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Another conservative anti-Lugar endorsement
Sarah Palin, Citizens United and the American Conservative Union have all given their support to Richard Mourdock, the Republican challenging incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar in Indiana. Now, another influential conservative is hopping on the bandwagon.
Grover Norquist, the influential conservative president of Americans for Tax reform, reportedly plans to officially endorse Mourdock this afternoon:
Lugar, who has represented Indiana in the U.S. Senate since 1977, has never signed Norquist's " Taxpayer Protection Pledge" never to raise taxes. A majority of Republican lawmakers--and some Democrats in conservative districts--have signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge. [...]
Members of Lugar's congressional staff met with Norquist at the Americans for Tax Reform headquarters in Washington earlier this year to discuss whether Lugar would sign the no-tax pledge, a source who attended the meeting told Yahoo News.
Norquist never received a reply from Lugar's staff, the source said, so he contacted Lugar's office last week to give the Indiana senator one final chance to sign. Lugar refused, the source said.
With so many notable conservatives lining up behind Mourdock, I'm curious as to why Indiana's two-term governor, Mitch Daniels, is such an outspoken supporter of Lugar...?
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Sharona Schwartz
When Israeli Soccer Fans Heard a Soldier From Texas Killed in Gaza Had Few People to Attend His Funeral, They Went to Work — Guess How Many People Showed Up
“He came here to protect us. He has no family, and so we are his family at this time.”
Sean Carmeli Facebook photo.
Fans of the Maccabi Haifa soccer club are known for their unbending loyalty and for getting a tad emotional when cheering on their team, ranked one of the top in Israel.
When they heard that one of their own, Texas-raised Israeli military First Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, was killed in Gaza over the weekend and had few to escort his body to its final resting spot, they took to Facebook to beg others to attend his funeral in the northern Israeli city.
What the fans didn’t expect was that 20,000 people would answer their call, pouring in on buses, trains and cars for the 11 p.m. funeral Monday night, scheduled to accommodate Carmeli’s parents flying in from the U.S.
The outpouring of mourners was so huge, cars got stuck in traffic on the way to the cemetery, while some visitors required medical attention. (Image source: Haifa community listserv)
Both the team's page and a fan page had posted appeals all day on Facebook, begging strangers to support the family with a respectable showing at the funeral.
“This is a huge request from us to you Maccabi Haifa fans and this is your chance to do a great mitzvah [good deed]," one Facebook appeal read. "Sean Carmeli, who was killed last night was a lone soldier and we do not want his funeral to be empty. … Let's pay our last respects to a hero who died so we could live. It's the least we can do for him and for our people.”
Image source: Haifa community listserv
Ohad Lalush spearheaded the Facebook campaign and described the sense of pride that overwhelmed those who poured in to pay their respects.
“A lone soldier died in this war, and thanks to a small post on Facebook tens of thousands arrived,” an emotional Lalush told Israel’s Channel 2. “It simply warms your heart. Even in a city like Haifa that had maybe one or two [incoming missile] sirens, everyone got together to support the country and the army.”
The Tazpit news agency reported that the turnout was so overwhelming that mourners got stuck in traffic and others required medical attention because of the crowding.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav also attended the funeral, the Jerusalem Post reported.
"I don’t know him, and I am not a Maccabi Haifa fan, but I received the message and decided I was going. We are coming to pay our last respects to someone who is a hero to us," one attendee told Tazpit.
Another who made the long drive from southern Israel said she just wanted to say thank you.
"He came here to protect us. He has no family, and so we are his family at this time," the unnamed woman told Tazpit.
A handwritten sign at the cemetery read, "See Sean, our hero. The entire nation of Israel is here with you."
Carmeli’s parents, Alon and Dalya, are natives of Israel who moved to the Texas border town of South Padre Island. Sean felt a strong connection to his parents’ homeland and after graduating high school decided to join his two sisters in Israel and become a combat infantryman in the IDF, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“Everything may be bigger in Texas, but the beaches and parties could not distract a native son from returning home to defend and protect his people,” read a post on the Michael Levin Israel Lone Soldier Center’s Facebook page.
“Sean was a gentle, kind boy,” said Rabbi Asher Hecht of the Rio Grande Valley Chabad Jewish outreach organization, who had met Carmeli at summer camp. “He was the oldest of the local boys in our camp, and was a sweet and kind example to everyone else.”
The Facebook post that prompted thousands to escort Carmeli to his final resting spot.
“Our hearts go out to his parents and dear sisters, Gal and Or,” Hecht said. “They lost their only son today, their only brother. The vacuum left by this tragedy will never be filled.”
Daniella Shemi said she didn’t know Carmeli but wanted to attend his funeral.
“It’s shocking and your heart hurts for the family. This situation was forced on us. All we want is to live here in quiet and they [Hamas] don’t let us. When I see the image of all the people here, it makes me proud to be a part of this nation," Shemi said.
Carmeli was killed in Gaza Saturday night when his armored personnel carrier was fired on by Hamas militants shooting an anti-tank weapon.
In his eulogy, Lt. Col. Moshe Dango said, “You always stood boldly at the forefront of the battalion. From your commanders I heard you’re crazy about soccer and the Maccabi Haifa team. You fell as a hero opposite a cowardly enemy and we will never forget that. Your image and your values will continue to be with us. May your memory be blessed.”
This video from Israel's Reshet TV was posted on YouTube showing Carmeli's casket arriving flanked by the huge crowd:
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Chris Field
NYC restaurant owners flummoxed by new, inconsistent dining edicts as the government continues to contradict itself
How can these businesses survive?
Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images
Restaurant owners have borne the brunt of COVID restrictions during the pandemic — and very few cities have seen more severe and inconsistent new regulations than New York City.
Now, more New York City restaurant owners are publicly pointing out the lack of consistency in the dining shutdown policies in a city where — according to the governor's own data — bars and restaurants are responsible for just 1.43% of the virus' spread.
The contradictions these businesses are facing as New York governmental agencies cannot get their orders straight have made life nearly impossible for entrepreneurs seeking just to stay afloat.
What are the restaurants doing?
After getting completely shut down last spring, New York City restaurants began slowly reopening with limited crowds over the summer and early fall. To cope with diminished indoor seating options, eateries created outdoor dining areas, which worked fairly well as long as the weather cooperated.
On Friday, Dec. 11, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) declared that all indoor dining in the city would have to close as the virus was surging again. Shortly after the governor issued his edict, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) threatened that if people didn't get the virus under control, the city could be facing a "full shutdown."
And once again, Gotham eateries got creative and made major investments in attempts to expand outdoor dining and offer more takeout and delivery options.
Then on Thursday, the city issued a new "COVID-19 Dining Update" for restaurants, the New York Post reported. Included in that update was a ban on restaurant employees eating inside the restaurants they work for during their breaks.
The city also added a new requirement for nighttime takeout — no more in-person orders, even if conducted outdoors. All such orders must now be placed via online or telephone. Also, orders can be picked up inside the eatery only before 10 p.m. — after that it's curbside only.
But the most controversial item on the COVID update was the declaration that patrons at a restaurant's outdoor dining area could not use the establishment's indoor restrooms. What made the new order even more strikingly egregious was the fact that New York was in the middle of serious winter weather with 30-degree temperatures and significant snowfall.
However, the Post reported, after significant pushback, the state reversed its bathroom ban.
The government can't get its edicts straight
The Post's Karol Markowicz has been watching the impact of government edicts on the Big Apple — from businesses to education to families — and her piece Monday revealed some of the conflicting standards city eateries are facing with Cuomo's new COVID orders that target New York City restaurants.
Markowicz interviewed restaurant owners in the Big Apple who are attempting to navigate the new regulations, and she determined that the "new city diktats are just the latest serving of hell dished out to restaurateurs and their workers by a political class that continues to receive regular paychecks courtesy of taxpayers."
One owner, Tina Plagos, who owns three establishments, said she hasn't turned a profit in 10 months.
"We haven't had a profit since February and have bought air purifiers, heaters, a ton of extra cleaning supplies, masks, hand sanitizer and have spent thousands to build and rebuild the outdoor seating area," she told Markowicz.
But according to Plagos, what is really maddening about the new COVID edicts is that apparently restaurants are dangerous only if they are located within the boundaries of New York City.
"In Long Island, customers can sit and eat at the bar six feet apart, but in New York City, no one is allowed near the bar," Plagos said. "You can't order a drink at the bar, let alone eat at the bar."
Rafi Hasid, another multi-location restaurant owner, told Markowicz he has spent at least $10,000 per site to keep up with the ongoing and ever-shifting regulations.
But worst of all, the government continues to contradict itself, as agencies give conflicting messages on what is allowed and what is not for outdoor dining.
"In the beginning, they said they're going to allow propane heaters. But then they said you can't have them on the street side or on the outside of the sidewalk," Hasid said. "Then they said you can't keep the propane tanks on your property and must store them at a different location every night. So that was a wasted purchase."
And heaters weren't the only area he saw major conflicting messages from officials.
"We capsuled the outdoor seating, so every table has its own personal area," he said. "The Health Department said it's good. Then the Fire Department said we need a door, and it should be closed. Then yesterday, we got an e-mail from the city that the door can't be closed, because the space needs to be open on two sides. We keep investing money but what's the criteria to open indoor dining again? We have no idea."
Restaurant owners continue to cry for help, asking a city and state that apparently won't listen.
"Restaurants are mainly family-owned and made up of mainly minorities," Plagos told Markowicz. "They aren't corporate America. We were living the American dream of working hard and taking care of our families, and now they took that right away from us."
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Kamala Harris Sworn in as First Woman Vice President
Save 30% on a Pair of Amazon Echo Bud Earphones
Not only are they Alexa compatible, they also can drown out your surroundings so you can actually hear what you want, when you want.
Biden Ousts Trump-Picked Surgeon General Jerome Adams
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The physician was condemned by some for amplifying the president’s misleading claims about the disease in the early days of the pandemic.
Dozen National Guard Troops Pulled From Inauguration
Homegrown Extremists?
At least two were accused of “inappropriate” posts or messages about the event specifically, and all were said to be linked to far-right militias or have extremist views.
Police: McQueary Didn’t Contact Us
Chris Gardner / Getty Images
So much for that defense. Penn State police and State College police both said that Mike McQueary never contacted them about child sexual abuse. In an email that the Associated Press was forwarded Tuesday, the former football coach, who was then a graduate student, told a friend that he “stopped” Jerry Sandusky from raping a 10-year-old boy in the locker room in 2002. By "stopped," McQueary wrote that he didn’t do anything physically but instead contacted the police and campus police. What was said in the email directly contradicts his grand-jury statements. Meanwhile, a new judge was appointed to the Sandusky case after it was revealed that the previous judge was a volunteer at Sandusky’s charity.
Read it at CBS NEWS
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Social unrest and civil war are the final stepping-stones to a brave new authoritarian future. In order to get there, the American people must exhibit a self-motivated and determined resolve for violence against each other.
Controlling the Herd
Sigmund Fraud | Waking Times
The mother lode of all conspiracies is the New World Order. In essence, it is a high-level, multi-generational plan to render all sovereign national governments subservient to an unelected, supranational, authoritarian world government. In this scheme, the people of planet earth will be micro managed with strict social, technological and financial controls. It is the total consolidation of global power into the hands of a ruthless, minority elite who aim to rape the planet and enslave the human race.
They can’t do it alone, though, they need your help. They need witting and unwitting minions to set the brush fires of revolutionary change in our towns and cities. They need pawns to agitate and disrupt the relative peace, and to upend the status quo with turmoil. They need senseless, animal-like violence, caught on camera and replayed ad infinitum on cable news and social media. They need terror, of both the foreign and domestic variety. They need fear in the streets, and fear in the minds of the proles.
Most of all, though, they need you to create chaos, so that they can bring order.
The powers that be, those demons of the deep state, those orchestrators of fear, famine, debt and war, cannot achieve their plan without leading the masses into confusion and disarray, for only then will the masses demand an end to their own freedoms and privacy. And sadly, it appears their army of minions is growing in strength and audacity.
In the aftermath of Charlottesville it is more clear than ever that there is no shortage of pawns for the New World Order. The armies of ignorance are gathering, and here are three signs you might be among them.
1. You’re Playing the Divide and Conquer Game
Left vs. right. Black vs. white. Republican vs. Democrat. Citizen vs. Immigrant. Communist vs. Fascist. Have vs. Have Not. My Team vs. Your Team. Me vs. You.
There a thousand and one ways for a society to faction and split apart, but without community and unity we are lost, doomed and done. If you’re entrenched in one side of any dualistic paradigm, seeking to convert or to crush the other side, then you’re playing right into the hands of the NWO.
The tactic of top-down divide and conquer is the oldest play in the book of how to overthrow sovereign people. The rulers foment conflict amongst the people, then step out-of-the-way and let them fight it out, so that they can step in later as the benevolent savior… big brother.
If you’re playing this game, then you’re doing their work for them.
2. You ‘re a Vocal Supporter of the War DuJour
Today the drums are beating for a nuclear assault against North Korea… and military intervention in Venezuela. Just recently we’ve been told we need to prepare for conflict with Russia, and that an invasion of Syria is in our best interests. Prior to that we destroyed Libya and Iraq, we occupied Afghanistan, and we’ve been using the war on drugs and the war on terror as casus belli for interference in dozens of countries around the world.
The imperial mindset is several generations deep in America, and the citizenry has all but fully abandoned the anti-war stance in favor of gung-ho, jingoistic cheerleading of any and all military escapades.
The New World Order is brute force, but in our hyper-connected world they need to create the appearance of public support in order to advance the military industrial colonization of the world. It cannot do this without the public support and advocacy of at least some segment of the proletariat.
If you’re always on board for the expansion of international conflict, taking cues from mainstream media in this regard, and demanding action against all of our perceived enemies, you are aiding and abetting the New World Order.
3. You Direct Your Anger and Frustration Towards Anyone but Those at the Very Top of the Pyramid
Zero doubt there are a million problems plaguing our complex world today, and it can be comforting to blame someone whom you can look in the eye, someone who is unprotected by the wealth and security afforded by the oligarchy. Emotional reactions to the stresses in our modern world are to be expected, but without knowledge of the contemporary power structures pulling the big strings, those reactions can be sorely misdirected onto lesser players and other pawns.
The truth is out there. At the root, a geo-political financial elite is conquering the world through manipulation of currencies, the imposition of astronomically insurmountable levels of public and private debt, and full spectrum military dominance of uncooperative nations. This program is far above and beyond the capacity of your fellow citizen.
If you’re convinced that taking your outrage to the streets in war against your fellow countrymen is going to solve the problems of the world, you’re helping to fulfill the goals of the New World Order.
The New World Order needs blue pill takers, those people who deliberately choose ignorance in exchange for spurious peace of mind. They need useful idiots to help distract the rest of the population from the crimes of the oligarchy. They need armies of volunteer foot soldiers and pawns who will create the conditions necessary for martial law and even broader restrictions of rights and freedoms.
For the New World Order to succeed, we must ultimately demand our own slavery.
Sigmund Fraud is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com where he indulges in the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for humankind.
This article (3 Signs You Might Be a Pawn of the New World Order) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Sigmund Fraud and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.
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The ‘culture of disbelief’ that fails child asylum seekers
By Laura Gibbons
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'Closing the blinds on mediocrity’. billaday, Flickr
A recent BBC Newsnight investigation identified 137 child asylum seekers wrongly classified as adults. In the 12 months up to March 2019, these vulnerable young people ended up in unsupported, often highly inappropriate, adult asylum accommodation until authorities subsequently accepted that they were children.
At the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU), we work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children providing them with legal advice in respect of their asylum claims, when they are age-disputed and on a one-to-one basis with individual support needs. We also run a monthly youth group specifically for unaccompanied asylum seeking children from ages 14 upwards. This group allows them the space to just be with and behave as children whilst meeting others and enjoying activities. For the age-disputed children this space is vital and sometimes the one chance they have to socialise with other young people and the only help they might receive.
Our legal aid contract covers all forms of public law challenges, however, owing to the growing demand and lack of other providers in the north west, almost all our cases undertaken are in cases of age disputes. We have just one full-time public law solicitor and have taken 18 age-dispute cases since our contract started in September.
Almost all of the children we see are those who have been assessed by a local authority and dispersed throughout the north west of England into adult asylum accommodation. The accounts of children threatened and beaten in the initial adult accommodation that featured in the Newsnight investigation are sadly familiar to us. We often hear of groups of adults forced to occupy shared rooms where young people are likely to be targeted because of their obvious vulnerability.
The children are then dispersed elsewhere and end up having to look after themselves living with older strangers who they have nothing in common with and who they often cannot even talk to. In our experience, most don’t know how to cook, use a washing machine, register with a GP let alone find a lawyer to help them. They struggle on the limited financial support provided by the Home Office intended for adults and they often have to buy ready-made food as they cannot cook and often do not understand how to budget.
We have also experienced cases where local authorities have terminated support immediately upon carrying out an assessment without ensuring children they deem to be adults are afforded the opportunity to secure legal advice or are safely transitioned into adult accommodation, leaving them destitute and homeless. We were recently assisting a young person who we were concerned had serious mental health issues. When he was told he had been assessed as an adult he reacted by hurting himself and required hospital treatment. Nevertheless the local authority terminated accommodation and support without safe transition and this young person went missing. We have subsequently been informed that he was taken to hospital again after trying to take his own life.
Increasingly we are seeing local authorities carrying out so called ‘screening’ or ‘eyes on’ assessments. These are often conducted by duty social workers at police stations as soon as they arrive in the UK after long, traumatic journeys and with no appropriate adult or face to face interpreter. There are given no opportunity to challenge the assessment before they are moved on a few hours later into the adult asylum system.
When they seek help from lawyers, accommodation providers, tutors or community organisations and are referred for legal advice those making the referrals are often shocked at the massive disparity between their claimed date of birth and the ages these children have been given. We have represented children who have been described as being old men with grey hair and wrinkles in situations where that has not been the case and where professionals working with the children have given evidence to the contrary.
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Poll Worker Speaks Out on Trump’s Claims of Voter Fraud
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A vote sign outside Memorial Union’s voting station.
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The day after the 2020 presidential election began, AP News declared Joe Biden to be the projected winner of Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. Trailing by a narrow margin of about 20,000 votes in the Badger State and losing ground in several other crucial states, incumbent Donald Trump made claims of widespread voter fraud. This largely occurred as states began counting absentee ballots.
Travis Austin was a poll worker in Madison, a city in which the majority voted for former Vice President Joe Biden. As someone with direct knowledge of election protocols, he took offense to the insinuation that poll workers were not doing an effective job.
“I worked the polls, Ward 61 in the city of Madison, and we had a situation at the precinct I worked in where a voter was issued two absentee ballots and returned two absentee ballots. Same name, address, signature, everything, so it certainly was the same voter,” Austin said.
“We had processed his first one and when the second was about to be processed, we caught that he had already been assigned a number. We verified it was the same voter’s info and rejected the second ballot.”
While some in the United States are concerned that this was necessary in the first place, Austin clarified that this occurrence is not as common as it may feel.
“Lots of hurdles had to be overcome for [the extra ballot] to even get to us at the polls. The clerk had to issue two ballots (but likely there’s situations where some are presumed lost in the mail, so no real shock), then the voter had to send two ballots back in. Next the clerk had to miss that this voter sent back two ballots and send them both to the polling place. Even after all those steps failed, the final checks at the polls caught it.”
While there does not appear to be a reasonable basis for Donald Trump’s claim that the election was fraudulent, due to the current vote count, he has been fundraising the eight million dollars required to pay for a recount in Wisconsin.
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TRENTON, N.J. – The Trenton Fire Department performed multiple water rescues on Wednesday, May 29.
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“I want to commend Fire Director Derrick Sawyer and his team for their quick responses in these situations yesterday,” said Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora. “I’m grateful that everyone made it out safely. It’s a good reminder to be cautious during severe weather and to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary.”
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Talking Tactics: Why Fergie-esque Southampton performance not enough for Man Utd
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Had it not been for the deathly silence inside an empty St. Mary's on Sunday, Manchester United's comeback win would have felt exactly like the glory days of Sir Alex Ferguson.
From the heroism of the clinical striker scoring late on to the energy and purpose of their second-half performance, pinning Southampton back and urging the ball into the back of the net, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's half-time change inspired a classic United turnaround.
But herein lies the chief problem with Solskjaer's reign: he may manage with some of Ferguson's principles - and even some of his knack for late drama – but we are not in that era anymore. The Premier League in 2020 is nothing like it was a decade ago, where individualism, bravery, and strong man-management could carry sides to title wins. These days, it takes a tactical sophistication and consistency that Solskjaer lacks and that, perhaps counter-intuitively, was more noticeable because of the way in which Man Utd were able to turn things around.
A sympathetic read of the game would be that Solskjaer made a tactical switch at half-time and reaped the rewards; that, after failing to finish several good chances in the first half, he brought on a razor-sharp finisher and things clicked into place.
But that requires belief in a version of Premier League football now consigned to the past, to a time when picking a formation and preaching a vague notion of attacking football was enough on the tactics front; when motivation and steeliness were more important than the configurations of the team.
The biggest problem with Solskjaer is that his United float aimlessly for long periods of matches and struggle to break down teams who sit deep, betraying his inability to coach 'automatisms': the choreographed moves practiced repeatedly in training to give structure to attacks. Unlike the best modern managers, from Jurgen Klopp to Julien Naglesmann, Solskjaer expects his players to largely improvise, and that need to problem-solve in the moment can leave them flat and out of ideas for long periods – hence their up-and-down form under the Norwegian.
Man United players celebrate their winner with Cavani
And unfortunately, Sunday's 3-2 win was another example of that. Solskjaer's decision to play a diamond 4-4-2 was peculiar, and somewhat predictably saw them go into the break 2-0 down. Southampton's narrow 4-2-2-2 formation sees them dominate the central areas on the break, and perhaps Solskjaer was hoping to shut down these areas, but instead he simply overcrowded the middle of the park.
United had nothing out wide in the first 45, leading to some stale possession and difficulty getting behind the Southampton defence.
In the second half things dramatically improved, but only because the introduction of Edinson Cavani raised the tempo, providing a temporary injection of purpose to the buzzing Fred and Donny van de Beek. Southampton, whose drop-off in the second half of matches is well documented, inevitably tired and began to give more space to their opponent, and sure enough United were able to pin them back, eventually carving out chances – and goals – thanks to the brilliant instinctive movement of Cavani.
'Instinctive' is a problematic word for Man Utd under Solskjaer. In key moments his players, possessing more talent than their opponents, will use that instinct and clinical edge to win games, often inspired by Solskjaer's strong man-management skills. But for this club to be a success in the modern era they need far more detailed intervention from the bench.
United's win on Sunday was a victory for individualism, for psychological strength in key moments, and while that used to be enough for the club to win titles we have entered a whole new phase of the English game in which those qualities are not enough.
Since Antonio Conte's arrival in the Premier League in 2016, more than 93 points has been needed to win the division, thanks to the automatisms coached by Jurgen Klopp, Guardiola, and Conte giving their respective teams a relentless cohesion. Rarely have Manchester City or Liverpool required individuals like Cavani to grab the game by the scruff of the neck; rarely have they found themselves 2-0 down and looking out-run and out-thought at half-time.
Clearly Solskjaer deserves credit for his intervention at St. Mary's, but celebrations ought to be muted. It is tempting to believe the glory days are coming back whenever Solskjaer achieves something Fergie-esque. Sadly, it is these moments more than any other – when performances mimic an era that is now irrelevant to the modern game – that we see the ultimate limitations of the Solskjaer tenure.
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Altruck International Opens Burlington Store
by Rolf Lockwood August 1, 2014
Jeff and Ryan Kirby of Altruck International
BURLINGTON, ON — Brothers Jeff and Ryan Kirby were smiling broadly as they celebrated the opening of their newest location this past week, here in Burlington, 45 minutes west of Toronto. With eight locations, Altruck International Truck Centre is one of Ontario’s leading International dealers.
Altruck has been serving the industry since 1977, first out of Kitchener where founder Jack Kirby, father to Jeff and Ryan, purchased his first dealership. The two sons grew up in the business and formed a partnership in 1994 to take the reins.
Head office has traditionally been located in Kitchener but that may change as the new Burlington branch offers superior space and amenities. Jeff Ryan says they’ll centralize their sales operations in Burlington, as well as their Capacity shunt truck franchise acquired last year.
The newest Altruck facility offers a total of 45,000 sq ft, two thirds of it dedicated to parts and service. It replaces a small service branch of just 9700 sq ft that served originally as a satellite to the Hamilton store. It was so small that service work had to be turned down at times. Presently there are 30 employees at the new branch but, as with many dealerships, Ryan Kirby says they could use more technicians.
As well as those mentioned, Altruck also has locations in Cambridge, Goderich, and Stratford, plus two in Guelph which will soon become one as the result of a creative deal with MacKinnon Transport. The latter will be building and moving into a new terminal on the property next year but in the meantime will welcome Altruck into its existing facility next month. The dealer is consolidating its two Guelph operations in the relocation to MacKinnon’s Laird Rd. headquarters at the south end of Guelph, a strategic move that puts Altruck closer to the 401 corridor. The two companies have a long-standing relationship going back more than 50 years to a time before the Kirby family bought the Kitchener location.
The new Altruck store in Burlington is situated adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Way at 5280 South Service Road.
by Rolf Lockwood
Rolf Lockwood is editor emeritus of Today's Trucking and a regular contributor to Trucknews.com.
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Changing Tides: Lake Michigan Could Best Support Lake Trout and Steelhead
Changing Tides
Lake Michigan Could Best Support Lake Trout and Steelhead
Invasive mussels and less nutrients from tributaries have altered the Lake Michigan ecosystem making it more conducive to the stocking of lake trout and steelhead than Chinook salmon, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan State University study.
Managers have reduced Lake Michigan stocking levels of Chinook salmon at least three times over the past decades in response to declining prey fish and the natural reproduction of Chinook salmon. (Credit: Michael Humling, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Public domain.)
Reduced stocking of Chinook salmon, however, would still support a substantial population of this highly desirable recreational salmon species, which is a large contributor to the Great Lakes multi-billion-dollar recreational fishery.
“Findings from our study can help managers determine the most viable ways to enhance valuable recreational fisheries in Lake Michigan, especially when the open waters of the lake are declining in productivity,” said Yu-Chun Kao, an MSU post-doctoral scientist and the lead author of the report.
Managers have reduced Lake Michigan stocking levels of Chinook salmon at least three times over the past decades in response to declining prey fish and the natural reproduction of Chinook salmon. For the new study, scientists investigated the lake’s current and future abilities to support different fish stocking efforts. They found that recent decreases in critical lake nutrients, partly due to increases in invasive species such as quagga mussels, reduce the amount of Chinook salmon that the lake can support.
“Our model showed that stocking Chinook salmon can still help maintain their populations in Lake Michigan,” said Mark Rogers, a USGS Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit scientist and co-author on the study. “When stocking was completely eliminated in the model, the long-term amount of salmon was predicted to decrease considerably. The key is to determine how much stocking is most effective. It’s a balancing act.”
The study also found that lake trout and steelhead may fare better because these two species can switch from eating alewife, which are in decline, to bottom-dwelling round goby, another newly established invasive prey fish that feeds on quagga mussels.
The scientists modeled Lake Michigan’s food web dynamics under 288 scenarios that accounted for various levels of stocking and nutrients, as well as the effects of invasive mussels. These scenarios were developed based on responses to a survey from fishery managers, water-quality managers and researchers.
“Interestingly, reducing stocking by 50 percent in the model resulted in long-term Chinook population numbers that were similar to the numbers when stocking was not reduced,” said David “Bo” Bunnell, a USGS co-author on the study.
Lake Michigan’s open-water food web has changed significantly since the 1970s, becoming less productive as a result of decreased nutrients such as phosphorus, a process called oligotrophication. Nutrients help sustain phytoplankton and zooplankton, the tiny aquatic plants and animals at the base of the food web that support other aquatic life, including prey fishes. In Lake Michigan, oligotrophication occurred partly as a result of invasive mussels, which filter phytoplankton from the water column.
Declines in prey fishes such as alewife were likely due, in part, to decreases in plankton. Because the Chinook salmon diet consists of over 90 percent alewife, the new study predicts a smaller Chinook salmon population if nutrients remain low and invasive mussels remain abundant.
For more information about USGS ecosystems research in the Great Lakes, please visit the USGS Great Lakes Science Center website.
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Young people are the future: six quotes from Ramaphosa’s ADEA address
30 July 2019 - 10:59 By Unathi Nkanjeni
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the two-day dialogue of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) at Emperor's Palace on Monday.
Image: Twitter/@PresidencyZA
President Cyril Ramaphosa says economies across Africa are unable to absorb a significant proportion of young people and that's mainly because the education system is not aligned to the needs of the economy.
Ramaphosa was addressing the two-day dialogue of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) at Emperor's Palace, Kempton Park, on Monday.
In attendance were ministers of education from across Africa, including SA' basic education minister Angie Motshekga.
Here's a summary of Ramaphosa's address in six quotes:
Unemployment rate among graduates
Rampahosa said most unemployed young people across Africa are those who have completed secondary or tertiary education.
"Unemployment is lower among those who have little to no education. You may ask, how is it so? Agriculture is the largest employer, and for now, it is labour intensive and requires workers who in most cases are without education. Those who completed secondary or tertiary education are finding it difficult to secure employment. Among other things, this is due to a mismatch of the skills people learn and the needs of the market."
Changing the direction of education
He said the country and its teachers need to change the direction of secondary school education to develop relevant skills to match the fourth industrial revolution.
"With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, there is a danger that this mismatch will grow. Due to the skills deficit, our countries are ill-prepared for technological change.
"Successful countries are those that ensure that the skills they produce are the skills that are appropriate for industrial use."
Technology replacing workers
Ramaphosa said there was an increase in unemployment due to the use of technology to replace workers.
"The impetus for economic activity is shifting from very large enterprises to smaller individual-led companies.
"An entrepreneur developing his or her product in a garage is now likely to create more value-chain jobs than a big manufacturing company. The manufacturing sector, while still a significant driver of growth, is not generating as many jobs as in previous decades."
STEM skills
Ramaphosa believes that young people need foundational cognitive skills in science, technology engineering and mathematics – the so-called STEM skills – to be absorbed in the economy.
"As agreed in Agenda 2063, of those who enter tertiary education institutions, 70% ideally should graduate in STEM subjects.
"Digital skills, such as coding, are essential to integration in the world of work. Such skills should be accompanied by soft skills such as emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills."
Secondary education's crucial role
Ramaphosa said secondary education occupies a crucial role in setting young people on a path to sustainable and inclusive development, but this means getting the basics right earlier in their lives.
"Secondary education intervenes in young people’s lives at a time when they are most energised, but also most vulnerable to adverse social influences.
"Secondary education empowers young people at a time when they are most hopeful, experimental and flexible in their lives, and we should embrace this life stage as one to empower young people to take charge of their lives and our collective future."
Problem solving and reasoning
He said instead of rote learning, young people need skills in unstructured problem-solving and reasoning.
"Critical thinking skills are what will drive job creation and economic growth in the future. We must change our educational systems to develop these skills.
"Africa is expected to be the food basket of the world because of its geographic position and climate, and a large population of young people."
Watch full speech here.
“This Forum’s focus on ‘Preparing Youth for the Future of Work’ reflects our understanding that Africa’s demographic dividend can only be earned through our investment in the continent’s highest-yielding resource: its young people.” ~President @CyrilRamaphosa #FutureofWork pic.twitter.com/S8NGHgVEUc
— PresidencyZA (@PresidencyZA) July 29, 2019
President @CyrilRamaphosa with Ministers of Education of African countries who are attending the two-day dialogue of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) at the Emperors Palace Hotel in Gauteng.#FutureofWork pic.twitter.com/CA1z2qXYu7
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Err, Polly, it wasn’t the Tories that were into eugenics
Newspaper Watch
Some themes deep in the heart of Toryism just never go away. Up they pop, over and over. Control the lower orders, stop them breeding, check their spending, castigate their lifestyles. Poking, sneering, moralising and despising is hardwired within Tory DNA.
That idea of stopping “them” breeding is called eugenics. And it was really rather the Fabians and the like who were into it here in Britain. You know, your lot, not the Tories.
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JimW December 16, 2014 at 9:44 am
And Marie Stopes, heroine of the birth control movement.
She also cut her son out of her will because he married a girl who was short-sighted and wore glasses.
Daughter of Barnes Wallis, as it happened.
Snag December 16, 2014 at 9:49 am
Stop them breeding by, say, allowing uncontrolled abortion? That’s a basic tenet of modern day ‘liberalism’.
Ross December 16, 2014 at 10:01 am
That’s what I thought when I read it.
Her cluelessness about her movement’s history and general lack of self awareness is epic.
Squander Two December 16, 2014 at 10:04 am
Also the Swedish, who the Left keep telling us we need to be more like.
So Much for Subtlety December 16, 2014 at 10:29 am
JimW – “And Marie Stopes, heroine of the birth control movement.”
Which is why she mobilised funding for the Birth Control Pill. And why it was tested in Puerto Rico. The aim was to find something so simple that even the Black working class could use it. Unlike the diaphram that was deemed too complex.
You can ask Polly whether the Pill stands in modern Liberalism *exactly* like the Body of Christ, but it must be pretty close.
Roue le Jour December 16, 2014 at 11:15 am
Never mind eugenics. Is there anything in that list that isn’t socialist?
Roue le Jour – “Never mind eugenics. Is there anything in that list that isn’t socialist?”
Socialist? Never mind the socialism! Is there anything in that list that is not precisely what Polly has built her career on?
Does she do anything other than cajole the poor from the distant vistas of her villa in Umbria?
Rob December 16, 2014 at 12:17 pm
“The Tories” are a strawman for Polly and here readers, there for them to project all of their mad ideas and hatreds on. It doesn’t matter if they were responsible or not – her readers are stunningly ignorant of anything which might challenge their worldview, indeed are fanatically hostile to such information and would reject it instinctively anyway.
Another amusing fact I learned recently – the Left’s heroine, Emily Pankhurst and much of the Suffragette movement were terribly keen on the War (WW1) and deploying white feathers on any male not in uniform. Strange how I’ve never read about that in the Guardian.
dearieme December 16, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Well everyone is for eugenics nowadays: that’s the point of pregnant women having an “amnio” isn’t it?
john77 December 16, 2014 at 12:37 pm
@ Rob
Including soldiers convalescing from their wounds. My grandmother was outraged.
PaulB December 16, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Eugenics had its supporters across the political spectrum. Winston Churchill and Herbert Hoover were particularly enthusiastic.
bloke (not) in spain December 16, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Churchill was originally a Liberal. So not far across the political spectrum?
Interested December 16, 2014 at 1:41 pm
I’m all in favour of stupid people not breeding. We’re creating an idiocracy.
The Thought Gang December 16, 2014 at 1:57 pm
So this constant war against lifestyle choices made by (proportionally more) working class types.. drinking, smoking, looking at tits on page 3, voting for UKIP etc… that’s all coming from the Tories? Labour, and the Guardian, are opposed to it?
I think I missed a memo.
bloke in france December 16, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Never thought I’d agree with PaulB. But yes eugenics has its origins way back. Phrenology, Dalton, etc. Indeed, poor little Oedipus (the tutelary daemon of psychiatry) was exposed on a hillside because he had a club foot.
Steve December 16, 2014 at 2:06 pm
Control the lower orders,
“The nanny state is the good state. A nanny is what every well-off family hires if it can afford it. So why do the nanny-employing Tories use the word as an insult?” – Polly Toynbee
stop them breeding,
“Abortion is very, very ordinary and a mark of civilisation” – Polly Toynbee
check their spending,
“councils can apply for cash for new buses from the transport department, but only if they bring in road pricing. This should start a great environmental push to get people out of cars and on to new and better buses.” – Polly Toynbee
“Only one weapon really works in reducing the dangerous quantities people drink – and that’s price. The proposed £5m public health warning campaign will have small effect compared with a sharp tax rise. Alcohol consumption has risen with wealth: it dips in times of recession and it falls when steeply taxed. But Gordon Brown has let it rip: drink is now 54% cheaper relative to incomes than in 1981. The very young can afford vodka that was once far beyond pocket money. The Treasury seems loth to tax it enough for its revenues to fall.” – Polly Toynbee
castigate their lifestyles.
“most of the dangerously obese – the 22% with a body-mass index in the red zone – are to be found carless on council estates and not in the leafy suburbs where kids are driven to school in supertanker 4x4s.” – Polly Toynbee
“Is Britain uniquely uncouth in our filthy drinking habits, or do our peculiarly restrictive laws cause the desperate drink-to-get-drunk-quick mentality? Why, oh why, can’t we be more Italian? Take away the urgency and mystery, and maybe we could all tipple a little nip in the coffee without making a fetish of alcohol.” – Polly Toynbee
Poking, sneering, moralising and despising is hardwired within Tory DNA.
There’s a lot of that going about.
Flubber December 16, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Interested: That’s the whole point of the welfare state – tax the middle classes so heavily they cant afford kids and pay benefits to the retards to breed.
Rob December 16, 2014 at 2:43 pm
Yes, you will have to go a long, long way to find a more moralising, sneering, poking example than your average Guardian reader.
Van_Patten December 16, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Welcome back – that must have taken some work, and is absolutely, as always, spot on the money. If I loathe one vice is it hypocrisy and Toynbee exudes it from every pore. You might well have added her stance during the petrol crisis in Blair’s first term – she sounded almost like Marie Antoinette. Unfortunately she was never subject to the guillotine but I live in hope.
Mr Ecks December 16, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Paul B: “Eugenics had its supporters across the political spectrum. Winston Churchill and Herbert Hoover were particularly enthusiastic.”
Amongst its supporters was socialist puke Geo Bernard Shaw. Who openly expressed his wish that defectives could be got rid of by means of “some humane gas”. The humane and defective bits are bullshit but his fellow socialist A Hitler put Georgie’s wish into action a decade or so later. Not a bad waiting time as far as socialism goes. The Fabians were quite fond of Mussolini as well but he must have disappointed them in the “humane defective removal” stakes.
Eugenics is one strand of the humanist idea that Mankind is self-sufficient – the concept is that he/she/they can improve all plants and animals including humanity itself.
To accuse High Church Tories of supporting Eugenics is an example of Plly’s chutzpah.
mike fowle December 16, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Brilliant post by Steve.
Bloke in Costa Rica December 16, 2014 at 5:34 pm
Virtually the entire content of Kommentar macht Frei consists of the paranormal ‘we’, when some jumped-up little shit makes a sneering or censorious observation about something or other and then spins 2000 words out of it to the effect that all right-thinking people agree it should be banned/regulated/mocked out of existence. As Ian B says, they’re the new Puritans and simply cannot grasp the concept of people disagreeing with them. They’re not content with observing. They want to do something about it. Take your pick: fluorescent Green hair shirt-wearers; people who think that cupcakes are an emblem of modern barbarism; radical feminists who seem to want some sort of regression to neo-Victorian prudishness and female cocooning but with lots and lots of lesbianism. They’re all fucking weird.
Jack C December 16, 2014 at 5:57 pm
Hold on a second, this didn’t come from nowhere: “people who think that cupcakes are an emblem of modern barbarism”.
Are there people that think that?
I can’t say cupcakes are entirely my thing, however I associate them with mothers teaching their children how to cook rather than barbarism.
Did you think I just pulled that out of my arse? They really are this batshit insane. The trouble with cupcakes.
“people who think that cupcakes are an emblem of modern barbarism”.
Wasn’t it “emblem of capitalist oppression”. CiF column, couple years back?
Or different cupcake rant?
No, BiCR, that’s why I asked where it had come from, and thanks for the link.
Is this Matt a woman? He seems to think he is. I think it’s supposed to be ironic, but it’s fucking ghastly nonetheless
Eugenics has the same flaw as universal tertiary education.
Assume a population with the “inferiors” bred out, and where everyone has a degree.
Who will pour the pints and clean the toilets?
Gender Studies graduates.
dearieme December 16, 2014 at 7:36 pm
“Eugenics had its supporters across the political spectrum.” This feeble attempt to imply that the support was equally spread across the spectrum won’t wash on this blog.
Oh, fair point.
Ok, have checked that this Matt Seaton twit is male, so his article does one of two things, or both:
1) Presumes to speak on behalf of all women
2) Lectures women on their lack of seriousness, and their inability to resist prettified girly cakes
In the Guardian? Jeepers.
@ Jack C
“mothers teaching their children how to cook” – that would be currant buns and rock cakes rather than cupcakes which are for showing off (arguably part of modern barbarism) .
The Grauniad is very good at looking down on people with one hand and accusing the Tories of doing that (even, or especially, when they don’t) with the other.
Andrew C December 16, 2014 at 8:44 pm
You lot don’t understand that when the left wing do exactly the same as the right wing, “it’s different”.
Right now, Labour is organising a petition against the ‘evil monstrous’ ‘bedroom tax’ which applies to public sector housing.
The “Local Housing Allowance” which applied virtually identical rules to private sector housing was introduced by Labour in April 2008.
But that’s different.
Ted S. December 16, 2014 at 9:12 pm
Jack C:
Another Guardian writer wrote Beware of cupcake fascism, which if it were anywhere but the Guardian would have to be parody.
In other fun Guardian topics, Why do normal men turn sexist when they get in front of a barbecue?
Jack C December 16, 2014 at 10:34 pm
Ted S,
Thanks for that, I think? Or do you hate me? I was unable to read more than x amount of it, and had to read what I did read several times over.
What’s the ukulele stuff all about? And, an offer I felt I could easily refuse:
If we see the paradigmatic mechanisms of social oppression operative today in the form of a cupcake
So Much for Subtlety December 16, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Jack C – “If we see the paradigmatic mechanisms of social oppression operative today in the form of a cupcake”
Oh please, don’t. I am still recovering from the thought of BiCR pulling one out of his ar$e.
I like that eugenics is one of those things that people take against so seriously they have to be dysgenic – insist that it is great if the manifestly unfit have children. I suppose that the old fashioned Tory solution – leaving the poor to die of hunger – is not viable these days. But the problem does not go away because we hate to think about it. How can we encourage people to be responsible parents? There are fewer and fewer of them around and yet we need them.
john77 December 17, 2014 at 2:56 am
@ SMFS
There are still a lot of responsible parents – it is just that the minority of irresponsible parents cause most of the newspaper headlines. Saturday’s FT included a letter glorifying irresponsible American grandparents, while this morning I got a Christmas letter, describing en passant how my old friends are actively responsible grandparents. The latter will never get a newspaper headline.
Kendall December 17, 2014 at 3:24 am
I picked up a collection of Eugenics literature from the 20s/30s in a car boot sale a few years back (in a box with a load of sleazy pulp magazines like Spicy Adventure Stories). They make for interesting reading.
One thing people who believed they could selectively breed humanity into utopia generally had in common was their resolutely leftist and progressive views, especially considering the time when they were writing.
For example, in Eugenics and Sex Harmony (1933), author Dr Herman H. Rubin gushes praise over the USSR, and argues that the West could learn a lot from the Soviet state’s “paternalism” (yes, that’s presented as a positive thing). He takes an explicitly feminist stance on many issues, e.g. describing traditional marriage as the “sexual slavery of women”, and calling for state funded maternity leave and child care to help women “emancipate” themselves through financial independence.
Of course, a few pages on from something that’d have a feminist nodding along today, you’ll find praise for programmes to “end the suffering of children” by forcibly sterilising people with physical deformities or epilepsy.
Within a few years of that eugenics had become tainted by association with the Nazis, but for decades it was a perfectly respectable progressive ideal.
tomsmith December 17, 2014 at 10:12 am
Polly is such an evil cunt.
“How can we encourage people to be responsible parents? There are fewer and fewer of them around and yet we need them.”
Allow life to happen without state intervention so that responsible parenting is advantageous in terms of survival and success.
Van_Patten, mike fowle – thank you!
It wasn’t hard to find Polly quotes, but after perusing a few of her articles I did notice she has an annoying tendency to beg the question and also to avoid directly saying what she wants.
She prefers to paint a misleading or outright dishonest picture of reality that points towards what actions she’d like to be taken rather than explicitly endorsing a propsed solution.
PaulB December 17, 2014 at 1:42 pm
“This feeble attempt to imply that the support was equally spread across the spectrum won’t wash on this blog.”
I accept that many of the commentators on this blog won’t allow reality to intrude on their world-view. But…
Here‘s a report in the BMJ on the “First International Eugenics Congress”. The Principal Speaker was Arthur Balfour, previously Conservative Prime Minister. The President was Leonard Darwin, previously a Liberal Unionist MP in alliance with the Conservatives. Other prominent politicians in attendance were Winston Churchill, at that time a Liberal MP but previously and subsequently a Conservative, and Richard Webster (then Baron, later Viscount Alverstone), previously a Conservative MP and Attorney-General.
Which is not to deny that some on the left were similarly keen on eugenics. The difference is that the modern left wants to expose this history and learn from it, to the extent that you can sometimes read about past leftist advocacy of eugenics, in the Guardian and suchlike. Whereas the right just ignores its involvement altogether.
“she has an annoying tendency to beg the question and also to avoid directly saying what she wants.”
In other words, suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. Sounds about right.
tomsmith December 17, 2014 at 5:56 pm
Lots of Conservatives are leftists.
The modern left likes to highlight group (including racial) differences and act upon these differences via politics. If this isn’t racism then what is? Just because it tends to be white male people at the bottom of the lefty political hierarchy of guilt doesn’t mean it is ok.
So Much for Subtlety December 17, 2014 at 7:56 pm
tomsmith – “Allow life to happen without state intervention so that responsible parenting is advantageous in terms of survival and success.”
I am all for it but I don’t think that is a solution. Because responsible parenting always involves sacrifices from the parents. Women are not inclined to do that these days. But it was always a poor deal for men and it has only got much worse. The incentives for men are to be [email protected] To be feckless and irresponsible. The choice is to do the right thing, work hard, save up a lot of money so your wife can have a comfortable retirement – all for a good chance of a cold and sexless marriage – or, to be feckless and enjoy yourself with occasional work and an ever-changing rota of young girlfriends.
In the old days we had the Methodists that told men they had to do this. These days we don’t. Why do men do it? Gradually young men are going to realise what pathetic deal it is and join the feckless.
I don’t think it’s quite as bad as that yet. I think that many women might be inclined not to make the sacrifices they might have done at one time largely because the social support systems in western counties mean they aren’t penalised by reality for that choice. Most importantly the government will support them if they want to have children alone. If government stopped making the anti family choice easy by withdrawing support then I think society would respond by again coalescing around the family as the fundamentally important unit of individual support.
Why do men continue to do it in spite of the disincentives? I would say for love and for the chance to have children. Merely procreating is easy and cheap but I don’t see it as satisfying in the same way that raising a family and having a relationship with them is. Likewise chasing lots of different women can be very exciting but it doesn’t involve the deeper closeness that a long term relationship with the woman who had my children can provide.
These are not things that government can give me and I will continue to hold on to them no matter how difficult it becomes. I think many other people would say the same.
Mr Ecks December 17, 2014 at 10:14 pm
Paul B: Ho-Ho-Fucking-Ho
Yes, the left is known worldwide for its willingness to own up and make profound grovelling apologies.
“Yes–a few bad lads sorta used to think about eugenics-long ago–before we knew better”
And the 150 million murders? And millions more lives ruined.
Apology for that on the cards is it? Don’t bother. Insult and injury etc.
tomsmith – “I don’t think it’s quite as bad as that yet.”
I think you need to hang out with more working class lads. It is getting there.
“I think that many women might be inclined not to make the sacrifices they might have done at one time largely because the social support systems in western counties mean they aren’t penalised by reality for that choice.”
I agree. But the social support systems in the West do penalise men for their choices. Child support is not a joke and is getting more penal. But men still aren’t doing it.
I agree that ending the government’s anti-family agenda would be a good first step. But it is not going to solve the problem because men are still not throwing their lives away like they used and they are not going to start doing it again any time soon.
“Why do men continue to do it in spite of the disincentives? I would say for love and for the chance to have children.”
It is well known that little boys grow up dreaming of having children. That men are delighted when they are told their girlfriends are pregnant. I am sure that many men do get some consolation out of being a Father, although even that is being turned to dust these days given pretty much everyone’s anti-Father agenda. But it is a consolation, not a reason to be married.
Ed December 18, 2014 at 3:46 am
As has already been pointed out, this was hardly unique to the Fabians, or indeed the Left in the Edwardian period.
The rejoinder is as biased as the original judgment.
Don’t believe me? Just go and look. G. R. Searle’s book on ‘Eugenics and Politics’ was published in 1971, but apparently some of you haven’t caught up yet…
Mr Ecks December 18, 2014 at 4:24 am
Nobody said a taste for eugenics was unique to the left. However sanctimonious bullshit as thick as Ice Age glaciers is a major characteristic of the left. The entire thread started with Pol’s demonstration of that fact–squarking about eugenics as if socialism had nothing to do with it.
As Scrooge (Alastair Sim) said to Marley (Michael Horden) attending on the latter’s deathbed:
“We’ve been worse than the next man–nor no better either if it comes to that”.
Late at night–should read “no worse than the next man”–although socialism has been worse than just about everybody else.
Paul Rain December 22, 2014 at 12:48 am
Well, until we discover the genes which are the basis of intelligence, the ‘less talented’ tenth. Who will be paid an actual decent wage due to their scarcity. Or imported labour from countries which do not practice eugenics.
At least until we have robots to do all this stuff that you can’t possibly do without importing near-retarded cheap labour, just like Japan is doing right now.
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Subs at the Times really should get onto this one
The English
THE PEDANT
october 29 2016, 12:01am, the times
Why does prejudice against some accents persist?
oliver kamm
Everyone knows that it’s pendant, not pedant.
Every English speaker has an accent. And almost every English speaker has an accent that can be tied to a region. I say “almost” because of one highly unusual British accent that isn’t geographically identifiable.
As to the actual argument it’s not unusual at all. English has, rather more than many languages, a great selection of regional accents, that’s entirely true. They’re geographically concentrated in a manner that can surprise foreigners. Try telling someone from the West Coast of the US that you can tell not just the postcode (BA1, BA2) but the subset of the postcode (BA2 1xx is Twerton and very, very, different from BA2 2xx and so on) of someone from Bath within four words of their mouth opening and they’ll be astonished. You can’t really tell the difference between LA and SF by accent alone. German varies so as to be different languages across Lander but not so much between villages.
But what everywhere has is a national “educated” accent. One that betrays no hint of regional or local origin.
The unusual thing about English is the extreme locality of many accents plus their sheer number, not the existence of a single non-regional one.
At which point fun story from past comments here. When Arnie movies are in German they on’t use Arnie to do his own stuff. Because the Terminator sounding like some very, very, rural yokel from the edges of civilisation in Austria just doesn’t cut it.
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Bloke in Wales October 29, 2016 at 9:36 am
Because the Terminator sounding like some very, very, rural yokel from the edges of civilisation in Austria just doesn’t cut it.
Which is also one of the reasons why James Earl Jones provided the voice for Darth Vader: David Prowse is from Bristle.
“Arr! The force be strong with this’n!”
The Meissen Bison October 29, 2016 at 9:46 am
German varies so as to be different languages across Lander
Tim Worstall October 29, 2016 at 9:48 am
Maybe not good phrasing. But Schwabisch and Saxon (Saccische?) are not really mutually intelligible languages.
Andrew K October 29, 2016 at 9:54 am
I did once catch a bit of a French film with subtitles (also in French) in Belgium.
The film had been made in Canada.
The Meissen Bison October 29, 2016 at 10:13 am
I’d say Schwäbisch is probably better described as a regional dialect whereas Sächsisch is more like standard German but spoken with a strong regional accent.
Hard to say where the boundary lies between language and dialect but a reasonable rule of thumb is that a dialect is readily intelligible in written form to speakers of a language.
Can I please have a star for pendantry (and umlauts)?
Rob October 29, 2016 at 10:20 am
English effectively now as two ‘regionless’ accents. ‘Educated’ and ‘Estuary’. You hear people speaking ‘Estuary’ from all over the South.
bloke in spain October 29, 2016 at 10:37 am
“You hear people speaking ‘Estuary’ from all over the South.”
If only it were people from all over the south. It’s all over the BBC for a start.
And it ain’t the bleedin’ same as Cockney. I say ain’t it, not innit. And it goes on the beginin’ of the sentence, not the end. And is indicative of a question, not an expression of deep insecurity. Cockneys don’t do insecurity.
The Inimitable Steve October 29, 2016 at 10:44 am
I like cockneys but I hate Eastenders.
And it seems to insist that every third word is ‘like’, and every sentence should end on an upward inflection.
MyBurningEars October 29, 2016 at 10:52 am
I was disappointed how many young people in Norfolk had the estuary accent – very very few had the traditional Norfolk one, though a lot of adults still do. Even in places like Devon the kids increasingly seem to speak estuary. I have a feeling the southern regional accents are going to be almost entirely supplanted, like the traditional (East Anglian, somewhat similar to Norfolk/Suffolk) Essex accent/dialect already has.
Machiavelli October 29, 2016 at 10:57 am
The ‘T’ has all but disappeared from radio these days.
Music appears to be mainly produced by ar-ists on the BBC these days
Andrew M October 29, 2016 at 11:04 am
Accents are dying out. France got there first: their highly centralised state effectively stamped out first the regional languages, now the regional accents. In Britain you certainly hear accents delocalising amongst the youth. It’s most noticeable in the south, but even up north young people have less pronounced accents than older generations.
Accents reflect the dominant members of a society. If everyone in your kid’s school is speaking Estuary, that’s just what they do in order to fit in and not get beaten up. (If even the white kids are speaking in Jamaican patois, you should probably change schools.)
Martin October 29, 2016 at 11:20 am
Most people I do not notice accents in English. Cannot say I have an accent myself, though I can do a pretty good black country accent when I try.
If I go to Lichfield I cannot detect local accent, if I go to Blackpool I cannot detect local accent. I can in the Black Country for natives or those who learnt from natives, though even that is mixed. Can have a Walsall accent with Dudley overlay despite never living anywhere but Walsall.
Gamecock October 29, 2016 at 12:00 pm
When I was in college, almost 50 years ago, I met a lot of people from the north east U.S. I got to where I could tell within fifty miles where people were from by their accent.
I was shocked recently by someone commenting on my Southern accent. I DIDN’T KNOW I HAD ONE! Though I’m not displeased that I do (allegedly).
I suspect many of the speakers of the regional British accents are unaware that they have an accent.
Bloke in North Dorset October 29, 2016 at 12:14 pm
I know I have strong Yorkshire accent, people comment on it regularly and are surprised when I tell them I left Yorkshire over 40 years ago with only the occasional visit.
Ted S. October 29, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Only if you use the ß too, unlike, say, the speakers of Swiss “German”.
Dr Evil October 29, 2016 at 12:40 pm
My wife still has a Sheffield accent. OMG I am a Yorkshireman by marriage.
dearieme October 29, 2016 at 12:45 pm
“Cannot say I have an accent myself”: of course you have an accent yourself. There’s no choice; you’ve got a height, you’ve got a weight, you’ve got a countenance, you’ve got an accent. That’s the whole point of the post.
tomo October 29, 2016 at 12:55 pm
I’ve always really enjoyed the mutual incomprehension of UK-SW yokels and Geordies.
I suspect I look like a concentrating tennis spectator when a match is underway.
Martin October 29, 2016 at 1:20 pm
dearieme – then maybe with a recording of me speaking you could identify an accent.
Hence what I said was not wrong.
James Macpherson October 29, 2016 at 1:44 pm
Once, at a conference in Paris (while I, with my neutral Scottish accent, was living and working in London) I was able to identify the accent of one of keynote speakers as having orginated within 15 miles of Wick, Caithness. My boss from Chicago was, of course, oblivious to the magnitude of achievement.
(I also excel at long and cumbersome sentences, albeit with impeccable punctuation.)
Bloke in Germany October 29, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Not sure I agree about Germany, though distinguishing one side of town from the other would be for natives (in the same way I can spot Blackburn from Burnley but not bath from Bristol- you need exposure).
Frankfurt, in the southern reaches of the higj german dialects, has two distinctive accents. The local, surprisingly non-urban yokelly dialect, and what I call “internationale Frankforderisch “. Incomers who have picked up a lot of the intonation but little of the vocabulary. Interestingly foreigners often make a better hash of it than other Germans.
And it’s the variety in vocabulary that really distinguishes dialects in Germany from those in England.
bloke in france October 29, 2016 at 1:56 pm
There certainly are regional accent variations in France. The most successful film of the last decade had that as the central joke.
Bloke in Costa Rica October 29, 2016 at 2:24 pm
RP is very much a minority accent. It’s only used by about 1% of the UK population. It’s mutated, too. Even my accent has become slightly more demotic in the thirty years since I left school, and I really do sound quite posh.
There is a marked difference between a Cardiff accent and one from Pontypridd, about 10 miles away. I expect even people who don’t live there would notice it.
Corvus Umbranox October 29, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Implemented a Voice to Text system in a global investment bank last year. Picked a pilot sample with the widest variation of accents we could find, both domestic and international, as we wanted to establish viability at the margin before we spent a fortune.
The three accents it had most trouble with
3..Indian
2..Geordie
1..Dutch
The latter because it couldn’t tell where one word ended and the next began…
A friend of mine was talking to someone in French (in the south) and they assumed from his awful accent that he was from Paris.
Chris Miller October 29, 2016 at 6:18 pm
It’s not surprising that Germany, which is a collection of statelets that were all independent less than 150 years ago, would have strong dialect variation. The classic dividing line is based on the pronunciation of the first person singular – either ick or ich (like Scots loch) – it runs E-W across the middle of the country (but some areas pronounce it ish – as do many German speakers of Turkish descent).
Modern linguistics tends to refuse to recognise a distinction between language and dialect (“a language is just a dialect with an army and a navy”). I tend to the (unscientific) view that if two monoglot speakers are mutually comprehensible they’re speaking the same language – but that would make Portuguese a dialect of Spanish, which both sides would vehemently deny, even though Portunhol is becoming widespread in Latin America.
Tim Newman October 29, 2016 at 6:27 pm
Apparently Norway is a place where the accents change at every village. Russia, on the other hand, barely sees the accent change from one side to the next: it’s only Moscow that as one.
BniC October 29, 2016 at 6:37 pm
Don’t forget that Newport is very different from Cardiff and the Valleys as well. I’ve known people who can tell which valley your from by accent.
Oddly in Canada and US the Welsh accent totally confuses people and they tend to ask if your Australian
Theophrastus October 29, 2016 at 6:57 pm
I have an accent,
You speak a dialect,
He has a speech impediment…
john77 October 29, 2016 at 7:58 pm
I should argue that there were at least two, probably three, non-localised accents in my youth: to wit “BBC English”, Public School, and Oxford (though that was arguably more of a drawl than an accent). BBC English wasn’t the same as Public School.
BBC English was a smallish minority but not highly unusual – nor, actually, was a public school accent – several % of the population is *not* highly unusual.
Agammamon October 29, 2016 at 8:21 pm
I say “almost” because of one highly unusual British accent that isn’t geographically identifiable.
Kind of depends on what you mean by ‘geographically identifiable’.
I bet that accent would allow you to narrow down the speaker’s origin to the UK.
You can’t really tell the difference between LA and SF by accent alone.
You can’t really tell the difference between SF and *New Mexico* by accent alone.
MyBurningEars October 29, 2016 at 8:49 pm
Here’s a case for another non-localised accent (possibly rather older than the others?) – the drawl of the old aristocracy. Modern aristocrats sound rather more “public school”, presumably because that’s where they were educated and boarded. Not many generations ago, the bulk of them would have been privately tutored rather than schooled, which presumably insulated them from the accents of their upper middle class peers. The old aristos had (and many of the doddering elderly ones maintain) an accent of their own.
@ MBE
Quite true – but before my time. Charles is only a couple of years younger than I and he was sent to Cheam and Gordonstoun (and Geelong Grammar) before Cambridge.
dearieme October 30, 2016 at 12:44 am
Martin, you are being obtuse.
Within 15 miles of Wick? Pah! I once pinned a girl as being from Moffat. And she’d probably left decades before.
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U.S. University of Buffalo constructs large outdoor drone testing facility
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By Chris Stonor
The American University of Buffalo (UB) has recently constructed a large and new enclosed netted complex where faculty, students and partners can conduct experiments on drones.
The overall 24,000 sq ft. research facility, nicknamed SOAR (Structure for Outdoor Autonomy Research) is located on the University’s North Campus, adjacent to Crofts Hall. It will help solidify UB’s position at the forefront of research and education in a fast expanding technology.
Kemper Lewis, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, commented, “By creating a research complex dedicated to exploring the tremendous potential of drones, University researchers, students and our partners will advance cutting-edge solutions that can help global food security challenges, disaster response and anti-terrorism.”
The new facility is over half an acre in size, and 86 ft tall. It is reckoned to be the third-largest outdoor, enclosed drone-testing facility, in America.
As it is enclosed and therefore considered an indoor flight facility, researchers will not be subject to Federal Aviation Administration rules when testing drones. Research to be conducted include:-
Autonomous technology. This involves UAVs, as well self-driving vehicles, which the university tests in the area outside the complex.
Sensors and surveillance. This field has applications in agriculture, military, homeland security, law enforcement, wildfire monitoring, bridge and building inspections, and other areas.
Small parcel delivery and logistics. This include studying using drones to deliver goods.
Drone fleets. UB researchers are exploring how drones can work together in emergency situations.
Chase Murray, Assistant Professor of Industrial and System Engineering, explained, “Our plan is to leave the netting up all the year-round. This will enable us to conduct tests and improve the performance of UAVs in the often-harsh winter weather conditions that we encounter.”
Murray, who studies UAV routing and logistics, among other things, secured a USD393,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Defence University Research Instrumentation Program to support the facility’s construction.
The area will also be a resource for undergraduate and graduate students who study robotics and computer vision. Additionally, it will benefit Western New York companies interested in using the complex to test UAV hardware.
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This Weekend Has So Many More Oxtail-Stuffed Donuts Than Last
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Gateway Ships First RAID-Equipped System
Reprinted from a Gateway press release:
In its latest move to deliver powerful computers optimized for digital media, Gateway, Inc. (NYSE: GTW) today introduces the Gateway 700XL, the first Gateway PC that uses RAID technology — two hard drives acting as one for faster performance when storing and accessing anything on the hard drive.
The new Gateway 700XL is the first PC utilizing the new Intel 875P-based system board featuring Intel RAID Technology and the option for two Serial ATA RAID-configured hard drives. With the new board, the Gateway 700XL incorporates several new technologies that contribute to improved overall performance, including support for 800MHz front side bus and dual channel DDR 3200 (400MHz) memory, as well as Intel’s new Performance Acceleration Technology, which optimizes access between the processor and memory. To handle multiple tasks at once, such as burning a music CD while playing an online game, the Gateway 700XL supports fast Intel Pentium 4 processors with Hyper-Threading technology.
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The Gateway 700XL provides a higher level of storage performance thanks to Intel RAID technology — the industry’s first desktop RAID solution integrated directly into the system board’s chipset, the Intel 875P. With the RAID configuration, the hard drives — available initially in 160GB capacity — act together as one large hard drive for 320GB total capacity. The result is that files can be written to the two hard drives simultaneously, which delivers dramatically increased hard drive performance. The ability to configure systems with RAID support is exclusively offered on the newer, highly anticipated Serial ATA interface.
The blazing fast performance is great for digital video, music and photo enthusiasts who transfer, edit, and store large digital media files. Gamers, many of whom are competing across a broadband connection, will reach a new level of game play with improved responsiveness from the Gateway 700XL. Small businesses or sole practitioners such as graphic artists and designers can also benefit tremendously from the increased performance and storage boost the Gateway 700XL offers. Plus, the Gateway 700XL comes fully set-up and ready to go; a much more economical and hassle-free option than putting together an aftermarket solution.
“Intel is excited to see Gateway leading the industry with this new high-performance desktop platform,” said Randy Wilhelm, Vice President of Intel’s Desktop Platforms Group. “By taking full advantage of every performance feature of the Intel 875P chipset, including Serial ATA with Intel RAID Technology, the Gateway 700XL raises the performance standard for desktop PCs to a new level.”
The Gateway 700XL’s ample performance and expandability options make it a great investment. Adding additional functionality and external devices is easy with eight USB 2.0 ports (two in the front, and six in the back), integrated Intel 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, and five PCI slots. For an unprecedented digital media and gaming experience, the Gateway 700XL includes 8X AGP graphics for increased graphics bandwidth and improved performance for visually intense applications. It also features the latest graphics from ATI’s 128MB RADEON 9800G PRO AGP Graphics Accelerator with TV-out and DVI connector.
The Gateway 700XL PC with 400GB storage (two 200GB hard drives) will be available April 14 at a price of $3,499. Beginning April 25, the Gateway 700XL will support the option for fast RAID-configured 160GB Serial ATA hard drives for 320GB total capacity. The Gateway 700XL also features 1024MB 400MHz DDR SDRAM Memory and an 18-inch LCD Analog/Digital flat panel display. The Gateway 700XL includes the latest technology for creating, editing, and sharing digital media with IEEE 1394 FireWire, DVD and CD burners, and Movie Creator VCD/DVD software.
Also, the popular Gateway 700X with new features will be available beginning April 14 at prices starting at $1,999. Beginning April 25, the Gateway 700X can be upgraded to a RAID configuration with two 160GB SATA hard drives for 320GB total capacity.
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Specimen Days: A Personal Essay
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I remember the museum is close by. The heavy woodwork, the leaded windows, the cavernous rooms remind me of elementary school. I head up the central staircase, following the path where the stone has been worn down by footsteps.
I’m impressed as always by the dinosaur bones. They are displayed in action — about to fight, about to feed.
A tour guide breaks my thoughts. She tells group of schoolchildren to ignore the signs in the glass cases; natural history is advancing so rapidly, she explains that the curator can’t keep up, and some of the information is out of date.
I’m disappointed to think that our science will someday seem quaint and that I’ll never know what really happened to the dinosaurs.
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A Day With(out) Art: Writing Until the Very End
by The Voice Archives
WE WALK INTO a glassed-in sidewalk café near Dupont Circle. I make it a point to sit across from Daniel because I want to flirt without the others noticing. We talk about how the rest of the world seems so little aware of what we are going through and how much the neighborhood has changed. We order omelettes; I look around and realize it is lunchtime for the other customers.
Daniel has been traveling in the Midwest and says he’s impressed by how close knit gay people seem in small towns; he would trade some of the freedom we have in New York for that sense of community. We start to play the game, staring a bit too long, jerking our attention away. He apologizes for using Sweet ’n Low, and I confess I use too much salt. I look through the glass and say Washington might be a nice place live after all.
Then I knock my fork on the floor and bend down to pick it up, but I’m not watching and I slam my forehead on the next table. It’s quiet all around us. I look up to say, “I’m fine,” but before I get the words out I see two drops of my blood, bright red against the white linen.
I DRIVE TO the suburbs to visit my father in the hospital. My hometown seems too manicured, like those model towns we used to build for the train set. My father’s room is in a new wing of the hospital, with drop ceilings, sheetrock walls, and a small crucifix over every door.
My mother and brother are there. I tell them Dad looks good and my mother smiles. I begin to resent the attention he’s getting.
Later, I am alone with my father when he wakes up. We have small talk. Suddenly, he asks if people still get AIDS from transfusions. I’m startled just to hear him say the word. I want to tell him I understand how afraid and alone he feels, but I’m not ready for him to know about me. I tell him to not worry — they screen blood now. He doesn’t look convinced, but puts his head back and drifts off to sleep. I touch his hand and notice how much our fingers are alike.
A few weeks later he’s back home and I visit him again. He seems small and hunched over, but the quickness is back in his eyes. He gives me a key to a safe deposit box; his will and some savings bonds are inside. If anything happens to him, it’s up to me to take care of the arrangements. I’m the only one who would be calm enough to know what to do.
FEATURE ARCHIVES
1980-1989: A Decade of Death
by Gary Indiana
Originally published January 2, 1990
I FOLLOW PETER out to the beach. Children from the village play off in the distance. The sun is already strong. Peter sits at the water’s edge and lowers his head. I sit a few feet away, wondering what to say. It was easier back in the city; here there is too much time to think. I look back at the guest house and notice again how shabby it’s gotten.
I touch his shoulder. He doesn’t want to die alone. He doesn’t want to die. I tell him I understand, I’m going through it too. That doesn’t calm him. He starts up again, telling me how his friend died. I turn away.
Further down the beach, someone has sculpted a life size person in the sand. The arms are crossed over the chest like a body in a casket. The face is peaceful. I start to tell Peter I heard these sculptures are part of an old folk religion still practiced on the island, but halfway through, I can’t remember if that’s true or I imagined it.
Suddenly, I envy his hysteria. I tell him that the frightened boy inside of him is the part I love most and that I would be there if he got sick. He calms down. We decide to go for a swim. The water’s too cool and the tide’s coming in, but we make it past where the waves are breaking and soak in the sun and the salt and the motion. When we return to land, the sand corpse has been washed away.
I’M MAKING every effort to keep up my friendship with Tom. He’s a connection to the days when everything was possible. Now that I’ve moved in with Peter, I worry that Tom may get lonely. And I know he’s attracted to Peter. He doesn’t hide his jealousy, and I don’t hide that I enjoy it.
But tonight he’s in one of his moods, smoking cigarettes between every course. He called to tell a friend about another friend and that friend told him about someone else. He’s thinking of taking antidepressants, but he’s afraid they’ll suppress his immune system.
Tom starts describing how he’s stopped going to memorials because they make him think about his own. I lean back, signal the waiter to bring the check and say, “Don’t worry, Tom. We’re not planning to give you a memorial.” I look into his face to see if he’s amused, but see only anger and surprise. It’s my turn, but he won’t let me pay for dinner.
PRIDE ARCHIVES
Stonewall 25: Gay Rites
by Eileen Myles
PETER COMPLAINS that I go to ACT UP demos just to cruise. I tell him I go for the sense of event. But today, in front of the Stock Exchange, the rain has muffled the protesters. I’m watching from under the canopy of the Federal Building across the street, listening to a homeless man explain the scene to his companion.
Then I see Mark. I slip around the nearest column, hoping he hasn’t seen me. I remember reading in Alumni News that he’s a vice-president now. I’m embarrassed by my backpack and blue jeans. I tell myself he wouldn’t be surprised to run into me here. He must have suspected me back in college.
I feel a tap on my shoulder and I spin around and Mark’s smiling at me, extending his hand. As we’re talking, I notice his eyes darting over to the demonstrators. I ask about his wife. Beth had a miscarriage last summer, he says softly, but they’re trying again now. Then he leans toward me, whispers, “Be happy,” and disappears into the revolving door.
I’M STARING INTO a shop window when I see a familiar face in the glass. David. We smile. Six years? Seven? You’re looking good, he says, by which we both know he means healthy. What’s new?
I don’t know what to say. David and I had never gotten to know each other well. I throw out disjointed facts. New boyfriend, same job. And you?
David tested positive last week.
I reach over and put my arms around him. That’s not like me. In those weeks we slept together so long ago, we never touched in the street.
Full Moon Over the Stonewall
by Howard Smith
AT LAST I would meet the extended family. Easter is a major Greek holiday, so there would be plenty of ritual to get us through the evening. Peter’s mother puts out a spread of lamb, spinach pie, and honey pastries. We crack open eggs dyed red in honor of Mary Magdalene and make wishes for the coming year. The older aunt never looks me in the eye, but sweet Aunt Kattina nods and smiles at me all through dinner. Later, the men laugh and argue over coffee while Peter and I help the women in the kitchen.
When we return home, Peter lights candles and we make love. Then he turns to the wall and we curl around each other. We will sleep with the window open because it’s almost spring. I lie still, waiting to hear him snore.
In the middle of the night, Peter cries out and I wake him and say it was just a dream, go back to sleep. We lie back. I look down at my body, thinking that all we are is inside our skin, but in this moment that thought doesn’t frighten me.
I’M TYING UP the newspapers. That’s become my job. Peter is mopping, singing along with the music. The apartment smells like lemons and ammonia. Then I spot Michael’s obit. I quickly shuffle it to the bottom of the pile, wondering if Peter knows. I decide to wait for the right moment to tell him.
But later, when I’m emptying the trash, I discover he’s already removed Michael’s card from the Rolodex.
NYC ARCHIVES
Dead Boys: Fast Sex and Slow Suicide on the West Side Docks
by Paul Solotaroff
I NOTICE A SLIGHT awkwardness in my step. After a brain scan and biopsy, I’m told I have a brain infection, which the AIDS treatment handbook I pull down from my shelf describes as “largely untreatable, rapidly progressive, and fatal.”
Peter is scrubbing the turkey, twisting his face in disgust as he slaps the gizzards into the sink. Carol is rolling pie crusts, explaining the virtues of shortening over real butter. The cats hover wide-eyed in the doorway. Sage, rosemary, and lots of thyme, I remember my grandmother telling me as she violently shook the spice can over the bowl of stuffing. Peter’s mother bursts in, and they argue in Greek until he lets her peel the apples.
Later, my family comes. It’s the first time I’ve seen them since the news, and they sit across the table in their best clothes, huddled together, motionless and grim like the Romanovs waiting for their executioners. My niece crawls over and sits in my lap.
I SIT in the dark comer, wanting to get up to respond to the man who’s rubbing his crotch in my face, afraid to lose my seat. I rub saliva from my hand and reach up to touch a passing nipple. I’ve convinced myself the sex club is one of the places I feel safest. The corridors are too narrow and crowded for me to fall. It’s so dark, no one seems to notice the way I move, or maybe they think I’m just drunk. I’ve learned something about myself coming here: The fun was always in the chase.
BOOKS ARCHIVES
Visitation Rites: The Elusive Tradition of Plague Lit
by Richard Goldstein
I’M STRAPPED to a table wearing a blue paper gown with a plastic cage around my head, being slid into the scanner. They shut the hatch, so I am completely enclosed, like an astronaut. The test lasts longer than I expect; I’m wondering if that’s a good sign. They pipe in music to drown out the distant jackhammmer rumble of the scan. I had brought CDs — Bach and a pop song that reminds me of Peter — but when they ask what kind of music I prefer, I just want to get it over with and I say I don’t care. So they pipe in the radio. It’s rush hour, so I lie there listening to anxious traffic updates.
WE’RE IN A DAMP East Village basement, watching a play about nuclear holocaust. Strobe lights, screeching punk music, eager actors stumbling around with red Jello dripping from their cheeks. Later, in front of the theater, the lead walks by, without his makeup. He has a lesion on his face.
PETER YELLS “snap out of it,” complaining that my walk — dragging my left foot, my left arm curled up in front of me like a beggar — “looks like something out of Dickens.” He’s mad at my family today, after a message from my brother the priest informing us that I had upset my sister because I sounded “down” on the phone. I think back to the day two months ago, my birthday, that I told her, as she returned home from the butcher, watching while she slapped fistfuls of chopped meat into burgers, wrapping each with both Saran and foil to protect them. When I told my brother the night before, he described Pascal’s wager — that we might as well believe in God, because we’ll be better off if he exists and no worse off if he doesn’t. I told him I didn’t think God’s so easily fooled.
I NEVER WANTED to open gifts on Christmas, because when the boxes were all unwrapped, it was over. This year, I’m having trouble tearing the paper, so I just want to get through it quickly. We usually buy a tree that’s much too big for the room, but this year we buy a small one we can replant in the spring.
I LIE ON THE couch, thinking I should be reading Proust or sailing to Tahiti, strategizing whether to get up to go to the bathroom or hold it till Peter gets home. Suddenly, the roofers start to lift the skylight, two days ahead of schedule. A few flakes of snow fall into the room, sprinkling my blanket like sugar. I pretend to be asleep because I don’t want it to stop.
REMEMBERING ROBERT: Seven Writers Remember a Colleague and a Friend
A DIARY OF LIVING WITH AIDS
November 18, 1993, 9 a.m.
A few weeks ago, I began to notice a slight awkwardness in my step. A few days later, I was stumbling over the keyboard, a few more errors per line each day. Though I’ve been basically healthy, knowing what I know as a journalist covering AIDS, I rushed off to the doctor, and after a brain scan and visits to a few specialists, got the diagnosis: Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, or PML. The medical book I pulled down from my shelf describes it as a rare brain infection caused by a common childhood virus that can erupt in people with AIDS, largely untreatable, rapidly progressive, and fatal.
My response is to be stoic. That’s because I’ve always been stoic, and because I’ve perceived that staying calm is the best thing for my health, which is the measure of all things these days. That may change: some anger or hysteria might be useful, or necessary, later on, but not for now.
The hardest question right now is how aggressive to be with treatment. My own research tells me early treatment might at best help slow down the infection, but treatment itself is a drastic step, involving the risky insertion of a device into my brain to deliver the medication. At the moment, I’m still able to maintain the semblance of a normal life. At this stage, the infection has eaten away at my ability to move the left side of my body, more each day. I can type with one hand, walk if I stay close to the wall, still climb stairs. My definition of normal keeps expanding.
Frank O’Hara: He Made Things and People Sacred
The most interesting part of all of this has been the reaction of everyone around me. Of course, everyone is being extremely helpful and, taking their cue from me, remaining calm, at least in my presence. I find that each person’s ability to help is a function not only of our relationship, but of their own relationship with mortality.
The central person of my life, my lover, my doppelgänger, my pal, is Perry, dear Perry. I’m so sorry to see you go through this. One of the complications of AIDS is negotiating the relationship between the lover and the family, but so far my family has followed my instructions that after me, Perry is in charge. Mom and Dad had to learn of all this on my 36th birthday.
My friend Carol had the presence of mind to ask me a key question right away: What am I doing with my time? My answer has been to do what I’ve always done. But, in fact, preparing to die, perhaps abruptly, while maintaining a positive attitude, whatever that means, is quite time-consuming.
Do I want to travel, win the Nobel Prize, finally read Proust? Of course, but I don’t see that focusing on the never-dids will be much help right now. And nothing would be enough, so anything is enough, to be savored. And as I keep having to remind everyone, I’m not dead yet.
But I am tired.
Today I became focused on a question that has been nagging me since the beginning: what physically is happening to me? What are the facts? A brain scan has shown one large and several small lesions. Two doctors, one considered the leading expert, have written “PML” under diagnosis on their bills. Blood tests show my immune system is weak enough for PML to appear. But what does that mean? It’s not like I have shrapnel sticking out of my gut. The mind can create symptoms, and a brain infection is particularly tricky. I’m a prime candidate for having invented this. I don’t have a history of hypochondria, but I do write about medicine, so I could be making this up.
Is this denial? The body has tools to fight almost anything short of shrapnel in the gut. For reasons beyond what we understand, the molecules in my body are not working together the way they should.
James Baldwin: The Last Interviews
by Village Voice staff
December 1, 1993, 11 a.m.
Why have I been so unfaithful in writing this? Fear that it falls so short. Being miserly with my time. Difficulty of sitting at my desk, working the keyboard. Wanting mostly just to sleep.
The last few weeks have been taken up by visits to the hospital for tests, visits from friends. Monday I was hobbling around the hospital going to rooms to fill out forms so I could go to rooms to fill out more forms.
Tomorrow is the biopsy. They make it sound like a tooth extraction. Local anesthetic, one stitch. Assuming there are no complications — they always add that.
I managed to drag myself over to work a few days last week, to help orient my replacement. How do you begin to explain something as ineffable and intuitive as story assignment? I left one cardinal rule: Print nothing that might mislead people to unwise choices about their care. But what is wisdom in such a catastrophe?
I felt at work, as in the hospital, like I was in a black hole. Worried about my privacy, those I’ve told haven’t told anyone else at the paper. So everyone acted as if I’d been on holiday, maybe sprained my ankle skiing. But that’s why I went back — for some sense of normality.
Too much caution can be dangerous. The hardest thing about walking in the street is that I almost get knocked over because I wait for the light to cross — almost unheard of in New York City. I learned it’s safest to walk with a little more limping than necessary, so people don’t come too close.
Our friend David died two days ago. Frank had a tumor removed from his spine yesterday, will need to have a kidney taken out too. Events that would have shattered my equilibrium just a few weeks ago now seem like faint, distant echoes.
Dear diary, I’ll tell you a secret. What is still on my mind, near the core, when work, reading, writing, and even friendship seem too difficult, is sex. Much of my time right now seems to be focused on ways to create the illusion at least that sex is still possible. Will they shave my head tomorrow?
Will there be complications?
Andy Land 4: A Saint, the Village Holy Man, and God Himself
December 5, 1993, 6 p.m.
Much as I’d like to milk this brain operation for maximum sympathy, I must confess that it was not at all horrible. All of us surgery patients being summoned from the lounge en masse, torn from our loved ones, did, as Perry later remarked, have a holocaust vibe, but after they gave me the intravenous Valium, they could have chopped my head off and I wouldn’t have minded. I remember only fleeting moments: having part of my head shaved, hearing them say they still had one spot to get. I ate saltines and apple juice in the recovery room.
My goal was to get out of the hospital as quickly as possible, not to wallow, to be free of the regimentation (which was oddly selective: breakfast the next morning consisted of decaf, skim milk, no-cholesterol butter, a tablespoon of scrambled eggs, and five strips of bacon).
Back at home I’ve been fine — except last night, when the anesthetic finally wore off, was rough. I wasn’t in pain, just felt completely wasted, discombobulated, as if I had an electric current running through me.
Perry the snoop read through this and said it wasn’t good, that people want to read about emotions, not symptoms. I agree — that’s what good writing is. But I can only write what’s there. Better to be boring than dishonest.
December 9, 1993, 6:30 p.m.
Mary, one of the phone receptionists at the Voice, whom I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to except to complain about misdirected calls, stopped me in the street today asking if I was OK, ’cause I was walking so slowly. When I told her I was OK, but I’ve been ill, she looked horrified and said she would pray for me. I guess only a virtual stranger can show naked sympathy. I’m aware of nearly everyone around me looking past the wound in my head, past my awkward movement, trying to make me feel normal. (I’m also aware that my oh-the-biopsy-wasn’t-so-bad routine is in part an attempt to milk it for what I can. To look brave, so they can say he fought it.)
The doctor told me last night that the biopsy was conclusive — PML — but that I wasn’t deteriorating that rapidly, so she wanted to continue the antivirals and hold off on the chemo implant for at least a few weeks. So I went back to earth.
They all are being very supportive — willing to make arrangements to enable me to do whatever work I want, promising to not cut me off, bending to accommodate me. Of course, they don’t have too much choice — I could be a PR liability. But I also like to think that they are basically decent folks. Do I want to work? I need to keep my feet on the ground. But I’m haunted by the idea that it’s not the best use of my time — I should be home writing the great American novel.
Hearing friends talk about other friends in hysteria over this or that amazes me. Even the news of the great events shaping the world outside seems beside the point. Stop fighting. Feed people. Our attention should be all on picking up the pieces from natural disasters, like AIDS. Everything else we invent.
Shortly after he wrote these passages, Robert Massa became unable to write or type. By March, he was unable to use his facial muscles to speak. He died on April 9.
William S. Burroughs Talks With Tennessee Williams
by The Village Voice Archives
READING ROBERT
WHY AREN’T THERE telephones in the hereafter? In the stillness of the wee hours, with the cursor flashing mockingly on a blank slate screen, I’d call Robert. Or at two in the morning, when writerly demons were haunting him, my phone would ring. We’d try out ideas, read passages to each other, get advice on structure. Somehow we’d slide into chitchat, then into more intimate conversation. After an hour or two, we’d joke about our codependent writing-avoidance behavior. We’d hang up — and crank out a story.
Those were the days before either of us had found — and moved in with — the loves of our lives. The days, that is, when the phone could ring at two in the morning without detonating a domestic disaster. When both of us were figuring out that we needed to write about more than theater, when we both needed to talk about what it meant that we felt so happy to be succumbing, at last, to the coziness of coupledom.
Robert, much more calm and self-assured than I in both pursuits, was not only a nurturing and demanding editor of my writing, he helped me shape my life.
It’s hard to come up with a snappy anecdote or image that captures him. Robert was more intricate than eventful. Though as a writer he was a master of pointed concision, as a subject he seems, strangely, to demand sprawl, or at least lots of scene setting. For Robert, magnitude and meaning resided in details. That’s one reason he was the country’s best AIDS journalist. That and his passion, precision, and principle.
And he was scrappy. Gloriously so. Though deeply shy and unassuming, Robert could be incredibly forthright. He had no patience for bullshit. I’m sure that people in press offices cringed when he called, knowing he’d ask questions that would shove them off their script. When he got sick, he displayed the same no-nonsense clarity. Respecting his disdain for sentimentality, I tried to repress my mushy tendencies in his presence — and perhaps didn’t say aloud what pounded in my heart. But then, Robert didn’t seem to want histrionics; he wanted someone to read him the paper. And though, increasingly, he couldn’t speak, he managed to keep hurling barbs at the Times. I’d visit on Thursdays and he’d joke that I would have to come a different morning — Thursday meant having to hear Frank Rich’s op-eds read aloud.
Years ago, Robert and I collaborated on a story about men’s and women’s bars. Given our diametrically opposed approaches to work — him sculpting sentence by sentence, me wanting to blurt out a messy draft and then go back and tinker — it’s a miracle we didn’t come to blows. Our research was “dating” each other — Robert dragging me into gay watering holes (he was careful to pick bars he didn’t frequent, lest I cramp his style), me strutting him into lesbian spots. Not long ago, he told me he’d reread the story and thought it was really bad — slight ideas, clunky prose. And looking it over, I had to agree. Still, Robert, you were the best boy date I ever had. — Alisa Solomon
Truman Capote Sups on the Flesh of the Famous
by James Wolcott
A TENDER TOP 10
Here is our last top 10:
1. A kiss in front of the Blue Willow so that all the world would know.
2. Exchanging wedding rings over pastrami.
3. An apartment with green carpeting and pink walls that we knew we could make our own.
4. Sex!
5. A tub full of kittens and William meowing to be noticed.
6. Our first anniversary, I-95, and a tree that continues to grow.
7. A cold February day in Berlin searching for art and dealing with snow and torn-up combat boots.
8. March 26, 1993: City Hall, domestic partnership, and a nervous bride.
9. The Statue of Liberty — a kiss — and salt and pepper shakers.
10. My birthday this year when you struggled to light a candle and carry the cake yourself.
And of course watching you as you slept for 2204 nights. Guess what? I still do.
“Always on my mind.”
A History of Hype: The Cockettes Conquer New York
by Maureen Orth
PRIME TIME PALS
HOW COULD ROBERT DIE — and leave me to watch Nixon’s funeral alone? Well supplied with plenty of cigarettes, take-out eats, and gallons of caffeinated beverage, and sharing a mutual loathing for the suddenly sanctified former prez, Robert, his lover Perry, and I would have had a ball with his send-off. After all, with the possible exceptions of the endless Menendez boys’ courtroom drama and the Tonya & Nancy variety show, this was the TV event of the season: Five-Presidents-and-First-Ladies-Five and Bob Hope, politicians galore and a bunch of cheap crooks (sometimes one and the same), and the incomparable Spiro Agnew. Oh, how the bile would have mingled with unbridled laughter as we reacted to all that pathetic posturing and cant, not to mention Senator Dole’s Emmy-worthy little breakdown at the end of his eulogy. And then we would have focused on the important stuff: Barbara Bush’s K-Marché faux pearls, the Carters’ seeming dyspepsia, and whether Alexis Carrington Colby, oops, I mean Nancy Reagan has had another lift.
Not to dis Tricia’s and Julie’s grief, but — oh, please! — their pop had been planning his final farewell as a major TV comeback special ever since he split quick from the White House back in ’74, and that is exactly how Robert and Perry and I would have relished it — as yet another great TV event that added to the structure upon which we built and nurtured our friendship. For mostly, over the past 15 years (and with Perry also working the remote since ’88), Robert and I watched television. At least once a week and, depending on what was on, sometimes much more often — I went over to Robert’s (and then Robert and Perry’s) apartment; I was home — you know, the place where you are always welcome. And while we chewed over everything from our own work to all the current issues and gossip, our primary activity was television, lots of it, all of it — the news, Mary Tyler Moore reruns, years of Dynasty, tennis, figure skating, Murphy Brown, election returns, lousy dramas, awards shows, and, above all, beauty pageants. We took it all in, savoring the purest moments — Sue Simmons and Al Roker, anything from Delta Burke’s delirious Suzanne Sugarbaker, the self-referential brilliance of the final Newhart — and commenting upon, twisting, spitting back, and otherwise manipulating most of the rest for our own purpose: good conversation. And maybe it was just an excuse to be together.
My favorite TV memory is of a beauty pageant a few years ago, in which a contestant was asked something like: In a hundred years, who do you think will be considered the most influential woman of the 20th century? That was exactly the type of thing we delighted in — and took dead seriously. After much hysterical laughter over the contestant’s response — Babs Bush (then First Lady) — we first had to deconstruct the question. What would be the best answer in order to win the contest? What would be the right answer? The most impressive? The most clever? Eleanor Roosevelt was the obvious answer — too obvious, we decided. Then Perry popped in with Madonna. We liked that, but nah. I thought hard and came up with Anne Frank. Ooh, they liked that. Impressive choice. And then, a couple of minutes later, Robert looked up, eyes twinkling, and said definitively, “Lucy Ricardo.” Ever the thoughtful, deliberate journalist, he had worked it through. And, of course, he was right.
But now, missing Robert, missing him terribly, I find our choices somehow ironic. For while Perry and I have always carried on together in a manner that just might bring to mind Lucy and Ethel or, to switch to my medium of expertise — Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand carrying on in Enough Is Enough — Robert, well, Robert actually had more than a bit of Anne Frank in him. In both his work — as a theater critic and especially as a journalist documenting the horrors of AIDS and the fight for gay rights — and his personal life, he first looked for the good in others, for the positive and the possible. He could be cynical or angry (cf. Nixon), but he was essentially a kind, generous man who did his damnedest. And like too many of the best TV shows — say, I’ll Fly Away — Robert was canceled much too soon. Oh, Robert, we never got to say, “Hi, Roz!” — Jim Feldman
James Baldwin on Being Gay in America
by The Village Voice
TONYA HARDING AND THE WEATHER
(For Robert)
I’m sorry, you said
in your E.T. voice,
the one you’d had
since your body companion
began its final campaign
for control of your body.
It was the inconveniencing
that bothered you the most.
That, and having to express
your biggest fears by feeling
your way along a letter board.
Months earlier, watching t.v.
(with the sound off, of course)
You observed that
essentially it all boils down to
Tonya Harding and the weather.
After several hours, I
had to agree with you.
Here’s what I remember:
The look on your face
when you first held Lucy.
Your need to talk about
love’s truths at 3 in the morning.
Your impatience with insincerity.
Your quiet ability to take care of
The last time I saw you
awake, you needed something
urgently. Water, I asked, Oxygen,
Juice, Raise the bed.
With a great deal of frustration
You finally spelled out
“New Yorker.”
I should’ve known.
— Mala Hoffman
Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square
by Lucian K. Truscott IV
OH ROBERT, goddamn it! — Eileen Blumenthal
SPEAKING SILENTLY
IN THE LAST WEEKS of Robert’s life, it was difficult for him to speak. He would dive into himself and force out words, repeating them until I understood. When he could still see well enough and coordinate his hands, he typed into a computer. After that, he pointed to letters on an alphabet chart. He communicated with his eyes, too, which were attentive, comprehending, and filled with a new intensity, a look of horror and empathy, as if he were computing his emotions and mine at a speeded rate. He made me feel understood and accepted, and I spoke without reserve.
He did not use our time to complain and one day, when I asked what was on his mind, he spelled out “I don’t feel cheated.” I said he inspired love in many people, in his odd, distant way. His kiss was the faintest brush, but he let you know, through a sort of sneaking merriment — his mouth lifting in a Cheshire cat grin, a blush blooming over his cheeks — that he was glad you existed. His generosity did not come with conditions.
It was easier now to touch him, to hold hands and rub his back. I read aloud or talked about the world and events at the Voice, but even more Robert wanted stories about my life, which he said distracted him from the discomfort of his body. I was roller-coasting on a problematic love affair. “What happened?” would be the first words he would cough up when I arrived, and when I told him it was over, he said, “Better sooner than later, if it had to end.” So there I was suffering about the loss of love and coming out of myself with him, and there he was escaping his trembling hands and numb left side. We talked of the frustration of our powerlessness over his illness. Robert said he wished he had written more; I responded there probably wasn’t a writer who didn’t feel that every day. Robert said that, apart from work, the only consolation now or at any time was human connection. He did not stop building it.
— Laurie Stone
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on April 28, 2020
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Apple Valley residents' ‘Right to Vote on Debt Act’ qualifies for November ballot
Matthew Cabe Staff Writer @DP_MatthewCabe
APPLE VALLEY — The initiative started in an attempt to allow residents to vote on public debt has qualified for the November ballot.
Proponents of the “Right to Vote on Debt Act,” which was started by Apple Valley residents Chuck and Pat Hanson in response to the town’s eminent domain action against Liberty Utilities, Apple Valley, gathered 5,348 signatures that were submitted to the town clerk May 10.
Town spokeswoman Kathie Martin told the Daily Press on Wednesday that 3,873 of those signatures were found to be valid, surpassing the required amount by 701 signatures.
“Accordingly, the town clerk has informed the proponents that their measure has sufficient signatures to qualify,” Martin said.
On June 28, the Town Council will receive the town clerk’s Certificate of Sufficiency of Initiative Petition and consider its options, according to Martin, who previously said the Council can either adopt the ordinance outright, submit it to voters in November or order an Elections Code 9212 report to assess the impact of the initiative measure.
“In line with the Elections Code,” Martin said, “town staff will recommend that the Town Council request the preparation of an impartial and informational report on the measure and its impact on the Town (before pursuing one of the other two options).”
Martin said should the Council choose to order the report, one of the first two options would still need to be decided upon after the report is completed. She added that the report will not interfere with the timeline for the November elections.
If passed by voters in November, the initiative would amend the Apple Valley municipal code to add a requirement that voters approve by a majority vote “any public debt over $10 million” that provides funds for the acquisition of an enterprise.
That public debt is in reference to bonds the town would likely use to fund its acquisition by eminent domain of the water system owned by Liberty Utilities.
Liberty financially backed the initiative, and General Manager Tony Penna applauded the initiative Wednesday.
"We have tremendous respect for our customers and want them to have a real and meaningful voice with respect to all aspects of water service, from conservation, to water quality, to investments in infrastructure and water rates," Penna said. "We strongly support residents having the right to vote on long-term debt, and believe this important accountability measure should be passed."
The initiative also has been endorsed by the Citizens for Government Accountability, a group that opposes the town's acquisition attempt. A letter asking the Town Council to support the initiative was signed by Diana Carloni, Greg Raven and Leane Lee, three member's of CGA's leadership committee.
Carloni presented the letter to the Town Council at the June 14 Council meeting, and Mayor Barb Stanton said the initiative will be discussed during the June 28 meeting.
Amid the required-signature verification, a trial-setting court date in the town’s eminent domain case against Liberty is scheduled for July 7, according to court records.
Town Attorney John Brown said Wednesday that the eminent domain action will move to trial as expected despite the qualification of the Hanson’s initiative, which could work to halt an acquisition attempt should voters pass the initiative come November.
“The initiative and the lawsuit are procedurally unrelated,” Brown said via email. “Liberty already tried unsuccessfully to get the court to stay the eminent domain proceeding pending resolution of their (California Environmental Quality Act) lawsuit. The eminent domain action should not be delayed in any way because of the initiative, and we expect the trial court to set a date for trial shortly.”
Meanwhile, Brown added, a similar eminent domain proceeding involving Liberty and the city of Missoula, Montana, is winding down; the result of the eminent domain action in Missoula could serve as foreshadowing to what occurs in Apple Valley.
“The Supreme Court heard Liberty Utilities’ appeal and a final decision from the Montana Supreme Court is expected shortly,” Brown said. “The trial court has already entered a judgement in eminent domain. It is unclear how the loss of approximately one-third of its customers will impact Liberty’s operations in Apple Valley, but many of its overhead costs remain fixed and it is unclear how the loss of that customer revenue could impact future water rates in the town.”
President of Liberty Utilities California Greg Sorensen was unavailable to comment Wednesday on Brown's statements; however, company officials committed to responding Thursday.
Matthew Cabe can be reached at MCabe@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-951-6254. Follow him on Twitter @DP_MatthewCabe.
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Sweden is on its way to becoming a cashless society
Non-card payments in Swedish shops almost halved between 2010 and 2015
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Alex Gray Senior Writer, Formative Content
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Cash is on its way out in Sweden.
Between 2007 and 2015, cash in circulation decreased by nearly 15%.
And between 2010 and 2015, the number of cash payments in shops almost halved, from 39% to 20%.
At the same time, electronic payments have surged. Ninety-five per cent of Swedes have access to a debit or credit card, and made an average of 290 card payments a year in 2015. That’s well above the EU average, at 104 card payments per year.
What’s behind the change?
There are a number of reasons Sweden is becoming a cashless society. The birthplace of Skype and Spotify, Sweden is known as a high-tech and innovative country, so it’s no surprise that Swedes are embracing digital payments.
The majority of the Swedish population have smartphones and tablets and are happy to use them for financial transactions.
In addition, cash is expensive for banks, and so, according to the Swedish national bank, Riksbank, financial institutions are just as keen as consumers to switch from cash to electronic payments. There are fewer large banks, which means that cooperation on payments is relatively straightforward.
Swedish society is also characterized by a high level of confidence in the suppliers of payment services, which makes people more willing to embrace technology.
Electronic payments are booming
The wave of ecommerce in recent years, coupled with the advent of contactless cards and payment apps, means it’s easier than ever to pay in seconds, simply by waving your smartphone over a terminal.
Worldwide, non-cash transactions reached 433.1 billion in 2015, a growth of 11.2%. The US led the way, followed by the Eurozone and China, according to Capgemini and BNP Paribas’ latest World Payments Report.
Image: World Payments Report
Consultants at McKinsey predict global payments revenues will grow from $1.8 trillion in 2014 to $2.2 trillion in 2020.
Singapore, the Netherlands and France join Sweden as some of the least cash-reliant countries in the world.
Image: Mastercard Advisers/McKinsey
Where cash is still king
That said, cash still forms an important part of the world economy.
Africa, Latin America and emerging Asia-Pacific still rely heavily on traditional money. Many poorer regions have to contend with a lack of cashless infrastructure, such as slow or non-existent internet access. In some areas, large numbers of people work outside the formal economy, where paper money still rules.
Cash may be on its way out in Sweden, but Riksbank says that “an entirely cashless society is still a long way off”.
Alex Gray, Senior Writer, Formative Content
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Unequal burden: how the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to women’s workloads
Coronavirus has increased the time women spend caring for children and other dependents.
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Alex Thornton Senior Writer, Formative Content
COVID-19 restrictions mean both men and women spend longer doing jobs around the home.
Women have seen a larger increase in unpaid work than men.
Evidence shows that COVID-19 is reinforcing traditional social and cultural gender norms.
A new report for UN Women analyses data from 38 countries around the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic downturn it has caused, have hit everyone hard. But the impact has not been spread equally. A new report by UN Women has found clear evidence that, although both genders have seen their unpaid workloads increase, women are bearing more of the burden than men.
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This is how workplace gender parity looks around the world
Women still do much more than men.
Image: “Whose time to care?”, UN Women
Even before the pandemic, women were spending on average three times as many hours as men on domestic chores, childcare and looking after vulnerable or elderly loved ones. Widespread restrictions on daily life, school closures, disruption to businesses and a big rise in working from home have made many tasks more time-consuming and arduous.
As the following charts show, more women than men have reported an increase in their workload in almost every aspect of domestic life.
Putting in the extra hours
The data also shows more men saying that they usually don’t do a particular task.
The average woman now spends nearly the equivalent of a full-time job doing unpaid childcare - a full working day a week more than the average man.
—“Whose time to care?”, UN Women
Nearly a third of women report spending more time cooking and serving meals, compared to just under a fifth of men. Half of all men say they don’t normally get involved in preparing food at all.
Women are more likely to increase the time spent on household chores.
A similar picture emerges when looking at childcare. Research for UN Women carried out by Ipsos in 16 countries showed that before the pandemic women spent an average of 26 hours per week looking after children, compared to 20 hours a week for men. That has now risen by 5.2 hours for women, and just 3.5 hours for men. As a result, the average woman now spends nearly the equivalent of a full-time job doing unpaid childcare - a full working day a week more than the average man.
The time spent on childcare, as divided by sex, differs across countries.
And as the chart shows, there are big regional differences. Although every nation surveyed showed a rise, the effects were most pronounced in less affluent countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, compared to wealthier countries.
What is the World Economic Forum doing about the coronavirus outbreak?
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic requires global cooperation among governments, international organizations and the business community, which is at the centre of the World Economic Forum’s mission as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
How can we collaborate to stop the spread of COVID-19?
Since its launch on 11 March, the Forum’s COVID Action Platform has brought together 1,667 stakeholders from 1,106 businesses and organizations to mitigate the risk and impact of the unprecedented global health emergency that is COVID-19.
The platform is created with the support of the World Health Organization and is open to all businesses and industry groups, as well as other stakeholders, aiming to integrate and inform joint action.
As an organization, the Forum has a track record of supporting efforts to contain epidemics. In 2017, at our Annual Meeting, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was launched – bringing together experts from government, business, health, academia and civil society to accelerate the development of vaccines. CEPI is currently supporting the race to develop a vaccine against this strand of the coronavirus.
The pandemic has reaffirmed the persistence of gender bias in social and cultural norms. All but a small fraction of men acknowledge that their wives or partners are doing more around the house, while just two-thirds of women say the same of their husbands or partners.
Perhaps more concerning for gender equality in the future is that parents are more likely to notice their daughter doing more to help than their sons.
Women bare the heaviest burden.
What's the World Economic Forum doing about diversity, equity and inclusion?
The COVID-19 pandemic and recent social and political unrest have created a profound sense of urgency for companies to actively work to tackle racial injustice and inequality. In response, the Forum's Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society has established a high-level community of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officers. The community will develop a vision, strategies and tools to proactively embed equity into the post-pandemic recovery and shape long-term inclusive change in our economies and societies.
As businesses emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, they have a unique opportunity to ensure that equity, inclusion and justice define the "new normal" and tackle exclusion, bias and discrimination related to race, gender, ability, sexual orientation and all other forms of human diversity. It is increasingly clear that new workplace technologies and practices can be leveraged to significantly improve diversity, equity and inclusion outcomes.
The World Economic Forum has developed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit, to outline the practical opportunities that this new technology represents for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, while describing the challenges that come with it.
The toolkit explores how technology can help reduce bias from recruitment processes, diversify talent pools and benchmark diversity and inclusion across organisations. The toolkit also cites research that suggests well-managed diverse teams significantly outperform homogenous ones over time, across profitability, innovation, decision-making and employee engagement.
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit is available here.
A reversal of progress made?
The overall effect is that the gradual progress towards gender equality seen in recent decades could not only stall, but be reversed.
Already more than 28 million women over the age of 25 are estimated to have left the labour market altogether in 55 high- and middle-income countries over the last year, compared to 24 million men. Given that women were already less likely to be in the workforce, this represents a serious threat to the economic status of huge numbers of women. On a global scale, it’s thought the pandemic will push a further 47 million women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021.
Despite the clear evidence that women are disproportionately suffering economically from the effects of the pandemic, the vast majority of measures that have been enacted by policy-makers do little to address the increased burden on women.
However, there are some notable exceptions: increases in monthly child allowance payments in places like Argentina, expanding paid parental leave programmes in Italy and Belgium, and providing extra support for childcare either by keeping crèches and nurseries open (as in Australia) or compensating parents affected by closures (as in Germany and South Korea).
Perhaps the biggest step would be simply recognizing the value of the unpaid domestic and caring work done by women, pandemic or not. The 16 billion hours spent on unpaid caring every day would represent nearly a tenth of the world’s entire economic output if it was paid at a fair rate. Women were grossly undervalued before the pandemic - now the situation is getting even worse.
Alex Thornton, Senior Writer, Formative Content
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A ‘Most Beautiful Crop;’ Apples are Ripe for Picking in Westford
By: Joyce Pellino Crane, News Director | September 21, 2017
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The red apples pop against the green leaves. PHOTO BY JOYCE PELLINO CRANE
The apples at Hill Orchard are redder this year than last. They pop against the green leaves and almost mesmerize the viewer, the result of three weeks of cool evenings and warm days, said manager David Dumaresq.
“It’s probably one of the most beautiful crops in years,” he said. “…the ginger gold apples– because of those cold nights — got this pinkish gold color. The Mcintoshes are the reddest color I’ve ever seen.”
Measured in pounds, this year’s crop amounts to 10.4 billion, down from last year’s 11.3 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Dumaresq, who bills himself as Farmer Dave, said Hill Orchard’s output was better in 2015. He is the owner of Brox Farm in Dracut.
Michel Mathaus is visiting from Rio Verde University in Brazil where he is a graduate student. He is doing an agricultural internship in the United States. PHOTO BY JOYCE PELLINO CRANE
“This year we had a lot of rain, but it didn’t penetrate the ground,” he said. “You really need an inch-and-a-half to really soak into the ground.”
Perhaps this year’s is not a bumper crop in terms of numbers, but there are plenty of apples for picking: gravensteins, paula reds, cortlands, galas, and honey crisps, to name a few.
Apples are available inside the Hill Orchard farm stand. PHOTO BY JOYCE PELLINO CRANE
The pear crop is also coming in. Dumaresq’s workers, Michel Mathaus, an agricultural intern from the University of Rio Verde in Brazil, and Ricky Beezer of Dracut were in the field on Sept. 21 picking Bosc pears. There are also Asians and seckels available at the farmstand.
Bosc pears for sale. PHOTO BY JOYCE PELLINO CRANE
The orchard at Hunt and Chamberlain Roads is open for apple picking on weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee is $10 for a half peck; $20 for a peck; and $30 for a bushel.
Ricky Beezer of Dracut pulls a pear from its branch. PHOTO BY JOYCE PELLINO CRANE
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Bride who made ‘miracle’ recovery loses dad before he could walk her down aisle
A seriously-ill woman who made a ‘miracle’ recovery has lost her dad during the pandemic – just months before he had been due to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day.
Vanessa Erickson, 25, from Arnold, spent 10 weeks in hospital and was far too ill to attend her sister’s wedding back in May 2017.
But her sister and bride-to-be, Rebecca Alexander, popped into Queen’s Medical Centre in her wedding dress for a surprise visit on the way to the church.
Vanessa never thought she would have her own big day and at times the future looked bleak, but the 25-year-old said she kept fighting and was set to marry her childhood sweetheart, Aaron Wharton, this June.
She was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and underwent major, life-changing surgery to remove some of her bowel after it erupted.
She lost half of her body weight and dropped from 12 to just six stone, with doctors unsure of whether she would make it.
Rebecca Alexander surprises her sister Vanessa Erickson at the QMC, hours before her wedding
This week, Vanessa was told that her fight is not over and she may need to have her whole bowel removed after noticing some alarming symptoms.
Vanessa, who has three other sisters, Jacqueline, Rebecca and Lindsay , always said their dad, Andrew Erickson, 58, would walk them all down the aisle on their each of their wedding days.
Having walked both Jacqueline and Rebecca down the aisle, it looked like Vanessa would be next when she planned to marry her partner this month.
But tragedy hit during lockdown when their dad got seriously ill with pneumonia in March.
No coronavirus test was taken but the family said he showed no symptoms of the virus.
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Miss Erickson told Nottinghamshire Live: “We went to see him a week prior to him passing away. We had not been back a week and got the news that dad was not going to make it.
“Three of us are in Nottingham and he was in Wales. We got our stuff together and were just about to leave but at 1.20pm on March 20, he had passed away.
“We did not get down there to say goodbye. My dad is one of those people who will speak his mind but he always put his kids first.
“You could spend hours on the phone talking to him, nagging about the other sisters.
Family picture of dad with his daughters – Vanessa Erickson, Andrew Erickson, Jacqueline (in the wedding dress), Lindsay and Rebecca
“He walked Jacqueline and Rebecca down the aisle and he was going to walk me and Lindsay but we have put the wedding on hold.
“He was my dad and he was always going to be that person who would walk me down the aisle so it will be hard when he doesn’t. It will be my mum now.
She said one of her fondest memories of her dad is he would always come to Nottingham in his Cardiff City football shirt to “show off” on who he felt was the better team.
Andrew Erickson with footballer Gareth Bale
The family plan to attend a Cardiff and Forest game in his memory.
Miss Erickson said the fight is still not over as she prepares for an MRI scan, with the possibility of having her whole bowel removed.
“Just when I thought I was getting better, this came,” she added. “With coronavirus I am not allowed into the hospital because of everything that is going on.
“I am high risk because of my Crohn’s disease. But I am feeling good in myself.”
She is now waiting for a date to be seen by her consultant, but is optimistic with a family holiday planned to Butlins next year.
She said: “With my dad passing away, life is short; a wedding is money to change your last name but anything can happen to my family so spending time with them is what is important to me.”
She is yet to reschedule a date for her wedding.
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The It List: 'Rooting for Roona' captures story of baby with hydrocephalus, Liam Neeson returns to action in 'Honest Thief,' 'Requiem for a Dream' gets 4K restoration and the best in pop culture the week of Oct. 12, 2020
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Liam Neeson on son changing last name to honor Natasha Richardson: 'He did the right thing'
Neeson says it was "cathartic" working with son Micheál in new movie that tackles grief.
Natasha Richardson's son Micheál says he still hasn't 'fully comprehended' her death in 2009 skiing accident
Micheál Richardson — son of Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson — is reminiscing about his mother ahead of the release of his first leading film role, a movie that co-stars his dad and shares parallels to their life and loss.
Iconic ‘Batman’ Writer Denny O’Neil Dies at 81
Iconic “Batman” comic book writer and editor Denny O’Neil has passed away at 81. O’Neil died of natural causes on the night of June 11.“RIP Denny O’ Neil–one of visionary architects of DC Comics who helped revive Batman in the 1970’s and remains my favorite Green Lantern writer to date,” said Jim Lee, DC Comics Publisher and Chief Creative Officer in a statement on Twitter.RIP Denny O’ Neil—one of visionary architects of DC Comics who helped revive Batman in the 1970’s and remains my favorite Green Lantern writer to date. Through his editing and writing, Denny was one of the earliest writers whose work and focus on social issues pushed comics 1/ pic.twitter.com/5zqmD4Wz7T— Jim Lee (@JimLee) June 12, 2020O’Neil is best known for his work on Batman, as well as editing DC’s Batman titles from 1986-2000. Along with legendary comic book artist Neal Adams and editor Julius Schwartz, O’Neil revitalized Batman in the early ’70s after the campiness of the Batman 1960s TV series by taking the character back to his darker roots and to the formula originated by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. O’Neil also helped revitalized the Joker and Two Face as DC villains, and oversaw the Death of Jason Todd, the second Robin.Also Read: 'Batman,' 'Wonder Woman,' 'Justice League' to Leave HBO Max in JulyDuring his ’70s run, O’Neil created/co-created Ra’s al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Leslie Tompkins and Richard Dragon. Liam Neeson played Ra’s al ghul in Cristopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins.” Marion Cotillard portrayed Talia al Ghul in “The Dark Knight Rises.”It was O’Neil’s vision and the groundwork he laid during his ’70s run on “Batman” that director Tim Burton leaned for the 1989 “Batman” film. O’Neil ended up writing the movie’s comic book adaptation, which was recently reissued in a Deluxe Edition Hardcover.O’Neil along with Adams revitalized the Green Lantern and Green Arrow characters by teaming them up in the comics. O’Neil had a stint at Marvel in the ’80s where he worked on comics like “Daredevil,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” and created the Obadiah Stane villain in “Iron Man” which Jeff Bridges play in 2008’s “Iron Man.”O’Neil eventually branched out into writing television and his credits include “Batman: The Animated Series” which adapted “The Demon’s Quest” comic written originally by O’Neil into a two part episode which he also scripted. His other television credits include”Logan’s Run,” “Superboy,” and “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.”Read original story Iconic ‘Batman’ Writer Denny O’Neil Dies at 81 At TheWrap
'The Phantom Menace' at 20: How the first episode of the 'Star Wars' saga created toxic fandom
Liam Neeson, Samuel Jackson and other "Star Wars" stars examine the misguided backlash two decades later.
New 'Men in Black: International' trailer goes heavy on Liam Neeson despite controversy
Fans previously called for Liam Neeson to be 'digitally erased' from the film following his remarks during the promotional tour for 'Cold Pursuit'.
Liam Neeson Apologizes for ‘Impulsive’ Racial Comment: ‘I Missed the Point’
Weeks after generating controversy for discussing a past event in which he wanted to bait a black man into fighting him to avenge a recently raped friend, Liam Neeson has released an apology for the remarks. “Over the last several weeks, I have reflected on and spoken to a variety of people who were hurt […]
Michelle Rodriguez defends Liam Neeson based on how he kisses: 'You can't call him a racist ever'
Rodriguez is defending her "Widows" co-star, vociferously denying that he is racist — and advancing an unusual reason.
Liam Neeson Attends ‘Cold Pursuit’ Premiere Amid Racism Controversy
Liam Neeson stepped out on Tuesday night in New York City to attend the premiere of his Lionsgate thriller “Cold Pursuit." However, the red carpet for the screening was canceled just hours before arrivals were to begin in the wake of the Neeson's racially charged comments he recently made during an interview with the Independent. […]
Red carpet nixed after Liam Neeson reveals racist thoughts
NEW YORK (AP) — The red carpet for the premiere of Liam Neeson's latest film was canceled Tuesday, a day after a British newspaper published an interview in which the actor discussed wanting to kill a random black person nearly 40 years ago when a close friend told him she had been raped by a black man.
Liam Neeson faces backlash after admitting he wanted to 'kill' a black man after a friend's rape
Fans are both angered and confused by comments Liam Neeson has made about race in a new interview.
Liam Neeson's nephew dies 5 years after tragic fall
The actor's nephew reportedly suffered a serious head injury after falling during a night out with friends five years ago.
Vanessa Redgrave on Daughter Natasha Richardson's Death 10 Years Later: 'It Never Becomes OK'
Vanessa Redgrave on Daughter Natasha Richardson's Death
Liam Neeson's Son Micheal Takes His Late Mother Natasha Richardson's Last Name
The couple's son decided to honor his late mother, who died in 2009 after a skiing accident, by changing his last name.
Twitter brings the ‘Taken’ jokes after Liam Neeson’s new movie combines revenge with … snow plows?
When will Liam Neeson's thirst for revenge be quenched?
Viola Davis's band of 'Widows' execute one last job in new trailer
When most husbands pass away, they leave behind personal keepsakes or money. But in "Widows," Viola Davis is left plans for her late criminal husband’s next job.
Liam Neeson joins Chris Hemsworth in 'Men in Black' spinoff
Tessa Thompson also stars in the Sony Pictures project, which will explore new agents in the secretive alien-monitoring organization.
'Schindler's List' at 25: Steven Spielberg remembers weekly calls with Robin Williams along with Ben Kingsley bar fights
Reunited with his cast during a 25th anniversary celebration at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival,Spielberg also spoke about how frustrating it was having to break from capturing the trauma of “Schindler’s List” to approving lighthearted "Jurassic Park" cuts.
Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson Reunite After They Were a ‘Serious Item’ in the ‘80s
The A-listers dated for about four years.
Liam Neeson open to returning as Qui-Gon Jinn in Obi-Wan Kenobi movie (exclusive)
"The Commuter" star discusses the possibility of his return to the "Star Wars" franchise.
Fact-checking 'The Commuter': 5 ways Liam Neeson's commute is better than mine
New action flick offers a very different transit experience from the one I enjoy every weekday via the MTA.
Liam Neeson's greatest action hits, ranked
In honor of actor's latest hero turn in "The Commuter," we count down his all-time best kick-ass parts, from "A-Team" to "Taken."
'Saturday Night Live' #TBT: Luck of the Irish
In honor of an Irish episode of "SNL" coming up this Saturday, watch an old chestnut: a hilarious throwback skit featuring Liam Neeson, Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler, "The Irish Home Makeover."
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This A-list movie star just made the most epic surprise cameo on 'The Orville'
On this week’s episode of "The Orville", the crew discovered a mysterious drifting vessel with an even bigger discovery within it.
Liam Neeson and his set of skills are retiring from action movies (again)
Audiences won't be able to see Liam Neeson's very particular set of skills on the big screen for much longer: The actor says he's retiring from action movies.
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What Are the Hottest Electric Cars in 2020 and 2021?
As the new decade continues to find its stride, so more manufacturers commit to an electric vehicle future. In this, the first of two articles, find out what the top companies will bring to market and discover some of the best electric cars as 2020 turns into 2021.
In the summer of 2021, Audi will release its latest SUV in all-electric form. The Q4 e-tron is the latest step in the German company's electrification programme and is part of its mid-size range.
Details are still sketchy, but this sportback should cost somewhere around £50,000 and be available in either two or four-wheel drive. They'll fit an 82 kWh battery pack, and you should get around 300 miles on a full charge.
Inside, find the MMI Navigation Plus touchscreen and virtual cockpit to guide you along and programmable, electronic climate control. You'll get 615 litres of storage space at the back and five-door access.
Audi will kindly give you a pod point wall box free of charge as well, so you will always be ready to hit the road.
"The future has arrived," says BMW in a somewhat predictable blurb. Yet the German company is making a bold attempt to rewrite the technology rules with its latest SUV. The iX will take its place as the category flagship, and use an upgraded electric drive system, with a new aluminium frame and structure made from carbon-fibre reinforced plastic.
You can expect two electric motors that will send power to all four wheels, together with a top speed of around 125 mph. Look for several battery options with a 100 kWh unit available and a range of 370 miles. That's a significant step up compared to previous electric SUVs from this manufacturer.
Autonomous driving capability and 5G technology should make this model cutting-edge in terms of driving experience and safety. Within, you will find seating for five and two separate digital screens for driver information and infotainment. You may or may not like the hexagonal steering wheel, however.
iX may appear in showrooms towards the end of the year, for an as-yet-undisclosed price.
Citroen eC4
The C4 is a well-established family hatchback with an ardent following. Therefore, it stands to reason that Citroen bosses should choose to electrify the model to capture their part of this emerging market.
Touchscreen functionality is front and centre inside the eC4, and the cabin is well laid out, with plenty of storage space. There is seating for five and a large boot with around 380 litres of space.
Underneath, Citroen fits a 130 bhp motor and a 50 kWh battery with an expected range north of 210 miles. You will be able to access rapid charging in around 30 minutes, should that range be on the low end for you.
Citroen will market four different versions, likely to start at £30,000, in February.
Fiat e-500
If most of your driving takes place in an urban environment, Fiat has the perfect electric car for you. The 500e hatchback will appear in the spring and feature a price of around £26,995 for the "La Prima" ragtop. You can look forward to several different versions, with that convertible for those rare, warm and sunny British days.
There are two different powertrain options, starting with a 92 hp motor that can speed you to 84 mph if you get out of town. You won't want to stray too far, however, with a maximum range of 115 miles. A chunkier battery pack and electric motor will undoubtedly improve your range anxiety, and there are three separate driving modes as well.
On the tech front, look for adaptive cruise control, lane assist, 360° sensors and semiautonomous driving capability. Different body styles include a neat door extension on the driver side, to make rear access a lot easier.
The original "pony car" was, perhaps, the epitome of raw American power. Times change, though, and the latest Mustang from Dearborn is an all-electric crossover instead. Available as one of the most exciting new electric cars in the UK in late 2020, the Mach-E will price in the £40,000 range.
Version-wise, you will find rear-wheel and four-wheel drive options. The range will vary between 250 and 380 miles on a full charge, with between 265 and 350 hp from those electric motors.
Many purists may find it difficult to get past the fact that the Mustang is now an SUV, but it comes well-equipped out of the showroom, with plenty of driver aids and interior comforts. You can also choose performance mode and configure the onboard synthesiser so that it at least sounds like the old pony.
Two different screens provide driver information and infotainment with the latter looking more like a giant iPad than anything else.
Hyundai will launch the Ioniq 5 towards the end of the New Year, and this new all-electric SUV should cost north of £40,000. It will be part of a range of electric vehicles under the Ioniq tag, including saloons and SUVs.
This compact crossover will feature a longer wheelbase but a completely redesigned platform that should generate plenty of room inside. Hyundai has called this the E-GMP and claims that "smooth and stable driving performance" will be a key feature of this modular concept.
Although very few details are available, expect a range of more than 300 miles with fast charging capability. Launch models will likely be rear-wheel drive, with four-wheel capability down the road.
The British company is fully committed to electrification, and the XJ will line up alongside the existing i-PACE. This vehicle will likely have two-wheel and four-wheel drive options and feature the all-new MLA platform.
The XJ is a luxury offering with plenty of onboard space, up to 100 kWh from the battery and lots of range, but Jaguar has not talked about the price yet. However, company bosses have revealed that they will delay the launch, and while the XJ was due to be one of the most keenly awaited electric cars in 2020, it won't appear now until the middle of 2021.
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Cheryl Lewis: All In Stunt Performer
By Nikita Raja
When Vee got into a “car accident” on Orange Is The New Black, it was stunt performer Cheryl Lewis who actually took the hit. Cheryl, a martial artist, filmmaker and a visual storyteller has an approach to movement and stunts that has made her a much sought after performer. Her skill and focus has gotten her gigs on Luke Cage, Wonder Woman 1984, and Shameless to name just a few. We asked her about how she came to work in one of the most dangerous departments on set.
How did you get into stunt performance?
Becoming a stunt performer was the progression for me as an athlete and a performer. Skill sets from one discipline can service other disciplines. For me, I transitioned as a gymnast, to dancer, to musical theater performer, to circus aerialist into stunts.
What has been your most memorable stunt experience to date?
Jumping out of the back of a moving ambulance, straight into a car hit on “Shameless”.
Who are your favorite actors to double for and why?
Anjaune Ellis, wonderful, talented performer. Aunjaune was one of my first roommates in NYC all those years ago. A friend, and someone who is wonderful to work with.
Alfre Woodard, a great actor. You can learn so much by watching her work. Just love being with her on set, great conversations. She is such a talented, intelligent, beautiful person!
How do you balance the disciplines of stunts and dancing?
Being a performer whether it’s dancing, gymnastics or an aerial act, it’s all storytelling. I am a visual storyteller and that is what I am as a filmmaker.
I am either a stunt performer, action design/coordinating or directing. I will create, produce and yes…direct my own works. I am working towards doing more directing (action directing) of other people’s works as well. And sometimes that will come into play as a collaboration during a stunt or fight coordination. You must work with the director in order to tell the story.
Can you share insight into the preparation that goes on behind stunt performance and storytelling?
It starts with the script. What is the writer saying and how does the director want to express what is written. From there, it is the character I am portraying, be it as a stunt double for the actor or a character in the scene. Just like that old Meisner technique exercise, 100 ways to say “blue”, there are different ways to perform an action/stunt that is best suited to telling the story. The character can get hit in the head by a flying object. ‘Is this a comedy, a drama, a horror story?’… will determine how my body reacts, falls and hits the ground. ‘Does this character give up or is the character a fighter?’… will determine my reaction, if and how I get back up.
As diversity & inclusion is bubbling up across the industry, what does the value of diversity and inclusion (D & I) personally mean for you?
Representation matters and it is long overdue. With advancement in technology the world is smaller, people from all over can communicate with each other. It makes no sense not to see the various people that make up the world reflected on TV and Film.
It is important as progression of human beings, to be aware, learn, respect and care for one another. People have to see it, and see it in the same light (the good and the bad). Make it the norm not a novelty.
How is the industry facilitating these discussions around D&I?
Right now the industry is being ‘called out’ and held accountable for lack of D&I. Changes, in procedure and mind set, are being made. It is a slow process with some backslide, but stepping forward into real change is always slow.
How hard is it to take those hits, such as the one on OITNB?
The hits are always hard to take. I do not take any of it for granted. Training! I train my air awareness, alinement and I condition my body for impact. It can take the smallest element to be incorrect and you can get seriously hurt.
Remember, sleeping is easy, you do it every night. But if one night you just ‘slept on your arm wrong’, that one little thing can mess up your whole day.
How do you deal with injuries and how do you keep yourself mentally and physically prepared?
Be prepared. The upkeep of your body by training, conditioning, stretching and eating properly. If an injury happens, be smart ( see the doctor) and be patient (do those small steps you need to do and give yourself time to heal). To keep myself up mentally, knowledge is key. The knowledge that I have trained my skill set for, the task at hand is there and ready. “To train hard is to win easy”.
What are you upcoming projects and who are you doubling/playing for on those shows?
“NOS4A2” on AMC this summer. I am the stunt double for Jahkara Smith.
“21 Bridges” in theaters July 12th, where I’ll be a stunt performer.
“Wonder Woman 1984” is out in 2020, where I’ll be a stunt performer.
Who are your personal and professional role models?
Mom & Dad. Gordon Parks, Jwaundace Candece
What’s on your bedside table?
A Sudoku puzzle
Find out more about Cheryl Lewis by going to her WiM Crew List Profile.
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Toothpaste: It's something most people use every day, but rarely give much thought to — except, perhaps, when choosing from among the dozens of brands that line the drugstore shelf. Is there any difference between them? What's toothpaste made of… and does it really do what it promises on the box? To answer those questions, let's take a closer look inside the tube.
The soft, slightly grainy paste that you squeeze on your brush is the latest in a long line of tooth-cleaning substances whose first recorded use was around the time of the ancient Egyptians. Those early mixtures had ingredients like crushed bones, pumice and ashes — but you won't find that any more. Modern toothpastes have evolved into an effective means of cleaning teeth and preventing decay. Today, most have a similar set of active ingredients, including:
Abrasives, which help remove surface deposits and stains from teeth, and make the mechanical action of brushing more effective. They typically include gentle cleaning and polishing agents like hydrated silica or alumina, calcium carbonate or dicalcium phosphate.
Detergents, such as sodium lauryl sulfate, which produce the bubbly foam you may notice when brushing vigorously. They help to break up and dissolve substances that would normally be hard to wash away, just like they do in the laundry — but with far milder ingredients.
Fluoride, the vital tooth-protective ingredient in toothpaste. Whether it shows up as sodium fluoride, stannous fluoride or sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP), fluoride has been conclusively proven to help strengthen tooth enamel and prevent decay.
Besides their active ingredients, most toothpastes also contain preservatives, binders, and flavorings — without which they would tend to dry out, separate… or taste awful. In addition, some specialty toothpastes have additional ingredients for therapeutic purposes.
Whitening toothpastes generally contain special abrasives or enzymes designed to help remove stains on the tooth's surfaces. Whether or not they will work for you depends on why your teeth aren't white in the first place: If it's an extrinsic (surface) stain, they can be effective; however, they probably won't help with intrinsic (internal) discoloration, which may require a professional whitening treatment.
Toothpastes for sensitive teeth often include ingredients like potassium nitrate or strontium chloride, which can block sensations of pain. Teeth may become sensitive when dentin (the material within the tooth, which is normally covered by enamel, or by the gums) becomes exposed in the mouth. These ingredients can make brushing less painful, but it may take a few weeks until you really notice their effects.
What's the best way to choose a toothpaste? The main thing you should look for is the American Dental Association (ADA) Seal of Acceptance on the label. It means that the toothpaste contains fluoride — and that the manufacturer's other claims have been independently tested and verified.
But once you've chosen your favorite, keep this bit of dental wisdom in mind: It's not the brush (or the paste) that keeps your mouth healthy — it's the hand that holds it. Don't forget that regular brushing is one of the best ways to prevent tooth decay and maintain good oral hygiene.
Toothpaste It's something we put in our mouths every day. Yet for those who actually take the time to read that list of ingredients, it can be hard to figure out what it all means. Dear Doctor magazine breaks it all down and reveals a great way to be sure the claims written on the label can be trusted... Read Article
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A judge has granted Attorney General Peter Kilmartin a court order to temporarily block the release of documents from the 38 Studios investigation even after the governor signs into law a pending bill mandating their disclosure.
State Rep. Charlene Lima, D-Cranston, successfully pushed legislation through the General Assembly this week requiring documents from the investigation of the failed video-game company to be released even if they were presented to a grand jury, and Gov. Gina Raimondo has pledged to sign it when it reaches her desk.
But Kilmartin remains strongly opposed to the documents’ release, citing the importance of grand-jury secrecy. He successfully petitioned Superior Court Justice Robert Krause on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order, or TRO, blocking the move.
Kilmartin spokesman Amy Kempe confirmed the move Friday afternoon after Eyewitness News obtained the court documents. “The purpose of the TRO is to allow the state to seek a legal determination as to what is required and what is prohibited from being released,” she said Friday.
Among the specific documents Kilmartin asked to keep sealed: correspondence between his office and R.I. State Police detectives, as well as with lawyers for potential witnesses in the case. His lawyers also singled out “grand jury material deemed confidential,” and said the General Assembly cannot override Superior Court rules.
“More importantly, as a matter of constitutional separation of powers, the General Assembly cannot encroach upon the core functions of a coordinate branch of government,” they wrote.
Lima quickly responded on Twitter after GoLocalProv posted a story on the order Saturday morning:
VERY disappointed regarding AG restraining order on release 38 Studio records I will not stop until they’re released the public will prevail— Charlene Lima (@CharleneLimaRI) July 1, 2017
In making his case, Kilmartin also noted a recent federal ruling against President Trump’s administration that cited the president’s Twitter feed as an official statement of policy, and applied the same standard to Raimondo’s tweet earlier this week promising to sign Lima’s 38 Studios bill.Ted Nesi (tnesi@wpri.com) covers politics and the economy for WPRI.com. He writes Nesi’s Notes on Saturdays and hosts Executive Suite. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL) announced Wednesday that winter sports can start competing later this week.
The league said it's been given the green-light to allow the following low- and moderate-risk sports to start playing games on Friday, Jan. 22: basketball, hockey, indoor track and field, gymnastics, and swimming.
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The classic ‘natural acid’ seed, used in ancient shamanic practices and by modern psychonauts alike. Reported to have LSD-like effects, but less intense and with fewer visuals. Modern interest was stimulated by a 1972 book claiming Hawaiians used the seeds for a ‘cheap high’.
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The Morning Glory flower has a long history of being used as a powerful hallucinogenic. It contains the natural tryptamine Lysergic Acid Amide which has a similar affect as LSD. The mind-altering Morning Glory trip can last up to 10 hours so prepare accordingly. Since consuming Morning Glory usually causes an upset stomach it’s best not to eat several hours before you take it.
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Greyhound Racing in Britain is among the world’s best regulated animal activities and directly employs over 7000 people nationwide, plus thousands more in the support services such as the animal feed industry, veterinary services, cleaning products plus many more.
At Yarmouth Stadium welfare is and always has been, our top priority.
Never Been Greyhound Racing?
Concerned about supposed Welfare Issues you may have seen on the Internet?
Or Saturday night Protesters outside the Stadium?
If Yes – Read On.
Firstly Do Greyhounds Enjoy Racing?
Bred for thousands of years to chase and `back in the day` only owned by Pharaohs and Royalty, the answer is a resounding yes. In 1926 greyhound racing came to the UK, it was a great success, enjoyed by both the public and the racing greyhounds.
Greyhound Racetracks give greyhounds the opportunity to continue their love of chasing, in a safe environment.
Is there an Injury Risk?
As with all athletic activities, including jogging, there will always be a slight risk.
Racing Rules require the greyhound must re-trial, once the trainer is sure the
greyhound is ready to return to racing. Prior to the trial the greyhound is inspected again by the `on track` veterinary surgeon.
Veterinary Assistance was introduced by our `after racing` homing group Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders in 2000 which the he Stadium Management and Staff fully support and encourage.
Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders will pay the full costs of veterinary treatment and aftercare for any greyhound sustaining a fracture injury on our track. The greyhound is signed over to Homefinders and once ready to leave its trainers care, the greyhound is then homed as a pet.
In reality 99.95 percent of our racers finish quite sound but if there is a problem, most are of a minor nature, eminently treatable by an experienced trainer, usually resulting in a few days or at most a few weeks, rest and rehabilitation.
The GBGB Rules of Racing require a greyhound to run a satisfactory re-grading trial, if it hasn’t raced for 21 days.
Are Greyhounds are Euthanased or Worse when they’re racing days are over?
Absolutely not! The bond between pet and owner is usually strong, the bond
between a racing greyhound and it’s trainer is even stronger.
They build up a life long attachment, just come and see the excitement when an ex-racer meets his former trainer, even after years apart, they never forget each other.
Were this not the case, since Owners and Trainers have had the support of Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders Veterinary Assistance Scheme, we operate a zero-tolerance policy on any Trainer or Owner euthanising a healthy greyhound on economic grounds. Such an action would result in a ban from racing at Yarmouth Stadium. We ensure all our ex racers, not kept by their racing owners as pets, find a home through our nationally acclaimed homing scheme, Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders or other equally reputable homing schemes.
Exportation of greyhounds to China?
It’s not something a Stadium in Norfolk is likely to be involved with. Strangely our
governing body the GBGB is in contact with Caged, one of the most extreme Anti-racing bodies, with the possibility of working together towards a government ban on the exportation of Greyhounds to China.
I’ve been told – Racing Greyhounds are drugged to enhance or hinder speed?
Greyhound racing is as drug free as any sport can be. GBGB stewards take, frequent, unannounced, random, urine samples from trialling and racing greyhounds, they are analysed at a laboratory with the highest possible accreditation.
Such is the power of the testing system, positive samples do come up and can lead to heavy penalties, even when the trainer is innocent, as the GBGB Rules of Racing attest that a trainer is always responsible for his charge.
I’ve been told – If I have an ex-racing greyhound as a pet, It’ll be highly strung and I’ll have to walk it miles every day!
With a history stretching back to ancient Egypt, racing greyhounds are the most stable of any pedigree dog. It’s hard to believe but when their racing days are over, Greyhounds are the couch potatoes of the dog world, they’ve nothing left to prove. It used to be said that they needed two twenty minutes walks per day but these days it’s recognised they’re just as happy with a mooch round the garden. Mind you if you fancy a walk you’ll have a companion happy to join you.
Yarmouth Homfinders Pet of the Week
Pet of the Week: Pine
A smaller, good looking boy, Pine has a shiny black coat and alert expression. Pine has an excitable character and most enjoys a game with his toys or a countryside walk where he is very well-mannered and takes everything in his stride...
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Pet of the Week: Dingle
Dingle is a handsome black boy with an endearing greying face and a very waggy tail. A happy and playful character once he knows you,
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Pet of the Week: Bonnie
Bonnie is a beautiful girl with a lovely white and black coat and bright golden eyes. A friendly girl with a gentle nature, Bonnie greets everyone with a waggy tail.
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Pet of the Week: Charlie
Charlie is a very handsome lad with a glossy black coat, expressive ears and an endearing expression. A lovely happy boy, Charlie is friendly with everyone he meets and likes lots of fuss and attention.
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Homefinders Veteran Race - A family affair
One of the annual features at the Boxing Day Morning greyhound race meeting at the Stadium, the Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders Veterans Race.
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Greyhound Welfare at Yarmouth Stadium
Oh yes! They do make fantastic pets.
Come and see for yourself at our homing centre.
It’s the A140 Norwich to Cromer Road, at Hainford. There is a great sense of community and regular organised events, whether you have a pet greyhound or not.
Trust us when you’ve met some of Yarmouth Greyhound Homefinders available pets, there is usually around eight to pick from, plus those waiting for formalities to be completed before going home, your almost certain to be smitten.
Find our more about Yarmouth Homefinders.
When it comes to sport which is fast and furious, Yarmouth Stadium is the place to be.
Sited at Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. We have developed over the years into a major venue.
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Tier 4 restrictions apply, we are racing behind closed doors. Stay safe and we look forward to welcoming you back soon.
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Remembering Bob Zurke
Bob Zurke at the Paramount Theater, New York City, 1939
Bob Zurke collapsed while playing his regular gig at the Hangover Club in Los Angeles sixty-seven years ago today. Alcoholism and the worst excesses of life on the road had taken their toll on the pianist, culminating with pneumonia and his death the following day. While most photographs show a much older man with a worn down face, Zurke had just turned thirty-two.
What photographs don’t highlight are the hands behind the wild pianism Zurke left behind on records. Born to Polish immigrants on January 17, 1912 in Michigan, by sixteen Boguslaw Albert Zukowski was professional pianist “Bob Zurke,” whose small hands and short fingers didn’t lend themselves to the wide intervals of stride piano. Blessed with talent, imagination and a genetic dispensation to go his own way, Zurke would spin wildly intricate independent lines on the keyboard, as though separating both hemispheres of his brain and then instigating a fight between the two of them.
Gunther Schuller describes a “dynamic hurricane-like force…light years removed from the polite babbling of most 1930s band pianists.” To be fair, when compared to the swinging polyphony on “Diga Diga Doo” with the Bob Crosby orchestra, any pianist would sound reserved:
The bulk of Zurke’s all-too-brief career was spent with like-minded musical individualists in the Crosby band, which brought the warmth and stomp of New Orleans into the Swing Era. Zurke’s best work with the Crosby group combines brassy exclamations reminiscent of Earl Hines, the rich counterpoint of the Baroque and the sheer “wow” factor of virtuosos and athletes alike. On the usually twee “Tea for Two,” Zurke adds a childlike sense of mirth, like a kid superimposing dirty limericks onto a nursery tune:
Features with the Crosby band such as “Little Rock Getaway” and “Yancey Special” show him to be a uniquely room-rumbling boogie woogie stylist. Yet ironically Zurke’s most impressive, and personal, boogie on record (and coincidentally his last recording) is the accompaniment for the 1944 cartoon “Jungle Jive” (enjoy the music and avert the eyes from the dated, offensive visuals):
Zurke’s solos would occasionally start to ramble, and his intricate lines weren’t always well served by the recording techniques of his time. Musically that was about all all he had in common with most of his colleagues. Unfortunately Zurke did share many musicians’ taste for living hard and fast. After leaving Crosby and briefly leading his own big band, Zurke gigged around Chicago and Detroit before settling, and falling, in Los Angeles.
Bob Zurke, Detroit, 1937
Crosby bandmate Bob Haggart recalled “You could hear only a bar or two, and you’d know it was Bob Zurke.” The late George Shearing admitted “He always amazed me,” and Dick Sudhalter said Shearing was capable of an “uncanny” imitation of Zurke’s piano. Yet an early death, modest discography and idiosyncratic style don’t always allow much of a legacy or influence beyond collectors and specialists. Unlike some other alcoholic martyrs of jazz, Zurke’s story just seems sad, not romantic: a one-of-a-kind voice, destroyed by his vices and largely forgotten.
And then there’s the music. Is there anything those hands couldn’t do?
For more about Bob Zurke, check out Bill Edwards’ well-researched, loving biography of Zurke here.
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By Kyle Ratke - September 15, 2020
Football is back! NBA playoff basketball in the bubble is awesome, and we’re nearing the start of the MLB and WNBA postseason.
Sports, baby!
For Minnesota Timberwolves’ fans, we’ll get to see Jimmy Butler try to lead the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals. Most Timberwolves’ fans can’t stand Butler at all and that’s 100% understandable. The guy forced his way out of Minnesota. He acted childish. It’s the old “don’t give me any praise but also PAY ATTENTION TO ME!” trick we see from athletes who crave the spotlight. That’s Jimmy’s playbook: Half of the “Jimmy works hard!” stories that leak out are pretty easy to trace.
With that being said, it’s hard to argue with the fact that Butler is a top-12 player and could be the best player on a team in the NBA Finals.
What if the Wolves had decided to trade Karl-Anthony Towns and/or Andrew Wiggins instead of Butler? What if the team decided to build the team around him entirely? At the time, that seemed crazy. Now? Not so much. What would a team with Butler leading the way look like in Minnesota?
It’s a fun and depressing thought exercise.
Let’s get to the topics of the week.
NBA Draft Postponed
As we speculated in last week’s column, the NBA Draft will indeed be postponed to Nov. 18 while the 2020-21 NBA season won’t start before Christmas. My guess is that the season will start sometime in February, but we’ll get more clarity in the coming weeks.
It’s gonna be weird having the NBA Draft a week before Thanksgiving, but that’s kind of where we’re at.
This will give the Timberwolves a good two months to figure out what they will do with the No. 1 pick. Anthony Edwards? LaMelo Ball? James Wiseman?
Or, will the Timberwolves do something crazy and trade the No. 1 pick?
Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations Gersson Rosas has already made the rounds of “we are keeping all options open!” that we see from every team in the league as we approach the draft. It’s one of my favorite lines that we fall for year after year. Articles are written. Tweets are sent. And it’s so silly. Of course the team is keeping all options open! That’s how the job works.
What is he supposed to say?
“We are absolutely going to trade the pick?”
While that would be entertaining, leaving all options open is what his job is.
Wolves On The Run?
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Indiana Pacers are considering Timberwolves assistant coach David Vanterpool for their head-coaching vacancy. I’d imagine that Vanterpool will also get looked at in New Orleans and Oklahoma City as they try to find their next coach.
We can talk about schemes, but more than anything, Vanterpool is a guy who is beloved by his players. Both Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum praised Vanterpool after he left Portland for Minnesota. As we saw with the Steve Nash hiring in Brooklyn, relationships with players means more than X’s and O’s.
If Vanterpool was hired by another team, that would be a huge hit for the Wolves. I won’t get into the “would Vanterpool be a good head coach for the Timberwolves?” talk too much, but there’s a reason why those questions pop up. Vanterpool is a well-respected coach in the league.
Shams Charania has also reported that Timberwolves executive vice president Sachin Gupta is a finalist for the Sacramento Kings head of basketball vacancy. Gupta, the man who developed the trade machine(!), would bring an analytics mind to the opening in Sacramento. It would be the opposite approach of their last hire, Vlade Divac.
With the draft and the offseason being pushed back, it could be a while before either of these openings are filled.
We’ll keep you updated.
Mock Draft Madness
Who should the Timberwolves take with the first pick?
I lean towards Ball or Wiseman, but it seems the consensus around experts is that the team should take Edwards.
The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor has a great draft mind and does plenty of research when it comes to prospects. In his latest mock draft, he has the Wolves taking Edwards with the first overall pick. However, O’Connor has Killian Hayes, a guard from France, as his No. 1 prospect.
I’m of the belief that the Wolves should take the best player available. That seems silly to say, and should be obvious, but this is a weird draft. There’s no clear-cut No. 1 pick. And teams taking the best fit over the best player isn’t that unusual.
Think about in 2018 when the Suns took Deandre Ayton at No. 1 and the Kings took Marvin Bagley at No. 2. The basketball consensus was that Luka Doncic was the better player, but both teams needed a big man. Even at the time, the logic was incredibly flawed.
I’m not sure who the best player in the draft will be, but in post-draft interviews, that should be the catchphrase that Rosas uses time after time in his media availability.
When it comes to players who could be franchise-altering players, you draft them and figure everything else out later.
We’ll be creative with our content over the next few months considering there’s not a whole lot to discuss about the Wolves. Maybe a mailbag next week followed by a mock draft the week after.
Kyle Ratke
Kyle Ratke has spent seven-plus years as an NBA writer for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Ratke has previously spent time with USA TODAY.
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New York University School of Law, J.D., 1992
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Gregory B. Astrachan is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Co-Chair of the firm's Capital Markets Practice Group. From 2001 to 2007, Greg was the managing partner of Willkie’s London office. Greg has broad international corporate and securities law experience, including representing U.S. and international corporate, private equity and investment banking clients in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, joint ventures, and private equity transactions. Greg regularly represents corporations and their boards on governance matters.
Chambers USA (2020) ranks Greg among the leading individuals practicing Corporate/M&A Law in New York.
Represented Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay in its $2.9 billion acquisition of Saks Inc.
Morgan Stanley’s $59.3 million sale of Saxon Mortgage Services to Ocwen Financial
Fortis in the largest ever banking merger - $101 billion acquisition of ABN AMRO
Selected Significant Matters
Greg’s representative M&A transactions include:
Truist Insurance Holdings in its acquisition of Wellington Risk Holdings
Brookfield Asset Management in its strategic partnership with retirement planning annuity provider American Equity Life, including reinsurance of $10 billion in fixed index annuity liabilities and equity investment
The Hudson’s Bay Company Shareholder Group in its $1.4 billion agreement with HBC to take the company private
BNP Paribas Cardif in the negotiation of a long-term bancassurance strategic alliance in Latin America with Scotiabank
Aquiline Capital Partners in its agreement to acquire human resources outsourcing provider CoAdvantage from Morgan Stanley Capital Partners
Neuberger Berman in its acquisition of Cartesian Re and affiliated reinsurer Iris Re
Perella Weinberg as financial advisor to AIG in a $5.6 billion acquisition of reinsurer Validus
Institutional investors in the sale of significant stake in HighTower Holdings LLC to funds managed by Thomas H. Lee Partners
Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to Fortress Investment Group in its $3.3 billion acquisition by SoftBank Group
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Ltd in its agreement to establish a joint venture with Bradesco Seguros, creating a leading commercial large-risk insurer in Brazil
BB&T Corporation in its acquisition of Swett & Crawford from Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford for $500 million in cash
Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay Company in its €2.82 billion cross-border acquisition of German department store chain Galeria Kaufhof and its $2.9 billion acquisition of U.S. retailer Saks Incorporated. He also assisted HBC in its formation of a joint venture with Simon Property Group valued at $1.8 billion (and on the subsequent sale of $533 million of its equity in the joint venture), its $250 million acquisition of Gilt, and its $100 million sale of the Lord + Taylor brand to Le Tote
Fortis in the largest ever banking merger - the $101 billion consortium acquisition of ABN AMRO
Brookfield Asset Management in a number of acquisitions including:
Brookfield’s $2.65 cornerstone investment in General Growth Properties
Brookfield’s $1.7 billion acquisition of additional interests in GGP from Fairholme
Future Fund in Brookfield Office Properties’ $426 million acquisition of MPG Office Trust
Morgan Stanley’s sale of Saxon Mortgage Services to Ocwen Financial for $59.3 million plus an estimated $1.4 billion for servicing advance receivables outstanding
Credit Suisse in Novartis AG’s $12.9 billion acquisition of the remaining 23% stake in Alcon, Inc.
Credit Suisse in the proposed combination of the NYSE and Deutsche Börse
The $3.6 billion sale of Stiefel Laboratories, Inc. to GlaxoSmithKline plc
Converium Holding AG in its $2.8 billion unsolicited acquisition by SCOR SA
Converium in its $2.0 billion spin-off and IPO
Swiss Re in numerous acquisitions and dispositions, including:
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions in its acquisition of a majority stake in Compañía Aseguradora de Fianzas S.A. Confianza
The merger of Compañía Española de Seguros y Reaseguros de Crédito y Caución, S.A. (Crédito y Caución) and Atradius N.V.
Swiss Re’s acquisitions of Conning & Company and Underwriters Reinsurance Company
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG’s $8.5 billion bid for Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.
The sale of Velcera, Inc. to the Perrigo Company
The $600 million sale of Eurand to Axcan Pharma
Time Warner in its $240 million equity investment in Central European Media Enterprises
The $1.9 billion acquisition of AIG’s Personal Auto Group by Farmers Group, Inc.
The $600 million sale of the Wright Insurance Group
The Wright Insurance Group’s acquisitions of Fidelity Flood and RMI
Aspen Holdings in its sale to Markel Corporation
Greg’s securities underwriter representations include numerous debt and equity offerings for Credit Suisse, BAML, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS across a broad range of industries. Greg’s representative capital markets transactions include advising
Fortis in its $18.8 billion rights issue, one of the largest ever equity offerings
Royal & SunAlliance in multiple capital markets transactions including its ₤960 million rights issue
Zurich Financial Services in its $2.5 billion rights issue
The underwriters in the $3.0 billion equity and hybrid debt financing for Swiss Re’s acquisition of GE Insurance Solution
Credit Suisse in the aborted $10 billion spin-off and IPO of its insurance business, Winterthur Swiss Insurance Company.
Converium Holdings in its $2.0 billion spin-off and IPO
Greg’s private equity representations include transactions for Aquiline, Candover, 3i, Bridgepoint, and Warburg, Pincus & Co.
Selected Professional and Business Activities
Greg is a member of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association, where he is vice-chair officer of the Securities Law Committee. He has lectured at the IBA and at the Practicing Law Institute and is an annual contributor to The Business Lawyer’s "Annual Review of Federal Securities Regulation."
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The U.S. Fentanyl Boom and the Mexican Opium Crisis: Finding Opportunities Amidst Violence?
By Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Nathaniel Morris & Benjamin T. Smith
Security and DefenseDrugsOrganized CrimeMexicoNorth AmericaUnited States
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This report examines the effects of the upsurge in U.S. fentanyl use on opium producing areas in Mexico. By using available quantitative data on Mexican opium production as well as qualitative field research from opium producing communities in Nayarit and Guerrero, this paper offers valuable insights into Mexico’s illicit drug trade. In particular, this paper demonstrates the extent to which certain villages in the Golden Triangle, but also in Guerrero, Nayarit, and Oaxaca rely on opium production for survival.
The authors estimate that the opium economy channeled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion dollars) to some of the poorest communities in Mexico in 2017. This is a vast amount, nearly three times the total legal agricultural output of the entire state of Guerrero. Up to around 2017, opium growers in Mexico were earning around 20,000 pesos ($1,050 dollars) a kilo of raw opium, and families could bring in up to 200,000 pesos ($10,500 dollars) per year.
With the upsurge in fentanyl use, the demand for Mexican heroin has fallen sharply, by an estimated 7 billion pesos ($364 million dollars). This has had an immediate knock-on for opium producers. Farmers are now being paid around 6000 to 8000 pesos ($315 – 415 dollars) per kilo of raw opium. These losses have caused farmers’ profits to disappear, village economies to dry up; and out-migration to increase.
These findings have important implications for public security in Mexico, as well as major ramifications for international counter-drug efforts. Criminal groups in Mexico are nothing if not supple and adaptable to change. If current trends continue in the coming years, such groups may continue to dominate poppy-growing regions through other industries including illegal logging, illegal mining or the production of synthetic drugs.
While legalization and crop substitution have been touted as possible alternatives, these should not be conceived of as silver bullets. However, if properly researched and managed, both policies could be introduced relatively cheaply and effectively. Initially at least, they would loosen the grip of organized crime groups on the regions and tie farmers to licit international markets. Combined with other broader security policies, they could integrate these marginalized areas into the country for good.
Resolving this crisis requires further in-depth, policy-focused research in Mexico. It is urgent to design policies that are based on solid, updated knowledge about local dynamics of violence in the country. Any political response must be based on further research and diagnosis, conducted in the most critical opium producing regions of the country.
Mexican government officials and international aid agencies should work to strengthen programs to promote long-term crop-substitution and economic development opportunities. Such policies are urgently needed to encourage local agricultural producers to focus on legitimate, locally sustainable crops and alternative industries.
Recent proposals to legalize opium for the pharmaceutical industry should be considered seriously. Yet, legalization would only solve a one part of the issue, since Mexican demand for legal opioids is massively lower than the country’s current illegal production. Hence, the solution must be articulated both at the national and international level, in order to tackle supply and demand simultaneously.
Romain Le Cour Grandmaison
PhD Candidate, Sorbonne University
Nathaniel Morris
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, History Department, University College, London
Benjamin T. Smith
Reader of Latin American History, University of Warwick
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Best Gaming Mice for Fortnite in 2021
Richard Devine
Best Gaming Mice for Fortnite Windows Central 2021
If you've ever watched some of the top Fortnite players and wondered just how they build so quickly, the answer isn't necessarily thousands of hours of practice (although that certainly helps). In some cases, you can skew the odds a little more in your favor by using the right hardware. A good, responsive mouse with macros and other features can make up all the difference.
Ramps & walls: Logitech G600 MMO Mouse
Tilted Towers: Razer Naga Trinity
Salty Springs: Razer Lancehead Tournament Edition
Blue Pump: Logitech G903
Orange Justice: SteelSeries Rival 600
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The Logitech G600 is a laser mouse specifically designed for massively multiplayer online (MMO) game fans. A good mouse like the G600 can help you out by making it easier to manage the array of abilities by moving them from the keyboard to the mouse. There are 20 function buttons on this mouse — 12 situated on the left-hand side where your thumb usually sits — and they're perfect for mapping Fortnite's various weapon and building shortcuts.
Razer's Naga is a hugely-popular mouse targeted at MMO gamers with a multitude of additional buttons that are perfect for mapping Fortnite's key functions. The Trinity has three swappable panels, too, so you can either have two, seven or 12 additional buttons on the side. It uses Razer's incredible 16,000 DPI optical sensor and has up to 19 programmable functions in total. Naturally, it supports Razer's Chroma lighting system, too.
Being a left-handed Fortnite fan doesn't make choosing a mouse the easiest thing you'll ever do, but fortunately, Razer's Lancehead is here for you. It's ambidextrous, so both left and right handed players can enjoy. You get Razer's 16,000 DPI optical sensor, a wired mouse, and it is durability rated for 50 million clicks, so you'll get a lot of Fortnite out of it. You also get additional buttons on both sides of the mouse to map your key functions to, and with onboard and cloud storage for your profiles, you'll always be able to Fortnite wherever you go.
The Logitech G903 is the future of wireless gaming mice, today. The G903 has wireless charging support which, assuming you get the companion mousepad, will never, ever run out of power. It will charge as you play Fortnite, and you'll be able to play wire-free for as long as you like. You get virtually no latency (1ms), too, which is super important, and the G903 also has additional buttons on its body for mapping your favorite Fortnite functions.
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The Rival 600 isn't here because it's packed with extra buttons to help your Fortnite building rival Ninja; it's here because it's one of the finest gaming mice money can buy. It looks great, it's perfect for traveling with thanks to its detachable cable, and it's ridiculously comfortable to use for even the longest gaming sessions. And the Truemove3 sensor is one of the most accurate around, which makes it perfect for a competitive game like Fortnite.
How would you play Fortnite?
How you like to play Fortnite will ultimately influence your final decision. But given the fast-paced nature of the game and the amount of different key combinations for switching weapons, healing items, and the different building items and materials, the more buttons you can have by your thumb the better.
As such, the Logitech G600 and Razer Naga Trinity are standout choices, since you can map all of these features to your mouse and keep your fingers controlling your movement to give you the competitive edge.
However, if you're left-handed, the Razer Lancehead Tournament Edition is a great choice. Most mice are made for right-handed people so having something that works with your body is always helpful.
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Home » An Interview with Dudley Brown from Inkwell Wines
An Interview with Dudley Brown from Inkwell Wines
by Michael Davey © 2011
Here’s and edited interview with Dudley Brown owner and viticulturist of Inkwell wines, McLaren vale. Inkwell grows limited-release, hand-made estate wines from sustainably managed vineyards. Dudley currently makes an Inkwell Shiraz, Inkwell Primitivo (Zinfandel) and Inkwell Viognier and this year will see new plantings of Mouvedre/Mataro, Grenache and Cabernet at Inkwell.
Wine growing during 2011 in Australia has been difficult with extremely adverse weather conditions. High rain fall and very high humidity has in some cases prevented many areas to forgo a crop all together. We started off by asking Dudley how this affected Inkwell and McLaren Vale...
WineSeek: What has been the extent of the fungal infection at your vineyard in 2011 and how badly has the area been affected generally?
Dudley Brown: McLaren Vale had very low disease pressure compared to other regions in 2011. With a naturally low disease pressure site (hilly, windy, small crops, good neighbours), Inkwell sailed through this year with our best vintage ever quality wise. Lower beaumes at ripening, slower development because of lower temperatures, all good here!
WineSeek: How do lower beaumes and slower development manifest in the completed wine compared to a warmer vintage?
Dudley Brown: Excessive heat during ripening (January to March in McLaren Vale) can bring sugars (beaume) on more quickly than flavours. So slower is good for balanced flavours to develop and integrate. But, too slow is bad too. Vines are all about balance of canopy and fruit load, some stress but not too much, moisture but not too much (or at the wrong time) etc... It’s a constant balancing act with every season teaching us something new.
With the wine we have in barrel from 2011, we have very full flavour profiles, dusty fine tannins, appropriate acidity, long finishes and less alcohol than usual. At this stage, it is the best we've ever produced from a vintage that was unkind to many.
WineSeek: I suppose a lot of viticulture still relies on its success or failure on the year to year trial and error and learning from experience, despite the technological advances made over a long period of time. Can you tell me the three biggest lessons you have learned and how they have led you to produce better grapes and ultimately better wine?
Dudley Brown: 1) surround yourself with the best people who are all much smarter than yourself at what they are good at. 2) hard work (more the better). 3) persistence. It’s a lot like life, but with more wine!
WineSeek: In a recent press release you talked about 'the waiting game' - the debate with yourself as to when to release the wine, in this case the 2008 Shiraz. What is it about the wine that finally allows you to make that decision with some confidence? Is there a single or set of characteristics that present themselves?
Dudley Brown: The Waiting Game beats the crying game! Seriously, every vintage shows and teaches different things. In 2008, we felt the wine warranted additional barrel ageing (twenty-seven months that vintage). Then we bottled. Once in the bottle the wine goes through what is known as "bottle shock" for six weeks or so. Then, we just wait until we're happy with the overall balance and integration that bottle ageing provides. Screw cap closures are a bit maddening in that they slow down development just as the reduce spoilage. So, in an effort to reduce bottle variability and spoilage due to cork taint, we also slow down development. Sometimes a wine starts to look smart after six weeks, sometimes much longer depending on a lot of variables.
While there are no "right" answers, I just take the point of view that I don't offer things until I’m happy that they are representative of all the years of work that went to get them to that point. In the case of the 2008, I thought the oak tannin from the new French oak we used hadn't settled into the fruit as completely as I would have liked but have seen it integrating and ageing beautifully in the last six months. My guess is that it will improve for another 8-15 years in bottle before reaching its best. Just another question of balance!
WineSeek: I note you are intending to plant Mouvedre/Mataro, Grenache and Cabernet this year. Do you have any wines in mind such as a straight cab or a GSM or will you just wait and see how things develop.
Dudley Brown: We are grafting a 2 acre block of Viognier to Mouvedre and Grenache. When we planted the block originally, we were kicking ourselves that we didn't plant reds in it because of the geology profile we discovered (think two metre holes just to put in a post because we had to remove so much ironstone!) while planting. But, once planted, the vines had to mature to a point where they could be grafted. Then we had a three year drought, etc... They're finally ready.
WineSeek: How much influence does current consumer popularity of particular varieties have on your decision as to what to plant and what to make?
Dudley Brown: For better or worse, we think in terms of best varieties for the site and not immediate market opportunity. We're committed to growing extraordinary fruit and then figuring out what to do with it. We know the site is great with the best Grenache previously grown in McLaren Vale on the next hill over with a similar aspect. Unfortunately, that old block died for lack of water in the drought. We'll have to see what St. Vincent (patron saint of vine growers) gives us before we can decide what becomes of the fruit in two years when we get our first crop. As a single vineyard only brand, blends and straight varietals will all be considered.
We are keeping another patch of Viognier so we can continue to produce a wine that we think is improving dramatically every year but can't use as much as we have planted. We know we can't produce Condrieu style wine from it but are increasingly excited about new ways we are finding to produce a style in the 12's instead of the 14's of alcohol.
One acre of Cabernet will be grafted into a patch of Zinfandel / Primitivo that is too vigorous because of its low lying (water runs downhill apparently) topography (think bunches the size of footballs!). Cabernet loves wet feet so we'll give that a crack too. I grew up on great Californian and French Cabs/ blends in the States and am stoked to grow some but it will be a funny looking block with Zin and Cab in the same rows! We'll have to handpick the lot but it’s about getting the right fruit in the right places to make great wine.
WineSeek: Is there any reason your only white plantings are Viognier? Have you ever thought about Riesling, Chardonnay or Pinot Gris or do you feel a closer affinity with reds such as those you grew up with in America ?
Dudley Brown: The Viognier was planted under contract to a winery. Unfortunately, this wasn't a smart decision for the long run of our vineyards by us. The site is best suited to reds - it is thin sandy loam over ironstone, calc and clay. We just have too much Viognier for our production needs now so we are using this as an opportunity to provide a better range of wines for our site and customers. Generally, McLaren Vale just doesn't get cold enough in winter and is too warm in summer to produce the level of white wine we want to produce. We want to produce stunning wine, not pretty good wine. There is plenty of pretty good wine around already.
Viognier is well suited to the site temperature-wise and we are considering some other whites - Savignan, Albarinho, Rousanne, and Marsanne for some of the remaining Viognier block. We think the varieties you mention are better suited to other sites. We could never compete with the quality of Clare and Eden Rieslings for instance.
WineSeek: Thanks, Dudley for giving us a fascinating insight into Inkwell and the creation of fine wine. Good luck with the current vintage and may Saint Vincent be with you!
If your interested in more information on Dudley's wines visit Inkwell Wines.
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Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 lockdown: Ensuring the right to food for the poor
By Phillan Zamchiya, Dewa Mavhinga, Thando Gwinji, Arnold Chamunogwa and Claris Madhuku
The Covid-19 global pandemic poses serious challenges to fragile countries such as Zimbabwe, which have weak health systems and constrained social assistance programmes. Such countries must formulate and implement measures to tackle the unfolding public health crisis without plunging millions of people into starvation. This is the challenge which Zimbabwe faces today – how can the country curb the spread of Covid-19 without disrupting food supply for its citizens, especially the vulnerable?
On March 30, 2020, Zimbabwe, like many countries, ordered a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown confined millions of people to their home; people who are dependent on informal economic activities. The government did not provide meaningful social assistance programmes to provide for their survival needs. A national lockdown is effective if it is enforced, not only through the law, but also through ensuring that the government discharges its obligation to provide food, water and health services to the vulnerable members of its community. Lockdown templates used by developed countries with formal food supply systems, and with the capacity to expand social assistance programmes are bound to be problematic if they are adopted by poorer countries, like Zimbabwe, without being adapted to local contexts.
Zimbabwe has the largest informal economy in Africa as a percentage to its economy, which, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is 60.6 percent. This makes it the second largest informal economy in the world after Bolivia. This might as well be defined as the new economy. Nothing suggests this is reversible in the next ten years or so. How can the government lockdown the informal sector without destroying the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on it?
Government statistics show that 76.9 percent of the rural households are poor. Within that context, extreme household poverty in rural areas increased from 22.9 percent in 2012 to 31.9 percent of households in 2017, well before the coronavirus outbreak. Again, nothing shows a reversal of this trend. In addition, Zimbabwe is facing a severe hunger crisis in 2020. According to the United Nations, 7.7 million people (60 percent of the population) are food insecure. Around 5.5 million of these people live in the rural areas and 2.2 million in urban areas. These people needed assistance even before the Covid-19 pandemic, and the national lockdown will likely worsen their food insecurity situation.
The lockdown will have far-reaching impacts on the farming sector in Zimbabwe. The restrictions on the movement of goods, people and services will likely affect food supply systems in significant ways. The family farm sector, dominated by women, produces 70 percent of staple foods, but it is highly vulnerable to external shocks such as the lockdown measures. The farmers do not produce in isolation. They rely on kin and social relationships to mobilise labour, inputs, among other things. Of importance is that most of these family farmers in the countryside source their food from subsistence farming. Therefore, they are critical to household food security. Not only that, they occasionally sell surplus food. They sell by the homestead veranda, under a tree, or by the roadside. In the farming areas, along the highway one can see farmers selling tomatoes, cabbages, onions, carrots, honey, milk, green maize, beans and a variety of fruits depending on the season. If one stops a car, they flock with dishes of fresh and organic vegetables. The prices are cheaper compared to big supermarkets. The carbon footprint is almost zero. Given their critical role in providing the rural population and urban areas with food, the government cannot simply lock them down.
The family farm sector, dominated by women, produces 70 percent of staple foods, but it is highly vulnerable to external shocks such as the lockdown measures.
The more affluent family farmers are connected in the loose urban value chains through informal agreements of exchange with supermarkets like Spar and OK Zimbabwe and other indigenous supermarkets in urban areas and growth points. Those supermarkets are certified to remain open during the lockdown. They also feed the urban population through informal markets and street vending. As early as 03:00 in the morning, the Mbare Musika market in Harare is buzzing with farmers from Chihota, Mutoko, Mrehwa, Goromonzi and surrounding farming communities.
Other farmers sell to the informal traders who own and control the markets at Mbare Musika. The same applies to many cities. The products are packaged in different sizes to fit different needs for different households. These supplies work for the urban poor who live from hand to mouth. They hustle in the day to buy a meal for the night. Unlike the rich, they cannot stock food supplies to last 21 days. Here, one can buy a cup of mealie meal, one piece of chicken, a teaspoon of salt, a small cup of cooking oil and make a meal for the day. Our trip to Epworth, a peri-urban informal settlement south east of Harare, showed that they called these small packages an emergency ‘katsaona’, or emergency relief. However, ‘katsaona’ is no longer an emergency but a way of life for many. To lock down the informal food traders is to let poor households die in the margins of the city.
The heavy-handed enforcement of the lockdown by the police and army raises questions on whether the government is fully aware of the adverse impacts of its Covid-19 response on food security. For instance, three days into the lockdown, the police raided the informal food traders at Sakubva Musika market in Mutare city, in the east of the country. Despite the majority struggling with access to food, the police confiscated and destroyed tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables. There is little hope for the majority facing starvation. People talk of death. Either from hunger or from the coronavirus.
Despite the majority struggling with access to food, the police confiscated and destroyed tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Debrah Mukasa, an informal trader (a member of Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association), told us that in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, many informal traders living from hand-to-mouth were caught unprepared when the lockdown was announced amid severe maize-meal shortages. In the early days of the shutdown most informal traders in Bulawayo opened vending stalls at home placing them at risk of police brutality and getting the coronavirus. Though the government promised small and medium enterprises a grant to cushion them during the lockdown, the process has been very slow; halfway through the shutdown informal traders in Bulawayo still have not received any funds.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government should ensure that their Covid-19 responses are respecting rights, and guarantee access to basic necessities for the vulnerable. He has said that all the farmers and traders should continue to operate without disturbances. But he did not say how this can be done during these difficult times. We submit five recommendations:
The government, with support from the private sector and international donors, should ensure that the smallholder farmers and informal food traders (including street food vendors) have protective equipment and sanitisers as recommended by medical experts so that they can safely continue to produce, distribute and sell food. Civil society can help in distribution.
The state, private institutions and supermarkets should prioritise buying food from smallholder producers. They should relax the regulations that exclude the smallholder producers. Supermarkets can go an extra mile to guarantee shelf-space for their smallholder suppliers.
The government should assist with transport for smallholder farmers to ferry their produce to markets. Public transport is hardly available during the lockdown. In each district, farmers can organise to ferry their products to a central place where the government provides transport to different designated markets within a reasonable distance. The transport logistics and delivery should ensure social distancing.
Local authorities should set up new markets to prevent informal food traders over-crowding and ensure social distancing in traditional marketplaces like Mbare and Sakubva. Community halls and sports fields that are near residential areas can be used as food markets. Those urban poor who live hand to mouth need to gain access to food in nearby spaces. One can see a similar recommendation in South Africa by PLAAS (2020).
The government needs to speedily compensate farmers and informal traders whose produce was confiscated and destroyed by the state during the lockdown. This will enable the farmers to rebuild their livelihoods, feed families and other citizens. On the other hand, the municipalities should waiver tax for the registered informal food traders during the lockdown period.
Our recommendations are a foundation to inspire national debate about how the government of Zimbabwe can help ensure access to food for all people during the Covid-19 lockdown. This becomes more important in a context where most countries have closed their borders making it difficult for the poor to import food. Zimbabwe should consider and implement measures to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the poor. Solutions to combat the coronavirus should be calibrated to ensure that all citizens always have access to food as a fundamental human right, and are able to maintain a healthy and coronavirus-free active life.
Authors: Phillan Zamchiya (PLAAS), Dewa Mavhinga (Human Rights Watch), Thando Gwinji (Youth for Innovation Trust), Arnold Chamunogwa (Oxfam) and Claris Madhuku (Platform for Youth and Community Development).
The views in the article are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the organisations they are associated with.
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