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List of Top 10 Best Bank in Nepal with Many Branches and ATMs
Nepal has number of Banks. Among them only few are the best bank in Nepal. Here is the list of top 10 banks in Nepal and their services. Many people have asked us about the best bank to open account in Nepal.
List of Best Bank in Nepal
Bank of Kathmandu: It is one the public bank which was founded on 1995 having headquarter in Kathmandu, as it presents a huge range of merchandise and offerings ranging from different varieties of loans to SMS banking and other different banking services. The bank has unfold across to over 45 branches with more than 50 ATMs.
Nepal Bank Ltd: Nepal bank limited is one of the the first and government oriented bank in Nepal. It is among the best bank in Nepal. It was established in 1937. The bank has been providing banking through its branch offices in the different geographical locations of the country. It consist 133 branches and provide service and facilities to customer in different geographical region including ATM and internet banking also.normal saving deposit interest rate is 1.25%,3 month deposit 5.00% and 100 day fix deposit interest rate is 8.50%.
Rastriya banijya bank: It is the bank which is established by government of Nepal on its own investment on January 23, 1966(2022 Magh 10).currently the bank is offering the service oh home loan,vehicle loan,education loan,agriculture loan etc.in normal saving deposit it provides offer of 1.5% per annum for one year fix deposit it provides 3.75% per annum. Bank has the largest branch network in Nepal, it have 66 branches in the mountainous region, 69 in Terai region, and 23 in the Kathmandu Valley. Bank has own 72 ATM outlets.
Agriculture development bank: It is one of the public organization which is largely organized by government of Nepal. It was founded in January 2 ,1968. It has its headquarter in Ramshah path, Kathmandu. It provides the products like loans, it is used for saving, investment etc. This organization mainly focused on agriculture sector. This bank has been working as a premier rural credit institution since the last three decades. It has been contributing more than 67 percent of institutional credit supply in the country.
Prabhu bank: Prabhu bank is one of the commercial bank in Nepal. It was founded in 2006. It is one of the A class commercial bank licensed by Nepal Rastra bank. It has its head office in Kathmandu and it has its branches all over the nation. It provides the commercial banking service to its account holder or clients. This bank has been preserving harmonious correspondent relationships with a variety of worldwide banks from a number countries to facilitate trade, remittance and other pass border services.Mr Ashok sherchan is the CEO of this bank.
Prime Commercial bank: It is also one of the commercial bank bank found in Nepal. It was founded on 2007. It is also one of the A class commercial bank licensed by Nepal Rastra bank. It has its head office in Kathmandu and it has its branches all over the nation. It provides the commercial banking service to its account holder or clients. This two bank has been preserving harmonious correspondent relationships with a variety of worldwide banks from a number countries to facilitate trade, remittance and other pass border services. For more info we can visit www.primebank.com.np.
Nabil bank limited: It is also one of the commercial bank of Nepal. It was founded on July 12,1984. It has its headquarter in Durbarmarga, Kathmandu and have branches all over the nation. Mr. Sashin joshi is the CEO of this bank. It is traded as NEPSE: NABIL. This bank was incorporated with the objective of extending international standard modern banking services to various sectors of the society. It has the largest staff among private commercial banks of Nepal. It is the the first foreign joint venture bank of Nepal.
Nepal investment bank limited: It is one of the leading commercial bank of Nepal. It was established in February 27,1986 as joint venture between Nepalese and Credit Agricole Indosuez. It has its headquarter in Durbarmarg, Kathmandu and have branches all over the nation. It served its services in Nepal and India. It is one of the most trusted and popular bank in the country. Nepal Investment Bank Limited (NIBL) is one of the pioneer banks of Nepal. NIBL atm locations, NIBL branches, NIBL banking hours is flexible for everyone.
Himalayan bank: This is one of the largest public bank among many private bank in Nepal. It was founded on January 18,1993. Its headquarter is located in Kamaladi, Kathmandu and has 44 branches all over the nations. This bank provide commercial banking services, as well as it also offers industrial and merchant banking service. Mr. Ashok SJB Rana is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank. It provides services like Loans, Credit cards, Savings, Investment, Merchant banking etc .
Everest bank: It is also one of the commercial bank of Nepal. It is a bank which is joint venture of Punjab National Bank, India as Punjab National Bank holds 20% equity shares of Bank. It was founded on 1994. It has its headquarter on Lazimpat, Kathmandu. This is first Nepalese Bank which have Representative Office in India. It provides services like consumer banking, corporate banking, finance and insurance, investment banking, mortgage loans, private banking, private equity, savings, Securities, asset management, wealth management, and Credit cards.
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AUCTION WATCH: Ten Picks From Phillips’ Glamorous Day-Date Geneva Sale
Phillips will start off its watch auction season with "Glamorous Day-Date", a thematic sale dedicated to the Rolex "President", that features some of the rarest Day-Date variations ever made.
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On 9 May the newly formed watch department at Phillips led by Aurel Bacs will start its auctions with the “Glamorous Day-Date”, dedicated to the Rolex Day-Date. Of all the major Rolex wristwatch models, the Day-Date is arguably the least appreciated and exploited on the auction market. Despite it being the priciest model line from Rolex, the Day-Date does not often reach the stratospheric prices Rolex sports watches do. Thematic sales are a tried and tested route to firing up demand for a brand or watch, as the Christie’s Daytona sale demonstrated.
Being the Rolex model with arguably the largest number of dial variations, the array of colours and finishes on show is dazzling. Each of the watches on offer has been given nicknames, ranging from “Bart Simpson” to “Brooklyn Bridge”, some of which will certainly stick on after the sale. Paul Boutros, International Strategy Advisor to Phillips’ watch department and also the photographer for the sale, has picked out ten of the most notable lots from the Day-Date sale just for us.
Lot 6: This Rolex Day-Date ref. 1803 is nicknamed “Bart Simpson” for the bright yellow “Stella” dial, the rarest colour amongst all the variants of the lacquered “Stella” dials. Made for a brief period in the seventies, the “Stella” dials were made by applying several layers of lacquer, giving them a distinctive bright, glossy finish. And like so much else in vintage Rolex, the “Stella” moniker is Italian, translating into “star”, a reference to the shine of the dial. “Bart Simpson” can be yours for an estimated CHF35,000-70,000.
Lot 10: A red “khanjar” logo sits at six o’clock on the dial, indicating this platinum Day-Date ref. 1802 was made for the Sultan of Oman to be gifted away, as were many of the other watches with similar logos. The case back of this watch is stamped with “Asprey”, the name of the Bond Street jeweller which sold many of the personalised Rolex watches to Middle Eastern (and also other petrol-dollar monarchies) clients at the time. This is estimated at CHF50,000-100,000.
Lot 21: Known as the “Brooklyn Bridge” for the rarely seen geometric motif engraved on the dial, this ref. 1804 is in platinum and dates from 1961. The estimate is CHF50,000-100,000.
Lot 24: The “Scheherazade” Day-Date ref. 1804 (meaning it has a diamond-set bezel) has a rare dial with applied Arabic numerals (instead of the more common baton indices), as well as the day in Arabic script. The day disc on the Day-Date is available in over two dozen languages, with English being the most common, making other variants more desirable. The case is platinum, and it dates from 1960. The estimate is CHF50,000-100,000.
Lot 33: Fitted with a lapis lazuli dial, this Day-Date ref. 18168 is one of the few watches with a sapphire crystal in the sale (earlier acrylic crystal watches are generally considered more desirable). Its rarity stems from both the semi-precious stone dial as well as the bezel set with 24 baguette-cut diamonds. These features made it expensive in its time – the watch dates from 1986 – so few were made and sold. Estimated at CHF25,000-50,000.
Lot 35: A 1967 Day-Date ref. 1804 in platinum with a diamond bezel and dial, this is not in itself an exceptionally rare model, but this specimen is complete with the box, tags, guarantee and chronometer certificate, as well as the extras of a period Day-Date brochure and service guarantee card. The estimate is CHF20,000-40,000.
Lot 40: Made in the last quarter of 1955, this Day-Date ref. 6511 is one of the earliest Day-Dates made, before the official launch of the model at Basel in 1956. This watch is distinctly different from later Day-Dates, with a thicker case and rounded, convex screw back. The “Day-Date” lettering is at six o’clock, instead of at noon, and in red, as is are date numerals. Another distinguishing feature is the “millerighe” bezel, which translates literally as “thousand lines” but refers to needlecord fabric like corduroy. This is estimated at CHF20,000-40,000.
Lot 47: What just might the only one ever made, this Day-Date ref. 18038 has a coral dial of a particular type known as “angel skin”. This was made in 1988, and still maintains its original case finish. The estimate is CHF35,000-70,000.
Lot 49: Described as “possibly unique”, this Day-Date ref. 1803 in white gold has a chocolate brown lacquered dial, and most importantly, the crown on the left-side of the case. Dating to 1969 and likely made as a special order, this is not a modified Day-Date with a case that’s been rotated 180 degrees. That’s because the serial number is engraved between the lugs at six o’clock, with the reference number at 12 o’clock, both the correct positions as found on all Rolex watches. A rotated case would invert the positions of the two. This is estimated at CHF50,000-100,000.
Lot 51: One of the top lots in the sale with an estimate of CHF120,000-240,000, this Rolex Day-Date ref. 1831 is nicknamed “Emperor”. Phillips notes that it’s likely only eight such Day-Dates were ever made, all destined for the Shah of Iran. The platinum case and bracelet together weight nearly 300 grammes, nearly double the average Day-Date. Nearly all of its external components differ from other Day-Date models, making this a truly special watch. The case is similar to that found on the OysterQuartz, with integrated lugs and angular lines, while the bracelet is stylistically akin to that used for the asymmetric King Midas designed by Gerald Genta.
While the dial is a burgundy “Stella”, it size and construction are different from typical dials, most notably with the diamond markers sitting at the edge of the dial, instead of closer to the hands. And unlike any other Day-Date, this is engraved with a serial number on the case back, “No 005”. As the catalogue notes, this is the “holy grail” of Day-Date collecting, and might just become the most expensive Day-Date ever sold.
“Glamorous Day-Date” will take place on 9 May 2015 in Geneva, with “The Geneva Watch Auction: One”, comprising a broad range of brands and watches, taking place the day after. More details on the Day-Date sale can be found on Phillips’ website.
AUCTION WATCH: Two Dozen Highlights From Phillips' Inaugural Geneva Watch Auction (Part 2)
Geneva Seal exhibition in Geneva
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Alicia Barnett's Chocolate Labrador Retriever named "Mueller" waits for a treat in their Kansas City, Kan., home on March 11, 2019. Barnett named the puppy in honor of special prosecutor Robert Mueller, shown on the television in the background, because the dog seemed strong, quiet, and a bit mysterious. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Arts and crafts see special counsel Robert Mueller as icon
Her family wanted a puppy, so Alicia Barnett dreamed they would find one that was smart, steady and a bit mysterious. She hoped their new addition could share a personality — and a name — with the man who has become her rather unlikely idol.
At Christmas, her teenage son brought home a 10-week-old chocolate Lab. "The strong, silent type," Barnett observed. And then she named him Mueller, an homage to the stoic special prosecutor appointed to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether members of the Trump campaign played any part.
For devoted Democrats like Barnett, Robert Mueller has become a sort of folk hero since his appointment in May 2017. To them, he represents calm in the face of a storm, quiet in a city of bombast, a symbol of hope that a presidency they view as dishonorable might soon face some type of consequences.
"He gives me reassurance that all is not lost," says Barnett, who lives with her family and Mueller the puppy in Kansas City, Kansas. "I admire his mystique. I admire that I haven't heard his voice. He is someone who can sift through all this mess and come up with a rationale that makes sense to everyone."
The special counsel — a 74-year-old registered Republican, Marine and former director the FBI — has even inspired his own genre of arts and crafts. One can buy Mueller paintings, prayer candles, valentines and ornaments. A necklace, earrings, keychains. A stuffed toy of Mueller in a Superman outfit, cross-stitch patterns, baby onesies — even an illustration of his haircut to hang on the wall.
"Stare at Special Counsel Mueller's crisp coiffure for three minutes and you will notice a sense of calm come over you," that artist, Oakland, California-based Wayne Shellabarger, wrote in his online listing for a $10 print. "That's a haircut you can set your watch to."
Mueller has become a boogeyman for many of President Donald Trump's most ardent supporters, as the leader of the investigation the president derides as a "witch hunt." But his fans often speak of him in soaring analogies. Barnett imagines him as a duck's legs: kicking heroically to keep things afloat but under the water, out of view. Karen Adler, a Placerville, California, crafter who sells a coffee mug with Mueller dressed as a saint and wearing a crown of laurels "for victory," describes him as "Paul Bunyan-esque," a man of superhuman labor. Shellabarger thinks of him "almost like Bigfoot," a mystical creature rarely seen in public.
Mueller has remained completely silent as the ceaseless speculation about his investigation turned him into one of the most famous men in America. He hasn't given a single interview, and his office does not leak.
When Kim Six posted her cross-stitch tribute to Mueller on her Facebook page, some people told her to keep politics out of crafting. The framed stitching featured the letters "M.A.G.A." down the side, a reference to Trump's "Make American Great Again" slogan but with these words substituted: "Mueller Ain't Going Away." Her critics assumed she was far-left, but she considers herself a centrist, having voted in the past for moderate Republicans.
Her husband is a "card-carrying Trump fan," says the resident of California's Bay Area. They agree to disagree, and she thinks Americans should be able to do the same. To her, Mueller represents a middle ground where facts exist, as opposed to the ideological rants that consume political discourse.
"Let's get all the facts on the table," she says, "and let this impartial person come in and tell us what the truth is — not spin, just truth."
She's imagined findings so thorough Congress and voters would be forced to act accordingly. But as the investigation has continued on, with 34 people charged and five sentenced to prison, she's noticed Americans retreating to their corners and rearranging the facts to fit their political position.
She's losing faith that Mueller's probe, whenever it does come to an end, will change anything at all.
"How naive I was," she says. "I have this fear, no matter what happens, either side is going to spin it the way they want to. So I don't know anymore if he's the coming savior we had hoped for."
Carmen Martinez feels doubt, too. She and her business partner in New York City have sold 500 Christmas ornaments and earrings with Mueller's face. They tend to get a rush of orders after major Mueller news: indictments, sentencings. Martinez saw him as the one person who could lead the country out of chaos with truth, and believed his report would push everyone to turn away from Trumpism.
But Martinez, a Peruvian immigrant, was shocked last year by the administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexico border. She started to wonder: If images of children in cages don't sway many minds, how could Mueller's report, just words on paper?
Others remain hopeful: "I feel like we're in the middle of a book, like a saga," says Janice Harris, a textile artist in Detroit. "And we're just waiting for the climax."
She was never a particularly political person before Trump's election — much of her work featured kittens or dancers. But she was inspired to immortalize Mueller on handmade makeup bags. She had custom fabric printed with Mueller's face, stitched it into her pouches and sold around 50.
Wayne Shellabarger has sold two prints of his Mueller haircut illustration. One happy customer wrote that using the print as a meditation aide allowed her to stop taking anti-anxiety medication.
"The world has gone completely insane and topsy-turvy," Shellabarger says. "Mueller's hair is one little shining piece of sanity in a sea of madness, so precise and sober and straightforward and without deceit, absolutely by the book, the opposite of everything that's going on in the world."
He hung one of the haircut prints in his own living room in Oakland, California — close to the television, so when he watches the news and his heart starts to pound, he can glance up at it.
There is such a thing as fact, it reminds him.
"And that gives me hope," Shellabarger says, "that since he's in charge, the world can be normal again."
Special Counsel investigation into Russia’s interference in 2016 U.S. Elections
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The Afro-Caribbean Mentorship Program
Inclusivity | Awareness | Community
2018-2019 Past Events
photo by Jordan Haworth
Warren Clarke | Founder
Warren Clarke, the founder of ACMP, is currently a doctoral student in Sociology with a specialization in Political Economy at Carleton University. Warren has twelve years of project/operations management experience and has an extensive track record of mentoring youth (ages 15 – 29). He has developed youth programs and facilitated workshops in the areas of gender identity, race, and sexual health. Warren strives to integrate youth in pro-social programs that will support their social development. Warren is well suited to lead the direction of this culturally sensitive mentorship program.
His broad research interests are tied to Youth Cultures; Social Citizenship; Neoliberalism/Gentrification; Race and Ethnicity; Anti-Colonialism; and Masculinity. Warren’s dissertation, supervised by Dr. Jacqueline Kennelly, will be focusing on how first and second generation young Canadian African and Caribbean Black (ACB) men experience youth employment training programs in Ontario and Quebec. Warren has dedicated much of his academic and professional career to helping Black youth overcome social barriers in the likes of schools, and in the Ontario judicial system, which inspires his work and research.
photo by Victoria Gravesande
Humphrey Nartey | Director of Operations
Humphrey Nartey is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Ottawa in the School of Human Kinetics. His area of expertise focuses on the psychosocial sciences of sport, physical activity and health, particularly the sociology of sport. This field involves studying sport, physical activity, and health from psychological, pedagogical, administrative, and/or socio-cultural perspectives. Being a former student-athlete, Humphrey is very keen on understanding the experiences of student-athletes transitioning out of university sport, particularly racialized student-athletes. His curious nature offset by his desire to engage with people on a sincere level led him to work with and mentor minority youth, whom he strives to integrate in pro-social programs that will support their social development. An avid sports fan, Humphrey thoroughly enjoys playing and watching all sports, and cheering on the Tennessee Titans!
Ahmed Abdi | Community Engagement
Ahmed Abdi is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Sociology with a minor in History. Involved within his faculty, he is the Sociology Head of the Sociology and Anthropology Student Association. His hobbies include mixed martial arts, cooking, and improv. acting. Supported by programs like Pathways to Education in his youth, Ahmed hopes to give back himself through ACMP.
A motto Ahmed lives by is “pursue your best self”. The oldest of five siblings, he has always planned to go into teaching. Ahmed plans on going to teacher’s college once he graduates from his undergrad, hoping to make a positive impact in his future community.
Sonia Bizimana | Event Coordinator
Sonia Bizimana, the event coordinator of ACMP, is currently an undergraduate student in Criminology and Women Studies at the University of Ottawa. She graduated with honours at La Cité Collégiale, with a Technical Social Work Diploma. Sonia is fluent in French, English, Kinyarwanda, Hausa, and Zarma. She is self-motivated and has active time management and organization skills.
Through Sonia’s work experience, she had the opportunity to undertake an internship at the Réseau Santé en Français au Nunavut (RÉSEFAN) in Iqaluit, Nunavut to acquire new skills. Along with RÉSEFAN, she researched the availability of francophone mental health resources in Nunavut and also created a program for Francophone children (4 – 10-years-old) at the school Les Trois Soleils in Iqaluit.
Sonia has practical working experience with newcomer families in connecting them with different social services, such as health care and employment training.
Victoria Gravesande | Content Director
Victoria Gravesande is an undergraduate student at Carleton University, studying Journalism with a minor in English. Although she loves non-fiction reporting, Victoria is also a poet and performed at VERSeFest Ottawa 2018 and released a chapbook with In/Words Magazine and Press titled Maybe It Will Rain. Through journalism and poetry, Victoria hopes to share stories that matter and that have the potential to improve the lives of minority communities within Canada. Her work is inspired by the incredible women in her family who have taught her resilience, love, and strength.
As a journalist, Victoria hopes to shed light on the experiences of racialized peoples in Canada through multimedia storytelling. When it comes to reporting, her areas of interest include climate change and how its immediate effects disproportionately affect minority and disadvantaged communities, intersectional feminist issues, and institutional spaces that structurally exclude racialized people. Victoria wishes to pursue a Master’s Degree so she can teach journalism at the university level to pass on the art of storytelling to the next generation.
Victoria loves photography, drawing, listening to the news, and musical theatre. She is half-Filipino, half-Guyanese, and fully Canadian.
Jipreet Kaur | Social Media & Volunteer Coordinator
Jipreet Kaur, also known as Jiji, is currently an undergraduate student at Carleton University as a Psychology major with a concentration in Cognitive Psychology and a minor in Law. Jipreet has five years of experience working with marginalized, at-risk youth and community members. She has worked as a youth counsellor, a tutor for disadvantaged youth, and has helped conduct workshops that address behavioural problems in adolescents. Currently, she is facilitating workshops for high-school students in the Ottawa region that address issues of race and mental health.
She is of Indian ethnicity, born in Warsaw, Poland and spent the first half of her life travelling throughout Europe, Asia and North America. She has gained an abundance of knowledge and experience that has opened her eyes to the shortcomings in today’s society. Her research interests are tied to how the law views race and ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender in regards to how they impact marginalized youth and their mental health. In the future, she hopes to conduct research and develop programs that address these concerns and foster change and growth.
Stefan Spence-Clarke | Community Engagement
Stefan Spence-Clarke is currently in the third year of his undergraduate studies, pursuing a Bachelor’s Honours degree in Psychology. Stefan aspires to become a clinical psychologist and counsellor working predominantly with young adults (ages 16-30). In doing so, he recognizes his academic goals will include master’s in education, specializing in counselling, a master’s in Clinical Psychology, and obtaining a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Stefan has worked on several projects in the past that include workshops for marginalized and racialized youth. Over the years he has developed a small network of mentees whom he advises regularly in decisions related to school, sports, and general life situations. Currently, Stefan is working closely with ACMP founder, Warren Clarke, to initiate youth-centered programs which will support the development of marginalized and racialized youth in the Ottawa area.
Stefan has dedicated much of his time and effort to helping those within his community with the pursuit of pro-social programs in education, mental health, and decision-making skills. Stefan is a retired football player, bringing a “team-first” mentality to ACMP alongside his own personal drive to do what he loves, which is building strong and sustainable communities for marginalized and racialized individuals.
Nicolette Vardon | Secretary, Social Media & Creative Director
Nicolette Vardon is currently pursuing a BA honours at Carleton University. Nicolette is in her third year of a Political Science program, with a concentration in International Relations and a minor in History. She hopes to pursue a dual JD/MA program in the future. Her focus is centred around her passion for minority and immigrant advocacy. Through ACMP and her academic endeavours, Nicolette hopes to support minority communities, especially those of African, Caribbean and Black descent. Raised in East Toronto by Caribbean and South Asian parents, her interest in minority advocacy is rooted in her upbringing.
In her spare time, Nicolette enjoys surreal painting, reading fiction mystery novels, and cooking. As a part of large family and the youngest of three siblings, she hopes to make a positive impact in the lives of migrant and minority families, while also advocating for the importance of family involvement in the academic careers of youth.
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Rating records soar as the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games are watched around the world
The Athens 2004 Paralympic Games got underway on 17th September with a spectacular Opening Ceremony at the Olympic stadium. During the Games, 73 of the 136 competing nations won at least one medal and several of these countries secured their first medal in Paralympic Games history. Seventeen countries were in fact competing in their first Paralympics ever.
The Paralympic Village in Athens housed 3,806 athletes during the Games. A total of 1,160 women (31% of the total number of athletes) competed at the Games with female athletes competing in Judo and Volleyball for the first time. An extremely high standard of sporting performance in 19 sports resulted in 304 new world records and 448 new Paralympic records.
China topped the medal table in Athens by taking 63 gold medals. Great Britain finished second with 35 gold medals while Canada was third with 28 gold medals.
Perhaps the most outstanding athlete at the Athens 2004 Games was swimmer Japanese Mayumi Narita who claimed an astonishing seven gold medals and one bronze. Canadian wheelchair athlete Chantal Peticlerc also had a fantastic Games by winning five gold medals in the 100 metre, 200 metre, 400 metre, 800 metre and 1,500 metre races while setting three world records.
A total of 3,103 media representatives (including more than 68 broadcasters) were present in Athens to cover the Games while a total of 617 hours were broadcast in 25 countries.
Although the live broadcast of the Opening Ceremony coincided with the middle of the night in some parts of the world, around 10 million Chinese and 8 million Japanese enjoyed the event live. Daily highlights of the Games attracted millions of European viewers and in Great Britain the BBC gained approximately 2 million viewers for their first Sunday Paralympic program. This development confirmed that there has been a strong growth in media interest for the Paralympic Games since the Sydney 2000 Paralympics.
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as many sport events were sold out and the Games were supported by 8,863 volunteers who were handpicked from some 160,000 personal applications.
At the Closing Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium, the new logo of the IPC was unveiled to the world as the Paralympic flag with the three "agitos" was raised in the stadium. IPC President Philip Craven handed over the Paralympic flag with the new IPC symbol to the Vice-Mayor of Beijing, Mr. Liu Jingmin.
Date Games were held: September 17-28
Number of nations represented: 136
Number of competitors: 3,806
Number of medals awarded: 1,567
Wisil completes historic Pacific Games sprint triple-triple with 200m gold
TOP STORY: insidethegames is reporting LIVE from the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa
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The Web of Evil
Delivering evil strategy solutions in terms of webs, going forward
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The government are announcing some tweaks to the Bank of England and Financial Services Bill, notable mainly for repealing (before it had even had a chance to be introduced) a measure designed by the coalition that would have found senior bankers responsible for wrongdoing on their watch even if the regulators had no proof they personally had broken the rules. This might have concentrated minds a bit in the financial sector but, given the modern City’s overreliance on rate-fixing and moneylaundering, it was never going to survive for long under a purely Tory government.
That contentious business is behind us now, though, and we’ve moved on to some mere tidying-up at the end. It’s all pretty dry stuff.
Lord Bridges of Headley: My Lords, the amendments in this group are being made to correct an error made in the National Savings Regulations 2015. Those regulations revoked a number of statutory instruments with effect from 6 April 2015. By mistake, these included the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001, which I will refer to as the 2001 order. The 2001 order, which was revoked, was used to make most of the consequential amendments and repeals that were required to give effect to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. It amended a range of primary and secondary legislation, including the Companies Acts, the Bank of England Act 1998, the Building Societies Act 1986, the Pensions Acts and other legislation related to financial services. In some cases, the amendments made by the 2001 order have been superseded by subsequent legislative developments, but in many cases they are still necessary, and the repeal of the instrument making them has left the law in a state of considerable uncertainty.
Wait, what? The department, like every other, had been tasked with binning as much previous footling legislation as possible. In its eagerness to do so, it overlooked the fact that one of the orders it was wiping out actually made some important changes to central legislation, which therefore—technically—immediately snapped back to its original state, where it has remained since April. Myriad legalistic horrors rear up at that point, with people and organisations suddenly and unexpectedly falling foul of regulations that until a moment before had said something quite different.
How do you fix such a spectacular snafu? By making it never have happened:
Lord Bridges of Headley: The only way in which this regrettable uncertainty can be cured is for the revocation of the 2001 order to be cancelled out. That is what the amendments do. Amendment 27 provides that this revocation shall be taken as never having had effect. This amendment would have retrospective effect. We do not believe anyone would be adversely affected by the amendment. On the contrary, the law will be assumed to be as it was in force before the accidental revocation of the 2001 order. This amendment will restore the law to what it is presumed to be.
Just like that, the Treasury are reaching back into the past and erasing their error from history. At no point will this law ever not have applied. At the last minute they have set our dimension back on its correct path as we go about our daily lives, oblivious to the carnage that has been averted and not aware how grateful we should be to our intrepid timecops.
Above all I’m sure that, like mine, your confidence in our political institutions has been reinforced no end by the fact that a set of regulations, which was scrutinised by both Houses, essentially deleted a chunk of existing and implemented primary legislation and not a soul noticed for months.
Jul. 2nd, 2015
The United Kingdom’s role in addressing global challenges posed by terrorism, conflict, climate change and mass migration
Lord Selsdon (Con): My question to us all today is: what can this Government do to follow this up and which countries have historic relationships with their own area? I wanted to look up Scythia in the Library but we could not find out where it was; it was rather difficult. I looked out the histories of all the territories and frontiers. One of my favourite subjects is of course the coastal areas of the world and the sea, which is so productive. I have argued bitterly that we, the British, have the greatest control over the seas because of the 200-mile exclusion zone and, if we got together with the French, we would have 75%.
With which other countries can we help at this point in time to bring about a recovery in those countries that do not have enough to eat, do not have enough food and do not have pure water? We have all the skills within us here. The French have an interesting phrase, which I learnt when working with them in Africa and other territories: it is called grenouiller. I wondered what it was and was told that if you are confronted with an obstacle and you are a grenouille, you have the opportunity to sauter—to jump over it—or to go under it. I assumed that this was the origin of the phrase “frogging about”. But no: grenouiller means that you stir the pot when you are cooking a stew to see what comes to the top.
In a way, we have stirred the pot today. We know that it is not necessarily a defence of the realm issue, but it is an issue where we should be able to encourage those countries that were productive in the past, and were part of colonial empires, to be able to reproduce their food, their livestock and other things. It is not a big problem but I hope that the Minister will tell us all what this Government are going to do to take the lead in bringing about a recovery. Because of our geographic position and others, I believe that we have a greater responsibility than any other nation.
in the house,
selsdon
Jun. 2nd, 2015
From Korea by Simon Winchester:
One of the more famous Zen masters in Korea was Hyobong, who was a judge during the Japanese occupation—in fact, the first Korean to be allowed to sit on the Colonial bench. But after having to sentence a man to death, he became suddenly disenchanted with the whole idea of colonial justice, resigned, and became an itinerant toffee seller, during which time he thought deeply about how he could best lead a decent life. He finally decided to become a Buddhist monk and to start proper meditation. He then chose the hwadu “No!” and in 1931—though it might be difficult to accept this kind of thing happened so recently, so much does it sound the stuff of legend—had himself walled into a tiny hermitage, with only a tiny hole for food to be passed in and out. He stayed there for 18 months, until one day in 1933 he realised that all of his doubts had been resolved. He had himself unwalled, and as a conclusion to his lengthy meditation on the hwadu “No!” wrote the following lines:
At the bottom of the ocean, a deer hatches an egg in a swallow’s nest.
In the heart of a fire, a fish boils tea in a spider’s web.
Who knows what is happening in this house?
White clouds float westward; the moon rises in the east.
After which revelation, Hyobong became a Zen Master, a respected teacher, and was appointed spiritual head of the Chogye order—the principal order in Korea. Thus, while cynics might not accept the validity of the hwadu system nor the sense of the poem that resulted, it has to be accepted that the man who so meditated, and the man who came up with this answer, was appointed to a position equivalent to the head of a major Western church—a church whose rituals must seem as strange to Zen Buddhists as their ways must seem back West.
The Daily Mail: A Warning from History
From a biography of writer Edgar Wallace, a salutary tale from 1906:
Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe
From time to time it is considered good business for a newspaper to engage in what is euphemistically described as a “crusade”, and in the autumn of 1906 [Daily Mail editor] Alfred Harmsworth decided to undertake a Napoleonic campaign against the rising price of soap. This increase in price had been agreed on by the soap manufacturers, following the sudden rise in the cost of raw materials; it had recently been discovered that some of the ingredients of soap could also be converted into margarine and other foodstuffs suitable for the poor, and to balance the consequent rise in the costs of production the soap manufacturers had put up the price of their products. More, at the suggestion of Mr Lever (later Lord Leverhulme), the Sunlight soap millionaire, they were planning an amalgamation of the principal firms to eliminate the tremendous costs of competitive advertising. Such an amalgamation would, of course, have enormously reduced the advertisement revenue of the newspapers, and rumours immediately spread about that it was part of the scheme to corner all the raw materials available and substantially increase the price of soap to the public. This latter consideration was, according to the statement of his newspapers, the sole inspiration of the philanthropic Harmsworth scheme to fight the “soap trust” and protect the public, and the poor washerwoman who would be most hardly hit by an increase in supervisors became an object of passionate editorial concern.
The attack on the “soap trust” was launched with all the vigour and thoroughness of which Alfred Harmsworth was capable, and most of the Daily Mail reporters, including Edgar, were sooner or later pressed into the fray. A “black list” of all the soap firms involved in the amalgamation scheme was published, with the names of their products, as also a list of firms not so involved, whose products the public was recommended to buy without fear of being instantly strangled by the great soap octopus. Lever Brothers came in for the heaviest punishment, for not only was Mr Lever the originator of the scheme, but he had also, on the advice of his agents, reduced the weight of the standard bar of Sunlight soap by an ounce, a diplomatic alternative to an increase in retail prices. The attention of the retailer had been expressly called to this reduction in weight by a small label gummed on the end of the soap carton, but the Daily Mail fell on the expedient with a yell of outrage which suggested that the “fifteen-ounce pound” was a deliberate attempt to deceive and vampirise the public.
In common with other members of the reporting staff it fell to Edgar to supply colourful detail of the suffering caused to the British public by the increased cost of soap, and he was specifically instructed to voice the laments of the poor struggling washerwoman. Accordingly, with great feeling (and, one cannot help suspecting, from the comfort of his study in Elgin Crescent) he contributed to the general Daily Mail philippics under the moving headline of “Cruel Blow to the Poor”. “Out of the region of high finance,” he wrote, ”away from the battleground where an indefinite public fights a very tangible twelve million pound trust, you are nearer to the crux of the whole question when you get to the place where the washing hangs out on the line and the steam and soapy scent of washing day permeates the neighbourhood… 'From early Monday morning to late on Saturday night'”—it is an unspecified washerwoman who is speaking—“I stand at my wash-tub—and very often well into the early hours of Sunday morning. To meet the competition of the laundries I have reduced my price to 9d. a dozen—and at this price the rise in the price of soap means all the difference between bread-and-butter for my children and dry bread.” This affecting account was inserted anonymously into the columns set aside daily in the Daily Mail for the attack on the soap trust, but it achieved unexpected and somewhat embarrassing prominence when it was quoted in court during the shattering libel action which ultimately followed.
Lever Brothers had borne the assault as long as they could, and then had announced that the amalgamation scheme was to be abandoned. It was an undeniable triumph for the power of the Press, and the Harmsworth newspapers were not slow to drive home to the public the philanthropic magnitude of their achievement. So great was the triumph, indeed, that Harmsworth found himself completely unable to relinquish the subject, and when, a few weeks later, Lever Brothers made an attempt to retrieve the damage by a vast scheme of advertising (not, curiously enough, in the Daily Mail) he returned to the attack with open and exuberant scoffing. This sudden resumption of hostilities was too much for Lever. The Daily Mail campaign had already had a disastrous effect on the sales of Sunlight soap and the value of Lever shares; he had owned himself beaten, abandoned the trust, and restored the sixteen-ounce pound. More he could not do, and when he found himself and his firm still victims of hostile publicity he took legal advice, briefed Sir Edward Carson and F.E. Smith (later Lord Birkenhead) and sued the Daily Mail and associated newspapers for libel.
It was a lively case, and with such brilliant counsel it soon became apparent that the Harmsworth crusade to protect the British public was going to be expensive. With masterly succinctness Sir Edward Carson drew up the case for the prosecution. The Daily Mail, according to the plaintiffs, had accused Levers of selling soap in a fraudulent manner; they also claimed that large numbers of employees had been dismissed as a result of the combine. They had, moreover, charged them with cornering the raw materials market, with attempting to bribe the Press, with using unsavoury fish oil in their products, and with pursuing a policy in regard to the combine which “tended to the oppression of the poor”. Up to the present, said Sir Edward, the trading losses of the plaintiffs had, as a result of these public accusations, already amounted to £40,000, and two million preference shares had been reduced in value with a loss to the shareholders of £200,000.
The charge of oppression of the poor particularly took the ironic fancy of the prosecution, and in the published reports of the proceedings (for the case was being followed by other newspapers with hilarious interest) Edgar's story of the piteous washerwoman occupied a prominent and unenviable place. “Turning,” said The Times report, “to another article entitled 'Cruel Blow to the Poor', Sir Edward said it told a story of a poor widow who supported a large family of small children by washing, and who lost 1s. 6d. a week through the increase in the price of soap. She must, said counsel, have used ninety-six 3d. tablets. (Laughter.) They had asked where this poor widow who was using ninety-six tablets a week and was being driven to the pawn shop by Mr Lever was to be found, and in answer to interrogatories the reply they got was that the story was contributed by a reporter on tne staff who was now in the south of France reporting the wine riots. (Laughter.)”
The defence pleaded in reply that their charges were true, that the conduct of the plaintiffs had been fraudulent and dishonest, and that the articles complained of were fair comment—but the jury thought otherwise. Judgment was given for Lever Brothers, who were awarded £50,000 damages—the largest sum up to that time that had ever been awarded in a libel action. Encouraged by this promising result the lesser soap companies which, with Levers, had borne the brunt of the attack, rushed into litigation, and Mr Lever's damages having set an opulent example, Sir Alfred Harmsworth found himself finally liable for damages amounting in all to a quarter of a million. It was a crushing blow, even to so rich an organisation as the Harmworth Press, and a panic of economy swept through Carmelite House. In the course of the anxious conferences and discussions which followed Sir Alfred asked irritably who was the reporter whose ridiculous calculations on the losses of washerwomen had provoked such malicious amusement at the Daily Mail's expense. Edgar, returning innocently from Narbonne, where he had, indeed, been covering the wine riots, found a black mark of disfavour registered against him.
Margaret Lane, Edgar Wallace: A biography, 1939
Selsdon Tonight: Ukraine
Debate on the Report of the European Union Committee on The EU and Russia: before and beyond the crisis in Ukraine
( Full speech hereCollapse ) Ukraine is a country that I love and respect. If any of your Lordships would like a bit of fun, I would willingly take you down to look at the old missile factory, although it is not producing missiles anymore. The people there are still nice. [Hansard]
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Mar. 23rd, 2015
“Who’s going to win the election, then?” It’s a question whose elements float around the building like a nebula, coating everything in it with an unsettling film of uncertainty, but rarely do they gather enough momentum to coalesce into a planetoid that can, say, be bowled at me slightly mischievously by one of our cleaners, a lady in her 50s originally from Mauritius. I run through my usual spiel that basically no-one knows anything at this point, and demoralisation nationally is such that any of the grab-bag of horrors running for office might scrape into power on the pitiful smattering of votes that people will be bothered to cast.
“I think it will be Ukip,” she says. I say that, despite everything I just said, this is still powerfully unlikely. “I shall be voting Ukip,” she says proudly. I look at her, wide-eyed. “But… you know that they don’t like you, right?” I venture. She raises her chin in defiance and pride. “I have been here for 40 years and I have worked for all that time,” she says, “and now I see all these immigrants coming here and getting everything for free.”
We bat back and forth a bit on the veracity of the relentless media reports of hordes of immigrants swarming across the Channel like flying ants to find themselves greeted with cries of joy from self-hating white do-gooders, wrapped in a carpet of money and gifted all the mansions they can eat [1], but she’s immovable. She firmly believes every word they print. “I have always worked for my money,” she says.
“And so do most of them!” I reply, but she’s having none of it. Finally I have no choice but to approach the more delicate aspect of all this. “Okay, but you do know that most Ukip members and voters are really racist?”
“I think that I also am becoming a bit racist,” she confides with a sheepish grin, before launching into an account of the welfare fiddles she reckons her Pakistani neighbours are getting up to. Her own experiences as a black woman emigrating to the UK in the mid-1970s, which are unlikely to have been too rosy, have faded enough that they can be overwritten by the same poisonous far-right narrative that can always be counted on to snare those who have very little: that lot over there are already getting more than you for doing nothing, and if you’re not careful they’ll come and get your stuff too. (Yes, this narrative can be used by the far left too, but in their case they’re talking about the hyper-rich and privileged rather than people who also have very little—and it can’t be quite so easily dismissed as untrue.)
Doomed, I persist. “And you know that they don’t think your children are British? Ukip, and the papers that support them, don’t care if someone is born here and has grown up here—they will always see them as ‘hidden migrants’ and use that to attack them.” Here she sidetracks unexpectedly into a story about having been told officially (by a never identified “them”) that she would be allowed to call her children English but not British, a claim I've never heard before and which sounds a lot like a misunderstanding, but it derails us from confronting the central issue of whether, having voted for them, she would honestly be invited to remain in her adopted country were her chosen party ever to win any kind of majority. Not, I suspect, that she would ever give this scenario any headspace to begin with; she has the monomania, and ability to ignore troublesome and conflicting ideas, of the true believer. She'd still vote for them if Farage himself booped her nose and daubed a racist slur on her coat.
So when pundits note that the votes of immigrant citizens will play an increasing role in future elections, bear in mind that it isn’t necessarily obvious just who those votes will be cast for. It is at least as likely that someone who has come into a society from outside and had to fight for their place will be minded to pull up the ladder behind them as it is that they might be sympathetic to the plight of anyone following in their wake—especially if there’re encouraged to feel that way by cynical politicians looking to hit the electoral jackpot that is always guaranteed by spreading distrust and fear.
[1] You couldn't make it up.
a little bit of politics
Positive spin hall-of-famer
Mar. 2nd, 2015 at 4:54 PM
Baroness Sherlock (Lab): When this Government brought in the Pensions Act 2011, they introduced an earnings trigger for auto-enrolment… and every year since then we have seen more and more people excluded.
She produces these figures:
2011-12: 600,000 people excluded, 75% of them women.
Total: 1,290,000 people excluded from auto-enrolment in four years, the majority of them women.
The Minister chides her for being so negative.
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (Con): I appreciate that the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, would want to go on a historical journey rather than review the current good news in the present order, but 20,000 more people being brought within auto-enrolment, 70% of whom are women, is of course good news*.
He doesn’t use the term "Rejoice!", but it's left hanging in the air.
* 1.55%, if you were wondering.
Shine 24k Gold Rolling Papers
Mar. 1st, 2015 at 1:39 PM
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• Feel like a rich and smoky King Midas
• Includes 12 sheets of decadent 24 carat gold papers
• They see me rolling, they hate it
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One box contains twelve extravagant sheets of slow-burning and perfectly edible 24 carat gold leaf paper. It's dead easy to stick and it burns slowly and evenly. Expensive you say? Perhaps these aren't for you. Only the very purest 24k gold can be used in order for the papers to be edible with no other impurities–they're going in between your cherished chops after all.
You. Could. Be. Smoking. Gold. There is no more extravagant act. So if you've got cash to burn and love rolling in money (sort of) then get yourself these princely papers today. [Firebox]
Firebox's copyrighter is particularly proud of having spotted the potential for wordplay involving the word "rolling", deploying it on three occasions on one page.
Importantly, this product "comes with a certificate to authenticate its golden credentials".
beat the credit crunch
Waugh stories
I was told this recently at a party. It doesn't matter that all this happened within the past five years; it's still straight out of an Evelyn Waugh novel.
“My friend in the Army had to go and visit some Italian troops in Iraq. Different NATO countries had divided up different areas to watch over, and the Italians had been placed in charge of a stretch of road that coalition troops would need to use frequently. After six months, this road was incident-free; no-one had reported being attacked, and the Italians themselves had not encountered a single problem. The British and Americans were stunned, and went to see for themselves just what it was the Italians had been doing right.
“When they arrived at the highway in question, the Italians were nowhere to be seen. Eventually they were found about half a mile away, guarding an empty road that turned out to be a long drive leading to someone’s house. They’d been there by mistake for the entire six months while the busy highway, frequently used by coalition troops, had been entirely unguarded. It was a total fluke that no-one had been attacked.
“Less amusing, because of the subsequent body count, when French troops handed over to the Americans an area that they’d been tasked with guarding, where they, too, had done an impressive job of keeping the peace, they didn’t tell the incoming force that this was because they’d bee paying off anyone in the region who might have given them trouble. Whether the Americans would have acted differently if they’d known this is moot; it became clear that no more payments were being made, and violence skyrocketed.”
Feb. 3rd, 2015
Lord Cameron of Dillington: This long-lasting sore on the face of responsible access to the countryside has got to be firmly gripped, and soon.
american salad
celebrity haiku
chances are the tory party hates you
crap snacks
crucial online resource
data theft
didn't have to make it up but did anyway
didn't have to make this up
disability is theft
earl attlee
faith: a beginner’s guide
fortuitous mispront
foundation x
fun with threat levels
future charts
indefensibly puerile
infinite france
kiss me you fool
ladeez
lazy journalists
lazy lying journalist pricks
lee hawtrey
liberation through poverty
lord james
m'lud
marketing fail
marketing win
menezes
microsoft grammar nazi
murdochracy
news in briefs
oh those russians
on the pulse
other parliaments
peckish
phone hacks
plasma kiser
psychoceramics
racist van
rogue animals
rubbish defence
simon heffer
sinner/winner
sp@m
spare some change
the bleedin' obvious
the letter p
things i didn't know
things that put most people off politics
tony garstang
tory book club
truth in booze ads
twain scanner
unclassifiable
unlikely board games
unlikely slogans
viscount slim
why are you hurting the english language
The Web of Evil (I can't stress this enough, it's really not a web of evil)
The magical sounds of the Web of Evil
More magical sounds of the Web of Evil
The Mild Perils
CTRL+Z [+1]
(no subject) [+1]
The Daily Mail: A Warning from History [+0]
Selsdon Tonight: Ukraine [+0]
Positive spin hall-of-famer [+0]
Shine 24k Gold Rolling Papers [+0]
Waugh stories [+0]
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SALLEY MAVOR
WEE FOLK STUDIO
Bed Book
Birds of Beebe Woods
Felt Wee Folk
Liberty and Justice film
Pocketful of Posies Exhibit
Polly Doll
Wee Folk Players (they’re a stitch)
Posted on June 26, 2016 by Salley Mavor
Sketch for Displaced
All winter long, while I sat and worked on this new piece, I listened to news stories on the radio about the people who are fleeing their home countries amid war and conflict. Even though Displaced is inspired by current world events, it could very well represent the universal and timeless plight of refugees throughout history.
I often think in terms of creating miniature shallow stage sets and with this one, I envisioned a highly dramatic scene. It was important to me that the piece evoked a strong emotional reaction, much like an opera.
The heavily burdened figures are a chorus of characters making their way through a black and ominous landscape. To help create tension in the design, I thought of antonyms, such as dark/light, general/personal, despair/hope, trapped/escape, harsh/tender, sharp/soft and horror/beauty.
With fiber art, much attention is paid to materials and techniques, as well as the labor intensive process. My intention was to make a work of art that transcends the amount of work invested, and the methods and skill involved in the expression.
Displaced, 24″ H x 22″ W, 2016
UPDATE: 18″ x 24″ Posters of DISPLACED are now in my Etsy Shop here.
Poster – Displaced
Here are some details of the piece, along with a glimpse behind the scenes in my studio.
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48 thoughts on “Displaced”
Jillian Bath on June 26, 2016 at 4:17 pm said:
This is stunning Salley – thank you.
Charlene / cmenkty on June 27, 2016 at 10:31 am said:
Salley – I’ve watched your work for years and this really touched me. It is stunning and thank you for sharing.
thecrazysheeplady on June 26, 2016 at 4:22 pm said:
Sally MB on June 26, 2016 at 4:27 pm said:
It speaks to me. Thank you.
Janet Johnson on June 26, 2016 at 4:36 pm said:
A very moving piece to say the least. I have noticed how a lot of refugees walk with their heads down as in your piece. Very sad. I have had many health and job issues and my kids and I have done without a lot of what most think of as necessities, but we have never had to flee our country and everything we know and love or have such violence and killing all around us as so many have. I am thankful every day.
Really wonderful work, Salley.
JudyH on June 26, 2016 at 4:40 pm said:
This says sooo much.
Anita L. Anderson on June 26, 2016 at 4:46 pm said:
Your talent and creativity is superb. I will try to visit the exhibition. ( I live in Maine.)
Anita A.
Robin on June 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm said:
I love everything you do but this piece is stunning. It is beautiful. It has social conscious. It is persuasive, and shows the humanity of the refugee “problem”. “Displaced” is a masterpiece. Congratulations.
Mary Shelley on June 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm said:
Your creations are amazing ! This one in particular touched my heart
Caraleen Baker on June 26, 2016 at 4:57 pm said:
Sally: I absolutely love this work. So labour intensive. Congrats!
Caraleen
mary on June 26, 2016 at 5:05 pm said:
I think there is enormous strength in the unfussiness….bare bones so suits the emotion in this subject…it leaves my interest peaked and itchy to imagine the content…just like my favorite kinds of story!
cynthiabaxter on June 26, 2016 at 5:06 pm said:
Very powerful piece and the work is stunning – as someone already expressed. Also inspiring to see your progression as an artist.
Susie O'Connor on June 26, 2016 at 5:19 pm said:
Salley, your work has drawn out such emotion within me. My heart breaks with the images in the media. I particularly appreciate the way these desperate fragile human beings are walking along the edge of the cliff. It felt like it was the knife edge of their life. Well done and thank you. Susie from Adelaide.
Jeanette Paganetti on June 26, 2016 at 5:26 pm said:
For me, it evokes all that you set out to do, so very moving and beautiful in every way, your work is gorgeous
elizabethwstubbs on June 26, 2016 at 5:35 pm said:
Wow, Salley, this is amazing. Your skill as a craftwoman is astounding, as always, but I appreciate especially the artistic elements in this piece. The composition is dramatic and although beautiful, it is ominous. The angles of the sharp leaves and the clawlike, pointy, tree branches, the steep hills and the narrow path that the terrified figures must edge along all instill in me a fear of falling. Yet, even though they are downcast, they are determined. I’d say you were indeed successful in provoking an emotional response. Thank you for sharing. I hope to see your show in the fall.
Nancy Kennerud on June 26, 2016 at 5:41 pm said:
Very powerful and very beautiful.
Mdm Samm on June 26, 2016 at 5:59 pm said:
Hello Sally, this is disturbing and filled with emotion. How sad that we live in a world where families must leave HOME and then to find doors closed to them. There is so much heart in your work, it can be felt…. We can only pray we never get displaced…
Mara on June 26, 2016 at 6:09 pm said:
Beautiful. It makes me think of another dichotomy:compassion/fear. They are not antonyms but in today’s world they seem to work that way. Thank you for making this piece.
Robin Goldsworthy on June 26, 2016 at 6:53 pm said:
Love this piece it has so much feeling in it. It should do well in your next show. Keep going on this.
Ann Bernard on June 26, 2016 at 7:07 pm said:
This is so evocative of the situation in Syria, Turkey and all through Europe. The long, uphill trudge to a new life. I hope that this piece that you have created will become widely known. Your talent is unique and you are so experienced now in creating these miniature people.
Thank you for this piece.
Ann B. >
sejwhite on June 26, 2016 at 7:18 pm said:
Beautiful and takes my breath away. Thank you.
Mary Beth Baker on June 26, 2016 at 8:08 pm said:
Amazing, beautiful and powerful! Love your work!
fruitsofheart on June 26, 2016 at 8:53 pm said:
Sad,poignant,powerful, heart-wrenching with such exquisite detail. In awe,
Joey C. on June 26, 2016 at 9:36 pm said:
This brought tears to my eyes. The figures are so down-trodden, I “love” how the figures on the upper level have their backs to us and the shadows (real or drawn, painted, or embroidered) of the branches. What is further interesting and causing tension is the doll within the context of serious subject. I’ve loved your work for years, Salley.
Cindy Cooksey on June 26, 2016 at 10:20 pm said:
Your new piece is stunningly beautiful, and of our time. It will make an impact on those who see it.
martine on June 27, 2016 at 2:52 am said:
It brings tears in my eyes but it’s also beautiful.
Sophie L. on June 27, 2016 at 3:51 am said:
Waouhhh ! J’admire votre travail depuis longtemps. Cette pièce est magnifique et je ne peux m’empêcher de vous féliciter. Vous êtes une grande artiste ! Merci pour cette beauté qui prouve que l’on peux faire de grandes choses avec des petits bouts de riens.
pennross on June 27, 2016 at 6:12 am said:
Best yet! Really fascinating.
Mary McKenna on June 27, 2016 at 8:56 am said:
Excellent, Sally! Love it!
cmt on June 27, 2016 at 9:18 am said:
Museum piece, for many to see and ponder on. Stunning.
Mary Planck Choberka on June 27, 2016 at 11:47 am said:
You have captured all the emotions of sadness and helplessness I feel about the the world’s problems. It is a great work of ART.
Darlene Butler on June 27, 2016 at 11:50 am said:
I too listen to Public Radio and other news mediums daily and think about the stories I hear of strife, sadness and sometimes hope. Thanks for this political piece.
Diane Lemery McDonald on June 27, 2016 at 1:29 pm said:
Oh Salley, this is beyond amazing. It brought up so much emotion for me , took my breath away and brought tears to my eyes.
So powerful and beautiful!
laurie on June 27, 2016 at 3:42 pm said:
Beautiful expression of strength, courage, sadness and fear. Seeing this piece of artwork helps us all to become more empathetic and compassionate. Thank you for creating and sharing it.
FlowerAlley on June 27, 2016 at 8:14 pm said:
This is so special! I felt the heaviness and the movement of the characters.
Jean Tobey on June 27, 2016 at 8:21 pm said:
Beautiful, like all of your work Salley
noel mcgonigle on June 27, 2016 at 8:22 pm said:
Everything already said, and I love the winding movement as if in a labyrinth, the feeling of constant motion as a necessity with no place to rest, unutterable fatigue. There is also deep sorrow and yet a glimmer of hope as they continue to move forward. Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece.
Stephanie Keon-Pinkerton on June 27, 2016 at 9:28 pm said:
Very touching and evocative. The mother with her baby and child…choked up! Thank you for expressing so many emotions and questions with your artwork. You are such an inspiration!
Gloria on June 28, 2016 at 6:55 am said:
I could feel the emotion of refugees in this piece..you are truly an artist ..
Claudia McKeon on June 28, 2016 at 11:38 am said:
You could do a book on this piece alone. It is heartbreaking and gorgeous at the same time.
Janet Simons Folger on June 28, 2016 at 8:45 pm said:
Stunning and moving. I am surprised their are no boats.
Cheeyl on June 29, 2016 at 4:54 pm said:
This piece leaves very powerful feelings of sadness.
Jo Simonian on June 29, 2016 at 10:22 pm said:
This is absolutely stunning, Salley. As the grandchild of Armenian refugees displaced by genocide this evokes so many emotions. Thank you!
Masha on July 5, 2016 at 11:06 pm said:
Salley, I have been inspired by your techniques and style to find my own storytelling style. I have admired your figurines and sets, but this is the first creation that moves me to speak up. I understand it was inspired by the current Syrian refugee plaint, but it speaks to me of my Russian grandparents’ and parents’ fate after WWI, the Russian Civil War and WWII. This piece truly expresses the plight of the modern expatriates, refugees, and exiles.
lindabb77 on March 11, 2017 at 6:29 pm said:
This is just so well done. I love working on small things and just love seeing the progress you make. Yes this could be the refugees of all the years down in history. A work of art for sure.
indieminidolls on March 18, 2017 at 5:20 pm said:
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The CW Reveals New Promo And Title For Next Episode of Arrow
By Eric Joseph @RealEricJoseph 5 months ago
If you’ve been following news pertaining to Arrow since last summer, then you’re aware of how the producers have been holding their cards close to the vest when it comes to this particular series. Furthermore, they’ve withheld certain episode titles for as long as possible – or even changed them at the eleventh hour (“My Name is Emiko Queen,” to cite an example).
So far, all we’d really known about episode 7×14 was a cryptic hint offered by executive producer and showrunner Beth Schwartz. As it turns out, said offering will be titled “Brothers & Sisters,” which may have something to do with Oliver and Emiko’s relationship. And since it’s pluralized, perhaps we may see that concept applied to the future – maybe with William Clayton and Mia Smoak.
For now, though, an entirely different plot thread is teased by the trailer found at the top of this article, and that’s something having to do with Ricardo Diaz. From the look of it, he may be on the loose sooner than expected, as it appears we’ll see the flash forward shown during last fall’s season premiere finally paid off.
Arrow: 7x13 - "Star City Slayer" Gallery
If not, then we’ll at least witness Felicity becoming royally pissed off at John Diggle and Lyla for working with the man who’s tried to kill her and those she loves on various occasions. Those up to speed know how “The Dragon” has been recruited into ARGUS’ Ghost Initiative in recent weeks (yes, “Ghost Initiative,” because this show is no longer allowed to say “Suicide Squad”).
At the moment, no official synopsis has been given for “Brothers & Sisters,” but we advise that you keep checking back for updates. Odds are the network will cough up the description either later this week or in the one to follow.
Arrow returns with new episodes on Monday, March 4th on The CW.
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A Small but Critical Victory for Right Whales
Posted on December 6, 2013 by rochabob | 1 Comment
Phoenix and calf. Sea to Shore Alliance photo.
Five years ago the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) enacted a seasonal ship strike rule to protect migrating, endangered North Atlantic right whales (NARW). This rule requires that vessels 65 feet (19.8m) or longer limit themselves to a maximum speed of 10 mph (16 kph) in designated zones (Seasonal Management Areas) during specified periods of time. For the Northeast, that meant January 1 – March 15 in Cape Cod Bay, March 1 – April 30 off Race Pt in Provincetown and April 1 – July 31 in the Great South Channel. The time frames for the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast reflect the months that NARWs are expected to be in those regions. This rule, proven to be effective so far, was important for the protection of this critically endangered species, the population of which is estimated at approximately 500 animals.
However, the rule had an end date attached to it, December 9, 2013. A year ago, the NBWM hosted colleagues from Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, (Provincetown) Center for Coastal Studies, Humane Society of the U.S., Rhode Island Audubon and other members of the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium to announce a campaign to convince NOAA to drop the end date (also known as a sunset clause) from this rule. We debuted the campaign video ‘Act Right Now Save a Species’, held a panel discussion, and made a petition available for signature by any citizen. In the past year, over 145,000 comments were sent to NOAA and 75,000+ people signed the petition.
Today NOAA announced that it has dropped the sunset clause from the Ship Strike Rule, thus making the rule permanent. Collisions between whales and vessels are typically fatal. Two of the skeletons that hang in our Museum, the North Atlantic right whale with fetus, and the blue whale were killed by vessel strikes. By forcing vessels to slow down during those times when NARWs are expected to be in a given area, both whales and mariners have greater opportunity to steer clear of each other. This is a win-win situation and has proven to be much less of a burden on vessel operators than previously estimated.
The issue of entanglement has yet to be solved. But on a rainy day, NOAA’s decision is indeed a bright beam of excellent news for an endangered species and for the dozens of people who dedicate themselves to studying and protecting the North Atlantic right whale.
This entry was posted in News, Press Release, Science, Whales and tagged Act Right Now, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Humane Society of the United States, New England Aquarium, NOAA, North Atlantic Right Whale, North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Ship Strike Rule, sunset clause, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Bookmark the permalink.
One response to “A Small but Critical Victory for Right Whales”
Frances Hennessey | December 6, 2013 at 7:14 pm | Reply
Yes, this is indeed a step in the right direction for Right Whales. Increasing mariner awareness for reduced speed is a concern. One possible solution might be including Right Whale speed reductions on Coast Guard safety and weather broadcasts. I don’t recollect hearing one for NARW for the Virginia Shore.
Speed restrictions are listed on NBDC Data Buoy web pages, including that for Buoy 44013 for Boston. See below: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44013
As a suggestion, perhaps someone at NBWM might contact USCG Sector Boston to inquire if NARW bulletins could be routinely issued on VHF marine channels. Mariners are required to monitor VHF Channels 16 and 13 while watchstanding. Thank you for bringing this forward.
Regards, Frances Hennessey
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Hook, Hampshire, 1 May 2019 – Whiteoaks International is today celebrating its place as the number one B2B agency in the UK, following the release of the PR Week Top 150 UK PR Consultancies 2019 ranking. Whiteoaks is listed in the top half of the table, at number 72, up from number 78 in the previous year based on revenue. This increase reflects the 13% growth that the agency has experienced in the 12-month period.
The consultancy also appeared as the number eight agency outside London overall and it remains the number one Tech agency outside London.
At the same time, Whiteoaks is now confirmed as a Top 250 global PR agency, according to The Holmes Report Global Top 250 PR Agency Ranking 2019. It has also been shortlisted for the 2019 EMEA PR Consultancies of the Year (Technology) at the prestigious SABRE EMEA Awards later in the Spring.
James Kelliher, CEO at Whiteoaks International said: “In the last 25 years our business has grown into an established and specialist agency for the B2B technology industry. We are all delighted by the recognition we’ve received from PR Week, and internationally from the Holmes Report. We are grateful for the support of our team, our clients, partners and suppliers, in helping us in our ongoing growth journey.”
In the last 12 months, Whiteoaks has been recognised as a Winner of the European Excellence Awards 2018, taking home the trophy for Agency of the Year – Small and Mid-Sized, and was listed at number 41, in a debut placement as a Top 50 agency in the B2B Marketing UK Agencies Benchmarking Report 2019.
One year after re-branding the business and moving to a larger and more modern international headquarters in Hook, Hampshire, and celebrating its 25th anniversary, the independent agency has experienced growth to a revenue of £4.1 million in 2018 and has expanded its team to 40.
Also during that time, Whiteoaks, which offers PR, Digital, Content and Integrated Marketing consultancy and services to B2B technology brands in the Fintech, Retail Tech, Cyber Security, Smart Built Environment, Enterprise IT and Broadcast and Media industries, has won prestigious new clients, including Hastee Pay, Glen Dimplex Heating and Ventilation, REPL Group and InterSystems, and retained many long-standing clients including Feefo, Glasswall Solutions, Pulsant and Fraedom.
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10 Popular Companies That Profited In Nazi Concentration Camps
Business has its way even during the time of war. At the time were millions of people suffer due to horrible effects of war, there were businesses that flourished and even profited in Nazi concentration camps. Most of these companies continue to exist and flourish today. Some of these companies had admitted their past roles and had paid multi-million fees in the fund for Holocaust survivors.
10 Popular Companies that Worked With the Nazis.
10. Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann is an international media company which one of core division is the Penguin Random House. The company founded in 1835 and it had developed deep connection with Adolf Hitler reign.
Bertelsmann had published papers and books that contain clear anti-Jewish sentiments. Part of the publications was propaganda that focuses on the teens. The “Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth” and the “Exciting Series” were published to promote indoctrination of Nazism.
It was also known that Heinrich Mohn, the president of the company then, had donated to the SS, concentration camps and the special forces of Hitler. Mohn, himself did not join the Nazi party however he was a member of the SS patrons, which symbolized political arrangement he had with the Nazi.
It was also later found out through a Commission, which studied the role of Bertelsmann during the Nazi war, that the company had an indirect use of Jewish slave labor in Lithuania and Latvia.
The company was close to the Propaganda Ministry and had printed nineteen million books thus, making it the biggest publisher of the German army.
Bertelsmann had expressed its regret over its role during the war. (Source)
According to the files of National Archives, the subsidiaries of Eastman Kodak had traded with the Nazi Germany after America had declared the war.
Kodak in Germany had used slave laborers. The Stuttgart plant of Kodak had eighty slave laborers while the Berlin-Kopenick plant had two hundred fifty slave workers.
Another Kodak subsidiary in Portuguese had aided the Nazi in another way. It sent its profits to company branch in Hague, which is occupied by Nazi in mid-1942.
In 1942, Kodak branch in Spain had bought imported items from Germany and paid seventeen thousand Reichsmark.
Wilhelm Keppler, the personal economic adviser of Hitler, was known as the “Kodak Man” by the U.S intelligence due to the personal and business connection with the firm. It was Keppler who advised to Kodak to terminate its Jewish employees.
Due to business connections, the revenues of Kodak had increased and had expanded to military hardware and detonators.
8. Hugo Boss
The participation of Hugo Boss, the owner of the company has been the topic for years. There was a myth that Hugo Boss himself had designed the smart black uniform for the SS. However, there is no truth to that myth. Senior SS officer Karl Diebitsch who had worked with Walter Heck designed the black uniform used in 1932.
Even if Hugo Boss did not design the uniform, he was the one who manufactured it.
He had started his clothes factory in 1924, among his early clients was Rudolf Born who asked Boss to manufacture the brown shirts for the organization “Nationalist Socialist Part”, which is later called as Nazis.
In April 1, 1931, Boss had joined the Nazi Party. He joined the party for two reasons. He believed that as an executive, it would benefit him to win contracts from the Nazi. Likewise, he also believed that Hitler was the only man who can save Germany.
By 1933, Boss was known to manufacture clothes for the SS, Hitler Youth and the Brownshirts, which are the Nazi’s paramilitary wing.
His business was doing well in 1938, since he manufactured army uniforms. In 1940, he had earned 1,000,000 Reichsmark.
As his business started to grow, he needed more employees. Sadly, during 1940, Boss had used 140 forced laborers for eight months. These numbers had swelled by another forty prisoners of war from France.
After the war, Hugo Boss was fined 100,000 marks for his support to Nazism. His right to vote and to run business was stripped from him however, he had appealed and his business continued. Hugo Boss died in 1948.
In 1999, his company had contributed to a fund that had compensated forced workers. (Source)
When Hitler gained power, his ultimate goal was to destroy the 600,000 Jews. Once Jews were identified, they would face punishment and exterminated. However, looking for all the data of Jews in church and government records would be impossible since there are computers at that time. In 1933, no computers were invented yet.
But even if there are no computers, another company had created a punch card and sorting system. The punch card and sorting system were precursor to computer and it was created by IBM.
IBM Germany or known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft (Dehomag) with its staff had designed and supplied all the technologic assistance to the Nazis. The technologic assistance is in the form of automation of human destruction.
There were two thousand machines that were placed inside Germany and several other thousands in other parts of Europe. Concentration camps had used the automation system of IBM.
All the punched cards used in the automation system were only available in one source: the IBM.
With the information gathered in the punch cards of IBM, the Jews were determined and identified. The Nazis had the Jews starved, deported and ghettoized.
6. Bayer
IG Farben was composed of Agfa, BASF, Hoechst and Bayer. Other smaller German companies were also part of the union. IG Farben had the biggest lead role as the biggest chemical company.
From 1933 to 1944, IG Farben was considered as the biggest financier of Nazi Party, they contributed 81 million Reichsmark. IG Farben in all their branches had made earnings. They supplied the Nazi and its allied bombers with the IG Farben petrol.
The company had built a plant near the Auschwitz concentration camp for them to take forced laborers. Two million dollars were used to build the concentration camps. From the Auschwitz, Monowitz and the adjacent factory, thousands of prisoners had died. It was estimated that 370,000 prisoners had died due to lack of food and poor working conditions.
5. Siemens
Siemens was known to take forced laborers during the Holocaust to create gas chambers that will eventually kill the forced laborers.
Zyklon B, was originally an insecticide and it was used in gas chambers to eliminate Jews. In Germany, Zyklon means “Cyclone” was a very poisonous gas that had killed man, woman and children.
In autumn of 1941, Maximilian Grabner, head of political department in Auschwitz, had ordered Zykon B in the opening room of gas chamber. The gassing had involved 200 – 250 Jews including children. During the gassing, the people had cried out for help but after a few minutes, silence engulfed the place.
In 2001, the company had tried to use the word “Zykon” in a new line of products that includes oven, but the move was seen as insensitive. Later, they had withdrawn their application.
Siemens had expressed its deepest regrets and had initiated a fund for victims and their families.
4. BMW
Guenther Quandt, whose family owns the BMW had used forced laborers in their weapons factories.
In May 1,1933, Guenther had joined the Nazi Party, it was only a month after Hitler had the supreme control in Germany. He was awarded many lucrative state contracts afterwards. The company had grown their business during the war. They had acquired several Jewish companies through the “Aryanisation” of firms.
In 1937, Guenther was bestowed with the title Wehrwirtschaftsfuhrer, a title given to a leader of armament economy.
After long years of silence, BMW had admitted in 2001 that the company had used forced labor. Gabriele Quandt, had admitted that his grandfather Guenther had used fifty thousand slave workers to work in creating ammunitions, u-boat batteries and artilleries.
Forced laborers were mostly Russian prisoners of war and even Ukrainian slaves were forced to work for the company.
An execution area where found in of the plants of BMW in Hannover. It was in the execution area that forced laborers who displeased their masters were eliminated.
Gabriele said that it was wrong to ignore what had happened in the past.
3. Audi
During the World War II, Audi, a car giant was known as Group Auto Union, it had used thousands of forced laborers from concentration camps. The company had an arrangement that they will hire 3,700 individuals from the concentration camps. Aside from the concentration camps, another 16,500 slaves had also worked in their plant.
These all information was gathered when Rudolf Boch, an economic historian in the University of Chemnitz and Martin Kukowski, head of history department of Audi had the study. They had received access for the Audi archives for the reason of house cleaning the firm’s history.
The study had revealed more than twenty thousand forced laborers had worked in the Auto union for Saxon works and that includes almost one-fifth of the population of the concentration camps.
The condition in concentration camps in Zwickau City was very appalling. Most of slaves from France had lived in unheated barracks.
The disabled workers were then sent to Flossenburg concentration to be eliminated and the numbers will be replaced by the prisoners.
Before the war ended, 688 prisoners of war from Zwickau were sent to death march, which half of them were already dying.
Audi had acknowledged its wartime guilt and had paid millions to a fund for the slave workers and descendants.
2. Daimler-Benz
From, 1937, Daimler maker of luxury car Mercedes Benz had produced aircraft engines of DB 601 and armament items like LG3000 truck. The plant of Daimler where aircraft engines were made was located in a concealed forest in south of Berlin.
In 1942, the productions centers on the manufacture for components that were used for navy, air force and the army. Repair of military vehicles were also on the rise at that time, thus requiring many workers.
In the beginning, Daimler-Benz had recruited women to fill the work but it was still not enough. Daimler-Benz had used forced laborers to work for them. Prisoners of war, abducted individuals and even detainees of concentration camps where locked closed to the plants.
These prisoners were locked in barrack camps, which had bad conditions. Concentration camp detainees were observed by SS and they were given very inhumane conditions. They were then loaned to other companies for money. The Daimler-Benz had 63,610 forced laborers were civilians who either were prisoners of war or was from concentration camps.
After the war, Daimler had admitted its past link with the Nazi and they had actively participated in the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”, an initiative of German Industry Foundation whose aim is to provide humanitarian aid for forced laborers during the war.
1. Deutsche Bank
According to five-commissioned committee from Israel, Germany, Britain and the United States, the Deutsche Bank had bought 4,446 kilograms of gold from Reichsbank. It was the central bank during the war. That time, the gold was valued at more than five million dollars.
One of those purchases, Deutsche Bank had acquired 744 kilograms of “Melmer gold”. Melmer gold were taken away from the prisoners of concentration camps and which was later recast to bullion bars as directed by SS officer Bruno Melmer.
Another role of Deutsche Bank in the Nazi war was the loan given to Adolf Hitler. The loan was used to construct the Auschwitz death camp located in Poland. From the period of August – November 1942, 363,211 Jews were killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.
In 1998, Deutsche Bank AG had accepted its moral responsibility for its dealings during “darkest chapters in its history”. The bank had expressed its regrets for any injustices.
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Prolific Western actor Hugh O'Brian dies at 91
Ingrid Bergman, her daughter Pia, and Hugh O’Brien arrive at Beverly Hilton for dinner in Hollywood, California on April 14, 1969. They sat at same table too all evening. (AP Photo/David Smith)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hugh O'Brian, who shot to fame as Sheriff Wyatt Earp in what was hailed as television's first adult Western, has died. He was 91.
A representative from HOBY, a philanthropic organization O'Brian founded, says he died at home Monday in Beverly Hills.
Until "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" debuted in 1955, most TV Westerns were aimed at preteen boys. "Wyatt Earp" was based on a real-life Western hero, and some of its stories were authentic. It made O'Brian a star.
After that show left the air in 1961, O'Brian continued to work in movies, television and theater through the 1990s.
He also made his mark in philanthropy in 1958 as founder of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership organization, which continues to bring together promising high school students for leadership seminars.
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Navy SEAL trainee dies at Naval Base Coronado
By: JULIE WATSON, Associated Press
SAN DIEGO - A 21-year-old Navy SEAL trainee died last week during his first week of basic training at Naval Base Coronado, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday.
Seaman James Derek Lovelace was pulled out of the pool Friday after showing signs he was having difficulty while treading in a camouflage uniform and a dive mask, Naval Special Warfare Center spokesman Lt. Trevor Davids said.
Lovelace lost consciousness after being pulled out of the pool and was taken to a civilian hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Davids said. The death was first reported by NBC News and The Virginian-Pilot .
The exact cause of the death is unknown, and Navy officials are investigating, Davids said.
Lovelace was in his first week of training as a SEAL trainee after joining the Navy about six months ago, Davids said. The exercise is designed to assess students' competency, confidence and safety in the water, according to the Navy.
Lovelace was born in Germany, and he dreamed of becoming a SEAL, according to a death announcement from Whitehurst Powell Funeral Home and Southern Heritage Crematory in his home town of Crestview, Florida.
He enjoyed any activity on the water and played baseball at Crestview High School and Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette, Alabama, according to the death announcement. Lovelace joined the Navy and graduated basic training on Jan. 28, 2016, in Great Lakes, Illinois. His awards and decorations include the National Defense Ribbon and Sharpshooter Pistol Qualification.
"I don't know what to say. He was wonderful," his sobbing grandmother, Jan Pugh, told The Virginian-Pilot. "It was a dream he was chasing out there. He was determined to become a SEAL . We are all just in shock."
His mother, Katie Lovelace, died in June 2015 at the age of 44, according to the two media outlets. He is survived by his father and two sisters.
Final arrangements are pending.
"Our heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of SN Lovelace," said Capt. Jay Hennessey, commanding officer of the Naval Special Warfare Center. "Though Derek was very new to our community, he selflessly answered his nation's call to defend freedom and protect this country. He will be sorely missed. We share in his family's grief from this great loss."
The death comes only days after another Coronado-based SEAL -- Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Keating IV -- was shot and killed during a gun battle involving Islamic State fighters in Iraq . Naval Special Warfare will hold a private memorial service for Keating on Thursday for his family, friends and fellow SEAL team member, followed by a private funeral on Friday.
A special procession in Coronado will also be held Friday that will be open to the public. Keating will be buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
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Terminally ill boy exposed to measles while at California hospital
By: Scripps National
SACRAMENTO, California — The spread of measles appears to be on the rise, and one very ill child in the U.S. has been exposed to it.
KTXL reports the 7-year-old being treated at UC Davis Medical Center in March has tuberous sclerosis and will succumb to it at some point, according to his mother. He was diagnosed at 4 months old.
On March 17, the boy was brought to UC Davis after he began having seizures. Days later, the hospital told the mother her son had been exposed to measles while there.
Another patient who had visited the emergency room at the same time had measles — a child who had not been vaccinated. That child got the measles while overseas.
The mother says there is no room for risk with his health and this is a great concern. A doctor treating him said while he was exposed, it is not believed he has the measles, KTXL reports.
The rise of measles cases in the U.S. has fueled the concern with children who are not vaccinated. There are nearly 400 reported cases of measles in 15 states right now, USA Today reports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says if one person has the measles, 90 percent of the people around that person who are not immune will become infected. It is urging people to get vaccinations.
The measles can lead to death: More than 110,000 people worldwide died from it in 2017. In the U.S., the last measles death was in 2015, USA Today reports.
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We need a 4ballUSA reality television show featuring four retired National Basketball Association (or other star) basketball players - perhaps four college players on summer break. The term “4ball” is short for 4-on-4, full-court basketball.
Imagine following the lives of four recently retired NBA superstars, or other players such as four college players on summer break hoping to get into the NBA, as they travel the world playing 4ball games against local heroes (former high school, college, or pro players). The drama and the highlights would be fantastic.
It might also be lucrative. Recently, the NBA made $3.8 billion. There is worldwide interest in basketball, which makes the pot of gold even bigger.
The four-man game will enable the “run and gun” fast break style that everyone loves, making basketball more spectacular. 4ball games will be uniquely marketable, because every game will be Phi Slama Jama and Showtime again.
Today, we have players that are too big on courts that are too small. NBA players are huge. Players are as tall as 7’ 7”. The average height in the NBA is 6’ 7”. These giant men crowd the court and slow down the game. We need more room for basketball players during games to open up the court for the “run and gun” style of basketball. We need more excitement. We need more highlights! With wide open basketball, such as four-on-four full court, there will be more dunks, more fast breaks, and more scoring.
Today's players are all much better ball-handlers than the players of old. Kids start much younger today and have much better open court skills. Players will be able to run, pass, and dunk more than ever before in our 4-on-4 full court games. The 4-man game will enable the four-corner offense, which means that the driving lanes to the basket and passing lanes will always be open. Individual offensive talent can shine again — just as wide open team play always has.
The 4ballUSA combination of a reality show with basketball games will feature four superstars playing against 4-man teams all over the USA and the world. It can be played with a special set of rules to speed up the game, so that games will over in less than an hour, which is perfect for TV. In fact, the show may not show all of the games, perhaps only enough highlights combined with reality TV to fill the one-hour time slot.
The demand for video sports highlights is exploding. We have the Internet today with YouTube and thousands of sports websites. In the USA we have the new “Highlight Express” show on ESPN. We have the NBC Sports Network with its new highlights show called “The Lights.” We also have the entire rest of the world. There is also a surplus of basketball players that still want to play who have “mad skills.” There are high school, college, playground, professional, ex-professional, and International players all ready to play. This idea could lead to the creation of entirely new basketball tournaments and 4-on-4 player leagues.
E-mail: Dr.Hennenfent@gmail.com
Copyright © 2012 Bradley R. Hennenfent, M.D. All rights reserved.
Mathematically, 4-on-4 is Better!
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Susanna Vaughan
Susanna Vaughan is proud to be a new member of the Actors Co-op, and happy to be back in Los Angeles after recently completing her MFA in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University. Born and raised in San Jose, CA, Susanna came to Southern California to attend Azusa Pacific University, where she attained a BA in Theatre Arts. Some favorite performance credits include Singin' in the Rain and My Fair Lady (Musical Theatre West), The Little Mermaid (Moonlight Amphitheater), Hairspray (San Diego Musical Theatre), and Crazy For You (Polly, Candlelight Pavilion). Susanna is also an adjunct professor of theatre at Fullerton College and Concordia University.
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AIPC Article Library | A Case of Acceptance and Letting Go
A Case of Acceptance and Letting Go
Author: Kaye Laemmle
Elizabeth came to counselling because she was experiencing intense anger, and was not coping with her life. She complained of failed relationships with her ex-husband, and with another man whom she left her husband to be with.
Elizabeth cannot move on from the anger she feels about her failed relationships and she is feeling isolated from her family and friends. This had an effect on her ability to cope with her work. As a consequence, Elizabeth has sold her successful business.
The Professional Counsellor saw Elizabeth for 5 months and used an eclectic approach with her, including techniques from Cognitive-Behaviour therapy and Solution Focussed therapy.
For ease of writing the Professional Counsellor is abbreviated to “C”.
Elizabeth is a mother of two; she has a son aged 18 and a daughter aged 15. She shares custody of the children with her ex-husband, Jodi, whom the children spend a lot of time with. Jodi lives with another woman and they are engaged to be married. The children have a close relationship with their father and get along well with his new partner.
Despite the separation, Elizabeth’s ex-husband is still very much a part of her life through his relationship with the children. He has retained good relationships with her family and their mutual friends, who are very sympathetic towards him, due to the fact that Elizabeth ended the relationship to be with another man. Elizabeth was resentful of this sympathy and of the strong relationship that the children had with their father.
Elizabeth described her ex-husband as manipulative and verbally abusive. She felt that he was not supportive of the needs or her career. She finally ended this difficult relationship by leaving Jodi to be with someone who was more supportive of her at the time.
For the first two sessions, C worked with Elizabeth to reveal more of her feelings and story. At times, it was difficult for C to clarify the many emotions and complexities that Elizabeth revealed and C became aware that Elizabeth was veiling some information. Elizabeth spent a lot of time trying to convince C that she was a nice person. It was important for C to understand this message and to accept Elizabeth unconditionally.
C understood that her client had many self-esteem issues in relation to her career, family, friends and relationships. She had experienced significant verbal abuse from her ex-husband and which also contributed to her low sense of self-worth. C was able to convey empathy and concern to Elizabeth and her total acceptance of Elizabeth the person. C developed Elizabeth’s trust in the counselling relationship by explaining that counselling is not about moralising or laying blame, but rather it is about empowering clients to cope with, move on, and grow through their situations.
C was able to develop a significant amount of rapport and trust in the relationship, which allowed Elizabeth the safety of disclosing her painful experiences.
There were five main areas of concern for Elizabeth. These were a lack of support from her family and friends; her inability to accept her experience of unpleasant (‘not nice’) emotions; her anger concerning her children and their relationship with her ex-husband; her loss of life-style, business and respectability; and her inability to let go of her past relationship.
For the purposes of this case study, a description of C’s work with two of these issues will be presented. These issues are firstly her inability to accept her experience of unpleasant emotions and her belief that “nice people do not have hate or jealousy”, and secondly, her inability to let go of her past relationship.
Once good rapport was established and Elizabeth’s self-esteem lifted C turned to address her client’s issues relating to negative emotions and letting go. These two issues had continually interfered with Elizabeth’s progress and were brought up at every session. Elizabeth could see no solution or resolution of these issues.
At this stage, C had worked with Elizabeth for three weeks for two sessions a week. She had been closely observing Elizabeth’s continual return to these topics.
Elizabeth could not admit that she hated her husband or that she was jealous of him with the kids. She did not accept that she was resentful of him finding another woman, and becoming engaged. The fact that the children were comfortable with her ex-husband’s new partner and enjoyed being in their home made her very angry. She continued to beat herself up over leaving her husband for another man – she believed what her family and friends also thought, that she had behaved immorally.
C realised that until Elizabeth admitted how she felt, and looked honestly at her own thoughts and actions, that she would not be able to let go. Elizabeth wanted very much to be a nice person, but a nice person does not leave their husband for another man, they do not hate, they do not fight with their kids and they never have jealous thoughts. She needed to reconcile the difference between her ideal and real self.
Visual Technique
To help Elizabeth begin to express her emotions, C used a visual technique. C asked Elizabeth to draw a picture of herself in her home with her ex-husband and family.
She drew a picture of a kitchen. It had a breakfast bar that was very ornate. The picture showed her behind the breakfast bar with a big smile on her face, her hand was holding up a glass of champagne. Behind her was a well-defined fridge. The rest of the kitchen was quite loose comprising mostly of box shaped kitchen appliances. In the front of the picture are her family and some friends.
C began asking questions about what this situation represented.
Extract, Counsellor and Client
Counsellor: “I noticed that the breakfast bar is very ornate.”
Elizabeth: “Yes, I designed that.”
Counsellor: “You are proud of that…yes?”
Elizabeth: “It was something that I could claim that he could not take from me, everyone knew I designed it. It belonged to me.”
Counsellor: “It is a very big smile”
Elizabeth: “It is not a real smile, it is my company smile”
Counsellor: “Why pretend?”
Elizabeth: “It was expected, I had to perform like a monkey for my ex-husband, he needed the social contact but did not have the skills. I took up the slack but he never gave me the credit.”
Counsellor: “That made you angry.”
Elizabeth: “Yes”
Counsellor: “How did you feel about him at these times?”
Elizabeth: “I was angry”
Counsellor: “Just angry?”
Elizabeth: “No, I was more than angry, I do not know what I was.”
Counsellor: “Was this the behaviour in the home that encouraged you to seek understanding outside the home?”
Elizabeth: “Yes, I could never talk to Jodi, he was always so self-centred, he never once took an interest in my business, and I won awards and every thing.”
Counsellor: “You sound exasperated. Was living with him that bad?”
Elizabeth: “Living with Jodi was hell, I hated going home, I hated pretending, I hated sleeping with him.”
Counsellor: “What about Jodi, how did you feel about him?”
Elizabeth: “I know you want me to say I hate him but that would mean I am not a nice person, it is bad enough that I left him for another man, nobody is on my side, they do not know what I lived,…yes …yes …I know I never told them…they would not believe me…it would be a betrayal… {crying}…okay!! Yes!! I hated him, I hate him, and I cannot believe that he has moved on, found another woman, my children go there with no thought to me or how I feel, he still has the power…I feel he is still there, I can’t escape him. I HATE HIM!YES! I am jealous, how dare he move on. She will find out and be sorry.”
C let Elizabeth vent all her anger, expressing the emotion that had been bottled up for a very long time. This was a breakthrough for her, and with the release of those feelings, Elizabeth began to work them out of her system.
Using the picture, Elizabeth had explained what was happening, and her performances to please Jodi. C noticed the distance between Elizabeth and the rest of the people in the picture. When C asked about this, Elizabeth said “they didn’t see me, I felt isolated.”
C used Solution-Focused therapy and asked Elizabeth what the picture would look like if she had a magic wand and could change any of it. Elizabeth replied that she would be on the other side with the people in the picture. Jodi would not be in the picture, and she would be independent and have a loving man at her side.
Elizabeth’s admittance of jealousy opened another door for self-acceptance and she was able to talk openly about this feeling. Elizabeth accepted that she was jealous because Jodi had found someone else and it burned inside her. The kids liked his new partner and Jodi did not seem to suffer in any way because of the break-up.
Jodi still had all their friends and family on his side. He still had control of her life through her children. She had not found anyone else. Elizabeth was feeling guilty that she felt so resentful and jealous. These feelings were contrary to the “nice” image she wanted to portray.
Together, C and Elizabeth worked to separate Jodi’s behaviour, from Jodi the person. Elizabeth came to realise that it was his behaviour she hated – his controlling tactics most especially. And although she did not like him any more as a person, she found that she did not hate him.
With further work on her acceptance of her situation, Elizabeth came to understand that her negative emotions were common to all people, even nice ones. This revelation was quite a breakthrough for her.
Using the visual technique of drawing a situation gave Elizabeth the opportunity of exploring her feelings through the picture. Thus the feelings became a tangible item to work with. C referred to the picture constantly to draw out emotions. This was a less taxing and less obtrusive method, which gave Elizabeth something solid to focus on, rather than just hear her words in the air.
To finalise the activity, C asked Elizabeth to draw a positive picture of herself in a new kitchen. The drawing was different. This time she depicted many people, there was no distance and the smile, she assured C, was real.
Parallelling
Despite the progress that Elizabeth was making and her growing acceptance of her feelings, she was reluctant to let go of the feelings and move on with her life. C used a number of strategies and tactics to encourage Elizabeth to let it go, but without success.
C was becoming frustrated with this situation and was considering approaching her supervisor for some further input and advice. Before she did that, she tried a parallelling strategy.
C recalled some of Elizabeth’s experience as a successful businesswoman where she dealt with a range of clients including suppliers and the general public. Elizabeth had been faced with a range of frustrating experiences in her business and had coped with these problems and disappointments. C decided to ask Elizabeth questions about her business, how she began it, what she needed to do to run it, what it meant to her, how important it was for her to remain professional and focused, what was the most uplifting part of her business.
When answering these inquires, Elizabeth became very animated and exited – and talked like a person who was in total control of her environment. C used this strength to parallel as such:
Counsellor: “So working with suppliers, they often let you down?”
Elizabeth: “Yes they often let me down.”
Counsellor: “Does that make you angry?”
Elizabeth: “Well yes, it is very frustrating.”
Counsellor: “Did you stop using them?”
Elizabeth: “No, that would be silly, and very unprofessional, I get over it, and move on. I need them and I know that it is not a deliberate act to hurt me. Most of the suppliers have problems of their own.”
Counsellor: “Were there many who let you down a lot?”
Elizabeth: “Yes, one or two”
Counsellor: “How did you cope with that?”
Elizabeth: “I let it go, I need to. I could not maintain my business if I held grudges.”
C asked many simular questions alluding to letting go of anger and frustration in her business world, the message was always a resounding yes. Elizabeth had formulated strategies that she used to cope with the disappointment.
C pursued the same line of questioning with Elizabeth’s experience of handling problems with the general public. Elizabeth gave almost the same answers. It took about another three questions before the penny dropped and Elizabeth realised that C was paralleling. She began to laugh, really laugh. It was a wonderful sound for C to hear.
It was a big breakthrough for both Elizabeth and C. They spoke about applying her professional techniques for letting go to her personal life. Elizabeth agreed that the skills could work in both her personal and professional life.
In summary, C used a visual strategy, which gave Elizabeth an opportunity to express a feeling and to make that feeling a concrete thing to refer to and address. It helped her to accept those emotions that for her were not always acceptable.
The second tool – parallelling – enabled C to highlight Elizabeth’s strengths and to show her that she already had the tools to resolve her problems. She had used these tools effectively in many aspects of her business life. The paralleling gave her an opportunity to see that she could transfer these skills into another area of her life.
Elizabeth progressed in leaps after this breakthrough, attending sessions every second week for a month then once a month for two more months. She has moved on and is enjoying a better quality of life.
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The third freedom will be service
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The Nine Freedoms are a series of revelations regarding mankind’s future spiritual evolution – on Earth and beyond – channeled through Dr. George King by the interplanetary Cosmic Master we know as Mars Sector 6. This podcast is a discussion of the Third Freedom between two close followers of Dr. King, who have studied The Nine Freedoms for many years. Below is a series of extracts from Dr. King’s own lecture on this Freedom.
…Of course, we know that one cannot be selfish and serve at the same time. You have to be either one or the other. You’ve either got to consider yourself or consider others. And whether we like it or not, and some of us may not like it – I, for one, don’t personally like it – the fact that I am my brother’s keeper. I don’t like this, to be honest with you, but it doesn’t make any difference whether I like it or not, it is so, it’s truth, and it just has to be faced.
In these days there is much service which is vitally important to Terra, and there are very few servers. Service, in this respect, means – is meant in a very, very wide form and we do know that there are very few servers. Don’t forget, this is service to others in a very unselfish fashion…It’s service to the Earth as a whole, whether you love the Earth as a whole or, put it this way, whether you like the Earth…or not, does not matter…
Service is a combination of experiences, which denote the server as being on the ladder of evolution, firmly on this ladder. We’ll see that service is becoming more and more important in these days, because it is the new yoga of the age. It is the new religion. It will bypass all other religions. It will see all other religions out and transmuted into religions of service…
There will come a day when all religious beliefs will be transmuted into the action of service to others, and those religions which, today, and there are some, are purely academic religions, will be replaced. They’ll be wiped off the surface of the Earth if necessary. And this, too, appertains to all societies, clubs, committees, whatever they might call themselves, as belonging to this that or the other, unless those organisations are planned, or can be planned in such a way that they give service to others, even if it’s only to two or three, nevertheless gives service to others, they will be replaced. There is no place for them in the New World. There cannot be.
Now there are many organisations about which are giving service. They’re giving service to the people who belong to the organisation. They often give service to people outside. There are organisations which send out prayers and help and healing and so on to all the world, irrespective of who they are. Such organisations as these will last, but those very tight little cliques, and there are some in this country, and in Europe, who are only concerned with some teaching which came through 200 years ago, anyway, and they are now purely theoretical organisations, can close their book today, or it will be closed for them.
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Competition - Yeo Valley Goodies
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Gaz 422 comments
The lovely people over at Yeo Valley are offering one lucky reader a lovely prize of a selection of Yeo Valley goodies (pictured right) to celebrate the launch of their new Limited Edition Damson and Plum Big Pot. See the pots for details on winning one of three fruit trees everyday, the trees all come from a nursery local to Yeo Valley.
I must confess to being something of a fan of the Yeo Valley rice pudding (it never lasts long in our house!).
As well as making great tasting yogurt (and that rice pudding) Yeo Valley is also home to one of just a handful of Britain’s ornamental gardens to be certified organic. They’re the work of Sarah Mead who has spent 18 years turning six and a half acres of land into a diverse, seasonal and absolutely beautiful patchwork of ornamental as well as edible planting areas. The garden is open every Thursday until the end of September.
Holt Farm: Vegetable Garden
For more information about Yeo Valley and their farming practices and products, visit www.yeovalley.co.uk for more information and opening times of the garden visit www.theorganicgardens.co.uk
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Which county is home to Yeo Valley?
a) Wiltshire
b) Somerset
c) Devon
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Jamie 28 August 2012 at 10:19
B - Somerset
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Hi, it's b) Somerset
Thanks a lot! Rachael Simmons, rachsimmons1@hotmail.com
Tamzen wilson 28 August 2012 at 10:23
B somerset
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B) Somerset, midge_1964@yahoo.co.uk
stephllewellyn 28 August 2012 at 10:46
laura banks 28 August 2012 at 10:52
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veronica brown 28 August 2012 at 10:54
sam_son83 28 August 2012 at 10:58
B: Somerset
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B)somerset
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(B) Somerset
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B. Somerset
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Answer is b) Somerset --- Shared on Twitter and Facebook.
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Answer: b) Somerset
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Answer b) Somerset
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@ashlallan
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B Somerset. Good luck everyone.
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B- Somerset
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B-Somerset
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B/ Somerset
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Somerset. (Liked, shared and tweeted.)
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The answer for the fab delicious Yeo Valley goodies is: b) Somerset
saurus 28 August 2012 at 19:53
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Isabel O'Brien 28 August 2012 at 20:33
I think the answer is Somerset.
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Somerset x
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Mickie Bull 29 August 2012 at 20:20
B) Somerset!
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sunny somerset
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Tom Alexander 30 August 2012 at 10:26
Alice 30 August 2012 at 12:26
Sommerset
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@EmaKinsella (TWITTER)
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mannabadge 1 September 2012 at 13:25
Also tweeted as @manna137
Have also liked and shared on FB
stephen holman 1 September 2012 at 16:00
Gary Topley 1 September 2012 at 18:11
The answer is b) Somerset
David Nixon 1 September 2012 at 20:28
Ann Mckenna 1 September 2012 at 21:33
Nicola Dudson 1 September 2012 at 21:49
Answer is b) Somerset
I have shared on facebook and have tweeted as @NLK06
katrinao 2 September 2012 at 02:15
following on GFC
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B) Somerset @janbagnall twitter ID
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tweeted here: https://twitter.com/CaveBake/status/242292305267146753
Also following via GFC and liked on fb :)
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Answer = Somerset
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Home / politics / Fulani Herdsmen: Presidency Has Abandoned Us - Benue Governor, Ortom Cries Out
Fulani Herdsmen: Presidency Has Abandoned Us - Benue Governor, Ortom Cries Out
Monday, January 08, 2018 politics
Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has cried out to the public over the recent killings in the state by Fulani Herdsmen, saying that the Presidency has 'abandoned' him.
Ortom pointed fingers at those around the president, saying that they were frustrating his efforts to present a true account of events to the president due to selfish reasons.
Speaking to Vanguard, Ortom further stated that he was losing control of things as the people of his state now take laws into their own hands. He said;
"Let me be frank. The Federal Government has not done enough. When this incidence started with the threat from the president and secretary of Miyetti Allah, Kauta Hore, who addressed a press conference and issued threats that they will do everything possible to frustrate the Benue State Government from implementing the anti-open grazing law, we quickly drew the attention of the Inspector General of Police, the Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, and even the office of the National Security Adviser.
The leadership of Miyetti Allah called the law names: that it was draconian and had no place in the 21st century. We saw that as a threat to our existence and in June 2016, we reported to the then acting president (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo) and to our surprise, these people were not apprehended.
When they saw that no one was going to apprehend them, they went further to issue more threats. In October 2016, we reminded the IGP, the DSS and the NSA of the potential violence that we faced in Benue State as a result of the threat from the Miyetti Allah. We, specifically, demanded that the two officers of the Miyetti Allah, the secretary and the president, be arrested, but unfortunately, they were not arrested. I do not know why the Federal Government has abandoned us. If they had acted that time, we would not have gotten to where we are today."
The stressed governor said that due to the continued killings of innocent Benue Indigenes by Fulani Herdsmen, the people have now decided to take laws into their hands.
"You can see that it is getting beyond me. Even when there was protest against the recent killings in Makurdi, and I went there, there was massive resistance. It became violent and it is even God that saved us. I would have been attacked.
When I came into office, there was proliferation of arms and ammunition in the state. I declared an amnesty programme that saw massive retrieval of arms from our youths. I pleaded with them that the way to develop is not by taking the laws into their hands but by obeying the laws. I have resisted the temptation to say that our people should protect themselves because I trusted the president.
I believed that he has the capacity to protect us. But from what is happening, I am sure some people around him are frustrating our communication with him and the actions to be taken. Otherwise, the president I know will not allow this kind of thing to be happening. We have not committed any offence.
We have no regret passing the anti-open grazing law. The law came as a necessity because of the killings in Benue State by the herdsmen. We sought peaceful ways of resolving the matter but we could not.
We tried everything under the sun to ensure that we stopped these killings but it was not possible so we prayed and God gave us the wisdom to enact that law, which gives protection to the farmers and the herdsmen.
“We have not sent cattle rearers away from Benue, we are simply saying there are modern ways of rearing cattle, which is to ranch them. With that, farmers can go their legitimate ways of doing their business and those who are rearing cattle can also continue. I am surprised at the resistance of the herders."
Fulani Herdsmen: Presidency Has Abandoned Us - Benue Governor, Ortom Cries Out Reviewed by Amina Alake on Monday, January 08, 2018 Rating: 5
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RIBA North West Inspiration Series - Sir Terry Farrell
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Hear from Sir Terry Farrell CBE, one of the UK's leading architect planners, with offices in London, Manchester, Hong Kong and Shanghai, as part of the 2018 RIBA North West Inspiration Series.
today 17 October 2018, from 5.30pm to 8pm
place The Federation, 2 Federation Street, Manchester, M4 4BF
call +44 (0)151 707 4380 | riba.northwest@riba.org
receipt Free for RIBA members, £10 non-members
RIBA North West is hosting a series of talks aimed at providing architects and graduates in the region with inspiration from a range of award-winning national and international speakers. Each event will feature an individual or practice who will share their experiences within their particular fields of expertise, and highlight that the routes to success within the fields of architecture and design can take many forms.
Sir Terry Farrell CBE, Principal at Farrells, is considered to be the UK's leading architect planner, with offices in London, Manchester, Hong Kong and Shanghai. During 50 years in practice he has completed many award-winning buildings and masterplans including Embankment Place, the Home Office HQ and The Northern Gateway, as well as millennium projects such as The Deep in Hull and Centre for Life in Newcastle.
Sir Terry, who was born in Sale and studied architecture at Newcastle University, is a prominent voice in British architecture and planning. In 2014, at invitation of Ed Vaizey, he and his firm published the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment, to offer expert guidance on the direction of British architecture with 60 recommendations, many of which have now been adopted.
This event is part of the Design Manchester DM18 Festival programme.
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Doug Finke: Voter turnout likely will be low, but it shouldn’t be
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Statehouse Insider: When was the last time a primary election was still up for grabs just before the election? Too many times, there are few contested primary races to begin with and the contested ones often have one dominant candidate. There is next to no suspense by the time Election Day rolls around.
Just a couple of days left until the primary election. If history is any guide, voter turnout on Tuesday will be dismal. That will be a shame. This year especially.
When was the last time a primary election was still up for grabs just before the election? Too many times, there are few contested primary races to begin with and the contested ones often have one dominant candidate. There is next to no suspense by the time Election Day rolls around.
This year, though, there are a number of wide-open races, starting with Illinois governor. If the polls can be believed, the contest between Gov. PAT QUINN and Comptroller DAN HYNES is virtually a dead heat. Either could win Tuesday's election.
The Republican primary is even dicier. A large field of candidates will split the vote, meaning a relatively small number of votes could be enough to win. Couple that with the large number of voters still undecided, and just about any of the candidates could pull it out in the end.
This year we might actually have the novelty of counting the votes before some media outlet declares a winner. Primary election night might be interesting for a change.
*WILLIAM KELLY, Republican candidate for comptroller, was in the Capitol on Friday to talk about his federal lawsuit. He is suing Secretary of State JESSE WHITE for allowing an atheist sign in the rotunda during the holiday season. White allowed it as a free speech issue, along with a Christmas tree, Nativity scene, menorah and Festivus pole.
You may remember that Kelly showed up in the Capitol in December threatening to destroy the atheist sign. Instead, he merely turned it around before he was asked to leave the building by security.
The sign seems to have traumatized Kelly. His lawsuit talks about being "confronted" by the atheist sign, that it amounts to hate speech and is "hostile and inflammatory to all religions." Kelly wants the sign banned from the Capitol and other state buildings. He contends the sign violates the U.S. Constitution and that White had no authority to allow the sign into the Capitol.
About this point we're thinking that maybe the state has better uses for its scarce tax revenue than fighting off frivolous lawsuits like this. We're also thinking how convenient that Kelly filed the lawsuit more than a month after the displays were removed from the rotunda, but right before the primary election.
Should be just the stunt to put his candidacy over the top.
*Kelly held a news conference in the Statehouse on Friday to announce his handiwork. The best we can determine, two media outlets attended and one of them simply supplies live audio and video to subscribers. You could say media interest was minimal at best.
That didn't prevent Kelly from trying to perfect his delivery. After the actual "news conference," Kelly returned to the news conference room and re-taped his presentation - twice. Supposedly that's the stuff that will show up on his Web site.
His summary line? "If I'm elected comptroller, there will be no hate speech in the Capitol, especially around Christmastime," he said.
*When an election contest has no real issues (read lieutenant governor), the campaign can sometimes veer into the bizarre.
Two candidates for the office are Sen. RICKEY HENDON, D-Chicago, and Rep. ART TURNER, D-Chicago. The two men are not exactly what you would call close friends.
Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times did a story about the race. It quoted Turner saying that more than 30 years ago he rented an apartment to Hendon.
"He has the unique distinction of being the second person I've ever evicted," Turner said.
Hendon denied he was evicted. He said he left the apartment after two months because it was infested with rats and roaches.
And that concludes this week's recap of issues in the lieutenant governor's race.
*Hendon has a radio commercial out that's a lot different than you normally hear from a political candidate.
Let's just say that it is aimed at an urban audience. When was the last time you heard a political ad that included a line like this: "I'm going to vote for Rickey Hendon. The hell with the rest of them."
The man knows his audience.
Contact Doug Finke at doug.finke@sj-r.com.
The opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and not necessarily those of the newspaper.
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Ham Lord, "Launchpad Founder," Ep. 20
Writing software never seemed like work to young Ham Lord. In high school and then in college, coding is what got him rolling with his other courses; he loved it. This passion, and the happy coincidence of being at the right place (Brown University) at the right time (early 1980s) led to a brilliantly productive career in computing and entrepreneurship.
Ham’s early work in computer graphics would eventually lead to innovation in applying 3D imaging to the creation of new molecules. Later he helped build software with applications in medicine, oil & gas exploration and engineering analysis. He even did work that presaged today’s drone technology.
After 16 years as a software engineer and entrepreneur, Ham cashed in his chips and began a hugely consequential career as one of Boston’s super angel investors. He was the engine behind the relaunch of Launchpad, one of the country’s most respected angel groups. In a frank and accessible interview, Ham discusses the workings of this group, talks about companies that excite him and addresses current trends in the ambit of angel investing.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE OF ANGEL INVEST BOSTON:
Ham Lord Bio
Ham Lord Discovers His Love of Computer Programming
How Ham Lord Connected with His First Job After Brown
Building a New Display for the F-14 Navy Jet
Why Ham Lord Founded His First Startup
AVS Rises from the Ashes of Stellar
Ham Lord’s Transition from Software Development to Marketing
After 16 Years Building Startups Ham Lord Takes a Sabbatical Year & Starts Investing
Ham Lord Discovers Angel Investing
Ham Lord Relaunches Launchpad
Ham Lord & Christopher Mirabile Get Together
What Does Ham Lord Look for in a Startup?
The Ones That Got Away
Ham Lord’s Favorite Pivot Story
Ham Lord & Cambridge Trust
Ham Lord Talks About Launchpads’ Early-stage Track, the Catalyst Program
Two Companies in the Machine Learning Space – Netra.io & Smartvid.io
Seraf-investors.com & Seraf Compass
Trends: Professionalization of Angel Investing & the Angel Capital Association
Transcript of Ham Lord, "Launchpad Founder," Ep. 20
Guest: Ham Lord, Startup Founder and Angel Investor
SAL DAHER: Welcome to Angel Invest Boston, conversations with Boston's most interesting angels and founders. I'm Sal Daher and my goal for this podcast is to learn more about building successful new companies. The best way I can think of doing this is by talking to people who have done it. People such as my guest today, founder and super angel Ham Lord.
HAM LORD: Hey Sal.
SAL DAHER: Hey.
HAM LORD: Good to see you.
SAL DAHER: You're welcome. I'm excited you could join us today as we record our 20th episode. It's terrific that you came out on a windy, cold, gray day.
HAM LORD: I know. I appreciate it. It's not exactly spring time here in Boston but, give it another couple of weeks and ...
SAL DAHER: We're always frustrated with our climate or weather here.
SAL DAHER: Hambleton, Ham Lord, has over 30 years of experience in the software industry, founding and building industry leading companies. Currently Ham is the co-managing director of Launchpad Venture Group. Launchpad is a Boston based angel group that focuses on seed stage technology companies. He manages the group's deal flow, due diligence and investing activities. He is also the co-founder of Seraf a software company that develops professional portfolio management tools for investors in early-stage companies.
Ham is an active angel investor and advisor to early-stage companies. He is a board member of Qstream, Netra and Cambridge Trust Company, and a board observer for Repsly, ArtLifing, Building Engines and EveryScape.
Ham co-founded data visualization vendor, Advanced Visual Systems. Ham helped launch two computational chemistry companies, MicroChem Technologies and Polygen. These companies were early developers of drug discovery tools and were part of an industry-wide acquisition roll up that resulted in Accelrys. Ham graduated magna cum laude with a degree in computer science from Brown University.
Ham it's a tradition in our podcast that the first question addresses how our enormously successful guests found their calling in life. This is done as a service to young listeners who're trying to find their direction in life. Please tell, recall for us that time when you discovered that you wanted to build software.
HAM LORD: It was actually pretty early on. Prior to even getting into college. Back in the 1970s, the days of tapes and card readers and things like that. I really enjoyed programming. Unlike most courses that I was taking in high school and then college this was an area where I just really enjoyed it. It didn't feel like it was work. It got me going, and I love writing software.
SAL DAHER: Then you decided to study software at Brown University? What lead there?
HAM LORD: I started off, I thought I wanted to be a classic civil engineer. I wanted to build buildings etc. Those classes were too hard and the computer science classes were really easier. That's what I thought. While I was at Brown I was very lucky in that, the chairman of the computer science department a guy named Andy van Dam was one of the leaders in computer graphics. The university had a lot of computer graphics equipment and courses in that area. That's really where I focused.
While I was an undergraduate in addition to working for Andy in his lab, I also worked for the Planetary Geology department at Brown and did a lot of work with looking at planetary imagery from Mars and Venus back in the, early '80s.
SAL DAHER: Oh okay. Interesting. Computer science, as a refuge from civil engineering.
SAL DAHER: I studied civil engineering. That was a refuge from Math. My dad's a mathematician and I started, "Oh I'm going to be a mathematician." But then I ran into a buzz sawat MIT. The math department at MIT was incredibly competitive. I couldn't keep my head above water. My study habits were really crummy in those days.
HAM LORD: Well the computer science department at Brown was a very open and welcoming department. Andy sort of set the tone there. It was a small department. My class. ...
SAL DAHER: It was still an emerging science.
HAM LORD: It was. My class was the first class to graduate with a degree in computer science where we spent all four years in the computer science department. Prior to that it had been sort of applied math. Then it transitioned to computer science.
SAL DAHER: Tremendous. What was your first job out of Brown and how did you connect with that?
HAM LORD: Because of my interest in computer graphics when I went looking for jobs, I was principally interested in companies that were doing some form of computer graphics. At the time, video gaming was a big area. I interviewed with several companies up here in the Boston area but, I didn't quite see myself spending my career creating video games.
I was recruited by an MIT spin out company called Intermetrics. They were well known as software developers for the Apollo missions back in the 1960s and '70s. Some of the space shuttle technology, etc. I was brought on board to help them develop a next generation of 3D display that would be put into aircraft. Our customer, our client was the Navy and we built essentially three-dimensional software that replaced all the instrumentation in the cockpit of an F-14. Strapped a refrigerator sized computer graphics engine on the bottom of the F-14 and had a pilot fly the plane just looking at our display as opposed to all their other instrumentation.
The pilots actually they were a little reluctant to do this and partly it's because they couldn't use their other instruments, but I think partly because some of them realized that if you fast forward to 15, 20, 30 years in the future, they're not going to be flying their planes anymore. Somebody is going to be doing it from the ground.
Although I didn't know at the time and maybe the other people I was working with didn't realize at the time but we were basically doing the forerunner to the drone technology that's in common use today.
I was there for about 18 months.
SAL DAHER: Heads-up display were eventually implemented but it's not that particular function of it.
HAM LORD: Yes. This was not a heads-up display. This was a standard display that was on the part of the instrumentation in the cockpit but it replaced all of your instruments. Basically, what it gave you was an outside, three-dimensional view and a highway that you as a pilot were supposed to fly down. It told you exactly where to fly, how to maneuver your airplane.
SAL DAHER: Instead of they're looking where they are going and so forth, and flying the plane, they were flying within this ...
HAM LORD: Correct.
SAL DAHER: This virtual environment that you created.
SAL DAHER: I can see how that's ...
HAM LORD: Yeah, yeah.
SAL DAHER: Yeah not. Heads-up display is kind of like a compromise from that.
SAL DAHER: You were two years out of college when you joined PolyGen, which I imagine was a startup at the time. Why did you decide to join and what did you get out of it?
HAM LORD: Between Intermetrics and PolyGen, there was something in between, a company that I co-founded with several other people I worked with in Intermetrics called MicroChem Technologies. There was another project at Intermetrics that was doing 3D molecular modeling. I was friends with one of the developers on that team. I did some work on that team and in the process met several professors at MIT who were leading scientists in the areas of molecular modeling.
We decided, myself and several engineers from Intermetrics decided to start a company MicroChem to build the first generation of commercial tools for designing new molecules, new drugs. We started that in, I think it was the spring of 1985 or so, about 18 months after I started at Intermetrics. Started the company going, built the first product and during the process of building that product, PolyGen also happened to have as an advisor one of the professors we had at MicroChem, put the two of us together.
PolyGen was in the process of raising venture capital. They wanted to build a software suite of computer-aided molecular design tools. Our tool fit right in with what they were planning on doing. They acquired us about 6 months after we had started. These days you call it an acquihire. Essentially, they got three young talented engineers, they paid us some money, they paid our angel investors some money as well, and we became the initial development team at PolyGen.
SAL DAHER: The decision to then start the predecessor company to PolyGen. What happened in your mind. You're thinking, "Oh geez, I want to be a founder, " or was it just sort of like, "Oh geez, the right people, the right time" and you saw that opportunity.
HAM LORD: Well this is a while ago so I'm trying to think what it was that really inspired us. I think there were a couple of things.
One of the interesting challenges of working as a government contractor in my particular case was, it didn't matter if you got the project done early, the government didn't care. The company actually didn't want you to get it done early, because they were being paid by the government for you to work for a certain amount of time. They told us to basically sit on our hands while the contract time ran out.
What did we do, we started sitting around thinking about ideas of other things that we could do. Doing our own thing, three young guys, was kind of an interesting thing to do. We didn't have mortgages, didn't have family responsibilities etc.
SAL DAHER: You had a skunkworks project.
HAM LORD: No. We actually, we left.
SAL DAHER: Oh, you left.
HAM LORD: We just left. This was not something that we were doing on nights and weekends.
HAM LORD: We were thinking about it on nights and weekends but as soon as we made the decision we left the company at that point.
SAL DAHER: Tremendous. Tremendous. In January 1992, you co-founded Advanced Visual Systems, AVS.
SAL DAHER: Please tell the story of how that came about and particularly I want to understand how you made the leap. Where were you before and then the transition to AVS.
HAM LORD: I had left PolyGen in the late '80s and I went to work for a hardware company called Stellar Computer. Stellar had been co-founded by the original founder of Prime and Apollo computer a guy named Bill Poduska.
Stellar was building a graphic super computer. Think of, at the time a workstation that engineers and scientists could use. The sad thing is you fast forward to today and you've got probably 20 times more power in your iPhone than you did in that first Stellar machine. That was a quarter million-dollar machine.
As part of being able to sell and convince people to buy this hardware that there as a product called AVS that the software team at Stellar built. I was part of that team. Stellar unfortunately hit some real challenges making sales etc. Its investors pretty much said, "We're not going to continue to fund the company." AVS as a product had been quite successful. We had a large number of customers. We'd made the software available not only on Stellar's hardware but also Sun Microsystems, IBM, Digital, Silicon Graphics and others. We spun out as ...
SAL DAHER: This was data visualization, graphing?
SAL DAHER: Highly advanced graphing?
HAM LORD: Yeah. 3D technology used in medical imaging, oil and gas exploration, engineering analysis.
As Stellar, the hardware company was going out of business, AVS the software company was launched. Myself along with about, I think there were about 13 or 14 of us from the original AVS team spun off in '92 and got that company going.
SAL DAHER: Okay. In 1998, you ended your connection with AVS presumably the company was sold. Can you please tell that story?
HAM LORD: Yeah. AVS grew nicely as a business. Got up to in the neighborhood of 20 million dollars in revenue. If you remember, in '98 back at that time we were just at the beginning of the internet boom. Things were really starting to take off at that particular point in time.
SAL DAHER: Irrational Exuberance, 1996.
HAM LORD: Yeah it was an exciting time for technology, but I was at the time in '98, I was running marketing. I'd left engineering, ran product management for a number of years, and then was VP of Marketing in the '97-'98 time frame. Most of our customers were scattered around the world and I was spending most of my time on airplanes. I was not home. I had a very young family. It wasn't really an ideal personal situation for me.
I also knew that the company at that point was looking to be acquired. It was about 6 months after I left the company. They were acquired by a public company that was in an adjacent space. I felt it was time for me to move to the next stage in my life. I just wasn't sure what that next stage was.
SAL DAHER: Excellent. Tell me a little bit about the transitions. You went in on the engineering side but you eventually went over to the marketing side. What drove that.
Ham Lord’s Transition from Software Developer to Marketing
HAM LORD: I had been a software developer for all my professional life up to that point, which was about 10 years. If you add the fact that I was working in college as a computer scientist, it was 14, 15 years of software development. I was getting a little burnt out from that.
I really enjoyed talking to customers. It was natural to move from being a full-time engineer into product management. I understood the product well, I understood our customers and I think a lot of really good product managers are people who originally come from engineering but instead of being introverts who want to focus entirely on what's going on in the product, they may be a little bit more extroverted and want to talk, spend more time talking to customers. That was how I made that transition from the engineering side to the product management side.
We had structured things so that product management was part of marketing and not part of engineering. Some companies do it as part of engineering. Just depends on the business. Over time my role and responsibility continued to grow within the organization. Ultimately, I ended up as taking over as VP of marketing.
SAL DAHER: Excellent. This is really enlightening because it's a great model for people, for engineers who are ... Listening to these models is, I think very helpful. I'm just thinking of my son-in-law right now who'll probably go in that direction like that in the future sometimes.
You exited June of 1998 and then January 2002 you founded Launchpad Venture Group. What were you doing in the interim?
HAM LORD: Having done 16 years in a row of startups, I was ready for a little bit of downtime. I did about a year sabbatical. Then I had to figure out what the hell am I going to do next. I started out by focusing on publicly traded software companies and investing in those companies.
Although, it was interesting and my timing was quite good, I was doing this in the later '98, '99 and early 2000 period, I didn't really enjoy it that much. I wasn't learning what I really wanted to learn about businesses. I prefer the early-stage company side of things.
In early 2000, I said, I'm done. I sold what I had invested in. Timing was good.
SAL DAHER: Perfect timing.
HAM LORD: Timing was good. Some people thought I was crazy. You're making money why would you do it.
SAL DAHER: I remember those days, yeah.
Ham Lord Bumps Into Angel Investing
HAM LORD: I used some of the capital that I had made during that to go into angel investing. How I got into angel investing is totally random. Shortly after I said, time to give up on the public companies side of things, the father of a girl in my daughter's elementary school class said, "I'm a member of this thing called an angel group. You want to come and check it out."
This was a small group that had started in say '98, '99 called Back Bay Investor Group. It was co-founded by a guy named Jerry Socol who was the former CEO of Filene's.
It was a relatively small group. I think there were 12 or 15 of us. I was the one software person in the group. It was a real mix of backgrounds. All senior executives at companies from the Boston area. Not a ton of tech experience in the group.
That group started. Really enjoyed the process, meeting companies, working with early-stage startups, doing diligence with the companies that came in. The first investment that I made with that group was a company called SmartPak.
SmartPak had a way of delivering supplements for people who own horses. They took what many people thought would be a very small business and in a matter of about 10 years turned it into a 100-million-dollar company. They were acquired a few years back by a large publicly traded company.
SAL DAHER: Sounds like a perfect company to come from a Back Bay Angel group.
HAM LORD: Yeah, yeah. I was lucky my first angel investment paid out well.
Anyway, going back to the time line. If you recall when the dotcom bubble burst, not only did it burst, but also the stock market did as well.
SAL DAHER: Everything.
HAM LORD: Everything went down. A lot of the people who were members of the Back Bay Investor Group really started losing interest. "How are we going to make money. These tech companies are now, people say they're not worth anything. My portfolio is worth a lot less. I don't have the same amount of capital to actually invest in startups."
Back Bay Investor Group fell apart but I wasn't ready to give up as an angel investor. I went looking for another group. I'd heard about a group called Launchpad.
Ham Lord Relaunches Lauchpad
Launchpad actually had been around before I relaunched it in 2002. Like Back Bay Investor Group it had fallen apart as well. There was nobody who was willing to run the group, etc. I talked to the original co-founders of the group and said, "I don't really have anything that I'm working on right now. I can certainly put time into this and I'll run the group for the next year or so."
One year has turned into 15 years now, although, the good news is I have a partner helping me run it. In the early years, first nine years I ran the group as a single managing director.
SAL DAHER: How did it operate?
HAM LORD: The group essentially operated like most angel groups in that you have a whole bunch of members and at the time when I first got it relaunched, I think there were somewhere between 10 and 15 of us. Any deals that came in, they would come to me. I would talk to the other members and say, "Here are the three that I think, or the two I think, are going to be the best for us."
SAL DAHER: You were the screening committee, sort of.
HAM LORD: I was basically doing pretty much everything.
SAL DAHER: Everything. Cool. I can imagine how demanding it must have been.
HAM LORD: But, even from the beginning, Launchpad members have always been very active and helping out. Making sure that the trains ran on time, that was my responsibility. I had to do a lot to ...
SAL DAHER: They were writing individual checks?
HAM LORD: Yeah. We write individual checks at Launchpad. We don't have a fund. We don't do single purpose LLCs or have an LLC that invests. Everyone's writing checks.
SAL DAHER: Individual checks.
HAM LORD: Individual checks.
SAL DAHER: But you're sharing your due diligence.
HAM LORD: Yeah. We try to eliminate as much of the administrative burden on running the group but make sure that we still did solid work on the finding of companies, screening them and then ultimately doing the diligence on them before we'd invest. Then, putting somebody on the board of those companies.
One of the lessons we learned fairly early one is, if you don't have visibility into a company, bad things can happen pretty quickly.
SAL DAHER: Yeah. Certainly true. How does Launchpad Venture Group operate now? How is it different from the way it was operating then?
HAM LORD: In the 2010 timeframe, I met Christopher Mirabile who, I know you've talked to in the past. Christopher joined Launchpad and he also joined a couple of other Angel groups including Walnut and started his own group called Race Point. I acted as an advisor to him at that particular time. One of the things we realize is that, we're both doing the same thing in two separate groups. We're both going crazy. We enjoyed working together. Let's see if we can do this together as opposed to separately.
I was definitely ready for that transition. I'd been running Launchpad by myself for 9 years. It was definitely time to get some help.
SAL DAHER: In that time how many deals did you invest in?
HAM LORD: Probably on the order of 25 or 30.
SAL DAHER: 25 or 30 over 9 years.
HAM LORD: Yeah, yeah. When you're a smaller organization and you have less resources it's tough to do a lot of deals.
Now, we fast forward to today, in addition to Christopher, we have a full-time director or operations, Jodi Collier. She's really sort of the people-oriented [person], her focus is on the people side of things. Christopher and I are the deal and entrepreneur side. She's on working closely with our members, helping us with the recruitment process, bringing people into the organization. She also does a lot of interaction with the entrepreneurs as well. She brings people skills to our organization that you really need to have in an angel group.
SAL DAHER: Do you have monthly meetings? How does it work?
HAM LORD: Yeah, yeah. Like a lot of angel groups, we have a standard monthly meeting. At that monthly meeting, we bring three companies in, to present. We're on a typical pace where if you look at the last three, four, five years with the group, we average about 10 new investments a year within the organization.
If you get though the screening process and ultimately you get to present in front of the group, your odds of getting an investment from our organization are relatively high, certainly better than the one is a hundred that gets invest when you look at the top of the funnel.
SAL DAHER: Also, very high of getting money from other organizations that respect Launchpad a great deal.
HAM LORD: Yeah. Because, we syndicate pretty much all of our deals. There is a rare occasion where we don't but that's very rare. We like to syndicate with other investors here in the Boston area.
SAL DAHER: Excellent, excellent.
Coming up next, I will ask Ham Lord what he as one of Boston's top angel investors looks for in a startup. First, I would like to thank Tivan the Biker for his thoughtful review. Tivan the Biker wrote, "Sal, he gets right to the point in all his interviews. I like that he really knows about his interviewees and has done his research. It makes for some incredibly introspective insightful discussions." Thanks, Tivan the Biker for giving back by writing your review. You give a fine example.
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Ham, what do you look for in a startup?
HAM LORD: That's an interesting question. I don't have necessarily one answer for it. First and foremost, I look for an entrepreneur who I can really believe in. The reality is there are a lot of great ideas out there, living here in the Boston area with Harvard and MIT, Northeastern BU and probably a dozen other universities where all sorts of incredible things are coming out. We're inundated with fantastic ideas, but there is a relative shortage of great entrepreneurs.
HAM LORD: I think first and foremost I look for the entrepreneur that I think can really be successful. But, I do think that having an idea that interests me is what makes me take the time to then, really get to know that entrepreneur.
We receive, I don't know, several hundred plans a year that get into the top of the funnel at Launchpad. Above that top of the funnel there are thousands of companies that are buzzing around this area that our members at Launchpad meet with. Ultimately a couple of hundred get into the top of the funnel. I'll take a look at each one of those from the standpoint of, is this something that I'd be interested in investing in or not.
Now, ultimately, we invite about 30 entrepreneurs to present at our main forum, monthly forum. Then, another 20 or 25 that present at our Catalyst program, which is for really early seed-stage deals. Just within Launchpad I'm seeing about 50 entrepreneurs present.
I also see lots of other entrepreneurs in the ecosystem whether it be going to events like some, the MIT Enterprise Forum event or Mass Challenge, Tech Stars etc.
Ultimately though, I can only invest in a relatively small number of deals each year. I think it is probably somewhere in the order of five to ten new investments a year, is the pace that I go at.
How do I narrow it down? As I said, the idea has got to be something that appeals to me. Assuming it does, then it's spending a lot of time getting to know that entrepreneur and understand whether he or she has what it takes to really take that company to the next level.
SAL DAHER: I have a bunch of companies that I regret not having invested in. Lovepop is one of them. Let's see another. AirFox is another one.
HAM LORD: Okay.
SAL DAHER: So forth. Do you have any of those regrets.
HAM LORD: There are few that have done extremely well at Launchpad that I didn't invest in at the time and wish I had. Localytics is an example of that. Another company that we have that many Launchpad investors invested in called ezCater. Those companies took off at a much faster rate than I certainly expected them to.
The interesting thing is I did like the entrepreneurs very much. Rodge and Stefania are two top-notch entrepreneurs. But, for whatever reason, maybe I was distracted at the time, maybe I had already made a certain number of investments at that particular point and was focused on something else, I ended up not investing.
You can't invest in everything.
SAL DAHER: True.
HAM LORD: At some point you have to say, I've got to ... I can't do this deal because I've got these other deals on my plate.
SAL DAHER: Yeah. With Lovepop for me, the people, fantastic team, really smart, very clever idea. I figured, this is a consumer thing. It's so fragile. Somebody else would come up and do the same thing. It really depends on execution. They are executing beautifully.
The other one, it was AirFox, was basically not enough bandwidth at the time. I just couldn't focus. Sara Choi on the phone, and I didn't get back to her in time so things petered out. That's my regret.
SAL DAHER: Do you have any favorite pivot stories that you would like to share?
HAM LORD: Yeah. Although, this is a different type of pivot story. I think a lot of times you think of a pivot and the company has a totally new product that they're developing or they thought they were going to do this and now they're going to do, you know, totally different approach to what they're taking on.
This is an active Launchpad portfolio company called Qstream. I'm on the board of Qstream. I've known the company for quite some time.
SAL DAHER: Can you summarize a little bit what they do?
HAM LORD: Sure. At the highest level, what Qstream helps people do is to retain what they've learned. If I teach you something, if you take a class, you'll remember the material for about two or three months. Then, just the way the brain works, you'll forget it.
HAM LORD: There's been a lot of research done at places like the Harvard Graduate School of Education and other places where it turns out that if you ask people questions about what they learned over a certain period of time, in a certain way you can change that retention from two to three months to more like 18 months.
Qstream's technology is based on some work that Harvard Medical School professor did to help his students and the people within Harvard Medical School retain what they learned. If you're a doctor or nurse, you damn well better retain what you learned.
HAM LORD: Ultimately that got turned into a product. About six years ago the Harvard Office of Technology Development, which is their technology licensing office sent me a one-page summary on Qstream and asked if I'd be interested. It looked appealing, so I met with the entrepreneur, the CEO at the time, it's a guy named Duncan Lennox. Duncan's still the CEO. His co-founder Price Kerfoot was the professor at Harvard Medical School who developed the original technology.
When I first met with Duncan, when we started talking, we talked about the product, very intriguing. We talked about the science behind it, and the fact that this was clinically-proven software. I’d never worked with clinically-proven software that's had clinical trials done on it.
When we got to the go-to-market strategy, the focus was on free software, and using advertising to monetize it. Although maybe that would work, it wasn't something that was particularly appealing to me nor did I think it would be appealing to our members. I said to Duncan, at the time, "I like what you're doing but come back to me when you've got some paying customers."
Several months later he comes back and said, "We've closed deals with CooperVision, and with Boehringer Ingelheim and here's how the software is being used. It's being used within their sales organizations to make sure that their sales people remember, retain and then have the information they need when they go and meet with prospective customers for Boehringer Ingelheim’s case it's drugs and pharmaceuticals."
What Duncan had decided was that the initial focus on the company was going to be to go after sales people in pharmaceutical and medical device companies as their first target market. These are organizations that have hundreds if not thousands of sales reps around the world. They need to train them, they pay them a lot of money, they spend at least $20,000 a year training these people. They want to make sure they learn.
Pivot here was less a product pivot and more of a go-to-market pivot. Now, all of a sudden you had a company that we felt we could invest in, we could help out with. We thought that there was real potential. Here we are five years after the investment and the company is doing exceedingly well.
SAL DAHER: I'm so glad to hear. Geez, I've got to look them up. I think that's ... Thinking all the stuff that I'm forgetting at the moment, I should be retaining.
Coming from a software background and being involved with startups, how did you end up on the board of Cambridge Trust. I understand they're quite active in serving startups. Would you please tell that story?
HAM LORD: One of Launchpad's very long-term members is a person named Gregg Stone. Gregg has been in the tech community here for a long time. He ran a small VC firm for many years but has been active angel investor for quite some time. Gregg was brought on the board of Cambridge Trust probably three or four years before I was. About five years ago the bank decided that it wanted to start to work more closely with the innovation ecosystem here in Boston.
SAL DAHER: Makes enormous sense.
HAM LORD: It does.
SAL DAHER: With the location.
HAM LORD: If you think about where most banking is done today by tech companies and life science companies, the first thing that comes to mind is Silicon Valley Bank or Bridge Bank, which are good organizations but I think we'd like to see a local bank be able to service the community so that if a high-tech company raises a lot of capital, puts that money in their bank account. If it's in Cambridge Trust you know that, that money is going to be lent out in our community, whereas if it's a Silicon Valley Bank or Bridge, maybe it will, or maybe it won't.
Anyway, I was brought on the board as a director largely because of the connections that I have within the tech ecosystem.
SAL DAHER: To help develop that business.
HAM LORD: Yeah. Correct.
Ham Lord Talks About Launchpads’ Early-stage Track, Catalyst Program
Can you speak a little bit more about the early-stage track that you had at Launchpad? I forget the name that you use.
HAM LORD: Catalyst Program.
SAL DAHER: The Catalyst Program.
SAL DAHER: How is it different from the main track.
HAM LORD: The main track is focused primarily on companies that are looking to raise, let's say, somewhere between half a million and two and half million. If they're a tech company there's a good chance that they have a product in the market, not much in the way of revenues, but they have handful beta customers etc. Maybe they've got some revenue. They're a little further along. Their organization's a little bit more developed.
The Catalyst Program is what I would call a true seed kind of deal. This is a company that's very early on. They might be looking to raise somewhere between a $150,000 and $350,000. They're really just trying to get to that proof of concept. They're trying to take the company from where they are today to the stage where a lot of the angel groups and other early stage investors would be willing to put money into the business.
Now, our expectation on this program is that, a higher percentage of these businesses will ultimately fail, because these are really early, very early risky bets. Launchpad has about 20% of our members, really like doing these kinds of deals anyway. Since they like doing these kind of deals, they're doing them. We thought, why not try to make so it's a little easier for these companies, instead of having to have five coffees with five Launchpad members scattered around, why don't we bring them together as a group.
SAL DAHER: Right. Are there any startups that you're currently involved with that you would like to bring our attention to?
HAM LORD: Sure. I'll start with a couple that are in one of the, considered hot spaces in tech these days. Some people call it machine learning, other people call it AI. Let's start with something that's in the press a lot.
Two Companies in the Machine Learning Space
We have two investments in the machine learning space. One is a company called Netra. Netra.io. They have developed technology that combines computer vision with machine learning to be able to look at images and videos for that matter and pull out interesting things. Initially their target market is going after the advertising and brand world where people need to know what images have a particular logo in it.
If I'm Adidas, I want see all the images that have come up on social media of people wearing my clothes, my shoes etc. Furthermore, I want to know what's going on in the scene. Are they playing sports, are they being active? How are they being active.? Is it men, is it women? What are they doing? I need to be able to find out more about how my brand is being positioned. Unfortunately, with things like Instagram and Tumblr and Twitter etc., you don't necessarily know a brand is in there unless somebody puts in their Instagram, in the comments or the text that it's Adidas, Adidas has no idea that they're in there.
More and more content these days is being just imagery. To really understand what's going on you have to be able to understand what's in that imagery.
Netra is using their computer vision machine learning technology to be able to understand brands and understand the context that those brands are being used.
SAL DAHER: I'm just curious, in their competitive matrix, does Ditto Labs show up there?
HAM LORD: Ditto would show up there, Clarify would should up there. Then you also have to factor in some of the big players, Google, Facebook,
SAL DAHER: IBM.
HAM LORD: Pinterest, IBM are all doing different aspects to this. It's a very competitive marketplace. This is one where good technology is important but building a product that really solves a real-world problem is important too. Just the core technology. There are lot of people who have interesting core technology but you need to really then put it into a product.
SAL DAHER: You think that Netra is doing that capably?
HAM LORD: I do. That leads me to the next company, which is Smartvid.io. I'm not sure why everybody is now starting to do .io but anyway, Smartvid.io. They are doing something similar to Netra but their focus is in the construction market.
If you think about a large commercial real estate construction today, if you go to a job site, you will see people taking videos, frequently you'll see drones flying around. You'll see people taking pictures. A lot of data about a construction site is being constantly documented, but there's not a great way to store and access that data and to look at it for interesting information.
Smartvid is building a platform that allows you to look at, to store, to search through large [39:02] amounts of video and image data. Where they're applying things like machine learning and computer vision is looking at that large amount of video for things like, have there been safety violations here, are people wearing their hard hats, are they doing what we have instructed them to do on the job site because safety is so important.
Or, if we've got a pipe, do we have any cracks in that pipe. If that pipe is five miles long and you send a robot down to take pictures along that pipe you can have somebody look at that five miles worth of imagery, probably you will or you may have to. Wouldn't it be a lot better if you could use machine learning and computer vision technology to understand what cracks look like to be able to do that in an automated fashion.
They're taking some of the latest technology that's being developed today in those areas and applying it to a very specific vertical market.
SAL DAHER: Another company that you started Seraf-Investors.com, is a very promising service that I could use as an angel investor. I'll probably sign up later when my schedule gets a little lighter.
SAL DAHER: Please tell me the story of how it cam about and what you hope to achieve with it.
HAM LORD: Okay sure.
I think it was about, at this point maybe five years ago a Launchpad investor approached Christopher and myself and she said, "I've been a very active angel for the three years since I've been a member of Launchpad." I think she's also a member of a couple of other angel groups in the Boston area. "I've got, I don't know, 17 or 20 investments and I really don't know what I have. I'm having a hard time keeping track of it. You guys have been running Launchpad for a long time. You've got more than 17 investments. What do you do to track?" We kind of hemmed and hawed a little bit and said, "Well, we've got a spreadsheet. It doesn't do a great job of tracking things."
She asked what we did personally. Christopher had a pretty good spreadsheet and I had one that used to be pretty good but over time I stopped using it. We thought to ourselves, "You know what, we really should have something that allows us to know what's going on within Launchpad and also our own personal portfolios. There must be something out there." We started doing a little bit of research to see if we could find a tool that would solve this problem.
Didn't find anything. We talked to dozens of angel investors, we talked to a number of the smaller VCs and pretty much heard the same thing over and over again that people were either doing nothing or they were doing it with a spreadsheet and they weren't doing it that well in a spreadsheet.
Christopher and I, both coming out of the software industry said, "Hey, this is an idea for something. We need to do it for Launchpad. Let's just go off and do it."
We built the product initially for Launchpad and then started making it available for some of our members to use. Then we started getting inbound people saying, "Hey, you know, can you make this available in more general." About three years ago we made the decision that we want to make this more widely available. We put up a website. We allow people to plunk down credit cards etc. and we also produce a lot of content that's specific to angel investing.
SAL DAHER: Very useful, very useful content.
HAM LORD: Yeah. The Seraf Compass was our way of taking all the knowledge that Christopher and I had gained over the last 15 or so years of being angel investors and making that more widely available, both as a weekly blog post but then we turned collections of weekly blog posts into eBooks that focus on things like how to do diligence, how to do exit planning, Angel 101, your basics of angel investing. Made those available as both eBooks that you can download for free and then also have published a couple of books on Amazon as well.
SAL DAHER: Very interesting, very interesting. Are there any trends that you'd like to highlight in the angel investing world?
HAM LORD: From my seat of being here, being an active angel for the last 15 years, I've seen some pretty interesting things that have occurred over time. First of all when I first relaunched Launchpad back in 2002, there were relatively small number of angel groups around the country. I don't know the exact number but we're talking well below a hundred. Angel investing was really not a very professional activity at that point in time.
In 2002, the first meeting of what became the Angel Capital Association happened here in Boston. It was held at the MIT Faculty Club. I think there were about 18 or 20 leaders of angel groups from around the country that were there at that particular session. Today, that sort of meeting is, I don't know, six, seven hundred person meeting, held at cities around the country. This year at the end of April we'll be out in San Francisco.
One trend I've seen is the increase in angel groups and the professionalization of the angel investing class. I think that has brought more capital to some of the early stage companies.
The other part to this is that angels, as the groups have gotten larger as there have been more syndication and things like that, angels are no longer just the first money in and then you hope you can get a VC to fund the company. We've had a number of companies come through Launchpad that have never raised any venture financing and have gotten to an exit and they've raised substantial amounts of money. Two, three, five, ten million dollars from angels, that's allowed them to get to a stage that before they would have needed more traditional venture capital to get to those particular stages.
SAL DAHER: Really interesting.
Ham Lord, I am immensely grateful to you for your generous help in making this a really a great podcast. I look forward to having you on again with Christopher Mirabile, your fellow co-Managing Director at Launchpad. I would like to invite our listeners who enjoyed this podcast to give back a bit and review it on iTunes.
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President Trump fed up with Rudy Giuliani’s on-air shenanigans
DENIS SLATTERY
May 8th 2018 4:25PM
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be.
President Trump, not usually one to tire of news coverage, has grown weary of Rudy Giuliani’s on-air antics.
The former mayor’s week-long media blitz has begun to bother the President as Giuliani — hired to join Trump’s legal team in the federal Russia probe — has repeatedly gone off-message, according to several reports Tuesday.
Trump has expressed annoyance that Giuliani’s shenanigans have done little to quell talk of coordination with the Kremlin.
Giuliani has also almost single-handedly kept the story of Trump’s personal lawyer paying off a porn star alleging an affair in the public eye.
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Giuliani first rattled the White House last week when he told Fox News that Trump was aware of the $130,000 payout to X-rated actress Stormy Daniels from his personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
He also suggested the settlement was made to keep Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, from derailing Trump’s White House bid.
Trump admonished Giuliani on Friday, saying the lawyer needed to “get his facts straight,” prompting Giuliani to release a clarification.
Over the weekend, Giuliani appeared to dig himself a deeper hole by acknowledging “Cohen takes care of situations like this, then gets paid for them sometimes.”
He refused to rule out the possibility that Cohen had paid off other women and wouldn’t rule out Trump asserting his Fifth Amendment rights regarding the Russia investigation.
Giuliani told the Daily News last week that Trump was on board with his aggressive approach — and noted it was meant to steer the public narrative in the President’s favor.
“I know the pro-Trump people are going to love it and it’s going to drive the anti-Trump people crazy and my job is to convince the ones in the middle,” he said.
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Giuliani told CBS News that he is still getting up to speed on the basic facts of the probe, and said the legal team would like to wait until “after the North Korea summit” to prepare the President for a possible sit-down with investigators.
He added that Trump’s lawyers would like some topics to be “off-limits” and said he would fight a subpoena if Trump refuses to be interviewed.
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Q3 2019 EPS Estimates for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc (WH) Lowered by Analyst
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc (NYSE:WH) – Investment analysts at Jefferies Financial Group lowered their Q3 2019 earnings estimates for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts in a research note issued on Tuesday, April 30th. Jefferies Financial Group analyst D. Katz now anticipates that the company will post earnings per share of $1.04 for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $1.05. Jefferies Financial Group has a “Buy” rating and a $72.00 price target on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group also issued estimates for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ Q4 2019 earnings at $0.87 EPS, Q1 2020 earnings at $0.49 EPS, Q2 2020 earnings at $1.02 EPS, Q3 2020 earnings at $1.20 EPS, Q4 2020 earnings at $0.96 EPS and FY2020 earnings at $3.68 EPS.
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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:WH) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 30th. The company reported $0.52 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.46 by $0.06. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts had a return on equity of 18.57% and a net margin of 7.03%. The company had revenue of $468.00 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $448.71 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.55 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 55.0% compared to the same quarter last year.
A number of other research analysts have also recently commented on WH. Zacks Investment Research raised Wyndham Hotels & Resorts from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 15th. Oppenheimer set a $69.00 price objective on Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, February 14th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the stock. The stock has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $69.88.
NYSE WH opened at $56.58 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.50, a quick ratio of 1.23 and a current ratio of 1.23. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has a 12 month low of $43.03 and a 12 month high of $66.95. The company has a market capitalization of $5.43 billion and a P/E ratio of 20.88.
Large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Enlightenment Research LLC purchased a new stake in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts during the 4th quarter valued at $27,000. First Financial Corp IN purchased a new stake in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts during the 1st quarter valued at $30,000. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund raised its holdings in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts by 4,437.0% during the 4th quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now owns 1,794,202 shares of the company’s stock valued at $40,000 after buying an additional 1,754,656 shares during the period. We Are One Seven LLC purchased a new stake in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts during the 4th quarter valued at $67,000. Finally, Princeton Global Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts during the 4th quarter valued at $181,000. Institutional investors own 92.46% of the company’s stock.
In other news, insider Stephen P. Holmes sold 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $53.47, for a total transaction of $1,336,750.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, insider Nicola Rossi sold 1,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $52.00, for a total value of $52,000.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 30,000 shares of company stock worth $1,609,150 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 1.90% of the company’s stock.
About Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc operates as a hotel franchisor worldwide. The company licenses its hotel brands, including Super 8, Days Inn, Ramada, Microtel Inn & Suites, La Quinta, Wingate, AmericInn, Hawthorn Suites, The Trademark Collection, and Wyndham to hotel owners in approximately 80 countries.
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60-year-old pleads guilty to drug charges
In one of the more unusual cases in Baxter County Circuit Court, a Mountain Home woman pleaded guilty Thursday to sel...
60-year-old pleads guilty to drug charges In one of the more unusual cases in Baxter County Circuit Court, a Mountain Home woman pleaded guilty Thursday to sel... Check out this story on baxterbulletin.com: http://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/news/2014/04/11/60-year-old-pleads-guilty-to-drug-charges/7580725/
THOMAS GARRETT Published 11:00 p.m. CT April 10, 2014 | Updated 11:17 p.m. CT April 10, 2014
In one of the more unusual cases in Baxter County Circuit Court, a Mountain Home woman pleaded guilty Thursday to selling drugs to her grandson — who was a police informant.
Vicki Sue Gardner, 60, was one of eight people who changed their pleas before Circuit Judge John Putman.
Gardner was arrested last November by the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office and charged with two counts of delivery of oxycodone, delivery of oxycontin and delivery of hydrocodone. The transactions took place last summer and in October, according to the court file, when it was alleged she’d sold the prescription drugs to a confidential informant.
As Putman read through the plea documents, he asked Gardner if she acknowledged selling the drugs to her grandson, whom he noted was the informant. She said she did. The grandson was not identified. According to the case file, Gardner sold 256 oxycodone pills in one count and 199 pills in the second; 40 oxycontin pills; and 99 hydrocodone pills.
As he sentenced Gardner, Putman chastised the woman for selling the drugs, although she noted it went to police and not on the street.
Putman said people die from abusing prescription medications. “It’s dangerous,” he said.
Putman placed Gardner on 10 years’ probation and fined her $1,000 plus $795 in costs and fees. He also ordered her to pay $2,080 in restitution.
Putman told Gardner it was only her health and her age that kept her from going to prison, but if she sold drugs again, he wouldn’t hesitate to put her in prison.
“I ain’t planning on doing it again,” she said tearfully.
One of those changing pleas Thursday did receive a prison sentence. Michael Gene Coplen, 44, of Mountain Home, pleaded guilty to first-degree false imprisonment, first-degree terroristic threatening, theft and being a felon with a firearm.
Coplen acknowledged taking part in an Oct. 11 home invasion of James Tyler Patterson’s residence, threatening him and stealing a gun. At the time, Coplen was on parole, according to authorities. Charges still are pending against a co-defendant, Kyle Michael Motes, 21, of Mountain Home.
Under a plea agreement, Putman sentenced Coplen to eight years in the Arkansas Department of Correction for false imprisonment and being a felon with a gun, and six years in prison for terroristic threatening and theft. All the terms are to run concurrently, and Coplen was given credit for time served in jail. He’s been incarcerated since October.
Putman also fined Coplen $1,000 plus $670 in costs and fees.
In another case, Jessica Diane Lee, 27, of Viola, pleaded guilty to theft in one case, reduced from aggravated robbery, and a second robbery charge was dismissed. She acknowledged taking part in the theft of a backpack and wallet from Deric James Holt, of Midway, on Oct. 10.
Putman placed Lee on seven years’ probation with the stipulation she serve nine months in a community correction center.
He fined her $1,000 plus $670 in costs and fees. Putman set a $2,500 bond for her release while awaiting space at the community correction center.
Charges still are pending against three co-defendants — Jeremi Jason Witt, 33, Seth Andrew Withrow, 23, and Jackie Lynn Denny, 38, all of Mountain Home.
Other plea changes
Others who changed their pleas to guilty Thursday included:
• Mitchell David Teconchuk, 18, of Mountain Home, charged with second-degree forgery. He admitted forging checks on another person’s bank account. Putman suspended adjudication and placed Teconchuk on three years’ probation, fined him $1,000 plus $670 in costs and fees and directed him to pay $240 in restitution
• Brandi Jo Withrow, 29, of Mountain Home, charged with second-degree forgery. She acknowledged writing a check on another person’s account. Withrow received three years’ probation and was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine along with $670 in costs and fees, plus $245.81 in restitution
• Stephanie Denise Foster, 43, of Little Rock, charged with four counts of second-degree forgery and misdemeanor theft. She acknowledged that in January she forged four checks and passed them. Putman placed Foster on three years’ probation for forgery and one year’s probation on the misdemeanor theft. He fined her $1,000 plus $670 in costs and fees and ordered Foster to pay $663.41 in restitution
• Dalton John Atkinson, 20, of Mountain Home, charged with violating his probation. Atkinson was on three years’ probation for a 2012 drug charge, and had pleaded guilty last August to a contempt charge. Under a plea agreement, Putman sentenced Atkinson to 12 days in a community correction center and extended his probation to five years
• Loretta Sue Russell, 46, of Mountain Home, charged with contempt, reduced from a probation violation. Putman sentenced her to 29 days in jail with credit for time served.
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October 26th, 2015 Newsletter Roundup
posted by Ullrich Fischer
Through our weekly newsletter, we like to let you know about our upcoming events as well as a number of issues and campaigns that we think might be of interest to you. Let me know if you have any suggestions to include in future roundups. Email: secretary@bchumanist.ca
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DISCLAIMER: The opinions which appear in the newsletter and in this roundup of all the news which didn't fit within the newsletter are not necessarily shared by all or even most of the members and board of the BC Humanist Association.
This past Sunday, October 25, 2015, Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada gave 44 of us an excellent presentation about the recent scurrilous "gotcha" videos campaign by the Christian-right affiliated and Orwellian named Center for Medical Progress to discredit and de-fund Planned Parenthood under the pretext that Planned Parenthood was selling (for profit) "unborn babies" to be cut up for parts to be used in medical research and development. Her extremely well documented talk gave details of how this campaign, like other similar campaigns in the past, used lies to spread the "news" among uncritical news outlets that Planned Parenthood was breaking the law to profit from selling aborted fetuses. A lively discussion followed focused mainly on the dangers of allowing religious dogma to influence medical policies, and the need for more independent press.
On Sunday, November 1, 2015, at the Oakridge Seniors Centre, we will be showing a video of Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz, in a panel discussion at Harvard, speaking on the new book on which they have collaborated: Islam and the Future of Tolerance. Maajid is a former fundamentalist Islamist who is now working to reform Islam. Also, just before the video, Ian Bushfield, Executive Director of BCHA, will be giving a short report on his recent trip to meet with skeptics, Humanists, and atheists in Alberta.
On Sunday, November 8, 2015, at the Oakridge Seniors Centre, we will have a presentation by Marylen Reid on The Therapeutic Value of Touch.
On Sunday, November 15, 2015, at the Oakridge Seniors Centre, we will have another presentation by Joyce Arthur on Polyglots and Linguistics - Why only about 3% of people manage to become fluent in more than 4 languages, while most of us have a big challenge with mastery of a second language.
On Sunday, November 22, 2015, at the Oakridge Seniors Centre, Nick Taylor of Basic Income Vancouver will speak on the movement to implement a basic minimum income for all Canadians and why that is a good idea.
See all upcoming events.
BCHA Book Club
The November book club selection is Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Dan Kahneman. The meeting will be on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 7pm at Goldis and Kirsten's home. At the beginning of that meeting, we will decide on the selection for the February 2, 2016 meeting.
The December book club selection is Waking Up by Sam Harris. The meeting will be on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 7pm at Goldis and Kirsten's home. At the beginning of that meeting, we will decide on the selection for the March 1, 2016 meeting.
There will be no January 2016 book club meeting.
Doors open for our Vancouver meetings at the Oakridge Seniors Centre at 10:00 am for BYO coffee, tea, and socializing. Please help us welcome all attendees by introducing yourself and asking about themselves (if you are comfortable doing that). We want all attendees (and especially first-timers) to feel welcome and part of our Humanist community. At 10:30 am we start our presentation. The meetings take place at the Oakridge Seniors' Centre at the West side of the Oakridge Mall at 41st and Cambie. There is a Canada Line station which exits right into the mall.
Check the BCHA Vancouver Meetup page for more details on the meetings mentioned above and for what we have lined up into November and beyond. Also, please RSVP there, so that Meetup members have an idea of how many people usually attend these meetings. Please be aware that while we do our best to ensure that the scheduled programs go ahead as scheduled here, there are no guarantees and last minute changes may be necessary due to circumstances beyond our control.
Most of you have doubtless found out by now that our next Prime Minister is Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party of Canada. One of the first of hopefully many positive actions he is taking is to invite all 3 major opposition party leaders and all provincial premiers to the Paris Climate Change talks at the end of next month.
National Day of Action Rally
Please join us on November 4, 2015 for a Day of Action and Solidarity for the right to die with dignity in Canada. Our collective voices must be heard by both provincial and federal levels of government as we urge all of our legislators to commit to upholding the spirit and letter of the Carter decision for the right to die with dignity.
Date: November 4th 2015
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM
Venue: Vancouver Art Gallery
Address: 750 Hornby St., Vancouver
RSVP: Renee renee.aeyelts@gmail.com or Sue sue@suehughson.com
More Information: Follow the link.
Leah Remini will be on ABC's 20/20 program this Friday, October 30, 2015 at 10pm Vancouver time, talking about her decision to leave Scientology and the effects that had on her life.
The Vancouver Institute will be featuring a talk by Mohamed Fahmy, former English Bureau Chief of Al Jazeera at 8:15 pm in the Woodward Instructional Resources Center, Lecture Hall 2 this coming Saturday, October 31, 2015. Mr Fahmy, who is also an award winning author, was finally released from an Egyptian prison where he was being held on trumped-up terrorism charges, barely in time to make this gig. This event is likely to be over-attended so if you want to sit in the main hall, come early with proof of membership in the Institute. Here's more information on the lecture. Attendance is free but you can join the Vancouver Institute for $25 a year.
Upcoming Vancouver Institute lectures are listed here.
Texas authorities raided several Planned Parenthood clinics looking for patient records after cancelling all Medicaid contracts with them. This is an effort to pander to the Christian right affiliated Center for Medical Progress whose recent spate of scurrilous "gotcha" videos falsely purported to show Planned Parenthood breaking the law by selling aborted fetuses to medical research institutions. Joyce Arthur exposed these tactics at our most recent Vancouver Sunday meeting. Attacks like this, which serve not only to generate more abortions under less safe conditions while also harming general health care for poor women, seem to crop up in bible-thumping areas of the US and around the world with appalling regularity. These raids and inquisitions never find any wrong-doing on the part of Planned Parenthood and similar organizations, but they manage to do a lot of damage to the availability of essential medical services. Meanwhile, the daughters, wives, and mistresses of the wealthy have no problem flying off to more liberal jurisdictions when they find themselves embarrassed by unplanned pregnancies.
After Canada's election, we need to worry about the relentless drive toward theocracy in our neighbouring country to the South. Jeffrey Tayler's Sunday Secular Sermon on Salon takes aim at the trend among US presidential candidates to pander to those who would scrap the provision in the first amendment of the US constitution which mandates a separation between church and state.
Big Think presents an interview with the ever entertaining and enlightening Bill Nye the Science Guy. Nye explains how science education promotes our natural curiosity, which is what allowed us to survive despite a notable paucity of natural weapons with which to fend off predators.
From NPR, here is a moving story of one Nepalese girl's struggle to break the taboos around menstruation that force girls and women to stay outdoors, sleep in wall-less sheds, and refrain from touching anyone while they are menstruating. Some religious traditions are more harmful than others.
Also from NPR, the infamous Hungarian camerawoman whose child-kicking proclivities were exposed to general disapproval on the internet and who lost her job as a result, is suing Facebook.
E O Wilson, the father of sociobiology tells it like it is in this heartwarming and thought-provoking story from Raw Story.
The Secular Coalition for America is sponsoring a campaign entitled Put Kids First. It is a much needed effort to eliminate ALL non-medical exemptions to vaccinations in the United States. Such a campaign is also urgently needed in Canada and other countries where people - whether for religious reasons or because of gullible acceptance of misinformation from the internet - are refusing to vaccinate themselves and their children. The ignorant fear of a minority of scientifically illiterate folks should not be allowed to endanger the lives of children or immune compromised adults. Herd immunity through high vaccination rates is one of the greatest public health advances in history.
Elon Musk, superhero entrepreneur, is building a vacuum-sealed track, 780 mph, maglev train between LA and San Francisco, possibly beginning construction within weeks.
The Daily KOS reports a welcome, evidence-based change of mind by Dr Sanjay Gupta on the subject of medical marijuana. Dr Gupta, after examining the evidence more closely, concluded that there was never a science-based justification for criminalizing marijuana possession or use.
From the CBC, comes this story where a mother's right to decide what, if any, religious indoctrination her child gets was upheld by a BC provincial court judge.
From Tony Ortega's excellent blog comes an expose of the techniques used by one of the newest designer religions, Scientology, to ruin members' lives. The former chief practitioner and refiner of those techniques explains how they work.
From Amnesty International, an open letter to Prime Minister elect, Justin Trudeau.
Here from the Patheos blog site is an excellent rant on separation of church and state and the charity status of religions.
Phillosophy Dinners are starting up again, sponsored by Glen Brauer. The next topic is The Basic Income Movement, which is also the topic of an upcoming BCHA Sunday Meeting on November 22, 2015. Anyone interested in taking part in Philosophy Dinners must sign up and pay the small fee ($5) in advance via Meetup since there a limited number of physical seats (and their format involves no more than 6 people to a table in order to keep the groups small). Glen is also co-ordinator of psychology dinners, and calopia, your one-stop shopping site for worthwhile causes.
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Rating for Vaping: The Jalopy Theater
Written by Ben Townsend - October 14 2016
This review is part of an ongoing series on electronic cigarettes and vaping. It rates how vape friendly a particular venue is. The views expressed are purely the opinion of the author, and do not represent those of Bedford Slims. Feedback is welcome. Please email dylan@bedfordslims.com if you have an e-cigarette experience worth sharing.
At this point I've reviewed a few different Brooklyn venues for how friendly they are to vaping. The New York City Council banned all indoor vape use in 2013, so this has really come down to three questions: 1) Is there a backyard? 2) How easy is it to sneak a few pulls on an e-cig during a show? and 3) Do the employees even give a shit what the law says?
But of all the venues I've been to, none has felt like a more unfit place for vaping than the Jalopy Theater in Red Hook - for none of the reasons listed above. Rather, the place is a portal to a different era. The stage has like an old-timey feel, with a single microphone and a red curtain backdrop. The seats are mostly pews, and the music is mostly folk and bluegrass. Whipping out an electronic cigarette in that environment would feel completely out of place. The overt display of technology would clash with the show, like Hamlet checking his watch onstage in the middle of a Shakespeare play. Sure he might be able to tell if his time really was out of joint, but the spell of the performance would be broken for all.
There are those who would find the Jalopy Theater's rustic atmosphere to be hipstery and annoying, but I found it endearing. Unlike, say, Skinny Dennis in Williamsburg, this isn't a profit-driven bar that's disguised as a honky-tonk dive in order to attract certain deep-pocketed patrons looking for a specific scene. The purveyors at Jalopy seem to be genuinely trying to create a space for Traditional American music in Brooklyn, which is no easy feat given that the genre has fallen a little out of fashion, and that NYC rents can be impossible for even the most successful venues to keep up with. Yet the show I went to had no cover at the door (on a Wednesday, but still). Instead they were running a "baskethouse" similar to the old Greenwich Village folk theaters, where a basket is passed around after each act, in the same spirit as busking.
I was there to see my friend Ian Link, who used to live in New York but is currently based out of Nashville. I've always really liked Ian's sound. He's got a woeful baritone matched with adroit guitar picking reminiscent of Doc Watson or Leo Kottke. This video is probably the best representation of what he sounds like live.
A fair number of my friends like to dabble in music, and Ian was always a guy I thought would go onto wider success. I find his music to be captivating. But he's also not particularly ambitious, which is an interesting and welcome quality nowadays. Pretty much anyone who makes music also has plan on how to market it. I'm not intimately familiar with everything that's happened in his career, but Ian has always struck me as a person who is reluctant to push himself out there on the market in any way. That isn't necessarily meant as praise, just an observation.
Because of this quality, Ian fits in well at the Jalopy. The venue has a lot of authenticity, and it's not trying to be what it's not. None of the performers there appeared to be putting on airs, they just loved folk. Acts like Lydia Sylvia Martin, Matt Foster, and Spirit Family Reunion played top notch sets that exuded a real passion. It felt like they cared more about the music's quality than its marketability.
So if you're looking for a high quality traditional / folk / bluegrass show in a time machine of a venue, I recommend Jalopy. The theater is one of the best of its kind I've seen in Brooklyn. But when it comes to vaping, you'd feel more at home there blacking out on moonshine than puffing on an e-cigarette. A show at Jalopy just isn't really the time or place to vape.
Rating for Vaping: (0/10)
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Sheffield, UK and Hayward, CA, USA –February 13, 2019–Researchers at the University of Sheffield have identified a new pathway that is disrupted in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a debilitating and ultimately lethal motor neuron disease (MND). The discovery was enabled by converting skin cells to brain cells called astrocytes and comparing the energy metabolism of cells taken from ALS versus normal controls, using a new metabolic phenotyping technology developed by Biolog, Inc, a California biotech company. The scientists discovered the loss of a key enzyme that could have major consequences for how the central nervous system copes with aging, stress and loss of energy metabolism. Details of the discovery are published in the March issue of the journal “Brain”. https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awy353/5303656
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is an adult onset disorder involving loss of motor neurons that control skeletal muscles. At some point in a patient’s life, their motor neurons start to die leading to muscle wasting and eventually death – typically within 2 years post diagnosis. Disruption of the ability of central nervous system cells to produce energy is thought to be a major contributing factor to the disease and could influence disease progression rates. The disease kills six people every day in the UK and there is no cure.
The Sheffield scientists led by Dr Scott Allen, Dr Laura Ferraiuolo, and Professor Dame Pamela Shaw, used a method previously developed by Drs Ferraiuolo and Meyer in the USA to take skin cells from patients, reprogram them into brain cells, and observe them to identify novel pathways of metabolic dysfunction. This has never been done before. Working in collaboration with the US-based company Biolog, Inc., a world leader in cell analysis, they employed a metabolic scanning technology to look for and find differences in the metabolism of astrocytes from ALS patients. Astrocytes are star-shaped brain cells that play a key role in supporting motor neurons by acting as a crucial source of energy nutrients in the central nervous system.
Dr. Allen who is a Motor Neurone Disease Association funded Senior Research Fellow at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), found that the cells from ALS patients had reduced ability to convert a metabolic substrate called adenosine into energy due to loss of a key enzyme called adenosine deaminase. The consequence of this loss could be a toxic build-up of adenosine in the CNS and subsequent loss of inosine production. Inosine is a metabolic intermediate that is generally protective to neuronal cells. Until now, the link between ALS and inosine production through the loss of adenosine deaminase had not been made. As further confirmation, Dr. Allen fed the ALS astrocytes inosine, and found that energy production increased and the patient’s astrocytes became more supportive towards motor neurons, helping them live longer.
“We are really excited about this set of results as no one has implicated adenosine deaminase in ALS before” commented Dr. Allen. “Our results indicate that the higher the level of adenosine deaminase the greater the protection against adenosine mediated toxicity and the greater support towards motor neurons when given inosine. Although we are at an early stage, I think approaches aimed at increasing adenosine deaminase levels, combined with inosine supplementation has the potential to slow down disease progression in ALS patients and improve the quality of life. Altering the level of adenosine deaminase by gene therapy has previously been shown to be beneficial and safe in patients suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency disease. Further, inosine is a safe and readily-available nutritional supplement, which has been successfully tested in Parkinson’s disease patients. However, further testing in the laboratory will need to be performed. We have had fantastic support from our charitable funders, Neurocare and the Motor Neurone Disease Association, as well as technical support from Biolog. I am looking forward to following up on these exciting results”.
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Job: Lecturer in Bioinformatics (Malaysia)
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Perdana University in Selangor, Malaysia, seeks to fill a full-time faculty position in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics at the Lecturer level with the Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi) under the School of Data Sciences. The successful applicant must possess a Ph.D., preferably with postdoctoral experience and a successful track record of scientific productivity. The candidate will be expected to promote and lead research projects in his/her area of expertise, assist in the education programmes of the School and also in service and outreach activities to the community. We especially encourage applicants with research interests and experience in high-dimensional data analysis including NGS, microbiome, transcriptomics, metagenomics and other related omics.
Specific requirements:
Research interest in NGS, microbiome, transcriptomics, metagenomics, and other related omics.
Computational skills in data-warehousing, big data analytics, machine learning, and statistical computing.
Evidence of ability to teach basic cellular biology/computational biology/bioinformatics at the undergraduate and/or postgraduate level.
A publication record in impact factor-related journals, commensurate with experience.
A track record in securing research grants would be advantageous.
Experience in curriculum development and delivery will be viewed favorably.
A track record in supervising postgraduate students at doctorate and/or masters level is preferred.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Evidence of leadership and management skills.
A team player willing to show flexibility in relation to working environment.
Excellent spoken and written English.
Perdana University is a private university established in 2011 as part of the Public-Private Partnership Unit in the Prime Minister’s Department (UKAS). The Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi), under the School of Data Sciences, aims to merge bioinformatics-led innovation with applied clinical and epidemiologic research efforts to address some of the most pressing biomedical challenges. This includes a commitment to provide education and training to the community. The Centre will leverage on its network of international connections to bring the latest advances in bioinformatics education and research to Malaysia. The recently established ties (MoU signed) with BGI-Shenzen, Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore and the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) will provide invaluable guidance and support towards this endeavour.
Interested candidates should send a curriculum vitae, a description of his/her research program and a teaching statement (as a single PDF) to the following email address : bioinfo{AT}perdanauniversity.edu.my
Deadline for receipt of application material is 30 November, 2016. Short-listed candidates will then be asked to submit letters of recommendation and copies of recent publications.
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July 5 Obituaries of the Swannanoa Valley
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July 5 Obituaries of the Swannanoa Valley Obituaries of people with ties to Swannanoa, Black Mountain, Montreat and Ridgecrest. Check out this story on blackmountainnews.com: https://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/news/obituary/2018/07/04/obituaries-swannanoa-black-mountain-montreat-ridgecrest/736191002/
Black Mountain News Published 1:50 a.m. ET July 4, 2018
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Helen Thomas Hall
Helen Thomas Hall, 102, formerly of Swannanoa, NC, went to her heavenly home on June 29, 2018 at Flesher’s Assisted Living in Fairview, NC. She was born in Cleveland, TN on March 21, 1916. She was the daughter of the late Rev. LeRoy Thomas and Molly Hicks Thomas and was a beloved daughter, sister, wife and mother.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Curtis Clyde Hall (Ike), who died in 2001; brother, Donald Thomas; sister, Jessie Ruth Kirby; two sisters in childhood; son-in-law, Roy Daniel Metcalf; daughter-in-law, Elva Sheldon Hall; and infant granddaughter, Molly Hall.
She was a 1933 graduate of Swannanoa High School and attended Mars Hill College and UNCA. Helen was a founding and charter member of Buckeye Baptist Church where she served as pianist, WMU leader and numerous other positions for most of her adult life. She was a founding and charter member of Buckeye Cove Community Club where she served as president, beautification chairman and other positions.
She was instrumental in the funding of ABCCM and Manna FoodBank, including its biblical name. Helen was an active and adventurous person, she and Ike drove to Alaska after retirement, camping along the way.
Helen is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Henry (Frank) of Mills River, NC; sons, Curt Hall (Judy) of Knoxville, TN, Ted Hall (Marlene) of Nakina, NC, David Hall (Libby) of Avon Park, FL, and Jon Hall (Pam) of Asheville, NC; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; 6 great-great-grandchildren; brother, Quinton Thomas (Janet) of Asheville, NC; and sister-in-law, Betty Thomas.
A funeral service was Sunday, July 1, 2018 at 2 p.m. at Buckeye Baptist Church, Swannanoa, NC. Officiating pastors are the Reverends Mike Cribbs, Stanley Taylor, Judson Rotan and James Lamb. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the church. A graveside service was held Monday, July 1, 2018 at 11 a.m. at Ashelawn Gardens of Memory, Asheville, NC.
Flowers are welcome, but if you would like to make a contribution to a cause Helen avidly worked toward, that of relieving world hunger, please consider Mission Haiti, PO Box 96, Swannanoa, NC 28778 or Heifer International, PO Box 8058, Little Rock, AR 72203. Arrangements are in the care of Harwood Home for Funerals, harwoodhomeforfunerals.com.
Amanda Beth “Mandy” Morris
Amanda Beth “Mandy” Morris, 34, of Black Mountain passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at the John F. Keever, Jr. Solace Center in Asheville.
Born on February 1, 1984 in South Boston, VA, she was a daughter of Michael K. Morris and Dianne W. Morris of Hurdle Mills, NC. She was a graduate of Person High School in Roxboro, NC.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by her siblings, Kristina M. Morris of Hurdle Mills, NC, and Henry H. Crenshaw III of Oak Level, VA; nephew, Austin Crenshaw; and niece, Savannah Crenshaw.
A celebration of Amanda’s life will be held at a later date. The family would like to thank the staff at Mission Hospitals and at the John F. Keever, Jr. Solace Center. Memorials may be made to the Rathbun Center at lewisrathbuncenter.org. Condolences may be made to the family at ashevilleareaalternative.com.
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Reassurances for Hillside Lodge residents and families
Four Seasons Health Care has said that a move into administration will not affect care arrangements or lead to the closure of homes.
Hillside Lodge Care Home at Braeside in Tweedmouth is one of its properties.
Two of the holding companies behind the firm, which do not own or operate any care homes directly, appointed administrators on Tuesday after struggling to repay their debts.
Four Seasons Health Care Group is launching an independent sales process on May 3, as the next stage of its restructuring, which it expects to complete by year end.
The operating companies under which the care home and hospital operations sit are not in administration and continue to be run as normal by the existing leadership teams.
The Group has entered into a funding agreement which provides sufficient operational funding to ensure continuity of care for all of the Group’s residents and patients during the independent sales period.
Dr Claire Royston, group medical director of Four Seasons Health Care, said: “This news does not change the way we operate or how our homes are run or prompt any change for residents, families, employees and indeed suppliers. Our priority remains to deliver consistently good care. It marks the latest stage in the Group’s restructuring process and allows us to move ahead.”
Richard Fleming, joint administrator of Elli Investments Limited and Elli Finance (UK) Plc (holding companies only) added: “We are committed to ensuring the Group delivers continuity of care as we work to undertake the independent sales process. The Group has continued to improve its quality ratings across their portfolio of homes and hospitals. The Group’s operations are fundamentally strong and a successful sales process will enhance those operations’ ability to thrive.”
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The Sons of Aaron
1 These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
(Ex 6:23)
3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
( 0; Ex 28:41)
4 But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.
(Le 10:1; Nu 26:61; 1Ch 24:2)
Duties of the Levites
5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
6 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
(Nu 1:50; Nu 8:6; Nu 18:2)
7 They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.
(Nu 8:11; Nu 8:15; Nu 8:24; Nu 8:26)
8 They shall guard all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and keep guard over the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle.
9 And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.
(Nu 8:16; Nu 8:19; Nu 18:6)
10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.”
(Nu 1:51; Nu 3:38; Nu 18:7; Ro 12:7)
11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
12 “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,
13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the Lord.”
(Ex 13:2; Ex 13:12; Ex 13:15; Nu 8:17)
14 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
15 “List the sons of Levi, by fathers’ houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list.”
(Nu 1:47; Nu 3:39; Nu 26:62)
16 So Moses listed them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
(Ge 46:11; Ex 6:16; Nu 26:57; 1Ch 6:1; 1Ch 6:16; 1Ch 23:6)
18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
(Ex 6:17; 1Ch 6:17; 1Ch 23:7)
19 And the sons of Kohath by their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
(Ex 6:18; 1Ch 6:2; 1Ch 6:18; 1Ch 23:12)
20 And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.
(Ex 6:19; 1Ch 6:19; 1Ch 23:21)
21 To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.
22 Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was1 7,500.
23 The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,
24 with Eliasaph, the son of Lael as chief of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.
25 And the guard duty of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,
(Ex 25:9; Ex 26:7; Ex 26:14; Ex 26:36; Ex 36:14; Nu 4:24)
26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords—all the service connected with these.
(Ex 27:9; Ex 27:16; Ex 35:18; Ex 39:40; Nu 3:37)
27 To Kohath belonged the clan of the Amramites and the clan of the Izharites and the clan of the Hebronites and the clan of the Uzzielites; these are the clans of the Kohathites.
(1Ch 26:23)
28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.
29 The clans of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,
30 with Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of the Kohathites.
(Ex 6:22; Le 10:4)
31 And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.
(Ex 25:10; Ex 25:23; Ex 25:31; Ex 26:36; Ex 27:1; Ex 30:1)
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary.
33 To Merari belonged the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari.
34 Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6,200.
35 And the chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
36 And the appointed guard duty of the sons of Merari involved the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these;
(Ex 26:15; Ex 26:26; Ex 26:32; Ex 26:37; Nu 4:31)
37 also the pillars around the court, with their bases and pegs and cords.
(Ex 27:10; Ex 27:19; Nu 3:26)
38 Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect2 the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.
39 All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the Lord, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
40 And the Lord said to Moses, “List all the firstborn males of the people of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names.
41 And you shall take the Levites for me—I am the Lord—instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the people of Israel.”
(Nu 3:12; Nu 3:45)
42 So Moses listed all the firstborn among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded him.
43 And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as listed were 22,273.
45 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.
46 And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,
(Ex 13:13; Nu 18:15)
47 you shall take five shekels3 per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs4),
(Ex 30:13; Le 27:6; Nu 18:16)
48 and give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for those who are over.”
49 So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites.
50 From the firstborn of the people of Israel he took the money, 1,365 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.
51 And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
1 Hebrew their listing was
2 Hebrew guard
3 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
4 A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
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The Age of Innocence (Hardcover)
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Publication Date: May 5th, 2016
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Robber (2011) (Region 1) - Robber (2011)
An All About Eve take on the glamorous world of striptease dancers striving for professional perfection, Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire is the first of director Tatsumi Kumashiro's films for Nikkatsu's so-called Roman Porn series.
Set in a variety theater in the center of Osaka, a young strip-tease artist, Harumi (Hiroko Isayama), has had enough of the lesbian act she performs with Mari, and is eager to start up her own joint. Unfortunately, her Yakuza pimp, Isamu, will do anything to stop her. Later, the police charge her for obscene exhibitionism in a show she performs with famed real life Japanese strip queen Sayuri Ichijo. Considered a masterpiece of Pink Cinema, Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire is the film for which Isayama won the Best Actress of the year award from the prestigious Japanese film journal Kinema Jumpo.
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4-DAY WEEKEND
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TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #
1 2 Safe House Uni. $23,641,575 -41.2% 3,121 +2 $7,575 $77,911,190 $85 2
2 1 The Vow SGem $23,065,077 -44.0% 2,958 - $7,798 $84,991,914 $30 2
3 N Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Sony $22,115,334 - 3,174 - $6,968 $22,115,334 $57 1
4 3 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island WB (NL) $19,845,282 -27.4% 3,500 +30 $5,670 $52,961,624 $79 2
5 N This Means War Fox $17,405,930 - 3,189 - $5,458 $19,015,735 $65 1
6 4 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (in 3D) Fox $7,966,431 -64.5% 2,655 - $3,001 $33,839,666 - 2
7 5 Chronicle (2012) Fox $7,619,383 -37.0% 2,556 -352 $2,981 $51,098,809 $12 3
8 6 The Woman in Black CBS $6,679,196 -33.9% 2,559 -297 $2,610 $45,289,814 - 3
9 N The Secret World of Arrietty BV $6,446,395 - 1,522 - $4,235 $6,446,395 - 1
10 7 The Grey ORF $3,142,111 -37.7% 2,107 -694 $1,491 $48,035,170 $25 4
11 9 The Descendants FoxS $2,932,824 -14.8% 1,243 -338 $2,359 $75,015,594 - 14
12 13 The Artist Wein. $2,430,360 +8.5% 808 - $3,008 $27,529,319 $15 13
13 8 Big Miracle Uni. $2,263,515 -42.6% 1,634 -499 $1,385 $16,707,010 $40 3
14 14 Hugo Par. $1,655,684 -6.2% 558 -144 $2,967 $66,741,808 - 13
15 11 Red Tails Fox $1,442,093 -40.3% 1,009 -571 $1,429 $47,694,537 $58 5
16 10 Underworld Awakening SGem $1,136,686 -54.2% 826 -831 $1,376 $61,380,487 $70 5
17 18 The Iron Lady Wein. $1,063,704 -8.0% 623 +111 $1,707 $24,423,490 - 8
18 12 One For the Money LGF $784,938 -65.9% 933 -1,123 $841 $25,461,147 $40 4
19 15 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close WB $627,618 -57.4% 577 -798 $1,088 $30,630,595 - 9
20 30 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows WB $553,802 +68.4% 403 +138 $1,374 $185,271,156 - 10
21 17 Contraband Uni. $539,685 -57.1% 420 -661 $1,285 $65,765,705 $25 6
22 23 Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Fox $494,723 -7.5% 400 -102 $1,237 $129,683,218 $75 10
23 22 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Focus $492,491 -10.0% 184 -48 $2,677 $22,695,338 - 11
24 20 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Par. $486,056 -31.2% 275 -194 $1,767 $207,299,479 $145 10
25 29 The Adventures of Tintin Par. $389,854 +14.7% 303 +46 $1,287 $76,391,170 - 9
26 27 2012 Oscar Nominated Short Films Shrts. $372,042 -9.8% 138 +18 $2,696 $987,485 - 2
27 24 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Sony $345,043 -30.1% 189 -80 $1,826 $101,364,914 $90 9
28 16 Man on a Ledge LG/S $331,508 -74.5% 401 -1,022 $827 $18,377,456 $42 4
29 33 A Separation SPC $309,085 +16.3% 54 +9 $5,724 $2,025,837 - 8
30 28 We Bought a Zoo Fox $300,033 -16.8% 287 -133 $1,045 $73,656,654 - 9
31 26 War Horse BV $298,332 -34.0% 394 -108 $757 $78,706,298 $66 9
32 34 Pina IFC $297,666 +15.7% 79 +12 $3,768 $2,174,494 - 9
33 19 Beauty and the Beast (3D) BV $251,292 -70.1% 214 -464 $1,174 $46,996,118 - 6
34 21 Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu UTV $230,770 -63.8% 98 -13 $2,355 $1,026,303 - 2
35 25 Joyful Noise WB $219,935 -55.1% 340 -346 $647 $30,307,894 - 6
36 32 The Muppets BV $207,263 -23.8% 269 -22 $770 $88,067,260 $45 13
37 36 My Week with Marilyn Wein. $197,841 -4.9% 120 -5 $1,649 $13,642,958 - 13
38 31 Albert Nobbs RAtt. $195,667 -28.8% 119 -32 $1,644 $2,360,231 - 4
39 35 Puss in Boots P/DW $187,050 -13.9% 163 -46 $1,148 $148,998,026 $130 17
40 N Thin Ice ATO $183,527 - 53 - $3,463 $183,527 - 1
41 37 A Dangerous Method SPC $152,441 -25.7% 96 -11 $1,588 $5,171,944 - 13
42 42 Born to Be Wild (IMAX) WB $149,565 +46.5% 45 +1 $3,324 $16,373,130 - 46
43 47 Rampart MNE $125,997 +108.4% 28 +23 $4,500 $210,417 - 2
44 41 Jack and Jill Sony $121,297 -26.5% 134 -53 $905 $74,020,223 $79 15
45 76 The Darkest Hour Sum. $98,691 +1,334.5% 113 +95 $873 $21,319,696 $30 9
46 39 Happy Feet Two WB $97,176 -47.7% 135 -67 $720 $63,826,400 - 14
47 N Love (2012) CL $83,178 - 7 - $11,883 $83,178 - 1
48 54 In Darkness SPC $82,551 +201.1% 14 +11 $5,897 $142,514 - 2
49 44 We Need to Talk About Kevin Osci. $71,232 -15.0% 16 - $4,452 $604,821 - 11
50 38 Haywire Rela. $69,716 -65.9% 79 -184 $882 $18,751,460 $23 5
51 43 Shame FoxS $66,547 -21.4% 44 -8 $1,512 $3,720,167 - 12
52 50 Hubble 3D WB $62,137 +43.2% 19 +1 $3,270 $30,746,007 - 101
53 40 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Sum. $54,318 -67.7% 148 -82 $367 $281,267,663 $110 14
54 48 W.E. Wein. $53,016 -11.1% 20 +3 $2,651 $206,946 - 3
55 61 Under the Sea 3D WB $46,463 +164.1% 11 -1 $4,224 $29,153,848 - 158
56 53 Coriolanus Wein. $39,215 +25.4% 13 +2 $3,017 $321,965 - 5
57 45 Agneepath Eros $34,828 -58.4% 132 - $264 $1,973,574 - 4
58 51 Carnage (2011) SPC $33,441 -18.3% 35 -1 $955 $2,420,300 - 10
59 N Undefeated (2012) Wein. $33,165 - 5 - $6,633 $33,165 - 1
60 N Bullhead Drft. $32,267 - 7 - $4,610 $32,267 - 1
61 56 Chico & Rita GK $30,796 +49.1% 5 +4 $6,159 $60,363 - 2
62 64 Young Adult Par. $28,822 +116.0% 87 +52 $331 $16,295,033 $12 11
63 57 Space Station 3-D (IMAX) IMAX $22,638 +12.2% 4 +1 $5,660 $84,956,999 - 514
64 55 Pariah Focus $20,657 -11.5% 13 - $1,589 $687,922 - 8
65 N On the Ice PMKBNC $17,901 - 4 - $4,475 $17,901 - 1
66 52 The Devil Inside Par. $14,341 -59.0% 34 -61 $422 $53,180,784 $1 7
67 46 New Year's Eve WB (NL) $12,730 -79.6% 33 -122 $386 $54,538,013 $56 11
68 66 The Women on the 6th Floor Strand $10,829 -2.5% 6 +2 $1,805 $603,482 - 20
69 62 Midnight in Paris SPC $9,791 -44.3% 16 -8 $612 $56,553,416 $17 40
70 67 The Help BV $9,359 -10.6% 13 - $720 $169,668,586 $25 28
71 90 Deep Sea 3D (IMAX) WB $7,836 +204.9% 2 - $3,918 $44,490,042 - 297
72 65 In the Land of Blood and Honey FD $7,122 -36.3% 8 -2 $890 $284,991 - 9
73 74 An Inconsistent Truth RM $5,655 -23.1% 3 +1 $1,885 $53,109 - 4
74 - The Flowers of War WHE $5,040 - 3 - $1,680 $218,832 - 5
75 60 Immortals Rela. $4,967 -73.5% 29 -4 $171 $83,502,403 $75 15
76 70 Death of the Virgin Indic. $4,826 -44.1% 2 -1 $2,413 $16,826 - 2
77 - Declaration of War IFC $4,727 - 7 - $675 $34,181 - 4
78 - The Interrupters CGld $4,209 - 2 - $2,105 $282,448 - 30
79 63 J. Edgar WB $3,979 -71.0% 11 -31 $362 $37,304,451 $35 15
80 75 The Innkeepers Magn. $3,436 -52.3% 7 -6 $491 $74,906 - 3
81 69 The Turin Horse CGld $3,383 -63.0% 2 +1 $1,692 $17,763 - 2
82 73 The Way PDA $3,374 -54.3% 5 -2 $675 $4,421,905 - 20
83 N Michael (2012) Strand $3,366 - 1 - $3,366 $4,546 - 1
84 71 The Viral Factor CL $3,214 -60.6% 4 - $804 $212,596 - 5
85 86 A Trip to the Moon/The Extraordinary Voyage FA $3,143 +7.8% 3 - $1,048 $8,434 - 2
86 79 Young Goethe in Love MBox $2,929 -36.9% 5 - $586 $145,995 - 16
87 109 Khodorkovsky KL $2,900 +3,436.6% 1 - $2,900 $33,054 - 11
88 84 Kung Fu Joe Indic. $2,796 -11.5% 1 -1 $2,796 $7,082 - 2
89 68 Melancholia Magn. $2,770 -70.0% 5 -3 $554 $3,023,196 - 15
90 82 Vettai UTV $2,518 -22.9% 1 -1 $2,518 $202,581 - 6
91 - Carol Channing: Larger Than Life EOne $2,370 - 1 - $2,370 $22,740 - 5
92 - The Bride Wore Black (2011 re-release) FDesk $2,291 - 1 - $2,291 $26,489 - 16
93 80 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia CGld $2,270 -45.8% 2 - $1,135 $62,733 - 7
94 78 Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness ICir $2,242 -53.5% 2 -1 $1,121 $862,901 - 33
95 - How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? FRun $1,698 - 4 - $425 $12,430 - 4
96 N Putin's Kiss KL $1,525 - 1 - $1,525 $1,525 - 1
97 91 Kill List IFC $1,463 -28.9% 4 - $366 $19,401 - 3
98 - Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow AM $1,433 - 1 - $1,433 $48,331 - 22
99 77 Return (2012) Da. $1,327 -80.2% 1 -2 $1,327 $10,128 - 2
100 N Cirkus Columbia Strand $1,284 - 1 - $1,284 $1,284 - 1
101 95 Tomboy (2011) Da. $1,228 +31.8% 2 -1 $614 $122,112 - 14
102 92 The Skin I Live In SPC $1,149 -7.5% 4 -2 $287 $3,167,958 - 19
103 - Mozart's Sister MBox $1,118 - 2 - $559 $706,622 $4.5 25
104 107 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey SD $1,080 +468.4% 2 +1 $540 $287,281 - 18
105 94 Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Elev. $1,003 +3.8% 2 - $502 $173,154 - 5
106 101 Sing Your Song S2BN $956 +43.5% 1 -2 $956 $32,083 - 6
107 - The Devil, Probably (2012 re-release) FDesk $826 - 1 - $826 $4,966 - 6
108 102 The Whale Pala. $677 +23.5% 1 - $677 $69,944 - 24
109 - The Woman with the Five Elephants CGld $608 - 1 - $608 $10,274 - 3
110 - Hell and Back Again DF $560 - 2 - $280 $38,099 - 20
111 - Eames: The Architect and the Painter FRun $518 - 1 - $518 $146,079 - 13
112 88 The Conquest MBox $423 -83.8% 2 -2 $212 $65,366 - 15
113 - Magnificent Desolation (IMAX) IMAX $402 - 1 - $402 $34,109,100 - 319
114 - Man on a Mission FRun $396 - 1 - $396 $8,548 - 5
115 103 Take Shelter SPC $322 -38.3% 4 - $81 $1,724,461 $5 21
116 72 My Reincarnation Long Shot $319 -95.7% 2 - $160 $82,618 - 17
117 111 Galapagos (IMAX) IMAX $98 +366.7% 3 +2 $33 $18,080,393 - 643
118 108 Crazy Wisdom AM $96 -5.9% 1 - $96 $56,824 - 13
TOTAL (118 MOVIES): $160,944,778 -16.1% 41,924 -1,217 $3,839
* Production Budget in millions. On average, studios earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.
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The Grizzlies among best to watch this week
Liz Braun
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Published on: April 15, 2019 | Last Updated: April 15, 2019 7:31 AM EDT
Anna Lambe, the young Inuit actress who appears in the new film, Grizzlies, poses for a photo in Ottawa Thursday April 11, 2019. Tony Caldwell
So much to see, so little time …
Here are a couple of recommendations for things to watch this week:
ON THE BIG SCREEN: Award-winning film The Grizzlies opens Friday in Toronto and other major Canadian cities.
This is a compelling film (based on a true story) about a group of Inuit students who change their lives — and transform their town — through sport.
The remote Arctic town of Kugluktuk is in the midst of a suicide crisis when novice teacher Russ Sheppard moves there. Sheppard (played by Ben Schnetzer in the movie) is unprepared for life in the north. He’s never seen the problems associated with colonization up close, and the community where he hopes to fit in is decimated by isolation, deprivation, family chaos and substance abuse.
On their side, the locals are suspicious of, and skeptical about Sheppard. He decides to organize a lacrosse team at school, hoping to give the kids something to do and also something to help keep them alive. After a rough start, teacher and students get to know each other, and what unfolds is a tale about trust, teamwork, courage and self-discovery.
The Grizzlies is a cross-cultural collaboration between indigenous and non-Indigenous groups. It was filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Guelph, and Toronto; a third of the crew is Inuit.
Some 600 kids from the Arctic auditioned for roles in the movie. The cast includes Paul Nutarariaq, Emerald MacDonald, Anna Lambe and renowned Canadian actress Tantoo Cardinal.
The movie features original music by indigenous hip hop artists (Dan General, CSA winner Thomas Lambe and Adam Tanuyak among them); producers include Stacey Aglok MacDonald, who is from Kugluktuk, and Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.
The Grizzlies debuted at TIFF last fall and went on to win audience awards at the Calgary and Palm Springs film festivals; director Miranda de Pencier won the 2018 DGC award for directorial achievement of a feature.
The Grizzlies opens Friday in major cities and will expand across Canada over the next two weeks. It has already criss-crossed the farthest reaches of the country on a northern tour of 33 remote Indigenous communities — from Kugluktuk to Yellowknife.
ON THE SMALL SCREEN: Netflix’ Our Planet should probably be required viewing.
The eight-part documentary series examines the flora and fauna of the world and offers dazzling visuals of this place we call home. It took four years to complete.
Our Planet captures all the beauty and majesty of our natural home, focussing on various animals, birds and plant life to show the interdependence of all who live here. Most of it is extraordinarily beautiful, but take note — not all the footage is transporting. Some of the damage wrought by climate change is illustrated with sequences that carry a warning for animal lovers, especially that bit in episode 2 (Frozen World) where walruses fall from cliffs due to the loss of Arctic ice.
You can find the worrisome bits listed on the @netflix Twitter feed.
Our Planet does not shy away when it comes to climate change. The series not only shows the extraordinary variety and beauty of the earth’s inhabitants but also the damage done by human beings.
Vanity Fair praises the series and the fact that it’s being streamed: “Netflix’s global reach makes Our Planet a high-quality ecology curriculum that is cheaply and easily accessed by millions of people around the world.”
That’s a good thing. Fans of the BBC’s Planet Earth or Blue Planet will immediately recognize the voice of narrator David Attenborough. It’s a voice that inspires trust, something the creators of the series no doubt are counting on; there’s a message here that must not be ignored. Habitat loss and dwindling species are a reality, and humans are involved in that destruction.
Our Planet is visually mesmerizing, and not just for those exquisite animal close-ups or insect portraits. The first episode, for example, includes breathtaking footage of glaciers calving; rarely has such devastating footage been so beautifully presented.
Our Planet is produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey of Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and The Blue Planet. Tune in, people.
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Home » Book » Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
By Jane Austen, Carol Howard (Illustrator)
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics
New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
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Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the world's most popular novels. Pride and PrejudiceAusten's own 'darling child'tells the story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy. What ensues is one of the most delightful and engrossingly readable courtships known to literature, written by a precocious Austen when she was just twenty-one years old.
Humorous and profound, and filled with highly entertaining dialogue, this witty comedy of manners dips and turns through drawing-rooms and plots to reach an immensely satisfying finale. In the words of Eudora Welty, Pride and Prejudice is as 'irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.'
Carol Howard, educated at SUNY Purchase and Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1999, chairs the English Department and teaches in the Theater Department at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She has published essays on early British and contemporary African-American women writers and has coedited two books on British writers (1996, 1997). Her primary scholarly interest is the literature of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.
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‘Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel’ to Debut #1 on the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestsellers List
Jerome Hudson
Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel will debut at #1 on the New York Times graphic novel bestsellers list, according to data released by the Times’ book review.
Like the New York Times bestselling book and documentary film that inspired it, Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel, adapted by Chuck Dixon and Brett R. Smith, follows the shady connections and dealings between the Clinton Foundation donors, paid speeches given by Bill Clinton, and actions approved by the U.S. State Department while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
Since its highly-anticipated August 8 debut, the book has already entered its second print after seeking out in less than 24 hours. In a matter of days, the book quickly rose to the #5 spot on the Amazon bestsellers list.
Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel conveys the fact-based reporting found in Clinton Cash “in a way that makes it accessible to people who don’t have time to sit down and read a serious nonfiction book,” Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer told Fox & Friends.
“I think millennials love this sort of approach because it’s humorous. They put in humor. It’s a lot of great visual images.”
Propelled by online endorsements from talk radio host Mark Levin to the infamous non-profit publisher of corporate and government documents WikiLeaks, Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel beat out the popular comic book Batman: The Killing Joke to snag the NYT #1 bestseller spot.
“Stunningly illustrated, hilariously retold, and inspired by the blockbuster book that reshaped the contours of the presidential election, Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel brings to life Hillary and Bill’s brazen plot to fleece the planet for maximum profit,” publisher Regnery said in a press release.
Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel is available online for purchase in hardcover and as an e-book.
Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter: @JeromeEHudson
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Building of the Day: 375 Smith Street
Aug 15, 2013 • 03:00pm
by Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris)
Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here.
Brooklyn, one building at a time.
Name: Former Court Theater, then Pep Service Station, now Lee’s Auto Service
Address: 375 Smith Street
Cross Streets: Corner 3rd Street
Neighborhood: Carroll Gardens
Year Built: Sometime in 1922, perhaps earlier
Architectural Style: Vaguely Southwestern Spanish Mission
Architect: Unknown
Landmarked: No
The story: Finding and tracing Brooklyn’s old theaters is a pursuit of a lifetime. There are so many changes in the city, as buildings are built, changed, torn down, or put to new use. Several people have made these theaters and their histories their passion, and thanks to them, it’s possible to find and identify theaters in the most unlikely of places. Sometimes, it’s easy, as when a theater becomes a church. Often the only exterior change is a cross replacing the marquee. Sometimes the marquee even stays.
Old theater buildings in Brooklyn come in many sizes and are mostly on major thoroughfares. That makes sense, as they needed to be easy to get to. They are most often found near subway stops, or where the old el trains, trolley cars, and later buses ran. Former theaters have turned up not only as churches, but as supermarkets, specialty stores and drug stores, bodegas, community buildings, schools, and occasionally, as garages and service stations. Today’s BOTD, a Carroll Gardens community fixture or years, was, believe it or not, a theater.
According to theater historian Dario Marotta, the Court Theater, formerly at 551 Court Street, moved to this location in 1922. It showed movies, and had a house organ to provide a sound track for the silent films. There may have been a theater called the Annette Theater here already, but there is no documentation to support that. There is documentation showing the Court Theater here. In December of 1922, they advertised the showing of the movie “The Half Breed,” a torrid and forbidden love story set in the Old West, with the handsome (and “educated”), but half white, half Indian tragic hero who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the rich judge, who of course, hates Indians, due to his Cavalry Indian fighting days. The movie starred the popular actors, Wheeler Oakman and Ann May.
Our hero gets in a lot of trouble trying to get the land deeded to his Indian mother, and in the complicated process is on the lam from the law. He never gets the judge’s daughter, but settles for her plucky best friend, who loves him, but went unnoticed by him because he only had eyes for the judge’s daughter. Typical. The couple ends up riding off into the sunset together, accompanied by a flourish of gushy organ music. It was probably better without sound, anyway.
The theater had 560 seats, and showed popular features and melodramas. According to Mr. Marotta, the theater closed down in 1929, and was renovated, and re-opened in 1931 with a new screen, seating and sound system. That didn’t really help it for too long, as it was sold in a foreclosure auction in 1935. It stayed a theater until it closed permanently in 1941. By 1942, the building had been gutted, and sliced open, turned into a neighborhood garage called Pep Service Station. Their name appears in an ad in the Eagle in that year.
Today, not much has changed. The tax photo from the 1980s shows a service bay entrance below the Mediterranean style decorative roof on the front of the building. That’s since been closed up, and the service bay entrance moved to a different location. In the 1980s photo, the signage for “Peps” is still visible. If they still owned it, the garage had been in the same hands for forty years. According to records, the garage was sold to Jimmy Lee in 1992. No trace of a theater remains, just the odd façade of the part of the building that held the entrance. I’ve passed that garage any number of times, and never noticed it. Who knew?
If old theaters interest you, you are in luck. On line, cinematreasures.org is an invaluable resource for theater buildings, old and new. They have as many photographs as they can get their hands on, historical and contemporary, and their readers and contributors are some of the most well educated people on the subject. One of those occasional contributors, and a man whose books are well-thumbed in my office, is Cezar Del Valle, whose two volume compendium “The Brooklyn Theatre Index” is a priceless resource for these columns. I can well understand the attraction of finding out about these now-forgotten institutions of Brooklyn’s history and culture. It’s really fascinating. There were once hundreds of theaters in our neighborhoods, now there are only a handful. Finding out what happened to them and tracking down their whereabouts is a worthy hobby. GMAP
(Photo: Ken Roe for Cinematreasures.org)
Photo: Pardonmeforasking.blogsspot.com
1928 Photo: Brooklyn Pix.
1942 Ad in the Brooklyn Eagle.
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First of New Row, Giant Boerum Hill “Carriage House” With Terraces Hits Market at $11 Million
Mar 10, 2016 • 10:00am
by Barbara Eldredge
Don’t let the listing’s “carriage house” label give you the impression that 323 Pacific Street is old or quaint. Yes, the look of this decked-out home was inspired by 19th-century stables, but with a whopping 5,895 square feet of space, this newly built townhouse is vastly larger and dramatically more luxurious than the area’s average historic horse home.
And, holy cow, has it got amenities to match its price tag.
Brooklyn’s Latest Crop of New Townhouses Rising Near Domino in South ‘Burg
Jul 27, 2015 • 10:28am
by Cate Corcoran
A decidedly modern take on Brooklyn’s new-townhouse trend, the six Townhouses of Wythe Lane have reached the third floor at 51 South 4th Street in Williamsburg. Marketing started before the first shovel broke ground here, in October last year, as we reported at the time.
Only two of the six townhouses formally hit the market with a listing (Nos. 3 and 4), but five are in contract, according to the development’s official website.
The previously published renderings show gray brick with large windows and a strong, simple design. Carefully planned greenery, such as a trellis going up the side and over the roof terrace, serves as architectural detail.
Foundation Going in at Townhouses of Wythe Lane in Williamsburg
May 12, 2015 • 09:54am
We caught the foundation in progress at 51 South 4th Street in Williamsburg, better known as the Townhouses of Wythe Lane, when we passed by recently. One of six townhouses planned here went on the market in October, priced at $3,995,000. The townhouse, whose address is 4 Wythe Lane, is in contract.
They are situated at the corner of Wythe Avenue and South 4th Street, next to Domino Site E, Domino’s first building project, and the former site of the temporary Havemeyer Park.
The Oosten Is Close to Topping out in South Williamsburg
Apr 22, 2015 • 09:00am
The Piet Boon-designed The Oosten in South Williamsburg has risen to about six and a half out of its total seven stories, we saw when we stopped by Sunday. Workers have also started covering parts of the structure in gypsum and fiberglass insulating panels.
The building has risen to its full height on at least one of its corners, but still has one more story coming elsewhere, as the photos and previously published rendering below show.
The Five Oldest Houses in Brooklyn Heights
Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. This article draws on the book “Old Brooklyn Heights: America’s First Suburb” by Clay Lancaster as a source, among other resources.
Wood and brick Federal-style homes were among the first to be built in Brooklyn Heights, beginning in the 1820s. The oldest houses in the Heights still standing today were built in this decade.
The longest standing Brooklyn Heights houses reside on Willow, Hicks and Middagh streets. One of these is 84 Willow Street, which was listed in the first city directory of 1822, indicating that it is at least that old. A house at 68 Hicks Street was also listed in the 1822 directory.
In 1824, three more houses were built that are still standing today. These are 43 Willow Street, 30 Middagh Street and 24 Middagh Street. Conveniently, a plaque on 30 Middagh Street’s façade displays its year of construction.
New-Construction Townhouse in Gowanus Asks $4.25 Million
A new-construction townhouse with a traditional brick row house exterior in Gowanus is now on the market and asking $4,250,000. A Google Maps photo of the building under construction at 442 Union Street shows a four-story building with a traditional black cornice, lintels, and extra-long windows on the parlor floor.
Inside the interiors are clean and modern. The 4,320-square-foot home features 10.5-foot ceilings and four-inch rift-sawn oak flooring on the parlor level. A private garden, roof terrace and — notably — an elevator are among its amenities.
Concrete-Clad Townhouses Come Together in Dumbo
by Rebecca
Alloy Development’s concrete-clad townhouses at 55-57 Pearl Street in Dumbo are almost finished and looking good. The five modern townhouses have been in the works for nearly a year, and they hit the market with renderings for $4,100,000 a pop back when the corner site was just a garage. Now they’re all sold out, according to the development’s website.
The five-story homes share a facade made of one-foot-deep concrete ductal fins. The ground floor facade will be wood, but it hasn’t been installed yet. Each house will have four bedrooms, three baths, a one-car garage and private outdoor space.
Dumbo Townhouses [Official]
55 Pearl Street Coverage [Brownstoner]
Park Slope Home Asking $7.5 Million Speeds to Contract
With townhouses in “emerging” areas of Brooklyn closing for double what they were two years ago, the gap between, say, Bed Stuy or Crown Heights and Park Slope has been narrowing. We have been wondering if and when prices in Park Slope would shoot up. Well, now it looks like they will.
The Park Slope brownstone with a mostly modern renovation by CWB Architects at 250 Garfield Place, above, a House of the Day in February, is in contract after 23 days on the market. We won’t know, of course, what the final sale price is until the transaction closes and appears in public records, but usually a brief time to contract indicates a price at or above ask. If it does go for ask, $7,500,000, that would pencil out to about $1,802 per square foot, an extremely high figure for Brooklyn. (PropertyShark puts the house at 4,160 square feet.)
The pending sale is significant because, until now, most top-of-the-line row houses in Park Slope could be had between $3,500,000 and $4,500,000, a figure that has not changed much in the past five years or so. True, a handful of Park Slope houses have sold for more, but typically those fell into the “mansion” category in one way or another. And despite quite a few listings asking over $10,000,000 in the last few years, that barrier has proven a tough nut to crack for most, even for double- or triple-size properties with gardens and garages, such as 646 2nd Street, the former residence of writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss. (It’s still available, by the way, and asking $13,000,000.)
The house at 250 Garfield isn’t the only high-ticket Park Slope house to be snapped up this month. The house at 930 President Street, asking 5,850,000, also has a signed contract, after 47 days on the market, according to StreetEasy. However, a House of the Day twice, it was on and off the market with different agents and listings (and a slightly lower price) in 2013 and did not sell.
Curbed was the first to write about the two sales.
Do you think Park Slope prices are poised to shoot up this spring? Is $7,500,000 the new $4,500,000?
250 Garfield Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
House of the Day: 250 Garfield Place [Brownstoner]
Five Three-Family Townhouses Planned Next to the BQE in Wallabout
Mar 2, 2015 • 09:30am
New building applications were filed last week for five three-story townhouses on Park Avenue, next to the BQE in Wallabout. The houses at 306-314 Park Avenue will have three units each and range in size from 1,525 square feet to 1,750 square feet. It’s not the most optimal location for housing, but with three units each (and small ones at that), they’re probably intended as rental investment properties.
The applicant of record is BTE Design Services, and Moses Guttman is the developer. It looks like Guttman bought up the series of vacant properties at Park Avenue and Ryerson Street for a combined $210,000 over the last two years, according to public records. GMAP
Image via Google Maps
A Townhouse Rises on the Southside
Feb 23, 2015 • 10:45am
This may look like a renovation of an existing building, but in fact it is a brand new townhouse going up at 112 South 1st Street in South Williamsburg. The project is one of at least 10 new townhouses in three developments going up in this neck of the woods, according to the tipster who sent us these photos.
(The others include one across the street on what is now a parking lot and the Meshberg and Wythe Lane projects, which we’ll continue to cover as construction progresses.)
This one is designed by architect Steven Kratchman. It will house one family over four floors, according to permits. There will be parking on the ground floor, and the addition visible on the roof is only a bulkhead for the stair, according to the Schedule A.
Click through to see a rendering. The proportions and the garage door design look nice to us. It replaced a one-story garage. What do you think of it? GMAP
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Fort Meade: Veteran buried with infant son in post cemetery
By Fort Meade PAO
Maj. George L. Okoth, Fort Meade's Catholic priest, renders final respect with a solemn salute of farewell to Spc. Class 5/Sgt Christian David Bubczyk Sr. during his funeral on Oct. 23 at the Main Post Cemetery. The veteran of World War II and the Korean War was buried alongside his infant son Jesse Christopher, who was buried in the cemetery on March 31, 1955. (Photo by Spc. LaVance Stinson, HANDOUT)
Sabina Bubczyk's request for the burial of her late husband, Spec. Class 5/Sgt. Christian David Bubczyk Sr., was honored Oct. 23 when the garrison conducted a funeral for the veteran at the Main Post Cemetery on Rock Avenue.
Bubczyk was buried with his son.
The couple's infant son Jesse Christopher was buried in the cemetery on March 31, 1955.
Bubczyk, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, was buried with his dog tags and given military honors by soldiers from the 902nd Military Intelligence Group.
Sabina Bubczyk, who was not well enough to attend the funeral, requested that a single rose be placed with her husband on her behalf.
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Mary Staab, director of the Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security, which planned and executed the burial, said burial at the Main Post Cemetery is unusual because it has been closed since the late 1960s. There hadn't been a burial there since.
In addition to Bubczyk's infant son, a number of children of service members are buried in the cemetery.
"The service members and spouses of these children may request and are eligible to be buried with their children as subsequent burials, although the cemetery remains closed," Staab said. "It is only subsequent burials, those associated with someone already buried in the Main Post Cemetery, that are permitted."
Sabina Bubczyk contacted the garrison and requested the burial for her husband, while also providing the necessary documentation and details for the funeral.
Several garrison organizations helped to coordinate the burial, including the Directorate of Public Works, Casualty Assistance Office, Religious Support Office and Headquarters Command Battalion.
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Sailors build homes
Fort Meade sailors participated in Habitat for Humanity during the Chesapeake's 2014 Veterans Day Build in Baltimore on Nov. 8.
A team of more than 75 active and retired service members from the Baltimore area, including seven U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet Sailors, assisted in the reconstruction of 10 homes on McCabe Avenue.
"The Veterans Day Build is a great opportunity for veterans to give back to the local community," said Chief Petty Officer Jamie Marlow. "I think military volunteers have skills and are willing to work hard to get the job done."
Marlow strongly supports Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake and has volunteered with the organization for the past four years, he said.
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"Volunteering with Habitat for Humanity invigorates and inspires me to be part of something greater than myself, just like my military service," Marlow said.
Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake's mission is to provide individuals and families in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County with the knowledge and opportunity to purchase a decent, affordable home.
"It is good to give back and let the community know we are committed to helping them," said Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos Shelmire.
Habitat for Humanity depends on volunteers to complete its projects and keep building costs down.
"It is rewarding to know our work on this project will directly support families in finding affordable housing," said Seaman Khindell Shelley.
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U.S. Fleet Cyber Command reports directly to the chief of naval operations as an Echelon II Command and is responsible for Navy networks, cryptology, signals intelligence, information operations, electronic warfare, cyber and space.
The command serves as the Navy component command to U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Cyber Command, and the Navy's service cryptologic component commander under the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, exercising operational control of Fleet Cyber Command mission forces through 10th Fleet.
The U.S. Army Field Band will perform "Sound the Bells: A Holiday Celebration" at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 at Arundel High School, 1001 Annapolis Road, Gambrills.
The annual concert will feature the Concert Band and Soldiers' Chorus and The Volunteers.
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"Sound the Bells" also will be performed 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 and 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St., Baltimore.
The Jazz Ambassadors will perform "Sound the Bells" at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Dec. 13 at Centennial High School, 4300 Centennial Lane, Ellicott City.
All concerts are free and open to the public.
For details, call 301-677-6586.
Compiled by staff of the Fort George G. Meade Public Affairs office.
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For more information about what is happening on Fort Meade, visit http://www.ftmeade.army.mil and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ftmeade.
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How to Bootstrap Your Dream Business in 10 Steps
Young Entrepreneur Council
Jan. 30, 2013, 8:00 AM
By: littlelionkat
When I started my first company, I was 21 years old and still in college. I had absolutely no money.
If I did have any money, it instantly got spent on beer. (Didn't I just say I was a 21-year-old college student?)
Fast forward three short years, and I now run one of the top five fitness services on the Internet. I've got all the money I need, and I spend my time either working on innovating new products, or traveling and experiencing everything the world has to offer. I never got VC or Angel funding, and I never got a giant cash infusion from an investor, a bank loan or anyone else, in any capacity.
So how did I get here?
The answer is simple: I stopped focusing on the money, and I started focusing on building something that people wanted to buy.
There are a ton of things you can do to build your company without any money. In fact, you can get pretty darn far with just Internet access, time and a clear vision. Here's a list of 10 steps you can take to help you build the business of your dreams — without spending more than a few hundred bucks:
Clarify your concept. What is the problem you want to solve? How will your company solve it? Outline, from start to finish, exactly how your company will function from a user's perspective. Then, outline exactly what you need to do to create that reality from the company's perspective. Be as detailed as possible, and ensure your outlined strategies don't require a crazy amount of cash to pull off. Chances are, you'll find a number of holes in your initial strategy that you'll have time to think through and solve — which you will want to do before you spend a dime on anything anyway.
Do market research. Walk people in your target market through your vision. Take their feedback into account and look for patterns. Your concept may make a ton of sense in your mind, but it may not make sense to customers. If they don't "get it" or see value in it, chances are they won't give you money — which is what you're typically after.
Wireframe. Come up with a detailed map of your company. If you've got an app idea or Internet business concept, map out every single screen. Where are all the buttons, and where do they take you? What does the copy say? What graphics do you need? Every single page on the site or app needs to be mapped out. If it's a brick and mortar store or a physical product, detailed designs and maps of the store or product are going to be necessary before you can develop your idea further. You can use programs like Photoshop for this, but you can also do this using paper and pencil. As you do, new issues and ideas will arise that will help you develop your concept even more.
Do a competitive analysis. What companies are using a similar business model, and how do they structure their company and their service? What companies are in your space currently, and what differentiates your company from theirs? Do as much research as you can, and use that knowledge to springboard your concept forward so you're not playing catch-up later.
Educate yourself. You may not have gone to business school (don't worry, neither did I), but you can still learn from the best. Services like Udemy offer low-cost or free resources to learn about business, entrepreneurship and various facets of marketing and sales that can help cut months or even years off your development time.
Research the reduction of costs of operation. In order to spend as little money as possible early on, compare costs of all the services that you need to employ in order to turn your concept into reality. Don't overlook sites like Elance, oDesk and Zirtual when it comes to hiring developers, designers, or various staff members. They can save you — quite literally — thousands of dollars, and can potentially provide you with a much more responsive and helpful service.
Start leveraging social networks. You can build your following without spending money. Get all your friends and family to start following your social networks, and give them regular updates on your progress. Give them incentives — such as promo codes for your upcoming product — to invite their friends as well. If you've already got a following, even a small one, it can help drive your initial sales.
Network, network, network. Go out and meet other entrepreneurs. There are tons of organizations out there you can get involved with, both in person and online. Tell other entrepreneurs and people in your space about what you're doing. Get them excited about the concept, and ask for their help if you think they can provide value. If you've already got a clear direction once you've launched, build an advisory board of 5-7 fellow entrepreneurs with relevant success in your space. Give a percentage point of equity or two in exchange for advice, strategy and connections.
Find a mentor. One of the most powerful assets you can have in entrepreneurship is a mentor. This should be somebody you look up to who has already achieved a level of success you hope to someday reach yourself. Find a way to connect with a person who you want to be mentored by — tell them your story, and ask them flat out if they would consider mentoring you. More often than not, they'll be flattered and will say yes. From there, learn all you can.
Get a logo designed for you. I saved this one for last because, even though it won't be your most powerful step, it will be a strong symbol of your progress for you personally and it may drive you to further action. Some services charge a few hundred dollars for a good logo, but I always love using LogoNerds.com. You can get a pretty solid logo done for $27!
Are these all the tasks you need to undertake to reach the level of success you want? Definitely not, but they are 10 powerful and necessary things that don't require any significant amount of money up front. Focus on getting these all done before spending more, and you'll be well on your way.
Travis Steffen is the founder of WorkoutBOX, ActionJunkie Labs, and a ton of other online startups. Travis is also the author of The Art Of The Hustler, and star of the upcoming reality show, Pushing The Limit. Find him on twitter - @TravisSteffen.
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St Ives Town look to take league form into cup match against Biggleswade Town
St Ives prepare to host Biggleswade Town in the third round of the Evo-Stik League Southern Cup
Andrew Georgeson
St Ives Town manager Ricky Marheineke.
St Ives manager Ricky Marheineke said he is looking at the Evo-Stik League Southern Cup as a chance for silverware ahead of their third round tie with Biggleswade Town on Tuesday night.
With both teams comfortably in mid-table and as the play-offs are probably out of reach, Markheineke believes this presents both teams with a good chance to win something.
He said: “We’re looking at it as a chance to win some silverware and I’m sure Biggleswade will be looking at it the same.
“That’s how we’ll approach it, and I expect it to be two teams battling in out rather than two teams who have made a lot of changes.
“We want to try and win every game.
“Winning football breeds momentum and confidence so we’re going to be approaching the game like any other.
“We’re going to make changes but we’ll certainly still be trying to win the game. We’ve got a very good squad and the lads that come in will be looking to push for a starting place.”
St Ives had an impressive 2-0 victory against Slough Town to extend their fine recent league form, and Marheineke is hoping they take this into the cup.
He said: “It’s is a very good place to be at the minute. There’s no better feeling than winning football games, and we hadn’t lost in a while until a freak goal in the 94th minute against King’s Lynn, so we’re confident.”
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UPDATE 1-Trump threatens veto of House defense bill over spending levels, wall
Published Tue, Jul 9 2019 7:26 PM EDT
Patricia Zengerle
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday threatened he would veto a massive defense bill being considered by the House of Representatives, saying it provides less money than he wants for the military and disagreeing with some of its policy provisions.
The version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, up for a vote in the Democratic-led House sets $733 billion in military spending, $17 billion less than Trump's fiscal-year 2020 budget request.
The Republican-led Senate last month passed its version of the measure, authorizing $750 billion for the Pentagon. Once the House passes its bill, the two chambers must come up with a compromise bill, which must pass both before being sent to the White House for Trump to sign into law or veto.
The administration objected as well to provisions in the House bill seeking to stop Trump from spending billions of dollars to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, after he declared a national emergency in order to go ahead with construction without Congress' approval.
It also opposed the bill's proposed imposition of stricter limits on the deployment of U.S. troops to work along the border and the curtailing of Trump's ability to transfer money from one project to another without consulting Congress.
Trump's promise to build a border wall was a feature of his 2016 presidential campaign, and has been a theme of his bid for re-election in 2020.
The administration also objected to a range of provisions including some related to nuclear weapons, Trump's plan for a "Space Force" and restrictions on detentions at the military prison at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, including a proposed ban on additional transfers to the prison in Cuba.
The House is expected to vote on the NDAA later this week.
It was not immediately clear that it would pass. Trump's fellow Republicans may vote no, and could be joined by many of the more liberal House Democrats, who object among other things to increasing defense spending without doing more to avoid waste at the Pentagon.
One of the few pieces of major legislation passed every year, the NDAA becomes a vehicle for a broad range of policy measures, as well as determining everything from military pay levels to which ships or aircraft will be modernized, purchased or discontinued.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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Home Faith Deadly to Believe: Modern martyrdom now a daily reality for many
Deadly to Believe: Modern martyrdom now a daily reality for many
Catherine Sheehan
A destroyed car is seen outside a school in Homs, Syria. Two car bombs exploded near the school in October 2014, killing at least 47 school children. For many Christians throughout the Middle East and further afield in continents like Africa this violence has become a daily reality. Source: Jesuit Refugee Service
It seems that what has been the case for some time is starting to be acknowledged publicly — that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world today.
Over the past few years Pope Francis has spoken repeatedly about the persecution of Christians around the world, condemning both the persecution and the deafening silence from the world in response to it.
Pleading with Christians in 2015 the Pope said, “We see our brothers and sisters who are still being persecuted, decapitated and crucified for their faith in You [Jesus], before our very eyes and often with our complicit silence.” (w2.vatican.va, 3 April 2015)
The Pope doesn’t mince words here—if we are silent, we are complicit. The response from Christians, and the world, has been slow, to say the least.
A police task force arrives to demolish an altar at an underground prayer house in Anzhuang, Hebei province, in 2015. Source: UCA NEWS
The plight of persecuted Christians was again brought to the world’s attention recently with the bombings of two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday this year.
In early April Federal MP Michael Sukkar called on the Turnbull government to formally recognise the massacre of Christians in Iraq and Syria by Islamic State (ISIS) as “genocide” and NSW MP, Damian Tudehope, announced that he intends to call on the NSW state government to do likewise. In his address to the Legislative Assembly, Mr Tudehope said Christians in the Middle East have endured persecution for “a very long time” and that “it is a problem we in the West are only just waking up to now.”
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference also acknowledged in February this year, in a submission to a Federal Inquiry into freedom of religion, that Christianity is “the most persecuted religious group in the world” and expressed concern about the growing threat to religious liberty in Western countries due to “aggressive atheism”.
The situation around the world
Christians faced harassment in 151 countries around the world in 2014, according to the Pew Research Centre—a non-partisan American think-tank—while Muslims faced harassment in 135 countries and Jews in 95.
The mother of one of the victims of an attack on a group of Coptic Christians that took place on 26 May attends a funeral at the Sacred Family Church in Minya, Egypt, that same day. Source: Mohamed Abd El Ghany, Reuters
When he was in Australia last year, American journalist John L Allen Jr, Editor of Crux and author of The Global War on Christians, said, “It is a statistical fact that today Christians are, by some order of magnitude, the most persecuted religious body on the planet.”
In his book, Allen cites President of the International Society for Human Rights, Martin Lessenthin, who estimated in 2009 that 80 percent of acts of religious discrimination around the world were committed against Christians.
The Centre for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) has estimated that 100,000 Christians were martyred each year from the year 2000 to 2010.
While Islamic extremism is responsible for much anti-Christian persecution today, countries with communist and atheistic regimes such as North Korea, China and Vietnam, are also some of the worst places on earth for Christians.
The CSGC estimated there have been 70 million Christian martyrs throughout history, and more than half of those were killed in the 20th century under fascist and communist regimes.
Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou was detained in June by Chinese officials for the fourth time. Source: UCA NEWS
Open Doors, a charity supporting persecuted Christians, has ranked North Korea number one for persecution of Christians on its World Watch List for the 15th consecutive year. Religious freedom is non-existent under the atheistic dictatorship of Kim Jong-un and it is believed that at least 50,000 Christians are currently in concentration camps. According to reports, Christians have been publicly executed in North Korea simply for owning bibles.
In China more than 2,000 churches and crosses have been demolished since 2013, as the country’s communist government seeks to remove all public symbols of faith and bring all religions into alignment with the values of the Chinese Communist Party.
In the Middle East the most brutal persecution has been in Syria and Iraq, where violence against Christians and other minority groups such as the Yazidis, has been carried out by ISIS. Last year this brutality was formally recognised as ‘genocide’ by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe—Europe’s leading human rights body.
ACN has reported that 700,000 Christians have fled Syria due to civil war, the rise of Islamic extremism and the incursion of ISIS. Christians in Syria have been targeted with churches desecrated and the kidnapping and killing of priests and bishops.
The intent of ISIS to remove Christianity entirely from the Middle East—a region that Christians have inhabited since the time of Christ—was made clear in February 2015, when a video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya was released. The video was titled, ‘A message in blood to the nation of the cross.’
When ISIS took control of Mosul in northern Iraq in June 2014, they marked the doors of Christian homes with the Arabic symbol for ‘Nazarene’. The city’s 3,000 Christians were given the ultimatum to convert to Islam or be killed. Today there are no Christians left in the city of Mosul.
In the late 1990s there were 1.4 million Christians in Iraq. Today there are less than 275,000—less than one per cent of the population. ACN estimated in their 2013-15 report Persecuted and Forgotten, that in five year’s time there may be no Christians left in Iraq.
A nun leads prayer for displaced Iraqi Christians who fled Islamic State militants in Mosul at a school acting as a refugee camp in Irbil, Iraq, in 2014. At the time, Irbil hosted more than 100,000 displaced Christians and other minorities. In the years to come, that number soared. Source: Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters
Some Christians however, have expressed a desire to return to their homes in Iraq, according to ACN, following the recent liberation of the Nineveh Plains and parts of Mosul from ISIS.
Different types of persecution
While threats to religious freedom in western countries do not even come close to the horror of violent persecution in other parts of the world, it is important to note that there is a slippery-slope relationship between intolerance of religion and outright persecution. ACN has identified three stages in the decline of religious liberty: firstly intolerance, then discrimination and finally outright persecution.
Pope Francis has pointed out that there exists a subtle persecution of Christians, perpetrated ironically in the name of progress (radiovaticana.va, 12 April 2016), a ‘velvet-gloved’ persecution ‘cloaked in politeness,’ that marginalises and threatens the livelihoods of those who do not adapt to laws that “go against God the Creator”.
“We see every day that the powerful make laws that force people to take this path, Pope Francis said. “If you don’t do this, you will be punished: you’ll lose your job and many things or you’ll be set aside. This is the persecution of the world.”
There are many examples of such ‘velvet-gloved’ persecution, even here in Australia.
The law in Victoria requires all doctors, including those with conscientious objections to abortion (such as Catholics) to refer women for abortions. Pro-life discussions or even silent prayer are prohibited by law within a 150-metre radius of abortion clinics.
In 2015 the Catholic bishops of Australia were required by an anti-discrimination board in Tasmania to answer a complaint about the distribution of pamphlets in Catholic schools espousing Catholic teaching on marriage.
Even though the case was eventually dropped, the fact that it even happened in a democratic country, where marriage is recognised in law as between a man and a woman, is alarming and raises serious questions about religious freedom should marriage be redefined.
While in the United States, after the re-definition of marriage to include same-sex couples was imposed on the American people in 2015 by nine Supreme Court Justices, a county clerk was temporarily jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples because it contradicted her Christian faith.
In expressing concern about “a growing anti-Christian bias” in Australia, Damian Tudehope MP said, “It is frightening to think that, in a country where Christmas and Easter are national holidays, it is now considered offensive to be a Christian in public life.”
The recent media backlash against former tennis star Margaret Court, after she expressed her opposition to same-sex marriage, is an example of the increasing intolerance of Christians publically expressing their beliefs.
Certainly persecution is nothing new to Christianity. The founder of our religion was put to death and the symbol of our faith—the cross—is a depiction of persecution. Furthermore, Christ told us, “If they persecuted me, they will persecute you” (John 15:20).
However, Christ always called-out injustice and hypocrisy. Raising awareness about this issue and condemning the persecution is therefore imperative. The way we live our lives as Christians also makes a difference.
In Islamic countries, Christianity is often considered synonymous with the Western world, where there has been a significant decline in the number of Christians actively practising their faith.
The exiled Archbishop of Mosul in Iraq, Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona, told The Catholic Weekly earlier this year that the best way Christians in the West can support Christians in the Middle East is by living genuinely Christian lives.
We can lobby our government to take in more refugees fleeing persecution, and we can all contribute to ensuring such people are welcomed and supported when they arrive in Australia.
We can also give financial support to organisations that provide aid to persecuted Christians, such as Aid to the Church in Need and Caritas.
And then of course there is prayer. We should never underestimate the power of prayer. We need to pray for those persecuted and their persecutors, since Christ himself said, “Pray for those who persecute you.” (Matthew 5:44)
Taking a stand against persecution and defending religious liberty around the world sends a powerful message that we stand in solidarity with those being persecuted.
Our brothers and sisters in Christ need to know that their suffering is our suffering, because we believe in the Communion of Saints—the fact that we are one body in Christ.
If you want to help the persecuted Church, donations can be made to Aid to the Church in Need at www.aidtochurch.org
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The Amazing Race Heats Up With Floating Hot Tubs
1. See what happens when the racers float through Amsterdam
In Detour A, Hayley (left) and Blair (right) must ride a floating hot tub through the canals of Amsterdam to look for clues to solve a puzzle on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
2. Cobbler assistants
In this Road Block, Matt (pictured) and Ashley must dress as a cobbler's assistants then find the match to a klompen, a traditional wooden shoe, among hundreds of other wooden shoes on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
3. Ashley's focused to the max
In Detour B, Ashley (pictured) and Matt must play Sjoelen, a Dutch version of shuffleboard. Once they reach 51 points, they will receive the next clue on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
4. Soak or Shuffle?
At the Detour Decision Point, Matt (left) and Ashely (right) must choose between "Soak" and "Shuffle" on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
5. From location to location
Mike (left) and Rochelle (right) make their way to the next location on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
6. Game time for the racers
In Detour B, Rochelle (pictured) and Mike must play Sjoelen, a Dutch version of shuffleboard. Once they reach 51 points, they will receive the next clue on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
7. When in Amsterdam
Hayley (left) and Blair (right) must make their way to the Pit Stop by bike on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
8. Searching for clues
In Detour A, Blair (left) and Hayley (right) must ride a floating hot tub through the canals of Amsterdam to look for clues to solve a puzzle on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
9. Blind daters and a floating hot tub
10. Seeing the city by bike
Jelani (left) and Jenny (right) must make their way to the Pit Stop by bike on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
11. Talk about a fun ride!
In Detour A, Jelani (left) and Jenny (right) must ride a floating hot tub through the canals of Amsterdam to look for clues to solve a puzzle on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
12. Looking for clues in Amsterdam
13. Pit stop pondering
Laura (left) and Tyler (right) must make their way to the Pit Stop by bike on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
14. Now, that looks fun
In Detour A, Laura (left) and Tyler (right) must ride a floating hot tub through the canals of Amsterdam to look for clues to solve a puzzle on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
15. Canal drifters
In Detour A, Tyler (left) and Laura (right) must ride a floating hot tub through the canals of Amsterdam to look for clues to solve a puzzle on THE AMAZING RACE, Friday, April 24 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
16. Float on by
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June 16, 2019: The Spirit of Truth
June 16, 2019 Rev. Rhonda Blevins, DMIN
The Spirit of Truth
I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
There’s a recurring scene at my house. My amazing husband performs some simple magic trick for my five-year-old son, Rhys. At first, Rhys will grow wide-eyed and amazed, but within an instant, he’ll recognize it’s a trick—an optical illusion. Then he’ll try to figure it out. “How did you do that?” he’ll demand of his father.
And so begins the quest for truth.
Truth is tricky these days. I’m old enough to remember when you could watch the evening news and believe that what the anchor said was true. Biased? Perhaps. But true. I’m old enough to remember when I could read the “news” and didn’t have to question whether this “news” met the scrutiny of an editorial review board. I’m old enough to remember a time when Americans held a common narrative—ABC, CBS, and NBC all told the same story, merely with different nuances of bias and perspective.
Was this a perfect system? No. Marginalized views and voices were underrepresented. But there was a certain comfort in having a shared narrative with most people you’d encounter on a given day.
Enter: social media.
Overnight, it seems, anyone with a keyboard could create news and gain a platform. There’s not an editorial review board in Joe-Bob’s bedroom where he clicks away on his laptop propagating wild conspiracy theories, if Joe-Bob is even his real name. And that favorite talk-radio host or podcaster? Who holds him or her accountable for truth-telling? Where’s the line between opinion and fact? And let’s face it, who really cares whether it’s fact or opinion so long as I agree with it?
With that mindset, we place ourselves in echo chambers so that we don’t have to hear or read ideas that challenge our biases, opinions, or beliefs. The division between us grows as those in my echo chamber vilify you and those in your echo chamber and vice versa. It’s easier to vilify others than to deal with the anxiety inherent in a pluralistic culture and the chaos and confusion symptomatic of this post-truth era.
Phyllis Tickle suggests that this chaos and confusion isn’t new to this generation. She suggests that every 500 years or so, Christianity has to reinvent itself for a new era as it responds to a changing culture. The driving question, every time according to Tickle, for Christians experiencing the angst of these every-five-hundred-years existential crises is this: “Where now is our authority?”
Five-hundred-years ago good Catholic folks began to question the authority of the pope. Eventually, after a grueling and long process, the Protestant reformers were able to answer the question, “Where now is our authority?” with the cry, “Sola scriptura, scriptura sola!” Only scripture. Scripture only. And if scripture was the authority, then people must be able to read and interpret scripture for themselves. Literacy for the masses became paramount.
Second only to the authority of the scriptures was the authority given to those educated in the scriptures. Did you know most of the Ivy League schools, including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, were formed to train ministers? And now how much authority do ministers have, when Joe-Bob can publish his latest conspiracy theory on Reddit, and a minute later pay his $50 to OrdinationsRUs.com (or whatever) and receive his certificate of ordination? All from his bedroom . . . his 53 cats serving as his ordination council.
Here’s how one pastor describes the situation:
The whole notion of one person being wise and knowledgeable and everyone else sitting at their feet feels like it comes from another era. Authority has changed: it doesn’t come from accreditation, like academic degrees conferred or ordination undergone or job title recognized; it comes from likes and hits and trends and follows. The whole process of sharing information has been democratized. When I taught the introduction to ethics course at an American seminary, one end-of-semester evaluation sheet demanded the student be reimbursed not just by the college but by me personally for what he’d calculated as his outlay of $100 per lecture, because everything I’d said was available elsewhere. I don’t know what new information he wanted me to offer in an introductory course that was by definition discussing material available elsewhere. But the experience showed me that the authority of the professor is unavoidably subverted in the Internet age. A doctor faces the same issue with a patient: if the patient is coming with a breathing problem, it’s highly likely the patient has scoured the Internet for diagnoses and possible treatments, research that inevitably becomes the backdrop to evaluating anything the doctor might say. It becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between the knowledge and information that’s available to everyone and the wisdom of the professional that discerns which item of knowledge is most appropriate for today . . . everything is up for comment, nothing can truly be trusted, and communication is speeded up and expanded as fast as it is devalued. The Babel that became Pentecost has become Babel again. [1]
“The Babel that became Pentecost has become Babel again.” What does that mean?
We celebrated Pentecost last week, that day recounted in the New Testament when the Holy Spirit fell among those early believers, giving them the power to speak myriad languages so that people from every nation could hear and respond to the Gospel. Many interpreters understand that event as a correction to what happened in the Old Testament at Babel, where God confused those trying to build a tower to heaven by causing them to speak all kinds of different languages.
I agree with this pastor that we are once again living in the land of Babel—marked by the chaos and confusion of our grasping for truth and authority. We are Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, spinning around in a cyclone and landing in a strange new world with munchkins singing over us. How do we find our way home? “Follow the yellow brick road!” As Dorothy follows the yellow brick road, she meets up with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion, symbolizing the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Where did the yellow brick road lead? To the all-powerful Wizard, of course—the authority and source of truth and knowledge. What happened when Dorothy finally met the wizard? At first, he seemed all-powerful and all-knowing until the little dog Toto pulled back the curtain, revealing that the wizard was just a charlatan . . . a man with a gift for special effects, and a knack for making himself appear larger and more powerful that he actually was.
But let’s talk about Toto for a moment, Dorothy’s little scruffy dog. Each character in this masterful story has a deeper meaning. Toto is with Dorothy nearly the whole story, helping her along the way. Toto knows things Dorothy doesn’t, like the fact that the scarecrow is talking, and that there is a man behind the curtain. Toto represents our intuition (in the popular vernacular), our “adaptive unconscious” (in academic language), or (in the language of faith) the Holy Spirit.
How does Jesus describe the Spirit in the passage we read together in John? Let’s read it again: “When the Spirit of truth comes.” And what does Jesus say the Spirit of Truth will do? “He will guide you into all the truth.”
Just like Toto pulled back the curtain on the Wizard, the Holy Spirit pulls back the veil separating us from truth.
But how? How does the Holy Spirit guide us into truth? Two primary ways: we think, and we feel—we use our mind, and we use our gut.
The Holy Spirit, or what Jesus calls the “Spirit of Truth” in this passage, is revealed through its fruit.
The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the church at Galatia, taught that there are nine qualities or attributes characteristic of a person or community living with the authenticity that comes from the Spirit of Truth—these are the “measurables”: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23). In this post-truth era, these nine qualities are still a great litmus test—a way for you and me to discern whether a person or a community can be trusted.
So you’re trying to decide whether to hire someone, or vote for someone, or date someone, or trust someone, think, “Does this person manifest love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control consistently?” Now nobody’s perfect, but a generally trustworthy person will exhibit these qualities consistently in most areas of their lives. The same litmus test can be useful for finding a church or book club or any kind of community. (By the way, Chapel, you’ve got good fruit!)
The second way to heed the Holy Spirit is through a simple gut check.
In a previous position, I needed to hire someone to fill an associate role. There was an internal candidate who wanted the job and I really wanted to help this person, but there were some red flags—something didn’t “feel” right. There were issues with boundaries that I recognized but couldn’t quite name to myself or to the many stakeholders who were pressuring me to promote this person. Long story short, I promoted him, and he was a disaster—he created tremendous division within the small organization I served. Ultimately, it was my fault because I promoted him. I painted my red flags green. Don’t. Ever. Paint. Your. Red. Flags. Green. If you don’t trust your gut, it will bite you in the . . .
We commonly use the phrase, “Trust your gut,” which means lean into your intuition.
Malcomb Gladwell, in his 2005 book Blink, tells the story of the J. Paul Getty Museum in California purchasing a statue that turned out to be a forgery. The museum spent fourteen months studying the piece before buying it: they took core samples to test its age, they researched the documentation that came with it, even tests by sculpture experts in Athens. But when they finally put it on display, art history experts doubted its authenticity. They couldn’t name why they doubted it, exactly. One expert said it felt like there was a glass veil between him and the statue. The art experts instantly felt, intuitively, that it was a forgery, even though a rigorous fourteen-month analysis gave the museum confidence it was authentic. The end result is that the stature remains in the Getty, with a placard that states, “About 350 BC, or modern forgery.”
Gladwell’s premise of the book is that sometimes we make our best decisions in the Blink of an eye, using our intuition, and that over-thinking decisions can lead to “analysis paralysis.” He cautions that our biases and prejudices can operate at the subconscious level—and that we must guard against that. But by and large, Gladwell makes the case that we must learn to trust our intuition, or “adaptive unconscious,” for its keen ability to quickly and accurately assess any situation.
Why should we trust our intuition/adaptive unconscious? Let me quote M. Scott Peck from his 1978 bestseller, The Road Less Traveled: “To put it plainly, our unconscious is God. God within us. We are part of God all the time. God has been with us all along, is now, and always will be.”[2] “The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.”[3]
That’s the Holy Spirit he’s talking about. Thomas Aquinas loved to say, “If it’s true, it is always from the one Holy Spirit.”[4]
As we navigate life together in this post-truth society, we don’t have to be anxious or afraid. We don’t have to throw our hands up in the air and say there’s no way to know what’s true and what isn’t. Why? We’ve got the Holy Spirit; therefore, we’ve got the truth! We can discern with our minds whether another person is acting through the power of the Holy Spirit by whether they manifest love and the other fruits; we can feel with our guts, our intuition, the Spirit within, that which is true in any situation. Trust the Spirit. Lean into that power in your lives.
Jesus said something else about truth in John 8:32:
[1] Samuel Wells, https://www.faithandleadership.com/samuel-wells-social-media-trending-or-transforming
[2] M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, 281.
[3] Ibid, 251.
[4] https://cac.org/truth-is-one-2016-11-22/
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A property of the blackbody radiation curve is that the wavelength of maximum energy emission, Xm, satisfies
XmT = constant.
This is known as Wien's displacement law. Since the solar emission temperature is about 6000 K, the maximum of the solar spectrum is (see Fig. 2.2) at about 0.6 ^m (in the visible spectrum), and we have determined Te = 255 K for the Earth, it follows that the peak of the terrestrial spectrum is at
Thus the Earth's radiation to space is primarily in the infrared spectrum. Normalized (see Appendix A.1.1) blackbody spectra for the Sun and Earth are shown in Fig. 2.6. The two spectra hardly overlap, which greatly simplifies thinking about radiative transfer.
Also shown in Fig. 2.6 is the atmospheric absorption spectrum; this is the fraction of radiation at each wavelength that is
FIGURE 2.6. (a) The normalized blackbody emission spectra, T-4XBX, for the Sun (T = 6000 K) and Earth (T = 255 K) as a function of ln X (top), where Bx is the blackbody function (see Eq. A-2) and X is the wavelength (see Appendix A.1.1 for further discussion). (b) The fraction of radiation absorbed while passing from the ground to the top of the atmosphere as a function of wavelength. (c) The fraction of radiation absorbed from the tropopause (typically at a height of 11km) to the top of the atmosphere as a function of wavelength. The atmospheric molecules contributing the important absorption features at each frequency are also indicated. After Goody and Yung (1989).
absorbed on a single vertical path through the atmosphere. From it we see that:
• The atmosphere is almost completely transparent in the visible spectrum, at the peak of the solar spectrum.
• The atmosphere is very opaque in the UV spectrum.
• The atmosphere has variable opacity across the IR spectrum. It is almost completely opaque at some wavelengths, and transparent at others.
• N2 does not figure at all in absorption, and O2 absorbs only in the far UV (where there is little solar energy flux) and, a little, in the near IR. The dominant constituents of the atmosphere are incredibly transparent across almost the whole spectral range of importance.
• The absorption of terrestrial radiation is dominated by triatomic molecules—O3 in the UV; H2O, CO2, and others in the IR—because triatomic molecules have rotational and vibrational modes that can easily be excited by IR radiation. These molecules are present in tiny concentrations (see Table 1.2) but play a key role in the absorption of terrestrial radiation (see Fig. 2.6). They are known as greenhouse gases. This is the fundamental reason why atmospheric radiation may be so vulnerable to the human-induced changes in composition shown in Fig. 1.3.
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Carmelo Anthony who? Charles Barkley calls Bulls best in East if …
By K.C. Johnson
Pau Gasol reacts after scoring a basket against the Knicks' Carmelo Anthony during an October game. (Adam Hunger, USA Today Sports)
As TNT likes to do occasionally, Charles Barkley is out of the network's Atlanta studio and will sit courtside with fellow analyst Reggie Miller and play-by-play ace Kevin Harlan to call Thursday night's Bulls-Knicks game.
Wherever Barkley is, expect honesty.
"The Knicks aren't a good team," Barkley said by phone. "Plain and simple."
And the Bulls?
"If Derrick (Rose) is healthy, they're the best team in the Eastern Conference," Barkley said. "They don't have any weaknesses. They have a great coach. And they're solid at every position."
It has been just more than five months and several dropped degrees since the Bulls welcomed Carmelo Anthony to the United Center on a gorgeous summer day for a free-agency tour that resonated. Anthony himself revealed in his recently released documentary what several outlets reported in July — that the Bulls' pitch gave him serious pause and, at one point, had him leaning toward Chicago.
Ultimately, Anthony resigned for five years and $124 million with the Knicks, who are 5-22 in the first season of team President Phil Jackson's rebuilding plan that features rookie coach Derek Fisher. They opened the season against the Bulls at home, and this will be Anthony's first game in Chicago since the deal.
The Bulls (15-9) never looked back, moving swiftly to sign Pau Gasol, Nikola Mirotic and Kirk Hinrich and benefiting from steady play from Mike Dunleavy and Jimmy Butler's emergence that wouldn't have transpired with Anthony in the fold.
"I'm a live-in-the-moment kind of guy, so I don't try to dwell on what could have happened," Joakim Noah said. "I'm really happy with what we have now. We're a deep team and striving for something pretty different than what they're striving for in terms of goals for the year."
Noah repeatedly has made clear he had no problem with Anthony's decision, which seems fitting because Barkley has the same take. And Noah, who is expected back after a four-game absence because of a sore ankle, is Barkley's favorite player to watch.
"I don't think Carmelo messed up at all," Barkley said. "Listen, there's no shame in taking an extra $30 million. That's a lot of money. He can change his entire family for generations and generations. Guys talk about winning championships, but there was no guarantee he was going to win the championship (with the Bulls)."
If healthy, the current construction of the Bulls is a team Barkley believes can. And Noah is a big reason why.
"He's my favorite player," Barkley said. "That guy gives maximum energy and effort every time I watch him play. One thing that's underrated in sports is energy is a talent. He's probably the best passing big man in the game. It's a treat to watch him play."
Thursday will mark the second courtside appearance this season for Barkley, who will be replaced in studio on Thursday with Grant Hill and previously called the Cavaliers' Oct. 30 season opener against the Knicks.
So Thursday night will be the second time Barkley has seen this version of the triangle offense in person this season.
"The triangle doesn't work unless you have great players," he said. "It's all about players. It's not about systems. This is the NBA. You can have a system in college. In the pros, you have to have good players. And the Knicks don't have good players. So it has nothing to do with the triangle. That system worked with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaq and Kobe. The Knicks don't have those players."
It's the first, in-person look at the Bulls for Barkley, who said he didn't agree with fellow TNT studio analyst Shaquille O'Neal's preseason claim that Pau Gasol is done.
"I like their roster a lot," Barkley said. "Pau has played very well. When they had (Carlos) Boozer, they were too small. The addition of Pau really has solidified the center spot. I take my chances with Noah and Gasol against most big-guy tandems in the league."
Barkley didn't back off his strong criticism Nov. 13 of Derrick Rose's comments about weighing his post-playing career when determining whether to play through soreness.
"Derrick is a great kid and a great player but those were ill-advised statements," Barkley said. "He has played very well though. We don't worry about Derrick playing well. We worry about Derrick staying healthy."
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And then Barkley repeated that if Rose is healthy, the Bulls are the Eastern Conference's best team. Don't worry: He'll have plenty more strong statements sitting courtside.
"When we're in the studio, we're just sitting there and watching the game and we don't have anything to do until halftime or after the game," Barkley said. "This, you have to pay attention to every single play. And that's fun sometimes. I really enjoy that."
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How One of America's Biggest Heroes Survived Absolute Horror as a POW — and Found God
CP Current Page: Entertainment | Thursday, September 13, 2018
By Billy Hallowell, Pureflix.com | Thursday, September 13, 2018
Luke Zamperini | (Screenshot: Pure Flix)
Louis Zamperini was one of America's greatest heroes — a World War II veteran, POW, Olympic runner, and an evangelist. His harrowing story of overcoming the odds will be told through Pure Flix's "Unbroken: Path to Redemption," which debuts in theaters nationwide on Friday, September 14.
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Zamperini's son, Luke Zamperini, appeared on PureFlix.com's "Pure Talk" this week to share the finer details of his late father's incredibly uplifting and death-defying journey.
"My dad's story is full of great stories," Zamperini said, going on to summarize the major benchmarks of his dad's life. "Punk kid makes it into sports, athlete makes it to the Olympics, Olympian joins the military, soldier crashes at sea and survives for 47 days, famous American athlete picked up by Japanese and put into a prison camp."
Watch Luke Zamperini share the details of his dad's incredible faith journey below:
Some pieces of Louis Zamperini's story were told in Angelina Jolie's hit 2014 film "Unbroken," but the sequel dives much deeper into his stunning conversion to Christianity — something that unfolded after most of the events shown in the Jolie's film.
Luke Zamperini said that he initially wondered why Jolie and her team couldn't fit his father's astounding faith journey into the first movie, but came to learn the difficulty of condensing so much content into two hours of cinematic storytelling.
"Unbroken: Path to Redemption" will show Zamperini's journey after he arrived home from the war, suffered PTSD symptoms and turned to alcohol — all struggles that unfolded before he accepted Jesus at a Billy Graham revival and experienced an incredible life transformation.
"My father was having these tremendously horrible dreams," Luke Zamperini explained. "He was self-medicating with alcohol, he was getting in fights. He didn't know where to turn."
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Louis Zamperini's wife, Cynthia, couldn't take it anymore and threatened to divorce him "because there was no helping him." But then something amazing happened.
"She got invited to a revival meeting in downtown Los Angeles," Zamperini said, noting that his dad refused to go.
Cynthia came away from that Billy Graham event with a renewed perspective on life, telling her husband that the "newfound joy" in her heart meant that she wouldn't divorce him — all on one condition: Zamperini needed attend a Billy Graham revival meeting with her.
Zamperini complied with his wife's request, but ended up leaving the event frustrated, telling Cynthia, "Don't ever take me to a place like that again."
Somehow, though, she convinced him to go back a second time — and as he prepared to once again leave during Graham's sermon, the evangelist's words suddenly pierced his heart.
Luke Zamperini said that his dad had an instant flashback to his 47 days stranded at sea on a raft, recalling how he had made a promise to God, praying, "God, if you get me home from this alive I will seek you and serve you my entire life."
Zamperini realized that he had failed to live up to that pledge after the war, and this realization changed everything.
"He just walked down to the stage, accepts Jesus," Zamperini said of his dad, noting that there was immediate relief. "He felt this great weight lifted off his shoulders."
Zamperini left alcohol behind and went on to forgive the Japanese prison guards who had abused and tortured him. And the dreams he had been haunted by for so long immediately vanished.
"He went home that night and it was the first night in almost five years that he didn't have that dream," Zamperini said. "And he never had it again the rest of his life."
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The former Olympian and war hero devoted the rest of his life to spreading the Christian faith and helping youths, dying in 2014 at the age of 97.
Now, Luke Zamperini is hoping "Unbroken: Path to Redemption" leaves viewers with intense hope.
Find out more about the film here — and watch "Louis Zamperini: Captured By Grace."
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Billy Hallowell, author of "The Armageddon Code," has contributed to TheBlaze, the Washington Post, Human Events, the Daily Caller, Mediaite, and the Huffington Post, among other news sites. Through journalism, media, public speaking appearances, and the blogosphere, Hallowell has worked as a journalist and commentator for more than a decade.
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High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet can Curb Epileptic Seizures
Cheri Cheng
Update Date: Oct 30, 2014 10:23 AM EDT
People with epilepsy can benefit from eating a ketogenic or a modified Atkins diet. According to a new study, these high-fat, low-carb diets reduced the number of seizures in adults with hard to control epilepsy.
"We need new treatments for the 35 percent of people with epilepsy whose seizures are not stopped by medications," study co-author Dr. Pavel Klein said according to WebMD. "The ketogenic diet is often used in children, but little research has been done on how effective it is in adults."
For this study, the researchers examined the effects of eating a ketogenic diet, which consists of a fat to protein/carbohydrate ratio of three or four to one, or a modified Atkins diet on epileptic people. The modified Atkins diet involved foods such as bacon, eggs, heavy cream, butter, fish and greens eaten in a one-to-one (fat to protein/carbohydrate) ratio. The team looked at data from two sets of five studies. The first set tracked 47 people eating a ketogenic diet and the second set followed 85 people on the modified Atkins diet.
The researchers found that both diets led to a reduction in the number of seizures experienced by the participants. The ketogenic diet was linked to decreasing the number of seizures by 50 percent or more in 32 percent of the people and by 90 percent or more in nine percent of the people. In the modified Atkins group, 29 percent of participants experienced a drop in seizures by 50 percent or more while five percent of them had a drop by 90 percent or more.
The team noted that the benefits happened within days or weeks of starting the diet and lasted as long as the people continued following the diet. However, the researchers found that due to the difficulty of maintaining these types of diets, many people dropped out of the study.
"Unfortunately, long-term use of these diets is low because they are so limited and complicated," said Klein, from the Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center in Bethesda, MD. "Most people eventually stop the diet because of the culinary and social restrictions. However, these studies show the diets are moderately to very effective as another option for people with epilepsy."
The study, "Dietary treatment in adults with refractory epilepsy," was published in the journal, Neurology.
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Fire Chief: Air conditioning unit cause of Colleton Co. plantation fire
by: Maurice Miller, Jan-Michael Pugh
Posted: Sep 6, 2018 / 07:40 AM EDT / Updated: Sep 6, 2018 / 07:56 PM EDT
Authorities in Colleton County are trying to determine the cause of a fire at Myrtle Grove Plantation.
Fire Chief McRoy with the Colleton County Fire-Rescue says he believes the fire started from something related to the A/C unit located in the basement.
No foul play is suspected, but the occupants were having problems with the unit earlier in the day, McRoy added.
Colleton County Fire and Rescue shared a photo of the blaze late Wednesday as it ripped through the main house at the property.
The fire, in the 6900 block of White Hall Road, was so large the Sheldon Fire Department provided mutual aid.
Shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday, crews announced that all units had left the scene.
Fire crews say the fire took so long to put out because initial access to the home was blocked by low-hanging branches. Additionally, the home is in a non-hydranted area, so crews had to use water from a pond to fight the fire.
News 2 has learned that the house was occupied but no civilians were injured. A firefighter was treated and released from Colleton Medical Center after suffering a laceration during the fire.
News 2 will continue to update this story as it develops.
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Dr. Si Thura Named CPI’s New Executive Director
Dr. Si Thura. Photo: Community Partners International
Dr. Si Thura, Community Partners InternationaI’s (CPI) Country Director, will be promoted to Executive Director effective June 1, 2017. He will assume the responsibilities handled by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Sandee Pyne, who will be stepping down at the end of June
“Dr. Si Thura’s appointment marks the culmination of a long planned transition to local leadership and the next evolution in CPI’s commitment to Myanmar.” said Dr. Thomas J. Lee, Chair of CPI’s Board of Directors. “Over the past few years we have carefully shifted our programmatic, financial, and executive leadership into the capable hands of Myanmar national staff. The Board of Directors is delighted that Dr. Si Thura will bring his deep experience and strong leadership to guide CPI as we look to the future.”
Dr. Si Thura joined CPI in 2009 as the organization’s first Myanmar-based staff member. Starting from a small office in Yangon, he has played an instrumental role in bringing CPI from its roots on the eastern border to the forefront of health systems strengthening in Myanmar. Today, under Dr. Si Thura’s stewardship, CPI employs 80 staff in nine locations in Myanmar, all supporting the organization’s network of community-based partners to deliver lifesaving health care to hundreds of thousands of people in conflict-affected, remote rural and urban poor communities across the country.
Dr. Si Thura has successfully positioned CPI as a key contributor to national health reform efforts in Myanmar, leveraging the unique relationships and expertise that the organization has developed over 20 years to support cooperation between the national government and ethnic and community-based health care providers around shared priorities in health. In 2016, Dr. Si Thura received InsideNGO’s Emerging Leader Award in recognition of his significant contributions to health care in Myanmar.
“I am deeply honored to have this opportunity to lead the organization to which I have dedicated almost a decade of my life.” said Dr. Si Thura. “The political transition taking place in Myanmar has brought pivotal opportunities to transform the health status of Myanmar’s underserved and marginalized communities and ensure that every person has access to the affordable, good quality health care they need to thrive. CPI is uniquely placed to play a key role in making this happen. As we look to the future, I will focus on ensuring that we remain true to our founding principles of equity and community empowerment in health care while supporting Myanmar’s ambitious goal of achieving health for all by 2030.”
Commenting on Dr. Si Thura’s appointment, CPI’s CEO Dr. Pyne said, “Dr. Si Thura and I have been working towards this transition since I joined CPI in 2013. I am thrilled that he has accepted the position. There is no one better placed to build and strengthen CPI’s impact in the years to come.”
In recognition of Dr. Pyne’s significant contribution to CPI’s development, Dr. Lee said, “CPI’s Board of Directors is deeply grateful to Dr. Pyne for her professionalism, unwavering passion and commitment in successfully guiding CPI through this period of change. We wish her the very best as she moves forward to new opportunities."
“As we prepare to celebrate our 20th anniversary, we are proud of our legacy and exceptionally confident for the future.” Dr. Lee added. “We remain steadfast in our mission to build and strengthen our community partners to provide lifesaving health care to those who need it most in Myanmar.”
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EPA Report: Fracking Contaminated Drinking Water
WASHINGTON - Contrary to the drilling industry claim that hydraulic fracturing has never contaminated groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a 1987 study that “fracking” of a natural gas well in West Virginia contaminated an underground drinking water source. That all-but-forgotten report to Congress, uncovered by Environmental Working Group and Earthjustice, found that fracturing gel from a shale gas well more than 4,000 feet deep had contaminated well water.
EPA investigators concluded that the contamination was “illustrative” of a broader problem of pollution associated with hydraulic fracturing but said the agency’s investigation was hampered by confidentiality agreements between industry and affected landowners. Environmental Working Group’s year-long investigation of the incident found that several abandoned natural gas wells located near the fractured well in West Virginia could have served as conduits that allowed the gel, a common ingredient in fracking fluid, to migrate into the water well.
“When you add up the gel in the water, the presence of abandoned wells and the documented ability of drilling fluids to migrate through these wells into underground water supplies, there is a lot of evidence that EPA got it right and that this was indeed a case of hydraulic fracturing contamination of groundwater,” said Dusty Horwitt, EWG’s senior oil and gas analyst and author of “Cracks in the Façade,” EWG’s report about EPA’s finding. “Now it’s up to EPA to pick up where it left off 25 years ago and determine the true risks of fracking so that our drinking water can be protected.”
Since the 1987 report, the industry has hydraulically fractured hundreds of thousands of wells and is continuing a historic push into natural gas-bearing shale formations, once considered inaccessible, that lie beneath populated areas in a number of states, including West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Louisiana and Arkansas.
To access these formations, drillers often use a relatively new combination of horizontal drilling and higher-volume fracturing. As drilling activity has intensified, reports of pollution have sparked a growing national debate over the actual or potential environmental risks, including contamination of groundwater, the source of drinking water for more than 100 million Americans, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2005 following an EPA study of hydraulic fracturing the previous year which found little risk to water supplies when fracturing is conducted in coal bed methane deposits. Neither Congress nor the EPA mentioned the agency’s 1987 finding. EPA is currently conducting a new study of fracking’s impact on water supplies.
“During the fracturing process,” EPA investigators wrote in the 1987 report, which focused on the handling of natural gas, oil and geothermal wastes generally, “fractures can be produced, allowing migration of native brine, fracturing fluid and hydrocarbons from the oil or gas well to a nearby water well. When this happens, the water well can be permanently damaged and a new well must be drilled or an alternative source of drinking water found.”
Environmental Working Group found that the evidence in the West Virginia case was consistent with pollution from hydraulic fracturing, though it is possible that another stage of the drilling process caused the problem.
In the EPA’s files in Washington, EWG also discovered a document submitted in 1987 by the American Petroleum Institute, the natural gas and oil industry’s major trade association, that appeared to agree with the EPA finding but suggested that it was not typical. “One case,” the API wrote, referring to the West Virginia contamination case, “resulted in a workover operation fracturing into groundwater as a result of equipment failure or accident. As described in the detail write-up, this is not a normal result of fracturing as it ruins the productive capability of the wells.”
The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) is to use the power of public information to protect public health and the environment. EWG is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1993 by Ken Cook and Richard Wiles.
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PKF Littlejohn: Fraud costs NHS over 5 billion a year
05 January 2016 Consultancy.uk
Fraud and error cost the global healthcare system around £299 billion, a recent study claims. Data from seven countries highlights that error and fraud remain major cost posts for healthcare institutions, many of which are already strapped by rising costs. The research finds that the NHS might be losing £5.01 billion per year to fraud alone – although this figure remains disputed by the Department of Health.
The healthcare system is complex and involves a wide range of bodies working together in a host of ways to produce its results. Much of that work, and the monetary exchanges there for, goes on behind the doors of everyday activity. While much of what goes on behind the doors of everyday activity can be accounted for, some of it cannot. Either through fraud or error, money intended for one thing ends up somewhere else. Given the volumes involved, discovering how much of what goes on is lost to error and illicit activity is no easy feat.
PKF Littlejohn, in its released report titled ‘The Financial Cost of Healthcare Fraud Report 2015’*, seeks to quantify how much money is improperly used every year by global health institutions, as well as the NHS. The report estimates the cost of error and fraud by leveraging past analysis, taking into account of loss measurement data from 1997 to 2013, and reports on a total of 107 exercises. The report covers 14 different types of healthcare expenditures totalling over £2.91 trillion ($4.44 trillion), in 33 organisations from 7 countries.
Global costs
According to the report, the percentage costs from fraud and error uncovered for the countries involved, amount to between 0.60% and 15.40%, with an average of 6.19%. In absolute terms, when expressed as a proportion of global healthcare expenditure for 2013 (£4.83 trillion), this equates to £299 billion. Almost three times the total budget of the NHS's £109.7 billion for 2013-2014. The number has not remained static according to the data. Over the period 2008-2013, the average level of error or fraud increased by 10.7% relative to the period 1997 to 2007. The increase is in part due to a decrease in the active search for error or fraud within institutions.
The research does highlight that the high end of this analysis is less common than the low end, as the researchers find that 30.77% of the exercises turned up a loss of <3%, while 57.69% were in the range between 3-8%. The high end (>8%) occurred only in 11.54% of cases. The research also distinguishes between fraud and error. Fraud accounts for around three-quarters (73.8%) of the losses, while error makes up the remaining quarter (26.2%).
The NHS
In terms of the NHS, there were 23 loss measurement exercises completed over the past two decades. The largest number occurred between 2008 and 2006, with 15 exercises, followed by 6 exercises between 2007 and 2008, and 2 between 2009 and 2014. The low number of exercises in recent years highlights that the issue has become less of a concern, while also highlighting – so say the researchers – that making it a concern may be able to easily uncover considerable savings for the institution as government policy comes to bite.
Total NHS costs
The exercises, with a relatively low sample size in recent years, show divergent results. The high end ranges between 9.5% and 3.8%, while the low fraud loss result is in the range of between 5.8% and 1.6%. The two figures are seen converging in the 2009 - 2014 period, to an average of around 3.5%. This compares to the global fraud rate of 4.6%. In absolute terms this means that £5.01 billion was lost on average annually.
The Department of Health however disputes this figure, arguing that the data is too speculative and not rich enough to reach a meaningful conclusion, a DH spokesperson remarks that: “The breadth of the health and care system, and the differences in processes and risk across the sectors, makes it impractical to calculate a total value for the financial loss due to fraud. The figures produced in the PKF report can only be regarded as highly speculative.”
* The report has been created in association with the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at University of Portsmouth.
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Behind the Scenes at New York's Biggest Prop House
By: Eclectic Encore Props | April 13, 2019
Eclectic/Encore Props invites the public to tour its million-item collection
As Suri Bieler strolls the first floor of her 95,000-square-foot Long Island City warehouse, she notes the absence of a fiberglass sphinx and a giant plastic candy cane. Upstairs, she points to a 1970s white vinyl sofa set, one of more than 150 couches lining the floor. "An ottoman is missing," she says.
Suri Bieler sits in a diner booth, complete with faux sandwiches, in the Eclectic/Encore warehouse
The owner of Eclectic/Encore Props, one of the largest prop rental companies on the East Coast, Bieler is meticulously acquainted with the inventory of her three-story warehouse. Its collection comprises about a million items, including a cherrywood coffin that appeared frequently on The Sopranos and Italian Baroque--tyle candelabras originally used in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. Everything is organized according to Bieler's idiosyncratic taxonomy. On the first floor, Christmas, Hollywood, and carnival paraphernalia are stored together, while jack-o-lanterns and other Halloween decorations are adjacent to "city street" and "gas station" items. Rugs, drapery, and flags each have their own rooms, while an entire section of the second floor is devoted to animal-print furniture. To Bieler, crafting a set is as important for building an authentic character as dialogue or costume. "A character's history is shown through layers chosen individually and specifically by the set decorator," she says. "Life is in the details."
Chairs that appeared in Married to the Mob
While Eclectic/Encore Props has always been an essential resource for professional set decorators-like Emmy winner Bill Groom (Boardwalk Empire, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Lisa Scoppa (Orange is the New Black, The Deuce)-in 2017 Bieler started offering public tours, selling tickets through the New York Adventure Club. "I wanted to show ordinary people what it takes to create a world that they, as the audience, are supposed to believe in," says Bieler, who leads every tour herself.
A model ship sails through a collection of chess sets
Bieler started her company in 1979 after working as a set decorator on Broadway (favorite shows include The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and On Golden Pond). With $175 in her pocket and a $3,000 loan, she opened a prop house that could serve as a one-stop shop for set decorators. Over the years, she's seen business boom, especially after New York City's 2004 film and TV production tax credit, which encouraged more shoots in the city. Yet in spite of high demand for rentals, in 2012 a 40 percent rent hike forced Bieler to move her massive collection from Chelsea to a former Pepsi-Cola factory in Long Island City.
A selection of Asian set pieces
In this expansive location, Bieler has focused on broadening her business beyond industry rentals, offering a "Party in a Box" service-available décor themes include Aloha Hawaii, Ancient Egypt, and Safari-and creating a rentable photo studio. "I knew a lot of party planners only thought of Eclectic as a specialty prop rental company, and I wanted to break out of that mold," she says. Though she now has a staff of 18, Bieler still devotes a lot of time and energy to sourcing her collection, from bidding wars at Christie's to slightly scrappier methods. "I've had a lot of success in dumpster diving," she says. "I've rescued several church votive candle holders that way."
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Directed by Barbet Schroeder • 1976 • France
A young provincial in search of adventure stumbles into the subterranean world of sadomasochism when he is implicated in a burglary of a Paris apartment. The apartment's mistress runs a two-floor operation, all respectability above and a dungeon of punishment-seeking clients below. After the young man becomes her upstairs lover, she finds that the two levels of her carefully controlled existence begin to interfere with each other. Barbet Schroeder's MAITRESSE examines the line between fantasy and reality, decadence and deprivation, and the distance one will go for love.
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The following interview with Barbet Schroeder was recorded at his home in New York City in 2002. Schroeder set up his own production company in 1964 and produced such films as Eric Rohmer’s MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S. Since 1969, he has had a distinguished career as a director of both documentaries and n...
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Mark Bradford Has Been Chosen to Represent United States at 2017 Venice Biennale
by Victoria L. Valentine on Apr 19, 2016 • 8:37 am No Comments
CRITICALLY RECOGNIZED ARTIST Mark Bradford will represent the United States at the 57th Venice Biennale next year. Bradford creates large-scale, abstract paintings, mixed-media works that explore a range of social justice issues. He will create a new site-specific installation for the U.S. Pavilion.
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs chose the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University to be the commissioning institution for the exhibition, which will be co-curated by Christopher Bedford, director of the Rose Art Museum, and Katie Siegel, the museum’s curator at-large.
Bedford selected Bradford to serve as the official U.S. representative, stating that no artist is better positioned to represent the United States in the 21st century.
“As the leading American abstract painter of his generation and a vigorous advocate for the interests of under-represented urban communities in the U.S. and beyond, Bradford creates work that embodies art’s capacity to both inspire wonder and catalyze enduring social change,” Bedford said in a museum press release.
“The leading American abstract painter of his generation… Bradford creates work that embodies art’s capacity to both inspire wonder and catalyze enduring social change.”
— Christopher Bedford, Director of the Rose Art Museum
Los Angeles-based Bradford is the co-founder of Art + Practice (A+P), an arts and education foundation—including gallery space, a residency program, a black-owned bookstore and programming that serves local foster youth—near his studio in Leimert Park. Last week, A+P announced that is had acquired a nearby building with 5,000 square feet of space where its entire museum-curated art exhibition program will be hosted beginning in fall 2016.
Bradford’s work has been exhibited around the world and is in the permanent collection of major musuems. In 2014, The Rose Art Museum presented “Mark Bradford: Sea Monsters,” a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures. His work is on view this spring at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. The exhibition at the Venice Biennale will be on view May 13–Nov. 26, 2017.
MARK BRADFORD, “Father You Have Murdered Me,” 2012 (mixed media on canvas). | The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
HISTORIC HONOR
Okwui Enwezor served as artistic director of the 56th Venice Biennale held last year. He was the first African-born curator to oversee the prestigious international art exhibition and more than 35 black artists from around the world were chosen to participate in “All the World’s Futures,” the main exhibition in the Central Pavilion.
Since the biennale was established in 1895, however, few African American artists have had the opportunity to represent the United States and mount their work in the U.S. Pavilion.
In 1956, at the 28th Venice Biennale, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) and Norman Lewis (1909-1979) participated in “American Artists Paint the City,” a group show featuring about three-dozen artists presented in the U.S. Pavilion. Willem de Kooning, Edward Hopper, Franz Kline, Georgia O’Keefe, and Jackson Pollock, were also among the contributing artists that year.
Sam Gilliam‘s work appeared in *Works for Spaces: Antonakos, Bladen, Gilliam, Irwin and Rockburn,” a 1972 group show in the U.S. Pavilion.
When Robert Colescott (1925-2009) was chosen to represent the United States at the 1997 Venice Biennale, The New York Times report noted the historic nature of his selection: “[Colescott] is the first black artist to represent the United States in a single-artist exhibition at the Venice Biennale and the first American painter whose work is to be shown in the United States pavilion since Jasper Johns in 1988.”
In 2003, Fred Wilson represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. His solo exhibition was titled, “Fred Wilson: Speak of Me as I Am.”
TRUE REPRESENTATION
On April 29, Bradford will receive the David C.Driskell Prize at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
He is not yet ready to reveal his plans for next year’s biennale. But the subject matter, he told the New York Times, will reflect the social, political and economic issues he continues to bring to light and address in his work.
“The black body is always a heavy politicized body, in America in particular, and so carrying that burden is kind of a birthright for me,” Bradford told the newspaper. “I’m thinking a lot about what matters to me right now. And I think this is a time to put that on the table.” CT
TOP IMAGE: Mark Bradford in Venice. | Photo by Christopher Bedford, Courtesy The Rose Art Museum
“Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth” accompanied the artist’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum. Rife with illustrations, the volume discusses “Spiderman,” Bradford’s multimedia standup comedy installation and includes the original script for the stand up routine. “Mark Bradford: My Head Became a Rock” is an 18-page limited-edition overscaled artist;s book that documents Bradford’s inaugural exhibition at Hauser and Wirth, Zurich (2014). Both titles were published this year. Forthcoming in January 2016, “Mark Bradford: Tears of a Tree” explores three monumental collage paintings titled “The Tears of a Tree,” “Falling Horses” and “Lazy Mountain,” inspired by the Bradford’s visits to Shanghai.
MARK BRADFORD, “Sea Pig,” 2014 (collage/mixed media, 6 buoys). | Courtesy the artist.
MARK BRADFORD, “Sexy Cash,” 2013 (mixed media collage on weather-proofed board). | The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
May Exhibitions: Mark Bradford Reps U.S. at Venice Biennale, Martine Syms at MoMA, Plus Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Pope.L, Beauford Delaney, Kehinde Wiley, and More 2017 Venice Biennale List Includes African American Artists Sam Gilliam, Senga Nengudi, and McArthur Binion For Monumental Commission at Hirshhorn Museum, Mark Bradford is Incorporating Figurative Imagery for First Time United States Artists Taps Baltimore-based Deana Haggag as President and CEO
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Hadoop has seen better days. The recent struggles of Cloudera and MapR – the two remaining independent distributors of Hadoop software — are proof of that. After years of failing to meet expectations, some customers are calling it quits on Hadoop and moving on. But others in the industry think Hadoop will survive into the next decade, albeit with lower expectations.
Hadoop began over a decade ago as Nutch, a distributed search engine developed by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella that eventually was put into service at Yahoo. Running on a network of X86 servers equipped with hard drives, Hadoop disrupted the math on storage and helped usher in the big data era and brought parallel computing into the mainstream.
Use cases grew, and eventually Cloudera was positioning Hadoop as the preeminent platform for enterprise data analytics. Companies would be able to extract value from massive collections of data by utilizing Hadoop as an open and adaptable platform, the thinking went. This centralized approach would enable customers to eliminate standalone analytics systems and use a common set of tools and techniques to build a variety of applications, like fraud detection, customer 360, and product recommendations, all atop a single, all-encompassing data platform. Like Tom Petty wrote, the sky was the limit.
We watched as Hadoop technology evolved at an incredible rate. Hadoop version 1, with a batch-oriented, MapReduce development paradigm, quickly gave way in 2013 to Hadoop 2.0, which gave us a system capable of simultaneously running multiple workloads. The ecosystem flourished, as open source projects with names like Hive, Impala, Storm, Giraph, Spark, and Tez arose to tackle specific big data challenges and opportunities. Machine learning, real-time analytics, graph analytics – all of it would run under one platform. The yellow pachyderm was truly soaring.
Trouble in Hadoop-Land
Tracking HDP sub-project compatability required increasingly dense matrices for Hortonworks
However, cracks began to appear around 2015, when customers started complaining about software that wasn’t integrated and projects that never entered production. Distributions were shipping with more than 30 different sub-projects, and keeping all of this software integrated and in synch became a major challenge.
Also troubling was the fact that it was becoming exceedingly difficult to find folks with the high levels of technical skills required to build finished applications with Hadoop. Eventually Hortonworks, which had emerged as the number two distributor beyond Cloudera, realized the software was moving too quickly and it broke Hadoop down into “core” elements and slowed its release cadence. But the perception that Hadoop was complex and difficult to use stuck.
Meanwhile, public cloud vendors emerged with their own big data solutions, which used much of the same underlying technology in mainstream Hadoop implementations, but in an easier-to-digest package. Together, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have captured a large share of big data storage and processing.
When Cloudera finished its acquisition of Hortonworks earlier this year, executives described the converged company’s strategy to manage big data storage and workloads running across hybrid on-prem and multi cloud environments. But poor first quarter sales for MapR and Cloudera – plus doubts about Cloudera’s converged product roadmap – spooked investors.
That brings us up to the present. But what happens from here? Datanami talked to a few industry experts, and the consensus seems to be this: Hadoop isn’t dead yet, but it’s not likely to regain its position any time soon. The technology can continue, they say, but users should not expect Hadoop to be the silver bullet for all their big data needs. Basically, Hadoop expectations need a haircut.
Cloud Challenges
Infoworks CEO Buno Pati takes a nuanced view of Hadoop technology and where it fits into the grand analytics scheme of things. As a partner at Centerview Capital, Pati realizes that Hadoop has not lived up to the hype. But he also isn’t ready to throw in the towel quite yet.
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“I don’t attribute what’s happening recently to what’s going on in cloud. I attribute it to a knee jerk reaction to expectations that were poorly set and not met with Hadoop,” he says.
Pati likens Hadoop to a specialized operating system for distributed data storage and analytic compute workloads. Operating systems are complex beasts, and developing applications for them is usually left to the experts. However, Hadoop was largely sold as a platform that already contained those applications, which helped contribute to the mismatch between reality and expectations.
“With an operating system, you have a great deal of complexity. And the applications that ride on top of that operating system to make it usable by the common man is somewhat missing,” he says. “Yet it was presented as the solution to all problems, not recognizing that operating system nature of what Hadoop really is. And we all know that writing to an operating system directly is a complicated job and it’s a job for specialists.”
Cloudera actually exceeded revenue expectations in its most recent quarter. But what nailed the company to the cross – and what possibly ushered Tom Reilly and Mike Olson out the door – was its estimate of future revenue. However, that doesn’t change the fact that some companies are pulling out of Hadoop in favor of the cloud, whether for sound economic reasons or just a case of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD).
“Hadoop is absolutely going away with cloud capabilities,” says Oliver Ratsezberger, CEO of Teradata, which was stung by the early Hadoop hype. “You don’t need HDFS. It was an inferior file system from the get-go. There’s now things like S3, which is absolutely superior to that.”
Ratzesberger was an early adopter of Hadoop, having used the technology while building software at eBay in the 2007-2008 timeframe. “We knew what it was good for and we knew what it was absolutely never built for,” he continues. “We now have customers – big customers just recently – in Europe who told me recently, the $250 million in Hadoop investments, they’re writing off, completely writing off, tearing it out of their data centers, because they’re going all cloud.”
Reset Expectations
Chris Lynch, the CEO of AtScale, tells a similar story about the crashing of Hadoop’s inflated expectations.
“I joined AtScale a year ago March,” he says. “The company was almost exclusively focused on doing what we do, but doing it for Hadoop users, and mostly working with Cloudera. I shifted the company’s focus into virtualizing all data stores, with an emphasis on the $120 billion legacy OLAP market. When we did that, the company went from struggling to [success]….The company couldn’t get funded, and then in eight weeks, I get $50 million led by Morgan Stanley, and we’ve had the most successful three quarters in the company’s history, subsequent to the change.”
Today, 75% of AtScale’s business comes from the cloud, while about 25% from on-prem Hadoop systems, Lynch says. The future is all about managing data in a hybrid manner, split between multiple clouds and on-prem, he says.
“We’re a microcosm of the market,” he says. “Customers want to get to the cloud. There’s been a lot of friction up until AtScale to do that. But our virtualization layer eliminates any disruption to get to the cloud.”
Hype Bubble Burst
Iguazio CEO Asaf Somekh knew something was amiss when New York Times columnist Tom Friedman dedicated a significant portion of his 2016 book “Thank You For Being Late” to Hadoop. “There’s a chapter about Hadoop and how Hadoop is going to solve all the problems of the world,” Somekh says. “This is when I said, Tom you went too far.”
For Somekh, Hadoop still has value and the software is g ood. But instead of positioning Hadoop as the solution for all data problems, Cloudera and others should go back to focusing on one core area: data warehousing. That’s where the Hadoop distributors really got out of their lanes.
“Instead of just focusing on replacing the data warehouse and keeping Hadoop for that focused area, which is huge on its own, they were actually trying to take it to applications that are more online and real time, which is a sexy area, but why do that if you already have an area that can actually do well?” he says.
However, there are other aspects to Cloudera’s struggles – things that have nothing to do with the Hadoop project or the surrounding tech ecosystem — that are also worth mentioning. For instance, the acquisition of Hortonworks was never going to be easy for Cloudera, says Patrick Osborne, vice president and general manager of big data for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
“I think you need to separate the market from the way those companies are run, in my opinion,” Osborne says. “Bringing Cloudera and Hortonworks together – any merger of that size is challenging from a cost perspective.”
Near-Term Roadmap Challenges
Osborne says a little perspective should be brought to the discussion about the death of Hadoop. “Maybe that’s sensationalizing it a little,” he says. “At the end of the day, it’s about the time arc. Whether we like to say it or not, we have a lot of customers who are running mission-critical general ledgers on mainframes and NonStop systems and Unix. Those technologies are being bought, are being serviced. They make up part of the ecosystems. So people who tend to view these things in black and white and completely greenfield – it’s not super practical.”
With around 2,000 customers, Cloudera still has a solid base of customers who are going to rely on it to support software that’s already been installed and, in many cases, is relied upon for day-to-day management of the business. While some Hadoop customers will pull the plug, the idea that Hadoop clusters are going to be ripped out en masse really doesn’t hold water in terms of how computer platforms have historically lived and died.
Cloudera expects to ship the Cloudera Data Platform later this summer
“The need for Hadoop hasn’t gone away,” Infoworks’ Pati says. “I think the need is greater than it ever was, and it’s actually accelerating. And while the cloud is also accelerating , on-prem systems are not going away. Large companies, particularly in regulated industries, will have on-prem, hybrid multi-cloud environments that will require something, whether it’s Hadoop or something like Hadoop, to manage data and analytics in a distributed environment.”
As the face of Hadoop, Cloudera’s biggest challenge right now is uncertainty around the converged platform that will combine elements of CDH and HDP. Told that a new converged platform was forthcoming by the end of 2019, existing Hortonworks and Cloudera customers pulled back on incremental investments, which led to the poor first quarter, which led to the ouster of Reilly and Olson.
Convincing investors that it has a viable strategy will be tough, but it’s not impossible, says Lynch, who previously was CEO of Vertica and also has spent time as a venture capitalist.
“Having an idea and having the ability to implement it are two different things,” Lynch says. “The market doesn’t believe they have the ability to implement it. It doesn’t mean that they won’t and it doesn’t mean they can’t change the company with new leadership and an infusion of different DNA. But to date if you look at their moves, if you think of all the things they could have bought, and they bought Hortonworks. That’s probably what put these guys into retirement.”
Long-Term Expectations
A few years ago, at the height of inflated expectations around Hadoop, the market wondered if we had reached “peak Hadoop.” The question now, with props to Gartner and its Hype Curve, is whether Hadoop has hit bottom yet. When the hype has been fully purged, then it will be free to start the long climb back to respectability.
In the wild west of IT, the best technologies don’t always win, and sometimes mediocre products win greater market share on the basis of other factors. The question for big data architects trying to peer into the future is whether the overall market has the patience to wait for Hadoop Part Two, or whether Hadoop’s remarkable run has run out of gas.
Pati is optimistic about the potential for Hadoop, but realistic about the timeline and the overall chance of success. “I think it’s going to stay there for a bit. But in the long run there’s going to be a bounce back,” Pati says.
“The one thing we all know is that once you fail to meet expectations, you’re in the penalty box for a while,” he continues. “I used to run a public company and that was always my greatest fear. It takes a long time to build up value. And it takes almost nothing to tear it down. Then you stay in that penalty box for a while. I think that is unfortunately what Cloudera has to work its way through.”
Cloudera CEO Reilly to Retire After Poor 1Q Results
Editor’s note: Cloudera claims to have 2,000 customers, not 4,000 customers, as the story previously stated. Datanami regrets the error.
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Ministers Ross and Bruton Respond to EPA Findings on Nitrogen Dioxide Levels in Dublin
Older diesel vehicles contribute to harmful level of pollutants
The Minister for Transport, Sport and Tourism Shane Ross T.D. and the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton T.D. today (Tuesday the 9th of July) expressed concern about the findings of a report by the Environmental Protection Agency, which suggests areas around certain heavily trafficked roads in Dublin city may have higher levels of air pollution than previously indicated. These higher levels are due primarily to traffic and some locations are at risk of exceeding the statutory EU limit for the pollutant Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is an air pollutant associated with urban areas, strongly linked with traffic emissions and which is known to have detrimental impacts on human health. Diesel vehicles have historically far higher nitrogen dioxide emissions than other combustion engines, especially for older vehicles.
The EPA report underlines the importance of implementing the actions contained in the Climate Action Plan, including
180,000 electric vehicles on our roads by 2025
Ensure the EV charging network underpins public confidence
Create an early public procurement framework for EVs
Accelerate steps to decarbonise the public transport fleet
Establishing a Cycling Project Office and rolling out 200km of new cycle lanes in Dublin
A new Park and Ride Startegy to be developed
Develop a regulatory framework on low emission zones and parking pricing policies, and provide local authorities with the power to restrict access to certain parts of a city or a town to zero emission vehicles only
No new fossil fuel vehicles sold from 2030
The EPA report also confirms the importance of action already underway to disincentivise diesel car purchasing (1% VRT surcharge), support the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), additionally incentivise taxis to switch to EVs and invest in cleaner, greener buses.
The first national Clean Air Strategy, to be published later this year, will also address problems arising in relation to harmful emissions from a range of sources, including the transport sector.
Minister Bruton said,
"These findings are very concerning and underline the need to implement the Climate Action Plan. Our Plan includes a number of actions which will have a significant impact on reducing emissions and improving air quality. Actions include the development of a regulatory framework for low emission zones and providing local authorities with the power to restrict access to certain parts of a city or a town to zero emission vehicles only. We are also committed to reaching 180,000 electric and hybrid vehicles on our roads by 2025 and nearly 1million by 2030. Reaching 70% renewable electricity and electrifying our private and public transport fleets will have a huge impact on air quality in our towns and cities. The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme, which my Department is funding, will provide greater access to air quality information and has allowed the EPA to identify suitable sites for additional air monitoring stations in Dublin. "
"We will now convene the relevant bodies to ensure we take immediate action on this matter and improve the air quality in Dublin."
Minister Ross said,
"The findings of this EPA Report and the potential health concerns arising for those living and working along these routes are a matter of grave concern. We need to act and reduce NO2 emissions in urban areas. Older diesel vehicles are the key perpetrators in terms of NO2 emissions. I am glad to report that we are already investing in new, cleaner and greener buses, electrifying Dublin commuter rail and providing generous incentives for taxis to make the switch to electric. We must also convince urban dwellers to switch from diesel cars to the cleaner electric and hybrid alternatives. Just as we have done with the Low Emissions Vehicles Taskforce, my Department and I will work closely with Minister Bruton and his Department, and Minister Donohue and his Departments, and Dublin City Council and the EPA to map out new measures that will be necessary. This will, of course, require widespread support to be effective and I am committed to ensuring that the necessary broad consultations will take place."
The Ministers will now bring the relevant bodies together – both the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and the Department of Transport, Sport and Tourism, the four Dublin local Authorities and the EPA to develop a plan to improve the air quality in Dublin. This work will complement the work already underway in developing the all of government Clean Air Strategy.
Notes to Editor
Three main findings emerge from the studies carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency:
NO2 levels are highest at locations with heavy traffic
NO2 levels are high enough to be potentially in excess of EU limits in particular locations, including:
certain city centre streets;
the M50; and
entrance and exit of Port Tunnel
Levels of NO2 are well within EU limits away from busy roads and in many residential areas.
The EU Limits as set out in the Air Quality Clean Air for Europe Directive (2008/50/EC) or CAFÉ Directive for NO2 have an annual mean limit (40 ug/m3) and hourly mean limit (200 ug/m3 - Not to be exceeded more than 18 times in a calendar year).
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Rose Marie Wong focuses her practice on international arbitration, international litigation, and litigation matters. Ms. Wong has experience handling commercial and investor-state disputes under the ICSID, ICDR, UNCITRAL, and CPR Rules, and representing clients in U.S. courts in connection with their investor-state disputes. She also has extensive experience representing clients in the information technology sector, specifically in regards to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its governance of the domain name industry.
Ms. Wong was a Dechert summer associate in 2014.
Prior to joining Dechert, she served as a research assistant to arbitrator John Y. Gotanda.
Rose Marie Wong focuses her practice on international arbitration, international litigation, and litigation matters. Ms. Wong has experience handling commercial and investor-state disputes under the ICSID, ICDR, UNCITRAL, and CPR Rules, and representing clients in U.S. courts in connection with their investor-state disputes. She also has extensive experience representing clients in the information technology sector, specifically in regards to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its governance of the domain name industry. Ms. Wong was a Dechert summer associate in 2014. Prior to joining Dechert, she served as a research assistant to arbitrator John Y. Gotanda. … Continue Reading
A South American State in an UNCITRAL investment dispute with a foreign mining company relating to the reversion of mining assets to the State.
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A pharmaceutical company in its dispute over the interpretation of a commerical supply agreement.
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An Internet company in its dispute with ICANN regarding the top-level domain .GAY.
An Internet company in its dispute with ICANN regrading the top-level domain .MUSIC.
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Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 2015, Villanova Law Review
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As Shutdown Looms over Immigration, Trump’s Rejection of Refugees Could Have Global Domino Effect
StoryJanuary 19, 2018
president of the International Rescue Committee and former British MP.
"Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time"
As Senate Democrats say they’ll vote against a government spending bill that fails to protect DACA recipients, setting up a potential government shutdown, we look at the worldwide refugee crisis. The United Nations Refugee Agency reports the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. As the humanitarian crisis grows, the United States and many other nations are limiting immigration and closing their borders. During his first year in office, President Trump sought to ban all refugees and citizens of many majority-Muslim nations. When federal judges struck down multiple versions of the so-called Muslim travel bans, Trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000—the lowest level in three decades. We speak with David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, former British MP and author of the new book, “Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time.”
StorySep 19, 2017Trump’s Childhood Home is Now an Airbnb Where Refugees Slept Over to Protest Immigration Crackdown
AMY GOODMAN: The House of Representatives passed a short-term spending bill late Thursday, setting up a high-stakes showdown in the Senate today, ahead of a midnight deadline to reach a deal or face government shutdown. Congressmembers voted 230 to 197, mostly along party lines, in favor of a Republican-led continuing resolution to fund the government through February 16th. In the Senate, many Democrats have said they’ll vote against a bill that fails to protect young DREAMers—DACA recipients, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. This is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
SEN. MITCH McCONNELL: They want a sensible compromise on immigration. But they cannot, Madam President, for the life of them, understand why—why some senators would hold the entire country hostage until we arrive at a solution to a problem that doesn’t fully materialize until March. Military families, veterans and children benefiting from the SCHIP program don’t need to be shoved aside—don’t need to be shoved aside while we continue good-faith negotiations.
AMY GOODMAN: A hundred DACA recipients lose their status every day.
Well, as the debate over immigration could force a U.S. government shutdown, our next guest argues migrants and refugees are a key political crisis worldwide. The United Nations Refugee Agency’s most recent annual report says the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes across the globe—that’s 20 people forced to flee their homes every single minute.
These refugees often face deadly journeys to reach safety. Last week, humanitarian groups said dozens of refugees drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Libya en route to Europe. This week, the Arizona humanitarian group No More Deaths accused U.S. Border Patrol agents of routinely sabotaging or confiscating humanitarian aid left by activists near the border with Mexico, condemning some Mexican and Central American refugees to die of exposure or dehydration in the Sonoran Desert.
As the humanitarian crisis grows, many nations, particularly the United States, are limiting immigration, closing their borders. During his first year in office, President Trump sought to ban all refugees and citizens of mainly majority-Muslim nations. When federal judges struck down multiple versions of the so-called Muslim travel bans, Trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000—the lowest level in three decades. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has also cut $65 million in annual contributions to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA. On Thursday, Pope Francis made an urgent appeal on behalf of refugees and migrants, while speaking on the last day of his visit to Chile.
POPE FRANCIS: [translated] We know well that there is no Christian joy when doors are closed. There is no Christian joy when others are made to feel unwanted, when there is no room for them in our midst. We must be alert that work is becoming more precarious, which destroys lives and homes. We must be alert to those that take advantage of the irregularity of many immigrants because they don’t understand the language or they don’t have their papers. We must be alert to the lack of housing, land and work of so many families.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, for more, we’re joined by David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, former British Labour MP, brother of Labour Leader Ed Miliband. His new book is titled Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
DAVID MILIBAND: Thank you very much. Good to be with you.
AMY GOODMAN: So, you have heard, David, all the headlines. Half of them involve immigrants, involve refugees, involve people taking sanctuary across the country, California declaring itself a sanctuary state, and Trump administration officials threatening to arrest not only refugees, but politicians who defy Trump administration policy. This is the anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration. What is your assessment of his approach to immigrants in this country?
DAVID MILIBAND: Well, issues of refugees and immigration have always been matters of politics as well as policy. And there’s a lot of confusion. One of the points in my book is that a refugee is someone who flees their home as a result of conflict or persecution. An economic migrant is someone who’s seeking a better life. It’s not that one is good and the other is bad, but they’re different.
And I think the way I would summarize the approach of the Trump administration is really a reversal of the best of American history. It’s not that throughout the ages America has always made itself open to refugees and immigrants from around the world, because there have been dark periods of American history. But the best of the American approach, both in respect of immigration and in respect of refugees—and we should talk about the difference between them—but the best of American history has established this country as a haven for those who are seeking not just a place of safety from persecution, but also a chance to start a new life and contribute to the society that they are arriving in.
And what the president has done—you referred, just to give you one example, to the fact that the president has halved the number of refugees who should be allowed to come to the U.S., from the 90,000 a year that have been allowed since the 1980s, since Ronald Reagan’s time, to just 45,000. But, actually, the truth is that the administration that is putting that into practice is not delivering 45,000 refugees this year. It’s going to deliver about 20,000. So you’re actually seeing, because of the actions of the Department of Homeland Security, a quartering of America’s historic commitment to refugees, at the time when there are record numbers of refugees around the world.
And this is significant both for those individual cases and for the lesson it sets elsewhere in the world, because, the truth is, a country like America has 1 percent of the world’s refugees. Countries like Ethiopia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, they have the most refugees in the world. And I think that there’s an issue of substance, but also an issue of symbolism, at stake here.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to step back for a minute—why you care so much about the issue of migrants, of refugees, of immigrants. Talk about your own family background.
DAVID MILIBAND: Yeah, I mean, and maybe people have an image of a refugee that doesn’t summon up someone with a blue shirt and a red tie on, but the—speaking with a British accent. But I was born in safety in the U.K. in 1965, but both my parents were refugees from—my dad from Belgium, from Nazi-occupied Belgium, in 1940, and my mom survived the war in Poland, came to the U.K. as a refugee in 1946. So, I don’t want to exaggerate the sense in which today’s crisis is a parallel of previous crises, but there are very similar issues.
And the most fundamental issue is whether those who are not persecuted have a duty to those who are. It’s, I call it, the duty to strangers. And it seems to me that the best lessons of human history are that when the duty to strangers is exhibited, it builds not just a more moral planet, but also a safer planet. And what we’re seeing today, ironically, in a world that’s more connected than ever before, is that it’s a world that’s—the danger is it’s defined by walls, not by connections. And I think that goes to the heart of the political crisis, as well as the policy crisis, that exists at the moment.
AMY GOODMAN: How would you characterize President Trump’s policies? I mean, you were born in Britain, but you now work here in New York.
DAVID MILIBAND: Yeah, I live and work—
AMY GOODMAN: And you head the International Rescue Committee.
DAVID MILIBAND: I mean, people don’t know this, but the International Rescue Committee was founded by Albert Einstein, one of the most famous refugees in this city, never mind this country, in some ways an emblem of what refugees can bring. So, I now lived and worked in the U.S. over the last four years.
And I think that global leadership has been abandoned or, in Richard Haass’s words, abdicated. The sense that America established itself not with a high moral tone, but with a set of principles and values that would be enshrined, not just constitutionally and legally, but also in policies, that has been abandoned. And I think the question facing the country is whether or not that is going to be consolidated in the next three years or whether it can be reversed, because the truth is that if you carry on reducing the number of refugees who are allowed here at the current rate, if plans to reduce the international aid budget are followed through, then there will be a double whammy, really, on the world’s most vulnerable people.
AMY GOODMAN: On Capitol Hill, a slew of lawmakers have joined members of the Congressional Black Caucus in backing a resolution to censure President Trump over his racist comments in which he reportedly called African nations, El Salvador, Haiti “s—hole countries”—but he said the curse. Several Democratic lawmakers have announced they’ll also skip the State of the Union address on January 30th over Trump’s racist remarks. Can you talk about what he said? It’s not only calling people from these countries—Botswana recently asked for a clarification, they want to know if they’re in the “s—hole” category—but using that word, but also saying we want more immigrants from Norway.
DAVID MILIBAND: Well, I think that the way I would put it is that, really, the presidency has been dragged into the gutter by not just the language, but the thinking behind it, because, as you say, Botswana—every African country is asking, “Well, does that include us?”
I mean, it’s true that the countries that produce the most refugees are war-torn. They are conflict-ridden. But some of them are courting conflict as a result of a resource curse, not a poverty curse. If you think about a place like the Democratic Republic of Congo, in some parts of its history the undemocratic republic of Congo, that is—the conflict there is on—it’s because of the resources that exist in that country, not because of the poverty that exists in that country, the conflict over mineral resources. And I think it’s really important that the people were condemned, as well as the country. And that’s the most pernicious aspect of what was said.
My point would be that this has a domino effect around the world. When the Jordanian government is hosting 650,000 refugees, when the Lebanese government is hosting a million refugees, when the Kenyan government has a million Somalis, the worst forces in those countries are going to be citing President Trump in their defense.
And I think that there is a profound question both about how the country governs itself internally, but also what sort of role it wants to play externally. The interesting thing—one interesting thing about the Trump administration is, both its domestic and its international agenda come together on this issue.
AMY GOODMAN: One of the things that we recently played, just at the top of the show, your clips about—of the defining of refugees as terrorists, and your point that, in fact, it’s the opposite.
DAVID MILIBAND: No, these are people who are fleeing terror. I mean, you cited Syria in your introduction. People should know, the war in Syria isn’t over, but it’s being prosecuted not primarily by the American government, but by the Syrian government. Two hundred thousand Syrians in the northwest of the country have been driven from their homes by a bombing campaign in the last six weeks, six or seven weeks. And so, these are people who are the victims of terror. Some of them get good press coverage. Some of them, the coverage of the appalling stories of Yazidi women being chased from their homes by ISIS, they get a sympathetic ear. Others get a less sympathetic one. But my point is simple: People who have known the price and the cost of terror, they become the most patriotic and productive citizens when they find refuge here.
And I think there’s one other point that’s important, as well. America is making a small commitment to resettlement. The great bulk of refugees stay in countries close to those at war. And that doesn’t include the U.S., notwithstanding what’s happening south of the border in the Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. People are fleeing gang violence there. We shouldn’t forget that. But one of the most pernicious parts of the Trump narrative, President Trump’s narrative, is that somehow America is bearing an undue burden of the world’s problems. That isn’t the case when it comes to humanitarian and refugee issues.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about President Trump shutting off funding, something like $65 million, to UNRWA, to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency, and the significance of this, what this means for Palestinians?
DAVID MILIBAND: Well, obviously, the Palestinian population is the longest-standing refugee population. It was only after the Second World War that the refugees were given any rights in international law, after the foundation of the state of Israel, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, in Jordan, elsewhere in the Middle East. UNRWA—including in Gaza.
UNRWA, the United Nations agency, provides, above all, for children. It’s, above all, providing support through education for kids. The $65 million, you’re right, that’s been granted, is the first part of a three-part delivery of American aid to support this organization. And it seems to me very important that we don’t lose sight of the people on the receiving end of this. You have 1.8 million people in Gaza. Half of them are children. You’ve got Palestinian refugees elsewhere in the region. And the message that’s being sent is a rejection to them and their condition. And it seems to me it goes to the heart of what the country should be standing for. And at a time when the U.N. is needed more than ever before, the last thing that the U.N. needs is one of its most effective programs to be—have the rug pulled from under it.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go to a Gaza resident. They’re saying that soon they could starve, unless international donors step up to fill the funding gap left by President Trump.
FATHIYA ABED AL-JAWAD: [translated] We will be lost. It will be a catastrophe. People will be stealing from each other. We will live in a catastrophe. We will suffer to provide food and wheat. People will kill each other.
NAIM HAMAD: [translated] What should I do? Should I go sell one of my kids or sell my kidney? What should I do? Should I go and steal or work as a spy? I need cooking oil, yogurt, eggs and bread.
AMY GOODMAN: In Cairo, the Arab League met Wednesday for a two-day conference, where leaders condemned the Trump administration for cutting funding to UNRWA and for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. David Miliband?
DAVID MILIBAND: Yeah, look, the crisis in Gaza is a subset of the wider Middle Eastern crisis, the wider crisis of what’s called the peace process, but there is no peace process in respect of the Palestinian issue. And I was in Gaza in 2012, before I started this job. I went to visit. And the fact that half the population is under the age of 18 is ignored in so much of the coverage. This is a very tightly confined area. I think that there are mechanisms in place to make sure the people don’t starve, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t grave need there, and also, frankly, grave danger of radicalization, because, for the first time, there are now reports of ISIS organizing in Gaza. And the equation between immiseration and extremism is well documented. And so, both for moral reasons and for strategic reasons, I think this is a misbegotten policy.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about what you think is the solution to the refugee crisis.
DAVID MILIBAND: Good. I’m glad to get a chance at that, because it’s easy to spend all the time thinking—65 million people displaced by conflict and persecution, they’re displaced for an average of 10 years, half of them are in urban areas—and one could almost think that there’s just endless suffering and no solutions. In my book, I point out that in addition to the refugee resettlement issue, for the most vulnerable cases, three things are absolutely key for refugee populations.
First, since half of them are kids, have of refugees are kids, education needs to come center stage. Traditionally in the humanitarian sector, education has been seen as a luxury. It gets only 2 percent of global humanitarian funding. Actually, education is a lifeline, not a luxury, for refugee children.
Second, refugees need to be allowed to work. Sixty percent are in urban areas. For the adults, they need the chance to contribute to the societies that they are living in. The countries that are hosting them, though, like Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, they need international economic support. And organizations like the World Bank need to step up.
Thirdly, the traditional image of a refugee is someone who’s been given a tent or a fleece or food. The thing that refugees need more than anything else is cash. They need the ability to participate in the local market economy that they are living in. And some of our work at the International Rescue Committee shows that if you empower refugees, you also bring benefit to the local host community, because, of course, in the countries that are hosting refugees, the local population is under enormous stress, as well. There are towns and cities across the Middle East, across Africa, whose population doubles as a result of a refugee influx. Uganda, a country with only $1,000 per—income per head, per person, has received a million refugees in the last year. You wouldn’t know that. They’re not building a wall, but they need support to help encourage those people to be able to contribute to the Ugandan economy.
And it seems to me that if you take seriously the education, the employment, the cash support, you can redesign the humanitarian aid system, so that instead of simply helping people survive from one year to the next, it’s actually giving them the chance to lead a dignified life.
AMY GOODMAN: So, the issues that you raised—you talked earlier about so many refugees come from war-torn countries.
DAVID MILIBAND: Almost, by definition, all of them do. I mean, there’s a small number who are persecuted for political reasons, but the vast bulk of the refugee flow is because of wars, in Syria or Somalia or South Sudan.
AMY GOODMAN: So, what about those who vote for war? For example, you were a politician before you were head of the International Rescue Committee, a Labour parliamentarian, MP, in Britain. Didn’t you vote to authorize the war in Iraq?
DAVID MILIBAND: I did. And the story of Iraq is a terrible tale. In a phrase, the war was won, but the peace was lost. There were no weapons of mass destruction. I document and I speak very openly about this in the book, without any reservation.
But I think that it’s important to understand that the crisis of diplomacy that exists at the moment is real. You know that the Trump administration is proposing to cut 30 percent from the State Department. What did I spend my time doing as foreign minister? I spent my time preventing a war in the Balkans, in the former Yugoslavia. I spent my time trying to stop the slaughter in Sri Lanka, where Tamil residents were caught in the north of the Jaffna Peninsula. There’s a crisis of peacemaking that stands at the root of the refugee crisis today. And it seems to me that it’s that that we need to speak to, in a very thoroughgoing way.
AMY GOODMAN: If you could cast that vote again?
DAVID MILIBAND: Of course I wouldn’t cast it for the—in the same way. I’ve said that very publicly and very clearly.
AMY GOODMAN: Right. So talk about that. Talk about what led you to do it and what was the new information you have, what you realize now, and what advice you have to politicians today who are making decisions in these areas.
DAVID MILIBAND: Well, these are hard decisions. In 2003, the main issue for the U.K. Parliament was that there were significant levels of undocumented weapons of mass destruction that the Saddam regime had built up since 1991. Hans Blix, the U.N. inspector, produced a 175-page report documenting the way in which the—Saddam Hussein’s regime had failed to dispose of the weapons of mass destruction that had been developed after 1991. Everyone thought they were there. It turned out they weren’t there. So the heart of the mistake was in respect of that—of that criteria.
I think there’s a wider point, too, though, which is that the war in Afghanistan was not over in 2003. And it’s still not over today. And it seems to me that there has been a real political failure, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq, in developing institutions that are credible and legitimate institutions for the sharing of political power. And the biggest lesson I draw from the last 20 years is that countries that establish legitimate and credible systems for sharing political power, even in a fragile context—so, Lebanon would be a good example. Every Lebanese community has a stake in the government. There’s not been a census since 1931. It’s a very fragile country, but every community has a stake in power. And the country hasn’t been at civil war since 1990. The countries that don’t establish credible institutions for sharing power—Afghanistan, Iraq—those are the ones that fall into failed states.
AMY GOODMAN: But would you say that the greatest driver of the refugee crisis, these wars, the longest war in U.S. history, Afghanistan, and Iraq, are really what broke the Middle East?
DAVID MILIBAND: Well, I think that you would say that there are two things. One, the war in Iraq is certainly part of that. But the drive of Middle Eastern populations, of Arab populations, for accountable government, for decent levels of freedom, those have been the impulses that have propelled Arab youth onto the streets, not just in the Arab Spring, but before, and not just Arab youth. Just to take the Syrian example, there’s obviously been a civil war in Syria since 2001—in 2011. It started with a boy in Daraa being persecuted, then tortured by his own government. But in 2005, 250 Syrian intellectuals were demanding accountable government.
And I think that there’s a danger in thinking all of this comes from Western policy. Don’t ignore the people on the receiving end. And the truth about significant parts of the Arab world is the absence of accountable government, the absence of opportunities for women, the absence of opportunities for young people. Remember, 60 percent of the Arab world is under the age of 30. It’s the lack of those opportunities that is driving the challenge to government authorities in the region. And you’ve seen that most recently, remarkably, in Iran.
AMY GOODMAN: Would you describe President Trump as racist and anti-Muslim?
DAVID MILIBAND: Well, I think that the racist statements have been very clear. And I think that the most important thing now is that the voice of America is not simply the voice of President Trump, it’s the voice of the millions of people who listen to your show, because around the world—there’s a poll that’s out today— America’s reputation has never been lower. I’m not an American; I’m a British citizen, but I live and work here, as you said. And there are—there’s is a side of America that’s being lost. And that side is the side that when a refugee comes into a community—we resettle refugees across America, in 26 cities—when refugees arrive, in Dallas or in Houston or in San Diego, the American reaction is actually not to spurn them. It’s not to build a wall between them and their new neighbor. It’s actually to knock on the door and say, “Where are you from? How can I help you? Do you know the way the local schools work? Do you know the way the local health system works? We want to help you.” And I think that side of America needs to be heard, because, at the moment, the world is seeing only—it’s seeing another side.
AMY GOODMAN: David Miliband, I want to thank you so much for being with us.
DAVID MILIBAND: Thank you very much.
AMY GOODMAN: President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, former British Labour MP, former British foreign secretary. His new book is Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time.
This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. When we come back, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor will be talking to us about what she describes as the white power presidency. When she first called President Trump a racist, months ago, in a speech at Mount Holyoke, she got death threats. She continues her charges. Stay with us.
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Acarid mites produce several skin manifestations in humans, the most common one represented by scabies, which is caused by the eight-legged itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei var. nominis, also referred to as s. sarcoptes scabiei. Animal pathogenic mites also affect the skin, although only transiently because the mites do not survive for an extended period of time .
Burrows are the pathognomonic lesions of scabies and are found mostly in the florid, papulovesicular type of sarcoptic acariasis . They are produced by female mites and occur mainly on the palms and plantae, the palmar and lateral aspects of the fingers and toes, the interdigital spaces, the flexor surfaces of the wrists, the nipples of women, the genitals of men, and, to a lesser extent, on the buttocks and axillae. Characteristically, the head is spared, except in newborns and infants . The burrows appear as fine, tortuous, blackish threads a few millimeters long. A vesicle may be visible near the blind end of the burrow. The mite is situated in this vesicle and may be visible as a tiny gray speck by dermatoscopy. Although pathognomonic, the burrow is not the most common lesion seen in scabies. Small, erythematous, often excoriated papules are more frequent .
In some patients, itching nodules persist for several months after successful treatment, and therefore are named
nodular scabies or persistent scabietic nodules. They are found most commonly on the scrotum and are believed to result from a prolonged response to persistent scabies antigens .
In a third, rare variant, the so-called Norwegian scabies or crusted scabies, innumerable mites are present. Patients with this variant show widespread erythema, hyperkeratosis, crusting, nail thickening, and subungual hyperkeratosis but no obvious burrows.
A definitive diagnosis of scabies can be made only by demonstration of the mite or its products. A very superficial epidermal shave biopsy of an early papule or, preferably, of an entire burrow may be carried out with a #15 scalpel blade . Local anesthesia is not required. The biopsy specimen is placed on a glass slide, and a drop of immersion oil and then a cover slip are placed on top of it . This technique yields a higher percentage of positive preparations than the often performed mere scraping of a suspicious lesion with a scalpel blade.
Histologic examination of a specimen containing a burrow reveals that the burrow in almost its entire length is located within the horny layer . Only the extreme, blind end of the burrow, where the female mite is situated, extends into the stratum malpighii . The mite has a rounded body and measures about 350 to 450 IJm in length and 250 to 350 IJm in width .
In the papulovesicular form of scabies, spongiosis is present in the stratum malpighii near the mite to such an extent that formation of a vesicle is often the result. Even if no mite is found in the sections, the presence of eggs containing larvae, of egg shells, or of fecal deposits (scyballa) within the stratum corneum is indicative of scabies . The dermal infiltrate in sections containing mites shows varying numbers of eosinophils.
In nodular or persistent nodular scabies, there is a dense, chronic inflammatory, often pseudolymphomatous infiltrate in which many eosinophils may be present. Vasculitis is considered by some as being frequent (49) but by others as representing a rather uncommon event . These different findings may be related to the duration of the scabietic nodules and the timing of the biopsy . The nodules are rich in indeterminate cells, sometimes misleading to the diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis based on light microscopy and immunophenotyping alone (50). Atypical mononuclear, CD30+ cells may be found (51), and in some instances, the nodules show, as in persistent arthropod bites or stings (see later discussion), a histologic picture resembling that of lymphoma . Viable mites are hardly ever found in the nodules. However, mite parts are seen in up to 22% of cases .
In Norwegian scabies, the thickened horny layer is riddled with innumerable mites, so that nearly every section shows several parasites .
Pathogenesis. Earlier scanning electron microscope studies revealed the keratinocytes around the burrow to be compacted, indicating that the mite physically forces its way in between the keratinocytes rather than chewing a passage (48). More recent studies, however, also using transmission electron microscopy, have found that the secretion of cytolytic substances by the mite as a contributing factor in advancing the parasite body through the skin in addition to mere compression (53). The cellular damage was greatest around the body, especially the mite capitulum.
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Posted on December 29, 2018 by Daily Advocate
Suspect in pursuits arrested
Previously sought in connection with thefts
By Sam Wildow - swildow@aimmediamidwest.com
Brumbaugh
McReynolds
MIAMI COUNTY — A suspect who reportedly fled from sheriff’s deputies twice was arrested.
Terry L. McReynolds Jr., 36, of Piqua, was booked into the Miami County Jail on Friday evening. Miami County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a male subject staggering around in the area of the 5600 block of Buckneck Road in Newberry Township on Friday. The male subject was found to have been McReynolds, who was then taken into custody.
McReynolds and Cassandra L. Brumbaugh, 30, of Ansonia, are suspects in numerous theft and breaking and entering offenses that have occurred in northwest Miami County over the last week, according to the sheriff’s office.
McReynolds and Brumbaugh were discovered on the 4900 block of U.S. Route 36 in Washington Township in a stolen pick-up truck on Thursday at approximately 10:50 p.m., according to previous sheriff’s office reports. The vehicle fled from deputies, and the occupants abandoned the vehicle on the 5500 block of Buckneck Road when it became stuck in a muddy field.
The sheriff’s office identified the passenger as Brumbaugh, who was located and incarcerated on active warrants. Brumbaugh was picked up on a warrant for fifth-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs from Miami County Common Pleas Court and additional warrants for second-degree misdemeanor criminal damaging and fourth-degree misdemeanor criminal trespass out of Miami County Municipal Court. Brumbaugh is continuing to be held in the jail on a total $6,500 bond.
The sheriff’s office also identified the driver as McReynolds, who was unable to be located at that time.
McReynolds was charged with first-degree misdemeanor failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer and first-degree misdemeanor driving under suspension after an incident on Dec. 23.
McReynolds fled from a deputy in the area of Greenville Falls Road and Cooper Road on Dec. 23 approximately 2:45 a.m., according to previous sheriff’s office reports. The deputy was attempting to initiate a traffic stop on McReynolds’ vehicle. McReynolds led deputies on a short pursuit before hitting a small tree on a property on the 2800 block of Harshbarger Road in Newberry Township and fleeing the vehicle on foot.
McReynolds is continuing to be held in the jail on a number of traffic violations, failure to comply with police officers and drug-related warrants.
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Why porn sites are participating in Internet Slowdown Day
EJ Dickson—
2014-09-10 05:19 pm | Last updated 2015-12-11 08:23 am
Don’t worry, fappers: Your favorite sites aren’t actually slowing down.
Today, Pornhub and a host of other tube sites are participating in Internet Slowdown Day, a protest against the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)’s proposal to create Internet “fast lanes” for clients who pay an additional fee. Pornhub’s social media rep Katie_Pornhub posted the announcement in r/technology last week:
We’re in. Let’s make some waves!
We’ll be displaying an official widget from battleforthenet.com. We won’t be shutting down or streaming your porn slower. There will be a big in your face message that users will need to close. We hope to reach around 50 million people on Sept 10th.
See battleforthenet.com for more information and how you can take action.
Like Netflix, Reddit, and the thousands of other sites participating in the protests, Pornhub isn’t actually slowing down load times. Instead, it’s displaying a “spinning wheel” to symbolize how creating Internet “fast lanes” for a select number of clients would slow down streaming for the rest of us. Fellow streaming tube sites Youporn and Redtube, which are also owned by the Luxembourg-based conglomerate Mindgeek, are also involved with the protest.
Given how much traffic sites like Pornhub generate on a daily basis—according to Alexa rankings, it’s the 75th most visited site in the world, respectively—its participation in Internet Slowdown Day makes for a powerful statement in favor of net neutrality. (A representative for Pornhub declined to comment further on the site’s role in the protest.)
But why is Pornhub joining the protest, and how would the FCC’s proposed Internet “fast lanes” affect their business model? More generally speaking: Why is protecting net neutrality important to the porn industry at large?
Part of the reason why the adult industry is so invested in the net neutrality debate is because the FCC’s proposed rules would put increased pressure on websites that offer streaming video services, like Pornhub or Redtube, to pay higher rates to their ISPs for faster Internet. This would apply doubly to smaller sites or independent contractors, which might not be able to afford fast lane rates.
“It’s doubtful that smaller, independent websites would survive without some kind of net neutrality protection,” Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, recently told U.S. News. “It’s a huge First Amendment issue.”
Even bigger sites like Pornhub, which could theoretically be more than able to afford to pay for fast-lane access, might not be immune to the effects of the FCC’s proposed laws. Todd Glider, the CEO of online adult magazine Badoink.com (NSFW), sees the introduction of a tiered system as “a warning sign of the Pandora’s Box variety,” particularly due to the stigmatized nature of the online adult industry.
“This sort of thing gets the attention of those special interest groups committed to our destruction as an industry,” he told the Daily Dot via email, citing advocacy groups like Focus on the Family and Morality in the Media as examples. (Morality in Media, for instance, successfully rallied for Google to modify their Ad Words policy to prohibit adult content advertising a few months ago.)
Ultimately, in an industry that’s no stranger to big business discrimination, there’s a concern that the loss of net neutrality would bring about even more restrictions on the adult industry. Given the financial difficulties the industry has struggled with as a result of piracy, the introduction of a tiered system could be disastrous. Says Glider: “At the end of the day, everyone in the adult online world knows that if this is the end of net neutrality, we’re never going to be allowed in that fast lane.”
Photo by William Hook/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)
EJ Dickson is a writer and editor who primarily covers sex, dating, and relationships, with a special focus on the intersection of intimacy and technology. She served as the Daily Dot’s IRL editor from January 2014 to July 2015. Her work has since appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mic, Bustle, Romper, and Men’s Health.
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Hero who makes Biggles look like a wimp: He's flown more planes than anyone else in history - and took 2,000 Nazis prisoner single-handed. And now, at 94, he's telling his breathtaking story
By Robert Hardman for the Daily Mail
Published: 19:50 EDT, 6 May 2013 | Updated: 07:29 EDT, 7 May 2013
Making history: Eric Brown (pictured at home in Copthorne, Sussex) has flown more aircraft than anyone else in history, and was the first man to fly a jet on and off an aircraft carrier
Eric Brown must rank as the most extraordinary airman alive. Indeed, open his memoirs at any page and you are left asking a single question: how on earth did this modest Scotsman live to tell the tale?
But Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown RN is very much alive and in sparkling form as he pours me a glass of sherry at his West Sussex home and reflects on an astonishing life. This is the man who has flown more aircraft than anyone else in history.
He was the first man to fly a jet on and off an aircraft carrier. He has set aviation records that will almost certainly never be broken and is revered as one of the greatest test pilots of all time.
But even if you take out the aerobatics, his story is remarkable. Here is a man who narrowly cheated death in the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, helped to liberate Belsen and took 2,000 enemy prisoners armed only with a pistol.
In the immediate aftermath of the war, Eric had to interrogate a bewildering cross-section of leading Nazis, including Hermann Goering, as well as plane manufacturer Enrst Heinkel and designer Willie Messerchmitt.
What’s more, he then had to test all their aircraft. And all this before turning 30. Little wonder that when he arrived at Buckingham Palace at the grand old age of 28 for the fourth time, to receive the AFC in addition to the DSC, MBE and OBE he had already received, George VI greeted him with the words: ‘Not you again.’
In fact, young Brown would soon be back once more to receive the King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct.
Years later, he would end up as an aide-de-camp to the Queen, who would add a CBE to his collection in 1970
Pin-sharp at 94, Eric is in constant demand from historians and documentary makers, while his autobiography, Wings On My Sleeve, is a must-read for any self-respecting aviator.
Now he is about to tell all as one of the star speakers at next month’s Daily Mail-sponsored Chalke Valley History Festival.
What’s more, his appearance on the last weekend in June will coincide with the Chalke Valley History Festival Airshow — one of this summer’s most spectacular, featuring replica dogfights from both World Wars. It will certainly bring back memories for Eric, whose flying career was shaped by these conflicts.
When Brown arrived at Buckingham Palace at the age of 28 for the fourth time, to receive the AFC in addition to the DSC, MBE and OBE he had already received, George VI greeted him with the words: 'Not you again'
Brown was introduced to some of the leading lights of the Luftwaffe - including their formidable test pilot Hanna Reitsch (pictured) - having no inkling that, within a couple of years, they would be his sworn enemy
Eric’s father had served in the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War and, along with all former RFC pilots, received an invitation from the newly formed German Luftwaffe to visit the 1936 Olympics.
A promising scholar at Edinburgh’s Royal High School, Eric had recently lost his mother, so his father decided to take the boy to Germany to see the Games.
Among those hosting the RFC delegation was the charismatic Great War ace Ernst Udet, who had become a famous stunt pilot. He took up Eric for a spin — ‘Terrifying stuff’ — and the teenager was hooked.
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‘When we landed, Udet gave me the old fighter pilot’s greeting — “Hals und Beinbruch!” [Break your neck and leg] — and told me to learn to fly.’
Eric went on to Edinburgh University, where he studied German and joined the university’s air squadron. During a student trip to Germany, he wrote to Udet, by then a senior Luftwaffe general, who invited Eric into his social circle. The wide-eyed student was introduced to some of the leading lights of the Luftwaffe — including their formidable test pilot and world gliding champion Hanna Reitsch — having no inkling that, within a couple of years, they would be his sworn enemy.
CHALKE VALLEY FESTIVAL, WHERE HISTORY COME ALIVES
Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown will be talking about his extraordinary career at the Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival on Saturday, June 29, at 3.45pm.
The festival is a unique combination of a literary festival, historical reconstructions and a schools' education programme that offers something for all ages.
Speakers include Max Hastings, Ian Hislop, Paddy Ashdown, Antony Beevor, Boris Johnson, Artemis Cooper, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Dan Snow, who will answer audience questions.
The festival runs from June 24 to 30 at Ebbesbourne Wake, near Salisbury. To book an event or find out more information, visit cvhf.org.uk or tel: 01722 781133
‘Udet was like a schoolboy who regarded the whole world as a friend,’ says Eric. ‘He had these riotous evenings at his flat in Berlin. One of his party tricks was a shooting game where you had to fire a pistol at a target behind you, using a mirror. It made a mess of the wall, but he was very good at it.
‘I often wondered what the neighbours thought — but I suppose you didn’t complain if your neighbour was a Nazi general.’
In 1939, having recently arrived in Germany on a teaching exchange, Eric received a knock on the door one morning. ‘Our countries are at war,’ said an SS officer, before taking away Eric for interrogation.
Fearing the worst, he was pleasantly surprised to be dumped at the Swiss border, from where he made his way home as fast as possible to sign up with the RAF.
Like all young pilots, Eric was itching to get airborne and was frustrated by the lack of RAF planes and postings. But there were plenty of vacancies for pilots in the Royal Navy following the loss of the aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous, with more than 500 men, in the opening weeks of the war.
So Eric transferred to the Fleet Air Arm — where he was nicknamed ‘Winkle’ — and retrained as a naval pilot. Before long he was on HMS Audacity, an aircraft carrier escorting vital convoys between Britain and Gibraltar.
His bravery in his Martlet fighter soon earned him the Distinguished Service Cross.
Then, in December 1941, his ship was torpedoed and sank 450 miles off Cape Finisterre. He was one of the few survivors after floating in the water for several hours.
‘I couldn’t walk for a week, but I was lucky,’ he said. ‘As pilots, we had proper lifejackets.’
Back home, his exceptional flying skills had been spotted and he was transferred to special duties as a test pilot. Among his tasks was working out ways of flying Spitfires, Hurricanes and Mosquitoes on and off ships, vastly improving the clout of the Fleet Air Arm.
And when he wasn’t testing the boffins’ latest theories, he was also charged with training a gung-ho band of Canadian Spitfire pilots with whom he saw regular action over France.
By 1944, Eric had moved to the top secret Aerodynamics Flight based at Farnborough.
Eric was transferred to special duties as a test pilot. Among his tasks was working out ways of flying Spitfires, Hurricanes and Mosquitoes on and off ships, vastly improving the clout of the Fleet Air Arm. Pictured is a Hurricane IIB
By 1944, Eric had moved to the top secret Aerodynamics Flight based at Farnborough
Winston Churchill needed a solution to the Nazis’ unmanned V1 rocket bombs, which were terrifying the civilian population.
One OF the first had reduced Eric’s home, near Aldershot, to rubble. ‘My wife was injured, our cleaning lady lost an eye and the dogs disappeared, so my interest was personal,’ he says.
Eric helped develop a booster system that could get a fighter alongside a V1 for a short spurt and tip it off-course without colliding.
‘You couldn’t blow it up because you’d fly straight into the debris — but there was a way of nudging its wings using air pressure and not actually touching.’
It led to Eric’s first — and last — bail-out. ‘One day, the engine caught fire and my feet were starting to fry, so it was time to go over the side,’ he says, matter-of-factly.
‘I landed in a pond in a field with this very angry bull in it. Every time I tried to get out of the water, it came at me — and the ambulance and the Home Guard wouldn’t go near it. I shouted at them to get the farmer. I remember him leading it away, saying: “Come on, Ferdinand.”’
As the Allies progressed through Italy and France, Eric became commanding officer of a very exotic unit — Farnborough’s Enemy Aircraft Flight. His task was to capture and evaluate as much Nazi hardware as he could find.
One of the most unappealing was a Messerschmitt 163 — a rocket plane that ran on liquid explosive.
Dozens of German pilots had been killed developing the thing, but Eric still chuckles as he recalls his maiden flight: ‘I soon worked out that the only way to land it without exploding was to run out of fuel first, so you had to get your timings right.’
As commanding officer of Farnborough's Enemy Aircraft Flight, Eric had to capture Nazi hardware. One of the most unappealing was a Messerschmitt 163 - a rocket plane that ran on liquid explosive (pictured)
Eric has never forgotten the sights he encountered nor the remorselessness of the female commandant he interrogated, Irma Grese. 'She was the worst human being I ever encountered,' he says
In 1945, landing at a newly captured airstrip in Germany, he met Allied troops investigating rumours of a concentration camp at Belsen.
Realising that Eric had better German than his interpreter, the brigadier in charge asked him along to assist with translation.
Eric has never forgotten the sights he encountered nor the remorselessness of the female commandant he interrogated, Irma Grese.
‘She was the worst human being I ever encountered,’ he says. She was hanged a few days later.
Soon afterwards, Eric flew in to another air base in Denmark, only to discover the Allies had yet to capture it.
‘I was in this little Avro Anson and there were still 2,000 enemy troops there,’ he says.
‘I thought we were for it as we landed, but the commanding officer came up to me, handed me his sword and surrendered on the spot.’
'Only doing the job': Among his many records is one for the most aircraft carrier landings in history: 2,407. A U.S. naval pilot who tried to beat him got as far as 1,600 before suffering a nervous breakdown
Given his excellent knowledge of German and aeroplanes, Eric interrogated all the enemy top brass. He did not warm to Willie Messerschmitt. ‘We had a bit of a to-do,’ says Eric, with mischievous understatement.
‘I accused him of compromising the integrity of his planes because the wings on some had started falling off. He bridled at that!’
Dr Ernst Heinkel was a ‘funny little man’. Eric’s erstwhile mentor, Udet, had committed suicide in 1941, but one day Winkle found himself in an interview room with Hanna Reitsch, still an unrepentant Hitler worshipper.
‘She was emotional because she had just heard that her father had shot all the women in the family and then himself to spare them from the Russians. So she told me quite a lot.’
He even interviewed Hermann Goering. ‘His uniform was falling off him, but he perked up when I told him he was going to be interviewed by a pilot. He answered all my questions.
‘The first thing I asked was his opinion on the outcome of the Battle of Britain and he said: “A draw.” He said they had not been defeated, but that Hitler had ordered the withdrawal of fighter units to concentrate on Russia.’
After the war, Eric worked with Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, clocking up numerous life-threatening ‘firsts’ in the field of jet aviation.
Among his unappetising tasks was discovering why certain aircraft would crash at certain speeds, and why planes had a habit of disappearing in storms.
Among his many records is one for the most aircraft carrier landings in history: 2,407. A U.S. naval pilot who tried to beat him got as far as 1,600 before suffering a nervous breakdown.
It is also highly unlikely that anyone will surpass Eric’s world record for flying 487 different types of aeroplane.
A proud grandfather and great-grandfather, he is typical of his generation in insisting that he was ‘only doing the job’.
But Eric Brown did not merely witness history: he made it, too. And it is a hell of a story.
ROBERT HARDMAN: Hero Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, who makes Biggles look like a wimp, tells his story
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UN envoy speaks of 'solid progress' after meetings in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria said "solid progress" was made following discussions with officials in the Syrian capital Wednesday, adding that talks are "very close to an agreement" on establishing a constitutional committee.
Geir Pedersen spoke to reporters following two meetings with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus. He did not elaborate or offer details about the committee's formation and whether a breakthrough had been reached.
Formation of the committee, which is expected to be tasked with drafting a new constitution for Syria, is seen as key to any political process to end the country's long-running civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions.
The U.N. hopes that convening the constitutional committee under the organization's auspices would be the first step toward a new constitution and new elections. The committee would be equally split between representatives chosen by the Syrian government, the Syrian opposition and civil society.
Pedersen has described it as a "door opener for a wider political process."
However, Syrian officials have said they will not accept outside dictates when it comes to Syria's constitution and have suggested President Bashar Assad might even run for re-election.
FILE - In this April 30, 2019 file photo, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen gestures as he speaks to the media following a U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria at U.N. headquarter. Pedersen is reporting "solid progress" following talks with officials in the Syrian capital and says they are "very close to an agreement" on establishing a constitutional committee. Geir Pedersen spoke to reporters Wednesday, July 10, 2019, following two meetings with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
The more than yearlong effort to form the 150-member committee has been dogged by objections from Syria's government over the 50-member list representing experts, independents, tribal leaders and women. There is already agreement on 50-member lists from the government and the opposition.
Pedersen has also been calling for confidence-building measures between the government and the opposition such as prisoner releases.
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Duhamel plans 100-mile Scottish challenge
TRANSFORMERS star JOSH DUHAMEL is in training for a gruelling Scottish challenge - and he's looking for teammates to take part in the 2010 Drambuie Pursuit.
Published 8th December 2009
The actor has signed up for the 100-mile challenge, which reenacts the journey Scottish hero Bonnie Prince Charlie took to escape soldiers in 1745.
Duhamel says, "Obviously they didn't have the speedboats or the dune buggies, that kinda stuff."
And all the actor needs is three skilled fans to join him for the adventure: "I'm looking for three people to race with me.
"You need more skills than I have... speedboat racing, mountain climbing and rappelling, white water rafting."
The Drambuie Pursuit takes place in May (10).
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Lovato speaks out about rehab treatment
DEMI LOVATO has broken her silence about the personal problems which forced her to seek treatment in rehab, calling the last few months the "darkest time" of her life and revealing she "wouldn't be here today" without the support of her fans.
The Disney singer/actress shocked the showbiz world by quitting her tour with the Jonas Brothers back in October (10) and checking into a treatment centre to address "emotional and physical issues".
It subsequently emerged one of her backing dancers, Alex Welch, had accused the star of lashing out at her in an altercation on a plane. A legal dispute with Welsh was settled in December (10).
Lovato left rehab in January (11) but was spotted seeking further counselling by attending a meeting at the New Journey Eating Disorder Center in California.
The 18 year old has not spoken publicly for the last few months, but she's now reached out to fans to address her demons.
In a video message posted on her Facebook.com page, she says, "I wanted to let you know that I am back and home... I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the support you guys have given me along the way... Your support is what got me through this...
"The journey that I've been on has been very difficult over the past few months. I was dealing with issues that I know not only girls just my age but of all ages are dealing with.
"I can't tell you how much light you guys brought into my life in probably the darkest time of my life. Without you guys, I wouldn't be here today."
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Williams and Gibb help raise £1.5 million at benefit
ROBBIE WILLIAMS and ROBIN GIBB have helped to raise more than £1.5 million for charity at a London benefit.
The pop star and the Bee Gees legend agreed to perform for free at the Caudwell Children Butterfly Benefit on Thursday (12May11).
Williams and Gibb both sang for an audience of 200 at the private event hosted by philanthropist John Caudwell, who will donate the proceeds handed out to sick and disabled children and their families.
Caudwell, who founded the charity 11 years ago, says, "Tonight was my opportunity to share my passion with a small audience of friends; by working together we are going to make a big difference."
Williams is an ambassador for the charity, along with actress Joan Collins, Elizabeth Hurley and Rod Stewart.
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Ice-T urges Hargitay to rest
Rapper ICE-T has urged his LAW & ORDER: SVU co-star MARISKA HARGITAY to take her recovery more seriously, six days after the actress was re-hospitalised after suffering from a partially collapsed lung.
The 45-year-old actress was admitted to a New York hospital on Tuesday (03Mar09) night after a day's work on the show.
The relapse came just weeks after Hargitay underwent surgery to fix the the injury, which she suffered during a sledge-riding accident.
And Ice-T - real name Tracy Marrow - insists she was back at work too soon.
He tells People.com, "When she came back last time it was like nothing ever happened. She's very resilient. This woman is a hard worker; she works 14 hours a day. I don't know what you know about episodic drama television, but it's like a movie that never ends, it's just one day.
"Mariska is the type of woman that if you walk up and say, 'How are you?' She's almost like a guy and is like, 'Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.' It's almost as if you insult her. She doesn't want you to feel sorry for her, she's like, 'I'm on my feet.' "My personal thought is she just needs to take a little time and rest. I mean, it's a serious thing. You can't just come right back. You'll re-injure yourself."
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The “Juliassaince” of Julia Louis-Dreyfus
‘Seinfeld’ curse? Not a chance. At 53, the ‘Veep’ star is funnier than ever and her star is only rising.
Joel Keller Apr 28, 2014
I wish I could say that my decades-long crush on Julia Louis-Dreyfus started with her stint on Saturday Night Live, but I don’t believe in engaging in revisionist history. My memories of her early 1980s stint on the late-night institution were drowned out by Eddie Murphy and Billy Crystal and Martin Short, who were the dominant players at the time, I’m afraid. Besides, even Julia herself has admitted that she didn’t get a lot to do during her years there.
My crush on Julia started with Day By Day, an awful spin-off of Family Ties that NBC aired in 1988. It really doesn’t matter what the show was about—it was totally forgettable, and the fact that it comes to mind at all, 25 years later, is for me a remarkable achievement because I watch a lot of TV. But the reason for that is completely attributable to Louis-Dreyfus, who, playing the neighbor, an officious and bumbling lawyer named Eileen, had punctuated a generic sitcom role with eye rolls, random sighs, and other machinations that would become her signature moves when playing Elaine Benes.
So it’s all the sweeter that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is finally having her moment—the single Seinfeld alum of the four to have spun off successfully on her own, and then taken that success to a whole new level. Not that we’d ever forget the Botticelli shoe–and–flowy-dress-wearing Elaine Benes—how could we, with her hilariously dreadful dance moves, her chutzpah that led her to haggle over a single-ply square of toilet paper, her string of comically awful boyfriends, her ability to judge how “spongeworthy” a date is, and the fact that she sweated JFK Jr. so much she lost “The Contest.” It’s the role that took my initial crush and made it a full-blown love affair, at least from a comedic standpoint.
This month she appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, a 53-year-old sex symbol, with the Constitution tattooed on her naked back (with a signature from John Hancock on her bare backside, but since when does comedy need to be historically accurate?). After years of roles that merely teased us with glimpses of her comic gifts, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has finally arrived, with parts that allow her to use her talents to their fullest effect. She is not only starring in her best TV role to date—as Vice-President Selina Meyer on the searing political HBO satire Veep—but has demonstrated her full range. Last year, she starred in Nicole Holofcener’s dark romantic comedy Enough Said, laying herself emotionally bare in a vulnerable, semi-dramatic cinematic turn when she appeared torn between a romance with Albert, played by the late James Gandolfini, and a new friendship with his ex-wife, portrayed by Catherine Keener. She certainly held her own in the scenes she had with both, and her chemistry with Gandolfini was not only a pleasant surprise, but made me regret that we’ll never see the two of them on screen together again.
In the 16 years since Seinfeld ended, she’s somehow managed to not let the role of Elaine define her career, which is more than can be said about her co-stars. Jerry Seinfeld is Jerry Seinfeld, of course, a stand-up comedian forced to act in his own show as a version of himself. But no matter what roles Jason Alexander takes on, no matter how many toupés he decides to wear, he always seems to be playing a variation on George Costanza. Michael Richards, of course, has also had a hard time living down Cosmo Kramer—and he hasn’t made his job easier by spewing racist insults during stand-up sets. He has an oddness about him that makes all of his roles Krameresque, from Stanley Spadowski on UHF to his current role on Kirstie.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the only member of the cast to have emerged beyond Seinfeld— which isn’t totally unexpected when you consider that Elaine was the only character who made any significant personality shift during the nine years the show was on the air. She began as one of the guys, more comfortable with men than women, but somewhere around the show’s fifth season, the nice, accommodating, bohemian Elaine gave way to the shark in business suits who was less tolerant of her idiot friends and readily admitted that her favorite part of a sexual encounter was the lobster bisque she had at dinner. Whether this was Larry David and Seinfeld’s decision, or Louis-Dreyfus guiding them to make the change, she pulled it off and made us believe that the “new” Elaine had actually evolved—and the character became funnier because of it.
And she took risks beyond Seinfeld: she played Ellie Riggs in the real-time sitcom Watching Ellie—a project with her writer husband, fellow SNL alum Brad Hall—showing that she could actually carry a show, and fake-blind lawyer Maggie Lizer in Arrested Development. And while some may see her Emmy-winning role as Christine Campbell in The New Adventures of Old Christine as a step backwards, they may not realize that Christine Campbell was more than just a hapless single mom; she and her brother Matthew (Hamish Linklater) had a near-incestual relationship, and she once married her best friend Barb (Wanda Sykes) to keep her in the country…and didn’t hate doing it. Even so, in many ways, it was a conventional sitcom, and she squeezed five seasons out of a show that may have run two with another star.
But now we arrive at her “Juliassaince.” Thirty years after she first appeared on SNL—a time in her life she tends to downplay, mainly because the opportunities for women to shine on that show in the early ’80s were few and far between—and 24 years after starting her most famous role, we’re still seeing new sides of her. Selina Meyer is a striving career politician who feels powerless despite being in the second-most-powerful office in the country, chafing at having to deal with ribbon cuttings and clueless senators, knowing that her career ambitions have cost her a chance at having any sort of normal family life.
It’s her most nuanced role to date, and she’s reveling in reciting the sharp, curse-filled lines being written for her by Armando Iannucci. Watching her eyes light up as she says lines like “I’ve met some people. Okay, real people. And I gotta tell ya a lot of ’em are fucking idiots” is Julia Louis-Dreyfus unplugged. Elaine Benes might have been crass at times, but this takes it to a whole new level. And this is the level she should have always been playing at.
The Rolling Stone profile gave a great glimpse of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, comprising all the qualities of the characters she has portrayed over the years: early Elaine Benes’s sense of decency, the goofiness of Christine Campbell, the sweariness of Selina Meyer, and the vulnerability of Eva from Enough Said.
It’s rare to see any actor, much less a woman in the youth-obsessed world of show biz, reach their peak of fame at 53. But Julia Louis-Dreyfus is doing it by showing that there really was no Seinfeld curse to begin with, just a lack of determination to make a career be about a body of work and not just one role. Considering she’s won more Emmys since Seinfeld ended than she won while on the show, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has proven that Elaine wasn’t the end, but a fantastic beginning.
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Joel Keller is one of the co-founders of Antenna Free TV (http://antennafree.tv) and co-hosts the weekly AFT Podcast. A long time ago, he left a career rebooting servers to write about TV and other fun stuff (though his ulterior motive was to write off his cable on his income taxes). At the time, he was writing for the late, great site TV Squad, where he eventually became editor-in-chief. Since those heady days, he's written about TV and other topics for The New York Times, The A.V. Club, TheAtlantic.com, Fast Company's Co.Create, Vulture, Parade.com, Indiewire, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter: @joelkeller
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National suicide
25/01/2017 – by Alan C. Robles
© Mendoza/picture-alliance/NurPhoto
Rally opposing re-burial of Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator, on Manila’s National Heroes Cemetery in November.
From May to December 2016, an average of 30 Filipinos were brutally murdered every day. The dead included toddlers, teenagers and mothers. Some were shot by the police, others by masked assassins. Populist President Rodrigo Duterte has encouraged the bloodshed.
The death count is currently at 6,000 and still growing. Not one murderer has been brought to justice. Meanwhile, Congress is working on restoring the death penalty and lowering the age of criminal responsibility to nine years. There is talk of allowing security forces to detain people without judicial mandate, changing the constitution and giving the president emergency powers.
In May, Duterte won the presidential elections. Of 41 million voters, almost 17 million opted for him. Mar Roxas, who came in second, got 10 million votes.
During the campaign, Duterte warned that the country was being engulfed by crime and illegal drugs, so drastic measures were needed. He showed contempt for human rights. “God will weep if I become president," he said, promising to fill Manila bay with the corpses of tens of thousands of criminals and drug addicts. The former mayor of Davao City had a reputation of ties to death squads.
Far from being appalled, millions of Filipinos lapped up his murderous diatribes. He apparently appealed to a latent sense of anger, which is probably linked to poverty, inequality, corruption and policy failures. The Philippines is nominally a democracy, but “trapos”, the members of oligarchic families, dominate political life. Duterte is not one of them, railed against them, but, once in office, aligned himself with them.
Duterte’s campaign used Facebook aggressively. His followers spread his messages and fake news, belittling other candidates and intimidating critics.
Duterte promised to end crime, erase government corruption and smash rice smuggling within six months. Of course he did not do so. His achievements so far are involving the Communists in his government, pivoting away from the west towards China and Russia and burying the remains of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the National Heroes Cemetery. Masses of protesters were appalled that the autocrat who exploited the country in the 1960s, 70s and 80s was honoured this way.
Duterte’s war on drugs seems to consist of a single policy: eliminating suspects and anyone who gets in the way. The Philippines has a history of extrajudicial killings, but the current, almost industrial scale is unprecedented. Reporters are now staying at Manila police stations overnight waiting for reports of corpses. In the daytime, people gather to look at bullet-ridden corpses on the streets.
When Duterte took office in late June, the police urged drug addicts to turn themselves in. Hundreds of thousands did, but they were sent away after their names and addresses were noted. Soon, many people on those lists were dead, killed by “tandems” consisting of two assassins on a motorcycle (see box). The president has said he does not like spending money on drug treatment, indicating that his goal was always extermination, not rehabilitation.
The list of atrocities is long. A mother of two was called out of her house and gunned down in the street. A teenager died in a hail of bullets only because she was sitting in the same public vehicle as a suspect. Most victims are poor people, some are reformed addicts who kicked the habit, and some are mere bystanders. Even children have died. Duterte shrugs them all off as “collateral damage”.
Nazi-like language
The president seems to distinguish Filipinos from drug addicts, a lower life form. “I’d like to be frank with you, are they humans?” he has asked. He expressed the wish to kill 3 million of them. His talk is Nazi-like, and Duterte has indeed spoken favourably of Hitler. His trademark salute - a clenched fist at the end of a horizontally extended right arm – is just a few degrees shy of a “Heil Hitler”.
About a third of the deaths so far are officially ascribed to the police, who routinely report shooting “resisting” suspects. The rest of the carnage is officially blamed on “drug syndicates”, but it is quite obvious that the death squads are cooperating with the security forces. The killing began after Duterte’s election, after all.
When an anti-crime activist was murdered in Mindoro last year, two masked assassins were caught. They turned out to be senior police officers, one was wearing a wig, the other a ski mask. Another blatant case involved a mayor whom Duterte called a drug dealer. The mayor was jailed and shot dead in a cell by a team of 20 police officers who burst in, forced the guards to stand aside and then started shooting. The police shooters said the mayor was “resisting”. Duterte says he’ll stand by the killers.
According to news reports, death squads have long lists of “suspects”. Apparently, police chiefs have been given quotas of killings, and they are putting pressure on local governments to provide them with names. There are accounts of innocent people ending up on such lists.
This war on drugs is marked by inequality. The poor die, while the rich and connected get away or aren’t touched at all. The grandson of Duterte’s political ally, Gloria Arroyo, was immediately released after being arrested for possession of illegal drugs. Had he been poor and unconnected, his body would most likely have been found on the street.
The war on drugs is based on flimsy premises moreover. There is not much evidence for Duterte’s claim of the country becoming a “narco-state”, Amnesty International has argued: “The Philippines has a low prevalence rate of drug users, compared to the global average, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.”
At any rate, the president has turned his strongman image into political capital. The legislative branch of government is all too eager to please him. After thousands of murders, Congress still will not acknowledge there is such a thing as extrajudicial killing. When a whistleblower admitted he was an assassin working for Duterte during a hearing, senators belittled him. Members of Congress, moreover, harass legislators that dare to oppose the president.
On the campaign trail, Duterte vowed to sweep away the oligarchy and only pick the “best and brightest” to serve in his administration. Yet once elected, he appointed cronies, supporters and sycophants. He is now allied with the elite and has revealed close ties to the Marcos and Arroyo families. Ferdinand Marcos jr. should succeed him, Duterte has suggested, though of course the former dictator’s scion has not won an election. Duterte’s rule is more murderous, but otherwise not much different from previous administrations.
Striving for unlimited power
One difference matters however. Duterte made peace with the Communists. It suits his intention to change the constitution and establish a government that gives him unlimited power. He is already undermining the constitution by using executive orders. Ominously, he wants to revive the Philippine Constabulary (PC), a militarised police force that was set up by the USA in 1901 to enforce colonial hegemony. Under Marcos, the graft-ridden, incompetent PC was feared because of murder and torture. It was disbanded in 1991, five years after the people’s power movement toppled the dictator.
Shabbily dressed when meeting world leaders, Duterte is happy to curse them (unless they are Chinese or Russian) and chew gum (allegedly to deal with pain which he is taking medication for). He taught the world curse words in Tagalog, devaluing protocol and etiquette.
Duterte’s words put him beyond satire. He has said he’d gladly eat terrorists “with a little salt and vinegar”. The president boasts of having murdered at least three people and admits planting evidence on suspects when he was a prosecutor.
Depressingly, masses of Duterte supporters are still enthusiastic. To judge by their social media accounts, they tend to be members of the struggling middle class or overseas workers. For an illusive sense of security, many Filipinos now look set to welcome an even more murderous version of Marcos, the autocrat, who was chased out in 1986. With doubt cast on the country’s foreign policy, constitution and political future, the Philippines will not become a model of stability any time soon. It is, however, an example of atrocious, state-sponsored violence.
Alan C. Robles is a Manila based journalist.
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Lexicon of state brutality
Under President Rodrigo Duterte, dreadful words and acronyms are becoming common in the Philippines. Here are the most important ones:
Adik – drug addict
DDS – synonymous with murder, originally short for Davao Death Squad, a murderous group linked to Duterte when he was mayor of Davao
Dilaw – yellow, the signature colour of the previous administration and the movement that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Duterte followers call anybody who criticises their idol “dilaw”
Nanlaban – fought back, resisted arrest. This is how the police tend to explain why they killed a suspect
Obosen – wipe out, exterminate. A frequent threat of Duterte
Tandem – two masked assassins on a motorcycle: one drives, the other shoots
Tokhang – a police search of a household made upon the “invitation” of the homeowner. The police pressure the occupants to agree – those who refuse are put on a list. Tokhang is unconstitutional
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Women's World Cup: Revolution in Spain
With Champions League finalists and record attendances, women's football is booming in Spain. Now at only their second ever World Cup, some even have them down as dark horses for the title. Their next opponents? Germany.
A lot has changed in women's football since Germany's last World Cup triumph in 2007.
Birgit Prinz, the scorer of Germany's first goal in the 2-0 win over Brazil in the final, is no longer the country's youngest World Cup representative, and Simone Laudehr, scorer of the second, announced her international retirement after being omitted from this year's squad.
But the gulf in quality at the top of the women's game has also narrowed and the tournament in France features dark horses which wouldn't have registered on fans' radars 12 years ago. Spain are one of those teams.
Women's football in Spain has undergone a dramatic transformation and the anticipation ahead of this tournament was greater than ever. Only four years ago, the women's league was severely lacking in quality and still some way from professionalization. Top players were forced to go abroad to further their development, such as Veronica Boquete, who became the first Spaniard to win the Champions League with FFC Frankfurt in 2015 before moving to Bayern Munich.
Spain's current crop, however, is the country's best ever, consisting predominantly of players from Atletico Madrid (five) and Barcelona (10). Of the current squad, only central defender Irene Parades plays her football outside Spain with Paris Saint-Germain.
The star of the team is Jennifer Hermoso, the Atletico striker who scored 24 goals in 28 games for her club last season and who netted two penalties as Spain came from behind to beat South Africa in their Group B opener on Saturday.
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Jennifer Hermoso (no 10) celebrates scoring a penalty against South Africa
"The development in the last two to three years has been very good," Boquete tells DW, reflecting on what has been a veritable renaissance of women's football in Spain spearheaded by a new Women's Football Association (ACFF), founded in November 2015.
Professional structures
Integrated into the men's professional football league (La Liga) rather than the Spanish FA (RFEF), the ACFF has developed quickly under its president, Pedro Malabia, and main sponsor Iberdrola – one of Spain's biggest electric utilities providers. Television broadcast rights were snapped up by pay TV channel BeIN and public broadcaster Gol, not only driving up wages in the Liga Iberdrola but also "creating better structures and training facilities," as Malabia tells DW.
And it's working; women's football is booming in Spain. Only France issued more new professional player licenses to female footballers last year and the number of women and girls participating in organized football in Spain is up by 63 percent from 2012.
In March 2019, the growth in popularity of the sport was reflected in a record attendance for a Spanish league match when 60,739 fans packed into the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid for a game between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. Only the Women's World Cup Final in 1999 attracted more, when 90,000 filled the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, USA.
The quality of football has improved drastically as well. Last season, Barcelona became the first ever Spanish team to reach the Women's Champions League final – a huge achievement for Spanish football, even if the Catalans ultimately lost 4-1 to Lyon, the powerhouse of women's football in Europe. "All of Europe can see that our hard work is paying off on the pitch," says Malabia.
The success is becoming more evenly spread at home, too, with Atletico pipping Champions League finalists Barcelona to the league title and the cup going to Real Sociedad – developments from which the national team is also benefitting.
France 2019 is only Spain's second appearance at a World Cup, coming just two years after victory at the prestigious Algarve Cup in 2017. And performances at youth level are even more impressive: in 2018, the Spanish under-17s were crowned both European and world champions, the under-18s won a third European Championship and the under-20s reached the World Cup final, losing to Japan.
The development of Spain's youth team is ominously reminiscent of that of their male counterparts a decade ago. That team went on to win consecutive major tournaments in 2008, 2010 and 2012, and now the women will be hoping to do the same.
Victory over Germany would be a huge statement of intent from Spain – and proof of just how much has changed in recent years.
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Germany are to be without key midfielder Dzsenifer Marozsan for at least the rest of the group stage at the Women's World Cup in France. Marozan suffered a broken toe during Germany's opening match. (11.06.2019)
Author Kai Försterling (Matt Ford)
Related Subjects Europa League (UEFA Europa League), Germany, Bundesliga Latest, Spain
Keywords Spain, football, Women's World Cup, Germany, Germany women's football, FIFA Women´s World Cup 2019
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Guides Universities Courses Reviews Chats Articles HomeGuidesStudy Health and Medicine in the United Kingdom
Study Health and Medicine in the United Kingdom
Home to the Top Health and Medicine schools in the world
What is Health & Medicine about?
Health and Medicine is an industry associated with the prevention, treatment and management of illness including mental and physical illness.
It is one of the fastest growing industries in the world which involves several parties like hospital, doctor, diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies, medical device manufacturers and other components of the healthcare system.
What are the major fields in Health & Medicine?
The area of study of Health and Medicine is very wide, thus providing a very positive future career prospect. The role of medical staffs like surgeon, paediatrician and nurse always come in our mind when we talk about the health sector but the fields in this sector are not only limited to these.
Here are some major fields in Health and Medicine sector which are quite common and may bring you a well-known and well-respected career:
Public Health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities and prevent them from getting sick or injured in the first place by educating them about health.
An expert in public health also vaccinates children and adults to prevent the spread of disease and set safety standards to protect workers. Besides that, the development of school nutrition programs to provide kids with healthy food is also part of the job scope.
Nurses play an important role in a patient’s healthcare as they are the people who deal with the patients most of the times. The role of a nurse primarily focuses on patient care, which is concerned with taking care of ill and injured persons and providing health care to well persons.
The duties performed by nurses include providing patient care, assessment of patients, developing nursing care plans and educating patients about their conditions.
Dentists are health professionals who provide a wide range of oral health care services to patients. It is concerned with the prevention and treatment of oral disease, including diseases of the teeth and supporting structures and diseases of the soft tissues of the mouth.
Dentists also encourage prevention of oral diseases through proper hygiene and regular checkups for professional cleaning and evaluation.
Optometry is a primary healthcare profession dedicated to the improvement and preservation of eyesight through eye examinations which act as an early detection of eye diseases and other abnormal systemic conditions. Optometrists typically work closely together with other eye care professionals such as opticians to deliver quality and efficient eye care to the general public.
Besides performing eye examinations and employing diagnostic techniques, an optometrist also needs to discuss treatment plans and options with patients.
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological and social well-being. A person working in mental health provides valuable care to those suffering from mental disorders like anxiety disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenia disorders.
A career in mental health ranges from direct patient care and one-on-one counseling to research-driven psychology, with some popular career options like counselor, psychologist, psychiatrist and social worker.
Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing, dispensing and review of drugs and providing additional clinical services. A pharmacist is trained to ensure optimal health outcomes for their patients through the quality use of medicines and plays an important role in optimisation of a drug treatment for an individual.
In their daily work, their role include compounding and dispensing medications and also more modern services like reviewing medications for safety and providing drug information.
Nutrition and dietetics is the science of how food and nutrition affects human health, growth and disease which includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion.
A nutrition or a dietitian uses nutrition and food science to help people improve their health and a nutrition technician works with nutritionist to provide care and consultant to patients in hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, private practice and other institutions.
What are the important skills I need in this field?
Health and medicine is a field of study where technical and interpersonal skills are equally important as a person working with this field will have a lot of interactions with patients or customers. There are several transferable skills which are crucial to help you in your career in this field like communication skills, problem solving skills, critical thinking and stress management.
Communication skills are very important in this field as you will need to interact with a lot of people regardless of what part of the health and medical field you end up going into. In most situations, you will have to explain the health situation to patients and communicate with other healthcare professionals constantly.
It is very important that the communication does not go wrong to ensure the safety and well-being of patients.
Problem solving skills
Problem solving skills are needed in healthcare and medicine as a professional in this field will have help a patient to solve their health problems and other issues related to their health. The skill is needed to come out with a solution that fits the patient’s problem and is tailored to suit their needs.
In the process of solving problems, critical thinking skill is especially important so that we will be able to access the solutions that we came up and evaluate them. It involves making reasoned judgements that are able to improve a patient’s health by applying the knowledge in health and medicine.
A role in the health and medicine field could be very stressful as the job responsibility is to ensure the well-being of another person and a person in this field will have to work in a fast paced environment and constantly pushed to find answers to a patient’s problem.
Thus, it is important that one can manage his/her stress well in order to avoid making any mistakes in the process of helping a patient.
What are the entry requirements and qualifications?
The entry requirements for different qualifications and different universities varies but there are some common entry requirements for a Health and Medicine course in UK. Some of the common entry requirements for a course in Health and Medicine are listed in the table below:
Foundation,
Diploma Completed high school or equivalent
GCSE Maths and Science at grade C or above
IELTS: 5.5 and above
A-levels: BBB
International Baccalaureate Diploma: 29 points
TOEFL: 550
Pearson PTE Academic: 54
Pass in Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)
Pass in Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
How long will I be studying this programme?
The duration of study varies depending on the study levels and types of institution as different university has different syllabus for its programmes.
Study Levels Duration
Foundation 1 - 2 years
Diploma 1 - 2 years
Bachelor’s Degree 3 - 4 years
Master’s Degree, PhD 1 - 2 years
How much does it cost to study Health & Medicine?
Depending on the types of programme and institution, the estimated cost of studying a Health and Medicine programme in UK ranges from RM 44,000 to RM 552,000. In the table below, we have listed the estimated cost to study a Health and Medicine programme in UK according to the study levels.
Programme Estimated Fees
Foundation RM 44,000 - RM 91,190
Diploma RM 44,000 - RM 91,190
Bachelor’s Degree RM 81,000 - RM 552,000
Master’s Degree RM 67,815 - RM 247,500
What are the job opportunities?
Health and Medicine is a very wide field and the job opportunities has always been increasing as talents in this field are highly in demand across the world. Here are some jobs that you may see yourself working in the future if you are considering to take up a health and medicine programme in UK:
Which recognised universities offer Health & Medicine programmes in UK?
There are many prestigious universities in UK which offer a Health and Medicine including the world renowned University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. Beside these two universities, there are other universities in the UK that are worth to consider.
1. University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge is one of the oldest institutions in the world and has a global reputation for outstanding academic achievement and world-class original research. University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine comprises of departments, institutes and units like Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Neurosciences, Haematology, Medicine and others.
2. University of Oxford
The University of Oxford tops the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 and its medicine course is a traditional course which splits into pre-clinical and clinical stages. The university has two main libraries for medicine and clinical studies, one providing resources for pre-clinical elements of the course and another focusing on healthcare.
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Imperial College London is a one-of-a-kind institution in the UK which focus solely on science, engineering, medicine and business and ranked 8th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2019. The medical programme at Imperial College London offers a range of teaching approaches, from traditional theoretical classes to innovative and hands-on experience.
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The University of Glasgow is ranked in the world’s top 100 universities and welcomes students from 140 countries worldwide. It’s School of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing is renowned for pioneering teaching methods and superb facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate study and achieved success across the board for Overall Satisfaction in the 2017 National Student Survey, with all three subjects above 90%.
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As a member of the Russell Group of Universities, University of Birmingham has world-leading academicians including Nobel prize winners and provides specialist teaching and are committed in supporting their graduates in establishing their careers. On a side note, Birmingham is also home to some of the UK’s leading hospitals, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital right next door.
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FIGHT study proves type-2 diabetes therapy ineffective in the treatment of high-risk heart failure patients
PHILADELPHIA -In an attempt to correct defects in the energy generation that contribute to poor pump function among heart failure patients, researchers examined whether the diabetes drug liraglutide, could improve the condition of patients with advanced heart failure. Despite improvements in blood sugar control, the therapy did not improve the clinical stability or pumping action of the heart in patients with advanced heart failure. A team of researchers led by Kenneth B. Margulies, MD, a professor of Medicine and research director for Heart Failure and Transplantation, and Thomas Cappola, MD, ScM, chief of the division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, detailed findings from the Functional Impact of GLP-1 for Heart Failure Treatment (FIGHT) study in a paper published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Data from this study was initially presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2015 in November.
Heart failure, a chronic condition in which the heart does not pump enough blood through the body, affects more than 5 million Americans.
"Abnormalities in the way the heart generates energy from fats and glucose, including resistance to the normal actions of insulin, have been shown to contribute to a patient's risk of heart failure. But no current heart failure treatments target these metabolic derangements," said Margulies, the principle investigator of the study. "Because liraglutide counters insulin resistance, and earlier pilot studies suggest that severely weakened hearts have the greatest metabolic defects and potential benefit, it seemed most appropriate test the efficacy of liraglutide in a group of patients with advanced heart failure. Unfortunately, the results were not what we had anticipated."
The FIGHT study, conducted by the U.S. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Heart Failure Clinical Research Network, is the first multicenter trial to evaluate the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists - an injectable drug commonly used to treat type-2 diabetes - for the treatment of high-risk heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction, a measure of the heart's inability to pump blood. Researchers randomized 300 diabetic and non-diabetic participants with high-risk heart failure - those who had been hospitalized for heart failure within the past two weeks - into two groups: those to receive daily liraglutide injections and those receiving daily placebo injections. Subjects were assessed at baseline and eased onto the proper dosage for the first month. During the six-month study period, measurements of heart structure and function with echocardiography, serial assessments of subjects' activity tolerance with six-minute walk tests, and quality of life questionnaires did not reveal any significant favorable or unfavorable effects of liraglutide in these patients.
"The results indicate that while liraglutide acted as intended, controlling blood sugar and promoting weight loss in diabetic participants, there was not a significant impact on heart failure. Interestingly, liraglutide had no effect on blood sugar or weight loss among the non-diabetic patients in the study," Margulies said. "Although this did not support our hypothesis of beneficial effects in patients with advanced heart failure, additional studies are required to explore whether patients with earlier stages of heart failure might benefit from liraglutide or other GLP-1 agonists."
Since one-third of patients with heart failure also have diabetes, and other treatments to lower blood sugar in diabetics have increased the risk of heart failure, Margulies notes that it remains important to establish the safety of any diabetes therapy in patients with heart failure. Additional research, he says, will ultimately determine whether GLP-agonists, like liraglutide, can be used safely among patients with various stages of heart failure.
The Functional Impact of GLP-1 for Heart Failure Treatment (FIGHT) study was supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) (coordinating center: U10 HL084904; regional clinical centers: U01 HL084861, U10 HL110312, U109 HL110337, U01 HL084889, U01 HL084890, U01 HL084891, U10 HL110342, U10 HL110262, U01 HL084931, U10 HL110297, U10 HL110302, U10 HL110309, U10 HL110336, U10 HL110338).
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $5.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 18 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $373 million awarded in the 2015 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center -- which are recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report -- Chester County Hospital; Lancaster General Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital -- the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional affiliated inpatient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region include Chestnut Hill Hospital and Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a partnership between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and Penn Medicine.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2015, Penn Medicine provided $253.3 million to benefit our community.
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Using data from our closest living relatives, the great apes, the Department of Primatology contributes to the general question "What makes us humans?" Our conviction is that a detailed and complete understanding of the great apes will lead to a better understanding of the similarities and differences with humans. We have concentrated on natural populations of African great apes, and use them as models to increase our understanding of the evolutionary processes leading to the social, genetic, ecological, cultural and cognitive complexity specific to each of them.
Linking Environment, Physiology and Behavior across Species
We use multidisciplinary approaches incorporating ecological, physiological and behavioral data and emphasize integration of comparisons among field sites, populations, or species when appropriate. Three research projects exemplify this broad-scale comparative approach:
Ecology of Culture and Cognition in Chimpanzees: Using a continent-wide multi-site and multidisciplinary approach, we want to determine how ecological factors influence the evolution of tool use, meat eating, social structure and culture in chimpanzee across their natural distribution in Africa (we will include over 35 different chimpanzee populations). This project will also integrate the latest developments in technologies to understand population history, local adaptations and responses to environmental stress.
Evolution of technological and spatial knowledge in chimpanzees and humans: Based on natural observations in their natural environment, we are developing an in-depth comparison of the strategies used by the Taï chimpanzees and some human forest hunter-gatherers (including the Aka from Central African Republic and Mbendjele from the Republic of Congo) when cracking nuts in the forest with tools and when searching for food. This study is planned so that the methods used by both species will be as similar and comparable as possible, thereby removing the confounds of arbitrariness and artificiality too often found in cross-species comparisons.
Sociality and adaptation in closely related ape species: Using our long-term data on wild bonobos and chimpanzees from the forests of LuiKotal and Taï National Park, we intensified our comparison of the social grouping patterns and cognition of two species. To complement the behavioral data, we will also conduct experiments using the same stimuli in their natural environment.
Since its creation the department has concentrated on long-term field projects encompassing all of the African Great Apes. We have maintained field research stations in Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon and the DRC or collaborated with existing projects such as Kokolopori in the DRC and in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. The long-term approach is the only one that allows investigation of essential evolutionary questions pertaining to demography, population structures, life-history responses, food and climatic annual variations, physiological responses and life-time reproductive success.
At present, the department includes several core research groups focusing on wild great ape populations, such as the chimpanzee group working in Taï National Park in the Côte d'Ivoire, as well as in Loango National Park, in southern Gabon, and also collaborating with the Ngogo and Budongo chimpanzee projects, in Uganda. Thebonobo group works now in Kokolopori in the Democratic Republic of Congo but we continue to collaborate with the Lui Kotal project in the Salonga National Park. The gorilla group concentrates its fieldwork on the mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda, as well as western gorillas in Loango and in addition conducts collaborative projects on western gorilla populations in Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Our three core research laboratories use genetic, hormonal and stable isotope analyses, respectively, in collaborative projects with these field groups as well as others. Similarly, the GIS laboratory and the long-term collaboration with the Robert Koch Institute allow us a complete consideration of ecological factors, including pathogens, affecting great apes.
The survival of all great apes is badly threatened because their habitat is being destroyed, human pressure on their habitat is increasing, they fall victim to the soaring bushmeat trade and diseases are killing them. This has forced many of us to become active in different conservation activities.
One important scientific contribution to conservation is in the domain of biomonitoring and we are presently working in collaboration with different conservation organizations to develop a reliable survey method for both chimpanzees and gorillas. Another important aspect is that the department has developed and is hosting the IUCN/A.P.E.S. Database (http://apesportal.eva.mpg.de/) which collates all survey data available on all great apes, and, therefore allows assessment of the success of conservation projects and projections about future development of ape populations.
In addition, the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (www.wildchimps.org) and the student-led Conservation Group have been working to develop in situ conservation projects to contribute to improve the prospect of survival for the African Apes.
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Africa, Doctor Evan Atar Adaha, healthcare, human-rights, Migration, refugees, South Sudan
A broken X ray machine, spotty electrical power, a dimly lit theatre room and generators that are constantly breaking down best captures the situation at Maban Referral Hopsital in Bunj area located at the South-eastern corner of South Sudan’s Upper Nile State that attends to the over 200,000 people mostly refugees who have been displaced by the prolonged deadly conflict in Africa’s youngest nation.
Doctor Evan Atar Adaha, the brains behind the only hospital in Upper Nile region and the only surgeon has braved tough times, limited medical supplies and harassment to provide medical attention to the needy for more than 20 years. From pregnant mothers, children battling Malaria and wounded soldiers, Dr. Atar has breathed new life into a population the world seems to have forgotten. He is referred to some as the ‘bush doctor’ due to the tough conditions he operates in.
Dr. Atar who comes from Torit area of South Sudan received his early education in Juba before moving to Khartoum in Sudan for his secondary education. He qualified for a scholarship to study medicine in Egypt. And even as the educated Sudanese choose to stay and look for jobs abroad, Atar decided to go back to Sudan at the height of the 1997 civil war to offer his services despite warnings from his friends who advised him that he would be killed. He set up a basic health facility at a disused location in Kurmuk in Sudan’s Blue Nile State. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 that brought an end to the prolonged conflict between the government and the rebel group, Sudan People's Liberation Movement, brought relative calm allowing Dr. Atar to receive medical supplies from government and donors. But that would be short-lived as war broke out in 2011 in Blue Nile forcing tens of thousands more to flee. Dr. Atar joined the fleeing refugees together with his team carrying whatever medical equipment they could salvage. It took one month to trek to Bunj state in Upper Nile.
But the area is equally volatile with communities always in arms over limited resources including grazing and farming land. He would come face to face with the severity of the situation when in his first days as he was looking for a place to establish a hospital, a patient with a bullet lodged into his intensities was brought to him.
With limited resources, he was forced to look for a broken door that acted as the operating table. Together with his team, he was able to save the young man who now works in the hospital receiving patients and controlling the queues.
Maban Hospital, has withstood the intermittent conflicts in the area due to its open door policy of treating every patient irrespective of the side of the conflict they belong to.
It is a tough call for the 120-bed hospital that has no blood bank as people in the area are skeptical about donating blood arguing that they would die. Limited anesthesia means the hospital has to make do with ketamine injections and spinal epidurals. The IV bottles are re-used after surgery and for tubing purposes where a catheter is ordinarily used, they use a hollow grass stem.
Limited bed capacity in the maternity ward, there are only 30 of them, means two pregnant women share one bed. But even with such hiccups Dr. Atar, assisted by three other doctors, a few midwives and administration staff are able to carry out on average 58 operations every week. Majority of the patients are refugees from Blue Nile State but there are also internally displaced persons coming from Ethiopia, Congo, and Central African Republic.
“We treat everyone here regardless of who they are — refugee, internally displaced, host community. I am most happy when I realize that the work that I have done has saved somebody from suffering or has saved his life,” Dr. Atar said in an earlier interview.
It is a tough call for Dr. Atar and his team in a country where those who have taken the vocation of providing healthcare to the most vulnerable have had to contend with kidnappings and murder by militias. Since 2013 over 100 humanitarian workers have been murdered in Sudan according to the United Nations with the country being ranked as the most dangerous place for humanitarian workers.
The world has taken note of Dr. Atar’s work. In September last year the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, named him as the recipient of the Nansen Refugee Award to celebrate his unwavering dedication to the pain of the suffering and vulnerable in conflict. The prize is awarded annually to organizations or individuals who have shown exceptional services to displaced people. It is named after Fridtjof Nansen, the first high commissioner for prisoners of war and refugees for the League of Nations.
"Dr. Atar's work through decades of civil war and conflict is a shining example of profound humanity and selflessness. Through his tireless efforts, thousands of lives have been saved," said Filippo Grandi the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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John DeKruyf
September 29, 1933 ~ April 26, 2019 (age 85)
John DeKruyf, age 85, of Buhl, Idaho, passed away on April 26, 2019, with his family by his side. John was born on September 29, 1933, to Nicholas and Johanna (Vander Stelt) DeKruyf, in Alvord, Iowa. He was one of eleven children.
His family moved to Brooten, Minnesota, in 1934. John worked on the family farm and a few of the surrounding farms, until he enlisted in the United States Army in 1954. He entered basic training at Fort Leonardwood, Missouri. Eventually he was stationed in Ettlengen, Germany, until November 1956. He was a heavy equipment operator, helping to rebuild the roads damaged in WWII. Upon leaving the military, John came home to his parents who had moved to Artesia, California. There he met and married Thana Staal, on October 2, 1959, at Trinity Christian Reformed Church. Their 59 plus years of marriage blessed them with four sons, twelve grandchildren, and one great granddaughter.
John worked in various manufacturing and mechanical positions in Southern California, until he opened Cerritos Manufacturing and Repair in 1969, with his brother Cal. In August 1979, John sold the business and moved the family to Buhl, Idaho. There they bought a farm and built a small dairy. John, Thana, and their boys operated the dairy and farmed until 1986. John continued with his custom farming and mechanical repairs for the next 10 years.
John was a member of Twin Falls Reformed Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, for 40 years, where he served in several capacities in the church. John and Thana went on many out-of-state mission trips. John volunteered at the Mustard Seed Thrift store, serving on the board and performing all needed repairs. He transported clients for the Office on Aging for 11 years.
John loved to go hunting, fishing, and camping with his boys and many friends in his lifetime. John and Thana also loved to take cruises and travel south for the winters in their retirement years. They loved spending as much time as they could with their grandchildren. He always cherished coffee time with his close friends. John loved the Lord, and as he grew older, his daily prayer was “Dear Lord, give me the strength for today, and a bright hope for tomorrow”.
John is survived by his wife, Thana; his four sons, Rob (Monica), Russ (Martha), Dan (Mickey), and Dean (Amber); eleven grandchildren, Jessica (Michael) Silva, Jacob, Matthew, Ryan, Kevin, Leah (Mike) Barker, Dana, Adrian, Benjamin, Taya and Lucas; and one great-granddaughter, Ava Lynn Silva; brothers, Adrian and Tony; sisters-in-law, Millie, Hilda, and Alice; and many more in-laws.
John was preceded in death by his parents, a granddaughter, Hannah; five brothers, Cornie, Hank, Joe, Nick, and Cal; three sisters, Pearl Segaar, Marie Brus, Johanna Hoogeveen; and many in-laws and other relatives.
Visitation will be Thursday, May 2, 2019, from 6 - 8 pm, at Farmer Funeral Chapel, 130 9th Ave N, Buhl. A private burial with the family will be Friday, May 3, 2019, at West End Cemetery in Buhl. After the burial, a memorial service will be held at the Twin Falls Reformed Church, at 11 am.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the food pantry of the Mustard Seed in Twin Falls.
Visitation will be from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at Farmer Funeral Chapel in Buhl. A memorial service with military rights will be held at the Twin Falls Reformed Church, at 11:00 a.m. Friday. May 3, 2019. A private burial will be held before the church services. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on John’s memorial webpage at www.farmerfuneralchapel.com.
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Benetton’s Algorithmically Generated Models Reflect Ethnic Makeup Of Different Cities
The fashion company is back in the provocative ad game with its “Face of the City” campaign.
By Meg Miller 1 minute Read
At first glance, the models in the new United Colors of Benetton advertisements, “Face of the City,” look like women you’d see in any other of the clothing company’s famously provocative and racially diverse ad campaigns: uncannily pretty, clean cut, all different ethnicities. But the one big difference? These women aren’t real. Rather, they’ve each been algorithmically generated to represent, to a T, the ethical make-up of different global cities.
To promote Benetton’s Carnival Capsule Collection, billed as “a celebration of color in all its shades,” the company created models that represent the demographic proportions of London, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Milan, and Berlin. After pulling census data for each city, they put together a group of women that each represented one of the city’s demographic groups and photographed them. In post-production, the images were combined using an algorithm that made sure each race was accurately represented based on its percentage of the city’s population.
“All together, the six faces are stunning portraits coming from a world in which the melting pot, so revered in 30 years of Benetton’s images, has finally become the norm,” the company says in a press release. “Surely a software may have helped to reveal it, but there’s little space for doubt: that world is finally here and diversity is even more beautiful than we imagined it to be.”
The result is a group of women who don’t look particularly artificial or even especially unique–only subtle variations in features and skin color reveal their precisely generated origins. The large population of Asians in London, for example, give the city’s model different qualities from Milan’s, where there’s a high concentration of Filipinos and Egyptian residents. The New York model’s most striking features are defined by the half of the population that is black or Latino, a stark contrast to Paris, where less that 5% of the population is from Africa.
Benetton has been promoting diversity in its ad campaigns since the 1980s, when it added “The United Colors” to its name and the phrase became a sort of pop-cultural shorthand for cultural diversity. While not as controversial as, say, the lip-locking world leaders in its 2011 campaign, the new ads are certainly on message. And with the help of new technology, its portrayal of diversity is more precise than ever.
[via AdWeek]
All Images: courtesy Benetton
Meg Miller is an associate editor at Co.Design covering art, technology, and design.
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Manchester heir related to Salford officer features on Heir Hunters
The death of a Bournemouth ex-red coat and ballroom dancing teacher, with a high valued estate, sparked a search for heirs that leads to a Manchester man, Trevor Jones. Trevor was on the cusp of inheriting when a will was discovered. The gripping story features on BBC’s Heir Hunters this week [Thursday 19 April].
The story of outgoing Gerald Bryce who passed away in July 2015 in Bournemouth where he lived for 30 years began when questions over the validity of his will resulted in his estate being listed in the government’s bona vacantia list.
As part of BBC’s Heir Hunters programme, professional probate genealogist firm Finders International decided to take on the risk of tracing blood heirs. Gerald never married, had no children or siblings and lived and his estate was worth £300,000.
Fellow Bournemouth man, David Medina, was friends with Gerald whom he first met in 1974. David also features on the TV programme saying that Gerald was a talented outgoing people person. David said: “We used to go on family holidays. Gerald loved performing, which he started at aged five, and this continued into adult life as a Red coat, working at Butlins when Des O’Connor was head red coat. “
The Finders International team discovered that Gerald’s grandfather, John Jones, was a police sergeant in Salford. He married and had a child, Leslie, who also served in the police force and was actually involved in bringing Herbert Winstanley, dubbed the ‘King money forger’ to justice.
Leslie’s son, Trevor from Manchester, was identified an heir to Gerald’s estate.
Trevor Jones said: “I was surprised to have a phone call from Finders because they brought news of a cousin who I had not heard of for quite a while.”
Unfortunately for Trevor and the team, the Will had been eventually deemed valid.
Danny Curran of Finders International said: “For the team to get the result they did is very disappointing, particularly after all their hard work. However, we are all really pleased the Gerald’s final wishes will be followed through. What’s even better is that Trevor is interested in contacting his long-lost cousins.”
Trevor said: “Whilst it would have been good to receive something from Gerald’s estate, this has now motivated me to get in touch with cousins and keep regular contact with them.”
The episode is part of the latest Heir Hunter series on BBC TV and will air on Thursday 19, April after which it will also be available to view on BBC iPlayer.
ENTERTAINER, actor and producer Gerald Bryce died of cancer in Poole Hospital on July 19, aged 85.
He lived in Branksome Park for more than three decades, and was perhaps most well known for his role in a television advert poking gentle fun at ice skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
Born in Withington, Manchester, in July 1930, Mr Bryce joked that his showbiz big break came when he was just 13 months old, when a professional photographer put his image in his shop window to drum up business.
He was a talented dancer from childhood, and at the age of five he would don a sailor suit to entertain audiences during family holidays to Llandudno.
In his younger years, living in Blackpool, he took roles in musical theatre, and through this he came to the attention of ITV and Granada.
He performed in a multitude of television plays, such as Shadow Squad and Armchair Theatre, many of which were performed live, and later went on to work alongside Des O’Connor at Butlins in Pwllheli, North Wales, where he tutored holiday makers in tennis and ballroom dancing.
In the 1960s Mr Bryce was an entertainer on cruise ships, and he took full advantage of the opportunity to travel around the Mediterranean and meet the stars of the day, including Gracie Fields at her home in Capri.
When he came to Bournemouth he was a producer for Zaar International Films, a Lancashire firm which made short flicks for businesses, industry and tourist towns.
With his dancing skills and imposing height of six foot four inches, Mr Bryce was called upon for numerous adverts in the 1980s for firms including Heineken and ice cream brand Festini.
But the most famous of his ads by far was a parody of 1984 Winter Olympic ice dancing duo Torvill and Dean’s medal-winning display in Sarajevo, which caused quite a stir.
The ad featured a smart middle-aged man returning from work and whisking his wife (played by Joan Hall) around the parquet flooring in an extravagant version of the Torvill and Dean routine, accompanied, of course, by Ravel’s Bolero.
It was an unusual but eye catching way to promote the world’s first compact disc, unveiled that year by tech firm Philips.
Mr Bryce worked alongside Little and Large, Harry Worth and Ronnie Barker over the course of his later acting career, appearing in The Two Ronnies, Bread, Mansfield Park, Tales of the Unexpected and more.
His friends included talents as diverse as Jayne Mansfield and Joan Hickson.
He gained a reputation among friends as a joker and prankster, and according to good friend and fellow entertainer David Medina he was a real ‘ladies’ man’. However he never married.
He loved animals and was passionate about music, particularly the songs of Doris Day.(Bournemouth Echo, 2018)
Reference : Bournemouth Echo. (2018). Entertainer, actor and producer who mixed with the stars, Gerald Bryce. [online] Available at: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/obituaries/13581075.Entertainer__actor_and_producer_who_mixed_with_the_stars__Gerald_Bryce/ [Accessed 19 Apr. 2018].
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Enfolding
Creating communities that show the world who Jesus is
by Diane J. McDougall
Photos By Greg Schneider
Pastor after pastor will affirm: Churches need small gatherings in order for people to really make connections and care for each other. “Small groups” are nothing new; churches have been incorporating them into their programming for years. ¶ But what if these small groups did more than study the Bible, share personal struggles and pray for each other? What if the purpose of their gathering was to fuel each other for the adventure of living out Jesus’ mission: pursuing the kingdom? ¶ Here, read about the unique journeys of three different pastors who are emphasizing small, mission-oriented gatherings as the centerpieces of their congregations—not merely programmatic add-ons:
From traditional church to witnessing community
Eric Hesse pastors Grace Community Church in Richland Center, Wis. For years he had been pondering how small groups could better “deploy” ministry. He’d seen it happen powerfully while in college; he wondered if it could truly work in a traditional church.
Finally, with the demands of solo pastoring draining him, he launched into a year of prayer—asking God for an experience in the body of Christ that more closely resonated with the Book of Acts.
At the end of that year, Eric and his leadership team and their families formed what they call a LifeGroup—a vibrant witnessing community that connects deeply with each other and gets involved in the lives of nonbelievers. They spent another year walking this out, before each of the four leadership couples launched its own LifeGroup. The church now has nine such groups (for a church of 160 people) and very few traditional programs.
“Our goal is to keep it simple,” Eric says. “It’s about loving God; it’s about loving others; it’s about making disciples. We don’t want to fill people’s schedules with church-y activities. Instead, we want to free them up to spend time in their communities and build relationships.”
That “spending time” is as varied as each individual in a LifeGroup. And yet they don’t have to build relationships alone; the group gathers round so that they truly are a loving, witnessing community.
As LifeGroups blossomed at Grace Community Church, Eric found that he, too, was coming alive. “Now, people were coming to our Sunday gathering hungry, eager to know how to talk about their faith because they were in relationships with nonbelievers.”
This was what he’d wanted as a pastor all along.
“The mission Jesus launched is different from the church,” he says. “I’d become so serious about building the church that I’d forgotten about the mission. The goal is to take the church on-mission; that’s when the church is built.”
Sunday morning is important for the proclamation of the Word and the building of the saints, but the weekly community gatherings are, in Eric’s eyes, even more important. It’s there that nonbelievers—invited by their friends and neighbors—truly experience the love and honesty of the body of Christ. In fact, one measure of “success” for a LifeGroup is whether it includes nonbelievers.
EFCA leader Zach Hoag wholeheartedly agrees. In fact, that’s how his congregation, Dwell Missional Church, even got started. . . .
Once upon a time, in a living room
Zach serves as leader for teaching and direction at Dwell, located in Burlington, Vt. This 2-year-old congregation formed after four friends—all attending different churches—started hanging out and having meaningful spiritual conversations (with some food and laughter mixed in).
“In the process,” Zach remembers, “we also began to see some non-Christian friends enfolded into our organic mini-community. A couple of those friends came to faith, and we started getting inspired that this could be the beginning of something more.
“About a year and a half after we started gathering as friends, we realized this was church for us. So we said, Let’s call this what it is and take an intentional step.”
The church eventually outgrew the living room, as well as another meeting space in the neighborhood. Despite the growth, Dwell leaders fought to keep the same sense of intimacy and honesty. Eventually, they were following a gathered/scattered approach: one weekly, large-group gathering of about 70 and three smaller communities that meet during the week, in homes.
Sunday is important for Dwell, but not the most important part of the week. “The pinnacle of doing community and doing mission as a church comes down to those home gatherings,” Zach affirms.
“Our passion is not to develop more programs that keep people engaged at the church facility throughout the week. Instead our passion is to build relationships with folks who don’t know Jesus.”
While Eric’s and Zach’s ideas sound exciting to some church leaders and radical to others, yet another EFCA leader considers himself even less “typical.” . . .
A network of missional communities
“I am a perpetual church planter,” says Desi Starr, who gives leadership to Ancient Paths Network—a Denver network of EFCA house churches.
“What we’re praying to see happen again and again, and birthed all over, are vibrant families of Jesus with easy access both geographically and culturally. Churches within walking distance for everyone.”
All of the gatherings occur in homes, and the entire Ancient Paths Network then meets monthly for a time of vision, teaching and training—expecting that God has something to say from each of the house churches. “It’s more like a family reunion,” Desi says, “with each house church like a nuclear family.”
All of the house church leaders, including Desi and his wife, Rose, are either urban missionaries who raise their own financial support or lay people who lead house churches while working regular jobs. And they are continually on the lookout for others to join them, to birth new faith families.
“For example,” Desi says, “if you’re involved in sports and think, I’d love to see something happen in the Little League crew, we want to help you dream about what it would look like. We want to give people examples of how they can live on-mission, because spiritual families can be birthed in places you never expect.”
Small community gatherings are the heartbeat of each of these EFCA churches—but they are not just “small groups” for the sake of jumping on the small-group bandwagon. Rather, these witnessing communities are the best way to live out a three-fold emphasis on God’s truth, nurturing relationships and an on-mission commitment.
Enfolding Others
Creating communities that show the world who Jesus is by Diane J. McDougall
Pastor after pastor will affirm: Churches need small gatherings in order for people to really make connections and care for each other. “Small groups” are nothing new; churches have been incorporating them into their programming for years.
But what if these small groups did more than study the Bible, share personal struggles and pray for each other? What if the purpose of their gathering was to fuel each other for the adventure of living out Jesus’ mission: pursuing the kingdom?
Here, read about the unique journeys of three different pastors who are emphasizing small, mission-oriented gatherings as the centerpieces of their congregations—not merely programmatic add-ons:
1. From traditional church to witnessing community
EFCA leader Zach Hoag wholeheartedly agrees. In fact, that’s how his congregation, Dwell Missional Church, even got started… .
2. Once upon a time, in a living room
While Eric’s and Zach’s ideas sound exciting to some church leaders and radical to others, yet another EFCA leader considers himself even less “typical.” …
3. A network of missional communities
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Cricket mania: Indians caught and bowled by the Gentleman’s Game
efe-epaBy Shubhomoy Chatterjee New Delhi 11 Jul 2019
Indian Cricket fans hold posters of cricketers and Indian flags as they send good wishes for Indian cricket team ahead of the first semi-finals of the ICC World Cup match between India and New Zealand. Bangalore, India, July 9, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/JAGADEESH NV
Cricket fans celebrate the birthday of Indian wicket keeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as wished the team luck before their World Cup semifinal match. Bangalore, India, July 7, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/JAGADEESH NV
An Indian cricket fan at a barbershop gets a special hairdo to cheer for the team at the Cricket World Cup. Mumbai, India, May 30. 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI
Indian cricket fan get a special haircut to cheer tear his team for the Cricket World Cup. Mumbai, India, May 30, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI
An Indian artist works with a clay model of Indian cricket Captain Virat Kohli(C) at Kumatuly workshop in Kolkata, India, May 24, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/PIYAL ADHIKARY
Many cricket matches are held simultaneously at the same ground in Azad maidan in Mumbai, India, May 22, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI
Indian youngsters train at a cricket academy in Jammu, Kashmir, India, May 22, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/JAIPAL SINGH
Indian people play cricket at the Velankanni Beach, along the Arabian Sea coast, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, June 26, 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/DIVYAKANT SOLANKI
India woke up on Thursday with a hangover from a party abruptly ended by its heartbreaking loss in the cricket world cup loss to New Zealand in the semi final-stage the previous day.
Hundreds of millions of nail-biting cricket crazy people watched their dream of a third World Cup trophy come crashing down in a rain-affected match that dampened the spirits of an entire country and brought a premature end to the festivities of its most-loved sport.
Cricket, a sport dubbed as a religion in India owing to its widespread popularity, once again became a national obsession during the World Cup 2019 currently underway in England, the birthplace of the Gentleman’s Game.
The tournament kicked off on May 30 and will conclude on July 14, with the finals at London's iconic Lords Cricket Ground between the Kiwis and the winner of the second semi-final, to be played between Australia and the hosts.
During the month-long cricket frenzy in the South Asian country, many aficionados were seen sporting quirky world cup hairdos and performing dedicated prayer services – officiated by priests – for their team’s victory, while many more skipped classes in schools and colleges or called in sick at work to watch the games.
And the TV and online streaming viewership has been massive, according to Star India, which has the broadcast rights in India.
“The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, in its opening week records a massive 269 million reach on the Star network (...) setting a viewership record in the history of any ICC (International Cricket Council) tournament,” the TV network said in a press release.
Total viewership in the country is expected to surpass the previous record of more than 630 million – equivalent to one out of every two Indians – registered during the 2015 World Cup held in Australia, where India had once again crashed out of the semi-finals.
With the love for the game crossing hysterical levels, marketeers and advertisers have seized the opportunity to roll out attractive promotions for their products – from offering a chance to win free tickets to world cup games to discounts and complimentary items at restaurants during match hours.
More than the final match whoever reaches there, the high point of the tournament in the subcontinent has always been when neighboring arch-rivals, India and Pakistan, face off.
“If you would have done a health check-up of the people watching the India-Pakistan match, I’m sure 90 percent of them would have been found to be hypertensive,” Sunil Khanna, a cricket enthusiast following the sport for three decades, told EFE, referring to the match on Jun. 16 that India won.
Cricket in India is more than just a sport. The quadrennial showpiece event has been instrumental in shaping the identity of the country of over one billion people.
People from different religions, castes, creeds, races and economic backgrounds come together in supporting their team, forging a sense of unity and solidarity rarely seen in a country as diverse as India, considered a melting pot of cultures.
Looking back, a moment of catharsis occurred when India, among the least favorites, won its first World Cup in 1983 – held in England as well – firing the imagination of Indians and giving them a sense of assertiveness from having made their mark at a world stage.
A country still struggling to recover from the scars of colonialism got new heroes and a new achievement to celebrate, and the game’s popularity spread like wildfire.
Fast forward a decade and figures like stalwarts like Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar were replaced by the iconic and much revered Sachin Tendulkar, who was later joined by the likes of Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, among several others, whose stardom popularized the sport at the grassroots.
Youngsters picked up a cricket bat or a ball aping the movements of their heroes, many of whom trained at thriving coaching academies with dreams of representing their country. The rest were content to sharpen their skills on the streets, by-lanes, parks and neighborhood playgrounds.
The hysteria around the sport is best exemplified by a popular anecdote by late cricket writer Peter Roebuck, in which a train apparently stopped for longer than usual at a station, waiting for Tendulkar to complete a milestone, and only resumed its journey after he scored his century.
Every time a world cup was held and the whole country united with hopes of India repeating its feat of 1983, with the cricketers facing the Herculean task of fulfilling it.
The obsession remained etched in the country’s consciousness until the summer of 2011, when India won the world cup for the second time in Mumbai, prompting the world’s seventh-largest country by area to break into a euphoria of loud, colorful festivities in every nook and corner, which took several days to calm down.
Due to its prominence in the Indian subcontinent, cricket’s influence spills beyond the domain of sports to the fields of politics and diplomacy.
India and Pakistan share a strained relationship since their independence from British rule in 1947 and have faced off in three major wars and numerous skirmishes along the border.
The gentleman’s game has often served to help diffuse political tensions and pave way for political dialogue, the most recent of them in during the 2011 world cup, held in India.
Bilateral ties between the two neighbors had touched a new low following the infamous Mumbai attacks in 2008 in which 166 people were killed and which India blamed on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
Against this backdrop, then-Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited his Pakistani counterpart, Yousaf Raza Gillani, to watch the match with him, which eventually helped ease tensions somewhat.
Similarly, cricketing ties are often the first to suffer in the wake of tensions between the neighbors. The two countries have yet to play a bilateral series since 2012-13 and have only faced each other in multilateral international competitions.
For decades, cricket has embodied India’s collective consciousness and its aspirations. It has gone from aspiring to make its presence felt at the global stage to dominating a sport and being counted as among the best, in sync with its growing economic and political clout in the 21st century. EFE-EPA
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South Carolina continuing Episcopalians meet to plan their future
Delegates elect leadership, change name to comply with court order
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
The Rt. Rev. Charles vonRosenberg, newly elected bishop provisional of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, promises during a Jan. 26 gathering at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, to “observe, and to the utmost of my power, fulfill, the responsibilities and obligations of this office, striving in all things to be a faithful shepherd to the flock of Christ.” ENS photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service – Charleston, South Carolina] Meeting in a town nicknamed the Holy City because of its founders’ religious tolerance and in a church that has survived the Civil War, great storms and an earthquake, Episcopalians in South Carolina turned to face their future.
Continuing Episcopalians from around what is known as the Lowcountry portion of South Carolina met Jan. 26 at Grace Episcopal Church, which was festooned with flowers and overflowing with people. Many participants expressed the desire for healing and new beginnings.
The day began with Holy Eucharist, during which Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the congregation in her sermon that “we all have a responsibility to be shepherds, to help others find their way through the gate of abundant life.”
Referring to the Good Shepherd portion of the Gospel of John, she urged Episcopalians who encounter people who have left the Episcopal Church to “consider that some of the sheep may think they’re listening to the voice of the Good Shepherd.”
“Some are also simply exhausted. What about the sheep who aren’t in the fold, who don’t know there is a feast to be found, rest for the body and soul, and partners who are willing to wrestle with the dictates of petty deciders or wolves who masquerade as sheep?”
Jefferts Schori told the story of a glider pilot who local authorities accused of flying too near a nuclear power plant and then arrested, despite lacking any authority to take him into custody. She said the story was “indicative of attitudes we’ve seen here and in many other places.”
“Somebody decides he knows the law and oversteps whatever authority he may have to dictate the fate of others who may in fact be obeying the law – and often a law for which this local tyrant is not the judge,” she said.
“Most of us don’t live in a world where one person is the ultimate decider – because, over and over again, we’ve discovered that better decisions are made when they’re made in communities with appropriate checks and balances,” Jefferts Schori said. “Power assumed by one authority figure alone is often a recipe for abuse, tyranny and corruption.”
However, she said, “the question is less about who’s right and who’s wrong in the midst of the current controversies.”
“It’s more about how we deal with those who disagree – the other sheep in the flock and the variety of shepherds around us,” she said.
Noting “God’s feast doesn’t need ‘keep-out’ signs,” Jefferts Schori said: “The banquet table is spread with abundance for all, even though it’s hard to join the feast if you’re busy controlling the gate.”
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori exchanges a fist bump with Hank Mengedoht, 6, while his brother, Teddy, 8, looks on Jan. 25 during a reception with her at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Their mother, Katherine, said she and her husband, Dan, brought the boys and their 20-month-old sister, Georgia, to the event “to show support” for the leadership of the Episcopal Church. ENS photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg
She drew loud applause and a standing ovation as she concluded her sermon by saying that Jesus already was in charge of the gate, “and the word is out: ‘Y’all come! Come to the feast!’”
The full text of her sermon is here.
Later in the meeting, the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, told the gathering that “the House of Deputies and the entire church are covering you with prayer as you renew, reorganize, reorder, refresh, reconstitute and, indeed, resurrect the Episcopal Church in South Carolina.”
Jennings suggested to participants: “When it may seem as if the great breadth of conviction, experience and practice among Episcopalians threatens to overwhelm your longing for unity and clarity,” remember the Jan. 26 gathering and “the communion of saints that has gone before you.”
“I hope you will be convinced, as I am, that our Anglican comprehensiveness is our particular gift from God and a great blessing for the Episcopal Church in South Carolina,” she said. “Follow the Anglican middle way, and it will guide you between extremes in the company of Christians from all walks of life and all gifts of the Spirit.”
The full text of her remarks is here.
The day’s business
Lay and clergy delegates from nine parishes, 10 missions and eight “continuing parishes” were seated for the meeting. The term “continuing parishes” refers to congregations in which some but not all members have followed Bishop Mark Lawrence out of the Episcopal Church. Also among the more than 600 registrants were members of four “worshipping communities” that are in the process of organizing, as well as members of other congregations that are discerning whether to remain in the Episcopal Church.
A sign outside Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, featuring the newly adopted name of the continuing Episcopalians in that part of the state reflects a prohibition against the group using the diocesan seal. ENS photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg
Jefferts Schori declared a quorum, and the meeting’s first order of business was to act with what attorney Thomas Tisdale called “an abundance of caution, and with the desire to comply” with a Jan. 23 temporary restraining order that prevented the group from using the diocesan seal and the names “The Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina,” “The Diocese of South Carolina” and “The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.”
The group agreed to use the name “the Episcopal Church in South Carolina” in place of what Tisdale, later elected chancellor, called “what we believe is our true and lawful name.”
A hearing is set for Feb. 1 on South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane S. Goodstein’s order preventing any “individual, organization, association or entity” from using registered names and marks that are claimed by Lawrence and 24 other leaders associated with him. More information about the lawsuit is here.
The delegates at Grace Church chose by acclamation retired Diocese of East Tennessee Bishop Charles vonRosenberg to be their bishop provisional. Jefferts Schori installed vonRosenberg during the meeting and turned over the running of the meeting to him.
A bishop provisional has all the authority and responsibilities of a diocesan bishop but typically serves for a set period of time and is meant to be a bridge into the time when the diocese is ready to elect a diocesan bishop or make other decisions about its future.
The Episcopalians needed a new episcopal leader because Jefferts Schori said Dec. 5 that Lawrence had renounced his orders. She and her Council of Advice agreed that, in a Nov. 17 speech to a special diocesan convention, Lawrence said the diocese had left the Episcopal Church a month earlier on Oct. 17 when she restricted his ministry after the church’s Disciplinary Board for Bishops had certified to her that he had abandoned the Episcopal Church “by an open renunciation of the discipline of the church.”
The day the board’s decision was announced, the diocesan Standing Committee said that the action “triggered two pre-existing corporate resolutions of the diocese, which simultaneously disaffiliated the diocese from the Episcopal Church and called a special convention.” Lawrence asked for and received affirmation from those at the Nov. 17 gathering of that departure.
Thus the remaining Episcopalians needed a new bishop and a slate of lay and clergy leaders, which also was elected on Jan. 26.
VonRosenberg, 65, has long ties to South Carolina. He and his wife, Annie, already live in the Daniel Island community of Charleston, where he retired in 2011 after serving for 12 years as bishop of East Tennessee. Since October, he has served, along with retired Bishop John Buchanan, on a voluntary basis as adviser to the steering committee that formed in October.
“Here we are, a group of people committed to the Episcopal Church, some sadly displaced from their spiritual homes, others finding new life in exciting times – and a bishop who thought he had retired,” vonRosenberg told the gathering. “Here we are facing an uncertain future and relying on others for strength and support, and depending on God’s grace for the tomorrows that await.”
He urged rebuilding the Episcopal Church in South Carolina upon the foundation of what he called the “Christly virtues” of humility and love, beginning with seeking forgiveness “for our failure to achieve Christian unity in our times.”
VonRosenburg told the participants that, “as followers of Jesus Christ, we need to recognize that other sincere Christians – former Episcopalians – have chosen a path different from ours. Theirs is a path committed to Jesus as they understand that faith.”
The full text of vonRosenberg’s address to the meeting is here.
At a later press conference, the bishop suggested that healing could begin when, instead of talking over each other’s heads, people began to find hope in their previous relationships.
“My hope,” he said, “is that as people realize that the ones who are perhaps on a different side at this time are not demonic, [that they] are not unchristian but have chosen a different way.”
The bishop said “as we come to that point and confront each other as people, that’s where our hope lies and where, I believe, reconciliation begins.”
The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, talks with two women Jan. 25 during a reception at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. ENS photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg
Indeed, not everyone who attended the Jan. 26 meeting, or the nearly 500 who attended a reception with the presiding bishop the previous evening, has decided where he or she will end up.
Cheves Leland, delegate to the meeting from St. James Episcopal-Santee, told ENS that her congregation was in discernment about its affiliation. St. James is a “small congregation in a small village” whose members do not all agree about which direction to take, she said.
She has often voted opposite from the congregation’s other delegate. “We say our votes are divided, but we are not,” she said.
Whatever the congregation decides, the decision will affect everyone, Leland said.
“We really don’t want to split and have people leave,” she said. “I believe there is a place for everybody in the church and with God.”
Julie Walters, the director of children’s ministries at Grace, knows she stands in the Episcopal Church, just as her ancestors did six generations ago when they help to found Grace, she said. But she finds herself set against her Episcopal neighbors. She has been defending herself “in the grocery store and on the tennis court” against accusations by other Episcopalians who she said were “only hearing one side” of the story.
“It just shocks me,” she said, adding, “I hate this fight more than anything else.”
The fight, she said, is not about liturgical changes or changing interpretations of Scripture.
“It’s a fight about rule breaking … we had the same fight over women” being involved in church leadership, said Walters, whose godmother was, as Walters put it, the first female “vestryman” at Grace and was a target of disagreement.
Elizabeth Jones told ENS Jan. 25 that she had a simple wish for the weekend: “that this is the beginning of the healing.”
– The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg is an editor and reporter for the Episcopal News Service.
Hank Otto says:
Charleston is actually called the holy city not because of religious tolerance but because in the old city you can see a steeple from wherever you stand. In early times we were perhaps running second only to the Plymouth Colony in intolerance. Perhaps we surpaased it in our 1705 Church Acts which made the Anglican Church the official church of the Colony. It was pretty strict. If you were not married in an Anglican Church, your children were declared bastards.
Lets pray that an ambassador without portfolio starts to circulate between Lawrence and von Rosenberg and an equitable solution can be reached without the financial, spiritual and emotional warfare that is in the making now
Other than that, good article. Good reporting. Great factual data. Little spin. You don’t often see that in the press anymore.
Grant Carson says:
Oh, my good bishop, do you realize what you said?
Chris Walchesky says:
Pot meet Kettle.
Harriott Cheves Leland says:
Point of clarification historically and very briefly. No one has been able to pinpoint exactly why Charleston became known as the Holy City. There are numerous theories.
Early Carolina was actually tolerant of various denominations and religions, except, early on, members of the Catholic Church. Hank’s comment about marriage and bastards must refer to the political differences between the English and French in Carolina before 1700, but naturalization as Englishmen was at issue, not religious beliefs. The Church Act set up the parish system in the colony, bu did not ban any other denominations or religions (except that Catholics were still not welcomed until much later). The Congregationalists, Anabaptists, French Protestants and others all had churches and Jewish settlers were free to worship, although they could not hold office or vote openly.
It’s hard to disagree with Chevis on historic matters in SC. So I shall stand corrected.
Daniel New says:
‘“Somebody decides he knows the law and oversteps whatever authority he may have to dictate the fate of others who may in fact be obeying the law – and often a law for which this local tyrant is not the judge,” she said.’
Tyrant: ‘an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution, [one] who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally [and] an oppressive ruler in the harsh use of authority or power.’
Bishop Lawrence and the standing committee have acted according to, and entirely within, the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Diocese and the civil corporation laws of South Carolina. The person making the comments in the referenced quote above habitually act without the Constitution and Canons of The PECUSA; makes up the rules as she sees fit.
Therefore, who is the tyrant?
jackie adams says:
Former bishop Lawrence and his standing committee have acted according to, and entirely within, the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Diocese as they have rewritten them. There are and will be issues of disagreement among members of a large group. The question is, must these disagreements lead to a schism? Either you work together in spite of your differences, or it’s “my way or no way”, which seems to be what’s happening here.
John M Stevenson says:
Obviously rewritten to suit one’s ends rather than live by them.
And what precisely, Mr. Stevenson, prevents an Episcopal diocese from rewriting their constitution and canons? Please cite your source for such a prohibition.
As for living by ones by-laws, you may wish to study the C&Cs of General Convention and understand how many either ignore or misinterpret them to suit their own situation.
Ooh, such umbrage. My apologies if I touched a nerve.
Forgot to mention that as a member of a Standing Committee, I (one of seven out of 12) voted to consent to give Lawrence a chance the second go-round in 2007 after he assured our Bishop that it was not his intent lead the EDSC out of ECUSA (we all voted against the first time around, for obvious reasons). I was even an apologist on his behalf, given what he had to deal with in that Diocese (I and others here have followed your web site – source) and I continue to wonder if he was duped or co-opted.
It wasn’t Saul’s intent to become St. Paul.
Marked difference twixt Paul and Lawrence.
… And , just to add, Paul was loyal to and supportive of the “church” in Jerusalem, irrespective of initial differences with Peter. And both Peter and Paul came to the revelation that God shows no partiality.
You commented that Bishop Lawrence “assured our Bishop that it was not his intent lead the EDSC out of ECUSA” to which my followup comment was to point out that intentions, at times, change with circumstance. I have no doubt that +Lawrence was sincere in his stated position at the time of the second round of approvals.
If anyone has been “duped or co-opted” it is most certainly not the members of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
The reference to Saul was to point to a church leader who definitely changed with circumstances (Damascus Road).
re:”duped or co-opted” … Certainly not those in attendance at Grace Episcopal on January 26th.
Actually according to the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of South Carolina, a quorum was NOT present. Just because I call the sky green doesn’t make it so.
But then again, this is a new entity and not the diocese that has shepherded this land for 225+ years. The bylaws of this new Episcopal assembly in South Carolina are new as well.
Alex Gossett Shifflet says:
I can’t express the love and hope that I felt at the special convention yesterday at Grace Episcopal Church. The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori is such a beautiful person filled with love. Also, I welcome The Right Reverend Charles G. vonRosenberg with open arms. It is time to move forward and I’m so proud to be apart of The Episcopal Church in South Carolina!!
Bryan Hunter says:
“Love and hope”? You mean like when the presiding bishop likened those of us who made the difficult decision to walk apart from TEC to the school shooter and to homicidal terrorists? I’ve heard of “tough love” before, but I think describing the presiding bishop’s words as loving tortures all logic. To his credit, Bishop vonRosenberg sounds conciliatory and seems to be holding out the olive branch. It remains to be seen, but if it were left up to him and Mark Lawrence, I think an amicable parting of ways could be possible, but judging from her past actions, the presiding bishop will have none of that, and her words on Saturday certainly offer no “hope” that she will act in differently towards South Carolina than she has anywhere else. Of course, the vonRosenbergs live here, side beside with Mark Lawrence and those who remained in the Diocese of South Carolina. The presiding bishop doesn’t. Very poor taste for her to come down from New York, stir up the ant hill, and then leave it to those of us who live here to clean up the resultant mess. Remember the day when, if nothing else, Episcopalians at least had good manners? Bad form, Bishop Jefferts Schori.
My, my … the vilification continues. Cannot anything resembling Christian charity be said by those who “disaffiliated”?
Nicholas Forde says:
How about Mrs. Jefferts Schori’s own words: “It’s not terribly far from the state of mind evidenced in school shootings, or in those who want to arm school children, or the terrorism that takes oil workers hostage.”
I really thing the lady is unhinged.
walter combs says:
John Stevenson:
The Presiding Bishop Likens Bishop Mark Lawrence to Adam Lanza. This was completely inappropriate, spiteful, delusional, lacking anything resembling Christian charity. Do we really have any hope for reconciliation with those who have left us with this kind of rhetoric being spouted by our Presiding Bishop? When I read the address she gave to the special convention I was ashamed of what TEC has become. My wife and I have about had it with TEC.
Walter Combs: Please re-read what she had to say without preconceived notion or bias, and be kindly.
F.W. Atkins says:
If Rt. Revd. Mark Lawrence is a tyrant, how come he allows these schismatics to leave his diocese, and keep their properties. Those who stay with the true historical diocese have done so without any threats or coercion, whilst the PB continued a vindictive campaign of litigation. She is the one who appears to have an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Constitution and Canons.
Theodore Nutcracker says:
I am amazed at the pictures – the church looks empty. According to the story above, it appears that they had less than 100 delegates and only 8 churches out of over 70 (in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina). From the press I was reading I thought this was some big deal and all these churches would show up and support the restart. There must be more to the story than the press is reporting.
Margaret Carpenter says:
The pictures you are looking at were taken after the meet-and-greet had finished. The church at the Eucharist was filled to overflowing. People had to be seated in an adjacent room to watch on a close circuit TV. In the church we were joyfully squashed together.
Susan Kearney says:
With all due respect to those who have chosen to leave The Episcopal Church, I truly do not understand how one can claim that the Diocese that changed their Constitution and Canons to eliminate The Episcopal Church, in violation of Mark Lawrence’ holy vows to uphold The Episcopal Church, can claim to continue to be The Episcopal Diocese of SC. We are not a new entity, but a group of Episcopalians continuing to uphold the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church. I understand disagreeing with The Episcopal Church but I don’t understand how people can leave and then feel betrayed by those of us who choose to stay. I pray for all of us every day that God will help us regain our Christian Unity. God’s Peace.
Jane McFaddin says:
David Yarbrough says:
It’s interesting to note your blurring of distinctions between the Standing Committee, Diocesan Convention, and Bishop Lawrence.
Mark Lawrence didn’t singlehandedly change anything. The standing committee – elected representatives of the Diocese – made these changes. The Diocese in convention called Mark Lawrence to the episcopate – TWICE – knowing his integrity and where he stood. My point is that, while Bishop Lawrence is the chief operating officer, the Standing Committee and Diocesan Convention are at least coequal as agents of change.
And I note that Bishop Lawrence’s ordination vows include the promise to “boldly proclaim and interpret the Gospel of Christ”, and the promise to guard faith as well as unity.
While you may be “a group of Episcopalians continuing to uphold the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church” as you perceive them, you are clearly in the minority among Christians in the Anglican tradition in South Carolina.
Marc Kivel says:
Well I appreciate that some folks in South Carolina seem to prefer being Anglican rather than American Episcopalians – rather like their forefathers preferred to secede rather than work things out as part of the Union – I offer the thought that Mr. Lawrence was only made bishop after loudly protesting his willingness to be bound by the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and inasmuch as he walked away from the institution which raised him to the episcopate he is in my mind illegitimate and I question the validity of his orders and acts as he seems to be a Donatist heretic not a legitimate bishop…thoughts?
Ok. Lets take a step back from both sides and consider a hypothetical and this is just a hypothetical so no one read anything in to it. Suppose a bishop agrees to be bound by the constitution and canons of a hypothetical church. Then suppose that church decides that Christianity is not the way and that Islam is a better course of action. The church accordingly changes its canons and constitution to reflect the change. However the bishop is deeply convicted in Christianity as are his parishioners. Can the bishop legitimately walk away from the church and continue to minister to the remnants who also wish to be Christian? It’s ok to say no or yes or nothing at all. However whatever your answer it has implications. Those who follow Bishop Lawrence say yes. Those who back TEC may say no or may say yes under the hypothetical. If the say yes under the hypothetical then justification is a matter of degree and that is the slippery slope. If they say no then they undercut the presiding bishops comments about preserving assets for the purposes that the donors gave them for no one who knows anything about South Carolinians would ever even bother to make the argument that it would have been acceptable for any SC donor from 1685 until today to see their gifts go to a Moslem based faith. There is no easy answer. But …. It will be a hell of a lot cheaper for all of the purple people to agree to a position freeze, 40j the case and try to have a settlement that includes an accommodation for all involved in SC rather than a slash mark in the win column
Carol McRee says:
Susan, You do not understand what happened. The Diocese of South carolina has disaffiliated from TEC which is our right to do so. Those left in TEC can NOT claim our name. That is ILLEGAL. Please choose a new name that is distinct and does not cause confusion with either diocese in the state of South Carolina.
We don’t feel betrayed at all. We knew what was coming down the pike and have taken steps to remedy the confusion from those like yourselves who have tried to steal our name and identity and cause deliberate confusion. It is clear that your group is just out for a major power and property grab. Sad. TEC is all about real estate and power. I will close with our bishop’s vision for us. Making Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age.
I think you have this backwards, Carol.
No, she doesn’t, Ms Carpenter. With all due respect, Carol is spot-on.
I wish the forming diocese currently operating as The Episcopal Church in South Carolina all the best. I assume in the future the provisional diocese will follow the Constitution and Canons of TEC and actually officially form the diocese according to the organization’s own set procedures. It will be interesting to see what permanent name is chosen for the new diocese once this is done.
Dave Thomas says:
The current Episcopal Church in South Carolina will be known by it’s rightful name (The Diocese of South Carolina) once the dust clears from the lawsuits. Just because the former bishop of SC and some of his followers have left and taken things with them on their way out certainly doesn’t mean the courts won’t give it all back to the rightful owners in the end. The schismatics property-grab is perfect evidence that it was all about power and money to begin with.
It’s just a shame that both sides are going to end up spending huge sums of money on this disagreement. I would hope that representatives of both sides could sit down and work something out to benefit all concerned, but I really can’t see former bishop Lawrence and his followers giving an inch until forced by the courts (blowing millions of other people’s money in the process).
This includes $24 million that Dr. Schori and her chancellor have spent in legal fees on behalf of TEC for their own “property grabs” in Fort Worth, Quincy, San Joaquin, Pittsburgh, Northern Virginia, and elsewhere, in addition to South Carolina.
Dr. Schori’s two-faced behavior in dealing with Bishops Lawrence and Waldo is reprehensible and further indicative of the power issue.
Ronald J. Caldwell says:
Sorry admirers of Lawrence but the group that left the Episcopal Church is not the Episcopal diocese. Courts all around the country have confirmed that the Episcopal Church is an hierarchical institution entitled to manage its own affairs. The Church has a Constitution and Canons holding that a diocese cannot enter or depart from TEC without approval of General Convention. The people who voted on Nov. 17 to leave TEC did not take any diocese with them. The Episcopal diocese remained in TEC and has now been reorganized and reinvigorated with a new bishop. The titles and emblem of the diocese were protected before the Lawrenceites departed TEC. They stay with the diocese, not with the people who left the diocese. So, its the people who left TEC who will have to form a new diocese and they are free to call it whatever they wish except the titles already reserved for the Episcopal Church diocese. “Anglican Diocese of South Carolina” will probably be the name chosen as this is the pattern in the other breakaway groups.
Well I can tell there are few lawyers on this page. Mr Caldwell is correct about the legal cases. However look at the cases and you will see very deep legal variances as to why the courts decided as they did. As a SC lawyer, our approach is quite different. California has a state statue that controlled the issue. SC does not. Texas was an open field and they swung toward TEC. This is a guess and I would not wager money on it, but after watching the Texas Supreme Court arguments I think they will probably reverse. If Texas falls perhaps Virginia will too. I definitely think Virginia will wait on Texas before rendering an opinion. However the Texas oral arguments or rater court examination seemed to come directly from the SC All Saints Waccamaw case. For those not familiar with that case the SC Sup Ct shot down both diocesan trust and TEC Dennis Canon trust theories in favor of a break away parish. So I think everyone should really consider refraining from puffing up like blowfish and making such certain claims about who is or who is not. The SC Sup Ct will answer it in due time unless the parties back off and start COMPROMISING on legal issues. Both sides can do that honorably without compromising an ounce on theology.
Julian Malakar says:
“God’s feast doesn’t need ‘keep-out’ signs,” Jefferts Schori said: “The banquet table is spread with abundance for all, even though it’s hard to join the feast if you’re busy controlling the gate.” she concluded her sermon by saying that Jesus already was in charge of the gate, “and the word is out: ‘Y’all come! Come to the feast!’”
We all know that present crisis arises from the question which group is following principle of Gospel, Christ ministered being God incarnated, two thousand year before.
Sermon stated above by PB indicating heaven’s gate is wide open for all, no restriction implied, where as we find in the Gospel parable, given by Jesus Christ referring nature of Kingdom of Heaven, that in a wedding banquet, when invited special guests were unable to attend banquet for personal business, King invited everybody to fill up banquet table. But later King was surprised to find that some people came even without proper dress (moral code). Angrily King throw undressed people into hell (Matthew 22: 1-14). We know from Jesus’ teaching Heaven’s gate is actually narrow not wide open as preached, like wheat field weeds are taken out from the field to allow wheat plant grow healthy and produce abundance yield. In the parable we learnt many are invited but few are chosen. In PB’s sermon lacks important cautionary note for Kingdom of Heaven, we all looking for and invest our busy time going to Church. Christianity is passing thru a difficult time with modern ideology contrary to principle of Church teachings, bottom line: United we stand, divided we fall.
Scott Turner says:
Read the parable of the wheat and the tares, I believe the judgement is God’s alone. The Church should err on the side of mercy. Everytime the Church has taken God’s exclusive role of judgement into its own hands, a new period of broken witness begins. What is going on here is exactly the witness that turns the unbeliever into, well, a well-justified unbeliever. Christians who cannot stay in communion while in disagreement have defied the Lord’s prayer that we all may be one. Is disobedience corrected by schism or is schism a way to silence the influence of those who hear a different leading from the Spirit than one’s own? Moral and ecclessiastical certainty is a terminal condition for those who see now in a glass darkly.
There is no doubt in any Christian’s mind about Christ alone is the Judge in the Judgment Day and He would separate the Sheep and the Goat (Matthew 13: 31-46), the Wheat and the Tares (Matthew 13: 24-30).
The role of the Church (Body of Christ) is to prepare its sheep like us to grow healthy spiritually providing godly nourishment, so to face the Judge at Judgment Day. The question that separate both schools of thought (so called “Traditional” and “Liberal”) whether homosexuality is healthy nourishment help develop spiritual growth that comes from God or toxic food from evil, forbidden to consume since beginning of creation like forbidden fruit in Eden Garden. Only the Holy Bible could provide the answer not the Science or present culture of a society. It is matter of life and death situation of human souls in eternity, rely heavily on Church teaching on virtue and vice. And Science has little knowledge or no knowledge about souls of human and God. Choice is ours accepting or rejecting new idea initiated based on personal experience on homosexuality, which never happened before. But dispute still could amicably be settled with the light of Christian environment to glorify God as both parties acknowledge Jesus Christ is Son of God and abstaining abusing each other.
Steven Long says:
The PB is losing her grip on reality. Calling Bishop Lawrence a tyrant and comparing his actions to terriorism is over the top. Maybe she forgot to take her meds.
Tom Sramek, Jr. says:
Calling the Presiding Bishop a tyrant ignores the fact that multiple committees and commissions had a hand in this saga. the PB’s Council of Advice concurred with her actions. The Title IV Board of Review delivered its findings. The PB has next to no power on her own–she is empowered by the consent of the bodies that are canonically empowered to do so. If she were really a tyrant, her life would be a lot easier–she could have just removed Lawrence, Bennison, and other troublesome bishops years ago and saved herself the aggravation.
The situation also ignores the fact that the EPISCOPAL Diocese of South Carolina fully and unreservedly assented to the Constitution and Canons of the The Episcopal Church at TEC’s founding, and repeatedly thereafter, even after the “Dennis canon” was passed. To then vote to disaffiliate is like a McDonalds franchise saying “we aren’t going to follow the rules of McDonalds, we’re not going to pay them any money, but we’re going to keep the name, the logo, and all that goes with it. Oh, and we’re the REAL McDonalds!” It might also be likened to South Carolina refusing to follow any federal laws (taxation, etc…) but still referring to itself as a state. You cannot have a diocese independent of a national church body. That’s now now the system works. Sorry folks. If you are within The Episcopal Church, then you are subject to its rules. If you are not, leave the keys on the table and go, but don’t think you can have it both ways.
I also don’t agree with calling Bishop Lawrence a tyrant and comparing his actions to terrorism, but we now have a church system that is highly anxious and reactive–and few are thinking clearly or speaking thoughtfully.
Another well-said comment.
Go see the movie, “Lincoln.” He steadfastly refused to accept that the South had in fact created a separate nation, rather people in the South were in a rebellion that should be ended so that the legitimate governments of the states could be reformed as part of the Union. I don’t recall that the Southern States agreed with that interpretation or appreciated Lincoln’s efforts to maintain the Union. The view of schismatics toward our Presiding Bishop remind me of that period of history. I don’t know how you can be the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina if you are not part of the Episcopal Church or have use of anything pertaining to The Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA if you have violated the Constitution and Canons of such and have disaffiliated from it.
I do not think I will go see the movie Lincoln for two reasons. I don’t particularly like him and I don’t think Hollywood is a great portrayer of reality. That having been said I think that you are right in that the situation is a good analogy to provoke introspection. Somehow I think this will become a “posting debate” but I really am hoping that will give pause for thoughtful perspective.
What would have happened if Lincoln had lived. There are widely divergent opinions. All pi in the sky because he didn’t. All we can know is what he did when he was alive. He did a lot of very bad things. Out if it a good arose which was the termination of the institution of slavery.
Lincoln basically said might makes right. To win the war he said I shall suspend the constitutional writ of have as corpus without congressional authority which I have no right to do. I shall remove and imprison for the duration of the war any Maryland politician who does not agree with me and they shall have no recourse because I have illegally suspended the right of habits corpus. Now that the US Sup Ct is calling me out on the things, I shall issue an arrest warrant for the Chief Justice. It matters not that there is not one shred of legal authority which I can present to hold the south in violation of US law or the Constitution because might makes right and I have the army behind me. Not only shall I disenfranchise an Ohio politician who wants to promote peace with the south, but I shall toss him across the Mason Dixon line into the Confederacy and strip him of his citizenship like a medieval king while grossly abandoning my inaugural oath to DEFEND the Constitution. I am a convicted abolitionist but I shall abolish slavery even though the constitution at that time guaranteed it and gave me no authority to do so BUT I will only abolish it in the South and not in Maryland and Deleware. Of course later on I will go ahead and violate those two loyal states rights by proclamation no need to change that portion of the constitution that guaranteed it. Now I have to figure out what to do with these emancipated slaves. I don’t want them loitering around and even I the great abolitionist do not see them fit for positions of equality ….. So we shall pack them off to British Honduras. What do you mean her majesty is not thrilled with the idea. Don’t think I won’t pop her in the pokey and keep in mind that when she gets there she will stay there because I am the only president in history to ever unlawfully suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Yes George Bush did it but he was just a me wannabe. He wimped out and got congressional approval making it legal
These are facts. Might makes right. Even though I am a southerner I concede he did well for his side. The cost – he sold his soul to the devil. The only thing that makes us Americans as a nation is the constitution. It is a human good to which all citizens can gladly accede because of its protections. The worst presidential transgressors against it, with Franklin D and W trying to compete for second was Lincoln.
All perhaps good in a war. Not too much what you want in the church. We inn SCreally believe rightly or wrongly that the presiding bishop is the Lincoln you reference. We are preparing to repel boarders. Lincoln is what we expect to come at us. We will not roll over. The strange thing is that while we are done with 815 we would really prefer to part amicably.
I know there is good in Lawrence and you are wrong about him. Perhaps we are wrong about the presiding bishop. Personally I would love to see them prove us all wrong and reach an accord. Union is gone. Pax among ourselves is there for the taking. It will not be found in a court of law. Trust me. I am a lawyer!
Bruce Garner says:
Having watched this situation unfold for nearly 20 years, I marvel at how well Bp Lawrence managed to isolate people in the diocese from any outside information, discussions, data, etc. (Note that the same pattern was followed in Pittsburg, Ft. Worth, San Juaquin, Quincy, etc.) This mess began with Fitz Allison who persuaded Kendall Harmon that John Calvin had not completed the reformation and it was Kendall’s work to now finish it.
Aside from all of that, I have always been appalled at the rudeness of male clergy from the first point the Presiding Bishop made her first visit to SC. The audio recordings make me ashamed of my southern brothers who I know were taught better manners by their mothers. Whether you like the guest in your home or not, ordinary manners dictate that you be polite to the guest at a minimum. It has been a southern tradition that women were treated with a great deal of respect. My own mother would have swatted me hard if I didn’t behave accordingly. The mothers of the boys at that first meeting would be ashamed of their sons.
Despite what you may hear, the Diocese of SC did not/does not/can not leave The Episcopal Church. The General Convention is the source of authority and only it can allow a diocese to leave the Episcopal Church (olr join in the case of new dioceses). And despite what you hear the teachings of the Episcopal Church are not deviations from either Scripture or what was allegedly handed down by the Apostles. Scripture has ALWAYS been subject to interpretation. One need only read the passage from Nehemia that was yesterday’s OT lesson. It even uses the words “interpret” with regard to the law of Moses and in the context of culture and larger narrative. Anyone who really thinks we have not been interpretting Scripture in the light of tradition, reason and culture is very much in denial of reality.
Mark Lawrence et al have one interest: making sure that what they call their diocese is in the full control of white males, middle aged and older and presumably straight. They just cannot grasp the concept that the world or the church is no longer run by straight white men. Look at who makes up the clergy in the break away group. How many are of color? How many are female priests? (There are female deacons I believe but they are at the authority of their bishop and generally do as told.)
This is a game begun decades ago. Unfortunately my dear friend Ed Salmon had a chance to bring sanity to the situation but either could not or chose not to do so. We all pay the consequences of Fitz Allisons fantasies and what he has wrought.
As always, I will keep a seat at the table for all, even those who think they have left The Episcopal Church. They are my sisters and brothers in Christ. Unfortunately, the same is not reciprocated.
Judgment has always belonged to God and God alone. I will let God tell me when I stand before the throne of grace whether or not I have been a good servant. As best as I have been able I have followed God’s primary commandment: Love God and love my neighbor as myself. There were no exceptions to those who I am to love….even if I would like there to be!
Bruce Garner
L5 Atlanta
Former Member, Executive Council
Earle Phillips says:
Out of curiosity, now that the EDSC has “disaffiliated” from ECUSA, what will you be using as BCP and Hymnal? Baptismal vows? Catecheses for the young? Training for those to be confirmed? Other forms of formation? Everything else appears to have been intentionally thought out and acted upon in during the past ten years (+/-). Just how absolute is this “disafiliation”? Are not these worth asking about?
E. T. Malone, Jr. says:
As a journalist who has written both for Episcopal News Service and the Episcopal Journal about events in South Carolina for the past several years, and as a priest who was for almost a dozen years Secretary of Convention in the Diocese of North Carolina, I have followed this on-going saga closely.
I have one technical question that I wish someone could answer. Regarding the convention held this past weekend in Charleston, it seems to me impossible that the continuing Episcopalians could have had a canonical quorum of either lay delegates or clergy. I read in the ENS story that the Presiding Bishop “declared” that there was a quorum. What was the basis of that declaration? If those desiring to remain in the national Episcopal Church do not admit that the parishes and clergy committed to Lawrence have left the church, then those parishes and clergy must be included in the number needed for a quorum. It can’t be both ways. A true quorum would have to be a majority of all parishes and all clergy in the diocese. Without a quorum, no official acts can be taken, or legislation enacted, bishops elected, or canons or bylaws revised.
I assume that the Presiding Biship cannot simply make up canon law on the spot. In my diocese, the number of duly elected lay delegates and clergy present at this weekend’s Charleston meeting would have been clearly insufficient to conduct business, and insufficient to represent the will of the diocese as a whole. Can anyone out there enlighten me on this?
Robert H. Crewdson says:
From reading the excerps of the messages given at the special assembly in Charleston, it seems Bishop Van Rosenburg was doing damage control after the PB’s unloving remarks in her so-called sermon. I think Bishops Lawrence and VanRosenburg should be allowed to work on the property settlements, etc. rather than the National Church enriching the lawyers again as they did in Virginia by litigation against SC. Bishop Lee in Virginia was doing a good job negotiating with the churches that left that diocese until he was ordered by the PB to litigate. I wonder where all of this money is coming from that TEC is using for litigation. One would think that TEC would be transparent about this. I am still in TEC, but I don’t like the way I see committed Christians who disagree treated. I was in the Diocese of SC in the late eighties and found it to be a very loving diocese. Ihope something can be worked out amiably.
It was Mr. Lawrence et al who instigated suit against TEC, not the other way round as your statement suggests. If you are sued, you must respond. However, I agree with your question in one sense….. I wonder where all of this money is coming from that Mr. Lawrence et al are using for litigation? Being a South Carolinian and looking at the names of some of the law firms involved with Mr. Lawrence’s suit, all I can say is that I hope those who have decided to leave TEC and file suit against TEC have either VERY deep pockets or VERY wealthy benefactors.
Sally Rowan says:
Bruce Garner wrote: “Anyone who really thinks we have not been interpretting Scripture in the light of tradition, reason and culture is very much in denial of reality.”
The original “legs” of the church were Scripture, reason and tradition. “experience” was added as a 4th leg, but experience can warp badly. If someone was abused by their father, calling God “Father” might be inconceivable. What is needed is NOT renaming God, but healing for that person. Is it easily achieved? No. Is it worth working for? Yes.
The so-called 4th leg rightfully should be subsumed under Reason because our reasoning stems from our experiences. Besides, a 3-legged stool does not wobble as would a 4-legged stool. It was non-Anglican writing in the NYT that presumed to add a a4th leg. 🙂
Kathleen Chipps says:
Those who have left The Episcopal Church should take on the name The Episcopal Church of Mark Lawrence. And the clergy who have left either lied (perhaps with their fingers crossed behind their backs) or were non compos mentis because at their ordination they were asked, “Will you be loyal to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of Christ as this Church has received them? And will you, in accordance with the canons of this Church, obey your bishop and other ministers who may have authority over you and your work?” The answer includes “and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the [Protestant] Episcopal Church[in the United States of America].” This does not mean you can then write your own rules. To use a sports analogy, it isn’t your ball field, it isn’t you bat, it isn’t your ball, and it isn’t your base. You are part of something much larger than yourself. If you don’t want to play nicely, then leave, but don’t try to take what is not yours, even when your bishop writes new rules and expect the larger community to suddenly say “What a great idea!” Writing your own rules doesn’t change the larger community’s. By the way, you who have left have often commented on TEC spending $22 million. Would you be so kind to as to tell the rest of us what the break away groups have spent? Or is that a secret you can’t/won’t reveal because it will embarrass you and your like-minded friends? Fair is fair. When you say that those who continue in The Episcopal Church that they could not afford to maintain big church buildings, you don’t seem to believe that with God, all things are possible.
The article above is good but does not quite convey the atmosphere of the convention. I attended. It was a grand and glorious celebration of new life, Easter on steroids. The building was packed to overflowing (into the courtyard) for a magnificent Eucharist and diocesan special convention. The entire meeting was upbeat, optimistic, positive. The whole congregation (except Lawrence’s spy) burst forth in unbridled enthusiasm in loud, joyous demonstratrions again and again, for the great Presiding Bishop, for the bishop provisional, and most of all for the vote to restore all ties to the Episcopal Church. The man next to me leaned over and said “We are Episcopal again!” I could not answer for the lump in my throat. Many a tear of joy was shed on smiling faces throughout that wonderful and historic day. Although the unchristian ambush by the Lawrence party through the Dorchester court kept the convention from using its actual names and emblems, the clear implication in all of the convention’s work was that this was the continuing Episcopal church diocese of South Carolina. The overwhelming joy, happiness, enthusiasm, and friendliness of that day will remain with me for years to come. To those who think the Episcopal Church in the low country is dead or will shrivel into nothingness, I say look again. The Episcopal Church is very much alive and well in its ongling diocese of South Carolina through the lives of thousands of devoted and loyal Episcopalians who have incorporated compassion, justice, and mercy in their lives and are proud to make their stand for indiscriminate inclusivity.
Well said, M. Caldwell.
I wish you all well. Among you are my friends and family. I hope you wish us well too I hope the presiding bishops message of hope for South Carolinians includes us. I hope that you are right in that we prematurely jumped the gun and entered into protective litigation ill advisedly. I fear not but really hope so. I had to leave my church because they stayed with TEC. I was not happy about it. My family was not happy about it. Majority rules. I wish them well and hope when this is over we can celebrate mass together again somehow. I found another church where the majority also ruled – overwhelmingly in favor of PEDSC. I swear I think every one of us would agree to paint the seal on every TEC church in sc if TEC would let us worship as we please without an unnecessary fight for the institutions our forebears left to us. ( and I am sure that no one in their right mind is ever going to suggest that historic South Carolinians would have given a dime in support of modern TEC positions) and if we could work that out, we sheep would be glad to call ourselves the diocese of the international house of anything but episcopalians or whatever TEC thinks is a good name for us.
Probably not going to happen.
I wish y’all well in your spiritual journey anyway. There is not a shred of facetiousness in that sentiment I promise you. I hope that is not mistaken to mean that we are remotely prepared to back down or flinch from the fight that is coming. But wouldn’t it be nice not to have to?
Yes, Hank that would be nice. Unfortuinately it was PECDSC in its manic push for legitimacy that first sued in court, for everything, all the property. Of course, they said it was “preemptive” (the same thing Dubya said about Iraq and its imaginary weapons of mass destruction). Then, PECDSC went to court again and got the judge to issue an ex parte (no lawyer on the TEC side was notified ahead) surprise-attack order of Temporary Restraining Order just days before the Episcopalians were to meet. So what is TEC supposed to do, roll over and play dead? Not gonna happen.
Mr Caldwell, I don’t intend to be uncharitable, but most of what you’ve written on this thread is pure rubbish. The Diocese of South Carolina sought a declaratory judgement from the Circuit Court of South Carolina. It does not seek any monetary damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, etc. All it seeks is for the South Carolina Court to affirm its rightful claim to the corporate identity that it lawfully registered in the state of South Carolina and the property that it, and the parishes within it, legally own. I’m very sorry for you that the facts of the case do not match your personal expectations, which I can see is quite disappointing, but the decent thing to do is to be a gentleman about it by accepting the fact that legally the Diocese of South Carolina under Bishop Mark Lawrence is in the right and TEC is not. It doesn’t make you less of a person. But you do risk diminishing yourself by being dishonest about the facts.
Ok I can see your point as a layman. As a lawyer it means something different to me. A TRO and an injunction are merely tools to hold things in place during litigation and have no real impact on the final outcome. It is not a bad idea in this case. There is nothing significant about the TRO being ex parte. Almost all TROs are ex parte. That is why SCRCP 65 mandates a hearing on it within 10 days so the other side gets due process of law. I have obtained TROs and I am sure Tom Tisdale has too. Not a big deal and I discourage people on our side from making a big deal of it because it has nothing to do with the merits.
Secondly whether we are right or not we claim the name and seal of the Diocese. There was no secret that the TEC people were using the seal and planning to reorganize. Past practice across the county also told us that immediately following they were going to hit us with a suit. If you were on our side strategically, holding the positions that we do, would you wait quietly in the corner for bombs to start falling?
I don’t expect TEC to roll over. None of us expect TEC to alter its approach to property disputes. It is not a manic push for legitimacy. It really is preemptive.
I understand why there is a lot of emotion in your posts. I share it on the other side but have to choke it back very frequently. A lot is at stake. The point I am making is that it does not have to be an all or nothing and BOTH sides need to realize it.
So here is my question. Does it hurt the MISSION of either church to have the majority of each congregation decide whether to go with the side they elect. Certainly that will have more going with Bishop Lawrence than TEC. But if we can get past that do you think we can worship in peace and not interfere with one another. Of course TEC will have a Diocese in SC. So will we. If we can strike accord on the essential issues then the name issue which is wiggling everyone out will almost de facto work itself out
Tod Roulette says:
Please, if your conscience says you cannot stay. Leave in Peace and don’t steal the assets of the larger body you willingly gave. GodSpeed but don’t take what belongs to the larger church body. This Southern ‘break the union’ and narrowly interpret the word of God is sad in the 21st Century.
I join a club. I lend them the use of my office building to meet in. I paid for the building. I keep it repaired. I pay the taxes and insurance on it. I keep the electrics on. I decide to leave the club. When I try to go to work the club tells me I cannot enter. They tell me the building is no longer mine because they voted that the property of the members automatically becomes the property of the club. Who stole the property? Was Christian charity present in the clubs actions?
Ken Armstrong says:
Seems there is a lot of heat and anger and not much light or understanding. The historic properties and traditions of the past Diocese of South Carolina are just as precious and inspring to the continuing members as they are to those who are leaving. The national church would be failing in its duty if it did not do all it can to retain them for future genearations.
As to the issues that caused the separation, ultimately they are of little importance in God’s realm. Jesus accepted and ministered to all who came to him. While he told the sinful to repent he accepted them. If we hope to grow in God’s image and grace we must do the same. You cannot hope to change those you refuse to include. Jesus commanded us to love one another and did not ask us to judge whom we will love. As a member of the upper SC diocese, I pray daily for the best outcome of this conflict and ask God to help us to discern and fulfill his will for us.
“You cannot hope to change those you refuse to include.”
Mr. Ken,
For information to many, Christian Church refuse to include “immoral sex” such as homosexuality as virtue but not the persons, repeat not the persons, who are prisoner to urge of the body, because we all are sinner. But problem arises when TEC transformed homosexuality from vice to virtue, which Church do not have authority.
The specific and fundamental issue at stake between the two sides here is that of sovereignty, or ultimate power. The Episcopal Church is now and has always been an hierarchical institution. It claims that it has sovereignty and that its Constitution and Canons incorporate all the dioceses. Likewise, power on the local level rests in the diocese which has authority over the local churches. This includes the Dennis Canon which holds that all local property is held in trust for the diocese and the Episcopal Church. The group calling itself the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina (PECDSC) says that it has self-sovereignty and is not subject to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. Moreover, the bishop issued quit claim deeds to all local parishes relinquishing all diocesan claims to the properties.
Sovereignty is one item. It cannot rest equally in two bodies. One is sovereign and the other is not.
Ironically, this was the identical issue in SC before the Civil War. The state declared its right to nullify national laws, asserted its sovereignty in “states rights” and finally voted to secede from the Union as a sovereign state. The state claimed too that it predated the Union and that there was no clause in the US Constitution prohibiting secession. The issue was the same, sovereignty. The original issue of the Civil War was whether sovereignty rests in the national government or in the states. The issue at hand is the same.
When a state or a diocese joins the national body it has to accept the constitution of the larger body as supreme. That is the mutual deal. The Diocese of South Carolina acceeded to the Constitution and Canons of the Episciopal Church; the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence swore an oath of allegiance to the Episcopal Church within his ordination as bishop. Both the diocese and the bishop accepted the sovereignty of the national body. Then, by voting to sever ties to the Episcopal Church on Nov. 17, 2012, the majority of the old diocese reneged on its obligations and declared its independence. They asserted local sovereignty over national.
This issue has been before the courts around the country for many years now. One breakaway diocese case has been settled, that of Pittsburgh. The Episcopal Church prevailed. The other three are in court on appeal, but along the way produced a strong and clear ruling in Fresno on the very issue of sovereignty. Whether on the national level or the diocesan level, courts have overwhelmingly sided with the Episcopal Church.
The one and only example where a local entity prevailed in a final settlement was All Saints Waccamaw where the SC Supreme Court ruled in favor of the local parish against the diocese. The PECDSC, which ironically lost the case, now pins all its hops on this very case.
In the view of the Episcopal Church a diocese cannot withdraw (or join) from TEC without approval of the General Convention. Thus, the vote on Nov. 17 was illegal and the group that left did not take a diocese with them. Individuals left but the diocese did not leave. The diocese remains in the Episcopal Church. The names of the diocese apply to the Episcopal diocese and were protected when the diocese was under the C and C of the Episcopal Church. Those names and emblems belong to the diocese, not to the people who left the diocese. These will be the points the lawyers will make in court.
Judge Goldstein has already shown favoritism to PECDSC and may well rule in favor of PECDSC. At any rate, whoever loses will certainly appeal the case and it will drag on for years. One may wonder why this particular court in this particular county was choden by PECDSC.
Meanwhile, the two sides are busy organizing and moving forward. Bishop vonRosenberg will issue a letter to all clergy of the old diocese calling on their adherence to the Episcopal Church with 60 days to respond. Those who do not adhere will be deposed from ministry in TEC. The property issue meanwhile is in court and will likely be there for years to come.
So what we have here are two very different legal views. These will go to court and be argued at length, as they have already been around the country. What will happen in SC remains to be seen. Meanwhile friends have parted, local churches broken up, extended families dissolved, and Christians are reduced to practicising what they were long ago admonished not to do, sue each other in court. It’s a sad, even scandalous state.
Yet another irony is that on the issue of gender equality and rights, the country has moved on. A sea change has occurred in the last few years, as in the last election, so that numerous states and localities now allow same gender marriages and are moving toward full equality of rights for all people. Even the US military has agreed to allow women to fight in combat. The country has moved on and the Episcopal Church is trying to minister to the changes clearly going on in society. That is the larger issue at stake here, whether to minister to societal changes (TEC) or condemn them (PSCDSC). I know on which side I stand, proudly for indiscriminate inclusivity.
Again … well said, Mr. Caldwell.
Rev. Paul Hartt says:
“That is the larger issue at stake here, whether to minister to societal changes (TEC) or condemn them (PSCDSC). I know on which side I stand, proudly for indiscriminate inclusivity.”
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” (Mt. 7: 13.)
Don’t you think the Gospel of our Lord Jesus is a little more demanding than “indiscriminate inclusivity”?
In my understanding of the Gospels, Our Lord was the great champion of indiscriminate inclusivity. He reached out to everyone from the lowest dregs, the lepers who were grateful, to the highest, the prince who turned away. I cannot think of a single example of when he excluded anyone (even Judas). Indeed, his followers tended to be the ones shunned, cast out, marginalized, maligned, discriminated against. And can anyone cite one word Jesus ever said about homosexuality? In my view, Jesus was the very personification of God’s love and mercy for everyone, no one excluded.
Cyndee Lowe says:
Our Lord said to go and sin no more, not continue in sin and it’s fine. He also spoke on the subject of marriage and the Truth of the Bible.
Ronald,
There must be exclusivity in accepting one over other as long there is two spiritual power working over our day to day life constantly “Good” and “Evil”. In the rule of law, court reject one party over other who does not comply with existing law and existing law varies with time and space. But God Almighty is unchanged with time and space, because He does not spin around anything like we do, earth moves around the sun and we have years and different seasons. God does not have years. There is no “Traditional/Liberal” in the eyes of God. God says that we are either with Him or against Him and we cannot serve two masters.
In the context of homosexuality, many emphasized the word “inclusive” for the sake of validating of new idea. But they forget that all Christian believe like TEC, that God’s abundance love (not sexual) for forgiveness of our sins is inclusive, all human are invited to His banquet table with thankful (repentance) mind accepting Jesus Christ as Son of God and loving God and neighbor with righteous works. Any question about righteousness of God, we should consult the Bible with faith, prayer, reasoning and personal experience in relationship to God. Unfortunately no one asked Jesus when He was ministering, whether or not same sex marriage is sinful when He answered purpose and righteousness of heterosexual marriage, selection of mate and God’s blessing for family. In other word, people of Jesus time knew the answer reading scripture story about Sodom and Gomorra and Jesus did not talk about it.
But despite new innovation about God’s love for forbidden sexuality known for years, still I am confident, we could get answer from God in this turmoil situation in the light of Jesus Christ, whose birth day we celebrated little over one month and read about PB’s Christmas message about the light, to settle the property issue in the spirit of fellowship under one God. To spread the gospel, both parties agree, need property and they were “One Body” before this new innovation. God’s settlement is win-win and court’s settlement is win-loss, costs money and time as Mr. Ronald said well above. Christ’s peace in all understanding be for both the Church.
Milton Finch says:
So true, Ronald. It is written in the Bible that Jesus invited the disciples to a gay bar and demanded that his disciples lay down and party with the ones there. I am sure it is written!
I believe there is a confusion in this view of the beginning with the end. Too many in TEC misunderstand “indiscriminate inclusivity” as the end of the Gospel rather than the means into and beginning of the Gospel.
So true, Paul. The problem arises when those invited to the table try to turn the table into their own. They leave out that problematic “turning from one’s unregenerate ways”.
For all of us, the wide end of the funnel leads to the “narrow gate.” Thank God that “with God all things are possible.” Thank God for the Cross. “Indiscriminate Inclusivity” as practiced in TEC simply makes light of the eye of the needle for us all.
Bishop Andrew Gerales Gentry says:
When I hear people on either side of this drama citing “ordination vows” forgive me but as a Non Episcopalian I can’t help but ask “are you seriously bringing up ordination vows” when you have bishops as well as priests rejecting the historic Creeds, the Incarnation, the Divinity of Christ , the uniqueness of Scriptures and Holy Tradition with impunity but yet if some people, clergy and bishops decide to leave you accuse them of “violating their ordination vows”! Really! So help me understand this for it appears you can be an agnostic, a New Age devotee, a deist like your PB, reject the doctrine of the Divinity of Jesus and the Trinity and that is not a violation but if you leave and wont to keep what you have paid for with your own money and sweat you are violating your vows! If this a correct reading of what constitutes nullification of vows then is it not therefore correct to assume that there is no longer any “core doctrine” of the Episcopal Church except what is relative to the particular bishop, priest or deacon?
Regardless of what ultimately happens, and I would not count my chickens before they hatch if I were PECUSA, the spectacle unfolding in South Carolina is very bad press for Episcopalians of whatever “jurisdiction”. What it is saying to people who have little or no regard for religion is that religious people are the worst kinds of people and for those who are people of faith it is saying money and property is more important than belief and practice.
John Neir says:
Bishop Gentry, to which denomination do you belong ?
Mr Neir I was ordained deacon and priest in the Eastern Church. I was ordained bishop for an Intentional Eucharistic Community and am now retired. The IEC movement is a result of former Roman Catholics attempting to live and practice the reforms of Vatican II and later as an ecumenical community. There are several thousands IECs here and in Europe.
You know there is a lot of truth in what he says.
Amen, Bishop Gentry. How quickly we lose sight of the truth of what you say. Those on both “sides” (it pains me to write that) should bow in humility before the powerful truth you have written there. As a brother in Christ, I thank you.
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Samuel L. Jackson Operates Like He Owns the Place. (He Does.)
He’s a muse to Spike and Quentin. He’s a Marvel Stalwart, a Jedi, and a style icon. Given his magical way with a certain four-syllable word and the fact that he’s been so good for so long-120 movies over nearly forty years-we might think we know Samuel L. Jackson. But do we?
by Carvell Wallace
Samuel L. Jackson is driving our golf cart pedal to floor through the unseasonably cold southern California morning fog, pushing the whining electric engine to its limits. It is 8:15 a.m., and he and his foursome have already played nine holes. I met up with them at the turn and hopped into Jackson’s cart as they continued on the course, interrupting their mild shit-talking with sporadic occurrences of golf on the back nine. It is one of those bizarrely random Los Angeles groupings of people you never imagine together. Richard Schiff puffing on a cigarette in a faded Yankees cap and pink-trimmed performance golf slacks. An unfailingly upbeat producer-writer who spends much of the time encouraging everyone’s shots and explaining the game of cricket. A young semipro in a razor-crisp polo who drives the ball off the tee like he’s opening up a portal to another dimension. Don Cheadle is supposed to be here but is absent for unknown reasons. (We eventually discover on the clubhouse television that it has to do with him appearing on Good Morning America at that precise moment.) I later hear that Josh Duhamel frequently rounds out the group. I have never been on a golf course in my life.
Jackson drives, peppering me with questions (“Have white folks started confusing you with Brian Tyree Henry yet?”) and gleefully navigating around obstacles in our path by running two wheels up on the wet grass despite bountiful signage warning us not to do just that. Each time he does this, the cart threatens to pull a little movie-stunt two-wheel tip and throw me onto the asphalt pathway. “Engage your core,” he tells me with an 85 percent straight face. It is good advice from a seventy-year-old man from Chattanooga, Tennessee. I am vaguely scared and trying to play it cool. He is driving decisively, wholly unconcerned. At his age, the Hollywood veteran wears “wholly unconcerned” as comfortably as the faded black Adidas bucket hat he golfs in.
This becomes clear to me when I later interview him in the country-club restaurant and he sprinkles n-words and motherfuckers about the dining area like handfuls of glitter as Grandpa- and Memaw-type club members look awkwardly into their eggs Benedict. He behaves not only like a man who belongs here but also like one who basically owns the place. His casual inattention to the perceived authority of white power structures is so deeply woven into his way of being that in his presence it seems bizarre that anyone, anywhere, would think to behave differently. A lot of people like to say they don’t give a fuck. Samuel L. Jackson simply doesn’t.
"I know how many motherfuckers hate me. ’I’m never going to see a Sam Jackson movie again.’ Fuck I care? I already cashed that check. Fuck you."
What he does care a great deal about is acting and movies (and golf—he is coy about his handicap but acknowledges it lies in low single digits), and he approaches his craft with both a childlike love for the medium and a specialist’s obsession with technique. This combination has led him to enjoy one of the most prolific film careers of any actor alive, despite his relatively late-in-life big break. Perhaps only Nicolas Cage comes close to achieving Jackson’s ability to pop up across a pantheon of wildly disparate titles, ranging from the sublime (Pulp Fiction, Unbreakable, Eve’s Bayou) to the absurd (Snakes on a Plane, Jumper, The Man). I had heard that he averaged four releases a year, which I thought was insane until he corrected me and told me that it was closer to five.
In two separate calendar years, 1990 and 2008, Samuel L. Jackson’s name was on the call sheet for seven different films. Moreover, he has found his way into megafranchises like Star Wars and The Incredibles, and as former SHIELD director Nick Fury, Jackson has shot eleven different Marvel movies, including four Avengers films.
In two separate calendar years, 1990 and 2008, Samuel L. Jackson’s name was on the call sheet for seven different films.
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But if any year is the year of Sam Jackson, 2019 looks to be it. In addition to his upcoming Marvel work, he will star in the sequel to 2000’s cult-classic remake of Shaft and handle narration for the much-anticipated docuseries Enslaved.This year also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pulp Fiction, which will be celebrated with hundreds of theatrical screenings and a bevy of appearances and interviews by the man who immortalized Jules Winnfield. The Jackson-led M. Night Shyamalan sequel Glass opened the year atop the box office for multiple weeks, and between that and his Marvel commitments, the actor could spend the first year of his seventies with more weeks at number one than any other working actor in 2019—a remarkable feat for a man who is already the highest-grossing film actor of all time, with his movies accounting for an estimated $13 billion combined.
You can think of film acting—and most people do—as the art of creating convincing emotions on command. But fewer recognize it as the art of both nailing takes and saying other people’s words in a way that is so engaging, so clear, so mesmeric that viewers can’t help but stop whatever they’re doing to watch. He is an all-time great at the second and third things and is woefully underrated at the first. Sam Jackson owns words. It doesn’t matter who wrote them. Once he says them, they belong to him, and anyone else who dares speak them is immediately reduced to a cheap imitator. More than flash on film, he has managed to build a legitimate leading-man career out of the journeyman’s trade by showing up to sets on time for nearly forty years and saying his lines correctly and with inimitable style.
"I wanted to be the black Jacques Cousteau, because I loved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...I always thought the inner space was a lot more interesting than outer space."
This gift is particularly visible in his work with Quentin Tarantino, Jackson’s most frequent collaborator. He has starred in six of Tarantino’s eight features. The director- screenwriter’s ear for dialogue marries the elegant with the profane and is a perfect match for Jackson’s talent for irreverent rhapsody. Jackson received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as Jules in Pulp Fiction, but a legitimate case can be made (and Jackson has made it) that he was a leading actor in that film. Ask any dorm-room Pulp Fictionfan to quote a line from the movie and the odds are high that the one they choose will have been spoken by Jules, a startling fact when you consider that he only appeared at the beginning and the end of the film.
This effect is even more pronounced in Tarantino’s follow-up effort, Jackie Brown, a long-form character study masquerading as an underworld heist flick. Like Jules, Jackson’s character—the Kangol-clad, ponytail-sporting arms merchant Ordell Robbie—is by turns winsome and pestilent. But here Tarantino and Jackson court an entirely more malignant vibe. Whereas Jules is a charming man in a world of stylish people who do horrific things with integrity and humor, Ordell is squarely situated in a province of aging criminals confronting their rapidly crumbling chances to live out their youthful dreams. Jackson cuts his winning smiles, easygoing manners, and lyrical maledictions with a heavy dose of nihilist grief and quiet desperation. His trademark charm offers a thin veil for his unutterable evil. You would like to have a couple drinks with Jules Winnfield. You would quickly leave the bar if Ordell Robbie so much as made eye contact with you.
Growing up in legally segregated Tennessee, Jackson says his world was entirely black. He was an only child raised by his maternal grandmother and his mother, a factory worker and later a supplies buyer for a mental institution. His father was largely absent from his life. His aunt, a performing-arts teacher, cast him in plays and placed him in dance classes, which he ultimately came to love for the applause most of all. “You hear the claps,” he tells me, “and that shit is like ego food.” He also played multiple woodwind and brass instruments and harbored dreams of becoming a jazzman until he discovered in the eleventh grade that he lacked the ability to improvise. He entered Morehouse College, in Atlanta, just as the famously persnickety HBCU was opening its gates to a wider variety of students. The decidedly working-class Jackson found himself alongside stern, Afroed, black-fisted men newly returned from the war in Vietnam and carrying a radical militancy that made sense to the young Tennessean who had been warned as a child not to even look white people in the eye.
Jackson quickly fell into student activism, helping to take over an administration building in an attempt to secure a black-studies course and greater black representation on the board of trustees. Among the hostages in the multiday siege was Martin Luther King Sr., whom they had to let go because he was having heart trouble. For his role, Jackson was expelled in his junior year, but the event would only serve to energize him. He slept in the office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and joined forces with H. Rap Brown and others in a scheme to steal white people’s credit cards and use them to stockpile weapons for what he thought was an inevitable race war. Meanwhile, his friends and associates were dying in “mysterious” automobile explosions.
"I go on set, do some shit. I go back and sit in my trailer for two hours watching TV, eat a sandwich, read. And I got back and do ten more minutes and go sit down some more. So, yea, it’s a great job."
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Providence intervened in the form of two FBI officials who visited Jackson’s mother to tell her that her son was under surveillance, and that if he didn’t leave Atlanta, he would be dead within months. She quickly shipped him off to live with an aunt in Los Angeles, where he worked for the county, smoking weed and dropping acid for a time before deciding to return to school and focus on acting. Soon he was in New York City, auditioning for plays and struggling in theater alongside a tight-knit group of actors that included Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Bill Nunn, Laurence Fishburne, and LaTanya Richardson, his wife of nearly forty years. His drug use soon got the better of him, however. One week after leaving rehab, he took on the role that would launch his career, that of Gator, Wesley Snipes’s crack-addicted brother in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991). So powerful was Jackson’s performance that the Best Supporting Actor category was created at Cannes just so he could receive the award.
A scant thirty years and more than a hundred movies later, we are sitting in that country-club dining room and he is saying things like “Engage your core.” Glass, the much-awaited sequel to 2000’s gritty superhero epic Unbreakable,hit theaters in January; he is reprising his role as Nick Fury in the upcoming films Captain Marvel and Spider- Man: Far from Home (we’re pretty sure that’s it for his Marvel movies); and the Brie Larson–directed Unicorn Store is slated for Netflix in April. I got to sit down with Jackson over breakfast while Don Cheadle hawked his latest project on the screen above us and members occasionally smiled at us, stared at us, and quickly looked away when caught.
"I want people to come, smile, laugh, leave that movie going ’Man, that was awesome.’"
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You have a way of making the most out of whatever character you’re given, no matter how small the part. How do you do that?
You show up. It’s like when I had that job in Coming to America. [Jackson had a bit part as a stickup man.] It was like, all right, I have to make the dude compelling. He can’t be just a motherfucker running in here with a shotgun. It’s got to look like he’s desperate. He’s got to look like he’s serious in the middle of this comedy, and he’s got to be dangerous.
You did the same in School Daze, where you represented this element that was outside the gates of a historically black college.
Interesting enough, those were the dudes that I hung out with when I got to Morehouse. My mom dropped me off and I saw a basketball court up the street. So I stopped in the beer store, bought a quart of beer, walked across, asked who was up next. And I balled with them, hung out with them that night, to the point that they didn’t know I went to Morehouse until they saw me at a dance.
I’ve heard you say that you got radicalized at Morehouse.
My class, ’66, was famously the first class of sort of street niggas that they let in. It had to do with folks like Stokely Carmichael, who was in and out of there speaking. And I was radicalized from both ends. From the black end with Stokely, Rap, and those guys, and the Vietnam vets, and I had an English professor who was driven to Morehouse on the magic bus with Ken Kesey. And then that was when I started dropping acid, and hanging out with him, and finding out what was happening in Berkeley, and then the white parts of the world. My whole existence had been black. I didn’t have a white teacher till I got to Morehouse.
"My grandfather said, ’Yeah, this boy got a little backbone’"
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You came up during real segregation.
It was normal. That was the way of the world. I lived in a black world. My teachers were black. I went to school with black kids. I only interacted with white people when I went to work with my grandfather, who worked for white people.
What was that like?
It was always scary for him, because I was that stare-at-white-people dude. I didn’t drop my head. He said, “Yeah, this boy got a little backbone.” The only other time I saw white people was when I went to town. That was it. We had our own black movie theaters in Chattanooga: Liberty and the Grand.
What are some of your earliest memories of seeing movies?
I would go to the movies on Saturday morning and we’d watch cartoons for like an hour. And then they’d have a serial like Buck Rogers. And then they would have the kiddie double feature, Francis the Talking Mule or some shit. And then the serious movies would come. . . . I always remember these Sidney [Poitier] movies because they were always so strange to me. He got killed all the time. And I would ask my mom, “Why?”. . . I’m like, “What the fuck?”
As a kid, did you look at movies and think, I want to do that!?
We looked at movies and went home and redid the movies. We pretended to be whatever we had seen that day. But I wanted to be a marine biologist.
That was actually my fantasy career growing up too!
I wanted to be the black Jacques Cousteau, because I loved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
I thought those guys were so cool, just out at sea, chilling, looking at starfish and shit.
And I loved all those pirate movies. I wanted to be on a boat out in the ocean. I always thought the inner space was a lot more interesting than outer space.
I always ask people in my family this: Did growing up in segregation make you feel angry?
I don’t think I was ever angry about it. I’m angrier now about it than I was then just because I see these guys and I know these are the same guys: Trump and all those assholes, Mitch McConnell. But they’re the same fucking guys. And when I hear their voices, I hear the same voices. Those twangs where they didn’t specifically call you “nigger,” they said “nigra.” “The nigras.” There was no doubt about where they stood, that you were never going to be their equal and, if possible, they were going to make sure you never had as much shit as they had. And they were worried about the chasteness of their women, and miscegenation, and not having enough of them, there being more of us than there are of them.
Your first film was Ragtime in 1981. What was that like?
Awesome. It was like, going to London, that was my first time in Europe. It was a whole ’nother set of circumstances, being in the world and seeing what that world was. We used to sit and talk with James Cagney at lunch. That was his last movie. That was a big, big experience, figuring out that the world wasn’t what I thought it was. I always looked at Britain as this white place. I realized it has West Indian culture that I didn’t know much about. And from them, I connected to the African culture that was there. And then I realized, “Oh, shit. It’s a bunch of black folks that’s been here for a very long fucking time.”
"I expect everyone to be as prepared as I am. We came here to do something. Let’s do it."
So in some ways it was just seeing the diaspora in a larger sense.
Exactly. And you’re a part of it.
You finally cleaned up when you were back in New York. Why’d you stop?
Tired of getting high, using up that energy. I’d been at Ruben Santiago’s bachelor party drinking tequila all fucking day. On the way home, I decided, “I need some coke so I can even my shit out.” I went by the spot, copped, went home, cooked the shit, and passed out before I had even smoked it, drunk. That’s when my wife and daughter found me on the floor. She called my best friend, who was a drug counselor. I was in rehab the next day. I just didn’t know I was ready to go, but I was ready.
That was in 1989, not long before Jungle Fever?
Jungle Fever was the first thing I ever did without a substance in my body.
That’s ironic, isn’t it?
Yeah, because all those motherfuckers at rehab were like, “You don’t need to do this movie, because you’re going to have triggers.” . . . I was like, “Well, shit, if for no other reasons, first of all, where the fuck are you going to get $40,000 in the next six weeks? And second of all, I will never pick up another drug, because I don’t want to see any one of you motherfuckers ever again.” I hated them. But that was their job. And I made it through that. So significantly, when Gator gets killed at the end of that movie, I always look at it as the death of my . . . active addiction.
"I’m the same cat. I still got my politics. I still have my anger."
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Was that cathartic?
Yeah, of course. It’s one of those things where my wife always criticized my acting as being bloodless. She said, “You’re smart. You know the right facial expression. You know the vocal inflection. You know everything to do except how to feel it.”
Do you think she’s right about that?
She was totally right, because I used to act and watch the audience for their response to what I did.
Performing rather than acting.
I understood another thing about being a crackhead and using up your relationships, fucking those things up, and what it meant to hurt the people in your family. Gator was people’s sons, their nephews, their brothers, their daughters. Everybody had a motherfucker that would come to their house and had gotten something from them or stolen something from them, broken their heart in some kind of way.
After that movie, you launched into doing sometimes as many as seven titles a year. A lot of actors don’t think of doing their work that way.
I’ve never understood that whole “I want to do two movies a year” thing. It’s like, you don’t love the job? I want to get up and act every day. And there’s a limited number of acting possibilities in everybody’s lifetime. So I’m trying to maximize my shit.
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A lot of actors are concerned about doing quality movies.
What’s a quality movie? What the fuck is that?
You tell me.
Quality movies are movies that make me happy, a movie I would’ve gone to see. I’m not trying to make people cry. I’m not trying to do the profound-storytelling thing. I was entertaining. I used to go to movies to forget my fucking troubles. I used to go to movies to enjoy myself, to get out of my segregated fucking life, to see what the world was like, to travel. I want people to come, smile, laugh, leave that movie going, “Man, that was awesome.” Even if it’s A Time to Kill. It’s a serious subject, but it was something that needed to be told. And that was a way to tell it. And it’s a very different movie from the movie that I went there to do.
In what way?
Well, [my character] Carl Lee kills those dudes because he has to kill those dudes for his daughter so that she’ll understand, “The world is safe for you. And if anybody else does some shit to you, I’ll kill them, too. But I’m your protector. I will do anything to make sure you’re okay.” In the editing of that movie, everything I did that spoke to that got edited out, and it turned to: I killed some motherfucking white people and I connived to get away with it. So when I saw it, I was sitting there like, “Oh, that’s right.” They’re in control of the shit. It’s a director’s medium; they could do what they want to do to make it change. Which leads me to now, when I’m on a movie set and the motherfucker says, “Can we try this?” Sometimes I’ll be like, “Naw.”
That’s why you don’t do multiple takes.
I don’t do more than three. I don’t get to go to the editing room, but you do. And you’re going to put that thing that you asked me to do in there, because that’s the thing you like. So if I don’t do it, I don’t have to worry about you fucking with my performance.
I haven’t seen all your films—I mean, who has time to see every single Sam Jackson movie?—but. . .
Which roles do you love?
I love Mitch Henessey, the dude from The Long Kiss Goodnight. He’s another dude that’s in a job that he thinks is a con. “I’m not really a private detective, but if I can get you to hire me. . .” I just love the sincerity of that dude, who becomes brave in the face of some shit that he knew he shouldn’t even be talking about. I love the teacher in 187, because that’s like my aunt. I understand how hard that job is. And believe it or not, I love fucking Stephen from Django Unchained.
I mean, the dude ran that fucking plantation. Candyland was his fucking plantation. Leo’s out fighting niggers and doing whatever, running the strip club. Dude’s writing the bills. He’s making sure the crops get planted. He’s making sure the slaves get sold. He runs that place. And he’s been there. His father did the same job he had; his grandfather did the same job he had. And he has this misplaced love for Leo and this stuff because he raised him. He ain’t really got no kids of his own because he ain’t have time to do that. But Leo was basically his kid. And Candyland is his world. He knows outside Candyland, he’s just another nigger on the plantation.
What do you think about all the controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s use of the n-word in that movie?
It’s some bullshit.
All of it?
Of course it is. When we did Pulp, I warned Quentin about the whole “nigger storage.” I was like, “Don’t say ‘nigger storage.’ ” He’s like, “No, I’m going to say it like that.” And we tried to soften it by making his wife black, because that wasn’t originally written. . . . But you can’t just tell a writer he can’t talk, write the words, put the words in the mouths of the people from their ethnicities, the way that they use their words. You cannot do that, because then it becomes an untruth; it’s not honest. It’s just not honest. And half the time, too, there are other ways. And I generally add like at least five niggas to what Quentin has already written, just because I’m talking. I mean, that one sentence to Chris Tucker [in Jackie Brown]: “I hate to be the kind of nigga that do a nigga a favor and then bam hit the nigga up for a favor in return, but I gots to be that kind of nigga.” It’s just one sentence. It’s like boom. But wouldn’t Ordell say that?
Absolutely. But that brings me to the other question: How do you reconcile having once been a radical, stockpiling weapons for a race war, with your life now, on a golf course, doing Capital One commercials?
I’m the same cat. I still got my politics. I still have my anger. But I can’t regulate a bank. I can’t deregulate a bank. I can’t do any of that. It’s been a great revenue stream right now. And because I have that revenue, we’re able to have our names on the fucking wall of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. We’re able to give money to the Children’s Defense Fund. We’re able to dig a well in Africa. But I don’t run around with a film crew and say, “Show everybody what I’m doing.” I just do what I do. It’s not like we’re just building up a stack of cash somewhere for whatever’s going to happen. They might wake up tomorrow and decide that money ain’t the thing. Then what? Everybody you work for you can have a beef with, especially in this business that I’m in, because it ain’t the studios no more; it’s corporations. I’m working with corporations. And all those motherfuckers got issues. But we do what we can. We understand our responsibility. We understand from a revolutionary standpoint what we came from, and what’s going on in the world, and what can we do to make the world a better place or to make the world a better place for a specific group of people that need betterment in that way.
You’ve been vocal about Trump. A lot of people have their beliefs but are careful about stating them, because they don’t want to jeopardize their career.
I think we feel the same way that all of the motherfuckers that hated Obama felt for eight years. So they said all that shit. They put fucking pictures up on the Internet of Michelle sitting with her legs crossed with a dick hanging down. We feel the same way that they feel or they felt about Obama being the man, even though he wasn’t fucking ruining their lives; he was trying to help their lives.
This motherfucker is like ruining the planet and all kinds of other crazy shit. And the people think that’s okay. It’s not fucking okay. And if you’re not saying anything, then you’re complicit. And I wouldn’t give a fuck if I was a garbageman and I had a Twitter account; I’d tweet that shit out. I’m not thinking about who I am and what my job is when I do that shit.
Do you worry about antagonizing fans?
I know how many motherfuckers hate me. “I’m never going to see a Sam Jackson movie again.” Fuck I care? If you never went to another movie I did in my life, I’m not going to lose any money. I already cashed that check. Fuck you. Burn up my videotapes. I don’t give a fuck. “You’re an actor. Stick to acting.” “No, motherfucker. I’m a human being that feels a certain way.” And some of this shit does affect me, because if we don’t have health care, shit, and my relatives get sick, they’re going to call my rich ass. I want them to have health care. I want them to be able to take care of themselves. This is how I feel. And I count to one hundred some days before I hit “send,” because I know how that shit is.
Jackson speaks on stage during the ’We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial’ on January 18, 2009 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. PHOTO: Getty
So you’re seventy?
What are you getting better at as a person?
I guess opening up. I talk more to my wife and daughter than I used to. I ask them more about their shit, because it’s always about my shit. I’m getting better at talking to them about their lives and what they are doing and how they feel.
What brought about that change?
I guess age and the fact that we’re more apart than we used to be. It’s like my wife—she’s got to be in New York [doing To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway] for a year. So it’s not like she can come and hang out with me while I talk to her.
How much longer are you going to work?
Till I can’t do it. Michael Caine’s still acting, right? It’s acting. It’s not like I’m digging a ditch. I go on set, do some shit. I go back and sit in my trailer for two hours watching TV, eat a sandwich, read. And I go back and do ten more minutes and go sit down some more. So, yeah, it’s a great job.
What have you gotten better at as an actor over the years?
Relaxing into it, not being tense about getting there and getting the big scene. I’m getting better about being patient with people on the other side.
I’ve heard stories.
Really? Yeah, well. . . My agents and managers tell me my biggest problem is I expect everyone to be as prepared as I am. And I do. We came here to do something. Let’s do it.
What is your favorite scene?
I guess it would be actually the ultimate scene that everybody turns out to love so much, and it’s the diner scene in Pulp Fiction. Everybody loved the killing ones, but the diner scene, just because there’s so much going on when John [Travolta] and I are sitting there having that conversation prior to what happened, and the bullets not killing us, and he’s making this decision about walking the earth just to see what’s going on. So by the time Tim [Roth] gets there and I have an opportunity to do that speech again, the same speech that I’ve been killing people with, and make it make sense in a whole ’nother kind of way, and, one, it’s just the biggest threat you’ve ever heard in your life. And the next, the dude’s like sitting there making a revelation about who he is and where his place is in the world, and who he actually is. He said, “I’d love to be the shepherd, and that would be great.” They said that they didn’t know how the movie was supposed to end until I did that scene. But they had no idea that that’s what all that shit meant until I did it.
I just teared up a little bit, because that is what makes that scene work: that no one—no one in the audience, no one in the movie, no one anywhere—knows what any of it means until that speech is delivered.
Why didn’t the bullets hit you?
Deus ex machina. And that motherfucker wasn’t that good a shot.
So what do you have planned for the rest of the day?
Pilates and then acupuncture.
L.A. life, man.
It’s not just L.A. life—this is my life. I got to work this body.
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Pvt. Frederick Larue Castner
Pvt John B. Lacey
Ebenezer C. Thomas
Pvt Albert L. Washburn
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CASTNER, Frederick Larue, Pvt.
Military Records: Casner
b. March 13,1845, New York City
d. September 6, 1927, 82 y. 4 m. 10 d.,
leaving his widow Clara E. Castner as beneficiary of his pension.
c/d Arterio Sclerosis Nephritis
Father, Manuel Castner
Wife, Clara Elizabeth (Ritcheye)Castner
CO. G. 57th. IL. INF.
Enlisted, March 13, 1862, Age 16, Single, Carpenter
Reenlisted, March 14, 1864, Age 18,
Mustered In, April 23, 1864, 3 Yrs.
Mustered Out, July 7, 1865, Louisville, KY.
Served under Grant and later under Sherman. He participated in the battles of Corinth and the march to the sea, besides many skirmishes and other battles. His regiment was detained by a railroad wreck so was unable to participate in the Battle of Latoona Pass, however, they buried the dead. When the war was over he partisipated in the Grand Review in Washington.
1900 census, District 79, Spring Valley, Stevens Co, WA
Fred Castner, born March 1848, 52, born in New Jersey, to parents born in NJ. occupation: Teaming
Clara, May 1960, 40 years old, married 22 years, born in Iowa, to father born in Germany, mother in Indiana. She had 7 children, 7 were living, including:
1910, Spring Valley, Stevens County, WA
Fredrik L. age 62, married 32 years, owns farm
Clara 50, 7 children still alive
Girtrude 16, Elma 13
John B. Lacey
b. May 1, 1833, Stark Co. Ohio
Residence Pleasant Lake IN;
Enlisted on 10/29/1862 as a Private.
On 10/29/1862 he mustered into "A" Co. IN 29th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 7/20/1865.
John B. Lacey was born in Stark county, Ohio, May 1, 1833, the son of Thomas and Nancy (McGaughy) Lacey. Following the attainment of his majority he worked on a farm until 1862,when he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-ninth
Indiana Infantry, and served until July 2, 1865, in the Army of the Cumberland. Following the close of the Civil War he continued on the forty acre farm in Steuben county, removing, in 1872 to Warren county, Indiana. n 1888, having disposed of his Indiana property, he came to Washington, and located, first in Lincoln County, and in 1899 in Stevens county, where he purchased one hundred and
sixty acres on Hunter creek.
On March 16, 1856, J.B. Lacey was married to Martha J. Nixon, daughter of William W. and Mary (Carlton) Nixon.
Thomas, Ebenezer C.
Co. F. & S. 6th. Virginia Cavalry
Enlisted as Surgeon,
Field & Staff, WV. 6th. Cavalry
Wife, Maria, b. 1847, d. 1933
Washburn, Albert L.
Co. G. 2nd. CA. Cavalry
b. 22 FEB 1843, Michigan
d. 28 DEC 1927 Fruitland, Stevens, Washington
Enlisted, September 19, 1864, Pvt.
Mustered In, September 19, 1864
Mustered Out, February 1, 1866, Camp Union, CA.
Father: Liba Washburn
Mother: Sarah Bradish
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3 Huge Surprises from ConocoPhillips’ Earnings
The company’s top priority has shifted quite a bit.
Matthew DiLallo
(TMFmd19)
Feb 4, 2016 at 4:35PM
Source: ConocoPhillips.
It's been said that the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. That old saying has been proven true during the current oil market downturn, where it seems like the plans of every single oil company have gone up in smoke. That's certainly true of ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), with the company detailing three surprising changes to its plans in its fourth-quarter report.
Surprise! We're slashing the dividend
After spending the past year-and-a-half assuring investors that the dividend was "safe" and its "top priority," ConocoPhillips is now backtracking a bit on that plan. With the price of oil weakening considerably during the past few months, and no expectations that it will improve, the company has decided to reduce the dividend from $0.74 per share to $0.25 per share.
In commenting on the change of plans, CEO Ryan Lance said that:
While we don't know how far commodity prices will fall, or the duration of the downturn, we believe it's prudent to plan for lower prices for a longer period of time...The decision to reduce the dividend was a difficult one. The dividend has been, and will continue to be, a top priority. We still intend to provide a competitive dividend, while significantly lowering the breakeven price for the company and substantially reducing the level of borrowing in 2016. Our actions also position us to deliver strong absolute and relative performance as prices recover.
While ConocoPhillips' dividend had been its top priority, it has now been superseded by a focus on ensuring that its financial condition doesn't deteriorate during the downturn. In cutting the dividend, the company will save billions of dollars in 2016, which is money it would have otherwise needed to borrow.
Surprise! We couldn't fully replace all of our reserves
A key metric that investors use to judge the operating performance of an oil and gas company is its reserve-replacement ratio. Investors want to see an oil company replace 100% of the reserves it produces each year, and ideally grow reserves. If a company doesn't, it runs the risk of eventually pumping itself out of business.
While that's not a risk ConocoPhillips has to worry about just yet, the company announced that its adjusted reserve-replacement ratio was just 86% for 2015. That's in stark contrast to 2014, when the company replaced 124% of its production.
The big difference in 2015 was the fact that weaker oil prices forced the company to remove reserves from its books that are no longer economical to produce. While those reserves can be rebooked when prices improve, if prices remain low, the company's economical production options could eventually run dry.
Further, it's also worth noting that fellow oil giant Chevron (NYSE:CVX) had no problem fully replacing its reserves last year. Chevron actually reported a strong reserve replacement ratio of 107% for 2015, which was actually well above the 89% it delivered in 2014. Chevron accomplished this fete by adding large reserves from its Wheatstone project in Australia, as well as delivering strong drilling results in the Permian Basin.
Surprise! We're just keeping production flat
The final surprise ConocoPhillips announced this quarter was its decision to further pull back on capex spending so that its production in 2016 will be roughly flat year over year. That's a big change from its guidance in December, when the company expected production to grow by 1% to 3% over its 2015 average.
The reason production is no longer expected to grow is because the company is further cutting back on its capex budget, lowering it from $7.7 billion to $6.4 billion, primarily reducing planned spending in U.S. shale plays. This spending reduction will result in production from shale plays declining at a faster pace than its prior guidance because the company won't be drilling enough new wells to offset the decline in production from legacy wells.
Investor takeaway
In a perfect world, ConocoPhillips would like to have grown its dividend and production while replacing more than 100% of its reserves. However, with oil prices remaining weak, those plans have gone awry, forcing the company to alter its course. Its new plan is expected to get it through 2016 without any further deterioration to its balance sheet, assuming, of course, oil prices don't continue to plummet.
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Kristen Wiig in line for Anchorman
She could play Steve Carell’s love interest
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is still in the early stages of production, but it looks as though some major casting could be on the horizon in the form of Bridesmaids star, Kristen Wiig.
Wiig is apparently being eyed by Adam McKay as a new member of the Channel 4 news team, and more specifically as love interest to Steve Carell’s Brick Tamland.
Just how Brick will conduct himself in any kind of amorous situation remains to be seen. We’ve tried rolling out the line “I love lamp” a few times, but with decidedly mixed results.
At this stage, no casting beyond the returning principles has been confirmed, but Wiig would be a welcome addition to the gang. Let’s just hope she can hack all that testosterone…
Meanwhile, the film is inching closer to unveiling a specific release date, with October 2013 the latest whisper as to when we can expect it to arrive. Drink it in, San Diego.
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Flying to the future
Airport rankings
Fleet forecast
Credit: Airbus
One vision for the airliner of the future
Will the widebody airframe change substantially in the next 20 years or will the proven aerodynamic concept of the jet age simply evolve?
Poor single-aisle aircraft. Compared to the innovative leaps lavished on a diverse crop of new widebody models over the last decade, the straightforward re-engining programmes reserved for single-aisle aircraft – such as the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 Max – seem almost neglectful, albeit appropriately so, judging by the superlative size of their respective order backlogs.
By any comparison, three all-new widebody models – the Airbus A380 and A350, plus the Boeing 787 – have benefited from a historic influx of new technologies, as their designers traded metallic for composite structures and hydraulic and pneumatic for electric power systems. The models also raised the standard for comfort inside the cabin, in terms of new lows set for pressurization altitude and noise levels.
These radical innovations set such a high bar that Airbus can afford itself the luxury of a strategic pause. As Boeing executives speak of “harvesting” a decade’s worth of innovations in projects such as the 777X, Airbus is looking far ahead to beyond the 2030s, when the next cycle of clean-sheet widebody aircraft designs opens opportunities for another historic leap in technological progress.
“With the A320neo sold out, it means we have more time to reopen the door to emerging technology in terms of configuration,” says Charles Champion, executive vice-president of engineering. “If we had to launch a new product between maybe now and 2020, maybe we would have done something similar to the A320neo. But now that we have the breathing space to look further out, we can keep the door open to considering breakthrough new configurations and technologies.”
In aviation, technology usually advances in increments. Innovations are introduced cautiously in the beginning, then scaled up or expanded with the next generation of aircraft that enters service. The transition to carbonfibre-based composite materials offers a guide. Airbus first introduced the material with the rudder of the A310 in the 1970s. The A340 features a rear bulkhead made using carbonfibre reinforced plastic. The same material was then adopted for the centre wing box of the A380. Finally, Airbus’ production system and engineering skills had matured enough to make CFRP form the fuselage structure of the A350.
“In our business you have to make step-changes,” says Champion.
Another example is how Airbus is gradually introducing a new, “more-electric” system architecture on widebody aircraft. Any innovation must be proved at least as safe as the technology being replaced. The A340 used a standard triple-redundant hydraulic power system. For the A380, Airbus cautiously entered the trend towards “more-electric” aircraft systems by replacing one of the three hydraulic systems with two electric systems. The so-called “two-plus-two” systems architecture was then repeated on the A350.
But that represents only the beginning of Airbus’s plans for replacing hydraulic power systems with electric generators on widebody aircraft. The company’s commitment to electric power is clear with the E-Fan programme. The twin-engined demonstrator is expected to lead to the introduction of a four-seat aircraft optimised for pilot training in a few years. Along the way, Airbus is gaining more experience and confidence with electric power systems.
The move to the “two-plus-two” systems architecture on the A380 and A350 represented a major change, and more are possible in future.
“Basically, if you could go one step further and remove another hydraulic circuit, imagine what you could gain? You could potentially get rid of hydraulics and just use electrical power,” Champion says.
Replacing gas-powered turbines with electricity as a means of propulsion remains decades beyond the reach of current technology, but there are logical progressions between now and that point.
Under Clean Sky, Airbus is removing the outboard sections of each wing on an A340
One example is replacing hydraulic power onboard aircraft with electrical circuits. Another step towards a fully electric-powered commercial widebody aircraft is auxiliary power. Currently, a gas-fuelled auxiliary power unit (APU) is located in the tail cone or aft section of modern widebody aircraft. This mini-turbine engine is needed on the ground to start the engines and sometimes provide onboard power to the aircraft systems while the engines are shut down. In flight, the APU can serve as a back-up power generator in the extremely rare chance that both engines fail.
As a step toward electric-powered flight, replacing the APU with high-power battery systems may be possible within the next two decades. Airbus and Boeing already use batteries to start the APU. The next step may be replacing the APU itself.
“If we could improve the density of energy in the batteries this then will open up our hybrid-electric systems,” Champion says. “If you could get rid of the APU – it’s a bit of dead weight [in flight]. It’s only there to provide power on the ground.”
Another area ripe for improvement is the aircraft wings and stabilisers. The last decade of widebody aircraft innovation included the switch to composite wing structure, allowing aircraft designers to significantly improve the aerodynamic efficiency of the lifting surfaces.
Having upgraded the structural material, the next step is to subtly improve how those structures are shaped. One cause of aerodynamic drag is the airflow over the wing itself. The airflow is laminar as it comes in contact with the top of the wing. At some point, this airflow becomes turbulent, which reduces the wing’s aerodynamic efficiency. Aerodynamicists dream of designing an outboard section of a wing that is naturally laminar for at least two-thirds of the surface.
For many years, Airbus and Boeing have experimented with a slightly different approach, which is known as hybrid laminar flow control. Rather than designing a naturally laminar wing surface, this approach requires embedding a mesh with thousands of tiny holes in the wing surface, with differential pressure used to draw the air into a laminar flow. Boeing, in fact, took the concept one step further with the 787-9 and 787-10, embedding a hybrid laminar flow control system in the leading edge of the vertical stabiliser. The same system was originally planned to be used on the 777X, but Boeing decided to remove it as the design was finalised.
Airbus is looking beyond the 2030s to the next cycle of clean-sheet widebodies
According to Champion, Boeing’s decision confirms Airbus’ research that hybrid laminar flow control systems sometimes produce marginal results.
“It shows there are some borderline trade-offs on that one,” he says. Nonetheless, it could still prove useful depending on the application.
“We’re looking at hybrid also,” he says. “Particularly on the vertical tailplane, it’s clear it could make sense.”
More promising is adopting new wing shapes that encourage natural laminar flow. But such shapes are easily compromised by slight tolerance errors during manufacturing, or even the residue of dead insects in operation. The benefits, however, are clear.
“It depends on the aircraft configuration, but you could get probably 4-5% [reduction in fuel burn],” Champion says, though cautioning: “That’s to be demonstrated.”
Indeed, the EU-backed Clean Sky initiative is planning exactly such a demonstration, using an A340 and two natural laminar flow (NLF) airfoils, supplied by Saab and GKN Aerospace. Airbus is removing the outboard sections of each wing on the A340. Saab and GKN are each installing their NLF design on the outboard section. The project is scheduled to achieve first flight in 2017.
“It will be a big asset to see how far we can go,” Champion says.
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Marvel’s Daredevil
Genre: Action, Crime
Creator(s): Drew Goddard
Blinded as a young boy, Matt Murdock fights injustice by day as a lawyer and by night as the Super Hero Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.
Actor(s): Ayelet Zurer, Bob Gunton, Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Rosario Dawson, Scott Glenn, Toby Leonard Moore, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Genre: Crime, Thriller
In this updated take on Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved mystery tales, the eccentric sleuth prowls the streets of modern-day London in search of clues.
Actor(s): Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Gatiss, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs
Marvel’s The Punisher
Creator(s): Steve Lightfoot
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his familys murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
Actor(s): Amber Rose Revah, Ben Barnes, Daniel Webber, Deborah Ann Woll, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jaime Ray Newman, Jason R. Moore, Jon Bernthal, Michael Nathanson, Paul Schulze
This prequel to 'Breaking Bad' follows small-time attorney Jimmy McGill as he transforms into Walter White's morally challenged lawyer, Saul Goodman.
Actor(s): Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando, Michael McKean, Patrick Fabian, Rhea Seehorn
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bookmark_borderSeth Rich Was Not Source of Leaked D.N.C. Emails, Mueller Report Confirms
Posted on April 23, 2019 by Nick Bossh
The special counsel’s report confirmed this week that Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee employee whose unsolved killing became grist for a right-wing conspiracy theory, was not the source of thousands of internal D.N.C. emails that WikiLeaks released during the 2016 presidential race, officially debunking a notion that had persisted without support for years.
Tucked amid hundreds of pages of the report’s main findings, the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, took aim at WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, for falsely implying that Mr. Rich was somehow involved in the dissemination of the emails, an act that aided President Trump’s campaign.
“WikiLeaks and Assange made several public statements apparently designed to obscure the source of the materials that WikiLeaks was releasing,” according to the report, which showed that WikiLeaks corresponded with the true source of the leaked emails — Russian hackers — after Mr. Rich’s death.
The confirmation comes after years of anguish for Mr. Rich’s family, who fought attempts to politicize and spread misinformation about his killing, which is believed to have happened during a bungled robbery attempt.
The theory linking Mr. Rich to the email leak took root in conservative circles and was cited by prominent conservatives like Newt Gingrich and right-wing commentators like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Alex Jones of Infowars. WikiLeaks offered a $20,000 reward for information about Mr. Rich’s killing, fueling speculation that he was the source. Fox News also published an article, which the network later retracted, suggesting that Mr. Rich was killed in retaliation for having leaked the emails.
In a statement, Mr. Rich’s brother, Aaron Rich, responded to the special counsel’s report, saying it provided “hard facts that demonstrate this conspiracy is false.”
“I hope that the people who pushed, fueled, spread, ran headlines, articles, interviews, talk and opinion shows, or in any way used my family’s tragedy to advance their political agendas — despite our pleas that what they were saying was not based on any facts — will take responsibility for the unimaginable pain they have caused us,” he said.
Mr. Rich was 27 when he died after being shot on the streets of Washington on July 10, 2016.
On July 14, WikiLeaks received an encrypted file from Russian hackers, according to the report. The organization published thousands of internal D.N.C. emails later that month, just days ahead of the Democratic convention.
“That chronology is damning,” Mike Gottlieb, a lawyer for Aaron Rich, said, pointing out that Mr. Rich had already been killed when the file was sent.
In statements beginning that summer, Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks “implied falsely” that Mr. Rich had been the source of the emails, the special counsel’s report said.
In addition to the $20,000 reward, Mr. Assange said in an interview that he was interested in Mr. Rich’s death because “we’re very interested in anything that might be a threat to alleged WikiLeaks sources,” according to the report.
Even after intelligence officials announced that Russia was behind the email hacking, Mr. Assange continued to deny Russian involvement and told a congressman that the D.N.C. hack was an “inside job,” according to the report.
“Assange did untold damage to a grieving family in order to try and hide his work with Russian intelligence,” Brad Bauman, a former spokesman for Mr. Rich’s family, said in a statement after the release of the report.
“He is a monster, not a journalist,” he added.
Mr. Assange, whose release of secret government documents has spurred debate about press freedom issues, spent seven years holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in Britain before he was arrested this month on a charge of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer network in 2010. The charge is not related to WikiLeaks’ role in Russia’s operations to sabotage the election.
Though Mr. Rich’s killing remains unsolved, the special counsel’s findings could begin to ease the pain for his family, who have described the anguish of having to watch his life and death be treated like a “political football.”
His parents, Joel and Mary Rich, sued Fox News last year, claiming that the network’s coverage helped fuel damaging rumors about their son. A judge, while expressing sympathy for the family, dismissed the case because the parents had not been personally defamed by the story, despite the fact that it included “false statements or misrepresentations.” The judge noted that Mr. Rich could not be defamed by the story under New York law because he was dead.
Aaron Rich is also suing for defamation over theories that falsely implicate him, purporting that he helped steal the data and cover up his brother’s killing. He accepted an apology and retraction from The Washington Times last year as part of a settlement.
Mr. Gottlieb, his lawyer, said that while it was gratifying for his client to see the Mueller report lay to rest any lingering conspiracy theories, Mr. Rich was still grappling with the loss of his brother, who was the best man at his wedding.
“The picture of Seth and Aaron at Aaron’s wedding is one a bunch of conspiracy theorists have used as memes,” he said.
“Aaron has been called a traitor,” Mr. Gottlieb added. “He is being called every imaginable awful name you can think of and he’s never had the opportunity to grieve.”
In his statement, Aaron Rich vowed to continue fighting.
“We will continue to pursue justice for Seth’s murderers,” he said, “as well as those who used his murder to advance their personal or political agendas.”
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Water Cures
October 22, 2014 Gary Greenfield
Seawater contains all 92 elements of the periodic table and these elements along with the force and the sound of waves crashing onto the sands of the beach all work together to structure, cleanse and energise the air, the water and all living forms within the field of influence of these actions. Hanging out on the beach or the near the ocean can do wonders for our health.
Science is still in its infancy when it comes to understanding the visible and invisible forces contained within the most important substance on earth…water. We are only recently beginning to understand the true mysteries hidden deep within its fundamental, yet elegant design that consists of just two basic elements – hydrogen and oxygen.
Hydrogen is the most abundant and highly energized element in the universe (think sun and rocket fuel). Oxygen has immense cleaning and healing power. Without oxygen, hydrogen cannot fulfill its role as the primary energy source for plants, animals and people. But water can be defined as much more than just a simple chemical combination of oxygen and hydrogen molecules for, in its natural state, it can contain an array of all the earth’s elements, as well as light energies of the sun and the cosmos.
Our Most Important but Most Neglected Resource
Amazing as water is as being the most critically important resource for life on the planet, it is also the most neglected and least understood by man. But for those courageous scientists and inquirers who have chosen to dig deeper into its hidden wonders, amazing new discoveries are routinely being made that are challenging the very foundations of modern science and medicine. Man has since time immemorial been infatuated with water, seeking to understand it and use it to enhance life and what follows are some examples.
Brief History of Water Cures
The Mesopotamians provided us with the first lasting record of history and on their stone tablets water is presented as sacred and beneficial for healing. Around 500 BC, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote extensively about the healing properties of water. During Roman times, the Emperor Augustus was said to have been cured of a disease that had resisted all other forms of medical treatment by the use of water alone.
Vincent Priessnitz, who lived during the early 1800’s, was the father of hydrotherapy. He was an uneducated, Austrian peasant who achieved world renown by successfully using cold water to cure various illnesses and injuries. He revived and popularized ancient practices that had long been forgotten.
Mineral springs and hot springs which are found in almost every area of the world, have been a major source of healing and rejuvenation for the sick and ailing since ancient times – it was only with the recent emergence of Western medicine that we have witnessed the tragic demise of their use.
Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj rediscovered the medicinal powers of water while languishing in an Iranian prison during the Iran Revolution in 1979. Having no medicines available, he chose instead to treat his fellow inmates with prescriptions of water which effected many astounding cures.
Unusual Research
How is it that this clear, innocuous substance we all know as water has such an astounding and beneficial effect on life? The following scientific discoveries may help us to understand and more fully appreciate the hidden mysteries of water and energy.
Research carried out by Nobel Prize winner, Professor Luc Montagnier revealed that water and DNA responded identically to many outside stimuli and can actually be programmed, or “structured”, by electromagnetic and sonic frequencies in the form of photons (light) and phonons (sound waves).
The structuring of water in response to light and sound has also been confirmed by Dr. Gerald Pollack of the University of Washington, as shown in his groundbreaking work with water through which he continues to disprove the currently held scientific theories surrounding water’s true structure and function.
The findings of Dr. Montagnier and Dr. Pollack were actually influenced by similar discoveries made by the most recent in a long line of water pioneers, Dr. Jacques Benveniste, who, in 1988, discovered that a material substance could be diluted in water and then be completely removed from it, yet the water itself continued to retain the same vibrational frequency as the removed substance, just as the voice of a singer is transferred and stored onto a CD.
Tragically, Dr. Benveniste’s remarkable findings were scoffed at and resulted in him losing his job and reputation, as well as being blacklisted from any further participation in the mainstream scientific community. Nevertheless, he was able to maintain his integrity in the face of insurmountable odds while simultaneously validating his amazing discoveries with only limited resources, funding and support.
In 2002, Dr. Peter Gariaev, director of the Wave Genetics Institute in Moscow, Russia, for the first time in history, successfully managed to directly impact genetic information in the DNA of living rats using only electromagnetic frequencies. The information transfer of healing electromagnetic frequencies resulted in a 90% success rate in the healing and rebuilding of damaged pancreatic tissue. In some of his experiments, the technology used was modified to allow for successful wireless transmission of the healing frequencies to the sick rats at a distance of 20 kilometers (over 12 miles). Extremely weak signals were used yet, astonishingly, the rats’ DNA was able to read and apply the signals, achieving a complete healing in almost every case.
In other remarkable discoveries of water’s mysterious attributes, scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany discovered that the structured water surrounding the DNA molecule actually influences the very structure of the genetic code of life itself. What these researchers determined was that water can absorb, retain and also transmit biological information from one source to another by using electromagnetic frequencies. Their results confirm earlier, on-going, research started in 1951 by Dr. Piccardi of Italy verifying water’s extreme receptivity to subtle cosmic energy influences.
Ultimately, these scientific discoveries could indicate that water functions as an intelligently designed, universal communication system, with the ability to receive, retain and transmit vital, life-sustaining information to all living systems on the planet.
Re-Writing Science
As the world’s scientific community begins to appreciate the implications of the aforementioned body of research touched upon in this article, our science books will need to be rewritten. Additionally, with an expanded awareness of the awe-inspiring, mysterious role water plays in the invisible and visible realms of life support processes, new water technologies that create life-enhancing tools and products benefiting medicine, agriculture, public health, energy and transportation are emerging. At Greenfield Naturals, we are excited to be a part of this new science of water enhancing technologies building products that structure and energized water.
Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj: The Water Cure
http://www.watercure.com/
Dr. Gerald Pollack: Pollack Laboratory
http://faculty.washington.edu/ghp/
Dr. Giorgio Piccardi : Water as a Resonant Medium for Unusual External Environmental Factors
http://www.waterjournal.org/volume-3/demeo
Dr. Jacques Benveniste: Digital Biology and the Memory Effect of Water
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/dec3/bveniste.htm
Dr. Luc Montagnier: DNA Replication at a Distance
http://prof77.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/dna-replication-at-a-distance-reported-by-nobel-scientist/
Dr. Peter Gariaev: Wave Genetics
http://eng.wavegenetic.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=1
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf: How Water Shapes DNA
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/3935/how-water-shapes-dna
Jethro Kloss: Hippocrates and the Water Cure
http://www.watercure2.org/hippocrates.htm
Vladimir Emelianov: The Ritual of Water-Consecration in Sumerian Texts
http://spbu.academia.edu/VladimirEmelianov/Papers/176096/The_Ritual_of_Water-Consecration_in_Sumerian_Texts
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Disney delays 'Star Wars: Episode IX' after J.J. Abrams takes over
Published September 12, 2017 Media & AdvertisingReuters
Walt Disney Co delayed the release of the ninth installment of the "Star Wars" saga to Dec. 20, 2019 after announcing on Tuesday the return of filmmaker J.J. Abrams to the franchise to write and direct the movie.
Disney pushed back "Star Wars: Episode IX" from its initial May 2019 release date after Abrams replaced filmmaker Colin Trevorrow, who parted ways with Disney last week citing differing creative visions with the studio.
Abrams launched Disney's reboot of the "Star Wars" franchise with 2015's box office hit "The Force Awakens," which reunited original 1977 stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill and introduced a new generation of characters. The film made more than $2 billion at the global box office.
"With The Force Awakens, J.J. delivered everything we could have possibly hoped for, and I am so excited that he is coming back to close out this trilogy," Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said in a statement.
"Episode IX" faced creative challenges after the sudden death of Fisher, who plays the franchise's Princess Leia, last year. Her character, now called General Leia Organa, has a central role in the upcoming December film "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," the eighth installment in the saga written and directed by Rian Johnson.
"Episode IX" was the second "Star Wars" project to lose a director this year. Disney said in June that filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller had left the upcoming Han Solo "Star Wars" spin-off movie due to creative differences. They were replaced by Hollywood veteran Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning director of "A Beautiful Mind."
"Star Wars: Episode IX" is part of Disney's expanding slate of "Star Wars" films that continue George Lucas' Skywalker saga as well as introducing standalone spin-off films set within the galaxy far, far away.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Nick Zieminski and Richard Chang)
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Delaware St. can’t catch Chase; Morgan St. wins 9-0
BALTIMORE (AP) — Joshua Chase ran 18 times for 145 yards and the game’s lone touchdown and Morgan State beat Delaware State 9-0 on Saturday, snapping a three-game losing streak.
With 8:30 to play before halftime, Chase broke free for a 75-run and Morgan State (3-7, 2-4 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) made it hold up defensively limiting Delaware State to 182 total yards.
Keenan Black and Jack McDaniels both played at quarterback for Delaware State (2-8, 2-5) and combined to complete 11 of 28 passes for 117 yards. The Hornets ran the ball 37 times and were limited to 65 yards rushing — a 1.8 yards-per-carry average.
The Bears now have won nine of the last 11 meetings against Delaware State since 2008, including eight straight.
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“I have a lot of things on my side. Really, I’m extremely lucky.”
Wentworth once scored an unlikely touchdown for the Bulldogs on a hook-and-lateral, but no trick play could have prepared him for what happened March 11.
It was about noon when Wentworth and his fiancée, Kohl, returned home after a meeting with the planner of their April 2016 wedding, where they talked about DJs and catering. In a few days they would be back in Minnesota so that Austin could resume his career with the Vikings.
Then everything changed.
“I started feeling a numbness in my legs,” Wentworth says. “It was weird. My first thought was that maybe I hadn’t eaten enough, so I went into the kitchen. But it was more than that. I knew something wasn’t right.”
The tingling kept getting worse and Wentworth urgently told his fiancée to call the hospital. He could barely walk and had to lean on Kohl’s shoulder just to make it to the driveway. By the time they arrived at the hospital, five minutes away, he needed a wheelchair.
It took four hours in the emergency room and another three worth of tests for doctors to determine what was going on. A CAT scan revealed 60% to 70% blockages in the femoral arteries of both legs. Emergency surgery was required.
Two surgeons, one operating on each leg, took 31/2 hours to perform what is called a double fasciotomy. Incisions were made from knee to ankle to relieve pressure on the swelled muscles.
Considering Wentworth could have needed one or both legs amputated or undergone open-heart surgery, the outcome was actually pretty favorable.
Wentworth’s right leg, save for the nasty scar, is fine. But in the left one, some of the muscle around the shin died when the tissue clots that caused the blockage constricted blood flow. It won’t be fine. Ever.
That particular muscle, the tibialis anterior, controls the raising and lowering of the toe. It also serves to stabilize the ankle during footstrike and push off.
Now imagine an NFL lineman reacting to the snap and dropping back on pass protection. Impossible without a properly functioning tibialis anterior.
“My vascular surgeon told me I’d never play football again, but that wasn’t the worst news considering what could’ve happened,” Wentworth says.
“He also told me that if either of those clots in my hip had gone up instead of down I would’ve been dead before my fiancée picked up the phone. So I can either be upset about my leg or happy that I’m alive. Think I’ll pick the latter.”
Wentworth spent a week in intensive care, undergoing a total of four surgeries, and another week in rehab. Upon his release from the hospital, one of the get-well gifts he received was a poster of himself during a Fresno State game signed by all the current Bulldogs players and coaches.
“That really meant a lot,” he says.
Six weeks since his release Wentworth is able to walk on his own, and every day the limp gets a little less noticeable. For the rest of his life he will wear a brace on his left ankle to compensate for the missing muscle.
Wentworth says doctors are still unsure what caused his condition, only that it is extremely rare, and especially so for someone young and healthy. He says never once had he experienced similar symptoms.
“Absolutely nothing gave me any indication — nothing,” he says. “A day before this happened I was squatting 500 pounds, doing NFL lineman workouts and feeling great about the kind of shape I was in. Then it all completely flipped.”
An undrafted free agent, Wentworth made the Vikings’ 53-man roster out of training camp and appeared in seven games last season. He played on special teams and as the extra tight end on goal line and short yardage.
Until the events of March 11, the 6-foot-4, 315-pounder expected to compete for the Vikings’ starting left guard job in training camp.
Instead, Wentworth was waived by the Vikings last week and moved to the team’s reserve/non-football list.
“My career is over, but I’m trying to look at it in a positive light,” he says. “I don’t think I ever had more fun playing football than I did last year. Everything about my experience with the Vikings was top-notch and classy.
“I’m thankful just to have had the chance to play one season in the NFL. Not too many guys can say that. It’s an experience I’ll always have that no one can take away.”
Wentworth isn’t sure what he will do next and plans to take the next eight months or so to heal up and decide. He has his degree in business administration and may pursue that avenue. Or he may decide to get involved in coaching.
“There’s a lot of question marks right now, but the good thing is all my options are open,” he says.
No better way to start a new beginning.
Contact Marek Warszawski at (559) 441-6218 or @MarekTheBee on Twitter.
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Ghana’s first open-heart surgery in private health facility successful
Ghana has recorded its first open-heart surgery, outside tits premier public hospital, the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH).
Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon, over the weekend, led a medical team of 10, to replace the damaged mitral valve of a 61-year man with an artificial one at the Providence Specialist Hospital, in Accra.
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The move will lead the way for more patients with such heart-related conditions to easily access medical treatment locally at a cost lower than elsewhere.
Prof Frimpong-Boateng, who is also the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, said about 12,000 heart-related surgeries are expected to be performed annually in Ghana but only about 200 are done.
“For every population of two million, there should be a heart centre so Ghana ideally needs to have about 15 heart centres. Ghana, “the man who founded the National Cardiothoracic Centre at the KBTH explained.
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Explaining the condition of the patient, he said his mitral valve, which is located at the left side of the heart, was damaged so it could no longer facilitate blood flow from his left atrium to the left ventricle, thus resulting in palpitations.
He said it was prudent to correct the condition when the risk was much lower to him; otherwise, he could have suffered a heart failure, which would have then rendered a surgery useless.
Dr Baffoe Gyan, Professor Martin Tamatey, both Heart Surgeons, assisted Prof Frimpong-Boateng to perform the about four-surgery.
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Also in the team were Dr Ernest Ofosu Appiah and Mr Tito Nto, both Anaesthetists, Mr Roger Godson, a Clinical Perfusionist and four nurses.
Walking journalists through the surgical procedures, Prof Frimpong Boateng said the patient was first put to sleep, then cleaned up and dripped before his chest and heart were opened up to replace the mitral valve. He was then closed up for the heart to assume its function.
“Let me add that at a point, we had to use a machine to perform the functions of the hear and lung so that we would be able to stop the heart and open it,” he explained.
“We cooled the body to about 28 degrees Celcius to preserve it, and then cooled the heart to about 10 degrees for it to stop so that we could empty it of the blood it was carrying, to enable us to replace the valve.
“When we were done with this, we warmed the heart and the body to their original temperatures and restored their functions to them and stopped the machine”.
The patient would be kept at the Intensive Care Unit for between three and four days, after which he would be transferred to the recovery ward.
The Renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon said the valve would serve him for the rest of his life and would not make him prone to any heart disease, but rather improve his condition.
“Such surgery would have cost between, $50,000 and $ 70,000 abroad, but in Ghana, it would be less than half that bill,” he noted.
He, therefore, advised those diagnosed with such conditions to seek treatment locally.
The Providence Specialist Hospital, he said, would collaborate with its counterparts in the country towards making heart surgery more accessible to the public rather than competing with them.
Prof Frimpong-Boateng expressed concern about the inadequate heart centres and specialists across the country and, therefore, commended the introduction of free postgraduate training to address the situation concerning specialists.
He lauded the diverse contributions of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Jerry John Rawlings, as well as Mr James Osei Brown and Mr Kwasi Osei Ofori towards providing open-heart surgeries for patients in Ghana.
Madam Comfort Bawa, a Cardiac Ward Nurse, explained that mitral valve disease could be acquired through poor eating habits, especially the consumption of a lot of oily and fried foods and the drinking of excessive alcohol.
One could also be born with it.
“Though I do not know what caused our patient’s condition, he reported that he had suffered from it for about 20 years now, therefore, this will be a great relief to him,” she said.
She advised Ghanaians to exercise for at least 30 minutes a day while those diagnosed with the condition should promptly seek medical care.
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As You Like It - The BBC Shakespeare Collection DVD - NEW & SEALED
"All the world’s a stage
And one man in his time plays many parts."
Starring Helen Mirren, James Bolam, Brian Stirner and Angharad Rees...
Banished young lovers Orlando and Rosalind escape to the Forest of Arden with their friends and servants. In this idyllic setting, they find the simple life confused by entangled love affairs, cross-dressing, love poems and even a lion...
Helen Mirren and Brian Stirner star as Rosalind and Orlando in one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies. Considering the delights of love, the nature of human experience and the contrast between life in the court and the country. Shakespeare fills the romantic plot with both humorous and clever wordplay.
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. The full listing of plays are shown below.
We have all the other DVDs available in this series which is part of William Shakespeare - A Complete Collection a BBC production of Shakespeare plays from 1978-1985 starring a list of some of our best loved actors and actresses such as Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Felicity Kendall, John Cleese, Diana Rigg, the list goes on and on...
PLEASE NOTE : This is the official and original Full Size DVD case version produced for the UK market - NEW and SEALED
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