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Leamington man caught in online police paedophile sting operation
Richard Douglas.
Kirstie Smith
A Leamington man who was caught attempting to persuade a 13-year-old to engage in sexual activities during an online police sting believed he had ‘done nothing wrong’.
Richard Douglas, 49, of Eden Court, Mason Avenue, Leamington, appeared at Warwick Crown Court on Wednesday (June 27) for sentencing after previously being found guilty.
Despite the trial, a pre-sentence report showed that Douglas still believed that he had ‘done nothing wrong’.
Douglas was given a community order for three years with the conditions that he takes part in a sex offenders’ programme and a rehabilitation activity.
He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for five years, has a sexual harm prevention order in force for 15 years and ordered pay £985 in court costs.
During his trial the jury heard that between September 29 and October 15 last year Douglas was involved in a police sting. He believed during that period he was speaking to a 13-year-old girl, when in reality he was speaking to member of a police team.
It was during this time that Douglas discussed sexual activities with the ‘girl’.
Deputy Judge Richard Griffith-Jones pointed out that Douglas groomed the ‘girl’ in a ‘despicable and chilling’ way, which was also emotionally manipulative.
Richard Davenport, defending, said that in the pre-sentence report Douglas “still refuses to accept that he has done anything wrong”.
But Mr Davenport also pointed out that there were no images on the defendant’s phone or mobile device and that there was no evidence he has had contact with a child. He also said Douglas had no previous convictions and asked the judge to consider a suspended sentence.
Prosecutor Patrick Sullivan suggested there were aggravating features to the offence including Douglas’s grooming behaviour, that he had pushed for an image of the ‘girl’, and that he had anticipated sex.
Mr Sullivan also pointed out that Douglas had also made attempts to dispose of or conceal evidence by telling the ‘girl’ to delete the messages.
The judge said he would not be passing a suspended sentence even though the offence ‘clearly passes the custody threshold’. He said that he wanted to ‘ensure that any sentence eradicates the temptation to behave in this way’.
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Judge Griffith-Jones said: “You may find it difficult to face up to the enormity of what you did.
“You’re an intellectual man. You have led a life, which has meant that you have been employed, but also a life in which I sense a degree of social isolation.
“You will have to face up to the reality of what you did otherwise there is a real risk you will sink back into the same pit and do it again.
“You have never been in any trouble before. You spend your work, probably not engaging with other people as you work at night and spend days by yourself with the computer for company. In one sense you are a lucky man because it is reasonably possible this was your first venture in to this sort of perverse engagement.
“You now know that space is being literally policed, and you run the risk of coming into contact not with a 13-year-old girl, but with a police officer or police officers.
“Because the ideas you have may be ingrained, I am going to impose a community order, the purpose of which is to reduce the risk that you will ever do something like this again.”
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Home Resources Authors & Narrators John C. Maxwell
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Born in 1947, John C. Maxwell is a Christian author who has written more than fifty books, mainly focused on leadership. He is also a pastor, following his father in ministry. Selling more than twelve million copies of his books, many making the New York Times Best Seller List and some being translated in over fifty languages, Maxwell has proven himself to be very knowledgeable in the areas of leadership and personal development. Maxwell has become recognized internationally, as an expert, leader, and speaker, and has trained more than two million leaders across the world.
Desiring to follow in his father's footsteps, Maxwell completed his Bachelors degree in 1969, at The Ohio Christian University. He went on to receive his Masters degree at Azusa Pacific University and then Doctorate at The Fuller Theological Seminary. John C. Maxwell has led churches for over thirty years in Ohio, Florida, California, and Indiana. He served fourteen years at Skyline Church, near San Diego as Senior Pastor, before leaving in 1995. He left to devote his time to speaking and writing, however, he returned in 2004. Since that time, he has been a 'teaching pastor' at Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach, Florida. Maxwell later accepted a place as Guest Pastor in 2008 at Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California.
If you are interested in becoming a leader, then many of Maxwell's audio books should interest you. Recommended audio books by the author include:
Leadership 101 - Maxwell tells us the essential and time-tested qualities necessary for true leadership. In this audio book, you will learn the valuable laws of leadership.
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Running the Race - And to hear Maxwell as a speaker, try out this audio program where he teaches how we can bring out the best in ourselves as well as others.
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Business motoring - tax aspects
For many businesses the tax allowances available for business motoring is an important matter to consider. At Lee, Anthony & Co, we can provide advice for your business in the London area.
This factsheet focuses on the current tax position of business motoring, a core consideration of many businesses. The aim is to provide a clear explanation of the tax deductions available on different types of vehicle expenditure in a variety of business scenarios.
Methods of acquisition
Motoring costs, like other costs incurred which are wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the trade are tax deductible but the timing of any relief varies considerably according to the type of expenditure. In particular, there is a fundamental distinction between capital costs and ongoing running costs.
Purchase of vehicles
Where vehicles are purchased outright, the accounting treatment is to capitalise the asset and to write off the cost over the useful business life as a deduction against profits. This is known as depreciation.
The same treatment applies to vehicles financed through hire purchase with the equivalent of the cash price being treated as a capital purchase at the start with the addition of a deduction from profit for the finance charge as it arises. However, the tax relief position depends primarily on the type of vehicle, and the date of expenditure.
A tax distinction is made for all businesses between a normal car and other forms of commercial vehicles including vans, lorries and some specialist forms of car such as a driving school car or taxi.
Tax relief on purchases
Vehicles which are not classed as cars are eligible for the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) for expenditure incurred. The AIA provides a 100% deduction for the cost of plant and machinery purchased by a business up to an annual limit. The amount of AIA available varies depending on the period of the accounts. The amount of AIA has been set at £1,000,000 from 1 January 2019 (£200,000 from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018) for a two year period. Complex calculations may apply to accounting periods which straddle this date.
Where purchases exceed the AIA, a writing down allowance (WDA) is due on any excess in the same period. The WDA available is currently at a rate of 18% or 6% (8% before April 2019) depending on the asset. Cars are not eligible for the AIA, so will only benefit from WDA.
Capital allowance boost for low-carbon transport
A 100% First Year Allowance (FYA) is currently available for businesses purchasing zero-emission goods vehicles, gas refuelling equipment and electric charge-point equipment.
Writing Down Allowances (WDA)
The WDA rates are 18% on the main rate pool and 6% (8% before April 2019) which applies to many higher emission cars which are part of the special rate pool. Complex calculations may apply to accounting periods which straddle this date.
Complex cars!
The green car
Cars generally only attract the WDA but there is one exception to this and that is where a business purchases a new car with low emissions - a so called 'green' car. Such purchases attract a 100% allowance to encourage businesses to purchase cars which are more environmentally friendly. A 100% write off is only available where the CO2 emissions of the car do not exceed 50g/km. The cost of the car is irrelevant and the allowance is available to all types of business.
When did you buy?
The allowances due are determined by whether the car was purchased
from April 2018
or between April 2015 and April 2018.
The dates are 1 April for companies and 6 April for individuals in business.
For purchases from April 2018:
The annual allowance is dependent on the CO2 emissions of the car.
Cars with emissions between 51 - 110g/km inclusive will qualify for main rate WDA.
Cars with emissions in excess of 110g/km are placed in the special rate pool and will qualify for an annual WDA of 6% (8% before April 2019).
The 100% first year allowance (FYA) will be available on new low emission cars purchased (not leased) by a business is generally available where a car’s emissions do not exceed 50g/km.
If a used car is purchased with CO2 emissions of 50g/km or less, this will be placed in the main pool and will receive an annual allowance of 18%.
For purchases from April 2015 to April 2018:
Cars with emissions between 76 - 130g/km inclusive qualify for main rate WDA.
Cars with emissions in excess of 130g/km form part of the special rate pool and qualify for an annual WDA of 8%.
The 100% first year allowance (FYA) available on new low emission cars purchased (not leased) by a business is generally available where a car’s emissions do not exceed 75g/km.
Non-business
Any cars used by the self employed where there is part non–business use will still be separately allocated to a single asset pool. The annual allowance will initially be either the current 18% or 6% (8% before April 2019) depending on the CO2 emissions and then the available allowance will be restricted for the private use element.
A company purchases two cars for £20,000 in its 12 month accounting period to 31 March 2019. The dates of purchase and CO2 emissions are as follows:
Blue car
Allowances in the year to 31 March 2019 relating to these purchases will be:
White car (main pool as emissions less than 110g/km)
Blue car (special rate pool as emissions more than 110g/km)
£20,000 @ 18% = £3,600
£20,000 @ 8% = £1,600
In the following year to 31 March 2020 the allowances will be:
£16,400 @ 18% = £2,952 £18,400 @ 6% = £1,104
Where there is a disposal of plant and machinery from the main or special rate pools any balance of expenditure, after taking into account sale proceeds, continues to attract the annual allowance.
Where there is a disposal of a car held in a single asset pool, the disposal proceeds are deducted from the balance of the pool and a balancing allowance or a balancing charge is calculated to clear the balance on the pool.
This applies to any cars used by the self employed with part non business use whenever purchased.
What if vehicles are leased?
The first fact to establish with a leased vehicle is whether the lease is really a rental agreement or whether it is a type of purchase agreement, usually referred to as a finance lease. This is because there is a distinction between the accounting and tax treatment of different types of leases.
Tax treatment of rental type operating leases (contract hire)
The lease payments on operating leases are treated like rent and are deductible against profits. However where the lease relates to a car there may be a portion disallowed for tax.
Currently a disallowance of 15% will apply for cars with CO2 emissions which exceed 110g/km.
Contract signed 1 July 2019 by a company:
The car has CO2 emissions of 116g/km and a £6,000 annual lease charge. The disallowed portion would be £900 (15%) so £5,100 would be tax deductible.
Tax treatment of finance leased assets
These will generally be included in your accounts as fixed assets and depreciated over the useful business life but as these vehicles do not qualify as a purchase at the outset, the expenditure does not qualify for capital allowances unless classified as a long funded lease. Tax relief is generally obtained instead by allowing the accounting depreciation and any interest/finance charges in the profit and loss account - a little unusual but a simple solution!
Private use of business vehicles
The private use of a business vehicle has tax implications for either the business or the individual depending on the type of business and vehicle.
Sole traders and partners
Where you are in business on your own account and use a vehicle owned by the business - irrespective of whether it is a car or van - the business will only be able to claim the business portion of any allowances. This applies to capital allowances, rental and lease costs, and other running costs such as servicing, fuel etc.
Providing vehicles to employees
Where vehicles are provided to employees irrespective of the form of business structure - sole trader/partnership/company - a taxable benefit generally arises for private use. A tax charge will also apply where private fuel is provided for use in an employer provided vehicle. For the employer such taxable benefits attract 13.8% Class 1A National Insurance.
No charge applies where employees have the use of a van and a restricted private use condition is met. For details on what this means please contact us. Where the condition is not met there is a flat rate charge per annum. These benefits are £3,430 for the unrestricted private use plus an additional £655 for private fuel in 2019/20 (£3,350 and £633 for 2018/19).
If your business is in the London area and you would like further details on the tax aspects of business motoring please contact us at Lee, Anthony & Co.
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The first Edwardian theatre in London owing to the death of Queen Victoria a month before its February 1901 opening, the Apollo has remained a successful theatre ever since.
Originally sitting around 1,200, its inaugural production was the London premiere The Belle of Bohemia which ran for 72 performances. Over the years it has hosted scores of shows that fall under the banner of the four figures carved on its exterior, representing music, poetry, comedy, and dance.
Coming through the war years intact, it survived largely as built until a fateful night in 2013 saw the ceiling collapse during a performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time, which injured 80 audience members and saw the theatre closed for a substantial amount of time. It re-opened in April 2014 with a run of John Tiffany's Let the Right One in and has yet to collapse again.
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Bricktop, the Fabulous
March 5, 2017 Laura Mills
"She was a lady of the dawn who drank only champagne and expected a rose from every male visitor."
– Jim Haskins
To wrap up Black History Month, we are going to do another two-part article looking at a woman who was the center of the night scene in Paris during the 20’s. We will look at a woman who was not only talented in her own right, but also fostered the talent of the people around her, and made connections with some of the most incredible rising stars of her day. We will discuss the impact of a woman who was loved by almost everyone she interacted with.
This woman was named Ada Smith but went by the name Bricktop. Although she was a force of nature who created one of the most well-known meeting places for artists and socialites at the time, she gets left out of discussions about the lost generation. So today, we hope to rectify this mistake by looking at the life of the wonderful woman called Bricktop.
Bricktop was born in West Virginia. From childhood, she was an entertainer; she took to the theatre in a performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin when she was five, and only went up from there. Though she had a talent for both singing and dancing, her love was about being an entertainer rather than following any one skill. By the age of sixteen, she had joined TOBA (Theater Owner’s Booking Association) and was working on the vaudeville circuit. After that, she was picked up to work at a cafe, singing alongside Florence Mills.
From here on, her story is very much a star studded one. From her first steps into show business, Bricktop found herself surrounded with some of the most incredible people alive during that time. She moved from New York to Paris, where she worked at a tiny club, and she wept at the size, only to be comforted by another person who we have written about, Langston Hughes. At this point, he was not the incredible and well-known poet he would become, but he was kind. He brought her soup and sat with her until she felt better, and the two became friends. Later, Langston said “You liked [Brickstop] right away, she liked everybody and made everybody like her. . . . Bricktop was simply a good old girl of the kind folks call ‘regular… Bricktop was the toast of Montmartre, with dukes and princes at her tables”.
To have the poetic giant Langston Hughes speak that well of you is an accomplishment on its own, but that is not where Bricktop stopped. She continued working in that club, and continued charming the people she met, including Scott F. Fitzgerald, who would always be proud that he was among the first to discover her before she was famous, saying, “my only claim to fame is that I discovered Bricktop before Cole Porter.” Cole Porter, whose claim to fame was his songwriting, came soon after, and the friendship the two struck lasted their lifetimes. Their places in each other's lives were important enough to be remembered even today.
Bricktop spoke of her friendship with the man fondly, believing the man to be a part of the reason she became who she was, writing that he was “standing right there behind me until I became Bricktop, the one and only.”
The list of famous people she charmed grew, soon including royalty such as Aga Khan, who said “How does it feel to have royalty kiss this little freckled hand of yours?” to which she replied, “I don’t feeling anything. Royalty? They’re only people.”
It was this familiarity that played a large part in why people adored Bricktop so much. While she was an incredible person, even she admitted “I'm no singer, I'm a personality. Nobody ever came to hear me; they came to see me.” And that seemed to be true. While many came to the club to learn the newest dance moves from her, they stayed because of her charisma. At a certain point, she had enough people who adored her that, with the help of Cole Porter, she opened her own club. Cole Porter insisted she called it “Bricktop’s” because he knew it was her that would draw people into the club.
And draw them she did. From the beginning of her club, she saw only success; famous people from around the world came. Fred and Adele Astaire practiced their routines at the club before they would bring them to Broadway. Jasha Heifitz would come and borrow a violin from the band to play for the club. Later on, the Romani performers Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli became regulars at the club. And again, we find another one of the people we have discussed in a previous article in Bricktop’s life: Josephine Baker.
After Baker had died, Bricktop told Josephine Baker’s son, Jean-Claude Baker, that the two had had a brief affair. The two worked together throughout their lives, Bricktop helping Baker grow her reputation in Paris. She also helped push forward the career of the incredible singer Mabel Mercer, who was her assistant at Bricktop’s.
Not only did she encourage incredible artists, but she inspired incredible art, including a song which Cole Porter wrote for her called “Miss Otis Regrets.” All the famous artists at the time were regulars at her establishment and devoted to her. Once, after kicking John Steinbeck out for “ungentlemanly” behaviour, he bought her a cab full of roses to get back into her good graces.
During her time in Paris, she would write about how Paris was a much better place for women of colour to live than America. These articles would bring a wave of people of colour to Paris hoping to find better lives, and while she praised the country for the opportunities it gave people of colour, she was one of the largest parts of that. She worked to give preforming opportunities to other people of colour, such as the ones we mentioned before, but also the brilliant Duke Ellington.
Her time in Paris was a fabulous one, and in that time, she placed herself as one of the most loved members of the lost generation, not through writing or painting, but through sheer likability. It was not to last though. The war came, and she was forced back to New York. We will explore her life there in the second part of this article.
[Disclaimer: some of the sources may contain triggering material]
Patrick M. (August 15, 2011) To Bricktop, on Her Belated Birthday. Retrieved March 5, 2017
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/08/15/to-bricktop-on-her-belated-birthday/
Albin K. (February 1, 1984) BRICKTOP, CABARET QUEEN IN PARIS AND ROME, DEAD, Retrieved March 5, 2017
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/01/obituaries/bricktop-cabaret-queen-in-paris-and-rome-dead.html
Steven N. (October, 1, 2015) Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith: Once the Grande Dame of Paris’ Nightclub Scene. Retrieved March 5, 2017
http://www.theroot.com/ada-bricktop-smith-once-the-grande-dame-of-paris-ni-1790861265
MARIARYCHKOVAA (March 26, 2014) Ada “Bricktop” Smith & Chez Bricktop’s night club. Retrieved March 5, 2017
https://marsharychkovaa.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/ada-bricktop-smith-chez-bricktops-night-club/
Christopher P. (October 24, 2012) Fabulous Dead People: Bricktop Retrieved March 5, 2017
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/bricktop-aka-ada-beatrice-queen-victoria-louise-virginia-smith
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Home / NEWS / Edna still has a job at 100-years-old
Edna still has a job at 100-years-old
Sprightly Edna Bateman puts the secret of long life down to hard work – as she still has a job at 100-years-old.
The mum-of-three still puts in the hours as a volunteer at the Rotherham Hospice charity shop for one afternoon a week – where she is a pro with a steam press.
She also walks for an hour every day and keeps herself busy with jobs around the house, hair appointments, knitting and outings with her daughters.
Edna Bateman working in the Rotherham Hospice charity shop
The widow, from Wickersley, Rotherham, South Yorks., celebrated her 100th birthday at a bash on October 6 with friends and family – with grandchildren visiting from Canada and Australia.
Edna’s daughter Pat, who arranged the party for her mum, along with sisters June and Ann, said: “It was like an audience with the Queen.
“She was the oldest person in the room, she’s outlived her oldest friends and I’m not surprised.
“My dad used to call her ‘Perpetual Motion’ because she’s never still and won’t be stopped.
“She gets her aches and pains but she refuses to let them get her down.
“She is fiercely independent and stubborn but I say good for her, because that’s what keeps her going.
“She looks and acts 20 years younger and we’re so proud of her.”
“I don’t feel 100, I’ve never felt my age,” said Edna. “I live an independent life, and my three wonderful daughters are always there when I need them.
“I am fit and happy, and still walk for an hour each day through the village.
“I heard on the news recently that the maximum age a human can live to is 125 – so I think I’ll aim for that next.”
And Edna is sure she will make it – with the help of Oil of Olay and a drop of whisky in her morning coffee.
“It’s all down to Oil of Olay, which I’ve used for 30 years – it’s helped keep the wrinkles at bay.
“I also have about a teaspoon of whisky every morning, but I do not like the taste of it so I have to disguise the taste in my coffee – it keeps you warm in winter.”
Edna had to convince the postman he was delivering her card from the Queen to the right person.
“He didn’t believe the card could be for me,” she said. “He kept asking me if I was really 100. I was flattered.”
Longevity runs in Edna’s family – her mother lived to the age of 93.
But Edna doesn’t rest on her laurels, she said: “I wasn’t brought up to sit about and people tell me I should take it easy but I like being busy and I really enjoy doing something that helps people.”
Edna is even the go-to person for any steam pressing at the charity shop where she works. She has used the steam press since she started volunteering after her husband, Willis, died 19 years ago.
She said: “I love feeling useful. The hospice is a very good cause and means a lot to the people of Rotherham. I’ll keep volunteering there as long as I’m able.”
Edna left Maltby Hall School at 14 to work on a local farm, before taking a job in the kitchens at Maltby Grammar School.
She met Willis in 1938 and they married while he was home on leave in 1942 during World War II.
They moved into their home in 1947 and she has lived in their same home for 70 years.
Though Edna, who had three brothers, is the only surviving sibling.
She said: “It is sad that you lose people along the way, and if I could have one wish, just one wish, it would be to have my husband back.
“If you sit around and are left with your thoughts these things can start to make you feel sad, that’s why it’s important to get up and out there and get into the world.
“Keeping busy it certainly what keeps me going.”
By Samantha Yule
Tags: 100, 100 years old, 100th birthday, Edna Bateman, Hospice charity shop, long life, Oil of Olay, oldest person, Rotherham, Samantha Yule, volunteer, Wickersley
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Jennifer Nagel is of counsel in the McCarthy Law PLC Flagstaff, Arizona office and a member of the Arizona, California and Nevada Bar. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1994 with degrees in Economics and English Literature. She was an Honor Society Member and an Alumni Scholar at U.C. Berkeley. She graduated from U.C.L.A. Law School in 1997 and has been providing Flagstaff debt settlement to Flagstaff residents with McCarthy Law.
Jennifer Nagel was a Christian Legal Society Member while at U.C.L.A., and was on the Environmental Law Journal while at U.C.L.A. While at U.C.L.A. Law School, she interned as the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, and the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office. She was also an intern at the on-campus clinic at U.C.L.A. Jennifer Nagel has worked at the Corporate Headquarters Legal Department of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Downtown Oakland, California. She has also worked at private law firms, including the Long Beach, California law firm of Larry H. Parker, and the Mohave County law office of Keith Knochel, P.C.. She previously worked for D.N.A. Legal Services in Flagstaff, AZ.
Jennifer Nagel has served as an adjunct professor in the WA Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University (N.A.U.). In addition, she has served as a mediator and arbitrator in Coconino County, and has served as a Best Interest Attorney, Guardian Ad Litem, and a Juvenile Dependency Facilitator for the County. She is a panelist on several legal insurance plans, such as Legal Shield (formerly Pre-paid Legal). CLC, and ARAG. She has been a member of the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce, the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association (A.I.L.A.), and the Family Law Division of the State Bar of Arizona.
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SheKnows Names Skey As CRO
by Gavin O'Malley @mp_gavin, March 18, 2013
SheKnows on Monday is expected to name Samantha Skey as its new chief revenue officer. The appointment is just the latest in a series of major shifts at SheKnows.
Late last year, the women’s media network was acquired by private equity firm Great Hill Partners, and then promptly named industry veteran Philippe Guelton as CEO.
How is Skey going to shake up the company’s revenue strategy?
“This year, we will focus on producing authentic content that integrates our partners’ brand attributes in a way that complements the lifestyles of our audience,” Skey said on Friday.
“We will enable our category ambassadors and experts to develop direct links to the brands they love and we will better use our data to create an ever-evolving feedback loop between brands and users.”
Most recently, Skey served as chief revenue officer of Recyclebank, a platform that rewards people by taking “green” actions like recycling. At the startup, Skey was credited with bringing on brands like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and SC Johnson. Along with larger players like NBCU’s iVillage, the Meredith Women's Network, and Glam Media, SheKnows competes with a number of smaller players, including BlogHer, Total Beauty, and Sugar Inc.
Continuing to grow, however, SheKnows currently claims an audience of more than 41 million women. SheKnows is really about “community-driven journalism,” Skey explained on Friday. “We are finding, cultivating and enabling experts on a range of women's topics, producing thousands of original pieces of premium content based on our community's evolving interests.” Prior to Recyclebank, Skey was the chief marketing officer at social software ecompany Passenger, Inc.
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G&E tops Street forecasts, earns $811 million in 3Q
Updated: Oct. 28, 2014, 5:22 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PCG) on Tuesday reported net income of $811 million in its third quarter.
The San Francisco-based company said it had profit of $1.71 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.73 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.15 per share.
The utility holding company posted revenue of $4.94 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Analysts expected $4.87 billion, according to Zacks.
PG&E expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.45 to $3.55 per share.
PG&E shares have risen 16 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index has increased 6 percent. The stock has risen 11 percent in the last 12 months.
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PG&E’s wildfire, explosion mishaps unleash…
PG&E wildfire mishaps spark fury, profanity, protests and a PUC probe
People protesting against PG&E’s role in fatal wildfires and a gas explosion hold up a banner during a state Public Utilities Commission meeting in San Francisco. PG&E’s safety culture — and suspicions that powerful state regulators have coddled the embattled utility despite its involvement in a lethal gas explosion and deadly wildfires — unleashed protests, profanity and rage on Thursday over what some believe is the company’s unsafe operations. California Public Utilities Commission
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PUBLISHED: November 29, 2018 at 2:45 pm | UPDATED: November 29, 2018 at 2:47 pm
State regulators on Thursday launched a wide-ranging probe into PG&E’s corporate structure and commitment to safety during a meeting disrupted by protests and public rage over what some believe is the utility’s unsafe operations in the wake of catastrophic fatal wildfires in Northern California and a fatal explosion in San Bruno.
Even though the state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday ordered PG&E to adopt 60 recommendations from an independent consultant to improve its safety culture, speakers during the meeting suggested that the PUC has coddled PG&E rather than regulate the embattled utility.
Bay Area residents spoke for well over one hour to the five members of the state Public Utilities Commission and the speakers unleashed volleys of criticism against both PG&E and the PUC, with repeated demands that state officials do not bail out PG&E — a convicted felon due to crimes it committed before and after the San Bruno explosion in 2010.
“The people of California are fed up with the continuing death and destruction caused by PG&E and the other utilities,” said Steve Zeltzer, an official with United Public Workers for Action. “The PUC is a pawn of the utilities. Utility executives should be in jail for what they have done. They continue to kill people. Let’s take the profit out of utilities. These profiteers don’t give a damn about the people they are killing.”
The speakers urged the PUC and state politicians to allow PG&E to tumble into bankruptcy if the company can’t cope with its financial exposure from wildfires in 2017 and 2018.
The PUC’s top boss, commission president Michael Picker, vowed to open a fresh investigation into PG&E with an eye to a possible restructuring of the company or replacing some members of the board of directors.
“PG&E appears to not have a clear vision for its safety programs,” Commissioner Picker said in summarizing part of the PG&E safety culture report. “PG&E pursues many programs without having an idea of how they fit together. This is deeply troubling. It keeps me awake at night.”
During a federal trial linked to the 2010 San Bruno explosion that PG&E caused, prosecutors argued that the utility put profits ahead of safety, a corporate philosophy that eventually led to the blast that killed eight and destroyed a neighborhood.
Questions about PG&E’s commitment to safety have erupted again following a series of fatal infernos that scorched the North Bay Wine Country and nearby regions in October 2017 and this year’s lethal blazes in Butte County that essentially destroyed the town of Paradise.
“No bailout for PG&E,” Matt Jones, a San Bruno resident, demanded of the PUC and state lawmakers. “PG&E needs to be fully accountable.”
Several speakers were critical of the compensation package for PG&E chief executive officer Geisha Williams, who was rewarded with $8.6 million in total direct pay, including $6.5 million in stock awards, for a calendar year of 2017 during which the company was sentenced for six felonies linked to the San Bruno blast and its equipment was involved in multiple Wine Country infernos.
San Francisco-based PG&E has raised the specter of bankruptcy if state officials fail to help the company ward off its financial exposure from the wildfires. However, the speakers didn’t seem alarmed by the prospect of the company’s fiscal failure. Years ago, PG&E hinted it might file for bankruptcy if its San Bruno explosion punishments were too severe. The company didn’t go bankrupt because of San Bruno.
“We do not want to bail out PG&E. We don’t want to take the fall for PG&E. It’s their fault,” said Margaret Lewis, a member of Communities for a Better Environment in Oakland. “They have made irresponsible corporate decisions by putting profits over people. Let them go bankrupt.”
The PUC also came under harsh criticism from several speakers.
“We need to stop protecting PG&E, we need to stop protecting the PUC,” said Jessica Tovar of East Bay Clean Power Alliance. “The P in PUC stands for profits, or maybe the P stands for PG&E. No PG&E bailout. We will not take this … any longer.”
The protests forced the PUC to adjourn its meeting for 10 minutes while demonstrators shouted and held up a banner to punctuate their demands.
After the meeting resumed, the state agency accepted a report that assessed and criticized PG&E’s safety culture.
“We’ve implemented the majority of their recommendations already, and are on track to implement many more within the next year,” PG&E said in a prepared release.
Commissioner Picker had to speak over continued shouts from the audience. Eventually, the demonstrators left the event.
“We’ll be back. We’ll be back. We’ll be back,” the protesters yelled as they departed.
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Suze Orman’s FIRE storm: Her advice for millennials retiring early is simple, bleak
By Shawn Langlois
Published: July 6, 2019 12:04 p.m. ET
The personal-finance celeb says she still doesn’t get the FIRE movement
MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto, Getty Images
Suze Orman has emerged as somewhat of a villain in the FIRE community. But that doesn’t bother her.
ShawnLanglois
Social-media editor
A 28-year-old woman sitting in the front row at one of Suze Orman’s events last year asked the celebrity financial adviser for some tips on retirement. Typically, that’s bread-and-butter stuff for Orman, who has made an absolute fortune over the years dropping knowledge on all things money.
But this was different.
The millennial had gotten a taste of the FIRE movement (“financial independence, retire early”), and she was looking to hang it up within two years.
“Well, how much money do you have?” Orman asked. “Two or three million?”
“A million?”
“$250,000?”
Yes, but with some debt.
“Really?” Orman could only shake her head. Kids these days.
“Don’t talk to me about it. If that’s what you want to do, go ahead. But 40 years from now, I hope you remember everything I’ve said.”
Suze Orman, on retiring in your 20s
“I can’t wrap my brain around FIRE,” Orman told MarketWatch in an interview.
That’s putting it mildly compared with the smackdown she delivered last year when asked about the movement on the “Afford Anything” podcast.
She said then, “I personally think it is the biggest mistake, financially speaking, you will ever, ever make in your lifetime.”
Or, to boil it down: “I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!”
Orman is not one to shy away from extreme statements. Earlier this year, she made headlines for saying that people who buy a daily latte are “peeing $1 million down the drain as you are drinking that coffee.”
And as she dishes out the hate, she gets plenty thrown back at her. “There are people that hate my guts,” said Orman, who has been a lightning rod in the world of money for her entire career. “You don’t even want to know the things they say.”
One thing many critics have pointed out over the years: Such extreme views don’t always work out in real life.
Former MarketWatch columnist Chuck Jaffe years ago occasionally hosted a segment on his radio show entitled — you guessed it — “Why I Hate Suze Orman.” It was nothing personal. He said she’s “helped millions of people get a leg up on money management,” but he takes issue with much of her advice, from her habit of boiling things down to the overly simplistic (for instance: Rate your investments 1 to 5, and get rid of the 1s), to her laser-eyed focus on paying off one’s mortgage.
Sen. Bernie Sanders also had a problem with her “shaming millennials for buying coffee and avocado toast”:
Wealthy TV "experts" are shaming millennials for buying coffee and avocado toast. But young people are broke because they’re drowning in debt and low wages.
The ruling class wants to divide the young and old to distract us from an economy that’s rigged for the richest 1%. pic.twitter.com/v4LCNpoExU
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 23, 2019
Lately, though, it’s FIRE folks who really seem to have problems with Orman.
In the corners of the internet where early retirees and FIRE wannabes gather, response to her stance has been blistering. They say she’s missing the point. They just want to get out from under “the man.” Find that freedom. That independence. They work to live, not vice versa, and they’ll continue to make money, whether it be through investments, side hustles, etc.
As financial blogger Mr. Money Mustache — the most notable spokesperson for FIRE — put it: “Suze Orman goes on and on about what might go wrong, and how you need an incredible amount of money saved to protect you, just in case. But this thinking is completely backward — money will not cure your fear.” The FIRE movement isn’t so much about retirement, he says, but “living your best life in all ways rather than just the financial.”
But Suze has not been swayed.
Orman, who says she worked 20 hours a day in her heyday, contends sacrificing prime earning years — whether it be through irresponsible spending on things like a Starbucks SBUX, +1.39% habit or dropping out of corporate America on a whim — will almost certainly come back to haunt the naive optimists when life smacks them upside the head. She knows this because, through her Women & Money podcast, she works through this stuff with her listeners on a daily basis.
“There’s no escaping the traumas that getting older can bring.”
Suze Orman
“Almost every one of them says, ‘I’m older, I just got cancer’; ‘I’m older, my child was just in a car accident,’” she said. “They’re all about how they had money... and before they knew it, all the money in their 401(k) they had to take out.”
This perspective, she says, is often lost on the youth.
Her latest venture will give her another opportunity to spread her message to those she believes could use it the most: young women. Orman recently joined the board of advisors at Mogul, a burgeoning online platform dedicated to helping women live their best lives, financial and otherwise.
“My whole emphasis lately has been on women and money,” she said. “They have to learn that for them to be truly powerful in life they have to be powerful over their own money — how they think about it, how they feel about it, and how they invest it.”
Orman, who says she’s not getting directly compensated by Mogul for her work, will be the keynote speaker and host several breakout sessions at the Mogul X conference in New York in September.
Mogul’s 32-year-old founder Tiffany Pham, in stark contrast to Sanders and Orman’s FIRE-loving millennial critics, speaks like a Suze superfan.
“Through the decades, Suze has proven to be a true mogul,” said Pham, who landed on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2014. “She is an icon and role model to millions of women worldwide.”
Meanwhile, Orman isn’t sweating her emergence as somewhat of a villain in the FIRE community.
“Don’t talk to me about it. If that’s what you want to do, go ahead.” she said. “But 40 years from now, I hope you remember everything I’ve said. I hope you never have to experience these things, but I don’t know anybody in their 70s, 80s and 90s who has escaped serious medical disaster.”
In the meantime, Orman fully plans to stick with the approach she’s cultivated since she left waiting tables for Wall Street decades ago. An approach that has earned her a life of relative leisure on a private island in the Bahamas with a net worth estimated to be about $50 million.
“At 25, I know you think you’re never going to get older, you’re never going to get sick, and nobody in your life is ever going to have a stroke or dementia,” she said. “But the truth is, all of that is probably going to happen to you in your life. There’s no escaping the traumas that getting older can bring.”
Shawn Langlois
Shawn Langlois is an editor and writer for MarketWatch in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter @slangwise.
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Four Wizards added to All-Star roster
January 22, 20106:41PM EST
Major League Soccer on Monday finalized the 18-man rosters of the East and West teams for the 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game to be played on Saturday, July 31 at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. East Head Coach Peter Nowak (D.C. United) and West Head Coach Sigi Schmid (Los Angeles Galaxy) named a combined total of 13 reserve selections in addition to the pair of "Commissioner's Picks" (one per conference) selected by MLS Commissioner Don Garber. The League's midsummer showcase will be televised nationally, live on ABC Sports beginning at 1 p.m. ET.
The West reserves include four Kansas City Wizards players (Jimmy Conrad, Chris Klein, Josh Wolff and Kerry Zavagnin), two Los Angeles Galaxy stars (Kevin Hartman and Jovan Kirovski) and MLS' all-time leading goal scorer Jason Kreis (Dallas Burn). Galaxy defender Danny Califf was also named to the squad but will not be able to participate due to injury and will not count against the West roster. Both Jimmy Conrad and Kerry Zavagnin earned their first ever MLS All-Star selection while Chris Klein and Josh Wolff will each make their second career appearances in the mid-summer classic.
The reserve selections in the East are highlighted by four D.C. United players (Bobby Convey, Alecko Eskandarian, Ben Olsen and Freddy Adu) while New England will be represented at the Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game by rookie Clint Dempsey and Pat Noonan, with Columbus picking up an additional spot by the selection of goalkeeper Jon Busch. Adu and Kreis are the respective Commissioner's Picks for the East and West squad.
"Jason Kreis and Freddy Adu personify the theme of the 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game - honoring the past, present and future of MLS," Garber said. "The selection of the League's all-time leading goal scorer in our nine-year history and the inclusion of one of the top youth prospects in the world helps recognize the founders of this League and celebrates the promise the future holds."
With the inclusion of New England and Kansas City players among the All-Star reserves, every one of MLS' 10 teams will be represented on July 31. D.C. United will have a League-high total of six players at the event, followed by Chicago Fire, San Jose Earthquakes and Los Angeles Galaxy with five players each. The Kansas City Wizards (4), MetroStars (3), Dallas Burn (3), New England Revolution (2), Columbus Crew (2) and Colorado Rapids (1) round out the affiliation of all 36 players.
Eight of the 15 reserve selections received their first career All-Star selection, joining 10 other first-time All-Stars from the list of starters unveiled on Friday, July 9.
The 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game is the main attraction of a weekend extravaganza of soccer-themed events and programs, all of which aim to pay tribute to the future of American soccer. Thousands of the 15 million registered youth participants under the age of 18 will have the opportunity throughout the weekend to see, touch and feel the approachable heroes of Major League Soccer past and present. Through clinics, on-field presentations, pre-game and halftime ceremonies, "Soccer Celebration" events for families and youth, player autograph sessions and more, MLS will recognize the importance of youth participation as the future of our sport.
Prior to the July 31 East vs. West contest, MLS will honor its tradition, history and pioneers by hosting an MLS Reunion Match, which will feature players who participated in the 1994 World Cup and then went on to play in MLS. The celebration game will kick off at 12:30 p.m. ET, with two 25-minute halves divided by a 10-minute halftime, with MLS USA stars vs. MLS World heroes. The rosters of those two teams will be announced later this week. The MLS-USA team will be coached by current Honduras technical director Bora Milutinovic, the only manager in FIFA World Cup history to have guided five different nations in the World Cup finals (Mexico - '86; Costa Rica - '90; USA - '94; Nigeria - '98; China - '02). The MLS-World squad will be coached by former D.C. United and current U.S. National Team Manager Bruce Arena.
Also, during the live telecast of the 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game on ABC, Sierra Mist will award one lucky viewer a spot as a contestant in the Pepsi "Play For A Billion" Sweepstakes. The winning sweepstakes code will be announced live during the Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game and the person with the winning number will travel to Los Angeles, Calif. in September to appear on the televised one-hour prime-time special and compete for a chance to win the $1 billion prize. One of the "Play For A Billion" contestants is guaranteed to win $1 million.
The 2004 Sierra Mist MLS All-Star Game featuring MLS All-Stars and the MLS Celebration Match celebrating the 1994 World Cup offers six levels of ticket pricing, ranging from $25 to $60 for individuals, and $16 to $40 for groups of varying sizes. Tickets are on sale now. For Group Sales information, fan can contact D.C. United at (703) 587-5000 or online at www.dcunited.com and at RFK Stadium advance sales during all D.C. United home games. Individual tickets can be purchased at TicketMaster - (202) 432 - SEAT (metro D.C.); (410) 481 - SEAT (Baltimore & MD); (703) 573 - SEAT (Virginia), online at www.ticketmaster.com and at all TicketMaster outlets including HECHT's, Tower Records and at RFK Stadium.
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How did you and Erik decide to write Merchants of Doubt? Erik and I met in 2004 at a conference on the history of meteorology, held in the little town of Weilheim, Germany. He was working on the history of atmospheric sciences, I was working on the history of oceanography, and we had both noticed that some of the people who were challenging the scientific evidence of global warming had previously questioned the evidence of stratospheric ozone depletion and the harms of tobacco. Then we found evidence connecting them to the tobacco industry, and we knew we had a story.
How long did it take to write? We started conceptualizing it in 2005, and have been working on it ever since.
The book sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory. Is it? No. As far as we know, none of the players in our story did anything illegal, and it was all done quite openly. The men in our story had dedicated their lives to science and technology in the cause of defending the U.S. against the Soviet threat. When the Cold War ended just a few years later, they just couldn’t lay down their arms. So they found a new threat in environmentalism, which they worried would lead to excessive government regulation of the marketplace, and put us on the slippery slope to socialism.
What role does the media play in the story? A key tactic used by the Merchants of Doubt was to invoke the ideals of fairness and balance to persuade the media to give equal time to their views. Even the great Edward R. Murrow fell prey to this tactic, giving the tobacco industry equal time to argue that the facts regarding the harms of tobacco were not established. Murrow’s death from lung cancer a few years later was both tragic and ironic, for during World War II Murrow had been an articulate opponent of meretricious balance in reporting. Murrow was not ashamed to take the side of democracy, and felt no need to try to get the Nazi perspective.
But journalists can’t spend five years researching a question, as you and Erik have done, so what should they do? It seems that balance has often been interpreted as giving equal weight to both sides in an argument, rather than giving accurate weight. If 99% of scientists agree that tobacco is harmful, and 1% think the jury is out or hold an alternative theory, then it’s fair to acknowledge the 1%, so long as you make it clear that they are only 1%.
Sure, but don’t scientists bear some responsibility for not doing more to communicate clearly? Yes. Scientists could and should have done more to correct the misinformation that was being spread. Many scientists think that their “real work” is in the field or the laboratory, and that communicating science in plain language is someone else’s job. We think that should change.
One last question: How do we know that global warming isn’t caused by the sun? Scientists predicted more than a century ago that CO2 released by burning fossil fuels could cause global warming. But as with all scientific predictions, it’s possible that some other cause could have the same effect. The sun, of course, is the most likely other cause. Physics tells us that if the Sun were causing global warming, we’d expect both the troposphere and the stratosphere to warm, as heat comes into the atmosphere from outer space. But if the warming is caused by greenhouse gases emitted at the surface and accumulating in the lower atmosphere, then we expect the troposphere to warm and the stratosphere to cool. Scientists have shown that the troposphere is warming and the stratosphere is cooling. In fact, because the boundary between these two atmospheric layers is in part defined by temperature, that boundary is now moving upward. In other words, the whole structure of our atmosphere is changing.
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Targeting spot in ICC World Cup semi-finals: Pak coach
Karachi [Pakistan], Apr 22 (ANI): Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur is "targeting a spot in the semi-finals" of the ICC Cricket World Cup, beginning May 30 in England and Wales.
"We are well prepared and full of confidence. We are targeting a spot in the semi-finals of the event. We have to bring all our capabilities to produce results in our favour," The Express Tribune quoted Arthur, as saying.
When asked about the new names -- opener Abid Ali and pacer Mohammad Hasnain -- in the squad, Arthur said: "Abid Ali was perfect and passed his test. He and Hasnain have been in the setup only for three weeks and they have not been subjected to these standards before. Their performances have got better every time they have trained."The 50-year-old said Pakistan's strategy includes attack, take wickets and bowl sides out going into the prestigious event.
Speaking on the significance of having all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez and batsman Babar Azam, the head coach said: "Hafeez will be available for us during the World Cup as an off-spinner too. Our expectations are high from Babar Azam as he is our best batsman in the squad. We have faith in our team who will do well."Meanwhile, captain Sarfaraz Ahmed emphasised that "Pakistan will play quality cricket during the World Cup".
"We are going into the World Cup with all the necessary preparation and are hopeful about doing well during the event. Our batsmen and bowlers, both, are ready to give it their best shot during the event," he said.
Reflecting on being tagged as the underdogs, the captain said, "Favourites tag has never been ideal for us, so it is good to be underdogs for World Cup".
When questioned about the clash against arch-rivals India, scheduled on June 16, Sarfaraz said Pakistan have "beaten India in a major event recently and that gives us an advantage".
Pakistan captain also made an announcement that he will bat in the top five positions, while all-rounder Shoaib Malik will occupy the number six position.
"We will change our batting order in England. I will bat in the above positions, top five, and Shoaib Malik will come at six," he said.
Pakistan will leave for England on April 23. The team will play against Afghanistan and Bangladesh in the warm-ups before opening its World Cup campaign against West Indies on May 31 at the Trent Bridge, Nottingham. (ANI)
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Cosmic Punch 7 months ago
Winter solstice: the astronomy of Christmas
From the Neolithic to present times, the amount of sunlight we see in a day has had a profound impact on human culture. We are fast approaching the winter solstice for the Northern hemisphere, which takes place on December 21. This is the longest night of the year – once celebrated as “Yule” by the pagan people of Northern Europe before it became Christmas.
Stonehenge and the nearby Neolithic site of Durrington Walls (circa 2,500 BC) were each built to be orientated to face the midwinter sunset and sunrise respectively. This focus on the winter solstice was an important time marked by feasting and possibly animal sacrifice.
Millennia later, the Romans celebrated Saturnalia (until the fourth century AD) – a festival over the week of the winter solstice dedicated to the god Saturn, involving games and merriment. The last day of Saturnalia was referred to as the “dies natalis solis invicti” (birthday of the unconquered sun) by the Romans, who celebrated it by giving gifts to each other on December 25. The pagan Anglo-Saxon event known as Yule was in full swing during the winter solstice a few centuries after that, eventually evolving into the festival we now know as Christmas.
Tilting planet
But what causes the winter solstice? Our planet has an axial tilt (of 23.4°) with respect to its orbital plane around the sun, which results in the seasons. The winter and summer solstices, and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, are the extreme points in each of these seasons (see image). In winter, the Earth’s tilt away from the sun causes sunlight to be spread out over a larger surface area than in summer. It also causes the sun to rise later and set earlier, giving us fewer hours of sunlight and colder temperatures.
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As it happens, the direction of the Earth’s tilt changes over time. These variations have been known about since the time of the ancient Greeks. Hipparchus, one of the founders of modern astronomical techniques, wrote one of the first comprehensive star catalogues in 129 BC. After compiling his catalogue, he noticed that the position of the stars had changed from those in much earlier records, such as the Babylonian.
Interestingly, the stars appeared to have moved position by the same amount, and he realised that the location of north in the sky must have moved in the intervening centuries. Currently, our celestial north is marked by the position of the star Polaris. But this was not always the case.
The rotation of a spinning object, like the Earth, can be affected by external forces. Given that the Earth is already spinning, any force applied to it, such as gravity from the moon or other bodies in the solar system, will modify this rotation (known as torque). The result on Earth is called the precession of the equinoxes – a phenomenon which affects our observations of the stars. A visible example of this on a smaller scale is shown several times during the film Inception, where the precession of a spinning top was used to determine whether the main character was in reality, or still dreaming.
For the Earth, this precession traces out a circle on the sky once every 26,000 years (see image below). In 3,000 BC, the celestial north was the star Alpha Draconis (Thuban), in the constellation Draco. Given that we can predict this motion, we know that 13,000 years from now our north star will be Vega, in the constellation Lyrae.
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This also affects the onset of the seasons over the length of a year as part of this 26,000 year cycle, and therefore has important implications for anyone attempting to attribute any cultural significance to a particular point in a given season. The time it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun is approximately 365.25 days, meaning we have an extra day every four years. By comparison, the precession of the equinoxes results in about 20 minutes of difference between the Earth’s orbital period when measured against the fixed background stars (a sidereal year), and the time it takes for the sun to appear to return to the same position in the sky each year (a solar year).
As a historical aside, it was the discrepancy between the length of the solar year and the length of a year as defined by the Julian calendar that prompted the conversion to the presently used Gregorian calendar. The precession of the equinoxes was known about and had caused a discrepancy of a few days which prompted the council of Nicaea to change our calendar system.
Under the Julian calendar, originally established by the Romans in 46 BC, New Year’s day in England used to be on March 25, and this was also used to define the start of the tax year. The adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752 shifted the date of the tax year forward by 11 days, but set New Year’s to January 1. However, to avoid 11 days of lost tax revenue, the government of that time set our tax year to begin on April 6 where it remains to this day.
So, given that there are 1,440 minutes in a day, and a difference of 20 minutes between the sidereal and solar years, then over a period of 72 years the dates of the equinoxes (and the solstices) would shift backwards in the calendar by a full day, if they were not corrected for (which they are). That means a Roman using the winter solstice as a reference point for the timing of Christmas would have been celebrating Christmas near the end of our November. Even further back, the builders of Stonehenge would have experienced the winter solstice in our September.
Christmas on Mars
The winter solstice has clearly been important historically, but what about the future? Perhaps in a few hundred years, humans settlers will be celebrating Christmas on Mars. The planet Mars also has an axial tilt (25.2°), and hence seasons like we do. Mars also experiences a precession of the equinoxes, but the precession period is less stable than Earth’s. One full Martian precession is approximately 167,000 years.
The northern hemisphere winter solstice on Mars has only just passed, occurring on October 16. Because a sidereal year on Mars is 687 Earth days, the next Martian northern hemisphere winter solstice will not occur until September 2, 2020.
This means that any future Mars colonists who wish to recreate the winter solstice “festivities” at Durrington Walls thousands of years ago or, perhaps, just marking Christmas, would have to get used to celebrating in different Martian seasons almost every year.
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Trump welcomes billions of dollars of investments in U.S. by Qatar
While the Gulf countries and their supporters continue to rebuff Qatar, the U.S. is expanding its relationship
U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani sealed the deals on Tuesday
Trade between the two countries is currently around $185 billion and the emir says the countries are looking to double their current volume of trade
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. has swept aside the impasse between several of its allies and the tiny Gulf state of Qatar, and signed a number of agreements which will cement busiess ties between the two countries.
Qatar, which is home to some of the richest gas fields in the world, and which boasts the richest population in the world on a per-capita basis, has been at odds with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, Libya and a number of other countries, since those countries implemented a blockade against it around two years ago. Those countries are all strong allies of the U.S., as is Qatar which is home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
While the Gulf countries and their allies continue to rebuff Qatar, the U.S. is expanding its relationship.
Deals signed on Tuesday are in the areas of defense, aeronautics and energy.
U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani sealed the deals in a signing ceremony at the White House on Tuesday.
"It's a great honor to be with the emir of Qatar, a highly respected man, a real leader in a large part of the world and a very important part of the world. And we've known each other a long time. We've been friends for a long time," President Trump said prior to the signing.
"They're investing very heavily in our country. They're creating a lot of jobs. They're buying tremendous amounts of military equipment, including planes. And they're buying commercial planes, as you know, very large numbers of commercial planes from Boeing. And we very much appreciate it."
Qatar Airways which has been blocked from flying over the airspace of its former Gulf allies, and has been banned from operating in those countries, has shown no sign of being weakened by the blockade as it has agreed to buy five Boeing 777 freighters, and has signed on to buy even more Gulfstream large-cabin aircraft than it had on order.
Qatar Airways has also agreed to use General Electric jet engines and services to power its fleet of Boeing 787 and 777 aircraft.
Chevron-Phillips are doing a deal with Qatar Petroleum for the two to joint-venture a petrochemical complex in Qatar.
Raytheon's medium-to-long range NASAM and long-range Patriot Systems surface-to-air missile systems will be bought by the Qatar defense ministry as part of another deal.
The value of the deals signed on Tuesday was not disclosed. Trade between the two countries is currently around $185 billion however, and the emir at one point said the countries were looking to double their current volume of trade.
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The Power of Social Media – strategy tips
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Patricia Skinner, August 6, 2011 February 12, 2018 , Social Media, 0
Death of an Icon by the power of Social Media Decree
A few weeks back we all watched the social media slaying of News Of The World via Twitter. Subsequently the paper, which has been running since 1843, folded due to the tremendous strength and volume of public opinion against them which explains the power of social media.
It all started when they were exposed for hacking into the voicemail of a murdered child, giving the parents false hope that she might still be alive. The revelation of this lack of ethics reverberated around the world on Twitter, and spilled over into other social media platforms, mainly Facebook and the newly-launched Google+.
My personal view is that the #notw deserved everything coming to them: not content with dishing up the dirt on everyone, they’ve now been caught with something much worse–tampering with the evidence in a Murder trial.
On July 8, i think we all gasped in surprise, though, when Murdoch announced that the News of the World would cease production.
The Power of Social Media
But is it really such a surprise? Social media platforms provide a medium for the man in the street to express his opinion. Never before has it been possible for the masses to express themselves in this way.
That expression is open to clear interpretation, and creates a wave of momentum that is hard to resist. While social media has grown steadily stronger and more popular over the past decade, the closure of the News of the World is the first time that such a clearly-defined result has emerged from momentum created by social media. But it won’t be the last.
My point is that if social media can bring an icon like the News of the World to its knees, businesses need to be very careful about their behavior. It is now crystal clear that the customer-base is a powerful element and can affect, not just degree of success, but a company’s very survival.
Never before in history has it been more important for businesses to get in touch with their customers and engage with them. Branding–or customer perception–is everything. For this very reason it also becomes more important than ever before for companies to to hire professional help with their social media presence.
I refrain from using the word ‘campaign’ because the old concept of an advertising campaign is dead. Your presence is ongoing and should be reviewed as an entity that will either keep your business afloat or allow it to sink to the depths.
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https://www.middletownpress.com/nationworld/article/Lawmakers-call-on-Fed-for-details-of-leak-probe-11793375.php
Lawmakers call on Fed for details of leak probe
Published 9:38 am EST, Friday, February 6, 2015
WASHINGTON >> Two Democratic lawmakers are asking the Federal Reserve for details on its reported probe of a leak of market-sensitive information about interest-rate policy.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland requested the information Thursday from Scott Alvarez, the central bank’s general counsel. The Fed’s investigation focuses on a 2012 leak of information on the closed-door internal deliberations of Fed policymakers, the lawmakers said in a letter. They cited several news reports in December.
The security of sensitive, market-moving information has increasingly become a concern for federal officials. Possible leaks of government data have led the Labor and Commerce departments as well as the Fed to impose tight procedures for distributing information early to reporters.
Warren and Cummings also asked for the Fed’s policies on maintaining confidential information and steps it has taken to prevent future leaks.
Spokesman Eric Kollig said the Fed had received the letter. He declined to comment further.
According to the lawmakers’ letter to Alvarez, details of confidential discussions of the Fed’s policy-making Federal Open Market Committee at its September 2012 meeting showed up in a financial intelligence newsletter that circulated among traders. The news reports said the sensitive information was included in the newsletter on Oct. 3, 2012, a day before the Fed publicly released its minutes of the September meeting. That would have given traders who received the information an unfair advantage to profit from the decline in U.S. Treasury bond prices that occurred after the Fed released the minutes on Oct. 4.
Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, recently assumed a Senate leadership post and has become the most prominent liberal Democrat in the country on economic and financial issues. Cummings is the senior Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
“We are disturbed by this lack of transparency regarding such an important topic,” they told Alvarez. “This leak contained key market-moving information, violated Federal Reserve policy on disclosure, and may have represented a violation of federal law.”
“We believe that the public has the right to know whether the Federal Reserve is taking appropriate action to address leaks of confidential and deliberative information, and to prevent them from occurring in the future,” they wrote.
The lawmakers cited news reports by ProPublica and Bloomberg.
In September 2013, the Fed indicated it was concerned about suspiciously heavy trading of gold futures following a meeting of the policy-making body, which may have been triggered by a premature release of confidential information.
The Fed said in a statement that news organizations receiving information early under an embargo system must agree to withhold the data until the time set for its release.
After the policy meeting, the Fed announced it would hold off on slowing its $85-billion-a-month in bond purchases. That surprised markets and led to a day of record highs on Wall Street.
Trading in financial markets is now dominated by automated computer systems, which make transactions in tiny fractions of a second that can lead to millions of dollars in profit. Receiving the data early — even by a few milliseconds — can give an unfair advantage to some firms.
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https://www.middletownpress.com/nationworld/article/Missile-downed-Malaysian-airliner-in-Ukraine-11791109.php
Missile downed Malaysian airliner in Ukraine, Dutch Safety Board says
Published 9:47 am EDT, Tuesday, October 13, 2015
A young girl looks at a Malaysian Airlines aircraft taxiing on the runway of Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. A Russian state-controlled missile-maker said Tuesday its investigation of last year’s crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane over rebel eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe. less
A young girl looks at a Malaysian Airlines aircraft taxiing on the runway of Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. A Russian state-controlled missile-maker said Tuesday ... more
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GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands >> The missile that downed Malaysia Airlines flight 17 exploded less than a meter from the cockpit, killing the crew inside instantly and breaking off the front of the plane, the Dutch Safety Board said Tuesday as it presented the results of an official probe into the crash in eastern Ukraine.
It added that the tragedy that killed all 298 people aboard the plane on July 17, 2014, wouldn’t have happened if anyone had thought to close the airspace of eastern Ukraine to passenger planes as fighting raged below.
The report did not consider who launched the missile. However, it identified an area of 320 square kilometers from which the launch must have taken place. All the territory within the area was in rebel separatist hands at the time of the crash.
Safety Board chairman Tjibbe Joustra said the 15-month investigation found the warhead was that used on a Buk surface-to-air missile system.
Joustra said that Ukraine authorities had “sufficient reason” to completely close the airspace in that area, but “nobody gave a thought” to the possible threat to civil aviation.
Missile fragments found in the cockpit crew’s bodies, as well as paint traces, enabled investigators to identify the Buk, Joustra said.
The investigation found that the missile killed the three crew in the cockpit instantly, while the passengers and other crew died due to reduced oxygen levels, extreme cold, powerful airflow and flying objects as the plane broke up and crashed.
The investigators unveiled a ghostly reconstruction of the forward section of MH17. Some of the nose, cockpit and business class of the Boeing 777 were rebuilt from fragments of the aircraft recovered from the crash scene and flown to Gilze-Rijen air base in southern Netherlands.
On Tuesday in the village of Hrabove where the jet came down, Lyudmila Grigoryak — whose house was the closest to the crash site — brought red carnations to the field of dry grass where small pieces of the fuselage are still scattered.
Unlike a year and a half ago when heavy fighting was just nearby, the area is quiet and deserted. All the camouflaged rebels who were patrolling the area and manning the checkpoints are gone.
Hours before the report was released, the missile’s Russian maker presented its own report trying to clear the separatists, and Russia itself, of any involvement in the disaster.
Almaz-Antey contended that its experiments -- in one of which a Buk missile was detonated near the nose of an airplane similar to a 777 -- contradict that conclusion.
The experimental aircraft’s remains showed a much different submunitions damage pattern than seen on the remnants of MH17, the company said in a statement.
It said the experiments also refute claims that the missile was fired from Snizhne, a village that was under rebel control. An Associated Press reporter saw a Buk missile system in that vicinity on the same day.
Almaz-Antey in June had said that a preliminary investigation suggested that the plane was downed by a model of Buk that is no longer in service with the Russian military but that was part of the Ukrainian military arsenal.
Information from the first experiment, in which a missile was fired at aluminum sheets mimicking an airliner’s fuselage, was presented to the Dutch investigators, but was not taken into account, Almaz-Antey chief Novikov said.
Novikov said evidence shows that if the plane was hit by a Buk, it was fired from the village of Zaroshenske, which Russia says was under Ukrainian government control at the time. When pressed by a journalist on Tuesday about the reports that Zaroshenske was in fact in rebel hands at the time of the crash, Novikov said it was outside his competence to comment on “who occupied what” at the time.
Many reports, including an investigation by the open-source group Bellingcat, also suggest the plane was downed by a missile fired from near Snizhne.
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FOREVER SPICE
NME Aug 25, 2000 11:12 am BST
The girls name the album on the Internet...
The Spice Girls have confirmed their third studio album is to be called ‘FOREVER’.
‘Forever’, has been recorded over the last 14 months in London, Los Angeles and Miami with producers including Rodney Jerkins, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
It will be preceded by a double-A side single, ‘Holler Holler/Let Love Lead The Way’ on October 23. Insiders have described ‘Let Love Lead The Way’ as “a truly Spicy ballad about love, hope and staying strong”, while ‘Holler’ is “an upbeat dancy number with a strong R&B flavour.”
Speaking about the record, Mel C said: “We are stronger after being apart for a while and we’re very happy to have been back in the studio. This strength will show on this new album, which I think is our best yet.”
The final tracklisting for the album is still shrouded in secrecy and even the band’s staff at their record label Virgin have been kept in the dark.
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Jury awards $40 million to family of man stabbed to death at TGI Friday's
Hayley Fitzpatrick
A California jury awarded $40 million to the family of a 33-year-old man who was stabbed to death at a TGI Friday's, the Associated Press reported.
The jury found the attackers to be 45% responsible and the franchise group to be 55% responsible for the death.
Orlando Jordan was stabbed to death by Michael Castillo and Louis Martinez at a TGI Friday's restaurant in 2009, according to the AP.
Jordan was dating Castillo's mother at the time, and her son reportedly disapproved.
The family of Jordan claimed that staff at TGI Friday's served Castillo alcohol even though he was underage at the time and already intoxicated. He ordered the equivalent of 12 alcohol servings in 30 minutes, a lawyer for the family reportedly said.
Jordan's parents, Carmen and Rey Jordan, filed a lawsuit against the restaurant and the franchise owner, The Briad Restaurant Group, according CBS Los Angeles.
The Briad Restaurant Group and Friday's will have to pay more than half of the judgment amount of $40 million, according to CBS.
Both Castillo and Martinez pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon. Martinez was sentenced to four years in prison, and Castillo was sentenced to three, according to the AP.
Briad's president and COO, Rick Barbrick, expressed his condolences for the Jordan family.
�Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers continue for the Jordan family. At Friday�s, we remain committed to serving all guests in a safe and responsible manner which is consistent with our mission, high standards and core values,� he said in a statement cited by AP.
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Hattie McDaniel Biography
Hattie Mc Daniel Biography
Died: October 26, 1952
African American actress and singer
Hattie McDaniel's portrayal of the "mammy" figure in the film Gone with the Wind, for which she received an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1940, is still widely seen as a role that could only have been played by her. She was the first African American to receive an Oscar.
Hattie's youth
Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10, 1895, in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest of thirteen children in a family of performers. Her father, Henry McDaniel, was a Baptist minister, carpenter, banjo player, and minstrel showman, eventually organizing his own family into a minstrel troupe. Henry married a gospel singer named Susan Holbert in 1875 and moved their growing family to Denver, Colorado, in 1901.
Hattie was one of only two black children in her elementary school class in Denver. Racial prejudice (an unfair judgment based on race) was less hostile in the West than elsewhere in the United States. For her talents as a singer and reciter of poetry, McDaniel became something of a favorite at the 24th Street Elementary School, where mainly white students attended. McDaniel sang at church, at school, and at home; she sang so continuously that her mother reportedly bribed her into silence with spare change. Before long she was also singing in professional minstrel shows, as well as dancing, performing humorous skits, and later writing her own songs.
In 1910 Hattie left school in her sophomore year at East Denver High School and became a full-time minstrel performer, traveling the western states with her father's show and several other troupes. The minstrel shows were usually performed by black actors, but were also sometimes performed
Hattie McDaniel.
by whites in blackface. The shows presented a variety of entertainment that poked fun at black cultural life for the enjoyment of mostly white audiences.
When Hattie's father retired around 1920, she joined Professor George Morrison's famous "Melody Hounds" on longer and more publicized tours. She also wrote dozens of show tunes such as "Sam Henry Blues," "Poor Wandering Boy Blues," and "Quittin' My Man Today."
Broke into radio and film
McDaniel's first marriage ended brutally in 1922, when her husband of three months, George Langford, was reportedly killed by gunfire. Her career was much better, including a first radio performance in 1925 on Denver's KOA station. McDaniel was one of the first black women to be heard on American radio.
In 1929 McDaniel was left without a job due to the Great Depression (a time in the late 1920s and 1930s of economic hardship that resulted in unemployment for many), so she went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and found work at Sam Pick's Club Madrid—as a bathroom attendant. Eventually she became a performer there and remained at the Club Madrid for about a year. Next she went to Hollywood, California, where her brother and sister lived. Sam and Etta McDaniel had already played small roles in a number of motion pictures. Sam McDaniel had a regular part on the KNX (Los Angeles, California) radio show "The Optimistic Do-Nuts" and was able to get Hattie a small part, which she promptly turned into a big opportunity. McDaniel eventually became a hit with the show's listeners.
A big break came for McDaniel in 1934, when she was cast in the Fox production of Judge Priest. In this picture McDaniel was given the opportunity to sing a duet with Will Rogers (1879–1935), the well-known American humorist. Her performance was well received by the press and her fellow actors alike.
In 1935 McDaniel played "Mom Beck" in The Little Colonel. A number of African American journalists objected to Hattie's performance in the film. They charged that the character of Mom Beck, a happy black servant in the Old South, implied that black people might have been happier as slaves than they were as free individuals. This movie marked the beginning of McDaniel's long feud with the more progressive elements of the African American community.
Won Oscar for Gone with the Wind
Once established in Hollywood, McDaniel found no shortage of work. In 1936 alone she appeared in twelve films. For the decade as a whole her performances numbered about forty—nearly all of them in the role of maid or cook to a white household. McDaniel won the role of "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind over several rivals. Her salary for Gone with the Wind was to be $450 a week, which was much more than what her real-life counterparts could hope to earn.
McDaniel's performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind was more than a bit part. It so impressed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that she was awarded the 1940 Oscar for best supporting actress, the first ever won by an African American. McDaniel's award-winning performance was generally seen by the black press as a symbol of progress for African Americans, although some members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) were still displeased with her work. At the least, her Oscar was a symbol of possible conciliation (the act of settling a dispute) between the races.
Feuds with NAACP
McDaniel spent much of 1940 touring the country as Mammy, and in the following year she appeared in three substantial film roles, earning no less than $31,000 for her efforts. She was married, for a third time, to James L. Crawford in 1941.
The mid-1940s brought trying times for McDaniel, who experienced a heart-wrenching false pregnancy in 1944 and soon after became the victim of racist-inspired legal problems. The actress found herself in a legal battle over a system in Los Angeles that limited the land and home ownership rights of African Americans. Having purchased a house in 1942, McDaniel faced the possibility of being thrown out of her home. She was one of several black entertainers who challenged the racist system in court, however, and won.
Still, throughout the 1940s a growing number of activists viewed McDaniel and all she represented as damaging to the budding fight for civil rights. NAACP president Walter White pressed both actors and studios to stop making films that tended to ridicule black people, and he singled out the roles of Hattie McDaniel as particularly offensive. In response McDaniel defended her right to choose whichever roles she saw fit, adding that many of her screen roles had shown themselves to be more than equal to that of their white employers.
Renewed success in radio
By the late 1940s McDaniel found herself in a difficult position. She found her screen opportunities disappearing even as she suffered insults from progressive blacks. After her third marriage ended in divorce in 1945, she became increasingly depressed and confused as to her proper path.
McDaniel could still use her vocal talent on radio. In 1947 she won the starring role of "Beulah" on The Beulah Show, a CBS radio show about a black maid and the white family for whom she worked. When Hattie McDaniel took over the role as Beulah, she became the first black performer to star in a radio program intended for a general audience. The program was generally praised by the NAACP and the Urban League, along with the twenty million other Americans who listened to it every evening at the height of its popularity in 1950.
McDaniel's last marriage, to an interior decorator named Larry Williams, lasted only a few months. In 1951 she suffered a heart attack while filming the first few segments of a projected television version of The Beulah Show. By summer she was diagnosed with breast cancer. McDaniel died in Hollywood, California, on October 26, 1952. She will always be remembered as Mammy of Gone with the Wind.
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cynthia obie
Feb 3, 2010 @ 6:18 pm
i would like to know more about hattie mcdaniel. she seems like a very inspiring person. i would love to have met her. i am very intrested in her.
Dec 20, 2011 @ 10:22 pm
This article claims she'll always be remembered as "Mammy" in 'Gone With the Wind,' but she will actually always be remembered as the first African-American woman to win ans Oscar, in my opinion.
Lee-So
Aug 20, 2012 @ 2:14 pm
I would love to hear some songs sung by Ms McDaniel. Any idea where I can purchase some of her music? Black, white, red or yellow, she done a great job acting as Mammy in Gone With the Wind.
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Council Approves Hoag 10-Year Agreement Extension, Includes $3M For Homeless
Sara Hall
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach.
— courtesy Hoag
Newport Beach City Council this week unanimously approved a 10-year extension on the development agreement for Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian.
As part of the agreement, Hoag made a commitment of $3 million to provide benefits to the community through funding to address homelessness and continued funding of its Community Benefit Program at the Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living.
It addresses a problem that is endemic in Orange County, Mayor Diane Dixon said. This is a clever and innovative solution. It’s a good decision and the start of a great partnership to address the issue, she added.
“It’s the beginning of a new relationship with Hoag,” she said, and “we’re very proud to participate with you.”
The $3 million will be paid out in equal installments of $300,000 annually over the next decade, paid directly to one or more nonprofit community partners determined by the city upon recommendation of the newly-formed Homeless Task Force.
Melinda Hoag Smith Center for Healthy Living houses a variety of nonprofit partner agencies and programs that address issues affecting the health of the community.
Councilman Kevin Muldoon made the motion to approve the contract, adding that Hoag would have the option for “co-naming” rights. But no politician can put their name on it, he added.
Muldoon said he wasn’t initially a fan of the development proposal and was considering voting against the item, since it was more of a standard agreement for developers and not nonprofits, but he since learned that Hoag wants to do this for the community, he said. On top of that, Hoag is a great hospital and wonderful staff, he added.
“Hoag is a hero organization,” Muldoon said, “to want to pay money for Newport Beach to have the pleasure of having so many dedicated servants in our city limits is really unbelievable.”
Hoag was constructed in 1952 as a 75-bed, 50,000 square-foot facility. The complex has undergone several major construction phases that have expanded and remodeled the facilities.
The 38-acre site is bound by Hospital Road, West Coast Highway, Newport Boulevard, and Superior Avenue.
Hoag initially requested a 25-year extension of the development agreement, but through negotiations have revised their request to a 10-year extension.
The agreement will continue to vest Hoag’s development rights of the remaining 455,000 square feet for office and medical use, consistent with the city’s General Plan, Hoag Hospital PC text, and all mitigation measures.
They are a willing and responsible neighbor, Senior Vice President at Hoag Hospital Sanford Smith said.
“We are a community hospital,” Smith emphasized.
The services will grow and change over the years, he added. They see it transforming rapidly, which will continue over the next decade, he pointed out. The agreement allows them to be “nimble” and respond to how the healthcare industry evolves, Smith noted.
“These mental health, medical and social service providers directly support at-risk and disadvantaged populations in the Newport-Mesa area to combat homelessness and reduce costs to the emergency room,” the city staff report explains.
Councilman Jeff Herdman noted the comments and concerns community members have raised about homelessness in Newport Beach, an increasingly hot topic over the last few years.
“To see some of these funds earmarked for that is just outstanding,” Herdman said
Residents are concerned about the issue, and rightly so, Muldoon added.
The city is currently in the position, both locally and regionally and from federal agencies, to try and come up with a solution, Muldoon explained.
This is also in the hospital’s best interest, Councilwoman Joy Brenner pointed out. They have an obligation to deal with the mentally ill and the homeless, she added.
“They’re being proactive and finding ways to deal with that in a manner that benefits us, but it also benefits the hospital,” Brenner said. “It really is a collaboration between our community and Hoag and it’s one of the best possible solutions on how you deal with these measures that really seem insurmountable if we didn’t all work together.”
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Should I admit I’m getting Botox?
AUSTRALIANS spend $350 million a year on Botox, but many women struggle over whether to tell their partner or not.
Louise Dale
Sunday StyleMay 15, 201612:00am
Would you tell your husband you’re getting Botox?Source:istock
“IT’S TIME,” my practitioner declares as I exit her consulting room after one of my standard skin sessions. Her comment hits me off guard with its non-negotiable full stop. “Just a bit between your eyebrows,” she continues, her unmoving face trying its best to reassure me. “Add it to your next appointment.”
I always knew this day would come. All through my 20s I’d been surrounded by colleagues whose faces defied nature by appearing smoother the more they aged. I knew deep down I’d eventually join their club and be lured by the fountain-of-youth promise of a Botox pinprick.
That moment arrived a few weeks ago on the eve of my 32nd birthday. I decided to cross the line (or rather, erase it completely) by booking in for a round of injectables, as my skin therapist so subtly suggested.
Australians spend an incredible $350 million on Botox every year.Source:News Limited
But what I didn’t expect was the internal struggle that raged while on my way home after making the appointment. My conscience wasn’t challenging me on the concept of getting Botox (I had just been told my best wrinkle-free days were behind me; that was a done deal). Instead, I was grappling with whether or not to tell my husband. I’d already made the booking. Surely he didn’t need to know about it?
I quickly discovered that most women — Botox virgin or not — feel this way. Australians “consume” more than $350 million worth of the liquid wonder each year, but many of us don’t feel comfortable telling the very people we’re supposed to share everything with: our partners.
“Around 90 per cent of my work is injecting Botox, and I’d say 70 per cent of women don’t tell their husbands,” says Lisa Sullivan-Smith, co-founder of The Clinic in Sydney. “It happens every day,” agrees Ann Pilley, director of Zecca Cosmedical in Sydney’s Alexandria. “We’re not even allowed to text one client to confirm her appointment because she doesn’t want her husband to know. Most women don’t tell them.”
Most women keep their Botox usage a secret.Source:ThinkStock
Even friends and colleagues, who I’d classify as some of the most honest people I know, keep their Botox use completely schtum. Nicole, 37, who’s been dating her boyfriend for almost six months, is yet to reveal the real reason behind her crease-free complexion. Sasha, a former colleague the same age, popped her Botox cherry when she was 30 before meeting now-husband Troy. But after finding out he hated the idea of it “poisoning” her, she now gets it on the sly. Even my gay friend Nathan, 36, hasn’t told his partner of a year the real reason he looks refreshed every three months (“I’d admit it if it came up, but so far it hasn’t,” he says).
So why is it so hard to confess Botox use to our nearest and dearest when so many of us over a certain age are doing it? Well, it seems it’s due to a combination of reasons, starting with cost.
“We have people paying in cash all the time so it’s not traceable,” says Ms Pilley. Similarly, Ms Sullivan-Smith has one client who shuffles the payment across three cards to avoid detection. “Partners often think it’s expensive and don’t see the value in the treatment,” she says. In other words, there’s an element of guilt involved — particularly when the $400 going towards your frown lines could have gone towards something more tangible.
The expense of the procedure is a big reason some people don’t come clean.Source:Supplied
But, says Ms Sullivan-Smith, there’s also the fact Botox carries a certain stigma for your average Aussie bloke. Ergo, there’s an underlying fear of judgment. “It’s not like they’re talking about it in the pub,” she says. “Often they associate the concept with people who’ve gone way too far and don’t realise the vast majority of women who get it done do not look like freaks.”
For me, choosing to tell my husband or not felt like more of a feminist issue. It’s my body and I was going to use my money to get it done. He doesn’t have a say in (or is even remotely aware of) how often I colour my hair, wax my eyebrows or get a spray tan. So why should this be any different?
But over the following week I struggled with keeping the news of this impending appointment from him. Part of me felt like I was being deliberately deceptive. At the same time, the little fiery feminist inside me also didn’t want his opinion — a man’s opinion — affecting what I wanted to do to my body. I even toyed with doing the whole “Notice anything different about me?” routine, so that any input from him would be after the fact and, ultimately, too late.
Eventually, though, I cracked. About two weeks out from B-day, I tentatively raised the topic while chopping vegies for dinner one evening. My husband went quiet before asking the cost and how often I’d need to get it done. There was silence, save for the sound of his knife against the chopping board. “We can afford that, so no problem if that’s what you want to do.”
Ever the practical, business-minded man, I realised it was purely an economic decision for him, devoid of emotion. While I had agonised over his would-be reaction for days, he’d simply done the sums and decided it was feasible, all in the space of about 10 seconds. But just as I was writing this episode off as one big anticlimax, he spoke again. “Thank you for telling me. I really appreciate it. You can do what you want as long as it makes you happy.”
And with that I fell in love with him all over again. But, more importantly, I realised I never should have been worried about telling him in the first place.
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Report: Alex Rodriguez will retire in 2017
Posted: 1:53 PM, Mar 23, 2016
By: Alex Hider
Brian Blanco
<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL - SEPTEMBER 15: Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees walks back to the dugout after striking out looking, to end the top of the fifth inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays on September 15, 2015 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images)</p>
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will retire from baseball when his contract expires following the 2017 season, according to a report from ESPN.
A-Rod told me today that he will retire after next season. https://t.co/pFicg1jYFN
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) March 23, 2016
2017 will mark Rodriguez’s 23rd season in the majors. In the time span, he’s racked up 687 home runs (fourth-most in baseball history), 14 All-Star appearances, three MVP awards and a World Series victory with the Yankees in 2009.
Data curated by PointAfter
In addition to playing for the Yankees, Rodriguez has also spent time with the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.
Rodriguez has often been among the highest paid players in baseball. He signed an unprecedented 10-year, $252 million contract in 2000, and is currently on the final two years of a 10-year, $275 million contract signed in 2008.
Despite his gaudy numbers, “A-Rod’s” legacy has been clouded by steroids. Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 2014 season for violating the MLB’s Performance Enhancing Drug policy.
Alex Hider is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @alexhider.
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Brexit - what does it mean for New Zealand?
Punters at the Ascot Races in Brexit themed costumes (Getty)
Economists say if Britain leaves the European Union it will cause headaches for New Zealand firms.
But they also caution that is extremely difficult to say exactly what the impact could be.
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research says: "The post-Brexit picture is horribly murky. No one knows how it might play out, especially after the two-year withdrawal period lapses."
The most obvious impact would be on New Zealand's exports to the UK, which could drop by $190 million per year.
To put that figure in perspective, New Zealand currently exports around NZ$1.7 billion of goods each year to the UK (including sheep meat, wine, apples, pears, wool and honey). Britain accounts for 3.4 percent of New Zealand's goods exports.
There have been multiple studies on both sides of the argument on how the UK economy might be impacted.
The Institute says those studies show the UK economy could slow by between 1.3 percent to 5.5 percent of GDP by 2020 and between 1.2 percent to 7.5 percent in 2030.
"Slower income growth is likely to dampen the demand for our tourism exports, as UK travellers may well postpone long-haul travel until economic conditions improve."
New Zealand earns NZ$1.6 billion in services each year from the UK market (mainly tourism-related, but also legal, advertising, architecture, engineering and audio-visual services).
The UK exports around NZ$1.3 billion worth of products to New Zealand each year (vehicles, engines, machinery, spirits and books).
New Zealand imports NZ$970 million of services each year (tourism, insurance, broadcast rights and business services).
Proponents of Brexit say the UK will be able to lower administrative costs for smaller firms and will be able to negotiate a new trade deal with the EU.
But these claims are contested by those who want the UK to remain within the European Union.
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A brief history of the census
Finn Hogan
Early settlers to Queenstown in the 19th century. Photo credit: Getty.
More than a million New Zealanders have already filled in their census online, with today as the official deadline for submitting your information.
The census: Your questions answered
The census provides the Government with essential data about the population. That information is used to make decisions about billions of dollars of spending in areas such as transport and education.
Census Snapshot:
The first official nationwide census took place in 1851 following an order from the Crown to all colonies. It wasn’t an accurate reflection of the country, however, as it only counted Europeans.
Men outnumbered women by four to three in the first census. Most people were young: only one in every 127 people was over 60. Today the number of men and women are about equal and at the 2006 census, approximately one in every eight people was over 65.
The whole European population in 1851 was about the same size as the population of Timaru in 2013
Since 1951, all censuses have taken place on a Tuesday, because it’s the day that New Zealanders are statistically least likely to travel.
The census was held triennially until 1881, with the Census Act of 1877 then requiring the census be held every five years.
There have only been four censuses which broke the five year pattern since 1881. The 1931 census was cancelled due to the Great Depression. The 1941 census was cancelled because of World War II. The 1946 Census was brought forward to September 1945 in order to redefine electorates in time for the 1946 elections. Finally, the 2011 census was cancelled due to the Christchurch earthquake.
The first digital census was available in 2006, and Statistics New Zealand is aiming for 70 percent of all censuses to be filled out online in 2018.
You are required by law to fill out the census if you are in New Zealand on March 6, even as a visitor.
That law’s lead some Kiwis to find creative ways to avoid filling out the paperwork on census day. The 'Wizard of New Zealand', Ian Channel, allegedly spent the night of the 1981 census in a boat 20km offshore, outside out territorial limits, to avoid filling out his.
Don't panic if you haven't completed yours yet, you will be delivered a census code within a few days but you must complete it as soon as possible.
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Varun Chakarvarthy, Mahipal Lomror among 5 mystery spinners to watch out for in IPL 2019
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been the perfect platform for youngsters to showcase their skills and impress the global audience. In the last 11 years, the IPL has seen some quality players make a mark.
With less than a week left for this year’s league to start, it will once again be interesting to see which players rise to the challenge against the best in the business.
IANS takes a look at five mystery spinners who are expected to make a mark this season:
All eyes will be on this mystery spinner as Kings XI Punjab bagged him in the auction in Jaipur for a whopping Rs 8.4 crore – 42 times his base price of Rs 20 lakh.
Playing for Tamil Nadu, Varun bagged 22 wickets in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He has six variations in his kitty: off-break, leg-break, flipper, top-spinner, carrom ball and the googly.
The 27-year-old shot into limelight in the Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) 2018, scalping nine wickets from 10 matches, with a decent economy rate of 4.7. Looking at his record, Varun is expected to give batsmen a difficult time.
Apart from Varun, KXIP have another mystery spinner in Mujeeb ur Rahman. The Afghan spinner had a dream debut season in IPL 2018, bagging 14 wickets in the 11 matches he played. The right arm off-break bowler bowled with an average of 20.64 and an economy rate of just under seven.
Rahman also bowls some unbelievable googlies and under the guidance of his skipper Ravichandran Ashwin, who is an experienced off-spinner himself, the Afghan bowler is expected to only get better with every outing.
He has been a part of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and the national team for a while, but reading Kuldeep Yadav is a difficult task even now.
The chinaman bowler, retained by the Knights, was one of their best bowlers, picking 18 wickets from 16 games. But the management would want Kuldeep to keep things a little tighter as he was slightly expensive with an economy of 8.14.
KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik will certainly expect the 24-year-old to replicate his show in this edition of the IPL, and alongwith Sunil Narine, Kuldeep is expected to forge a deadly combination.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will be banking on young right-arm off-spinner Washington Sundar to play perfect second fiddle to India’s limited-overs leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal.
At 19, Sundar is presumed to be one of India’s next generation players. He had a good start to the league in 2017 and had scalped 8 wickets from 11 games, with a decent economy of 6.16.
The Tamil Nadu boy however, faltered in the second season as he managed just four wickets from seven games in 2018 with a poor economy. Sundar will look to leave it behind and start afresh in this year’s league.
RCB have shown faith in the youngster and picked him for Rs 3.20 crore in the auctions, and Sundar will surely look to perform to the expectations of the franchise.
Another name to watch out for will be Rajasthan Royals’ Mahipal Lomror.
Little known in the cricketing world before now, Lomror gained recognition based on his performances in India’s Under-19 campaign during the World Cup in 2016. In the six games, Lomror scalped seven wickets with an impressive economy of 3.74.
The 19-year-old didn’t get much chance to showcase his talent in IPL after featuring in just two games for the Royals last year.
However, given his record, Lomror will definitely be a spinner to watch out for. With the players having little knowledge about Lomror, the young spinner can certainly use the surprise element to his advantage.
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Tom Piazza
True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass (Paperback)
By Tom Piazza, Marty Stuart (Foreword by)
Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 Days
Published: Vanderbilt University Press - September 2009
Jimmy Martin was just twenty-two years old when Bill Monroe asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys. That invitation was the start of a career that spanned half a century and culminated with Martin's induction into the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Honor. Always an enigmatic figure, Martin was as famous for his temper as he was for his talent.
My Cold War: A Novel (Paperback)
By Tom Piazza
Published: Harper Perennial - September 28th, 2004
A sharp, searching novel of an American son and the family he left behind 埦rom a writer of rare breadth and human insight.
My Cold War is a critically acclaimed debut novel of extraordinary depth and range : the story of a man's alienation and attempts at reconnection with his family, and a rich exploration of the thorny implications of American popular culture.
Why New Orleans Matters (Hardcover)
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Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring a smile to the face of someone who has never even set foot there?
City of Refuge: A Novel (Paperback)
Published: Harper Perennial - August 4th, 2009
In November, 2005, Octavia Books, the first New Orleans bookstore to reopen after Katrina, hosted the event that launched Tom Piazza's WHY NEW ORLEANS MATTERS, the book that defined New Orleaneans' response to the Hurricane and the profound impact on our people and culture. Now, in CITY OF REFUGE, this brilliantly talented, award-winning writer reaches deeper and wider to offer a shattering, panoramic novel that traces the stories of two families -- one white and one black -- as lives are torn apart by the storm and then slowly stitched back together in its aftermath.
In August 2005, SJ Williams, a carpenter who has lived the Lower Ninth Ward all his life, is headed for a confrontation with his young nephew, Wesley, who has just been arrested for beating up his girlfriend. SJ's older sister Lucy, Wesley's mother, is a soulful mess beloved by everyone, but she has been unable to corral her son, and SJ fears he is about to be lost for good. Meanwhile, across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant and the editor of the city's (fictitious) Gumbo weekly newspaper, is facing deepening cracks in his own family. Craig's love for New Orleans music and culture brought them to the city, but his wife Alice's alarm at the city's crime, poverty, and bad schools has become an ever-widening wedge between her and Craig, and their two young children Annie and Malcolm.
When the storm breaks, and the levee with it, SJ's home is flooded and his family scattered
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Man arrested after making 'suspicious' approach to young child
Gardaí say it is an isolated incident
David Hurley
Pictures of the alleged suspect have been posted on social media
Gardaí have arrested a man after a five-year-old boy was the subject of a suspicious approach in Limerick city centre over the weekend.
The incident, details of which have been shared extensively on social media, happened on O’Connell Street at around 1pm this Sunday.
Photographs of the alleged culprit have also been posted online by people who claimed to have witnessed what happened.
Gardai were quickly alerted to the incident and a man was arrested a short time later.
“A man in his 20s has been arrested by gardaí following a suspicious and unexplained approach to a minor earlier today on O’Connell Street, Limerick,” confirmed the Garda Press Office in a statement this Sunday night.
Gardai say the young boy and his father were approached by a lone male while standing outside a shop. When the young boy’s father intervened the male fled the scene on foot.
Following his arrest the suspect was taken to Mayorstone garda station where he is being detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act.
Investigating gardai say the man will be medically assessed and that they are satisfied it was an isolated incident. It comes just a mtter of weeks after similar approach was made to a young child in a Tipperary supermarket.
Enquiries are ongoing.
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Algeria’s ‘dark cloud’, PDVSA’s ratings & more
The terrorist strike on Algeria’s In Amenas gas field last week and the bloodbath that followed as the country’s forces attempted to retake the facility has dominated the news headlines. The siege ended on Saturday with at least 40 hostages and 32 terrorists dead, according to newswires. The number is likely to alter as further details emerge. The hostage takers also mined the whole facility and a clear-up is presently underway. The field is operated as a joint venture between Algeria's Sonatrach, Statoil and BP. While an estimated 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of condensate was lost as production stopped, the damage to Algeria’s oil & gas industry could be a lot worse as foreign oil workers were deliberately targeted.
In its assessment of the impact of the terror strike, the IEA said the kidnapping and murder of foreign oil workers at the gas field had cast a ‘dark cloud’ over the outlook for the country's energy sector. The agency said that 'political risk writ large' dominates much of the energy market, 'and not just in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya or Venezuela' with Algeria returning to their ranks. Some say it never left in the first place.
Reflecting this sentiment, BP said hundred of overseas workers from IOCs had left Algeria and many more were likely to join them. Three of the company’s own workers at the In Amenas facility are unaccounted for.
Continuing with the MENA region, news emerged that Saudi Arabia’s output fell 290,000 bpd in December to 9.36 million bpd. Subsequently, OPEC’s output in December also fell to its lowest level in a year at 30.65 million bpd. This coupled, with projections of rising Chinese demand, prompted the IEA to raise its global oil demand forecast for 2013 describing it as a 'sobering, 'morning after' view.'
The forecast is now 240,000 bpd more than the IEA estimate published in December, up to 90.8 million bpd; up 1% over 2012. "All of a sudden, the market looks tighter than we thought…OECD inventories are getting tighter - a clean break from the protracted and often counter-seasonal builds that had been a hallmark of 2012," IEA said.
However, the agency stressed there was no need for rushed interpretations. "The dip in Saudi supply, for one, seems less driven by price considerations than by the weather. A dip in air conditioning demand - as well as reduced demand from refineries undergoing seasonal maintenance - likely goes a long way towards explaining reduced output. Nothing for the global market to worry about," the IEA said.
"The bull market of 2003‐2008 was all about demand growth and perceived supply constraints. The bear market that followed was all about financial meltdown. Today's market, as the latest data underscore, has a lot to do with political risk writ large. Furthermore, changes in tax and trade policies, in China and in Russia, can, at the stroke of a pen, shakeup crude and products markets and redraw the oil trade map," the agency concluded.
Simply put, it’s too early for speculators to get excited about a possible bull rally in the first quarter of 2013, something which yours truly doubts as well. However, across the pond, the WTI forward month futures contract cut its Brent discount to less than US$15 at one point last week, the lowest since July. As the glut at Cushing, Oklahoma subsides following the capacity expansion of the Seaway pipeline, the WTI-Brent discount would be an interesting sideshow this year.
The IEA added that non-OPEC production was projected to rise by 980,000 bpd to 54.3 million bpd, the highest growth rate since 2010. Concurrently, BP said that US shale oil production is expected to grow around 5 million bpd by 2030. This, according to the oil major, is likely to be offset by reductions in supply from OPEC, which has been pumping at historical highs led by the Saudis in recent years.
BP's chief economist Christof Ruehl said, "This will generate spare capacity of around 6 million bpd, and there's a fault line if there is higher shale production then the consequences would be even stronger." But the shale revolution will remain largely a "North American phenomenon," he added.
"No other country outside the US and Canada has yet succeeded in combining these factors to support production growth. While we expect other regions will adapt over time to develop their resources, by 2030 we expect North America still to dominate production of these resources," Ruehl said.
Along the same theme, CNN reported that California is sitting on a massive amount of shale oil and could become the next oil boom state. That’s only if the industry can get the stuff out of the ground without upsetting the state's powerful environmental lobby. Yeah, good luck with that!
Returning to Saudi Arabia, Fitch Ratings said earlier this month that an expansionary 2013 budget based on a conservative oil price will support another year of healthy economic growth for the country and a further strengthening of the sovereign's net creditor position. However, overall growth will slow “due to a decline in oil production that was already evident in recent months.”
In the full year to December-end 2013, the Saudi budget, unveiled on December 29, projected record spending of US$219 billion (34% of GDP), up by almost 20% on the 2012 budget. Budgeted capital spending is 28% higher than in 2012, though the government has struggled to achieve its capital spending targets in recent years.
While an 18% rise in Saudi revenues is projected in the budget, they are based on unstated oil price and production assumptions, with the former well below prevailing market prices. Fitch anticipates Saudi production and prices will be lower in 2013 than 2012.
"With no new revenue-raising measures announced and little scope for higher oil revenues, the revenue projection appears less cautious than usual. However, actual revenues generally substantially exceed budget revenues (by an average of 82% over the past five years) and should do so again in 2013," the agency said.
Meanwhile, political uncertainty continues in Venezuela with no clarity about the health of President Hugo Chavez. It has done Petróleos de Venezuela's (PDVSA), the country’s national oil company, no favours. On January 16, ratings agency Moody’s changed PDVSA's rating outlook to negative.
It followed the change in outlook for the Venezuelan government's local and foreign currency bond ratings to negative. "The sovereign rating action reflects increasing uncertainty over President Chavez's political succession, and the impact of a possibly tumultuous transition on civil order, the economy, and an already deteriorating government fiscal position," Moody’s said.
On PDVSA, the agency added that as a government-related issuer, the company's ratings reflect a high level of imputed government support and default correlation between the two entities. Hence, a downgrade of the government's local and foreign currency ratings would be likely to result in a downgrade of PDVSA's ratings as well.
Away from a Venezuela, two developments in the North Sea – a positive and a negative apiece – are worth taking about. Starting with the positive news first, global advisory firm Deloitte found that 65 exploration and appraisal wells were drilled on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), compared with 49 in 2011.
The activity, according to Deloitte, was boosted by a broader range of tax allowances and a sustained high oil price. The news came as Dana Petroleum said production had commenced at the Cormorant East field which would produce about 5,500 bpd initially. Production will be processed at the Taqa-operated North Cormorant platform, before being sent to BP's Sullom Voe terminal (pictured above) for sale.
Taqa, an Abu Dhabi government-owned energy company, has a majority 60% stake in the field. Alongside Dana Petroleum (20%), its other partners include Antrim Resources (8.4%), First Oil Expro (7.6%) and Granby Enterprises (4%).
While Taqa was still absorbing the positives, its Cormorant Alpha platform, about 160 km from the Shetland Islands, reported a leak leading to a production shut-down at 20 other interconnected North Sea oilfields.
Cormorant Alpha platform handles an output of about 90,000 bpd of crude which is transported through the Brent pipeline to Sullom Voe for dispatch. Of this only 10,000 bpd is its own output. Thankfully there was no loss of life and Taqa said the minor leak had been contained. It is currently in the process of restoring 80,000 bpd worth of crude back to the Brent pipeline system along with sorting its own output.
Finally, as the Oilholic blogged back in October on a visit to Hawaii, Tesoro is to close its Kapolei, O'ahu refinery in the island state in April as a buyer has failed to turn-up (so far). In the interim, it will be converting the facility to a distribution and storage terminal in the hope that a buyer turn up. The Oilholic hopes so too, but in this climate it will prove tricky. Tesoro will continue to fulfil existing supply commitments.
That’s all for the moment folks except to inform you that after resisting it for years, yours truly has finally succumbed and opened a Twitter account! Keep reading, keep it ‘crude’!
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Sugarland Tour Resumes after State Fair Tragedy
Published Aug 19, 2011 at 3:28 AM | Updated at 3:37 AM PDT on Aug 19, 2011
Sugarland returned to the stage on Thursday for their first performance since a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair left five people dead.
The Grammy-winning country duo asked its Albuquerque audience for a moment of silence in honor of those who were wounded "and the beautiful lives that were lost."
Sugarland members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush were minutes from performing at the fair in Indianapolis last Saturday when winds up to 70 mph knocked the massive stage onto the audience. Four were killed instantly, another person died later. About four dozen others were hurt.
On Thursday, the duo was joined on stage by their entire crew as Nettles sang "Love," from their 2008 "Love on the Inside" album. Then they took a break and promised to return for a professional show that would begin the healing through "the power of music."
Because the band's elaborate set and instruments were destroyed in the stage collapse, Sugarland performed in front of the basic black shell of the pavilion stage, with just lights and a little smoke. They used new instruments that were delivered to Albuquerque earlier in the day.
"This incredible machine is more than a tour and more than a set," the group said in a statement on their website. "We have always celebrated music as a healer. While music cannot change the events and losses at the Indiana State Fair, it can hopefully serve as a ritual and a balm to provide comfort and facilitate healing in this time of great sorrow."
Nettles and Bush weren't injured in Saturday's accident. Their manager said earlier this week that a decision by their touring manager to hold them back after seeing the sky likely saved their lives, the Associated Press reports.
"While we all scattered to our given families for their comfort, the trauma we experienced together binds us in a unique way that we share only with each other, and those who were there,” the band said in a statement. “There is healing in our being together. There is healing in our working together."
The band plans a private memorial for the victims in Indiana.
Selected Reading: USA Today, Indiana News
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Tankers on fire may not lead to lower gas prices — but a continued trade war will
Drivers in some parts of the country could see gas prices drop below $2 a gallon by July 4th.
A sign indicates that the price per gallon of regular gas is $2.47 at a gas station on June 13, 2019 in Miami.Joe Raedle / Getty Images
June 14, 2019, 3:34 PM UTC
By Martha C. White
Oil industry analysts say motorists need not worry about sticker shock at the pump this summer — but that’s actually bad news.
Even the image of an oil tanker in flames wasn’t enough to shake negative market sentiment about the prospect of a U.S.-China trade war deflating demand by hobbling global growth. Although oil prices on Thursday briefly rose as high as 4 percent on the news that two vessels had been sabotaged in a critical Middle East shipping channel, it retreated from those highs by the end of the trading day.
Oil prices have been on a downward trajectory for the past several weeks on projections of lower demand, a strong U.S. dollar, rising inventories and a surge in American petroleum production.
“The bulk of the drop in the price of oil and wholesale gasoline hasn’t fully been passed along to motorists,” said GasBuddy head of petroleum analysis Patrick DeHaan.
“It is normal that we see a slight decline this time of year, but the magnitude of the decline is unusual,” DeHaan said. “U.S.-China trade tensions are what’s enhancing the downturn,” he said, predicting that drivers in some parts of the country could see gas prices drop below $2 a gallon by the 4th of July. Throughout most of the Southeastern quarter of the country, average gas prices are already below $2.50, according to AAA data.
“It’s good news for consumers despite what happened today,” Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Service, said on Thursday. “Right now everything points to a cheaper summer than 2018.”
But this silver lining comes on a growing cloud of pessimism that the world’s two largest economies will be able to come to an accord on trade. “I think the next pivot point would be the G-20,” Kloza said. “Are we going to come out of that summit with more rancor, or are we going to come out with something more reasonable?”
“Markets were quite taken aback at the escalation in tensions between the U.S. and China on trade. I think they probably factored in a trade deal sooner rather than later,” said Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist at Capital Economics in London.
“Rising protectionism is usually a negative for economic growth,” she said. “That has added to concerns about global growth, which most economic indicators have started to turn down anyways.”
Data released Friday revealed that industrial production in China fell to a 17-year low in May. “The Chinese economy is massive,” said John Hall, chairman of Alfa Energy Group, a consulting company in London and Chicago. “Under pressure now from President Donald Trump, it has impact across the oil market.”
With China buying less oil, one of Iran’s last pipelines for international commerce and revenue generation narrows. Iran has accused the U.S. of trying to cause a destabilizing economic crash with its sanctions. Waivers permitting a handful of countries to continue importing Iranian oil expired May 2, depriving Iran of a key commercial outlet under U.S. sanctions.
“I think it adds a lot of fuel to the fire because China is, I think, probably the single biggest buyer of Iranian oil,” said Gary Hufbauer, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
“The sanctions are the essential background here,” said F. Gregory Gause III, professor and head of the international affairs department at Texas A&M University. “They have put serious economic pressure on Iran.”
Analysts speculated that it was plausible Iranian actors, although not necessarily the Iranian government itself, who were behind the recent tanker attacks — including one yesterday on a Japanese vessel — near the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-fifth of oil passes. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran on Thursday of orchestrating the attacks, which Iranian officials have denied.
Some experts suggest the Japanese tanker sabotage might be more significant than it at first appeared. Japan had been a significant importer of Iranian oil but, unlike China, which some suggest might actually buy more Iranian oil in order to turn sanction compliance into a bargaining chip in the upcoming tariff battle, it would be highly unlikely to flout U.S. sanctions. But making up that shortfall is challenging and costly, and the country still gets most of its petroleum via the Strait of Hormuz — giving it a vested interest in Middle Eastern stability.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Iran’s leader this week in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to broker a resolution to the growing tension. “A Japanese ship is attacked on the day the Prime Minister of Japan is meeting with the Iranian leader… If you’re a party in Iran who doesn’t want to see negotiations with the United States, perhaps you think hitting a Japanese ship is a way to subvert that,” Gause said.
“It’s always possible there’s a faction in Iran that did not want an easing of tensions to be successful,” said Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates.
Still, experts in global oil markets and Middle Eastern geopolitics say this standoff won’t necessarily lead to an escalation of tensions that could impact oil prices. But in the Middle East, they add, you never know for sure.
“Iran has said for decades if they can’t export oil, nobody can export oil from the Gulf,” Gause said.
“It’s not too much of a surprise that we would see such words being exchanged,” DeHaan said. “The way things are in the Middle East, there’s a lot of rhetoric like that.”
Iran isn’t believed to have the capability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz altogether, nor the military muscle to get involved in an open conflict with the U.S. In an interview with “Fox and Friends” on Friday, Trump said even if Iran tried to shut down access through the Strait, “It’s not going to be closed for long.”
“It’s one thing to threaten mischief in the Strait of Hormuz,” Kloza said. “You can create mischief, but I’m not so sure you could create mayhem.”
Over time, even smaller skirmishes or sabotage attempts could be destabilizing, Gause said. “It’s still the place that produces the largest amount of oil for export in the world. And if you are really thinking about major disruption in oil production and oil shipping, you will see a major price spike.”
“The picture of a burning tanker in this part of the world is a very scary thought for vessel owners,” Lipow said.
There are already indications that the shipping industry has grown nervous, he added. “What is of great concern is that a number of tanker companies have suspended their future voyages out of this region and we could see tanker insurance carriers refuse to provide coverage, and that does result in supply disruption if you have fewer tankers to move the oil.”
Without a resolution, even slower economic growth might not be enough to hold oil prices down. “I think this continued, low-level attacks on selected targets could ultimately result in a major supply disruption, especially if you were to see U.S. forces get involved in attacking facilities in Iran proper,” Lipow said. “If it did come to that, things could spiral out of control.”
Martha C. White
Martha C. White is an NBC News contributor who writes about business, finance, and the economy.
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Extension of ceasefire in Yolanda-devasted areas
Communist Party of the Philippines
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines hereby announces a one-month extension of the earlier ceasefire declaration issued to commands of the New People’s Army (NPA) and units of the people’s militias operating in the areas devastated by the 8 November supertyphoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan). The ceasefire declaration, which practically commenced on 8 November 2013, and was originally set to expire on 2359 hours of 24 November, will now remain in effect up to 2359 hours of 24 December.
This ceasefire declaration covers the following regional commands of the NPA:
Eastern Visayas Regional Command
Panay Regional Command
Central Visayas Regional Command
Negros Island Command
The ceasefire declaration is being extended by another month in view of the extent and gravity of the devastation of the supertyphoon that has been made worse by the gross negligence and inutility of the ruling Aquino regime. This will allow all committees of the people’s democratic government, respective commands of the NPA and units of the people’s militias in the devastated areas to continue with rehabilitation efforts.
Revolutionary forces in the area are currently busy in facilitating the distribution of relief supply from various people’s organizations and media outfits. They are engaged in the reconstruction of homes, as well as in the mobilization of people in efforts to resume production and wage mass struggles. Disaster victims are being organized in order to assert their demand for reforms to address their urgent needs. The demand of the peasant masses for land reform and of the fisherfolk for fisheries reform have become particularly urgent in the devastated areas.
Revolutionary forces in Luzon and Mindanao have carried out efforts to generate funds and supplies for the victims of the recent disaster. They are in close coordination with media and people’s organizations which are busy extending assistance to the devastated areas.
Respective units of the NPA and the people’s militias shall remain in active defense mode within the period of effectivity of this declaration. They shall exert all-out effort to assist the masses but will exercise great caution to remain invisible to the enemy and avoid vulnerabilities. They should maintain a heightened sense of alertness against the hostile acts and encroachments of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in areas within the scope of authority of the people’s democratic government.
This is in view of the fact that despite the widespread sufferings and hardships brought about by the recent disaster, the Aquino regime and the AFP have refused to relent in their offensive military operations and campaigns of suppression being carried out under the Oplan Bayanihan war against the people. The AFP has deployed several specialized units for transportation into Eastern Visayas. This is, however, a token effort considering the fact that it has 10,000 soldiers under the command of the 8th Infantry Division which remain focused on carrying out “counterinsurgency” operations within the region and continue to be on an offensive rampage. The Aquino regime has virtually garrisoned Tacloban City and placed it under military rule.
In Panay and Negros, the 3rd Infantry Division adamantly carries out offensive military operations in complete disregard for the recent devastation. As a result of the relentless offensive operations of the forces of the 3rd ID, two successive armed encounters erupted between a local NPA unit carrying out rehabilitation efforts and a platoon of the 47th IB on offensive operations in Barangay Magbalyo, Kabankalan City last 16 November, resulting in the wounding of an AFP soldier.
While maintaining a high degree of alertness against the offensive operations of the AFP, the NPA and the organized peasant masses must heighten efforts to wage revolutionary mass struggles to advance the democratic cause of the people in the face of the disaster and grave economic hardships.
The CPP leadership rejects the Malacañang proposal for a nationwide ceasefire of indefinite duration. The CPP ceasefire declaration is localized and has a definite period of effectivity with the aim of addressing the urgent need of extending emergency services to the people and carrying out rehabilitation efforts.
A ceasefire of longer duration and nationwide scope can be carried out only on the basis of fundamental socio-economic and political reforms. Otherwise, such a ceasefire will be of no benefit to the people and will only be taken advantage of by the most reactionary and fascist elements to push for the pacification and surrender of the people’s revolutionary forces.
If Malacañang is really serious in its proposal, then it should immediately end its unilateral suspension of peace negotiations and resume talks with the duly authorized panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and forge agreements on the basis, parameters and mechanics of such a ceasefire.
Ceasefire declaration to concentrate on rehabilitation work in Yolanda devastated areas
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Dallas Criminal Defense Attorneys
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When faced with a criminal charge of any kind, one of the most important decisions you must make is who you will hire to represent you. The choice of your Dallas criminal defense lawyer can literally mean the difference between having your freedom and having it taken away from you. When speaking to lawyers about representing you, look for someone who is honest with you, first and foremost, and who has the experience and knowledge of the law necessary to handle your case.
Never hire someone who promises you a certain result. Not only is this unethical, but it is also dishonest and will not result in a positive lawyer-client relationship. It is vitally important that you trust your lawyer and have an open and honest relationship with him/her. If you are looking for a criminal defense lawyer in Dallas who not only has a vast amount of experience handling all types of criminal cases but is also honest and ethical in the way he handles your case, look no further than Nelson Knight.
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Nelson Knight has been practicing criminal law in Dallas and the surrounding counties since 1998. In that time he has come to be one of the most respected trial lawyers in all of Dallas County and has tried to verdict over 200 jury trials and countless bench trials. Mr. Knight started his career as an Assistant District Attorney for the Dallas County District Attorney's Office. In his time as an assistant D.A. from 1999 to 2001, Mr. Knight quickly rose through the misdemeanor ranks and became a felony prosecutor in only 10 months. By the end of his time at the D.A.'s office, Mr. Knight was widely known as one of the best prosecutors in Dallas County, having tried virtually every type of case, ranging from DWI to capital murder.
From 2001 forward, Mr. Knight has practiced criminal defense and for a short time, corporate defense of large companies accused of violation of civil law. From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Knight served as an Assistant Public Defender for Dallas County in felony courts, during which time he represented over 1000 citizens of Dallas County.
One of the most important factors in Mr. Knight's success as a criminal defense lawyer is his ability to see each case through the eyes of not only a defense attorney but a prosecutor as well. This enables him to anticipate how the State of Texas will prosecute a case and what "value" the prosecutors might attach to a given case. Knowing these things is critically important to be able to defend a case to a successful resolution, be it a trial, a dismissal or a favorable plea bargain agreement. Mr. Knight is a native Dallas resident. He cares about our community and the rights of the citizens who live here. He wants to help you if you or a loved one are in trouble.
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The Box goes up!
Written by Rhiannon Spencer-Jones, Fundraising Manager
Our innovative conservation project to save Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece has begun.
We’re excited that work to build the Hill House Box is making great progress. Photographs from the site show the frame of the Box starting to take shape, now that the foundations and impressive crane are in place.
The foundations for the Box are now in place, waiting for the steel frame to be added
The first section to go up is on the east side of the house, taking care to preserve the trees that are growing close to the building.
The first side of the Hill House Box is put up, with the assistance of a large crane.
The steel frame will be wrapped with a specialist mesh to keep out the rain.
Once the Hill House Box structure is in place, the team will wrap the frame in a specialised mesh, designed to catch the rain that batters the building every year and which has led to the need for this dramatic conservation project. Learn more about the Hill House Box.
We can’t wait to keep you updated on the next stage of the Box’s construction.
The team at the Hill House would like to thank the thousands of people who donated to save this iconic Mackintosh building. Our Box the Hill House Appeal launched in February last year to urgently raise the funds to build the Box. We’ve been astonished and delighted by the response from lovers of Mackintosh, design and heritage across Scotland and all around the world. From everyone at the National Trust for Scotland, thank you.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Hill House Box when it opens later this year, so you can experience this unique conservation project for yourself.
So far, £1.2 million has been raised, and we’re continuing to fundraise to reach the final £300,000 of our target.
Help us save the Hill House
Support our work to stop the Hill House being lost forever.
Work begins to build the Hill House Box
We’ve reached a major milestone in our effort to save Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic building, as steel beams have been craned into place.
Box build begins at Hill House
The pioneering project to protect Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House is underway.
Hill House Box ready for construction
Mackintosh’s Hill House is now wintered and ready for construction of the Box to start this month.
How we’ll save the Hill House
How do you solve a century-old problem? Easy – stop the rain.
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New York|Bonuses of Up to $8,000 to Teach in Struggling New York Schools
Bonuses of Up to $8,000 to Teach in Struggling New York Schools
Richard A. Carranza, left, New York City’s schools chancellor, with Mayor Bill de Blasio on the first day of school last month. On Thursday, Mr. de Blasio said new bonuses “address something that has nagged this school system for decades.”CreditCreditMark Abramson for The New York Times
By Eliza Shapiro
At 180 public schools in New York City, many in the Bronx, hiring and keeping teachers is a constant struggle. These are schools that are in some of the poorest neighborhoods and are often a long trek from the nearest subway stop.
On Thursday, the city reached an agreement with the powerful teachers’ union on an initiative that Mayor Bill de Blasio called a “very powerful pointed tool” to address this problem.
Under the agreement, the de Blasio administration will give bonuses of $5,000 to $8,000 to teachers who work in schools that many teachers avoid.
The United Federation of Teachers signed a $2.1 billion contract with the city seeming to acknowledge that union rules about how teachers can be paid, hired and fired have stymied progress in the city’s struggling schools.
The agreement, settled as part of a contract renewal with the union, signals a new phase in both the city and the union’s strategy for poorly performing schools. Mr. de Blasio’s current program, known as Renewal, has produced mixed results at best since 2014.
The mayor described the new initiative, known as the Bronx Plan, as a complement to Renewal, not a replacement for it.
At a news conference on Thursday, Mr. de Blasio said the bonuses “address something that has nagged this school system for decades, and a lot of other school systems, and to say once and for all let’s see if we can break through and get teachers to stay in some of the most challenging environments.”
The question now is whether the three-year plan will lead to lasting change in the schools that are in serious need of it. And it remains unclear whether those schools will be able to attract the city’s best teachers, as the bonuses aren’t tied to success in the classroom and apply only to teachers who are interested in working where others won’t.
A bulk of the contract includes raises for all teachers of 2 to 3 percent per year for the next three years.
Mr. de Blasio and Michael Mulgrew, the president of the teachers’ union, were adamant on Thursday that the bonuses are not a version of merit pay, a policy linking bonuses with teacher performance that the union has long fought to avoid.
There are still limits to how much the city can control staffing in struggling schools.
The agreement between the union and the city does not include any new ways to shrink the Absent Teachers Reserve, a group of hundreds of school staff members who have been let go from permanent positions but remain on the city’s payroll.
A budget watchdog group recently estimated that the pool cost the city $136 million annually, and critics say many of the pool’s teachers should not be in a classroom at all. In a signal of how wary schools are of absorbing those teachers, Renewal schools are exempt from having to hire teachers from the pool.
And the schools that will be selected to participate in the Bronx Plan do not have to join it, union officials said, because a school’s principal and a teachers’ union chapter leader must approve. The city did not provide details on Thursday about which schools will participate.
The new contract includes a plan to screen teachers for various personality traits and stamina to teach in the city’s public schools before they start work. But few details were given because the test is still being developed.
Of the contract and the mayor’s support, Mr. Mulgrew said: “Here in the largest school system, the most challenging school system in the United States, we have some of the greatest challenges. Most politicians would never go near trying to tackle this.”
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A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 25 of the New York edition with the headline: Teachers to Get Bonuses Up to $8,000 to Work in Struggling Schools. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
De Blasio Pushes a 9-Year Contract for Teachers
For First Time, New York City Teachers Will Get Paid Parental Leave
Caught Sleeping or Worse, Troubled Teachers Will Return to New York Classrooms
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Outlaws grabbed in drug, firearm sting: Two-year probe links gang to crime throughout region
By Elaine Allegrini
Jul 31, 2007 at 12:01 AM Jul 31, 2007 at 6:20 AM
15 members of the Taunton chapter of one of the largest motorcycle club's in the world and now face federal drug and firearms charges in after a two-year probe led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
They come from city streets and small town back roads, but in the eyes of law enforcement they are scary people involved in violent crime.
They are the Outlaws, members of the Taunton chapter of one of the largest motorcycle club's in the world and now 15 of them face federal drug and firearms charges in after a two-year probe led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
During that time, they engaged in a host of violent criminal activities, including an armed carjacking in Norton, U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said today in a prepared release.
They also terrorized a Taunton neighborhood where their clubhouse served as the hub of marijuana and cocaine trafficking and other crimes, according to authorities and affidavits filed in U.S. District Court. Beyond the drug and firearms charges levied Tuesday, authorities say many members of the group are involved in motor vehicle theft and fraud, witness intimidation and other crimes to protect the interests of the gang and its members.
Former club president Joseph Noe, also known as "Joe Doggs," of Taunton, was among those arrested on drug trafficking charges. He was also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
The investigation included wiretapping of suspect's telephones and undercover cops infiltrated the operation, according to court papers. It also implicated leaders of the national organization.
"It's a big case," said Brockton Police Chief William Conlon. "They're a scary group."
Members of the Outlaws are "significant players" in crime in Brockton, he added.
"Operation Road Kill" targeted a traditional organized motorcycle gang and led to the seizure of numerous firearms and narcotics and arrests of numerous "
Outlaw motorcycle (club) members," State Police Col. Mark F. Delaney said in the prepared release.
It also went to the heart of crime on the streets of Brockton, Taunton and beyond, city leaders said.
In Taunton, the Outlaws School Street clubhouse has terrorized the neighborhood for several years, Mayor Charles Crowley said.
"We're very pleased that they took action in a troubled spot in our community," he added.
"The neighbors have been very upset, a lot of them fearful," Taunton Police Chief Raymond O'Berg said. I'm hoping the feds have enough to seize the clubhouse and eliminate the blight on that neighborhood."
The suspects were rounded up late Monday in a controlled drug transaction in Brockton and early Tuesday throughout the region by a law enforcement team that included the FBI and state, Brockton and Taunton police with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department. Cash, vehicles, drugs and more were seized, authorities said.
They also searched the Taunton clubhouse, according to O'Berg.
The Outlaws' Brockton chapter has a clubhouse on Hunt Street, but Conlon said there is not significant activity there
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New Tunisian Salafist Party: a threat to democratic transition?
Jabhat al-Islah denounces violence and might have the potential to embed Tunisia's Salafist movement in the political process
Anne Wolf
The recent licensing of the Salafist party Jabhat al-Islah in Tunisia is raising concerns inside and outside the country that such official representation of the religiously ultraconservative might incite further activity in the already vocal – and increasingly violent – Salafist movement, hence jeopardizing Tunisia's fragile democracy.
While such reasoning is understandable in the light of recent Salafist unrest inside the country, hasty condemnations of Jabhat al-Islah are misleading, as the party denounces violence and might have the potential to embed Tunisia's Salafist movement in the political process, thereby helping to de-radicalize its supporters.
Reaching Tunisia's ultraconservative youth is particularly crucial given that an increasing number of young people join Tunisia's religiously ultraconservative movement; a Salafist, it seems, being on average 27 years old. Parts of Tunisia's youth – one of the country's most volatile socioeconomic groups – seem to retreat to religion to find answers to their political disillusionment and economic distress.
This, however, does not mean that Jabhat al-Islah's ideology is inherently democratic. Its leaders have on several occasions made it clear that they support democracy only to the extent it is constrained by religion.
“In Europe, democracy gives sovereignty to the people, but in Muslim countries, we prefer to emphasize the sovereignty of Islamic legislation” Mohammed Khouja, the head of the Salafist party, told me, adding that, for him, “the job of the lawmaker is to distinguish the 'haram' (illicit) from what is 'halal' (licit) according to Islamic law.”
Such ultraconservative vision implies that on issues such as women's rights the party is clearly in conflict with internationally recognized democratic standards. Questioned about Jabhat al-Islah's position on polygamy, Mohammed Khouja, for example, maintained that men should be allowed to have up to four wives.
While radical in the eyes of many liberals, the Salafist party is unlikely to incite further religiously motivated unrest inside Tunisia: “We reject all sorts of violence – be it motivated by religion or not”, Mohammed Khouja told me in reference to a recent Salafist attack on an arts exhibition in Tunis.
The party's willingness to participate in Tunisia's political process also indicates that Jabhat al-Islah reflects one of the Salafists' more moderate streams – most religiously conservative people reject any engagement with politics. Already during last year’s Constituent Assembly elections, members of Jabhat al-Islah participated as independents, but they did not manage to obtain any seats.
Today, the support base of the new party is still small, bringing together no more than a few hundred members. With around 10,000 affiliates throughout the country, Salafism constitutes a minority movement in Tunisia, even if more people are flocking to join the movement. Unlike religiously ultraconservative parties in other countries such as Egypt, the impact of the new Salafist party is therefore likely to remain limited, at least in the near future.
Some Salafists are also skeptical towards the party due to its perceived proximity to Ennahda, Tunisia's ruling moderate Islamic party, suggesting that through its very engagement in politics Jabhat al-Islah will mellow its convictions. Other more radical Salafists, especially the jihadists, fiercely oppose the new party, depicting it as disconnected from the religiously ultraconservative movement. As Abu Sanat, a Salafist-jihadist living in Tunis, told me: “Jabhat al-Islah does not mean anything to us, it does not have a potential to mobilize and it does not have a social base”.
The new Salafist party is indeed unlikely to be able to ‘tame’ the most violent and radical Salafists – even in the long-term – but it might eventually mobilise some of Tunisia's religiously ultraconservative populace, particularly its disenchanted youth. Such a possible scenario is feared by many Tunisian liberals, who are fiercely opposed to the increasing role of religion in the country's new democracy.
But before rejecting Jabhat al-Islah in its entirety, it is worth bearing in mind what the Salafist alternative looks like: more secretive and potentially more violent movements spreading throughout the country...
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Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants: land acquisition
By protecting special habitats, Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants give communities a place to connect with nature.
Dirksen Nature Park received a $1 million capital grant from Metro's Nature in Neighborhoods program.
Capital grants: land acquisition
The City of Tigard received a $1 million capital grant from Metro's Nature in Neighborhoods program to acquire 48 acres along Summer Creek to create the new Dirksen Nature Park.
Nadaka Nature Park in Gresham. received two grants totaling $459,000.
Nadaka Nature Park received a $220,000 grant to acquire a two-acre expansion, greatly improving access to the tucked-away park in Gresham. (Photo courtesy of Lee Dayfield)
West Linn's White Oak Savanna received two awards totaling $834,000 to preserve 20 acres of oak prairie habitat.
From white oak savannas to urban creeks, land acquisition projects are preserving special places in our urban neighborhoods.
Communities have come together to protect local assets that aren’t covered by Metro’s regional efforts to buy natural areas. Preserving these small neighborhood jewels unites groups as diverse as local governments, neighborhood associations, churches, businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sometimes, land trusts help get the job done.
As a tried-and-true conservation tool, land acquisition provides a straightforward way to make a difference. But purchasing land isn’t an ending point. It’s often the first step in a community’s mission to open a nature park, build trails or restore habitat.
Dirksen Nature Park, $1 million: At 48 acres, Dirksen Nature Park is Tigard’s largest nature park. Nestled along Summer and Fanno creeks, the mature forest, wetlands and open spaces are blossoming as a hub for environmental education. Nature lovers might spot turtles, frogs, salamanders, red-tailed hawks, owls and herons.
Nadaka Nature Park, $220,000 award: It’s easier to find Gresham’s Nadaka Nature Park these days, thanks to a two-acre expansion supported by a $220,000 Nature in Neighborhoods grant. The park, which was tucked away in the East Wilkes Neighborhood, can now be reached from Northeast Glisan Street.
Lilly K. Johnson Woods Natural Area expansion, $345,000 and $136,435 awards: Nestled south of Farmington Road in Beaverton, Lilly K. Johnson Woods Natural Area serves as a neighborhood destination and a potential wayside along the future Westside Trail. With a new addition, it will more than double in size and grow exponentially in wildlife habitat.
White Oak Savanna, $334,000 and $500,000 awards: Protecting the 20-acre White Oak Savanna in West Linn preserves a special habitat – and, for commuters who zoom by on Interstate 205, a spectacular view. A soft-surface trail will allow visitors to experience this unique habitat, showcasing remarkable vistas over the Willamette River to Canemah Bluff.
Overlook Bluff, $288,000: A heritage Oregon white oak believed to be around 200 years old will be preserved with the help of a $288,000 grant that went toward acquiring a 0.83-acre site. The beloved tree sits on the Overlook Bluff in North Portland within a corridor of oak and madrone trees in a public natural area that continues to provide watershed, wildlife and community benefits.
St. Johns residents rallied to preserve the Baltimore Woods Corridor, in part with the help of two grants totaling $539,000.
Case study: Grant connects neighbors with nature in St. Johns’ Baltimore Woods corridor
Urban properties often don’t meet the criteria for grants that protect wildlife habitat and endangered species. Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants are a rare exception.
Like many urban areas throughout the country, North Portland’s St. Johns neighborhood struggles with its share of vacant land that gives rise to weeds, litter and neglect.
But neighbors around a 30-acre corridor along North Decatur Street saw a community asset. And with the support of two Metro Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants, the woods were given a new lease on life.
Much of Baltimore Woods borders homes, garages and lawns north of Cathedral Park, stretching toward Pier Park. The trees, some crawling with ivy and blackberry, act as a buffer between the elevated residential area and industrial sites below, on the eastern banks of the Willamette River.
Friends of Baltimore Woods had been advocating for restoration for several years, but with development looming, it was time to act. They contacted Three Rivers Conservancy – which has since become part of the Columbia Land Trust– and met with Virginia Bowers, who specializes in helping acquire land for preservation. There must be an option for rescuing the woods, the group thought. After hearing their vision, Bowers said, “it seemed appropriate for Three Rivers to have a spot at the table.”
Meanwhile, a study funded by the Port of Portland looked at ways to route two proposed regional trails through Baltimore Woods rather than on a nearby street. The report noted support for preserving the woods as a trail asset and buffer, improving storm water filtration, saving 30 Oregon white oaks and potentially creating an area for environmental education.
Barbara Quinn, chair of Friends of Baltimore Woods, said the group hoped to purchase several lots, which peaked in value a few years earlier and were now less appealing to developers. But purchasing the land could be difficult, Bowers explained. Urban properties often don’t meet the criteria for grants that protect wildlife habitat and endangered species.
Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants are a rare exception. The Baltimore Woods project was chosen in 2010, with commitments from the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services’ Grey to Green program, the restoration volunteer group SOLV and the funding match of the City of Portland’s Parks & Recreation department. Metro provided $158,000 toward the $475,000 price tag.
With financial backing, Bowers helped the group scoop up five vacant lots – including the site of proposed condos that is home to a large oak grove.
“The recession had a silver lining because people were willing to sell,” Quinn said. “Some saw that we were very interested in this project, and they wanted to do something good for the neighborhood as well.”
SOLVE organized volunteers to remove invasive species and plant new natives. A number of groups, representing both schools and businesses, have taken part.
A second Nature in Neighborhoods grant, awarded in 2012, helped buy four more parcels for preservation. Bowers thanks Metro for turning a grassroots efforts into real progress for the St. Johns community.
“Without the grant from Metro, it wouldn’t have happened,” she said. “No way.”
Contact: Mary Rose Navarro
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Smiles of a Summer Night auction raises $60 000 for OMAH
Sunday July 27, 2014 at 2:25pm
It is with great pleasure to announce the final results of Smiles of a Summer Night, a one-time-only auction of 44 of Charles Pachter's most iconic works which took place at his new gallery and studio Moose Factory of Orillia (MOFO) on July 19th.
The auction raised $60,000!
Museum Assistance Grant
Thursday July 17, 2014 at 11:33am
OMAH is honoured to have received a Museum Assistance Program grant from the Canadian Government. Specifically for artefact storage solutions, this grant will allow OMAH to purchase the necessary equipment to properly store the textiles and hat collection. Thank you to the Federal Government of Canada for their generosity, and our elected MP, Bruce Stanton.
Festival of Banners Photo Contest
Wednesday July 16, 2014 at 4:27pm
As part of Festival of Banners this year, we're sending you on an adventure!
Each week we will be posting a featured banner on OMAH's Facebook and Twitter. It's up to you to find it and get a picture of you and the banner!
Post your photo to our Facebook page or Twitter for a chance to have it in our Gala slideshow in November, along with your name intered into a draw for great prizes!
Make sure to Like and Follow so you don't miss out!
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The Peppermint Grove superblock where the Taj-on-Swan used to stand will be used to build a family home.
Family home for $17 million Taj on Swan site
Kate EmeryPerthNow
Real EstateWA NewsPerth
THE new owner of Peppermint Grove’s infamous “Taj-on-Swan” superblock, businessman John Gillett, plans to build a family home to share with his wife and young twin boys.
Speaking publicly about his $17 million purchase for the first time, Mr Gillett said as a private person he had “naively” hoped to avoid attention.
“We were hoping to fly under the radar,” he said with a laugh.
“We haven’t decided what we’re going to do as yet. At this moment we have no intention of sub-dividing but who knows.
“We didn’t think we would be successful (in buying it). I’m glad we were but we’re still on the starting blocks.
“We’re fairly private people, we’re in no hurry.”
Camera IconNew owner John Gillett.
Mr Gillett is a former Moran Health Care executive who sold WA aged care provider Craigcare last year in a deal understood to be worth $50 million to $100 million.
He bought the business in 2003 for a reported $25 million.
Mr Gillett has since mostly retired and lives in Nedlands with his wife and eight-year-old sons. He also has older children.
“I think from our perspective it’s a wonderful opportunity for my boys to grow up there,” he said.
When he sold his business last year, Mr Gillett said wanted to spend more time with his family.
He said yesterday it had been a “lovely time” since stepping down from his corporate life.
The property deal was so fresh, he said, “I haven’t even told the boys”.
Mr Gillett’s desire to avoid the spotlight is in sharp contrast to the site’s previous owners, Pankaj and Radhika Oswal.
The high-flying couple’s glamorous lifestyle first stalled and came crashing down around them with the collapse of Mr Oswal’s fertiliser empire in 2010.
The couple’s plan for an Indian-inspired mansion earned the 6582sqm block its popular moniker soon after they bought it for $22.7 million in 2006.
But the building was never finished and spent years in limbo, partly because of the Oswals’ complex legal battles.
To the frustration of its western suburbs neighbours it became a magnet for illegal parties, squatters and graffiti before being demolished in 2016.
The site has since been marketed alternatively as one superblock or as many as six blocks.
The block, which once had a $30 million price tag, failed to sell at auction last month and the deal with Mr Gillett was negotiated later.
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Camera IconSTM columnist Nat Locke.Picture: News Corp Australia, Matthew Poon
Nat Locke: Cheers to first-date disasters
Nat LockePerthNow
July 6, 2016 12:05AM
OpinionNat LockeWA News
YOU know when you meet someone who is single and you think, “How are they possibly single?” – I have a friend like that.
She’s funny, financially independent, better than average looking and likes animals, sport and travelling. Basically, she’s way more of a catch than I am, and yet she’s single and I’m not. It’s quite mystifying.
Anyway, the girl who nobody believes could be single met her polar opposite, the guy who’s single for patently obvious reasons.
On their first date they arranged to meet at a bar for a drink. They perused the beverage menu. She asked if he was going to have a drink. He said “yes” and headed to the bar and encouraged her to go with him. Then he ordered a beer from the barman and paid. The barman then looked pityingly at her and said: “Did you want anything?”
Somewhat defeatedly she ordered a glass of wine, paid, and they walked back to the table together, carrying their separately purchased beverages.
Then it happened again. The second round of drinks was exactly like the first.
Now, for the record, she was happy to pay her own way. But she would have thought it quite nice if he could have bought the first round, and then she could have bought the second because, let’s face it, that’s what everyone does.
It’s a basic cultural convention, isn’t it?
If I’m out with friends, it’s the way things work. Everyone takes turns buying drinks for everyone else. It’s congenial. And inevitably, someone disappears when it’s their turn and everyone has a laugh about it.
Hell, even if you’re drinking with strangers that you’ve just met and you think they’re awesome because you’re on to your third espresso martini, it’s quite the norm to buy them a drink, and then they reciprocate, right?
And I know what you’re thinking: Maybe the guy wasn’t that into her, so he was hedging his bets until he could depart, with everyone’s dignity intact.
Yeah, that’s what my friend thought too. She figured he’d made an instant judgment (hey, we’re all guilty of that, right?) and didn’t want to make any sort of investment in her, particularly financial.
Except that after this date he texted to tell her what a fantastic time he’d had, that she was exactly the sort of person he was looking for and that he definitely wanted to see her again.
She was confused, slightly outraged and wondered whether she could overlook the fact that this guy had made it to his late thirties without realising the basics of socialising.
She couldn’t.
So is my mate being too fussy? Or is it beyond peculiar that a guy has made it this far in life without realising that it’s not a major sacrifice to buy a girl a drink on a first date? Especially if she’s going to buy the second one.
There are plenty of deal breakers out there that seem quite reasonable. One of my friends told her now husband on their first date that she wouldn’t date a smoker, so he quit. Because he’s a smart man and she was worth it.
And yet another friend, an adventurous spirit, ended a short relationship when it became apparent that the guy didn’t approve of her travelling the world. Not only did he not want to go with her, but he also resented her for going.
Yeah, that was never going to work out.
And maybe that’s the essence of it. The guy who doesn’t want to buy a round of drinks may yet meet his perfect match — a girl who happily accompanies him to the bar to purchase her own beverage. Who knows? Maybe there’s a girl who’s into that.
Or maybe he’ll always wonder why no one ever wants to go on a second date with him.
Listen to Nat, Nathan and Shaun McManus on Nova 93.7 on weekday mornings.
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2002 Revisited: After the War, the War
As with the eviction of al-Qaida from Afghanistan in 2001-02, the collapse of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed Caliphate in Syria and Iraq does not mean that the group’s capability or the potency of its ideological challenge has been vanquished. Its legacy includes the unprecedented but barely documented Western militarisation of a frontier from the Sahel to Central Asia. Nor can the United States easily move on to push for disarmament, if not regime-change, in Iran and North Korea. As in 2002 under President Bush, the Trump administration is nevertheless redoubling its efforts to compel radical change, posing major risks for global order.
Fifteen years ago, in September 2002, Oxford Research Group published a substantial briefing reflecting on the first year of the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban and arguing that there was a risk of a lengthy conflict which required a different approach to security. Much of the analysis was based on Scilla Elworthy’s work drawing together and extending the approaches being developed by many groups on new thinking on conflict prevention, especially in the face of extreme movements, but the briefing started by reviewing the events since 9/11.
At that time, there was some optimism in Western security circles that the shock of the 9/11 atrocities was receding, and the initial fear that Western states were losing control was less dominant. Indeed, the collapse of the Taliban regime and the suppression of the al-Qaida movement were allowing the Bush administration to move rapidly towards regime termination in Iraq – the first step in controlling the “Axis of Evil”. That term had been put forward eight months earlier in Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address and referred to those states intent on supporting terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction, the lead members of the “axis” being Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
The overall perception in Washington was that the much-lauded Project for the New American Century was very much back on track. The United States would lead the world towards the US model of neoliberal free market democracy which was the one true way forward. Fifteen years later the Trump administration is more concerned with status than leadership, with Trump’s insistence on the centrality of “making America great again”. However, his recent declaration that the war with the so-called Islamic State (IS) has been won and that new forms of warfare show every sign of success does bear striking similarities to the situation in the closing months of 2002.
This briefing therefore looks back to that period in making a preliminary assessment of where we are now. Is the war with IS really over, are new forms of warfare effective, has the attitude to the “Axis of Evil” changed, especially in the case of Iran and North Korea, and is there still a need to consider other approaches to security?
In assessing the state of the war in Afghanistan and al-Qaida, The ‘War on Terrorism’: 12-month audit and future strategy options, (ORG, September 2002) argued that the war on terror had:
Failed to destroy the al-Qaida organisation or apprehend its leaders;
Made it more difficult to counter al-Qaida by dispersing it across many countries;
Provided an excuse to governments to undertake military action in Iraq in pursuit of unrelated goals;
Made the world a more dangerous place than a year earlier.
The report also:
Showed the real human and geopolitical cost of a military attack on Iraq;
Put the case for a major shift in policy;
Discussed what else could be done - concrete, costed alternative strategies for a real investment in regional and global security.
That was hardly the view of the leadership of the states involved in the war at the time, but events have largely supported that analysis, given that the war in Afghanistan continues, offshoots of al-Qaida remain active and the war in Iraq has had disastrous consequences, as has the Western involvement in the termination of the Gaddafi regime in Libya.
The Current State of the War
The past fifteen years have seen a progressive transition in Western military policy, which has moved away from deploying tens of thousands of troops to engage in direct warfare against paramilitary opponents towards warfare conducted by remote control with an emphasis on air power, including extensive use of armed drones, Special Forces and private military contractors. The three-year war against IS has reportedly killed over 60,000 IS supporters with, according to Pentagon published estimates, fewer than 500 civilians killed in Iraq. A handful of Western military have been killed, mostly in accidents and mishaps, and while there have been substantial casualties among Iraqi, Kurdish and other forces fighting IS under the cover of Western air power, the impression is given in Western countries that this has largely been a cost-free war and therefore demonstrates clearly the way ahead.
It is certainly the case that the IS movement has lost control of its proclaimed “caliphate”, which claimed, at peak, to have a population of six million spread across northern Syria and Iraq. However, there are already early indications that the movement in these countries is returning to its insurgent origins. Elsewhere, the United States is heavily involved in combat in numerous states with extreme paramilitary groups variously linked with al-Qaida and IS. Yemen, Somalia, Libya and the Philippines are the most obvious; Niger is but the most newsworthy recent example of much wider mission creep. It is also facing a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US Air Force is on target in 2017 to deliver three times as many bombs and missiles as last year.
The intensity of operations continues and in the past few days alone military sources have reported air attacks in Somalia that killed more than a hundred al-Shabab paramilitaries, more air strikes in Yemen against an al-Qaida linked group, and a US Air Force attack against an IS-linked group in Libya. This is all in addition to numerous raids in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, continued support for the Philippine government in its efforts to restore security in the southern city of Marawi, and operations in Mali, Niger and elsewhere across the Sahel.
Meanwhile, some indication of future plans is given by a report in the Pentagon’s house journal the Stars and Stripes that the Department of Defence “wants to pump $143 million into upgrades at [Muwaffaq Salti] strategic air base in Jordan, more then any other overseas Air Force operation site, as the military moves to expand drone and fighter flights in the region.” This is in addition to the half-billion dollars being spent over the long-term constructing a new bespoke air base for drones in Agadez, Niger, expected to become operational next year. Together with bases in Djibouti, various Gulf States and Bagram in Afghanistan, these may be the key garrisons in the evolving air wars against IS, al-Qaida and whatever comes next.
Consequences of the War
Furthermore, it is now clear that Donald Trump’s policy of devolving more authority to the US military in the wars it fights is having a much wider effect. There are two further substantial issues to examine in assessing the effectiveness of current US policy.
The first is the vexed question of the impact of supposedly “clean” warfare on civilians, since the claim of minimal civilian losses is now being challenged. Groups such as Airwars and Iraq Body Count have long provided data but this is now being corroborated by independent journalists examining evidence on the ground. One major study from Iraq, published last week in the New York Times, supports the view that civilian casualties have been in the many thousands and not the low hundreds. Put bluntly, this war is not clean and the huge casualties being caused will continue to foment bitterness, anger and a determination to strike back.
The second issue is whether there is any justification for Donald Trump’s view that IS has been defeated. When this was made earlier in the month with the end of IS’s control of Raqqa, analysts were already pointing to the growing power of al-Qaida-linked groups in Syria, and the continuing Western operations across much of Africa and western Asia. These have continued and the appalling attack on the al-Rawda mosque in northern Sinai that killed over 300 people is a grim indication of the continuing power of groups linked to IS itself.
In many ways the Sinai attack is representative of the wider state of the conflict. The Sisi regime in Cairo sees repression and control, including extensive use of military force, as the right way to control revolts from the margins. It has imprisoned many thousands of people in the past four years and favours harsh control of dissent in Sinai where marginalisation has long been an issue. Its immediate response to the mosque attack was to order air strikes as the first step in further repression. The regime sees the way forward as one of absolute control, much as, in the wider context, the Trump administration is more intent on military control than its predecessor. Not only is the war not over, but it shows every sign of expansion, with the retreat of IS just one facet of a much wider conflict.
The Rest of the Axis
As the US-led Western military operations continue, there is also the issue of US attitudes to North Korea and Iran. In the case of the former there is a dangerous stalemate. The North Korean regime believes that it is essential for the state to have a useable nuclear arsenal to deter the United States from terminating it, but the Trump administration is adamant that North Korea will not be allowed to have such a force. As the pace of North Korean nuclear developments has accelerated since Donald Trump was elected, it is now probable that it will reach its goal before Trump completes his first term, meaning a worrying increase in the risk of direct military confrontation by 2020. Trump made a largely symbolic gesture to tighten pressure on North Korea on 20 November by relisting it as a State-Sponsor of Terror.
A further concern for many European powers is that the Trump administration does not believe it is in US interests to abide by the agreement with Iran over its nuclear capabilities, even though that agreement is widely viewed across Europe as a notable achievement of the Obama presidency. The two issues together raise substantial concerns that we are moving into an era of greater confrontation over nuclear issues after a period of nearly three decades when Cold War-era nuclear concerns had declined.
Extending the Axis concept to the remaining countries currently listed as State Sponsors of Terror, Syria and Sudan, the implication seems to be that the Trump administration is content with accommodation rather than regime change. Despite the April US missile strikes against the Syrian Arab Air Force, in response to its repeated use of chemical weapons, and the Assad regime’s close relationship with Iran and Hezbollah, Washington will not actively challenge the Assad regime as long as it is aligned against the vestiges of IS and does not resume its nuclear weapons programme. The former condition is likely to expire with the Caliphate in the coming weeks, leaving Washington with a dilemma of how to continue or conclude a war that has greatly strengthened the influence of Iran, Russia and Hezbollah.
On Sudan, the administration has made more decisive movement away from confrontation, lifting two decade-old sanctions in October. This follows Sudan’s decisive realignment away from Iran and towards Saudi Arabia since 2015, when it joined the latter’s coalition fighting in Yemen. Khartoum is also understood to have committed to stop buying weapons from North Korea. Initiated by the Obama administration, the lifting of sanctions on Sudan reflects its intelligence cooperation with Washington and its allies rather than any real improvement in the regime’s appalling treatment of minority peoples and opposition movements. Like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, it is now seen as a friendly autocracy.
In responding to the questions posed at the beginning of this briefing, the answers all seem clear. First, while IS has lost its main territorial base, the war is most certainly not over, the devastating Sinai attack being just one indicator. Second, the new forms of warfare are problematic in that they do cause many civilian casualties and have certainly not brought the overall problem of extreme movements under control. Furthermore, the criticism of little or no public debate or even parliamentary scrutiny over these forms of warfare still exists. Thirdly, the attitude of the United States leadership towards North Korea and Iran is much more hard line than that of its predecessor, and is therefore a potential source of considerable instability.
It follows that there really is a need to consider other approaches to security, many of which were explored in the 2002 briefing. Indeed, it is reasonable to argue that the need is greater than at any time since 9/11, not least with the outlook of the current incumbent of the White House.
Image credit: Spc. Joseph A. Wilson/Wikimedia.
Paul Rogers is Global Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group and Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. His ‘Monthly Global Security Briefings’ are available from our website. His new book Irregular War: ISIS and the New Threats from the Margins will be published by I B Tauris in June 2016. These briefings are circulated free of charge for non-profit use, but please consider making a donation to ORG, if you are able to do so.
Published: 29th October, 2017
Uneasy Alliances: Learning from France’s Libya Policy
Strongmen cannot provide stability in the long-term, the sooner we learn this the sooner we stop perpetuating instability and violence in the places we intervene.
Westminster Round-Up Podcast | June 2019
The Remote Warfare Programme's Liam Walpole and Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen discuss the latest developments in UK defence and security policy.
WarPod Ep #2 | Yemen, Drones and International Law
To discuss a recent German court case regarding drones, the Remote Warfare Programme team are joined by Fiona Nelson of ECCHR and Jennifer Gibson of Reprieve.
PSG Workshop in Jordan
Oliver Ramsbotham and Tony Klug, on behalf of Oxford Research Group, were invited to participated in the workshop of the Palestinian Strategy Group, hosted and organised by ORG’s partner Pal-Think for Strategic Studies.
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Ruling could prove costly to record keepers, plan sponsors
Fred Williams
Arleen Jacobius
HOUSTON — The record-keeping industry and the plan sponsors it serves could be hard hit by a recent federal court ruling in a suit against Enron Corp., even though not a single record keeper was sued in the case.
Costs of doing business could rise, and those costs ultimately would be passed on to 401(k) plan sponsors.
"Where this will hit now is that every custodial trustee and record keeper will have to enrich the oversight process to satisfy the peripheral duties of a directed trustee — because they may now have more exposure than they thought," said an ERISA attorney, who wished to remain anonymous.
"That will cost more, and record-keeping costs will skyrocket. There will be more angst and it will cost them a lot more to be able to handle a situation that happens once in a lifetime."
Those fees could run more than $100,000 per year, one record-keeping executive, who also asked not to be named, said.
U.S. court opinion
At issue is a 124-page, Sept. 30 opinion by Melinda Harmon, U.S. District Court judge for the southern district of Texas.
The judge said participants in Enron's $2.1 billion 401(k) plan could sue Northern Trust Co., Chicago, Enron's trustee and record keeper. Attorneys for Northern Trust had asked the court to dismiss claims against it on grounds it was a directed trustee and had no discretion over Enron plan investments, but Judge Harmon refused. Northern will not appeal.
The suit claims Northern and other defendants breached their fiduciary duties by proceeding with a blackout while converting to a new record keeper and trustee.
At the time, Enron's stock price was tanking, but because of the blackout, participants couldn't unload any shares. About 60% of the 401(k) plan was in Enron stock. The suit contends the defendants, aware of the volatility of Enron's stock, should have delayed the blackout.
Most record keepers bundle trustee, custodial and investment services in an effort to attract more plan sponsors to a one-stop shop.
Most firms prefer to be directed trustees instead of discretionary trustees because they are held to a lower degree of fiduciary responsibility. Directed trustees follow the orders of the plan's fiduciaries, legal experts say. Plan sponsors like hiring directed trustees because the fee is smaller than it would be for a trustee that uses discretion, and therefore, is held to higher standards of fiduciary responsibility.
Sky-high costs
The cost of bundled record-keeping/trustee services could go sky high if all trustees are held to those higher standards, experts say.
"For the industry, it's horrible," said Mark Weisberg, partner in the ERISA group of Chicago law firm of Katten Muchin Zavis & Rosenman. "I think many plans want a directed trustee. They want to pay as little as possible."
Mr. Weisberg said small- and midsized plan sponsors will be most affected because they don't have the leverage or the money to move away from bundling to hire separate record keepers and trustees.
"We'll absolutely see fees going up," he said.
Some experts believe it's too early to say what effect, if any, the Northern Trust-Enron issue will have on the cost of doing business in the 401(k) market. "All the court is saying is that the facts are such they want to pursue it. It's a little too early to get excited," said Ed Ferrigno, vice president of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America, Chicago.
"It would be a significant change if they do change the treatment of a directed trustee," he said.
The decision to let participants sue Northern also suggests that record keepers are not necessarily protected by arguing that they are only directed trustees and not responsible, since they only follow orders.
"Now," said one attorney who asked not to be named, "there are literally tens of thousands of compliance officers out there licking their chops."
This situation is very similar to the IBM Corp. cash balance ruling, the attorney said. The case hasn't yet been fully adjudicated but the ruling is "having massive impact on cash balance implementation and administration," he said.
The decision would result in record keepers "tightening up their administrative processes and compliance issues to include reviewing of plan investment options," the attorney said. The Houston decision "is an unwelcome one for directed trustees," said Stephen M. Saxon, an attorney for the SPARK Institute, the Washington-based legislative and educational arm of the Society of Professional Administrators and Recordkeepers.
Mr. Saxon was critical of the Houston judge's decision. He said Judge Harmon "believes Northern Trust had the power to postpone the (Enron) plan lockdown, or conversion period. The idea that a terminated service provider has the ability to postpone its own termination … is almost laughable. It borders on the incredible," he said. "This will send tremors through the retirement services industry.
"If the decision holds up, a custodian could be considered a fiduciary and, even though they are following direction of the plan sponsor, directed trustees would be fiduciaries," Mr. Saxon said. "We are very concerned about it, you can bet. If record keepers become fiduciaries, that makes us very nervous."
Mr. Saxon said there is "no question" that the potential risk now faced by directed trustees has increased as a result of the Houston decision.
"The crystal ball is very cloudy right now, but it could affect the way we do business. Directed trustees don't get paid to assume this level of risk and evaluating investments." If the ruling stands, he said, "it's time to think about getting out of the business."
Joseph Ready, senior vice president of Wachovia Retirement Services, Charlotte, N.C., which has about $23 billion in defined contribution record-keeping assets, said officials there "are still evaluating the (Enron) decision."
‘Raises concerns'
He said directed trustees "have some responsibility … but … where do you draw the line? Now people are analyzing their options to see if directed trustees may not be the safe haven. At a minimum they will be paying more attention and providing more proactive input (regarding plan investments)."
An official at one of the largest 401(k) record-keeping firms said the Houston decision "raises concerns" for directed trustees and said that record-keeping and administrative costs will rise regardless of the ultimate outcome of the Enron case. He said "it is too late to put the issue back in the bottle" and that directed trustees must beef up investment oversight to remain competitive.
"What this court seems to be saying is that in the directed trustee, there exists some fiduciary responsibility to look at the underlying assets and render an opinion if they are appropriate," he said. "This is just one court but the (Department of Labor) also seems to be trying to expand the role of directed trustees. They said (in a brief in the Enron case) that directed trustees do not relinquish all their fiduciary responsibility in these plans."
Joe Walshe, principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers HR Services, New York, advised a "wait-and-see" approach to the Houston opinion — at least until the appeals process is completed — "because of the wide ramifications for directed trustees."
Mr. Walshe said directed trustees have some fiduciary involvement in the plans they serve, "but, traditionally, the scope of the liability has been limited to what they are charged to do; they are fiduciaries but they don't have discretion (with regard to investments). The scope (of their fiduciary duties) has traditionally been very narrow. … This case introduces the possibility of much broader scope of fiduciary concerns. It opens a lot of questions such as how far does that scope extend and what is the range of responsibility."
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El documento Saldaña
The Saldaña File
Original title: El documento Saldaña
Pedro de Paz
Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction
Miguel Cortés, an adventurer who survives by accepting any kind of job on the limits of legality, receives a strange proposal: to find and recover an old document written by a successful businessman from the beginning of the last century. The document contains the key to an artistic treasure of incalculable value. The woman who was holding it has been brutally murdered and the Saldaña File has now mysteriously disappeared. Attracted by the offer of a generous reward, Cortés accepts the mission that will introduce him into a strange world of mirrors in which nothing is as it seems and which will eventually take him close to a fabulous artistic treasure that disappeared during the chaotic beginnings of the Spanish Civil War and was thought lost forever: an artistic legacy for which a surprising amount of people are willing to kill. Alongside Miguel Cortés, Lola, an expert in art and the companion of the murdered woman, will become his most important ally during this dangerous and thrilling adventure.
A fascinating adventure story about the search for a hidden treasure vanished in the bowels of old Madrid.
“Bold, absorbing and disquieting, this novel aims to take the Spanish thriller to a new level ... and it does so successfully”, LORENZO SILVA
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Fight to Keep EPA’s Clean Power Plan Alive Intensifies in Federal Court
A coalition of 24 states and localities have urged a federal court reviewing the merits of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Power Plan to stall the agency’s recent motion to suspend a case challenging the controversial rule.
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (No. 15-1363) is arguably the most important set of environmental cases in nearly a decade. For the U.S. power sector, the stakes are particularly high. The sector has grappled with uncertainty about the Clean Power Plan’s future since the Supreme Court issued a stay of the rule on February 9, 2016.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case before an en banc panel on merits of the EPA’s controversial rule on September 27, 2016.
Twenty-seven states are challenging the legality of the rule finalized by the EPA under the Obama administration. They are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Meanwhile, 17 states—California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington—and the District of Columbia are supporting the Clean Power Plan in the merits litigation. A number of power companies are also participating as intervenors, including Calpine, Pacific Gas & Electric, NextEra, and Southern California Edison Co.
A Doomed Rule?
President Donald Trump, who vowed to decimate the rule on the campaign trail, on March 28 signed the “Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth” executive order, rescinding a substantial number of key provisions outlined by the previous administration’s climate agenda and directing a review of some rules that may place costly burdens on coal generators, coal miners, and oil and gas producers. A key measure calls on the EPA to begin a reevaluation of the Clean Power Plan and the New Source Performance Standards.
Hours after Trump signed the executive order, the EPA announced it had initiated a review of the rule. Nearly as immediately, the Justice Department asked the D.C. Circuit to hold the consolidated cases in abeyance until the EPA can fully review the rule and respond to the president’s executive order. Justice Department lawyers argued that “such abeyance will promote judicial economy by avoiding unnecessary adjudication and will support the integrity of the administrative process.”
On March 31, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt sent a “guidance” letter notifying state governors that they are not obligated to spend resources to comply with the Clean Power Plan while it is stayed by the Supreme Court.
States: Court Ruling Necessary, Not Just for Clean Power Plan
But on April 5, the 17 states, the District of Columbia, and other localities that support the EPA’s rule filed a motion to hold the EPA’s proceeding in abeyance. “EPA fails to justify its unprecedented request for an open-ended abeyance at this late stage of litigation: more than six months after the en banc Court heard a full day of oral argument,” the motion argues.
“This case is ripe for decision now, and nothing that EPA has proposed to do obviates the need for this Court’s review. To the contrary, a decision from this Court will resolve critical live disputes over the scope of the Clean Air Act that will not only determine the enforcement of the Clean Power Plan, but also affect any reconsideration or revision of the Rule that EPA may undertake.”
The court’s ruling is necessary to define boundaries and resolve legal issues that would “almost certainly arise” if the EPA acts to rescind or revise the rule, the coalition said. That includes the EPA’s longstanding interpretation that it can regulate different pollutants from the same source under Section 111 (d) and Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. The court would also resolve the legal dispute of whether the EPA can consider generation shifting in determining the best system of emission reduction, and if generation shifting is limited to “inside-the-fenceline” measures, it added.
Indefinitely deferring a decision on the case would also waste substantial resources already expended on the litigation by all parties, including the court, the motion says. “Moreover, granting EPA’s motion would prejudice State Intervenors’ longstanding and compelling interest in addressing the largest sources of pollution that is causing climate-change harms now.”
In a statement on April 5, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that the law was clear that the EPA is obligated to limit carbon pollution from power plants. “In order to repeal Obama-era protections, the Trump Administration must replace those protections, as well—and we know how well repeal-and-replace went the first time around.”
Schneiderman noted that if the court grants abeyance of the case requested by the EPA, litigation on the rule would be stayed for years.
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Tri-State announces transformative Responsible Energy Plan
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Woodhill Prison Invests in Mental Health Training to Reduce Suicides
HMP Woodhill is a category A men’s prison in Milton Keynes. Operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service, it has an operational capacity of 819, and serves local Crown and Magistrates’ courts. It is one of eight high-security jails in England and Wales, and some inmates are held in a Close Supervision Centre.
“Staggering” Suicide Rate Reduced by Training, Says Governor
The governor at Woodhill Prison has said that focusing on mental health training has helped to reduce suicides among inmates, it was reported in November, 2018. 20 men have taken their own lives at the jail since 2011 – a suicide rate which HM Inspectorate of Prisons called “staggering” in a damning report in June. There has been one death since December 2016, and governor Nicola Marfleet said an increase in staff and the introduction of a “range of training” has helped to turn the prison around. She said: “We encourage our prison officers to play pool with the men because that builds up easy banter, that relationship that gives me hope when somebody is in crisis and needs help, they will come and say. I think there will always be risk of another death but one of the things we are doing is making sure that we can say we have done the best that we are able to do.”
Relatives of Inmate Who Took His Own Life at Woodhill Prison to Receive Damages
The government will pay damages to the family of a man who took his own life while serving a sentence at Woodhill Prison. Ian Brown was found dead in his cell in July 2015. His mother and sister sued the prison governor and the Ministry of Justice, seeking damages under the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to life. A settlement of £17,500 was approved at the High Court, in London.
Inmates at Woodhill Prison Protested 64 Times Last Year
Woodhill Prison inmates protested 64 times from 2017-18, according to figures published by the Prison and Probation Service. There were 6,719 protests in 2017-18 in prisons across England and Wales – a 19% rise on the previous year. At Woodhill Prison, there were five incidents when prisoners barricaded themselves in their cells, blocked doors or prevented staff from accessing areas in the prison. There were four hostage situations, involving inmates holding one or more people against their will. The Howard League for Penal Reform said protesting behaviour was a “sign of desperation”.
Boredom Blamed for Rise in Violence and Self-Harm at Woodhill Prison
“High levels of boredom” were blamed for a rise in violence and self-harm at Woodhill Prison, in a report published in September 2018. Violent incidents more than doubled from 246 in 2016 to 540 in 2017 – and there had already been 158 in the first five months of 2018. Self-harm incidents rose from 430 in 2016 to 663 in 2017. Inspectors at the jail said its shortage problems had “chronic” consequences, including “severe regime restrictions”. Inspectors called the prison’s lack of a full regime for inmates an “unacceptable erosion of standards”. The report said: “The subsequent boredom and isolation increases the chances of disorder, reduces the opportunities for rehabilitation and can only increase the rate of reoffending.”
Woodhill Prison Contact Details
The address is Tattenhoe Street, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK4 4DA. The phone number is 01908 722 000. The governor is Nicola Marfleet.
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Groups Sue to Halt Oil, Gas Leases in Northern Arizona
Free Summer Meals Program Aims to Prevent Academic Slide
Colorado Health Centers Face Double Funding Crisis
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner has co-sponsored legislation that would restore funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, which expired last Saturday. (Getty Images)
DENVER – The new budget passed by the U.S. House yesterday could add insult to injury for healthcare providers.
Critics say the measure's tax cuts - that primarily benefit the wealthy and large corporations - would require over $470 billion in cuts to Medicare and at least a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the lifeline of the nation's safety-net health facilities. This comes as Congress also has allowed funding for critical health programs to expire.
Polly Anderson, vice president of strategy and financing for the Colorado Community Health Network, says health centers in Colorado and across the country have "fallen off the cliff."
"We call it the primary-care funding cliff because 70 percent of health-center federal funding, the CHIP program, and the National Health Services Corps all expired on September 30 due to Congress' inability to act," she explains.
Anderson says Colorado's funding reserves for CHIP could last through January, but she notes some states will likely to be unable to cover pregnant women and children in a matter of weeks. A measure co-sponsored by both Colorado senators to fund CHIP cleared a committee on Wednesday. A bill to fund community health centers in the House is co-sponsored by all but one member of the Colorado delegation.
According to Anderson, the funding crisis isn't only about the viability of health centers and federal programs - it's about the health of the communities the programs serve.
"We're talking about children, and individuals who often don't make enough to purchase health insurance on their own," she says. "So, it's really Colorado's working families and working individuals who will be most dramatically impacted if these programs aren't reauthorized."
She notes about 75,000 children and at least 80 pregnant women in Colorado could be affected if Congress can't pass legislation that includes funding for CHIP. More than 90 percent of patients who use community health centers for preventive care, vision and dental services and more are living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
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Chris Johnstone
Czech Cabinet backs proposed new gun law
A proposed new law on gun ownership was approved by the Czech Cabinet on Wednesday.
The proposal aims to fit in with new European Union demands. It introduces two new categories for firearms for which permits will be needed, historic guns and air guns, with the length of permits expected to be shortened compared with the current practice.
The number of bullets or cartridges that can be kept with weapons will also be curbed.
The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) has said that it will oppose the proposed change which has to be approved by parliament.
Jiří Menzel to be honoured at Berlin film festival
Czech film director Jiří Menzel is to be honoured at this year’s Berlin Film Festival this year.
Menzel is to be given the Berlinale’s Camera Berlinale award for his contribution to comedy and the Czech New Wave.
The film ‘The Interpreter,’ in which he acts, will also be given its worldwide premiere at the festival. Past winners of the award have included Clint Eastwood and Sydney Pollack.
Czech EU commissioner scolded for Stork’s Nest comments
The Czech Republic’s EU Commissioner Věra Jourová has been wrapped over the knuckles by the European Union’s Ombudswoman.
She said that in radio interview over the so-called Stork’s Nest affair and on other occasions Jourová made comments which were inappropriate with her post as a European Commissioner and she would have been wiser not to have commented according to Emily O’ Reilly.
The Stork’s Nest affair focuses on alleged abuse of EU subsidies by ANO leader and outgoing Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš. Jourová was an ANO nominated minister before being appointed Czech commissioner.
Czech fine on broadcaster for church fashion tips in heatwave cancelled
The Czech Constitutional Court has cancelled a 200,000 crown fine imposed on commercial broadcaster, Nova, for screening a programme with fashion recommendations for what and what not to wear in church on a very hot day.
The fine was originally imposed by the state Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting and had been confirmed by a previous court ruling.
The Constitutional Court said it believed the fashion recommendations were covered by freedom of expression and could be regarded as ‘infotainment‘.
The original broadcast was screened in 2012 during a heatwave.
Czech Olympic chief Kejval elected to International Olympic Committee
The president of the Czech Olympic Committee, Jiří Kejval, has been elected to the International Olympic Committee. The vote took place in Pyeongchang, where the 2018 Winter Olympics get underway on Friday. Mr. Kejval, who is 50, is the seventh representative of Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic elected to the IOC.
The COC chief, a former international rower, had been nominated for the post ahead of a similar vote in September. However, Mr. Kejval withdrew his candidature at the last moment after an anonymous letter concerning the abuse of sports grants in the Czech Republic was sent to the IOC.
Two Czechs injured in Taiwan earthquake
Two Czechs were hurt in an earthquake in Taiwan on Tuesday. The man and woman were staying at a hotel in the city of Hualien, which is near the epicentre of the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in the East China Sea.
The pair’s injuries were light and they did not have to be kept in hospital. They are in contact with their families, a representative of the Czech Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan’s capital Taipei told the Czech News Agency.
Over 200 people were hurt in the earthquake, which killed at least four.
Zentiva set for sale in fall
One of the Czech Republic’s biggest pharmaceutical groups, Zentiva, should learn in the third quarter who its new owner is.
French group Sanofi confirmed that timetable for the sale of its European generic drugs businesses, including Zentiva, on Wednesday.
A series of investment groups as well as one pharmaceutical company are said to be interested in bidding.
AP tips Czechs to win four medals at Winter Olympics
Czechs are tipped to pick up four medals at the Winter Olympics being staged in South Korea by the news agency Associated Press.
It sees snow boarder Ester Ledecká winning gold with speed skater Martina Sábliková winning silver in the 5000 metres event. Czech biathlon competitors are also expected to win medals.
In 2014, the Czechs won eight medals of which two were gold and four silver.
The weather on Thursday will be cloudy with some sunny intervals. Snow could fall in the centre of the country. Top temperatures will range between minus one and two degrees Celsius.
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Merkel calls Sudeten German expulsion “immoral”, drawing Czech ire
Brian Kenety, Till Janzer
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn condemnation from both the Czech president and prime minister for a speech she delivered on World Refugee Day in which she said there was “no moral or political justification” for Czechoslovakia’s post-war expulsion of some 3 million ethnic Germans.
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Angela Merkel, photo: ČTK/AP/Markus Schreiber Angela Merkel’s remarks on Wednesday came ahead of a series of meetings, summits and “mini-summits” of EU leaders in Brussels and regional capitals in the coming days on the highly contentious issue of how to reform the bloc’s migration and asylum policy while protecting its borders.
Prime Minister-designate Andrej Babiš (ANO) told journalists that Merkel’s comments would serve only to stir up “old wounds” precisely when the EU needed to present a united front to fight illegal migration, which is the centrepiece of his current foreign policy agenda.
“I reject this characterisation – especially when we recall the horrors of Heydrich, Lidice, Ležáky and the killing of our paratroopers. I have the feeling that there is some internal political struggle in Germany now, and it is very unfortunate that old wounds are opening because of it.”
Babiš was referring to two Czech villages that were wiped off the map by the Nazis: Lidice, in retaliation for the assassination in 1942 of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich, known as “the butcher of Prague”, by Czech and Slovak paratroopers; and Ležáky which was targeted for harbouring a resistance group. In both cases, innocent men, women and children were summarily executed or sent to extermination camps.
Andrej Babiš, photo: ČTK/Krumphanzl Michal Twenty-one years ago, the leaders of the Czech Republic and Germany signed a declaration aimed at improving bilateral relations and drawing a line under the past. In that declaration of August 1997, the German side took full responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi regime and their consequences – as did Merkel in her remarks on Wednesday – while the Czechs expressed regret over expulsion and the deaths and suffering of innocents that came of it.
President Miloš Zeman, who has long justified the expulsion of Sudeten Germans, arguing they were a disloyal “fifth column”, said through a spokesman that he “strongly rejected” Merkel’s view. The Potsdam Conference 1945, he said, offered political justification for the expulsion, as the Allies decided upon and legitimized it there.
In fact, Czechoslovak leaders had discussed plans for an expulsion already in 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed much of the country’s borderlands, and throughout the war, Charles University history professor Tomáš Dvořák told Radio Prague in an earlier interview.
“We know the first plan to deport part of the so-called Sudetenland population was already in place at the time of the Munich Agreement crisis. At that time, the Czechoslovak government, or President Beneš, also considered ceding some territory and thus part of the German population. During the Second World War, plans gradually changed. As the Czechoslovak government-in-exile’s position grew stronger, resettlement plans became bigger, more comprehensive. In the end, they called to resettle Czechoslovakia’s entire German population.”
Expulsion of Sudeten Germans, photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1985-021-09 / CC-BY-SA In the first few months after the Second World War ended, so-called “wild” expulsions were orchestrated by vigilante groups throughout Czechoslovakia. Thousands of German civilians were murdered during the expulsion while countless more refugees died from hunger and illness.
The regular transfer of ethnic nationals among nations, authorized according to the Potsdam Conference, proceeded from 25 January 1946 until October 1946. The post-war Beneš Decrees both sanctioned the expulsion of Sudeten Germans, as well as Hungarians and the confiscation of their property.
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House Radio from Colombia
In the early 1980s Chicago DJs were playing various styles of electronic dance music. By 1985 there was a name for these locally produced tracks: House music. House music is a blend of various music styles such as Disco, Electro, Soul and Dance. It didn’t last long before subgenres of house emerged. The house music didn’t stay in Chicago because house music quickly spread to other cities in the United States like Detroit and New York City. In the late 1980s house music also became popular in the European cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin and London. The name house music is said to have originated from a Chicago club called The Warehouses. House music became really mainstream in the early 1990s and various house track went to the top of the charts in the United States but also in Europe. Since then house music has always been around in the top of the charts. In the 2000s house music witnessed great commercial success thanks to acts such as Fedde le Grand and Deadmau5. The Dutch DJ Fedde le Grand is widely in the world known for his track Put Your Hands Up For Detroit. The track reached in several countries the top of the charts. In the 2010s multiple new sounds in house music were developed by House DJs. The Swedish House Mafia created a Swedish progressive sound and Dutch DJs such as Laidback Luke and Chuckie developed the concept of Dirty Dutch. In order to get more commercial success various pop artists produced tracks together with House DJs. A great example of this is Rihanna’s We Found Love feat DJ Calvin Harris. In the early 2010s Deep House music also became very popular in Europe. Artists such as Duke Dumont reached in several countries the top of the charts with their Deep House tracks.
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Not all about the money – other remedies for unfair dismissal
28th May 2013 /in News /by Nicola Brown
When employees submit their claim form to the Employment Tribunal they have the opportunity to state what remedy they are seeking. For unfair dismissal claims, there are three options: reinstatement, re-engagement or compensation. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of claimants tick the box for compensation only. However, there are some cases where the employee wants to go back to work for their former employer, and despite the fact that it is relatively uncommon, Tribunal judges are trained to see reinstatement (and re-engagement) as the primary remedy for unfair dismissal.
Reinstatement is where the employee is returned to the role they were dismissed from, and re-engagement is where the employee is placed in a different role with the employer. For more information on reinstatement and re-engagement please see our previous article here.
In the case of Oasis Community Learning v Wolff (2012), Mr Wolff (a teacher) sought re-engagement following his successful unfair dismissal claim. His former employer was a large organisation with many different schools. The Employment Tribunal granted him re-engagement, albeit they specified that he was to be re-engaged at a different school in a different part of the country. This is because Mr Wolff had made allegations of misconduct against his employer as an institution and members of the HR department, but they did not feel this would prevent him being able to work at a different part of the employer’s organisation.
The employer appealed the decision and the matter was considered by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). The EAT held that in the particular circumstances of the case, the Employment Tribunal had not made any error in ordering for re-engagement at a different school in a different part of the country. The EAT said that in the case, the fact that Mr Wolff had made serious allegations against his colleagues at one workplace would not have an impact on his relationships at a different workplace.
The decision presents a cautionary tale for employers; not all unfair dismissal claims end in financial compensation only and other remedies can be ordered by the Employment Tribunal. However, we don’t know the rest of the story yet – did Mr Wolff actually end up going back? Although the Tribunal have the power to make an order for reinstatement or re-engagement, they don’t have the power to force an employer to comply. If an employer refused to take the employee back, they could be liable for an additional award (as detailed in our article here) as well as compensation for unfair dismissal, but as the maximum additional award is £23,400 there may be some situations where an employer would prefer to pay the penalty rather than taking back the employee.
If you would like to talk through a situation you are dealing with, or if you need advice on any aspect of employment law, please contact any member of the Pure Employment Law team (01243 836840 or [email protected]).
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Douglas Sutherland was appointed Chairman on 18 May 2010. Douglas was Chief Financial Officer of Skype during its acquisition by eBay and was also Chief Financial Officer at Secure Wave during its acquisition by PatchLink. Prior to this, Douglas was an Arthur Andersen Partner with international management responsibilities. He has served as a director of companies in multiple jurisdictions and was the founding Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg. Douglas is currently also a Director of Median Gruppe S.à r.l. and Socrates Health Solutions Inc.
Chief Executive Officer and founder, Mark Dixon is one of Europe’s best known entrepreneurs. Since founding Regus in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, he has achieved a formidable reputation for leadership and innovation. Prior to Regus he established businesses in the retail and wholesale food industry. A recipient of several awards for enterprise, Mark has revolutionised the way business approaches its property needs with his vision of the future of work.
Dominik de Daniel
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Dominik de Daniel joined Regus on 1 November 2015 as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Regus Dominik served for over 9 years as the Chief Financial Officer of Adecco Group, the world leading provider of Human Resource Solutions; Dominik was also the Adecco Group’s Head of Global Solutions and was responsible for global Information Management and for Adecco Group’s activity in China. Dominik previously held the CFO position at DIS AG, the market leader in professional staffing in Germany, before the company was ultimately acquired by Adecco Group.
Lance Brown
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Lance Browne was appointed Non-Executive Director of Regus on 27 August 2008, became Senior Independent Director on 18 May 2010 and Chairman of the Nomination Committee on 27 September 2012. Lance was previously CEO then Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Ltd, Non-Executive Director of IMI plc, Senior Advisor to the City of London, Chairman of China Goldmines plc, and Director of Business Development at Powergen International. Lance is Chairman of Travelex (China), and a WS Atkins International Advisory Board member.
Elmar Heggen
Elmar Heggen was appointed Non-Executive Director of Regus on 1 June 2010 and was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee on 27 September 2012. Elmar has extensive management experience. Since 2006 he has been the Chief Financial Officer, Head of the Corporate Centre and a Member of the Executive Committee of the RTL Group, the leading European entertainment network. Joining the RTL Group in 2000 he has previously held the positions of Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions and Vice President of Strategy and Controlling. Prior to joining RTL, Elmar was Vice President & General Manager of Felix Schoeller Digital Imaging in the UK. Elmar is a Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Committee of the RTL Group. He is also a Board Member of Atresmedia (Spain) and Metropole television (France) and Chairman of the Broadcast Centre Europe SA.
Florence Pierre
Florence Pierre was appointed Non-Executive Director of Regus on 21 May 2013. She currently shares her time between directorships, consulting and venture investments in companies providing innovative and internet services. She has over 30 years of international corporate finance practice, holding senior positions at BNP, Financière Rothschild, Degroof Corporate Finance and her own M&A advisory boutique. Florence has an international perspective having worked in Chicago, New York, Paris and Brussels. She has also taught economic and finance, published a number of books and articles on valuation, and has been a member of several French entrepreneurship and innovation committees, both governmental and professional. Florence was a Director at 3i Infrastructure plc from 2010 to 2013 and is a Director at ESL Network, the French leading strategic advisory in economic intelligence.
François Pauly
François Pauly was appointed Non-Executive Director of Regus on 19 May 2015. François has over 30 years of management experience in the banking sector. Until October 2014 François served as Chief Executive and Chairman of the Management Board of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (“BIL”). Previous management experience includes Executive appointments at BIP Investment Partners S.A., Dexia Group and at Sal. Oppenheimer jr. & Cie. S.C.A. François serves as the Senior Advisory Partner at Castik Capital Partners and as non-Executive Director of Group la Luxembourgeoise SA, BIP Investment Partners SA, M&C S.p.A and Cobepa SA. François also serves on the Boards of several charitable organisations.
Nina Henderson
Nina Henderson was appointed to the board on 20 May 2014. She is currently a non-executive Director of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC and Director of CNO Financial Group (Bankers Life, Washington National and Colonial Penn insurance companies). Nina is also Managing Partner of Henderson Advisory which provides consumer industry evaluations to investment firms. During her thirty year career with Bestfoods and its predecessor company, CPC International, she held a number of international and North American general management and executive marketing positions, including Vice President of Bestfoods and President of Bestfoods Grocery. Nina has also served as a Director of numerous companies in diverse industries including AXA Financial Inc, Royal Dutch Shell plc., Del Monte Food Company and Pactiv Corporation. Nina is a Trustee of Drexel University where she holds a Bachelor of Science with honours and received the 2010 AJ Drexel Distinguished Alumni Award. She is also a Director of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and the Foreign Policy Association.
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New Report Shines Light on Groundbreaking Catalan Cooperative
By Ruby Irene Pratka, originally published by Shareable
An intriguing blueprint for a post-capitalist world is gradually being built in a converted spa in Barcelona, Spain. Founded by the Catalan dissenter Enric Duran, who made headlines in 2008 after “borrowing” thousands of Euros from Spanish banks and donating it to social causes, the Catalan Integral Cooperative is a wide-ranging operation which encompasses diverse services: a financial co-op, a food pantry, a legal-aid desk, an open-source tool workshop, and a bed-and-breakfast for tourists in a medieval watchtower. It has developed its own local exchange currency — the eco — and launched a cooperative credit mechanism for funding social projects. A readable and eye-opening new report commissioned by the P2P Foundation and the Robin Hood Coop for Commons Transition summarizes the co-op’s numerous projects and wide-ranging ambitions.
The goal of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (“Integral” is a Spanish word best translated as “holistic”) is to build an anti-capitalist cooperative structure not just for the benefit of its own fee-paying members, but for the Commons as a whole.
“The main objective of the CIC is nothing less than to build an alternative economy in Catalonia capable of satisfying the needs of the local community more effectively than the existing system, thereby creating the conditions for the transition to a post-capitalist mode of organization of social and economic life. … It is the conviction of the CIC that the goods required for satisfying the basic needs of society should be freely accessible social goods, rather than commodities,” the author George Dafermos writes.
Like many co-ops, the CIC resists hierarchical organization; about a dozen committees manage its day-to-day activities. The co-op itself has more than 2,000 members, whose levels of involvement vary from paid committee members to freelancers (auto-ocupados), to the many subscribers to the CIC’s local product exchange networks. The product exchanges provide local farmers and other producers with a market and allow the cooperative to fund its operations with a small percentage from each sale.
The cooperative was formed seven years ago and since then has enjoyed rapid growth. Dafermos spent two months in 2016 studying the CIC, its projects and its aspirations. “It’s an amazing and crazy thing, unlike anything I’ve ever seen before,” he says. “On paper, it doesn’t really exist, but at the same time, it creates legal entities which allow people, mostly young professionals, to do their own thing. It’s a highly ideological co-op meeting practical needs.” In other words, the CIC thinks globally and acts locally.
The nerve center of the CIC is AureaSocial, a converted spa in downtown Barcelona which serves as a co-working and workshop space and houses a CIC-run library and food pantry in addition to headquarters. Its daughter projects, including the bed-and-breakfast (called SOM Pujarnol), a tool lab (maCUS), and a self-managed cooperative community, are spread across Catalonia, attracting the interest of increasing numbers of potential members at a key time in history. The report describes it as a “network of projects” that has a long-term aim of creating a fairer world.
“Young people are seeing less hope now than in the past…if you do get a job in the corporate structure, it’s not appealing,” Dafermos says. “People want to experiment, and that’s why we’re seeing the re-emergence of co-ops in general, and of this one in particular.”
To learn more about the CIC’s activities, read the report here.
Tags: co-operatives, new economy, sharing economy, the commons
A Bold Agenda for Treating Land as a Commons
Ruby Irene Pratka
Ruby Irene Pratka is a freelance wordsmith based in Montreal... for now. She speaks English, French, Russian, and some Haitian Creole. Her work has taken her around her adoptive province of Quebec as well as to more than 30 countries. Her work has appeared in Vice, Huffington Post, Xtra, Life in Québec Magazine, and Ricochet as...
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Citizen-Led Community Center Springs to Life in Montreal
The Power of Cooperative Economics
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Le Coop Verte Transforms Run-Down Historic Site in Quebec Into Vibrant Hostel
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Jiang Wen and Zhou Yun Brand Ambassadors for Greater China
Achieve classics with maestro, reflect beauty with jasmine
Shanghai, China – August 31st, 2011 – To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the RAYMOND WEIL brand, Mr. Heinrich Schellenberg, Consulate General of Switzerland in Shanghai, Mr. Olivier Bernheim, President and CEO of RAYMOND WEIL, Mr. Elie Bernheim, Vice president of RAYMOND WEIL, Mr. Helmuth Hennig, Group Managing Director of Jebsen & Co. Ltd and Mark Bishop, Group Director of Jebsen & Co. Ltd, attended the “RAYMOND WEIL New Advertising Inauguration & jasmine Collection Launch Ceremony”. The event, which took place in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Pudong, Shanghai, also announced the appointment of Mr. Jiang Wen and Ms. Zhou Yun as Brand Ambassadors for Greater China, together with the launches of the new jasmine collection and of the new model from the now famous maestro collection – the maestro Phase de Lune.
The grand ball room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel had been decorated as a concert hall for this big occasion. Performed as a concert, the whole event was composed of three chapters. The first one, “Life of the Brand” was a homage to the RAYMOND WEIL Brand. The second one called “Jasmine’s blooming” announced the appearance of Zhou Yun, the RAYMOND WEIL female ambassador for Greater China and the launch of the jasmine collection. The third part, “Melody of the crown” was dedicated to the RAYMOND WEIL male ambassador for Greater China – Jiang Wen. The whole concert was conducted by the famous Shanghai Symphony.
About the Brand Ambassadors for Greater China:
RAYMOND WEIL, an independent family-run company, is the first watch brand to have a renowned couple of artists as ambassadors – Jiang Wen and Zhou Yun. This prestigious couple embodies a value that is dear to both the Brand and Chinese tradition – family.
Mr. Jiang, a world-famous actor, director and playwright, earned his well-deserved reputation with In the Heat of the Sun, a film he both adapted and directed. The film’s lead actor, Xia Yu, was awarded the ‘Best Actor’ prize at the 51st Venice International Film Festival and 8th Singapore International Film Festival. In 2011, for Let the Bullets Fly, he was honored as ‘Best Actor in Mainland’, ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Film’ in the Global Chinese Top List and 15th Asian Influential Ceremony.
Mr. Jiang, whose talent perfectly embodies the RAYMOND WEIL pursuit of excellence, said: “I deeply appreciate RAYMOND WEIL as dedicated patron of the arts. As brand ambassador, I hope to help Raymond Weil achieve its peak.”
Ms. Zhou, the other RAYMOND WEIL ambassador for Greater China, is as graceful as jasmine. In 2011, with her extraordinary performance in Let the Bullets Fly, she was honored ‘Best Actress in Mainland’ in the Global Chinese Top List and 15th Asian Influential Ceremony. In Golden Wedding, her impressive performance won her Best Actress’ in the 1st Asia Rainbow Awards.
Ms. Zhou said: “I greatly admire the brand philosophy of RAYMOND WEIL: be faithful to both tradition and innovation. I am proud to be a part of a brand with such a spirit.”
“Jiang Wen’s talent and Zhou Yun’s beauty represent the qualities of RAYMOND WEIL: Classic, Everlasting and Independent,” said Mr Olivier Bernheim.
About RAYMOND WEIL:
RAYMOND WEIL, a family founded and operated Geneva-based watchmaker, has enjoyed celebrated status in the Swiss luxury watchmaking industry since its establishment in 1976. The brand is imbued with a deep association with art and a commitment to the craftsmanship of high-quality watchmaking. RAYMOND WEIL, with its dynamic vitality and pioneering spirit, is regarded as one of the fastest growing watch brands in the world.
Music has always been at the centre of the RAYMOND WEIL universe, with musical connotations attached to the names of its collections, such as parsifal from Wilhelm Richard Wagner, nabucco from Giuseppe Verdi and don giovanni from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The musical themes stem from the brand’s designing of unique timepieces for international artists and its partnerships with world-renowned music competitions.
The RAYMOND WEIL watch collections, with their modern design, are unique and stylish. The men’s product line is emphasized by the mechanics of a watch, while the ladies styles are highlighted by their dignity and grace. Each collection is a beacon to Swiss watchmaking ingenuity, utilizing breakthrough materials and innovations.
In 2011, RAYMOND WEIL launches the new jasmine collection, whose delicate style is like the beauty of a flower, and serves as a gift to ladies all over the world. The company also unveils the maestro Phase de Lune model, displaying a perfect combination of creativity and tradition.
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Tony Nourmand was the valuations specialist at Christie's auction house and owner of one of the world’s most famous galleries specialising in original film posters. To his credit, amongst others, is the sale of the Metropolis poster to an American collector, which was the most expensive poster ever sold, and the publication of more than 50 books related to cinema. Still, Nourmand decided he'd had enough and founded his own luxury book publisher: Reel Art Press. His first book, dedicated to the immense figure of Bill Gold (cinematographic poster designer), made ??clear his intentions: the cheapest version cost 800 euros and included six exclusive poster reproductions by Gold that never saw the light. The book was not – obviously – a commercial blockbuster, but with good sales, was added a major plus: the list of client names like Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg or JJ Abrams bought one or more volumes - a success repeated with Reel Art Press’s next book, which was devoted to the Rat Pack. Now Reel Art Press is a publishing cult in Japan and the U.S., and one of the most praised by fans of books … and movies.
Esquire Spain
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April 9, 2008 / 4:06 AM / 11 years ago
Horror writer King blasts banning violent videogames
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Horror writer Stephen King has criticized plans by a U.S. state to ban violent video games, saying such a move would be undemocratic and it was up to parents to monitor their children’s entertainment.
Author Stephen King attends a news conference before a charity reading event in New York, August 1, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Segar
King, in a pop culture column he writes for Entertainment Weekly, said he was no videogame fan but was outraged when he heard that a bill in the state of Massachusetts could ban the sale of violent games to anyone aged under 18.
“What makes me crazy is when politicians take it upon themselves to play surrogate parents. The results of that are usually disastrous. Not to mention undemocratic,” wrote King.
The move comes amid an ongoing debate in the United States, Britain and Australia about banning violent games. British and Irish authorities last year banning videogame “Manhunt 2” in which an insane asylum escapee goes on a killing spree.
The jury remains out on whether violent videogames lead to violent behavior.
King, whose stories such as “The Shining” and “Carrie” have been made into Hollywood horror movies, said it seemed to him that the games only reflected a violence that already existed in the society.
“What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture as a whipping boy. It’s easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, it allows legislators to ignore the elephants in the living room,” he said.
He pointed out that there already was a rating system for videogames and banning them was pointless because if the youngsters wanted to get hold of them, they would find ways.
King argued that the growing divide in between the haves and the have-nots in the United States and the country’s gun laws contributed more to violent behavior than computer games.
He said it was too easy for critics to claim — falsely as it turned out — the Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui was a fan of shooting game “Counter-Strike.”
“If he’d been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn’t even have been able to kill himself,” wrote King.
The author said the most effective bar was parents knowing and caring about what their children were watching and reading, what they were doing and who they were hanging out with.
“Parents need to have the guts to forbid material they find objectionable ... and then explain why it’s being forbidden,” he said.
“They also need to monitor their children’s lives in the pop culture — which means a lot more than seeing what games they’re renting down the street.”
Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Sophie Hardach
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Conservative wishful thinking on healthcare repeal
Right-wing analyst's "plan" for repealing the landmark law is a fantasy
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2010/04/21/repeal_healthcare_open2010/
Jonathan Bernstein
April 21, 2010 6:22PM (UTC)
Ramesh Ponnuru, in the National Review, argues for repealing healthcare reform. As Jonathan Chait points out, he doesn't really make a case that repeal is plausible; his strongest case in that there could be a pro-repeal majority in the House, and that by 2013 a Republican president could sign such a bill, but the best he has for the Senate is that Republicans could run against filibustering Democratic Senators.
The problem with the piece is that, barring a real chance of repeal anytime soon, what's left is basically electoral advice to Republicans -- healthcare is a winner! -- but it can only do so by playing fast-and-loose with the evidence. Begin with the central paradox of healthcare polling, which is that the overall Democratic bill polled badly, while the individual benefits polled well. Ponnuru says,
Here is what can be said with confidence about the polling. First, most people do not have strong views about the details of health-care policy. The results of polling on such issues as the public option and the employer mandate have been highly dependent on the wording of the questions. Second, some elements of the plan poll well in general but others do not. The public does not, for example, seem to be fond either of the cuts to Medicare or the requirement that everyone buy insurance on pain of fine. Third, the popularity of some elements of the plan obviously does not stop majorities from disliking Obamacare as a whole.
That last sentence is tricky, no? One could just as easily say that the unpopularity of reform as a whole doesn't stop majorities from loving the details. When polling numbers are inconsistent like this it's tempting to believe that the public "really" supports your side of the question, but a more honest approach would admit that neither side can really claim clear public support. Of course, if you're trying to argue that your position is more popular, you may give in to that temptation -- but if you're advising candidates about what to do, it seems to me that you're going to get in big trouble if you give them candy-coated advice.
Generally, Ponnuru's interpretation continues to be radically partisan. Thus when seniors start getting rebate donut hole checks, somehow that's going to be a disaster for the Dems, because apparently those who get the checks won't much care while those who don't will be wildly jealous. This seems extraordinarily improbable to me; getting a check seems a lot more noticeable than not getting a check. Ponnuru is much taken with reported hiccups in the early stages of implementation, claiming that "events post-enactment have increased the public’s doubts about Obamacare." That doesn't seem to be the case in Pollster.com's tally of post-enactment polls, however, which is hardly surprising, because the stories Punnuru cites haven't been front-page news (except, perhaps, on those front pages which only those who oppose the bill anyway are reading). Ponnuru also expects tax credits for small business to backfire... one wonders whether he is as careful to imagine all the ways that Republican-backed tax cuts might not work.
Of course, as Chait points out, Republicans get into even more problems when they try to pair repeal with reform, claiming that they can achieve the popular things promised by the Democrats without using the supposedly heavy-handed big-government solutions included in the bill. The reason for that is simple: while the goal of the bill is certainly a solidly liberal goal, the means of getting there are not particularly heavy-handed. Ponnuru gets tangled up in that in his discussion of preexisting conditions. He expects the law's interim solution of high risk pools to be a failure:
It is not clear that Obamacare’s risk pools will be adequately funded or well crafted. They are likely to have many more applicants than openings.
And yet Ponnuru does acknowledge that high risk pools are in fact the Republican solution to pre-existing conditions, and he does not contest the idea that the government should find a way to deal with that problem (and, indeed, he deserves credit for saying that the individual mandate is a necessary part of the Democrats' preferred solution). What I don't understand is how he thinks that problems with implementation in 2010-2012 will help the GOP's argument, since it will leave them attacking high risk pools -- which is their solution, and which the Democrats can point out will soon be phased out in favor of an outright ban on rejecting customers. He may be right that ACA's interim high risk pools are inadequately funded, but does he really want to add "spend a lot more on these high risk pools that aren't working well" to "spend more on Medicare" in the GOP 2012 platform?
I have no better guess about where the polling is going than Ponnuru does (well, maybe a little better, since I can at least read actual polls instead of, as he apparently does, simply assuming that they must support whatever he wants them to support). But I've always said that the assumption that Democrats would benefit from passing healthcare reform, even if it was popular, is highly questionable. Taking basic healthcare reform -- an issue that has helped Democrats for years -- off the table, I've always thought, should hurt the Democrats... perhaps there could be (if it is popular) an initial bump, but after that everyone will just accept the new status quo, and argue about who can administer it best. And on that, Republicans could, if they play their cards right, compete on even terms. But repeal, it seems to me just puts the Republicans back on the losing side of the issue.
I guess a more basic point is that to the extent that the Obama bill is a "government takeover," what that can really mean (and be true) is that it is a claim of government's ultimate responsibility for making healthcare a basic right, and a responsibility for a system that functions well. The problem throughout the healthcare debate for conservatives is that they basically conceded that point; they really aren't wiling to take a strong laissez-faire position that the problems a market creates are not the government's business. Given that they therefore aren't arguing about philosophy -- and given that the Democrats chose a market-oriented approach to reform -- there's never been an honest, comfortable alternative for the GOP to support. Passage doesn't change that, but it does open a much better battle for them, if they shift ground from opposing reform to managing reform. As long as they don't make that shift, my guess is that they'll be playing on the Democrats' turf, and they'll continue to be hurt by healthcare.
Update: Ponnuru vs. Chait, round two. For what it's worth, I think Chait gets the best of this one too, especially on the key question of reconciliation -- there's no way, for example, that Ponnuru's one sentence repeal bill could get through under current reconciliation rules. Also, neither of them mentions in either piece the budgetary effects of reform; GOP rhetoric notwithstanding, repeal would blow a big hole in the budget, and it ain't gonna be fixed by substituting "adequately" funded high risk pools. Now, I'm fully expecting the GOP to pay little attention beyond lip service to the deficit should they have unified control of government in 2013 (which, by the way, I think is fairly unlikely, but it's Ponnuru's fantasy, not mine), but I'm not convinced that their first priority will be spending a lot more money on Medicare.
Jonathan Bernstein writes at a Plain Blog About Politics. Follow him at @jbplainblog
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by Katharine Reece MFA '12
Being a female nuclear physicist in the 1930s wasn’t easy. Even though Maria Goeppert Mayer ended up winning the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking work on the structure of atomic nuclei and was featured on a postage stamp in 2010, she spent most of her life working for free.
In 1941, President Constance Warren offered Mayer her first paid position, teaching math at Sarah Lawrence. (Technically, the gifted physicist worked for Johns Hopkins University in the 1930s, but she was never given an office, title, or salary.)
Mayer loved teaching at Sarah Lawrence, but in 1943 she was called to work on the Manhattan Project. Though wary of the possible ramifications of her work, Mayer worked at Columbia’s Substitute Alloys Materials Lab studying the separation of uranium isotopes, which would prove critical to understanding and building a nuclear reactor.
In 1963, she shared the Nobel Prize for developing the “nuclear shell” model of atomic nuclei, which explains why some elements have many different isotopes while others do not. Though she was unable to return to her position at SLC, Mayer remained devoted to the institution, citing her dedication to “teaching as it is done at Sarah Lawrence—not the mere imparting of knowledge, but the human contact with developing personalities.”
She died in 1972. In September, Sarah Lawrence celebrated the 50th anniversary of her Nobel Prize, dedicating the Maria Mayer Physics Laboratory and hosting a faculty panel, reception, and lecture on superstring theory by renowned physicist Sylvester James Gates, Jr.
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By analyzing its big data, MSD learned more about who needed social services – and then created a plan to address those needs.
New Zealanders are becoming less reliant on the welfare system: Benefit figures are at a five-year low, with projected savings of $1 billion over four years.
Employment increased 9.3 percent for young adults.
8,000 single parents came off benefit, representing a 9.4 percent drop.
SAS® technology became an integral tool for welfare transformation.
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Transforming social welfare with analytics
New Zealand Ministry of Social Development uses big data to profoundly improve the lives of citizens
Social welfare accounts for nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s gross domestic product. Tasked with improving services while spending these funds responsibly, the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is transforming its welfare system with the help of SAS Analytics.
MSD is New Zealand’s largest government agency. It spends $22 billion a year providing child protection and youth, family and employment services to more than a million New Zealanders in need. But with data showing that a startling 13 percent of the working population is on an adult benefit – many of whom had been on benefit for a decade – the agency knew a change was needed. “The welfare system was not providing people with the support they needed to build a better future for themselves,” says Paula Bennett, Minister of Social Development in 2014.
The agency began examining ways of reducing long-term benefit dependency. MSD’s research uncovered that a third of its total liability was attributable to those who entered the welfare system under the age of 18, and a further 40 percent was attributable to those who entered between 18 and 20 years old. It became clear if MSD was going to significantly reduce benefit dependency, it needed to focus its efforts on struggling young people.
A smarter strategy
Out of these findings emerged what MSD refers to as the “investment approach,” a strategy designed to achieve better social and fiscal outcomes through smarter targeting of services. As with a commercial marketing campaign, the key objective is to optimize spending on various initiatives to achieve the best results. But while the private sector provides a more targeted service to increase customer retention, MSD aims to use better targeting to improve outcomes and decrease retention – that is, support New Zealanders to be less reliant on the welfare system.
“By taking the same approach to data analytics that the corporate sector has been doing for decades, MSD saw a huge opportunity to learn more about who receives benefit and to make better decisions about the support and investment they need,” Bennett says.
The first step was creating a data model to estimate the risks of welfare dependency among the most vulnerable group: teen parents and young people unable to live with their families. By matching and analyzing data across several government agencies using SAS Data Management, MSD was able to predict the probability of this population going on to an adult benefit and, in turn, offer targeted services intended to reduce their long-term benefit dependency. Such services included being matched with a personal mentor, learning budgeting skills and receiving more education or training.
The strategy worked, as findings revealed that those who received the extra investment moved onto an adult benefit at the lowest level in five years, with employment rising 9.3 percent.
I now hear from single parents every week who are grateful for the support they receive from case managers … people who are often the first to ask them what they want to do with their lives and then help them find work.
Better targeting, better outcomes
MSD decided to take its investment approach a step further and performed a baseline valuation of the entire welfare system. The agency used 20 years of historical data to calculate the lifetime cost of everyone in the welfare system. What it found was astonishing. The valuation showed that future unemployment benefit payments – where MSD’s interventions had been focused – made up only 5 percent of the country’s overall welfare costs. With the total lifetime cost of all beneficiaries at $78 billion, there was clear value in extending the investment approach to other groups.
This insight led to a greater focus on identifying and targeting these high-risk groups. Using campaign management capabilities from the SAS Customer Intelligence suite, MSD can run real-time trials to determine what works fast and track the impact of different initiatives.
MSD also turned its attention to single parents. Through targeted investments in education and job placement, 8,000 single parents came off benefit – a 9.4 percent drop.
“This is light years away from how it was in the past … with every person on benefit getting the same support,” Bennett says. “I now hear from single parents every week who are grateful for the support they receive from case managers … people who are often the first to ask them what they want to do with their lives and then help them find work.”
Protecting the vulnerable
Looking ahead, MSD is exploring the use of predictive risk modeling to help anticipate and curtail child abuse. Data shows that two-thirds of people on benefit at age 16 or 17 first came to the attention of MSD’s Child, Youth and Family unit as children. Moreover, 90 percent of those recipients lived in benefit-dependent homes at some stage in childhood. A high correlation has been shown between child abuse and being in an environment that is welfare-dependent. “These programs are interlinked,” Bennett says. “If we don’t protect these vulnerable children, chances are extremely high they will end up trapped on welfare later in life.”
One form of support for these young adults is MSD’s Youth Service, a program designed to help them gain skills for employment through education, training and work-based learning. “Prior to Youth Service, most of these young people were disconnected from school and had no qualifications,” Bennett says. “Now four out of five young people enrolled in Youth Service are in education or training. This is a great result, particularly when you consider the backgrounds of most of these young people. Many have come from dysfunctional or abusive families.”
With analytics at the heart of welfare reform, MSD is using its huge amount of information to provide better support to those who need it. It has transformed the way MSD targets its service-based investments and has enabled the agency to concentrate efforts on those who need it most. This translates to greater savings of taxpayer money as well as better futures for people and their families.
After just a few years, early results of the investment approach have been positive. Benefit figures are at a five-year low, and with projected savings of $1 billion over four years, other government agencies are looking to follow in MSD’s footsteps.
With technology as the tool for transformation, much of the program’s success can be attributed to cooperation across government. Laws have been changed to facilitate the sharing of data between agencies, a move that has allowed MSD to see beyond case-by-case issues and gain a lifetime view of its clients.
“We have a golden opportunity in the social sector to use advanced analytics to transform the lives of New Zealanders,” Bennett says. “And that’s what we’re doing.”
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Emmys 2018: The 10 moments everyone will be talking about
Glenn Weiss , left, proposes to Jan Svendsen at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
PUBLISHED: September 17, 2018 at 10:20 pm | UPDATED: September 18, 2018 at 7:33 am
Did you see Monday’s 70th Primetime Emmys hosted by SNL’s Michael Che and Colin Jost?
Well, don’t worry if you missed it, because we watched it.
These are the 10 biggest moments everyone will be talking about.
Glenn Weiss, let, and Jan Svendsen appear backstage at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)
1. The proposal: Director Glenn Weiss proposed marriage to his girlfriend while accepting the Emmy for directing the Oscars, and she said “Yes!” The shocked bride-to-be Jan Svendsen met Weiss on stage where he slid on the “the ring that my dad put on my mom’s finger 67 years ago,” he said. Weiss’ mom died two weeks ago.
2. The speech: Thandie Newton began her speech by saying she doesn’t believe in God. But she thanked “Her” anyway while accepting the supporting actress Emmy for “Westworld.”
3. The mystery: Was that … Teddy Perkins? Before the Emmy for best directing in a comedy series went to Amy Sherman-Palladino for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Donald Glover’s character from “Atlanta” was spotted in the front rows at the Emmys. Fans took to Twitter with theories that it was Glover or co-star Lakeith Stanfield in the makeup.
Betty White speaks on stage at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
4. The honor: Beloved actress Betty White received a standing ovation for her television career, and charmed the crowd with her speech. Later, James Cordon joked that White broke up a fight between Tom Arnold and Mark Burnett. (But don’t worry, the 96-year-old television legend wasn’t involved.)
5. The horsing around: During his acceptance speech, “Godless” supporting actor winner Jeff Daniels thanked the horse that broke his wrist. He explained it was the same horse Jeff Bridges rode in the film “True Grit,” adding, “I felt like he was making unfair comparisons.”
6. The ‘Marvelous’ moments: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” became the first streaming series to win the outstanding comedy series category, and it was just one of five awards claimed that night. It also took trophies for lead actress, supporting actress, writing and directing.
7. The support: Alex Borstein pulled off her satiny wrap and jiggled as she headed to the stage to accept the Emmy for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” supporting actress trophy, noting that she went braless. On the gold carpet, Borstein said she wore the dress on her wedding day 20 years ago and it outlasted the union.
8. The diversity gap: Though it focused on the issue of diversity in Hollywood, the Emmys still struggled with it. It didn’t award any person of color for a full hour.
Henry Winkler accepts the award for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for “Barry” at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
9. The Fonz: Henry Winkler won his first Emmy. Before launching into his acceptance speech for supporting actor in a comedy series for “Barry,” the actor joked, “I wrote this 43 years ago.”
10. The missing person: Who wasn’t a punchline at the awards? The president. While it’s almost to be expected that the commander in chief would be joked about at an awards show, Donald Trump was not a factor in the night’s festivities.
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Since he started as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967, and began covering movies locally and at international film festivals, Roger Ebert has met and interviewed countless movie idols, artists and unknowns -- some of them even before they became famous. There's hardly a major figure in the history of movies, from the last part of the 20th century into the 21st, that he hasn't encountered.
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Time Out Chicago ran this story in its "Chicago Heroes" issue. The author, Hank Sartin, is a TO film critic.
Never mind the tens of thousands of film reviews, the worldwide following and the Pulitzer. For many, Roger Ebert’s name comes with an "&" for years, it was Siskel & Ebert. Then it was Ebert & Roeper. But for those who know Roger well (and it’s hard to know him at all without calling him Roger), there’s been another partnership, one that has been getting more public notice during his recent battle with cancer. For the last 16 years, it’s been Roger & Chaz. That would be Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert. In addition to being Roger’s wife, she’s the vice president of the Ebert Company (which handles Roger’s varied business interests). And since Roger lost the ability to speak in 2006, she’s been his public voice.
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Remembering Nelson Mandela
I didn’t expect to be this sad over the death of a man I never met.
A few years ago when I traveled to South Africa, I first realized the awesome power that Mandela held over his country and wrote about it in a post about the challenges of “leaderless revolutions” and why the world needs leaders like Mandela . Since then, his story and work have been a continual source of inspiration for me. Whenever I get that tired interview question of the famous person I’d most like to meet, he’s usually at the top of the list.
Last night as I walked along the street near Leicester Square in London, I saw a movie premiere event in front of one of the largest movie theaters in the city. Though I couldn’t see what it was, all the signs above the theater were for the new Mandela movie. Then I returned to my hotel, saw the news that he passed away – and I have been thinking about him all day. Last year I wrote about his story in Likeonomics – and though I’ve shared it before on my blog, I thought it would be fitting to republish it today.
Not only because he changed the world around him, but because he happened to do it with a generosity and likeability that few other politicians seem capable of today. I know I have never seen him speak in person, or spent enough time in South Africa to really understand his legacy. But perhaps the biggest sign of his impact lies in this surprising reaction from people like me, and how powerfully we already miss him.
Nelson Mandela Excerpt From Likeonomics:
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The first time I experienced the powerful influence of Nelson Mandela was from the front seat of a taxi cab riding down the streets of Jo’burg (as the locals call Johannesburg). Mandela’s picture was on billboards along the highway to the city even though he was no longer president of South Africa, and my driver was speaking about his influence and how he had inspired the nation. That story started nearly 20 years ago.
In 1993, tens of thousands of Afrikaners (white South Africans) were preparing for war. Three years earlier, a man named Nelson Mandela had been released after 27 years in prison. He was no hero to this group. They saw him as the founder of a terrorist organization who threatened their way of life and belonged in jail. They were ready to fight.
As reporter and biographer John Carlin wrote, that was the moment where Mandela began ‘‘the most unlikely exercise in political seduction ever undertaken.’’1 He invited the Afrikaners leaders over for tea and listened to their concerns. Then, he persuaded them to abandon their guns and violence. The battle never happened.
A year later, he was sworn in as president of South Africa and vowed to make reconciling the racial tension between whites and blacks his number-one priority. Somehow he had to overcome decades of hate and convince people ready to die for their causes to see one another as brothers. In one of his first acts as president,Mandela invited Francois Pienaar, the captain of the South Africa national rugby team (Springboks), to have tea with him. That afternoon he struck an alliance, asking Pienaar to help him turn rugby into a force for uniting all South Africans.
During the Rugby World Cup in 1995, Pienaars led the mostly white players of the Springbok team in singing an old song of black resistance, which was now the new national anthem, ‘‘Nkosi Sikelele Afrika’’ (‘‘God Bless Africa’’). It was a powerful demonstration that the players believed in having a united South Africa. Inspired, the team fought the odds and made it to the finals against New Zealand.
On June 24, 1995, minutes before the final match would start, Mandela went on the field in the middle of the stadium wearing his Springbok green shirt to wish Pienaar and the team good luck. The crowd, made up of mostly white South Africans, was stunned. For many years, that green shirt had been seen as a symbol of only white South Africa. For a black man to wear it was unheard of.
The crowd erupted in cheers of ‘‘Nel-son, Nel-son’’ and everyone across South Africa celebrated. Mandela would go on to lead the racial reconciliation both during his presidency, and then after as an ambassador to the world for South Africa. In 2004, the country was awarded the world’s largest stage to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It is now seen as a likely future Olympic destination, as well.
This story of South Africa’s triumph was chronicled by Carlin in his book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation. It was so powerful, it inspired the Academy Award–winning film Invictus by director Clint Eastwood.
Why People Believe in Likeability (and Why They Don’t)
The fate of South Africa is linked to the story of one man’s personal charm and likeability. This may seem like an extreme example. After all, not many people have the gift that Mandela has. Yet, his experience does explain the very fundamental role that likeability can take in inspiring belief and changing our world around us. People didn’t follow Mandela because of the ideas; they followed because of him. When he invited you over for tea and listened to your concerns, and then spoke, you couldn’t help trusting his vision.
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Artist Spotlight: Saxophonist, Tim Ries
For this issue, Richard Boulger had an opportunity to sit down with saxophonist Tim Ries, a member of The Rolling Stones band and one of today's most sought-after musicians in the industry.
RB: Where and when did you first get involved with music?
TR: I was surrounded by music early in my childhood, as my father was a trumpet player and my mother and three sisters played piano. There was always a lot of music in the house and everybody sang. My father was very good at harmonizing, so my sisters would sing the melody while he sang the harmony. I gravitated to him singing harmony early on and as I got older I would start singing the bass.
My father played in a band on weekends and he would take me to his gigs. Afterward, the band would come back to our house and my mother would cook food before a jam session took place, which sometimes lasted until 5-6 in the morning. I wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps and play the trumpet, so I started playing trumpet. I also wanted to play piano but never took piano lessons. I remember I would listen to the piano instructor teach my sisters, who weren't really interested in playing piano but, meanwhile, I was.
My father would come home after his day job and he would sit at the piano and improvise and play these melodies. When he finished playing and got up, I would sit down and try to imitate what he did just playing by ear. I remember going to one of my dad's gigs and I saw a saxophonist play the tenor and thought, 'I want to play that.' So that's how it started for me. I started playing in his band when I was 10 and started on the C Melody, because I could play the piano music. I got an older tenor saxophone from another saxophonist in his band and then eventually got a Selmer Mark VI of my own in the 10th grade.
My father thought it was important that I also study classical music, so I began taking lessons at The University of Michigan with Larry Teal and Donald Sinta. At the same time, my dad took me to jazz clubs in Toledo, Ann Arbor, and Detroit where I began sitting in with great local musicians, many of whom were amazing Motown players.
Following high school I enrolled at North Texas State (now The University of North Texas) and studied with some great teachers like Rich Matteson, Dan Haerle, and Jim Riggs, where I received my Bachelor's degree. I moved back to Michigan following graduation with the ultimate intention of moving to New York City, but a chance encounter with my old professor Donald Sinta (the Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan), led to my enrolling at Michigan where I earned a Master's Degree in classical saxophone and composition. Donald Sinta is a true master and guided me with complete brilliance not only in the classical repertoire but also sharing with me his ultimate concept of playing music on the highest level of artistry.
When I finally moved to New York City in 1985, I became good friends with Michael Brecker. A decade later I moved to Westchester County where Michael lived and we began practicing together in his basement, sometimes for hours at a time. We would both switch off between playing drums, saxophone and piano.
Being in the room with Michael was somewhat like being in the room with Donald Sinta, in the sense that someone who is that passionate about music makes you feel like you are with some Buddha-like person. You're drawn into that energy and you leave the room saying, "Ok, I gotta practice."
Michael would constantly be trying out new saxophones, mouthpieces, and reeds that companies would send him and he wanted my feedback. That was my original introduction to Les Silver when Michael received a saxophone from Les. This was the early stages of the present-day Virtuoso saxophone. Following Michael’s passing, Les Silver learned of my close relationship with Michael and that I was going to Michael's house and practicing with him and that I knew the instrument. Les called me and asked me if I'd be interested in coming over and trying the horns and seeing what I thought about them. To his surprise, I told him I had already played the horn. It is very interesting how the cosmos works and how things happen for a reason.
RB: Do you have a daily practice routine to maintain your sound, facility and overall musicianship on your instrument?
TR: I don't have a typical routine. There were periods of time when I developed a routine when I first went to school at North Texas. I made detailed graphs for myself because of my busy schedule with classes and rehearsals that included which instrument I would play during specific breaks. As I got older and started doing gigs with a band, I had to practice the music for that band. There was a period when I was playing with Donald Byrd, at which time I was transcribing John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter solos. Donald heard that I was transcribing them but told me, "You have to transcribe yourself — that's what 'Trane did." With that advice, I began recording myself almost every day and I'd practice for ten to fifteen minutes and listen back while critiquing my playing. While listening back, you're asking yourself, 'How is my pitch?' 'How is my time?' I just played something that's interesting, so I would transcribe what I thought was more unique to me and what was my language. I could spend my entire life trying to sound like Coltrane, Michael Brecker, or Bird — any of the masters — but I would still always be a second-rate Coltrane, etc. I still want to learn from them, but you then have to learn from yourself. What is it that you are playing on your instrument that is uniquely you that you are hearing? So that's how I started transcribing myself and picking apart what's unique to me.
RB: What are some core principles and basic building blocks you could offer to students learning to improvise?
T.R: It's a life-long learning process but on a basic level, it's about learning any foreign language — you have to listen to it a lot to be able to articulate it. In other words, if you want to play jazz, you have to listen to a lot of jazz. Sometimes while conducting a clinic I'll ask students, "Who do you listen to?" Through listening, you begin to emulate the musicians you admire. For me they were Dexter Gordon and Stanley Turrentine. They were my early heroes because their music was very accessible and I could get at it way more than say late Coltrane or late Wayne Shorter. Since I liked trumpet, I listened to Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Clifford Brown. Louis Armstrong was my first hero because my dad had Louis Armstrong albums. Then make the decision you are going to practice, transcribe and imitate your heroes. So that is one of the first steps and the technique comes through that. Michael Brecker told me how Bob Berg could take a Coltrane album, drop the needle at any point along the Coltrane solo and he could just start playing along with it. He was that brilliant and had so much in his vocabulary, so developing a vocabulary is HUGE.
Growing up in the Detroit area I was able to hear great musicians live and that impressed me greatly. My father would take me to hear Duke Ellington's band and Woody Herman's band and I'd hear these great soloists, like Paul Gonsalves. That inspires you to want to do it and eventually, you want to break out and develop your own voice.
RB: What's happening right now for Tim Ries?
TR: I’m still touring with The Rolling Stones and have been traveling often to Europe where I have been playing with a group of musicians from Budapest called the East Gipsy Band. We have an HBO documentary about this group that's going to be coming out. I also play a lot with a Flamenco dancer in Spain named Sara Baras. I've just released a CD on the "Smalls" label, "The Tim Ries Quintet, Volume 2".
I am continuing to perform concerts with the Rolling Stones project group that are my jazz and world music arrangements of Rolling Stones classic material for small-group, orchestra and big band. Finally, there is a group I have formed with members representing many countries and religions. We are going to be touring with the band and then going into schools and doing workshops with the focus on Music for Peace.
Tim Ries plays on RS BERKELEY's Virtuoso Alto and Tenor saxophones and Volare flute.
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Russian military in Crimea get advanced S-400 missile defense system, same as deployed in Syria
Published time: 12 Aug, 2016 21:03 Edited time: 12 Aug, 2016 21:03
Transport launching anti-aircraft missile complex (AAMC) S-400 "Triumph". © Iliya Pitalev © Sputnik
Russia's most advanced to date anti-aircraft defense system S-400 Triumph has been delivered to a surface-to-air missile (SAM) regiment in Crimea. The military will first deploy their newly received hardware in a training exercise ongoing in the region.
Russia forms brand-new task force to counter NATO buildup in Eastern Europe
Plans of the S-400 deployment to Crimea were announced by the Russian Defense Ministry in July. After the air defense complex was successfully used in field firing at a training target missile in the Astrakhan region in southern Russia, it was delivered to the peninsula, military officials announced on Friday.
After the regiment in Crimea completes its training with the S-400, it will take part in Kavkaz-2016 military drills, currently happening at military bases in Russia's southern military command region and in the waters of the Black Sea.
READ MORE: Russia’s Black Sea Fleet holds drills to counter underwater sabotage after foiled Crimea attack
Including a set of radars, missile launchers and command posts, the system is an upgrade of the S-300 missile system, which are also deployed in Crimea, to ensure protection from possible airstrikes or cruise missile attacks.
Russia deploys cutting-edge S-400 air defense system to Syrian base after Su-24 downing
Manufactured by Russian producer Almaz Antey and introduced into service in 2007, the cutting-edge SAM system is employed to ensure air defense using long- and medium-range missiles that can hit both aerial and land targets at ranges up to 400 kilometers (248 miles).
READ MORE: ‘This is our land’: Russia rejects US criticism of weapons deployment to Crimea
The Defense Ministry has previously announced that 16 regiments of the Russian Army will be equipped with the S-400 by the end of the year, TASS reported.
The S-400 missile system was also deployed in Syria last year. The Russian Air Force base in Latakia was reinforced with the SAM system following the downing of a Russian Su-24 plane by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet near the Turkish-Syrian border. The Su-24 pilot who was taking part in Moscow's anti-terrorist campaign in the region died in the incident.
Over 2015, the hardware has also been deployed to Russia’s Arctic region, north of the Polar Circle.
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Judge Gives Homeless, Addicts a Second Chance Through Running
The Midnight Mission Running Club on Skid Row gives recovering addicts a new identity.
By Liam Boylan-Pett
Three times a week, 10 to 15 runners meet at 5:45 a.m. for a five- to six-mile run through downtown Los Angeles. The route doesn’t wind through the picturesque Hollywood Hills or the palm tree-lined streets of Beverly Hills. Instead, it starts and ends in Skid Row, an area crowded with cardboard boxes and makeshift tents that houses 8,000 to 11,000 of the city’s homeless population.
This is the meeting spot because most of the runners in this group call Skid Row—a roughly 50-block area in the heart of Los Angeles—home. These recovering addicts and homeless found the group after enrolling at the Midnight Mission shelter and addiction center in Skid Row.
Not all of the runners in the Midnight Mission Running Club are in rehab, though. One of them is Craig Mitchell, a 58-year-old with black hair that’s graying at the temples. Mitchell is a superior court judge, working on felony trials in LA’s criminal courts, and he’s the one who brought running to the Midnight Mission. To all the runners, he's “The Judge.”
Judge Mitchell, who is married with three grown children, started the running club in 2012. It all began when a young man he had previously sentenced to prison, Roderick Brown, contacted him through the Midnight Mission. “For some reason he decided he liked the way I treated him, even though I sent him to prison,” Mitchell says. “He looked me up and introduced me to the mission.”
As soon as Mitchell got there, he decided the best way to reach the people was through running. “There are so many little things that emanate from this very basic idea of just running,” he says.
Mitchell had been running for about 15 years when he started the club. He ran his first race because he was asked by his boss at the District Attorney’s Office to run a relay. It was too early in his career to say no, so he joined the team. It was a blessing—he’s a runner to the core now, even when he’s in the courtroom.
Under the black robe he wears on the bench, Mitchell is in a shirt and tie as you’d expect. But below the belt he’s in just his running shorts and shoes—he likes to change out of his robe quickly to maximize the time of his lunchtime run.
Judge Craig Mitchell wears running shoes under his work attire. (Photo courtesy of Judge Mitchell.)
At the Midnight Mission, the running club had humble beginnings. Early on, if one or two runners met for a jog, Mitchell considered it a good day.
Ryan Navales was one of first to show up consistently. In the 1990s, Navales had a family, a home, and a job. But alcoholism and drug use took it all away—including his relationship with his daughter. He was homeless when a family member got him into Midnight Mission in the late 2000s. He immediately began the mission’s 12-step approach to treatment and reintegration into the community.
Navales, 45, saw Mitchell’s Midnight Mission Running Club as something else to do in his rehab. “It started as a lark for me,” he says. “I was never really a runner.”
But he turned into one. “Running gave me a positive self-image and a new identity,” he says. Plus, it allowed him to travel the world.
The club grew in size and scope. Not only were they meeting for runs, they were running races, including the 2013 L.A. Marathon.
In September 2013, the Midnight Mission sent Mitchell and three of his runners to Ghana for a marathon. That trip was such a success that in March they sent a group of about 20 runners—10 of whom were part of the mission's running club—to run the Rome Marathon.
“We just did Rome,” Navales says. “Running the marathon, finishing on the cobblestones near the Coliseum, it was just awe for me. The gravity of that still hasn’t hit me.”
The travel is just another component to addiction recovery and the Midnight Mission’s goal of self-sufficiency. Their next trip is already in the works as they’re planning to run the Da Nang International Marathon in Vietnam.
“We take lives that have been very narrowly defined [by drug addiction, homelessness, or crime], and we allow them to see the larger world and their relationship to it,” Mitchell says. “It isn’t this 10-block area of Skid Row where all you see is plight and hypodermic needles and homelessness. You have to rethink your relationship to the larger world.”
Running does that, too. “The glorious thing about group running,” Mitchell says, “is that you pair up with somebody different every time.” It equalizes everyone in the group once they’re out on the road.
It’s true for Navales. After years of his loved ones no longer trusting him, he never thought he’d have a relationship like the one he has with Mitchell. “The Judge is one of my best friends,” Navales says. “He’s an intimidating man, but you start running with him and he’s clowning and joking and elbow rubbing. He’s one of the guys.”
Navales has been sober for five years now, and he works for the Midnight Mission as the manager of government and public affairs. He has his own place outside Skid Row and has a positive relationship with his daughter again.
It’s just one of the success stories of Mitchell’s running club. Throughout it all, a documentary film crew has been capturing the running club for Skid Row Marathon. They’ve also been a part of the runners’ lives, capturing stories like Navales’ or Rebecca Hayes', who was homeless as a result of drug and alcohol problems as well.
The documentary is a bonus for Mitchell. As a felony judge, he oversees some of the most serious criminal cases—murder, rape, sexual assault. He sees the worst in humans on a daily basis.
But the running club allows him to maintain a balanced sense of humanity.
“When I don’t have my dang black robe,” he says, “I’ve got my running shorts on and we all look the same.”
That’s why Mitchell will continue to grow the Midnight Mission Running Club.
He doesn’t know where it will go from here. But he does know that the numbers are increasing, they group will continue to travel, and the club members will continue to support each other in a positive way.
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HomeNews ArticlesTop very unknown facts about Surrey
Top very unknown facts about Surrey
Since 1972, we began trading in Surrey and have been proud to call the county our home ever since. Although we’ve learned a lot about it during that time, there’s plenty that we, and many others, don’t know. So, we decided to take a look into Surrey’s lesser-known history to see what we could find.
Goldaming was first to supply electricity to the public
In 1881, the market town of Goldaming was the first town to provide electric lighting both in houses and in streets. This made it the first town in the world to have a public electricity supply. Although, it was not the first to have electric street lighting. This honour belongs to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which lit the first incandescent lamp in 1879.
Moll Cutpurse
Although the area around Devil’s Punchbowl, in south-west Surrey, was notorious for highwaymen activity during the 1800s, one of Surrey’s most famous highwaymen, or highwaywomen, in this case, was Mary Frith. Known as Moll Cutpurse and active in the early 1600s, she is most notorious for stealing £250 from Sir Thomas Fairfax, Commander-in-Chief of the Parliamentarian armed forces. Stories of her fencing stolen property and pimping are also well documented and she has been regarded as the first female smoker in England.
Windmill worship
Surrey is home to the only windmill in the world that is consecrated as a place of worship. Reigate Heath Windmill, which was last worked by wind in April 1862, was converted into a chapel of ease to St Mary’s Parish Church, Reigate, in 1880. It still holds church services on one Sunday of each month during the summer, and occasionally at other times.
England’s most wooded county
Surrey is covered by 22.4% of woodland, making it the most wooded county in England. The national average stands at 11.8% so this is nearly double that amount! The oldest untouched area of natural woodland in the UK is also located on Box Hill.
Only one Duke in its history
Although the title of Duke is considered by many to be a highly prestigious one, there has only ever been one Duke of Surrey. Back in the 1300s, this honour belonged to Thomas Holland. But after engaging in a conspiracy against Henry IV, he was betrayed, seized by a mob and then beheaded. Since meeting his brutal end, the title seemingly hasn’t endeared itself to anyone else.
Surrey’s Polynesian connection
Within the grounds of Clandon Park, is a Maori meeting house. For those who don’t know, the Maori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. There are approximately 8,000 Maori living in the UK, some of which appear to be local to this park. Clandon Park is located a short distance away from Guildford.
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Hong Kong anti-trust regulator launching its second proceedings against price fixing and market sharing
The Competition Commission (the “Commission”) has brought proceedings against ten construction and engineering companies on 14 August 2017 for anti-competitive price fixing and market sharing.
The Commission alleges that the ten companies have breached the First Conduct Rule through price fixing, market sharing and/or engaging in concerted practices of the same nature when providing renovation services at a newly built public housing estate. The Commission alleges that the companies had agreed among themselves to allocate floors, not to seek business from tenants on another floor, and to refer tenants on another floor to the responsible company if such tenants approach them.
Price fixing means market players agreeing on certain arrangements such that the price can be fixed, maintained, increased or otherwise controlled; while market sharing refers to arrangements to allocate sales, territories, customers or markets for the production or supply of particular products, i.e. renovation services in the present case. Both price fixing and market sharing are regarded as a serious anti-competitive conduct under the Ordinance.
Under the First Conduct Rule, the Commission has to show that either the object or effect of the conduct in question is to prevent, restrict or distort competition in Hong Kong.
The object of the conduct is viewed objectively in its context and in light of the way it is implemented, and does not merely refer to the subjective intentions of the parties. Agreements to fix prices, share markets, restrict output or rig bids are commonly known as “cartel agreements” and are by their nature generally considered to have the object of harming competition. Therefore, the Commission will probably have little difficulty showing that the conduct of the ten companies was done with the object to harm competition in Hong Kong.
The effect of the conduct will be regarded as anti-competitive if there is an adverse impact on one or more of the parameters of competition in the market, such as price, output, product quality, product variety or innovation. Rather than merely focusing on the actual effects of the conduct, the Commission will also consider the effects that are likely to flow from the conduct. It is also sufficient as long as one of the effects of the conduct is anti-competitive. In the present case, the alleged price fixing and market sharing would have an adverse effect on the customers’ choice of price and service, and probably the quality of renovation services, because the companies no longer needed to compete with each other and attract customers based on the quality of work. As a result, it may not be too difficult for the Commission to prove a contravention of the First Conduct Rule, as long as the alleged facts could be proved.
It is likely that the alleged misconduct was reported by either the tenants or competitors, who are third parties to the alleged improper arrangements but are directly affected by the misconduct. Under the complaint system of the Commission, a person could make complaints or queries in any form directly, anonymously or through an intermediary to the Commission.
The investigatory powers of the Commission is wide, including obtaining documents and information from any person who may have possession or control of relevant documents or may otherwise be able to assist, and requiring any person to attend before the Commission to answer relevant questions. Not surprisingly, the Housing Authority, being an independent third party who has the public duty to ensure a proper housing system in Hong Kong, would be willing to provide assistance to the Commission in the investigation.
In addition, a cartel member may apply to the Commission for “leniency” by offering to give evidence in exchange for the Commission’s agreement not to bring or continue proceedings against him for pecuniary penalties. This is a commonly-used tool by the European Commission. Given the leniency agreement is only available to the first cartel member who meets all the requirements for receiving leniency, there is a strong incentive for the cartel members to apply for it as soon as possible. While at the moment there is no indication as to whether any of the ten companies has applied for or entered into a leniency agreement with the Commission, we may wait to see which of them is able to win such “battle”.
In just 20 months since the full commencement of the Ordinance, the Commission has commenced two proceedings concerning different cases of anti-competitive conducts. We could foresee more frequent enforcement actions to be taken. The first two cases are concerned with the contravention of the First Conduct Rule, it remains to be seen as to how the Commission will enforce against market players who are in breach of the Second Conduct Rule.
Market players should not underestimate the potential consequences for breach of a competition rule. Pecuniary penalties could amount up to 10% of the turnover of the infringing market player for each year in which the contravention occurred, or if the contravention occurred in more than 3 years, 10% of the turnover concerned for the 3 years in which the contravention occurred that saw the highest three turnover. Other than pecuniary penalties and declarations of contravention to the competition rule, the Tribunal may of its own motion or on application make a variety of orders, including injunctions, orders requiring the infringing market players to pay damages to persons who have suffered loss or damage, or to pay to the Government or any other specified person an amount not exceeding the amount of any profit gained or loss avoided as a result of the breach of the competition rule. The Commission may also make disqualification orders against directors of the corporate cartel members for up to five years (as against fifteen years in the UK). However, in the present case, it seems that no application has been made to disqualify any directors of the companies.
In addition, affected third parties, such as the tenants in the present case, would have a right of action to claim for damages, which is known as a “follow-on action”. However, liability under this limb might be limited in Hong Kong because not all affected third parties would be aware of such rights or be willing to bring a claim if the amount involved is not substantial. Different from Hong Kong, the US allows class actions and has recently in the case of Fond du Lac Bumper Exchange Inc. v Jui Li Enterprise Co. Ltd., et al., 2:09-cv-00852 (E.D. Wis.) recognised 17 classes of indirect purchaser plaintiffs, who alleged to have suffered loss indirectly through paying or reimbursing others for the purchase of aftermarket sheet metal auto parts due to price-fixing by four Taiwanese manufacturers. In the absence of class actions in Hong Kong, it is open to the Tribunal to make orders such as pecuniary penalties or to pay damages, so that the affected third parties, such as the tenants, could be better protected.
Giovanna Kwong
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Jennifer Keltner to Lead Martingale
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Bothell, Washington, April 3, 2014—Martingale has announced that Jennifer Keltner will join the company as Publisher and Chief Visionary Officer April 16, 2014.
"We are thrilled to have Jennifer taking the helm," said Karen Johnson, Martingale's Director of Sales and Marketing. "We are poised for an exciting future at Martingale."
Jennifer Keltner, Martingale's new Publisher and Chief Visionary Officer
A 30-year veteran of the publishing industry, Keltner brings to Martingale vast experience in editorial, management and marketing. In her position as Crafts Group Content Chief at Meredith Corp., Keltner oversaw an expansive quilting and crafting media group, including magazines "American Patchwork & Quilting," "Quilt Sampler" and "Quilts and More," websites AllPeopleQuilt.com and HowToSew.com, the annual book "Quilt Lovers' Favorites," as well as calendars and special newsstand issues. Under Keltner's direction, the first-ever charitable "Quilt for a Cure Quilt Block Challenge" raised $100,000 for breast cancer research.
With a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Keltner began her career with the "Kansas City Star," where she spent a decade in advertising sales. Her interest in crafting, quilting and sewing brought her into the world of magazine publishing. She joined Meredith Corp. in 2000 as Editor and Project Manager of the "Better Homes & Gardens Complete Guide to Quilting" book and served as Senior Editor of "American Patchwork & Quilting" until 2006.
Martingale's President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Wierzbicki is leaving Martingale after more than 11 years with the company. His 30-year career in the publishing industry has included stints with Meredith Corp., HP Books and Time Inc. Wierzbicki is relocating to the upper Midwest to be closer to family and make the transition to a new career opportunity.
Martingale is an independent publishing company known for quality how-to quilting, knitting, crochet and craft books with beautiful photographs and step-by-step instructions. The company has sold more than 20 million books during its 38 years of publishing. Quilting books are published under the Martingale imprint That Patchwork Place®, a name recognized by quilters around the world as an industry leader.
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Dave Rose opens up on why he retired from BYU basketball, his father’s recent death, and Nick Emery’s missteps
(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) "I'm 61 years old and I still haven't worked a day in my life," said Dave Rose, who announced in March 2019 that he was retiring after a 14-year career in which he became BYU's all-time winningest men's basketball coach.
By Jay Drew
· Published: July 6
Provo • It has been a little more than three months since Dave Rose announced he was stepping away from his pressure-filled position as BYU’s men’s basketball coach and into retirement.
In a half-hour interview with The Salt Lake Tribune last week, Rose reminisced about his 22 years in Provo, the past 14 as the leader of one of BYU’s most successful athletic programs.
Rose said he has “no regrets whatsoever” about that late-March decision to call it a career, a move that shocked many BYU supporters. At times he’s wondered if he should have retired a year or two sooner.
“However long it has been, I will tell you this: my activities around town, my interactions in public, have been great,” Rose said. “With the way people have treated me, maybe I should have quit a long time ago.”
Rose said a University of Utah fan stopped him in the airport a few weeks ago and told him he loved watching his BYU teams play and respected the job he did with the Cougars.
“I said, well, one of the best things about being retired now is I can actually cheer for the Utes. That will be fun," Rose said.
Still, most of his basketball fandom will remain focused on BYU.
“I really am looking forward to watching this next year’s team and cheering for them and seeing how they do," Rose said. "I will keep watching, just from a different vantage point.”
At the request of former BYU star Jimmer Fredette and his brother, TJ Fredette, Rose will help coach Team Fredette in The Basketball Tournament later this month at the Maverik Center, but other than that he says he hasn’t thought about basketball much. His thoughts have been elsewhere.
Three days after former BYU assistant Mark Pope was hired to replace him, Rose’s father, Jack, died after battles with bladder, skin, prostate and stomach cancer. His funeral was April 19.
“This stomach cancer was what finally got him,” Rose said. “He lived a great life. He fought cancer for a long time, but he was [doing better] and then we lost him. We thought we had a little longer, but that wasn’t the case.”
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Still, the family considered it a blessing that Jack Rose hung on that long. “He was able to come to our last four or five home games," Rose said, "and when I got home from the Final Four, I went over to visit him and we talked about all three of the games, how great the games were.”
Four days later, the man who introduced BYU’s all-time wins leader (348, pending an appeal to the NCAA over the likely loss of 47 wins in the Nick Emery improper benefits case) to the sport of basketball passed away. He was 87.
Rose and his wife, Cheryl, were hoping to travel the world and watch some of his former players such as Brandon Davies, Jonathan Tavernari and Tyler Haws, but his father’s death postponed those plans. Maybe next year.
Still, the couple has traveled to Moab, Las Vegas and Portland, Oregon (to visit a daughter who’s in law school there), and spent a couple of weeks in Hawaii while Pope and his new staff moved in.
“Yeah, I’m happy,” Rose said. “This time of the year is pretty stressful for a coach. You are trying to put your team back together for the next year, and the recruiting still goes on for teams down the road. I don’t miss any of that."
The Roses plan to continue to live in the Provo-Orem area for the foreseeable future, because they are in the process of building a new home — “the home I have said I would put Cheryl in forever, but never had time to do it” — and all their grandkids now live in the area.
Here are more highlights from The Tribune’s interview with Rose:
On BYU hiring Pope as his replacement:
“I think that there were a good group of assistant coaches that had worked with us over the years that I thought would all be quality candidates. They hired probably the most experienced one among the people who were really interested in it. I think Mark has proven himself as a guy who can run a program, as he did down the street at Utah Valley. I am really happy for him. He is a guy that I have a relationship with and has been a part of BYU before. He will do a great job. He’s got so much energy, and so much passion. He loves the game.
"I told him that to be really in the right frame of mind, and to be really comfortable in that position, you have to fall in love with BYU somehow. If it is the students, or if it is the fans, or if it is the players, there is something that you really have to be passionate about in order to get through the challenges.”
On how he thinks BYU will fare next season and which games he will attend:
“I will probably go to quite a few, and even some away games. I will probably go to the Houston game. The Maui Classic will be great, too. I am excited to just watch them from afar. Obviously, I know most of these guys that are on this team.
"The six seniors that they have, we signed them all at one time. Even Jake [Toolson] played for us for a couple of years. So, it will be fun to watch how they put it together and how they go. It will be a heckuva challenge, but it could be one of BYU’s best teams if it all works together, works right.”
On what he and Pope talked about before Pope accepted the job:
“I think most of that conversation was just about the way that I feel that BYU had changed over the years...
"You have to keep your guys. You have to figure out a way to keep those guys. You know, they get married, and their wives get anxious, and they want to leave and their wives don’t like their husbands being evaluated publicly. Once that happens, I think you really have to take a real priority in that group of guys.
"I think this team has seven or eight married guys, which is totally different from when we started here. We would have two or three, maybe four. But now we are getting close to double figures, and that means the team dynamics are a little bit more difficult.”
On whether he’s still involved in the NCAA appeal to keep the 47 wins that could be vacated:
“No, that’s the university’s fight, and its issue now. I don’t really worry about it that much. That was obviously a really difficult point in my tenure at BYU. But we got through it, and it is in the past, and I hope Nick [Emery] has a great senior year. He deserves it.”
On whether he regrets keeping Emery in the program after the guard’s well-publicized missteps:
“No, I’m OK with it. I don’t think that will be a real public part of my career. That was a very personal challenge that I had as a coach to try to help that student athlete, that person. I have a great relationship with the family. Obviously, his brother [Jackson Emery] and I have been close forever, and I have known his mom and dad a long time. I just felt like I was in a really good position to help Nick — not so much basketball-wise, but help him find himself again from a really difficult spot. I think if you look at where he was, to where he is now, there is no question in my mind that I did the right thing for him, and everybody else can judge the rest of it.”
On his thoughts on star forward Yoeli Childs returning to BYU:
“I was just so happy for Yoeli, first of all. I mean, Mark and I talked at the Final Four, before he had accepted the job, and we talked about Yoeli, and I said ‘hey, listen, I have been with this kid for three years, and he’s a little bit different — when he gets the information from the [NBA], and if the information doesn’t come back like he wants it, I mean, there’s a chance, not a good chance, not a 50-50 chance, I don’t know what the chance is, but there’s a chance that this kid will want to come back and give it another shot so that he can get drafted.’ And Mark seemed a little bit surprised at that. I think everyone had told him that Yoeli was done and he was gone.
"But Mark is good. He stayed on that. I think the experience of Chris Burgess and Mark, as far as their pro careers were concerned, and the countries that they played in, and his opportunity to make the NBA one time, and then when you take these other opportunities, you basically lose your shot at it.
"I think all of that played into it. Especially with [Burgess], because Chris played all over the world in different places. Yoeli had a couple contracts offered and presented to him in different places. But it wasn’t the NBA, and so when I heard that he was coming back, I was really happy for him. And happy for the staff, because that’s the best recruit they could have gotten.”
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Recruitment problems for Elections Commission
[TamilNet, Saturday, 20 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan election officials say that at least two thousand government servants are required to undertake election work in Jaffna. But they are yet to find any one in the peninsula ready to take up election duty for the forthcoming local government polls in Jaffna.
The Elections Commission in Colombo sent out an urgent circular to all its branches in the Kachcheris in Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Vavuniya and Mannar to immediately find volunteers to handle election work in Jaffna.
The Election Commission has also informed the government that it requires at least five hundred vehicles on the day of the elections for taking officers to and from polling booths, transporting ballot boxes etc.
The Political wing leader of the Liberation Tigers in the Jaffna district, Thooyavan has sent out a letter officially to all heads of government departments asking them not to engage in election duty in the forthcoming local government polls.
The letter written on the LTTE's official letter head, urges department heads to convey the message to everyone working under them.
Thooyavan has also sent a letter to the Vehicle Owners' Association of Jaffna, asking them not to permit their vehicles to be requisitioned by the election commission for duty during the one day local polls.
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Dempsey, Yedlin named to final USMNT 23-man roster for World Cup in Brazil
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On Thursday, Sounders FC forward Clint Dempsey and defender DeAndre Yedlin were named to the U.S. Men's National Team's 23-man roster for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Dempsey returns to his third World Cup while 20-year-old Yedlin will be among the team's youngest participants.
"I'm really excited for DeAndre," said Sounders FC Sporting Director Chris Henderson, who himself made the 1990 World Cup roster as a 19-year-old standout at UCLA. "It reminds me of 24 years ago when I was sitting next to Roberto Donadoni and Tomas Skuhravy and some of the best players around the world, and you're playing in a tournament with them. His speed is definitely one of his best assets and as a one-on-one defender that's where he can recover and make up for things. He can help cover people with his speed and he can also use that in the attack."
Dempsey, 31, is the captain of the U.S. squad and has 36 goals in 103 appearances, including one in each of the last two World Cups. He is the only American to score in consecutive World Cup tournaments and aims to join a list of just 22 players that have done that in the history of the tournament. At the time he left Sounders FC to join the World Cup camp, he was the leading scorer in MLS with eight goals, though he has since been overtaken by Bradley Wright-Phillips with the New York Red Bulls.
Yedlin is Sounders FC's first Homegrown Player and the first MLS Homegrown Player to be named to the U.S. National Team for a World Cup. He burst onto the scene in 2013 when he earned the starting role for Seattle and an MLS All-Star selection. Yedlin later received a call-up to the U.S. U-20 National Team for the U-20 World Cup in Turkey, and earned his first cap with the senior team in February in a friendly against South Korea.
Yedlin will be under a lot of pressure as the second-youngest player in camp, but one thing that will help him avoid being too awestruck will be his time with Seattle playing alongside players like Dempsey and Obafemi Martins.
"It's a totally different landscape than when I was with the World Cup team," Henderson said. "He's around a guy that was a leading scorer in one of the top leagues in the world. The U.S. team is not in the same position as it was when it was just college players and there wasn't a first-division pro league. We're in a position now where we are respected in a different way."
For all the excitement surrounding Yedlin's position, there is also disappointment felt for Brad Evans, who will serve as one of the team's seven players on standby. A key contributor on the U.S. squad throughout the qualification process, Evans had earned the starting right back spot and made nine starts there in 2013.
One person who can relate to both players is Henderson. In 1990, he made Bob Gansler's team as the youngest player in the tournament. He thought it would be the first of many World Cups for him, but in 1994 he was the last player cut by Bora Milutinovic and in 1998 he was an alternate for Steve Sampson's team.
"I have a lot of feelings because I went through it three different times with three different World Cup teams and coaches," Henderson said. "Even if you're left out of the 23, you have to be ready. There are still friendly games to be played and more training."
Evans will rejoin Sounders FC, but it is unclear if he will be available on Saturday when Seattle faces Vancouver Whitecaps FC. He still stands the chance to get brought in as a late call up if the need arises.
"We're disappointed for Brad, but we're excited to have him back," Henderson said. "He's one of the 30 best players in the whole country, so we're glad to have him on our team."
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City hopping goes to Madrid
Contributed by Spaces Jul 12, 2019
As the sun rises over Plaza Mayor, it’s easy to see why so many people choose to live and work in Spain’s stunning Madrid. The Spanish capital’s central square, located very much at the heart of this bustling city of some 3.2 million people, comes alive every morning with locals, businesspeople and tourists enjoying breakfast, mingling and shopping, all beneath the watchful eye of the striking bronze statue of King Philip III.
The largest city in Spain, according to legend it was originally called Ursaria (‘Land of Bears’), due to the high number of the animals that used to prowl its ancient forests. These days, though, the best chance of receiving a bear hug is from one of the many enthusiastic street traders in a city where hospitality is as warm as the weather.
The arts and entertainment scene in Madrid is also legendary, with Arco – Europe’s largest contemporary art fair – turning the city into the centre of the international arts world during its five day run every year, and Festimad, where rockers both established and new perform at the Butarque Stadium in Leganés. “Madrid is more cosmopolitan than anyone might think,” says Ana Aramendía, Spaces community manager in Madrid. “It has hundreds of cultural events, all kinds of restaurants and endless leisure offerings. It really has so much to discover.”
But Madrid is about so much more than tasty tapas, awesome museums and stunning architecture. It’s also a pretty amazing place to work and do business. At the heart of Spanish working culture is a proper work/life balance, so it’s absolutely no surprise that Madrid has embraced the concept of flexible working, such as that offered by Spaces, a brand that goes beyond merely workspace. Spaces builds in a calendar of events designed to build a working community, with sessions such as business breakfasts and other fun events where people can meet, chat and collaborate.
From Río to Atocha
With locations dotted right across the capital, there are plenty of options for a new business looking to establish themselves in the city, each with its own unique strengths, surroundings and selling points. Located right in the very heart of Madrid, Spaces Río is situated in a beautiful historic building a short walk away from the famous Royal Palace and Plaza de Oriente Gardens, the perfect place to be inspired. “We´re much more than an office space,” says Aramendía. “We offer our clients a creative place to work and develop new ideas and synergies while feeling at home. Our aim is to provide them with a beautiful inspiring workspace, really focused on design, and making them feel that they belong to a vibrant community of like-minded professionals.” As Spain’s administrative and business centre, the city is ideally placed for companies looking to establish a new foothold in the country. Spaces Atocha Estación for example, is perfectly located next to Madrid Puerta de Atocha Station, the busiest and most important railway station in the country, placing this co-working hub right at the centre of the business district.
Surrounded by shopping malls, cafés and restaurants, it’s located near attractions including the Resolve It Amusement Centre and Escape Room, as well as more cultural destinations such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. “We’ve recently opened two new locations with two more to come,” says Aramendía. “We’re implementing many community activities and alliances to offer our clients the best possible experience.”
Recoletos to Retiro
One of those new Spaces due to open in December is Recoletos. Combining the best of old and new in a renovated building that manages to retain its classic features and spanning six floors, as with all Spaces sites, it also harnesses the very best of modern interiors, facilities and web connectivity. Located in an upmarket area of the city centre, it’s surrounded by high-profile offices for the government, army, courts and banks, alongside restaurants, theatres and parks. But the site too isn’t far either from the more bohemian area of Chueca, with its trendy bars and Bogui Jazz club. From here, the rest of Madrid is easily reached by bus and metro, with the Cibeles bus stop and Banco de Espana subway station close by.
Not far across town is Spaces Retiro. Ideally situated in the Golden Triangle of Art, Atocha train station is just nearby, too, providing direct access to high-speed trains to Barcelona, Valencia and Seville in no time at all. With all of this to offer, Aramendía is in no doubt that newcomers to Madrid are in for an eye-opening experience of culture, history, and business opportunity. “You can’t miss El Retiro park,” she says. “It’s our biggest green lung in the city, just in front of our building. We’re located in the very triangle of art, with super important national museums such as Reina Sofía, the Prado, Thyssen, and more. The Lavapiés district is five minutes away and it’s a booming multicultural area.”
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Manchester City vs Liverpool – English Premier League Soccer Betting Preview
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Liverpool will be visiting Manchester City this Saturday, November 21 at the Etihad Stadium in the English Premier League’s biggest attraction of the weekend. The Reds recently lost their first match under new manager Jurgen Klopp as Crystal Palace beat them 2-1 at Anfield the last time out. They’ll be hoping to bounce back against Man City, but it won’t be an easy task taking all three points against the league’s co-leaders. Klopp is expecting English international striker Daniel Sturridge to return from injury for this match.
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Manchester City vs Liverpool – Head to Head
Overall, these two sides have met 201 times in the past with Liverpool winning 98, losing 52 and drawing the other 51. City won 3-1 at home last season while Liverpool took a 2-1 decision at Anfield. Each team has won three, lost three and drawn four against each other in their past 10 encounters in all competitions. Man City’s last triumph at Anfield was a 2-1 win in May of 2013 while Liverpool last won at Man City in January of 2012 in a League Cup clash. Man City has four wins and two draws in their past six league games at home against Liverpool.
Liverpool enters the weekend in 10th place in the 20-team league with 17 points from four wins, five draws and three losses. They’ve scored 13 goals and allowed 14 against. Man City and Arsenal share first place in the table with 26 points each, but City has a better goal differential. They have eight victories, two draws and a pair of defeats on the season and have scored a league-high 26 times and conceded a second-lowest nine against. City will definitely be battling it out for the Premier League title this campaign while Liverpool will be happy to finish in the top four and earn a berth in the 2016/17 European Champions League competition.
One of the big stories surrounding this match is Raheem Sterling’s return to Anfield. The 20-year-old English international forward more or less forced Liverpool to sell him to Man City during the summer transfer window and he should expect to be booed mercilessly upon his return to Anfield. Both clubs have injuries to deal with as City just found out that French midfielder Samir Nasri will be out for up to three months with an injury. They’re already missing Spanish international midfielder David Silva, but it looks like Argentine international striker Sergio Aguero may return in time for this match. Silva could possibly join him. Liverpool is expected to be without captain Jordan Henderson, John Flanagan, Joe Gomez, Sakho, and Danny Ings, who’s out for the season.
Liverpool has just one defeat in their last half dozen road trips with two wins and three draws to go with it. Man City leads the league in shots on target with 83 this season while Liverpool is dead last at goal conversion rate at just 10.5 per cent. City is also one of the best defensive sides as they’ve allowed a league-low 28 shots on net against and lead the league in clean sheets. City is unbeaten in their past five league outings and are 5-1 at home this season. Liverpool has just one loss in their past seven league matches, but just two wins as the rest were draws.
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You are here: Home / Sports Memorabilia / Sports Memorabilia News / Baseball Hall Admits Jackson Jersey Not 100% Real
Baseball Hall Admits Jackson Jersey Not 100% Real
October 5, 2010 By Rich Mueller
The Baseball Hall of Fame has admitted that a jersey in its collection, purported to have been worn by Joe Jackson in the 1919 World Series contains material manufactured long after that era.
Spokesman Brad Horn told several media outlets including the New York Post on Monday that the jersey was pulled from its display in 2008.
The jersey was acquired by Major League Baseball from the collection of Barry Halper, still regarded as the most prominent baseball memorabilia collector ever. In the 1990s, MLB spent about $7 million for dozens of items from Halper’s collection and donated them to the Hall, which apparently did not perform due diligence on the jersey before buying it to share with visitors.
Halper died in 2005.
The Hall’s examination concluded that the fibers used to stitch the logo to the jersey were polyester, which wasn’t available until the early 1940s. The jersey also does not match the style or manufacturer of those believed to have been worn during the 1919 World Series
A glove attributed to Wagner is also being examined by the Hall.
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Healthy Wholesale
February 14, 2014 Movies, Markets and More No Comments
Larry Saltzer just wants people to eat healthy.
“I grew up in the food business. Understanding that business, sometimes you read food labels and you say ‘what is this stuff,’” he said. “I wanted people to know what they were eating. We wanted to create something that people could feel good about putting on their table.”
So he and his wife, Allison, started A&L Foods after they moved to Stapleton 10 years ago.
“We produce all natural products with fresh ingredients,” Larry said. “And we have 22 products that we sell through King Soopers.”
The products range from deli salads to dips, and you can find them in King Sooper’s Stapleton cheese & antipasto bar (or the grocer’s other locations).
“Right now, we distribute across the state, but we may expand our offerings by creating a nonperishable line,” he said.
The Saltzers applied for a grant to expand their business last year. While they didn’t get it, they’re open to future growth.
“We’re always looking for similar, nontraditional means of financing,” Larry said. “We also appreciate everyone’s support of our grant efforts and everyone who voted for us.”
For now, they’re loving life in Stapleton.
“We knew some of the first residents, and we saw Stapleton as a happy place to raise a family,” he said. “It was exciting and unknown when we first moved in. But our home is close to work, and life is convenient.”
The Saltzers also garden and bring their company’s healthy approach to their own dinner table.
“It’s nice to have a professional kitchen – it makes it easier to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner,” Larry said. “Healthy, fresh food just doesn’t come out of the box.”
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Our Heroes Awards
Meet the community stalwart who's done it all - from saving lives to fostering children
Dorothy Kay has been named on the Queen's Birthday Honours list
Dave Knapper
For more than five decades caring Dorothy Kay has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of families around her.
From supporting churches to fostering children and even working as a voluntary medic, the 79-year-old has proved to be the very definition of a ‘community stalwart’ in Rushton Spencer.
And she has done it all despite living with a back injury which left her needing two serious operations.
Now her efforts around Dane Valley have been recognised by royalty after she was named as a BEM recipient in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Dorothy, who lives with husband John, said: “When I found out I couldn’t believe it! I thought my husband was making it up.”
The couple first moved to Rushton Spencer in 1966 and Dorothy soon agreed to become a Sunday school teacher in nearby Swythamley before doing the same in Danebridge.
Dorothy Kay, of Rushton Spencer, is to receive a BEM
She also set up a choir which is still running to this day with Dorothy only stepping aside as conductor two years ago.
Another legacy still going is the Leek Churches Organ School which she helped found 20 years ago.
She said: “We would make sure churches which needed someone to play the organ could get one. I have always loved singing and music.”
Dorothy has also volunteered to support patients across the area. She was treasurer with the Friends of St Edward’s Hospital in Cheddleton, helping to organise fund-raising.
“I first got involved in about 1980 and at one time they had more than 200 patients,” said Dorothy. “Some didn’t have friends or family and so we would go and visit them regularly.”
A million reasons why Ada deserves her place in Queen's Birthday Honours list!
The former secretary, who clocked up 25 years in education, trained to join the Dane Valley First Responders in 2002 and did a decade on the road with husband John.
Dorothy said: “Due to my back I couldn’t do any lifting but still did all the same training and we would go out as a three.”
She remains as assistant treasurer with the responders and also drives older residents to Stoke-on-Trent and Macclesfield for hospital appointments.
Dorothy, a committee member with the patients’ participation group at Moorland Medical Centre, said: “There isn’t much public transport out here and they need to be able to go to hospital and so we take them. I will sit in during the consultation if they want me to.”
In addition, Dorothy has also been chairwoman of committees including music, public affairs and education with the Staffordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes.
Staffordshire and Cheshire residents on the Queen's Birthday Honours list
Ms Eileen Chester-James. Chief executive Staffordshire Women's Aid. For services to Victims of Domestic Violence. (Staffordshire)
Professor Vincent Gaffney. Landscape Archaeology University of Bradford. For services to Scientific Research. (Staffordshire)
Mrs Jill Parker. For services to the Magistracy and to the community in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire. (Pattingham)
Miss Joan Margaret Redfern. For services to The Girl Guides Association in Staffordshire. (Burton on Trent)
Lawrence Paul Cleary. Founder and Chair Help Ear and Allied Research. For services to Deaf People. (Altrincham)
Emeritus Professor Christopher George Collier. Former head of Strategic Partnerships NCAS. For services to atmospheric science. (Tarporley)
Miss Menna Fitzpatrick. For services to Paralympic Winter Olympic Sport. (Macclesfield)
Mrs Janet Anne Jackson. For services to the community in Macclesfield, Cheshire. (Cheshire)
Richard Alan Johnson. For services to Children with Life Limiting Illnesses in North West England and North Wales. (Cheshire)
Mrs Amelia Elizabeth McCourty. For political and public service. (Tarporley)
Douglas Donald McGeorge. For voluntary and charitable services through the Prince's Trust the Centre for Social Justice and The Healing Foundation. (Eccleston, Cheshire)
Dr Parameswara Venugopal Prasad. General Practitioner Panton Surgery, Holywell. For services to the community in Holywell. (Hoole, Cheshire)
Mrs Victoria Rockingham. For services to the Environment and to voluntary service. (Stockport)
Michael Francis Burke. Peripatetic Caseworker Staffordshire County Council. For services to Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. (Staffordshire)
Mrs Anne Fiona Cherriman. Governor's secretary and Management Co-ordinator, HM Prison Stafford. For services to charity and to the community in Stafford. (Staffordshire)
Anthony Clive Ebbutt. For services to charity and to the community in Burton upon Trent Staffordshire. (Burton upon Trent)
Mrs Margaret Elise Hassall. For services to the community in Stafford. (Little Haywood)
Mrs Ada Anna Haywood. For voluntary service to Cancer Research UK. (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
Neil Ronald James Phillips. Volunteer and Fundraiser Uttoxeter Community First Responders. For services to Emergency Care. (Uttoxeter)
James John Corcoran. For services to charity in the UK and Abroad. (Widnes)
Thomas Edwin Hirst. For services to the community in Wakefield West Yorkshire. (Chester)
Mrs Dorothy Kay. For services to the community in Dane Valley, Cheshire. (Rushton Spencer)
Mrs Pamela Mary Pearson. For services to Young People and to the community in Macclesfield, Cheshire. (Macclesfield)
John Edward Riley. For services to the community in Chester. (Cheshire)
Mrs Debra Elizabeth Smith. Manager, Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital. For services to Nursing. (Stockport)
Ralph James Warburton. For services to the community in Audlem, Cheshire. (Audlem)
Professor Jaswinder Singh Bamrah. Consultant Psychiatrist, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust and Honorary Reader University of Manchester. For services to Mental Health, to Diversity and to the NHS. (Sale, Cheshire)
Jonathan Mark Rouse. Chief Officer Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership. For services to Health and Social Care. (Altrincham, Cheshire)
Professor Lionel John Clarke. Co-chair SynBio Leadership Council and director, BionerG. For services to the Synthetic Biology Sector. (Chester)
Ms Alice Mary Coote. Mezzo Soprano. For services to Music. (Whitegate, Cheshire)
Brian Joseph Cosgrove. For services to the UK Animation Industry. (Nantwich)
Professor Donal Joseph O'Donoghue. Medical director Health Innovation Manchester. For services to Kidney Patients. (Poynton, Cheshire)
At home and Dorothy and John have fostered nine children over the years. She said: “I was unable to have children of my own due to my back injury. We found fostering to be so rewarding.”
She added: “Because of my back I couldn’t do certain things and so I just got involved with lots of committees. I am probably just someone who can’t say no!
“I can’t do all these things without help and I have a very good husband.”
Along with the BEM, Dorothy, who founded the Swythamley Historical Society with John 10 years ago, has now been put forward for a Sentinel Our Heroes Award in the Good Neighbour category.
Staffordshire Moorlands groups honoured with Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Husband John, a recipient of various awards due to his work with the ambulance service, said: “We hadn’t even moved into the house properly and she’d been asked to help at the Sunday school! She enjoys working with people and getting stuck in.”
Friend of 20 years Marion Burge, who has been a responder alongside Dorothy, added: “I was absolutely delighted when I found out she was receiving a BEM. She is greatly loved and respected in the community.”
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"Utter nonsense" for Syrian govt to use chemical weapons: Russia's Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Vladivostok on Friday, Aug 30, 2013. Mr Putin said on Saturday that it would be "utter nonsense" for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was winning the war, and urged United States President Barack Obama not to attack Syrian forces. -- PHOTO: AP
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters/AFP) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that it would be "utter nonsense" for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was winning the war, and urged United States President Barack Obama not to attack Syrian forces.
Speaking after the United States released an intelligence report, Mr Putin rejected communications intercepts as evidence, saying that they cannot be used to take “fundamental decisions” like using military force on Syria.
“Common sense speaks for itself,” he told journalists in Vladivostok when asked about claims that the Syrian army used chemical weapons.
“Syrian government troops are on the offensive and have surrounded the opposition in several regions. In these conditions, to give a trump card to those who are calling for a military intervention is utter nonsense.”
The US said on Friday it was planning a limited military response to punish Syria's President Bashar al-Assad for a "brutal and flagrant" chemical weapons attack that it says killed more than 1,400 people in Damascus 10 days ago.
Mr Putin told journalists that if Mr Obama had evidence Mr Assad’s forces had the chemical weapons and launched the attack,Washington should present it to the United Nations weapons inspectors and the Security Council.
“I am convinced that it (the chemical attack) is nothing more than a provocation by those who want to drag other countries into the Syrian conflict, and who want to win the support of powerful members of the international arena,especially the United States,” Mr Putin said.
He also demanded that the US shows proof that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons, arguing that failure to do so would mean that none exists.
Saying that such evidence is classified “does not stand up to criticism”, Mr Putin said. “It’s outward disrespect toward partners and world actors. If there is evidence, it must be presented. If they don’t show it, that means there is none.”
“Talk that these are once again some kind of intercepts of some kind of communications that don’t prove anything cannot be used as a basis for such fundamental decisions like using force against a sovereign state,” he said.
"Regarding the position of our American colleagues, who affirm that government troops used... chemical weapons, and say that they have proof, well, let them show it to the United Nations inspectors and the Security Council," he told journalists. "If they don't show it, that means there is none."
The Russian President said Mr Obama, as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, should remember the impact any US attack would haveon Syrian civilians.
World powers should discuss the Syrian crisis at a meeting of the leaders of the Group of 20 developed and developing nations in St Petersburg next week, he added. “This (G-20 summit) is a good platform to discuss the problem. Why not use it?” Mr Putin said.
It was Mr Putin’s first public reaction to the US claims that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, killing 1,429 people.
The remarks follow a US intelligence report regarding the killings and remarks by US President Barack Obama that the attack is “a challenge to the world”.
Russia, Syria’s vocal and powerful ally, has vowed to block any action against the regime of Mr Assad in the UN Security Council, where it is a permanent member.
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Postgraduate Degree In Veterinary Medicine At UK’s Most Affordable University
April 24, 2017 by Austin Cyril Leave a Comment
Several factors are taken into consideration when choosing a university to do a Postgraduate program abroad. High on the list include variables like affordability, political situation of the host country, culture and the pedigree of the school.
Situated in central London with a campus in the relatively quiet rural community of Hertfordshire, the Royal Veterinary College in London ticks many of the important boxes for choosing a destination for a Postgraduate course in veterinary medicine.
Read more: Study in Australia: Top 4 veterinary science Universities; tuition and cost of living
A recent country-wide research of universities ranked the school as the most affordable school for a postgraduate degree in veterinary medicine in UK.
It is remarkable that RVC can rank so highly given that it is close to London, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Credibility of the ranking
The survey was carried out by the Reddin Survey. This survey is the source of the most comprehensive data of university tuition fees in the UK. With their resources and data, they were able to rank the universities in terms of how much tuition is paid by international students across the UK.
The survey provided a useful guide to the top ten affordable universities in the UK for Postgraduate studies. In the following days, we would be looking at some of the universities that made it to the top 10 list.
Postgraduate studies in Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Medicine is one of the most sought after courses in the world. So a graduate with a good degree from a prestigious university is likely to command a lot of respect and pay in the job market.
Cost of Living in the UK
The cost of living in the UK is determined by location and lifestyle just like everywhere else. Therefore, the figures listed below would be just the average cost of living for the whole country.
Read more: How to study in Uk as a US citizen
The cost of living per week in the country for students should be between £190 and £240. This is assuming there are no additional, unplanned expenses.
Here is the latest average cost of living in the UK for specific items:
Food – £45/week
Laundry – £10/week
Telephone – £15/week
Transport – £20/week
Utilities – £20/per week
Rent in furnished studio apartment – £1,102/month in London
Royal Veterinary College (RVC)
In all of the UK, RVC is the largest and oldest tertiary institution specifically established to train experts in animal medicine. The school is affiliated to the prestigious University of London.
The school offers programs for Postgraduate students in all the most important aspects of veterinary medicine. Undergraduates courses too are available for international students.
As far as pedigree goes, RVC has it in spades.
Average cost of living tuition for RVC international students
International students wishing to study here should have no problem with accommodation, at least in the first year. The university provides halls of residence to all first year students.
Apart from university-provided halls, there are other options both on and off-campus suitable for students. These are single room occupancy making them very affordable.
Cost of university accommodation – £8,100 – £8,300/annum
Cost of private accommodation – £8,900 – £11,000/annum
The annual tuition fee of a Postgraduate program in RVC is between £8,925 and £33, 000 depending on the particular program. However, it is from the tuition of £8,925 that makes RVC the most affordable University in the UK.
Read more: List of low tuition universities in the UK for international students
All international students whose first language is not English must show prove of English language proficiency by writing an approved test.
The most acceptable is the IELTS (in the Academic category) test. A score of 7.0 or above is best. The minimum acceptable score for each component of the test is 6.5.
Full details of programs and courses, and other admission requirements for international postgraduate students for RVC are available on the university’s website.
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Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction
Inwood, Michael,
Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Michael Inwood focuses on Heidegger's most important work, Being and Time, to explore its major themes of existence in the world, inauthenticity, guilt, destiny, truth, and the nature of time. These themes are then reassessed in the light of Heidegger's multifaceted later thought, and how, despite its diversity, it hangs together as a single, coherent project. Finally, Inwood turns to Heidegger's Nazism and anti-semitism, to reveal its deep connection with his personality and overall view of philosophy. This is an invaluable guide to the complex and voluminous thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest yet most enigmatic philosophers. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Auteur Inwood, Michael,
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Delight as rescue package revealed for troubled Newhaven college
Riverside location ... University Technology College (UTC) in Newhaven
Rupert Taylor
The Government has announced that the East Sussex College Group and both Lewes and Eastbourne councils are their ‘preferred partners’ after the college and councils made a joint bid to take over troubled UTC (University Technology College) in Newhaven.
In close liaison with Maria Caulfield, MP for Lewes, the college and council senior teams acted quickly following the announcement by Lord Agnew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, that funding for the UTC was being terminated with a view to closure by August 2019.
Subsequently, an expression of interest was submitted to the Department of Education and this has now been formally accepted as the basis for further negotiations.
Dan Shelley, Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and Engagement, East Sussex College Group, said: “This is just one small step in a longer process, yet I am absolutely delighted that the Government has chosen to work with ourselves and our partners at Lewes and Eastbourne councils.
“Together with East Sussex County Council, Newhaven Enterprise Zone and other local stakeholder groups, we will work tirelessly to make the site and the training fit for purpose.
“There is still a long way to go with negotiations with the Department of Education, but I am very hopeful we can achieve the various agreements needed and ensure UTC becomes the heartbeat of quality learning for young people and adults that it was always intended to be.
“I would also like to thank Maria Caulfield for her steadfast support and determination to create a new beginning for UTC.”
Ms Caulfield said: “I am delighted that the Government have chosen East Sussex College Group and Lewes and Eastbourne Councils as their preferred partner to take over the UTC in August 2019. This is excellent news for Newhaven and young people in the town who will be looking to go to college.
“Whilst there is still more work to do this is a very encouraging step closer to ensuring college provision in Newhaven and goes hand in hand with my work to regenerate Newhaven into a more vibrant and thriving community.”
As part of the joint bid a detailed feasibility study was started to assess the full scope of what level and type of education is best delivered across the UTC site. This work is ongoing and will include further consultation with stakeholders in the community to ensure the right mix of provision is achieved.
Cllr Andy Smith, Leader of Lewes District Council, said: “This is astoundingly good news for Newhaven and for families across the wider district.
“The council is driving forward with numerous commercial developments and initiatives in Newhaven and learning and skills are fundamental to this broad strategic plan.
“East Sussex College Group is a much valued partner of the council and I look forward to continuing our work with them and other local organisations that share our ambitions for Newhaven.”
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Last summer governors at UTC announced ‘with huge disappointment’ it was to close because of a shortage of students needed to become financially viable. It came amid reports of ‘chaotic leadership and frequent bullying’.
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Discrimination against Black People 'Commonplace' in EU - Report
Almost a third of black people in the European Union have been on the receiving end of racial harassment in the past five years, a new survey revealed on Wednesday, describing discrimination in the bloc as "commonplace."
More than 5,800 first-generation immigrants or descendants of immigrants in 12 EU member states took part in the survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, which concluded that "simply "being Black" means often facing entrenched prejudice and exclusion."
Nearly a third of respondents (30%) stated that they had experienced racial harassment in the five years before the survey, with results varying widely between member states.
Finland had the highest rate of all 12 member states surveyed, with 63% of respondents reporting having been the target of offensive non-verbal cues, threatening comments or even threats of violence.
The Mediterranean island nation of Malta had the lowest prevalence (20%).
Five percent also said they had experienced a racist attack in the past five years. In most cases, a vast majority of victims eschewed going to the police, stating that they felt reporting the incident would not change anything or that they either didn't trust or were afraid of the police.
"Racial discrimination and harassment are commonplace," EUAFA director Michael O'Flaherty said in the report.
"Discriminatory profiling by police, too is a common reality," he added.
One-quarter of all people surveyed were stopped by the police in the past five years. Among these, four in 10 characterised the most recent stop as racial profiling.
Additionally, nearly 40% of respondents felt they had been discriminated against in the past five years because of their skin colour, ethnic origin or religion.
This was particularly true in the labour market, where "people of African descent are often engaged in low quality employment that does not correspond to their level of education," the report flagged.
Access to housing was equally problematic, with nearly half of the respondents living in overcrowded housing (45%), compared to 17% of the general population in the EU.
Despite the already damning evidence, the report noted that because a number of member states do not provide official information on racial or ethnic origin in administrative data, "the survey, therefore, cannot claim to capture the entire scale and complexity of the experiences of black people across Europe."
"In the 21st century, there is no excuse for racial discrimination. Yet black people in the EU today are still victims of widespread and unacceptable levels of discrimination and harassment simply because of the colour of their skin," O'Flaherty said
"We need to stamp this out once and for all. For this, member states need effective and targeted policies and laws to ensure black people are fully included in our society."
The European Network Against Racism described the report as "an important step in documenting the prevalence of Afrophobia" in the EU.
"These findings document what we have been saying for a long time: racism experienced by Black people in European society is structural, and we are in need of structural solutions," its chair Amel Yacef said in a statement.
Source: Euro news
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Anthony Perkins, the actor who has died in Los Angeles aged 60, specialised in the portrayal of gawky, neurotic young men, the most memorable of them being Norman Bates, the murderous motel-keeper in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho (1960).
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The film, originally devised by Hitchcock as a tease, was at first panned by the critics as a nasty piece of titillating voyeurism.
Later, though, Psycho was credited with having introduced a new genre of horror movie, which dispensed with the traditional ingredients of supernatural shenanigans in gothic castles and brought the possibility of terror closer to home.
Many axe-wielding lunatics have run wild on the big screen since then, but few have matched Bates's spine-tingling brand of mild-mannered monstrosity, or the now legendary scene, in which, wigged and dressed in his mother's clothes, he frenziedly knifed the unsuspecting Janet Leigh in the shower.
Perkins did indeed seem disturbingly at ease with the part of the stuttering psychopath, locked inside the old weather-boarded house, with nothing to brood upon but his stuffed birds and his dead mother's memory - not to mention her skeletal remains.
To the actor's consternation, his own personality became associated with his deranged creation. After Psycho was released Perkins refused to give interviews or to discuss any similarities between himself and Bates.
His feelings of panic about the reaction to the film led him to seek psychiatric help, and it was only a matter of time before he was publicly admitting to having suffered childhood feelings of jealousy towards his father. 'I remember praying for him to die,' he recalled, 'so I could have my mother all to myself.'
In the event his father Osgood Perkins, the stage and film actor, did die young, when the boy was just five, throwing him into a claustrophobic relationship with his mother which led to years of repression and guilt: 'We were more like lovers than a mother and son.'
Perkins also unburdened himself of the fact that he had been a virgin at 39 and had nursed a 'pathological fear of women' for more than 20 years.
If Perkins's identification with his role in Psycho came easily, there were other occasions on which he went to extremes to imbue his characters with verisimilitude.
In 1984 he distinguished himself from his Hollywood peers by being ordained as a minister of the Universal Church of America - to help him 'get the feel' of his role as a preacher in Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion.
Afterwards Perkins was called upon to preside over several ceremonies, notably Russell's marriage aboard the Queen Mary at San Francisco.
But, for all his eccentricities - such as his habit of walking barefoot around town - Perkins was known in the movie industry as an articulate, intelligent and conscientious actor.
'I was always very keen,' he declared. 'I would do anything they asked of me.' His eagerness to please led Perkins, perhaps against his better judgment, into taking a number of unsuitable roles in forgettable films, which tended to obscure a very real talent.
Anthony Perkins was born in New York on April 4 1932. His mother was a strong-willed New England woman, who, after the sudden loss of her husband, transferred her maniacal attentions on to her son. Perkins later attributed his 'fierce, compulsive ambition to act' to his need to escape her domination.
At 13 he began painting scenery and selling tickets, and went on to act with 'summer stock' companies during his school holidays.
In 1953, while studying history at Rollins College, in Florida, he heard that Elia Kazan was auditioning for The Actress, and hitch-hiked to Hollywood, where he persuaded the director to give him a screen-test. He heard nothing for six months, but then received a call from Kazan summoning him for a costume fitting.
After making his film debut opposite Jean Simmons in the film in 1954 Perkins moved back to New York, where he joined Kazan's Actors' Studio.
His next role was as the young student, seduced by his housemaster's wife, in Vincent Minelli's flop Tea and Sympathy (1956). But in that same year he made Friendly Persuasion with Gary Cooper, which earned him an Oscar nomination for supporting actor; and in 1959 he co-starred with Gregory Peck and Fred Astaire in the celebrated film of Nevil Shute's anti-war book, On the Beach.
The release of Psycho the next year brought Perkins the recognition he had always sought, though he quickly decided that fame was a mixed blessing.
Tired of being typecast as 'neurotic and haunted', he moved to Europe, where he starred in the romantic comedy, Goodbye Again (1961), opposite Ingrid Bergman.
Perkins won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his part as the young law student seduced by Bergman, though his private romantic life did not run as smoothly.
Perkins recalled Goodbye Again as just one of the countless occasions on which his 'overwhelming fear of girls' got the better of him. During the making of the film he was informed by friends that Bergman was attracted to him, and thereafter insisted that they were never alone when rehearsing love scenes.
In 1962 Perkins collaborated with Orson Welles on The Trial. He and Welles worked closely for several months, despite endless arguments about the guilt of the main character. 'We ate every meal together,' Perkins remembered, 'went nightclubbing together and talked about everything. It was a rare friendship for me.' The film was considered over-elaborate by critics.
Of the other productions Perkins made in Europe in the early 1960s, the one which best displayed his range was Five Miles to Midnight (1963). As Sophia Loren's sinister, conniving husband, he gave a bravura performance of controlled menace.
Back in America, after playing another psychopath in Pretty Poison (1968), he showed that he could be equally impressive in a slight, well-meaning role, this time as Chaplain Tapman in Catch 22 (1970).
Two years later, during the filming of John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Perkins met and fell for Victoria Principal, with whom he embarked on a 'week of passion and revelation'.
He duly dropped his psychoanalyst and 'started dating girls', and in 1973 married Berry Berenson, whom he had met when she profiled him for Andy Warhol's magazine Interview. Sixteen years Perkins's junior, she remembered 'being in love with him at 12'.
By 1983 Perkins said he felt sufficiently comfortable with himself to accept, 'eagerly', the chance to play Norman Bates again, in the first of two unremarkable Psycho sequels.
The original house was, surprisingly, still standing, 23 years after it had been built on the studio 'back lot'; and it was used, filled with the same choice examples of Victoriana, in the production.
Critics condemned the film - advertised with the slogan 'Norman Bates is coming home' - as imitation Hitchcock, but this did not stop Perkins making a third attempt in the late 1980s, this time as director as well as star. He bought books on directing, but found them too technical, and eventually 'just went on instinct'.
Psycho III enjoyed more success at the box office than its predecessor, perhaps because Perkins's approach was more tongue-in-cheek. He included a number of jocular references to the 1960 original.
At one point Bates prevented a suicidal girl from slitting her wrists in the shower. She apologised for the terrible mess, and Bates replied 'I've seen it worse.'
Latterly Perkins tended to turn down work if it took him away from his family. He described himself as an indulgent father, who allowed his two sons to 'stay up and watch Psycho on television'. If ever they had trouble sleeping, he would comfort them with the thought that they were 'under the same roof as Norman Bates, the owner of the motel and the house. . . what else can possibly happen to you?' The actor died from complications from the Aids virus.
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New Penalties To Be Set for Dangerous Cycling
January 23, 2015 by Alec Jordan
Cycling may seem like a leisurely and healthy way to commute to work or get around town, but a combination of narrow streets, a lack of clearly enforced road rules, and occasionally reckless riders have pushed the Japanese government to institute a new range of severe penalties for cyclists who flaunt traffic laws.
The National Police Agency recently told the The Japan Times that 8,141 collisions were reported in 2013, 93 of which led to fatalities. The total number of collisions has dropped since 2003, when 10,443 incidents were reported, but only 61 of them were fatal.
This alarming increase in bike-related deaths has prompted Japanese lawmakers to take action. On Tuesday, it voted to enact more severe penalties for cyclists who violate traffic laws such as failing to give the right of way to pedestrians, biking too quickly on sidewalks, not having proper brakes, or using mobile phones while riding. Mandatory three-hour safety courses will be held for cyclists who are ticketed more than twice in the span of three years. Fines of up to ¥50,000 will be given to repeat offenders. Police told Japan Times that hundreds of cyclists are guilty of violations every year.
Reaction to the new rules has been mixed, with comments on the Japan Times story including the following:
“This is all very well, but the plods hardly ever enforce the laws they have at their disposal now. I doubt too many errant cyclists have too much to worry about.”
“Cyclists seem to move about in an unlegislated area, being victims and perpetrators at the same time. I have been harassed many times by motorists, because I was riding on the left side of the street with my bike, as required by traffic regulations… On the other hand walking with a small child on a sidewalk can be a real nightmare.”
“The largest group of cycle rule violations are the police themselves. They never wear helmets, rarely have usable lights or reflectors, and they ride on sidewalks. If the law enforcers can’t obey the law, how can they expect the average rider to?”
A February 2013 Japan Times article noted that police officers in Tokyo ticketed 437 cyclists in the previous year for running red lights, up from the mere 55 who committed such violations in 2008. Later that year, the popular Tokyo By Bike blog highlighted the arrest of a 31-year-old cyclist who didn’t have a proper brake on his rear wheel. The author of post also noted that contradictory accounts of the incident appeared in several different articles, with the police saying they had charged the perpetrator after multiple warnings, and the cyclist saying that he had no idea about the rule. The blogger ended his post with the following, all too fitting, paragraph:
“Ideally the government needs to commit to educating the public about how to ride safely and legally, possibly through an extensive campaign of television advertisements. It’s the only way to ensure that the message reaches the majority of the population.”
The new penalties will come into effect in June, but it will remain to be seen whether they will be enough of a deterrent to make a difference.
—Kyle Mullin
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Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell
Publisher(s): The Heritage Press
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OCLC: 863090555
When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in realtive poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who offers them a suitable residence at a small rent. The elder Miss Dashwood is already in love and her younger sister soon contrives to fall in love as well.
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Sense and Sensibility (Unabridged)
Sense and Sensibility is a sharply detailed portrait of the decorum surrounding courtship and the importance of marriage for women in early 19th-century upper-class English society. The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne Dashwood who, as members of the upper class, cannot "work" for a living and must therefore make a suitable marriage to ensure their livelihood. Elinor is a sensible, rational creature, while her younger sister, Marianne, is wildly romantic - a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion.
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first novel, is an entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm; Marianne is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor's reason nor Marianne's passion can lead them to happiness - as Marianne falls for an unscrupulous rascal and Elinor becomes attached to a man who's already engaged.
Startling secrets, unexpected twists, and heartless betrayals interrupt the marriage games that follow. Filled with satiric wit and subtle characterizations, Sense and Sensibility teaches that true love requires a balance of reason and emotion.
This is Austen's first published novel, from 1851, which she wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances.
The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sister's characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. Through the events in the novel, Elinor and Marianne encounter the sense and sensibility of life and love.
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
Sense & Sensibility (Unabridged)
When two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, and their mother are left to the financial mercies of John Dashwood and his wife, they find themselves in drastically reduced circumstances.
In this Audible Exclusive production, Academy Award® nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) narrates one of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Sense and Sensibility. In this timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, two teenage heroines must overcome the pitfalls of Georgian England’s high society in order to achieve the love and happiness they seek. The admiration that Pike has for Austen’s work is shown clearly through this passionate delivery of Austen’s first published novel.
“The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, tells the classic tale of love and heartbreak in late 18th-century England. The story follows the romantic trials and tribulations of the daughters of the recently widowed Mrs. Dashwood as they encounter, and learn to handle, the emotionally reckless male characters of Georgian society. In order to find happiness, the two teenage heroines (Marianne and Elinor) must each learn to navigate through a life where status and money govern the rules of love.
A true classic of English literature, Sense and Sensibility is written with all the hallmarks of Austen’s style, providing strong female protagonists, great irony and wit, and showcasing her superb talent for character creation and dialogue.
Jane Austen is one of the most influential and celebrated novelists in English literature. The daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, she was the seventh of eight children and was, from a young age, an avid reader and writer. After graduating from Oxford, Austen survived typhus and embarked on a literary career seeing her works published anonymously throughout her life.
Best known for Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), her six full-length novels have rarely been out of print and have spawned numerous film, television, and drama adaptations. Rich in satire, romance, and wit, Austen is renowned for her critiques of 18th-century British high society and the role of women within it.
About the Narrator
Rosamund Pike is an acclaimed English actress most recognized for her breakthrough role as a Bond girl in Die Another Day (2002), where she won the Empire Aware for Best Newcomer, and her towering lead performance in Gone Girl (2014), which won her an Empire Award for Best Actress. A graduate of English literature from Oxford University’s Wadham College, Pike began her career in stage productions and television appearances before later transitioning into film. Having often spoken of her admiration for the works of Jane Austen, Pike played Jane Bennett in a 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice as well as providing narration of this novel for Audible in 2015.
Jane Austen's acclaimed comedy of manners contains a truly memorable cast of characters, including the snobbish Mrs Ferrers, impetuous Marianne, selfish John Dashwood, and his awful, grasping wife. Annette Crosbie captures all the wit and charm of the romance in this BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour reading.
Jane Austen’s debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent “sense” and “sensibility,” or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their own separate ways. The impetuous Marianne falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret of her affections. Meanwhile, Elinor and the mild-mannered Edward Ferras feel a mutual attraction, yet neither has the directness to acknowledge it. When it is revealed that Willoughby is in fact an unscrupulous fortune hunter and that Edward is bound by a previous commitment to another woman, each sister’s romantic hopes are dashed. As they bear their grief in their different ways, Marianne learns from Elinor’s quiet restraint, while Elinor learns the value of Marianne’s candid expression. In the end, both sisters are happily settled, having each developed a more balanced approach to life and love.
Rule by head or rule by heart? Elinor Dashwood is a great believer in "sense," while her exuberant younger sister Marianne feels keenly that only "sensibility" (what today we'd call passion) serves to guide the heart. Through vicissitudes and, in the case of Marianne, outright betrayal by her lover, these two women learn the value in the other's outlook, and thereby prepare themselves for later domestic bliss that is the hallmark resolution of Jane Austen's novels.
Jane Austen (Unabridged)
Author: Carol Shields
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the accomplished author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With its fascinating insights into the writing process from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Carol Shields' magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.
Originally conceived by Jane Austen as a novel of letters, when it eventually became her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility instead presented her now-famous omniscient, and often ironic, narrator. Austen moves between the straight point of view, where information can be trusted as fact, and the ironic, where critiques of society can be leveled with some measure of sarcasm. Readers must be careful to distinguish between the two.
Here, scholar Wendy E. Mullen recognizes the shifts and tips off the listener by a slight vocal modulation for the ironic point of view. At the same time, she gives the characters unique voices, capturing their essences and bringing them to life as she reads. This tale of Elinor and Marianne will engage the listener for hours on end.
Author: Jane Austen & Golden Deer Classics
When Mrs Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for. The contrasting fortunes and temperaments of the two girls as they struggle to cope in their different ways with the cruel events which fate has in store for them are portrayed by Jane Austen with her usual irony, humour and profound sensibility. Juliet Stevenson is acknowledged one of the finest interpreters of Jane Austen.
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym 'A Lady'. A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged. Jane Austen wrote the first draft of the novel in the form of a novel in letters (epistolary form) sometime around 1795 when she was about 19 years old, and gave it the title, Elinor and Marianne. She later changed the form to a narrative and the title to Sense and Sensibility. By changing the title, Austen added 'philosophical depth' to what began as a sketch of two characters.
Margaret Dashwood's Diary: Sense and Sensibility Mysteries, Book 1 (Unabridged)
Author: Anna Elliott
Narrated by Mara Sarah. Margaret Dashwood learned from her older sisters - sensible Elinor and romantic Marianne - that the path of true love is rarely easy or smooth. And yet Margaret grew up dreaming of one day finding love and romance of her own. Now, smarting from the pain of a broken engagement, Margaret has traveled to stay with her now-married sisters in order to heal. But life is still far from smooth: John Willoughby, Marianne's first love, has unexpectedly returned to once again complicate the Dashwood sisters' lives. Colonel Brandon, Marianne's husband, has been commissioned to apprehend a ruthless ring of smugglers operating in the neighborhood. And when a mysterious figure from Margaret's past returns, Margaret realizes that she herself may hold the key to uncovering the smuggling gang. Worse, she comes to suspect that she faces an impossible choice of her own: not between sense and sensibility, but between duty and her own heart.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen’s first published novel. It tells the much-loved story of the two, very different, Dashwood sisters. Elinor suppresses her own emotions out of a keen sense of responsibility to her family and friends, while Marianne is highly expressive and romantic. When their father dies, British law leaves everything to their half-brother and his tight-fisted wife, and Elinor and Marianne, along with their mother and younger sister, have to move to a cottage on a relative’s estate where they experience the full spectrum of romance and betrayal.
Cast: Narrator: Cate Barratt John Dashwood and Mr Palmer: Phil Benson Fanny Dashwood and Mrs Palmer: Elizabeth Klett Elinor Dashwood: Libby Stephenson Marianne Dashwood: Amanda Friday Mrs. Dashwood: Sarah Mitchell Edward Ferrars and Servant: Craig Franklin Sir John Middleton and Thomas: Jeff Moon John Willoughby and Robert Ferrars: Russell Gold Colonel Brandon: Peter Tucker Margaret Dashwood and Anne Steele: Grace Keller Scotch Mrs. Jennings: Sara Morsey Lady Middleton and Mrs. Ferrars: PJ Morgan Lucy Steele: Elizabeth Chambers Audio edited by Libby Stephenson
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
Sense and Sensibility (Abridged)
Jane Austen's classic tale of romantic entanglement, read by Kate Winslet and featuring an immersive musical soundtrack to enhance your audiobook listening experience! The reduced circumstances of the Dashwood family cast a shadow over the romantic aspirations of daughters Elinor and Marianne - who must learn to mix sense with sensibility in approaching their problems with both money and men. Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration and complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration so that listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. (P)1995 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks and (P)2018 Booktrack Holding Ltd (background soundtrack only)
Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published book. This comedy of manners is set in England, London, and Kent during the 1790s. Tackling love and heartbreak, the book follows the lives of the Dashwood Sisters as they settle in their new home.
Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor's reason nor Marianne's passion can lead them to perfect happiness-as Marianne falls for an unscrupulous rascal and Elinor becomes attached to a man who's already engaged.
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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797,[1] and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.
Sense and Sensibility (Deluxe Illustrated Edition)
This new ebook edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen includes the full, unabridged text of the book and a fully-linked table of contents and list of illustration. It also includes all forty of the classic illustrations by Hugh Thomson, carefully restored and formatted for optimum display on modern ebook reading devices.
There was nothing of the literary woman in the external affairs of her life and its conduct. Born on 16 December, 1775, at Steventon in Hampshire, of which her father was rector, and dying at Winchester on 18 July, 1817, she passed the intervening years almost entirely in the country. She lived with her family in Bath from 1801 to 1806, and at Southampton from 1806 to 1809. Later, she paid occasional visits to London where she went not a little to the play; but she never moved in “literary circles,” was never “lionised” and never drew much advantage from personal contact with other people of intellect. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon.
The Novel
Sense and Sensibility was first written about 1795 as a epistolary novel entitled Elinor and Marianne. In the fall of 1797, she began to write the novel in its present form; and, after laying it aside for some years, she prepared it for publication in 1809, when she had settled at Chawton in Hampshire. The second chapter, which describes the famous discussion between John Dashwood and his wife, is perhaps the most perfect spirit of pure comedy to be found in any of her novels.
Contemporary Reviews
On the Sources of Happiness, 1819 — Sense and Sensibility, the composition of Miss Austen, is a novel that may safely, nay profitably, amuse the leisure of your youthful days. False and affected feelings are here held up to just reprobation, and their unwise indulgence is seen to lead to ultimate misery; while good sense and right feeling are depicted, powerfully conducing to dignity of character, and peace of mind. The story is highly interesting, although Willoughby is not altogether a consistent character; his generous warmth, on some occasions, ill agreeing with his cold-blooded selfishness on others.
Literary Gazette - "We do not know a more agreeable writer than Miss Austen. The great charm of her characters is their reality. They are the truest pictures of English middle and country life of her own time."
The Literary World, 1870 — Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, are the best of Miss Austen's works. Northanger Abbey was one of the first. Persuasion is too slight to be scarce worth reprinting, but Emma and Mansfield Park are quite worthy of the authoress's reputation. In Sense and Sensibility we see the superiority of the former to the latter.
The debut novel from author Jane Austen, started when she was only a teenager and originally published under a pseudonym, is a marvelous depiction of the life of women in the eighteenth century. It follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, and their conflicting approaches to life. Elinor is reserved and dispassionate, and always being misread as cold. Young sister Marianne wears her heart on her sleeve, and quick to make rash decisions. When the girls’ father dies, and their greedy sister-in-law keeps the wealth for herself; Elinor, Marianne, and their widowed mother are left with next to nothing. The two girls then must shoulder the responsibility for taking care of the family the only way society allows: by finding a decent suitor to take care of them.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen in a novel that portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Elinor and Marianne experience love, romance, and heartbreak.
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.
Abeloved classic, Austen's first published novel explores the question of what drives your life: your heart or your head? The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are as different as sisters can be. Serious Elinor lives by reason and thoughtfulness while her younger sister, Marianne, only follows her passions. But in questions of love, they learn neither the heart nor head alone will lead them to happiness. Filled with romance, Austen's brilliant wit, and rich characterization, this is a celebration of sisterly love and the need for family--no matter how different they might be from us.
Sense and Sensibility (Dutch Edition)
Austen biograaf Claire Tomalin stelt dat Sense and Sensibility heeft een "wobble in zijn benadering ', die ontwikkeld omdat Austen, in de loop van het schrijven van de roman, werd geleidelijk aan minder zeker over de vraag of gevoel of gevoeligheid moet zegevieren. [6] Austen kenmerkt Marianne als een lieve dame met aantrekkelijke kwaliteiten: intelligentie, muzikaal talent, openheid, en het vermogen om diep. Zij erkent ook dat Willoughby, met al zijn fouten, blijft liefde en, in zekere mate, waarderen Marianne. Om deze redenen, sommige lezers vinden van Marianne ultieme huwelijk met kolonel Brandon een onbevredigend einde.
Jane Austen's sweepingly romantic masterpiece continues to delight generation after generation of readers. Beautifully presented for a modern teen audience, this is the must-have edition of a timeless classic.
Teenage sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood could not be more different. Marianne is passionat Se, impetuous, and recklessly romantic. Elinor is practical, thoughtful, and completely reserved. But Marianne and Elinor discover they have more in common than they thought when they both fall head over heels in love with unattainable men.
Opposites in every way except for their heartbreak, the two girls are determined to make their dreams come true. But in a society ruled by status and money, Elinor and Marianne will have to fight for the happy ending they both deserve. Through a series of romantic misadventures the girls come to realize that the key to their happiness may not lie in fiery passion or strict reason—but somewhere in between.
Author: Joanna Trollope
From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters.
John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate. When she descends upon Norland Park, the three Dashwood girls—Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret—are faced with the realities of a cold world and the cruelties of life without their father, their home, or their money.
With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.
Reimagining Sense and Sensibility in a fresh, modern new light, she spins the novel’s romance, bonnets, and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. For when it comes to money, some things never change....
Author: Jane Austen, Austin Dobson & Hugh Thomson
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence
Sense and Sensibility (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Jane Austen & Charles Edmund Brock
«Sense and Sensibility» is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym «A Lady». A work of romantic fiction, «Sense and Sensibility» is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative’s property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.
The «Animedia Company» e-book edition of the «Sense and Sensibility» is illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock and introducted by Henry Austin Dobson and Reginald Brimley Johnson.
This DigiSync Book is a new audio / ebook format – read and listen separately or do both at the same time. High quality readings and performances synced word for word with classic texts. Simple to navigate, with numbered pages and easy book marking and searching.
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, was recorded by Naxos Audio. This DigiSync Book edition was made by DigiSync Books Ltd.
Jane Austen’s comedy of manners tells the story of two strikingly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they experience romance, love and heartbreak in a society where status and money determine the rules of love.
READING FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS
Jane Austen writes of the family of a gentleman named Dashwood who dies and leaves most of his fortune to his son, with the understanding that he will 'look out for' his mother and three sisters. When that son marries a grasping woman who convinces him that his sisters’ funds are suitable to their needs and so require no contributions from his inherited fortune, the sisters are left to play the game of “Sense and Sensibility” in earnest.
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Author: Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble & Mary Balogh
Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen’s dramatically human narrative.
Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love.
Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters—and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen’s authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.
With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Mary Balogh
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, 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 • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events • Footnotes and endnotes • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work • Comments by other famous authors • Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations • Bibliographies for further reading • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate 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 influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor’s reason nor Marianne’s passion can lead them to perfect happiness—as Marianne falls for an unscrupulous rascal and Elinor becomes attached to a man who’s already engaged. Startling secrets, unexpected twists, and heartless betrayals interrupt the marriage games that follow. Filled with satiric wit and subtle characterizations, Sense and Sensibility teaches that true love requires a balance of reason and emotion. Laura Engel received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She has taught in independent schools in New York city and is now a visiting assistant professor of English at Macalester College. Her previous publications include essays on the novelists A. S. Byatt and Edna O—Brien. Her forthcoming book is a biography of three eighteenth-century British actresses.
SenseAndSensibility
Sense and Sensibility (1811) marked the auspicious debut of a novelist identified only as “A Lady.” Jane Austen’s name has since become as familiar as Shakespeare’s, and her tale of two sisters has lost none of its power to delight. Patricia Meyer Spacks guides readers to a deeper appreciation of the richness of Austen’s delineation of her heroines, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, as they experience love, romance, and heartbreak.
Author: Sarah Price
Henry Detweiler dies unexpectedly, leaving his second wife and three daughters, Eleanor, Mary Ann, and Maggie, in the care of John, his oldest son from a previous marriage. John and his wife, Fanny, inherit the farm and, despite a deathbed promise to take care of their stepmother and half-sisters, John and Fanny make it obvious that Mrs. Detweiler and her daughters are not welcomed at the farm. When Edwin Fischer, Fanny’s older brother, takes notice of Eleanor and begins to court her, much to the disapproval of his sister, Fanny makes life even more difficult for the Detweiler women.
In their new home, Eleanor wonders if Edwin will come calling while Mary Ann catches the attention of Christian Bechtler, an older bachelor in the church district, and John Willis, a younger man set to inherit a nearby farm. While Eleanor quietly pines for Edwin, Mary Ann does not hide her infatuation with John Willis. When the marriage proposal from John Willis does not materialize, Mary Ann is left grief-stricken and humiliated as the Amish community begins to gossip about their relationship. In the meantime, a broken-hearted Eleanor learns that Edwin is engaged to another woman.
Will admitting her affections for him result in the marriage proposal Eleanor has always desired?
This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility features:
• 36 full-color illustrations by Charles E. Brock
• an informative Introduction
• a detailed Biography and Bibliography
Originally published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first novel, focused on the romantic struggles of two sisters—the sensible Elinor and the passionate Marianne. Filled with Austen’s sharp wit and unforgettable characters, Sense and Sensibility launched the career of one of the world’s most beloved authors.
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Doors open for business at Trentham Shopping Village
Trentham’s bustling shopping village has been one of the Estate’s great success stories since it reopened to the public 15 years ago; so, the arrival of some more new faces is always likely to be of interest to locals and visitors from further afield.
A £7m expansion in summer 2017 added another 18 units to the 63 shops, cafés and restaurants already there, helping cement the Village’s reputation as one of the most successful new shopping centres in the UK.
Now, shoppers at Trentham have even more choice, following the opening The Lighting Showroom and Zoophoria, two new ventures have opened in the last few weeks – and another planned for later this week.
The opening of Trentham Craft Bar has already helped to raise a glass to the Estate’s 15th anniversary, and will also give shoppers somewhere to take a time-out from the rigours of shopping.
The brainchild of Steve Leech and Andrew Whittaker, it is primarily a craft ale and gin bar, offering 6 taps - which include a permanent house Lager, and Titanic’s famous Plum Porter - plus 4 constantly changing craft ales. There’s also a selection of quality wines, prosecco, coffee and soft drinks and nibbles; while the extensive and ever-expanding range of take-out bottles and cans brings something very new to the party - with shoppers also likely to find some unusual gifts for family and friends, or a treat for themselves to take home.
Jayley, meanwhile, is an international, family-owned and Trentham based fashion company, inspired by a sustainable and ethical philosophy in the development of premium and affordable womenswear designs.
Striving to encapsulate their love and passion for fashion, quality, and outstanding design in all their garments, owners Jean and Zhong Li will now bring together collections which harmonise sophistication and elegance, to give customers complete confidence in their choice of purchase.
Lee Davies has spent the last six years operating a cafe in Newcastle-under-Lyme, after he and his Taiwanese wife returned to the UK after running an English Language School in Taiwan for 8 years. Together they are set to open Changes Asian Kitchen, which will focus on freshly cooked, authentic Asian food. Bringing a taste of Taiwan, China, Thailand and Japan to Trentham, meals are complemented by a drinks menu of Chinese Tea, selected juices and Asian beers.
Since 2017’s expansion, occupancy of the shops within The Village remains high, and currently features a total of 78 different outlets, ranging from a huge, flagship Garden Centre at one end, through to the individually run Yellowstone Art Boutique.
The Trentham Estate is owned by the UK’s leading regeneration specialist St. Modwen Properties PLC. Its £100 million restoration and regeneration of the estate and gardens, which commenced in 2003, has resulted in the creation of one of the highest profile and widely acclaimed garden restoration projects in the UK - complemented by the successful Garden Centre, shops, cafes and restaurants, and the 119-bedroom Premier Inn hotel.
The whole 725-acre site attracts more than 3.25 million visits every year, and supports over 700 jobs, with scores more being created.
The Trentham Estate is finding several ways of celebrating its 15th year, and aims to bring some of the colour found in the award-winning gardens out into The Shopping Village – including around two miles of bunting.
For all media information, photo-opportunities and images, please contact:
Grant Mantle. Tel: 01782 657341. E-mail: gmantle@trentham.co.uk
The Trentham Estate, on the edge of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, offers one of the UK’s most diverse days out with a range of leisure activities for all ages.
It is one of the country’s top leisure destinations, attracting more than 3.2m visitors per year and was awarded a Gold Accolade by VisitEngland in February 2018 in recognition of the quality visitor experience offered. The fabulous restored Trentham Gardens at the heart of the Estate attracted over 730,000 visits in 2018 - making them one of the most visited gardens in the UK. Owned and managed by St. Modwen, the expert developer and regeneration specialist, the 725-acre Estate, which was previously owned for over 400 years by the Dukes of Sutherland, has undergone a massive regeneration programme since 2003. The Estate boasts: The famous Trentham Gardens, including the very important Italianate Gardens designed by Charles Barry in the 1830s that have been lovingly restored using top landscape designers. The gardens feature the UK’s first ‘barefoot’ walk, a great children’s adventure play area and maze and a beautiful walk around the mile-long lake, originally laid out by Lancelot “Capability” Brown in the 18th Century. The Trentham Garden Centre and recently expanded Shopping Village, an eclectic mix of shops and eateries with a 119-bedroom Premier Inn Hotel. Trentham Monkey Forest - a unique opportunity to walk amongst 140 free roaming Barbary macaques, in a natural woodland environment for this endangered species. Extensive woodlands.
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Explore Bytom
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Local time in Bytom is now 02:43 AM (Friday). The local timezone is named Europe / Warsaw with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 11 airports in the wider vicinity of Bytom, of which 4 are larger airports. The closest airport in Poland is Katowice International Airport in a distance of 11 mi (or 17 km), North-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
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Ruda Śląska is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is a district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (tributary of the Oder). It has been part of the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999. Previously, it was in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, part of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship.
Ruda Śląska, City counties of Poland, Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship
Świętochłowice (German: Schwientochlowitz, 1941-1945 Schwingen) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Rawa River (tributary of the Vistula). It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship.
Świętochłowice, City counties of Poland, Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Stadium
Silesian Stadium is a sport stadium located between Chorzów and Katowice, Silesia, Poland. It opened on 22 July 1956 and has since hosted crowds of over 120,000 for both football matches and motorcycle speedway world championships. It also hosts music festivals.
Buildings and structures in Chorzów, Football venues in Poland, Speedway venues, Speedway venues in Poland, National stadiums, Sports venues in Silesian Voivodeship, Event venues established in 1956
Zgoda labour camp
The Zgoda labour camp was a concentration camp for Silesianshttp://www. ipn. gov. pl/portal. php?serwis=en&dzial=2&id=71, Germans, and Poles, set up in 1945 by the Soviet NKVD in Świętochłowice, Silesia. It was controlled by the communist secret police until its closure by the Stalinist authorities of Poland in November of the same year. Between 1943 and January 1945 during World War II, the camp in Świętochłowice operated as German Nazi Arbeitslager.
Concentration camps, Internments, Soviet World War II crimes in Poland, Świętochłowice, History of Silesia
Osiedle Tysiąclecia (District of a 1000-year anniversary) is a district of Katowice and one of the largest districts in Poland. It is located in the northern part of Katowice, on the land once occupied by the villages of Bederowiec, Sośnina and east Klimzowiec. The construction of the district began in 1961 during the times of the People's Republic of Poland. The name was chosen as 1961 was a 1000-year anniversary of the founding of Poland. Area - ca. 2 km² Number of inhabitants - ca.
Districts of Katowice
Polonia Bytom
Polonia Bytom is a Polish football club founded on 4 January 1920 in the Upper Silesian city of Bytom, during the hectic months of the Silesian Uprisings. In late 1922 however, as a result of the Upper Silesia plebiscite, Bytom became part of Germany and the club ceased to exist. In May 1945, numerous players and officials of one of the most famous Polish clubs, Pogoń Lwów arrived in Bytom and decided to revive Polonia.
Polonia Bytom, Football clubs in Poland, Association football clubs established in 1920, Football clubs in Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Culture and Recreation Park
Silesian Park managed by WPKiW S.A. (Polish: Park Sląski and Wojewodzki Park Kultury i Wypoczynku S.A. , abbreviated as WPKiW and translatable as Voivodship Park of Culture and Recreation S.A. ) is a recreation complex in the center of the Upper-Silesian Metropolis at a border of Chorzów and Katowice in Silesia, Poland. It is the largest city park of this type in Europe. The area of the park is 620 hectares.
Chorzów, Parks in Katowice
OSiR Skałka
OSiR Skałka (Ośrodek Sportu i Rekreacji "Skałka") is a multi-use stadium in Świętochłowice, Poland. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 26,000 people.
Buildings and structures in Świętochłowice, Football venues in Poland, Sports venues in Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Planetarium
The Silesian Planetarium also Silesian Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory (Polish: Planetarium Śląskie Polish: Śląskie Planetarium i Obserwatorium Astronomiczne) is the largest and oldest planetarium in Poland. It was founded on 4 December 1955 to commemorate the great astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It is located in the Silesian Central Park, on the boundary between the Katowice and Chorzów districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.
Planetaria, Buildings and structures in Katowice, Buildings and structures in Chorzów, Astronomy in Poland
Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park
The Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park or Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny is an open-air museum in Chorzów, Poland. It is referred to as a skansen, stemming from the first open air museum of its kind, the Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden. The area of the park is 25 hectare. The museum presents a range of agricultural buildings from all over Silesia.
Open air museums in Poland, Buildings and structures in Chorzów, Museums in Silesian Voivodeship
Szombierki Bytom
Szombierki Bytom is a Polish football club from Szombierki district of Bytom. Szombierki currently plays at the sixth level of Polish football (liga okręgowa). Greatest achievement of club was championship of Poland won in 1980.
Bytom, Football clubs in Silesian Voivodeship, Football clubs in Poland, Association football clubs established in 1945, 1945 establishments in Poland
Ruch Radzionków
Ruch Radzionków is a Polish association football club based in Radzionków. The club was disaffiliated in 2012 due to financial problems and the board has decided to withdraw from the competition in season 2012/2013. Instead Ruch Radzionków place to league took back Polonia Bytom, which thus escaped relegation to the second division.
Ruch Radzionków, Sport in Radzionków, Football clubs in Silesian Voivodeship, Football clubs in Poland, Association football clubs established in 1919, 1919 establishments in Poland
Bytom Synagogue
Bytom Synagogue or Beuthen Synagogue was a synagogue in Beuthen, in the Prussian Province of Silesia, a border–town between Germany and the Second Polish Republic prior to German invasion of Poland in World War II. Since the plebiscite of 1922 the border passed just east of Beuthen, so that neighboring Katowice were in Poland.
Buildings and structures in Bytom, Synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht, Former Reform synagogues in Poland, Synagogues in Poland, 19th-century synagogues, Moorish Revival synagogues
Radzionków is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Located in the Silesian Highlands. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship.
Radzionków, Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship, Tarnowskie Góry County
Stadion Edwarda Szymkowiaka
Stadion Edwarda Szymkowiaka is a multi-use stadium in Bytom, Poland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home of Polonia Bytom. The stadium has a capacity of 5,500 people. It was opened in 1929. On 16 August 1942 venue hosted official football match between Germany and Romania . The venue is named after Edward Szymkowiak, legendary Polonia Bytom and Polish national team goalkeeper.
Buildings and structures in Bytom, Football venues in Poland, Sport in Silesian Voivodeship, Sports venues in Silesian Voivodeship
Stadion Ruchu
Stadion Miejski w Chorzowie is a multi-purpose stadium in Chorzów, Poland. Built in 1930s. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home of Ruch Chorzów. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000 people.
Buildings and structures in Chorzów, Football venues in Poland, Multi-purpose stadiums in Poland, Sports venues in Silesian Voivodeship
Chorzów Batory
Chorzów Batory (formerly Hajduki Wielkie) is a district of the Polish city of Chorzów, in Silesian Voivodeship. Until early 1939, it was a separate municipality. One of the most renowned football clubs in Poland, Ruch Chorzów, is based there.
Located at 50.2833, 18.95 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
Chorzów, Neighbourhoods in Poland
Bobrek, Bytom
Bobrek is a part of the city of Bytom in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:50|20|N|18|52|E||| |primary |name= }}
Bytom, Neighbourhoods in Poland
Bobrowniki, Silesian Voivodeship
Bobrowniki is a village in Będzin County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bobrowniki. It lies approximately 11 kilometres north-west of Będzin and 15 km north of the regional capital Katowice. The village has a population of 2,926.
Located at 50.38, 18.9947 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
Villages in Będzin County
Wymysłów, Silesian Voivodeship
Wymysłów (former German name Wimslau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świerklaniec, within Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres north-west of Tarnowskie Góry and 17 km north of the regional capital Katowice. The village has a population of 572.
Tarnowskie Góry County
Eintrachthütte concentration camp
Eintrachthütte concentration camp was formerly a labour subcamp of the German concentration camp Auschwitz, opened in Świętochłowice (Schwientochlowitz), Poland, in 1943, in operation until January 1945.
Nazi concentration camps in Poland
Basilica of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew
The Basilica of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew is a Roman Catholic church in Piekary Śląskie, Poland. There was a church in Piekary Śląskie from the fourtheenth century. The current church, designed by Daniel Grötschel in Neo-Romanesqe style, was completed in 1849. On 1 December 1962, Pope John XXIII elevated the church to the status of minor basilica.
Buildings and structures in Piekary Śląskie, Basilica churches in Poland, Churches in Silesian Voivodeship
Districts of the same city
These districts belong to Bytom.
Brzeziny Slaskie
Brzozowice-Kamien
Sucha Gora
These are districts that are close by, but belong to a different city than Bytom.
Huta Stara A
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Bytom.
Chorzow
Swierklaniec
Siemianowice Slaskie
Czeladz
Ozarowice
Bedzin
Mierzecice
Ledziny
Bierun
Kozieglowy
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Rammstein Chorzów
Starting at: 07:00 pm (19:00).
More Information: eventful.com.
Letni Cross Meetup #8 - Śląskie Konferencje Vol. 1
Starting at: 02:00 am (02:00).
Reinier Zonneveld - Fest Festival 2019 W/ Reinier Zonneveld Live
Kalya Scintilla & Eve Olution - Fest Festival
Regan - Fest Festival 2019
Oliver Schories
Bytom, Горад Бытaм, Битом, Bıtom, Beuthen, بیتوم, ביטום, ビトム, 비톰, Bithomia, Bytomas, Bitoma, Бытом, Bytůń, 比托姆
Biala Podlaska
Lagiewniki
Szarlej
Bialy Szarlej
Chruszczow
Bytom Szombierki
Chropaczow
Radzionkow Nowy
Maciejkowice
Lipiny
Dabrowka Wielka
Jozefka
Orzegow
Radzionkow
Karb
Godula
Bobrek
Chebzie
Rudzka Kuznica
Kamyce
Michalkowice
Bytkow
Wymyslow
Zychcice
Bykowina
Naklo
Miechowice
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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Born 1949 in Forssa, Finland, he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara, receiving a diploma in 1971. He continued his studies for a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher. His teaching positions include music theory at the University of Helsinki from 1974-88, and a professorship at the Sibelius Academy from 1988-93. He was named composer-in-residence for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in 1992, and conductor Osmo Vänskä has recorded many of his recent large-scale works with the orchestra. Aho has worked as a freelance composer, with a state scholarship, since 1993. He lives in Helsinki.
Known principally as a composer of large-scale works, to date Aho has composed seventeen symphonies, thirty concertos, five operas and several vocal works. His chamber music includes several quintets, quartets, sonatas and solo works. He first came to fame with his first symphony (1969) and second string quartet (1970).
His works of this time showed such neo-classical traits as a preoccupation with counterpoint (particularly fugues), and stylized renderings of older forms, such as the waltz. In the following decade he wrote in modernist and post-modernist styles. His use of irony and juxtaposition of contrasting moods and musical styles and genres has been compared to Gustav Mahler and Alfred Schnittke.
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Passengers react to latest South Yorkshire bus drivers' strike
Plans for dementia-friendly cafe in Sheffield park are unveiled
Plans to open a dementia cafe in a Sheffield park will go on display at two consultations this month.
Tuesday, 16 April, 2019, 14:59
How Hillsborough park cafe could look
Hillsborough park’s listed Coach House is set to be transformed into a dementia-friendly older people’s centre and cafe.
The abandoned coach house, last used as a munitions store during the Second World War, could be open for use by the whole community by the end of 2020.
Age UK Sheffield, which has been awarded £50,0000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop the proposals, are inviting people to see the plans and give their opinion.
The events are at Hillsborough Trinity Methodist Church, Middlewood Road, from 5pm to 7pm on Wednesday, April 24 and Hillsborough Park bowling pavilion, from 9.30am to 11am, on Saturday, April 27.
Steve Chu, chief executive of Age UK Sheffield, said: “We are very excited about these plans and the huge difference they could make, not only to people with dementia and their families, but to the wider Hillsborough community.
“We are looking at improving local facilities with new toilets, space for community groups and a new café, whilst the possiblility of hosting evenings, clubs and even weddings is also being discussed.
Age UK Sheffield says it will apply for a full National Lottery Grant later this year. A fundraising campaign is already under way.
The centre, behind Hillsborough Library and adjoining the park’s attractive walled garden, could host activities such as singing and dancing, as well as classroom-based activities and educational classes.
The community cafe would be open to thousands of park visitors, including dog walkers, families and runners.
It aims to provide local employment and volunteering opportunities in the Hillsborough area, while introducing people to the walled garden and other heritage within the park.
There is currently no dedicated older people’s activity centre in Sheffield. Age UK Sheffield is particularly interested in developing concepts such as a “Nana’s Cafe”, where lonely older people are brought together to cook for other people.
A survey, at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/M3QWV7F can also be filled in online.
A paper version of the feedback form is available at Hillsborough Leisure Centre, Hillsborough Library and Fairlawns Medical Centre.
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Retreating glacier reveals body of skier missing since 1963
Allan Hall, Berlin
July 28 2016, 5:00pm, The Times
More than 40 people remain unaccounted for in the area of the Swiss Alps where the German’s remains have been foundGetty Images
A Swiss glacier has finally rendered up the body of a unnamed skier who has been missing for 53 years.
When the man vanished on the ice and snow of the Bernina massif in 1963, America was just becoming embroiled in Vietnam, Harold Macmillan was at 10 Downing Street and a gallon of four-star petrol in the UK cost a little over four shillings (20p).
Over the past two summers the Morteratsch glacier in the canton of Graubünden has slowly yielded the remains of the missing skier. Thanks to advances in DNA techniques, they have been identified as those of a 36-year-old German reported lost at the time.
He was last seen on August 30, 1963, after he left the Boval hut heading to the…
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English major assumes role as editor-in-chief | The Triangle
English major assumes role as editor-in-chief
By Devon Harman
Photo Credit: Rachel Wisniewski
Pre-junior English major Julia Casciato is taking over as The Triangle’s editor-in-chief for the spring and summer terms.
Casciato has been involved in The Triangle since coming to Drexel with high school classmate and former Editor-in-Chief Sandra Petri, a pre-junior business major for whom Casciato will be taking over.
“We both decided that Drexel was where we wanted to be, and we knew that we wanted to be involved in the newspaper. So, first Monday of the term, we went to the staff meeting and we started right away ,” Casciato said.
According to Casciato, she was originally interested in Drexel because of its renowned engineering program but then realized her passions lay elsewhere.
“I decided to major in English because I’m really passionate about reading and writing, but you can’t necessarily just like to read to get the job done, and you can’t just like to write to get the job done. You have to be really passionate and you have to really care about what you’re doing,” she said.
It wasn’t until Professor Raymond Brebach noticed an article of hers in the Philadelphia Inquirer and sent her an email that she officially decided to attend Drexel to pursue a degree in English with a minor in marketing.
Since beginning as a staff writer at The Triangle, Casciato has served as assistant news editor and news editor and was awarded the “Editor-in-Chief” award by fall and winter 2012 Editor-In-Chief Helen Nowotnik.
Nowotnik explained that Casciato was very deserving of the only award that requires no consultations from other leaders within The Triangle.
“You know when someone is just so great that you can’t find words good enough to describe her? That’s Julia to me,” Nowotnik said. “Julia is an extremely hard worker and willing to make personal sacrifices to get things done. I’ve watched her grow from her first day on staff through her time on the news team and could not be more proud of her for taking on the role of EIC.”
Casciato explained that she is ready to begin her new position.
“I am really excited. I feel like I’ve put in a lot of hard work the last three years here. I’m really passionate about what we do because I think it’s really important to keep the community informed about what’s going on with Drexel,” she said.
Casciato also expressed excitement for working more hands-on with all of the staff members to generate ideas to improve the paper.
“Something I’ve learned as a news editor is that teamwork and leadership go hand-in-hand; you can’t just wake up one day and decide you want to be in charge of a bunch of people, you have to really work for it, and I think a big part of that is gaining people’s trust,” Casciato said. “The newspaper is just a team effort. There are a bunch of separate sections, but each section has to come together in the end to put a good product together.”
Her overarching goal as editor-in-chief is to make The Triangle more accessible and helpful to the Drexel community.
“A lot of what I want to do is expand the paper in a way where we’re almost like a ‘one-stop shop’ for the Drexel community. Anything you want, anything you need, Drexel-related, you can come [to] us; you don’t need to go to a million different Facebook pages. We want everyone to be able to come to thetriangle.org and just know what’s going on,” she said, and has already begun working with colleagues to get projects in motion.
With added responsibilities, however, Casciato recognizes there will be added challenges. “I think a big challenge is going to be finding the perfect balance between work and school and the paper. In the past, I thought of the paper as a part-time job in the number of hours I’ve worked, and now I expect to put even more time in,” she said.
Another challenge Casciato will face is funding.
“We’re independently funded; we don’t get any funds from Drexel, so it’s really important that we are putting out good products [for] our customers, but we also need to be benefitting from it,” she said.
Petri, who also served as both news editor and assistant news editor before ascending to editor-in-chief, explained some of the biggest differences between the roles.
“As [a] section editor, you’re much more connected with the details. You have control over things on a small level, and as editor-in-chief you are a bit disconnected and have to really trust your staff to take care of the smaller things so you can take care of the bigger things,” Petri said.
This term, she will be working again with Casciato, but as managing editor. Petri explained, “I’m excited to be working with Julia again. I’m so happy that we got to spend our whole Triangle careers together, and we’ve had to teach each other a lot. So I’m excited to be in a position where I can continue to help her grow and realize her potential.”
Petri continued, “I depended a lot on the editors-in-chief before me, and they taught us basically everything that Julia and I know, so I’m excited for she and I to be involved in the next legacy of leaders and teachers with her.”
Nowotnik, one of the editors-in-chief to which Petri referred, reminds, “The mission of The Triangle is to bring news to the Drexel community, and as long as Julia makes every decision with that mission steering her, she’s going to do great.”
Outside of The Triangle, Julia enjoys spending time with her friends and family, especially trying new eateries. She has worked as a peer reader at The Drexel Writing Center, where she did her first co-op serving as the Operations Manager. For her second, she worked at the Comcast Corporation as a communications intern in the National Engineering and Technical Operations department. She is also a recent fan of “House of Cards” and a long-term fan of the Phillies.
“I love baseball and have my entire life,” she said, and has even organized an effort to have The Triangle staff attend the Phillies’ College Media Night April 29.
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Akram Zaatari
10.06.2019 - Akram Zaatari: Art Basel Unlimited 2019
Akram Zaatari: Art Basel Unlimited 2019
Akram Zaatari's The End of Love is on display for Art Basel Unlimited, with Thomas Dane Gallery and Sfeir-Semler Gallery.
Stand: K19
05.06.2019 - Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel
Art Basel - Stand: R18
Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, John Gerrard, Anthea Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Barbara Kasten, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Caragh Thuring, Kelley Walker, and Akram Zaatari.
Preview: 11-12 June 2019
Public days: 13-16 June 2019
27.03.2019 - Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong - Stand: 1C02
Featuring works by: Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Anya Gallaccio, John Gerrard, Arturo Herrera, Phillip King, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Bob Law, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Xie Nanxing, Albert Oehlen and Akram Zaatari.
Preview: 27-28 March
Public days: 29-31 March
23.03.2019 - Akram Zaatari: The Script, Modern Art Oxford
Akram Zaatari: The Script
Modern Art Oxford presents a solo exhibition of works by Akram Zaatari. The exhibition includes the major new work, The Script (2018), and the video installation Dance to the End of Love (2011). Also on view is a photo-transfer installation devised onsite at Modern Art Oxford by Zaatari that extends his ongoing series, Studio Practices.
Akram Zaatari: The Script is a touring exhibition by New Art Exchange, Nottingham, in partnership with Turner Contemporary and Modern Art Oxford. Funded by Arts Council England.
30 Pembroke Street
23 March - 12 May 2019
07.03.2019 - Barbara Kasten, Akram Zaatari: Sharjah Biennial 14
Barbara Kasten, Akram Zaatari: Sharjah Biennial 14
Sharjah Biennial 14, Leaving the Echo Chamber, will showcase three unqiue exhibitions, curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons.
Sharjah Art Museum
Al Shuwaiheen
Arts Area, Sharjah
7 March - 10 June 2019
16.10.2018 - Akram Zaatari: The Script at Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Private view: 18 October, 5:30-7: 30 pm - Reserve a place here
Exhibition dates: 19 October 2018 - 6 January 2019
Akram Zaatari 'The Fold'
Lies Public Lecture Series at The Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
IAS Common Ground, UCL, WC1E
19 October, 6-8 pm
Free - Reserve a place here
05.10.2018 - Akram Zaatari: The Fold - Space, time and the image at The Fold - Space, time and the image Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Akram Zaatari: The Fold - Space, time and the image
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
5 October 2018 - 10 February 2019
For this exhibition, Zaatari positions the seemingly simple fold as a narrative form. The artist explains how "a photograph captures space and folds it into a flat image, turning parts of a scene against others, covering them entirely. Every photograph hides parts to reveal others...What a photograph missed and what was present at the time of exposure will remain inaccessible. In those folds lies a history, many histories." The exhibition will attempt to uncover and imagine these stories, peering into the scratches, erosion and that which archives previously shed.
Curated by Steven Matijcio and presented in partnership with FotoFocus Biennial 2018.
13.07.2018 - Akram Zaatari: The Script at New Art Exchange, Nottingham
New Art Exchange, Nottingham
13 July - 9 September, 2018
Launch event: 12 July, 6-9pm
Akram Zaatari will be in conversation with Dr Anthony Downey (Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa at Birmingham City University).
14 July, 2-4pm
Reserve your free place here
New Art Exchange presents a new commission by Akram Zaatari, The Script, based on the artist's continuing observations of online societies. This new work is presented alongside the acclaimed installation, Dance to the End of Love, 2011, with formerly unpublished photographs from his Objects of Study project.
The Script is a touring exhibition by New Art Exchange in partnership with Turner Contemporary and Modern Art Oxford and is funded by Arts Council England.
09.05.2018 - Akram Zaatari: Against Photography at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Akram Zaatari: Against photography: An annotated history of the Arab Image Foundation
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
11 May - 19 August, 2018
Akram Zaatari: Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright at Videobrasil
Akram Zaatari: Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
3 September - 3 December, 2016
Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright is Akram Zaatari's first solo exhibition in Brazil. Curator Solange Farkas and co-curator Gabriel Bogossian present six video works and a set of drawings that explore the delicate breach between public and private space and between past and future, reflecting on image making and its ties to politics, desire, and memory.
Akram Zaatari: This Day at Ten at Kunsthaus Zürich
Akram Zaatari: This Day at Ten
May 20 -July 31, 2016
Kunsthaus Zürich presents This Day at Ten. This inaugural solo exhibition is the first opportunity for a Swiss audience to engage with Akram Zaatari’s work and offers an insight into his multi-faceted artistic practice.
Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem screening at Tate Modern
Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.30-9pm
After the screening the artist will be in conversation with Tate Modern curator Andrea Lissoni, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Akram Zaatari: The End of Time at The Common Guild, Glasgow
Akram Zaatari: The End of Time
April 8 - June 16, 2016
The Common Guild, Glasgow
Akram Zaatari at British School at Rome
FRAGMENTS: Meeting Architecture
Akram Zaatari: The Archaeology of Rumour
British School at Rome
Akram Zaatari at the Gwangju Biennale
Gwangju Biennale
Gwangju, South Korea
September 5- November 9, 2014
Akram Zaatari at the New Museum
Here and Elsewhere
New Museum, New York
Akram Zaatari: This Day at Ten, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Bruxelles
WIELS presents for the first time in Belgium an exhibition by Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, who has emerged as one of the most prominent commentators on photography of the Middle East. Zaatari's practice is closely tied to the practice of collecting. Through books, photographic installations, and videos, Zaatari's visual studies reflects on the shifting nature of borders and the production and circulation of images in the political context of the region. Paralleling his long-term engagement with "the state of image making in situations of war", his work looks into notions of surveillance and expressions of masculinity, exploring the way different media apparatuses get employed in the service of power, resistance, and memory. This sensibility was formed in the course of living through fifteen years of war in Lebanon, watching it unfold and recording it as a teenager.
As co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation - an expanding collection of over 600,000 images - Zaatari is deeply invested in examining how photography served to shape notions of aesthetics, postures and social codes, therefore looking at the present through a wealth of past records of vernacular and studio photography from the Middle East. "I do not believe in the neutrality of the archive," Zaatari says. He has spent much of the last decade studying, indexing, and presenting the archive of Studio Sheherazade, established in 1953 by photographer Hashem el Madani in Saida, South Lebanon - Zaatari's city of origin - as a register of social relationships and of photographic practices.
Akram Zaatari, born in 1966 and author of more than 40 video works, lives and works in Beirut. Zaatari recently represented Lebanon in the 55th Venice Biennale and partook in dOCUMENTA XIII and Liverpool Biennial (2012), and Istanbul Biennial (2011). His work has been exhibited in and collected by museums all over the world, including at Tate, London; Bristol Museum, Bristol; Centre Pompidou, Paris; SFMOMA, San Francisco; MoMA, New York; Kunstverein, Munich; MUSAC, Léon; and Kunsternes Hus, Oslo.
Curator: Dirk Snauwaert
Alexandre Da Cunha and Akram Zaatari: 18th Festival Video Brasil, Sao Paulo
The 2013 edition of the Contemporary Art Festival celebrates an important moment for the biennial show. The main Brazilian event dedicated to the artistic production from the geopolitical South (Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia and Oceania) goes thirty. It is the only Brazilian international festival for contemporary art, with exhibitions, public activities, awards. As in previous editions, a major exhibition establishes a dialogue with the Southern circuit: besides the Southern Panoramas competitive show, this year the highlight is the three decades of experimentation and risk assumed by Videobrasil since 1983, brought together in the exhibition 30 Years.
Akram Zaatari: ALL IS WELL, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston University, Ontario
The Art Centre is pleased to present the first Canadian solo exhibition of works by Akram Zaatari, one of Lebanon's most respected contemporary artists. Zaatari's art practice involves unearthing, collecting and re-contextualizing a wide range of documents that confound notions of history while recognizing the ways in which these documents are uneasily situated as evidence of tense political and cultural conditions. The exhibition will juxtapose several video and photography projects that explore what Zaatari calls the "dynamics that govern the state of image-making in situations of war." In this exploration, Zaatari employs letter writing as a device, a mode of address and a research method to situate his works in a fractured political context while offering intimate and particular ways of knowing the event.
Born in Saida, Lebanon, in 1966, Akram Zaatari is an artist, curator and writer living in Beirut. He is one of the co-founders of the Arab Image Foundation (www.fai.org.lb) a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect, preserve and study photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora. His work has been featured in discourse-setting exhibitions such as Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany and the Sharjah Biennial, and was on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York from mid-May to September 2013. Zaatari also represented Lebanon at the Venice Biennale in 2013. His Canadian premiere immediately follows these two high-profile engagements.
This exhibition is curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul . A publication with essays by the curator, Sylvie Fortin and Judith Rodenbeck accompanies the exhibition.
Victoria Moufawad-Paul
This exhibition is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council's program for Culturally Diverse Curatorial Projects, the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund and the Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture, Queen's University.
Akram Zaatari in conversation with Achim Borchardt-Hume, Culture Now Talk, ICA London
Akram Zataari is a filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator. One of the founders of the Arab Image Foundation, which aims to track down and preserve photos from North Africa, the Middle East, and Arabic communities around the world, Zaatari collects, examines, and recontextualizes a wide range of documents that testify to the cultural and political conditions of Lebanon’s postwar society.
Solo exhibitions in 2013 include On Photography People and Modern Times, Thomas Dane Gallery; ALL IS WELL, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston University, Ontario; Letter to a Refusing Pilot, Lebanon Pavilion, 55th International Venice Biennale, Venice; Akram Zaatari: Project 100, MOMA, New York.
Paul Pfeiffer and Akram Zaatari: Group Exhibition, Regen Projects,
Regen Projects is pleased to present a group exhibition of video works by John Bock, Keren Cytter, Paul Pfeiffer, Gillian Wearing, and Akram Zaatari. This presentation marks the first time many of these works will be shown in Los Angeles.
John Bock’s Dandy (2006) was filmed at the family home of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, the Chateau du Bosc. The video stars Monsieur Lautréamont, a character akin to Lautrec, who is willing to transgress traditional taste in the pursuit of aesthetic perfection. It is both period drama and surreal fantasy, featuring the artist as actor, and sculptural props resembling Bock’s work outside of the moving-image medium. Bock was recently included in The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale, and will have a major solo exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany (October 3 – January 12, 2014).
For Untitled (2009), artist Keren Cytter used both trained and untrained actors to shoot in front of a live audience at the Hebbel am Ufer theater in Berlin. Inspired by John Cassavetes’s Opening Night (1977), the film follows a theater actress as she prepares to go on stage and is confronted by the constructed nature of identity and reality. Her backstage ‘monologue’ resonates with the nature of role-playing and the performance awaited by the audience on the screen. Untitled was
last shown in Los Angeles during a one-person exhibition of Cytter’s work at the Hammer Museum in 2010. In addition to making video-based works, Cytter has published numerous novels, screenplays, journals and poems, and is the founder of the dance and theater company Dance International Europe Now (D.I.E. NOW).
Paul Pfeiffer’s Morning After the Deluge (2003) uses digital technology to create an illusion combining sunrise and sunset into a hypnotic projected image. The work takes its title from J. M. W. Turner’s painting from 1843, Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – the Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, which depicts the dawn following the devastation of the biblical event. Both atmospheric and contemplative, Pfeiffer’s film is a rumination on the passing of time while suspending it indefinitely. Pfeifferis the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Bucksbaum Award given by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000) as well as the Alpert Award for Visual Arts (2009). His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York in 2010 and the Blanton Museum of
Art, Austin, Texas in 2012.
The brief but powerful Bully (2010) by Gillian Wearing features Method actors engaging in an improvisational exercise in which an incident from the protagonist’s personal experience is reenacted. As the participants taunt and belittle the victim, painful memories emerge and emotions arise, blurring fact and fiction as roles and motivations become less clearly defined.
Bully was cut from the 83-minute documentary feature Self Made (2010), which was funded by the UK Film Council, and will be presented for the first time in Los Angeles. Wearing recently had a retrospective organized by the Whitechapel Gallery, London, which traveled to K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany and will have a solo exhibition at Regen Projects in the fall of 2014.
Akram Zaatari’s The End of Time (2013) depicts a changing combination of two men enacting a cycle of seduction and indifference. Zaatari’s work explores aspects of representation, identity, intimacy, and desire and is informed by research on vernacular Middle Eastern photography and the functions of the archive. One of the founders of the Arab Image Foundation, which aims to locate and preserve photos from Arabic communities around the world, Zaatari’s work investigates how images and image-making affect notions of history and memory. Akram Zaatari represented Lebanon this year at the 55th Venice Biennale with Letter to a Refusing Pilot (2013) and is currently premiering in the United States two video installations at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Akram Zaatari representing Lebanon at the 55th International Venice Biennale
'Letter to a Refusing Pilot'
June 1-November 24, 2013
Press conference: May 29, 2:30pm, Arsenale, Calle della Tana 2169/f
Professional preview: May 29-31
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Akram Zaatari will be presenting a major new work, titled Letter to a Refusing Pilot, in the Lebanese Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition marks the debut of Zaatari's most aesthetically ambitious and politically nuanced project to date, and creates a dialogue between two works, a new 45-minute video and a looping 16mm film, in an immersive environment conceived as a stage awaiting an actor, or a cinema awaiting a spectator.
In the summer of 1982, a rumor made the rounds of a small city in South Lebanon, which was under Israeli occupation at the time. It was said that a fighter pilot in the Israeli air force had been ordered to bomb a target on the outskirts of Saida, but knowing the building was a school, he refused to destroy it. Instead of carrying out his commanders' orders, the pilot veered off course and dropped his bombs in the sea. It was said that he knew the school because he had been a student there, because his family had lived in the city for generations, because he was born into Saida's Jewish community before it disappeared. As a boy, Akram Zaatari grew up hearing ever more elaborate versions of this story, as his father had been the director of the school for twenty years. Decades later, Zaatari discovered it wasn't a rumor. The pilot was real.
Pulling together all of the different strands of Zaatari's practice for the first time in a single work, Letter to a Refusing Pilot reflects on the complexities, ambiguities, and consequences of refusal as a decisive and generative act. Taking as its title a nod to Albert Camus' four-part epistolary essay "Letters to a German Friend," the work not only extends Zaatari's interest in excavated narratives and the circulation of images in times of war, it also raises crucial questions about national representation and perpetual crisis by reviving Camus's plea: "I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
Akram Zaatari is an artist whose work is tied to collecting and exploring photographic practices in the making of social codes and aesthetic forms. Regarding the present through a wealth of photographic records from the past, Zaatari co-founded the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation in 1997, and he has been working on the extensive archive of Hashem el Madani's Studio Shehrazade, in the Lebanese port city of Saida, since 1999. The author of more than 40 films and videos-including The End of Time(2013), Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (2010), Nature Morte (2008), In This House (2005), This Day (2003) and All Is Well on the Border (1997).
Zaatari investigates notions of desire, pursuit, resistance, memory, surveillance, the shifting nature of political borders and the production and circulation of images in times of war. His works have been featured in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), the Istanbul Biennial (2011), and the Venice Biennale (2007), among others, and he has shown his films, videos, photographs and other documents in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Kunstverein and Haus der Kunst in Munich, Le Magasin in Grenoble, MUSAC in Leon, MUAC in Mexico City and Videobrasil in Sao Paulo.
Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath co-founded Art Reoriented, a multi-disciplinary curatorial platform operating from Munich and New York in 2009. Their past and ongoing exhibition, research and publication projects include collaborations with several museums and cultural institutions such as MoMA in New York, Mathaf in Doha, INHA and IMA in Paris, IVAM in Valencia, the Gwangju Museum of Art and the Today Art Museum in Beijing.
Integral to Bardaouil and Fellrath's practice is the critique of institutionalized exhibition structures. Through their work, they question the way artworks have been appropriated by reductionist narratives and politicized modes of representation. They excavate art historical materials for the purpose of repositioning them in the more dynamic framework of contemporary artistic production.
Akram Zaatari represents Lebanon at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013
Akram Zaatari was selected by the curators of the Pavilion Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the cofounders of Art Reoriented, the multi-disciplinary curatorial platform based in Munich and New York.
Akram Zaatari's work combines radio, television, and photographic archival material with his own personal narrative to examine the ideological circulation and geographic production of images in the context of the Middle East.
With a degree in architecture from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) and a master's degree in media studies from the New School for Social Research, New York, USA, Zaatari explored the documental possibilities of video before making it his preferred medium of expression. He took his research into photography and collectionism as an artistic practice to new depths in the Arab Image Foundation, in Beirut, of which he is cofounder.
The Beirut-based artist has exhibited at such institutions as the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), Grey Art Gallery (New York), Munich Kunstverein (Munich, Germany), and MUSAC (León, Spain), as well as at the Turin Triennial (Italy) and the biennials of Venice (Italy), Sydney (Australia), and São Paulo.
Akram Zaatari has received widespread recognition in major institutions and exhibitions like Documenta 13 and has won the 2011 Yanghyun Prize and the 2011 Grand Prize Videobrasil.
Akram Zaatari: Project 100, Moma, New York
Working in photography, film, video, installation, and performance, Beirut-based artist Akram Zaatari has built a complex, compelling body of work that explores the state of image-making today. One of the founders of the Arab Image Foundation, which aims to track down and preserve photos from North Africa, the Middle East, and Arabic communities around the world, Zaatari collects, examines, and recontextualizes a wide range of documents-from found audiotapes to family photographs to videos found on YouTube-that testify to the cultural and political conditions of Lebanon's postwar society. His artistic practice involves the study and investigation of the way these documents straddle, conflate, or confuse notions of history and memory.
Projects 100 features the American premiere of two video installations: Dance to the End of Love (2011) and On Photography, People and Modern Times (2010). Comprised of found YouTube clips made by Arab youth and shared freely online, Dance to the End of Love examines the role of social media as a space that is both intimate and public. On Photography, People and Modern Times, which tracks photographic records that Zaatari researched and collected for the Arab Image Foundation in the late 1990s, is a meditation on intimate past moments evoked by photographs and a present environment that secures their preservation. Cutting across temporal and geographic borders, these two video installations probe the nature of time and assert the permeability of memory.
This exhibition is organized by Ana Janevski, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, and Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, with Katerina Stathopoulou, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography.
The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series is made possible in part by the Elaine Dannheisser Foundation and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.
Akram Zaatari and Jean-Luc Moulène, 'Ici, Ailleurs (Here, Elsewhere)': Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Ici, ailleurs Exposition inaugurale de la Tour-Panorama et l'année Capitale
Pour l'inauguration de ce nouvel espace, une ambitieuse exposition invite des artistes contemporains des deux rives. Si toute œuvre s'inscrit dans un contexte originel et une histoire singulière, le voyage et le nomadisme qui caractérisent l'artiste contemporain constituent une expérience existentielle, qui devient le lieu même de la création. À l'ère de la globalisation, au contact de la diversité du monde et des cultures, l'identité de chacun se trouve sans cesse remaniée. Une quarantaine d'artistes issus des pays du pourtour de la Méditerranée ont été choisis sur leur aptitude à nous repenser en êtres aux identités plurielles, en perpétuel devenir, et sur leur capacité à investir le réel en une réflexion critique. Ils appartiennent pour la majorité d'entre eux à la génération née dans les années 1960-1970 et jouissent d'une reconnaissance sur la scène internationale. Parmi les œuvres exposées, dont un grand nombre de propositions inédites conçues pour l'exposition, quelques-unes traitent du paysage méditerranéen. Elles sont nombreuses à interroger les notions d'identité, de citoyenneté, du même et de l'autre. Plusieurs s'attachent à transmettre l'expérience de l'émigration, de l'exil et du déracinement. Elles offrent aussi une vision de l'histoire au présent, par le biais de l'articulation de récits personnels à l'Histoire. En prise avec les réalités sociales, politiques et géopolitiques, elles nous informent de l'état du monde.
Akram Zaatari: The Liverpool Biennale
Akram Zaatari presents his first major UK solo presentation at FACT on the occasion of the Liverpool Biennial. The work within the exhibition considers private and public interactions with the human body and the technological apparatus. Zaatari's show takes us from the intimacy of a photographer's studio in Egypt to an inspiring 4-channel media installation consisting of private videos of Arab youth, found on YouTube. The artist considers the thin line that connects us to the public - exploring various techniques - studying the relationship between a photographer and his muse, as well as the solitary relationship between Arab male youth and social media.
All works are UK Premieres.
Her + Him (2012) consists of a single channel-film, Her + Him Van Leo (1998-2012) and a vitrine of photographs taken by legendary Armenian photographer Van Leo in 1959. The vitrine shows an Egyptian woman called Nadia undressing in twelve different positions who is also the subject of the film. This expanded documentary is a dialogue between photography and video.
Another Resolution (1998) presents a series of images of children taken at different photographic studios in different poses. Zaatari noticed that these children often possessed seductive attitudes, and so decided to invite grown ups to embody the same poses as the children - reflecting the adult attitude suggested by the different poses taken by the original photographer. This work serves as a comment on the photographer's power to affect the social codes expected of both children and adults in photographic practice.
Bodybuilders (2011)
Bodybuilders is a series of photographs taken in the Southern Lebanese port city of Sidon (Saida). The images are reproduced from damaged negatives taken by Hashem al Madani in 1948. The eroded images create a poetic juxtaposition in contrast with the strapping youth of the bodybuilders depicted within them.
Dance to the End of Love (2011) is a four-screen media installation consisting of found YouTube footage of Arab youth who have decided to film themselves and share these rushes freely online. Zaatari notes that all of these films were produced on the eve of what is today referred to as the 'Arab Uprising', and as such, considers the role of YouTube as a space that is both intimate and public.
Dance to the End of Love was made out of low resolution footage made mainly with mobile phones in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Saudi-Arabia and Oman, and showing male bodybuilders, men driving cars and riding motorcycles, singing and dancing, but when included within this 4-channel-video, this unique piece becomes a symphony in 5 movements about the loneliness of the oppressed, about hundreds of thousands crushed and forgotten in their home countries, who choose to use their computer screens as sites to live out their collective, heroic dreams.
Akram Zaatari, b. 1966, Saida, is an artist who lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon. Recent exhibitions include Photography: New Documentary Forms (Tate Modern, London, U.K., 2012), Composition for Two Wings(Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012), and Seeing is Believing (Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany, 2011).
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Besides being one of the most influential recording artists of the past two decades, Madonna has also become a powerful force in the ticket industry. Since her debut in the early 1980s, the Queen of Pop has come to generate record-breaking sales around the world, making her a favorite on both the primary and secondary markets. Her most recent Sticky & Sweet Tour ended late in 2008 after nearly 60 concerts with a combined audience of 2.35 million people and total gross of more than $280 million. Her 2006 Confessions Tour was also a record-breaker at the time, grossing $193.7 million. Because of her continued popularity and audience draw, Madonna’s concerts often feature prominently in TicketNews’s weekly Top Events Rankings.
Madonna tickets and the secondary market
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By Petrina Crockford In an industry first for a major artist, Madonna has publicly embraced a secondary ticket broker, UK-based viagogo, as one of the channels for fans to obtain tickets. The Sticky & Sweet Tour is the singer’s first under her $120 million deal with Live Nation, and... Read more
Bon Jovi, Madonna tickets on sale
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Bon Jovi tickets, as well as Madonna tickets, are on sale throughout the week ending May 24, as compiled by TicketNews. New Jersey natives Bon Jovi have a tour stop in nearby Boston in the onsales for this week. Tickets for the show went on sale yesterday morning, May... Read more
Madonna tickets selling out quickly
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Ticket sales were strong out of the gate for Madonna’s upcoming Sticky & Sweet Tour, according to officials with the tour. Among weekend sell-outs were stadium shows in Paris, France and London, England along with arena shows in Boston, MA and Chicago, IL. Two performances at Madison Square Garden... Read more
Coldplay, Madonna in week’s onsales
Tickets to concerts from Coldplay and Madonna are on sale throughout the week ending May 17, as compiled by TicketNews. The British rock group Coldplay has three shows in the week’s onsales, including stops in Las Vegas and Cleveland. The Material Girl herself has multiple ticket pre-sales beginning Monday... Read more
Madonna inks ticket deals with StubHub, viagogo
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Concerts from Madonna and Tina Turner top the onsales for the weekend ending May 12, as compiled by TicketNews. The Material Girl kicks off her national tour this summer following the release of her latest album “Hard Candy.” Tickets to what is sure to be one of the hottest... Read more
Madonna to embark on first tour under Live Nation deal
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Madonna’s latest world tour, dubbed the Sticky & Sweet Tour after her hot-selling album “Hard Candy,” starts hip-hopping around the globe on August 23 in Cardiff, Wales. The tour, her first world tour in two years, will be the first under her landmark 10-year, $120 million deal with Live... Read more
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There is speculation coming out of her adopted home of England that Madonna will play the most lucrative concerts of her career, and perhaps of any artist in the history of contemporary music. The proposed deal is two concerts in Dubai, supposedly in November, for a total of about... Read more
Madonna, Elton John top weekend onsales
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Concerts from Madonna and Elton John top the onsales for the weekend ending April 21, as compiled by TicketNews. In anticipation of her new album, “Hard Candy,” which has already spawned a hit duet with Justin Timberlake, Madonna will be performing at Roseland Ballroom in New York City, with... Read more
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To celebrate the April 30 release of her upcoming album “Hard Candy,” Madonna will perform live at New York’s Roseland Ballroom, debuting songs from the new album. Presented by producer Control Room, MSN and Verizon Wireless, the show will also be broadcast live on MSN’s Music in Concert on... Read more
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Treating Excess of One Hormone Shows Promise for Decreasing the Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
By Robin Marks
Treating the overproduction of one hormone may be a way to help a subset of the millions of Americans who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, according to a new study.
A UCSF study has found that treating patients for an excess of the hormone aldosterone relieved their obstructive sleep apnea, giving a new avenue for treating a subset of the people who have the disorder.
People with obstructive sleep apnea stop breathing for short periods while they are sleeping, which leads to a poor night’s sleep and debilitating fatigue during the day. Most people with the condition need to use dental devices or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machines to sleep at night.
But researchers at UC San Francisco have found that treating a condition in the adrenal glands causing an excess of aldosterone, a hormone that maintains electrolyte balance and blood pressure, may be an effective way to help people reduce the risk of obstructive sleep apnea.
UCSF endocrine surgeons Insoo Suh, MD, and Quan-Yang Duh, MD, didn’t set out to study sleep apnea. Suh and Duh specialize in the treatment of primary aldosteronism, a disease in which one or both of the adrenal glands overproduce the hormone aldosterone, and were looking into the question of whether this hormone plays a role in obesity. Obesity is a major factor in obstructive sleep apnea, which meant that many of the surgeons’ patients were living with that condition as well.
To his surprise, Suh found that treating patients for excess hormone didn’t help their obesity – but did relieve their sleep apnea.
Suh found himself in cluster of interconnected conditions. “There are multiple bidirectional arrows connecting hypertension, obesity, and obstructive sleep apnea,” says Suh. “Now we’re introducing aldosterone into this equation.”
The results of the initial study led him to look into the literature and see if there was any evidence of an independent relationship between aldosterone and obstructive sleep apnea.
“We found that there were small but intriguing studies that suggested a link,” says Suh. “Given the prevalence of sleep apnea, it is certainly worth looking into further.”
About Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a disorder in which your breathing is interrupted for periods of 10 seconds or more while you are asleep. These interruptions may occur hundreds of times a night, causing you to gasp for air and disrupting your sleep.
There are two main types of sleep apnea:
This is the most common type of sleep apnea. It is characterized by an obstruction or narrowing of the nasal passages and throat during sleep. Patients tend to wake up repeatedly to gasp for air.
Central Sleep Apnea
This type of sleep apnea is believed to be related to a malfunction of the brain's normal signal to breathe. The level of carbon dioxide in the blood rises, which may cause you to wake up.
Learn More at UCSF Health
Obesity is certainly a primary cause of obstructive sleep apnea, but Suh says the data show there must be other factors at play.
“There’s a prevalence of about 5 to10 percent for obstructive sleep apnea across cultures and countries, independent of diet, geography, and developmental status of countries,” he says. “That points to other causes we haven’t identified yet.”
The study’s initial results indicate that aldosterone might be one factor. If he’s right, it could have broad health benefits, helping patients with high blood pressure as well as obstructive sleep apnea.
Until recently, primary aldosteronism was thought to be rather rare, affecting only 1 percent of the population.
“But now, based on bigger population-based studies, we’re able to identify a greater number of patients with risk factors for primary aldosteronism and get them referred to an endocrinologist,” says Suh.
That has led to much greater awareness of primary aldosteronism, and many more diagnoses.
Primary aldosteronism is the leading cause of secondary hypertension in the U.S. Suh estimates that up to 1 in 20 people with hypertension may have aldosteronism. Depending on the source of excess aldosterone, surgery or blood pressure medications that block aldosterone provide very effective treatments.
“One broader health question here is ‘can we identify more cases of aldosteronism by looking at patients with obstructive sleep apnea and high blood pressure?’” says Suh. And if so, is some fraction of high blood pressure and obstructive sleep apnea the result of a very treatable condition?
Suh is quick to caution that his study was preliminary, drawn largely from comparing information in charts and medical records, and arose from a study that wasn’t designed to do a thorough investigation of sleep apnea.
“We’re excited by the results and it’s in a relatively large number of patients with primary aldosteronism,” he says. He’s currently designing future studies that would involve sleep studies and other more explicit measures of sleep apnea, and follow patients through treatment to determine outcomes.
“I suspect we’ll find a compelling link between primary aldosteronism and obstructive sleep apnea,” Suh says. And he hopes that understanding that link will result in identifying more patients with the condition, and help hundreds of thousands of Americans get a better night’s sleep.
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Open Skies: Much Ado About Nothing?
All sides claimed victory last week in the long-standing dispute over government subsidies and unfettered air access that legacy U.S. airlines have waged against Persian Gulf carriers for more than three years.
In what has commonly been called the “open skies dispute,” Delta, American, United and their unions have insisted that the government rein in U.S. expansion by three Persian Gulf carriers — Emirates, Etihad and Qatar — on the grounds that they are subsidized by their respective governments.
But despite all the claims of victory, analysts voiced skepticism that the agreement reached by the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and formally announced by the State Department will have any significant impact on the status quo.
“This is a very elegant way for everyone to walk home a winner,” said Samuel Engel, head of the aviation department at the ICF consultancy. “But I believe very little has changed. The reason is that, in many ways, the situation had already resolved itself.”
The Record of Discussion document signed by the U.S. and the UAE is the latest, perhaps the last, salvo in the skirmish.
Among other things, the document requires airlines from the U.S. and the UAE to produce audited financial statements that meet internationally recognized accounting standards at least annually, addressing one of the primary demands of the Big 3. The document asserts that Emirates and U.S. airlines already issue those reports. Etihad will begin issuing them at least annually once it completes a restructuring currently underway.
However, the Record of Discussion makes no mention of flights operated by Emirates that depart from the UAE, make stops in a second country and then continue on to the U.S. Emirates currently operates two such routes, known in industry parlance as “fifth-freedom” flights: one from Dubai to Athens to Newark, the other from Dubai to Milan to New York.
The Big 3 U.S. carriers assert that the major Gulf carriers have accepted more than $50 billion in state subsidies since 2004, violating the bilateral open skies aviation agreements that the U.S. has with Qatar and the UAE.
In their campaign, the Big 3 and U.S. aviation labor unions initially asked the U.S. government to put a freeze on all new U.S. routes by the Gulf carriers until such subsidies were addressed. But more recently, they have scaled back their demands to ask only for a freeze on fifth-freedom routes.
After a period of confusion last week, during which statements from the State Department differed from remarks that White House National Trade Council director Peter Navarro made to travel industry representatives, the White House and State Department came together in saying that, along with the primary agreement, the UAE had stated that its carriers have no current plans to add new indirect routes to the U.S.
The U.S. entered into a similar agreement with the government of Qatar in January.
The UAE deal set off bellicose claims of victory from the three primary advocates in the open skies dispute: first, the UAE and its airlines; second, U.S. legacy carriers and U.S. unions represented by the lobbying group the Partnership for Open & Fair Skies; and third, the lobbying group U.S. Airlines for Open Skies, consisting of Hawaiian and JetBlue as well as cargo carriers FedEx and Atlas Air, which opposed the Big 3’s efforts.
The UAE issued statements proclaiming that the discussions with the U.S. confirmed that Etihad and Emirates have operated in compliance with the 2002 U.S.-UAE open skies agreements all along.
“Airlines in both countries are free to continue to add, reduce or adjust flights and services consistent with the broad provisions of the 2002 [air transport agreement],” the UAE embassy in Washington said.
U.S. Airlines for Open Skies sounded equally pleased with the outcome. “This resolution is a clear victory for American workers, travelers and exporters and reaffirms the U.S. commitment to open skies,” the group said.
And despite assertions to the contrary from the UAE and Emirates itself, the Partnership for Open & Fair Skies asserted that the UAE has committed to a freeze on any additional fifth freedom passenger flights to the U.S. The group also took out ads in the New York Times and New York Post thanking President Trump.
“By acting to enforce our agreements and restore a level playing field, your administration has again shown that you stand with American workers and will fight for our jobs and economy,” the ads state.
The rhetoric from all parties aside, Engel said that to a large extent the real concern of the legacy U.S. carriers, namely the commercial threat posed by the Gulf carriers, had subsided well before the new agreement. After adding a net 14 U.S. routes between 2012 and 2014, Emirates, Etihad and Qatar have added a net of just two U.S. routes since the beginning of 2016, according to data from the airline industry analytics company OAG. Meanwhile, the total number of seats each airline is scheduled to fly to the U.S. this year is down from last year.
Those figures reflect the broader and marked slowdowns in network growth at all three airlines (including reductions in capacity at Etihad) since 2016. “All three of those carriers have slowed down their growth, and that makes them less of a threat today than they were when the campaign began,” Engel said.
Seth Kaplan, managing partner of the newsletter Airline Weekly, largely agreed. “I think this does help everybody mostly save face,” he said. “It may be that there weren’t going to be any more of those flights [indirect routes from Gulf states to the U.S.].”
Still, Kaplan said that the deal could have the practical impact of making new fifth freedom routes by Gulf carriers even less likely.
“And that, indeed, would be a victory for the U.S. carriers,” he said.
(Travel Weekly)
Category: Airline NewsBy Hal Pierce 05/24/2018
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Sandra Day O’Connor Announces Dementia Diagnosis
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, announced she has been diagnosed “with the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease” on October 23.
In an open letter circulated by the Court’s public information office, Justice O’Connor wrote that she would be immediately retiring from public life.
President Reagan nominated Justice O’Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981, and she was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 99-0. Previously, she served as Arizona’s assistant Attorney General, and spent two terms as a member of the Arizona State Senate. During her time as a senator, she was elected Majority Leader, the first woman to hold such a position in any U.S. legislative body.
She sat on the bench until 2006, when she retired to care for her husband, John Jay O’Connor, who had Alzheimer’s disease. John Jay O’Connor died in 2009.
Since leaving the Supreme Court, Justice O’Connor, now 88, has devoted herself to “advanc[ing] civic learning and engagement.” In 2010, she founded iCivics, a website that offers free lesson plans and learning games designed for children and adolescents.
Justice O’Connor, who lives in Phoenix, Ariz., remained positive in the face of her diagnosis. “While the final chapter of my life with dementia may be trying, nothing has diminished my gratitude and deep appreciation for the countless blessings in my life,” she wrote.
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