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Survivors of Religious Persecution to Share Stories in Washington
STATE DEPARTMENT - The U.S. State Department is making the advancement of religious freedom a foreign policy priority, with survivors of religious persecution representing North Koreans, Rohingyas, Uighurs and Yazidis invited to highlight the urgency of the problem at a conference next week in Washington.
"This is a major foreign policy initiative of the United States," said Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom. During a telephone briefing, he said it was an issue that has not received enough attention around the world as religious persecution has grown in recent years.
More than 1,000 representatives from religious groups and civil society, as well as foreign ministers, are expected to gather at the State Department July 16-18 to discuss the status of religious freedom around the world.
Victims of recent attacks at a synagogue in San Diego, mosques in New Zealand and an Easter bombing in Sri Lanka are also expected to attend.
Speakers at the ministerial will include Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi woman who has been advocating for the group in northern Iraq, and American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson, who was freed after two years of detention in Turkey.
"Our effort is to stir action. We want to see, really, a global grass-roots movement around religious freedom," said Brownback.
The U.S. special envoy said governments of nations that have been designated by the U.S. as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for severe violations of religious freedom, including China and Myanmar, are not invited to the conference as it is centered on like-minded countries and governments that aspire to move toward religious freedom.
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Walking Through Centuries: A Port Huron History Lesson
by Joel Heckaman
In #MittenTrip, East Michigan, Guides, Southeast Michigan.
When I visited Port Huron for a MittenTrip this summer, it was clear that this is a place with a special relationship to its surrounding waterways. Bordered by the beautiful shores of Lake Huron and the St. Clair River, and split down the middle by the Black River, much of life in Port Huron involves being on or near water.
This provides Port Huron with an abundance of incredible scenery and leisure, but it has also made this an important geographic location. The joining of the waterways, along with the close proximity to Canada, has established Port Huron as a natural hub for activity over land and water for centuries.
This combination of beauty and importance has contributed to a long, rich history, and Port Huron has made great efforts to preserve the memories of this heritage. Historic plaques, buildings, and signs are seemingly everywhere, but the city also has several living museums that provide a look at the past you can actually visit and explore.
Fort Gratiot Lighthouse
Fort Gratiot Light shines across Lake Huron and St. Clair River one hour before sunset until one hour after sunrise. Photo by Joel Heckaman
The original Fort Gratiot for the US Army was built on the north shore of the St. Clair River, near where it meets Lake Huron, during the War of 1812. Although the fort itself was barely used and often abandoned for long stretches, the government recognized the importance of this stretch of water as shipping traffic increased. Congress approved funds for Fort Gratiot Light to become the first lighthouse in Michigan in 1823.
The original Fort Gratiot Light was completed in 1825, standing 32 feet tall at what is now the base of the Bluewater Bridge. However, the first lighthouse was poorly designed and built, sagging and crumbling into the river by 1828.
Fort Gratiot Lighthouse stands out majestically along the shore of Lake Huron. Photo by Joel Heckaman
Fort Gratiot Light then became the second lighthouse in Michigan (and since, the longest standing) when its replacement was finished in 1829. A significant improvement, and farther north to be more visible, the new lighthouse stood 65 feet tall until it was raised to its current height of 82 feet in 1862.
Several other facilities were built to support function of the light, including an equipment garage, keeper’s house, fog signal housing, and others – all of which are now being repurposed. For example, the keeper’s house is being refurbished into a museum, while the equipment garage holds an office, gift shop, and restrooms. Other buildings are used as staging and prep areas for events and weddings, which happen regularly on the 5-acre lighthouse campus.
The catwalk of Fort Gratiot Lighthouse provides a great view of Port Huron and Bluewater Bridge. Photo by Joel Heckaman
The light is fully automated and supervised by the US Coast Guard, who has a station next to the lighthouse that you can see from the catwalk. The lighthouse grounds, including an access point to the sandy Lake Huron beach, are open to the public year-round. Guided tours and a climb up the tower are available daily during the summer, as well as weekends in the spring and fall.
Edison Depot Museum
Thomas Edison Depot Museum, once surrounded by railyards, now sits under Bluewater Bridge. Photo by Joel Heckaman
After Fort Gratiot Light debuted and the first new settlement took shape in the 1820s, Port Huron started to see considerable growth. The Erie Canal opened in 1825, which propelled a huge lumber boom in the 1830s. Then, after Michigan achieved statehood in 1835, mining booms for copper and iron from the Upper Peninsula in the 1840s led to an even greater need for shipping and hauling – much of which was passing through Port Huron.
This led a young Thomas Edison’s family to move to the area in the mid-1850s, around the time the Grand Trunk Railway extended a line from Detroit to Port Huron. The area that now includes downtown shops, beaches, and boardwalks was once full of docks and railyards, including the train station where Edison got his first job selling newspapers and snacks to commuters.
Already an entrepreneur in spirit, Edison quickly realized the value in supplying the news and created his own newspaper. He used a staging area in one of the baggage cars to set up his own printing press, and he would often personalize the features to cater directly to his captive audience.
A refurbished Grand Trunk Railway car shows Edison’s work space and laboratory setup at Thomas Edison Depot Museum. Photo by Joel Heckaman.
Edison was also already deeply interested in science, and he eventually moved his chemistry set from the family basement to his on-board work area so that he could spend more time experimenting. This didn’t turn out well, as an unexpected reaction started a fire. The conductor rushed in to extinguish the flames, but not before famously throwing Edison and his chemistry set off the train.
The original train station where Edison worked, now under the Bluewater Bridge, was refurbished and opened as the Thomas Edison Depot Museum in 2001. It features a walking timeline of Edison’s young life in Port Huron, as well as exhibits featuring some of his most famous inventions.
A 1915 Edison Phonograph and a 5000W light bulb at Thomas Edison Depot Museum. Photo by Joel Heckaman
Outside, a restored Grand Trunk baggage car sits on a stretch of tracks, featuring a setup similar to what Edison used to print his newspaper and perform his experiments. Inside, original phonographs, telegraphs, and motion-picture projectors are on display, which the docents can demonstrate when they’re not too busy.
Thomas Edison Depot Museum is open daily during the summer, as well as weekends during the fall and spring.
Huron Lightship
Huron Lightship was retired in 1970 and converted to a museum on the St. Clair River. Photo by Joel Heckaman
While Edison was spreading news and ideas on land, shipping by water was continuing to grow – both in traffic and in the size of the ships. The waterway at Port Huron is notoriously difficult to navigate, especially the rapid St. Clair River, which now has a flow rate more than double Niagara Falls. The southeast end of Lake Huron is not much easier, as a shallow ridge of sand known as Corsica Shoals causes many problems of its own.
Additional guidance was needed for reliable safe passage, and the US Lighthouse Service (later merged with the US Coast Guard) commissioned buoys and a lightship for the area. Lightships are exactly what they sound like – aquatic lighthouses for areas where it is impractical to build a permanent structure.
Three different lightships served at Corsica Shoals, starting with the first (officially LV-61, since the ships sometimes changed locations and names) in 1893. LV-61 was one of several ships damaged in a large storm in 1913, but it held its station until replacement was necessary. In 1921, LV-96 transferred south from Poe Reef (near Mackinac) and became the first to bear the Huron name.
Huron Lightship has been maintained as a working vessel, but it also includes small exhibits such as this homage to Great Lakes ships. Photo by Joel Heckaman.
The final vessel we now know as the Huron Lightship, LV-103, was launched in 1920 for service around Mackinac and Northern Michigan before settling into its permanent role in 1936. Most lightships were red, but because Huron was stationed at the location of a black buoy (opposite a red buoy) in a shipping channel, the hull was painted black to avoid confusion.
The Huron Lightship remained at the Corsica Shoals until 1970, just a few months shy of 50 full years of service. By 1940, Huron was the only remaining lightship on the Great Lakes, and it was the only one to keep its station for the duration of World War II.
After retirement, Huron was presented to the City of Port Huron, and it is still functional to this day, though it is permanently moored in place along the St. Clair River. It has since been added to the State Register, listed as a National Historic Landmark, given a State Historical Marker, and converted to a museum that is open daily during the summer and weekends in the fall and spring.
Have you climbed Fort Gratiot Light or sailed the Huron Lightship? Let us know which one was your favorite in the comments!
Tagged Black River, Corsica Shoals, Fort Gratiot, Fort Gratiot Light, Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, Grand Trunk Railway, great lakes, History, Huron, Huron Cut, Huron Lightship, lake huron, lighthouse, mittentrip, museum, National Historic Landmark, port huron, st. clair river, Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison Depot Museum.
Joel Heckaman
Social media and marketing professional. Founder of the Middle of the Mitten local music nonprofit and festival. Hockey player and occasional runner. MSU alum and lifelong fan of the Spartans and Red Wings.
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Early mining landscapes in the ancient Near East and Central Asia
Salt, copper, gold: Early mining in the Caucasus
The world’s oldest gold mine is in danger of destruction
Together with Georgian archaeologists, the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) has been studying the gold mine of Sakdrisi since 2004. It is located around 50 kilometres southwest of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, in a hill called Kachagiani (in the Sakdrisi area). Our investigations have found that this mine is some 5000 years old. This makes it the oldest underground gold mine in the world. This outstanding cultural and historical site is now to fall victim to an open-cast gold mine.
Some of the following links lead to Georgian websites. These may take a long time to load. Translations of the Georgian pages can be obtained e.g. in Google Chrome by right-clicking on the text and selecting the option “translate into English”.
Kachagiani Hill, location of the 5000-year-old gold mine (2007)
What has happened so far
Due to the mine’s exceptional significance, the Georgian government awarded it the status of a national cultural monument in 2006. In July 2013 this comprehensive protection was then removed by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection and by the President of Georgia, and the site was downgraded to the lower status of a “normal” archaeological monument. In October 2013 this status was also removed by the then Prime Minister. The licence-holder, the mining company “RMG Gold Ltd” (RMG), regained the rights to mine gold deposits in Georgia, which it had held since 1994. RMG has now begun to operate an open-cast mine in the Sakdrisi area.
The current state of affairs
German and Georgian researchers, as well as ordinary citizens, have subsequently made numerous written appeals to the Georgian government.
Go to petition
Regular protests and demonstrations are taking place in the capital, Tbilisi, and in Sakdrisi. Activists have taken up positions on site, and are camping at some distance from the open-cast mine. As the protesters are not allowed to enter or remain in the close vicinity of the area around the hill, they have erected a platform from which they “monitor” the RMG’s work. The activists are the object of intense media coverage. They also receive supplies and support from the local population.
This whole development has its roots in the withdrawal of the site’s status as a cultural monument. A commission was established by the government which did not take into consideration the scientific advice based on our 10 years of internationally recognized research. The mining company “ascertained” that this had not been a gold mine. Nor did they discern any evidence of ancient mining activity on the site, instead finding only modern prospecting adits (dating from 1987).
It was these modern adits which allowed us, back in 2004, to encounter traces of “old” mining (abandoned workings) at a depth of just under 20 metres below the earth’s surface. The actual age of these workings was established by several 14C analyses of charcoal remains taken from the undisturbed layers of the narrow diggings. They dated back to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. Numerous additional investigations have confirmed and expanded on this finding. In the last 10 years we have supplied regular reports and published various articles on this subject. These were, at the time, highly praised. But suddenly they are no longer being taken into consideration in decision-making processes. The DBM and our Georgian colleagues are deeply disappointed and shocked by this development.
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Demonstration by Georgian activists in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for the preservation of the gold mine
“Save Sakdrisi”, Georgian activists protesting on site in Sakdrisi
Picture on left: The adits from the 1980s (upper part) have cut into the old mine workings (below right). We are excavating these areas. – Picture on right: Backfill in old mine with recognizable stratification. Here the black charcoal which was used for dating is clearly visible.
In response to national and international pressure, a new commission has been appointed with experts from various countries. Prof. Dr. Albrecht Jockenhövel (emeritus head of prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in the History Department at the University of Münster) is a member of this new commission appointed to deal with Sakdrisi. The aim is in the first instance to stop all activities contributing to the destruction of the mine, to recognize the scientific findings, and to incorporate these in the decision-making process regarding the preservation of the Sakdrisi mine. A fair discussion must be held.
Report of the scientific commission (in german)
Open letter from Prof. Dr. Thomas Stöllner, 7 May 2014
Meanwhile, the activities and protests on the ground (in the capital, Tbilisi, and in Sakdrisi) are continuing. Every day, the major Georgian newspapers (e.g. http://www.ttimes.ge/archives/19737) and the main TV news programmes run reports on the oldest gold mine in the world, the company RMG Gold and the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and its partners.
Heavy equipment is brought to Sakdrisi and preparations are made for mining.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Stöllner in an interview with BBC News, Tbilisi
Wednesday, 28 May
„Das Dilemma um Georgiens Goldbergwerk“
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The Men with the Movie Camera
The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s
Philip Cavendish
ISBN 978-1-78533-194-7 25% OFF! $27.95/£19.00 $20.96/£14.25 Pb Published (February 2016)
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“Cavendish's carefully researched book argues that men like Eduard Tisse, Anatolii Golovnia, and Danylo Demuts'kyi, among others, should be acknowledged as coauthors, in terms of visual styles, of the films on which they worked. [It] offers exacting descriptions of many shots, developing an appreciation for the styles cultivated by these camera artists despite differences in subject matter or dramatic theme. Though he may at times downplay the director's role in determining how shots were jointly shaped, Cavendish has written one of the most original works of scholarship on Soviet film practice since David Bordwell's brilliant The Cinema of Eisenstein. Summing Up: Essential.” · Choice
“Cavendish’s book is full of insights and details that will delight both experts on the topic and relative neophytes interested in learning more about the remarkable decade of early Soviet cinema…Given the sheer number of previous studies on early Soviet cinema, it is rare when you can state that a book about Soviet avant-garde cinema fundamentally reshapes what we thought we knew about film styles and film cultures in that decade. Cavendish’s work, however, has accomplished that feat.” · Review in Canadian-American Slavic Studies
“…in combining a series of critical biographies that emphasize the interconnections between film aesthetics and other art forms like photography with accounts of the history of domestic technological development and international exchange, Cavendish continues to produce the most compelling scholarship on Soviet film style." · Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
“Cavendish’s monograph is a painstakingly researched piece of film scholarship which excels in film history as much as in formal analysis… [It] remains a scholarly work to be reckoned with – an exhaustive formal analysis of a neglected but key aspect of cinema, sensible in its interpretative claims, and supported by rich contextual information.” · Apparatus
“Boasting an impressive grasp of silent cinema’s historical trends, Cavendish provides useful analysis of the camera work and lighting underlying the collaboration of four camera operator-director pairs. Cavendish has produced an invaluable study of Soviet avant-garde cinema that finally gives cameramen their due credit.” · Slavic Review
“Cavendish’s research underlines the impact of modernity on Soviet avant-garde cinema: the dissolution of aesthetic hierarchies and the poeticization of the commonplace, seen in the shooting of new objects in new locations, such as industrial and technological landscapes marked by death and violence … Cavendish’s book might also be seen as an alternative history of Russian cinema, as it focuses on the work of the creative units of teams of directors and camera operators of the 1920s… [It] is accompanied by a strong research apparatus [and] of great help and value for anyone interested in the history of Russian cinema.” · Slavic and East European Journal
“The great strength of this book is the way it looks so closely and carefully at the techniques — truncated camera angles, mirrors, specialized lenses — used by avant-garde camera operators during the 1920s. Cavendish is particularly attentive to the cameraman’s lighting choices… Anybody who teaches early Soviet film will want to consult Cavendish’s detailed, technical descriptions of the devices employed by particular cameramen for particular films… [An] excellent and inspiring book.” · Slavonic & East European Review
“…very well written…The author’s methodology is extremely well suited to the topic and the conceptual concern is simply path breaking…The author presents an invaluable theoretical introduction (fundamentally redefining the traditional attributions of cinematic innovation) and provides four very detailed case studies to demonstrate and ground his reading.” · Vladimir Padunov, University of Pittsburgh
“This is an excellent piece of scholarship. It is detailed and superbly referenced, with a great amount of detail in each chapter, and is obviously the fruit of many years’ work. The author has identified a major new area of investigation in what is otherwise a crowded field: Soviet cinema in the 1920s. Nevertheless, there has until this work been no sustained examination of the role of the camera operator in the films of these years.” · David Gillespie, University of Bath
Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting. In the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, owing to the fetishization of the camera as an embodiment of modern technology, the cameraman was an iconic figure whose creative contribution was encouraged and respected. Drawing upon the film literature of the period, Philip Cavendish describes the culture of the camera operator, charts developments in the art of camera operation, and studies the mechanics of key director-cameraman partnerships. He offers detailed analysis of Soviet avant-garde films and draws comparisons between the visual aesthetics of these works and the modernist experiments taking place in the other spheres of the visual arts.
Philip Cavendish is Reader in Russian and Soviet Film Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He is the author of Mining for Jewels: Evgenii Zamiatin and the Literary Stylization of Rus′ (MHRA, 2000), and Soviet Mainstream Cinematography: The Silent Era (UCL, 2007).
Subject: Film Studies
Area: Central/Eastern Europe
LC: TR848.C38 2013
PER004030 PERFORMING ARTS/Film & Video/History & Criticism;
PER004000 PERFORMING ARTS/Film & Video/General
APFA Film theory & criticism;
APFX Film production: technical & background skills
Note on Transliteration and Conventions
Chapter 1. The Theory and Practice of Camera Operation within the Soviet Avant-garde of the 1920s
Chapter 2. Eduard Tisse and Sergei Eisenstein
Chapter 3. Anatolii Golovnia and Vsevolod Pudovkin
Chapter 4. Andrei Moskvin and the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS)
Chapter 5. Danylo Demuts′kyi and Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Index of names and subjects
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Trump’s insensitive remarks during Navajo code-talker ceremony rekindles memory of kindness on bike tour
Eastside Rail Corridor Trail suddenly taking shape in Renton, Newcastle and Bellevue
Seattle’s 520 Trail open to bicycles on Dec. 20
By Gene Bisbee in Bike trails, Main Page, Northwest Cycling
The 520 Trail across Lake Washington is scheduled to open Dec. 20, connecting the Eastside’s Medina with Montlake in Seattle.
The trail currently is blocked at mid-span, preventing cyclists and pedestrians from crossing from the Eastside into Seattle.
The 520 Bike Trail across Lake Washington shown in red. It gives bicyclists more options for traveling between the Eastside and Seattle
As you can see from this map, the 520 Trail will dramatically change bicycling for the better in the region, allowing a more direct route between the Burke-Gilman Trail in the west with trails on the east side of Lake Washington.
The WA Department of Transportation made the announcement late last week. The trail runs roughly from Evergreen Point Road in Medina to 24th Avenue East. From there, travelers can turn north toward UW, or south toward the Arboretum.
Funding exists to extend the trail from Montlake to I-5 on the future Portage Bay Bridge. From there, improved connections can be made to South Lake Union, Eastlake, and downtown.
The replacement bridge opened to traffic in 2016, and the eastern section of trail opened later that year. As the western replacement for the bridge into Montlake was finished this summer, work progressed on the trail.
The trail is 14 feet wide with 11 pull-outs with benches and informational signs. Mount Rainier and Mount Baker can be seen from the bridge in clear weather as you ride high above the lake.
520 Bike Path, State Route 520
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2017/12/04/seattles-520-trail-open-to-bicycles-on-dec-20/
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Listen: Elon Musk’s monkey cyborg, Gilead’s shifting future, & an app for anxiety
Can apps treat anxiety? Is Gilead Sciences back on track? And are we all just brains in a vat?
We discuss all that and more on the latest episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. First, we dig into Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company and the bombastic announcement of its futuristic intentions. Then, we discuss Gilead’s $5 billion effort to reverse its recent fortunes. Later, STAT’s Megan Thielking joins us to discuss the complexity of designing apps to deal with mental health issues. Finally, we embark upon a lightning round, featuring sea-sick volunteers, big-money startups, and experimental eye surgery.
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Women make ‘little progress’ in key pharma roles; FDA approves a Merck antibiotic
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. And this will be an especially busy one for us as we engage in a round of chats with a multitude of interesting folks. A break from the usual routine, in some ways. Nonetheless, we continue to forage for interesting items, despite the oppressive heat. So time to stay cool with another hot cup of stimulation, yes? As always, please feel free to join us. Meanwhile, here is a new batch of tidbits to help you along. Hope all goes well today and do stay in touch. …
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STAT Plus: Frequency signs $80 million deal with Astellas Pharma
Frequency Therapeutics, the Woburn, Mass., biotech that wants to restore hearing lost as a result of long-term exposure to loud music, leaf blowers, and other features of modern life, has found a like-minded business partner in Japan.
Frequency will receive $80 million up front in a licensing deal with Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma (ALPMY). The latter firm hopes to develop and market outside the United States the startup’s experimental drug to restore hearing. Frequency plans to develop and sell the medicine domestically.
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Data show pharma saturated U.S. with opioids; Swiss extradite Chinese researcher
Rise and shine, everyone, the middle of the week is already here. Time moves quickly, yes? Of course, this is good reason to hang in there, since the end of the week cannot be too far away. Besides, what are the alternatives? And do you really want to know? Meanwhile, we are digging in for another busy day of foraging. So time to get cracking. Hope you have a simply smashing day and conquer the world. Meanwhile, here are some tidbits. Good luck. …
Drug makers saturated the country with 76 billion opioid pills from 2006 through 2012, the Washington Post writes, citing newly disclosed data from a Drug Enforcement Administration database released as part of the opioid litigation. Just six companies distributed 75% of the pills: McKesson (MCK), Walgreens (WBA), Cardinal Health (CAH), AmerisourceBergen (ABC), CVS (CVS), and Walmart (WMT). Three companies manufactured 88% of the opioids: SpecGx, a unit of Mallinckrodt (MNK); Actavis Pharma, which is now part of Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA); and Par Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Endo Pharmaceuticals (ENDP).
SAN FRANCISCO — In front of a crowd of techies packed into a planetarium, Elon Musk strode out on stage, waxed philosophical about achieving symbiosis with artificial intelligence, and made his latest ambitious pronouncement in a career that’s been full of them: His startup Neuralink has developed technology meant to be implanted into the brain that’s designed to allow people to operate computers and smartphones with their thoughts.
With some early animal testing under its belt, Neuralink wants to start human testing of its so-called “brain-machine interface” in paralyzed patients by the end of next year. Notably, the startup has yet to convince the Food and Drug Administration to allow it do so, said Musk, who has tangled with regulators over his other companies Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company.
Opinion: I get asked a lot about longevity. It helps that I’m 104
As scientists pursue longevity and anti-aging research, and as more people are living to 100, we wanted to hear from a centenarian on her life experience and thoughts on aging. STAT editor Sarah Mupo spoke with 104-year-old Missouri resident Virginia Leitner. Their conversation forms the basis for this brief oral history.
When anyone meets me for the first time, they always ask me, what do you attribute your longevity to? And I always say, just don’t tell me to be good, because I want to dance and have fun.
Opinion: It’s time to change the definition of ‘health’
Meet Betty, a typical aging American. At 82, she spends almost as much time with her doctors as she does with her grandchildren. She has to. She takes seven prescription medications to treat her high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and arthritis. Ten years ago, she was treated for breast cancer.
Is Betty healthy? According to her, “Absolutely!” She enjoys her spacious apartment, two cats, close friends, and 50-gallon fish tank.
An aggressive push to use a second experimental Ebola vaccine to try to help stop the nearly yearlong outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may have backfired, with the DRC’s health minister insisting the country will not allow use of the vaccine, made by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson.
The health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga, had previously suggested a consortium made up of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Doctors Without Borders, and others might be permitted to conduct a clinical trial of J&J’s Ebola vaccine in the country, although not in the outbreak zone, where Merck’s experimental vaccine is being used.
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Panattoni Europe delivers e-commerce logistics centre for Amazon of more than 161,500 sqm near Szczecin
Panattoni Europe has just completed one of the most advanced fulfilment centres dedicated to online retail for Amazon. The investment with total useful floor area of 161,500 sqm was built on a 29-hectare site in Kołbaskowo near Szczecin. Warehousing and distribution functions have taken up close to 150,800 sqm, while more than 10,700 sqm are allocated to office and staff facilities.
The facility is 17 metres high. Moreover, as part of the investment the developer has built 7,800 sqm of roads, including a dogbone roundabout. It has replaced the existing Kołbaskowo junction, at the exit off the A6 motorway coming from the east. The investment is Panattoni Europe’s fourth project for Amazon.
Robots and logistics process optimization. The investment in Kołbaskowo is equipped with Amazon Robotics technology. For its purposes and to optimize logistics processes, the facility has 3 storeys. The ground level, which houses permanent workstations towards the rear of the building, has access to daylight thanks to the installation of 11 skylights measuring more than 100 sqm each. Daylight reaches the ground floor via walled tunnels which pass through two storeys, on which robots assist employees in stacking products on warehouse racks and in order picking.
Marek Dobrzycki, Managing Director, Panattoni Europe, commented: “This investment is a prime example of the latest industry trends ─ the development of multi-storey warehouse spaces to be used by e-commerce businesses on a large scale. By going beyond the standard height, the space offered by the facility – now expressed in cubic meters – can be used in the optimal manner. With the inevitable growth of online shopping, such solutions are bound to become increasingly popular, and in the end will come as standard.”
The Amazon Robotics technology makes it possible to store up to 50 percent more products, and to process orders much faster. Thanks to process optimization, it now takes not hours, but minutes to fill an individual order. It is worth adding that this technology has also led to a significant increase of employment. And as Marzena Więckowska, PR Senior Manager at Amazon commented: “Poland was one of the first countries in the world and the first in Europe to start working with Amazon Robotics back in 2015, when 270 robots made their way to the e-commerce logistics centre in Wrocław. Now our new centre in Kołbaskowo has more than 3,000 of them, which makes it one of the most advanced facilities in our network.”
Like in the case of previous facilities developed by Panattoni Europe for Amazon, this one too will undergo the BREEAM Interim certification process. The developer and the investor are looking to obtain the VERY GOOD rating. That is why, right from breaking ground the investment was executed in line with environmental requirements including: appropriate waste management in the course of construction and the use of a broad range of local plants to integrate the distribution centre with the natural environment. The facility features an intelligent building management system (BMS), LED lighting and motion sensors in various zones, enhanced insulation of walls and roofs, as well as building tightness. It also has installations limiting water consumption to the minimum.
Location. The facility for Amazon was developed in Kołbaskowo, approx. 12 km from Szczecin city centre and as little as 230 m from the Kołbaskowo Junction on the A6 motorway.
Source: http://europaproperty.com
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Claudie Blakley is an English actress who trained at Central School of Speech and Drama Best known for her portrayal of Emma Timmins in BBC drama Lark Rise to...
Claudie Blakley is an English actress who trained at Central School of Speech and Drama Best known for her portrayal of Emma Timmins in BBC drama Lark Rise to Candleford (2008-2011)
Notable theatre credits include Nina in Chekhov’s The Seagull (1999) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Bolette in Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea (2002) at the Almeida under direction from Trevor Nunn, Varya in The Cherry Orchard (2011) at the Royal National Theatre and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (2012) at the Crucible.
Her big screen credits include mystery drama Gosford Park (2001), comedy horror Severance (2006) and romantic biography Bright Star (2009).
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Narrated by: Jim Norton
Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century....
Ulysses (Unabridged)
By Peter Deane on 01-22-09
81. Ulysses
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming of age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity....
Great Performance of a classic!
By Steven on 08-18-13
82. Great Expectations
It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis
Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip....
Good, But Not In Order...
By Imagineallthepeople on 03-31-17
83. It Can't Happen Here
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
A charming portrait of the joys and hardships of the four sisters in Civil War New England....
Timeless Listen
By Nicole on 12-05-09
84. Little Women
Series: Little Women, Book 1
Original 1926 Edition
By: George S. Clason, Charles Conrad
Narrated by: Charles Conrad
The ancient Babylonians were the first people to discover the universal laws of prosperity....
By A. Chouinard on 04-27-19
85. The Richest Man in Babylon
Travels with Charley in Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases....
Enjoyed the Journey
By Rebb on 12-15-11
86. Travels with Charley in Search of America
By: Albert Camus
Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....
Is amorality bad?
By Rolando on 03-10-14
87. The Stranger
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Hank Morgan is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot....
Mark Twain and Nick Offerman are a perfect match
By Philip M. Chute on 10-23-17
88. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Alan Munro
Meditations is former U.S. President Bill Clinton's favorite book. This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180 AD, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy....
The reading made it impossible to focus on content
By Mark Grebner on 09-02-12
89. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
From This World to That Which Is to Come
By: John Bunyan
Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
In plain yet powerful and moving language, John Bunyan tells the story of Christian's struggle to attain salvation and the Gates of Heaven....
Two books in one! Terrific narration!
By Adam on 01-16-15
90. The Pilgrim's Progress
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century....
Timeless Romance, brought to life by Armando Duràn
By Anne on 09-05-13
91. Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of 20th-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage....
The Original. Great Stories, Great Narrator.
By Troy on 04-05-16
92. The Martian Chronicles
By: Alexandre Dumas
Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman....
A true Time-machine
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93. The Count of Monte Cristo
The Mary Poppins Series, Book 1
By: P. L. Travers
Narrated by: Sophie Thompson
Here is the timeless story of Mary Poppins, the world's favorite nanny, and her magical adventures with the Banks family....
Why Did I Wait So Long?
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94. Mary Poppins
Series: Mary Poppins, Book 1
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
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95. The Secret Garden
A Myth Retold
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
C. S. Lewis reworks the timeless myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction in this novel about the struggle between sacred and profane love....
One of a kind.
By Stephanie on 07-07-10
96. Till We Have Faces
The Souls of Black Folk
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” writes Du Bois....
Essays of 'life and love and strife and failure'
97. The Souls of Black Folk
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan
Attacking the notion of morality as nothing more than institutionalised weakness, Nietzsche criticises past philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of moral precepts....
Great Book, great Audio Narration
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98. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Anthony Burgess
Narrated by: Tom Hollander
A vicious 15-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom....
Great book, great narration, but not for everyone
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99. A Clockwork Orange
The Federalist Papers (AmazonClassics Edition)
By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written,” The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay....
Very Readable
By George on 07-13-18
100. The Federalist Papers (AmazonClassics Edition)
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The Doomsday Machine
By: Daniel Ellsberg
Narrated by: Steven Cooper
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
Fascinating Insider Story
By Terry Masters on 12-07-17
A hair-raising insider's account
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents and makes clear their shocking relevance for today. The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. Framed as a memoir, this thriller with cloak-and-dagger intrigue places Ellsberg back in his natural role as whistle-blower.
Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory
By: Michael Korda
An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
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An epic of remarkable originality
Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life the world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the war, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Clouds of Glory, chronicles the outbreak of hostilities, recalling as a prescient young boy the enveloping tension that defined pre-Blitz London, and then as a military historian the great events that would alter the course of the 20th century.
A Dramatic Narrative
From the coauthor of the New York Times best seller Hamilton: The Revolution comes the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them. Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them—and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals, and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos.
The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
By: Todd Zwillich
Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
By Judah Family on 07-05-19
Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure: namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers that made The Right Stuff a classic.
The Dead Drink First
By: Dale Maharidge
Narrated by: Dale Maharidge
Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. There was just one clue to his dad’s experience as a US Marine - a portrait with a close friend that hung permanently in their home. In The Dead Drink First, Dale, now a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recounts his 18-year quest to find and repatriate the missing remains of his dad’s buddy, Herman Walter Mulligan, 73 years after he was killed in action.
read it even if it's not your usual genre
By Kindle Customer on 06-07-19
The Findings of the Special Counsel Investigation
By: Robert S. Mueller III, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice
Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett, Victor Bevine
The wait is over. After a two-year investigation, the results of The Mueller Report have been released to the public. Now listen to an audio version of one of the most talked about government documents in history. These are the redacted findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team, which was tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, including exploring any links or coordination between President Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Double Checked Accuracy
By Aptly Informed on 05-04-19
The Other America - A Speech from The Radical King (Free)
By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West - editor
Narrated by: Wanda Sykes
In a rousing speech on race, poverty, and economic justice - given less than a year before his assassination - Martin Luther King Jr. drives home the mission behind his Poor People's Campaign. It is a clear-eyed look at the disparity of wealth in America, what it means for people of all colors - and a message of inspiration dedicated to the power of the people.
My first audible experience, and the best!!!
By Michael Lane on 02-09-18
The Quest Continues
Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.
Great book with excellent narration!
By Linda SB on 10-27-16
Dead Mountain
The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
By: Donnie Eichar
Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
Amazing Story
By Denise Ryan on 08-08-15
With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
By: E. B. Sledge
Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)
The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries.
This is the second audio book of Sledge's work
By Richard on 10-21-13
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
Brilliant, insightful, intriguing.
American Liberator
By: Marie Arana
Narrated by: David Crommett
It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.
There will be blood.
By Joselo on 08-02-13
Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets
By: John Woolf, Nick Baker
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you’ll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder. Presented by Stephen Fry, this series delves deep into a period of time we think we know, to discover an altogether darker reality. The stories we’re told offer a different perspective on an era which underwent massive social change. As education, trade, technology and culture blossomed, why was there an undercurrent of the ‘forbidden’ festering beneath Victorian society?
A must hear ... but not for kids!
By Dylan on 02-19-19
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch
By: Ruth Cowen
Narrated by: Jennie Bond, Tim Piggott-Smith, Lindsay Duncan
Respected royal broadcaster Jennie Bond narrates the life story of Queen Elizabeth II, and takes listeners inside the private life of one of the most public figures in modern history. Learn intimate details of Elizabeth's childhood, her courtship and marriage, and the tragic moments following the death of Princess Diana. Born a minor royal in 1926, Elizabeth is now the longest-reigning British monarch and also the most recognizable woman in the world.
Thoroughly Enjoyable From Start To Finish
By Julia on 04-16-16
The True Story of the Manson Murders
By: Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.
A familiar story from a unique perspective
By Laura on 11-26-13
The Girls of Atomic City
The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
By: Denise Kiernan
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
More than Just the Girls
By Jane Mcdowell on 01-14-14
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
By: Francis Fukuyama
Fukuyama examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
Understanding our place thru Poly Sci
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende (Foreward)
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.
Please up-date the addition
By fishrock on 02-20-10
Washington's Spies
The Story of America's First Spy Ring
By: Alexander Rose
Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all.
Kinda boring
By Randall on 07-10-19
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe - one of the 20th century’s foremost voices in cultural criticism - went from local news reporter to international icon in 1968, with the publication of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Now voiced with vivacity and vigor by Audible Hall of Fame narrator Luke Daniels, the non-fiction swan-dive delves into the world of hippies, hedonism, and everything in between.
Extremely well-narrated
By JE on 03-29-19
The Accidental President
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By: A. J. Baime
Narrated by: Tony Messano
The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Essential American History
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This is history on a grand scale, an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, it is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
Lip smacking good
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war.
Lincoln Comes Alive Through His Realtionships
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The End of Camelot
By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
More than a million listeners have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the can't-stop-listening work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Nothing of Substance New
By Patti on 09-21-14
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
My kinda founding father...mostly...
By Brad Barker on 06-08-13
Narrated by: David McCullough
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
Front Seat on History
By Mark on 10-22-05
Ulrich Zwingli: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss Reformer Who Fought the Catholic Church during the Reformation
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
On March 9, 1522, a band of about a dozen rebellious Christians gathered in a printer's workshop in Grabengasse, Zurich, fully resolved to march to the beat of their own drum. These renegades were intent on broadcasting a message to the corrupt and increasingly dishonorable Catholic Church...Ulrich Zwingli: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss Reformer Who Fought the Catholic Church during the Reformation chronicles the reformer’s life and teachings, and the influence he had on religion.
Shiloh: Two Days in Hell
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By: Line of Battle
Narrated by: Sonny Dufault
Shiloh: Two Days in Hell outlines the battle and explains how it came about. You will meet the main participants, understand Union and Confederate troop movements, and learn more about the rise of Sherman and Grant. It's not the complete story, but enough to bring you up to speed, understand the issues of the day, and maybe encourage you to explore more on your own.
Claudius: A Life from Beginning to End
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Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
Claudius. Often portrayed as an awkward, disfigured, and clumsy man, Claudius was the unlikely ruler of the Roman Empire from 41 CE to 54 CE. His reign would prove to be one of the longest of the time even though his rise to the throne did not come without opposition. Virtually no-one in Claudius’ family wanted to see him become emperor - only when he turned out to be the last surviving man of the Julio-Claudian dynasty did he ascend to the throne.
The Gallic Wars
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By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Randy Whitlow
As Rome swelled with tradespeople, artisans, slaves, and wealthy merchant families, its politicians struggled to maintain the fundamental democratic properties of the republican government. Rules were bent and broken, politicians and voters were bribed and lied to, and eventually, the power of Rome fell to the one man who could muster the respect and loyalty of the world-famous Roman army. That man was Gaius Julius Caesar.
Cult of the Great Eleven
By: Samuel Fort
Narrated by: Ben Granger
Cult of the Great Eleven is a true account of one of the 20th century’s weirdest and most mysterious cults. Human and animal sacrifices, vanishings, the preserved corpse of a teenage cult princess, angelic encounters, a woman cooked in an oven, a mother chained to her bed for two months, resurrection experiments, refrigeration warehouses for the dead, abductions, nocturnal rituals, orgies, a breathing universe, an esoteric tome known as "The Great Sixth Seal", hints of Hecate worship, and a post-apocalyptic world ruled by 11 queens from a hill in Hollywood.
Menachem Begin
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Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is over 70 years old and counting but has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. With so much time and history, the Middle East peace process has become laden with unique, politically sensitive. Menachem Begin: The Life and Legacy of the Irgun Leader Who Became Israel’s Prime Minister looks at how Begin rose the ranks through militias and governments to become one of the Jewish State’s most consequential leaders.
Hitler’s British Traitors
By: Tim Tate
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Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files - many of them previously unpublished - Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly in secret trials, of working to help Nazi Germany win the war, and several hundred British Fascists who were interned without trial on evidence that they were working on behalf of the enemy. Four were condemned to death; two were executed.
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By: David R. Honodel
Narrated by: Gary MacFadden
David R. “Buff” Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country almost unknown in America, attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail that fed soldiers and supplies from North Vietnam into the South. Stateside he learned the art of flying the F-4, but in combat, the bomb-loaded fighter handled differently, targets shot back, and people suffered. Inert training ordnance was replaced by lethal weapons.
The Viking Program
The History and Legacy of NASA's First Missions to Mars
Narrated by: Bill Hare
Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System.
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The Greatest Fraud in History
By: Raymond W. Bernard PhD
Narrated by: Judah Mertes
The Essene Teacher of Righteousness was Apollonius of Tyana, who, in the year AD 325 at the Council of Nicea, was replaced by a fictitious messiah called Jesus Christ: the greatest fraud in history. Here, Raymond Bernard, PhD, has discovered several sources that supposedly tell the true stories about Jesus and his family as members of the Essene Jewish sect. The story of his life is commingled with tales of his alleged traveling to India and Japan. Jesus appears to be a person whose life and story were developed by the Essenes.
WTC: Twin Towers: September 11, 2001
By: Albert Jack
Narrated by: Albert Jack
The events that took place on September 11, 2001, were the most important of our generation. The event must not be forgotten. It should dominate debate, both public and private. We must reconfigure, adapt, refocus, reprioritize, and come together as one, with our allies, to defend our freedoms and liberties.
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Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.
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Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it's the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too - and this book tells their stories. At first, female pioneers were indeed rare - when the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there were only five women among a population of almost a thousand. But the adventurers arrived, slowly but surely.
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The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting classical Greece itself. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable citizens into orgiastic rituals of drink and sex.
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In crisp prose and sharp detail, Darling offers a moment-by-moment account of a one-day mission to track down and kill Taliban insurgents in the Zabul Province of southeastern Afghanistan. A rare day-in-the-life narrative that captures the mundane realities of deployment - the waiting, the heat, the heavy gear, the 0345 wake-up - along with the high-octane experience of crossing foreign terrain where every turn, every decision might have life or death consequences.
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Groundbreaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was "to overthrow the world", The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that aroused great controversy. Richard Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d'etat - "the capture of governmental power by a small minority."
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth....
Dale Maharidge’s father, like many World War II veterans, never talked about “the good war”. But the behind closed doors of their working class, Midwestern life, even the most mundane moments could trigger his father’s violent episodes, exposing his untreated trauma from combat....
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country....
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In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of SEALs struggled to take the summit....
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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By: The Washington Post
Narrated by: Matt Zapotosky, Rosalind S. Helderman,
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Summary and book reviews of The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov
The Siege of Mecca
The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda
by Yaroslav Trofimov
Sep 2007, 320 pages
The dramatic and immensely consequential story of the violent takeover of Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, by Muslim fundamentalists in 1979. With nearly 100,000 worshipers trapped inside the holy compound, Meccas bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States with repercussions we still feel today.
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morningthe first of a new Muslim centuryhundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islams holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. Led by a Saudi preacher named Juhayman al Uteybi, they believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Meccas bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths.
Despite U.S. assistance, the Saudi royal family proved haplessly incapable of dislodging the occupier, whose ranks included American converts to Islam. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satanthe United States for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough-as-nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents. Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels supporters among the kingdoms most senior clerics, helping them nurture and export Juhaymans violent brand of Islam around the world.
This dramatic and immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press in the pre-CNN, preAl Jazeera days, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away. Yaroslav Trofimov now penetrates this veil of silence, interviewing for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and drawing on hundreds of documents that had been declassified on his request. Written with the pacing, detail, and suspense of a real-life thriller, The Siege of Mecca reveals how Saudi reaction to the uprising in Mecca set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11, and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.
The holy city of Mecca looked deceptively calm as the first dawn of the new century started to break behind craggy mountains.
Splashing his face with cold water, the Grand Mosques bearded imam fastened a beige-hued cloak over his shoulders and muttered praises to the Lord. The time to lead the mornings first prayer was minutes away.
Under his window, the mosques floodlit courtyard was filling up quickly. The hajj pilgrimage season, when this stadium-size enclosure was traversed by more than a million worshippers, had already ended. Yet Mecca remained jam-packed with the faithful. Many of them had spent the night inside Islams holiest shrine, curling up on wool carpets in the Grand Mosques multistory labyrinth of nearly a thousand rooms.
As usual, these worshippers camped along with their bundles, mattresses, and suitcases that nobody had bothered to check. Following custom, many hauled in wooden coffins, hoping that the imam would ...
It is a thrilling historical narrative of the events that took place in Mecca over two weeks at the dawn of the Islamic 15th century, offering hitherto undisclosed details that provide an instructive introduction to Muslim fundamentalist terrorism while clearly connecting the dots between then and now. (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).
Portfolio Magazine - Jen Itzenson
The occasional sensationalism doesn't detract from his argument that Osama bin Laden and his operatives are the ideological descendants of the Mecca radicals, but with far greater resources.
Trofimov makes a good case that this little-known event, in which tens of thousands were held hostage and a thousand died, led to the birth of al-Qaeda. He combines political analysis and breathless narrative (''trigger fingers caressing the cold metal'') to describe the deadliest terrorist attack prior to 9/11. B+
It has taken nearly 30 years to comprehend these events in their proper context, and Trofimov does excellent work in narrating them in that light.
Casual readers will be well served by this introduction to Muslim fundamentalist terrorism.
Tom Bissell, author of God Lives in St. Petersburg and The Father of All Things
As Yaroslav Trofimov amply and skillfully demonstrates, the most radioactive particle in the world today is not North Korea, Iran, or, for that matter, the United States. It is, rather, the terrifying bundle of contradictions otherwise known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The most formative event in the modern history of this secretive and at times morally disgusting petrocracy is vivisected by Trofimov to unsettling effect, and he reminds us of why anything that has happened or will happen there is a matter of great concern to the world.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Yaroslav Trofimov has written a spellbinding thriller. Packed with vivid, previously undisclosed details, it illuminates a little-known hostage crisis in the closed-off heart of the Muslim world that helped give rise to Al Qaeda. Once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down
A Short History of Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia covers an area about the third of the size of the USA, and occupies most of the Arabian peninsula (map), most of which is desert. Its population is about 27 million, of which 5 million are foreigners (technicians, merchants, diplomats and soldiers). 90% of citizens are Arabs and all are Muslims (citizenship is only open to Muslims). Saudi Arabia is home to the two holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina - the former being where most of the Koran was revealed to Muhammad, the latter being his administrative capital and the capital of the early caliphs.
The region has been home to various groups of Semitic* people through most of recorded history. Before...
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Nature of comets
Cometary nuclei
Cometary atmospheres
Comet impact hazard
Telescopic observations from Earth and spacecraft missions to comets have revealed much about their nuclei. Cometary nuclei are small solid bodies, typically only a few kilometres in diameter and composed of roughly equal parts of volatile ices, fine silicate dust, and organic materials. The ices are dominated by water ice (about 80 percent of the total ices) but also include carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, formaldehyde, and methanol. The silicate and organic mix is similar to that found in the most primitive meteorites, carbonaceous chondrites. The materials are intimately mixed at micron scales (one micron is one millionth of a metre).
The nuclei formed in the solar nebula 4.56 billion years ago as dust and ice particles settled to the central plane of the nebula. When those particles collided, they tended to stick. Micron-sized particles grew through that process of agglomeration and accretion to metre-sized and then kilometre-sized bodies.
When cometary nuclei come close to the Sun, the ices on or near their surfaces sublimate, transforming directly from the solid to the vapour phase. The gas molecules flow off the nucleus surface, carrying with them silicate and organic dust that had been embedded in the ices. The outflowing mix of materials then forms the cometary coma, the comet’s atmosphere. Because cometary nuclei are small, their gravity is too weak to retain that atmosphere, and it flows freely out into space.
Because the different ices sublimate at different temperatures, gases are liberated from different depths below the surface as the solar heat wave penetrates into the surface. Therefore, the layers closest to the surface become progressively depleted in the most volatile ices. A lag deposit of nonvolatile dust, which is typically made of particles too large to be lifted by the escaping gases, develops on the surface. The nonvolatile layer can become so thick that it effectively insulates the icy component below it, preventing further sublimation.
Another feature of cometary activity is driven by the fact that the water ice in comets condensed at very low temperatures, less than 100 K (−173 °C [−280 °F]). At those low temperatures, ice forms in the amorphous state, a random ordering of water molecules. As the amorphous water ice is warmed above 110 K (−163 °C [−262 °F]), it begins to transform to crystalline ice, first in the cubic form and then the normal hexagonal ice experienced on Earth. The transition is complete at about 153 K (−120 °C [−184 °F]). It is an exothermic reaction—i.e., it releases energy. That energy further sustains the reaction as it warms the ice around it but dies out because it must also warm the nonvolatile dust components of the nucleus. The amorphous-to-crystalline ice transition may be one source of cometary outbursts—sharp increases in cometary activity that appear to occur randomly. It can likely explain the unusual brightness of dynamically new comets as they approach the Sun for the first time. New comets likely experience the amorphous-to-crystalline ice phase transition at between 5 and 7 AU (748 and 1,047 million km [465 and 651 million miles]) and are often discovered at that distance.
The internal structure of cometary nuclei is still an area of speculation. It is generally believed that as icy planetesimals came together at low velocity (on the order of metres per second) in the solar nebula, there was not enough energy to melt or compress them into a single solid body. The two leading explanations suggest that cometary nuclei are “fluffy aggregates,” first proposed by American astronomer Bertram Donn and British astronomer David Hughes in 1982, or “primordial rubble piles,” proposed by American astronomer Paul Weissman (the author of this article) in 1986, with low binding strength and high porosity. Key data supporting these models are estimates of nucleus bulk density, ranging from 0.2 to 1.0 gram per cubic centimetre, with preferred values of about 0.3–0.6 gram per cubic centimetre. This suggests a combined microscopic and macroscopic porosity of about 60 percent or more, a very high value.
Additional evidence for the rubble pile model for cometary nuclei comes from observations of split (disrupted) cometary nuclei. Observations show that nuclei can randomly break apart, shedding a few or many pieces. Those pieces have typically been estimated to be between 8 and 60 metres (26 and 197 feet) in diameter. In some cases, the entire nucleus is disrupted. Disruption can also occur if the nucleus passes too close to the Sun or to a large planet like Jupiter, where gravitational tides tear the weakly bound nucleus apart. That has been observed for Sun-grazing comets, comets with perihelia within one solar radius of the Sun’s photosphere.
A particularly interesting case of a tidally disrupted nucleus is that of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. That comet was discovered in 1993 as a string of 21 separate but co-moving active nuclei Observations showed that the comet had been captured into orbit around Jupiter and had passed so close to Jupiter on its last perijove passage, 1.3 Jupiter radii (93,000 km [58,000 miles]), that it was tidally disrupted. A suggested explanation was that the nucleus was a rubble pile and had broken into thousands of separate “cometesimals.” As that swarm of bodies moved away from Jupiter, their own self-gravity caused them to clump together. Interestingly, the number of final clumps depended on the bulk density of the original nucleus. The best fit was obtained for bulk densities of about 0.5–0.6 gram per cubic centimetre. The original nucleus was estimated to be 1.6 km (1 mile) in diameter, a fairly typical nucleus size. Thus, Shoemaker-Levy 9 is another proof of a low-density rubble pile or aggregate structure for cometary nuclei.
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 lined up along the comet's orbital path, in a composite of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. A close encounter with Jupiter in 1992 broke up the comet's single nucleus into more than 20 pieces, which subsequently assumed their notable “string-of-pearls” appearance. NASA/STScI/H.A. Weaver and T.E. Smith
As noted above, nuclei can display “outbursts,” which are large sudden releases of dust and gas. The most famous was from the comet 17P/Holmes in 2007, which brightened by 15 magnitudes (one million times brighter) in less than two days. One possible explanation is the amorphous ice transition to crystalline ice. Another possible explanation is rotational spin-up due to torques from the coma outgassing as ices sublimate on the surface of the irregularly shaped nucleus.
NASA - Comets
The Canadian Encyclopedia - Comet
National Geographic - Asteroids and Comets
HyperPhysics - Comet
Britannica Websites
Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
comet - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
comet - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
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Panel is open for questions
Cake Panel
Grace Hsia, CEO & cofounder of Warmilu and inventor of its warming technology, stops by for a Cake panel.
July 3 at 3:05 PM
Please join me in welcoming Grace Hsia from non-electric warming technology company Warmilu for a Cake Panel! This panel is open for questions.
About Grace: As CEO and Cofounder of Warmilu, Grace is a problem solver. She connects Warmilu to the right people to build strategy and infrastructure to share warmth. Having been born preterm, leading Warmilu is an opportunity for Grace to give back and transform lives with warmth. She is passionate about getting more young women into the STEM fields and breaking down typical engineering stereotypes.
About Warmilu: Warmilu is a global non-electric warming technology manufacturing company. Warmilu manufactures US patent-protected warming technology able to generate warmth with the press of a disk that lasts for hours and can be reused. This warming technology is integrated into various applications including IncuBlankets, alternative infant incubators for resource scarce settings; stadium seat cushions for keeping fans warm in football stadiums; and outdoor recreation.
Welcome Grace!
Thank you so much for joining us for a Cake Panel, Grace! I got to know you a few years ago during the Creator Awards, but would love it if you could tell us a little bit about your story and how you got on the path to creating your company. Where did you get the initial inspiration for Warmilu’s heating tech?
GraceHsia
Replying to Victoria
Way back when, when I first started Warmilu, I was a material science engineer at the University of Michigan, in my undergrad program. What had happened was I learned over 1 million infants die from preventable hypothermia and other pre-term birth problems and challenges, like being low birth weight, having issues breathing, and getting access to basic things like incubators and ventilators. And that was really powerful, that resonated with me to learn about, because I was born pre-term, and if not for the incubator where I spent the first 11 days of my life, I would have died. So my life had come full-circle. So myself and my team had been doing research in space age materials and polymer chemistry, and as a result, that led to the first “a ha” moment - what if I applied some of my research to keeping babies warm? Because the technology I’d been working on was purely non-electric, and you can use it to store heat, and be able to generate heat with a press of a disk. The problem was the technologies of the time would over-heat, so 8 years ago, my team and I figured out what if we could add a thermal buffer? So that thermal buffer and the mixture in side the pack stays warm for 5-8 hours. So we got a US patent on that, and that led to the beginning of Warmilu. And then seeing the problem in person - at this point in time, I’ve traveled to India, Kenya, Israel, Uganda, and other areas that are resource-scarce or challenged like Rwanda, Ghana, Bangladesh, Nepal, we’re serving 11 countries now.
But as we were going overseas with these prototypes, communicating with doctors and nurses overseas, seeing this in-person kicked us into overdrive. We saw hospitals where there were 2-6 babies in one incubator, or quintuplets who died the day before we visited their county hospital, they’d been born 1 month pre-term like myself but they all died because they had no source of warmth on the way to the hospital. So all 5 of those babies died. In addition, there were stories from midwives, doctors and nurses: in Uganda there was a midwife who told us about how she had a group of 30 babies in a hospital, and they’d received a flood warning, so they’d transported most of the adult patients all fine, but in the neonatal intensive care unit, all 30 of the babies died, because they had no transport incubator. They tried to put the babies in tubs with heated sand, but it didn’t work, it wasn’t safe. Some of the babies were on ventilators, so all of them ended up dying. So it was stories like that, in a setting where 80% of the babies could die from things that could be prevented like just staying warm. So seeing that stuff in-person, it made it so me, as a person born and raised in Michigan, up until that point I’d never experienced that kind of disparity in healthcare and access. So going overseas, touring these hospitals, it really made me want to do something as a material science engineer. So I was very fortunate that the University of Michigan gave me a grant from their business school, and that helped us to warm babies and to do so from the very beginning - from coming up with the idea, prototyping, and then having the resources to run clinical trials to learn, test, and build a commercial medical device company.
How would you describe Warmilu in a nutshell?
Warmilu is our non-electric warming technology company that makes medical devices and also custom cut and sew products to fit those warming technologies. So our US patented warming technology is our Multiplatform technology, it’s the thing that powers all that we do. So our flagship product is the Warmilu Infant warming incubator blanket, and it’s now warming 7,200 babies in 30 hospitals in 11 countries. And we work with partners, the key to our success is being a material science engineering company with a heart, and working with amazing partners like Doctors without Borders in Bangladesh, the University of California San Francisco, and finally other organizations including the branches of the US Armed Forces. So that’s Warmilu in a nutshell. And we’re able to accomplish all this because we raised about $112K in grant funding, the cofounders kicked in about $4.5k in our own funding, and raised $262K in pre-seed funding from external investors including WeWork, University of Michigan, Hillman Accelerator in partnership with Procter & Gamble. So that funding has gone a long way!
Why is warming technology so important?
Warming technology is so important because warmth is a basic need, as important as food or water. Warmth, for some people it’s a matter of comfort, there’s a place for warmth in everyone’s life, from warmth for a sports fan or saving a baby’s life in Kenya. I feel it’s one of the most amazing things I could be working on with my material engineering background. What I found was it’s one thing to have access to warmth when you’re connected to the grid, but there’s a number of places where you don’t have access to portable, safe warmth, like a hospital 4-6 hours away from the nearest city. So we found being able to provide portable, safe, re-usable, instant warmth could touch the lives of many people. And as we were growing as a company, we found warmth is difficult to get the temperatures right. There’s a lot of different products out there but if you’re looking at some electric blankets or gloves, they can overheat and accidentally burn people, and you can’t do that with a baby! We chose to focus on babies because not only was it personally meaningful, but also the population that our team identified as needing safe, portable, instant warmth the most. So it was really amazing to be able to help apply warmth to a population where 1 million infants are dying of hypothermia, and it was mind-blowing to us that someone wasn’t doing something to help these babies. And we were able to take all our thermal models, testing, clinical trials and manufacturing, and start translating that to other applications for adults as well as animals. We actually warm reptiles, like snakes and lizards, as well as primates! So we’re actually doing a lot to help warm not just people but also animals too.
You provide products ranging from pain management to the “Gameday Warmcush” seat to the Warmilu Inclublanket. What have been some of the most surprising testimonials you’ve received?
I think the most surprising thing to us was literally that snake-carrier thing. That was really different, not something we would have expected or come up with! The funny thing was the temperature for snake-warming, it’s actually ideal to keep them as close to room-temperature as possible, but that’s super-cold to us, 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit. We can create a range of temperatures with our various formulations, and so we didn’t think a room temperature pack would be useful. But surprise, here was this application - a woman reached out through our website after seeing the temperature ranges, and that helped her transport her snakes and reptiles safely, even during the winter months! I think that’s one of the most surprising. Another surprising thing we’ve learned is we originally envisioned our blanket to warm babies for 5-8 hours, and what we found was a number of government hospitals, the doctors and nurses didn’t want us to keep the babies in there for 5-8 hours. Instead, we learned that some of them wanted to use the infant warming blankets to transport babies. So they asked us to make the interior wipeable instead of a knit fabric, so instead of warming ONE baby every 5-8 hours, we could warm 2-15 babies EVERY hour. So if you multiply that over time, it made a huge difference to these hospitals. Some of the hospitals we serve in emerging countries serve 100 babies per day, whereas in the University of Michigan hospital, there’s only about 300-500 babies born annually. So there’s a significant thing we learned: something as simple as changing the interior of the blanket could suddenly help so many more babies.
We had a Mount Everest climbing guy ask us to make some packs. We made small 2x2 inch packs, they don't stay warm as long (3-4 hours, versus 5-8), so that happened! They would put them in their gloves and stuff, or near their toes as they tried to sleep, because it gets so cold there. Just having a LITTLE bit of warmth can really help you sleep apparently, when you're climbing Everest!
So that was one of the coolest applications.
And then drone battery warming: we had a local company approach us, about 2 years ago, to ask if we could help warm drone batteries. Apparently if the temperature gets too cold, their drone batteries die and you can't use them. So for drone inspectors of wind turbines, you're inspecting them in the fall or winter, and the drone batteries just die! So that was a surprising and cool application. So these are applications of warmth that we NEVER would have expected, but that turned out to be a thing!
You travel a lot in your role as the founder of the company. What are some travel tips you’ve picked up over the years?
Oh my goodness! First off, travel light. A rule I always follow in my life, even with day-to-day, is buy things that will pair up really well with 3-6 other outfits in your closet. I’ve traveled to places where there is no laundry machine, so I had to handwash things, and these things are still professional-looking. When you go to meetings overseas, they expect professionalism. So travel light, roll up your clothes, your shirts, your jacket, your suit pants or skirts, roll them, that’s how I can fit enough clothes for 2.5 weeks in Kenya in a single backpack. I have some links to videos talking about the rolling technique, it’s really helpful.
Second, if you’re doing a lot of traveling and you have to bring stuff to the country of target, put it in the checked luggage. There’s a free samples program you can sign up for through the US Government. Normally you’d get charged - one guy was traveling through the Kenya airport, and I’ve seen this in Israel and India - if you don’t have the proper receipts you’ll be charged customs and import tax bringing items from overseas. Especially if it’s a commercial good. The program enables you to bring a volume of product or dollar value for free, because you’re doing it to demonstrate or do presentations, and that can save you tens of thousands of dollars. The guy in line ahead of us in the customs line, we learned so much just watching him get heckled, he got charged about $200 for every pair of shoes and I think he had 10 in his bag! So real serious stuff, as a startup, you don’t necessarily know about these things doing business overseas. So these are hidden costs that can add up if you don’t have a free to carry certificate.
Another thing about traveling overseas: I always have a carry-on with me on the plane. You never know what’s going to happen to your checked luggage. Put some of the heaver stuff in there, but always keep one set of clothes in your carry-on bag, because when I was in India, my bags got lost, and same with Kenya. In the beginning, I would lose one checked luggage, inevitably! The reason I always recommend this to people is when I was coming back from India, I had a layover in Zurich, it was a 8-10 hour layover, so I thought I’d go into the city but I couldn’t, because my checked-bag ended up getting lost, so all I had was a tunic from India that wasn’t warm enough to leave the airport and explore. Even the airpot was too cold for me! It was snowing in January in Zurich. So that’s something I really recommend.
And in some of these areas, you won’t have access to internet for one reason or another: you’ll run into situations where you’ll be glad you had EVERYTHING printed out. Even though we live in a digital age and you can get buy with stuff on your phone or laptop, if you’re traveling, print things out. In Ethiopia, I almost wasn’t able to travel to the Forbes 30 under 30 conference in Israel, so thank goodness I’d printed it out -pulling it up on my email wasn’t enough! By having it printed out, I was able to make it to the Forbes 30 under 30 conference on time. By having it printed out, that might be the difference between catching your flight or being held in quarantine. It almost happened when I was flying to Kenya, I’d left my yellow fever card in Ann Arbor, and at the time, you had to show your yellow fever card as you were entering Kenya, so thank god I’d printed out my vaccination records so I could travel into Kenya. I was in quarantine for 15 minutes just explaining the situation to the lady in charge!
Make sure you have the stuff you need and it will fit in the overhead space. You don’t want to be in a situation where you’re overseas for 2-3 weeks without your stuff. You just need the basics.
And going to sign up for flight alerts. Normally to travel to Uganda or Kenya, the flight is $1,500. I have a whole list of airfare alerts where they aggregate search results, so you can search a bajillion results at the same time. I think thanks to Hipmunk I could get a flight to Kenya, roundtrip, for $700 dollars. So by signing up for flight watches, you’ll get a sense of the usual price, and great deals as well!
And when you’re traveling in the country: always do your due diligence on the country. In Kenya, for a while, there was a threat, and thanks to the State Department alerts, we were prepared and alert. Because we were traveling to all these resource-scarce settings, we wanted to see what it was like to have lodging more similar to what someone in-country to live in, and AirBNB helped host us when we were in Kenya, Uganda and Israel! I wasn’t able to stay in an AirBNB listing in India, but AIrBNB has a wider footprint than you’d think, and it allows you to have a more authentic travel experience. The AirBNB I stayed in Kenya I got to learn so much more about the culture, the host was sharing with me the language, local sights to see, and it enabled our team to bond better with the locals, including the medical device distributors, and the doctors and nurses we are working with. We were able to have a wonderful experience for 2.5 weeks staying in an AirBNB. So those are my key tips!
And don’t forget to bring -just in case - some people have more sensitive stomachs, I’m fine, but some of the people traveling with me, they’d bring a few granola bars and water cleaning chlorine tablets, because you never knew what was going to happen with the water. And some of us would always get bitten by mosquitos. ALWAYS bring bug spray, even if you don’t think you’ll need it!
Your Incublanket technology has been used to warm babies in 8 countries over 7 years. Do you know how many babies lives have been saved or impacted over the years? How much does that inspire you?
Yes! So currently we are closer to about 8,000 babies we’ve impacted over the years. And that is really meaningful. It’s a long way from my ultimate goal of warming 1,000,000 babies globally. Because we know that 1 million babies die from hypothermia. But even warming 8,000 is amazing. Normally medical device companies can take 18 years to be approved, so to be able to do this in 8 years is beyond amazing. Now in terms of the actual stories, those are the ones that - with the blankets, I’ve never gone and had the chance to see them being used in-person. Usually we’re there with medical teams before the project gets rolling, we’ll send 50, 100, 200 blankets, and then we get these photos, these live updates from WHatsApp from our doctors, and one of my favorite stories was we were able to warm these twins who were transported to a hospital, they were very blueish and gray before they were in the blankets and by the time they got to the hospital, not only did they survive, but they weren’t hypothermic anymore. And so that’s one of my favorite stories so far. That hospital had been having very high mortality rates for babies, 65% incidence of hypothermia in the babies they were transporting, and we never knew you could fit 2 twins in the white blanket we have on our website! I think the photo of those twins are on the website.
The other story I love so much is we were at the Bungoma County Referral Hospital, and we were warming babies there, and they were actually putting the blankets right near the mother, so after she was done breastfeeding, she could set them in the incubator blanket to get some rest, which was wonderful. So what happened was our team had been working with the governors wife of that county, so she talked about our work to the president’s wife of Kenya! So the First Lady of Kenya, who is beloved for her infant and maternal health work, she came to the hospital, saw our blankets in-use, and she is like THE President’s Wife of Kenya, the Oprah there. So that was beyond words amazing.
As a Midwest-based entrepreneur in the Detroit area, what has that been like for you building the business over the years?
One of the things I know for sure is Warmilu could not have been built anywhere else. Because of our roots in Ann Arbor and with the University of Michigan, we were able to access not only local entrepreneurial funding and resources but also resources in the Greater Midwest, connections to organizations like various chapters of the Department of Commerce, the export programs funded through the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, that actually helped us go overseas. So we wouldn’t have been able to make our first trips to India or Kenya if not for some of the funding that came from these state of Michigan or Federal Government resources.
And because of the history here: something we experienced here was the "maker" mindset, and just how much of it we have here in Detroit and Ann Arbor. It’s not enough to come up with the idea. At Warmilu, from the early days when I was welding with a blowtorch and a piece of steel in a tech startup makerspace, to making our own chemicals, being able to get expertise from the P&G team in Cincinnati, and we even found experts in shipping right here in Michigan! We found shipping experts who helped us to get into international regions. And we found experts and partners, not just through the University of Michigan or Wayne State but also nonprofits who already served emerging markets and who had been working for 30+ years to export medical devices, supplies, and to donate them to hospitals and governments. So that particular resource was the Relief for Africa Foundation as well as World Medical Relief and the Global Health Services Network. And these were groups that had already been making donations overseas.
So as a startup, you can’t just send stuff overseas, and build the infrastructure from scratch, it’s very difficult, you don’t know the local people or who’s good to work with, and even logistically, how do you get something from the airport to a region that gets a shipment maybe once a week. So these are examples of partners that, before we were working with Doctors Without Borders, they helped us get infant warming blankets to hospitals and clinics. So in the Midwest, Michigan especially, we have a very collaborative feel. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been around for 30 years or 3 years, you find groups who are willing to work with you, willing to build things, to try shipping things out, introducing you to their partners. We began working with these governments, some of the largest national government run children hospitals, because of these groups and their willingness to introduce us and to partner.
I hope we've been part of a growing movement to change the perception of Michigan entrepreneurship.
Where do you hope to take Warmilu technology next?
So for us, we’ve been working with the US Armed Forces, to break into more of the adult warming segment. We’ve been successfully working in midwifery warming as well. In Alaska, we broke in and just this year learned that in Alaska there’s a law that requires you be able to transport babies in a heated device, and a lot of midwives have been turning to Warmilu to provide that safe transport solution! In addition to that, adult warming is really one of the best applications for the technology, because we’ve been doing some new stuff that makes it easier to charge. Our warming packs can now be reset in the microwave, in addition to boiling. Imagine you’re a grandmother with arthritis, or if you’re in the battlefield, you can reset the packs in a variety of ways. So that’s been a very new innovation. We’ll be applying for a new patent to cover that part of our technology. So that’s really exciting! And some of the developments we’re pushing towards include light weighting, using materials to extend heat-generating but make them much lighter (a current pack weighs about 5 pounds) so that will allow us to break into disaster and emergency response as well as battlefield warming applications.
Would you have any words of inspiration to share with fellow entrepreneurs out there?
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Yes! The first is NEVER GIVE UP. There’s a phrase from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and one of the Oprah Life classes, he said “Have faith that on the other side of your pain is something good.” And that’s gotten me through so many challenges.
The challenges of growing a startup is you can do your best to predict the highs and lows, but you never know. One year we were supposed to get 1,000 blankets ordered through one of the countries we serve, and it never came in. What ended up happening, though, was the year we grew from warming babies in 3 hospitals in 3 countries to 9 hospitals in 8 countries, so within that year, we had more than double levels of expanding. And that was game-changing, it allowed us to start working with UCSF as well as Doctors Without Borders.
So that year, I remember hoping we were going to make it, talking to the team and letting them know that cash would be tight, and we’d have to do a lot of work on the business development side, and then we ended up becoming a better company for it. So that was the year we expanded, we got the $50K grant from the US FDA, and it was a good year.
And collaboration! Whenever possible. It doesn’t do anyone any good if you’re the only person holding onto the ideas. Sometimes the ideas never leave that place in our head. But sometimes when you start sharing them with people, you’ll be surprised at how ideas can take root, grow and blossom, simply by sharing them with someone. If you have similar values, that’s how you get the opportunity to grow. There’s a TED talk I give about this. That’s how you grow teams of not 5-10 people but 7 billion people. That’s how you think globally to problem solve, is having that mindset.
How can we best stay up to date with you?
The best way to stay up-to-date is to follow @Warmilu on Instagram, and also to sign up on our website for updates on our mailing list, and to go to our website to see the latest things we’re working on.
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And if someone has an idea - some of our best ideas come from the public! So you can reach out directly to our team, and if the idea makes it to my desk, you can just email us at info@warmilu.com. We’re all about reaching out to people and partners, because we can’t warm 1 million babies alone! We’re totally available by email.
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You all are just the best!!! LOVE seeing all of the responses to our conversation!
ATA Carnet is the program that I was talking about to @Victoria to hand-carry or ship goods duty-free and tax-free into other countries. See, we realized how critical this was when the guy in front of us was charged $200 per pair of shoes found in almost brand new packaging the first time I passed through the Customs Clearance traveling to Nairobi, Kenya...and he had 10 pairs of shoes! We almost got charged that amount, but thankfully our team was able to explain our infant warming incubator blankets were being used as a humanitarian aid donation. From then on out, we always apply for a Carnet.
A Carnet or ATA Carnet (pronounced kar-nay) is an international customs and temporary export-import document. It is used to clear customs in 87 countries and territories without paying duties and import taxes on merchandise that will be re-exported within 12 months*. Carnets are also known as Merchandise Passports or Passports for Goods. Carnets facilitate temporary imports into foreign countries and re-importation into the U.S. By presenting an ATA Carnet document to foreign customs, you pass duty free and import tax free into a carnet country for up to one year. ATA Carnets also serve as the U.S. Certificate of Registration of goods (CBP 4455) upon re-importation.
What Merchandise is Covered by Carnets?
Most merchandise can be listed on a Carnet. Virtually all types of goods and equipment can be transported under the ATA Carnet:
- Commercial Samples
- Professional Equipment (Tools of the Trade)
- Goods for Fairs & Exhibitions (limited to 6 months)
See the complete list of Merchandise categories covered by Carnet here.
What Merchandise is NOT Covered by Carnets?
Consumable items such as agricultural products (food, seeds, fertilizer, pesticides), explosives, disposables and postal traffic cannot travel under an ATA Carnet.
What Countries Accept/Use Carnets?
There are 87 countries and territories that accept carnets. See a complete list of Carnet countries here.
How Long is a Carnet Valid for?
A carnet is valid for up to 1 year from its issue date except for Exhibitions and Fairs which is valid for 6 months from date of issue.* Known exceptions to these validity periods are:
-Korea
-Malaysia
-Mexico
A U.S. or foreign customs official always has the right to limit the validity period on a carnet upon inspection although to do so is highly unusual.
The carnet can be used multiple times and in multiple countries during the period of validity. Split shipments are allowed however items cannot be added to the General List once the carnet is issued.
*Note that China only belongs to the Exhibitions & Fairs convention and therefore all carnets into China are limited to 6 months.
Can a Carnet be Extended?
Technically, a carnet cannot be extended beyond the validity period. However, in some instances foreign customs may allow a replacement carnet to be issued to extend the time the goods are in the carnet country. In all cases, the replacement carnet must be applied for prior to the expiration of the original carnet.
How Can I Obtain a Carnet?
A carnet can be issued and delivered to an applicant within 1 day, if the application is complete and approved by 4 p.m. Central time. Same day service is available for an additional charge. Obtaining a carnet takes 4, simple steps:
Gather information listed on the application checklist.Register for an online account.Log in to complete and submit the online carnet and bond application.While logged in, provide payment method and method of overnight delivery
https://www.atacarnet.com/what-carnet
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Tesla CEO plans to hand the car keys to robots next year [UPDATED]
Without Lidar or three-dimensional mapping, the vehicles aren't fully self-driving, say critics
by Michael Liedtke And Tom Krisher, The Associated Press
PHOTO: Driving in traffic with Tesla’s autopilot controlling distance from the lead car and centering the vehicle in the lane. Vehicle is a 2017 Model X 75D with dark interior/Ian Maddox
SAN FRANCISCO – Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects to start converting the company’s electric cars into fully self-driving vehicles next year as part of an audacious plan to create a network of robotic taxis to compete against Uber and other ride-hailing services.
The vision sketched out Monday during an event at Tesla’s Silicon Valley headquarters requires several leaps of faith—something that the zealous investors and consumers who view Musk as a technological genius often are willing to take.
But self-driving car experts fear Musk is shirking public safety in an effort to boost Tesla’s stock and sell more of the company’s electric cars. This amid lingering questions about whether the 15-year-old automaker can consistently make money.
“It sounds like a pipe dream that he’s selling people,” said Raj Rajkumar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “I think it’s basically overpromising, which is typical of Elon Musk.”
To prove his skeptics wrong, Musk will have to persuade regulators that Tesla’s technology for transforming potentially hundreds of thousands of electric cars into self-driving vehicles will produce robots that are safer and more reliable than humans.
And to do that, Musk will have to be correct in his bet that Tesla has come up with a better way to produce self-driving cars than virtually every other of the more than 60 companies in the U.S. working toward the same goal.
Some of those companies are aiming to have their fully autonomous cars begin carrying passengers in small geographic areas as early as this year, but many experts don’t believe they’ll be in widespread use for a decade or more.
Unlike most of those other companies, Tesla’s cars won’t come with the light beam sensors called Lidar that many industry experts consider to be essential equipment for robotic vehicles to navigate the road.
Musk trashed Lidar as a “fool’s errand” and “frigging stupid” in a putdown of companies such as Google spin-off Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise Automation that are including the light beam sensors in their systems.
“They are going to dump Lidar,” Musk assured investors and analysts gathered at Tesla’s Palo Alto, California, office for the 2 1/2 hour presentation.
Musk, widely known for his swagger as much as his smarts, spent much of the time trying to persuade both the investors and consumers that he had figured out a better way to teach robots how to drive.
“It is fundamentally insane to buy anything other than a Tesla,” Musk said at one point, arguing that purchasing a vehicle from any other automaker would be like getting a horse.
Musk’s quasi-sales pitch came two days before Tesla is expected to report a disappointing performance for the first three months of the year. Analysts polled by FactSet predict a US$305.5 million first quarter net loss based on disappointing car sales, a setback after Musk pledged heading into the second half of last year that Tesla would be profitable from that point onward.
Tesla’s stock sank by nearly 4 per cent to close Monday at $262.75.
From Musk’s vantage point, Tesla has a huge advantage over autonomous vehicle competitors because it gathers a massive amount of data in the real world. This quarter, he said Tesla will have 500,000 vehicles on the road, each equipped with eight cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radar gathering data to help build the company’s neural network, which will serve as the digital equivalent of the self-driving cars’ consciousness.
The network allows vehicles to recognize images, determine what objects are and figure out how to deal with them. To become fully self-driving, the cars also need a special computer that fits behind the glove box and is powered by a special chip Musk boasted is better than any other processor in the world “by a huge margin.”
Currently the self-driving computer costs $5,000, but the price rises to $7,000 if it’s installed after delivery.
Finally, Tesla will deliver software updates to those computers to make it possible for its electric cars to be driven by a robot, without a human in position to take over in case something goes awry. There will be a slight chance of some “fender benders,” Musk acknowledged Monday, and indicated Tesla will be liable for accident caused by a vehicle under the control of its robot.
“People will die,” Rajkumar predicted. “I can tell you that right now. Because in the real world, crazy things happen.”
Musk predicted that the technology for fully self-driving Tesla will roll out at some point from April to June next year. Then, Tesla will need to get regulatory approval for the fully autonomous cars to drive on roads, something Musk predicted would happen in a few states by the end of next year. He didn’t specific where Tesla will try to gain approval first.
California, Tesla’s biggest U.S. market, requires proof that fully autonomous cars can drive safely on public roads, but most other states aren’t as stringent. And experts say there’s no federal law requiring preapproval for fully autonomous driving, as long as a vehicle meets federal safety standards, which Teslas already do.
Within three years, Tesla will be manufacturing self-driving cars that don’t even have steering wheels or brake pedals in them, Musk said.
If they’re allowed on the roads, fully driverless cars would allow Musk to carry out his plan to expand into the ride-hailing market with a fleet of sleek Teslas. Owners of Teslas with the company’s self-driving computer could plug into an app-based network to pick up fare-paying passengers when they didn’t need to use their vehicle.
Musk theorizes that a ride-hailing service similar to Uber and Lyft will boost Tesla’s revenue and make it easier for the company to sell its cars to consumers who could effectively lower the cost of ownership by making money on the side. Tesla would get 20% to 25% of each fare in the network.
Tesla also intends to convert all the electric cars under leasing contracts to be turned into robotaxis upon their return.
Uber and Lyft also consider driverless cars to be one of the keys to making money from their still unprofitable services, but haven’t set a specific timetable for achieving that breakthrough while they continue to work on their own autonomous technology.
Waymo rolled out a ride-hailing service using self-driving vehicles late last year in the Phoenix area, but it only available to a small pool of passengers who were previously enrolled in a test program. And all the cars in Waymo’s ride-hailing service still have a human behind the steering wheel ready to take control.
The Waymo cars also have Lidar, something experts remain convinced must be part of any fully self-driving car, despite Musk’s colorful contentions otherwise.
“Vehicles that don’t have Lidar, that don’t have advanced radar, that haven’t captured a 3-D map are not self-driving vehicles,” Ken Washington, Ford’s chief technical officer, said during a recent interview with Recode. “They are great consumer vehicles with really good driver-assist technology.”
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ArchDaily Publishes KOC University Health Sciences Campus
Publication: ArchDaily
ArchDaily has published our KOC University Health Sciences Campus project as part of their ongoing effort to chronicle the world’s best architecture. The KOC campus unites the KOC Foundation’s core mission of advancing healthcare, education and culture with a state-of-the-art learning environment complete with a 250-bed teaching hospital, a medical school with extensive research facilities, a nursing school, housing for students and faculty, and social and sports facilities. All of these components are physically connected, creating a modern hub for translational medicine. See the full ArchDaily article.
Located on a former factory site, the complex is acting as a catalyst for renewal in its densely populated, small-scale-industrial district on the outskirts of Istanbul, setting an architectural precedent with its gleaming and transparent modern glass facade. In a quid pro quo agreement with the municipality, half of the site is set aside for future development, including a childcare facility, a cultural center, and a health facility, and a large portion of the south side of the site is reserved for green space, which will function both as a campus oasis and a buffer from neighboring buildings.
Learn more about KOC University Health Sciences Campus >
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Home/News / Cargill and CARE renew effort to fight hunger, improve incomes among smallholder farmers
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Cargill and CARE renew effort to fight hunger, improve incomes among smallholder farmers
New partnership extends multi-year, multi-country program that has helped more than 100,000 people improve their livelihoods
Cargill and CARE today announced the renewal of a global partnership.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 24, 2013 – Cargill and CARE today announced the renewal of a global partnership that is helping farmers and their families in developing countries increase their productivity and incomes, improve food security in their communities and better educate their children. The new three-year, $7.5-million partnership builds on the success of the Rural Development Initiative, a five-year, $10-million initiative begun in 2008 that has benefited the livelihoods of more than 100,000 people in India, Ghana, Cote d’IVoire, Egypt, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Brazil.
“CARE and Cargill share a commitment to promote opportunity and create lasting change for families living in extreme poverty,” said CARE President and CEO, Helene D. Gayle. “Our work together has become a model for how CARE collaborates with the private sector to drive sustainable change. We look forward to building on our collective success in the next phase of this partnership.”
In its first five years, the Rural Development Initiative has helped more than 42,000 children complete primary school, improved the health and nutrition of 30,000 children, trained more than 6,000 teachers and enabled more than 57,000 parents to better nourish and educate their children. In addition, technical assistance and training provided to farmers through the Rural Development Initiative has helped increase incomes for some 27,000 farmers and their families.
Central American classroom. The Rural Development Initiative has helped more than 42,000 children complete primary school.
The next phase of the collaboration between CARE and Cargill will focus on projects in seven countries: India, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Egypt. The projects will continue the partnership’s focus on reducing chronic hunger, improving nutrition and empowering rural communities to address issues such as child labor and access to education.
“Rural families in developing countries will thrive when they can sustainably increase farm production, effectively access markets, become food and nutrition secure, send their children to school and live in healthy, well-governed communities,” said Cargill Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer, Emery Koenig. “By combining our expertise at a grassroots level, we can help to bring about meaningful change for tens of thousands of people currently living in poverty.”
In West Africa, for instance, Cargill employees provide expertise for training programs that are helping farmers improve the quantity and quality of their cocoa production, as well as earn premiums for adopting sustainable cocoa farming practices. The higher incomes for these cocoa farmers mean more children can attend school instead of working. In Central America, Cargill employees have helped refurbish classrooms and school lunchrooms and volunteer in computer labs.
CARE and Cargill attribute the success of the partnership to shared values and respect for the unique contributions each organization can make. “We have learned about the importance of agricultural best practices, quality seed and quality animal feed from Cargill,” said CARE’s Gayle. “In turn, Cargill has embraced CARE’s emphasis on having the people in the communities we serve take a leading role in identifying problems and developing solutions that they can sustain themselves.”
Pete Stoddart, 952-742-6608 Cargill
Brian Feagans, 404.979.9453 CARE
Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the privately held company employs 140,000 people in 65 countries. Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges wherever it does business. For more information, visit Cargill.com and its news center.
Founded in 1945 with the creation of the CARE Package, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor girls and women because, equipped with the proper resources, they have the power to lift whole families and entire communities out of poverty. Last year CARE worked in 84 countries and reached 83 million people around the world. To learn more, visit www.care.org.
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One Unforeseen Problem Is Slowing Down Construction On The New World Trade Center
Julie Zeveloff
One World Trade Center has already faced ballooning construction costs and major delays.
But there's another problem plaguing workers at the site, better known as the Freedom Tower: wind.
According to the Wall Street Journal, winter gusts were heavier than usual in lower Manhattan, and workers were unable to put up steel for part or all of 35 days between December and February.
That's about twice the time the Port Authority expected to lose due to wind this winter, the WSJ reports.
Even so, the agency said it expects to complete the 101st floor of the 104-story tower in the next six weeks.
In January, it was revealed that the price tag for the project had increased to $3.8 billion, up from an estimate of $3.1 billion given by the Port Authority back in 2008.
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28 years in the making, Scorcese finally releases 'Silence'
06 January 2017 - 11:25 Karishma Singh
Twenty-eight years in the making, Martin Scorsese's "Silence" premiered on Thursday, raising questions of faith over both the subject matter and in Scorsese's dedication to the project. "Overwhelming that you would be asked to journey with him on this kind of adventure of the soul that he's been willing to take for the last 28 years, and to be given this role...was confusing and humbling," said actor Andrew Garfield. In "Silence", Garfield plays Sebastiao Rodrigues, a 17th century Portuguese Jesuit priest who travels to Japan with a fellow missionary in search of their mentor, Father Cristovao Ferreira, portrayed by Liam Neeson, who has renounced his faith under torture. The priests arrive in Japan at a time when Catholicism is outlawed, and face violence and persecution in their evangelizing mission, which causes a crisis of faith. The epic historical drama is based on the acclaimed 1966 novel of the same name by late Japanese writer Shusaku Endo and was shot in Taiwan. Scorsese ha...
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Donald Trump Supporters Vandalized A Children's Park, So The Kids Made New Signs To Spread Peace — PHOTOS
By Natasha Guzmán
Spencer Platt/Getty Images News/Getty Images
After someone vandalized a children's playground in Brooklyn Heights with spray-painted swastikas and a pro-Donald Trump statement, countless children replaced the graffiti with messages promoting love and peace. This is a perfect example of a community coming together to battle bigotry.
Adam Yauch Park, named for the Beastie Boys founder who passed away in 2012 and who had Jewish ancestry, was filled with thousands of New York City residents on Nov. 20 for an anti-hate rally. The official Beastie Boys Twitter account shared the event information and encouraged their supporters to join them, stating that "hate has no place in Brooklyn, NYC, or America." Several local and state politicians, such as State Sen. Daniel Squadron and Rep. Nydia Velázquez, also attended the protest.
The kids at the event covered up the graffiti with flowers and paper hearts. They also spread their messages of positivity to the sidewalks and the rubber mats near the vandalized equipment, writing things like, "Hate is bad," "Pre-Schoolers 4 Peace," "Don't say mean things to people," and "In my park?" Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan "Love Trumps Hate" was one of the more common statements seen on signs, shirts, and sidewalk chalk messages.
Check out some of the inspiring scenes from Sunday's rally:
Yes, We Care
ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images
Love Is Love Is Love
He sure does.
Neighborhood Love
This is what a children's playground should look like.
This Is Just Too Inspiring
They really gave the site a great makeover.
Hate Hurts Everyone
It's not just the specific group of people who are targeted by a hate crime who suffer the consequences — it puts all other marginalized groups in danger and it breeds a toxic, fear-based society.
Relevant Lyrics Right Here
This boy's sign quotes the Beastie Boys song "Intergalactic," and its message of persisting and fighting to change the world is quite fitting for the occasion.
To Put It Simply
Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz encouraged everyone attending to work from now on to make positive changes in any way they can. "This is more about someone in New York City linking Nazi Germany to Donald Trump in a 'hell yeah' kind of way in a park where children play," he said. "If you're able to volunteer, volunteer. ... If you're a musician, write that anthem. If you're a writer, write. Take what you're good at, and what you truly enjoy, and lend your services to the causes you care most about. 'Cause we can't, and we won't, and we don't stop."
The way the kids of Brooklyn Heights took back their park is a great example of what Horovitz meant.
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18 Reasons Why Adelaide Is Way More Liveable Than Any Other City
It wasn't voted Australia’s most liveable city for ‘nuffin.
Madeleine Dunne
BuzzFeed Contributor, Australia
1. The cost of living is dirt cheap.
In Adelaide, you can have your smashed avo on toast and eat it, too. Average weekly rent is almost 50% percent cheaper than Sydney, you won't get tolled for driving on busy roads, nor do you have to fork out for exxy Ubers – because everything is so damn close to everything else.
2. People know how to pronounce words ~properly~.
Forget the eastern states' Aussie drawl - Adelaidians know how to pronounce chance, dance, and transport with absolute eloquence. The Queen of England would be so, so proud.
3. Speaking of which, you'll never get lost on public transport.
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Forget the impossible tram circuits of Melbourne, or being squished like sardines on a train in Sydney – there’s only one tram line in Adelaide, so you'll never accidentally end up in Woop Woop. You’re also highly unlikely to catch the wrong bus, largely because they never turn up. But that's beside the point.
4. Some of Australia’s best beaches are only 20 minutes from the CBD.
Who needs the crowded shores of Bondi and grey sands of St Kilda when you have pristine stretches of coast like Brighton, Henley, and Glenelg? Adelaide's beaches are absolutely beautiful (@Melbourne), and you'll have more than one square metre to yourself (@Sydney).
5. The wineries are world-class.
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You won’t spare a thought for the crusty old Hunter Valley once you’ve laid eyes on Australia’s wine capital. From the Barossa Valley to McLaren Vale, the Adelaide Hills to Clare, South Australia hosts some of the most prized wine regions in the world. It even has UberVINO – Uber specifically for wine tours. Did someone say wine?
6. It wasn't settled by convicts.
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When the British realised Australia was more than just a dump for its criminals, Adelaide was the first port of call for the motherland's high and mighty. When building the southern city, planners didn't even incorporate a jail – such was the nature of its settlers. Now compare that to Sydney and Melbourne, which were both filled to the brim with crims in ye olden days (still are, probably).
7. It's only busy for one month of the year.
Whilst Sydney and Melbourne are frantic every day of the year, Adelaide prides itself on solely going crazy for the month of March. Hosting the V8 Supercar motor race, the Fringe, the Festival of the Arts, Writer's Week, WOMAdelaide, AND the Adelaide Cup (phew!), "Mad March" is the only time the city is flooded with tourists.
8. It's the Festival State.
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There's nothing in Sydney, in Melbourne, or even in the world quite like the Adelaide Fringe. For one month each year, artists flock from all around the globe to perform in an array of weird and wonderful theatres across the CBD. From naked comedy, to Oscar-winning choirs, to death-defying magicians – there's something for everybody at the Fringe.
9. It's the 30-minute city.
Almost everything worth visiting in Adelaide is no more than a 30-minute drive from anything else. The city streets are laid out in a grid, so it's impossible to get lost. You can head from the hills to the city in under half an hour, there's no such thing as bumper-to-bumper traffic, and your mates on the other side of town are only a stone's throw away. Sorry, eastern states – I can't hear you over your roadworks.
10. You can buy the tastiest drink basically ever.
Adelaide is the only city in the world where Coca-Cola is outsold by another sugary drink. You can't get the deliciously sweet, creamy, coffee-y Farmer's Union Iced Coffee in the eastern states - and quite frankly, it's a FUIC, or it's nothing.
11. Events never sell out.
You'll never miss out on tickets to your favourite band, because Adelaidians are inherently lazy and won't rush to do anything, ever. Whilst gigs in Sydney and Melbourne sell out within minutes, southerners are notorious for leaving their purchase to the very last minute. Plus, there are a lot less of us.
12. There are only two footy teams to choose from.
Forget having to choose either Aussie Rules or rugby, and don't bother with the confusion of ten teams coming from the same state (looking at you, Victoria). Adelaidians follow one sport, and we follow it well. There's nothing better than rallying alongside your fellow Crows or Power supporters, especially when the rival AFL teams are going head to head.
13. It has big balls.
Like, HUGE ones. Sydney has its Opera House and Melbourne sports Flinders Street Station, but one of Adelaide's main landmarks is the infamous Malls Balls. And what's better than two huge, perfectly-rounded balls? Exactly.
14. It's Australia's green city.
Instagram: @flossie_create
Adelaide reached 0% greenhouse emissions for an entire day in 2016. And yes, this was because of an accidental state-wide blackout, but it was a very well-coordinated Earth Hour nonetheless. Almost half of South Australia’s energy comes from renewables, so you don’t have to feel guilty for leaving all the lights on in your house while blasting the air-con.
15. It has PANDAS.
Yes, panda partners Wang Wang and Funi cost the South Australian government far too many millions of dollars, and and no, it doesn't look like they'll be making babies any time soon – but still. Adelaide Zoo is the only zoo in the southern hemisphere to host the giant cuddly critters. Taronga WHAT?
16. It's not afraid to make fun of itself.
Sydney and Melbourne pride themselves on being leading cities on the global stage, whilst Adelaide is simply proud of how "Adelaide" it is. Make fun of it and South Australians will defend their capital to the enth degree – but inhabitants aren't afraid to take the mickey out of their quirky dwellings.
17. Everyone knows everyone.
Anonymity isn't a thing in the southern capital; there's only half a degree of separation between Adelaidians. Head out for a day in the city and you're destined to see someone you know. On dating apps, if you don't have at least one mutual friend, you know to stay the hell away.
18. It doesn't change, much.
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It's an easy city to leave, and an easy city to come back to. The suburban corner-store will never be replaced by a high-rise, the people you went to school with will always live in the same suburb, and you won't ever forget the well-worn route to your favourite bar. You can spread your wings on faraway shores, knowing when the time is right you can return to Adelaide and fit right back in.
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Sophia Bush Net Worth 2019
The ‘One Tree Hill’ famed actress, Sophia Bush is a star-celebrity who can make the films hit on her own. The versatile actress is known for her different roles. She is an American actress who has established a thriving career in Hollywood. Not only the success, but she has also garnered huge fame and money. Let’s find out all about her including her early life, achievements, career, personal life, and net worth in 2019.
Born on July 8, 1982, in Pasadena, California, US, Sophia Bush is a popular American actress. Her full name is Sophia Anna Bush. She is the only child of her parents, so she received a pampered upbringing. Sophia was used to glamour world since her childhood. Her father, Charles William Bush, is a successful advertising and celebrity photographer while her mother, Maureen E. Bush, has a photography studio of her own.
She completed her early education from ‘Westridge School for Girls’ and later moved to the University of Southern California. Here, she majored in journalism. However, she left her graduation midway due to the busy schedules of acting.
Talking about her personal life, Sophia hasn’t good luck when it comes to love. She is a lady who easily falls in love. First, she came into the relationship with her ‘One Tree Hill’ co-star Chad Michael Murray. After dating for a few months, the couple tied in the knot in 2005. But their relationship ended in just 5 months, and they officially separated in 2006.
After her divorce, Sophia dated a few other actors and her co-stars, but she didn’t take any of relationships any further. She also dated former Google head Dan Fredinburg. But at present, she is a single actress.
The professions of her parents inclined her towards the show business. Since her childhood, she wanted to become an actress. In her school, she had to play several plays on stage. Initially, she didn’t like it, but after some time she started enjoying it. After her school, she made the efforts to appear on the big screen.
Finally, in 2002, she made her film debut with the film ‘National Lampoon’s Van Wilder.’ The next year, she bagged a few other films and TV shows, but she was yet to achieve notable success. She got a breakthrough with the TV series ‘One Tree Hill.’ Following this show, she became the blue-eyed girl of Hollywood.
She appeared in ‘One Tree Hill’ from 2003 to 2012 and achieved a sky-rocketing success. Along with this show, she also starred in some films and TV shows. ‘The narrow,’ ‘stay alive,’ ‘table for three,’ ‘John Tucker must die,’ and ‘law & order: special victims unit’ are some of the noticeable works of Sophia among others.
Sophia Bush has won many awards & nominations under her belt. She has won a ‘Teen choice award’ and ‘The rising star award.’ Other than winning the awards, she has also been nominated for the ‘teen choice award’ four times.
Net worth of Sophia Bush
Presently, the beautiful actress is 36 years old. Means, she has been into the industry for almost 2 decades and will continue to rule it for next few years too. So far, she had a successful career, and it reflects her giant net worth. At present, the phenomenal actress has a remarkable net worth of $11.5 million.
Over her career, she has been the brand face of many top-class brands such as ‘Ocean Pacific Clothing,’ ‘MasterCard,’ ‘Kmart,’ ‘Chevy Cobalt,’ and ‘Cingular Wireless.’ She has majorly made her money through the acting, but the sponsors also added a great amount to her net worth.
The lady, who has been ranked many times in the list of ‘most beautiful faces,’ is indeed a talented actress. Right now, she is in the mid of her career. The best is yet to come from her. She is just 36 years old and has achieved significant success.
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RZA Net Worth 2019
RZA is a well-known rapper from America who is also an author, filmmaker, actor, record producer, and musician. He is best known to be a member of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. RZA has released many albums both with Wu-Tang Clan and as a solo artist. He is also a founding member of the group Gravediggaz. He has appeared in a number of films. Now let’s have a close look at RZA’s net worth in 2019.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, popularly known as RZA was born on July 5, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. He has lived in California and later relocated to Steubenville, Ohio.
From his young age, he was involved in crimes and was also booked for attempted murder.
In 2000, RZA got married to Eboni Mills. The couple divorced in 2006. In 2009, he got married to Talani Rabb. The rapper has got four children from different women.
He is a vegan and supports PETA. His favourite books include Lotus Sutra, The Bible, and the Quran. He currently resides in Millstone Township, New Jersey.
In 1991, RZA released an EP called ‘Ooh I Love You’. He has also released three more EPs. His debut studio album called ‘Bobby Digital in Stereo’ became available from November 1998. His other studio albums include ‘Digital Bullet’, ‘Birth of a Prince’, and ‘Digi Snacks’.
He has also released three collaboration albums, two compilation albums, one instrumental album, 13 soundtrack albums, and 11 singles.
In 1993, with the Wu-Tang Clan, he released the album ‘Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’. Following that, they released the albums ‘Wu-Tang Forever’, ‘The W’, ‘Iron Flag’, and ‘8 Diagrams’. Their latest studio album called ‘A Better Tomorrow’ was released in 2014. Additionally, they have released 19 compilations and 16 singles.
RZA has released many albums with the Gravediggaz. In 1994, they released their debut album entitled ‘6 Feet Deep’. This was followed by ‘The Pick, the Sickle, and the Shovel’ in 1997. Their other albums include ‘Nightmare in A-Minor’, ‘Dig Deep (Bootleg)’, and ‘Return’. They have also released two EPs and a compilation album.
As an actor, RZA has appeared in many films and TV shows including ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’, ‘Derailed’, ‘Repo Men’, ‘Funny People’, ‘The Next Three Days’, ‘Robot Chicken’, ‘Mr. Right’, ‘Gang Related’, ‘American Gangster’, ‘The Box’, and ‘Due Date’. In 2017, he became the director of ‘Love Beats Rhymes’.
In 2012, RZA won the St. Louis Film Critics Association Award. He was nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2004, he was nominated in the Online Film Critics Society Awards. He won the Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award in 2004. He was twice nominated for the Black Reel Awards. In 2004, RZA was nominated for the BAFTA Awards.
Net Worth of RZA
RZA has an estimated net worth of more than $18 million. He made this fortune by releasing a number of albums in his career. He has released albums with the Wu-Tang Clan, Gravediggaz, and as a solo artist. He is also an actor and has starred in many films and TV shows. As a director, RZA made his directorial debut in 2011 with the film ‘The Man with the Iron Fists’. He serves as the CEO or in a similar position for many recording labels including Wu-Tang Records, Soul Temple Records, and Razor Sharp Records.
RZA is considered one of the most popular rappers in the world. Being a successful rapper, he has released several albums in his career. He has also successfully produced and directed films. He has also produced music for various artists like The Genius, Prince Rakeem, Method Man, Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah, and Kanye West.
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By Christina Veiga - June 18, 2019
PHOTO: Corey Torpie/Courtesy Photo
Bronx principal Jamaal Bowman is running for Congress.
Jamaal Bowman has been a teacher, guidance counselor, dean, and, for the last decade, the founding principal of a well-regarded middle school in the Bronx.
Now, he wants to add a line to his resume: Congressman.
Bowman announced Tuesday a primary challenge for New York’s 16th Congressional district, pitting him against 16-term incumbent and powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY). Bowman isn’t the only educator mounting a challenge: Andom Ghebreghiorgis, who has worked as a special education teacher in New York City, is also running.
Though the odds may seem long, Bowman has the backing of the Justice Democrats, who are hoping for another upset after successfully supporting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s insurgent bid for office.
Bowman is counting, in part, on his 20 years of experience in education to appeal to voters. Long before throwing his hat in the political rink, Bowman started The Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, or CASA, a middle school that has produced notable academic results despite serving mostly disadvantaged students.
He has been a vocal supporter of the opt-out movement boycotting state testing, especially within the black community. Bowman has also pushed for discipline reform, favoring restorative practices such as mediation in his school, rather than suspensions, which are disproportionately meted out, city data shows, to students of color. He’s also a big believer in the importance high-quality, early childhood care and education. A favorite word of Bowman is ‘holistic’ — an approach he likes to see in schools and one he’d like to see in government.
“What I wish Congress would do more of is take a holistic view of policy overall,” he said.
A monthly round-up of early childhood stories from around the nation.
"It's great to have a single yet expansive resource for early childhood news." — Chalkbeat reader
We caught up with Bowman the day he launched his campaign to talk about what inspired him to run for office, the work of principals, and what schools and students need to thrive. Here’s what he had to say.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
What pushed you to run for Congress?
I’ve been in education for 20 years now, and I’ve been a school principal for 10 years. I’ve worked with amazing students who have unlimited potential. It’s just that, unfortunately — because of bad policy, because of a lack of resources, because of a lack of opportunities presented to them in their communities — they don’t get a chance to realize their unlimited potential.
When I hear about mass shootings, when I hear about kids overdosing on drugs, when I see my own students who have had their parents deported because of recent immigration policy, or some of their parents were murdered in the streets — it’s all of those issues combined that pushed me to take this step.
How has being a principal prepared you for campaigning and, possibly, public office?
Working in the New York City Department of Education, that’s the most vast and dense bureaucracy there is in this country. I’ve had to continually navigate political space within the department as well as build relationships with parents and students and teachers — and build coalitions towards a mission to transform education and to really impact the lives of students and families.
I’ve done that work throughout my time as an educator and especially throughout my time as a middle school principal. I challenge any congressperson to run a middle school in the Bronx effectively. Let’s see how well they do.
There has been a lot of buzz around teacher activism and teachers running for office, but not around principals — how come?
I haven’t heard of other principals running at this time. They should though. One of the problems with Congress is it’s not diverse. You have a lot of corporate actors, you have a lot of lawyers. But you don’t have enough educators. You don’t have enough nurses. You don’t have enough doctors. You don’t have enough people who are on the ground working with the community each and every day, and that’s exactly what our Congress needs.
What education policies do you hope to change or support?
Universal childcare is huge. We need to make sure of two things: One, that parents don’t have to rush back to work after having a child, that they get more opportunity for parental leave, specifically maternity leave. And, two, if parents do want to get back to work, that their children are taken care of by highly trained and highly paid, skilled early childhood educators. Right now, in early childhood education, educators are paid small wages in comparison to teachers who work in the K-12 system.
In addition, we need to end annual high-stakes testing. Such testing, particularly in grades 3-8, has created a test prep curriculum that doesn’t meet the holistic needs of children. We’re only testing in math and English. We’re ignoring science. We’re ignoring civics. We’re ignoring the arts. We’re ignoring physical education. We’re ignoring sports. These other subjects have been sanctioned out of public schools.
Finally, we need a more progressive pedagogy overall — Montessori, Reggio Emilia-based education in early childhood sections, and project-based learning in grades 6 through 12.
How could you as a congressman support those things?
The Every Student Succeeds Act is a federal policy that states and local jurisdictions have to follow. So I would fight and do everything I can from a congressional perspective to make sure that policy is changed to meet the needs of the whole child.
Secondly and more importantly, this has to be a national movement and coalition, building towards educating the whole child. It’s about making sure my district is engaged and inspired, and that we’re connecting with communities throughout the country, focused on what our kids need. We have over 15 million kids living in poverty right now. How are they ever going to reach their full potential if we don’t deal with the issues of poverty, and the stress and trauma associated with that?
Pre-K teachers in New York City are currently fighting for pay that’s equal to their K-12 peers. Do you support this fight, and if so, how would ensure better pay for those teachers?
Oh, absolutely. Early childhood educators should get paid the same amount and have the same benefits as K-12 educators. Many begin their careers in early childhood, but because they don’t earn a livable wage and are not able to live on their own and support their families, they end up transitioning out of early childhood teaching.
So it’s unstable at the early childhood phase, and our kids, particularly our most vulnerable kids, need more support there.
Also, this is a gender issue because many early childhood educators are women, and they are being underpaid. That is unacceptable.
What is something you wish lawmakers better understood about education?
We need to understand that everything is interconnected with education. When you talk about environmental justice, when we talk about criminal justice, when we talk about voting for a war in Iraq as my opponent did — all of these things are brought to the doorsteps of teachers and educators everyday. So what I wish Congress would do more of is take a holistic view of policy overall, particularly policy when it comes to education.
In 2001, my opponent voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, for example, with the goal of making all students literate by 2015. We didn’t reach that goal. All we did was privatize public schools and weaponize standardized testing within the public school system, which disempowered teachers and stopped them from meeting the needs of their students.
If we took a more community approach, where we’re nurturing families and understanding child development and brain development begins in utero, and making sure that healthcare is working with education to provide a holistic support network for families from conception to careers, if we had that perspective — not just with education but with all issues — I think we can implement transformative change and transformative policy in our schools.
If you don’t win office, what else do you hope your campaign can accomplish?
If I can inspire more children of color, children from my background, people who are currently disengaged, if I can inspire them to get more involved and get more engaged and ask more questions, and go to more meetings, and become active members in our democracy, those would be huge wins.
And because my district is so segregated and diverse, if we can begin to build coalitions between Scarsdale and Baychester, or Rye and Edenwall, or Riverdale and Co-Op City, if we could build coalitions and work towards higher wages for everyone, rent control, housing, fighting against environmental injustices, fighting for racial justice — if we could work together to do those things, my campaign is a win no matter what happens.
New York City has one of the most segregated school systems in the country, and the city is currently engulfed in a debate over how to address that. Should lawmakers support integration efforts, and if so, how?
Yes, we should, but we can’t integrate schools without integrating communities. Our communities are segregated. So in terms of how — it’s about leadership, it’s about vision, it’s about being bold.
It’s about not being afraid to be criticized. It’s about dealing with issues of race, and class, and gender very directly and very honestly — and having uncomfortable, difficult conversations, and uplifting each other as we learn together. Then, hopefully, within the next generation, we’ll be able to live within more integrated communities.
You’ve been an active supporter of the opt-out movement. Why did you join that cause?
Focusing specifically on standardized tests to drive improvements in public education is the wrong route to take in terms of improving what’s happening in our schools. Especially if we’re not dealing with issues of poverty and we’re not dealing with issues related to the supports that families need.
We haven’t focused on curriculum. We haven’t focused on teacher recruitment and development. We haven’t focused on equity and implicit bias. We’re not aligned to what the needs are for the 21st century. We need a workforce that is prepared to work within a Green New deal economy. But our curriculum right now in K-12 is not aligned to the needs of our economy.
So parent refusal of the state test is a way for them to exercise their voice, their rights, take back the power that was taken from them by the federal government, and it’s an act of civil disobedience that’s been necessary. And it’s been transformative in New York State and put a moratorium on the Common Core standards and forced the government to pivot away from overusing tests and teacher evaluations.
By Christina Veiga @cveiga cveiga@chalkbeat.org
How I Teach — Retirement Edition
‘The opportunity I’d been looking for’: This NYC teacher found a school she loved, and stayed there for 35 years
getting to graduation
What should it take to graduate in New York? A new committee will make recommendations
stepping down
In a surprising move, MaryEllen Elia, New York’s top education official, will step down
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On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein: My Years with the Exasperating Genius (Hardcover)
By Charlie Harmon, Harold "Hal" Prince (Foreword by)
(MEMOIR)
Charlie Harmon spent four grueling years as Leonard Bernstein's (LB's) personal assistant--a longer tenure than any other assistant to work under the maddening Maestro. Just the pace of the narrative--a single paragraph can take you from New York to Vienna to Tokyo and back--speaks to the breakneck itinerary through which Charlie steered LB, all while trying to keep him on track to finish an opera. During your journey with Charlie and the Maestro, you'll bump elbows with multi-national royalty, fret over the safety of LB's stuffed monkey Moneto, spot the ghost of LB's wife Felicia, stumble out of LB's Gatsby-esque parties, and walk in on the Maestro in bed with one of his young, ahem, "proteges." LB could be magnetically charming one day and grossly inconsiderate the next, but his dedication to musical education never waned. "People love me for what I do, not who I am," he once pined. He was wrong: here is an honest account of LB at his best and his worst, and I find I love him even more. You will too.
— Jalen
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein's centenary with an intimate and detailed look at the public and private life of the Maestro written by his former assistant. Foreword by Broadway legend Harold Prince.
"An affectionate portrait of an eminent musician who was driven by demons."
"Harmon’s personable and warm account of what it was like to work for one of the twentieth century’s musical giants casts new light on Bernstein and his world."
"This multifaceted perspective gives readers plenty of salacious gossip paired with insight into Leonard Bernstein’s remarkable artistic achievements later in life."
On the Road is a colorfully written, unforgettably entertaining and unputdownable book, and is available just in time for LB’s 100th birthday. Unreservedly recommended.
—Fanfare Magazine
Leonard Bernstein reeked of cheap cologne and obviously hadn't showered, shaved, or slept in a while. Was he drunk to boot? He greeted his new assistant with "What are you drinking?" Yes, he was drunk.
Charlie Harmon was hired to manage the day-to-day parts of Bernstein's life. There was one additional responsibility: make sure Bernstein met the deadline for an opera commission. But things kept getting in the way: the centenary of Igor Stravinsky, intestinal parasites picked up in Mexico, teaching all summer in Los Angeles, a baker's dozen of young men, plus depression, exhaustion, insomnia, and cut-throat games of anagrams. Did the opera get written?
For four years, Charlie saw Bernstein every day, as his social director, gatekeeper, valet, music copyist, and itinerant orchestra librarian. He packed (and unpacked) Bernstein's umpteen pieces of luggage, got the Maestro to his concerts, kept him occupied changing planes in Zurich, Anchorage, Tokyo, or Madrid, and learned how to make small talk with mayors, ambassadors, a chancellor, a queen, and a Hollywood legend or two. How could anyone absorb all those people and places? Because there was music: late-night piano duets, or the Maestro's command to accompany an audition, or, by the way, the greatest orchestras in the world. Charlie did it, and this is what it was like, told for the first time.
Charlie Harmon is a music editor and arranger. From 1989 to 1999 he was the music editor for the estate of Leonard Bernstein, editing the first publications of full scores of West Side Story and Candide, and piano-vocals of On the Town and Wonderful Town, as well as new editions of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Mass (all music by Leonard Bernstein). He has also worked in the orchestra libraries of the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Now a freelance editor, he lives in Florida.
A gossip-filled memoir of life with a musical superstar.In his debut book, music editor and arranger Harmon recounts in vivid detail four exhausting, exhilarating years as assistant to the mercurial maestro Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). At the age of 30, the author was a clerk at a music library when he answered an advertisement to work for a "world-class" musician. The applicant, the ad noted, "must read music, be free to travel," and "possess finely-honed organizational abilities." In the course of a three-hour interview, Harmon learned that the musician was Bernstein (called LB throughout the book), who was embarking on a strenuous schedule of performances around the world. The author was not sure he had the stamina for the job, which involved handling phone calls, mail, and appointments; packing and unpacking scores of suitcases for every trip; taking notes during rehearsals and performances; and—a task that proved especially challenging—making sure LB, infamous for his "celebrated libido" and drunken rants, did not generate negative publicity. Despite some reservations about his capabilities, in January 1982, Harmon set off with Bernstein and his entourage to Indiana University for a six-week residency, during which the composer began work on an opera. LB was a handful: demanding, impatient, and given to "bouts of fury and bratty behavior," which Harmon attributed to his enduring grief over his wife's death, in 1978. That behavior was exacerbated by heavy drinking and use of Dexedrine, fueling "drug-induced mania" followed by overwhelming depression. Drawing on his daybook, Harmon gives intimate accounts of LB's performances, teaching, creative process, and uncompromising standards—in the midst of a "three-ring circus" peopled by a large and sometimes-divisive cast of characters. Most troubling to Harmon was LB's imperious, "blatantly self-serving" manager, who wore Harmon down with cruel bullying. Exhaustion and depression eventually led Harmon to seek psychiatric help, though he admits that his intimacy with LB's musicianship gave him "a remarkable education." An affectionate portrait of an eminent musician who was driven by demons.
Harmon knew that most of Leonard Bernstein’s personal assistants didn’t last very long on the job. He quickly learned, too, that working for “Lenny” meant that he would have to give up any semblance of a personal life. Putting his life on hold, though, and “working alongside a creative genius” game him, he writes, “the strongest sense of purpose I’d ever had.” For four “scorching” years, Harmon’s responsibilities included answers the phones, handling Bernstein’s mail and appointments, and carrying his luggage while also acting as a gatekeeper, valet, and librarian. Harmon’s account of life working for an “exasperating” genius is breezy and anecdotal even when he is discussing his own mental-health issues and self-doubt. He meets countless movers and shakers in the arts and politics as he travels with Bernstein and his entourage around the globe and works alongside Bernstein at the famous Dakota building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Harmon’s personable and warm account of what it was like to work for one of the twentieth century’s musical giants casts new light on Bernstein and his world.
Harmon, a classically trained composer and arranger, approaches his subject from an interesting point of view. For four years in the 1980s, Harmon was the maestro’s personal assistant, accompanying him through a punishing schedule of composing, performing, and recording. This multifaceted perspective gives readers plenty of salacious gossip paired with insight into Leonard Bernstein’s remarkable artistic achievements later in life. The volume adroitly balances reporting on Bernstein’s personal hygiene, profligate love live, and bouts with depression with an informed discussion of his professional output during the period. Throughout, Harmon weaves his personal experience4s as a gay man in a precarious profession. The net result is a volume that gives equal weight to Bernstein’s struggles as a composer to make a deadline on a commissioned opera and his expirees in applying Right Guard to his forehead to manage the sweat collecting on his brow while he conducted. VERDICT: More memoir than biography, this engaging account will do well in general collections.
In this tell-all book, Charlie Harmon—orchestra librarian, music arranger, and editor—recounts his four exciting, draining years as assistant to Leonard Bernstein. He describes his job as manager of Bernstein’s day-to-day life as a whirligig of phone calls, appointments, music scores, and traveling. But managing Bernstein involved a lot more. The maestro was demanding and prone to “bouts of fury and bratty behavior.” Harmon was given the job of monitoring Lenny’s “celebrated libido” for young men and keeping this information from the press.
Bernstein’s manic behavior was exacerbated by the vast amounts of Dexedrine he consumed and, of course, the alcohol. These frenzied episodes were often followed by major bouts of depressing, when Bernstein wouldn’t shave, shower, or sleep for days. Contributing to his frenetic behavior was grief over his wife Felicia’s death in 1978. According to Harmon, Lenny seemed haunted by her. He seemed at times to be pursued by demons—driven to exhaustion by a relentless schedule of conducting, teaching, and composing. He sometimes complained that no one cared about him as a person.
We get a good sense of life with Lenny from 1982 to ’86 through the lens of Charlie Harmon. We travel all over the world with the maestro, and we meet plenty of celebrities along the way. For Harmon, his time with Bernstein was a mixed blessing. He ended up suffering from severe exhaustion and depression. On the other hand, it provided him with an extraordinary education. His four years as assistant to a genius were a self-revelatory journal as well as a musical one.
—The Gay & Lesbian Review
When I received Charlie Harmon’s memoir about Bernstein, my first thought was “ANOTHER Bernstein book? I just reviewed Dinner with Lenny!” After a short time, the running theme dawned on me: Two thousand eighteen is the Bernstein centennial, so it’s only natural that there would be an effusion of Bernstein-related literature.
Charlie Harmon was LB’s (Harmon’s moniker for him) assistant in the last decade of the Maestro’s life. As a recent college graduate and a composer with the all-too-relatable predicament of needing to find steady employment, Harmon submitted an application for a laughably unassuming ad in the classified section of his newspaper: an assistant for a “world-class” musician. To his amazement, he got the job after some interviews with LB’s manager Harry Kraut, who briefed him on Bernstein’s many needs, quirks, and manically busy schedule. If that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, Harmon’s biggest task, said Kraut, would be to keep LB on track to fulfill the commission for his (seriously underrated) opera A Quiet Place.
With this gripping memoir—is it even possible to write a boring book about Bernstein?—Charlie Harmon adds a crucial piece to the Bernstein puzzle: an up-close-and-personal look at a turbulent, complex man who happened to indubitably be one of the greatest musicians of his time. Harmon experienced firsthand that LB was not always the fatherly teacher with his belovedly electric podium presence. He could be irascible, childish, egotistical, and blunt. The story about their first meeting sums it up to a T: It was Indiana in 1982, and Bernstein returned to his lodgings with an entourage of students. He was bundled up in a white parka, and he hadn’t shaved, showered, or slept in days—oh, and he was clearly three sheets to the wind. Still, LB gulped down the gin he took out of Harmon’s hand, and when Harmon protested, he snarled at his stunned new assistant, “You don’t talk that way to the rebbe!”
Even after this rocky start, and through relentless travel, insomnia, all-nighters, and one-night stands, the relationship between the two developed into one of mutual respect. Besides, there was a more than valid explanation for LB’s sometimes erratic behavior: The Maestro, according to Harmon, was in depression, grieving the death of his wife, Felicia, and was self-medicating with scotch, amphetamines, music, sex, parties, word games, and his famous four-pack-a-day smoking habit.
Anybody interested in Bernstein, as I am, should read Charlie Harmon’s book, due for release in May 2018. As well as being a unique portrait of the later Bernstein, it’s a loving tribute to the unglorified behind-the-scenes staff of devoted assistants, all with their own personality traits that made for quite a bit of drama. (LB’s secretary, Helen Coates, could be overprotective in a motherly way, and Harry Kraut just plain ruthless and manipulative, often driving Charlie Harmon and others to the breaking point.) If Bernstein appeared to work hard—which he most certainly did—it is because it was made possible by people like Harmon, who acted as a sort of emotional confidant to Bernstein in addition to handling everything from copying music to handling luggage to managing appointments. If nothing else, On the Road is a colorfully written, unforgettably entertaining and unputdownable book, and is available just in time for LB’s 100th birthday. Unreservedly recommended.
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Uber's Subprime Auto Leases Sound Awfully Predatory
Credit-poor drivers are reportedly becoming indentured to their cars by the ride-hailing behemoth. Is it time for a “fair-trade” alternative?
Uber’s claims to be a steady income supplier have grown shakier with every labor lawsuit and fare cut. Now an investigation by Bloomberg goes inside the world of the company’s year-old, Delaware-based auto-financing subsidiary, Xchange Leasing LLC, whose model appears to be as predatory as they come.
Somewhat like the subprime mortgages that imploded the U.S. economy in 2008, Xchange appears to target consumers who don’t have the credit to qualify for a conventional car lease. According to Bloomberg, Xchange is leasing cars using a line of credit worth $1 billion, which exposes the risky leases to “many of the world’s biggest financial institutions,” including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Sun Trust. Meanwhile, the seemingly “low” weekly or monthly payments that these leases offer credit-poor consumers can quickly skyrocket far above the real value of the car, locking drivers into a deal many can’t ultimately afford.
According to an Uber spokesperson*, 10 to 15 percent of people who sign up to be drivers are qualified, but don’t have the right kind of car and are unable to buy one due to bad credit. Xchange leases are designed to address this, and are “more flexible” than other subprime car lease options. Through Xchange’s partnerships with key auto dealerships, drivers can opt to return the car after the first 30 days of their lease without any impact to their credit or penalties, apart from payments and an initial $250 deposit. Unlike other leases that charge drivers per mile after a certain threshold, Uber’s leases offer unlimited mileage. It’s a way to keep drivers in their seats.
Subprime leases seem to help further that goal. Bloomberg profiles Shawn Hofstede, a former Uber driver in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, who leased a 2016 Toyota Corolla through Xchange in November 2015 at $155 a week, which was automatically deducted from his Uber earnings. (For comparison, at the end of 2015, the average weekly payment to lease a new car was just over $100—for people with all levels of credit scores.) But then Uber started slashing its fares to compete with Lyft. This essentially indentured Hofstede to his car, Bloomberg reports:
Soon Hofstede had trouble keeping up with his payments. He went from making $200 in a weekend to $140 in a weekend, he said. "It got to the point that I would drive just to meet my payment," he said. "If you were short on your payment for a week it would roll onto the payment for next week. It starts adding up."
Hofstede told Bloomberg he wound up unable to make those payments, and having to abandon his car. It was repossessed in the dark of night. That’s one apparent example of this program’s short-term impact on drivers. Long-term, it can be just as ugly. Other Uber drivers profiled in the story have Xchange leases that will require them to pay 50% to 100% more than the Bluebook value of their cars, should they ultimately choose to buy them. One L.A.-area driver, Brandie Schmitt, says that paying off her Xchange lease has helped to build up her credit. But it’s still been incredibly expensive to do so. One week in May, her payment to Xchange reportedly ate up about a third of her Uber earnings. An Uber spokesperson explained that this is the “premium” drivers pay for a more flexible lease.
Uber has been in the subprime lease business since at least 2013, when it first partnered with Santander to finance vehicles to drivers with poor or zero credit. Santander was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice in 2014 for being a leading issuer of securities connected to subprime auto leases. Uber’s relationship with the company ended last year.
Now, besides launching its own financing subsidiary with Xchange, Uber has also partnered with Toyota—which also bought a small stake in the company—to lease out cars. Bloomberg reports that this year, between its new financing and discount programs, Uber said it “will put more than 100,000 drivers on the road.”
That also seems to complicate the company’s eco-friendly promises to remove cars from the road. Of course ride-hailing’s effects on congestion and emissions is more complex than that, and it’s quite possible that adding Ubers to the road could result beneficially in higher vehicle occupancies overall. But that defense doesn’t carry so much weight now, if Uber’s environmental and traffic benefits are coming at the cost of their drivers being financially imperiled—not only by low wages, but also, apparently, through multi-thousand-dollar leasing shenanigans.
What can a consumer do? It’s not as if the taxi industry is much better in this regard. Medallion programs have also earned comparisons to indentured servitude. At least Uber’s main competitor, Lyft, hasn’t entered the demonstrably evil world of subprime loans. It’s growing through rental programs with its investor and partner, General Motors.
Still, there seems to be room for a company that charges passengers a fare that reflects the true costs of driving, pays employees (not “contractors”) a fair wage, doesn’t prey on anyone’s poor finances, and works with local regulators to protect passengers and drivers alike. Consumers fork out for ethically-sourced products. There very well could be a market for “fair trade” rides.
*This post has been updated to include comments from an Uber spokesperson.
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Tempo railcars on the D&RGW's Ski Train.
By NateBeal (Ski Train) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Tempo Overview
In service: 1968–present
Manufacturer: Hawker-Siddeley Canada
QIT-Fer et Titane
Algoma Central Railway
Car body construction: Aluminum
Power supply: 480 or 550 V HEP
Braking system: Outboard disc brakes
Track gauge: 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
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Passenger Railcars
Canadian National No. 3151, an MLW RS18m, with a train of Hawker Siddeley Tempo cars at Bayview Junction on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, eastbound off the Dundas Subdivision onto the Oakville Subdivision in October 1981. Photo by Roger Puta.
Tempo Railcar
The Tempos are a fleet of 25 lightweight streamlined railway coaches built by Hawker-Siddeley Canada for the Canadian National Railway in 1968. The cars were the centerpiece of a new set of intercity passenger trains in Southwestern Ontario. The fleet passed to Via Rail in 1978 and later saw use with the Ski Train, QIT-Fer et Titane, and the Algoma Central Railway.
The cars were constructed out of aluminum. Canadian National rebuilt six MLW RS-18 diesel locomotives to haul them. The locomotives were equipped with head end power (HEP) and painted in a unique red-orange and grey livery. The cars were built to use Canadian National's standard 550 volt HEP; in 1982-83 Via rebuilt them to use 480 volts. The cars rode on "inside bearing trucks with outboard disc brakes."
The original fleet consisted of five club/galley cars, five coach/cafe cars, and fifteen coaches. The club cars seated 39, the cafes 16 (in the coach section), and the coaches 80. In 1969 Canadian National rebuilt one of the club cars into an 80-seat coach and another into a 52-seat coach/galley car. The seating in the club car was 2×1, common for parlor cars.
When the Canadian National reacquired part of the fleet in 2009 it refurbished the cars, replacing the windows, carpet, and seat upholstery.
The Tempos entered service on the Canadian National Railway in mid-June 1968. Canadian National operated the Tempos as integrated trainsets. Routes served included Toronto–Windsor and Toronto–Sarnia. At the outset each set comprised a club/galley car, three coaches, and a coach/cafe. Travel time was four hours. The cafe/coach and the addition of luggage racks in the coaches allowed the elimination of dining and baggage cars. In 1971 Canadian National ran five daily "Tempo" trains: four to Windsor and one to Sarnia. Via Rail inherited the fleet and leased the RS-18s. By 1980 the Tempos were limited to the Windsor route. Via later placed the Tempos in service on the Chicago–Toronto International. These were pulled by LRC locomotives.
Via Rail stored the five cafe cars in 1986 after a regulatory change permitted it to serve alcohol in coaches. In 1987 Via Rail included up to four Tempo coaches on the International. The cars ran between Toronto and Sarnia on Sundays only. The remainder of the fleet was stored. At the end of 1987 Via sold all but four of the cars. Four of the coaches went to QIT-Fer et Titane, which used them to shuttle workers. 17 cars, including the three remaining club/galleys, the coach/galley, the five coach/cafes, and eight coaches, went to the Ski Train in Denver. On the Ski Train they replaced 1915-vintage cars which had been sold to the Napa Valley Wine Train. Via withdrew its four remaining Tempos in 1990 because of budget cuts.
QIT acquired three more coaches in 1998. The sole remaining Via Tempo car, coach No. 370, was reported at the Toronto Maintenance Centre in 2000. After the closure of the Ski Train the Canadian National acquired its rolling stock for use on the Algoma Central Railway.
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Meet the Top 10 Fastest Cars in the World 2019
22nd March 2019 | 7 min read
Once upon a time, the Ferrari F40 rocked the world as the first car to jump the almost impossible 322 km/hr hurdle with a top speed of 324 km/hr. Today, the fastest cars in the world are competing to cross the 483km/hr finish line and 324km/hr looks like snail-speed to them.
Today, more sports cars are being manufactured to beat the speed of existing cars and with the persistent desire to shatter speed records, we won’t be surprised to meet a car with a 644 km/hr capacity. However, before that day comes upon us, here is a list of the fastest cars in the world in 2019:
Hennessey Venom F5 – (485 kilometres per hour)
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The Venom F5 claims to have a prime speed of 485 km/h, making it the fastest car in the world. To achieve this, the Hennessey Venom F5 is equipped with a 7.4-litre twin turbo V8 engine with maximum torque of 1600 HP and 1300 lb-feet at 4400rpm.
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However, the Venom F5 has not been verified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Therefore, its 485 km/hr claim remains unofficial.
The base price for the Hennessey Venom F5 is $1.6 million (N576 million)
Koenigsegg Agera RS – (448 kilometres per hour)
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With Koenigsegg’s verified Agera RS- 448 km/hr, it is technically the fastest car in the world. Though it trails badly behind the faster but unverified Venom F5, Koenigsegg is the fastest car in the Guinness Book of World Records. It has a 5.0-litre turbo V8 engine with maximum torque of 1600 HP.
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The Koenigsegg Agera RS has a performance time of 0 to 401 km/hr in just 36.44 seconds and a total weight of 3075 lbs including the traction control system.
The base price for the 2018 Koenigsegg Agera is $2.5 million (N900 million in Nigerian naira)
Bugatti Chiron – (437 kilometres per hour)
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The Bugatti Chiron has 437 kilometres per hour and is easily one of the fastest cars on sale. This is part of the Bugatti limited edition and it has only 500 units in the market. The Chiron has a force vectoring system for navigating tighter corners, and the arms of the Chiron are plated with carbon fibre.
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It also has some interesting specifications. The Bugatti Chiron boasts of a 5.0-litre turbo V8 engine with maximum torque of 1600 HP, and a performance time of 0 to 401 km/hr in just 36.44 seconds. Its front grill holds a two digit number 16 placed in it.
With a total weight of 3075 lbs, the Chiron goes for approximately $3 million (which stands at N1.1 billion with the current exchange rate) and ranks among the most expensive cars in the world.
Hennessey Venom GT – (435 kilometres per hour)
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Once again, there is another Hennessey model on the list of fastest cars in the world. But this time, it is the Hennessey Venom GT, developed by the Texas-based Hennessey Performance Engineering Corporation. While the Venom F5 boasts of 485 km/hr, the Venom GT runs at 435 km/hr.
The Venom GT received maximum attention in 2013 when it set the Guinness record as the quickest production automobile with an average acceleration of 13.63 seconds.
The Venom GT comes with a Twin-turbocharged 7.0-litre V8 engine with a maximum torque of 1155 pound-feet, and a performance time of 0 to 422 km/hr in just 14.51 seconds.
Built for the obscenely wealthy, the Hennessey Venom GT sells for $1.2 million (N432 million), which does not include options.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – (432 kilometres per hour)
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The Veyron Super Sport, once recognised in the Guinness Book of Records as the second fastest car in the world, is produced by Volkswagen. The car costs about $1.7 million (N612 million in Nigerian naira) and has a total weight of 4044 lbs along with carbon body.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has a high speed of 432km/hr recorded at the Volkswagen’s check track and its speed is verified. It comes with a Turbocharged W16 engine with Orange wheels and special orange body.
Bugattis are built for the wealthy and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport costs $2 million (N720 million).
SSC Ultimate Aero – (414 kilometres per hour)
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The Shelby Supercars (SSC) has a verified speed of 412km/hr as of 2007, dusting other non-Super Sports version like the Veyron.
The SSC Ultimate Aero has a 6.3-litre Twin-turbocharged V8 engine, a performance time of 0 to 100 km/hr in just 2.7 seconds. Its total weight is 2800 lbs butterfly doors. The SSC Ultimate Aero has a starting price of $740,000 (N266.4 million)
Koenigsegg Regera – (411 kilometres per hour)
The Koenigsegg Regera is a hybrid sports car that came out with just eighty units and sold at $1.9 million (N684 million in Nigerian naira) as at 2015. It is one of the fastest cars in the world for its ability to create a 411 per hour, with a performance time of 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in just 2.7 seconds. It comes with a 5.0-litre twin turbo engine with maximum torque of 1500+HP.
Credit: Roan and Track
Many lovers of sports cars do not fail to mention the magic of the rear wheels which takes 0.7 seconds to drive 0-62 km/hr. The total weight of the Regera is 3510 lbs including hydraulic pumping system and six-way adjustable electrical seat.
The Koenigsegg Regera has a base price of $2 million (N720 million based on current exchange rate)
Saleen S7 Twin Turbo – (400 kilometres per hour)
The Saleen S7 is a legendary vehicle that is made with comfort at the heart of it. The vehicle comes with a Twin Turbo and Two trunks, mid-engine layout. At 400 km/hr, the S7 is one of the fastest cars around and has a performance time of 0 to 100 km/hr in just 2.8 seconds. Additionally, it has an LCD monitor and quick release steering wheels, carbon fibre coated body and a mid-aligned driver seat. This car has a price tag of $1 million (N360 million in Nigerian naira).
Lykan Fenyr Supersport – (395 kilometres per hour)
The Lykan Fenyr Super Sport comes ninth on the list of fastest cars for 2019. Produced by W Motors, the vehicle features a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre engine with an HP of 900 horsepower.
It has a 0 to 97 km/hr performance time of 2.7 seconds and only 25 units of Lykan Fenyr a year are produced. This restriction was imposed by the Dubai-based company that produces the Fenyr supercars. The total weight of the Lykan Fenyr SuperSport is 2646 lbs. Wondering how much it costs? The Lykan Fenyr Supersport has a starting price of $1.9 million (N684 million)
Koenigsegg CCR – (390 kilometres per hour)
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In 2005, the Sweedish supercar builder Koenigsegg held the title for the world’s fastest car briefly. But this moment of glory was temporary as the 390 km/hr it set at the Italy nardoo Ring was quickly supplanted by the CCX and Agera.
A Koenigsegg CCR costs between $2.1 million (N756 million) and $2.8 million (N1.1 billion)
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April Stats From REBGV
Condominiums and townhomes in high demand across Metro Vancouver
Demand for condominiums and townhomes continues to drive the Metro Vancouver* housing market.
Residential property sales in the region totalled 3,553 in April 2017, a 25.7 per cent decline compared to April 2016 when 4,781 homes sold and a 0.7 per cent decrease from the 3,579 sales recorded in March 2017.
April sales were 4.8 per cent above the 10-year average for the month.
For the first four months of the year, condominium and townhome sales have comprised a larger percentage of all residential sales on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in Metro Vancouver. Over this time, they’ve accounted for 68.5 per cent, on average, of all residential sales. This is up 10 per cent from the 58.2 per cent average over the same period last year.
“Our overall market is operating below the record-setting pace from a year ago and is in line with historical spring levels. It’s a different story in our condominium and townhome markets," Jill Oudil, Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) president said. “Demand has been increasing for months and supply is not keeping pace. This dynamic is causing prices to increase and making multiple offer scenarios the norm.”
New listings for detached, attached and apartment properties in Metro Vancouver totalled 4,907 in April 2017. This represents a decrease of 19.9 per cent compared to the 6,127 units listed in April 2016 and a three per cent increase compared to March 2017 when 4,762 properties were listed.
The total number of residential properties currently listed for sale on the MLS® system in Metro Vancouver is 7,813, a 3.5 per cent increase compared to April 2016 (7,550) and a three per cent increase compared to March 2017 (7,586).
The sales-to-active listings ratio for April 2017 is 45.5 per cent for all property types. This is two per cent below March 2017 and is indicative of a sellers’ market. Generally, analysts say that downward pressure on home prices occurs when the ratio dips below the 12 per cent mark for a sustained period, while home prices often experience upward pressure when it surpasses 20 per cent over several months.
By property type, the sales-to-active listings ratio is 26 per cent for detached homes, 58.2 per cent for townhomes, and 82.2 per cent for condominiums.
“Until more entry level, or ‘missing middle’, homes are available for sale in our market, we’ll likely continue to see prices increase,” Oudil said. “There’s been record building this past year, but much of that inventory isn’t ready to hit the market.”
The MLS® Home Price Index composite benchmark price for all residential properties in Metro Vancouver is currently $941,100. This represents a five per cent increase over the past three months and an 11.4 per cent increase compared to April 2016.
Over the last three months, the benchmark price of condominiums has seen the largest increase in the region at 8.2 per cent, followed by townhomes at 5.3 per cent, and detached homes at 2.8 per cent.
“Home buyers are looking to get into the market and they’re facing fierce competition,” Oudil said. “It’s important to work with your local Realtor to help you navigate today’s marketplace.”
Sales of detached properties in April 2017 reached 1,211, a decrease of 38.8 per cent from the 1,979 detached sales recorded in April 2016. The benchmark price for detached properties is $1,516,500. This represents an 8.1 per cent increase over the last 12 months and a 1.8 per cent increase compared to March 2017.
Sales of apartment, or condominium, properties reached 1,722 in April 2017, a decrease of 18.3 per cent compared to the 2,107 sales in April 2016.The benchmark price of an apartment property is $554,100. This represents a 16.6 per cent increase over the past 12 months and a 3.1 per cent increase compared to March 2017.
Attached, or townhome, property sales in April 2017 totalled 620, a decrease of 10.8 per cent compared to the 695 sales in April 2016. The benchmark price of an attached unit is $701,800. This represents a 15.3 per cent increase over the past 12 months and a 2.4 per cent increase compared to March 2017.
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Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy
Wednesday, 09/26/2018 1:25pm to 2:25pm
Computer Science building, Room 151
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Speaker: Dr. Simon Garfinkel
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Abstract: When differential privacy was created more than a decade ago, the motivating example was statistics published by an official statistics agency. In attempting to transition differential privacy from the academy to practice, an in particular for the 2020 Census of Population and Housing, the U.S. Census Bureau has encountered many challenges unanticipated by differential privacy's creators. These challenges include obtaining qualified personnel and a suitable computing environment, the difficulty accounting for all uses of the confidential data, the lack of release mechanisms that align with the needs of data users, the expectation on the part of data users that they will have access to micro-data, and the difficulty in setting the value of the privacy-loss parameter, e (epsilon), and the lack of tools and trained individuals to verify the correctness of differential privacy implementations.
Speaker Bio: Simson L. Garfinkel is the Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access at the US Census Bureau and the Chair of the Bureau's Disclosure Review Board. His current research interests include privacy in big data, cybersecurity and usability. He holds seven US patents and has published dozens of research articles in computer security and digital forensics. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Senior Member, as a member of the National Association of Science Writers. Garfinkel is the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing. His book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly, 2000) discussed the impact of technology on privacy in the 20th and 21st centuries. His book Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz), has sold more than 250,000 copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages since the first edition was published in 1991. Garfinkel is also a journalist and has written more than a thousand articles about science, technology, and technology policy in the popular press since 1983. He has won numerous national journalism awards, including the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award. Today he mostly writes for MIT's Technology Review Magazine and the technologyreview.com website. As an entrepreneur, Garfinkel founded five companies between 1989 and 2000, including Vineyard.NET, which provided Internet service on Martha's Vineyard to more than a thousand customers from 1995 through 2005, and Sandstorm Enterprises, an early developer of computer forensic tools. Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a Master's of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
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The Reid Individual Mandate: An Affront to the Constitution
By Michael F. Cannon
Cato chairman Bob Levy and I have an oped in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer explaining why the individual mandate in Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) health care bill is unconstitutional. (Our colleague Ilya Shapiro blogs about a similar piece by our colleague Randy Barnett.)
In sum, supporters of an individual mandate claim that two powers granted to Congress by the states in the Constitution — the Commerce Clause and the taxing power — give Congress the legal authority to force Americans to purchase health insurance. We reject both theories.
First, the behavior that Congress seeks to regulate — the non-purchase of health insurance — is neither interstate, nor is it commerce. Unfortunately, under the Supreme Court’s tortured interpretation of the Commerce Clause, that isn’t dispositive, so we explain why even the Court’s Commerce Clause jurisprudence doesn’t allow for an individual mandate.
Second, the individual mandate cannot be justified by pointing to Congress’s taxing power, because the tax it would impose is neither an excise tax, nor an income tax, nor a direct tax apportioned according to population.
Game over. All your base are belong to us.
We’ve already received many responses to the oped, some of them intelligent. One reader asks how we can describe the non-purchase of health insurance as “a non-act that harms no one”:
We all know that when folks without insurance go to the emergency room, those of us with insurance are harmed in the form of higher premiums.
Originally, we had included a section expanding on our “harms no one” claim that would have addressed this point, but we dropped it for brevity. Here it is:
Most uninsured people don’t end up in an emergency room. As for those who do, research shows that the uninsured as a group more than pay their own way. Many simply pay their bills without imposing costs on anyone. And because they typically pay premium prices for medical care — far more than is ordinarily reimbursed by public or private insurance — they more than offset the cost of uncompensated care to the uninsured overall, according to MIT economist Jonathan Gruber and others.
Even if we ignore that evidence, uncompensated care to the uninsured accounts for about 2.2 percent of national health expenditures. The left-leaning Urban Institute writes, “Private insurance premiums are at most 1.7 percent higher because of the shifting of the costs of the uninsured to private insurers in the form of higher charges.” That’s hardly a crisis.
And think about it: an uninsured person is wheeled into an emergency room, unconscious and bleeding. Is this person able to harm anyone? Is this person in a position to impose costs on you? Of course not.
What imposes costs on you are the laws that require the doctors and hospitals to treat those patients without regard to ability to pay — and the ethical codes that would impel doctors to treat them even if there were no such laws. If you have a problem with those laws/codes, make them the focus of your ire. If you support them, surely you can’t be upset that they increase your premiums by 1.7 percent. Isn’t that a small price to pay to live in a compassionate society?
But if you’re still angry about that 1.7 percent, bear in mind that the Reid individual mandate — which is essentially a bailout for private health insurance companies — would increase the cost of insurance for some people by 30 percent and would require additional taxes on top of that.
Fortunately, there are much better ways to reform health care.
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Protest History Usa Books
Aug 22, 2017 · Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of Antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present—a project that he calls “history, politics, and theory on the run.” Antifa activists don’t often speak to the media, but Bray is a former Occupy Wall Street.
574 quotes from Howard Zinn: ‘There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.’, ‘TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.
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Mar 12, 2015 · When Mohandas Gandhi began his famous Salt March 85 years ago today, on Mar. 12, 1930, he couldn’t have known the influence it would wield on the history of India and the world.
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Jan 19, 2017. Saturday, January 21, will be far from the first time urban centers across the United States have played host to citizens mobilizing around a.
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention. In the United States and Western Europe, a wave of more violent racial and ethnic movements has appeared. Meanwhile, social movements of the 1970s and 1980s (the women’s movement, the peace movement, the environmental movement, and the GLBT movement) enter new stages of activism and face contemporary.
Aug 1, 2016. The student protesters of 2015 may have lost the battle, but won the war. Anger against the new guidelines for the history textbooks had.
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Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved? Bones Examined
December 17, 2010 / 12:28 PM / AP
Three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are being analyzed to determine if they belong to Amelia Earhart - tests that could finally prove she died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.
Scientists at the University of Oklahoma hope to extract DNA from the bones, which were found earlier this year by a Delaware group dedicated to the recovery of historic aircraft.
"There's no guarantee," said Ric Gillespie, director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery in Delaware. "You only have to say you have a bone that may be human and may be linked to Earhart and people get excited. But it is true that, if they can get DNA, and if they can match it to Amelia Earhart's DNA, that's pretty good."
The remains turned up in May and June at what seemed to be an abandoned campsite near where native work crews found skeletal remains in 1940. The pieces appear to be from a cervical bone, a neck bone and a finger.
But Gillespie offered a word of caution: The fragments could be from a turtle. They were found near a hollowed-out turtle shell that might have been used to collect rain water, but there were no other turtle parts nearby.
"This site tells the story of how someone or some people attempted to live as castaways," Gillespie said in an interview with The Associated Press. Bird and fish carcasses nearby suggested they were prepared and eaten by Westerners.
"These fish weren't eaten like Pacific Islanders" eat fish.
Lab officials said results of the tests could take week or months.
Gillespie has been traveling to the site since 1989 but acknowledges there's been little progress toward solving the Earhart mystery. It did not help that bones and a sextant box found three years after Earhart's disappearance disappeared themselves after being sent to Fiji.
"It's like science. You take the information you have and formulate a hypothesis, but 9½ times out of 10 you turn out wrong, then you go through the whole thing again - but you're closer," Gillespie said.
Anthropologists who had previously worked with Gillespie's group suggested that he ask the University of Oklahoma's Molecular Anthropology Laboratory to try to extract DNA from the fragments for comparison to genetic material donated by an Earhart family member.
Cecil Lewis, an assistant professor of anthropology at the lab, said the university received a little more than a gram of bone fragments about two weeks ago.
"I think it's best to talk about more when we have something say about it," Lewis said. "Think how disheartened people will be if it's just a turtle bone."
Gillespie said the group had tried to test possible genetic material recovered during a 2007 expedition, but a Canadian lab was unable to extract DNA from dried excrement.
Other material recovered this year also suggested the presence of Westerners at the remote site on Nikumaroro Island, 1,800 miles south of Hawaii:
• Someone carried shells ashore before cutting them open and slicing out the meat. Islanders cut the meat out at sea.
• Bottoms of bottles found nearby were melted on the bottom, suggesting they had been put into a fire, possibly to boil water. (A Coast Guard unit on the island during World War II would have had no need to boil water.)
• Bits of makeup were found at the scene. The group is checking to see which products Earhart endorsed and whether an inventory lists specific types of makeup carried on her final trip.
• A glass bottle with remnants of lanolin and oil, possibly hand lotion.
Some evidence has suggested that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, landed on the island, but, Gillespie said, "we are constantly agonizing over whether we are being dragged down a path that isn't right."
Still, the island is on the line Earhart planned to follow from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, which had a landing strip and fuel. Gillespie, a pilot, said she would have needed only about 700 feet of unobstructed space to land because her Lockheed Electra would have been traveling only about 55 mph at touchdown.
"It looks like she could have landed successfully on the reef surrounding the island. It's very flat and smooth," Gillespie said. "At low tide, it looks like this place is surrounded by a parking lot."
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Damning study finds a "whitewashed" Hollywood
February 22, 2016 / 9:56 AM / AP
NEW YORK -- In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are "whitewashed," and that an "epidemic of invisibility" runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people.
A study to be released Monday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism offers one of the most wide-ranging examinations of the film and television industries, including a pointed "inclusivity index" of 10 major media companies - from Disney to Netflix - that gives a failing grade to every movie studio and most TV makers.
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Coming just days before an Academy Awards where a second straight year of all-white acting nominees has enflamed an industry-wide crisis, the report offers a new barrage of sobering statistics that further evidence a deep discrepancy between Hollywood and the American population it entertains, in gender, race and ethnicity.
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"The prequel to OscarsSoWhite is HollywoodSoWhite," said Stacy L. Smith, a USC professor and one of the study's authors, in an interview. "We don't have a diversity problem. We have an inclusion crisis."
The study, titled the Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity, examined the 109 films released by major studios (including art-house divisions) in 2014 and 305 scripted, first-run TV and digital series across 31 networks and streaming services that aired from September 2014 to August 2015. More than 11,000 speaking characters were analyzed for gender, racial and ethnic representation and LGBT status. Some 10,000 directors, writers and show creators were examined, as was the gender of more than 1,500 executives.
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The portrait is one of pervasive underrepresentation, no matter the media platform, from CEOs to minor characters. "Overall, the landscape of media content is still largely whitewashed," the study concludes.
In the 414 studied films and series, only a third of speaking characters were female, and only 28.3 percent were from minority groups - about 10 percent less than the makeup of the U.S. population. Characters 40 years or older skew heavily male across film and TV: 74.3 percent male to 25.7 percent female.
Just 2 percent of speaking characters were LGBT-identified. Among the 11,306 speaking characters studied, only seven were transgendered (and four were from the same series).
"When we start to step back to see this larger ecology, I think we see a picture of exclusion," said Smith. "And it doesn't match the norms of the population of the United States."
Behind the camera, the discrepancy is even greater. Directors overall were 87 percent white. Broadcast TV directors (90.4 percent white) were the least diverse.
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Just 15.2 percent of directors, 28.9 percent of writers and 22.6 percent of series creators were female. In film, the gender gap is greatest: Only 3.4 percent of the films studied were directed by women, and only two directors out of the 109 were black women: Ava DuVernay ("Selma") and Amma Asante ("Belle").
Following a request made in May by the American Civil Liberties Union (which cited previous USC studies, as well as those by UCLA and the Directors Guild in claiming women have been "systematically excluded" from directing jobs), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year began investigating gender discrimination in Hollywood.
The federal investigation is just one element of growing scrutiny for the industry. But for protesters, finding a target for what some consider a systematic problem isn't easy. Even many of those, like Spike Lee, who have criticized the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, have insisted the issue goes far deeper than Oscar nominees. When academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs recently announced dramatic steps to diversify the overwhelmingly white and male film academy, she said: "The academy is going to lead, and not wait for the industry to catch up."
USC's study, which the school has been publishing in various forms for the last 10 years, also seeks to add a new metric in the conversation. The "inclusivity index" is a report card for the performances of 21st Century Fox, CBS, NBC Universal, Sony, the Walt Disney Co., Time Warner, Viacom, Amazon, Hulu and Netflix. Those companies encompass all the broadcast networks, most major cable channels, all of the major movie studios and three of the dominant streaming services.
Each was rated by their percentage of female, minority and LGBT characters; and of female writers and directors. None of the six major studios rated better than 20 percent overall; Time Warner fared poorest of all with a score of zero. The report concludes that the film industry "still functions as a straight, white, boy's club."
Disney, Sony, Paramount, Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. didn't immediate comment Sunday night.
Some of the same companies, however, scored better when their TV and digital offerings were evaluated. Disney, the CW, Amazon and Hulu all scored 65 percent and above.
"When we turn to see where the problem is better or worse, the apex to this whole endeavor is: Everyone in film is failing, all of the companies investigated," said Smith. "They're impervious to change. But there are pockets of promise in television. There is a focus that change is possible. The very companies that are inclusive - Disney, CW, Hulu, Amazon to some degree - those companies, if they're producing and distributing motion pictures, can do this. We now have evidence that they can, and they can thrive."
USC researchers also, for the first time, added analysis of those 10 companies' executives. Researches didn't have racial or ethnic background information, but found that women represent about 20 percent of corporate boards, chief executives and executive management teams.
"As prestige or power of the title increases, we see fewer women at the top," said Katherine Pieper, who co-authored the study with Smith and Marc Choueiti. "Film still has a prestige to it, so we see fewer women filling those positions."
The research offers the chance for comparison between mediums. Do streaming services adhere to the established patterns of traditional television or deviate from them?
In some cases, they do, but in many, they don't. Netflix (20 percent on the inclusion index) scored about the same as NBC Universal, CBS and Fox. There were far fewer female directors working in digital series (11.8 percent) than in broadcast (17.1 percent), in the shows studied. Broadcast, cable and steaming series also all revel in sexualized female characters and nudity more than movies do.
But some of the study's most troubling finds are simply absences. Roughly 50 percent of the examined content didn't feature one Asian or Asian-American character; 20 percent didn't include one black character. Researchers argue for change beyond "tokenism," including making target goals public and creating a system of checks and balances in storytelling decisions.
"People are still erased. It's 2016 and it's time for a change," said Smith. "We've laid out concrete actionable steps because we don't want to do this again in 10 years."
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Beyond 7/2: A record-breaking summit challenge
The Explorers Grand Slam is a grueling test of endurance for extreme adventurers, requiring not only reaching both the North and South Poles, but also the "Seven Summits" - the highest mountains on every continent.
Fewer than 50 people have ever finished the challenge. Only two have done it in under a year.
Colin O'Brady, who lives near Portland, Ore., accomplished the feat in just 139 days, a new world record.
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Years ago an accident involving a flaming jump-rope caused severe burns on 25 percent of O'Brady's body. Doctors said he would likely never walk normally again. But O'Brady refused to listen. Nineteen months later, he entered the Chicago Triathlon and won it: "I was blown away! I couldn't believe it," he told CBS News' Lee Cowan.
He became a professional triathlete, and for a while had his sights set on the Olympics, but eventually turned away from competitive sports. It came to a point, he said, where he thought, "This is amazing, but I wonder if there's a way in which I can use my athleticism for more than just my own personal success or failure on the race course."
In preparing for his Grand Slam attempt, O'Brady and his partner and fiancee Jenna Besaw partnered with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and began touring schools in Oregon and Washington, encouraging kids to lead more active, healthy lifestyles, and to follow him on his world record bid. "It was an opportunity to showcase the human spirit," he said. "The inspiration to live an active, healthy life, to eat well, to play hard, to explore the world, to explore your backyard, anything."
On January 5, 2016, O'Brady was flown from Union Glacier to 89 degrees south for his first destination. Temperature: -13°F. He trekked about 10-12 miles a day in the thin air (though the South Pole plateau is just under 10,000 feet in elevation, it feels more like 12,000-13,0000 feet). "That's enough to get the heart pumping coming from sea level," he wrote.
A view inside O'Brady's tent, where the hours are augmented with Led Zeppelin.
Despite brutally cold winds of 15-20 mph, O'Brady made the final five-mile push to the South Pole on January 11, 2016. Having reached his first destination, the clock began ticking for O'Brady to complete his trip to the North Pole and the peaks of the Seven Summits in-between.
A cup of boiling water thrown into -22°F Antarctic air produces an instant cloud of ice.
Colin O'Brady's second stop on his Explorers Grand Slam was Mount Vinson, the tallest peak on the continent of Antarctica. With a delay on his plane trip back to Union Glacier (the DC-3 cargo plane's engine had frozen), he arrived at base camp on January 12.
Bad weather almost blocked O'Brady's departure from Union Glacier base camp for several days, before a flying window opened and he took off for Vinson, located about 95 miles away.
Vinson, at 16,050 feet, lies in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, and was first climbed in 1966.
O'Brady pulls his sled.
O'Brady reached the summit of Vinson on January 17. The combination of fierce winds and brutal temperatures resulted in a windchill of -58°F. "We quickly celebrated at the top but didn't stay too long because the wind continued to pound us," O'Brady wrote.
Antarctica left its mark; two team members suffered frostbite, and another suffered superficial frostbite on two fingers, while O'Brady came close on his face.
On January 22, 2016, O'Brady landed in Mendoza, Argentina, where the temperature was 100°F. "After life at -30°F, my body felt very confused with the abrupt change," he wrote.
His destination was Aconcagua, at 22,841 feet the tallest peak in South America (and the highest outside of Asia), where he would attempt a solo climb.
Recent landslides had prompted many other climbers on the mountain to leave rather than attempt another summit, so O'Brady had Aconcagua nearly to himself except for the staff at base camp.
On January 31, 2016, O'Brady reached the top of Aconcagua.
Next stop: Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano in Tanzania and, at 19,341 feet, the tallest peak in Africa.
Colin O'Brady in Kilimanjaro's rain forest. From the entrance gate (5,200 feet) to the summit, (19,341 feet) he gained 14,100 feet in elevation.
O'Brady's Kilimanjaro trek marked a return - he'd climbed the mountain two years earlier with his fiancee, Jenna.
It might take a "normal" person six or seven days to climb Kilimanjaro. O'Brady made it in less than 12 hours, reaching the summit on February 9, 2016.
Kosciuszko
On his way to Carstensz Pyramid, on the Indonesian island of Papua, O'Brady stopped at Mount Kosciuszko, the tallest peak on mainland Australia, and one of the original Seven Summits (before the Australia/Oceania continent was expanded to include islands near Australia, including Polynesia and New Guinea). A relatively easier hike (reaching an elevation of 7,310 feet compared to the rocky summit of Carstensz, at 16,024 feet), Kosciuszko is called the "Eighth of the Seven Summits" by those who dispute its standing. By tackling each mountain, O'Brady wrote, "I will have both of my bases covered."
He reached the top of Kosciuszko on February 17, in a quick hike: two-and-one-quarter hours round trip, with 25 minutes on the summit.
Carstensz
Arriving in the wet climate of Papua, O'Brady's next target was the Carstensz Pyramid,
"Some climbers say that the wall of Carstensz Pyramid is as sharp as glass, and they are not far from the truth," O'Brady wrote. "Climbers who attempt this mountain are expected to have basic rock climbing skills, at a minimum."
The view at Carstensz.
Arriving by helicopter, O'Brady and his team acclimatized for a day at base camp before setting off.
Carstensz Pyramid
At the Carstensz Pyramid's summit ridge, the most challenging and exposed part of the route, O'Brady had to cross a 30-foot section rigged with wire and rope, with a drop-off of more than 1,000 feet. "Looking down at my feet walking on this tiny wire and what felt like endless drop below was enough to get the adrenaline pumping very hard," he said. "This climb is not for the faint of heart, especially if you are afraid of heights."
O'Brady and his fellow climbers reached the Carstensz Pyramid's summit on March 4, but would end up waiting several days at base camp for a return helicopter flight.
Next stop: Mount Elbrus (18,510 feet), part of the Caucasus Mountains in Southern Russia, near the Georgian border, and the tallest mountain in Europe.
Elbrus was the only one of the Seven Summits O'Brady was climbing out of season - it was winter in Russia - but a break in weather opened a promising window in March.
Colin O'Brady on skis tackling Mt. Elbrus, which typically is climbed by riding a gondola up from the ski resort at the mountain's base to 12,500 feet, where climbers stay in a hut before embarking for the summit at 18,510 feet.
The plan was to "skin up" (climb uphill with skis) as far as possible, before continuing to the summit on foot, and then ski down.
The average temperature during O'Brady's climb was -4°F with constant 20-30 mph winds, and a wind chill of -31°F when he reached the summit, on March 20, 2016 - ten days ahead of schedule. "But the sun was out and the storms stayed away, so it was well worth the rush to get here for this weather window!" he wrote.
A view of sunset from Mount Elbrus.
Gear required for O'Brady's trek to the North Pole. After an extended stay at Longyearbyen, Norway (the ice runway on which they would land had cracked, forcing the cancellation of flights), O'Brady and his team set off for Barneo, a temporary camp built by Russia on the sea ice.
Heading to the North Pole.
Unlike the South Pole, which is located on land, the North Pole is situated in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and is covered in constantly-shifting sea ice.
Crossing a large open lead (cracks in the ice floes exposing the water beneath).
After long hours of pulling a sled carrying 150 lbs. of gear and supplies, O'Brady and his team set up tents. "Work doesn't end when we get into the tent," he wrote. "From the second we get in here, setting everything up and drying out all of our clothes. We've got the stove inside the tent to help heat the tent, but yeah, you gotta be really careful with that."
O'Brady reached the North Pole on April 19, 2016.
After completing this part of the Explorers Grand Slam at sea level, O'Brady would have to travel to the opposite extreme, to the tallest peak on Earth: Mount Everest.
In late April Colin O'Brady arrived at the Khumbu Valley, continuing to the town of Lobache (above 16,000 feet) on way to Everest Base Camp.
Here, O'Brady receives a "blessing" prior to his ascent.
Mount Everest Camp 1. At 29,029 feet, Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, and the Asian component of the Seven Summits.
Crossing a crevasse on Everest.
Climbing the Lhotse Face, between Camp 2 and Camp 3. In the upper left is the summit ridge of Everest.
"The first hour or so is up a winding snow slope with many wide open crevasses that you have to jump across," O'Brady wrote. "Normally, a section like this with only a moderate incline would be fairly easy for me; however, on a cold morning above 21,000 feet I found it very challenging. I was staring at the 50 degree (seemingly vertical) Lhotse Face wondering how I was going to manage to get up when a gentle slope was proving a difficult feat to conquer. ... Surprisingly, the near-vertical climbing seemed to challenge me less than the approach."
Traffic on the Lhotse Face, between Camps 3 and 4.
The ascent from Camp 3 to Camp 4, which lies in the "Death Zone" (above 26,000 feet).
A lifeline at Everest. Nearly 280 people have died in their attempts to conquer the mountain.
Camp 4 at night.
After strong winds subsided, O'Brady continued his summit push, reaching the top of Everest on May 19, 2016.
O'Brady's final test for the Explorers Grand Slam was Denali in Alaska. At 20,310 feet, the mountain formerly known as Mt. McKinley is the highest in North America, and has the greatest "base to peak" rise (18,000 feet) of any mountain on Earth.
Just four days after summitting Everest, O'Brady was on the Denali glacier.
In climbing the West Buttress route (considered the safest on the mountain), O'Brady's team was joined by nearly 400 climbers on the mountain, as May 26 fell within the main climbing season. In addition to National Park Rangers nearby, there is even cell phone service above 14,000 feet.
Unlike expeditions in the Himalayas which are aided by Sherpas, climbers on Denali must be completely self-sufficient. Weather is unpredictable; snowstorms can last up to a week.
After hiking to a camp at 14,200 feet, O'Brady hunkered down for a few days waiting for weather to clear. "My body is so thrown around right now I have no idea what time zone I'm on," he wrote. "The last two nights, despite the snowstorms that have almost buried my tent, I slept 14 hours oblivious to what was going on outside. I'd say that is only possible given the level of fatigue I'm feeling."
On the slopes of Denali.
Upon reaching the top of Denali on May 27, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. local time, Colin O'Brady broke the Explorers Grand Slam world record in 139 days. (The previous record was 192 days.)
O'Brady had just enough energy left to call his fiancee, Jenna Besaw. She boarded a plane and flew straight to the glacier to meet him, and to celebrate a little extra surprise: It turns out O'Brady had not only broken the Grand Slam record, but he also broke the Seven Summits speed record in the process.
"I hope that people take away from this the power of the human spirit," he told Lee Cowan. "When you believe in yourself, and you dream big, anything is possible."
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Mexican Drug Kingpin Sentenced to 43 Years in U.S. Prison
April 11, 2018 April 13, 2018 DAVID LEE
Drug cartels, Mexico, sentencing
DALLAS (CN) – A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the boss of the La Familia Michoacan drug cartel whose arrest led to the revenge killing of 12 Mexican police officers to over 43 years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade sentenced Arnoldo Rueda-Medina, 48, in Dallas and ordered him to pay $5 million in fines – an amount the judge acknowledged was a “drop in the bucket.”
Known as “La Minsa,” Rueda-Medina pleaded guilty in September 2017 to one count of conspiracy with intent to distribute drugs and one count of conspiracy to launder money. The judge ordered a 520-month sentence on the drug charge and 240 months on the conspiracy charge, to run concurrently.
Mexican authorities extradited Rueda-Medina to the United States in January after arresting him in the state of Michoacan in July 2009.
An unidentified Mexican federal police officer testified Wednesday that he will never get over the “cowardly assassination” of his fellow officers after Rueda-Medina’s arrest.
Prosecutors say cartel members unsuccessfully tried to free Rueda-Medina after his arrest, attacking the police station where he was held and engaging in a firefight with police on the streets of Morelia in Michoacan.
“On July 13, 2009, a group of 12 officers were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. A note found at the scene where the bodies were dumped stated ‘Vengan por otro, los estamos esperando’ (‘Come for another, we are waiting for you’),” prosecutors said in a written statement. “At least four other officers and two Mexican Marines were killed by LFM operatives responding to the arrest of Arnoldo Rueda-Medina.”
Formed in the 1980s, La Familia Michoacan is accused of producing thousands of kilograms of methamphetamine in laboratories in Michoacan. The cartel then smuggles the drugs into stash houses in the Dallas-Fort Worth area through border checkpoints near Tijuana, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, according to court filings.
“The drug proceeds that were collected were delivered to cartel members or associates in Mexico either by way of bulk cash smuggling in vehicles utilized by LFM couriers or through money remitters such as Western Union,” prosecutors said.
U.S. Attorney Nealy Cox thanked Mexican authorities for their “critical assistance and sacrifice” in the case.
Prosecutors say Rueda-Medina was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2010 under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, which blocked all of his property subject to U.S. jurisdiction and virtually froze all of his assets. The law also bans American citizens and companies from doing business with him.
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Will the People’s Vote campaign swing a second referendum?
Whatever your view of Brexit, and however you voted, you cannot fail to recognise that June 2016 represented a seismic change for the UK and its future direction. The success of the ‘Leave’ campaign is, with hindsight, easy to understand. A powerful slogan, with real emotional resonance – ‘Take back control’, a charismatic spokesperson in Boris, a divided and feeble campaign on behalf of those who wanted to remain and the abstention by Jeremy Corbyn from the debate. However, over two years on and only seven months away from when the UK is scheduled to leave the EU, as the People’s Vote campaign keeps reminding us, it may be a big deal, but it’s not a done deal.
The Big Idea
The argument is simple. The decision on the final Brexit deal (whatever it looks like) is too important to be left to the politicians. They have demonstrated that they are simply not up to it. The people need to be given the chance to decide. Not only does the People’s Vote give licence to a second referendum (under another name) it also throws the responsibility for the decision, now that we all better understand the consequences, back onto each and every one of us.
There will be no-one else to blame. ‘Demand a vote’ is a powerful call to action… it’s the democratic right for your voice to be heard.
What They Did
Perhaps the most significant decision, taking into account the different agendas of the various pressure groups*, was to fund and create the Media Hub in Millbank, as the central co-ordinating communications unit for the whole campaign. This has enabled the campaign to come to life with a consistent message across social, emails, experiential and PR, launching with the June march in London. The £1 million donation from Julian Dunkerton (the founder of Superdry) has allowed extensive research, described as the biggest polling operations ever undertaken in UK politics, thereby providing the content for all the newsfeeds, monitoring the shifts in public opinion that are taking place.
*Best for Britain, Open Britain, Britain for Europe, European Movement, Healthier in the EU, Scientists for Europe, OFOC, FFS, Wales for Europe, INFACTS.
I would not suggest that this is the most creative campaign of recent months, but through its simplicity and consistent message it has begun to address the biggest challenge it faced, namely the apathy that developed in the lead up to summer.
Research showed that most people were concerned with more immediate issues such as knife crime, the NHS, house prices and austerity and that their main concern with Brexit was the length of time it was taking. Cutting through this demanded an event of some impact to grab the imagination, in particular, of those Leave voters who might be persuaded to reconsider.
The march in London on 16 June dominated all the news channels that weekend and generated real momentum and self-confidence. A petition was launched which now has nearly 300,000 signatures (which will be delivered to number 10 the week before the Brexit deal is put to Parliament). The email campaign (usually with a humorous approach to attacking the disarray) and news stories are all about how badly things are going, as well as the steady shift in public opinion. The most recent polling suggests that 45% of voters want the electorate to have a say on the final Brexit deal, with 34% opposed. The majority has to be sufficiently significant for parliament to take note.
In Hindsight
We may well have reached a tipping point, which already is quite an achievement. But the main problem with the campaign (and partially the reason for its relative level of success) is that it can best be described as a Trojan horse.
The real agenda behind the campaign is to stop Brexit and the People’s Vote is simply a mechanism with which to achieve that. As such, it is not surprising that it is not yet clear what the options are that people might vote for. ‘Yes’ or ’No’ to the deal and/or ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Brexit itself. And it is not yet clear when or who will make the first unequivocal demands to stop Brexit.
One of the other significant shortcomings is the lack of a Boris-type leader. Most of those associated with the Remain campaign are still toxic in some way or other and the absence of a charismatic, credible figurehead matters.
But the campaign has achieved a clear and coherent message. It has a brand identity and the various channels from social to press, to rallies and marches, to activists on the ground and even to Westminster lobbying, seem to be talking with one voice. It still needs to engage more powerfully with the youth vote and it needs the Labour Party leadership to re-engage with the issue.
Finally, my suspicion is that, as with all political campaigns, paid-for media has a role to play and this needs a budget and dare I say it, an ad agency to move it all up a notch.
It’s not a done deal.
Graham Hinton
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AAC Heritage Centre
by Chris Ricketts in Beachley, England, United Kingdom
37% 22 days left
Flexible funding – this project will receive all pledges made by August 10th 2019 at 9:52pm
To protect the Heritage of 70 years of the Army Apprentices College in Chepstow.
Community, Heritage
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The team is made up of former soldiers from the Army Apprentices College that served as a home, school and a future for some 28000 young men aged between 14 and 16 who attended the School, later College between 1924 and 1994 when it was closed.
The idea is to maintain the history and heritage of that period for the surviving families of the boys and the wider local community. It will be a permanent reminder of those soldiers and the commitment to the local area as well as their contributions to the nation in times of conflict. We have many photos and stories to tell which many people have never seen or heard until now. It would be a sad loss should this idea not come to fruition having been given the chance to preserve the history of this establishment.
Any funding raised would be used to develop the exhibition and to maintain the growth of memorabilia along with the ongoing maintenance of the project.
Let's make 'AAC Heritage Centre' happen
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12 Things You Didn’t Know About EPCOT’s World Showcase at Walt Disney World
3. The statue in Japan was a gift.
Back in 1971 when Magic Kingdom first opened, the Japanese government gave a gift to Disney World in the form of a statue. For years the statue remained at Magic Kingdom since it was the only park at Disney World. But after EPCOT opened in 1982, the statue was moved to the Japan pavilion on the World Showcase, as Imagineers thought that placement of the Japanese statue in the pavilion that honored the country of Japan would be more fitting than leaving it at Magic Kingdom. You can now see the statue when you first enter the Japan pavilion at EPCOT. (Photo credit: Disney)
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The Tour de Suisse is a cycling stage race held in Switzerland each June. It is not as long or demanding as other national races such as the Tour de France or the Giro d'Italia, but it is part of the International Cycling Union (UCI)'s ProTour, and performance in the Tour de Suisse is credited toward a cyclist's UCI World Ranking score.
The Tour originated in 1933 and has been held every year since, except for a few years' suspension during World War II. Because of its timing, it is often considered a warm-up event for the Tour de France, and many top Tour de France riders, such as Eddy Merckx and Lance Armstrong, have also won the Tour de Suisse. Switzerland's mountainous terrain makes it a good training ground for the Tour de France's alpine stages, and the Tour de Suisse is known for challenging climbs.
The winner of the first Tour de Suisse was Max Bulla of Austria, while the most recent Tour (2009) was won by Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland. As with other national races, the hosts tend to do best: Swiss riders have won 23 of the 73 editions of the Tour, with Italy (19) and Belgium (8) following in the win standings. However, the record for most wins is held by Italy's Pasquale Fornara, who won four times during the 1950s.
The 2010 Tour de Suisse will be run from June 12 to 20, beginning in Lugano and ending in Liestal in nine stages covering a total of 1329 kilometers (826 miles).
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Home » TV » Kelsey Grammer on Why He Loves His ‘Boss’ Character and How He Takes Criticism
Kelsey Grammer on Why He Loves His ‘Boss’ Character and How He Takes Criticism
By Chris McKittrick August 17, 2012 No Comments
Sure, we all saw Kelsey Grammer play Dr. Frasier Crane for about a hundred years, but deep down inside we all knew that with that scowl and deep timbre of voice that he would make a fantastic villain. I mean, the minds behind The Simpsons were obviously on to something with Sideshow Bob, right? So Grammer was the perfect fit to play the corrupt Chicago Mayor Tom Kane in Boss, which will soon begin its second season.
In an interview with Reuters, Grammer talks about transitioning from comedy to drama and his feelings on critics of his performances, including not being nominated for an Emmy.
Grammer admits that despite the character’s evil nature, he loves the role. He points out, “He is a great character to play because he is so energetic. The guy’s vitality is fantastic. He is dying and yet he has more vitality than most people who have another 50 years to live. It is more energizing to play in a weird way. We have explored and lifted from Shakespeare quite a bit. Apparitions in Shakespeare are common place and in the culture of that time they were meant as real things. It is up to the audience whether they want to accept it as a real thing or a figment of his imagination.”
As for the transition to drama after twenty-five-plus years of mostly comedic roles, Grammer is planning on sticking with dramatic roles, but it all depends on the material. He explains, “I’d love to do another comedy too if the right thing came along. It’s all about the role. At this point in my life, if the material is good, if it’s a character I think ‘Wow! I’d love to do that,’ it won’t matter what the venue or the reason is except it’s a fascinating character to try to wrap my brain around.”
Despite the critical praise — including winning a Golden Globe — Grammer confesses he was upset that he wasn’t nominated for an Emmy. He reveals, “Oh yes, it hurts a lot. It is a little confusing, actually. I still don’t know what to make of it. I am still not sure how it happened, but I am stuck with it, so there we go.” Then again, I doubt the five-time Emmy winner has lost much sleep over the snub. Still, Grammer points out that he finds criticism helpful in assisting him grow as an actor, adding, “I find critical writing to be helpful sometimes so I often will investigate what they are saying. If it’s a slaughter piece, I am not going to continue to read it or let it impact my spirit too much. But if it’s what I grew up understanding as critical writing, they might make some interesting statement. I can slough off the stuff that is negative, personal attacks.”
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The legend lives on: Michael Jackson gets his own Cirque Du Soleil show 'The Immortal World Tour'
Updated: 16:11 EDT, 3 November 2010
It may be a year since Michael Jackson's tragic death, but it seems his legend is being kept very much alive.
It was announced today that the star, who died on June 25 last year, will be getting his own Cirque Du Solieil show.
Following in the footsteps of The Beatles, whose Cirque show Love has been a big success in Las Vegas, Jackson's The Immortal World Tour will open in Canada next October.
Immortalised: A Michael Jackson inspired Cirque Du Soleil show has just been announced and will open in Canada next autumn
Tribute: The show will feature the songs and choreography of Michael Jackson, who died on June 25 last year
The show will combine Jackson's music and choreography with the signature acrobatics of the popular circus troupe.
Touring 27 U.S. and Canadian cities, the production will be directed by Jamie King, a choreographer and stage director who has been involved in recent Britney Spears and Madonna tours.
He was also a backing dancer on Jackson's Dangerous tour.
King revealed that the show will explore: 'Everything Michael. Michael’s love of fairy tale, his love of magic and theatricality, his love of music, his love of animals, his love of showmanship.'
And Jackson's former Neverland home will provide the 'environment' for the show, according to King.
'[Neverland] is the place where he wrote many albums, many songs; he wrote poetry there,' he said. 'This was his peace, his serenity. The show is that world blown up bigger than life.
'From the moonwalk to the iconic choreography we've seen in Thriller and Beat It and Bad - all his mini-movies and music videos - mix that with the world of Cirque,' he said.
'You shake it and can literally turn it on its head. Imagine taking the moonwalk to new levels, to new heights. Being able to do the moonwalk literally as if you're on the moon, all the way around the arena.'
Send in the clowns: Jackson's music will be getting the Cirque Du Soleil treatment in a brand new show
But the Immortal World Tour will be a little different to other Cirque Du Soleil productions based on pop music acts such as Love and Viva Elvis.
'The idea was to bring Michael to the fans and create the feeling of his concerts in an arena setting,' said John Branca, co-executor of the Jackson estate.
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'Cirque has not done a show with Elvis or the Beatles or any other historic rock 'n' roll icon that has gone into arenas and toured North America or the world, so it was exciting to be able to do something that had not been done before,' he added.
'Ultimately, there will be a separate show residing permanently in Las Vegas. That show is a couple of years off.'
Michael Jackson gets his own Cirque Du Soleil show 'The Immortal World Tour'
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Analysis: Elections signup period runs this week
Think you’re tired of campaign ads now? Get ready for the onslaught.
Analysis: Elections signup period runs this week Think you’re tired of campaign ads now? Get ready for the onslaught. Check out this story on dailyworld.com: https://www.dailyworld.com/story/opinion/2014/08/17/analysis-elections-signup-period-runs-week/14208451/
Published 6:33 p.m. CT Aug. 17, 2014
Louisiana’s election season is about to intensify, as the official slate of candidates in the Nov. 4 races is set during the signup period that runs from Wednesday through Friday.
After months of combing through polling data, working the fundraising circuit and testing campaign speeches, potential candidates have to settle on whether they’re in or out of the political field. Contenders vying for any office from constable to a seat in Congress have to put up qualifying fees and sign paperwork this week to get their name on the ballot.
In Louisiana, the close of the three-day qualifying period tends to ratchet up the campaigning.
It signifies the assault of near-constant TV and radio advertising, a blitz of robo-calls and the appearance of campaign placards on most major thoroughfares. It’s also traditionally when the state’s voters start paying more attention to the elections and who’s on the ballot.
For candidates, the end of the signup period gives them a clear list of opponents and only about 10 weeks left to make their pitches to voters.
At the top of the ballot will be the congressional races, with the most attention garnered by U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s bid to hold onto her seat for a fourth term, despite the dwindling nature of Democrats in Louisiana’s top elected jobs.
Landrieu’s got two Republican challengers trying to end her political career: U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, a former state senator with the backing of the GOP establishment; and tea party favorite Rob Maness, a political newcomer and retired Air Force colonel.
The incumbent senator has a list of accomplishments she can tout from her 18 years in office, but she’s also got that vote for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul to contend with in a state where both Obama and the health law are extremely unpopular.
Cassidy’s attempt to oust Landrieu leaves his Baton Rouge-based 6th District congressional seat open, and a crowded field of contenders are vying for the job.
The man grabbing the most attention is 87-year-old former Gov. Edwin Edwards, the Democrat who shaped Louisiana politics for decades until he went to federal prison for corruption.
Edwards isn’t necessarily well-positioned to win a seat representing what is considered to be among the most conservative districts in the country, but he’s got the name recognition and support to easily capture a spot in the runoff election.
At least eight Republicans are jockeying to be in that December runoff against him, including two state lawmakers and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s former coastal chief.
Meanwhile, in the 5th District that covers northeast and central Louisiana, Republican incumbent Vance McAllister is fighting to repeat his improbable special election victory of last year. A cheating scandal has threatened his re-election plans.
The married congressman refused to leave office after he was seen kissing a female aide on a leaked security video, despite calls from GOP leadership to exit the position. Now, he’s traveling the district, asking voters to move past the scandal and send him back to Washington.
Six candidates have announced they are challenging McAllister, including a family member to the men of the cable television hit “Duck Dynasty.”
Incumbents in the state’s four other U.S. House districts appear largely safe, with no well-funded or well-known opponents expected to challenge them — unless a last-minute entrant spoils their re-election ease.
Further down the ballot are dozens of judgeships around the state, two seats on the state’s utility regulatory agency and 43 district attorney positions. Voters in Shreveport will choose a new mayor. Across the state, people will select school board members, police chiefs, city councilmen and other local officials.
The runoff election, for any race where a candidate doesn’t get more than 50 percent of the vote, is set for Dec. 6.
Also on November’s ballot but often overlooked by voters will be 14 proposals to rewrite Louisiana’s state constitution.
With kids back in school, it’s time for grown-ups to start doing their homework, on the lengthy list of candidates and issues they’ll face in the voting booth.
— Melinda Deslatte covers Louisiana politics for The Associated Press.
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Chris Smither’s songwriting and touring can stand the test of time. A songwriter, guitarist, bluesman, interpreter and performer for more than 50 years, Chris Smither has proven himself an American original. His deftness as an interpreter is often overlooked and yet his ability to choose a song and then make it his own is almost […]
Stirring Pop, Soul & Gospel
Since the runaway success of her 1990 debut album Circle of One (which went Platinum), and the impassioned hit single “Get Here,” Oleta Adams has inspired a growing legion of fans in the U.S. and Europe with journeys of the heart via songs that draw deeply from her roots in gospel, while crossing effortlessly into […]
Paul Thorn
Southern Gothic Troubadour
Paul Thorn has battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Duran on national television, signed with a major label, performed on stages with Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and John Prine, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet relatable music of our time. With 20 years of writing, touring, and entertaining under his belt, […]
Chart-topping 70's Country Rock
In an age where new bands come and go, Firefall has enjoyed a career that spans more than forty years and shows no sign of slowing down. Firefall’s commercial success includes three Gold albums, two Platinum albums and eleven chart-topping singles. The band’s biggest hit, “You Are the Woman” has been played on commercial radio […]
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What We're Loving: Man-Phone Love, The 1st Amendment, Self-Fulfillment, Reconfigured Shakespeare, and Eternal Presidents
Each Friday, DCH performers, teachers, and students offer their recommendations for what to watch, read, see, hear, or experience. This week Ashley Bright becomes a better person, David Allison demands that you drop everything, Julia Cotton ponders what it means to be an adult, Nick Scott suggests a new take on a classic play, and Ryan Callahan takes a trip above the 38th parallel.
I will admit that before I saw Her, the plot did not at all interest me. But with the lure of an afternoon movie with an old friend and the cushion of the name Spike Jonze, I went to see it. And I'm grateful that I did. Some may call it hyperbole to say things like, "it changed me" or "it made me a better person" to describe a movie experience, and maybe it is. But this movie certainly stuck to my ribs. About halfway through watching it, I thought to myself that it was one of my new favorites. I didn't care about the plot or how it ended; it was beautiful and that was enough. Afterward, I was comforted to hear my friend express all of the goofy thoughts that I was having. We were both in great moods and spouting off nutty phrases like how we felt more alive and refreshed. Her made me think about how I experience the world and the people in it. Our encounters make us who we are. If you're not into gorgeous cinematography or all of the hippy dippy mumbo jumbo I threw up above, there's a sassy video game character that'll make you laugh enough to make watching Her worthwhile. - Ashley Bright
This past week, you might’ve heard about a stunt in LA known as Dumb Starbucks. Someone went through and created a carbon copy of a Starbucks, complete with the exact same drinks options, sizing, signage, everything. The only difference? They put the word “dumb” in front of every word so that they would be protected under the laws of parody. It was pretty great. When I first heard about it, I just thought it was a fun idea. Then, news quickly broke that it was perpetrated by Nathan Fielder. Fielder was the mastermind of Nathan for You, one of my favorite shows of last year and created Dumb Starbucks for a segment we’ll see in season two. If you haven’t checked out the first season of Nathan for You, then drop everything you have planned this evening (Unless you’re going to a show at the Dallas Comedy House!) and check it out for free on Comedy Central’s website. Nathan For You takes the standard concept of highlighting a struggling small business and bringing in a savior to fix everything, and puts a comedic twist on it. Fielder’s ideas are the perfect combination of absurd, but still kinda sorta not bad and his commitment to them is astounding. - David Allison
Contrary to what you may read or hear about HBO’s Girls, it is not a show about Lena Dunham walking around naked in the name of “girl power”. To me, it’s a show about four “girls” trying to understand what it means to be an adult. Lena is indeed sometimes naked, but I never found it an effort to tackle the whole body image issue as much as an artistic way to express the raw vulnerability that comes with youth and inexperience. I relate to this show because, I, even as a 32-year-old mother of two, always feel like I’m trying to know how to be a grown up. I’ve never felt like I’ve ever made the full adult transformation. In this series about early-20-somethings, I see a lot of late-20-early-30-something Julia.
In the pilot, we meet 24-year-old Hannah (Lena Dunham) living the life I assumed I would be living right out of college: NYC apartment with best friend. Internship that will surely lead to the dream career. Frequent sex with a dude who could have sex with ANYONE, but chooses to have sex with me. Parties with a cool friend who has a british accent. You know-- being a young adult. It is also in this pilot, however, that Hannah’s parents hit her with the all too familiar phrase of impetus: “We are cutting you off.” That phrase that makes one realize that all of these years you thought you were ascending towards becoming a human being all on your own, you’ve actually been dangling from an invisible umbilical cord yet to be severed. Sure being able to financially support yourself is the most obvious thing we have to deal with, but adulthood cannot be summed up to paying bills. Throughout the series, we watch Hannah and her friends try to understand what life is when you are in charge of yourself for-realzies. Along the way, they irrationally destroy relationships, fumble with career goals, mishandle health issues, “inappropriately” cope with death, and of course, deal with boys. "Another Man’s Trash" (S2) is probably my favorite episode because Hannah gets a look at what she thought adulthood meant only to realize how much her own self fulfillment is important to her.
In the level 5 class I TA at DCH, a student brought up that he was watching shows and realized that there are seasoned performers who sometimes don’t do all of the things that he’s been taught in class. He then rationalized, “... everyone is always learning, I guess.” There is no true adult transformation that happens. You don’t graduate college and *poof* get, maintain and excel at a job. You don’t have a baby and *poof* know all it takes to be a parent. You don’t go through an improv training program, perform in troupes and *poof* never an improv blunder make. This show presents the idea that the real goal is not simply to be an adult, but more to become a complete person, and that that is an ongoing effort. Perhaps understanding that concept... is what makes you an adult. - Julia Cotton
This week I started making plans to see one of my top five favorite authors, Christopher Moore, speak on his new book, The Serpent of Venice, when it releases in April. The Serpent of Venice is the sequel to what is generally agreed as Moore's best work, Fool, which I am making my "What We're Loving" pick for this week. Every other book Moore writes is a work of historical fantasy. He famously filled in the lost years of Jesus Christ's life in Lamb and more recently revealed what was "really" happening behind the scenes in the late 1800's French art scene in Sacre Bleu. With Fool, Moore takes readers in the world of King Lear, Shakespeare's famous king that is slowly losing his mind, and tells the story from the perspective of King Lear's court jester, Pocket. The book is incredibly well-researched, and Moore expertly blends in other Shakespeare stories and characters. The book is Moore firing on all cylinders: historical references, literature references, vivid characters, and emotional core (Pocket is a jester because he had a terrible life), and dick jokes. So many dick jokes. Also, there are fuck-stockings, which were turned into a real-life product for purchase on his website. - Nick Scott
I moved this week. One of the many joys of moving from one apartment to a slightly larger apartment in the same complex is rediscovering favorite but forgotten books, or books that I couldn't live without but haven't read, or books that I had no idea that I owned. Okay, packing and unpacking the books was the only joy of moving. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is a graphic novel from 2005 by Québécois illustrator Guy Delisle, and one of those favorite but forgotten books. I picked up Pyongyang years ago at Comic-Con, based entirely on its cover and subject matter. I am fascinated by all things North Korean. That that a country that sounds like the home of a supervillian from a rejected Matt Helm script commands so much power on the world stage, that such a county even exists, fills me with a combination of joy and terror. This book came about after Delisle traveled to North Korea to supervise an animation project for a French television station. From the moment he steps off the plane and into an airport so dark that he can't see his guide's face (there is barely any light in North Korea, and no bulbs over 40 watts,) Delisle is brisked away to "admire" the highest point in the city, a 22 meter bronze statue of Kim il-Sung, Hero of the People, Father of the Nation, and, despite being dead for 20 years, Eternal President for Life. From there, the absurdities and contradictions pile on for Delisle: the mandatory photos of Kim il-Sung and Kim Jung-il in every room on every floor of every building, the mandatory Kim Il-Sung pins every citizen is required to wear, the inability to go anywhere without a guide or translator, the ban on outsiders taking pictures of garbage, which would damage the image of North Korea as the most beautiful place on Earth. Pyongyang is a perfect example of truth in comedy. Delisle doesn't have to make any wacky choices, or tell silly jokes, or create bizarre situations. He just has to be present and observe. The book could have easily been preachy or pandering, but Delisle's touch makes the absurdities of life in the most isolated country in the world all the more amusing, and the atrocities and oppression that exist right beneath the surface all the more chilling. - Ryan Callahan
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Dallas man imprisoned for 31 years for a rape he didn't commit sues everyone who put and kept him behind bars
Filed under Crime at May 2014
Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist
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[Editor's note: This item has been updated since was initially posted.]
On January 4, 2012, Rickey Dale Wyatt walked out of District Judge John Creuzot's courtroom a free man for the first time in 31 years. He'd been convicted of rape in 1981, but always maintained his innocence. He said he looked nothing like the suspect, who was, among other things, much taller and much heavier than Wyatt. Attorneys with the Innocence Project believed him, and ultimately turned up evidence that had been withheld by prosecutors during his trial that proved what he'd been shouting for years. Four months after his release, his conviction was vacated.
“You’re free to go,” Creuzot told Wyatt, then 56. The 31 years he'd spent behind bars was a state record for someone who'd been wrongfully imprisoned -- an ignoble record. “I apologize for all this.”
But an apology only goes so far, which is why on Thursday Wyatt sued everyone who put him in prison and worked to keep him there for more than half his life.
"Plaintiff Rickey Dale Wyatt is an innocent man who was taken from his family, arrested, charged, and framed by the Dallas Police Department for a rape he knew nothing about," says the complaint filed in federal court in Dallas. "He maintained his innocence throughout trial, and risked a 99-year sentence rather than accept a five-year recommended sentence as a plea bargain for a crime he did not commit.
"He offered to subject himself to every scientific test available at the time and requested all exculpatory evidence so he could defend himself. This was denied to him, and he was ultimately convicted based on false testimony and false scientific evidence."
He is suing the Dallas police officers who he says falsified and manipulated reports, and who concealed the fact that when he was placed in a live lineup in January 1981, the victim said Wyatt was smaller than the man who attacked her. He is suing the county for improperly training its assistant district attorneys. And he is suing the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science for its poor handling of evidence. The suit also lists John Doe and Jane Doe as defendants, describing them as supervisors, identities unknown, of individuals named in the suit who worked for the Dallas Police Department and the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences at the time of Wyatt's arrest and conviction.
The complaint doesn't say what Wyatt wants, except the return of those lost decades.
Wyatt, incidentally, has not received any money from the state for his time spent behind bars. He was exonerated, but not declared "innocent," and as his attorney, Houston-bssed John Wesley Raley III, points out, there's a "very high standard" applied when it comes to getting that money from the Texas comptroller's office. He should know: Raley was Michael Morton's attorney.
"Mr. Wyatt has been released, reunited with his daughter, introduced to his grandchild, and permitted to begin living his life as a free man," says the complaint. "But he has been denied a lifetime of memories, career opportunities, and life experiences. Until recently, he had never seen the Internet or a cellular phone. He has suddenly found himself dropped into a world in which he is ill-equipped to survive. Mr. Wyatt served more time in prison than any other wrongfully convicted person in Texas. Now, he seeks his own justice."
The complaint is below.
Rickey Wyatt v Dallas Et Al
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Teen arrested after fire destroys playground at Red Bird nonprofit
Filed under Fire at Jun 2017
Claire Z. Cardona, Breaking News Producer
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A 17-year-old accused of setting a fire that destroyed playground equipment in the Red Bird area of Dallas has been arrested.
Dallas Fire-Rescue crews thought they were responding to a grass fire Thursday in the 1100 block of West Wheatland Road, but they arrived to find a playground fully engulfed in flames, spokesman Jason Evans said Monday.
Surveillance footage showed two boys, ages 11 and 17, in the area before the fire began. The 17-year-old, whose identity has not been released, was arrested on a criminal mischief charge.
Officials think a foam cup was set on fire and placed on the playground equipment, where it spread.
The blaze was extinguished, but the structure, valued at about $27,000, had been destroyed. Parts of the plastic had melted, and the fabric canopy was tattered.
The equipment had been installed earlier this year as a gift from the Dallas Stars Foundation to Youth World, a nonprofit for at-risk youth, according to its Facebook page.
The playground was also about to be put to good use as hundreds of kids started summer camp, WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reported.
"You know, kids are going to be coming, 400 kids or so, coming this Monday ready to use this brand new playground ... and it's not even here," executive director Darla Shirley told the station.
Shirley said the nonprofit will have to work around it.
"They depend on us," Shirley said. "This is where they are coming to get their hot meal this summer. This is where they are coming for refuge. This is their summer camp."
Dora Williams, a parent, said the damage was "devastating and unfortunate."
"I think it's programs like this that keep children from doing things like what's happened," she told WFAA.
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The complex consists of 332 apartments divided into 12 blocks distributed into three contiguous sides where three of them are with low elevations which do not exceed five floors.
The construction area is 40000 m2.
Ping Pong Court
The project is distinguished due to the guarantee of the Turkish government which means that the project's land belongs to the Turkish government and the contractor is a private company, that is, the contract will be signed in the notary office and the money transferred will be deposited to the account of the Turkish government which in turn supervises the project.
The project is located closely to the highway that leads to the Third Airport, which is only 25 minutes away.
There is currently a metro in the municipality of Başakşehir, which reaches the city center and Ataturk Airport and is only ten-minute walk.
The project also includes all other means of transportation including buses and minibuses.
A new government field is being built near the project, which will be double Taksim Square in terms of area and that is only 20 minutes away.
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Summer renovations wrapping up at DCHS
Construction finishing just in time for start of 2015 classes
School Superintendent Damon Gibbs, far right, walks members of the board of education through the newly-renovated high school, showing off additions such as the refurbished cafeteria and the new LED lights. - photo by David Renner Dawson Community News
With the final week of summer on the horizon, the Dawson County Board of Education is putting the finishing touches on renovations going on in the system.
The major work has been at Dawson County High School.
As part of the five-year Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax voters approved the new in March of this year, the high school replaced several aging pieces of equipment around the school.
"We [replaced] all of the HVAC, units in the building, as well as all of the ceiling tiles in the corridors, and we [installed] LED lights in the corridors, too," said Board of Education E-SPLOST Project Manager Scott Morgan. "By replacing the old corridor lights with LED lights, there is a huge savings [in energy costs], as well as maintenance. These are 20 year bulbs, so, in theory, a lot of the maintenance cost is gone, as well."
The high school also renovated the kitchen area, redesigning the food distribution lines and serving areas. A concession stand and bathroom area was also built in the second floor of the gymnasium for use during games.
Outside, the high school has re-turfed its football field with NFL-grade materials, as well as adding a "cool play" system to the turf that will allow the field temperature to be lowered by as much as 20 degrees in the summer, according to.
"We're using a company called FieldTurf to redo the field," Morgan said. "We'll also be moving the tennis courts across the [on-campus] road to the left-side, as part of the new performing arts center construction, since the current tennis courts are on the building's site."
According to Morgan, the new tennis courts will have its own outdoor, fully-lit facility with restrooms and raised-style seating.
As for long term projects, the board bonded out $13 million of the projected $36.5 million E-SPLOST funds to build a 1,000 seat performing arts center.
The center will house the school's art, drama, chorus and band programs.
Currently, the high school has a stage inside the main building where the drama department performs. The chorus and band rooms are also connected to practice areas with the art gallery located in a small room adjacent to the practice rooms.
"This building will house the art, drama, chorus and band programs. It is planned to go where the tennis courts currently are, adjacent to the gymnasium," said School Superintendent Damon Gibbs. "The stage will sit in the back of the auditorium with hallways and rooms connecting dressing rooms in the back and stage entrance. It's going to be a beautiful facility."
Also included in the system's renovations is a new HVAC unit for Black's Mill Elementary.
All construction, with the exception of the performing arts center and tennis courts, will be completed before the start of the 2015-16 school year. The tennis courts will be finished in time for the 2016 tennis season.
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Is corporate stalemate killing Taiwan's future?
Mark Stocker
The fastest way to gain an understanding of a company is to interview both senior management and employees on a one-by-one basis. As a brand strategist at DDG, this is something I do in every project. During these private exchanges, bosses and employees alike can share freely their thoughts on the company for which they work. In the past few years, I have witnessed an alarming trend. Bosses are increasingly expressing frustration with their employees, highlighting a lack of creativity, entrepreneurialism, and work ethic; while employees are increasingly raising grievances with their company’s lack of focus and direction, and dissatisfaction with performance.
To put it simply, bosses aren’t happy with employees, and employees aren’t happy with their employment. This is a serious issue. Not only for the competitiveness of Taiwanese companies, but also for the competitiveness of the nation of Taiwan. There is a cultural stalemate going on inside companies that is hindering them from achieving greater potential, at a time when transformation and advancement is an imperative for Taiwan’s small and medium-sized businesses and brands.
As Taiwanese companies are forced to compete in an increasingly high-paced marketplace, the dynamism of their corporate cultures is being put to the test. Frustration is evident at all levels of the organization, which, rather than driving a desire to transform, is, conversely, stoking pessimism and indifference inside too many organizations.
As I pointed out in a past article, this frustration can be attributed in part to the reality that the business model that once delivered prosperity—quality and a cheaper price—has run its course. The other ingredient contributing to this frustration, however, is connected to something deeper.
The frustration that bosses and employees are expressing today are symptoms of an invisible entity, not much unlike coughing and sneezing are symptoms of a microscopic virus. I believe that ‘virus’ causing symptoms of frustration inside many Taiwanese businesses is something called ‘power distance’.
Professor Geert Hofstede, a Dutch social psychologist, introduced the concept of power distance in studies he first published in the early 1980s. Power distance, as defined by Hofstede, is ‘the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions accept and expect that power is distributed unequally’. Professor Hofstede noted that nations experience varying levels of power distance. By way of example, nations such as Denmark, Austria and New Zealand have low power distances, and as a result less powerful members of an organization still see themselves as having similar levels of influence within an organization as those of the organization’s leaders. Taiwan, on the other hand, is described by Professor Hofstede as a nation with high power distance, where less powerful members of an organization see power as distributed unequally, believing that they have no right nor responsibility to influence outcomes.
What does this mean for Taiwanese companies? Companies in Taiwan are considerably more likely to experience situations where employees expect the company owner to lead in all issues related to the business. In effect, employees await the boss to make every decision. If the boss does not make a decision, then no decision is made. The risks, of course, are that when decisions are not being made the company can not advance, or, critical decisions default to the boss regardless of whether or not he/she is knowledgable enough to make the right decision.
In many cases, the bosses I meet wish that their employees would take a proactive role in making decisions, however the employees do not perceive it as their right or responsibility to take such action. These subordinates, meanwhile, are frustrated with the poor or lack of decision-making of the management, and with the inaction of their coworkers. The result is, in effect, a cultural stalemate.
This unfortunate situation has massive ramifications for three types of businesses. 1. The company where the owner wishes to involve employees in decision-making as part of organizational expansion and/or succession planning. 2. The company where innovation is critical to the competitive position of the company, and/or the company is transitioning from an ‘exploitative innovation’ business model to a model based on ‘exploratory innovation’. And 3. The company that is transitioning to a global organization with the addition of sales and marketing offices in overseas markets.
My observation is that the vast majority of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized businesses are in the middle of transitioning towards one of the three types of businesses described above. If, however, power distance is a factor in transition to these three types of business, then Taiwan must recognize the threat of high power distance to successful transition.
Some of course will question why power distance is a problem now, when it wasn’t a problem in the past. The answer is in Taiwan’s current transition away from an ‘exploitative innovation’ business model. The changing global economy is forcing Taiwan companies to adopt new business models, but the successful adoption of a new business model is being hindered by the cultural stalemate that results from high power distance. Without addressing the ‘virus’ of high power distance, Taiwan firms will be unsuccessful in their transition to new business models with higher growth and higher margins.
If one agrees with this hypothesis, what should be done? The immediate task is to recognize the existence of power distance, and to determine how it is impacting decision-making and action within the company. Bosses can help drive change by clearly defining roles and responsibilities for all individuals within the organization, and by making it clear that decisions must by made by those responsible for a given role. In meetings, the boss should strive to talk less, and to encourage greater and more open sharing by employees.
For employees, the task is to recognize that the health of the company is a result of the decision-making and action of every individual, and not just the boss. Employees should communicate more openly with the boss, as well as with colleagues across the organization. In particular, issues that are hindering the company’s performance should be brought into the open, and a plan of action should be developed collectively to address each obstacle.
At this point, the last thing Taiwan companies want is another challenge. But, in my opinion, the challenge that is power distance is at the root of many of the struggles facing Taiwan companies today. Addressing the cultural stalemate that is building inside Taiwan’s small and medium-sized businesses is paramount to the success Taiwan’s manufacturing industry, and to the nation of Taiwan.
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Supermarket to launch UK’s longest sausage roll
Morrisons is to sell the UK’s longest sausage roll – for just £1.
The supermarket has launched the Foot Long Sausage Roll, believed to be the largest in the UK.
At one foot long and weighing in at nearly half a kilogram, the store claims the sausage roll is double the length and four times the weight of some high street competitors.
Available now, the Foot Long Sausage Roll is freshly baked in-store by its Market Street bakers, made with seasoned pork meat and wrapped in a crisp, golden flaky pastry.
The sausage roll has to be served on a special tray that holds its weight, rather than being served in just the traditional paper bag.
Morrisons has created the Foot Long Sausage Roll after listening to its customers, who said that they wanted a bigger version of the British classic.
At only £1, the jumbo-sized British favourite can be bought hot and ready-to-eat from Morrisons Pie Shop counters on Market Street.
It could be enjoyed as part of a picnic, shared with the family, or eaten by customers with big appetites.
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Keypoint goes for Growth at Marshall’s Yard!
Growing Lincolnshire firm Keypoint UK is expanding into new and larger office space within the award winning Marshall’s Yard in Gainsborough.
Keypoint is a payroll provider for both small and large businesses across the region, the company is now expanding having outgrown its current premises at The Pattern Store at Marshall’s Yard.
The team at Keypoint is expanding into an adjoining unit enabling the company to develop its range of services.
The company which was first established in November 2007 by Directors Paul List and Jeremy Smith, started out in Retford with three members of staff. They moved to Marshall’s Yard in 2010 with an extra four members of staff and in just two year’s they are now expanding again.
Since the first move to Gainsborough, the expert team has gone from strength to strength and following the company’s launch of the Contractors and self-employed payroll facility (a joint venture with Matrix) and the established Matrix Contract Management in Douglas, Isle of Man, the need for staff and space has increased.
After the implementation of the FRS Vat scheme in May this year, the team once again needed to expand its operations and moved in to Unit 1c. As part of the expansion plans Keypoint are now also taking Unit 1a giving them a total floorspace of 2560 sq ft.
The firm is planning to take on another seven members of staff before the end of the year to help with the growing workload.
Mr List said: “We are delighted to be expanding here at Marshall’s Yard and really pleased that we have been able to grow our business in Gainsborough.”
Jackie Helliwell, Centre Manager at Marshall’s Yard, said: “Keypoint is a great success story and we are really pleased the business is going from strength to strength and expanding at Marshall’s Yard.
“Our business units at The Pattern store are designed to help businesses get started and expand. We are talking to a number of other local companies who are also keen to be based here at Marshall’s Yard.”
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Pascal Benyamini Featured on ABC 7 Discussing New California Laws
Los Angeles partner Pascal Benyamini was featured on an ABC 7 news segment titled, “New CA Restrictions on Cellphone Use While Driving Start Jan. 1.”
A new California law prohibits the use of any handheld cellular devices while driving. Calling or texting while driving was already prohibited, but now drivers are required to mount devices to the windshield or center console, without obstructing views of the roadway.
“You can tap it with your finger, swipe with your finger,” Pascal said. “It's a split second. But you can no longer hold it to look at the navigation to decide where you're going, or scroll through your music to determine what music you're going to pick. So it's really hands-free."
Pascal also discussed wage discrimination, the inclusion of race and ethnicity in the amended Equal Pay Act, and California’s minimum wage increase. For businesses with 26 or more employees, the minimum wage will be raised to $10.50 per hour on July 1, 2017, with an eventual goal to reach $15.00 per hour by 2020.
In addition to state laws, Pascal also gave an overview of Los Angeles’s new “Ban the Box” ordinance. Employers can no longer ask for criminal background information on an application. After a conditional offer is extended—and pre-employment—employers are able to ask if they’ve been convicted of any criminal offenses, as part of the hiring process.
To view the ABC 7 segment, click here.
To read Pascal’s Summary of Key New California laws for 2017, click here.
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On Writing Tests, Computers Slowly Making Mark
Handwritten NAEP for 8th and 12th graders might be replaced.
Most adults can remember when taking a writing test meant sitting down with a paper and pencil, then scribbling out sentences and erasing mistakes until the time ran out.
For many students today, however, writing extended essays is a task performed almost exclusively on a computer, typically one equipped with automated tools to help them spell, check grammar, and even choose the right words.
In recognition of that technological progression, a number of states have incorporated computer-based testing into their writing assessments. Other states are piloting ways of using technology to gauge writing. The movement to assess writing on computers also could grow if the directors of the influential National Assessment of Educational Progress act on a proposal to replace the handwritten test of writing at the 8th and 12th grade levels with a computerized exam.
The board that oversees NAEP will consider taking that step next month.
Testing students’ writing ability via computer makes sense, some assessment officials from around the country say, not only because of students’ widespread familiarity with computers, but also because of the demands of college and the workplace, where word-processing skills are a must.
“You want a connection between what’s going on in the outside world and what’s going on in the classroom,” said Kathleen Blake Yancey, the vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English, an Urbana, Ill.-based organization that seeks to improve teaching and learning in that subject. The Florida State University English professor served on an expert committee studying proposed changes to NAEP.
“It’s a way of saying to schools, ‘The 21st century has arrived,’ ” she said.
Keyboard Equity
But computerized writing tests also pose numerous challenges for testing officials. One question is whether to allow students to use automated spelling, grammar, and thesaurus tools that are a fixture of many word-processing programs. Skeptics note the continued disparities in access and use of computers at school and home for children from different socioeconomic backgrounds—a divide they say is likely to put some students at a disadvantage on test day.
“It will not make the gap between white and minority students go away. In fact, it may make it larger,” said Edward D. Roeber, the executive director of assessment and accountability for the Michigan education department, which has piloted a computerized writing test but has not made a decision on using it statewide. “For kids who have never had the opportunity [to work on computers], I don’t think they’ll do as well.”
Michigan tests writing as part of its exam in English language arts—one of the measures used to calculate schools’ yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Mr. Roeber said. Given those high stakes, he said, state officials are reluctant to begin testing all students’ writing on the English exam on computers until they more fully understand how that change could affect test scores.
In moving to computerized writing exams, testing officials also say they must consider whether schools have the equipment necessary to administer the tests. State officials can make up for shortages in capacity by expanding the length of time during which schools can give exams to allow more students to use the same machines. But that strategy can raise concerns about test security.
Computerized writing assessments can save states money over time, though they carry initial expenses in areas such as security and worker training in administering them, said Michael K. Russell, an associate professor of education at Boston College, who has studied such assessments.
Student access to school computers has improved since the 1990s. Today, public schools average one computer for every 3.8 students, an increase from roughly one machine for every 5.7 students in 1999, though that progress has leveled off in recent years, according to the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. Access to the Internet, even in schools in high-poverty areas, has also greatly increased from a decade ago, the research center estimates.
At the same time, minority students continue to lag significantly behind whites in access to computers and the Web, and gaps persist in the opportunities available to students in different states.
A True Measure
In a report on the proposal to move to a computer-based NAEP writing test, officials of ACT Inc., the Iowa City, Iowa-based testing company, said they knew of five states, including Maine and West Virginia, that currently incorporate computers into their writing assessments, and two more were piloting such exams.
Mr. Russell believes the move to computerized writing assessment is positive. Such tests could encourage states and schools to use technology in teaching that skill; research has shown that students who use computers regularly improve more quickly in writing, he said.
Moreover, as students’ computer use continues to grow, Mr. Russell said, states and schools that stick with handwritten essay tests may not be getting a true measure of students’ writing ability because they are requiring them to use a format that is less familiar to them.
Test-Taking Medium
Eighth graders using computers scored higher on writing tests than their peers who wrote with pencil and paper in a study out of New England.
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SOURCE: "Examining the Effect of Text Editor and Robust Word Processor on Student Writing Test Performance," Boston College, 2004
“You’re going to be underestimating the writing performance of students,” he said.
The proposed revamping of the NAEP writing test could influence state officials’ thinking about using computerized writing exams, a number of testing experts said.
The National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for NAEP, is considering having 8th and 12th graders take the exam via computer for the first time. Students would continue to take the 4th grade version of the exam in handwritten form for the time being, because the experience of children at that age with computers is more limited, board officials have said.
In public comments submitted to the board, the proposal to switch to a computerized test was mostly praised by a number of education organizations.
The National Education Association, for one, said the change would provide a “strong impetus for states and districts to increase all students’ access to technology,” and described it as “a powerful tool for equity.”
In a report outlining the proposed test changes, NAEP officials said they conducted a pilot study of 8th graders’ writing skills in 2002, using both handwritten and computer-based exams. The results showed no significant differences among students in different racial, gender, or socioeconomic subgroups, based on whether they took the paper-and-pencil or computer version.
How Big a Toolbox?
Officials studying the new computerized NAEP writing test have not yet decided how they would administer exams in districts with varying amounts of computer technology, said Rosanne Cook, a program manager at ACT who is directing the revision of that test. At a meeting in November, board members discussed possibly delivering computers to districts, though they are still weighing options.
The proposal now before the governing board would allow students to use computer tools on the 60-minute test such as spell-checkers and thesauruses, as well as tools to electronically cut and paste written material and adjust type fonts, Ms. Cook said.
Members of two committees studying the proposed NAEP test reason that those word-processing devices have become so prevalent in schools, and society at large, that it does not make sense to ask students to work without them.
“It creates a very artificial environment for the writing test that is not what they’re accustomed to,” Ms. Cook said. “Young people are expected to be able to produce … using these tools.”
In addition to moving to a computerized test, the new NAEP exam would place greater emphasis on asking students to demonstrate persuasive and explanatory writing, as well as skill in conveying a real or imagined experience. Under the framework for the proposed writing test, students would be asked to craft essays targeted to a more specific audience.
“Writing is a social act that is not done in isolation,” a draft document explains. “In most school, workplace, and military writing situations, writers know or are assigned an audience and have an objective in mind for what their writing is to accomplish.”
Vol. 26, Issue 23, Page 10
Published in Print: February 14, 2007, as On Writing Tests, Computers Slowly Making Mark
“Impact of Paper-and-Pencil, Online Testing Is Compared,” August 31, 2005.
“High-Tech Divide,” September 29, 2004.
“Researchers Eye Technology's Effects on Achievement,” January 7, 2004.
For more stories on this topic see Testing and Accountability, Curriculum and Learning, and Technology.
For background, previous stories, and Web links, read Assessment and Technology in Education.
Read a transcript of our exclusive online chat, Computer-Based Testing.
"Online Assessment in Mathematics and Writing: Reports From the NAEP Technology-Based Assessment Project, Research and Development Series" is available from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Read the 2004 report, "Examining the Effect of Text Editor and Robust Word Processor on Student Writing Test Performance: Part of the New England Compact Enhanced Assessment Project," posted by the [email protected] Repository.
The National Council of Teachers of English has posted links to its resolutions and position papers on the use of computers in education.
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Cardinal Greats 2018
James Jim Caillouet '65
James (Jim) L. Caillouet graduated from Thibodaux College in May 1965 leaving behind a deep-rooted tradition of Catholic education and closing the final chapter of the historical institution of Thibodaux College, known by all as “TC.” At the time of Jim’s graduation, he and his six siblings represented the fifth generation of Caillouets to receive a Catholic high school education. His father, Louis E. Caillouet, Sr., graduated from the “new” Thibodaux College in 1927, while his grandfather was an instructor at the original school and his great-grandfather, Judge L. P. Caillouet, was a member of the Building Committee for the new Thibodaux College. T. C. provided a wonderful avenue for the young Caillouet to excel as a student, as an athlete and a Christian young man, and he did just that with the opportunity given to him.
Jim was a four-year letterman in football, basketball and track. As an offensive and defensive end in football, Jim garnered All-District and All-Regional honors his junior and senior seasons. As a guard and forward for the Cardinal basketball team, his competitiveness on the court and keen sense of the strategy in the game earned Jim the distinction of being named the Nolan Falgout Basketball Award recipient his sophomore and junior years and Most Valuable Basketball Player his senior year. He was selected to the All-District Team for 2 years.
Track and field was where Jim truly left his mark in the T.C. record books. Although he could only participate in 4 events at a track meet, his speed and athletic ability to jump made him a valuable asset to the track team by allowing his coaches to register him as a competitor in four of six events: pole vault, high jump, low hurdles, high hurdles, 440-yard dash and the mile relay. Jim distinguished himself by lettering all four years and receiving the Cardinal Club Track Award for two years, All-State honors for two years, and Most Valuable Track Award his senior year.
In 1965 at the Southwestern Relays held at USL (present day ULL) in Lafayette, Jim set both the pole vault and high jump records for the Class A Division. His record jumps were 12’ 1/2” for the pole vault and 5’ 10” in the high jump. These two records, as well as, the high hurdle record of 15.2 seconds are the three Thibodaux College track and field records that Jim holds. Jim continued his track career at USL after a coach saw his jumping ability in his college P. E. class and asked him to compete for the Bulldogs. Jim competed for two years as a high jumper improving his 5’ 10” high school record to 6’ 4”.
Thibodaux College provided Jim with a well-rounded education and helped him develop leadership skills and in community involvement. In addition to athletics, Jim was a member of the band for three years, an altar boy for four years, member of the confraternity for four years and even broke in as a talent show participant. His willingness to serve and work in numerous areas garnered him awards in student council and as the Lions Club Service Award Recipient in 1965.
In the fall of 1965, Jim attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana pursuing a degree in Economics. While attending USL, Jim was a member of USL Economic Forum. He worked part-time and full-time at Montgomery Wards managing numerous departments while completing his degree. In the fall of his senior year, Jim was drafted into the U. S. Army due to the 4-year deferment limitations. Upon graduation from basic training, he continued advance training in Flight Operations and was stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia until Sept 1970 when he received his overseas deployment orders for the 239th Assault Helicopter Company in Uijeongbu, South Korea. He ended his military service in September 1971, resumed his studies, earned an undergraduate degree in 1972, and then began his graduate studies.
Using the education Jim received through USL and the managerial experience he gained from his military service and time at Montgomery Wards, Jim embarked on what would become a tremendous career in the oil field industry. He was employed by Rollins, Inc., which purchased the Patterson Companies. Jim’s years at Patterson Companies included numerous positions from Vice President/General Manager to President, Support Services for CPC, Inc., and then to President for Corporate Services for CPC, Inc. In his 31 years with the company Jim managed the overall sales, marketing and operations of five individual business units with domestic and international presence and was instrumental in instituting safety and recruiting programs throughout the world. His expertise in managing brought about his final challenge in the oil industry - to assume the Vice President and General Manager position at Lone Star Steel and turn around the company into a profitable one. After just two years, he met the challenge and set new profit records for the company.
After 35 years in the oil and gas industry, Jim retired in 2009 and became actively involved in Caillouet Land LLC by serving as a member of the Board of Directors and as President. Established in 1888, Caillouet Land LLC is a privately-owned company with the purpose of owning, managing and administering improved and unimproved real estate. Caillouet Land LLC continues to support Catholic education through donations to Edward Douglas White Catholic High School. Giving back to a community so ingrained in the history of the Caillouet family is an established core value of Caillouet Land LLC and all of its members.
Jim has been married for 50 years to Dr. Patricia (Pat) Babin Caillouet, a retired educator. Their two children are graduates of E. D. White Catholic High. Chad graduated in 1988 and attended LSU; Chanda, a 1993 graduate, attended the University of Southern Mississippi. Both were collegiate track athletes and currently reside in Houston with their families. Jim and Pat are the proud grandparents of three grandsons and one granddaughter.
Arthur "Art" Naquin
Being asked who your favorite teachers were causes one to pause and ask what was special about them. In most cases the thing that made them so great was not just the way they taught you, but the way they also watched how you performed and then provided great instructional and motivational feedback. The best teachers are not just teachers, they are also coaches. Arthur Louis Naquin, Jr., known to all at E. D. White as Coach Art or lovingly ARTHUR, was one of those teacher coaches.
Art is the eldest of seven children born to Mildred and Arthur Naquin, Sr.. Arthur, Sr. was an educator, principal and superintendent for Lafourche Parish. The role model that he was, Arthur, Sr. made a profound impact on his children by instilling in them the value of an education. Four children of the Naquin clan followed in their father’s footsteps into the field of Education. Art, Jr. being the eldest led the way.
Coach Art attended Thibodaux High School and graduated in 1960. He was an all-around student participating in Student Council, Future Farmers of America, 4-H, T- Club and football. Art was an All-District offensive and defensive tackle for the Tigers and was a member of Thibodaux High’s 1959 South Louisiana AA Football Champions. After Thibodaux High, Art attended Tulane University for two years on a football scholarship. He returned to his hometown university, Nicholls State, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Health, Safety and Physical Education with a minor in Social Studies. Art entered the teaching profession here in Lafourche Parish where he spent 20 years as a Social Studies and Health and P. E. instructor, as well as, a coach in numerous sports.
Art and his wife, Priscilla valued their faith and had chosen to do whatever it took to provide a Catholic education for their five children. Therefore, outside of his full time job as a teacher and coach, Art was always willing to find extra work even if it meant working three jobs at a time. He managed the Bayou Country Club Swimming pool and taught Senior Life Saving for twenty years, along with becoming state certified as an L.H.S.A.A. football official to work as many junior high and high school games that he could.
It was in 1986 that Coach Art transferred to teach and coach at E. D. White Catholic High and leave his mark on all those he taught, coached and worked alongside. For the next 22 years, Art was a faithful social studies teacher, but most notable for his love of teaching Louisiana history – especially the history of our southern area. The numerous stories of our heritage and fishing excursions, supposedly all true ones, always kept those 8th graders on their toes or filled them with laughter. Art even become a certified instructor through our Wildlife and Fisheries Department, so that he could provide Hunter Safety Certification for our students who loved to hunt.
In the athletic arena you would not find Coach Art in the headlines or in the record books, but you would find him where it counted the most - providing service in any way shape or form he could as an assistant coach. The word NO was not in his vocabulary when it came to helping a fellow coach or teacher with any task asked of him. From assistant coaching in football, basketball, track and field, to developing our first true strength and conditioning program, Art was there with his YES. Co-worker and fellow coach, Pat Parenton, said, “Art never turned any of us down when we asked something of him. He drove the infamous Hamburger Bus for football, to driving for me in basketball and softball, and to providing Coach Cole with the lone fan bus to the state cross country meets up in Natchitoches. Coach Art was truly a selfless assistant coach.”
Art modeled the teacher-coach in providing the needed instruction for helping his players learn the correct techniques and perform the correct plays. Yes, times of getting in ones face was needed to correct mistakes made, but he was there giving you the pat on the rear or those wonderful helmet slaps when you came back from correcting that error. His work ethic of providing a weight room filled with incentives of collegiate helmets of former players to the charts of the strongest lifters, created an atmosphere of competition but also brotherhood in striving to be one’s best. Art is a humble man of faith, and was a role model to his players through his attendance at masses and weekly adoration. Coach Art has been that teacher coach that has left an impression upon the numerous student athletes he has taught and coached.
After his twenty-two years at E. D. White, Coach Art retired in 2008 with a total of 42 years of service in the field of education. His father is certainly smiling down upon him! Art and Priscilla sent all of their five children through Catholic education and all graduated from E. D. White Catholic High: Deedy – ’83, Billy – ’84, Ken ’88, Tim ’89 and Andy ’95.
Nathan Joseph Thornton, Jr. '70
Nathan Joseph Thornton, Jr., Class of 1970 was born December 4, 1952 to Nathan Joseph Thornton, Sr. and Rosella LeBlanc Thornton. Raised in Vacherie, La he attended Saint Luke’s elementary in Thibodaux. In 1966 Nathan enrolled at E. D. White where he began what would be a stellar academic and athletic journey.
As a three sport athlete, Nathan excelled as a two year letterman in Track, Basketball and Football. He set school records for the boys track program in the 110 yard high hurdles, the triple jump, and the 400 yard dash. He placed 3rd in all 3 events at the State Track Meet. For these accomplishments he was named as the Most Valuable Athlete in Track and Field. In Basketball he helped guide the Cardinals to their first District Runner-up Title and a first round playoff game. Nathan’s tenacious efforts against his opponents earned him the Most Valuable Defensive Player.
Nathan’s athletic ability was also evident on the football field where he garnered the name “THUNDER” Thornton for his bursting speed and strength as a returner and wide receiver. He played a major part in the Cardinals garnering back to back State Championships in 1968 and 1969. During his senior year, he scored 9 touchdowns. The most memorable were the 70 yard TD pass reception to take an early lead for the Cardinals in what ended up as a heart breaking loss of 13 – 14 to Vandebilt, and the 49 yard TD pass reception against Homer for the only score of the game that propelled the Cardinals to the state championship game. His senior year he led the team with the most receptions in a season with 27, most yardage receiving for the team of 608 yards, most yardage receiving for a game with 94 yards, most TD receptions for a season and career with 8 and a game high of 2 TD receptions. He receive Honorable Mention All – District his senior year.
After excelling in Track, Basketball and Football, he accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of Southwestern Louisiana (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) to play football. While at the University he majored in Communications with a minor in English. He was a four year letterman playing wide receiver and running back. He was active in campus and academic life. In his sophomore year he was president of the African American Culture Committee which developed an on campus loan program for first generation college students. He was also a member of the 1974 debate team, winning awards for extemporaneous speaking.
After earning his BA in 1975 he began his work career with Ford Motor Credit Company. His work in consumer financing led to a banking career that spanned 20 years. During this time he became known as the “go to” guy for economic and community development. As a member of the Downtown Development Authority and the Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Committee for the city of Lafayette, he was instrumental in revitalizing downtown Lafayette. As the State Community Development Officer for Bank One(now Chase), he was recognized by the Louisiana State House of Representatives for his work in developing creative homeownership financing products for low and moderate income individuals.
In 1995 he was recognized for his work with the UL Alumni Association, where he served as a board member and president of 2 Alumni chapters (Christiana Smith African American Chapter and the Gridiron Alumni Chapter).
Governor Mike Foster, promising to reform Louisiana politics in 1997, appointed Nathan to the revised State Board of Ethics. Nathan represented the 3rd Congressional district, overseeing government employees and elected officials.
In June of 1999 he left banking to return to the University of Louisiana as the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research. He was responsible for business development in an eight parish area, and provided economic data and research to existing and potential companies located in Acadiana. During his tenure, the Department of Economic Development adopted a state wide technical assistance program for growing businesses that was developed at his Center. He established disaster recovery centers for SBA and local governments during Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. He is especially proud of the assistance provided to businesses on Grand Isle.
In 2001 He was awarded the Outstanding Alum in the College of Communications. Nathan retired in 2014, but is still active with the University and the Lafayette community. Nathan is a member of the Alumni Association’s council, a board member of the Hall of Fame Committee, Member of Bancorp South’s Corporate Advisory Board, President of the Acadiana Credit Executives, Chairman of Lafayette Land Revitalization Authority and a member of the Saint Paul’s Church Parish Council.
Nathan and his wife Barbara have been together for 30 years. They are the proud parents of six children, Natalie Thornton, Nathan Thornton,III , Selina Williams , Cipriana Morris, Logan Morris, and Taylor Morris, and eleven grandchildren.
RECIPIENT(S) YEAR RECEIVED
Dr. Richard Morvant, Sr. (d) 1988
Mr. Yockey Bernard (d) 1988
(Coach) Mr. Pat Szush 1988
(Coach) Mr. Edmond Gros 1989
(Coach) Mr. Joe Fakier (d) 1989
Br. Ralph McGarry, S.C. (d) 1990
Coach Laury Dupont 1990
Mr. Robert Morvant (d) 1991
(Coach) Mr. Vince Distefano (d) 1991
Mr. Leslie Daigle 2000
Mr. Edmond Deramee, Jr. 2000
Mr. Geoffery LeJeune 2000
Mr. Albert G. “Moose” Olivier (d) 2001
Dr. Chester Weimer 2001
Mr. Tommy Gros 2001
(Coach) Mr. Eddie Cole 2002
(Coach) Mr. Boyd Hebert, Jr. 2002
(Coach/AD) Mr. Preston LeJeune 2002
Mr. Boyd Hebert, Sr. 2003
Mr. David Richard 2003
Mrs. Charlotte Monk Smith 2003
(Coach) Mr. Camille Morvant 2004
Mr. Byron Talbot 2004
Br. Xavier Werneth, S.C. 2005
Mr. Chet Constant 2006
Mr. Troy Thompson, Jr. (d) 2006
(Coach/AD) Miss Mary Cavell 2007
Mr. Francis Cormier (d) 2007
(Coach) Mr. Ken Caldwell 2008
(Coach) Mr. Bob Broggi 2008
Mr. John Daigle 2009
Dr. Francis Robichaux 2009
(Coach) Mr. Don Grabert 2010
Mrs. Jan Lasseigne Heath 2010
Mr. Blake McDonald 2011
Mr. Mike Prejeant 2011
Dr. David Autin (d) 2012
Mr. Chris Ford 2012
(Coach) Mr. Pat Parenton 2013
Mr. Rene Richard 2013
Miss Michelle Waguespack 2014
Mr. Abel “Billy” Caillouet 2015
Albert Pierre Olivier 2016
Doug Melton 2016
Jonathan Zeringue 2016
Jeff Donnes 2017
David Duplantis 2017
Sandra Diez Trosclair 2017
James "Jim" Caillouet 2018
Arthur "Art" Naquin 2018
Nathan Joseph Thornton, Jr. '70 2018
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County says goodbye to innovative police chief
Elmer Setting wanted to be one of three professions growing up: a cowboy, an astronaut or a police officer.
County says goodbye to innovative police chief Elmer Setting wanted to be one of three professions growing up: a cowboy, an astronaut or a police officer. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/2iIrCYg
Brittany Horn, The News Journal Published 9:11 a.m. ET Dec. 29, 2016 | Updated 4:37 p.m. ET Dec. 29, 2016
Col. Elmer Setting will retire Jan. 3rd from from the New Castle Police Department after 28 years of service. Jennifer Corbett/The News Journal
Former New Castle County Police Chief Col. Elmer Setting(Photo: Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal )Buy Photo
Little did Setting know 28 years ago, when he became a New Castle County police officer, that he might be able to conquer more than one of those jobs.
Setting will retire on Jan. 3 after a four-year tenure as the county's top cop following a career that many say catapulted the department years ahead of its time and into technology-driven policing.
Though he never became an astronaut, he donned the badge at age 23 after a tour with the United States Navy. It wasn't long after that Setting earned respect through his quick rise to the county's coveted Mounted Patrol Unit – about the closest he could come to being a real cowboy.
"No one ever says, 'Can I pet your police car?' " he said in his corner office on one of the final days of his county career. "It's a greater connection, a better community feeling."
At a time when officers aren't always well-regarded or respected, this sort of personal community policing is what Setting sees as the key to the future. His officers respond to calls ranging from car break-ins to heroin overdoses to homicides and meet with residents when their quality of life is threatened or impacted, he said.
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Issues like thefts or other complaints that may seem like minor crimes have to become a priority for a department to succeed. That, Setting said, is how the county must handle community policing.
The notion is one Setting says he gained from outgoing New Castle County Executive and former county police Chief Thomas P. Gordon, a mentor and friend to Setting throughout his career. The conversation about how to best reach county residents began in 1989 when Setting worked directly with Gordon on a number of issues as he came up through the ranks.
Technology drove Setting to make changes four years ago when he became New Castle County Police Chief. He started with the implementation of TAPS – Targeted Analytical Policing System – which pulls together police leaders from different departments on a weekly basis to look at crime patterns and identify communities with the most quality-of-life complaints.
"We all learned that opening our doors and allowing stakeholders into our sanctum was brilliant," said interim county police Chief Vaughn Bond, noting that there was initial hesitation about sharing too much information with the public.
In TAPS' first three years, the county reported a 16.4 percent decrease in major crimes like homicides, shootings and robberies, Setting said.
Col. Elmer Setting with the New Castle County Police Department conducts the weekly TAPS meeting with his staff. Since beginning TAPS three years ago, the county has seen a decrease in major crimes, including homicide, shootings, robberies and more. (Photo: JENNIFER CORBETT/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
“We used to chase 911 calls, putting the more serious offenses in the front of the line and the less important at the back,” Setting said then, noting that data showed the tactic didn't work. “When you deal with the quality-of-life complaints, all other crime goes down.”
That was only the beginning.
Today, Setting is proud of what his department has accomplished.
"I would put us up against the most technologically advanced police departments in the country," he said.
Fellow leaders around Delaware, including Attorney General Matt Denn, agree. The department has set a standard for others throughout the state, pushing new programs and initiatives that have had a ripple effect on smaller agencies, Denn said.
Through his willingness to try new things, Denn said, the department has stayed true to its mission while being innovative and forward-thinking. It's also become even tighter as an agency.
"(Setting) is fiercely proud of this police agency," Denn said. "He deeply cared about the people that he served."
The Mobile Enforcement Team, under Setting's leadership, deployed hand-picked officers to specific parts of the county to crack down on crime, especially those relating to drugs. Driven by TAPS meetings and other information, these deployments and the officers who work in the unit reduced crime by 20 percent, the chief said.
Additional training regarding use of force also helped the county, under Setting's leadership, to lower the total uses of force by police officers by 43 percent, Bond said. It's a statistic the interim chief called a direct reflection of Setting's mantra: Treat everyone with dignity and respect.
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In the last year, the county began using body cameras – a national issue amid calls for more transparency from police departments.
Setting doesn't regret the move and said the use of body cameras will phase out handwritten police reports in the coming years. Already, he said the cameras have been useful at holding not only officers accountable but also the 580,000 county residents interacting with police.
"It's a behavioral modifier on both ends," he said. "Our officers weren't doing anything wrong, but I like the way that we can prove it now."
The chief also led the charge in Delaware by creating the first program in the state to offer those suffering from addiction help rather than incarceration. Hero Help launched in late May and offered those with addiction caught with small amounts of drugs the ability to ask police officers for enrollment into a treatment program. With completion of the program, charges would disappear.
New Castle County Police Chief Col. Elmer Setting talks about his new plan to help people with heroin addiction. (Photo: JENNIFER CORBETT/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
Limited resources in the state made it impossible to offer assistance to everyone who sought it, but Setting stands by the program, calling it a small step in the right direction in the fight against Delaware's heroin epidemic. Since the program's launch, 20 people have enrolled in the program but not all have completed it.
"This was a necessary first step," he said. "It's a little bit at a time."
The department continues to reverse more overdoses through naloxone, the drug used to revive heroin and opiate overdoses statewide. Setting's department was the first large police agency to carry and use naloxone.
The saves prove that the state needs more help, as one young woman in the county has been saved three times by police officers, Setting said.
"Now, we can offer her help when she's ready," he said. "I think (the program is) going to be a model for this state."
At 50, Setting faces a new chapter. While there have been rumors about another job in policing, he insisted that he's not sure what his next step will be.
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First was a Christmas spent out of the office with his family at Skytop Lodge in Pennsylvania. His birthday will be celebrated in Paris with his wife, he added with a sheepish smile. After years of policing, he admits that maybe he owes her a good vacation or two away from New Castle County.
New Castle County Police Chief Col. Elmer Setting talks about his 28 years with the department. (Photo: Jennifer Corbett, The News Journal )
But leaving policing forever is unlikely.
"You can see how healthy it is to have someone who believes in change," Setting said. "One person can truly affect change in an entire agency."
The end of his tenure drew tears Thursday at a packed gymnasium at Hockessin's Police Athletic League center. Official after official recounted Setting's humor, drive and determination to make the department a better place, many through laughs and a few through tears.
Joe Bryant, the county's Department of Public Safety director, called it an honor and a pleasure to work with Setting.
"He's a great man, a great police officer, a tremendous leader," Bryant said. "And more important to me, a very great friend. I'm going to miss him."
"I've encountered a number of chiefs," he said. "And I've met not one person who is stronger than this man."
Setting shakes his head at what he calls "fuss" about him leaving, stressing that it took working with the county executive, transparency with County Council and communicating with everyone from the patrol officer in his department to the citizen down the street, to make this all work.
Budgetary challenges will continue in the years ahead, Setting said, noting that without more funding, police officers will likely lose jobs. It's a problem the next chief will have to grapple with without the continued support of county government. The current Department of Public Safety budget, which includes police, 911 operators and other emergency officials, is $98 million and accounts for about 40 percent of the county's budget.
His biggest advice for the incoming chief, though, other than hanging onto whatever hair is left? Don't be afraid to try new things. Treat it like a grease board, Setting said, and never be unwilling to wipe it all down and try again.
"Saying we can't do it is the big failure in modern policing," Setting said. "If you're not proactive, you're on a sinking ship."
Contact Brittany Horn at (302) 324-2771 or bhorn@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @brittanyhorn.
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The Denver Marijuana Industry
On November 6, 2012, Colorado passed an amendment to its state constitution, Amendment 64, that effectively legalized pot in the state. Governor John Hickenlooper signed it into law a month later, and the year 2013 was spent laying the groundwork and creating the legal infrastructure to launch the new recreational marijuana industry.
The first stores in Denver to sell legal pot for recreational use officially opened – with great fanfare and international media attention – on New Year’s Day, 2014. Now, for the first time, the impact of this bold and radical legislative change can be reviewed by examining data pertaining to an entire fiscal year.
Local Denver Regulation of Pot
Denver now issues licenses for retail marijuana stores, product manufacturing facilities, and cultivation and testing facilities – in addition to similar licenses for the medical marijuana industry. Incidentally, a retail marijuana store in Denver may not sell or give away anything that is not an actual marijuana product, so pot shops are prohibited from selling such things as cigarettes, alcohol beverages, or even nonalcoholic foods and drinks. That is in contrast, for example, to how it is done in Amsterdam, Holland, where pot shops also sell such things as orange juice, coffee, and tea.
Legal residents of Denver who are at least 21 years of age can buy and possess as much as an ounce of pot, whereas non-residents are restricted to just a quarter of an ounce. If you live in Denver you can grown as many as six marijuana plants at home, too, but only three of those can be in the flowering stage where TCH-infused buds are ready for harvesting. The plants also have to be in an enclosed and locked space, regardless of whether they are cultivated indoors or outside.
While it is perfectly legal to grow your own pot, however, you cannot sell your homegrown pot. To sell marijuana you have to have the appropriate license, agree to government inspections, and follow a number of other laws and industry regulations. Applications are made – and rules are enforced – through agencies such as the Denver Business Licensing Center and the Denver Health Department’s inspection division. All marijuana-infused food operations, for example, must have a specific Denver MIP (Marijuana Infused Products) license.
Reducing the Unemployment Rate
While the issue of marijuana legalization remains controversial, the fact that Denver’s economy has benefited from it is undeniable. Within the first year of legalization, more than 16,000 occupational licenses were issued for jobs directly related to the pot industry, a particularly significant statistic as the United States struggled to overcome high unemployment.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Denver’s unemployment rate plummeted from 10.8 percent in 2010 and 9.3 percent in 2012 to only 3.9 percent in October of 2014. That was a shrinkage of nearly seven percent in less than four years. By contrast, the national jobless rate during that same timeframe fell from 9.8 percent to 5.8 percent – a drop of only four percentage points. Denver’s economy, in other words, appears to be doing at least 30 percent better than nation as a whole now that marijuana is leading the way to fuel its economic rebound.
Greening the Denver Economy
In total, the state of Colorado has registered approximately $247,000,000 in recreational pot sales – in addition to sales of medical marijuana that added another $327,000,000. So within the first year Colorado took in about $575, 000, 000 in sales of weed.
A survey of marijuana outlets in Denver revealed that each of these businesses typically serves between 100 and 300 customers per day, ringing up sales that average $75 per transaction. Business Insider Magazine rated Colorado the fastest growing economy in the nation, and Denver was also named “a top real estate market to watch” as the bright economic outlook became a magnet for permanent migration from other states.
A Tax Revenue Windfall
Colorado tax, licensing, and fee revenues from the marijuana industry brought in more than $60 million last year. Significantly, Denver County itself accounted for over 50 percent of all medicinal and recreational marijuana related sales tax revenue.
One marijuana company based in Denver was studied by researchers within the business school at the University of Denver. The local CBS television news outlet subsequently reported that the stores owned and operated by that one business were forecast to generate annual sales of more than $11 million and about $1.5 million in state and local taxes. That is about 800 percent more tax revenues than comparable businesses in other industries generate.
Marijuana Industry Jobs
That same University of Colorado business school study revealed that the marijuana company it researched created almost 300 direct or indirect employment opportunities in areas such as working in the retail locations or in secondary roles such as packaging, accounting, and security. The companies workers also enjoy an average hourly wage of $17 plus benefits like having half of their health care paid for and receiving regular paid vacations.
The total impact from that one company was estimated to be around $30 million. But similar stories can be heard all over Denver. The types of direct job opportunities available in the industry include so-called “budtenders,” which are the marijuana shop equivalent of baristas or bartenders, managers, plant growers, and plant trimmers. Many of these in-store workers start off at salaries in excess of $10 an hour, and within the first year of employment lots of them received promotions and saw their salaries rise by 50-100 percent.
According to data published by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, employment within the pot industry grew by double digits during the first months of 2014, compared to the last quarter of 2013. Within the first six months of 2014 the number of people licensed to work with marijuana plants in some capacity or another also surged to nearly 12,000. To put that into perspective, that is almost equal to the number of automotive technicians or mechanics in Colorado. The annual demand for pot across Colorado is now more 130 metric tons, too, and many growers who farm this cash crop live in and around the Denver area. They, in turn contribute to the economy by hiring and spending.
Supporting Other Industries and Professions
Plus, as reported by Bloomberg News, many marijuana entrepreneurs are sharing the wealth by adding valuable jobs and rewarding employees with attractive benefits and salary increases. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not yet have data compiled for 2014, so hard numbers related to the marijuana trade are difficult to calculate.
But NBC News reported that one security guard company that opened up in Denver last year had landed dozens of contracts to guard pot dispensaries and was adding about one new client per day – while charging fees of $5,000 to $15,000 per month. Similarly, there are professionals hired to work for marijuana businesses such as attorneys, bookkeepers and accountants, advertising agencies, insurance companies, and even culinary professionals to make a variety of edible marijuana concoctions.
The banking industry does not yet participate in the marijuana trade because that would be illegal due to federal laws controlling federally-regulated banks. But a new marijuana industry credit union has also been granted a state charter, and is awaiting approval from the Federal Reserve. If that financial institution opens for business it will immediately mean more jobs in Denver, and the credit union will likely open multiple branches in the city as it expands its footprint throughout the state.
Increased Tourism
Across the state of Colorado, tourists or out-of-state visitors account for almost six percent of total marijuana sales. But in mountain resort communities 90 percent of recreational pot sales are to non-residents. But increased numbers of tourists coming to explore the pot culture also triggers across-the-board spending as those visitors purchase lodging, transportation, meals, and more. Denver opened its doors to more than 14 million visitors over the past year, for example, and the Mile High City broke a record for tourist revenue, bringing in more than $4 billion.
The Denver Post’s publication Cannabist did, however, report on one cautionary tale for tourists. Some of Denver’s leading hotels – which have strict nonsmoking rules – have discovered that people sometimes buy pot locally and then retire to their rooms to smoke it. That can lead to fines of as much as $200 tacked on to their hotel bills, however, although these kinds of violations are the exception, not the norm. After all, nearly half of all recreational marijuana imbibed in Denver is the edible variety.
Causes for Concern to Health and Safety
Unfortunately, edible marijuana has resulted in as much as a tenfold spike in the number of people going to Denver area emergency rooms. The THC in legal marijuana is often stronger and more potent than users expect, and those who take edible pot often miscalculate how much THC is in the items they consume. A single marijuana brownie, for instance, may contain enough pot to intoxicate several people. But oftentimes people will eat edible cannabis and ingest much more THC than they can handle.
As a result, state regulators have rolled out some incentive programs that reward those who make these edible products if they create items that have lower levels of THC or are more compatible as single servings. The ways those incentives work is that products containing more than 10 milligrams of THC are subjected to greater regulatory oversight and stricter labeling standards.
One area that was cause for concern was crime. Some predicted that legalization was reduce crimes related to black market marijuana sales, but that roadways would become more dangerous because of pot-impaired stoners behind the wheel. Denver’s violent crime rates did noticeably decline, however, during the first 11 months of 2014, and the number of Colorado highway traffic fatalities also fell.
Market Dynamics and Future Forecasts
A member of the prestigious Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. was cited in the Denver Post recently, explaining how experiments like the one underway in Denver will have an impact that forces the black market trade for marijuana to make significant adjustments. While illicit trade will certainly continue for the foreseeable future, legalization can be expected to shrink the volume and profitability of the marijuana black market – which will also have a similar impact on the crime syndicates that traffic in illegal pot.
The Brookings Institution also noted in a report published last summer than legalization of marijuana has had a measurable positive effect on the job market for young, recent graduates. That’s at a time when the career outlook for many college grads is dismal, and will likely influence more young, educated professionals to move to Denver to participate in the retail or agricultural side of the market.
Farming pot around Denver can be a lucrative enterprise. While it can be difficult and sometimes extraordinarily expensive to launch a retail marijuana shop, it is possible to secure all the licenses and official credentials to grow weed by investing around $10,000. A prolific grower can earn that back quickly, and marijuana as a cash crop is a very attractive venture in and around Denver. Later in 2015 the first big harvest will come in, and then it will be possible to accurately quantify the overall economic impact – and the effect on pricing from supply and demand – of locally-sourced marijuana.
Another change that could impact the industry in Denver is that starting next year more licenses to sell pot may be available from the city. But at least until January of 2016, only those entities that were already operating medical marijuana facilities like shops and cultivation facilities are eligible to apply for a retail marijuana license. They can either convert their business to a recreational retail enterprise or they can apply for a recreational shop license in addition to running their existing medical marijuana dispensary. Regardless of whether more licenses are made available to newcomers to the industry, it is unlikely that this issue will have a significant impact on overall Denver pot sales. The city will want to regulate the number of outlets to keep it manageable.
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Diamond wedding couple share secrets of 60-years-marriage
Jimmy and Bernadette, 60 years on.
Do your best, through the good times and bad times, is the key to a long and happy marriage, according to a Ballykelly couple who who have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
Jimmy and Bernadette Mackey met at a sports day in Glack when Jimmy was 21 and Bernadette was 18.
Jimmy and Bernadette cut the cake on their big day.
When asked how he popped the question, Jimmy, originally from Ballerin, doesn’t give away much, other than: “You didn’t propose in them days like the way they do now.”
Fortunately, Bernadette said ‘yes’, although Jimmy revealed he did ask Bernadette’s mother, Martha O’Connor, for permission to marry her daughter as her father, Robert, had passed away.
The pair tied the knot in St. Finlough’s Chapel, known locally as The Hollow, in Ballykelly on June 20, 1956 in front of 100 guests.
The bridal party was small. Bernadette’s sister Bridget was bridesmaid, and Jimmy’s brother, Johnny was the bestman.
Jimmy and Bernadette with their children and their partners, their grandchildren and great grandchildren at a celebration meal in the Roe Park Resort.
Memories of their big day are as fresh as ever for the sprightly couple.
Jimmy, who turns 83 in November and plays bowls for Limavady, recalls the new suit he had.
“You had to get a new suit, and it was made especially. That’s how it was back then,” he says.
“I was nervous,” recalls Bernadette of her wedding day. “I don’t know why really, but I was a bit nervous.”
Their reception was in the Eglinton Hotel in Portrush.
“It was a great day, plenty of dancing,” says Bernadette.
After a honeymoon in Dublin where they stayed with relatives, the couple moved to Reading in England where Jimmy worked in the building trade.
Their first born was Anne-Marie, a beautiful brown-haired bonny baby.
Tragically, the infant died when she was just six months old from Asian flu which had swept around the world that year. The couple were heartbroken.
They moved home, back to Ballykelly to a house where they reared Sean, Kathleen, Caroline and Seamus.
Jimmy and Bernadette still live there. It’s a home that tells the story of the special moments in their lives.
Cabinets are filled with mementoes of trips aways, birthday and wedding gifts. There are flowers and cards congratulating them on their 60 years of marriage. The walls are filled with pictures of their children, their 14 grandchildren and eight grandchildren (and another two on the way).
And, taking pride of place among the photos, is a large black and framed picture of a smiling Anne Marie.
Back from a weekend in Donegal with their children and their partners to celebrate their anniversary, the couple both agree the past 60 years have gone by in a flash.
“To me it feels like 30 years, it’s gone by that quick,” says Bernadette, who turns 80 next February.
When asked what’s the key to a long and happy marriage, the couple agree “you have to work at it, give and take, and you’re on the right road”.
When asked for their advice for others getting married one of the first things they say “you don’t have to have a big expensive wedding to be happy”.
“Give and take, that’s important,” says Bernadette.
Jimmy, who worked at Maydown Training Centre teaching the building trade until he retired, says: “It’s hard, I suppose, to give advice because we’re living in such different times now but I suppose, you have to work at it, through the good times and the bad times, and just motor on.”
Bernadette says she has watched her children grow up so quickly, she advises parents to cherish their time with their children.
The couple’s daughters, Kathleen and Caroline, says the family is lucky to have their parents.
“They’ve always been there. You couldn’t wish for better parents,” says Kathleen and, after 60 years, romance is still in the air.
Jimmy is “a modest romantic”, says Caroline. He remembers birthdays and anniversaries, although he jokes he lets the children buy the presents.
When asked if their love is as strong as it was in the 1950s, they both look at each other, and pause, before Bernadette says: “It is.”
Jimmy smiles and adds:“It must be if we’ve spent 60 years together.”
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DevilishGames > News > Path to Mnemosyne will arrive to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Path to Mnemosyne will arrive to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
23 April, 2018 DevilishGames
We are pleased to announce that we have reached to an agreement with Hidden Trap to bring Path to Mnemosyne to game consoles and they announce it with a new teaser. Initially the game was born as an experimental project for PC, but after being selected at international festivals such as A MAZE, IndiePrize, MomoCon Indie Awards, AzPlay or Valencia Indie Summit and receive great feedback from the press and public, DevilishGames decided to look for an ally with experience in porting to take Path to Mnemosyne to video game consoles and reach as many people as possible.
The game is currently in its final development phase in its PC version and is scheduled for release in the second half of 2018, although it can already be added to the wish list via its Steam page and can be played by the public from 25-29 April at AMAZE Berlin, from 24-27 May at MomoCon (Atlanta) and from 29-31 May at the Indie Prize Showcase at Casual Connect London.
David Ferriz, co-founder of DevilishGames: “We are really excited about the agreement we have reached with Hidden Trap to bring the game to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Although they are a very young publisher, we have known their team for many years, we have a great relationship with them and we know that they will do a great job with the Path to Mnemosyne ports and will help us a lot to reach as many people as possible.”
>>Watch Path to Mnemosyne new teaser on Youtube
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Genetic engineering will be "as accessible as 3D-printing" says DNA Vending Machine designer
Matt Hussey | 13 March 2014 1 comment
Artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo has created a vending machine that dispenses human genetic material to highlight privacy issues emerging as biotechnology makes it easier and cheaper to access information locked in our DNA (+ interview).
"In a dystopian future where we all have samples of our friends' DNA, we will be able to do things like genetic engineering in the same way as we do 3D printing," Gabriel Barcia-Colombo told Dezeen. "When everyone has access to cheaper biotechnology, DNA may be much more valuable than a candy bar, soda or some other treat sold in a vending machine."
The New York artist created the DNA Vending Machine with the hope of challenging people to ask more questions about privacy and who owns the material that makes us unique.
"There are a whole range of court cases that say our DNA can be used against us for anything," explained the artist, who is also a lecturer at New York University specialising in interactive telecommunications. "We have huge pharmaceutical companies making loads of money out of DNA from people who haven't necessarily given them permission to use it."
Presented in a recent TED Talk, the DNA Vending Machine replaces snacks and drinks usually found in an automated food dispenser with samples of people's genetic code. These samples can then be bought.
"I began collecting the DNA of my friends at my house during Friday night gatherings, and then furthered mycollection through several scheduled open houses where anyone could come to my studio and sign up to submit an open-source sample of their own DNA," the artist explained.
Participants in the project spat into a vial containing solution that breaks down the cells found in the saliva, releasing the DNA. Alcohol was then added, causing the strands of genetic code to clump together and making them visible to the human eye.
The vials were then sealed inside identical white containers and placed inside a standard vending machine. "Each sample comes packaged with a collectable portrait of the human specimen as well as a unique link to a custom DNA extraction video," said Barcia-Colombo.
The machine was installed in an art gallery in New York last year, and the artist recalls some of the reactions to the art piece. "They're disgusted that this is using human genetic material, and they often are scared by it," he said. "They're scared because the samples can be bought and used to plant evidence on a crime scene."
"In a dystopian future where we all have samples of our friends' DNA, we will be able to do things like genetic engineering in the same way as we do 3D printing," he predicted. "When everyone has access to cheaper biotechnology, DNA may be much more valuable than a candy bar, soda or some other treat sold in a vending machine."
Barcia-Colombo sees comparisons between DNA ownership and concerns over the collecting and harvesting of our own digital data. “Our phones are harvesting our data and then being sold is a very similar idea to companies harvesting our DNA and selling it to pharmaceutical companies without us knowing."
The DNA Vending Machine was designed to start a conversation that the artist feels is long overdue.
One of the most high-profile cases surrounding the legality and ethics of DNA ownership was the example of Henrietta Lacks. While receiving treatment for cancer of the cervix in 1951, she had a healthy part of the tissue removed without permission.
The cells were later grown in vitro and have since been used by pharmaceutical companies to develop polio vaccines and in the research of AIDS, cancer and radiation poisoning. The material is still used today and is referred to as hela cells in reference to the first two letters of her first and last name.
More recently, a court case in 1990 between John Moore, a US citizen undergoing treatment for hairy cell leukaemia and the UCLA Medical Center brought the issue back into the headlines. "The supreme court decision in the case ruled that a person's discarded tissue and cells are not their property and can be commercialised," said Barcia-Colombo. "It's ridiculous. When it becomes easy to reproduce these things, it brings up a lot of personal questions about rights and you as a personal franchise."
A second version of the art project is due to go on display in New York this summer.
Below is an edited transcript of the interview with Barcia-Colombo:
Matt Hussey: How did you develop the idea of the vending machine?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: I'm very interested in the idea of law generally when it comes to ownership of DNA, and I like to express that in a playful way. But it's really about questions of privacy. We have huge pharmaceutical companies making loads of money out of DNA from people who haven't necessarily given them permission to use their DNA. That kind of thing really fascinates me.
Matt Hussey: What is the piece about?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: The piece is about privacy and DNA ownership. With the DNA Vending Machine I hope to draw attention to historical cases of DNA ownership or commercialised human cells as in the cases of Henrietta Lacks and the supreme court decision in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, where in the early 1990's the court ruled that a person's discarded tissue and cells are not their property and can be commercialised.
This is not a celebration of any of these verdicts or laws but rather a reminder of our complicated past when it comes to ownership over genetic material. In the future, when everyone has access to cheaper biotechnology, DNA may be much more valuable than a candy bar, soda or some other treat sold in a vending machine.
Matt Hussey: What have been the responses to the vending machine?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: On approaching it, they don't know what it is. Then they read about it on a little placard and are pretty grossed out by it. They're disgusted that this is using human genetic material, and they often are scared by it.
They're scared because the samples can be bought and used to plant evidence on a crime scene. It's DNA from inside our cheek cells which is very readily available, but in this context it's elevated to a more artistic context, but also, in another way, it makes it more human.
Matt Hussey: Who are the samples of?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Mostly friends. I started doing it at parties. I'd have people over at my house and say hey, "let's do some DNA extraction" and show them how it worked. I work at NYU and asked if there were any students who would be interested in it outside NYU, and then I worked with a bio-tech lab in Brooklyn called Genspace, and we did some DNA extractions there. So I started with friends and then expanded."
Matt Hussey: Were you worried at all that people wouldn't want to give samples?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: I was worried at first about how many people would want to be part of it. I explained to them very clearly that this could have implications where someone could buy this sample and if they wanted to sequence it, and in the process discovered some kind of new drug, they could make a lot of money out of this.
But I also framed it as a very exciting art project that they could be part of. I think it's one of the first times this has been done in the artistic community.
Matt Hussey: What was it that appealed to you about using a vending machine?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: They're usually utilised to sell snacks at the movie theatre or on the street, but suddenly here it's used to sell genetic material. It's funny in a way. Because it's humorous I think it makes it easier for people to understand. Ideally I'd want to bring it in to public places like Grand Central Station or Times Square. Places with a more public context.
Matt Hussey: There has been an increase in cheap gene sequencing thanks to companies like 23andMe that's raising legal questions that many people don't feel comfortable with. Is this a response to that?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: For me, it's indicative of other privacy right issues that are going on right now in the United States with phone calls and online data. When this moves completely into the genetic market, and when it becomes easy to reproduce these things, it brings up a lot of personal questions about rights and you as a personal franchise.
It also touches upon those people who are disenfranchised with the process and don't understand the legal issues surrounding it and don't have a way of really fighting back.
Matt Hussey: How would you summarise the mood of people towards these ideas?
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: I think there is an immediate fear growing within people. I think we've only really started hearing about in the past two years. Our phones are harvesting our data and then being sold. It's a very similar idea to companies harvesting our DNA and being sold to pharmaceutical companies without us knowing. I think it's reflecting itself.
I myself am not a paranoid person, I'm very open about things, but I do think there is a place for art to question what is going on. I use art to provoke conversation, and this is a conversation piece. The DNA vending machine is not a protest piece, it's about having ideas and questioning what the future holds, security in terms of genetic material, and to educate people about what can be done with DNA, and how accessible this human data is.
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NTU spin-off achieves breakthrough water treatment technology
Nano Sun, a start-up at Nanyang Technological University, has developed a cost-effective water filtration technology that is highly resistant to breakage and has anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling properties. Image: NTU
By Nanyang Technological University
A young startup at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has developed a first-of-its-kind multifunction water filtration membrane. With its expected cost savings and superior performance, the new invention has the potential to render current membranes in the water industry obsolete.
This made-in-NTU membrane lasts twice as long when compared to conventional membranes, is highly resistant to breakage, and has anti-bacterial and anti-biofouling properties. Another groundbreaking characteristic – it allows for an unprecedented flow rate of at least ten times faster than current water filtration membranes.
Developed by NTU start-up Nano Sun, at the centre of this breakthrough multifunction membrane is a patented titanium dioxide nanotechnology. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are proven to kill bacteria and to break down organic compounds in waste water with the help of sunlight or Ultra Violet (UV) rays.
Invented by Associate Professor Darren Sun, from NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the startup is cofounded by Adjunct Professor Wong Ann Chai from NTU’s Nanyang Business School, formerly an investment banker from DBS Bank and Normura Singapore.
What the world needs – and what we have developed - is a breakthrough technology which can turn large volumes of polluted or untreated water into drinking water quickly, safely and at a fraction of the cost
Associate Professor Darren Sun, NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Despite Nano Sun being only two years old, it has an valuation of US$80 million, due to the industry’s recognition of the immense potential of the new technology that can help to solve some of the most critical problems faced by the water industry.
“With more of the world’s population moving into urban cities and generating more wastewater, there is a real need for cost-effective technology. Traditional polymer-based water filtration membranes are faced with issues such as fouling and high breakage, while the developing countries with high industrial output are generating wastewater which is increasingly harder to treat.”
“What the world needs – and what we have developed - is a breakthrough technology which can turn large volumes of polluted or untreated water into drinking water quickly, safely and at a fraction of the cost,” said Prof Sun, who has developed various systems that are used in water treatment plants all over the world, and is the Shimizu Visiting Professor at Stanford University in United States.
Solving problems faced by the water industry
Biofouling and organic compounds are a huge problem for the $200 billion global water industry, as traditional polymer-based water filtration membranes tend to clog up with what they have filtered out.
With the new Nano Sun’s membranes, biofouling is greatly reduced as organic material and bacteria are killed and destroyed when they come into contact with the membranes.
Any organic material that does not decompose can also be quickly burnt by putting the membrane in an oven heated to 700 degrees Celsius, since it is able to withstand high heat unlike traditional polymer membranes.
Industry interests
Co-founder and Managing Director of Nano Sun, Adjunct Prof Wong, said the applications and implications for their new technology are wide-ranging.
“Apart from our capabilities to improve wastewater treatment and desalination plants, multinational companies in the food and beverage industry have also expressed interest in using our technologies in their production processes,” said Adjunct Prof Wong, who teaches finance at NTU.
“The scope for our membranes is far ranging and of benefit to companies in the chemicals, food and biomedical industries.”
Several water agencies in the region and multinational corporations (MNCs) have already indicated interest in the NTU invention, which is now ready for sale in the market.
Nano Sun recently signed deals with PT Pelaksana Jaya Mulia, a large Indonesian company, to provide 10,000 cubic metres of clean water per day. In China, Nano Sun is working with an industrial paper mill in Guangzhou to optimise their wastewater treatment processes, which will lead to savings of S$3 million over the next five years.
Locally, Nano Sun is in discussion with local water agencies and companies, which own and operate large-scale energy-efficient integrated power and water reclamation plants to test bed its innovative technologies.
Technology with a heart
Nano Sun is also investing heavily to miniaturize the membranes into more handy products, which can be used for household needs as well as humanitarian aid and disaster relief, said Adjunct Prof Wong, who is also an alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
“Let us not forget our hearts. Apart from household filters, we are also working to develop a low-cost water purification water bottle, for use in developing countries and for disaster relief efforts,” he added.
The startup is now working to scale up its production of membranes from 7 metres per day to 100 metres per day. It also aims to explore other product possibilities such as air filtration, disinfection (bandages) and solar cell industries.
For example, Nano Sun’s new nanotechnology has proven to be able to:
generate hydrogen (a clean fuel) while treating wastewater;
replace plastics in bandages as an anti-bacterial material;
work as an effective N95 air filter; and
function as a base material for a low-cost solar cell with high efficiency.
Nano Sun is incubated by NTUitive, a wholly-own subsidiary of NTU, which supports startups by faculty and students by providing mentorship advice and access to various funding sources.
This news was originally published here.
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Several Baltimore schools report 0 students proficient in math, reading
Autumn A. Arnett @A2Arnett
Six Baltimore City schools — five high schools and one middle school — were found to have not a single student who scored proficient in math or reading in 2016, Fox45 News reports.
One student interviewed by the station said he believes students aren't passing the state assessments because the material on the tests is not covered in class.
Data shows that despite maintaining one of the country's highest per-pupil spending levels, a recent study out of Harvard University found Baltimore to have the lowest rate of mobility out of poverty in the country, a statistic tied directly to education as much as it is economic opportunity.
The news in Baltimore again underscores the debate over the impact of funding on school quality. Some say the education level of adults and parents in the district is the greatest determinant of student achievement, while other research has found a direct correlation between school funding and student graduation rates. And with Baltimore City Public Schools out-spending both Howard and Montgomery Counties in the state — both perennial exemplars in student achievement — questions loom over exactly where the money is going in Baltimore.
For one, the distribution of wealth in the city is highly concentrated. And as one of the first cities in the country to enact legal racial segregation, the neighborhoods — and thus the schools — remain highly segregated generations after the laws were overturned. A 2009 study out of Loyola University found that despite a mayoral moniker that Baltimore is "the city that reads," "in a city of over 700,000, an estimated 200,000 adults were considered functionally illiterate.”
But a bigger problem highlighted by the student's interview is the rigor of courses in the city's failing schools. In Montgomery and Howard Counties, even general education is highly focused on test preparation. In the schools in question in Baltimore, there is very little access to AP or advanced courses, and even the core courses seem to be inadequately preparing students for success after high school. Public libraries in the city have closed, and, according to Baltimore historian and UMUC professor Edwin Johnson, the city "has some of the nation’s most dilapidated school buildings and facilities, and the newest, most technologically advanced prison facilities.” All of these factors combine to paint a picture of how Baltimore, like many big cities in this country, is failing its most vulnerable population and perpetuating socio-economic inequality.
Fox 45 6 Baltimore schools, no students proficient in state tests
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The Contact established
Woman reading "Kontakten", the internal newspaper.
The Contact (Kontakten) is one of Sweden’s oldest company newsletters, with over 60 years of uninterrupted publication under the same name. It was created to establish contact channels between salaried employees in what was already a large company. From its modest start in January 1939, it has survived many adventure and mishaps.
“Contact should be sufficient as a statement of purpose,” wrote the responsible publisher Nils A Sterne in the first issue. “I know that Contact can count on your interest, and I hope that it will be an honor to its name and enjoyable and useful to us all.”
The logotype consisted of the word Contact with two solid lines above and below, symbolizing two relay coils, with a closed contact to the left. In the first version, it was open, which was criticized, since it must be closed to provide contact. The relay coils remained in the logotype until the late 1960s.
From 1945 Contact was no longer just a concern for salaried employees, it was distributed to all Ericsson employees. As a result, the newsletter’s appearance changed. It grew in format from A5 to A4, the layout became more professional with more illustrations added. The contents were expanded and the tone of the newsletter, which up until then had been fairly informal succumbed to a more journalistic approach. Contact became a wide-ranging employee newsletter, its objective to ensure communication from management to the employees, as well as between employees at various levels.
The make-over was a success. Well into the 1980s Contact was still the same kind of employee newsletter it had been since 1945. Sports results, leisure activities, health care and working life culture were recurring themes. However, space was also devoted to technical background articles and market reports.
In the first issue for 1986, for example, an article was published with the suggestive title “Explosive market for mobile telephony. 40 billion at stake and Ericsson is first.” With its 300,000 subscribers, or 60 percent of the world market, Ericsson could already call itself the world’s leading mobile telephone company. The article described the enormous opportunities that the expected growth would mean for the company.
Things were different 47 years previously. In the first issue of Contact, under the heading “A record year,” Arvid Westling wrote:
“1938 was an unusually good year for our company. We shall avoid speculation about the more distant future. Although demand for telephone materials can be considered favorable even over the long term, it is also the case that telephone services are not among mankind’s basic needs, despite the fact that the economic stabilization that is so important for us is expected to create more favorable prospects now than previously.”
History, however, would show that telephone services would eventually be counted among basic human needs.
During the 1980s, Contact changed its appearance several times. Publication of the English edition began and in 1988 Contact was published as a tabloid for the first time. A growing proportion of its content consisted of industry news, technical articles and market reports
In addition to Contact, numerous newsletters were published by the business area, which over time took over the role of portraying working life culture that the corporate newsletter became a more or less anonymous supplement.
A clearer focus on corporate issues was evident in the early 1990s. Contact gradually regained it position as the common forum for all Ericsson employees. In 1994, the frequency of publication was doubled to 20 issues per year. At the same time, the popular New Jobs section was added in which available positions within Ericsson were advertised.
The business area newsletters with their different orientations were distributed once a month together with Contact. In conjunction with the dissolution of the business area organization on January 1, 1997, however, the business area newsletters were integrated into Contact and ceased to exist as independent publications.
At the beginning of the new century, Contact has few similarities with the first issues. The newsletter has developed into a company and industry newspaper that is occasionally quoted in similar publications and other media. The editorial board is a team of professional journalists, while spontaneous contributions from employees seldom appear.
Total circulation is about 100,000 copies of which the English edition Contact accounts for 45,000. The paper-based edition is published as a 32-page tabloid every other week, while the Web version is updated even more frequently.
Author: Thord Andersson & Kari Malmström
Sports: Results from various competitions and a short article on the athlectic side of Sven Ture Åberg, later president of Ericsson
Top stories: The Ericsson Chronicle is ready for publication. Ericsson helps earthquake victims in El Salvador and India. Ericsson sells its mobile telephone production to the American company Flextronics.
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Dealing with breakdowns in friendship groups
Written by Elizabeth Holmes
There is a video doing the rounds on my local community pages on Facebook of a junior school child launching a vicious verbal attack on a former friend. The video is appalling, and must be devastating viewing for the target and her family and friends. But the vulnerability of both the victim and the perpetrator is clear to see.
I have no idea whether such extreme occurrences are relatively rare or increasingly common, and I suspect it’s not possible to know for certain. In this instance, the school is working with outside agencies to support all involved, but how many other perhaps less visible forms of abuse and bullying slip under the radar with victims suffering in silence? Friendships and friendship groups break down, this much is indisputable. The question is, what, if anything, can be done at school?
To a degree, we can help young people to navigate the friendship tides. We can give them tools for handling big emotions and negotiating more positive outcomes with their friends and colleagues. We can intervene when necessary and show more harmonious pathways ahead. But this takes time, and it assumes that we have not only the knowledge but also the patience to do this effectively and empathetically.
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Fortunately, help exists! Childline has some great advice for children and young people who may be struggling with friendships. There are some key ideas that can help us too; these are worth considering if you find yourself supporting children and young people through friendship breakups and breakdowns and pre-empting disharmony in your classroom:
Kindness counts
… From their earliest interactions with friends pre-school, to the challenges of the teenage years, we can never overemphasise the need for, and benefits of, kindness in our dealings with one another. There are many strategies to help with this goal. Kindness UK has some resources and ideas for promoting kindness in the knowledge that research does appear to support the benefits that can be derived from kind environments in schools. For example, happy children, enhanced self-esteem, improved concentration, greater gratitude, harmonious classrooms and so on. Kindness matters so any efforts to enhance it in our classrooms may well be beneficial in the long run.
Focus on control…
Help children to understand what is in their control and what is not. This can help to foster healthy relationships with others as we encourage them to view their friends and classmates as equals worthy of their care, kindness and support; particularly helpful for those who like to demonstrate leadership qualities among those who wish not to be led!
Diversity and inclusion matters…
some children and young people thrive in large friendship groups, others prefer a select number and there may be some who like their own company at times. All of these options can be healthy, but it’s worth encouraging children to have an open mind when it comes to friendships, and explore how they might get on with a wide range of people. We can support that through working groups, team sports and so on. Friendships are rarely fixed, and flexibility and mutability can be healthy.
explore what healthy friendships look and feel like. How do good friends communicate? How is trust built and respect fostered? What role does equality have in healthy friendships? How do we express ourselves within the context of a healthy relationship? If we talk about these ideas freely and often, children and young people not only have the opportunity to discuss where friendships are deviating from healthy norms, but they can also explore how they typically relate to others and perhaps even strive for more balance in their friendships.
We’d be hopeless idealists if we thought for a moment that we could eradicate friendship disputes, and perhaps that wouldn’t be desirable. After all, the young of many species engage in scraps and scrapes (as I write there are young fox cubs in the garden, looking not a bit like their reputation for cunning; balls of fluff, brushes tipped white, playing, scrapping, and discovering life). And having taught in mixed schools, single sex schools, FE and HE I can say beyond any doubt that friendships between children and young people do, at times, falter!
While the tool of choice of the contemporary bully can cause widespread devastation (the implications of the video described above will almost certainly be deep and far reaching), the more we equip children and young people to spot early signs of disruptions in their friendships that can be addressed in good time, the better. And the benefits of time spent on developing friendship skills (for want of a better word) may be seen spilling over into more collaborative behaviour in the classroom and beyond. Surely a goal for us all?
Elizabeth Holmes
After graduating with a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Reading, Elizabeth Holmes completed her PGCE at the Institute of Education, University of London. She then taught humanities and social sciences in schools in London, Oxfordshire and West Sussex, where she ran the history department in a challenging comprehensive. Elizabeth specialises in education but also writes on many other issues and themes. As well as her regular blogs for eTeach and FEjobs, her books have been published by a variety of publishers and translated around the world.
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FNR ATTRACT Fellows – the people behind the science: Pedro Cardoso-Leite
BACK TO RESEARCH WITH IMPACT: FNR HIGHLIGHTS
With his research group, Assistant Prof Dr Pedro Cardoso-Leite combines experimental psychology with video games, in an effort to understand how our mind works, and how this knowledge can be leveraged to improve learning. We spoke to the Portuguese-Luxembourg bi-national about his return to Luxembourg after almost two decades, what he wants to achieve in the next five years, and how his interdisciplinary team is broadening his horizon.
Your field is experimental psychology and you work with technology and video games. Can you explain a bit about how you combine the two, and how this came to be? Was this something you always wanted to do?
“Experimental psychology is about conducting experiments to better understand how the mind works. There are different aspects to the mind – such as emotions and memories – my interest lies in cognitive abilities: what we are able to compute, understand and perform.
“In recent years it has become clear to me that video games can be invaluable for experimental psychology.”
In which way?
“Firstly, games can be used as a training tool. For example, research led by Daphne Bavelier, the leader of my former research group, has shown that games can influence your cognitive abilities.
“Playing regularly certain types of games can improve how well you pay attention to things around you. Unfortunately, those same types of games tend to be violent, and were designed mainly for young males and are thus typically inadequate for a broader population, including for example older people, or children. A lot of work is needed to understand those mechanisms underlying those effects and to create games that could be used as interventions for the general population.
“The second reason why games are interesting is because they can be used as a research tool and a platform to facilitate the collection of large amounts of data, which are critical to both study complex phenomena, and account for the large individual differences that are typically observed across people.
“Collecting this type of data via traditional means—that is by inviting people to come for testing in the lab—is not a viable option. Many people spend a significant amount of time playing games anyway – most people frequently play some kind of game on their phone. Exploiting this to conduct research is I think a method that will become more and more relevant.”
Pedro playing one of the games developed by his group
Combining psychology research with creating video games must be a fairly new approach – are you aware of many other researchers doing this kind of work?
“There are a few other labs—but it’s really hard to do this well because you need people who are skilled in game design and game development, in cognitive psychology and learning theory as well as in data science / machine learning and most importantly these people need to work together.”
The nature of your research must mean you have a highly interdisciplinary skill set in your research group?
“Yes! Our team currently comprises four game designers/developers, a graphic artist and a sound designer, and two PhD students and one postdoc will join us soon and focus on data science and the research aspect. It’s quite uncommon to have such a diverse skill set in a team and a different way of working that is more to my liking. This interdisciplinarity also leads us to focus more on the project and the goals rather than to focus on the contributions of individuals.”
How can people get involved in your research by testing your games?
“We’re always happy to have people contribute to our research and playing our games and provide the data for our research is an excellent way to do so. We are making games for tablets that will likely also work on desktop computers. These games will be on the App Store and Play Store, so all you have to do is download them and play.
“Our fist game was released in October 2018. It’s called ‘Mathemarmite’, and the aim is to help children understand e.g. the concept of quantities, which can help them when they start to learn math in school. We developed it collaboration with experts in children’s mathematical abilities and machine learning and offers young children an opportunity to hone their counting abilities in a cosy, timeless and friendly environment. Data from the game is a research tool in itself: the goal is to help children learn by understanding how they learn.”
So if someone downloads the game from the App Store and plays it, the data automatically gets sent to you to feed into your research data?
“Yes, if people agree to do so. Our project and data management plan has been approved by the University’s ethics committee and data protection officer. We are not infringing on people’s privacy—people who play the game can select different options and decide which information they share, they can also provide anonymous information.
“We do not collect anything personal unless people choose to provide such information. And people will always have the choice to change their mind and opt out. Our interest of course is not to single out specific people but rather to learn general principles that govern human cognition in general. We take data and privacy protection very seriously.”
With your research, you are currently trying to understand how games can affect different cognitive abilities. Once you have this knowledge, what will your next step be?
“It is important to us that our research results be useful to people. We hope to apply our understanding of how specific video game features may improve certain cognitive abilities to design interactive learning experiences (typically via video games) that explicitly attempt to improve those abilities.
“The video games we are creating right now serve us as a research tool are for us a way to ensure that the gap between research and transfer is as small as possible and that the knowledge we gather can be directly applied.
“In addition to our work on using video games to assess and train cognitive abilities, we are also working on video games to help kids learn fundamental abilities (e.g., counting), which will help them when they start to learn math in school.”
“We are also working on video games to help kids learn fundamental abilities (e.g. counting), which will help them when they start to learn math in school.”
What do you hope to accomplish in your ATTRACT Fellowship and beyond?
“In addition to the scientific questions I want to address during this fellowship, my goal is to establish an interdisciplinary lab that combines not only strong technical and scientific skills (psychology, machine learning, data science, etc.) but also expertise in the design and development of digital products (game development, game design, sound design, graphic design, etc.).
“Setting up such a team and getting them to work together productively is not an easy feat but I think it’s absolutely necessary to both conduct high quality research and create products that can actually be useful for people. I believe we are on the right track and I’m lucky to have very talented people in my team.
“The ATTRACT allowed me to kickstart this type of research group and I’m now thinking about how to make this research program sustainable in the long-term—once the ATTRACT funding is over I need to get other sources of funding to support the creation of games. Ideally, I would like this to happen within the University of Luxembourg, but there are some hurdles.
For example, as a research group you are not allowed to make profits, which however would be needed to fund the creation of games. An alternative solution is to start a company, but here the concern is profit taking centre stage over research.”
“My goal is to establish an interdisciplinary lab that combines not only strong technical and scientific skills (psychology, machine learning, data science, etc.), but also expertise in the design and development of digital products”
You’ve currently got a visiting researcher in your lab as part of an INTER Mobility grant. Can you provide more details on this collaboration?
“I have a grant for a three-year INTER Mobility collaboration with Paul Schrater, a Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota, with whom I have been collaborating with since 2012 when I was still in Geneva. From this year to 2020, he will be spending around six weeks per year in Luxembourg, so we can closely collaborate on my project. Prof Schrater is an expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and can provide valuable feedback on my games and input on how best to analyse the large-scale data generated from the games my group is creating.”
Pedro Cardoso-Leite (right) with Prof Schrater (left) who in May 2018 came to Luxembourg on his first of three 6-week research stays
You grew up in Luxembourg and then left to pursue your studies and research abroad. What made you return to Luxembourg?
“I would not have come back to Luxembourg if it was not for the FNR ATTRACT Fellowship. It was important for me to have the freedom to build my own research group and the ATTRACT Fellowship has given me that.”
Which part of your work do you enjoy the most?
“I find the game design part fascinating—figuring out how you bring knowledge principles that you think you know from research into the game. I also enjoy that I am broadening my perspective, through working with the people in my group and my collaborators who span a wide range of expertise.”
Did you always know you would take the research path?
“For me it was always clear that I would be a scientist—I wanted to invent! The idea of working just for a paycheck was never for me. I need to be doing something that is creative and useful, something that also has meaning. The environment I have designed around me now with the FNR ATTRACT funding is exactly where I wanted to be. We are still a small group and we still have to prove ourselves, but we are going in the right direction.”
How does your family feel about what you do?
“My family is very supportive and understanding. I have two daughters, the youngest just born in June 2018. My older daughter actually helps test our games! And some of her suggestions even made it into the game. When I became a father, I became more aware of the disparities between men and women. In our games we try to have settings that are appealing to both genders and to avoid gender and age clichés. I think about my daughter and see her potentially playing these games.”
Pedro's daughter playing one of the games created by his group
Published 28 June 2018
Visit the website of Dr Pedro Cardoso-Leite and his group xCIT
Find out more about Cardoso’s work in our ATTRACT video:
“For me it was always clear that I would be a scientist—I wanted to invent! The idea of working just for a paycheck was never for me. I need to be doing something that is creative and useful, something that also has meaning”
PEDRO CARDOSO-LEITE’S ROAD TO ATTRACT
Graduates high school (Lycée Classique de Diekirch, Luxembourg)
Bachelor in Cognitive Sciences and Psychology (Nancy 2 University, France)
Master in Cognitive Sciences and in Psychology (Nancy 2 University)
PhD in Experimental Psychology (University of Paris Descartes, France)
Postdoc in Psychophysics (Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes & CNRS – Paris, France)
Postdoc (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences – Leipzig, Germany)
Postdoc (University of Geneva – Switzerland)
Secures FNR ATTRACT Fellowship and moves to Luxembourg to become Assistant Professor and create the research group xCIT, based at the University of Luxembourg.
About ATTRACT
The ATTRACT programme is designed for researchers not yet established in Luxembourg, who demonstrate the potential to become leaders in their field of research. The scheme offers promising junior researchers the opportunity to set up their own research team within one of the country’s research institutions. The financial contribution by the FNR can be up to 1.5 MEUR for Starting Investigators (Postdoc & Junior Researcher level) or 2 MEUR for Consolidating Investigators (Established Researcher level). In the 2018/19 Call, the FNR expects to be able to fund 2 projects. Projects have a lifespan of 5 years. The next ATTRACT deadline is 15 November 2018 (pre-proposals). Find out more
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You know that you prefer the Total CAF Champions League to the UEFA Champions League when...
Indeed, the Champions League represents for a large part of the population the competition taking place in Europe. But not you and your mates, who easily favour its African homonym. That’s because...
You think that African Cup of Champions Clubs, its former name, has a lot more class than Cup of European Champions Clubs.
You never forget to underline that its little sister is called the Confederation Cup. That is definitely sexier than Europa League.
You hate the Real Madrid. You always have.
You love Al Ahly. Even more so since the 2000s.
You already know that the Décima will be the best day of your life.
And that the Red Devils have nothing to do whatsoever with Manchester United.
You don’t like the idea of a tournament in place for three or four countries to show off.
So you have the bare minimum of respect for Michel Platini.
Even though your favourite African nation remains Egypt. It just has to.
You’re not the biggest fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Iker Casillas.
As opposed to Stephen Worgy, Waël Goma and Mohamed Aboutrika. Now those are real players.
You never forget that there’s only one Chelsea: the Berekum Chelsea Football Club. And that it’s still waiting for its first CAF Champions League trophy.
You think a season must be set around a civil year. A final in June? Now that’s just preposterous.
You have a laugh every time you ear “Cup with big ears”. Ridiculous.
You’re well aware than no game is ever easy in a competition worth the name.
And that players must adapt to the field and not the other way around.
You never underestimate the hidden strength of Hop-O-My-Thumb. Hey there, Enyimba FC.
You don’t think twice about a club’s president selecting himself the supporters that can attend the game. Hey there, Mortada Mansour.
You don’t see what’s wrong with three clubs from the same country ending up in the same group. Hey there, 2015 edition.
You do see a substantial problem with final without second leg play while it’s been the case for all prior times.
You never understood a thing to the lyrics of this song.
You consider that adding the main sponsor on a logo gives him a serious aesthetic bump.
You were watching TV (or at the stadium) on November 4th.
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FBI's Awlaki surveillance footage revealed
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne, | Fox News
EXCLUSIVE: New files obtained through a federal lawsuit show, for the first time, FBI surveillance images of American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on the same day he spoke at a Pentagon lunch to promote post-9/11 outreach to the Muslim community.
The FBI documents confirm the imam was under bureau surveillance as part of the “IT UBL/Al-Qaeda” investigation, but the information was not shared with the Defense Department’s Office of General Counsel, which sponsored the 2002 Pentagon lunch.
The high-level FBI surveillance – including specialized teams, as well as video and photos – also calls into question the bureau’s explanation regarding a decision eight months later, in October 2002, by FBI agent Wade Ammerman. While Awlaki was held by Customs officers at JFK airport because of an outstanding warrant for the cleric’s arrest from the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego, Ammerman told Customs to release him. The FBI has maintained Ammerman’s actions were routine.
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Awlaki, who became the first American put on the CIA’s capture-or kill list, died in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011. The cleric’s travels in and out of America while he steadily moved up the Al Qaeda food chain have been the subject of extensive reporting and investigations by Fox News, in “The American Terrorist” and “Secrets of 9/11.”
The latest photos, reviewed by Fox News, are frame grabs from video shot by the FBI. They were obtained by ongoing FOIA litigation filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit which promotes government transparency.
The FBI first released blurry ‘Xerox’ copies in 2013 of the photos with poor resolution. Chris Farrell, director of Judicial Watch investigations, said they sued the bureau for more because Awlaki had confirmed contact with the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego and Virginia.
“The FBI continues to obstruct and delay the production of records concerning their investigation of the dead terrorist spiritual leader of the 9/11 hijackers -- Anwar Awlaki,” Farrell said.
Particularly striking is the newly released FBI surveillance photos of the six-foot-one-inch, 135-pound imam wearing a long brown coat walking around Virginia on Feb. 5 2002, which was the same day he spoke at the Department of Defense luncheon.
As first reported by Fox News, the luncheon was held in the Pentagon where just five months earlier American Airlines Flight #77 crashed after being hijacked, killing 189 people, as part of the 9/11 attacks.
The Awlaki luncheon was attended by more than 70 people, according to a highly redacted email obtained by Fox News. Titled, “Islam and Middle Eastern Politics and Culture,” it was held in a Pentagon executive dining room and featured smoked ham and turkey. At the time, besides being known to at least three of the 19 hijackers, Awlaki had California and Virginia rap sheets with arrests for prostitution and loitering around a school.
Yet the highly redacted FBI documents and surveillance logs also reveal that Awlaki was known to the bureau to be back in Virginia on March 28 traveling around with an “Unknown Middle Eastern Male” of medium build wearing a blue jacket and a white baseball cap.
Farrell said the FBI released screen grabs but refused to release the surveillance videos. “Almost 16 years later [after 9/11 attacks], how are the interests of the American public served by the FBI’s legal gamesmanship and excessive redactions?” he said.
October 2002 was a key month of movement for Awlaki, especially after a federal warrant had been issued for his arrest -- but was mysteriously rescinded when he showed up at JFK airport in New York on Oct. 10. He easily traveled to Virginia and eventually disappeared in Yemen, becoming a top recruiter for Al Qaeda.
In 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit remanded a post-9/11 terrorism case on the grounds that the FBI withheld evidence of its 2002 investigation into Awlaki, as well as into a northern Virginia Islamic scholar, according to federal court documents.
The case focused on allegations that Dr. Ali Al-Timimi -- a cancer researcher and self-described Muslim scholar -- inspired a group of young men from Virginia to travel to Pakistan to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of the largest terror organizations in South Asia.
Timimi was convicted on 10 felonies and received a life sentence in 2005.
The Fourth Circuit decision was based on new evidence uncovered from the National Archives by defense attorney Jonathan Turley and his team, as well as the findings of an ongoing Fox News investigation that showed that details of Awlaki's re-entry to the U.S. in 2002 and the role played by the FBI agent who facilitated his re-entry were withheld from the defense, and withheld during his appeal.
What makes the October 2002 incident all the more strange is that the FBI allowed Awlaki to go free, apparently without surveillance, while scores of young Muslim men with no known connection to the 9/11 hijackers were held on material witness warrants.
Earlier that same year, the bureau had used the "SSG" or special surveillance group, reserved for the highest priority cases, to track the cleric and his frequent use of prostitutes, some of them underage.
The FBI has never publicly explained why its handling of Awlaki changed so dramatically.
Awlaki would later be tied to terror plots including the Fort Hood massacre and the thwarted attacks of the Fort Dix Six and so-called underwear bomber. He remains one of the first terrorists to demonstrate command of the Internet to recruit and inspire radical followers.
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.
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Published November 22
Trump and Melania host Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago
By Chris Irvine | Fox News
President Donald Trump, center, and first lady Melania Trump, right, sit with their family as they have Thanksgiving Day dinner at their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. Ivanka Trump, left, and Barron Trump, second from left, attend. (AP)
President Trump was joined by his family as he hosted a Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at the “winter White House” – his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Items on the menu included a carving station with turkey and all the trimmings, as well as beef tenderloin, lamb and salmon.
There was also Chilean Sea bass, Red Snapper, Braised short ribs and sides including whipped potatoes, sweet potatoes and traditional stuffing.
TRUMP THREATENS TO SHUT DOWN 'WHOLE BORDER' WITH MEXICO IF IMMIGRATION BECOMES 'UNCONTROLLABLE'
The White House’s pool reporter said romaine lettuce was not used in any dish. At least 32 people have gotten sick as a result of an E.coli outbreak believed to be connected to romaine, according to the FDA.
Ivanka Trump talks with her kids as she has Thanksgiving Day dinner at their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018, with President Donald Trump, left, and sister Tiffany Trump, background left. (AP)
Trump could be seen enjoying dinner, flanked by his wife Melania and son Barron, aged 12. He was also joined by his oldest daughter Ivanka and her family, his younger daughter Tiffany, and his son Eric and his wife Lara. His oldest son Donald Jr. was not present.
He arrived at the Palm Beach club on Tuesday night, where he has been mixing business with pleasure. On Wednesday he played a “quick round” of golf with Jack Nicklaus, his son Gary and grandson G.T.
TRUMP CONTINUES WAR OF WORDS WITH CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS
But he was active on Thursday, speaking to reporters about the U.S. border with Mexico, where he threatened to close it for an undisclosed period of time if his administration determines its southern neighbor has lost “control” on its side.
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he has Thanksgiving Day dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday (AP)
Trump said that if U.S. officials "find that it's uncontrollable, if we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control. The whole border."
He also held a Thanksgiving Day conference call with members of all five branches of the military to thank them for their service and check in on the status of their mission.
Speaking over the phone, he told members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard that he and First Lady Melania Trump wanted to express their "profound gratitude."
“Your courage truly inspires us,” Trump said.
He also visited the Coast Guard Station Lake Worth in Riviera Beach, where he shook hands and posed for photos with Coast Guard members.
Fox News' Andrew O'Reilly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Chris Irvine is Senior News Editor at Fox News. His Twitter can be found @chrisirvine86
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Still waiting for 1st title of 2013, Federer expects his best still to come this year
HALLE, Germany – Roger Federer is confident his best is yet to come with the return to grass courts.
It's nearly mid-June and Federer is still without a title in 2013. He is the top-seeded player in Halle, a grass-court warm-up tournament for Wimbledon. Four of his Wimbledon championships came after Federer also won Halle.
The 31-year-old Federer is looking for his sixth title in Halle and says it's "one of my favorite places on the tour, and being successful there makes it even more likable."
Federer will also play doubles, teaming up with German veteran Tommy Haas, who beat him in last year's Halle final.
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Texas, Notre Dame agree to four-game series starting in 2015 at South Bend
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas and Notre Dame have agreed to a four-game series starting in 2015 that brings together two of the most successful and storied programs in college football.
The Longhorns are scheduled to play in South Bend on Sept. 5, 2015. The Fighting Irish are slated to play in Austin on Sept. 3, 2016, and again on Aug. 31, 2019.
The Longhorns return to South Bend on Sept. 12, 2020.
Texas is No. 2 in NCAA history with 845 wins. Notre Dame is third with 837.
They have played 10 times, with the Fighting Irish winning eight. The last time the Longhorns beat Notre Dame was in the 1970 Cotton Bowl. The victory capped off Texas' national championship season. The Irish and Longhorns last played in 1996 at Austin.
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Distant radio galaxies reveal hidden structures right above our heads
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics
TORONTO, ON [1 June 2015] - By observing galaxies billions of light-years away, a team of astronomers has detected tube-like structures mere hundreds of kilometres above the Earth's surface.
"For over 60 years, scientists believed these structures existed but by imaging them for the first time, we've provided visual evidence that they are really there," said Cleo Loi of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) at the University of Sydney and lead author of a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters last week.
The astronomers--including Prof. Bryan Gaensler, former director of CAASTRO and the current director of the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto--made their observations with the Murchison Widefield Array. The MWA is a radio telescope in Western Australia designed to observe the early Universe and distant galaxies, as well as stars and nebulae within our own Milky Way Galaxy.
As light from a galaxy passes through layers in the Earth's magnetosphere, the light's path--and hence the galaxy's apparent position--is altered by variations in density in the layers. The effect is like looking up from the bottom of a swimming pool at the distortions caused by waves on the surface.
Mapping the variations in the positions of multiple radio sources over the course of a night revealed the shape and dimensions of the tube structures. As well, by exploiting the MWA's rapid "snapshot" capabilities, Loi and her colleagues created a movie--effectively capturing the real-time motions of the tubes.
According to Gaensler, "We were trying to understand if the motions of the ionosphere were random or had a pattern, both to see if the MWA could be used to study the ionosphere, and also to be able to correct for its effect and study the sources behind it."
In addition, the astronomers made their observations using the east and west halves of the MWA's array of antennas as separate instruments. "This is like turning the telescope into a pair of eyes, and by doing that we were able to probe the 3D nature of these structures and watch them move around," said Loi.
The observations revealed that the tubes above the MWA are 500 to 700 km above the surface and are aligned with the Earth's magnetic field. The tubes are at an angle to the surface because they follow the field as it angles down into the planet.
The insight into our own world is just one part of the accomplishment. According to Gaensler, "This work highlights the new frontier that the MWA is opening up. By operating at low radio frequencies and covering such an enormous field of view, we can study subtle and complicated processes that we had only ever caught fleeting glimpses of previously."
Paper: Real-time imaging of density ducts between the plasmasphere and ionosphere; Loi, Murphy, Gaensler, et al; arXiv:1504.06470
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZEOihlIdU&feature=youtu.be
Image: http://dunlap.utoronto.ca/distant-radio-galaxies-reveal-hidden-structures-heads
Cleo Loi, University of Sydney, phone +61 2 9114 2289, cell +61 434 980 778, email sloi5113@uni.sydney.edu.au
Prof Bryan Gaensler, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, cell 416 522 0887, email bgaensler@dunlap.utoronto.ca
Chris Sasaki, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, phone +1 416 978 6613, email csasaki@dunlap.utoronto.ca
Dr. Wiebke Ebeling, CAASTRO, phone +61 8 9266 9174, cell +61 423 933 444, email wiebke.ebeling@curtin.edu.au
Verity Leatherdale, University of Sydney, phone +61 2 9351 4312, cell +61 403 067 342, email verity.leatherdale@sydney.edu.au
The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics continues the legacy of the David Dunlap Observatory of developing innovative astronomical instrumentation, including instrumentation for the largest telescopes in the world. The research of its faculty and Dunlap Fellows spans the depths of the Universe, from the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, to the formation of stars, the evolution and nature of galaxies, dark energy, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and SETI. The institute also continues a strong commitment to developing the next generation of astronomers and fostering public engagement in science.
For more information: http://dunlap.utoronto.ca
Chris Sasaki
csasaki@dunlap.utoronto.ca
@dunlapinstitute
http://di.utoronto.ca
GEOPHYSICS/GRAVITY
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Hurricane Blanca now appears less organized in NASA infrared light
IMAGE: The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi satellite captured this infrared night-time picture of Hurricane Blanca several hundred miles west of the Mexican coast. view more
Credit: NRL/NASA/NOAA
One of the instruments that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looks at tropical cyclones using infrared light. In a comparison of infrared data from June 3 and 4, images show that Hurricane Blanca had weakened and became less organized.
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite measured cloud top temperatures in Blanca on June 3 at 20:17 UTC (4:23 p.m. EDT) when maximum sustained winds were near 140 mph (220 kph) with higher gusts. At the time, Blanca was a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The AIRS data showed a concentrated ring of powerful thunderstorms around a pinhole eye. Because infrared data measures temperature, AIRS saw that cloud top temperatures in the thunderstorms surrounding the tiny eye were as cold as -81.6F/-63.1C.
When Aqua passed over Blanca the following day, June 4 at 08:36 UTC (4:36 a.m. EDT) AIRS captured more information about the structure and cloud top temperatures. That satellite overpass showed that the bands of thunderstorms spiraling into the center had become fragmented and the pinhole eye that was visible on June 3 had disappeared from the AIRS image on June 4. At the time of the image, Blanca's maximum sustained winds had dropped to 125 mph (205 kph). The 4 a.m. EDT discussion from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted "It is not clear whether the slight decrease in wind speed is a result of an eyewall replacement cycle, drier air wrapping into the circulation, or upwelling of cooler waters beneath the nearly stationary hurricane."
At 08:29 UTC (4:29 a.m. EDT), the VIIRS or Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi satellite captured an infrared night-time picture of Hurricane Blanca several hundred miles west of the Mexican coast. The VIIRS image showed what appeared to be a cloud-filled eye and confirmed the bands of thunderstorms wrapping into it had become more fragmented.
On June 4, in the 11 a.m. EDT discussion, the NHC noted that "It appears that the combination of upwelling and an eyewall replacement cycle has resulted in significant weakening of Blanca during the past 18 hours or so. The eye is not as clear as it was yesterday, and the deep convection is no longer symmetric around what is left of the eye."
Blanca is close enough to land to cause dangerous ocean swells. The National Hurricane Center cautioned that swells generated by Blanca will likely affect portions of the coast of southwestern Mexico during the next couple of days. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC), the center of Hurricane Blanca was located near latitude 12.3 North, longitude 105.1 West. That places the center of Blanca about 465 miles (750 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico, and about 795 miles (1,285 km) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 110 mph (175 kph) with higher gusts. Blanca is moving toward the northwest near 3 mph (6 kph), and this general motion with an increase in forward speed is expected during the next 48 hours.
NHC noted that Blanca is forecast to re-strengthen some during the next 48 hours before starting to weaken again when it runs into increasing shear and cool waters as the storm approaches the Baja California peninsula. For the latest forecast updates, visit: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov.
Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
@NASAGoddard
http://www.nasa.gov/goddard
PLANETS/MOONS
WEATHER/STORMS
AIRS image of Blanca (IMAGE)
VIIRS image of Blanca (IMAGE)
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Yale Career Panels: A Candid View of the Education Profession – November 11, 2013 (only register for one ticket type)
Yale University and Yale Alumni organizations
Monday, November 11, 2013 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (EST)
In person at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, Conference Room 2906 Ended Free
In person at Yale in Room 116, William Harkness Hall Ended Free
Webinar (Streaming Video and Audio - instructions will be emailed before the event) Ended Free
Share Yale Career Panels: A Candid View of the Education Profession – November 11, 2013 (only register for one ticket type)
“Yale Career Panels: A Candid View of the Education Profession” – Monday, November 11, 2013
This event is the tenth in a series covering different professions. The concept is to have a diverse panel of educators at different stages in their careers and in different areas of education, all of whom will provide candid views of their profession. A special thanks to Patricia Takemoto who organized the panelists for this event.
The panel discussion will be conducted simultaneously inNew York Cityand at Yale, with the panelists and the moderator inNew York. The two meeting rooms will be connected via video conference and the audience will be at both locations. Yale students and alumni are welcome to attend at either location. In addition, the panel discussion will be broadcast over the internet as a streaming video for those who cannot attend in person.
Time: Monday, November 11, 2013 from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm EST
(The panelists have agreed to stay for an additional 30 minutes from5:30 pmto6 pm to answer additional questions.)
Locations and Webinar:
New York Location: Conference Room 2906 at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York
Yale Location: Room 116, William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street, Yale University
Webinar: Streaming video and optional audio conference call
Please register for just one venue (New York,New Havenor the Webinar)
Where is the profession heading (good and bad)?
How do you get into the profession and what is the typical career path?
What are the myths versus the realities?
What are the characteristics of people who tend to do well and are happy in the profession?
What types of people tend not to do well or end up unhappy and why?
If you don’t stay in the profession until retirement, what are the exit routes to other professions?
Michaela Daniel, Senior Education and Immigration Policy Advisor for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (Yale School of Management)
George Davison, Head of Grace Church School, New York City (Yale College 1979)
Joanna Dolgin, College Preparatory English Course designer and teacher, New York Public School System, (Yale College 2003)
Leslie Waltzer, Chair of the Performing Arts Department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan (Yale College)
Moderator and Organizer:
Peter Young, President and Managing Director, Young & Partners (Yale College 1974)
Biographies:
Michaela Daniel
Ms. Daniel is the senior education and immigration policy advisor for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Prior to working for the City Council, Ms. Daniel was a founding co-head of school and Director of Operations at Leadership Prep Bedford Stuyvesant. Her experience in education also includes teaching middle school English at a public school in the Bronx, serving as the High School Placement and Programming Director at Breakthrough New York, working as a summer policy analyst at the White House Domestic Policy Council, running a pro-bono college advising business for low-income and underrepresented students, and a decade of mentoring.
Ms. Daniel is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and Harvard College.
George P. Davison
Mr. Davison is the Head of Grace Church School. He came to GCS in 1987 as the Assistant Head and was appointed to the Headship in 1994. Grace Church School is an independent day school that has an enrollment of 564 boys and girls ages four to sixteen. Founded in 1894 as the choir school of Grace Church (Episcopal), it was reorganized in 1947 as a coed church-related elementary school that would serve all of the communities that make up Lower Manhattan. In 2012 Grace opened a High School Division, which now includes 9th and 10th grades and is expanding by a grade each year. Before coming to Grace Church School in 1987, Mr. Davison was Head of the Middle School at Birch Wathen and before that a teacher at Saint David’s School both of New York City.
He is the past President of the Guild of Independent Schools of New York. He is a long time board member of Learning Leaders, which trains and places volunteers as tutors and other important academic support positions in the New York City Public Schools. He is also on the Board of the Parents League and is a member of the Advisory Board of Parents in Action.
Mr. Davison received a BA in History from Yale College in 1979 and has an MA in the History of Education from Teachers College of Columbia University.
Joanna Dolgin
For the past ten years Ms. Dogin has been designing and implementing inquiry based, college preparatory English courses in New York City public schools serving high needs students. Ms. Dolgin frequently runs workshops for teachers from across the country on designing rigorous, inquiry based curriculum and authentic assessments. She is the co-author of Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom (National Council of Teachers of English, 2010).
Ms. Dolgin graduated cum laude from Yale College in 2003 with a BA in English and earned a Master's degree in Liberal Studies from the City University of New York's Graduate Center.
Leslie Waltzer
Ms. Waltzer’s career in education includes an on-going private voice and piano studio as well as coaching for competitions and college applications. She was formerly on the music faculty of Five Towns College and for the past 20 years she has been Chair of the Performing Arts Department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. CSH is New York City’s oldest independent school for girls founded in 1881.
As a soprano soloist, Ms. Waltzer has appeared with numerous local New York opera companies as well as with the Des Moines Metro Opera, the Goldovsky Opera and at the Blossom Music Festival of the Cleveland Orchestra. She has also performed in recitals, chamber music concerts, and oratorio in the United States and in Europe with AIMS in Graz, Austria, with the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, Italy and with the Concordia Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.
In addition, Ms. Waltzer is an accomplished pianist and organist and has held the position of Music Director and soprano soloist at various churches in the New York Metropolitan area. As General Manager of Concert Opera of Manhattan she produced the NYC premiere of the “lost” Rossini opera, Il viaggio a Reims, at Town Hall.
Ms. Waltzer was graduated from Yale College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. She earned her Master’s degree in music performance from Hunter College and did subsequent graduate work at The Juilliard School.
Peter Young (Moderator)
Mr. Young is President and a Managing Director of Young & Partners, a leading boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm.
Prior to founding Young & Partners, Mr. Young was head of various related industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders, and Lehman Brothers for ten years. Mr. Young has been an investment banker serving the chemical and pharma industries for twenty seven years assisting a wide variety of chemical and life science companies on a global basis with regard to mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and capital raising.
Early in his career while with Bain & Co., Mr. Young provided strategic advice to major chemical and life science companies. He was also a senior member of J.H. Whitney & Co. the venture capital firm.
Mr. Young received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar with Highest Distinction), an M.S. in Accounting from the New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Previous Panels
Previous panels have covered film and drama, legal, investment banking, entrepreurism, consulting, and medical. The series for 2013-14 will cover a number of new professions, including investing (private equity, venture capital and fund management), education, government and non-profit organizations and a repeat of the medical profession.
The Series Sponsors
This series is jointly supported by various organizations at Yale University and Yale Alumni organizations, including Yale Undergraduate Career Services, the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), the Junior Class Council (JCC), the Yale Alumni Association of New York (YAANY), the Asian American Cultural Center, and the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA).
Have questions about Yale Career Panels: A Candid View of the Education Profession – November 11, 2013 (only register for one ticket type)? Contact Yale University and Yale Alumni organizations
William Harkness Hall 116 (at Yale) and Paul, Weiss offices (New York City)
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Irit Yaniv, MD, MBA
Active Chairperson
Dr. Yaniv is an experienced and accomplished senior executive in the life sciences industry, both in the medical device and bio-pharma fields, including CEO positions with Impulse Dynamics and MetaCure.
In parallel with her position at Eximo, she is a General Partner at Accelmed, a private equity investment firm where she plays an important role in leading the firm's early stage portfolio. She is also the co-founder of Digma Medical and Nitinotes, both medical device companies focusing on solutions for the metabolic epidemic.
Irit holds an MD degree from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from the Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University.
Yoel Zabar
Mr. Zabar brings more than 17 years of experience in R&D management and projects management positions in multidisciplinary knowledge-based companies.
Mr. Zabar served as HW R&D Group Manager and project manager at Hexagon Metrology Israel (NASDAQ OMX: HEXA B).
Earlier, he worked as a system engineering team leader and project manager in Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT).
Prior to that, he worked as a system engineer in SCD - Semi-Conductor Devices Ltd.
Mr. Zabar holds a Master's degree with special honors (Summa Cum Laude) in optical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Yossi Muncher, Ph.D, MBA
Executive VP, Clinical Development and Regulation Affairs
Yossi Muncher, Ph.D., is a co-founder of Eximo Medical with extensive experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.
Prior to Eximo, he was active in many business aspects of the medical device industry: distribution of products for major corporations such as Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, and Baxter-Edwards; management of clinical and regulatory activities in various start-up companies, and consulting.
Yossi holds a Ph.D. in Life Sciences (with honors) from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev and an M.B.A. from the Peres Academic Center.
Ilan Ben Oren
Founder and CTO
Ilan Ben Oren, founder of Eximo Medical, is an experienced physicist with extensive expertise in the development of medical devices.
Mr. Ben Oren's experience as CTO in other companies includes Accelmed, Exalenz Bioscience Ltd. (TASE:EXEN) and Oridion Medical (SWX:ORIDN, Sold to Covidien). Prior to that, he served as a senior physicist in Scitex and participated for five years in applied research at the laser center of Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Ilan holds an M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) in Applied Physics and Material Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of more than 35 patents and patent applications in the field of medical technologies and electro-optics.
Remo Almog
Mr. Almog has over 13 years of extensive experience in leading R&D and operations teams in the medical device field with a primary focus on cardiovascular.
During his career, Almog has gained vast experience with the full product life cycle, including responsibility for product definition, product development and product manufacturing.
Mr. Almog held executive positions at MValve (as a Director of R&D. in the development of TMVR - transcatheter mitral valve replacement); Valve Medical (as a team leader in the development TAVI -transcatheter aortic valve implantation); Corassist Cardiovascular (as an R&D engineer).
Mr. Almog holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Ben Gurion University and an M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering and Management from Tel Aviv University.
Robert E. Spanos
VP of National (US) Sales Accounts
Robert E. Spanos is an experienced sales manager with over 16 years in the medical device industry, with extensive experience in the peripheral vascular space from concept to commercialization, with launching revolutionizing technologies first-time to market and strategic success.
Mr. Spanos held executive sales positions in leading companies, such as IDev Technologies (acquired by Abbott), FoxHollow Technologies (acquired by EV3), and Guidant Endovascular Solutions (acquired by Abbott).
Mr. Spanos holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A), marketing degree from University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas).
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Dr. Charles J. Love, MD - John Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Prof. Michael Glikson - Director, Cardiology Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Udi Ben Ami, PhD - Physicist. Senior consultant to knowledge-based industries, Israel
Dr. John R. Laird, MD - Director, Adventist Heart and Vascular Institute, St. Helena, CA, USA
Dr. Kenneth Rosenfield, MD - Section Head, Vascular Medicine and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Alex Avila #31 C Arizona Diamondbacks
Position Depth: 2nd C
Birthplace: Hialeah, FL
Birthdate: January 29, 1987
Height: 5'11" Weight: 210 lbs
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Latest News (Jun 30, 2019)
Avila went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored in Saturday's 4-3 win over the Giants.
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Jul 2 @LAD L 5-4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 .227 .407 .500
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Home 13 31 5 7 3 0 1 6 10 13 0 0 .226 .415 .419 .834
Away 18 49 7 10 1 0 4 7 10 18 1 0 .204 .350 .469 .819
Day 9 24 1 3 0 0 1 1 2 11 0 0 .125 .222 .250 .472
Night 22 56 11 14 4 0 4 12 18 20 1 0 .250 .432 .536 .968
Wins 16 52 11 15 4 0 4 11 13 18 0 0 .288 .431 .596 1.027
Losses 15 28 1 2 0 0 1 2 7 13 1 0 .071 .278 .179 .456
vs. own division 19 43 6 9 2 0 1 5 13 15 1 0 .209 .404 .326 .729
vs. American League 4 12 3 3 1 0 2 3 2 6 0 0 .250 .357 .833 1.190
vs. National League 27 68 9 14 3 0 3 10 18 25 1 0 .206 .379 .382 .762
vs. ATL 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .250 0 .250
vs. BOS 2 5 2 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 .400 .500 1.200 1.700
vs. COL 5 13 1 3 1 0 0 2 3 4 1 0 .231 .375 .308 .683
vs. LAD 4 12 2 2 0 0 1 1 5 5 0 0 .167 .412 .417 .828
vs. NYM 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 .143 .333 .143 .476
vs. PHI 1 5 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 .200 .200 .800 1.000
vs. PIT 2 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .667 .800 1.000 1.800
vs. SD 5 6 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 0 .167 .500 .167 .667
vs. SF 5 12 2 3 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 .250 .357 .333 .690
vs. STL 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. TEX 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. TOR 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 .333 .500 1.333 1.833
vs. WAS 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 1.333 1.667
March 2 6 2 2 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 .333 .556 .833 1.389
April 4 9 3 3 1 0 1 4 3 4 0 0 .333 .500 .778 1.278
May 14 26 2 4 1 0 0 2 9 9 1 0 .154 .389 .192 .581
June 6 22 4 6 1 0 3 4 3 8 0 0 .273 .360 .727 1.087
July 5 17 1 2 1 0 0 2 2 9 0 0 .118 .211 .176 .387
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Mar 30 ARI @LAD L 18-5 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 .333 .556 .833
Apr 1 ARI @SD W 10-3 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 .333 .571 .667
Apr 3 ARI @SD L 4-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .300 .533 .600
Apr 5 ARI BOS W 15-8 4 2 2 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 .357 .550 .857
Apr 6 ARI BOS W 5-4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .333 .524 .800
May 11 ARI ATL L 6-4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 .278 .480 .667
May 13 ARI PIT W 9-3 2 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .350 .552 .750
May 14 ARI PIT L 6-2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .533 .714
May 17 ARI SF W 7-0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .304 .529 .652
May 18 ARI SF L 8-5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .292 .514 .625
May 20 ARI @SD L 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .280 .514 .600
May 25 ARI @SF W 10-4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .258 .477 .516
May 27 ARI @COL L 4-3 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .257 .458 .486
May 31 ARI NYM L 5-4 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 .220 .439 .415
Jun 1 ARI NYM W 6-5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 .222 .435 .400
Jun 5 ARI LAD W 3-2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 .208 .424 .375
Jun 8 ARI @TOR W 6-0 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 .216 .429 .431
Jun 10 ARI @PHI W 13-8 5 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 .214 .413 .464
Jun 13 ARI @WAS W 5-0 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .220 .410 .508
Jun 29 ARI @SF W 4-3 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .238 .415 .524
Jul 2 ARI @LAD L 5-4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 .227 .407 .500
Jul 5 ARI COL W 8-0 3 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 .246 .422 .522
Jul 14 ARI @STL L 5-2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 .224 .392 .474
Jul 16 ARI @TEX W 9-2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 .213 .376 .450
Jun 28, 2019 Removed From 10-Day IL (Strained left calf)
Jun 14, 2019 Placed on 10-Day IL (Stained left calf)
May 11, 2019 Removed From 10-Day IL (Strained left quad)
Apr 07, 2019 Placed on 10-Day IL (Strained left quad)
Jul 07, 2018 Removed From 10-Day DL (Strained right hamstring)
Jun 27, 2018 Placed on 10-Day DL (Strained right hamstring)
Jan 31, 2018 Signed as Free Agent ( 2018-2019)(two-year contract)
Nov 02, 2017 Declared Free Agency
Jul 31, 2017 Traded From Detroit (for 3B Jeimer Candelario, 5-player deal)
Dec 23, 2016 Signed as Free Agent ( 2017)(one-year contract)
Aug 26, 2016 Removed From 15-Day DL (Strained right hamstring)
Jul 20, 2016 Recalled From Minors Rehab Assignment
Jul 18, 2016 Sent to Minors For Rehabilitation
Jul 06, 2016 Placed on 15-Day DL (Strained right hamstring)
May 09, 2016 Removed From 15-Day DL (Strained left hamstring)
May 09, 2016 Recalled From Minors Rehab Assignment
May 06, 2016 Sent to Minors For Rehabilitation
Apr 24, 2016 Placed on 15-Day DL (Strained left hamstring)
Nov 25, 2015 Signed as Free Agent (one year contract)
Jul 03, 2015 Removed From 15-Day DL (Loose bodies in left knee)
Jun 26, 2015 Sent to Minors For Rehabilitation
May 09, 2015 Placed on 15-Day DL (Loose bodies in left knee)
Nov 17, 2014 Signed ( 2015)(team option exercised)
Jan 31, 2014 Signed ( 2014; Opt 2015)(avoids arbitration)
Aug 27, 2013 Removed From 15-Day DL (Concussion)
Aug 25, 2013 Transferred to 15-Day DL (Concussion)
Aug 12, 2013 Placed on 7-Day DL (Concussion)
Jul 02, 2013 Removed From 15-Day DL (Left forearm contusion)
Jun 17, 2013 Placed on 15-Day DL (Left forearm contusion)
Jan 18, 2013 Signed ( 2013)(avoids arbitration)
Jun 21, 2012 Recalled From Minors Rehab Assignment
Jun 21, 2012 Removed From 15-Day DL (Aggravated right hamstring strain)
Jun 05, 2012 Placed on 15-Day DL (Aggravated right hamstring strain)
Aug 05, 2009 Purchased From Minors
Avila (calf) was activated from the injured list Friday.
Avila (calf) ran the bases prior to Thursday's game, Nick PIecoro of the Arizona Republic reports.
Avila will be shut down for at least two weeks after an MRI revealed the catcher has a Grade 1...
Avila will be shut down for at least two weeks after an MRI revealed the catcher has a Grade 1 strain in his left calf, Richard Morin of the Arizona Republic reports.
Avila (left calf) flew back to Phoenix on Friday to undergo an MRI, Richard Morin of the Arizona...
Avila (left calf) flew back to Phoenix on Friday to undergo an MRI, Richard Morin of the Arizona Republic reports.
Avila was placed on the 10-day injured list Friday with a left calf strain.
Avila suffered a left calf strain during Thursday's game against the Nationals, Jody Jackson of FOX...
Avila suffered a left calf strain during Thursday's game against the Nationals, Jody Jackson of FOX Sports Arizona reports.
Avila went 1-for-3 with a solo home run Thursday against the Nationals.
Avila went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in Saturday's 6-0 win over the Blue Jays.
Avila went 1-for-4 in Monday's 4-3 extra-innings loss to the Rockies.
Avila isn't starting Monday's game against the Padres.
Avila is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Giants.
Avila went 2-for-2 with two walks, a double, an RBI and a run scored in Monday's 9-3 win over the...
Avila went 2-for-2 with two walks, a double, an RBI and a run scored in Monday's 9-3 win over the Pirates.
Avila (quadriceps) was activated from the 10-day injured list Saturday and will start behind the...
Avila (quadriceps) was activated from the 10-day injured list Saturday and will start behind the plate against Atlanta.
Manager Torey Lovullo said Avila is "getting close" to a return, Jack Magruder of The Sports...
Manager Torey Lovullo said Avila is "getting close" to a return, Jack Magruder of The Sports Xchange reports.
Avila (quadriceps) played in an extended spring-training game for the second time in as many days...
Avila (quadriceps) played in an extended spring-training game for the second time in as many days Tuesday, Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic reports.
Avila (quadriceps) caught four innings and collected a hit in three at-bats in an extended...
Avila (quadriceps) caught four innings and collected a hit in three at-bats in an extended spring-training game Monday, Dawn Klemish of MLB.com reports.
Avila (quadriceps) ran the bases prior to Wednesday's game at Chase Field, Richard Morin of the...
Avila (quadriceps) ran the bases prior to Wednesday's game at Chase Field, Richard Morin of the Arizona Republic reports.
Avila (quadriceps) said he's shooting to return by early to mid-May, Richard Morin of the Arizona...
Avila (quadriceps) said he's shooting to return by early to mid-May, Richard Morin of the Arizona Republic reports.
Avila (quadriceps) caught a simulated game Tuesday, Jack Crouse of MLB.com reports.
Avila (quadriceps) recently resumed performing baseball activities, Steve Gilbert of MLB.com...
Avila (quadriceps) recently resumed performing baseball activities, Steve Gilbert of MLB.com reports.
Avila was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left quadriceps strain Sunday.
Avila went 1-for-2 with a solo home run in Saturday's 18-5 loss to the Dodgers.
Avila will bat eighth and handle the catching duties Friday against the Dodgers.
Avila will share time with at least two other catchers in 2019, Zach Buchanan of The Athletic...
Avila will share time with at least two other catchers in 2019, Zach Buchanan of The Athletic reports.
Avila is on the bench Friday against Colorado.
Avila is not in the lineup Tuesday against the Cubs.
Avila is not in the lineup Sunday against the Astros.
Avila is out of the starting lineup against the Astros on Friday.
Avila is not in the lineup versus the Rockies on Thursday.
Avila is not in the lineup Tuesday against the Rockies, Patrick Saunders of The Denver Post reports.
Avila is in the lineup for fifth time in the Diamondbacks' last eight games Monday against the...
Avila is in the lineup for fifth time in the Diamondbacks' last eight games Monday against the Rockies.
Avila went 1-for-2 with a pair of walks Friday in the Diamondbacks' 5-3 win over the Braves.
Avila is out of the lineup for the fourth straight game Tuesday against the Angels.
Avila is again out of the lineup Sunday against the Padres.
Avila is not in Saturday's lineup against the Padres.
Avila is out of the lineup against the Padres on Friday.
Avila went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk Tuesday in the Diamondbacks' 6-4 win over the...
Avila went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk Tuesday in the Diamondbacks' 6-4 win over the Rangers.
Avila is not in the lineup for Monday's game against the Rangers.
Alex Avila Sitting Out on Monday
Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Alex Avila (rest) is out of the starting lineup for Monday's game against the Texas Rangers. Jeff Mathis will draw the start behind the plate and bat ninth against righty Bartolo Colon. Mathis has been playing decent for a backup catcher this season, but should be avoided in DFS contests and fantasy leagues.
Avila is not in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Reds.
Avila is not in the lineup for Sunday's game against the Giants.
Avila is not in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Giants.
Avila is not in the lineup against San Francisco on Thursday.
Avila is out of the lineup Sunday against the Padres.
Avila isn't in Friday's lineup against San Diego.
Avila is out of the lineup against the Cubs on Wednesday.
Avila is out of the lineup for the third straight game Monday against the Cubs.
Avila is out of the lineup Sunday against the Rockies.
Avila is not starting Saturday against the Rockies.
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NYT Proxy Hypocrisy
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/03/nyt-proxy-hypocrisy
The New York Times's 2011 proxy statement is out, and as usual it is good for some laughs.
Back in 2002, after Enron, the New York Times editorialized against auditors performing consulting work for companies they audit. Said one editorial:
reports that four of the five major accounting firms, including Arthur Andersen, may be moving away from offering certain consulting and internal audit services to the companies they audit is a welcome development. For too long the profession has failed to acknowledge the conflict of interest inherent in auditing a company's books while trying to sell it other services.
Another editorial said, "Firms have placed themselves in an untenable conflict of interest by providing the same companies they audit on behalf of the public with an array of consulting services. Congress ought to pass legislation to bar such conflicts."
Sure enough, page 70 of the New York Times Company's 2011 proxy statement includes a table of the fees that the New York Times paid to its auditor, Ernst & Young, in fiscal 2010. $3,072,000 was for "audit fees" and $95,000 were "all other fees," which the proxy statement says "were related to consulting services." Inherent and untenable conflict of interest? Only when someone else does it.
The other good one in the Times proxy statement is that the "say on pay" executive pay vote is going to be limited to Class B shareholders — in other words, the Ochs-Sulzberger-Golden-Dolnick family members, rather than all the shareholders who hold economic interests in the Times company. Here's the way the Times proxy statement explains it, on page 68:
On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act") was signed into law by President Obama. The Act provides for a number of corporate governance and executive compensation reforms, including the requirement that U.S. public companies provide stockholders a non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of the company's named executive officers (a "say-on-pay" vote). The say-on-pay vote must occur at least once every three years, and stockholders must also be given, at least once every six years, an advisory vote regarding whether future say-on-pay votes will occur every one, two or three years (a "frequency vote"). The initial say-on-pay and frequency votes must occur at a company's first annual stockholder meeting taking place on or after January 21, 2011. Accordingly, these matters will be vote on at our 2011 Annual Meeting.
Under our Certificate of Incorporation, an advisory vote on compensation or on the frequency of such votes is not among the expressly enumerated items as to which the Class A stock has a vote. As a result, for the Company, the say-on-pay vote and the frequency vote are items reserved for a vote of the Class B stockholders.
So Carlos Slim, who owns 16% of the Class A Shares, or around $250 million worth, gets no vote on the executive compensation.
The "say-on-pay" was in Section 951 of Dodd-Frank: "Not less frequently than once every 3 years, a proxy or consent or authorization for an annual or other meeting of the shareholders for which the proxy solicitation rules of the Commission require compensation disclosure shall include a separate resolution subject to shareholder vote to approve the compensation of executives."
I was against say on pay for reasons explained here, but it will be interesting to see whether other companies that have multiple classes of shares also allow only the class that is family-controlled to vote in the "say" on pay. If so, it looks like it may be not so much of a "say" at all, at least for those shareholders who purchased shares rather than inheriting them.
I'm not shedding any tears for those non-family shareholders; they should have known what they were getting into, and it's just a non-binding advisory vote anyway. Still, it looks like shareholder democracy has its limits, at least at the New York Times Company.
by Ira Stoll | Mar 21, 2011 at 1:28 pm Related Topics: Capital Markets Regulation, Compensation, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list
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Game of Thrones: how to avoid spoilers on the Internet ?
Haberkip On the Internet, there is no worse danger than the "spoiler". This term, which can be translated by the verb "to spoil" in French, refers to the act of disc
On the Internet, there is no worse danger than the "spoiler". This term, which can be translated by the verb "to spoil" in French, refers to the act of disc
On the Internet, there is no worse danger than the "spoiler". This term, which can be translated by the verb "to spoil" in French, refers to the act of discovering a key element of the plot of a work of fiction until you have had the time to watch or read. We are spoiling the pleasure of discovering a film, a tv series or a book.
" READ ALSO - Game of Thrones, the series that has transformed the television industry
In the case of Game of Thrones, avoid the "spoiler" is almost a sporting achievement. Between those who stand up in the middle of the night from Sunday to Monday to watch the new episode live, at the time of its dissemination in the United States, and the English media (and also francophone!) who publish their criticism in a burst early in the morning, difficult to ignore what is happening on the side of the Stark, Lannister or Daenerys Targaryen. Le Figaro gives you some tips to protect you against any surprises.
● to silence the indiscreet
This is a useful against the harassment, but also against the spoilers: the "mute" (also translated as "mute" or "hide" in French) is an effective weapon to protect themselves from discussions on the plot of your favorite series. This option is available on most major social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. It can be used against a person, for example your friend who lives in the United States, and who loves a little too much to boast of having seen the new episode before everyone else. Or the american media, which has the unfortunate habit of publishing pictures of the series, or reveal the key points of the scenario while you take your breakfast. Once muted, you will no longer see his posts on your news feed. It will, however, always in your contacts or friends list.
Facebook , go to the profile of your friend, press the icon "subscriber" or "subscriber" (the second from the left, beside or below the picture). By clicking, you can request to "follow" that person. Its publications will no longer appear in your news feed. You can also perform a gesture similar directly in your news feed: click the icon in the shape of three dots in the top right corner of a publication which bothers you. You can then choose to temporarily hide all the publications of a person, a page or a group.
Instagram , press the icon in the shape of three dots in the top right of the profile: press "mute". You can choose to hide posts from one account, its stories, or both, of your news feed.
Twitter , press the icon in the shape of three small point, in the top right of the profile concerned. Then click on "hide @tellepersonne".
● dismiss (in part) Game of Thrones your news feed
even More effective, you can choose to "mutate" some of the words. This allows you to remove all messages, for example, reference to "Game of Thrones", "Daenerys", "GOT", or hashtags such as #GOT8. It is not a perfect solution, but it protects a minimum. Be creative, because a lot of people do not use hashtags officials to talk about a series. We suggest you: #GameOfThrones, #GOT, #GOTseason8, #GOT8, #GameofThronesSeason8 etc, Put them in black list the names of the characters from the series and words like "the Wall", "dragon" or "king of the Night" is also an effective way to avoid falling by accident on a discussion inopportune. Please do not hesitate to put these terms in French but also in English.
This option is particularly available on Twitter. Click on "settings and privacy" in the drop-down menu of your profile picture, then on "masked words". You can specify the word or hashtag that you want to see it disappear. It is necessary to return the words one at a time. You can also enter groups of words, such as "Game of Thrones".
Some extensions for Web browser that allow you to perform a sort similar on other platforms , automatically blocking any sites or publications with words freely chosen by the user or specially dedicated to a work ( Game of Thrones , Star Wars , etc.). Attention, however, to install such programs is not trivial. Some have long since been abandoned by their developers, posing potential problems of cyber-security to their users. Prefer extensions with many comments of internet users, and that the last update is recent.
● to Change its habits on the Internet (at least a little bit)
On the Internet, the problems usually come from men and women, and can be tuned by the same people. Without giving up your entire morning routine on the social networks, adapt a bit, using your common sense . Drop your visit daily on your favorite forum that is dedicated to Game of Thrones , unsubscribe from the official page of the series on Facebook (or that of HBO, the american channel that broadcasts the series), do not look in no case a term in relation with the series on YouTube, which is full of videos commenting on the episodes and the plot of the series, or on Tumblr, temple of the spoilers online, and of course Google.
Good luck, and good viewing!
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2MASS: 2MASS is the Two Micron All-Sky Survey. 2MASS imaged the whole sky in three filters at infrared wavelengths. The survey produced two catalogues, one for extended sources (such as galaxies), and one for point sources (such as stars or quasars).
Accretion disc: a disc-shaped structure of material formed around a central body (usually a star), where the material is being pulled inwards by the gravity of the central object. The material does not plunge directly onto the object because it has angular momentum which causes it to orbit around the central object getting closer and closer until eventually being deposited on the surface of the central object.
AGN: AGN stands for Active Galactic Nucleus which is the unusually bright compact region right in the centre of some galaxies. Their unusual brightness is thought to come from material that is heated to high temperatures, causing it to glow, as it falls at high speeds into a supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy. The brightness of AGN often varies quite a bit in visible light.
AKARI: Akari was a Japanese infrared satellite which imaged almost the whole sky. Akari means light in Japanese.
AM CVn: AM Canum Venaticorum star: This is a rare type of cataclysmic variable star. It is a binary star system where one star is taking material, which does not contain hydrogen, from the other star. Gaia has discovered one AM CVn star so far, called Gaia14aae.
APMUKS(BJ): APMUKS was a galaxy survey made using photographic plates on the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia. The term (BJ) refers to the filter used on the telescope and the emulsion that was used in the photographic plates.
Arcmin: An arcminute is a measure of angle used by astronomers. There are 60 arcminutes in one degree. The Moon is about 31 arcminutes in diameter as seen from the Earth (or about half of one degree). A 22cm diameter football subtends one arcminute when about 756 metres away.
Arc second: An arcsecond is a small angular distance used by astronomers - often to measure seperations between pairs of celestial objects. There are 60 arcseconds in one arcminute and 3600 arcseconds in one degree. An arcsecond is also the diameter of a 22cm diameter football from 45.4 kilometres (28.2 miles) away.
ASAS-SN: ASAS-SN is the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae which is a project operating robotic telescopes in both the northern (Hawaii) and southern (Chile) hemispheres. ASAS-SN uses telephoto lenses and finds many bright supernovae, but not the fainter ones we find with Gaia.
ATEL: ATEL stands for the Astronomer's Telegram. It is a website and e-mail list used by astronomers to quickly share information about celestial events as they happen.
Balmer Absorption: Absorption lines (dips) on a spectrum which show where photons have been absorbed due to hydrogen atoms present in the astronomical source.
Binary System: A binary system contains two stars bound together by gravity, and in orbit around their common centre of mass. Many stars are found in binaries, or in even larger groupings, called multiple star systems.
Black Hole: A black hole is thought to be formed when enough mass gets compressed into a small enough volume to deform spacetime so strongly, that nothing (not even light) can escape. Black holes can be formed by the collapse of a massive star (in a supernova). Supermassive black holes (weighing millions of times the mass of our Sun) are thought to live in the centres of every large galaxy (including our own).
BP/RP: Blue and red photometry as recorded by the Gaia satellite in the form of low-resolution dispersion spectra.
BP/RP Spectrograph: Also known as the BP/RP Photometer, this instrument generates spectra for every object that Gaia observes, and can be used to study the temperature and composition of the star or alerting source. Read more about Red and Blue Photometer.
Chandrasekhar Mass: The maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. White dwarfs stars with masses higher than Chandrasekhar mass may become neutron stars or black holes. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
CCD: Charge-Coupled Device
CRTS: CRTS is the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey which searches for transient events in images from the Catalina Sky Survey CSS and publishes them to the world.
CSS: CSS is the Catalina Sky Survey which is searching for moving objects in the sky (Solar System Objects such as comets and asteroids).
Cataclysmic variable star: A Cataclysmic Variable (or CV) is a binary system containing two stars, one of which is an ultra dense white dwarf star which is devouring its companion. CVs can show bright outbursts, appearing then disappearing some time later. Read more about CVs.
CCSN see core-collapse supernova.
Core-Collapse Supernova: Very massive stars will undergo a collapse in their cores when they run out of fuel to sustain nuclear fusion. This collapse can result in the violent ejection of the outer layers of the star which we see as a supernova. The core may collapse to form a neutron star or a black hole. Sometimes this is abbreviated to CCSN.
CV: CV is an abbreviation for Cataclysmic Variable.
Dec: Declination: The angular position of a source as measured with respect to the celestial equator.
Delta Magnitude: Change in magnitude of a source compared to one or more earlier measurements.
Doppler Effect: An increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move towards (or away from) each other. The effect causes the change in pitch noticeable in a passing siren, as well as the redshift seen by astronomers. Electromagnetic radiation emitted by a star moving away from the Earth appears to be shifted towards the red part of the spectrum (a red shift) and towards the blue, for a star moving towards the Earth (a blue shift).
DSS2: DSS2 is the second generation of the Digitized Sky Survey. It was produced by digitally scanning photographic images of the sky taken mostly at Palomar Observatory (US) and the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Dwarf Nova: A Dwarf Nova is a type of Cataclysmic Variable which displays semi-regular changes in brightness of up to several magnitudes.
Electromagnetic Spectrum: The electromagnetic spectrum is the collective term for all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. Different parts of the spectrum are given different names. Starting from the low-frequency (long-wavelength) to the high-frequency (short-wavelength) end, these parts of the spectrum are called radio, microwave, far infrared, near infrared, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, Gamma-rays.
EPSL: An Ecliptic Poles Scanning Law (EPSL) in which the spin axis of the spacecraft always lies in the ecliptic plane (no precession), such that the field-of-view directions pass the northern and southern ecliptic poles on each six-hour spin. This scanning law has been in place since the start of nominal operations of the spacecraft on 25 July 2014 until 22 August 2014.
ESO: ESO is the European Southern Observatory and is a collaboration between 16 nations for ground-based astronomy. ESO is responsible for building and operating some of the largest telescopes in the world, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the Atacama Large Milimeter Array (ALMA). ESO observatories are sited in northern Chile.
Field of view: The area of sky which is observable to the telescope or satellite at a specific moment (also referred to as FOV).
Filters: Filters are devices that selectively transmit light of different wavelengths, hence observations in multiple filters can give us an idea of the colour of an object.
Flux: The amount of light observed from an astronomical object, per unit area per unit time.
Frequency: The frequency of a wave is the number of peaks in that wave seen to pass the observer each second. Electromagnetic waves can be distinguished by their frequency; higher frequency waves correspond to blue light (or x-rays and ultraviolet), while lower frequency waves are seen as red light (or radio waves).
G-Band Fluxes: Unfiltered (white) light observed by the Gaia satellite, from about 350 to 1000 nanometres (10-9 metres).
Galactic Plane: In our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, most of the stars live in a disk - or plane - around the galactic centre. The Sun lies about 26,000 Light Years from the centre of the Milky Way (or about half way between middle and the edge of the disk).
Galaxy: A galaxy is a collection of stars, gas, dust and dark matter all held together by gravity. Our own galaxy is the Milky Way, which can be seen as a stripe of fuzzy or unresolved stars across the sky from a dark enough place. Galaxies are usually classified according to their shape. For example, we live in a spiral galaxy, a little like the Andromeda Galaxy (one of nearest neighbours). Other galaxies can be irregular in shape (for example the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds), or even elliptical. Many galaxies are thought to have massive black holes at their centres.
Galaxy names: Galaxies (and stars) are usually named after the survey(s) which catalogued them. Galaxies can have many different names. Some of the names you will see in our Gaia Alerts stream include 2MASS (also 2MASX), SDSS, GALEX. Sometimes we can’t be sure if an object is a galaxy or a star, and sometimes we get the classification wrong.
GALEX: GALEX refers to the Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite which mapped the sky at ultraviolet wavelengths between 2003 and 2012. Just over half the sky was imaged. Typically ultraviolet sources are very hot, for example Cataclysmic Variables or galaxies full of massive stars.
GALEXASC GALEXASC stands for the GALEX (GALaxy Evolution eXplorer) All-Sky Catalogue.
Gamma Ray: Gamma rays are radiation at the high-frequency (short wavelength) end of the electromagnetic spectrum. They contain a lot of energy and hence would be hazardous if you were to encounter them on Earth, but they are blocked by the Earth's atmosphere.
G-band: Unfiltered (white) light observed by the Gaia satellite, with wavelengths between about 350 and 1000 nanometres. There are 1 million nanometres in 1 millimetre.
GSA: Gaia Science Alerts
GS-TEC: (the Gaia spectrophotometry transient events classifier) software, developed by Nadia Blagorodnova as part of her PhD project, for initial Alerts classification based on their prism spectra. More information about GS-TEC can be found in "GS-TEC: the Gaia Spectrophotometry Transient Events Classifier" (Blagorodnova, N. et al (2014), "GS-TEC: the Gaia spectrophotometry transient events classifier", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 442, Issue 1, p.327-342. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu837. [Online] Also available from https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7150.)
Hostless: A hostless transient is one in which we see no obvious underlying host galaxy or star. For example, some supernovae don't seem to be connected with a galaxy, but it could just be that the underlying galaxy is incredibly faint, and hasn't been discovered yet.
IC: IC is the Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars dating back to the end of the 19th Century and is a supplement to the NGC catalogue.
ICRS: International Celestial Reference System.
Infrared: Infrared (or IR) light is too long in wavelength to be seen by the human eye. The Sun emits more than half its light at infrared wavelengths. Infrared light can be used to see objects which are hidden in dusty regions of space (for example where stars are being formed), or to study objects at high redshift.
L2: Second Lagrange point of the Sun and Earth-Moon system.
Light Curve: A lightcurve is a graph of brightness against time for an object of interest such as a star or a galaxy. The shape of the lightcurve can help us tell different kinds of transients apart. For example, supernovae get much brighter than cataclysmic variables, but take longer to do so (often staying bright for months instead of days or weeks). Stellar Flares are some of the quickest transient events and can be over and done within a few hours.
LCRS: LCRS stands for Las Campanas Redshift Survey. This was the first attempt to map a large area of the universe out to a redshift of z = 0.2.
Logarithmic Scale: A logarithmic (log, for short) scale is a nonlinear scale used when a quantity can have a very large range of possible values. It is used for easier representation of the data (e.g. when creating a lightcurve). Common uses include the strength of earthquakes, sound loudness, light intensity (magnitude), and pH of solutions.
LBVs: (Luminous Blue Variables) are very massive (typically more than 50 times the mass of the Sun), hot and bright stars, which sometimes undergo outbursts where they eject material into their surroundings. Eta Carina is the best known example of such a star in our own galaxy.
Magnitude: Magnitude is a measure of the brightness of an object. It is inverted, so a smaller number means a brighter object. The brightest objects will have negative values. For example, the Sun has a magnitude of -26.7, while the moon has a magnitude of -12.7. The next brightest object in the sky is usually Venus (which varies between -3.8 and -4.9), while the brightest star in the sky is Sirius at a magnitude of -1.4 in the visible. Many of the Gaia Alerts will be much fainter than this, and need telescopes to be observed. The faintest transients could be magnitude 19, which is 145 million times fainter than Sirius. Magnitude is measured on a logarithmic scale such that 5 steps in magnitude corresponds to a factor of 100 in brightness. (e.g. a magnitude 14 star is 100 times brighter than a magnitude 19 star).
MCG: MCG stands for Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies. It is a Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies.
Microlensing Event: Gravitational microlensing can occur when a foreground object passes directly in front of a background object. The light from the background star, or galaxy, or QSO is bent by the gravitational field of the foreground object, and can make it appear to be much brighter. We can use this effect to sudy otherwise invisible or very faint objects in the foreground, such as planets or black holes.
Milky Way: The Milky Way is our own Galaxy which contains about 100 billion stars. The Gaia spacecraft is measuring the positions, distances and motions of 1 billion stars in our Galaxy. The Milky Way is so named because from a dark site we can see a dim glowing band stretching across the night sky, where the individual stars cannot be separated by the naked eye.
MRSS: MRSS stands for Muenster Red Sky Survey.
M Star: Relatively cool star, with a surface temperature of less than 4000K.
NGC: NGC stands for the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars and is a well known catalogue of (mostly) galaxies which was compiled during the 1880s.
NSL: A Nominal Scanning Law (NSL) with a precession rate of 5.8 revolutions per year. The transition from the EPSL to this scanning law took place on 22 August 2014.
NVSS: NVSS stands for the NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) VLA (Very Large Array) Sky Survey. The VLA is a collection of radio telescopes at the NRAO which is in New Mexico in the USA. This survey covers all but the most Southern part of the sky in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
OGLE: OGLE stands for the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment which is a Polish astronomical survey using a telescope located in Chile and run by the University of Warsaw. OGLE finds thousands of Variable Stars, Microlensing Events and Supernovae.
Outburst: When a star becomes much brighter, for example due to a flare, astronomers will refer to it as being "in outburst".
Photometry: Photometry means measuring the brightness (or intensity) of an astronomical object. Often we measure photometry in a specific filter, e.g. B (Blue), V (Visible) or R (Red). We can compare the differences between the blue and red photometry to measure a colour. Photometry is usually expressed in an ancient system using units called magnitudes, which is a logarithmic measure.
Photometric Error: The uncertainty assigned to the measurement of light from an astronomical object.
Principal Investigator (PI): A principal investigator is the holder of an independent grant for the grant project.
Quasar: A Quasar or quasi-stellar object (QSO) is a compact region in the centre of a massive galaxy surrounding a central supermassive black hole. A quasar is a type of AGN. The energy emitted by a quasar derives from mass falling into the black hole. Quasar have high redshifts (which means they are very distant) and are some of the most luminous objects in the universe.
QSO Quasi-stellar object - see Quasar.
RA: Right Ascension: The angular position of an object as measured along the celestial equator, measured with respect to the Vernal Equinox.
RCB: RCB is an abbreviation for an R Coronae Borealis star.
R Coronae Borealis: An R Coronae Borealis star (often abbreviated as RCrB or RCB) is a star that occasionally puffs out a huge amount of Carbon soot which hides it from view until the soot is blown away by the stellar wind. The image shows a lightcurve of an RCB star generated from OGLE data.
RCrB: RCrB is an abbreviation for an R Coronae Borealis star.
Redshift A redshift occurs when an object travels away from the observer (the Doppler Effect). However, the redshift we see for distant galaxies is caused by Cosmological Redshift. The spacetime through which the photons of light emitted by the galaxies are travelling is stretched, which increases their wavelength, and this is observed as a redshift.
RV: Radial Velocity
RVS: Radial Velocity Spectrometer
SDSS: SDSS stands for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, http://www.sdss.org/, which imaged about one-third of the whole sky in 5 optical filters, and took spectra for more than 3 million objects. Many of the faint galaxies which play host to supernovae have been found by SDSS and are named after the survey.
Seyfert Galaxy: Seyfert galaxies are a class of active galaxies which have QSO-like nuclei, but otherwise look like normal spiral galaxies.
Simbad: Astronomical database, http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
SN: see supernova
SN Ia: SN Ia is a type of supernova (also known as a thermonuclear supernova) is thought to arise from a binary system containing at least one white dwarf, orbiting together with a second star. If the white dwarf is close enough to its companion, it can pull material slowly of it, becoming heavier in the process. If it gains enough material, it can reach a point where it explodes as a supernova. Alternatively, a SN Ia can arise from two white dwarf stars which merge or collide. Thermonuclear supernovae can be used as "standard candles" to measure distances in the Universe.
SN Ib: SN Ib is a class of supernova thought to arise from the core collapse of a massive star which has lost its hydrogen-rich outer layers.
SN Ic SN Ic is a class of supernova thought to arise from the core collapse of a massive star which has lost both its outer hydrogen and helium layers.
SN IIP: SN IIP is a class of supernova thought to arise from the core collapse of a hydrogen-rich massive star where the lightcurve shows a distinctive phase of constant brightness for about 100 days.
SN IIL: SN IIL is a class of supernova thought to arise from the core collapse of a hydrogen-rich massive star where the lightcurve shows a steady decline over time.
SN IIn: SN IIn is a class of supernova thought to arise from the core collapse of a massive star which has exploded inside a dense cocoon of gas and dust.
SN IIb: SN IIb is a class of supernova which is has properties intermediate between a SN IIP and a SN Ib. The star which exploded has lost most (but not all) of its outer hydrogen-rich layers.
Solar System Object: A Solar System Object (or SSO) could refer to anything in our own Solar System. In Gaia Alerts we usually use SSO to refer to asteroids (we also call them rocks). Solar System Objects can usually be identified by their motion in the sky as they orbit the Sun. We are not trying to find SSOs, there is another team dedicated to doing this (see http://gaiagosa.eu), but sometimes they creep into our Alert stream as an object that suddenly appeared when there was nothing there before.
Spectra: When the light from a star (or a galaxy, or even a streetlight) is split into many colours (for example by a prism), we call it a spectrum. Spectra allow us to study the temperature and composition of the object. In Gaia Alerts we use the BP/RP spectrograph to help understand the transients. See Why we take spectroscopy for more.
SSO: see Solar System Object
Starburst Galaxy: While many galaxies are continually forming new stars, a starburst galaxy is doing so at an exceptionally high rate. This high star formation rate leads to many more supernova explosions in these galaxies.
Stellar Flare: Our own Sun is variable - we have seen outbursts and eruptions called solar flares. But the strongest solar flares pale in comparison to the extreme energetics of the flares seen in other stars. The source of energy for these flares lies in the magnetic field of the star. Magnetic fields trace out arcs on the surface of the star, similar to the pattern you can see in iron filings when you hold the pole of a magnet nearby, or the magnetic field lines around the Earth. If the magnetic fields on the surface of a star become tangled and twisted, they can build up a store of energy that is released suddenly in a flare. This process is called "magnetic reconnection".
Supernova: A Supernova (often abbreviated as SN) is the violent, explosive event that signifies the end of a star's life. The plural of supernova is "supernovae". Read more about supernovae.
Super pixel: Part of a digital image with the same qualities as a pixel such as colour and brightness, but however is larger in size.
TDE: TDE is an abbreviation for Tidal Disruption Event.
Tidal Disruption Event: A Tidal Disruption Event (abbreviated as TDE) occurs when a star gets to close to a black hole and is torn apart by the incredibly strong gravity of the black hole. It emits a huge flare in optical light (but also X-rays and the radio) as it spirals into the black hole. Read more about TDEs.
Transient: A transient is anything in the sky which appears, disappears or changes. Some of these transients will be stars exploding as supernovae, or black holes swallowing stars. The Gaia Alerts project is working to find such events in the data from Gaia, and announce them to the world in real time.
UGC: UGC stands for Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies. It is a catalogue of 12,921 galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere.
ULENS: ULENS is an abbreviation for a Microlensing Event. The U is supposed to look a bit like the Greek letter 'mu' which is the symbol for micro in the metric system.
Ultraviolet: Ultraviolet (or UV) light is light that is too short in wavelength to be seen by the human eye. The sun emits UV light which can give rise to suntan, freckling or sunburn. UV radiation is at longer wavelengths than X-ray and Gamma-ray radiation.
UTC: The Coordinated Universal Time, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time.
Vernal Equinox: Position on the celestial equator where it crosses the ecliptic plane, and corresponding to the direction of the Sun at the moment when in spring the lengths of day and night are identical.
Viscosity: Viscosity describes a fluid's resistance to flow. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity
Wavelength: The wavelength of a wave is the distance between a point on one wave and the same point on the next wave. For electromagnetic waves, long wavelength light is red, and short wavelength light is blue.
WD: White Dwarf (star): A white dwarf is a very dense star. A low to medium mass (mass of up to 8 times the mass of the Sun) star becomes a white dwarf after exhausting its nuclear fuel.
WFAU: (Edinburgh) Wide Field Astronomy Unit
X-ray: X-rays are the same type of radiation used to produce X-rays of bones in hospital. X-rays are not quite as energetic as gamma rays, but they are also at the high-frequency (short-wavelength) end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
YSO: Young stellar object (YSO) refers to a star in the early stages of its life.
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Does this photo show the ghost of man’s wife?
The original photo.
Published: 11:29 Friday 20 January 2017
A Lancaster photographer was asked to complete one of his more unusual jobs – repairing an old photograph which appears to feature a ghostly figure.
Former Guardian snapper Steve Pendrill was passed a glass negative from a photo of an Edwardian gentleman.
The restored photo.
But is also has the ghostly figure of the man’s late wife hovering above him.
The negative was passed to Steve by Heysham resident William Robinson, who found it among some old family photographs.
William said: “We have had the negative in the family for as long as I can remember; it belonged to my mother’s parents.
“I remember we also had the physical photograph as well.
“I was looking at some other photos which I wanted to be repaired and found this one among them so i thought I would get it done as well.”
William said he didn’t know who the couple were, but it is believed they lived in the south of England.
“My mother is from London and the photos were always kept down there, but they it was in an envelope with a Plymouth postmark.
“It is an Edwardian man judging by the clothes he is wearing. In those days they wouldn’t have had any technology to mess about with the image.”
Steve said: “I get asked to digitally restore customer’s creased or damaged old photos quite often as part of my work, but never before had I been asked to restore a photo which included a ghost!
“It has certainly become a talking point on my Facebook page. It was fascinating if a little unnerving, especially as the photo looked quite genuine to me.”
A football coach who 'rewarded' his young players' man of the match performances by sexually abusing them, has been jailed
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What Does AI Mean for Consumer Devices?
IFA 2017, Europe’s largest technology trade show, is soon to kick off in Berlin with an array of consumer electronics companies expected to show off their latest products and innovations. With artificial intelligence (AI) changing the way in which organizations innovate and communicate their processes, products and services, AI is expected to be a component in many of the announcements coming out of IFA.
We've asked Annette Zimmermann, research vice president at Gartner, to share her thoughts on what announcements in the area of AI-powered devices she expects in Berlin.
Q: As AI and virtual assistants gain popularity, what does AI mean for devices and smartphones in particular?
A: We are being inundated by the launch of new AI-powered devices or services each month, and it feels like AI has become the default marketing term for any technology product. We need to cut through the hype and take a closer look at products that are "AI-powered" to understand what machine learning methods are behind them. Many different techniques of machine learning exist, and we know that the type of data used for training machines has a direct impact on the quality of AI products.
Nevertheless, the era of intelligent devices is here. Currently, they are mainly in the form of virtual personal assistants (VPAs), but this will evolve quickly over the next two to three years. Personal coaching systems use machine-learning algorithms to enable a highly personalized user experience, for example. Ear-worn wearables such as Xperia™ Ear, Samsung Gear IconX and Apple AirPods can become a "daily assistant in your ear," but these little helpers are dependent on the smartphone when it comes to architecting such systems.
In the future, the question will not be whether AI can enhance our devices or smartphones, but how much information we should allow these systems to share in order to make our AI-powered smartphones deliver a rich and valuable customized experience. Do I allow my personal health app to share information with my fitness app so the information combined provides a much better overall picture of my health? Do I then allow this information to be shared and used by my coach to recommend the right fitness plan for me? Ultimately, it will be about connecting all the dots — the different data points such as emotional state, preferences, location data and behavior — and then training machines using this wealth of data to enhance the services that a device can deliver.
Q: On the topic of AI, what announcements are you expecting to hear at IFA?
A: I expect a fleet of product announcements, similar to previous years. Those related to AI will be centered on the integration of VPAs into new products and the enhancement of VPAs. Some connected-home products are expected to integrate Amazon Alexa, and Huawei is said to be working on an AI-enhanced service for its upcoming flagship product. Currently the market for VPA service on smartphones is dominated by Google Now/Assistant and Apple's Siri, while Samsung has taken a different approach with Bixby.
We will see more conversational AI systems from smaller vendors fiercely competing with larger vendors such as Microsoft and Apple. Needless to say, some large vendors have a clear advantage due to investments made in technology assets such as knowledge graphs. It is difficult for smaller vendors to match such investments, but we shouldn't underestimate them — many own large databases that are used to train machines.
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Wallace Summitts Kilimanjaro:
Senior Warden, Bill Wallace traveled to Africa, on the 5th of July, with achieving the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro as his mission. The expedition left the town of Arusha and the trek began on the 8th of July through the Machame Gate. The Machame trail is the most challenging route on Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The team traveled through 5 different climate zones and a number of camps before finally arriving at the Kosovo high camp. The elevation at this level was above 16,000 feet. After climbing for 9 hours on Sunday the 12th, the team took to their tents at 4:00 p.m. to rest for the summit attempt.
Wake-up was at 11:00 p.m. that evening. After eating and drinking fluids, the team began the difficult final climb at mid-night. Each team member used a headlamp as the only means of light to travel the route while maintaining a slow but steady pace.
Brother Wallace said “the most difficult section was Stella Point. It was like walking up an extremely steep sand dune, with your feet constantly sliding back, with 30 lbs on your shoulders, only two thirds of normal oxygen levels…..and doing this for 8.5 hours. It was truly the stair-master from Hell”.
The entire team successfully achieved the 19,340 foot summit of Mt Kilimanjaro at 8:30 a.m. on the 13th of July. That was only the beginning! The downward journey was equally difficult and tiring and took 4 hours to get back to Kosovo. Afterwards, the team packed up and trekked 5.5 more hours back to the base camp at Mweka.
The journey was successful, the summit was achieved, the pictures provide great memories, but best of all……..friends of Bill Wallace were able to raise significant donations for Doctors without Borders as a result of this goal. Gate City II is an Atlanta Masonic Lodge. We are Free and Accepted Masons working under the jurisdiction of The Grand Lodge of Georgia. We meet at the Atlanta Masonic Center (formerly The Atlanta Masonic Temple) 1690 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309
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World’s Most Picturesque Golf Courses
August 18, 2018 by Holly Goodin Leave a Comment
Bay Harbor Golf Club in Michigan features three distinctive and varied courses along Lake Michigan’s coastline.
Explore the World’s Most Picturesque Golf Courses
There are more than 30,000 golf courses in the world, so choosing the best is difficult to narrow down. Is it Augusta National in Georgia, home of the Masters? Le Golf National outside Paris, the location of this year’s Ryder Cup in September? Bellerive Country Club in Missouri, which hosts the 100th PGA Championship in August? Or somewhere else entirely? Find your favorite on our list.
1. Bay Harbor Golf Club
Bay Harbor overlooks Lake Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay, offering three nine-hole courses—Links, Quarry, and Preserve—carved out of a former shale quarry. Beware the hardwood trees, which have been known to cause unwanted ricochets as you make your way down the fairway, and instead savor the immaculate greens, dramatic gorges, and luxurious lakefront.
“What makes Bay Harbor special is its setup; the course is split into three nine-hole courses, and each one is totally unique,” says Jeff Wellman, owner of North Harbor Real Estate, the exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate in the area.
2. Pinehurst
Founded in 1895, Pinehurst has hosted more golf championships than any other club in the country. There are nine courses set amid pine forests.
Arnold Palmer’s “golf capital of the world” was among the first US golf resorts. It now boasts nine courses including No. 2, which was designed by Donald Ross, opened in 1907, and has hosted the U.S. Open several times. The infamous Maniac Hill practice ground at Pinehurst sees an estimated 18,432 balls in play at any one time.
“Course 2 at Pinehurst is considered one of America’s great golf courses,” says Reed Jackson, managing partner at Ivester Jackson, the exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate in North Carolina.
3. Kiawah Island Golf Resort
South Carolina, USA
With a total of 90 holes designed by some of the golfing world’s greatest names, Kiawah Island Golf Resort was designed so the natural environment plays into the difficulty of the course.
Pete and Alice Dye’s Ocean Course played host to the dramatic 1991 Ryder Cup and will stage the 2021 PGA Championship. There are five courses, but its the Ocean—with its seaside setting, natural flora, daunting sand traps, and shifting winds—that builds up an appetite for a post-round crispy shrimp in chili sauce in the salubrious Atlantic Room.
“Kiawah Island Golf Resort is number one in South Carolina—and with good reason,” says Drew Grossklaus, sales director at William Means Real Estate, LLC, the exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate in the region.
4. St Andrews
“The Home of Golf,” St Andrews boasts 600 years of history, with the Old Course home to the iconic Swilcan Bridge and Hell Bunker.
The Old Course at St Andrews is often called the Home of Golf. The Valley of Sin, Granny Clark’s Wynd, and the Swilcan Bridge are unforgettable golfing experiences on this course, which also offers breathtaking views towards the iconic 1853 Royal & Ancient clubhouse and the North Sea.
“St Andrews is the quintessential home of golf, and the Old Course is seen as iconic to anyone who plays golf, regardless of their abilities or handicap,” says Kevin Maley, director of Strutt & Parker, Inverness, the UK’s exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate.
5. Liberty National Golf Club
The 18-hole Liberty National course in New Jersey makes the most of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
As urban golf courses go, Liberty National has to be one of the best: $250 million was invested in its creation. Located in New Jersey, just 3 miles (4.8 km) from New York City across the Hudson River, the club is so well located that golfers can arrive by helicopter or private speedboat from Manhattan.
6. Old Head Golf Links
Kinsale, Ireland
Located on a rugged headland that stretches into the Atlantic Ocean, Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale is surrounded by dramatic cliffs.
Old Head is often likened to Pebble Beach, but with less sunshine. Green fees include a spectacular 220-acre (89 ha) diamond-shaped headland and the country’s most select course right on the Atlantic Ocean.
“The setting of Old Head is truly spectacular, even by Irish golf course standards. It occupies an elevated peninsula and, as a result, enjoys 270-degree uninterrupted sea views,” says Simon Ensor, chairman at Sherry FitzGerald, Christie’s International Real Estate’s exclusive affiliate in Ireland.
7. Oitavos Dunes
On a plot of land formerly composed of sand dunes and pine forests, Oitavos is one of Europe’s most spectacular courses. Photograph: Getty Images
Although the well-known Praia del Rey in Portugal is a great course with top-class facilities, the Silver Coast’s Oitavos Dunes is less busy and provides the same exclusive experience.
Under an hour from Lisbon, near the Sintra Mountains, the challenging par 71 course skirts the Atlantic and is close to Cabo da Roca, continental Europe’s most westerly point. Situated at what was once believed by Europeans to be the end of the world, its situation is undeniably awe-inspiring.
8. Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach, the top public golf course in America, will host the 2019 U.S. Open Championship.
Many would argue that you can’t call yourself a true golfer until you’ve felt the Pacific spray at Stillwater Cove and negotiated Arrowhead Point on California’s Monterey Peninsula. The course is home to events such as the prestigious Concours d’Elegance, of which Christie’s International Real Estate is a sponsor [and Oliver Luxury Real Estate will be attending]. The annual event, set this year for August 26, is a magnet for car collectors from around the world, who gather to demonstrate their classic vehicles’ style and elegance in a now-legendary competition.
Content provided by Christie’s: Luxury Defined July 23, 2018. Read the full article.
There are more than 20 golf courses in the Reno/Tahoe area.
Check out these links to view current golf course homes for sale:
Truckee Golf Tahoe Golf
Tahoe NV Golf Reno Golf
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Capitol Notebook: Biggest news is that 2007 closes out
Capitol Bureaus
During a quiet week in state government, maybe the biggest news was simply that a nutty year is finally drawing to a close. Onward and upward in 2008.
Head Scratcher
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and other officials have said for weeks that the Chicago-area mass-transit funding situation needs to get fixed. And the sooner, the better, because fare hikes and service cuts will be implemented by Jan. 20 if a state bailout doesn't happen.
The governor said just before Christmas that he would call lawmakers into special session immediately after New Year's Day. His office on Wednesday, Dec. 26, formally filed with the secretary of state's office a proclamation scheduling the latest special session.
No need for an early wakeup call, though. The session is slated to start Jan. 2 at the crack of 5 p.m.
Quote of Note
"I don't want to be like the Grinch or something like that, but it doesn't look good to be done in January." -- state Sen. Rickey Hendon, D-Chicago, in a Dec. 26 television interview broadcast on ABC-7 Chicago. He was talking about the prospects of the General Assembly reaching agreement on a mass-transit bailout plan.
227. The number of new state laws taking effect on Jan. 1, based on a list compiled by the Legislative Information System and available at the General Assembly Web site: www.ilga.gov
Wednesday, Jan. 2: General Assembly to meet in special session at 5 p.m.; House of Representatives' Mass Transit Committee to meet at noon.
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Pakistan Cricket Team
Ind vs NZ Semi-Final: Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson 2008 U-19 World Cup Rivalry Revived
By Geo Cricket | July 8, 2019
Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson 2008 U-19 World Cup Rivalry Revived
Ind vs NZ Semi-Final: Similarities between Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson
In the semi-final of the Under-19 World Cup in 2008, there was a match between India and New Zealand and Captain Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli was Virat Kohli.
London. In the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, Team India is just 2 steps away from the title. India will face New Zealand in the first semi-final of World Cup 2019. These matches will be played on Manchester’s Old Trafford ground on Tuesday. The other semifinal will be between Australia and England.
Virat and Williamson were battling at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup
In front of India, New Zealand is considered to be a big challenge, but Virat Kohli has defeated Ken Williamson’s team in the World Cup 11 years ago. You must be surprised to hear that Virat Kohli could have played the first World Cup in 2011, how can it be so. In fact, 11 years ago, the New Zealand and India team faced facing in the semi-finals of the 2008 Under-19 World Cup. At that time Virat Kohli was captain of Team India and Kane Williamson of New Zealand In that match, India defeated New Zealand by 3 wickets and made it to the final, where they had a match against South Africa and India won the title and won the title.
These players were also part of that match
In the semi-finals of the Under-19 World Cup, New Zealand had given India the target of 206, but under the Duckworth-Lewis rule, India got a target of 191 runs, which Team India won by losing 7 wickets. Apart from Virat Kohli and Williamson, there are other players who played against each other in the semi-finals of the Under-19 and will be part of the team in the match on July 9. They include Ravindra Jadeja, Tim South, and Trent Boult. Virat Kohli was the man of the match.
After 11 years will be repeated then history?
After 11 years, these two players will be face-to-face and the chance will be for the World Cup semi-final. Let us know that New Zealand is the fourth largest team in the points table and India is at No. 1. Indian fans are hoping again that Virat Kohli will repeat that history again. After winning the win on New Zealand, India will take on England or Australia in the final.
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An Artist is Using Augmented Reality to Stage a Guerrilla Show at the New York Museum of Modern Art
By Leslie Horn on at
New York's Museum of Modern Art won't display the early work of choreographer Ted Shawn—so Adam H. Weinert is doing it for them. Surprise! MoMa just got a permanent unauthorized exhibition that displays performances inside the museum through an augmented reality app.
Weinert explains that while Shawn gave his works to MoMA, the museum gave them away. So his piece is a tribute to Shawn, however belated:
Shawn made a gift of his works to MoMA in the 1940's, but the museum later gave away these materials to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Weinert contends that if he had been considered an "Artist" they would not have been able to do so. MoMA's own policies are such that they do not sell or give away works by living artists and Shawn was living at the time of his deaccession.
Now choreography isn't something you can so easily show off in a museum environment. But Weinert has found a way to make it work, using an app on your smartphone or tablet. Download the Dance-Tech Augmented Reality app for iOS or Android, and open it up when you enter the museum.
When you walk through the halls of the place, certain structural features like a stairwell or a sign—things that are permanent—will tip the app to start playing Shawn's choreography, as performed by Weinert. You can see all the directions on Weinert's new site, The Reaccession of Ted Shawn, which just launched this morning.
MoMA has no idea this is happening. Who knows what its reaction will be. I chatted with Weinert earlier this week, and he said he had proposed this project to MoMA earlier this year, but it had turned it down. So he took matters into his own hands. Visit MoMA, and visit his site, to check it out. [The Reaccession of Ted Shawn]
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Doctors Can Now Grow Engineered Vaginas In Women
After decades of work, a team of doctors say they have successfully engineered vaginas that have been implanted and grown in women. The vaginas were grown in a lab from the female patients' own cells and later transferred to their bodies, where they formed into normal vaginas. The breakthrough bears some huge implications too.
It sounds confusing at first, but the process was fairly simple. Anthony Atala from the Wake Forest School of Medicine led the research using a technique developed in the 1990s. The patients were all women born without functioning vaginas due to a rare but severe condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome. While they all had vulvas, the external part of the female sex organs, they didn't have a vaginal cavity, meaning they couldn't menstruate or have sex. There were also, obviously, psychological effects.
Using a technique first developed on rabbits — where, funnily enough, the first solid organ grown was a penis — Atala's team took samples from the women's vulvas and grew them on a degradable scaffold made of collagen in a lab. Once they'd reached the right level of maturity, the doctors inserted the engineered vagina into a cavity they'd formed in the patients' abdomens. The scaffold was attached to the uterus and a stent was used to hold it in place for the first six weeks. After just six months, the vagina was fully developed. Depending on the patient, Atala waited between four and eight years before publishing his findings to ensure there were no complications. There weren't.
"After the operation they were able to function normally. They had normal levels of desire, arousal, satisfaction and orgasm," Atala told the press. When asked whether the women could give birth, he sounded optimistic. "They haven't tried," he said, "but they can ovulate, so there is no reason to suspect that they cannot."
While this specific procedure stands to improve the lives of many women, the implications of growing an organ inside a patients' body is huge. Gizmodo interviewed Atala a few years ago, and he spoke of a future where all body parts could be grown in a lab and transplanted into a patient. It makes you wonder, if this is what immortality looks like. "I don't know how long it will take, but I do foresee a future when organs will be available off-the-shelf, ready to 'plug in' and replace injured or diseased organs," Atala said at the time. With today's news, we're that much closer to that future. [The Lancet via New Scientist]
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VACCINATE AGAINST FLU NOW
Pregnant women, young children and the elderly will be a major focus of this year’s Winter Flu Campaign, officially launched today. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said free vaccines were available for those most vulnerable, including pregnant women, those over 65 years old, and anyone with medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and heart disease. “More than one million flu vaccines have now been delivered across the State with more to come, so now is the best time for you to get vaccinated,” Ms Berejiklian said. “The vaccine is very safe and cannot give you the flu. Best of all, it is free for those most vulnerable and offers them the best protection.” Ms Berejiklian and Health Minister Brad Hazzard launched the campaign at Blacktown Hospital’s antenatal clinic, where expectant mums were getting their flu shots to protect themselves and their babies. “Getting a free flu shot is the best protection for expectant mums and will help protect newborns in their first few months of life. It also the best protection for young children,” Mr Hazzard said. Hospital admission rates for influenza are highest in young children, with recent national figures showing about 100 per 100,000 in those aged six to 23 months. There have been more than 9,600 confirmed influenza cases in NSW already this year across all age groups. The NSW Government has invested about $130 million in the 2018-19 Immunisation Program budget, including Commonwealth and state vaccines. Free flu vaccines for children aged from six months to under five years of age are available under the NSW Government’s $2.6 million program. Experts recommend sneezing into your elbow, washing your hands regularly and staying home when sick to reduce the spread of flu. “Last year, we avoided a repeat of the bad 2017 flu season, but we cannot be complacent so please, go get your flu jab,” Mr Hazzard said.
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The Momenta Quartet originally assembled a version ofthe program, “Modern Awakenings: New Music Inspired by Buddhism,” at the request of the Rubin Museum of Art (New York), which specializes in Tibetan Buddhist and other Himalayan art. The Quartet’s members are (left to right) Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin; Adda Kridler, violin; Stephanie Griffin, viola; and Michael Haas, cello.
Modern Awakenings: New Music Inspired by Buddhism
https://www.freersackler.si.edu/podcast-player/20182/modern-awakenings-new-music-inspired-by-buddhism.mp3
Composers from Malaysia, Japan, China, and the United States explore aspects of Buddhism through music written for string quartet. Formed in 2004, the adventuresome Momenta Quartet has performed often in New York at BargeMusic, Tonic, Le Poisson Rouge, The Stone, Roulette, and Symphony Space. It also serves as the quartet-in-residence at Temple University. This concert was recorded as part of the Meyer Concert Series at the Freer Gallery of Art on November 8, 2012.
See images, program notes and related artwork at https://www.freersackler.si.edu/series/music/
https://www.freersackler.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/momenta.mp3
Momenta Quartet
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
Adda Kridler, violin
Stephanie Griffin, viola
Michael Haas, cello
Kee Yong Chong
String Quartet no. 4, “Yun Yong” (“Clouds Surging,” 2011)*
Ushio Torikai
Four TEEN (2003)
Huang Ruo
String Quartet no. 2, “The Flag Project” (2009)
In three movements, with projected images**
I. With projection of Study for a Flag, 2004, Dan Christensen
II. With projection of Swadhi #2031, 2000, Sohan Qadri
III. With projection of Study #1 “The Flag Project,” 2004, Phong Bui
Jason Kao Hwang
If We Live in Forgetfulness, We Die in a Dream (2011)*
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Accompanied by video art by John Gurrin
I. Quietly Flowing Along
II. Slowly Rocking
III. Nearly Stationary
IV. Quodlibet
*Written for the Momenta Quartet
**Projected images from the Rubin Museum of Art exhibition The Flag Project, courtesy of the Rubin Museum, with special thanks to Tim McHenry
This podcast was made possible through support from the Thaw Charitable Trust and was presented in conjunction with Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project. Audio preservation and editing of this recording were supported by funds from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee.
String Quartet no. 4, “Yun Yong” (“Clouds Surging”)
Kee Yong Chong (born 1971)
Kee Yong Chong writes about this composition: “This work reflects my deepest sense of how clouds surge across a natural landscape. It was inspired by an ink painting by my friend, the German artist Helena Belzer. In this work, the four instruments depict different levels, layers, and reflections of the phenomenon of clouds surging—different viewing angles of the same basic artistic concept. While I composed this work, I was moved by the poem ‘My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan’ by the eighth-century Chinese Buddhist poet, painter, and musician Wang Wei, which can be translated as, ‘I will walk ‘til the water checks my path / Then sit and watch the rising clouds.’ My Fourth String Quartet was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and written for the Momenta Quartet. This work received its world premiere at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York and is dedicated to the memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky.”
The composer was born in Malaysia, where his parents were farmers. He completed his bachelor’s degree at the Xian Conservatory (China) and his master’s degree at the Brussels Royal Conservatory. His list of honors includes prizes at the Andrzej Panufnik Competition in Poland, the Seoul International Competition, the Max-Reger-Tage International Composition Competition, and the International Isang Yun Competition in Seoul. Chong also received the Malaysian Philharmonic International Composers’ Award, the Lutoslawski Award, the Lepo Sumera International Composer Prize, an Asian Cultural Council NYC Visiting Artist Fellowship, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation to write this work for the Momenta Quartet.
Four Teen
Ushio Torikai (born 1952)
About Four TEEN, Ushio Torikai writes: “The idea of this composition came from a Zen garden I once visited at a temple in Kyoto, Japan. In my mind’s eye, we stand at the entrance of the temple, thinking about serenity, the history of Japanese Buddhism, and Zen. We slowly walk to
the Zen garden, but what we find there is nothing, just several small and medium-size rocks that have been scattered in the garden like dots on a canvas. We try to figure out what these rocks mean. These dots (rocks) expand in our mind doubled, tripled in size, as we imagine their placement on the canvas (garden). They sometimes resound together as bell-like chords, to make sure that we are still contemplating the idea of Zen. Walking around the temple, we wonder about these rocks, and about what Zen does for us in our daily life. . . . We return to where we started, the entrance (and exit) of the old, steady, serene temple.” Four TEEN was written in 2003 on a commission by the Canada Council of the Arts for the Toronto-based Madawaska Quartet.
— Emilie-Anne Gendron
Compositions by Ushio Torikai range widely in instrumentation, including Western orchestral and traditional Japanese instruments, computer electronics, reconstructed ancient Asian instruments, Western classical choirs, and chanting Buddhist monks. She has received commissions from Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the Modern Art Sextet Berlin, the City of Los Angeles, the Kronos Quartet, the ensemble Continuum (New York), the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, and Japan National Theater. Commissioned pieces include concert music and opera to a long-term music installation in a public park. Among her recordings are compositions created at IRCAM (the computer music center in Paris) and a work for a choir of forty Japanese Buddhist monks on a Native American poem.
String Quartet no. 2, “The Flag Project”
Huang Ruo (born 1976)
The Flag Project was written for string quartet with four pairs of Tibetan finger cymbals and was inspired by Buddhist prayer flags. Each of its three movements evokes the way a prayer flag moves. A prayer flag is a colorful panel of rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding land and creatures. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bön, the Himalayan religious tradition that predates Buddhism.
— Michael Haas
Huang Ruo was born on Hainan Island, China, in 1976, the year marking the end of the Cultural Revolution. His father began teaching him composition and piano when he was six. As China steadily opened up to the West, he received both traditional and Western educations at the Shanghai Conservatory, which he entered at the age of twelve. With the demise of the Cultural Revolution, his education expanded from Bach, Mozart, and Stravinsky to include the Beatles, rock and roll, heavy metal, and jazz. After winning the Henry Mancini Award at the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland, he moved to the United States, where he has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School. Currently he is a faculty member at SUNY Purchase.
If We Live In Forgetfulness, We Die In A Dream
Jason Kao Hwang (born 1957)
The composer writes: “The title is taken from Thich Nhat Hanh’s quotation of an ancient Zen master. It resonates with the fundamental progression of this music. The vibrant birth of each sound inevitably decays into silence, a perpetual continuum of life and death that our mercurial consciousness struggles to grasp. This existence, the flow of music, contends with dreams, aspirations, forgetfulness, anger, and love in a wordless language that moves incessantly between metaphor, prayer, and song. The voices within the string quartet unite and diverge within the internal complexity of each simple moment, as both essence and image. This totality occurs faster and with more subtlety than human perception. With faith, we listen and we travel through one lifetime knowing that ‘if we live in forgetfulness, we die in a dream.’”
Jason Kao Hwang’s Stories Before Within (Innova 2008), featuring his jazz quartet EDGE, was chosen as one of the Top Ten CDs of 2008 by Coda, the Canadian jazz magazine. His chamber opera The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown was named one of the “Top Ten Opera Recordings of 2005” by Opera News. Commitment, The Complete Recordings, 1981–1983, was voted “2010 Reissued Recording of the Year” by All About Jazz/New York. Hwang’s octet Burning Bridge, commissioned by Chamber Music America/New Jazz Works, premiered at the Chicago World Music Festival and was heard live at the Freer in 2010. Spontaneous River, his orchestra of string improvisers, performed at Vision Festival XIV and released Symphony of Souls in 2011.
String Quartet in Four Parts
John Cage (1912–1992)
John Cage was a radical thinker whose embrace of the artistic process and “chance” elements exercised a lasting influence on musical composition as well as on visual art, writing, theater, and dance. String Quartet in Four Parts is one of his last non-aleatoric works, and through it Cage intended to praise silence without actually using it. Rather than literally referring to Indian music, the Quartet explores Indian philosophy and meditation. The four parts were inspired by the Indian view of the seasons, with the first movement representing Summer/Preservation; the second Autumn/ Destruction; the third Winter/Quiescence; and the fourth Spring/Creation. Cage was also inspired by the nine “permanent emotions” in Indian art, the first eight of which tend toward Tranquility, which is the general affect of this quartet. Quoting the Indian art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy, Cage often claimed that there were only two reasons for making music: “The imitation of nature in her manner of operation, or the sobering and quieting of the mind making it susceptible to divine influences.”
— Stephanie Griffin
The Momenta Quartet has premiered more than fifty works in the past seven years and has collaborated with more than eighty living composers. Since 2004 Momenta has performed in more than a hundred concerts, including numerous venues in New York City, such as Roulette, The Stone, Le Poisson Rouge, Issue Project Room, Tonic, BargeMusic, Symphony Space, Americas Society, Asia Society, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Rubin Museum. Now in its ninth year in residence at Temple University, Momenta has also performed and lectured at Cornell, Columbia, Yeshiva, and Hawaii Pacific universities; Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and Haverford colleges; the Mannes School of Music; and the Boston Conservatory. The Quartet has also performed in England, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Emilie-Anne Gendron
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin, is a member of the Sejong Soloists and the Toomai String Quintet and is on the roster of the Marlboro Music Festival and the touring Musicians from Marlboro. She won the Stulberg String Competition and took second prize and the audience prize at the 2009 Sion-Valais International Violin Competition. Gendron holds degrees in music from the Juilliard School and in classics from Columbia University.
Adda Kridler
Adda Kridler, violin, debuted with the Knox County Symphony at age seven. She completed her master’s degree at the New England Conservatory after graduating cum laude from Harvard University. Concertmaster of Miami’s Firebird Chamber Orchestra and CounterPoint in Washington, D.C., Kridler has served as visiting professor at Ball State University and performs with Project 440. She has made solo appearances with the Charleston Symphony, on the Charlotte Chamber Music Series, and at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
Stephanie Griffin
Stephanie Griffin, viola, has performed internationally as a soloist and as a member of chamber and avant-jazz ensembles. She is a regular guest with Continuum and is a member of the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Carl Maguire’s Floriculture, Gordon Beeferman’s Other Life Forms, Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra, the Riverside Symphony, and the Princeton Symphony, where she serves as principal violist. She holds a doctor of musical arts degree from Juilliard.
Michael Haas
Michael Haas, cello, has appeared in chamber music ensembles at Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center and as a guest at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, collaborating with Claude Frank, Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, and Lowell Liebermann. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School. He has recently performed at the Yellow Barn, Tanglewood, and Taos music festivals.
John Gurrin
John Gurrin, video artist, studied film-making at McGill University in Montreal and at Syracuse University. His video and interactive computer art have been shown at the Venice Biennale, the National Museum of Singapore, and the Austrian Cultural Forum. He has collaborated with the heavy metal band Metallica as a sound designer. Gurrin serves as a full-time faculty member of the film school at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Biographies provided by the artists (September 2012)
This concert was presented as part of the Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Series.
Podcast, texts, and slideshow coordinated by Michael Wilpers, Manager of Public Programs.
Thanks to Andy Finch and SuMo Productions for audio recording, SuMo Productions for audio editing, Nancy Eickel for text editing, Torie Castiello Ketcham for web design, Stephen Allee for curatorial review, and especially the artists for granting permission for this podcast of their performance at the Freer Gallery.
Buddhism spread from India along the Silk Road, reaching China by the first century CE. The oasis city of Dunhuang in western China lay at the crossroads of the Silk Road’s southern and northern routes. This image of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, was created there in the tenth century. Unlike later Chinese images of the deity, this version remains consistent with its original Indian manifestation by representing the god as a male. Guanyin of the Water Moon. China, Northern Song dynasty, Dunhuang, 968. Ink and color on silk. Purchase, F1930.36
Buddhism traveled east along the Silk Road to the ancient Chinese city of Xian, its eastern overland terminus. By the time this sculpture was created there in the eighth century (during the Tang dynasty), Xian had become the world’s largest city. This image of Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, once adorned the Seven Jewels Pagoda in Xian. Her eleven-headed form represents the stages of enlightenment according to the practices of Esoteric (Vajrayana) Buddhism. Fragment of Guanyin of Eleven Heads. China, Xian, Tang dynasty, Empress Wu reign, 703 CE. Limestone. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1914.55
Not far from Xian lived the eighth-century Buddhist poet, painter, and musician Wang Wei. His famous poem, “My Retreat at Mount Zhongnan,” inspired Kee Yong Chong, the composer of the first piece on this podcast. The poem was one of many Wang wrote to describe scenes at his country estate. This scene is part of a handscroll by the sixteenth-century artist Song Xu, who reimagined the landscapes of Wang’s estate. The Wang River Estate. Song Xu (1525–ca. 1606). China, Ming dynasty, 1570s. Handscroll; ink and color on silk. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1909.207
A Zen temple garden in Kyoto inspired the Japanese composer Ushio Torikai, who wrote the second piece in this podcast. Torikai was particularly moved by the simple placement of rocks “scattered in the garden like dots on a canvas.” One of the pioneers in Zen garden design was Muso Soseki (1275–1351), shown here. A painter, calligrapher, and poet, he was also known for his powerfully sensitive chanting of Buddhist texts. Muso was instrumental in the formation of the Japanese Zen monastic tradition in the early fourteenth century and founded the Muso-ha school of Zen. Portrait of Muso Kokushi. Japan, 16th century. Ink, color, and gold on paper. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1904.351
In Japanese Buddhism, the biwa (pear-shaped lute) is associated with the goddess Benten (Benzaiten). She presides over all things that flow, from water and snakes to language and music, and she is thus the patron of geishas, dancers, and musicians. Shrines dedicated to Benten are usually located near water. Paintings often show her seated on a rock by the sea, as in this eighteenth-century silk panel. Detail, Benten on a Rock by the Sea. Japan, Edo period, 18th century. Hanging scroll (mounted on panel); color and gold on silk panel. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1903.111
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Competition Policy Review – big business, small business and market power
Following intense debate on Australia’s existing law on misuse of market power, the Harper Review’s draft report has recommended an entirely new section 46 of the Competition and Consumer Act.
The new section would prohibit a big business from engaging in any conduct that has the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition – unless it can show that a smaller business would rationally act the same way and consumers would benefit in the long term.
While the ACCC has welcomed the proposal, the new test presents significant risk and uncertainty for big businesses, particularly because it is unclear how the proposed defence would work in practice.
Consultation on the proposal continues and the opportunity to make further submissions is open until 17 November 2014. The Government will consider the recommendations of the final report due in March 2015
Section 46 overview
The Draft Report will do little to calm this controversy. The days before its release were marked by media reports that there would be no substantial changes to section 46, that the issue had been put “on hold” as a distraction to Professor Harper’s ambitions for the review. Then came the Draft Report.
Section 46 currently provides that:
A corporation that has a substantial degree of power in a market shall not take advantage of that power in that or any other market for the purpose of:
eliminating or substantially damaging a competitor of the corporation or of a body corporate that is related to the corporation in that or any other market;
preventing the entry of a person into that or any other market; or
deterring or preventing a person from engaging in competitive conduct in that or any other market.
Section 46 is the main provision of Australia’s competition law that deals with the unilateral conduct of a single business. While multilateral conduct such as mergers or collusion among competitors may often raise at least prima facie competition issues, unilateral conduct is the essence of competition and should only be interfered with under specific circumstances.
Competition or antitrust laws throughout the world recognise the unique position of unilateral conduct and the need to protect vigorous competition for the benefit of consumers while also regulating the conduct of businesses with market power that may be destructive of competition. These laws apply various filters to make this distinction, whether by looking for a predatory intent, focusing on particular forms of exclusionary conduct, or providing defences relating to efficiency or business justification.
Critics of the section 46 test have argued that the test is too difficult to prove and may result in some anti-competitive behaviour going unpunished. Criticism has been levelled at every aspect of section 46, but has recently been focused on the “purpose” and the “take advantage” elements.
The "purpose" element
Historically, criticisms of section 46 have focused on perceived difficulties in proving one of the three proscribed purposes, leading to suggestions that the effect rather than the purpose of the conduct should be examined.
Various formulations of an “effects” test have been proposed to every significant review of the competition law including the Hilmer Review of 1993 and the Dawson Review of 2003, and have been rejected on the basis that they would risk capturing legitimate competitive behaviour and that this risk would chill competition to the detriment of consumers.
Concerns about the difficulty in proving purpose have been recognised as overstated. The ACCC acknowledges that it has never lost a section 46 case on the basis of purpose, though it claims that it has chosen not to take certain cases because it did not feel it could establish a relevant purpose. Legislative amendments have made it clear that the proscribed purpose only needs to be a substantialpurpose and not the only purpose; and that the required purpose may be inferred from conduct.
More recent objections to the section 46 “purpose” element appear to be on the basis of principle, arguing for example that:
the section 46 purpose requirement is inconsistent with the principle that competition policy should be fundamentally concerned with the effect of market behaviour on consumer welfare, rather than the intentions of market participants; and
the section 46 proscribed purposes, which include eliminating or damaging a competitor or preventing or deterring a person from entering or competing in a market, are inconsistent with the principle that competition policy should be concerned with the protection of competition rather than with individual competitors.
These arguments from principle seem to have gained more currency as arguments about the practical difficulties of proving purpose have been answered to a greater or lesser degree.
The "take advantage" element
To “take advantage” of market power simply means to use that market power. The courts have suggested a number of tests to judge whether or not a business has taken advantage of its market power, which come down to whether a business without substantial market power would have, or profitably could have, engaged in the conduct in question.
The “take advantage” element has proved difficult to apply in practice. There have been slightly inconsistent court decisions about the precise test to apply, with the 2003 Rural Press case in particular interpreted by some commentators to suggest that a business would not be found to take advantage of its market power if there were any imaginable circumstances in which a business without market powercould have engaged in the same conduct.
Following that case, on the ACCC’s recommendation a new section 46(6A) was introduced to clarify the “take advantage” element and lower the evidentiary threshold by allowing the Court to consider:
whether the conduct was materially facilitated by the corporation’s substantial degree of power in the market;
whether the corporation engaged in the conduct in reliance on its substantial degree of power in the market;
whether it is likely that the corporation would have engaged in the conduct if it did not have a substantial degree of power in the market; and
whether the conduct is otherwise related to the corporation’s substantial degree of power in the market.
The courts have not yet heard any section 46 cases relating to conduct since the introduction of section 46(6A), so the new section has not yet been tested. The ACCC actions against Visa and Pfizer respectively are likely to be the first cases to consider the new subsection.
The Draft Report
The Draft Report recommends a substantial overhaul of section 461:
to prohibit a corporation that has a substantial degree of power in a market from engaging in conduct if the proposed conduct has the purpose, or would have or be likely to have the effect, of substantially lessening competition in that or any other market.
This proposal adds an “effects” test, removing the requirement to prove an anticompetitive purpose, and also removes the “taking advantage” element. Both of these elements have been used to help distinguish legitimate competition from anti-competitive conduct. The Panel explains that2:
The test of ‘substantially lessening competition’ would enable the courts to assess whether the conduct is harmful to the competitive process. The application of that test will ordinarily make the ‘take advantage’ test redundant.
his echoes arguments put forward by the ACCC in its submission to the Review, which recommends a similar test. However, it is not clear to us that the “substantially lessening competition” test would necessarily be applied by the ACCC and the courts to distinguish between competitive and anti-competitive behaviour with sufficient precision to replace the “take advantage” element.
The Draft Report proposes to address these concerns by introducing a defence providing that the primary prohibition would not apply if the conduct in question:
would be a rational business decision by a corporation that did not have a substantial degree of power in a market; and
would be likely to have the effect of advancing the long-term interests of consumers..
The first limb of this defence effectively reverses the burden of proof of the “take advantage” element, though its language does not correspond closely with any of the previous judicial or legislative explanations of that element and would need to be interpreted by the courts.
The second limb would further require that the conduct would have the likely effect of “advancing the long-term interests of consumers”. While promoting consumer welfare is a widely accepted goal of competition policy, it is unclear what is meant by “long-term interests” or how this element would be judicially interpreted or proved. It is also not clear how a focus on the “long term” would align with any assessment of a substantial lessening of competition, where the relevant timeframe may depend on the circumstances.
By requiring both of these elements with their inherent uncertainties, it seems to us that this defence would be difficult to make out and does not adequately address concerns with the new prohibition. If a business can show that it has not used its market power then it should not also be necessary to prove a long-term benefit to consumers. On the other hand, an appropriate demonstration of public benefit could justifiably ground a complete defence as it does in many overseas jurisdictions.
Response to the recommendation
The Panel’s recommendation would remove two of the key mechanisms applied by the Australian courts to distinguish between competitive and anti-competitive unilateral conduct, replacing them with a difficult and uncertain defence.
We would be concerned that both the new prohibition and the new defence would increase uncertainty as to the risk of ACCC investigation and legal action, and will result in less dynamic, less responsive and more conservative decisions by businesses that may be considered to have market power.
The far-reaching nature of the Panel’s recommendation suggests that the current section is largely dysfunctional and in need of a substantial overhaul. In our view the history of section 46 cases does not support this conclusion. Since the Queensland Wire case in 1989, the ACCC has taken eighteen cases under section 46, comparing favourably with the US Department of Justice’s ten. The ACCC has been successful in almost 70% of these cases. In several section 46 cases, it was successful under other provisions, bringing its success rate to almost 90%.
The Draft Report only invites comment on the proposed defence – and indeed only asks whether defence goes too far. It does not ask for comment on the new prohibition and whether any perceived deficiencies in the existing test could be addressed by a more moderate amendment, for example by further clarifying the “take advantage” element or by reversing the burden of proof for that element while retaining the rest of the section – let alone whether any change is necessary. We hope that the Panel will remain open to these arguments.
If the discussion is to focus on the nature of the defence, we would expect strong arguments that each limb of the proposed defence should be a complete defence in itself, and that the novel formulations in each limb might be replaced by more familiar and tested concepts.
For example, the first defence might be more effective if it simply reversed the onus of proof for the “take advantage” element without introducing new language; and the second defence could profit from the existing jurisprudence that has been built up around the similar concept of public benefit.
The result would provide a defence where either:
the corporation did not take advantage of its market power; or
the conduct would result, or be likely to result, in a benefit to the public that would outweigh any lessening of competition that would result, or be likely to result, from the conduct.
We expect there will be strong and continued discussion of all of these issues. Submissions on the Draft Report are due by 17 November 2014 and the Final Report is due in March 2015.
Gina Cass-Gottlieb
gcass-gottlieb@gtlaw.com.au
ACCC releases draft guidelines on how it will interpret repeal of longstanding IP exemption
Our previous update in February “Where to now? Longstanding IP exemption repealed in Australian competition laws” highlighted the significance of Parliament passing legislation that would repeal the limited exemption in section 51(3) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (CCA). Although Parliament passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 5) Act 2019 in February, the repeal will not take effect until 13 September 2019.
On 1 July 2019, the Federal Government launched its pilot program for Open Banking, involving the big four banks. Under the pilot program, ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac are required to share generic product data as the first step in testing the performance, reliability and security of the Open Banking system.
Expertise with tech
G+T's Chief Operating Officer Sam Nickless speaks to The Australian about the firm’s work advising clients in the defining moments in a company’s commercial cycle – transactions, disputes and regulatory matters. He also discusses how the firm has diversified through G+T Innovate – providing legal technology and systems for in-house legal teams.
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GTU Begins Search for New Dean and VP of Academic Affairs
Wednesday, August 19th 2015, 10:54am
The Graduate Theological Union is seeking candidates for a Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs to begin July 1, 2016. The Dean will work with faculty and administrative colleagues to further develop and implement a newly redesigned PhD program that will create an interactive learning environment among the world’s religious traditions. Applicants should hold the PhD (or equivalent) and be committed to the value of interreligious and interdisciplinary graduate education in theological and religious studies. Preference will be given to candidates with significant experience in graduate education who will add to the diversity of the GTU teaching and learning community. Interested candidates should review the job description for details on applying. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2015.
The search for a new Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs follows the announcement that Dr. Arthur Holder will be retiring from his current position as Dean at the end of the 2015-16 academic year after 14 years of exemplary service. Plans for the GTU’s celebration of Dr. Holder as he retires from his current position will be announced next spring.
DeanjobsAcademicsVice President for Academica AffairsArthur Holder
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Senator says detainee death scene 'a cover-up'
There was a cover-up involving the recent death of a detainee at the Department of Corrections, said Sen. Telena Nelson
Senator says detainee death scene 'a cover-up' There was a cover-up involving the recent death of a detainee at the Department of Corrections, said Sen. Telena Nelson Check out this story on guampdn.com: http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2018/01/31/senator-says-detainee-death-scene-cover-up/1081783001/
Steve Limtiaco, Pacific Daily News Published 5:37 p.m. ChT Jan. 31, 2018
Just because a person was arrested, it does not automatically mean they are guilty. Guam Pacific Daily News
Corrections officers can be seen walking toward one of four dome housing units at the Department of Corrections in Mangilao on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018.(Photo: Rick Cruz/PDN)
The recent death of a detainee at the Department of Corrections has the elements of a cover-up, said Sen. Telena Nelson, chairwoman of the legislative public safety committee, who said she plans to bring concerns about possible civil rights violations at the prison to the attention of the U.S. Attorney General.
Nelson, D-Dededo, on Wednesday said it will take about a week to prepare the information that will be sent, following a Tuesday oversight hearing her committee held with DOC officials.
The death of detainee Manson Ernest, who was found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead Dec. 29, is the subject of a homicide investigation involving the Guam Police Department, DOC and the FBI.
Police Chief Joseph Cruz in early January said the FBI is involved in the probe to dispel any doubts about the conduct of the investigation, and is prepared to investigate if it determines any federal crimes were committed.
Ernest, also known as Manson Isar, was being detained in connection with the Dec. 5 rape of a woman with Down Syndrome. He was charged with home invasion and criminal sexual conduct.
Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Aurelio Espinola said Ernest died from a crushed chest and a laceration to his liver, which could have resulted from being stomped on.
Espinola, who visited the scene, said the body was stiff and the detainee's clothes appeared to have been changed. The lockup cell appeared to be cleaned and Espinola said he he didn't see any blood.
“I don’t want to say it, but really, it looks like a cover-up,” Nelson said during Tuesday’s oversight hearing. “For items to be missing, inmate to be found dead, no blood to be found anywhere, clothes are changed. There’s something going on. It’s a cover-up, you know, it’s the truth.”
Nelson, during the oversight hearing, also provided exhibits noting other incidents at the Department of Corrections, including the March 2017 beating of detainee Justin Meno, allegedly by inmates. Meno later died, but identified his alleged attackers after waking from a coma.
One corrections officer was fired, two were suspended, and one was reprimanded in connection with the Meno beating.
Nelson also raised concerns about DOC’s decision last Easter to allow a convicted killer to attend an outing at the Dededo sports complex, along with other inmates, without first notifying the victim’s family, as required by the local victim’s rights law.
Anthony Duenas in 1984 shot and killed his wife, Melissa Quinata. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole. His children with Quinata have repeatedly asked the parole board not to release him.
Nelson said prison logs from the Easter time period are missing, from April 30 to May 3. She also said DOC has gaps in its standing operating procedures that need to be addressed.
“We are going to send a letter to the United States Attorney General and give them our findings and ask them to make the determination if any of these instances are in violation with the Civil Rights Institutionalized Persons Act,” Nelson said.
After making her statement Tuesday, Nelson tried to wrap up the hearing, but was interrupted by Corrections Director Alberto “Tony” Lamorena, who said Nelson’s job as oversight chairwoman is not to point fingers, but to help the department with its staffing, manpower and facility challenges.
“It’s easy to sit up there, and say what you want to say, without having to see what we go through day after day, senator,” Lamorena said.
He said prisons are a violent place and they can’t watch every single person.
The Justice Department in 1987 found that the Department of Corrections violated the constitutional rights of prisoners and detainees, resulting in a 1991 consent decree to correct problems at the prison. The final requirement under that consent decree is ongoing – the installation of a new electronic locking system at the prison.
The prison was required to install fire alarm systems, sprinklers and remove flammable mattresses, according to the agreement. A pest-control program for cockroaches, rats, mice and other sanitary improvements and a plan for improved health care was part of the consent decree.
- Pacific Daily News reporter Kevin Tano contributed to this story.
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Samsung Announces ATIV Tab Windows RT Tablet
Shawn Ingram
To round out its mobile devices with Microsoft software, Samsung today announced its first Windows RT tablet, the Samsung ATIV Tab.
The Samsung ATIV Tab looks like the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and has a similar 10.1-inch screen as the Android tablet, although its screen has a 1366×768 resolution. Unlike the Galaxy Tab, the ATIV Tab has a single home button, just like every other Windows RT or Windows 8 tablet. The tablet also has a USB 2.0 port, uHDMI port, a 5MP rear-facing camera, and a 1.9MP front-facing camera.
Inside, the ATIV Tab has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and either 32GB or 64GB of internal storage. It also has Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC radios and an 8200 mAh battery.
Like all Windows RT tablets the ATIV Tab comes bundled with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013. Office runs on the traditional desktop environment, but Windows RT doesn’t support any legacy third-part desktop apps. The tablet can only run Windows 8-style apps from the Windows Store.
We don’t know how much the Samsung ATIV Tab will cost when it comes out, or even when it comes out. We assume the tablet will come out around October 26 like the Microsoft Surface. We also assume it will carry a price tag that’s about the same as the Surface.
The ATIV Tab doesn’t have all the extra features of Samsung’s ATIV Smart PC lineup, but it looks like Samsung intends the to market the Tab to the lower end of the market. Whereas the Smart PC and Smart PC Pro can serve as laptop replacements, the Tab is more of just a competitor to the iPad and Android tablets.
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H.R. 2519 (115th): The American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act
About the bill
Source: Republican Policy Committee
H.R. 2519 requires the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue commemorative coins in recognition and celebration of the 100th anniversary of the American Legion.
Any surcharges, after all taxpayer costs are satisfied and then upon demonstration to the Treasury Secretary that funds equal to or greater than the surcharges collected were raised from totally private sources for the exact purpose specified in the bill, received from the sale of these coins shall be paid to the American Legion for costs related to promoting the importance of: (1 ...
Timothy Walz
Sponsor. Representative for Minnesota's 1st congressional district. Democrat.
Enacted — Signed by the President on Oct 6, 2017
This bill was enacted after being signed by the President on October 6, 2017.
Pub.L. 115-65
What legislators are saying
“U.S. House Passes Resolution Authorizing American Legion Centennial Coin”
— Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH5] (Co-sponsor) on Sep 25, 2017
“Come and Read It Report: New Year, Lower Taxes”
— Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX25] (Co-sponsor) on Jan 3, 2018
“Missouri First: McCaskill Sets Aside Party Politics to Deliver for Missourians”
— Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO, 2007-2018] on Feb 26, 2018
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The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next. The vote was by voice vote so no record of individual votes was made.
The bill was passed by both chambers in identical form. It goes to the President next who may sign or veto the bill. The vote was by Voice Vote so no record of individual votes was made.
GovTrack.us. (2019). H.R. 2519 — 115th Congress: The American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act. Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr2519
“H.R. 2519 — 115th Congress: The American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act.” www.GovTrack.us. 2017. July 18, 2019 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr2519>
American Legion 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act, Pub. L. No. 115-65, H.R. 2519, 115th Cong. (2017).
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Tour of Salt Lake City's Downtown, Salt Lake City (Self Guided)
Salt Lake City has a bounty of artistic and cultural landmarks and the city continues to add more every year. This tour will help you enjoy the modern architectural sights in downtown Salt Lake City, including some of the city's first skyscrapers.
Tour of Salt Lake City's Downtown Map
Create Your Own Self-Guided Walks in Salt Lake City
Guide Name: Tour of Salt Lake City's Downtown
Guide Location: USA » Salt Lake City (See other walking tours in Salt Lake City)
Author: tamara
1) Gallivan Centre (must see)
The Gallivan Center is an urban plaza in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City. It opened in 1993. Also known as the John W. Gallivan Utah Center, it is named in honor of John W. Gallivan. Located between State and Main and 200 South and Broadway, it serves as Salt Lake City's outdoor living room. It is furnished with an array of unique art projects, an amphitheater/stage, ice rink, large chess board, light wells and an aviary. Crowds gather for weekday lunches and lunchtime concerts. Countless other events fill the Gallivan Center with people. Especially popular are summertime twilight concerts. It was popular gathering place during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Kazuo Matsubayashi's Asteroid Landed Softly Sundial is one of the prominent features of the plaza.
Image by empracht on Flickr under Creative Commons License.
2) One Utah Center
One Utah Center is one of the highest skyscrapers downtown. It was built by the Boyer Company in 1991 and houses mainly commercial offices. It was designed by architect Niels E. Valentiner in the postmodern style. The facade material is granite, and more than 4,150 tons of steel were used in the building's construction. The skyscraper stands 106.68 m tall and has 24 floors.
Image by Skyguy414 on Wikimedia under Creative Commons License.
3) Walker Center
Walker Center (formerly Walker Bank Building) opened on December 9, 1912 and took a little over a year to build. At the time of its completion, it stood as the tallest building between Chicago and San Francisco (16 stories, 67 m). It was originally constructed as the headquarters for Walker Bank, founded by the Walker brothers: Samuel, Joseph, David, and Matthew. The basement originally contained the vault for the bank, as well as a barbershop, florist, cigar store, and other shops. The main floor contained the bank, and upper floors were used as office space. It was designed by the St. Louis, Missouri-based architecture firm Eames and Young. The Walker Center is topped by a 64-foot weather tower, which gives a weather forecast based on the color of the lights. The weather tower was taken down in the 1980s due to a city ordinance but was replaced in 2008.
Image by tmac97slc on Flickr under Creative Commons License.
4) 222 South Main
222 South Main is one of the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified high-rises in Utah. It is the newest skyscraper in town, finished in 2009. The construction of the building was completed by Hamilton Partners, and it was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. It is a modern building that supports energy conservation and has an automated HVAC system. The facade is constructed from glass and aluminum. The structure stands 22 stories high and houses mainly office space.
Image by Derrick Cox on Flickr under Creative Commons License.
The Wells Fargo Center is a skyscraper that was built in 1998 and is the tallest skyscraper in Utah, standing 24 stories above street level. It reaches 442 feet at its highest point (not including the antenna). The American Stores Tower was originally built as the corporate headquarters for American Stores. Shortly after completion, the company was acquired by Albertsons on August 3, 1998, and the building became known as the Delta Tower shortly thereafter. When Albertsons decided to move operations to the Hardware Building on 400 West near North Temple, the building was purchased by Wells Fargo Bank and renamed the Wells Fargo Center.
Image by David Jolley on Wikimedia under Creative Commons License.
6) Boston and Newhouse Buildings
The construction of the Boston and Newhouse Buildings was financed by Samuel Newhouse. Construction on the buildings took place between 1907 and 1915. He named one structure the Boston Building because of his extensive business interests in that city, while the Newhouse Building he named after himself. The Boston and Newhouse Buildings were the first “skyscrapers” in Utahand were designed by the famous New York architect Henry Ives Cobb in the beaux-arts architectural style. The buildings serve mainly as commercial office space.
Image by Georgio2 on Wikimedia under Creative Commons License.
7) Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse
The Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse (originally known as the United States Post Office and Courthouse) is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, located in Salt Lake City's Exchange Place Historic District. The courthouse is the oldest building among the eight buildings that make up that district. The buildings reflect Utah's growing prosperity at the end of the nineteenth century. Located on Main Street in Salt Lake City's Exchange Place Historic District, the courthouse helped introduce the Classical Revival style to Utah. The building rises five full stories above a basement and has a central two-story penthouse. In 1990 the courthouse was renamed in honor of Frank Edward Moss, a Utah native who served as a United States senator from 1959 to 1977.
Image by bobindrums on Flickr under Creative Commons License.
8) Scott M. Matheson Courthouse
The recently built Scott M. Matheson Courthouse is located in front of the Salt Lake City and County Building. It has a contrasting glass and steel facade. The building serves as a courthouse and houses the Utah State Law Library. The symmetric two-winged structure has a central circular colonnade, which runs through all six stories.
Image by Conrad Jensen on Flickr under Creative Commons License.
9) Salt Lake City and County Building (must see)
The Salt Lake City and County Building, usually called the "City-County Building", is the seat of city government. The historic landmark formerly housed offices for the Salt Lake County government as well, hence the name. The building was originally constructed by free masons between 1891 and 1894 to house offices for the city and county of Salt Lake and to replace the Salt Lake City Council Hall and Salt Lake County Courthouse, both erected in the 1860s. During the late 1800s and early 1900s the City and County Building was the symbol of non-Mormon citizens' open defiance of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was designed to rival the Salt Lake Temple as the city's architectural centerpiece. The architectural firm of Monheim, Bird, and Proudfoot designed the Richardsonian Romanesque building. The building's surface is elaborately carved from gray Utah Kyune sandstone.
Image by Daderot on Wikimedia under Creative Commons License.
Walking Tours in Salt Lake City, Utah
Create Your Own Walk in Salt Lake City
Creating your own self-guided walk in Salt Lake City is easy and fun. Choose the city attractions that you want to see and a walk route map will be created just for you. You can even set your hotel as the start point of the walk.
Nightlife Tour of Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City has a fun, vibrant nightlife. Visit one of the many popular clubs or bars in Salt Lake City famous for quality music, cold beer and a friendly atmosphere. Take this tour to enjoy a memorable night on the town!
Cultural Tour of Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City has a rich and storied history, which is reflected in its cultural institutions and landmarks. The city attracts many tourists with its historic buildings, modern art and architecture. The following tour will guide you to the city's most popular cultural landmarks.
Salt Lake City Temple Square Tour
Salt Lake City is famous for its ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as the Mormon Church. This tour around Temple Square will lead you to the Church's headquarters, the breathtaking Salt Lake City Temple and some beautiful, historic homes.
Children's Entertainment Tour of Salt Lake City
In addition to Salt Lake City's historic and cultural landmarks, there are many attractions that will entertain and delight your children. Visit the city's museums, theaters and parks, and enjoy some family fun time. Take this tour to visit the best kid-friendly attractions in Salt Lake City!
Places of Worship Tour of Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is home to the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and so has many Mormon religious buildings. However, many other religious denominations are represented in Salt Lake City. Take this tour to visit Salt Lake City's beautiful and varied places of worship.
Tour of Salt Lake City's University Area
The neighborhood home to the University of Utah, located just east of downtown, has a mixture of old and new homes and apartments. Many cultural institutions offer activities for people all ages. The area is fun to visit for its diverse architecture, historic buildings and natural beauty. Take this tour to see the best of Salt Lake's University Area.
View all walking tours in Salt Lake City, Utah
Whether you are in Salt Lake City for a quick stopover or have a few days to see the city in more detail, exploring it on foot, at your own pace, is definitely the way to go. Here are some tips for you to save money, see the best Salt Lake City has to offer, take good care of your feet while walking, and keep your mobile device – your ultimate "work horse" on this trip - well fed and safe.
To ensure ultimate satisfaction from a day of walking around the city as big as Salt Lake City, it is imperative to take good care of your feet so as to avoid unpleasant things like blisters, cold or overheated soles, itchy, irritated or otherwise damaged (cracked) skin, etc. Luckily, these days there is no shortage of remedies to address (and, ideally, to prevent) these and other potential problems with feet. Among them: Compression Socks, Rechargeable Battery-Powered Thermo Socks for Cold Weather, Foot Repair Cream, Deodorant Powder, Shoes UV Sterilizer, and many more that you may wish to find a place in your travel kit for.
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Talks Due Over Michelin Move To Close Tyre Factory
Talks are expected to take place following the decision by Michelin to close its Dundee tyre factory in the next couple of years.
The firm has confirmed plans to shut down the Tayside plant, which has 845 employees, by mid-2020, saying the site has faced "serious difficulties" in recent years.
Troubles at the base, which opened in 1971, have been partly blamed on competition from cheaper products from Asia.
The trade union Unite described the move as a "hammer-blow" for Dundee, saying closure would be a "betrayal" of the workforce who have worked to make changes at the site.
The Scottish Government said it will "leave no stone unturned" as it tries to find a sustainable future for the plant.
Economy Secretary Derek Mackay will be in Dundee on Tuesday, where he hopes to meet representatives of the workforce, the city council and the management team "to discuss whether there are viable options for the future of this site".
Michelin announced its intention to shut the factory in a statement on its website on Monday evening.
It said: "Despite the group's continuous efforts, and the factory employees' dedication to making the site economically sustainable through the implementation of several action plans - 70 million euro has been invested in recent years to modernise the site - the accelerated market transformation has made the plant unsuitable and its conversion is not financially viable.
"Against this backdrop, the Michelin Group has had to announce its intention to close the Dundee factory by mid-2020."
Michelin said it will implement a personalised support programme for each of the factory's employees and will work to help create 845 new jobs in the area.
It is to begin a consultation with employees and trade unions on the closure plan over the next fortnight.
In September, it emerged that jobs were under threat at the factory amid an "influx" of cheaper foreign imports into the European market.
Production for the next three years at the site was expected to stand at no more than 5.4 million tyres a year, described by the firm as "significantly below capacity".
Unite Scottish Secretary Pat Rafferty said shutting the base would be a "hammer-blow" for the city.
He said: "It would be devastating and a betrayal of the workforce who have made major changes to working practices at the site in order to secure its long-term future.
"The workforce can be assured Unite will fight tooth and nail to save our factory, we will leave no stone unturned to keep this factory open."
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard MSP said it was devastating news.
He said: "It is now key that the Scottish Government does everything it possibly can to keep the factory open and protect jobs. This should include working closely with Michelin, trade unions and the Dundee community to provide urgent clarity on the current situation."
Mr Mackay said his immediate priority is trying to find a sustainable future for the site that will protect jobs.
He added: "I was informed at the end of last week of the possibility of closure and immediately sought discussions with the senior management team at Michelin.
"I know the workforce and unions have gone to immense lengths to make the plant as competitive as possible to secure its future, and we will leave no stone unturned in trying to protect the future of the Dundee site."
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Groundbreaking £21m Glasgow Hospice opens
Dawn Renton
Published: 14:33 Wednesday 31 October 2018
The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park, has been officially opened by Eva Bolander, Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Lady Clark, chairwoman of Arnold Clark.
Designed by international design practice Ryder Architecture, the £21 million scheme is based on the Sengetun model (meaning bed courtyard in Swedish).
This patient orientated model makes it easier for patients to identify, orientate themselves and feel comfortable within a smaller group.
The original hospice in Carlton Place was renowned for providing exceptional levels of care but was not designed for young adults, whilst the new hospice provides improved palliative care for young adults over 16. The scheme includes family bedrooms and large kitchens to maximise the time that families can spend together, in addition to lounges, a sensory room, spa bathrooms and therapy rooms.
Alastair Forbes, architectural director at Ryder, said: “We are just really proud of the building, it’s a fantastic achievement for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice and the project team. It’s based on a different layout – a Sengetun model – which is the first time this Scandinavian ward layout has been realised in the UK.
“The whole design has been focused around dignity for patients and their families, and the volunteers and staff here, and the key driver through the design was patient choice. That patient has a choice and control over their environment from wherever they are sitting around the hospice.”
Rhona Baillie, chief executive of The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, said: “This is a fantastic day for the thousands of people who have supported the Brick by Brick Appeal over the past six years, for our staff and volunteers and, most importantly, for the patients and families we care for.
“This wonderful new building, located in a beautiful setting in one of Glasgow’s most loved parks, will allow us to provide the very highest standards of palliative care.”
The scheme will welcome the first patients in early November.
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Syrian Rebels Elect “Unified Command”; Group Dominated By Islamists
Reuters is reporting that Syrian rebels have elected a 30-member unified command on Friday that…More
Hamas Political Leader Visits Gaza For the First Time; Calls For Destruction Of Israel
U.S. media is reporting on the first visit ever to Gaza by Hamas political leader…More
BREAKING NEWS: Morsi Rescinds Controversial Decree; Prepares To Grant Army Power To Supress Dissent
Global media is widely reporting on the decision by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to annul…More
ISNA Holds International Conference On Rights Of Religious Minorities; Chooses Advisors Part Of Anti-Semitic Theological Body
U.S. Islamic media is reporting that the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has co-sponsored the…More
U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Asks GOP To Reach Out To Muslims
Another pseudo coalition of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood has announced that it has published a full…More
Military Stops Clashes Between Pro And Anti-Morsi Supporters; Seven Dead
U.S.media is reporting that Egypt;s military has restored order around the Presidential palace following clashes…More
Muslim Brotherhood Friendly Media Supporting President Morsi With Propaganda Efforts
German media is reporting on the role of what is called “Mubarak-era propaganda” used by…More
IIIT Sponsors UN Forum On Islamic Charity And Poverty
The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) has announced that it sponsored a United Nations forum…More
European Muslim Brotherhood Wines And Dines Officials
The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE), representing the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, announced…More
U.K. Union Of Good Charities Want Access To Gaza
The Money Jihad blog is reporting that a coalition of U.K. Islamic charities, four of…More
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Dunne: Chilwell and Wan-Bissaka can't turn down City move
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The two young English defenders have caught the eye this season and have been backed to make the move to Etihad Stadium
Ben Chilwell and Aaron Wan-Bissaka would be unable to resist a summer move to Manchester City should the champions show an interest, according to former City defender Richard Dunne.
Chilwell and Wan-Bissaka have both enjoyed standout seasons so far for Leicester and Crystal Palace respectively.
Chilwell’s performances for the Foxes saw him earn his first international cap for England against Switzerland in September, going on to make a further four appearances for Gareth Southgate’s side throughout the autumn.
Wan-Bissaka only made his senior debut for the Eagles 12 months ago but has quickly developed into one of the Premier League’s most consistent right-backs.
The duo’s performances have understandably led to speculation that one of the league’s major clubs could make a summer bid, with Manchester City among them.
The Premier League champions have been linked with a number of British youngsters in order to boost their quota of home-grown players.
Should they make an approach for Chilwell and Wan-Bissaka, then Dunne feels neither player would be able to turn down a move to Etihad Stadium.
“Chilwell would be a positive move for the club, and he’d help keep up the quota of English players at the club,” Dunne told us-bookies.com.
“He looks like a talented footballer. However, anyone that comes in as a left-back has to realise they won’t be an understudy, and due to injury problems they will be playing regularly at Man City. It’s a great chance for him to establish himself at one of the biggest clubs in Europe.
“Wan-Bissaka looked a very good player when he played the Etihad, he’s got great pace and gets up and down the pitch. He’s not as great on the ball as [Kyle] Walker, but defensively he’s excellent and very hard to beat.
“Playing with Kyle Walker will help him develop at such a young age, much like Chilwell it’s an opportunity they can’t turn down. With the chance to play Champions League football and learn under Pep Guardiola.”
Another potential home-grown target is West Ham’s Declan Rice, who recently switched his international allegiance from the Republic of Ireland to England.
Dunne believes the 20-year-old would also be a good addition to City’s already talented squad.
“Declan Rice is a very, very talented player and he’s doing well for West Ham. I’m sure Man City will be looking at him,” added the former Republic of Ireland captain.
“The opportunity for him to go to a big club like Man City, and the fact he’s now an English player will be a factor. They’d do well in signing him.”
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Many College Students Are Not Digitally Literate
Posted By Terri Williams on September 11, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Millennials and Generation Z are subject to many generational assumptions. For example, it’s been suggested that such purchases as $19 avocados are the real reason millennials struggle financially.
At the New Media Consortium 2017 Summer Conference, another generational hypothesis was addressed, as many students revealed that they were not digitally savvy.
For example, one attendee admitted that she had no idea how to perform such basic Microsoft Word tasks as adding page numbers, or headers or footers, and as a result, during one semester, her teacher deducted five points from every essay that she submitted.
One of the teachers in attendance noted that young adults typically know how to navigate social media platforms, such as Facebook, but many lack basic skills beyond social media posts.
Almost one-fifth of U.S. households don’t have internet access, and these families are more likely to include first-generation college and low-income college students. A 2016 Pew Research Poll reveals that lower income households have lower levels of tech adoption, are less likely to use the internet as a source for learning, and are less likely to be confident in their digital tech skills.
The lack of digital skills is only one problem facing many freshmen. Only a third of students enter college with research skills, according to a recent Library Journal survey. This means, among other things, that they’re unable to establish a research topic and design objectives, evaluate the credibility of sources, and properly cite sources.
The New Media Consortium identifies digital literacy as “a familiarity with using basic digital tools such as office productivity software, image manipulation, cloud-based apps and content, and web content authoring tools.”
Also, results from the Consortium reveal that students need creative literacy, which would include such skills as editing videos, creating and editing audio, and animation basics, in addition to having some knowledge of programming and hardware, copyright laws, and digital citizenship.
Lack of access and instruction
Computer science skills are also increasing in importance, and a report reveals that many K-12 students lack access to computer science learning. Only 40% of U.S. middle and high school students report using computers every day at school, while 58% of students in grades 7 through 12 say their school offers dedicated computer science classes.
“While the millennial generation is often blanket-labeled as being digital natives, this is more often than not in the context of personal technologies and platforms like social media,” according to Frank Connolly of MindEdge. “We know this generation has a ‘Google it’ mentality, where millennials rely on the internet for all their information, as opposed to actually remembering facts and how to perform certain skills,” Connolly tells GoodCall®.
“This becomes problematic in a college or workplace environment when students do not have the appropriate skillset to use technology for academic and professional use,” Connolly says. There’s a tendency to assume that students – across the board – have technical acumen. “Instead, courses should be introduced at the start of a school year or for new hires in the workplace in order to level the playing field and develop a base knowledge of the necessary skills needed.”
It’s a sentiment shared by Sabina London, founder of STEM You Can!, an organization that hosts free training summer camps and after school programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for girls of all ages. “There should be more emphasis in schools to ensure students are receiving the required technology skills to succeed in college,” London tells GoodCall®.
“Since middle school, I was exposed to mandatory technology workshops where we learned the basics needed for papers and PowerPoint presentations.” She realizes that these early experiences made a difference in her life. “But unfortunately, not all middle schools have these programs or prioritize the need for these requirements,” London says. “Having the necessary technology skills would also ease the transition to college.”
So, what about students who were not able to learn the necessary skills before graduating high school?
“Taking online professional development and technology courses is one way to ensure students and new hires have a basic knowledge of the programs and platforms they should be utilizing,” Connolly says. “Professors and employers may find it most useful to supply an introductory course on the relevant technologies, and then include more professional development and advanced courses as the year goes on.”
Connolly believes that it’s important to be tech savvy, but warns this skill, by itself, is not enough.
“Successful students and employees need to develop a hybrid skillset that includes both hard, technical skills and soft skills, like the ability to think critically and creatively, and solve complex problems,” Connolly says. “This creates independent workers who present a multifaceted skillset, traits that are in high demand in today’s information economy.”
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Home Latest Weber Shandwick Adds Leadership Across Creativity, Insights, Content
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Weber Shandwick Adds Leadership Across Creativity, Insights, Content
Vivian Schiller has taken an advisory role at the firm as executive editor-in-residence, meanwhile Jennifer Sosin was appointed to chair of global strategy & insights and Josh Gilbert to executive creative director, global practices.
Holmes Report 23 Sep 2015 // 7:02AM GMT
NEW YORK — Weber Shandwick has brought on journalist Vivian Schiller, who was most recently head of news at Twitter, as editor-in-residence, while also making Jennifer Sosin chair of global strategy and insights and Josh Gilbert executive creative director of global practices.
Schiller (pictured) has taken an advisory role at the firm as executive editor-in-residence, which involves working with Weber and its clients to "broaden thinking on media change and inspire brands to innovate the way they engage audiences in the digital era," according to an agency statement.
She will work with Weber's leadership on the firm’s Mediaco content consulting and publishing practice and seek out relevant third-party relationships. Most recently she was chair of global news at Twitter, where she set the strategy for partnerships with journalists around the world. Prior to Twitter, she oversaw the acquisition of MSNBC Digital Networks at NBC News, then a joint venture of Microsoft and NBCUniversal. Previously, she was president and CEO of NPR.
The firm also recently announced the appointment of Jennifer Sosin to chair of global strategy & insights and Josh Gilbert to executive creative director, global practices.
Sosin, who previously held the role of chief research strategist and before that was president of KRC Research (Weber Shandwick’s attitudinal research arm), now drives the firm’s strategic planning operations to integrate data, research and analytics across all levels of client service and throughout Weber's global practices, regions and employees.
As executive creative director, global practices, Gilbert drives the firm’s multi-disciplinary creative solutions. Gilbert previously held the role of executive vice president of creative at Weber, working with clients to create brand ideas and creative campaigns. This has included leading the agency’s work on Fisher-Price’s global television and digital advertising and working with MIT and Harvard to develop the brand for edX, the global online learning platform.
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