thought-provoking in a stilted, academic way. Chiang is an entertaining, empathetic writer first, before being one of contemporary sci-fi’s intellectual powerhouses, and each story reads that way. . . . [Chiang is] one of the most exciting voices in his field.”
—BookPage (starred review)
“Chiang’s long-awaited second collection. . .continues to explore emotional and metaphysical landscapes with precise and incisive prose. . . . Chiang remains one of the most skilled stylists in sf, and this will appear to genre and literary-fiction fans alike.”
“An instant classic. . . . Visionary speculative stories that will change the way readers see themselves and the world around them: This book delivers in a big way.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Chiang produces deeply moving drama from fascinating first premises. . . . These stories are brilliant experiments, and his commitment to exploring deep human questions elevates them to among the very best science fiction.”
“Chiang is always thought provoking, and his latest collection is no exception.”
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Editorial: Murphy in House 18 Democratic primary
Rhonda Swan
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:01 AM Oct 9, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Three Democrats are seeking the nomination for the U.S. House District 18 seat. CPA Patrick Murphy has the most money and is the most qualified.
A Republican until January 2011, Mr. Murphy said the rise of the tea party compelled him to switch parties and to seek office. "It took off into this social agenda, this fear-mongering, this radicalism, and Allen West is the epitome of that to me," he said. "Why not do something about it?"
Mr. Murphy said he supports President Obama’s Americans Jobs Act. "We have to focus," he said, "on building roads, bridges and schools." He favors raising the cap on the amount of Social Security earnings that can be taxed, to make the program sustainable, and would support allowing the federal government to negotiate drug costs for Medicare to save money. The 2003 law bans such negotiating, even though the Veterans Administration does it, to great effect.
Retired firefighter Jerry Buechler said he has a better grasp of the issues than his challengers, but his solution to Medicare’s unsustainable growth would be to expand the program to include people 55 and over and increase taxes to cover the expense. "That," he said, "would make health care more affordable." Actually, it would make health care more expensive for taxpayers and cheaper for private insurers. The third candidate is Jim Horn.
The new District 18, which includes the Treasure Coast and northern Palm Beach County, contains 57 percent of the current District 16, which Tom Rooney represents. When Allen West bolted District 22 for District 18, Rep. Rooney moved to the new District 17, which stretches from Okeechobee to near Tampa.
Mr. Murphy was ready to challenge Rep. West in District 22, and switched to District 18 when Rep. West did. He is the best choice to challenge either Rep. West or Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder.
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Zimbabwe 2019 Budget: Time for Austerity As Citizens Have To Bear the Brunt
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Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube
The recently appointed Finance and Economic Development minister in Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube on 22 November 2018 presented his 2019 budget. Many Zimbabweans eagerly awaited the presentation of the 2019 budget as they had pinned their hopes on it with the expectation that it would bring relief to their suffering. However, from the theme of the budget, it was clear that the suffering majority had nothing to celebrate (at least in the short term) as the budget focused on austerity measures.
Presenting the budget albeit in bizarre circumstances as the main opposition party members had been ejected from parliament, the finance minister Mthuli Ncube started his presentation by reading the theme of the budget, “Austerity for Prosperity.” To reinforce the theme, Mthuli Ncube also read out one of philosopher Immanuel Kant’s quote, “We are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without.”
Considering Zimbabwe’s current economic standing, it’s only right that the finance minister took the all-important decision to introduce austerity measures. Just to put this into perspective, Zimbabwe in the past few years has been spending over 80 percent of its budget on paying civil servants salaries. As such there was no money left to finance infrastructure as well as economic development initiatives. It is against this background, that many economists and industrialists argued that austerity measures were the only way forward for Zimbabwe.
To the credit of the finance minister, he indeed heed the call to make implementing austerity measures the focus of his budget. However, the criticism now levelled against him is that his austerity measures are targeting only one section of the population i.e. the citizens. The measures proposed by Mthuli Ncube only lets the citizens bear the brunt while giving the governments top officials a free pass. Below, we put this into perspective.
Maintaining the 1:1 Rate between the Bond and the USD
Zimbabwe does not have an official currency but some few years back, it introduced the bond note as a medium of exchange to be used within the confines of the country only. In addition to this, the bond note was also introduced as an export incentive meaning that those people who brought in foreign currency into the country through remittances were to be given extra funds in the form of the bond note. At its inception, the Reserve Bank Governor said that the bond note was at par with the USD.
However, despite it not being the official currency, the bond note has ‘effectively’ operated as the official currency in Zimbabwe thus it is susceptible to volatility against other currencies. In recent times, the bond note has been falling sharply in value against the US and also the Rand (other currencies which are part of Zimbabwe’s multicurrency system) on the black market exchange where most people and businesses get their forex.
The fall in the value of the bond note led to massive distress on the general population as the prices of basic commodities rose sharply in spite of the salaries remaining stagnate. As such, the belief was that the finance minister in his budget presentation will either put the bond note out of circulation or come up with another solution to the farcical 1:1 bond note to USD rate.
The minister did neither. Many economists and the general public fear that the inaction of the minister to address the farcical 1:1 bond note to USD rate is going to lead to another wave of price increases.
The Sick Left in the Open
After the first wave of the price increases, one sector, in particular, i.e. the pharmaceutical sector decided to take the radical measure of selling their products in the USD only. Justifying their actions, pharmaceutical companies said that they were sourcing their medicinal products from beyond the country’s borders and as such, they had to use forex. As a result, they had to sell their products in forex. By retaining the 1:1 rate, Mthuli Ncube has indirectly given leeway to pharmaceutical companies to continue charging their products in foreign currency. As the majority of Zimbabweans are paid in bond note, they will not be able to buy the forex charged medicines when they fall sick. This challenge is compounded by the fact that changing currencies is now illegal in Zimbabwe.
Civil Servants Put In a Corner
In his budget, the finance minister said that with effect from 1 January 2019, he will be cutting the civil servants’ salaries by 5 percent. However, this measure only applies to higher level civil servants meaning that the majority will be unaffected. Great news indeed for lower level civil servants but on the other hand, it’s not exactly great news, as the other propositions by the finance minister put them in jeopardy. Most notably, the 13th cheque will now be paid according to the basic salary only. In essence, this means the annual bonus has been cut as allowances will not be factored.
Business Opportunities Cut For the General Populace
Zimbabwe has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world with over 90 percent of the population unemployed. The majority of the unemployed have been able to sustain themselves through cross-border trading. However, business for cross-border traders is now tricky (and potentially unprofitable) as cross-border traders have to pay duty in foreign currency on a number of selected goods including most foodstuffs as well as cars. Even for those who do their informal business locally, business is set to dwindle as the 2 percent transactions tax was retained. The 2 percent transactions tax sees the government taking 2 cents from every dollar that is transferred electronically.
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Structural basis for the broad specificity to host-cell ligands by the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans
Paula S. Salgado, Robert Yan, Jonathan D. Taylor, Lynn Burchell, Rhian Jones, Lois L. Hoyer, Steve J. Matthews, Peter J. Simpson, and Ernesto Cota
PNAS first published September 6, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103496108
Paula S. Salgado
Robert Yan
Jonathan D. Taylor
Lynn Burchell
Rhian Jones
Lois L. Hoyer
Steve J. Matthews
Peter J. Simpson
Ernesto Cota
For correspondence: e.cota@imperial.ac.uk
Edited by Ralph R. Isberg, HHMI/Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, and approved August 2, 2011 (received for review March 3, 2011)
Figures & SI
Candida albicans is the most prevalent fungal pathogen in humans and a major source of life-threatening nosocomial infections. The Als (agglutinin-like sequence) glycoproteins are an important virulence factor for this fungus and have been associated with binding of host-cell surface proteins and small peptides of random sequence, the formation of biofilms and amyloid fibers. High-resolution structures of N-terminal Als adhesins (NT-Als; up to 314 amino acids) show that ligand recognition relies on a motif capable of binding flexible C termini of peptides in extended conformation. Central to this mechanism is an invariant lysine that recognizes the C-terminal carboxylate of ligands at the end of a deep-binding cavity. In addition to several protein–peptide interactions, a network of water molecules runs parallel to one side of the ligand and contributes to the recognition of diverse peptide sequences. These data establish NT-Als adhesins as a separate family of peptide-binding proteins and an unexpected adhesion system for primary, widespread protein–protein interactions at the Candida/host-cell interface.
microbial adhesion
tissue tropism
↵1P.S.S. and R.Y. contributed equally to this work.
↵2Present address: MRC National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, United Kingdom.
↵3Present address: Cancer Research UK, Lincoln’s Inn Fields Laboratories, London WC2A 3LY, United Kingdom.
↵4To whom correspondence may be addressed at: Room 502, Biochemistry Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. E-mail: e.cota{at}imperial.ac.uk.
Author contributions: P.S.S., R.Y., J.D.T., S.J.M., P.J.S., and E.C. designed research; P.S.S., R.Y., J.D.T., L.B., R.J., and P.J.S. performed research; L.L.H. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; P.S.S., R.Y., J.D.T., L.B., R.J., S.J.M., P.J.S., and E.C. analyzed data; and P.S.S., R.Y., L.L.H., S.J.M., P.J.S., and E.C. wrote the paper.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The atomic coordinates and structure factors have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank, www.pdb.org (PDB ID codes 2Y7L, 2Y7N, and 2Y7O).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1103496108/-/DCSupplemental.
Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.
Paula S. Salgadoa,1,
Robert Yana,1,2,
Jonathan D. Taylora,
Lynn Burchella,3,
Rhian Jonesa,
Lois L. Hoyerb,
Steve J. Matthewsa,
Peter J. Simpsona, and
Ernesto Cotaa,4
aDivision of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, South Kensington SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom; and
bDepartment of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61802
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David Burrows
Where is David Burrows now?
Former Liverpool defender David Burrows retired from the game in 2003 whilst playing for Sheffield Wednesday due to persistent injuries.
Since retiring from playing Burrows has spent time in amateur football before emigrating to South West France.
In April 2014 Burrows turned out for the Liverpool Legends team for the Hillsborough charity match where he showed that he hadn’t lost his competitive edge with some crunching tackles on Jari Litmanen.
Back to Coventry City / Liverpool
David Burrows: Premier League Statistics
Premier League Teams Played for Coventry City, Liverpool, Everton, West Ham United
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New milestones confirm IELTS as the world's leading test of English for international migration and higher education
IELTS USA
Mar 29, 2017, 11:33 ET
CAMBRIDGE, England, March 29, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The number of organisations accepting IELTS (International English Language Testing System) results has reached 10,000, cementing the test's position as the world's leading English language test for education and global migration purposes.
Global recognition is one of the reasons why the number of people taking IELTS continues to grow, with 2.9 million tests taken in 2016.
The growth in recognising organisations – which include universities, schools, employers, immigration authorities and professional bodies – is an indication of how these bodies trust and value IELTS results as a secure, valid and reliable indication of a test taker's English language proficiency.
James Shipton, Head of IELTS at the British Council, said:
"The world-leading expertise of the three IELTS partners delivers ever-higher standards in test development and delivery, to ensure that IELTS continues to meet the needs of our customers worldwide."
Warwick Freeland, Managing Director at IDP IELTS Australia, said:
"Around the world people are choosing to take IELTS to help achieve their lifelong learning, career and migration goals. We are committed to continually improving our customers' experiences especially as IELTS is often taken at a significant juncture of their lives."
IELTS is jointly owned by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
IELTS is the International English Language Testing System, the world's most popular English language proficiency test for higher education and global migration with over 2.9 million tests taken in the last year. Over 10,000 organisations trust and accept IELTS as a secure, valid and reliable indicator of true to life ability to communicate in English for education, immigration and professional accreditation. IELTS is jointly owned by British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English Language Assessment.
British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for education and cultural relations. Dedicated to building trust through the exchange of knowledge between people worldwide, the British Council is represented in over 100 countries.
IDP: IELTS Australia is a subsidiary of IDP Education, one of the world's leading international education organisations offering student placement in Australia, United States of America, Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom. IDP Education is an ASX listed company that is 50% owned by 38 Australian universities and has more than 47 years' experience in international higher education. IDP: IELTS Australia manages a network of more than 100 IELTS test centres in over 60 countries.
Cambridge English Language Assessment is the world's leading provider of exams for learners of English. Each year these exams are taken by more than 5 million people in 130 countries.
IELTS USA is the American division of IELTS located in Los Angeles, California, responsible for US stakeholder relations, as well as the management and delivery of the IELTS test centre network throughout the United States.
About the test
Test takers are measured in listening, reading, writing and speaking. All tests are scored on a banded system from 1 (the lowest) through to 9 (the highest band).
IELTS offers a choice of two test versions, to serve both academic and non-academic purposes. IELTS Academic measures English language proficiency needed for an academic, higher learning environment. The tasks and texts are accessible to all test takers, irrespective of their subject focus. IELTS General Training measures English language proficiency in a practical, everyday context. The tasks and texts reflect both workplace and social situations. IELTS General Training is suitable for immigration purposes to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and Ireland.
A sample of government and professional associations who recognise or require applicants to hold an IELTS test result include:
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection
UK Visas and Immigration
Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools and National Council of State Boards of Nursing, USA
For further media information, please contact:
Thomas Niblett, British Council – thomas.niblett@britishcouncil.org
Gracie Daniel, IDP: IELTS Australia – gracie.daniel@idp.com
Steve McKenna, Cambridge English Language Assessment – mckenna.s@cambridgeenglish.org
SOURCE IELTS USA
http://www.ielts.org/
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'Game of Thrones': The Most Popular Characters
Kit Harington alias "Jon Snow"
"Daenerys Targaryen" (Emilia Clarke)
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Maisie Williams as "Arya Stark"
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Tom Wlaschiha
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"Jon Snow", played by Kit Harington, is the son of "Lyanna Stark" and "Rhaegar Targaryen". Since his early years, he was shown as the bastard son of "Eddard Stark", "Lyanna´s" brother. His actual family is kept secret from us throughout the show. To distance himself from his given social status, he joins the "Night´s Watch". Kit Harington himself is relatively new to acting, with his first documented role being in Game Of Thrones in 2011. He has since then starred in a few different movies including How To Train Your Dragon 2.
"Daenerys Targaryen" is one of the main characters stemming back to the first season of Game of Thrones. She´s had a real tough time since the beginning of the first season, being very dependent on her abusive older brother "Viserys", even having to marry "Khal Drogo" to supply her older brother with an army. Eventually, her brother passes away leaving her to reclaim the "Iron Throne", seeing it as one of her birthrights. The actress Emilia Clarke herself has had a few significant roles over the years due to her success in Game Of Thrones starring in movies like Terminator: Genisys and Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Jerome Flynn, a.k.a. "Bronn", is one of the simpler characters in Game Of Thrones. He serves as "Tyrion´s" bodyguard, assassin and enforcer which in return he receives knighthood, wealth and power. Jerome Flynn himself was last seen in a shocking episode of Black Mirror.
Sean Bean plays the very likable "Lord Eddard Stark" in Game Of Thrones. He was the head of "House Stark" as well as "Lord Paramount of the North". A very honorable man, with a very strong relationship with his family. "Stark" lived by a very strict moral code: The good would be rewarded and the evil punished, but as we know, things don´t really work out that way in Game Of Thrones. Sean Bean himself is still out and about starring in movies like Silent Hill: Revelation and Jupiter Ascending.
Jason Momoa plays the ruthless warlord of the "Dothraki", "Khal Drogo". A viscous warrior mostly being known for not ever having lost a battle. He was happily married to "Daenerys" throughout the first season of the show. Since his little breakthrough in Game of Thrones, he has starred in several DC productions including Justice League and Aquaman.
"Arya Stark" is the second daughter of "Eddard Stark". Throughout the series, she makes a drastic transformation from tomboyish little girl, into ruthless anti-hero murdering relentlessly throughout "Winterfell" due to the injustice brought about on her family. Maisie Williams, of course, is quite the opposite in real life. The current 21-year-old just recently starred in the motion picture Then Came You (2018).
Queen "Margaery Tyrell" was a loving, compassionate woman appealing to royals and poorer folk alike. Throughout her character´s journey in Game of Thrones she has worked her way up in the royal family whilst maintaining her kind nature. She was briefly married to King "Renly Baratheon", while being aware of his relationship with her brother "Lora". Normally, a forbidden relationship like such would have been shunned, but she accepts and even tolerates their homosexuality. Natalie Dormer has currently been on the rise starring in various productions including The Hunger Games series and most recently, in The Professor and the Madman.
Richard Madden played the role of "Rob Stark" in the series Game of Thrones. The character, much like his father, was flawed in many ways due to the fact that his feelings ruled over his political and strategic prowess. This is seen after he marries "Talisa Stark", a battlefield healer, instead of marrying one of "Lord Walder Frey´s" daughters in order to form a powerful alliance of the two families. Richard Madden is doing quite well for himself nowadays, having starred in the somewhat successful Netflix series Bodyguard in 2018.
Peter Dinklage plays the role of "Tyrion Lannister" in Game of Thrones. Born as a dwarf, the character went through a great number of hardships growing up, being ridiculed for his small stature constantly by his own family. This lead him to grow a thick skin and due to his lack of size and therefore lack of battle skills, to cherish the value of education. "Tyrion" is a very intelligent strategist, much like the rest of his family. Peter has had a long career in show business since his debut back in 1995. His most recent role was in the Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War.
Tom Wlaschiha plays the role of the mysterious "Jaqen H'ghar", from the society of assassins called "The Faceless Men of Braavos". We are first introduced to the man after "Arya Stark" saves his life in the beginning of the second season. The ability "Jaqen" and his society have is to wear the face of anyone and blend into any crowd which, as you can imagine, is a very high skill set in the Game of Thrones universe. Over the years Tom has starred in several war orientated films including Valkryie and Berlin Falling.
"Jamie Lennister" establishes himself as quite the villain at the beginning of the Game of Thrones series, but throughout the seasons he turns into quite the noble warrior even betraying his very tyrannical family, including his sister "Cersei Lannister", for the sake of saving humanity. The transformation is quite incredible, to be honest! Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the danish actor playing "Jamie, is currently working on a series of smaller projects including short films like Chicken/Egg and Small Crimes.
Sophie Turner plays the role of the honarable "Sansa Stark" in Game Of Thrones. At the beginning of the series she is portrayed as the somewhat naive little girl, dreaming about castles and princes while gossiping about. Throughout the series, mostly due to the hardships she encounters, she is transformed into a valiant leader and surprisingly, brilliant strategist. Sophie Turner herself hasn't seen much spotlight outside of her role in Game of Thrones, however she has been able to most recently star in X-Men: Apocalypse.
The legendary show Game Of Thrones will be coming to a tragic end this year in 2019 after 8 years on the air. What better way to commemorate the show than to list off some of our favorite characters who have appeared on the show? We are extremely sad to see this one end...
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Peace on Earth, War on Stage [7 inch] (2007)
Deathwish Inc.
Reviewer Ben_Conoley
Reviewer Rating
Philadelphia's Blacklisted aren't the easiest band to like, but it's difficult to deny them a position as one of the best hardcore bands around. I suppose, though, that what makes them tough to like is at the same time what makes them so appealing. The band's brutally heavy music paired with vocalist George Kirsch's dark lyrics can either make you feel great that you're not dealing with those emotions, or at the very least let you know you're not alone.
Peace on Earth, War on Stage is the band's EP followup to 2005's The Beat Goes On. It's easily as powerful as anything the band has released to this point and benefits from a seemingly solidified and fine-tuned lineup. At only four songs (six minutes) in length, the 7" is teasingly short of what fans of the band may have been hoping for. Somehow, though, the band finds time to slow things down at times to provide breakdowns and a more pummeling feel to the songs. Also showing growth, Kirsch manages to actually sing a few times, all the while without stripping any of the raw aggression away.
As dark as Blacklisted is, though, there is still some vary apparent hope through the bleakness. Kirsch's lyrics may focus on failure brought on by himself and others, but at the same time he continues to give the impression that such obstacles aren't enough to slow him down. It's reassuring to hear someone talk about life's difficulties without it ending at that and instead treating them as obstacles to overcome all the while avoiding trivializing them.
Blacklisted have proven themselves as one of hardcore's saving graces, a rock you can count on while the genre is paraded around in many different forms, often embarrassingly so. With Peace on Earth, War on Stage they reassure us that they're not going anywhere and they're only getting stronger.
Social Distortion / The Hangmen: live in Sayreville
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Power play in the South China Sea
The world is watching. It's the next step in the geopolitical calculus of power that includes the world's hot spots from Crimea, Syria and the South China Sea.
Maria A. Ressa
@mariaressa
Published 2:42 PM, July 08, 2015
Updated 11:42 PM, July 08, 2015
It’s been called many things: “death by a thousand cuts,” when each slice by the knife seems inconsequential until you get so many, you die; “salami slicing,” when you take it away slice by slice until it’s all gone; or “the cabbage strategy,” when an area is slowly surrounded by “leaves” like a fishing boat then a coast guard vessel – until it’s wrapped in layers like a cabbage.
This is what China is doing in the West Philippine Sea, aggressively taking territory claimed by the Philippines, starting with Mischief Reef in 1995 and Scarborough Shoal in 2012. That's only one part of the South China Sea, one of the busiest maritime areas in the world through which $5 trillion in trade passes every year.
“The Philippines Coast Guard cutter went out, and China said you militarized this,” said Ernest Bower, senior adviser and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asian Studies at the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Then they responded with overwhelming force, and now they occupy Scarborough Shoal.”
It's a tactical mistake Bower claims the Philippines made, Japan avoided, and the United States must be careful of.
'Creeping invasion' and what PH can lose
The territory China claims is also being contested by Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and Vietnam, which has been most vocal and aggressive in pushing back after China brought a $1 billion deep-sea oil-exploration rig with some 80 ships and at least seven navy vessels near Vietnam’s shores.
“The Chinese have been undertaking a creeping invasion of the South China Sea,” Senior Justice Antonio Carpio of the Philippine Supreme Court told Rappler in a rare interview. “They have been very successful in this.”
For the first time this week, China comes under the microscope in an international legal process initiated by the Philippines. In 2013, Manila filed a case to ask for a ruling on its right to waters in its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) laid out under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
“The issue here is whether the Philippines will keep 80% of its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea or we lose it to China,” said Carpio, who outlined its economic impact in terms of fishing, maritime industry and oil and gas reserves.
Carpio, who's part of the delegation arguing the case in the Hague from July 7-13, said he felt certain the Philippines would win, but others point out that any decision that favors the Philippines may not mean much because there’s no UN body to enforce it. Still, Carpio pointed to legal precedence, citing at least two cases, including Nicaragua vs the United States. He said time and and concerted international pressure would force compliance.
“It could take maybe ten years,” he said. “We should steel ourselves that this will be a long struggle.”
Roots of China's aggression
China’s aggressive actions may have been fueled by growing confidence in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. That crippled many Western economies, including the United States. China remained relatively unscathed and now owns nearly $1.3 trillion of US debt.
When Barack Obama took office in 2009, he spoke of a more inclusive American approach to power. Then came challenges that seemed to show a less decisive America: like the false line in the sand over the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the inability to prevent Russia from annexing Crimea, the main flashpoint in the Ukraine crisis. To China, that signaled weakness.
Xi Jinping and his new government took office in November, 2012, and China’s expansionist moves accelerated.
Xi and Putin alike
“Xi Jinping seems more aggressive than Deng Xiaoping,” I told Justice Carpio, referring to China's strong-man ruler from 1978 to 1992. Deng, who supported the use of tanks and guns in Tiananmen Square in 1989 when hundreds were allegedly killed, ruled with an iron fist. In his last five years, he imprisoned or exiled nearly all of China's dissidents.
“He’s a different guy,” Carpio answered. “He’s like Putin.”
“What if what happens with the Ukraine happens with China?” I asked. “Hillary Clinton said after NATO expanded, Putin felt like Russia was being hemmed in. What if after the Philippines wins the case, China feels like the world is ganging up against it and comes out punching even more aggressively?”
“Both President Putin and Xi are out to change the world order,” answered Carpio. “You cannot settle a territorial dispute through the use of force. You cannot acquire territory by using force. That is banned. Crimea – it’s by force, and here, they’re seizing territories in the South China Sea by force. We have to stop this because the moment that is embedded – that a country can settle a territorial dispute by force – then we will return to World War I and World War II.”
China is reclaiming land in the South China Sea – creating seven artificial islands – that will allow its navy to impose its power over much weaker contending states.
“China has excised the maritime heart out of Southeast Asia,” said Carl Thayer of the Australian Defence Force Academy. “This is the new normal.”
“I think the Americans have realized that the Chinese see weakness when they look at Washington,” said Bower. “There is a sense, I think in Washington, that they’ve got to demonstrate some more serious levels of resolve.”
That's part of what makes the South China Sea one of the world's potential flashpoints for conflict.
2016 elections: PH, US, Taiwan
Politics, security and economics go hand-in-hand, and 2016 will see crucial elections in Taiwan, the Philippines and the United States. In Taiwan, analysts say the frontrunner may exacerbate tensions with China.
In the United States, President Obama ends 2 terms in office. More than a dozen Republicans and at least 5 Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, have announced they're running for their party's 2016 presidential nomination.
"I think you'll find a deeper understanding of what you need to do to convince China that the Americans are going to be part of Asia for the long term," said Bower, who believes strength must balance with "geopolitical practicality" and will make "room for other leaders to rise" within accepted international standards.
In the Philippines, the Aquino administration brought the case to the United Nations, but that government ends in 2016. Some say China's taking a wait and see attitude hoping his successor will change the country's policy.
"The next president will take over in June of 2016," Justice Carpio countered. "The case before the UNCLOS will be decided by March of 2016."
This week, the world watches that legal process: does the UN tribunal have jurisdiction to try the case, which China has questioned. Carpio says that should be settled by August or September, followed by a final decision by March, 2016.
The world is watching.
It's the next step in the geopolitical calculus of power. – Rappler.com
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Tribunal rules on CQC Conditions not to admit without prior approval
Over the last six months, the Care Standards Tribunal has considered two appeals against CQC's imposition of conditions which limit the ability of a care home to admit new residents. In both cases, CQC had used its enforcement powers to impose a condition along the lines of:
"The Registered provider must not provide any new care packages without the prior written agreement of the CQC."
Both providers in the appeals contended that the nature of this condition was disproportionate and unfairly impacted upon their business. After analysing the facts and testing the providers in each case, the Tribunal decided that the CQC had acted fairly in one case but not in the other.
In Fortress Supported Living Services Ltd v Care Quality Commission (March 2018) the Tribunal decided that:
"…each of conditions are objectively justified and necessary in order to protect the public interest in the protection of the safety and well-being of service users and the maintenance and promotion of public confidence in the system of regulation.
In reaching our decision on the issue of proportionality, we took into account that the impact of the imposition of conditions.
We recognise that when assessing proportionality alternatives to the imposition of conditions should be considered. It is notable that the imposition of conditions is at the lower end of the enforcement measures available to the Respondent. The only other lesser measure available would be to issue a warning letter. We find that in the circumstances this would be a wholly inadequate response to the seriousness of the risks posed."
In Clarendon Care Group Limited v Care Quality Commission (October 2017) the Tribunal stated:
"We conclude on the written and oral evidence before us today, that it does not support a conclusion, that ‘a person will or may be exposed to the risk of harm’, sufficient to justify a condition that no admission should be made without the written agreement of the Respondent."
So what was different about the cases? In both, the Tribunal found that it was within CQC's powers to impose such a condition as part of its objective to protect and promote the health, safety and welfare of people who use health and social care services provided that the condition was proportionate to the risks against which it would afford safeguards and was targeted only where needed. In considering the most appropriate and proportionate enforcement action, CQC must consider whether the lesser power of issuing a Warning Notice would suffice.
In the Fortress Care Services case, the provider Dr Lawal appears to have been his own worst enemy. He failed to show insight into the risks created by ongoing safeguarding issues and recruitment processes. The Tribunal criticised the fact that Dr Lawal objected to the imposition of "basic conditions, which did no more than formalise that which reflects standard practice" as evidencing a "lack of understanding and lack of insight into the importance of safeguarding vulnerable service users from the risk of harm." As a result it concluded:
"We recognise that the condition regarding the acceptance of new care packages may well mean that there will be business opportunities that will be missed because of time constraints. However, we do not accept that the condition, in and of itself, presents any insurmountable obstacle to the acquisition of new service users. In our view the Appellant had, and still has, the opportunity to demonstrate that the service he seeks to provide can meet the core standards of safe care. We do not agree that it is the responsibility to CQC to show the Appellant how to do this. It is open to the Appellant to seek to demonstrate proactively that the service that will be provided will meet acceptable standards. In our view even if the conditions imposed do, or were to have, an adverse impact on the Appellant’s business interests, the conditions are necessary in the public interest."
In the Clarendon Care Group case, the provider acted completely differently, putting in place a new management team to address concerns about a lack of clinical leadership and immediately providing a detailed risk reduction plan and quality audit improvement plan. The decision by CQC to restrict admissions, they said, was having a huge negative impact on their financial situation and on the morale of staff. They said that a more limited condition such as the number of persons to be admitted per week would have been more appropriate.
The Tribunal effectively agreed, finding that although there had been issues in the home, the risk of these failures could only objectively be assessed as low to medium. It found that the provider had put in place "prompt and comprehensive" measures to address the short and long term needs of the home to work towards compliance and bring itself out of special measures. In taking a swipe at the CQC inspectors, the Tribunal noted:
"We do not doubt the integrity of the Respondent's inspectors, but they did not appear to be prepared to consider explanations that were given to them about their concerns, at the inspection. They were reluctant to accept documents that evidenced that change and improvement were in progress, but would take a period of time to achieve."
So, what lessons can we take from these cases?
Seeing the bigger picture – understanding why CQC might have concerns – is not always easy when facing enforcement action, but is necessary to respond appropriately. A provider who cannot accept actual failings in their home will never be able to properly assess the proportionality of CQC's enforcement action.
Where failings are identified, it is crucial to act decisively, taking objective advice on whether corrective steps are sufficient to satisfy CQC or a reasonable person looking at the risks. Speak to a consultant or lawyer who can act as a critical friend and provide support.
Engaging with CQC effectively (robustly where necessary, but never abusively) is important in demonstrating reasonableness of any response. If CQC don't properly engage, that is their issue and could potentially be their downfall.
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Exclusive: Amazon's internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed
Jeffrey Dastin
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet on original video is paying off.
The documents also show that Amazon’s U.S. audience for all video programming on Prime, including films and TV shows it licenses from other companies, was about 26 million customers. Amazon has never released figures for its total audience.
The internal documents compare metrics that have never been reported for 19 shows exclusive to Amazon: their cost, their viewership and the number of people they helped lure to Prime. Known as Prime Originals, the shows account for as much as a quarter of what analysts estimate to be total Prime sign-ups from late 2014 to early 2017, the period covered by the documents.
Core to Amazon’s strategy is the use of video to convert viewers into shoppers. Fans access Amazon’s lineup by joining Prime, a club that includes two-day package delivery and other perks, for an annual fee.
The company declined to comment on the documents seen by Reuters. But Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has been upfront about the company’s use of entertainment to drive merchandise sales. The world’s biggest online retailer launched Amazon Studios in 2010 to develop original programs that have since grabbed awards and Hollywood buzz.
“When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes,” Bezos said at a 2016 technology conference near Los Angeles. He said film and TV customers renew their subscriptions “at higher rates, and they convert from free trials at higher rates” than members who do not stream videos on Prime.
Video has grown to be one of Amazon’s biggest expenditures at $5 billion per year for original and licensed content, two people familiar with the matter said. The company has never disclosed how many subscribers it won as a result, making it hard for investors to evaluate its programming decisions.
The internal documents show what Amazon considers to be the financial logic of its strategy, and why the company is now making more commercial projects in addition to high-brow shows aimed at winning awards, the people said.
For example, the first season of the popular drama “The Man in the High Castle,” an alternate history depicting Germany as the victor of World War Two, had 8 million U.S. viewers as of early 2017, according to the documents. The program cost $72 million in production and marketing and attracted 1.15 million new subscribers worldwide based on Amazon’s accounting, the documents showed.
Amazon calculated that the show drew new Prime members at an average cost of $63 per subscriber.
That is far less than the $99 that subscribers pay in the United States for Prime; the company charges similar fees abroad. Prime members also buy more goods from Amazon than non-members, Bezos has said, further boosting profit.
AMAZON’S SECRET MATH
Precisely how Amazon determines a customer’s motivation for joining its Prime club is not clear from the documents viewed by Reuters.
(See an interactive version of the above graphic)
But a person familiar with its strategy said the company credits a specific show for luring someone to start or extend a Prime subscription if that program is the first one a customer streams after signing up. That metric, referenced throughout the documents, is known as a “first stream.”
The company then calculates how expensive the viewer was to acquire by dividing the show’s costs by the number of first streams it had. The lower that figure, the better.
The internal documents do not show how long subscribers stayed with Prime, nor do they indicate how much shopping they do on Amazon. The company reviews other metrics for its programs as well. Consequently, the documents do not provide enough information to determine the overall profitability of Amazon’s Hollywood endeavor.
Still, the numbers indicate that broad-interest shows can lure Prime members cheaply by Amazon’s calculations. One big winner was the motoring series “The Grand Tour,” which stars the former presenters of BBC’s “Top Gear.” The show had more than 1.5 million first streams from Prime members worldwide, at a cost of $49 per subscriber in its first season.
The documents seen by Reuters reflect Prime subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Japan, where Amazon’s programs were available before Prime Video rolled out globally in December 2016.
Analysts estimate that 75 million or more customers have Prime subscriptions worldwide, including about half of all households in the United States.
BIGGER BETS
About 26 million U.S. Prime members watched television and movies on Amazon as of early 2017. Reuters calculated this number from the documents, which showed how many viewers a TV series had as a percentage of total Prime Video customers.
Rival Netflix Inc had twice that many U.S. subscribers in the first quarter of last year. It does not disclose how many were active viewers.
For years, Amazon Studios aimed to win credibility in Hollywood with sophisticated shows beloved by critics. Its marquee series “Transparent,” about a transgender father and his family, won eight Primetime Emmy Awards and created the buzz Amazon wanted to attract top producers and actors.
Yet “Transparent” lagged Amazon’s top shows in viewership. Its first season drew a U.S. audience half as large as that of “The Man in the High Castle,” and it fell to 1.3 million viewers for its third season, according to the documents.
Similarly, “Good Girls Revolt,” a critically-acclaimed show about gender inequality in a New York newsroom, had total U.S. viewership of 1.6 million but cost $81 million, with only 52,000 first streams worldwide by Prime members.
The program’s cost per new customer was about $1560, according to the documents. Amazon canceled it after one season.
Amazon is now working on more commercial dramas and spin-offs with appeal outside the United States, where Prime membership has far more room to grow, people familiar with the matter said.
The marquee of United Artists theater is seen during Amazon's premiere screening of the TV series "Transparent" at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California, September 15, 2014. REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian
The effort to broaden Amazon’s lineup, long in the works, will be in the hands of Jennifer Salke, NBC Entertainment’s president whom Amazon hired last month as its studio chief. Amazon’s Bezos has wanted a drama to rival HBO’s global hit “Game of Thrones,” according to the people.
In November, Amazon announced it will make a prequel to the fantasy hit “The Lord of the Rings.” The company had offered $250 million for the rights alone; production and marketing could raise costs to $500 million or more for two seasons, one of the people said.
At half a billion dollars, the prequel would cost triple what Amazon paid for “The Man in the High Castle” seasons one and two, the documents show. That means it would need to draw three times the number of Prime members as “The Man in the High Castle” for an equal payoff.
Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Marla Dickerson
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My Best Weapon: A story of Dignity and Courage
“I tell my story because it is the best weapon I have” Nadia Murad, 2018 winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Courage, dignity, and peace. These are tenets that the Nobel Peace Prize seeks to reward and encourage, and this year’s winners have both demonstrated the importance of these tenets in their life and work. This October, the Oslo-based committee chose two recipients who have been vocal proponents of ending gender-based crimes: Denis Mukwege, a Congolese surgeon who has spent his life treating women who are victims of rape, and Nadia Mura, a Yazidi woman captured and held as a sex slave by the ISIS. The winners and their joint cause is particularly fitting in that this is the tenth anniversary of UN Resolution 1820, which condemns the use sexual violence as a tool of war and denotes such acts of violence as “crimes against humanity.” Murad joins a small group of only 17 other women who have won the prize and is the only Iraqi to win.
Nadia Murad is 25 year old Yazidi human rights advocate whose horrific story of courage, resilience, and deep belief in peace has inspired many. After years of local fighting, ISIS rose to power in Iraq and began their reign of terror, with a particularly brutal response to the Yazidis, murdering thousands and taking thousands more as sex slaves.
In 2013, Nadia was captured in her small village of Kocho where after witnessing ISIS kill her mother and six of her brothers, she was taken to Mosul where she was sold in a slave market.
She was enslaved and beaten by ISIS military, and eventually sold to an ISIS judge, Hajji Salman, who continued to rape and beat her. After fifteen months in captivity, Nadia escaped when her captor left the front door open and she courageously ran away. Not knowing how to escape Mosul, she knocked on a door and was luckily met with kindness; a Muslim family helped her obtain fake Islamic identification, and then at great risk smuggled her to a refugee camp in Kurdish controlled territory where she was reconnected with one of her surviving brothers. She was then granted asylum in Germany where she continues to reside.
In November 2015, Murad told her story before the United Nations. She wanted the world to know what had happened to her and she wanted to be the last girl that would have to suffer as she did. She also wanted ISIS held accountable for their war crimes. As part of her speech, she implored the UN to work harder to protect vulnerable populations in conflict zones.
Since her escape, Murad has won numerous awards, such as the Vaclav Human Rights Prize, Sakharov Prize, the Clinton Global Citizen Award, and the Peace Prize.
She also published a book, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State. She has also been named the United Nations first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. Despite all of her notoriety and awards, she continues to work tirelessly for the Yazidi people and women and girls around the world who are war victims of gender-based violence. Her work aims to hold terrorists accountable for their actions; something many say is impossible. She is also committed to stopping the use of rape and sex slavery as weapons of war and terrorism. Her focus is forward-looking, hoping to help victims move on with their lives and help them recover the dignity that was stolen from them.
Terrorism has far-reaching impacts on victims all over the world, but all too often we only hear of the large bombings in major western cities and forget about the thousands who suffer every day at the hands of terrorists. Women and girls continue to bear the brunt of the daily suffering as groups like ISIS, Boko Haram, and others continue to exploit women, raping, beating and selling them, and aiming to take their dignity. But women like Murad, hope to shine the light so bright, that people will begin to hold these groups accountable for their crimes. Murad says, “I tell my story because it is the best weapon I have.” She hopes her words can educate others, build empathy, help to end the suffering that women endure, and perhaps most importantly, find justice for all the women who have suffered by bringing these cases to trial.
Nadia Murad (Credit AP)
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) (Hardcover)
By William Styron
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.
William Styron (1925-2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: January 23rd, 2007
Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
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Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
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5 Things about American Independence Day Celebrations Most Americans Are Unaware Of
There is an iconic painting in which all the founding fathers of the Declaration of Independence are seen presenting the first draft of the document and signing it. However, according to the reputed historian, David McCullough, this painting is merely representative in nature and no such meeting of all the delegates ever happened in Philadelphia.
There are many other similar facts that the general American public is probably unaware of.
No, the Declaration of Independence Was Not Signed On July 4.
The Fourth of July is not the date on which the Declaration was formally signed. The Continental Congress had taken an official stand for declaring July 2 as Independence Day. Printed copies were signed by John Hancock and Secretary Charles Thomson to be delivered to the military officers and the numerous political committees. However, most of the other 54 men on the committee signed the official copy on August 2, while others signed it at an even later date.
The First Celebrations Were Wild and Raucous.
Upon the declaration of independence, the colonies let loose their years of accumulated frustration by bringing down the statue of King George III in Manhattan. The statue was melted into bullets later while the coat of arms was used as tinder for a bonfire in Philadelphia. In Savannah, Georgia, they burnt an effigy and conducted a mock funeral of the King.
Savoring Salmon On The Fourth of July Is A British Practice.
The tradition of eating salmon on the Fourth of July began in New England and it happened by sheer coincidence. At that time of the year, the rivers had an abundance of salmon and were hence served liberally right through the region. It found its way into the I-day celebrations and has stayed that way ever since.
Independence Day Holiday Was First Recognized by Massachusetts.
The state of Massachusetts was the first to recognize the Fourth of July as an official holiday. This was announced in 1781. However it was not until June 28, 1870, that Independence Day was declared as an official holiday for federal employees when the Congress declared the first four holidays for the country, the other three being New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Around 15,000 Independence Day Fireworks Celebrations Take Place Every Year.
Over 15,000 fireworks displays take place all over the country on the American Independence Day according to the American Pyrotechnics Association. The most expensive fireworks are displayed at the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular with the cost running into a couple of millions.
There are many other interesting facts associated with the Independence Day celebrations such as the billions that the countrymen spend on food on this day and the spectacular quantity of hot dogs that are consumed by the Americans on I-Day. Also, more beer is sold on and around the Fourth of July holiday than during any other time throughout the year.
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FILE – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers an official apology to Inuit for the federal government’s management of tuberculosis in the Arctic from the 1940s to the 1960s during an event in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Friday, March 8, 2019. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Refugee changes will hurt women asylum seekers, women’s organizations say
Last year, the United States said it wouldn’t accept asylum claims based on fleeing domestic violence
May. 9, 2019 6:35 a.m.
A group of Canadian women’s organizations have called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw controversial changes to asylum laws in his government’s omnibus budget bill because of the harm they would cause to women targeted by harsh U.S. immigration policies.
Last year, the United States said it wouldn’t accept asylum claims based on fleeing domestic violence.
Canadian organizations that help vulnerable women said the American decision would mean any woman whose asylum claim was denied in the U.S. would also be denied full access to Canada’s refugee determination system under the Liberals’ budget bill.
The Liberals want to change Canadian laws to prevent asylum-seekers from making refugee claims in Canada if they have made similar claims in certain other countries, including the United States.
The new provision in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act was tucked into a 392-page omnibus budget bill tabled last month.
RED MORE: Canada’s asylum system unable to respond to spikes in claims, auditor finds
An open letter to Trudeau from 46 groups, many of which support battered women and victims of violence, ask him to scrap the proposed restrictions that they call “deeply harmful” to female refugees.
“The proposed amendments are a step backward from Canada’s current refugee determination system, which has long recognized domestic violence as a basis on which women may seek Canada’s protection,” said Amanda Dale, director or the Feminist Alliance for International Action at a press conference on Parliament Hill Wednesday.
“These amendments have the result that women who experience domestic violence will not benefit from the full and fair process to which refugee claimants are entitled under law.”
Trudeau has defended the changes to refugee rules by saying Canada has seen larger numbers of refugee claims because of global instability. Sustaining Canadians’ confidence in the country’s asylum system means ensuring those who enter Canada must do so according to the law, he told reporters last month.
The government has also said the new provisions are designed to prevent asylum seekers from “shopping” for asylum claims in multiple countries.
Lawyers and advocates who work with refugees decry the move as a devastating attack on refugee rights in Canada.
Women’s groups now joining the chorus of concern said the new law would mean Canada is, by extension, supporting the U.S. policy that blocks victims of gender-based violence from seeking asylum — something they say would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by denying claimants their right to due process.
The new provisions remove the ability for these claims to be heard by an independent tribunal or a court.
“Refugee women are not shopping for a better immigration deal, they are looking for protection,” said Ketty Nivyabandi of the Nobel Women’s Initiative.
“If Canada is to be a leader globally in women’s rights, it must continue to recognize that many countries fail to protect women from domestic violence and this is why some women and girls seek asylum here.”
Asylum-seekers deemed ineligible to make claims in Canada would not necessarily be deported to their homelands. They would first undergo pre-removal risk assessments to determine if it is safe to send them to their countries of origin.
READ MORE: Trudeau defends changes to asylum laws that have refugee workers alarmed
Border Security Minister Bill Blair told a committee of MPs Tuesday evening that all asylum seekers who fall under the new law would be given access to an expanded risk assessment, which would allow them a “hearing” before department officials where they could have legal representation.
But Lobat Sadrehashemi, president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, said there is nothing in the budget bill creating the process Blair outlined at committee. She said the groups are hopeful parliamentarians remove the refugee provisions from the rest of the budget bill.
“Of course, if they don’t, then there is the possibility of litigation,” she said.
Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press
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Macron’s approval rating nosedives to 30% in latest poll
Published time: 4 Sep, 2017 20:56 Edited time: 5 Sep, 2017 12:13
Emmanuel Macron © ludovic Marin © AFP
Fewer than one in three French voters are satisfied with the performance of Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity has rapidly collapsed following overwhelming presidential and parliamentary wins earlier in the year.
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Only 30 percent of those surveyed by YouGov in a poll commissioned by Huffpost and CNEWS said that they were content with the performance of the 39-year-old president, while 54 said they were not. A mere 5 percent stated that they were “very happy” with Macron’s first 100 days in office, while 28 percent said they were “very unhappy.”
Having been swept into office on a broad platform, Macron’s popularity is fraying around the edges of the electorate. Twelve percent of left voters – mostly communists – endorse his performance, as do 9 percent of National Front voters, while he has the backing of 39 percent of Socialist Party supporters, and 40 percent among right-wing Republicans.
Indeed, only supporters of his own En Marche! Movement rate his performance as a net positive – three-quarters of them feel Macron is doing a good job.
The trend also does not make for good reading – Macron’s approval ratings in the same poll stood at 43 percent in late June, and 36 percent in early August.
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Comparisons show that support has dwindled particularly precipitously among left-wing voters, likely due to imminent budget cuts and work code reforms announced by the president, whose party has a majority in the country’s legislative assembly. In contrast, the latest polls show that he has recovered some confidence among the right, though not enough to compensate for losses elsewhere.
Once regarded as fresh-faced and blessed with an aura of success, Macron has recently attracted media criticism for supposed glibness, high-handedness and vanity, including a widely-circulated story that he has spent €26,000 on make-up for public appearances since taking office, following his victory over Marine Le Pen in May.
But the YouGov poll, which surveyed a total of 1,003 people on August 28 and 29, showed that his government, assembled from politicians from across the political spectrum, is also thought to be performing well by just 29 percent of voters, and badly by 57 percent.
Asked to respond to previous poor polls in an interview with Le Point last week, Macron complained that he has “to live with people's impatience for the next few months." He also publicly declared last month that the French people “hate reforms,” but promised to stick with his course of “transformation.”
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Sarkozy & Royal duel for French presidency
Published time: 24 Apr, 2007 00:20 Edited time: 24 Apr, 2007 04:20
French voters will have a clear choice between a right and left wing candidiate for president on May 6, after Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal won through through to the final round.
Turnout for Sunday's first round was huge, with nearly 85 % of the electorate casting a vote.
Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy received slightly more than 31% of the votes, followed by socialist Segolene Royal with more than 25 %.
It has been a classic French battle, right versus left. Mr Sarkozy and Ms Royal will face each other in the second round for a place in the Elysee.
Polls are already showing that the centre-right conservative and Frances former top cop Sarkozy – who wants the country to work harder and cut-back on the welfare state – is likely to win the run-off.
“Sarkozy did extremely well. His strategy to attract at least one third of the voters of the national front, of the extreme right, proved to be a triumph. He destroyed Le Pen,” said Dominic Moisy, a political analyst.
Jean-Marie Le Pen has said his supporters were not for sale, warning Mr Sarkozy that it might not be an easy win. And could Segolene Royal now appeal to the middle ground with her plans for a fairer France and reforms without brutality?
“She won't manage to bring to her candidacy more than 50 % of the centre. And even if the entire extreme left votes for her, at the end of the day, that's too short. The only thing she can dream for is to turn this election into a referendum against the personality of Nicolas Sarkozy,” said Dominic Moisy.
The big question now seems to be who will Francois Bayrou supporters vote for? He was attempting to bring the historically distant right and left closer together and about 18 % of those who voted wanted the same; many are wondering who Mr Bayrou will back and whether his supporters will follow.
Sarkozy and Royal have already begun there final lap on the campaign trail but the real test will come on May 2, when they go head to head in a televised debate.
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7 things Americans think are more plausible than man-made global warming
Seventy-seven percent of the country believe in angels. Only 40 percent concede climate change is a reality
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Matthew Rozsa
December 20, 2014 9:00PM (UTC)
This article originally appeared on The Daily Dot.
In a video that went viral this week, Bill O’Reilly has spoken, not only for himself but (generously) for the rest of America: "It’s easier to believe in a benevolent God and the baby Jesus than it is about some kind of theory about global warming. It’s just easier!"
Is he right? Roughly 73 percent of Americans believe Jesus was born of a virgin, while only 61 percent believe the Earth’s temperature has been warming. Even worse, only 40 percent of the Americans who concede that climate change is happening will admit that it’s primarily due to man-made activity.
For context, let's compare those polling figures with something Americans are more likely to believe than man-made climate change.
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1) 77 percent of Americans believe in angels.
Not only did this AP/GFK poll in 2011 find that more than three out of four Americans believed angels literally exist, but so do more than four out of 10 of those who never attend religious services. A poll taken five years earlier found that 81 percent of Americans believe in angels, essentially meaning the number had gone unchanged.
2) 55 percent of Americans believe that the Founding Fathers established this country as a Christian nation in the Constitution.
In a similar vein, this figure comes from a First Amendment Center survey taken in 2007. I’m sure these Americans would be fascinated to read Thomas Jefferson’s rewriting of the New Testament, which he felt perfected Jesus Christ’s teachings by removing all theological and supernatural elements from his life story. Lest there remain any doubt, we can return to the subject of angels as we review Jefferson’s letter to John Adams opining that “to talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings." Jefferson continued, "To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise.”
3) 1 in 4 Americans believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
This comes from a National Science Foundation study conducted earlier this year. Before you accuse me of including a statistic that doesn’t belong on this list—as this statistic and the figure for man-made climate change are, sadly, only fifteen points apart—bear in mind that, whereas evolution and the Big Bang theory are relatively new to our collective consciousness, Copernicus and Galileo cracked our solar system’s biggest secret roughly five centuries ago. It would be no less ludicrous for one in four Americans to believe that the Earth is flat.
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4) Only 60 percent of Americans believe in evolution.
According to the 2013 Pew Research poll, 33 percent of Americans believe that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.” Among those who believe in evolution, 32 percent believe that modern organisms evolved through natural selection, while 24 percent believe that evolution occurred through the direct intervention of God. By comparison, 97 percent of scientists believe in evolution.
5) 51 percent of Americans don’t trust the Big Bang theory.
This refers to the scientific theory explaining the origin of the universe. If the statistic referred to the sitcom, I would be wholly sympathetic (I don’t trust Chuck Lorre either).
Kidding aside, according to an AP/GFK poll from earlier this year, slightly more than half of all Americans were either “not too confident” or “not at all confident” that the Big Bang happened. This same survey also found that only 27 percent believe the Earth to be 4.5 billion years old, which is the consensus figure among scientists.
6) Only 44 percent of Americans are confident that vaccines don’t cause autism.
According to a University of Chicago study taken earlier this year, 20 percent of Americans believe “vaccines cause autism and other psychological disorders,” while another 36 percent weren’t sure enough to agree or disagree with that statement. As someone on the autism spectrum who has written on this subject before, it is necessary to reiterate that the only basis for the belief that vaccines cause autism is a single scientific report that has since been universally discredited as a fraud.
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7) 48 percent of Americans think the Civil War was about states’ rights, while only 38 percent of Americans believe it was over slavery.
While the 2011 Pew Research survey that yielded this statistic might lead you to believe that there is legitimate debate over the cause of the Civil War, there really isn’t: Over 90 percent of historians with graduate degrees accept that it was prompted by opposition to the election of Abraham Lincoln on the grounds that he would prohibit the expansion of slavery into the Western territories. Although the Southern states argued that they had a legal right to secede because of their sovereignty as states in a federal union, it was their opposition to Lincoln’s policies on slavery that incited them to leave the Union.
While it would take quite a bit of time to provide the full gamut of scientific and historical lessons necessary to correct all of these misconceptions, we can at least return to Bill O’Reilly’s climate change denialism with some measure of hope. As psychologist Dr. Michael Ranney of the University of California, Berkeley discovered, part of the challenge in getting Americans to believe in climate change rests in simply clarifying the process by which it works. He found that straightforward, step-by-step illustrations of the principle frequently changed people’s minds.
Fortunately, there's a video for that:
If that sounds easy, for the majority of Americans, statistics show it's anything but.
Matthew Rozsa is a breaking news writer for Salon. He holds an MA in History from Rutgers University-Newark and is ABD in his PhD program in History at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.
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When Valentine's Day means 15 to life: 34 years ago today, I was sentenced to prison
For me, February 14 is the day I was sentenced under the harsh Rockefeller laws as a first-time drug offender
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Anthony Papa
Every Valentine’s Day I relive the day my life changed forever when I was sentenced to 15 years to life under the Rockefeller drug laws of New York State.
In 1985, I had delivered four ounces of cocaine for $500 straight into the hands of undercover narcotic officers in Westchester County. A bowling buddy had set me up in a sting operation when he noticed my car kept breaking down and I was arriving late for my bowling league. He knew I was desperate for cash. It was the biggest mistake I ever made.
I remember my last day as a free man as clear as a bell. February 13, 1986. I sat in the back of the courtroom with my wife Marylou. Our six-year-old daughter was not there because we did not want to put her through the drama we were going through. I had been on bail for a year and was facing hard time.
After the final arguments, Judge Marasco briefed the jury on deciding a verdict. I sat there, dry-mouthed, the world spinning out of control, catching only snippets of what he was saying: “... must prove . . . beyond a reasonable doubt... consider the evidence... agree on a verdict... should be as follows . . .”
I tried to focus, but part of me already knew I’d lost.
“ . . . the first count, criminally selling a controlled substance in the first degree, either guilty or not guilty. On the second count, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, either guilty or not guilty.”
The jury left the courtroom at 2:43 p.m. A half-hour later, the jury sent a note to the judge asking to hear an inaudible tape that was the main piece of evidence against me. They also relied on a transcript that the undercover cops created from the tape, putting words in my mouth. It was unreal, like a nightmare. They did this four times, concentrating mainly on the tape. Some jurors even timed the alleged transaction, opening and closing an imaginary envelope and smelling its contents. At the end of a grueling day, the judge recessed until the following morning. I knew it was my last night as a free man.
I thought about running. I called up John, who was a bowling buddy. “You gotta lend me some money,” I said, my voice cracking. “I gotta run away.” He tried to discourage me, told me I was overreacting. And besides, he said, did I want to spend the rest of my life as a wanted man? It seemed like a better choice than 15 years in prison, I said.
I stayed up all night. My wife and daughter lay on each side of me in our bed. I clutched them tightly and stared at the religious candles my wife had lit, praying for strength and guidance. I had no money, no place to go. My only real choice was to go back to court and pray for the best. My wife and daughter needed me. It wouldn’t do them any good if I ran.
The next day, deliberations on People vs. Papa continued until 3:30 p.m., when a verdict was finally made. At the time, I was sitting with my wife in the hallway. The doors of the courtroom swung open and two court officers came out.
“If you have a wallet,” one of them said, “you better give that and any other personal belongings to your wife.”
“Standard procedure,” assured the other, when he saw the look of panic on my face.
I was scared. I handed over my house keys and wallet. Now, I wanted to run. I sized up the two armed court officers and looked at the exit. The officer must have read my mind. He put his hand on the gun sitting in its holster. His gesture made my legs wobble. I was too weak to struggle. I knew it was the end.
The officers escorted me into the courtroom and steered me into my chair, each of them placing a hand on my shoulders.
Judge Marasco addressed the jury. “Ladies and gentlemen, I have your note, which reads as follows: ‘We have reached our decision.’” He then turned to the clerk. “The clerk will please read the verdict.”
The clerk nodded and addressed the leader of the jury. “Madam Forelady, please rise. Members of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?”
“Yes we have,” she said. It seemed ridiculous that none of the jurors knew that I was facing 15 years to life. The judge told them that they should only be concerned with whether or not I was guilty, not with the terms of punishment. On some occasions, I’d ridden the elevators up to the courtroom with members of the jury. I’d been tempted to shout: Do you know what I’m facing? But the judge had given me a direct order not to speak to them.
The clerk continued reading my fate:
“Members of the jury, as I read each count of the charges, please tell me how you find the accused under each count.” The forelady nodded.
“One, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.”
“Count two, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree.”
It was over. Prison.
“Sorry, pal,” George, my lawyer, said, laying a hand on my shoulder. His other hand wiped a crocodile tear from his eye.
The court officers grabbed hold of my arms and told me to follow them. I was so shocked that fighting and running were the last things on my mind. As they pulled me away, I turned to Marylou. She was crying. That last vision of her, holding her face in her hands, tears streaming down her cheeks, was one that would haunt me for years to come.
Through choking sobs, she told me she would never leave me. As I walked away, I told her I loved her and wished her a happy Valentine’s Day. She reached forward to embrace me, but the guards blocked her. I was handcuffed and taken away. It was the end of my life as I knew it.
Anthony Papa is manager of media relations at Drug Policy Alliance. Papa is the author of "This Side of Freedom: Life After Clemency," his second memoir about his 18 years of freedom after imprisonment, and "15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom" (2004), a memoir about his experience of being sentenced to state prison for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense under New York’s draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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4 events worth checking out at the 2018 Palm…
4 events worth checking out at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival
Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell star in ”Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Rockwell will be honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala and will also attend a screening of the film at the festival. (Merrick Morton, 20th Century Fox)
By Vanessa Franko | vfranko@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
Now in its 29th year, the Palm Springs International Film Festival has brought Hollywood glitz and critically acclaimed films to the Coachella Valley.
The festival opens Tuesday, Jan. 2, with its star-studded Awards Gala, with big names such as Jessica Chastain and Gary Oldman, and runs through Jan. 15.
More than 180 films will be screened, and the festival always has an impressive array of foreign films, including those that go on to be nominated for Academy Awards.
The big opening night gala film is “The Post,” the Steven Spielberg-directed drama starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks about The Washington Post’s struggle to publish “The Pentagon Papers.” However, that event, on Thursday, Jan. 4, is only available on standby.
However, you can see a lot of the great films and more that the festival has to offer. Just be sure to check in advance if there’s any shot at getting into a screening. Don’t get discouraged if you can’t purchase tickets. The festival will cap online sales to curb over-selling, but you can try getting them over the phone between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday-Friday by calling 800-898-7256.
Here are four events worthy of the drive to Palm Springs.
Awards Gala
When: Tuesday, Jan. 2.
Where: Palm Springs Convention Center, 277 N. Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs.
The annual Awards Gala has become so popular in recent years that it essentially kicks off Hollywood’s awards season and its honorees often go on to major Oscar nominations and wins.
The black-tie event attracts big celebrities, but you can get in on the stargazing for free by showing up early in the public viewing area across from the Convention Center where some celebs are known to greet fans, take pictures and sign autographs.
Here are the stars receiving awards: Mary J. Blige, Timothée Chalamet, Jessica Chastain, Willem Dafoe, Gal Gadot, Holly Hunter, Allison Janney, Gary Oldman, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan and the cast and creative minds behind “The Shape of Water.”
Not only are the honorees going to be in attendance, but usually there are more stars giving them the awards.
The awards start at 6 p.m., but people get there early in the day to stake out a good spot.
Pro tip: Dress in layers. It can get chilly after the sun goes down.
Jessica Chastain , shown here on the red carpet during the 23rd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala in 2012, will return to the festival this year. and receive the Chairman’s Award for her performance in Molly’s Game. (File photo by Rodrigo Pena)
Timothée Chalamet, shown here in a scene from “Call Me By Your Name,” will be honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Jan. 2. Chalamet was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor in a motion picture drama for his role in the film. (Sony Pictures Classics via AP)
Gary Oldman and Alexandra Edenborough smile on the red carpet during the 2014 Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala. Oldman will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor at this year’s ceremony on Jan. 2. (File Photo by Terry Pierson)
When: Various times
One of the best things about the Palm Springs International Film Festival is the programming that includes discussion about moviemaking and more. The Talking Pictures programs are always a hit.
Some of the presentations this year are based on bringing books to the screen, and include a screening and discussion of “The Disaster Artist” on Jan. 5 with screenwriters Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter and author Greg Sestero; “The Lost City of Z” with director/writer James Gray on Jan. 6; “Last Flag Flying” with author Darryl Ponicsan on Jan. 9 and “Call Me By Your Name” with special guests to be announced on Jan. 12.
Other selections in the Talking Pictures program include the stars and directors of the films. Sam Rockwell will attend the program for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on Wednesday, Jan. 3, and director Patty Jenkins will be on hand for a screening of “Wonder Woman” on Wednesday, Jan. 3 in addition to the other Talking Pictures programs.
The festival has brought back its unique programming that pairs a film screening with a local restaurant.
The first of the two special events is “Constructing Albert” from 4-7:30 p.m. on Jan. 8. The documentary is about chef Albert Adrià and will screen at DPlace Entertainment – Mary Pickford 14 at 36850 Pickfair St. in Cathedral City. Dinner will follow at Argentinian restaurant Bontá in the same complex. The price for the screening and dinner is $75.
There is a second event with film “The Cakemaker” and dinner at lounge Eight4Nine, but tickets are currently unavailable.
When: Various times, locations.
There are a handful of films that will be screened throughout the festival that will have some special guests in attendance during the festival.
Among this year’s special presentations are “The Polka King” with director/co-writer Maya Forbes and actors Jack Black, Jenny Slate and Jacki Weaver on Wednesday, Jan. 3; “Phantom Thread” with director Paul Thomas Anderson on Jan. 5; “Nostalgia” with director Mark Pellington and star Jon Hamm on Jan. 6 and “In the Fade” with director Fatih Akin and actress Diane Kruger on Jan. 8.
There will also be a special discussion with directors on the foreign film Oscar shortlist on Jan. 8.
Palm Springs International Film Festival
When: Jan. 2-15
Where: Various locations throughout Palm Springs and Cathedral City
Information: www.psfilmfest.org
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Vanessa Franko is the Digital Director of Entertainment for the Southern California News Group. The lure of palm trees and covering pop culture brought her to The Press-Enterprise in Riverside in 2006. Vanessa has reported on everything from the Palm Springs International Film Festival to the MLB All-Star Game as a reporter, photographer, videographer and on-camera personality. She's won awards for her coverage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and for crime reporting in her home state of Maryland. Vanessa studied multimedia storytelling as a Knight Digital Media Center fellow in Dec. 2011 and has taught college courses in digital journalism. She's seen shows at every major concert venue in Southern California, but most special was when Paul McCartney played the high-desert roadhouse Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown for a couple hundred fans in Oct. 2016. Her album collection numbers in the thousands (including a couple hundred on vinyl) and when she isn't hunting for records, she and her husband like to check out the best in Southern California craft beer and watch sports. She also had a cameo in the 1992 Atlanta Braves highlight film, Lightning Strikes Twice!
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Buy in to sell out: A skills trainer explains the world of NBA player development
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Chris Johnson, an NBA development coach for Jimmy Butler and a host of others, explains how professionals work during their off-season.
By Andrew Sharp
Look around the NBA today, and the concept of the offseason has changed for everyone. This is obviously true for fans, who can pursue rumors and use the internet to argue about the sport all year long. But it’s true for players, too. Where stars could once check out for months at a time, most of today’s best players spend the summers working. They add pieces to their game. They rehab injuries. They add muscle or lose fat. They rise. They grind. And in the middle of all this, there's an industry full of development experts maintaining the progress for the biggest stars in the game. Whether it's LeBron James or Kevin Durant or Steph Curry, almost every superstar in the league has his own personal guru helping to fine-tune his game all year long.
So how does that world work, exactly?
Chris Johnson is a private NBA player development coach, and he knows better than almost anyone. He's the full-time skills and development coach for Jimmy Butler, and when he's not with Butler in Chicago during the season, Johnson is in Los Angeles during the summer, where he's worked with dozens of players over the years.
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Johnson is 38 years old, a native of Houston, and he's married with a son. He technically trains players, but first and foremost he considers himself a coach. In college at Texas A&M—Kingsville, he wrote a graduate thesis on "emotional intelligence in minority athletes." He's a licensed counselor in Texas. And all of this has helped him excel in basketball. He's coached in high school, AAU, and he spent a year working for Daryl Morey and the Rockets, coaching with their D-League affiliate. Now that he's independent, he can work with everyone.
Beyond Butler, he's spent the summer working with Harrison Barnes, Doug McDermott, Corey Brewer, Taj Gibson, Victor Oladipo, Jaylen Brown, Jerami Grant, Tony Snell, and others from around the league. He tracks all 30 NBA teams to keep track of clients past, present, and future. We caught up on the phone last week. We talked about why players have become so invested in the offseason, the life of a player development coach, and more.
We'll start with the basics.
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SI: So right now it's the middle of the off-season. What's a typical day like for you?
Johnson: I'll get up at 5 in the morning. Typically my first workout is with Jimmy Butler. Jimmy gets up at 5:30. He's gonna have his shake, he's gonna have his breakfast, and then we're on the floor by 7 a.m. We already have his entire day planned out. Two basketball workouts on the floor, and [in between] he's going to get strength and conditioning, treatment, and we have his schedule for the week.
SI: What about when Jimmy leaves? Then you'll see other guys?
Johnson: Right. I'm on the floor about 14 to 16 hours every day. It requires a certain discipline. I'm going from client to client. I'll go from a point guard workout, to a five workout, to a wing workout. I'll go from 7 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. with Jimmy, and then I'll 60 or 70 minute sessions all day.
SI: Give me your sales pitch to players. Why do they need what you have?
Johnson: I don't particularly sell what I do. I don't have a business card. It's word of mouth. I also work with all the biggest basketball agencies. I had several guys in the first round of the draft this year. Jaylen Brown, Henry Ellenson, Patrick McCaw, Caris LeVert, Taurean Prince... But I look at the player as an individual. What's his strength? What's his weakness? What can be areas we can focus in on and become great at? The NBA, it's not about being great at everything. It's about finding one or two things and becoming a master of it. Each player presents a different challenge.
SI: And there’s a mental component, too, right?
Johnson: Yeah, training on the floor is the easiest place to develop a player. The hard part is getting their mind. If you become a great communicator... I’m a teacher. Some would call it rabbi. I'm trying to open the mind of the players to be as great as they possibly can.
SI: What about the actual NBA teams? How much are they invested in this?
Johnson: There are great development guys in the NBA, too. One of my best friends is the player development coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers. His name is Phil Handy, one of the best coaches you will find anywhere. I'm similar to Phil, but I'm able to look at all 30 teams.
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SI: How much do you interact with the teams? How does that happen?
Johnson: The player will go to them and say, "Hey, this is who I work with in my time." So a team may ask a player, "Hey, we want to come out and spend a week with you and Chris." Then we collaborate. I'll reach out and tell coaches, and say, "Coach, tell me what you expect of this player. Then I get notes e-mailed to me about the role they want this guy in."
SI: And that’s how you build the skill sessions.
Johnson: Right, I want to know what a team wants. What role they see for a player. My focus is to make sure that when they get back to their teams, the coach is not having to coach things that they should be spending their off-season on. But at the same time, the player has to feel encouraged, because the basketball is a grind. If you feel inspired to be in the gym two and three times a day during the off-season, then that development guy must be good at his job.
SI: It seems like that's half the battle, especially in the summer. Getting guys to commit to putting in all that work.
Johnson: Yes. Definitely. This is something I tell players all the time: You have to buy in before you can sell out.
SI: Perfect.
Johnson: It's not that players don't possess the ability, but what they sometimes don't possess is the discipline, the fundamentals, the details. I need you buy in before we can sell out.
SI: That comes in the summers.
Johnson: Right. And if you're working out for me, I don't give a f--- who you are. Excuse my language, but it doesn't matter how much money you make. It doesn't matter if you're a celebrity. I don't care what commercial you're in. What I care about is attention to details. How can you keep somebody that has everything before them, focused on what got them there? That happens through conversations, reading books, the whole process of building trust.
SI: And most of this happens in Los Angeles. At this point, it seems like half the NBA ends up in L.A. over the summers. What's the draw there?
Johnson: Well, some guys don't want to be in L.A. It's not all L.A. But a lot of the business is done out here. Most of the agents live out here. A lot of these guys have ESPN, they have shoe deals, they have commercials. And what they find is... Let's say Jimmy wanted to stay in Chicago. Well, we would spend more time traveling back and forth on an airplane to California taking care of off-the-court business. It's better just to live there. You don't miss a beat on your workouts, you got good weather, you're able to take care of all business off the floor. Most guys matriculate to the area.
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My original plan with Johnson was to talk one morning after a workout with Jaylen Brown. Instead, we talked from an airport. It was the Thursday before Labor Day Weekend, and the night before, he'd had a last second change of plans. Jimmy Butler called and summoned them to Cabo St. Lucas in Mexico, where they'd work out and celebrate this summer's gold medal. Brown would join them, too. For Johnson, it meant he had a two-hour layover in San Diego.
We had time to go deeper into the process.
SI: Jimmy is one thing. But you work with other players, too. How do you plan programs for guys who aren't superstars?
Johnson: I have to know all 30 teams. Offenses, defensive philosophies. What the coaches want. Jimmy, he's at the top of the food chain, but I may have a guy that's on the bottom of the food chain that's on the brink of not making the league. Or, take a guy like Eric Moreland, going to Cleveland, or Ray Murray going to Minnesota, or D.J. Kennedy who just signed with Denver, but it's only partially guaranteed. With those guys, you talk about how to be the 15th, or 14th, or 13th and 12th guy on the roster.
SI: You're teaching them to be role players.
Johnson: Yeah, and a lot of coaches struggle with telling players their role. But as a developer, they're paying me. I don't lie to them. I don't go to them and say, "You're a 5, but you could play outside like 3." You have to find your niche that fits with the system.
SI: What about some of the older guys? What have you been doing with Jerami Grant?
Johnson: He's been with me the whole summer. He's such a great athlete, he's so long, he's got the body potential to be a top player in this league. Our focus is not getting him in shape; he doesn't have to be in shape until September. We're coming to the gym and we may spend two hours every day on shooting.
SI: What's the motivation there?
Johnson: We want him to play the 3, because they just drafted Ben Simmons to play at the four. And so, the 3/4 number system, it's really just telling you where they're going to be on the floor for spacing. Numbers really don't matter. But J-Grant, he's gotta be able to make corner threes consistently. Especially if he's going to be on the floor with Ben Simmons.
SI: Right, if he can get a jumper that changes everything.
Johnson: So that's what we work on. And playing off the dribble versus playing as a dunker. We want him playing facing the basket. That enhances his stock as a player, and it helps him as a teammate. If J-Grant is knocking down the three at 35, 36% they'll be really good. And if he can beat you on one dribble, he's going to jump over everybody. But you can't get to that point if you don't have technique on your shot, because nobody's gonna close out on you.
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SI: And you also have a guy like Jaylen Brown, who’s never played a game. What do you end up working on with him?
Johnson: For a kid like Jaylen, it's footwork. Balance. His ability to play off the catch. His ability to get into an attack position and score efficiently off of one and two dribbles. You don't get a bunch of dribbles in the NBA. I also feel like Jaylen has an opportunity to be able to have a deadly mid-post game. Like other big guards—right now Jimmy is really deadly on his mid-post game.
SI: But the footwork is step one.
Johnson: Exactly. We're not trying to get good at everything. We're focused on a couple things, and footwork is the basic that I'm really focused on. That applies in the post, the mid-post, pick-and-roll, the shooting. Once you've got footwork and balance, and ball-handling, you can get anywhere on the floor.
SI: But what about his role on the Celtics? How do you guys plan for something that hasn't happened yet?
Johnson: We break it down. Boston, I don't want to put it all out there, but you know they they drive in the slots. They're a hard slot-driving team. We need him comfortable in the pick-and-roll, whether it's side pick-and-roll, angle pick-and-roll, or slot pick-and-roll. We need him making corner threes. We take the concepts of what Boston already has in place, and I build that into Jaylen's sessions. So by the time he gets to training camp, he's very familiar with not only the positions that they're going to put him in, but he's got moves and counters that will make him more comfortable as an offensive player.
SI: How much are you talking to the Celtics through this process?
Johnson: They came out and spent a whole week with Jaylen and I. And we worked together on his development. [Teams] all come out. Now, that doesn't happen for a guy who's just trying to make a roster. That happens for the elite guys. They'll give you whatever you need to make sure that player is ready.
SI: Were you in touch with Brad Stevens?
Johnson: I've spoken to everybody around Brad, but I haven't seen Brad yet. But me and Jaylen discuss what Brad's told him. And the other coaches came out, so we saw them.
SI: With Jaylen and some of the other rookies like Taurean Prince and Pat McCaw, it seems like their best-case scenario would be the two-way wing that Jimmy has become. How often will you point to Jimmy as you work with guys like that?
Johnson: Every day! Every day. You'd be a fool to say no. People want to know, "What'd he do to get there?" So, you tell 'em. But you say, you can't jump from here to there. You have to go through the whole development process. And when you're honest like that, you can really find out who's focused. When that grind that starts going, twice a day, five days a week, six days a week, and it's going on weekends, week after week after week, and that kid is showing up 15, 20 minutes early every day? He's bought in.
In the summers, Johnson has at times shared a Los Angeles gym with another elite skills trainer, Drew Hanlen. Players from every corner of the NBA come and go. Some, like Corey Brewer, will come to L.A. beginning in August and stay right until training camp. Others have families, so they'll schedule week-long visits throughout the summer. "There's a lot of coordinating schedules," Johnson said. It's a busy ecosystem, and many players work with more than one skills specialist. But a superstar like Jimmy Butler is a different story.
Butler has an exclusive relationship with Johnson, and they remain tethered to each other past the summer, when they'll relocate to Chicago and tackle the regular season.
SI: So, let's talk about Jimmy. How did you guys meet? How does that relationship get going?
Johnson: I met Jimmy through Mike James, my first-ever NBA client. At the time I was training Mike James, D.J. Augustin, and Cartier Martin. They were all teammates of Jimmy's. And Mike James would go and tell Jimmy every day, "You can be really good, man. You're not just a good defensive player. You can be really good. You need to go see my trainer."
SI: Who took the next step from there?
Johnson: Jimmy called me that summer. And I told him, "I need several things from you. I need your mind, your body, your commitment." And Jimmy... He didn't even have a television. He gave me his 100 percent attention.
SI: How quickly did you realize, "OK, this dude is different?"
Johnson: The first day he walked in the gym. I'm looking at his size, and I said, "Jimmy, I'm going to make you an All-Star." He said, "What?!" He'd only averaged a few points a game, he was known as a defensive guy. But I said, "Jimmy, as a teacher, through one workout, you are the best student I've ever had." I'd had a picture in my head of what I wanted him to be, but after the first workout, I realized that I wanted him in a different category. I wanted to put him in the mid-post. I said, "Jimmy, you're a good three-point shooter, but you don't have an in-between game. And you're 6'8", 240 playing the two-guard." That doesn't make sense.
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SI: And then he just went all in?
Johnson: He looked at me like I was crazy, but that dude showed up every day. We lived in the gym. Three times a day, four times a day. Whatever it took. He wouldn't even get sick. A lot of guys will call the trainer, "Hey man, I don't feel good. I feel like I've got the flu, I've got a head cold. Can we work out tomorrow instead?" Jimmy never missed a day.
SI: You look around the NBA, and there's LeBron leaving midseason to see his guy from Miami. D-Wade visited Tim Grover in the middle of a playoff series. You and Jimmy are in Chicago all season. You’re going to Cabo together this weekend. Trainers are in the inner circle unlike almost anyone else around the league. How do you go about building that trust?
Johnson: The trust happens naturally. When you're hired to come in and develop, I'm concerned about everything that's going on in my client's life. To maintain that, you don't live a life. I’m loading film every day. I’m studying offenses. Trust is when you know what you’re talking about. So I'm like, "Jimmy I need you up at 5 in the morning every day because I want you to be an All-Star." And Jimmy's looking at me like, "Huh?!" But I say, "You're going to be the most improved player in the NBA if you trust me. Everywhere you go, I will be there." Whether it's 15 minutes or 40 minutes, we'll put in the time and the details. This is how the trust is built.
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SI: How much work will you guys do during the season? How much access do you have?
Johnson: Let's say it's Sunday. Let's start the week off. On Monday night, you got X team, on Wednesday, we play such-and-such, on Thursday we got a back-to-back. On that Sunday I'll say, "Jimmy, I need 15 minutes of your time off the floor. I want to watch film with you." I want to show you how Miami's playing the pick-and-roll, and this is what should be happening. That builds confidence. Now the player's thinking, "I don't have to be worried about what fans are saying, I do this every day." It's a mindset.
SI: Will you travel on the Bulls team plane with them? How close does the relationship get with the teams?
Johnson: No. If one person does it, then everybody gotta do it. But the teams have been very good. There's no rifts. I go to lunch and dinner with the coaches, we talk about the players. It's an ongoing relationship.
SI: You mention studying film. How often are you helping him prepare for specific match-ups?
Johnson: I only do what's happening in a game situation. I don't do drills. Whether it's a late-clock, or it's 10 seconds on the clock, and how do you get this shot off? We may only hit the gym for a total of 30 minutes. It's like shadow boxing. It's teaching the counters.
SI: You're the sparring partner.
Johnson: I'm the sparring partner. And I start studying the individual defenders. Like, "Jimmy, this defender isn't fast enough laterally, so what he does is he gets into your body. This is what you should be looking at when he gets into your body." Like Jae Crowder, he's very aggressive. Or Jimmy may come to me and say, "I need to get back on the floor. 15 minutes. I want to work on finishes because I feel like I'm gonna get fouled a lot." It's not a one-way street. We have different routines that apply.
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SI: With Jimmy, everyone is constantly talking about how he didn't get recruited in high school. Is that a real thing? Is that something he still cares about?
Johnson: Nah, it not like that still motivates him. What motivates him, in my opinion, is the desire to go places he's never been. He got the money, he got the fame, he got the contracts... But he's still focused like we were broke.
SI: So this trip to Cabo: Are you guys going to work out, or is this to get away from basketball?
Johnson: It's a little bit of both. Jimmy hasn’t had an opportunity to celebrate his gold medal with the guys around him. He just wants to get his guys together. He's training, he's working, and this is just a brief step away and then it's back to the grind. We're so focused that you need a mental break, even just to change the location of the workouts.
SI: Has he gotten you into country music?
Johnson: I'm from Texas! Jimmy has nothing to do with it. I'm 38 years old, nobody is going to convince me to get into something. But I'm from Texas, and I do listen to country music.
SI: OK last Jimmy question. In Rio he made some headlines talking about this… Do you think he can play in the NFL?
Johnson: [laughs] Don't start that, man. Jimmy is already all over Demaryius Thomas. Like, these are guys that we know. He's having a great time with that.
SI: Everybody's been having fun with it.
Johnson: But his size, to be honest with you, and with a lot of the NBA guys, it does translate. A skill position in football, it's about footwork, speed, acceleration, agility to change direction, and the ability to jump. So, you're telling me when you throw the ball up to LeBron and he's at the top of the backboard, adjusting his entire body at 50 miles per hour, and he's still putting the ball in hole... You're telling me you can't throw it up to LeBron on a go-route? Or a fade? Or a quick slant, just let him post up?
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Football hypotheticals aside, basketball never really stops for Johnson. During the year, that means meeting with Jimmy, texting clients and fielding calls at 2 and 3 a.m., and watching games during the day. Even on the flight to Cabo, he said he'd watch a few hours of film. “I never get a break,” he told me midway through our conversation. “The only difference between being in the NBA and being an independent coach is that I never get a break.” It's borne out on Johnson’s Instagram; more than half the photos are from a gym somewhere.
What’s interesting is that player accounts aren’t that much different. Look at a veteran like LeBron. Or a rookie like Ben Simmons. Or look at Jimmy Butler and Jaylen Brown relaxing in Cabo. NBA workout photos came at least as frequently as vacation photos this summer. And if you want to understand why the league is producing more talent than ever, this seems like a good place to start. Or in our case, finish.
SI: You were in Vegas with Jimmy. How many other USA guys had trainers out there?
Johnson: Every player had somebody out there working with him. Or they stuck around after their practices and got extra work in with the other players, or the coaches. Like, say it's KD and Melo. They're like, "Well, your trainer's not here, but my trainer's here, come work with us." Guys will call you and be like, "Hey, you mind getting on the floor with me? My skill guy's not here, but I want to get on the floor for like 45 minutes to keep my regimen going."
SI: They’re all in the same mode out there.
Johnson: Yeah, those guys are putting in work. They stayed after practice, they get there before practice. Me and Jimmy would get up every morning and get our regimen in. And I brought players over from L.A. Doug McDermott, Taj Gibson, Jerami Grant was there for the select team. Victor Oladipo was there. They'd come at night. It just depends on the guys' schedules, and how bad they want to be in the gym. It's so competitive that if you let off the gas for one step, somebody else is right on your heels.
SI: Who else has impressed you around the league, beyond guys that you work with?
Johnson: One guy I had a great conversation with in Vegas was James Harden. He was working out with his skill guy. And I loved the fact that James was always in the gym. You didn't have to force him. It was 11 p.m. at night, and he was in the gym putting in work.
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SI: That’s actually pretty surprising. I had no idea Harden was even in Vegas. Anyone else?
Johnson: Another guy, he's already on the bubble of being extremely special, but he still has some room to develop. Damian Lillard. He works his butt off. I watch him from a distance like, "Whaaaaaaat?" He's unbelievable. And a big guy that I really really like—well, I don't know if he's a big guy… He plays power forward but they run him a little at point power forward. Antedipo?
SI: Giannis.
Johnson: Giannis. I don't know him at all, I've never shaken his hand, I don't even need to meet him, but there's greatness in him. If he can pay attention to the details, he'll be an All-Star in the East. He'll make his team a playoff team every year. He's that good. When you look at making a cake, you gotta have the ingredients. You can’t make chicken salad without chicken. He's got length, speed, he can finish. If he gets the right attention, and I know the Bucks are doing it, but... Oh my god. You better watch out.
SI: I’m so glad we’re on the same page with Giannis. But bigger picture now, to go back a little bit… I grew up watching Rod Strickland in Washington. Shawn Kemp in Seattle. Even Allen Iverson in Philadelphia. These guys could dominate with pure talent. But now you look around the league, and it's hard to find a true superstar who's not working all year-round. Why do you think that changed?
Johnson: In my opinion, what's changed the game in player development is social media and technology. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Synergy... Not only in the United States, but globally. When you look at YouTube and you can see your peers working, you see if you're not spending time on your craft, you'll get left behind.
SI: Yeah, it seems like it’s part of the whole basketball culture now.
Johnson: Even my son, he's 9 years old, and he's watching Stephen Curry workouts. I'm like, "What are you doing? You're 9 years old." But he's in the gym with all the folks, he's meeting all these NBA guys. And then he's in there watching Steph workout. He says, "Well, when I work out, I want to know what's going on." That taught me a lot.
SI: The other trend that's dominant right now is rest. Even as guys work all year, teams and coaches have started realize how important it is to manage minutes and take care of their bodies. How does that translate to what you do?
Johnson: Let's say when the season's over. Most guys are done in April, some guys are lucky and they get to play a little bit longer in the month of May. I encourage all my guys to take the month of May off, and we'll begin training July 1st. So Jimmy, he's playing heavy minutes. I'll say, "Jimmy, you trust me, don't worry for the next 10 weeks. When I see you in July, I will be ready. But go and relax." He doesn't ever touch the basketball court.
SI: Do you ever have to tell guys to dial it back during the summer?
Johnson: Yeah, like Jimmy, we literally would get in a fight if I found out he was on the basketball court. And he knows it. He'll sneak and shoot jumpers. I caught him and Jaylen Brown playing one-on-one this summer, and I was like, "Jimmy! You supposed to be resting." And he's like, "Aw, I'm gonna just go sit down over here."
SI: Then when guys can finally play, when July 1st comes, what does the schedule look like? How do you guys ramp up for the reason?
Johnson: In July, the workouts aren't as intense. The level may be 75-80% intensity. It's more technique, it's more mechanics. It's less running, it's playing in certain spots. But once guys get to the middle of August, you start to work really work on that on-court conditioning level, so as you prepare for training camp, now they're starting to get their legs under them with conditioning. And as you push into September and training camp, everything should be clicking. You're getting ready, your timing is down, you're already in top f---in' shape. Your coach’s job is not to get you in shape.
SI: The work is already done at that point.
Johnson: Right. You're already in rhythm. So when other guys have been relaxing, on vacation, you're going to come back and kick their ass 99 percent of the time. And once you see it, It's hard to turn it off. If guys can put in the work and go kick your ass once, they're going to do it all the time.
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Review: I Was Born, But…
Ricky D'Ambrose
Photo: Janus Films
In Yasujirô Ozu’s silent I Was Born, But…, businessman Kennosuke (Tatsuo Saito) relocates to the Tokyo suburbs with his wife and rambunctious two sons, earning his keep from the father of his children’s schoolyard bully, and providing an authoritative, seasoned voice in a film that lovingly puts childhood in sobering contact with adult life. The two brothers (Tomio Aoki and Hideo Sugawara) are a curious pair: Reverent toward their elders, but disappointed by what they consider their father’s undue workplace subordination, the young Keji and Ryoichi are the wide-eyed, sometimes garrulous and stubborn counterpoints to Kennosuke’s own experiences as a man who’s already come of age. But coming of age, as Ozu shows us, is an experience without clearly identifiable points of origin or closure; it’s meant to be struggled with, argued for and against, debated with, resisted and seduced by, repudiated and advocated for. In I Was Born, But…, it’s an experience that sticks.
Released in 1932, Ozu’s film achieves its careful, tender variation of the coming-of-age story without ever smacking of sentimental platitudes. Its success as a portrait of adulthood from afar—and its interest in what happens when children have their first, mollifying glimpses of adult life—is one effect of its honesty and graciousness as an ongoing cross-examination between two different generations, moving across perspectives in ways that parallel the altitude shifts of Ozu’s camera. (And what a helpful camera it is; for a quick taste, one only has to watch as an image of chatting businessmen at their work desks is linked by a tracking shot to a cutaway of schoolchildren in their classroom seats. Like the trolleys and automobiles that frequently move across the top and bottom of Ozu’s frames in slivers, these are persons and places that exist in tandem.) In one of the film’s finest moments, watch as the chubby faces of Keji and Ryoichi react to images of their father as he playfully crosses his eyes and grimaces for a home-movie camera; the man up there on the screen is suddenly not the same man that the two young brothers thought their father was—or ought to be. “Why do you make a fool of yourself for Iwasaki?” Kennosuke’s sons want to know regarding their father’s relationship with his boss. It’s perhaps the first time these children have understood that their exemplars are not always exemplary, that their elders, too, are messy, childish, and dependent, in search of answers of their own.
By the end, this messiness, childishness, dependency, uncertainty (call it what you will), is what gives Ozu’s film its richness as a coming-of-age picture of sorts, one sustained by the collision of different values and ideals that, regardless of the characters and their ages, all ineluctably share the same experience: getting older. We have role models, but they’re imperfect; we have goals (the two brothers tell their father they’d like to be army generals), but we have very little control over our futures; we were born, but we get older, too.
Cast: Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto, Teruyo Hayami Director: Yasujirô Ozu Screenwriter: Akira Fushimi, Yasujirô Ozu Distributor: Janus Films Running Time: 90 min Rating: NR Year: 1932 Buy: Video
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Marie Losier’s empathy, if not love, for Cassandro hinders her from examining his wounds with much depth.
Diego Semerene
Photo: Film Movement
Queerness isn’t just about the relationship between bodies: the ones we desire, the ones that will never desire us back, the ones we wished we possessed. It’s also very much a matter of cloth, color, and adornment. Many a pop-cultural figure has manifested this queer sartorial drama, from Liberace to David Bowie, from Leigh Bowery to early Lady Gaga, from Pepper LaBeija to Shangela Laquifa Wadley. And with her new documentary, Cassandro, the Exotico!, Marie Losier introduces us to a lesser-known, yet just as subversive, purveyor of that drama: Mexican luchador Cassandro, a Universal Wrestling Association winner and former junkie with a penchant for gaudy garments.
Ridiculous stage wear is, of course, fundamentally associated with professional wrestling, but Cassandro’s textile-informed camp isn’t compensated by violent machismo or a heterosexist mise-en-scène. Instead, this exótico is unapologetic about the seamless kinship between his queerness and that of the clothes he wears. And the continuum between queer sexuality and fashion places him simultaneously as the exceptional gay figure in a supposedly macho sport, the Mexican lucha libre, and as the element that outs wrestling writ large as an already queer affair. Cassandro, né Saúl Armendáriz, is, then, a ready-made cinematic character, bearing the contradictions of his world from the inside—a world where, much like ours, heterosexual male violence is performed through patently homoerotic means.
Although skin, bones, and fabric are all—to various degrees of visible and invisible discomfort—stitched into the gendered body, the film is precisely concerned with the moment when these connections come apart at the seams. After decades of fighting for a living, Cassandro’s body is giving out. This is a moment of desperation for someone who turned to wrestling as something between religion and therapy. We see him literally hanging his flamboyant costumes to dry on a clotheslines as he speaks about retirement, about how quitting would appease his body but demolish his ego. As the film progresses, his dislocated chin, limited hand movements, and multiple head concussions will seem like the belated embodiment, if not the psychosomatic scream, of a childhood marked by molestation and sexual abuse. A history of spectacular violence catching up to years of a much less visible brutality.
Cassandro, the Exotico! is largely observational, with occasional interventions from Losier. It wouldn’t be fair to call the film hagiographic, but the director’s empathy, if not love, for her subject hinders her from examining Cassandro’s wounds with much depth. When faced with Cassandro’s misery, Losier’s response is to console him as if wanting to change the subject. She cuts one moment of candidness short, when Cassandro is addressing his fears via Skype, by telling him, “I wish I could give you a kiss.” It would have served the documentary better had Losier granted her subject the possibility to work through his pain in front of the camera.
Visually, the documentary, which is shot on 16mm film stock, recalls canonical diaristic works that expose people’s troublesome feelings in raw and unbridled fashion (think Jonas Mekas, Sadie Benning, and Su Friedrich). Which makes the juxtaposition of Losier’s visual language and her reluctance to examine Cassandro’s frailties feel particularly displeasing. Perhaps afraid that scrutiny would shatter Cassandro, Losier fails to realize that it’s precisely through such shattering that redemption can emerge, maybe even reparation.
Director: Marie Losier Screenwriter: Marie Losier, Antoine Barraud Distributor: Film Movement Running Time: 73 min Rating: NR Year: 2018
Maron discusses modern media discourse, the communicative bridge linking his acting with his podcast, and how he likes to be directed.
Photo: IFC Films
Marc Maron is presently enjoying one of the most unlikely and inspiring success stories in Hollywood. Once known as a bitter “comic’s comic” who was eclipsed in success by contemporaries such as Louis C.K. and Jon Stewart, Maron has been reborn into a poster boy for empathy, starting with his blockbuster podcast, “WTF,” and continuing with roles in the hit television series Maron, Easy, and GLOW. With each role, Maron has rapidly evolved from a “comic who acts” into a first-rate character actor capable of subtly altering his charisma to fit a variety of oddballs who, like himself, struggle with self-doubt while attempting to walk a straight and sober path.
Now, with Sword of Truth, Maron makes his debut as a cinematic lead, playing Mel, a pawnshop owner who ends up on a road trip that stirs long-festering feelings of estrangement, which parallels the forms of isolation gripping a variety of other characters, and which the film’s director, Lynn Shelton, links to the reactionary myths and politics currently gripping this country. The role marks another career high point for Maron, who talked to me last week about the communicative bridge linking his acting with his podcast, how he likes to be directed, and the “mind-fuckery” currently gripping modern media discourse.
Given that you’ve previously worked with Lynn Shelton on Maron and GLOW, did you two have a kind of collaborative shorthand going into Sword of Trust?
Well, I’m generally filled with anxiety and resistance. I don’t know if there’s a shorthand, but Lynn knows how to get the best out of me and works with me pretty well. I like directors who’re hands on with me and guide me.
Do you like to receive a lot of explicit direction, or is your process more intuitive?
Well, I do what I do. I definitely welcome suggestions, because I’m certainly not going to think of all the possibilities of a scene. Most of my choices are not necessarily correct. I usually come in pretty intense and hot, and there’s subtleties that can be coaxed out with minor tweaks. And I like working like that. I wouldn’t have the confidence to assume that my take is the “right” one necessarily.
There’s a stillness to you in Sword of Trust that I’m not sure we’ve seen before.
Your weight as a performer is really felt here, especially in that scene when Mel first see Lynn’s character in his shop. I love how you enter the room from the closet, and how one can feel the emotion bubbling up in Mel.
Thanks, man. I think this is a heavy-hearted guy who’s sort of surrendered to his lot in life. He also has a certain amount invested in his own. I don’t know if it’s heartache, but he’s definitely a broken dude who’s making the best of whatever time he has left. I don’t know if the other characters are really like that. They are always in forward motion.
You also inform Mel’s appraising of objects with all these lovely emotional textures. He’s not only talking about a sword.
The guitar too. As I act more, I try to take some of the space that you’re talking about. With acting I feel that I’ve been learning on the job in a way, and over time I’ve started to explore different possibilities with owning whatever my space is, whether it’s a movie or on stage. Certainly, over decades of doing stand-up, I’ve figured out my space on a stage, but being on a set and pacing yourself and taking the time to engage with what’s around you I think makes a lot of difference in how a performance comes off. It’s about being present in an environment.
Has your ascending acting career changed how you relate to actors on your podcast?
Over the last few years, since I’ve started acting more, I’ve had more actors on. I tend to try to pull a nice acting class out of that. I think a lot of what my guests say makes sense. Once again, a lot of acting is about listening and being present. In another time in my life, I saw certain actors as mythic. Now that I’ve talked to so many of them, I’ve started to realize, not in a disappointing way, that…what’s the word I want? That these are people doing a job, all in their own way. Once you get upset with people, you realize, “Well, that’s how they’re approaching this job,” and when you get into the ring or the scene, you’re in it.
That inside knowledge gives “WTF” an edge too. For many interviewers, like myself, art-making is basically theory. But you have your feet on the ground so to speak.
I think that happens over time. I don’t think I ever set out to interview. I’ve framed what happens on my podcast as conversations, and they either go somewhere or they don’t. There’s a few points I may get hung up on, and there are places I go to fairly regularly in interviews, but I generally don’t see these conversations as question-and-answer situations. I don’t have any expectations really other than to feel a connection or to sort of be enlightened. I think those of you who have a job to interview, for an outlet, for the content and the word count and everything else, might have more restrictions. I don’t have to answer to anybody and I don’t know what I’m looking for half the time.
Yeah, and a challenge I’ve found with interviews is that one doesn’t always entirely know what is and isn’t in bounds, which can lead to an impersonal vibe. By contrast, your podcast has such an intimate layer throughout.
You have to feel that stuff out, you know I’m not necessarily intuitive about that. I’m not really in the business of sandbagging anybody.
Usually you get somebody comfortable and things come out. If people are comfortable and engaged it doesn’t really matter what they’re talking about. Audiences will say, “Oh, wow, I didn’t know that.” These conversations don’t require information, but an emotional connection. I’m so happy about that, especially considering the never-ending torrent of garbage that we have to move through every day.
I think about politics. Politics online are rarely civil, but when you get someone in person, and start slowly, and are willing to have a conversation, you can normally get farther than you might expect.
Online culture isn’t civil and there’s a momentum to everything that’s based on mind-fuckery. I know for myself—as somebody who was relatively disinterested and uninformed about the functions of government and why politics and leadership make a difference—that people are perfectly willing to volunteer their brains to these strange flashpoint reactors that trigger them emotionally. People live by these black-and-white decisions. It’s not good. We need to consider what we really know and how we know it and what we’re telling other people.
People are so empowered by garbage information that’s being related in a relatively shallow way, which doesn’t take into consideration the influence and context of the rest of our lives. It’s sort of a disaster. I try to stay away from that stuff in terms of the conversations that I’m having. I’m trying to deal with something more human and experiential. Most people are regurgitating talking points on both sides without thinking of how someone feels and how to affect change. I got an interview with Geena Davis [who stars in the new season of GLOW] coming up, about her work with her foundation and her work in this documentary about women in show business. It’s called This Changes Everything. I tell you man, when someone’s that personally invested in something they believe in, and it’s righteous, and they lay it out for you and it makes sense, that’s what heartens my belief in this possibility for change.
To change gears a bit, is it cathartic for you, as someone who’s long been in recovery, to play characters who’re either reformed or have drug issues?
Yeah, sure. Most obviously there’s the last season of Maron, where my character has a relapse, which frankly didn’t happen in real life. When you really understand the nature of addiction, and you’ve seen it from the inside, and know the powerlessness and the struggle to live a life that’s not in the throes of it—I mean, it’s such a common struggle. And what’s amazing to me is how many people don’t find a way out of that or don’t seek help. Or are ashamed of it or don’t know how to get the help. I never set out to do this, but I’m thrilled and humbled by the effect my work has on people who’re isolated by this sickness. It’s really one of the more satisfying results of the podcast: how much mail I get from people who’re struggling and who want advice, or who feel less alone from what I’ve said. The great thing about recovery, and about playing these parts, is that it gives you a context that’s very specific—a way to legitimately help people that can change their entire lives.
Bell proves uncannily adept at capturing moments that seem to encapsulate a subject’s entire emotional temperature.
Decades after its original release, Martin Bell’s Streetwise remains a boldly empathetic work of vérité portraiture. Throughout the 1984 documentary, Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall follow a motley group of kids on the streets of Seattle as they panhandle, dig food out of dumpsters, and prostitute themselves to much older men. These scenes are accompanied by voiceovers from the young subjects, who describe their actions with a heartbreaking casualness that communicates two almost contradictory meanings: that they’re seasoned hustlers, having bypassed childhood for an everyday form of hell, and that they’re desperate to be seen precisely as said hustlers. To show emotion is to be vulnerable, and these subjects can’t afford to be seen as weak, yet the filmmakers capture more here than the street children may have suspected. Streetwise is charged by a deep, subterranean yearning to be loved, or even merely felt.
A plot hasn’t been imposed on Streetwise, as the audience is allowed to feel the numbing monotony of life on the fringes. People swing in and out of prison, crash in and out of secret hovels, most notably an abandoned hotel, and practice their grifts, while struggling with overlapping tides of addiction and depression. We also learn, startlingly, that not all these children are homeless. Streetwise’s most famous subject, Erin Blackwell, a.k.a. “Tiny,” lives with her mother, a waitress and alcoholic who rationalizes her daughter’s prostitution as a phase and who seems to be impressed with Erin’s ability to make a few hundred dollars on a good day. It’s little wonder that Erin captured and continued to command the filmmakers’ attention for decades after filming Streetwise ended. She has a squinty yet expressive glare that suggests both a deep reservoir of pain as well as intense fierceness.
Bell, Mark, and McCall take Erin and her cohorts, most vividly a skinny boy with potential tonsillitis named DeWayne Pomeroy, at face value. Streetwise is pointedly devoid of the sermonizing that might allow audiences to comfortably distance themselves from these people, regarding them simply as elements of a civics lesson. The film forces us to confront the obviousness of these children’s circumstances, as people walk by them just as we all walk by the homeless on a daily basis. This sense of culpability informs Streetwise with an uncomfortable texture that’s familiar to documentaries concerned with poor or mentally and emotionally challenged people, so you may wonder how the filmmakers shot what we’re seeing without stepping in and helping these people. Particularly disturbing is when Erin, 13 years old at the start of filming, is seen getting into a car with an old man who’s obviously a john.
If Streetwise was just a portrait of damnation and delusion, it would be an important document. But the film is also haunting for Bell, Mark, and McCall’s attention to the transcendence than can be felt even in such extreme circumstances. After Erin has gotten into trouble, DeWayne tells her of how he will rescue her, and his attempt at gallantry is poignant as well as devastating. When DeWayne visits his father in prison, the old man lectures the boy about keeping his smoking down and laying off the hard drugs, commanding DeWayne to roll up his shirt sleeves for a track-mark inspection. As brutally sad as this confrontation is, one feels this father’s love and wonders if DeWayne, clearly a sensitive and lonely boy, can feel it too. Retrospectively, it hardly matters: DeWayne hung himself not long after this visit.
Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, a 2016 sequel to Streetwise that’s been in the works for thirtysomething years, offers a variety of unmooring contrasts from its predecessor. Erin is no longer the slim spitfire of Streetwise, but an overweight fortysomething mother of 10 who understandably appears to always be on the verge of exhaustion, and who takes methadone in an attempt to keep her drug addictions at bay while wrangling with her children’s own skirmishes with the law. Looking at Erin now, one sees the scars and weariness left by a hard life, part of which was documented by Streetwise, and one can implicitly feel Erin’s need for atonement. Though Erin’s gotten off the streets, living in a large home with her partner, Will, and several of her children, the streets have never left her.
Formally, Tiny is much different from Streetwise. The 1984 film abounds in seamy noises and textures, with roving camerawork that seems to be uncovering a new lurid discovery every few seconds; it feels palpably dangerous, and probably inspired films such as Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho and Larry’s Clark’s Kids. Set predominantly in Erin’s home, Tiny is slower and more polished, reflecting the (comparative) stability that Erin has achieved since appearing in Streetwise. Tiny also has a fancier structure than Streetwise, with a framing device in which Erin watches footage of herself over the years, including unused outtakes from the first film, with Mary Ellen Mark. An autumnal tone seeps into the new film, which offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the unending legacies of crime and addiction.
As in Streetwise, Bell proves uncannily adept at capturing moments that seem to encapsulate a subject’s entire emotional temperature. There are frequent shots in Tiny of Erin sleeping with a little dog close to her face, which suggest rare moments of repose for a woman who’s used to running her chaotic family like a hostage negotiator. Erin frequently calls the cops on her own children, especially the headstrong teenager Rayshon, which Bell unforgettably rhymes with footage form Streetwise of a younger Erin visiting two of her children in foster care. One of the foster care children, Keanna, is now a mother herself, and resents Erin for abandoning her and for continuing to struggle with drug use.
Which is to say that Tiny is as charged with turmoil as Streetwise, and Bell proves equally capable here of rendering full relationships with only a few images or seconds of running time. As in Streetwise, our sympathies are rarely overtly directed, as Tiny is somehow on every character’s contradictory wavelength at once, illustrating how difficult understanding can be to achieve, most notably in the face of disaster. Though it runs a trim 87 minutes, Tiny offers an epic and piercing portrait of a large biracial family that’s plagued by essentially every demon known to American society. Erin escaped the streets only to fashion a home that’s rife with the very issues that drove her away from her own mother. Like most people, regardless of social stature, Erin is stuck in the temporal loop of her own inherent nature.
Jude’s film is a bitterly comic essay on nationalist mythologies and historical amnesia.
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Prime minister of Romania during most of World War II, Ion Antonescu is one of the era’s supreme villains: a virulent anti-Semite, Nazi collaborator, and authoritarian dictator whose troops murdered Jews with such velocity and enthusiasm that even Hitler was shocked by their actions. Upon ordering the forced expulsion—and, if necessary, genocide—of the Jews of Bessarabia and Bukovina, Antonescu proclaimed, “I do not care if we go down in history as Barbarians.” Radu Jude borrows that declaration, so haunting in its cruelty and disarming in its blitheness, for the title of his latest film, a bitterly comic essay on nationalist mythologies and historical amnesia that locates the seeds of Romania’s currently resurgent ethno-nationalism in the nation’s collective failure to truly confront its own past.
For while Antonescu was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad shortly after the war, there have been repeated attempts to rehabilitate his image in Romania since the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu. Take Sergiu Nicolaescu’s 1994 film The Mirror, a hagiographic treatment of Antonescu’s rule that portrays the leader as a defiant protector of his people. Jude inserts a substantial clip of that film into I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, having it play on a small TV set positioned in the exact center of the frame as we hear the off-screen voice of Jude’s protagonist, Mariana (Ioana Iacob), providing sardonic, outraged commentary on the film’s distorted presentation of Antonescu as a misunderstood hero. There’s an element of desperation in the scene: While Mariana offers an incontestable rebuttal, no one but her boyfriend (Alex Bogdan) is there to hear it. Meanwhile, The Mirror’s comforting nationalist lies are being beamed into homes all across Romania.
A headstrong theater director attempting to stage a public reenactment of the Odessa Massacre of 1941, in which Romanian troops slaughtered thousands of Ukrainian Jews, Mariana is obsessed with bringing the full weight of historical reality to her fellow countrymen. She obsessively reads histories of the period and drops quotations from philosophers and historical figures into everyday conversation. The film is consumed by lengthy, probing conversations—mostly shot by a statically mounted 16mm camera that pans back and forth to cover the actors’ movements—in which Mariana discusses art, philosophy, history, and politics with her various collaborators and friends.
Her most persistent interlocutor is Movilă (Alexandru Dabija), a local official tasked with overseeing the publicly funded production, who constantly pleads with Mariana to tone down her work’s unvarnished depiction of anti-Semitic violence. Movilă is a relativist, content in the knowledge that all memory is willfully selective, while Mariana truly believes in the power of stark historical truth. Though at times didactic and overloaded with quotations from the likes of Wittgenstein and Arendt, Jude’s dialogue nevertheless manages to feel remarkably naturalistic. That’s thanks in no small part to the powerfully unaffected performances of a cast that finds the subtle humor and neurotic character details embedded in Jude’s dense screenplay. Iacob captures Mariana’s unrelenting passion while also finding moments of vulnerability and self-doubt in the role, including moments of hesitation and anxiety borne of the fact that she’s a petite, cosmopolitan woman attempting to exert control over a large cast of rugged men, many of whom are diametrically opposed to the vision of her project.
Jude’s heavy themes are leavened by a self-effacing sense of modesty. Jude isn’t attempting to make grand pronouncements about the nature of memory and truth. Rather, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians finds the director constantly interrogating his own perspective, questioning Mariana’s relationship to the wider public. That theme comes to a head in the film’s climactic presentation of the artist’s reenactment. Here, Jude switches from the warm dreaminess of 16mm to the harsh hyper-realism of digital video. The scene has the feel of a simple documentation of a live public event, but it isn’t clear that it’s actually any more “real” than the rest of the film. In particular, whether and to what extent the crowd of onlookers’ reactions are coached remains one of the film’s most intriguing enigmas.
Ultimately, Mariana finds herself perplexed and deflated by the public’s response to her work. One senses this reaction may be autobiographical for Jude, whose film Aferim! attempted to challenge Romanian audiences about the nation’s historical treatment of Roma people. As one of the few directors of the so-called Romanian New Wave whose work explores the country’s unsavory pre-Soviet past, Jude is swimming against the popular tide of revisionism and historical moral blindness. The anti-Semitic violence and hatred laid out in his latest is truly chilling, as is the contemporary tendency to diminish and obscure that dark past. But perhaps most disturbing of all is the idea put forth in the film’s conclusion: that one could present the truth to the public in all its brutality and horror, and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.
Cast: Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan, Ilinca Manolache, Serban Pavlu, Ion Rizea, Claudia Ieremia Director: Radu Jude Screenwriter: Radu Jude Distributor: Big World Pictures Running Time: 140 min Rating: NR Year: 2018
The filmmaker discusses how she wants viewers to feel like they’re paratrooping into her characters’ lives.
Marshall Shaffer
Lynn Shelton has amassed a formidable body of work between her eight features and countless television episodes. Her latest outing, the comic adventure Sword of Trust, represents her most topical work to date. After pawn shop owner Mel (played by Marc Maron) purchases an old sword, he gets plunged into world of conspiracy culture as the relic attracts legions of online prowlers convinced that the weapon represents proof that the Confederacy won the Civil War. The logline might be Shelton’s wildest yet, but the elements that have made her work indelible for over a decade remain intact: realistic conversations, emotional authenticity, and a commitment to multi-dimensional characters.
I chatted with Shelton on Sword of Trust’s opening day, which saw the director, writer, producer, editor, and occasional actress in great spirits. Our conversation covered her pursuit of Maron for this specific project, how she developed her unique script-development process, and why she wants viewers to feel like they’re paratrooping into her characters’ lives.
Last year on Marc Maron’s podcast, you mentioned that you liked exploring relationships between people who wouldn’t normally interact. Sword of Trust continues in that tradition for you. What keeps bringing you back to these dynamics?
Have you heard of this theory of multiple intelligences, like different types of intelligences we have? I can’t remember the names that [Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner] came up with, I think there’s eight. I know I’m not the brightest bulb on all of these scales, but one way that I think I’m pretty high is in emotional intelligence. I like to think I am, anyway. I’ve always been that close observer of human behavior. I also really love humans. I feel like the thing that makes humans human are their flaws. So, on screen, I don’t like to see people who are too smoothed out, all good or all bad. I’m interested in characters who are essentially good people, but they may be total fuck-ups and well-meaning who may sabotage themselves. Individual fucking up often happens in relation to other people. We may have a pre-determined need to connect to other people, but we’re constantly sabotaging ourselves.
Sometimes, like I said on the podcast, I’m much more interested in unlikely combinations of people because it’s not a prewritten script we’re handed. It’s not like, “This is who would be appropriate for you as a friend. This is the way you should act. This is the box we’ve already determined for you.” Any kind of out-of-the-box way of living one’s life or being surprised by a connection you feel to a human being, all those little happy accidents in life are the things I like to explore. To inspire people, not to just go through life in this sort of “this is what someone else had in mind for me, and I should follow that plan”—that feels very depressing to me. It’s more interesting to open your heart and your life up to other experiences.
To explore relationships in that way makes the everyday more interesting and exciting.
Yeah, exactly. It gives you a reason to stick around.
Having been a guest of Marc’s on his podcast twice, do you see any of his interviewer “persona” having an impact on the person you film on screen? Does training himself to listen and be present have any effect on making him a better screen partner?
Absolutely! The first time I directed Marc was on his TV show Maron, and I was so fascinated by his process. He’s raw and a really natural actor. He steps in front of the camera, and he’s looking at his scene partner and really knows how to listen and engage. A lot of that comes from sitting across from people and staring into their eyes. That’s why he’s such a good interviewer and has the top interview podcast, because he has a genuine conversation with people. And that’s all acting really is too. He also has this weird ability to let the camera and crew and other extraneous details just fade away for him, and a lot of people find all that really distracting and difficult to shut out. He doesn’t know where the camera is half the time. He said to me, “The next thing I want to do as an actor is figure out when the camera is on me.” I said, “What?! That camera’s right there!” He’s like, “I don’t see it. I’m not aware of it. I’m just in this scene with the person.” I’m like, “That is a gift, my friend. That is incredible that you’re able to not see the lights and craziness, just be in the scene.” He’s really able to do it. I think that definitely comes from that same skill set he’s drawing on.
Where does the genesis of your films occur? They usually have some kind of strong conceptual selling point or hook, but they’re often like a Trojan horse to get to deep conversations between the characters about something else.
It is, and the genesis of the vast majority of my films is an actor as a muse that I want to work with. Humpday was Mark Duplass, Outside In was his brother, Jay Duplass, this movie was Marc Maron, who I’ve been really wanting to make a movie with for three and a half years. Then there’s other things, like a territory I want to explore or an element I want to return to, like improvisation, which I haven’t done since Your Sister’s Sister. I’ve done several movies in between that have been scripted, but I wanted to allow myself a new genre. I knew I wanted to laugh because the last movie was a drama, and I was ready to laugh—and let myself really laugh by going into the outlandish and ridiculous, plot-wise. Go into some comedy-caper territory, which I’ve never let myself do before. I’ve been totally real in every moment, and this time I was like, “What if I have real characters who go to a crazy place?” I wanted to make a culturally relevant movie that didn’t make you want to slit your wrists. It referred to what was going on and some of the problematic elements of what we’re dealing with in society. We’re having this peak moment in conspiracy theories. They’ve always been around, but this is definitely where they’ve achieved a peak moment that I find very disturbing. So, it’s usually a territory I want to explore and an actor I want to work with.
How do you research or prepare to authentically treat conspiracy culture?
Well, there’s this thing called a computer and a thing called the internet, and boy, is it all in there! [laughs] We went down a rabbit hole with Mike O’Brien, my co-writer. It’s so fascinating because there’s little in-fighting. They really bonded over Pizzagate and the Twin Towers being an inside job, but then when it comes to hollow earth versus the earth is on fire, they’re at odds and frenemies for life. It’s insane, the shit you find.
How do you approach shooting improvisational dialogue? There’s a very naturalistic feel to it, but there are hardly any vocal fillers like “um” or “you know.”
Well, you get the right cast, so that really helps. I’ll tell you, you can do a lot in the editing room. You’ll see it on screen, there are these runs of incredible monologues. But if I’m cutting away to another actor for a reaction shot, it’s often because I’m slicing out an “um” or an “ah” or a little bauble. The edit room is the most redemptive place in the universe. It’s incredible what you can do and how you can carve out the right story. Especially with improvisation, it really is where the actual script is written. Our first cut—it didn’t feel fat, it was funny throughout—was two and a half hours long. I was like, “How am I going to cut out five to seven minutes, much less an hour?” And for me, a comedy has to be 90 minutes, so I knew I needed an hour out of there. It was like, “This is hysterical, this is gold, but it’s not serving the story. Ultimately, what is the story? It could be this, or it could include this, but let’s just hone it down to Mel’s emotional arc and make sure we can track it through the craziness.” We want to care about these people just enough and balance it. There was so much work in the edit room.
Sword of Trust is definitely a comedy, but the scene I found most striking was Mel explaining his history to your character, Deidre, and in such a matter-of-fact, serious fashion, in the back of the truck. Did you always intend to set off this important part of the story with such a stark tonal contrast?
No, it wasn’t. When Mike O’Brien really insisted that I be in the movie, I finally relented and thought I was going to be a random customer who came in for five seconds. But then, I realized she could be a device that helps us track Mel’s arc. I was really panicking for a long time because I couldn’t figure out how to make her funny. I can be comedic, but she wasn’t comedic. She was so desperate and tragic. Then I finally realized that I wasn’t going to worry about it. I wasn’t going to try to turn her into some kind of laughing-stock. I was just going to be what she feels like she needs to be. That was an indication that this movie is going to have that real element of heaviness to it, but it happened really organically. I wanted you to care about these people, but I didn’t realize there was going to be that much depth to one of them, so much poignant heart and humanity. That was a nice surprise.
You’ve described your writing process as being “upside-down,” where the script develops alongside the characters. How did you develop this writing style?
I never went to traditional film school. I had this long, circuitous route to get to what I’m doing. I started as a theater actor, then I went to photography and started doing experimental work, but everything as a solo artist. The most important work of the film, making the process of the acting, is obstructed at every turn by the process of making it. You’re out of order. In theater, you at least get to play a story from beginning to end and feel it out. You’re at scene 35 on the first day and like, “What’s happened before this? Where am I emotionally?” And then you’ve got to do it 40 times with the camera in different positions and act like nobody else is there. The whole thing is so hard, unless you’re Meryl Streep! But if you’re not working with Meryl Streep, what do you do as a director? I need real people on screen.
My second feature, My Effortless Brilliance, was a total experiment. I came up with these characters in my head and tried to cast them from a pretty small pool of actors. They were nothing like the characters. I realized, “What if you did it the other way? What if you had a person you wanted to work with…” That was where I started with that idea, and all I cared about was to make it feel like a documentary. I wanted you to turn the TV on and be like, “What am I watching? Am I in these people’s lives?” And people have said they’ve had that experience where they’ll turn it on in the middle of Showtime and have no idea what they’re watching but that it feels like a documentary. Which is like, “Yes! That’s what I meant.”
And then I honed it with Humpday. Once I knew I could work in that way, I upped the stakes. I’ll bring in a few lights. I had said, “No lights! Me and another camera operator with tiny cameras, a boom op, that’s it.” I eliminated the crew. But that was where I came up with that initial impulse, to make it feel really real. If the character fits the actor like a glove because it’s half them or three-quarters them and they’ve developed it with me…I want real humans.
I actually had that experience of picking up one of your movies and not missing a beat. I was late to my showtime of Your Sister’s Sister in the theater, but I didn’t feel like I was lost. Then a few years later I watched it at home from the beginning, which helped it make a little more sense. But I felt I had easily intuited what I had missed.
It’s funny because I want my movies to feel like you’re paratrooping into somebody’s life. We’re taking a little journey down the river of their life for a while, and then we leave again. I don’t like to tie things up too neatly at the end because I want you to get the sense that they’re continuing to live their lives, and who knows what’s going to happen in the future. But you just sort of paratrooped in a little bit later! [laughs]
On that note, there’s a line toward the end of the film where Jillian Bell’s character, Cynthia, takes a deep breath and says, “What a strange experience.” Is that line improvised or scripted? In a lot of ways, the line feels like it sums up where characters often net out at the end of your films.
That was all improvised! It’s all ordinary people going into crazy land, but yeah, ordinary people having weird dramas in their everyday lives. I mean, it can happen. I’ve heard stories of shit happening to random people that feel like…you couldn’t write that shit!
Review: Into the Ashes Brings Nothing New to the Country Noir Genre
Aaron Harvey is prone to pulling back from any moment that might give greater depth to his revenge tale.
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Aaron Harvey’s Into the Ashes is the latest in an increasing string of so-called country noirs set in the dilapidated backwoods of rural America, places ravaged by the opioid crisis and populated by jobless people long ago abandoned by politicians. It has little to distinguish itself, narratively or thematically, from similarly dour films, and it lets generic images of its rundown Alabama locale (rusted trucks, cramped houses, landlines in a wireless world) stand in as symbols of national decline without truly seeping into the complex social rot of the place. Its plot, of a reformed criminal forced to contend with his old gang leader over some stolen loot, is similarly superficial, hitting the typical beats of its genre.
Where Into the Ashes gets a boost is in its excellent cast of grizzled character actors, all of whom vibrantly express varying degrees of weariness and rage. Luke Grimes plays the erstwhile ne’er-do-well and ex-con Nick Brenner with the nervousness of a man who’s just learning to let go of his past and give in to hope. The man’s gruff, taciturn nature is leavened by his tender relationship with his wife, Tara (Marguerite Moreau), and he projects his faith in normalcy onto her. Nick relies so heavily on Tara for his emotional wellbeing that he anxiously calls home while on an overnight hunting trip just so he can hear her voice.
Equally human beneath a hard exterior is Nick’s father-in-law, Frank (Robert Taylor), the local sheriff whose intimidating Tom Waits-esque voice and stiff demeanor belie his fumbling, masculine attempts to welcome Nick into his family. Strongest of all, though, is Frank Grillo as Sloan, Nick’s recently paroled and vengeful boss. Grillo is at home playing big-fish-in-small-pond villains, and the actor makes the most of Sloan’s thin characterization, exuding psychopathic menace when Sloan confronts Nick in the latter’s home, drawing out every oblique threat as he circles the subject of the money that Nick stole from the crew’s last job before Sloan was sent to prison. Grillo expertly inflects even the silliest moments of sub-Tarantino dialogue with a disarming venom, such as an extended riff on pie and ice cream.
But if the actors are primed to explore the contours around a basic premise, Henry constantly pulls back from any moment that might give greater depth to his revenge tale. Women exist to be supportive and to become victims, while character-driven conversations between Nick and Frank devolve into asinine ethics debates over justifiable violence. Worst of all, there’s just no sense that the film is saying or revealing much of anything. There’s one moment where Into the Ashes achieves a touch of bleak grace akin to the work of Cormac McCarthy by skipping over the events leading to a shootout and focusing only on its grisly aftermath: bodies strewn about in puddles of blood that look like reflective pools of black ice in the pale moonlight. Then, not five minutes later, we get a flashback showing the lead-up to that carnage. As with so much else in the film, a haunting moment of elision is negated by literal representation.
Cast: Luke Grimes, Frank Grillo, Marguerite Moreau, James Badge Dale, Robert Taylor, Brady Smith, Jeff Pope, Andrea Frankle Director: Aaron Harvey Screenwriter: Aaron Harvey Distributor: RLJE Films Running Time: 97 min Rating: NR Year: 2019
Review: Stéphane Brizé’s At War Is Politically Charged but Artistically Inert
The film is content to bluntly affirm that corporate attempts at compassion are always secondary to providing profit to shareholders.
Jesse Cataldo
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Seven months after the first flare-up of France’s Gilets Jaunes, the nascent populist movement shows no signs of ceasing. Combined with the country’s ongoing Telecom scandal, in which several executives have been charged with “moral harassment” after 35 workers were allegedly hounded into committing suicide, it’s evident that what’s simmering there is an extension of the same unease escalating around much of Europe, and the world at large. It’s a state of affairs that makes At War seem especially of the moment, and which leaves its eventual failure to offer any special insight so disappointing. Provided with a prime opportunity to animate the zeitgeist, Stéphane Brizé’s labor-focused drama instead uses this timeliness to prod along the most obvious of points, its nuts-and-bolts, process-oriented approach never amounting to more than a surface look at the issues it purports to confront.
The film in some ways functions as an unofficial prelude to Brizé’s prior The Measure of a Man, in which an unemployed machinist played by Vincent Lindon finds a new career as a hyper-market security guard, where he’s eventually forced to choose between serving as a traitorous management lackey and losing his job. Here, Lindon’s Laurent Amédéo is still in possession of his original occupation, though things are hanging by a thread, as a last-ditch organizing effort attempts to halt the closure of a manufacturing plant in Agen. Surrounded by a cast of convincing non-professionals, Laurent leads the picket line, refusing to waver from the straight and narrow, an intense figure of principle whose scruples are never in doubt.
At War is largely notable for its steadfast devotion to a kind of mechanistic aesthetic, which unfortunately lines up with its cheerless didacticism, the two qualities cohering in a scene-by-scene summation of a strike action that repeatedly hammers home the same general points. The scenes themselves evince heft, fluidity, and an impressive sense of improvisation, but the staging is static and the eventual outcome is always clear. The game is given away by Lindon’s stoic face and the gradual unraveling of the plot, which envisions internal disintegration—leveraged by outside pressure—as the insidious method by which solidarity is smashed. Despite some genuine drama in this dissolution, it’s always clear who’s right and who’s wrong, which material interests each is representing, and who’s lying and who’s telling the truth.
This didn’t have to be the case, as proven by David France’s procedure-focused documentary How to Survive a Plague, which balanced a similarly diagrammatic narrative with extensive character detail, expanding the stakes while affixing a deeper subtext about the ways the victory of a marginalized group eventually diminishes its radical standing. Intent on emphasizing the connections between callous corporate greed and populist unrest, Brizé’s film is bluntly focused on the bottom line. There’s a certain dramatic function to this technique, as it examines the individual human actions that allow such interests to put their will into practice, but it doesn’t justify the flat, exhortative style of address.
As another example of how well this kind of economic criticism can be carried off, there are the dazzling docu-essays of German filmmaker Harun Farocki, who routinely found surprising intricacies in the cold façade of modern capitalism, while offering empathetic alignment with workers as a matter of course. At War, on the other hand, merely summarizes what its audience already knows, affirming that corporate attempts at compassion are always secondary to providing profit to shareholders, and that genuine humanity and integrity are liabilities when confronting such an unfeeling monolith. Like Ken Loach’s recent Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, it’s a film whose political principles are hard to disagree with, yet which leans so heavily on this moral certitude as to render itself entirely inert.
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Melanie Rover, Jacques Borderie, David Rey, Olivier Lemaire Director: Stéphane Brizé Screenwriter: Stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce Distributor: Cinema Libre Studio Running Time: 115 min Rating: NR Year: 2019
Review: Bottom of the 9th Strikes Out with Too Much Plot Incident
Raymond De Felitta’s film offers a sampler course of formulas, which creates a strangely unfulfilling tension.
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Raymond De Felitta’s Bottom of the 9th offers a sampler course of formulas, which creates a strangely unfulfilling tension. Just when you expect the film to go in a certain direction, it goes in another, only for it to again switch routes, though there’s never a sense of expectations being deliberately challenged or tweaked. Rather, the filmmakers merely seem to be indulging a variety of passing fancies, which is a shame because the actors here are game and occasionally imbue the shopworn scenes with liveliness.
Sonny Stano (Joe Manganiello) is the perfect hero for either a noir or a redemptive sports film, a man approaching middle age who just served a 19-year sentence for manslaughter. Famous in his Bronx neighborhood for being drafted by the Yankees, only to flush his life down the toilet, Sonny is attempting to patch his life together while doing a perpetual apology tour on behalf of friends and strangers alike. He’s initially hired by an old friend, Joey (James Madio), to work in a fish market that seems to be a front for something. Joey has a cagey energy, and this narrative isn’t without intrigue, but De Felitta and screenwriter Robert Bruzio unceremoniously lose sight of it in succumbing to a number of clichés.
Of course, Sonny is revealed to have a woman who got away, Angela (Sofia Vergara), who one day runs into her old beau at a market. They clearly have chemistry, as do the actors playing them, but their dialogue is composed of nothing but redemptive platitudes. In these scenes, Manganiello and Vergara are stuck in a worst-of-all-worlds situation. Their characters are relentlessly mousey, which is appropriate to the awkward context of Sonny and Angela’s reunion, but which also robs these sexy actors of the opportunity to enjoy playing off one another. Meanwhile, said mousiness isn’t poignant either, as the characters haven’t been imagined beyond the respective stereotypes of the fallen man and jilted woman.
Bottom of the 9th then flirts with a narrative similar to that of Bull Durham and Major League, in which Sonny is hired by a local minor league ball team to rein in the fiery, egotistical talents of a rookie named Manny (Xavier Scott Evans). Evans is ferociously charismatic, suggesting a young Wesley Snipes and giving Manganiello a kinetic vibe to play off of, and so the film finally begins to come to life, with great character actors like Michael Rispoli and Burt Young riffing on the sidelines. However, this conceit is also left hanging, as the film shifts into a story of the unlikely comeback, with Sonny’s own talents taking center ring.
De Felitta might’ve gotten by with these contrivances if he were a natural showman, but the filmmaker displays little interest in the Bronx setting in which his characters live, or in rendering their experiences in a fashion that refutes screenwriterly index-card portraiture. For instance, a prison flashback in which Sonny gets into a fight during a ball game is reduced to trite and melodramatic close-ups, while much of the remainder of the film is composed of medium shots designed to accentuate only the largely uninteresting dialogue. There’s truly nothing in Bottom of the 9th but plot incident, and the leisurely, impersonal one-thing-after-another-ness of the film’s construction is stifling.
Cast: Joe Manganiello, Sofía Vergara, Denis O'Hare, Burt Young, James Madio, Yancey Arias, Michael Rispoli, Vincent Pastore, Dominik García-Lorido, Michael Maize, Kevin William Paul Director: Raymond De Felitta Screenwriter: Robert Bruzio Distributor: Saban Films Running Time: 111 min Rating: R Year: 2019
The film is more straight-faced than Alexandre Aja’s prior work, trading absurd kills for narrow escapes from gaping alligator jaws.
Steven Scaife
Unlike the giddily crass Piranha 3D, Alexandre Aja’s Crawl is a quiet beast of a film. It’s built not on a foundation of over-the-top gore, but on a series of escalations. As a hurricane barrels toward Florida, ace swimmer Haley (Kaya Scodelario) becomes worried after her father, Dave (Barry Pepper), doesn’t return her phone calls. She travels to her old family home and finds him unconscious in the house’s flooded crawl space, with large alligators swimming in the water.
Early on, the camera often lingers on the deceptive stillness of the rising water for maximum suspense. Haley and her father are trapped in the house with no more than the tools they can find or already have on hand, MacGyvering their very survival out of shovels, flashlights, and flares. The best parts of the film slyly set up those tools and other objects, including a swing set and a rat trap, only to bring them back at some later, climactic moment.
If Crawl, then, is an easily digestible piece of workmanlike thrills, its only real bit of gristle is its po-faced father-daughter bonding. Haley and Dave are somewhat estranged; the family home was meant to have been sold off after Dave’s recent divorce from Haley’s mother; and flashbacks to childhood swim meets show father and daughter tempting fate with flagrantly ironic use of the term “apex predator.” In the face of certain death, they cobble their relationship back together through Hallmark-card platitudes while sentimental music plays on the film’s soundtrack. It’s the absolute thinnest of familial drama, and it will do little to redirect your emotional investment away from the survival of the family dog.
Between these family moments, of course, the flood waters run red as people get got by gators. Aja is prone to lingering in prolonged closeup on things like a protruding bone being shoved back into place, but he otherwise seems to have gotten the most inspired bits of underwater violence out of his system with Piranha 3D. Crawl is more straight-faced than his prior work, trading absurd kills for narrow escapes from gaping alligator jaws. And while these moments are suspenseful, with nail-biting scrapes involving a handgun, some loose pipes, and one particularly clever shower-door maneuver, there’s precious little of the go-for-broke invention or outrageousness that might have made the film more than a fun and economical thriller.
Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, Morfydd Clark Director: Alexandre Aja Screenwriter: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen Distributor: Paramount Pictures Running Time: 87 min Rating: R Year: 2019
Review: The Farewell Thoughtfully Braids the Somber and the Absurd
The film taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it.
Pat Brown
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In the opening scene of writer-director Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, a Chinese grandmother (Zhao Shuzhen), affectionately referred to as Nai Nai by her family, and her Chinese-American granddaughter, Billi (Awkwafina), have a warm, affectionate phone conversation in which each woman incessantly lies to the other. A professionally adrift, financially bereft millennial whose writing ambitions have come to naught, Billi lets her grandmother believe her life is busy and full of social engagements; for her part, Nai Nai insists that she’s at her sister’s house, rather than in a drably decorated doctor’s office. Wang frames Nai Nai against the kitschy, oversized picture of a lagoon that hangs on the wall, as if to emphasize the flimsiness of the illusions the pair is painting for one another.
The sequence calls to mind the advantage of audio-only phone calls: for allowing us to more easily maintain the falsehoods that comprise a not insignificant portion of our relationships. Given that minor mistruths prop up our most basic social connections, Wang focuses The Farewell on the moral quandary of whether a big lie—specifically, culturally contingent situations—might actually be an expression of genuine love. The film takes up the question with a tone of melancholic drollery, a sense of irony that doesn’t lose touch with the human feelings at its core. The Farewell is “based on an actual lie,” evidently an episode from Wang’s life, and its careful mixture of the somber and the absurd rings true to life.
As it turns out, Nai Nai has terminal lung cancer, but Billi’s father’s family elects to lie to the woman about her MRI results, an action that’s evidently within the bounds of Chinese law. But as Billi’s assimilated immigrant father, Haiyan (Tzi Ma), points out to his brother, Haibin (Jiang Yongbo), during a crisis of conscience, such a thing is both frowned upon in America and prosecutable. Struggling even more with the decision, of course, is the more Americanized Billi, who can’t reconcile her Western notions of love and the sanctity of the individual with the widespread practice of lying to family members about their impending deaths.
To create a cover for a family visit to Beijing, the family forces Billi’s cousin, Hao Hao (Chen Hanwei), who lives in Japan, to marry his girlfriend, Aiko (Aoi Mizuhara), of three months. This plan provides plenty of fodder for Wang’s dry humor, as the family attempts to maintain the veneer of celebration while also bidding farewell to their ostensibly clueless matriarch, who’s confused by Hao Hao and Aiko’s lack of affection and the generally dour mood that predominates in the lead-up to the wedding. It’s potential material for a farce, but even in its funny moments, Wang’s film is contemplative rather than frenetic, preferring to hold shots as her characters gradually, often comically adjust to the reality that Nai Nai will soon be gone.
Awkwafina, hitherto notable mostly for her comic supporting roles, gives a revelatory lead performance as Billi, the thirtysomething prone to bouts of adolescent sullenness. Perhaps playing a Bushwick-based, first-generation-American creative type isn’t much of a stretch for the Queens-born rapper/actress, but she immediately brings to the role the depth of lived experience: We believe from the first frames in the long-distance love between Billi and her grandmother, and the existential crisis the young woman feels as she negotiates two cultures’ differing approaches to death and disease. In taking us to Beijing through Billi’s eyes, which are often blinking back tears as she says goodbye without articulating “goodbye,” The Farewell’s morose but not hopeless comedy taps into universal truths about the passage of time, the inevitability of loss, and how we prepare one another for it.
Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, Jiang Yongbo, Chen Hanwei Director: Lulu Wang Screenwriter: Lulu Wang Distributor: A24 Running Time: 98 min Rating: PG Year: 2018
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Review: George Strait, Here for a Good Time
George Strait’s career has long been defined by the singer’s dogged consistency and predictability: For the better part of 30 years, he’s put out a new album roughly every couple of years that includes two or three solid singles and some inoffensive and utterly unremarkable filler. Since his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006, though, Strait has been taking more risks, and, as a result, his two most recent albums, Troubadour and Twang, are among his strongest. Here for a Good Time manages to be even better, boasting a higher caliber of songwriting than even those two records and considering broader themes in a way that Strait’s albums rarely have before.
What’s most fascinating about the newfound depth of focus in Strait’s work is that he’s begun to take a more prominent role in writing the songs on his albums. Better known for choosing material by some of Nashville’s best hired-gun songwriters, Strait and his son “Bubba” Strait co-wrote the majority of Here for a Good Time, giving the record a more singular point of view and real sense of voice. Strait’s singing voice may be one of country music’s most recognizable, but his persona as a recording artist hasn’t always been so distinct.
Though he sticks to many of country’s most familiar tropes (heartbreak, drinking, and faith), Strait brings a mature perspective to his writing on those themes, and his vocal performances convey a lived-in sense of authority. He sounds as youthful as he has in years on the title track, a terrific single that gives his trademark brand of slick trad-country a noteworthy lyrical hook to hang onto (“I’m ain’t here for a long time/I’m here for a good time”). It’s a cleverly written song, subtly folding matters of faith into an anthem of escapism. On the remainder of the album, Strait explores the consequences of a less thoughtful form of escapism (on “Poison” and “Shame on Me”) and provides balance with songs like “I’ll Always Remember You” and standout “Drinkin’ Man” that are characterized by their genuine reflection and insight. There’s still a bit of filler here (Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton are both great songwriters, but “Lone Star Blues” isn’t up to their usual standards), but the songs on Here for a Good Time amount to the most thematically coherent album Strait has recorded.
In co-producing the album with longtime collaborator Tony Brown, Strait continues to explore slight variations on his tried-and-true formula. “Poison,” with its lightly plucked acoustic guitar figure and muffled bass drum strikes, impresses for its minimalism, while “Blue Marlin Blues” opens with a surprising choral chant that couches its narrative about fishing in deep Southern gospel, thereby making explicit the fact that, for many Southerners, fishing counts as a kind of religious experience. Jesse Winchester’s excellent “A Showman’s Life,” which plays as a follow-up to the title track from Troubadour, is drenched in steel guitar washes and boasts a gorgeous harmony vocal from Faith Hill, and Strait has never sounded more soulful. It’s this willingness to take some calculated risks with his trademark sound and to develop his voice as a songwriter that makes Strait’s most recent run the richest and most rewarding of his career, and Here for a Good Time is both a good time and a new peak for Strait.
Label: MCA Nashville Release Date: September 6, 2011 Buy: Amazon
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By David Ganezer
Observer Staff Writer
Coach Richard Kampmann Dies at Age 92; UniHi and Pepperdine Will Miss Him.
Teacher and Coach's contribution to so many lives was recognized and the affection returned by hundreds
Chuck Levin, UniHi Class of 1970, with a famous photo of Coach Richard Kampmann from 1976, the day Coach K's runners won the Los Angeles City Cross Country championship.
Update: Coach Kampmann's Memorial is set for Feb. 4, 2017 at 11 am at University High School's Stivelman Theater.
2/23, 2 pm PST: With deep sadness, this message is to inform you that Coach Dick Kampmann passed away this afternoon at 2:12 p.m. at his home in Santa Monica. He was with family at the end and at age 92, lived a full and meaningful life. He and Deb are now once more united, forever.
Bill Stimming is now busy making the necessary arrangements and there will be a memorial service for Coach in the near future; we will share the details as soon as available.
Coach's passing is lightened by the knowledge that his contribution to so many lives was recognized and the affection returned by hundreds of his alumni, co-workers and friends for his 90th birthday two years ago and last year's honors at Uni, culminating in the naming of the athletic field where he did so much for so many as Kampmann Stadium. There is no possible way to calculate the contribution he made to thousands of lives, one at a time, one workout at a time, one lesson at a time, in sport and for life.
Please Forward this message to all who should see it. More information on services will be sent as soon as arrangements are made.-- Rich Perelman
Coach Richard Kampmann, University High School's beloved track and cross-country coach who later coached track and cross country distance running at Pepperdine University, has died. He was (and remains) a role model for hundreds of boys and girls over the years.
Kampmann was the coach from 1962 to 1987 at UniHi. Subsequently, he became the Women's Track and Cross Country coach at Pepperdine University in Malibu. In May, UniHi dedicated the athletic field to him-Richard M. Kampmann Stadium.
"Coach K Really can't talk much anymore, the dementia is what's getting him," his son, Bill Stimming, said 2 weeks ago. "A month ago he was coming to our home every Sunday, for dinner with our family. It's sad and astonishing to see the difference in just one month."
"My son Christopher, his grandson, is the love of his life, but he was crying his eyes out knowing the end was near for his beloved grandfather. It broke my heart to see him."
"Across the country there are iconic teachers and legendary coaches, and our Coach Kampmann assured his place among that respected beloved prominent group over decades," wrote Greg Levin, UniHi Class of 1965. "You came to realize on day one , at cross country orientation in the UniHi locker room, when Coach K spoke for 40 minutes about the sport, his philosophy about practice and training, and about improving every week as long as you challenge yourself. He encouraged everyone and he said that you could be any shape any size, tall and skinny, short and stocky and it didn't matter. Just come out to do your best everyday and you'd get better," said Coach."
"He not only taught you about devotion to running, he showed you how to be a respectful competitor, a patient gentleman, and a compassionate person. He was incredibly inspiring, always encouraging and taught patience and excellence. He loved coaching , he loved uni - high and he believed in his students," said Levin.
Mike Love, lead singer of the Beach Boys, ran for Coach Kampmann at Dorsey High School in the late 1950's. He wrote to The Observer and said: What a great soul - our Coach Kampmann! I am 100% certain that his influence on me has been a big part of why the band did 172 performances in 2015 and 160 in 2016 and we are on track to do much the same in 2017.
Coach K receiving a hug from a Pepperdine runner, at his 90th birthday party in 2015
"Coach Kampmann was the reason that my Dorsey High School buddy Craig Owens and I would get up early enough in the morning , do five miles in the Baldwin Hills before making breakfast, and getting ourselves to school. Dorsey was in the southern league of the Los Angeles city school system. I was blessed to have had him as my coach the year before I graduated in 1959," wrote Love.
"Coach K then went on to Uni - High in the western league for the majority of his career , where he influenced so many as he did me. The Beach Boys wrote a song in 1963 called " Be True To Your School," which in no small way was influenced by our coach.
Coach Kampmann's influence cannot be quantified . He touched so many lives of so many of us as young guys of varying degrees of talent. Even if you weren't the greatest runner, he made you feel like you were an Olympian."
"He will be honored in heaven for sure. My heart is not sad as much as it is filled , with the warmth of the love and gratitude that I, like so many others , have for that man.
Peace and Love to you always Coach. Love Mike Love, Dorsey High School class of 1959.
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davewyman writes:
Over the three years I ran for Coach Kampmann - as someone put it at the memorial, we ran for him even as we ran for ourselves - he was always fair and always honest. He was a father figure in an almost biblical sense. If he didn't raise the dead, he raised the spirits of generations of young people. And he seemed to have the ability to cure the sick, at least once. I saw him do this the only time I questioned his judgment, after telling him at track practice that I had a bad cold and thought maybe I shouldn't be running over hurdles. He told me to run over hurdles. I did. The next day, as if by magic, my cold was gone. Since then I've tried to kill off my colds many times with exercise. It's always been an exercise in futility.
ZoeyTur writes:
He hated me. Said I ran like a girl...
JohnHHolmes writes:
The most altruistic and inspiring mentor I have. Coach K lives on in the hearts and legs of those of us lucky enough to have been his athletes. Godspeed Anchorman!
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$5 million lottery scratcher ticket bought at SF supermarket
Steve Rubenstein Nov. 30, 2015
The winner of a $5 million Max-a-Million scratcher jackpot bought his ticket at a Safeway store in San Francisco’s Taraval neighborhood.
Photo: Noah Berger, Associated Press
A man who walked into a Safeway store on Taraval Street in San Francisco beat odds of 1 in 3,029,475 and scratched his way to a $5 million prize.
The man, identified by the lottery as Sergey Osipyan, did not want his whereabouts known, according to lottery spokeswoman Melissa Villarin, for reasons that are entirely sensible. He won the top prize in the Max-a-Million scratcher game when his winning number of 39 matched the 39 at the top of the ticket.
Villarin said the lottery printed 12,117,900 tickets for its Max-a-Million game. Each cost $20. Four of them are worth $5 million, she said, and 12,117,896 are not.
The store owner — in this case, the Safeway corporation — will get $25,000 for selling the ticket. It was not immediately known what Safeway intended to do with its windfall.
Scratcher tickets, which used to all cost $1, require far more scratching these days on the part of players. On the Max-a-Million ticket, there are 30 different numbers that need to be scratched to find out if you won or, more likely, lost.
Steve Rubenstein is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: SRubenstein@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SteveRubeSF
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USA Swimming CEO apologizes to abuse victims…
USA Swimming CEO apologizes to abuse victims for first time
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PUBLISHED: June 9, 2014 at 12:09 pm | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 7:42 am
More than four years after saying he had nothing to be sorry for, USA Swimming chief Chuck Wielgus apologized to victims of sexual abuse for the first time.
Wielgus has resisted repeated calls to step down as executive director and pointed to enhanced steps to protect athletes as proof that he was serious about eradicating sexual predators from the program.
But he was recently forced to withdraw from the International Swimming Hall of Fame induction class and now acknowledges that he should have done more.
Wielgus started a blog post on the organization’s website with two words: “I’m sorry.”
The apology referenced a much-criticized 2010 television interview in which a defiant Wielgus said he had done nothing wrong in the handling of dozens of sexual abuse cases under his leadership.
“These are powerful words some people have wanted to hear from me for a long time,” he said in the blog. “And so today, four long years later, I can truthfully say how sorry I am to the victims of sexual abuse.”
He went on to write: “Going back in time, I wish I knew long before 2010 what I know today. I wish my eyes had been more open to the individual stories of the horrors of sexual abuse. I wish I had known more so perhaps I could have done more.
“I cannot undo the past. I’m sorry, so very sorry.”
While Wielgus stands by the organization’s Safe Sport Program, which was instituted after the sexual abuse cases came to light, he has continued to face criticism from those who say he should step down if the USA Swimming is going to make real progress. In January, an independent report commissioned by the governing body recommended 39 changes to better protect underage athletes from predatory coaches.
Last week, Wielgus stepped down from induction to the Hall of Fame after a petition drive opposing his selection and criticism from the Women’s Sports Foundation.
“I brought this on myself in April 2010 when I said I had nothing to apologize for on a national television interview,” Wielgus wrote. “Subsequently, I remained, if not defiant, at least defensive. While USA Swimming developed its groundbreaking Safe Sport Program, I championed the work of our national governing body. I talked about all the good that USA Swimming was doing in the fight to eradicate sexual abuse. But, I never apologized.
“As time progressed, I became afraid that my sincerity would be questioned and anything I said or wrote would be judged as just an attempt to put public relations ahead of true remorse. So I remained silent.”
USA Swimming has hired an official to oversee the protection of athletes, mandated training for thousands of coaches and officials, and now keeps a list those receiving lifetime bans on its Web site. It has grown to 101 people, most of them thrown out of the organization for sexual misconduct.
“Now, when I look back and see how far we’ve come as an organization, I also recognize how far I have come,” Wielgus said. “These experiences have all helped me to grow, and to know that I would never want my daughters, or anyone for that matter, to ever experience the horrors and nightmares that must come during and in the aftermath of a sexually abusive situation.
“And so today, four long years later, I can truthfully say how sorry I am to the victims of sexual abuse.”
Chuck Wielgus
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NASA celebrates 57 years as new SLS heavy-lift booster completes CDR
In the same week that the space agency celebrated its 57th anniversary, NASA announced that its new super heavy-lift booster had completed its Critical Design Review (CDR). The Space Launch System or “SLS” is the booster that NASA plans to use for crewed missions into deep space. With the agency in a transition period between crewed programs, reviews such as this one are critical to ensure that the new rocket is ready to launch as early as 2018.
The website ECN noted that the 11-week analysis of the new launch vehicle had been completed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) located in Huntsville, Alabama.
According to NASA, this is the first time that such scrutiny has been given to an exploration class vehicle in nearly 40 years. CDR’s are held to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the rocket’s current state of development. The next step in the launch vehicle’s life will be full-scale fabrication.
“Now that we’ve completed our review, we will brief NASA leadership, along with the independent review team, about the results and readiness to proceed to the next phase. After that step is complete, we’ll move on to design certification,” said Todd May, NASA’s SLS program manager. “Critical design review represents a major commitment by the agency to human exploration, and through these reviews, we ensure the SLS design is on track to being a safe, sustainable and evolvable launch vehicle that will meet the agency’s goals and missions.”
Over the course of about two-and-a-half months, some 13 teams who hailed from various NASA centers, scoured more than 1,000 files produced as SLS has been developed. The preponderance of documents examined during the CDR was provided by NASA’s Engineering Directorate at MSFC.
According to NASA, to date, SLS’ boosters, engines, and core stage have already had their CDR’s completed with both the integrated spacecraft and the payloads that will fly on SLS almost finished. In short, efforts to get the booster to fly appear to be moving ahead according to schedule.
With the CDR now complete, its findings will be reviewed by the Standing Review Board. Image Credit: NASA
“We’ve nailed our review schedules,” said Garry Lyles, chief engineer for the SLS Program Office. “The team is performing at a really high level. And I’m unbelievably positive in the structural robustness of this vehicle; it has tremendous performance. We’ve picked the right vehicle for the journey to Mars.”
This CDR only encompasses the first three SLS that are currently slated to fly. Known as the Block 1 version, the booster will stand some 322 feet (98 meters) in height. If predictions are accurate, when launched, the rocket will have the capability of unleashing some 8.4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The first versions of SLS that will take to the skies will be able to carry 154,000 lbs (69,853 kg; 70 metric tons) to orbit.
At present, the massive new launch vehicle is scheduled to launch in 2018 on what has been dubbed Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1). During this cislunar flight, an uncrewed spacecraft will fly to demonstrate that both NASA’s new crew-rated Orion spacecraft and SLS can function as one.
Marshall is not alone in having to complete CDRs to validate that the ground support and spacecraft systems are able to support sending crewed missions to distant destinations throughout the solar system. Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers also have to complete the review of all elements that will be used on this new vehicle.
Although listed as a “NASA” effort, the space agency is not producing this rocket on their own. The agency will rely on experienced contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Orbital ATK. These firms will produce the core stage of the rocket, the Orion spacecraft, the RS-25 engines in the initial versions of SLS and the two five-segment solid rocket boosters that are attached to each rocket, respectively.
An array of contractors are involved in producing the SLS booster. This image shows the five-segment solid rocket boosters that will be used on initial flights of the rocket. Image Credit: NASA
Fueled by a mix of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the core stage alone stands 200 feet (61 meters) in height and is 27.6 feet 8 meters) in diameter and employs four RS-25 engines to help it aloft.
Upon completion, the CDR was submitted to the Standing Review Board. Comprised of aerospace experts from within and outside the space agency, they reviewed the program’s state of readiness. NASA has stated that the Standing Review Board worked to certify that SLS was indeed ready to meet schedule and budgetary requirements.
“Much of the benefit of this review is what we do to prepare for it because that’s where we really bring things out,” said Jim Reuter, head of the Standing Review Board. “And you can tell it in the spirit of the people here. They are excited about what they’re doing. They can see that this is the review that’s going to make it real.”
As with all efforts of this scale, a number of steps, procedures, and approvals have to be met before the rocket can be launched without astronauts – let alone with a crew on board Orion perched atop.
The Orion spacecraft also continues to undergo testing with the vehicle’s prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, recently carrying out tests to ensure that everything will work as advertised when it carries crews to orbit – and beyond. Two tests to demonstrate changes made to the vehicle’s fairing were carried out in June and July of this year to validate modifications that had been made to the design.
Video courtesy of Lockheed Martin
“A thorough review requires a wide range of engineering skills and experts to assess everything from avionics and software that fly the vehicle to ground transportation and integrated systems testing designs and plans,” said Preston Jones, deputy director of Marshall’s Engineering Directorate. “We have gone through every design interface and rechecked analysis to ensure we are meeting all SLS mission performance and crew safety requirements.”
NASA is hoping to send a crew to part of an asteroid that has been towed into lunar orbit some time in the 2020s. If that mission takes place, the agency will begin working on a far loftier goal – sending astronauts to Mars.
NASA was founded on July 29, 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Formed, in part, as a response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 in October of 1957, the agency would go on to send men to the Moon, spacecraft to all of the classical planets and much more.
“It’s an exciting time for NASA and our nation,” May continued, “as we prepare to go to places in deep space that we’ve never been before,” May said.
SLS has been mentioned for use in sending a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Image Credit: NASA
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Yes but what is it going to do? So far there is not one single mission with funding for hardware for this vehicle. Given the timeframes to build any significant hardware these days together with the cost of such hardware, it looks like it here will be a significant gap of many years before any mission for SLS is actually ready to fly. IIRC, NASA has stated that they need to fly at least once a year to fly safely. Guess that means maintaining a technical capability.
So many questions on this issue and so few answers.
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The answers are;
First the ISS is going out of business sooner than anyone is thinking it will because costs are soon going to “skyrocket” due to maintenance. It will never last till 2024 because that would cost several more billion than can be justified and will likely be abandoned before the end of the decade.
Second is Luna has become the next place to go because of international interest and the slow realization that Mars is not going to happen. The fantasies of Bigelow space hotels are effectively dead since after years of soliciting there are no investors stupid enough to spend a nickel on a project that cannot turn a profit.
Third is that beyond earth orbit is the place the commercial space enthusiasts unconsciously understand is beyond their reach and for this reason they must act out their state of denial and always ask rhetorical questions like, “what is it going to do”?
Hi Gary. Nope, you haven’t answered any of my questions. ISS is now being supported to 2024 by the Russians and still no funding for anything SLS might fly. The basic op’s funding isn’t estimated at this point or approved, only development and one test flight.
Byron Hood
Congratulations to NASA, especially Todd May, and its partners at Boeing, Orbital ATK, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne. On to Mars and on to Europa!
SLS/Orion= The 2015 version of an enhanced Saturn 5 Rocket with an enhanced Apollo command module. It’s meant to be a symbol of American leadership in space. It’s the national government launch system. It’s not meant to be cost effective or launch on a regular basis. When other countries look at the U.S. space assets, they will see the ability to launch man & machine to any point in BEO. Not cost effective launches, but, high dollar cost-plus government launches. The others, commercial crew/cargo & suborbital providers are meant to be the work horses of LEO & eventually BEO. Just my opinion.
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Technology becoming more important for worship
Pamela Dillon, Contributing Writer
Give me that new-time religion.
According to a 2010 Faith Communities Today national survey of 11,077 congregations, Internet technologies are being employed by a large majority of churches, especially mega-churches, or those having 2,000 members or more. The use of email by religious groups has more than doubled from a decade ago, rising from 35 to 90 percent. Use of websites rose from 33 to 69 percent in the same time period.
Nevertheless, many churches with smaller congregations are also embracing new technologies. First Baptist Church of New Carlisle, with 200 active members, has both a website and a Facebook page. Sometime after 2006, major changes began happening during Sunday services.
“Our senior pastor began to incorporate multimedia into his sermons, an outline in a PowerPoint form, video clips, and using audiovisual,” said FBC Associate Pastor Jeff Christmas. “He received lots of positive feedback for doing that.”
That church’s longtime senior pastor, Rick Shoemaker, passed away two months ago, and they used technology for a 2013 Christmas Eve tribute.
“He had written ‘A New View of Christmas,’ and we had five of the scenes on video, with the last scene live,” said Christmas, who was 14 years old when Shoemaker began as pastor at FBC.
There is a Church Media U seminar scheduled at Crown Plaza in Dayton this March 27. Christmas attended an earlier Media U seminar in Indianapolis in 2006.
“Our church was pretty much traditional rural church and we hadn’t been using multimedia at all at that point,” he said. “It was an excellent introduction to the topic for us at the time. We ended up purchasing a projector system for worship lyrics and videoclips.”
The church also provides Sunday sermon audio messages that congregants can download, organized by date.
“Occasionally we have videos available if there is a children’s program,” said Christmas.
These are some of the topics that this one-day church media seminar covers: maximizing technology in your ministry, video projectors and hardware, presentation software, media design/fonts/layouts, enhancing worship with media, video recording/streaming, video camera systems, using Facebook and YouTube, and environmental projection.
There are three presenters involved in these seminars:
Darren MacDonald of Shepherd Multimedia, has 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He has personally designed thousands of church projection systems. He’s known as a “tech-geek,” but one with the sensitivity not to make it too overwhelming for volunteers to master.
Camron Ware, founder of Visual Worshiper, who guides and mentors churches through what technology means for today’s congregations. He is a freelance lighting designer and VJ who likes to create authentic, transformational and engaging worship experiences.
Josh Lyon, operations manager and co-owner of Shift Worship. He creates visual media and short films for churches. He mentors church professionals to use technology to tell stories, not just embellish worship services. He stresses illustrating truth, inspiring praise and motivating action.
“The seminar was straightforward and easy to understand, with knowledgeable leaders,” said David Steffee, a past tech volunteer at First Church of the Nazarene in Springfield, who has attended two Church Media U seminars.
Registration for this one-day seminar is 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., with the seminar scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Individual consultations follow the last presentation. Those looking for help with specific challenges regarding their sanctuary or meeting space should bring blueprints, diagrams and pictures of their facility.
In that same study, Faith Communities Today found that “roughly 50 percent of faith communities with major tech use indicated a lot of their members are involved in bringing others into the congregation.” Additionally, “congregations with a greater use of technology, especially when combined with electronic instruments and projection screens, are more likely to describe their worship as innovative, joyful, thought-provoking and inspirational.”
“It was really the most informative seminar I’ve been to,” said Christmas. “The presenters were excellent and the individual attention was great, both at the seminar and after.”
What: Church Media U
Where: Crown Plaza, 33 Fifth St., Dayton
When: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 27
More info: 1-800-646-8336 or churchmediau.com
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Gender & Sexuality / Sociology of Organizations & Work
Who Needs the Boys?: On How Women’s Colleges Still Matter
by admin · 6th October 2014
By Clara S. [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
As I received the invitation to join the Sociology Lens team as a News Editor, I spent a great deal of time reading archived articles, debating what could I possibly contribute to the discipline. As I came across Heidi Rademacher’s piece “Why We Definitely Need Feminism,” I realized that my experiences, research interests and questions I ask time and time again are relevant to a larger body of timely literature and understanding about women, gender, sexuality, feminism, education, human rights, and equality. In support of Heidi’s argument, we need feminism because it helps both men and women become fully human.
Just like we still need feminism today, we still need women’s colleges. In fact, the two are inseparable. Having attended one of the historic Seven Sisters and one of the remaining 52 women’s colleges (including coordinate colleges, 47 without) in the US, and now attending a large, southern co-ed land grant university with a large military presence and only 41.6% female enrollment, I am a strong advocate for single-sex education. I single handedly have experienced the positive pro-woman environment that these schools and classes can have, where every leadership position and every award is always given to a woman. But, I also know that personal anecdotes are not enough.
Historically speaking, women’s colleges were created to give women access to education that was denied to them by established patriarchal institutions. Even though women today have access to education at almost all higher educational institutions, and more women attend college than men (though both numbers are still increasing, just at different rates despite recent arguments about the “boy crises”), there remains large gaps between men and women in access to equal pay, healthcare, higher-ranking and prestigious jobs, safe workplace environments, and so many other things. Single-sex institutions, however, continue to fight these inequalities, all of which are feminist issues.
Because of historic sexism, racism, and classism, some educational institutions have responded by institutionally providing opportunities otherwise denied to marginalized populations; single-sex classrooms and institutions are one prime example (Mitchell and Stewart 2013; Tidball 1999). By “taking women seriously,” single-sex institutions allow women to engage in the educational process more directly and experience greater gains than their counterparts at coeducational institutions (Kinzie et al. 2007:160, Tidball et al. 1999:97-16).
While more students attend coeducational institutions, equal access to higher education does not guarantee equal opportunities. In coeducation, men and women must compete for the same opportunities and roles, creating a “chilly campus climate” where students work against each other, and systematic inequalities favoring men prevail (Tidball et al. 1999:58-59; see also Scott 1988).
If coeducation does not serve the needs of women, why do women choose to attend coeducational institutions? Miller-Bernal (2006:8) explains, “Given the sexism of society at large, anything male tends to be defined as superior to anything female.” Therefore historically men’s institutions have been perceived as superior to women’s institutions. By opening access to these institutions to a new market—women—coeducational and previously men’s colleges could increase enrollments and, subsequently, profits by admitting women, while offering lower tution rates than private, single-sex institutions (Miller-Bernal 2006, Tidball et al. 1999). By increasing access, but not necessarily quality, coeducation became the dominant education model. Single-sex institutions, due to financial pressures, continuously close or began admitting opposite sexed students (from 200 in the 1970s to 47 today).
Despite this shift favoring coeducation, however, research has continuously demonstrated benefits to students at single-sex institutions during and after attendance (Kinzie et al. 2007, Miller-Bernal 2006, Mitchell and Stewart 2013, Tidball et al. 1999). Women at women’s colleges exhibit greater gains in cognitive areas (intellectual development, involvement, academic self-confidence, and academic ability), non-cognitive areas (self-esteem, confidence, leadership development), and overall satisfaction. The numbers are even more shocking out of college: while only 2% of women attend single-sex institutions, 33% of women board members of Fortune 1000 companies, 30% of Business Week’s list of rising stars in corporate America, and 20% of female Congress members attended women’s colleges. Nearly half of women’s college graduates hold traditionally male-dominated jobs, 81% have worked towards advanced degrees, and are twice as likely to earn a PhD. Women’s college graduates earn on average $8,000 more annually than women who attend coeducational institutions. With numbers like that, the women’s college environment must be doing something right for women.
Critics of these findings argue that the students attending single-sex institutions demographically differ from those attending coeducational institutions causing a selectivity bias. That is, students who are predisposed to succeed after college are more likely to attend private, selective, and single-sex schools. This argument is identical to the one used to exclude women from formal education in the first place; inherent differences between men and women predetermine their academic, intellectual, and occupational outcomes. Recent research responds to this by holding institutional selectivity, size, price, and student characteristics statistically constant, making the institutions identical except for the outcomes of interest including GPA, cognitive gains, job placement, income, and satisfaction. Any differences between productivity result because of how the institution approaches its student population (Tidball et al. 1999).
So, what is the point? The point is that women’s colleges still matter. The point is that we need to reconsider how coeducation works (or does not) and how we are teaching our students (or not). The point is that education, in no way, is equal or has “flipped” in favor of women. Just like we need feminism today, we need women’s colleges to continue the fight towards equality. Just Google “why women’s colleges are still relevant” and you’ll see countless statistics and facts arguing that women’s college graduates are succeeding at higher rates than their peers because women-for-women environments work. Women-for-women environments challenge the patriarchal, heterosexist, misogynistic system. To challenge the hegemonic, we need to reconsider how equal access is not equivalent to equal opportunity and outcome- a classic lesson we’ve learned over the past couple decades.
Pieces to Read:
Kinzie, Jillian, Auden D. Thomas, Megan M. Palmer, Paul D. Umbach and George D. Kuh. 2007. “Women Students at Coeducational and Women’s Colleges: How Do Their Experiences Compare?”. Journal of College Student Development 48(2):145-65.
Miller-Bernal, Leslie. 2006. “Introduction: Changes in the Status and Functions of Women’s Colleges over Time ” Pp. 1-20 in Challenged by Coeducation: Women’s Colleges since the 1960s, edited by L. Miller-Bernal and S. L. Poulson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Mitchell, Anthondy B. and James B. Stewart. 2013. “The Efficacy of All-Male Academies: Insights from Critical Race Theory (Crt).” Sex Roles 69:382-92.
Tidball, M. Elizabeth, Daryl G. Smith, Charles S. Tidball and Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel. 1999. Taking Women Seriously: Lessons and Legacies for Educating the Majority. Phoenix: The Oryx Press.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelhennessey/2013/02/06/whats-in-a-womens-college/
http://www.salem.edu/admissions/why-a-womens-college
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/carrie-wofford/2013/10/24/why-you-should-consider-a-womens-college
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Boykin leads the Big 12 and is fourth nationally in total offense at 361.9 yards per game. But he is coming off his worst game of the season, when he completed only 12 of 30 passes and threw for a season-low 166 yards at West Virginia.
Patterson said he practiced well last week and has practiced well again this week.
“You get to where you get, and you do it,” Patterson said. “If there was ever a week for him to do it, then this would be the one.”
Poise counts
One of the things Patterson looks for from the Horned Frogs is poise. He said he could see that on the sideline in the West Virginia game when he watched the ABC broadcast of the game.
“Watching the TV copy, no matter how it all turned out, our kids stayed very calm,” Patterson said. “I thought our sideline, it was kind of like we did what we needed to do to get where we needed to get.”
Receiver Kolby Listenbee said composure was key to coming back from a 27-14 deficit.
“At some point, you thought it was going to go downhill,” he said. “But at the same time, everybody was just so poised on the sideline. We all knew we we were going to come back and win. The game was still close, and we hadn’t had our great drive yet. We still had confidence in ourselves.”
Patterson said a former West Virginia player complimented him after the game.
“He said, ‘My hat’s off,’ ” Patterson said. “He said, ‘This doesn’t happen in Morgantown. We don’t get a couple-touchdown lead and ever lose.’ And he’s right. Look through history. It doesn’t happen very often in Morgantown. So you’ve got to give the kids a lot of credit for their resolve and how they finished the game.”
Scrambling QB
The quarterback scramble remains one of Patterson’s most pressing concerns for his defense, and Kansas State’s Jake Waters is not easing his mind.
“He’s got the innate ability to not get sacked,” Patterson said. “He scrambles. There are a lot of plays where he uses his feet to get himself outside of things, and then he throws it. A lot of his bigger plays come after a half-scramble.”
The Horned Frogs have been hit-and-miss against elusive quarterbacks. Oklahoma’s Trevor Knight proved the toughest to contain, running for 61 yards.
“We struggled with him,” Patterson said. “Those kind of guys stop you from playing certain coverages because they can take off and run.”
‘W’ mattered
Cornerback Kevin White felt good about his performance against West Virginia’s Kevin White, the conference’s leading receiver. But he said it would not have meant anything without Jaden Oberkrom’s game-winning kick.
“I was just happy that guys played well. Jaden made the kick, offense came through when we needed them to,” he said. “I was just happy more about the win.”
The next challenge is Kansas State’s Tyler Lockett.
“He’s a quick player, fast player, great routes, physical dude,” White said. “I’ve played him going on three years now. I’m real familiar with him. He’s a great player.”
Groza semifinalist
Oberkrom, whose 37-yard field goal won the game at West Virginia last week, was named a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award, given to the country’s top place-kicker. Oberkrom was also a semifinalist in 2012.
The junior from Arlington Martin leads the nation with 11.3 points per game. He has made 14 of 18 kicks, including his last five in a row. He is 5-for-7 from 40-plus yards this year, and his 69 percent rate for his career from that distance ranks third in Big 12 history.
Top overall draft pick? TCU’s Lucas Niang has high hopes
By Mac Engel
A Texas high school kid who played college ball at Ohio State offers a blunt assessment of the perception of Texas football, and suggests a major change is needed.
Why TCU won’t hesitate to start true freshman Max Duggan this season
Tommy Boy’s wish to play Texas A&M exposes Aggies’ childish behaviors
Let’s do this: Texas coach Tom Herman wants Texas A&M rivalry renewed
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Hospitalization rates for U.S. adults with kidney injury from 2000-2014
Hospitalization rates for U.S. adults with kidney injury from 2000-2014, by dialysis status (per 1,000 population)
by John Elflein, last edited Apr 16, 2018
This statistic shows the hospitalization rate for U.S. adults with kidney injury from 2000 to 2014, by dialysis status. According to the data, among adults with acute kidney injury, the hospitalization rate in 2014 was 11.7 per 1,000 population.
Dialysis-treated kidney injury
Acute kidney injury identified based on the following International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9 CM) codes: at least one diagnostic code 584 (acute renal failure) or at least one procedure code of 39.95 (hemodialysis) or 54.98 (peritoneal dialysis) and excluding the following codes: V45.1 (renal dialysis status), V56.0 (encounter for dialysis and dialysis catheter care), V56.31 (encounter for adequacy testing for hemodialysis), V56.32 (encounter for adequacy testing for peritoneal dialysis), and V56.8 (other dialysis). Dialysis-treated acute kidney injury identified based on the following ICD-9 CM codes: at least one diagnostic code 584 (acute renal failure) and at least one procedure code of 39.95 (hemodialysis) or 54.98 (peritoneal dialysis), and excluding the following codes: V45.1 (renal dialysis status), V56.0 (encounter for dialysis and dialysis catheter care), V56.31 (encounter for adequacy testing for hemodialysis), V56.32 (encounter for adequacy testing for peritoneal dialysis), and V56.8 (other dialysis).
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Number of patients receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2016.
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Number of deceased kidney donors in the United Kingdom (UK) in the year to March 2018, by country
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Rate of newly diagnosed cases of kidney cancer per 100,000 population in England from 1995 to 2017, by gender*
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Incidence of newly diagnosed kidney cancer in Scotland from 2000 to 2017, by gender (per 100,000 population)
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Rate of mortality to kidney cancer incidence in England in 2016, by region and gender*
Crude rate of mortality from kidney cancer in Scotland from 2000 to 2017, by gender (per 100,000 population)
Number of deaths from kidney cancer in Scotland in 2017, by age and gender
Hospitalization rates for U.S. adults with kidney injury from 2000-2014, by gender (per 1,000 population)
Hospitalization rates for U.S. diabetics with kidney injury from 2000-2014, by gender (per 1,000 population)
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Veterans remember Korean War battle
Ashlar Lodge No. 98 F&AM recently honored Ken Hall for his participation in the Chosin reservoir battle in North Korea. A jacket was presented to him by J.B. Hunt and Dominic Perez in remembrance of the battle from Nov. 27 through Dec. 13, 1950.
In the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as Battle of Changjin Lake in the Korean War, some 30,000 United Nations troops (nicknamed "The Frozen Chosin" or "The Chosin Few"), under the command of American Gen. Ned Almond, faced approximately 150,000 Chinese troops of the People's Volunteer Army 9th Army Group under the command of Song Shi-Lun. The name Chosin is the Japanese rendition of the Korean place name Changjin. The name stuck due to the Japanese names given to locations listed on maps used by U.N. forces.
Shortly after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict, large numbers of Chinese soldiers swept across the Yalu River, encircling the U.N. forces in the northeastern part of North Korea at the Chosin Reservoir. A brutal battle in freezing weather followed. Although they inflicted enormous casualties on the Chinese forces, the U.A. troops were forced to evacuate North Korea after they withdrew from the reservoir to the port of Hungnam.
The events of the Chosin Battle, which had a decisive impact on the future course of the war, were fought in the 17-day period.
The X Corps -- commanded by Almond -- was widely spread out over northeastern Korea, its units far apart and out of supporting distance from each other. The X Corps troops at Changjin, mainly the U.S. 1st Marine Division, a regimental combat team, RCT31 of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, and 41 Commando Royal Marines were, by late November, surrounded by units of the 9th Army Group of the People's Volunteer Army.
The 1st Marine Division was attacked by seven Chinese divisions on Nov. 27, 1950. They fought their way out of the Chosin Reservoir against seven Communist Chinese divisions, suffering more than 900 killed and missing, more than 3,500 wounded and more than 6,500 non-battle casualties, mostly from frostbite during the battle. The greater part of the Chinese 9th Army was rendered ineffective as they suffered an estimated 37,500 casualties trying to stop the Marines' march out of the "Frozen Chosin."
There were heavy casualties on both sides. Ultimately the Marines were credited with destroying three Chinese divisions and crippling several others to the extent that they were no longer a threat.
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God loves you. We love you. There is hope.
If you are a resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in any crisis:
Resolve Crisis Services
1-888-7-YOU-CAN (796-8226)
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Free, confidential emotional support for people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh
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Allegheny Link
Resources for the LGBTQ Community
Trevor Lifeline—24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ young people under 25, available at 1-866-488-7386.
PERSAD CENTER is a human service organization whose mission is to improve the well-being of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning) communities, and the HIV/AIDS communities.
The Pittsburgh Equality Center (PEC) provides gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, their families and supporters in Western Pennsylvania with resources and opportunities to promote visibility, understanding, and equality within the LGBT communities and the community at large. The PEC works toward these goals through education, social support, networking, and advocacy.
Shepherd Wellness Community, founded in 1985 by Episcopal Priest Father Lynn Edwards, is the only AIDS Community center in western Pennsylvania and the only AIDS community serving the 11-county region of southwestern Pennsylvania. SWC is often the first place a person seeks help after an HIV positive diagnosis.
PA211's statewide information and referral resources can help people find:
Phone: 2-1-1 or 1-888-553-5778.
St. Paul's Pastoral Emergency Number
Answers 24 hours a day
Pastoral care ministries make the love of God visible for parishioners.
Clergy are available on a daily basis to talk to those wishing guidance, and visit parishioners if needed.
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