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A Capital Idea Day 2
The other drawcard that lured us to Canberra last week was the Encounters exhibition at the National Museum of Australia which was also slated to close on 28 March 2016. Once again, to my regret I find myself writing about an event that has already concluded but I wanted time for my thoughts to percolate about it before putting fingers to keyboard.
Encounters presents a large, beautifully curated exhibition of artefacts sourced from the huge British Museum collection, supplemented by current-day responses crafted by living indigenous artists and craftspeople from the regions where the artefacts were originally ‘collected’. I use the inverted commas deliberately: some were given as a sign of respect; some were purchased, and others were quite clearly stolen and appropriated.
It is a very well-mannered exhibition. As you enter, there is a large video welcome and introduction by representatives of the many tribal groups who have been involved, and it has truly been a continent-wide consultation process (as you would hope it would be). The artefacts come from twenty-seven communities right across the country, reinforcing the ‘national’ nature of the museum. The explanatory panels surrounding the artefacts are very well done, describing the mobility of the object and explaining the means by which it came into the British Museum’s collection. In many cases, artefacts are accompanied by a video with a present-day community member explaining the importance of the artefact as a reaffirmation of identity or as prompt to new learning about production techniques that had been forgotten or changed in the generations since the object was first collected. Several of the speakers expressed gratitude that at least the object had survived to be seen by later generations, an ironic consequence of its appropriation and removal to the museum environment. Others expressed joy at the continuity of knowledge within their community, despite a policy of repressing traditional language and crafts. Others again mourned for the loss of the object and yearned to have it literally re-placed and brought back to where it came from.
The most discussed item in the exhibition is the shield collected by Captain Cook in 1770, dropped by a Gweagal man after the ‘encounter’ on the beach turned sour. The hole in the middle of the shield was caused by a spear, generations of White custodians and curators told themselves. I’m not convinced. That hole speaks volumes. The sight of it literally made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Much of what this exhibition did was done very, very well. But what of my comment that it’s a ‘well-mannered’ exhibition? Many questions bubbled under the displays: how many of the people of the community are going to see this artefact? Why does it belong to the British Museum? Why does it have to be returned? The questions were asked sotto voce but the exhibition was too polite to ask them out loud.
One of the exhibitions is the Dja Dja Wrung bark etchings which were last seen in Australia in 2004 as part of the Etched on Bark exhibition under the auspices of the Museum of Victoria. As that exhibition drew to a close, activists Gary Foley and Gary Murray launched a series of emergency declarations under the 1984 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act in an attempt to keep the etchings here in Australia. Eventually a court decision found in favour of the British Library and the etchings returned to London. There’s an interesting article written by the curator of that exhibition in 2007 here.
It comes as a surprise, then, to see the Dja Dja Wrung etchings back in Australia again, just over ten years later. An act of good faith on behalf of the British Library perhaps? Or a provocative gesture now made from within the safety of the Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Act of 2013? This Act was initiated at the behest of Australian cultural institutions that wanted to be able to give a water-tight guarantee to their international counterparts that items would unequivocally return to the lending institution. The etchings have travelled here because the British Library knows that they will be returning to London.
In an article in Overland (21 March 2016), Eve Vincent reflects on the display of the Dja Dja Wrung etchings:
Also on display are the Dja Dja Wurrung bark etchings that last visited Australia in 2004. They were on display at the Museum of Victoria when Dja Dja Wurrung activist Gary Murray joined with Gary Foley and others to prevent them from leaving the country. The fact that Dja Dja Wurrung representatives ‘unsuccessfully’ sought to stop the return of these objects to England is carefully acknowledged. Press a button and Murray’s soft voice starts talking about his aspiration to have the bark etchings stored in Melbourne, closer to home. ‘We beg the British museum to return our cultural materials.’
And then the visitor moves to the next exhibit.
This exhibition is actually one half of a matching exhibition called Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisations which was on show at the British Museum in London between April and August 2015. An excellent article by Penny Edmonds in The Conversation in 2015, reviewing the British exhibition, highlights the curatorial challenges faced by in the British exhibition for a British audience. The British Museum is not unfamiliar with disputes over provenance and custodianship – after all, they’ve been fighting over the Elgin or Parthenon Marbles for decades and decades. While the issues of collection and colonialism, ownership and custodianship were discussed in the abstract in London, there was an expectation (fear?) that the conversation would be more pointed when the Australian exhibition opened.
But it hasn’t happened in this strangely decontextualized exhibition which says little about the international politics, or the emotional and intellectual motivations in act of ‘collecting’ that lie at the heart of this particular display. I think that it is an opportunity lost. It was almost as if we were on our best behaviour, not wanting to cause a fuss. I’ve read a few articles about the “conversation” that is being had here about such issues, and it evokes for me the insistence by the Irish government on the “maturity” of the discussions surrounding the commemoration of the centenary of the Irish Rising this week. No-one wants to seem “immature” and the insistence that things are kept within the bounds of “conversations” and “dialogues” are curbs that can only be made from a position of power.
So, my response to the Encounters exhibition? Beautifully curated and thought-provoking but at its core timid and polite.
But maybe I speak too soon? Now that the exhibition is being packed up and taken away again, the whispered question is being voiced aloud- see a recent article in the Guardian here; on The Conversation website here and an ABC report from the very day I am writing this here. Perhaps, now that it’s finished, we don’t have to be on best behaviour any more.
Quentin Sprague The Monthly ‘Bringing Them Home’
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Title: Preparation of conductive polypyrrole-palladium composite nanospheres by inverse microemulsion polymerization.
Authors: Li, L.
Kang, E.T.
Neoh, K.G.
Issue Date: Aug-2006
Citation: Li, L., Kang, E.T., Neoh, K.G. (2006-08). Preparation of conductive polypyrrole-palladium composite nanospheres by inverse microemulsion polymerization.. Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology 6 (8) : 2571-2575. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: Conductive polypyrrole-palladium (PPy-Pd) composite nanospheres of about 50 nm in diameter, containing dispersed Pd metal nanoparticles of about 2-4 nm in size, were prepared in a 1-step oxidative polymerization of pyrrole by Pd(NO3)2. Pyrrole was oxidized by Pd(NO3)2 in an inverse microemulsion polymerization system, yielding PPy nanospheres and elemental Pd nanoparticles simultaneously. Palladium nanoparticles were uniformly dispersed in the nanospheres of PPy chains. The latter also exhibited an enhanced effective conjugation. The chemical composition of the PPy-Pd composite nanospheres was characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and FTIR spectroscopy. The crystalline structure of the Pd nanoparticles was deduced from X-ray diffraction patterns. The morphology of the composites was revealed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
Source Title: Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology
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The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase: role in homologous desensitization in S49 lymphoma cells.
Phosphorylation of the beta-adrenergic receptor (beta AR) is closely associated with homologous desensitization of the beta-adrenergic receptor-coupled adenylate cyclase system. Homologous desensitization and receptor phosphorylation also occur in cell mutants which are deficient in their cAMP-dependent protein kinase (kin- mutant of S49 lymphoma cells). beta AR phosphorylation is mediated by a cAMP-independent protein kinase which phosphorylates the receptor only when it is occupied by a beta-agonist. During the time course of desensitization the beta AR kinase (beta ARK) activity is translocated from a cytoplasmic to a plasma membrane location. beta ARK translocation can also be effected by prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) suggesting that this beta ARK may represent a more general enzyme capable of phosphorylating other adenylate cyclase-coupled receptors. Thus, beta ARK may play a key role in the process of homologous desensitization of adenylate cyclase coupled receptors. Extracellular hormones interact with specific receptors at the outer surface of the plasma membrane and thus initiate a cellular response. One of the best studied transmembrane signalling systems known to be coupled to the occupancy of cell surface receptors is adenylate cyclase. The adenylate cyclase system is composed of various components all of which have been purified to homogeneity (Shorr et al., 1982; Homcy et al., 1983; Benovic et al., 1984; Codina et al., 1984; Northup et al., 1980; Sternweis et al., 1981; Bokoch et al., 1984; Pfeuffer et al., 1985). Initially, agonist binding to the receptor promotes coupling of the occupied receptor to one of the guanine nucleotide binding regulatory proteins. These proteins are members of a family of heterotrimeric proteins consisting of alpha, beta and gamma subunits. Stimulatory receptors like the beta-adrenergic (Cerione et al., 1984) or glucagon (Iyengar et al., 1979) receptors couple to the stimulatory regulatory protein Ns (or Gs) whereas inhibitory receptors like the alpha 2-adrenergic (Jacobs et al., 1976) or M2-muscarinic (Harden et al., 1982) receptors couple to the inhibitory regulatory protein Ni (or Gi). Prolonged exposure to agonist hormones, either stimulatory or inhibitory, results in an attenuation of the response to the hormonal activation, a phenomenon called tachyphylaxis or desensitization (Harden, 1983; Sibley and Lefkowitz, 1985; Sharma et al., 1975). One of the best studied models for desensitization is the beta-adrenergic receptor-coupled adenylate cyclase system. In this system two different forms of desensitization have been characterized.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Caron, Marc G.
Lefkowitz, Robert J.
Strasser, RH; Benovic, JL; Lefkowitz, RJ; Caron, MG
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
10.1007/978-1-4684-9042-8_43
Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
Protein Processing, Post-Translational
Receptors, Adrenergic, beta
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Abandoned Resident Evil TV Show Was a Raccoon City Murder Mystery
by Padraig Cotter
– on Oct 27, 2017
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Footage from an abandoned television show set in the Resident Evil universe has arrived online. The Resident Evil series began with the original game back in 1996, which was a pioneering title in the survival horror genre. It soon kicked off a robust, multimedia franchise that includes over twenty games, spin-off novels, anime features, toys, and a long-running movie series starring Milla Jovovich.
While the six-part Resident Evil movie series is easily the most successful based on a video game, longtime fans were unhappy with how much they departed from the games. The movies were much more action driven, focusing on an original character named Alice (Jovovich) as she battled zombies and various monsters in a post-apocalyptic world. Characters and settings from the games would pop up, but the films and games ultimately had little to do with each other. The movie franchise concluded with 2017’s The Final Chapter - only for a reboot to be announced shortly after.
Related: Resident Evil Reboot Already In The Works
Now footage from a planned Resident Evil series called Arklay has landed on Vimeo, via the project’s director Shawn Lebert. The short film is called DAVE, and focuses on a detective named Reinhardt investigating the mysterious death of his brother. While the short removes any overt references to the games or movies, some connective tissue is definitely there.
The Arklay series was intended to be something of a prequel to the games, following Reinhardt investigating a number of gruesome deaths in Raccoon City. At some point during the show, he was going to be infected by the T-Virus and would have to race against time to find a cure. A moody thriller set in the Resident Evil world would have been intriguing for sure, but news of the project went quiet shortly after it was announced in 2014. The arrival of this footage seemingly confirms the project is dead for now.
Fans can look at the film for themselves, and decide if Arklay would have been a worthy addition to the franchise. The short also ends with a link to a site called grimrasputinisdead.com, which encourages viewers to look at the film for clues and dig deeper into the central murder mystery. Resident Evil has branched out into just about every medium imaginable by now, so at some point a TV version is possible. If it ever happens, it would need to find some kind of unique angle, since shows like The Walking Dead and Z Nation have mined zombies for all their worth.
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Healthcare Industry News: Orthofix
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News Release - June 13, 2007
Orthofix Announces First Surgical Procedure Using Advent(TM) Cervical Disc
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C.--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Orthofix International N.V. (NASDAQ: OFIX ) announced today the completion of the first surgical procedure to implant the Advent(TM) Cervical Disc, which is the first motion preservation device developed by Orthofix's spine implant subsidiary, Blackstone Medical. The successful procedure was performed at the prestigious Sao Paulo University Medical Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil by Dr. Tarcisio Eloy de Barros Filho and Dr. Alexandre Fogaca. The Vice-Dean of the Sao Paulo University Medical School and Titular Professor of the Orthopaedic Department, Dr. Barros is also the president-elect of the Brazilian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society.
"The procedure involving the implantation of an artificial vertebral disc in a 51-year old female patient went very well," said Dr. Barros. "I found the simplicity of the surgical technique used to implant the device and the well-designed, intuitive instrumentation to be important advantages of the Advent disc."
Dr. Scott Blumenthal of the Texas Back Institute in Dallas, Texas, a member of Blackstone's medical advisory board who also attended the surgery and provided additional training, stated that, "as one of the first artificial cervical discs to incorporate a flexible elastomer core, the Advent disc has advanced biomechanical properties designed to provide patients with a natural range of motion post-surgically. Additionally, the pre-assembled design reduces the need for complex instrumentation and simplifies the surgical technique."
"This is truly a breakthrough product for the company, as it represents our entrance into the important motion preservation segment of the spine industry which is estimated to grow to several billion dollars worldwide over the next few years", said Alan Milinazzo, Orthofix's CEO. "Though motion preservation is a surgical trend that is in its infancy, we believe it will become an accepted standard of care for many patients."
Matthew Lyons, the President of Blackstone Medical, added that, "our design team received important advice and feedback from key surgeons that facilitated the development of the compliant core and the simplified surgical technique used to implant the Advent disc. And, our engineers and medical advisory board will continue to work on the development of innovative products to expand our portfolio of motion preservation devices."
Orthofix indicated that it hopes to obtain a CE mark for the Advent Cervical Disc by the fourth quarter of this year, representing approval for commercial use throughout the European Union. The company also has plans to begin clinical trials in the U.S. by early next year, and anticipates obtaining FDA approval by the end of 2011.
About Orthofix International, N.V.
Orthofix International N.V., a global diversified orthopedic products company, offers a broad line of minimally invasive surgical, as well as non-surgical, products for the spine, orthopedic, and sports medicine market sectors that address the lifelong bone-and-joint health needs of patients of all ages, helping them achieve a more active and mobile lifestyle. Orthofix's products are widely distributed around the world to orthopedic surgeons, hospitals and patients via Orthofix's sales representatives and its subsidiaries, including Breg, Inc. and Blackstone Medical, Inc., and via partnerships with other leading orthopedic product companies including Kendall Healthcare. In addition, Orthofix is collaborating in R&D partnerships with leading medical institutions such as the Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and the National Osteoporosis Institute. For more information about Orthofix, please visit www.Orthofix.com.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning expectations related to new products at Orthofix and its subsidiaries, and are based on management's current expectations and estimates and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences may include, but are not limited to, unanticipated expenditures, changing relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners, risks relating to the protection of intellectual property, changes to the reimbursement policies of third parties, changes to governmental regulation of medical devices, the impact of competitive products, changes to the competitive environment, the acceptance of new products in the market, conditions of the orthopedic industry and the economy and other factors described in the most recent report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed by Orthofix with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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MONLOVE ANNOUNCES THE NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL “N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS” A Spectacular Reimagining of Emile Zola’s Beloved Nana Brings the Romance and Color of Paris’s 19th-Century Theater World to the 21st-Century Stage
June 3, 2014 Michael J. Roberts
Montréal’s Monlove Enterprises today announced the world premiere of N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS. The new musical was inspired by the Champagne atmosphere and rags-to-riches romance of Emile Zola’s classic novel Nana with its gaslight glimpses into the backstage world of Parisian theaters, “Joie de vivre” and courtesans’ salons.
N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS will have its U.S. Premiere in Chicago at Broadway In Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre(18 W. Monroe) starting November 2015, following the premiere at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto in September 2015. It will open on Broadway in March 2016.
Ella Louise Allaire and Martin Lord Ferguson, the creative force behind some of the most recent successful touring shows, are co-directing N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS and have developed the show’s book, music and lyrics. Joining them on the creative team is set and prop designer Michael Curry, whose spectacular visions have been integral to shows from The Lion King on Broadway to productions at La Scala and the Paris Opera.
“I have been immersed in the world of Nana ever since I first read the novel as a student,” said Ella Louise Allaire. “Although the book is set in the Second Empire, when the boulevards, cafés and nightlife of modern Paris were just being born, I felt an instant bond with its figure of a fascinating young street singer determined to rise in the world. Nana to me is in many ways a very modern woman. Martin and I now want to bring her to life as a character who is of our time, and yet remains magically surrounded by the fabulous, legendary Paris of years past.”
Michael Curry stated, “As I allowed myself to consider what the world of N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS might look like, I was drawn toward the French painting of Zola’s own time, which was simply the strongest era of artistic expression the world has ever known. The production design is a contemporary variation that lives in harmony with the sophistication and epic vision of the great Impressionists. Our audiences will be reminded of that period but treated to a new and transformative world of beauty and excitement on our stage.”
To hear an excerpt from Allaire and Ferguson’s eclectic fusion of today’s sounds with the flavor of 19th-century French music hall and manouche jazz, please click here.
Further news about the creative team, casting, venues and schedule will be announced shortly. For information about the making of N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS, please visit www.nthemusical.com and follow N on Twitter:@NtheMusical, Facebook: N The Musical and YouTube: NtheMusical. (Please note that all links will be live by 5:00 PM EDT on June 2.)
Monlove is proud that Moët & Chandon is the Official Champagne of N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS.
“From the Marquise de Pompadour to Napoleon, Moet & Chandon has been well-loved by iconic celebrities throughout its esteemed history” stated Ludovic du Plessis, Head of Global Public Relations Development, Moët & Chandon. “We are excited to be involved in N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS, a production that will bring the Champagne atmosphere of Emile Zola’s classic novel Nana to life.”
SOLOTECH is the official technical partner of N—THE QUEEN OF PARIS.
About Monlove (Production Company)
Monlove is a Montréal-based entertainment company founded in 2005 by Ella Louise Allaire with Martin Lord Ferguson as partner. It began by providing music production and composition services for large-scale shows such as Cirque du Soleil’s KÀ in Las Vegas and Zed at Tokyo Disney. More recently, it has expanded its activities by creating a division in Europe, Monlove World / Fidelio Entertainment, which provides concepts and services for large-arena shows such as Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure. Monlove also produces shows and develops creative content. Monlove’s clients have included Cirque du Soleil, Stage Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, and APM Music Hollywood.
Monlove founder Ella Louise Allaire attended McGill University’s prestigious Schulich School of Music, where she received both the James McGill Award and the Music Faculty Award, and subsequently pursued her graduate studies in composition at the University of Montréal. She is the co-creator of the original concept, book, music and lyrics for the multi-billion dollar franchise from Twentieth Century Fox: Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure which won numerous international awards. Her work has been heard at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, on theAvatar film trailer,
Dateline NBC, the Beijing Acrobatic Troupe of China’s Magical Music Box and the feature film: Journey to the Center of the Earth. She collaborated on the soundtrack for Cirque du Soleil’s KÀ which was named Best New Score of 2005 by TIME magazine.
Monlove partner Martin Lord Ferguson began his career as a music producer and sound engineer, producing more than thirty recordings and soundtracks for Cirque du Soleil, Stage Entertainment, Holiday on Ice and numerous recording artists. His work has expanded over his two decades in the entertainment industry to encompass theater, large-format shows, advertising, television series and feature films. In addition to his collaborations with Ella Louise Allaire on Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure, KÀ and Zed, he has scored the award-winning 2004 feature film La Peau Blanche White Skin and the celebrated Canadian TV series Fortier.
About Michael Curry (Set and Prop Designer)
Michael Curry works widely as a visual and concept designer for numerous companies, such as Cirque du Soleil, The Metropolitan Opera, London’s Royal National Theatre, Disney Theatrical Productions, and the International Olympic Committee. He collaborates regularly with directors like Robert LePage, Nicholas Hytner, Julie Taymor and William Friedkin. Mr. Curry has received many prestigious awards, including several for his work on Broadway (“Spamalot,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Dr. Seuss’s ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas”). He has all been in involved in the Olympic ceremonies, and continues to innovate in the fields of scenic visual effects and puppetry design. His client list has included Michael Jackson, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and countless others.
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Grey’s Anatomy season 6 (2009 USA, ABC) - Lang: English
Original Title: Grey's Anatomy
Country, Channel: USA, ABC
Creator: Shonda Rhimes
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Sara Ramirez, Kevin McKidd, Jessica Capshaw, Sarah Drew, Jesse Williams, Kate Walsh, Katherine Heigl, Eric Dane, Chyler Leigh, Jason George, Sandra Oh, James Pickens, Kim Raver
Runtime: 41–45 min
Quality: 1280x720
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Sara Ramirez, Kevin McKidd, Jessica Capshaw, Kate Walsh, Katherine Heigl, Jr., Eric Dane, Chyler Leigh, Brooke Smith, Sandra Oh, James Pickens, T.R. Knight
Quality: 640x360
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Sara Ramirez, Kate Walsh, Katherine Heigl, Jr., Eric Dane, Chyler Leigh, Brooke Smith, Sandra Oh, James Pickens, T.R. Knight
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Sara Ramirez, Kate Walsh, Katherine Heigl, Isaiah Washington, Jr., Eric Dane, Chyler Leigh, Brooke Smith, Sandra Oh, James Pickens, T.R. Knight
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Sara Ramirez, Kate Walsh, Katherine Heigl, Isaiah Washington, Jr., Eric Dane, Brooke Smith, Sandra Oh, James Pickens, T.R. Knight
Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson, Patrick Dempsey, Kate Walsh, Katherine Heigl, Isaiah Washington, Jr., Sandra Oh, James Pickens, T.R. Knight
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Bryson Bort-Founder of SCYTHE, a Cyber Company by The Workforce Show
Bryson is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security. He is a National Security Institute Fellow. Prior, Bryson led an elite offensive capabilities development group. As a U.S. Army Officer, Bryson was a tank commander and led a tactical communications platoon. He served as a Battle Captain and Brigade Engineering Officer in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom before leaving the Army as a Captain. Brysonreceived his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He holds a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications Management from the University of Maryland, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Florida, and completed graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas. Hosts: Jeremy Haas and Olga Polishchuk, TWFS-Cyber Edition Sponsor: LookingGlassCyber
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Graphene: Revolutionary Material or a Pipe Dream?
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THIS WILL MAKE YOU CARE ABOUT MASTERING
June 12, 2019 • mastering
Why is mastering an important part of the process?
Well, I'm a mastering engineer. I've been mastering for 25 years. It was always quite a big part of the process where it was a transfer service.
Mastering has changed quite a lot in the last 10 years. Before, you would have your mix that was done on tape, and then you would be working out how to get it onto the format, which would be vinyl or CD. These days, it's turned into a much more creative process because a lot of people are working from home. They're not working in big studios anymore.
I've seen that progression change these last 25 years, and although it's a creative thing, I always think that you should try to keep the integrity of the mix. An external mastering engineer can help by giving you another set of ears. They can't work out whether your mix is any good or not, but they can tell if it needs any tweaking before it's finalised.
Because they're listening to tracks – just as stereo information, and not listening to the individual instruments – they have a keen sense for when it's too bright or bassy during the finishing process.
It's mostly just quality control: making sure the mix is delivered without error to record labels, Spotify, and the like.
But I find that in most cases I can get things sounding much better than what someone's tried to do by themselves. Most times, they want to keep it as is because that's how they like it and they're used to it. But that doesn't mean it's good, or that you can't take it further. What I do is look at it from a different place and take it somewhere else for them. Because of that, "Oh god, I didn't realise it could go there" is a phrase I hear often enough.
If you think you can do it yourself, do that. But it's relatively cheap these days to get people to master your tracks anyway, and there's a lot out there since people do it from home. Having a professional giving you feedback is obviously the best way to go.
Try it yourself, but always try somebody else. Build a relationship with somebody and make them part of your team. It’s a great thing because it means you've got someone outside who will give you feedback on your music.
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By Christopher Sebastian McJetters
Few messages hurt my heart more than ‘Breed Restrictions Apply.’ Reminds me of a time in recent memory when such words applied to my grandparents. Oh, it was phrased differently. It probably read ‘Whites Only’ or ‘No Coloreds Allowed.’ But it meant the same thing.
“Only a certain aesthetic is welcome here. We will judge you based on stereotypes reinforced by years of institutionalized discrimination. We will fear you. We will enact ‘breed-specific legislation’ against you. In some cases, our law enforcement and judicial system will even seek to have you…put down. It’s not personal. It’s just the way you are.”
Am I an aggressive breed? Am I unwelcome because I don’t look pleasing to your eyes? Am I unappealing because of my large muzzle and pronounced features? Will you treat me differently if I promise not to harm your kids? If I explain to you that I’m not violent? That years of your systemic abuses have disenfranchised me?
I just want to live my life.
I don’t seek to threaten your way of being.
I know I look different. But I’m a good dog.
(Note: This post is dedicated to and in loving memory of Sally, founding dog of BadRap.org. Please read her eulogy here.)
Posted on January 30, 2015 January 30, 2015 Author Justin Van KleeckCategories commentaryTags breedism, Christopher Sebastian McJetters, racismLeave a comment on Breed Restrictions Apply
Food Is Power: Interview with lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project
Food is a complicated affair. As vegans know, getting other humans to examine their food choices and (more importantly) change them can feel like trying to pick up the Earth and move it a few planets farther out.
Part of the urgency we feel with food arises from the reality that it has so many ramifications on our planet, beyond whether or not we are eating other animals. This means every choice counts…and that achieving justice involves much more than going vegan. Factors ranging from treatment of workers, to environmental impact, to access to food, and much more are all crucial considerations we have to make if we truly care about just food.
Far too few vegans and “animal rights” activists venture outside of the ethics of eating (and otherwise using) animal products, but lauren Ornelas, founder of Food Empowerment Project, is an outspoken advocate for true food justice and against exploitation in all its forms. I first corresponded with lauren after writing about the influence growing up poor had on me as a vegan, and I have been awed by her work and Food Empowerment Project’s growing presence since then…
Can you talk about your process of going vegan? When was it, and what factors played into your decision to stop participating in the exploitation of animals?
I went vegetarian when I was about five years old when my mom told me that the chicken I was eating was, well, a chicken. It wasn’t until I was 16 that I was able to stick with that decision (for a variety of reasons), but I had already stopping buying leather products. However, when I was 17 I was connected with an animal rights group in my area and learned about factory farming—it was then that I went vegan. I think, overall, the biggest factor for me when I was five was not wanting to break up families or being responsible for their separation. This April will be my 27-year vegan anniversary.
What motivated you to start Food Empowerment Project, and how did you build it up into the organization it is today?
One of my motivations for starting Food Empowerment Project was my frustration with animal rights activists who did not like me talking about the suffering of human animals in various industries, including chocolate, when I was asked by interviewers if animal rights people only cared about the suffering of non-human animals.
My passions were also stirred when I went to speak at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, and realized so many issues that I also cared about, such as workers, the environment, indigenous rights, immigration, etc., were all related to food.
I wanted to have an organization that strove for justice in all of these areas.
What have been some of your biggest victories so far? What issues are a priority for you moving forward?
To me the biggest victory has been the evolution of people understanding our work. Not that all vegans understand it, but many seem to be understanding (or at least being less hostile) to our desire to connect these issues. Food Empowerment Project has been around since 2007, but only recently does it seem as if our work is being sincerely recognized.
Getting people to understand the connections of oppression and our ability to work together (and not be separated by specific focus or being an expert) is a huge victory in my eyes. Although in a more tangible form, our work over several years to get Clif Bar to disclose the country of origin for their chocolate was a big victory.
Our priorities continue to be hindered by our slow rate of growth in funding (an area which shows that people are only just now starting to understand the importance of our work, but funding is not pouring in).
Fortunately, with a great group of volunteers we will continue to work promoting the issues of ethical veganism, fight for justice for farm workers, discourage people from buying chocolate from areas where the worst forms of child labor are taking place and get companies to be transparent on their sourcing, and continue our work with communities on the lack of access to healthy foods.
There is some criticism in the vegan movement of “single-issue campaigns.” Would you consider FEP’s actions—e.g., targeting Clif Bar for their chocolate sourcing—to be single-issue campaigns? How do you respond to that sort of criticism, if you encounter it?
Campaigns have to be single issue in a sense if you want concrete change versus general outreach. For example, you can have a long-term goal to get all animals out of marine parks, to abolish marine parks, but perhaps your smaller goal is to shut one of them down. I am a campaigner, and I like concrete goals in order to know if I am having an impact versus just hoping or assuming I am.
When it comes to Clif Bar, I don’t find it to be a single issue as we were targeting a company that makes primarily vegan products. Our goal was to get them to be transparent. We want all companies that make vegan products to be transparent, but we can’t just tell them all that and think we can get somewhere. In an ideal world, sure. But the reality is that corporations aren’t going to make changes for the good unless we demand it from them and we’re specific about what we are asking of them.
Along with your work with FEP, you do a lot of speaking about activism and intersectionality. What are some of your priorities as an activist?
Yes, I do talk about how issues are connected. My priorities as an activist change and they evolve. Currently, I would say they are in a constant struggle to block out the noise of those who are not doing strategic work and to make sure that F.E.P. works in a way that is consistent with our ethics. It is tough to juggle, but we do our best. And also as an individual I want to be sure to keep active with strategic campaigns and outreach efforts for both animal liberation and human justice.
More importantly, what do you feel the vegan movement needs to do in the context of other social justice movements? What have we done well, and what do we need to do better?
FEP School Supply Drive beneficiary.
I think the vegan movement should not sell out other social justice issues that are also advocating for those who are being exploited, marginalized, abused, and killed. I don’t ask for vegans to give up their good, just, and necessary fight for non-human animals, but to work to be consistent by not supporting chocolate that comes from child labor and to be educated about using incorrect statements such as, “Anyone can be vegan if they really want to be.”
We need to do better about truly connecting the issues. Connecting issues does not mean you only talk about other social justice issues as a pretext for getting others to go vegan. It means truly understanding how these issues are connected and work with others to stop them. It’s important to remind yourself that you might be an expert when it comes to animal issues, but perhaps you’re not with other issues, so there is a time to lead and a time to follow.
I am particularly interested to get your perspective on how to make (ethical) veganism less of a phenomenon of the privileged—despite the historic associations between animal rights and white supremacy—and more about enabling everyone be able to make healthy, sustainable, just food and lifestyle choices. What can individual vegans do, and what has to be changed on a larger socio-economic scale?
I think vegans can and need to be honest. If they are creating recipes, let’s not pretend that anyone can make it because it is made from scratch and from whole foods. That is great for many, many people, but not everyone. Be honest and acknowledge that your meal ideas and recipes are very important and can help people go vegan, but let’s not kid ourselves into thinking it is easy for everyone. It won’t work for people who only have access to tomato sauce, and for whom fresh produce is a potato and onion on an irregular basis, or for people who live in shelters or motels. They might care, but they might not have an option right now.
We all need to work for living wages. Living wages for everyone will mean they will have more access to healthy foods—including fruits and vegetables.
Are you optimistic that the vegan movement can grow out of its largely consumerist phase and actually make a difference in the lives of humans and non-humans everywhere? Why or why not? Do you have any suggestions for making veganism a real force for social justice?
I do think we can as long as we keep the issue at heart as the focal point. Look, unfortunately, capitalism is to blame for much of the ills in the world. And by using consumer campaigns we have to work to force corporations to make changes. But if we are dishonest about our goals, I believe we lose credibility. It’s important to keep the focus on the animals, and the reason why many of us do the work we do is because we do not want non-human animals to suffer, be abused, exploited, and killed. This way we keep the heart of the matter front and center and do not allow the dollar to be the focus.
It is important to remember that with a diet based primarily of fruits and vegetables, what we eat (and encourage others to eat) also comes from an abusive and exploitative industry. Farm workers in the US face some of the worst abuses in the food industry. They are not paid living wages (many get paid based on how much they pick), do not get benefits, they work in extreme environments (some collapse from heat exhaustion and die in the fields), are exposed to hazardous chemicals, and many of the women are victims of sexual abuse. These are issues vegans need to address.
Eating a cruelty-free diet will require that the rights of the farm workers are also met.
Thanks so much for speaking with me!
Thank you for wanting to cover our work!
Posted on January 27, 2015 Author Justin Van KleeckCategories interviewsTags animal rights, Food Empowerment Project, intersectionality, interview, lauren Ornelas, veganism3 Comments on Food Is Power: Interview with lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project
The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center and the Torture of Domestication
The New York Times recently published a disturbing expose of the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, a tax-payer-funded testing facility run the by federal government that is seeking to create bigger, better, more productive versions of farmed animals.
The NYT story is utterly horrifying in what it reveals about the callous treatment of individual animals–from hormone injections that spur faster, bigger growth, to selective breeding for greater litter sizes. to abandoning unwanted babies and allowing them to die. And much, much more. As the article states:
Pigs are having many more piglets — up to 14, instead of the usual eight — but hundreds of those newborns, too frail or crowded to move, are being crushed each year when their mothers roll over. Cows, which normally bear one calf at a time, have been retooled to have twins and triplets, which often emerge weakened or deformed, dying in such numbers that even meat producers have been repulsed.
Then there are the lambs. In an effort to develop “easy care” sheep that can survive without costly shelters or shepherds, ewes are giving birth, unaided, in open fields where newborns are killed by predators, harsh weather and starvation.
One days’ worth of eggs from the former backyard hens at Triangle Chance for All’s Microsanctuary roughly equals the number of eggs laid per year by one of their wild ancestors.
This pathological abuse is horrible and cannot be justified. Period. Yet the reality of the situation is that these obvious tortures are not restricted to “factory” farming; they are inextricably connected to every farmed animal, no matter where they are living or how they are treated. Practically all farmed animals today grow at certain rates (like the “broiler” chickens raised for meat who are killed at six weeks old, long after they have become crippled by their own bulk), have certain numbers of babies, lay a certain number of eggs–all as a result of human manipulation–through selective breeding and more invasive genetic tinkering.
The resident hens at Triangle Chance for All are perfect examples. Almost all of them came from backyard flocks (not battery cages or “free-range/cage-free” farms), and each will lay between 250 and 300 eggs per year, unlike her wild ancestors, who lays between 10 and 15 eggs per year. All domesticated hens are victims of their own hijacked biology, and most will die well before their time because of this. In the case of other animals, their premature deaths typically come at the hands of a human–either because their flesh is desired, or their productivity (and thus their usefulness) has waned.
We can try to stave off this death, but there is only so much we can do. The only true way to stop the suffering of future generations is to go vegan and end the demand for ALL animal products, and if possible we can liberate animals from the oppression in which they live. But by going vegan, we take a huge step away from this endless torture by ending the demand for the altered, exploited bodies of the mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters.
(Originally published at Vegan Publishers.)
Posted on January 25, 2015 January 25, 2015 Author Justin Van KleeckCategories commentaryTags domestication, selective breeding, U.S. Meat and Animal Research Center, veganismLeave a comment on The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center and the Torture of Domestication
We Need To Admit That Broad City Blew It
Humor is a powerful tool that can make pain more manageable, but it is a tool that requires care and specificity. The humor I use to cope with trauma I have experienced may be horrifying to someone else who has experienced similar trauma, because humor as a coping mechanism isn’t going to work the same for everyone. This is especially apparent when we are talking about sexual trauma and violence. And so, many of us who celebrated the return of Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s Broad City this week were met with intense disappointment as our beloved BFFs chose to joke about rape.
Rape and rape culture are significantly different. The realities of rape culture are absurd, from the ways in which rape is normalized to the ways in which gender is constructed in the performance of domination. The system in place should be revealed for its real and dangerous absurdity, and we have to collectively confront rape culture as part of deconstructing and dismantling it. Rape, however, is a singular event – one that haunts and terrorizes long after the fact. Discussing the lived experience of rape can be harrowing. The only scenario in which some people feel safe talking about it may be with their most trusted friend, or never at all. How a person processes trauma and learns to live with it is extremely personal. Broad City’s casual storytelling of rape has alienated many fans who trusted the show to be a safe space from a painful trigger.
In addition to harming many viewers with its careless approach to a traumatic event, Broad City’s episode “In Heat” works to perpetuate rape culture rather than subvert it. Ilana’s nonsensical riff on rape culture at Lincoln’s dinner party only serves to delegitimize the idea of rape culture rather than reveal the absurdities of its very real yet illogical horrors. The nonchalance with which the rape of an unconscious person is handled confuses the concept of consent, which is a crucial issue that requires clarity to combat rape culture. Seth Rogen’s character, Stacey, suffers from heatstroke in the midst of having sex with Abbi, and rather than caring for him, Abbi continues to pleasure herself with his unconscious body. Some have argued that Stacey was clearly consenting up until that point, but even Ilana does not support that argument. Humans are incapable of consent while unconscious. Stacey’s enthusiasm while conscious does not transfer to his unconscious body.
Abbi eventually realizes this to some degree and shows remorse, but her remorse is supposed to be funny. She raped someone, and she’s a monster now – hilarious! Defense of the humor surrounding rape in this episode is defense of the idea that rapists can be funny and sympathetic. They just made a mistake! They feel bad, and they should focus on making themselves feel better. Turning Abbi into a lovable rapist is a toxic joke that laughs not with victims but at them, as oftentimes rapists hold powerful positions in their communities, and their behavior is excused as they attempt to solicit sympathy and understanding.
“It’s reverse rapism. You are raping rape culture,” Ilana tells Abbi. Ilana is supposed to be ridiculous. We are not supposed to take her seriously. But here she is not talking about weed or consensual sex. She is talking about rape, and rape doesn’t stop being serious in the mouth of a fool. We know Abbi did not rape rape culture. We know she raped a person, and it is a little bewildering, to say the least, that I feel the need to point out that this should not be comedic fodder in any context.
When Daniel Tosh joked about the gang rape of a woman in his audience, a critical discussion arose around rape jokes. But Broad City is beloved, and even the most avid critics have given them a halfhearted pass, while others have earnestly defended them. This is not to say that Jacobson and Glazer are operating on the level of Tosh, but it is to point out that we are less willing to criticize those we love, and that is a big problem.
Women can rape men, and Broad City at least acknowledged this fact. Unfortunately, beyond that, it led us to believe that women raping men just isn’t a big deal, which feeds into broader narratives that rape isn’t such a big deal, at least not always. In certain scenarios it’s just a goof – like if you’re a woman, and your partner passes out, it’s not really a big deal to continue having sex with his unconscious body. Just feel bad about it for a minute and go on with your day. This is the message I got from Broad City, and it is a message that works to support rape culture.
Many writers argue that Broad City’s embodiment of a kind of gender role reversal makes the humor acceptable. But this argument relies on a binary that reinforces the power dynamics of rape culture. Men and women aren’t monolithic categories, each encompassing a singular experience of gender. Of course, even taking into account the wide spectrum of gender identity and expression, women-identified folks experience far more sexual violence than men. But although our culture privileges men, rape is not an experience unique to women. Especially when we acknowledge the sexual violence experienced by men and women in the prison industrial complex, and we take into account the racism inherent in that system, the oblivious privilege behind broad generalizations about gender-swapping being an acceptable way to make light of rape is revealed. A joke about raping someone is oppressive no matter who tells it.
I am reminded here of the recent sweeping defense of Charlie Hebdo: people just don’t get that it’s apparently anti-racist satire to publish a racist depiction of a black woman as long as you place a lot of context around it making clear how anti-racist your publication really is. Broad City is a feminist show and therefore must have been cleverly satirizing rape culture. Sure, Abbi realizes she raped someone and immediately goes to have fun at Bed Bath & Beyond. No, we never see her talk to Stacey or tell him what happened. Yes, Ilana exposes people who talk about rape culture as silly fools. And okay, the episode spends more time commenting on the disgusting heat of summer in the city than it does on rape culture. But what they must have meant is that it’s wrong to rape, and that rape culture is real and in need of serious deconstruction.
We stretch for our idols in the hopes that they will remain flawless. I was rooting for Broad City. But they did not use humor to cope with pain or to point out the absurdity of an oppressive ideology. They were just being silly. They were being Abbi and Ilana. Unfortunately, neither Abbi nor Ilana is equipped to handle a topic like rape with the care that it requires, and Jacobson and Glazer should have known that. Our faves perpetuated rape culture, and it’s really not funny.
Posted on January 18, 2015 January 19, 2015 Author Charlotte EureCategories commentaryTags Broad City, rape, rape culture2 Comments on We Need To Admit That Broad City Blew It
One of the most significant changes for me in my evolution as an advocate against exploitation has come about through providing sanctuary to farmed animals. In the past, advocacy and activism were important to me but always impersonal and to a large degree abstract. They could be matters of convenience, picked up and put down whenever I chose.
Now, as Rosemary and I spend the majority of our days caring for and fretting over the well-being of individuals whom most humans see as mere objects, as simple and insignificant things, the impersonal has transformed into an imperative.
You see, animal liberation can never again be anything but personal. Our work towards the end of exploitation is no longer abstract; it is individuated. It is not just about food; it is a matter of FAMILY.
Perhaps there is a great untapped force for all of us in our advocacy and our activism, should we undertake the radical, revolutionary act of caregiving. If liberation is to happen, the struggle has to be personal for all of us. It has to be about family members, not abstractions. Liberation must be lived by us, enacted in our daily relationships, for anything less will fall short of the goal.
Posted on January 14, 2015 January 14, 2015 Author Justin Van KleeckCategories commentaryTags animal liberation, animal rescue, farmed animals, veganismLeave a comment on A Family Affair
Fighting the Chill: Interview with Sarahjane Blum
A few years ago, I learned about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) and the U.S. government’s efforts to label animal rights and environmental activists as “terrorists.” As immediately offensive as all that information was, it was made all the more real–and terrifying–when I started connecting it to individual activists and their courageous work.
One image that has stuck in my mind since those initial periods of research on AETA is of a woman standing in what looks like an industrial farming shed and holding a duck.
Years later I was connected with Sarahjane Blum, the woman in the photo, while organizing an anti-AETA event in Chapel Hill, as part of a larger weekend of action put together by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Her experiences doing open rescue and other forms activism led her to take part in a lawsuit against the government, for its violations of First Amendment rights through AETA. With the rising interest in Open Rescue (thanks to the foundational work of Animal Liberation Victoria, and most recently Direct Action Everywhere), I was curious to get Sarahjane’s story as an open rescuer, her perspectives on direct action, the impact of AETA, and much more…
I realized the other day that I have been vegan for just over half my life. Which means that some of my memories of what took me down that road are fuzzy, and that some of my stories about my early veganism sound like a bad “back in my day we had to walk barefoot uphill to school and back” joke.
With that said, my process was pretty simple, though not quick. The weekend of July 4th, 1990, a friend of mine invited me to go out of town with his family. I was raised in New York City, in a very urban environment, without a lot of contact with animals other than squirrels, pigeons, and humans.
We went to this little island teeming with critters, and I sat around watching them mesmerized. The last day I was there, my friend and I went for a bike ride, and there was a raccoon on the side of the road who had just been run over by a car. I don’t know if this was actually the first time I had seen a dead animal in a context other than a dinner plate, but it felt like new knowledge. I was twelve at the time, and came home and told my parents I was going to stop eating meat.
From there on, it started to strike me how many seemingly unconnected choices involve animal use and exploitation. I started looking for shoes which weren’t made with leather; I saw an ad in the back of a magazine and wrote away for a booklet about alternatives to dissection and got on PETA’s mailing list; and the list of things that I tried to be conscious of kept growing.
Some time in there, I decided that when I left my parents house for college, I would go vegan. I still can’t remember when I first heard the term, and I had only ever met one vegan in my life at that point, but it seemed to me that if I could find a way to live a less-exploitative life, I should. And I’ve kept trying to do that ever since.
What has been your path as an activist and what issues got you into activism?
I’ve always been easily outraged, and done my best to act on that feeling. There wasn’t a petition I didn’t want to sign in my youth, or a social justice movement I didn’t want to support. And, again, this feels like a very long time ago, so forgive me the vagary. When I started getting connected into an activist scene, I tried to go to every event, get active for every cause, and soak up as much knowledge and passion as I could. I started going to weekly meetings at the Wetlands Collective in NYC, and organizing with the New York City Animal Defense League. Rather than me rehash old war stories about those days, I’m just going to suggest everyone head over to the Talon Conspiracy and take some time digging into the history of our movement.
You have been involved in “open rescue” direct action. Can you talk some about what open rescue is, how open rescues are conducted, and some of your experiences as a rescuer? Where does open rescue fit in to the tactics of the movement now as you see it?
In the early 2000s, I worked with a group of activists to conduct a nationwide investigation into the foie gras industry, and to rescue a number of ducks from farms where they were being force-fed to the brink of death. Without attempting to conceal our identities, we did our best to exhaustively videotape the conditions on the farms, and the slow rehabilitation of the birds we rescued. We spent months conducting the investigation, researching how the facilities worked and obtaining footage of all stages of these animals’ lives. We had veterinarians examine both the live animals we were able to rescue, and the dead animals we came across. Some of what took us months might be a much shorter process today because of improvements in technology, since a lot of logistical quandaries would have been avoided if we didn’t have to lug large camcorders or could have set up motion sensitive cameras. When we felt like we had a full picture, we started telling the stories of these birds, and the open rescue angle allowed us to personalize their stories and bring more attention to the suffering of animals being bred and raised for food than we would have been able to otherwise.
In our case, we were fortunate to attract a lot of attention. The exposure of the industry really got the attention of the movement, the public, and the media. There was a groundswell of outrage that helped pass the law outlawing foie gras farming and sales in California. (This week, as I was contemplating the questions you sent me, foie gras producers and restaurateurs won an appeal that at least temporarily allows foie gras to be served again, though its not clear if that’s a permanent shift. The production is still illegal, and the California farm that was the state’s only producer is out of business.) There was print and TV news coverage, and even a feel-good half-hour episode of a show on Animal Planet devoted to showing the rehabilitation of two ducks we rescued from Hudson Valley Foie Gras. That doesn’t sound so groundbreaking today, but looking back it seems clear that the outpouring of videos from undercover exposes and open rescues really opened the door for violence against animals to be covered and shown in a mainstream way on TV. Jane Velez-Mitchell and Whale Wars, to cite just a couple of examples, have demonstrated the market for stories about animal issues on TV and created frameworks (admittedly still limited) for having mainstream conversations that push back against the assumptions that underpin our treatment of non-human animals. The work done by groups and individuals undertaking undercover investigations and open rescues in the late 1990s/early 2000s is a clear part of that cultural shift.
The inroads that activists were making at that point in time led to backlash. The open rescue movement is just a small part of the story of the green scare, as it has become known. Everything from the SHAC campaign to the ALF to Vegan Outreach was bringing really unwanted attention to corporate interests that made their money by exploiting animals. Again, I won’t bore you with history, but encourage you to read Green is the New Red and Muzzling a Movement to learn about how lobbyists led the charge to pass the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). The AETA raised the stakes on any sort of civil disobedience or direct action and certainly it caused people to think twice before taking part in open rescue. But even while acknowledging that people backed away from direct action (and even speaking out on behalf of animals) after the passage of the AETA, I don’t think that tells the whole story about why we saw so few open rescues after 2006.
These past few years have seen a huge uptick in the number of breaking stories about undercover investigations. Now that you can get accurate depictions of the realities of farming on your cell phone, with a small hidden camera, go pro, or motion sensitive camera tucked inside a farm, or with a telephoto lens from way off, there are a lot of new, novel ways to start engaging people that use some of the same energy that drew us to open rescue. I’m thinking here of everything from Will Potter’s Kickstarter-supported Drone on the Farm project to the activists who are currently being prosecuted under Utah’s ag-gag laws for taking pictures of a hog farm from public property. There is still momentum to expose animal exploitation. There’s also still open rescue. I just watched the new Direct Action Everywhere egg-laying-hen rescue video this morning.
You are also one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the U.S. government in relation to AETA. Can you explain what the lawsuit is about and the current status?
In 2012, the badass lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the lawsuit Blum v Holder asking the federal government to strike down Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act as unconstitutional. The plaintiffs in the suit were all long-time activists who felt the chilling effect of this law in our daily lives. As I said, I don’t think that the AETA was the sole reason for the fall-off of open rescue in the last decade, but I do know I curtailed my activism for a while when I felt the all-too-real threat of lengthy Federal prison sentences for engaging in that form of non-violent civil disobedience. The AETA presents an unconstitutional limitation on our first amendment rights, it’s clear. That was the basis of the lawsuit. But, because we were not actively being prosecuted under the law, there was a question of whether we had what’s known as “standing” to challenge it. In the end, rather than rule on the constitutionality of the law itself, the courts determined we didn’t have standing. On November 10th, 2014 the Supreme Court denied cert in our case, which means we can’t take it any further. It’s disappointing, but more disappointing is the fact that during the period when our suit was winding through court, Kevin Oliff and Tyler Lang were charged under the AETA for allegedly freeing mink and foxes from fur farms. CCR is working to get their case dismissed, but they need all the support they can get.
You live in a hotbed of radical vegan activism in Minneapolis. Are you involved in a lot of the actions going on there? Why do you think Minneapolis has attracted so many passionate, innovative vegans?
I’m a transplant to Minneapolis almost by accident, so I am probably the worst person to ask anything about why people end up there. It was a happy accident, though, as Minneapolis does have a really robust activist and radical culture, particularly for a town its size.
Not just in terms of animal issues. I remember a zine circulating around the RNC in 2008 called The Struggle is Our Inheritance that goes back through 50 years or so of radical action in Minnesota—actions that it seems like people in the rest of the country don’t know nearly as much about as they should. I guess between this and the earlier Talon shout out, it’s pretty clear that I think getting grounded in history is critical for being engaged in social change.
I show up to as many events as I can, but with how you phrased the question I have to be honest and say that day-to-day I don’t get to as many events as I’d like. I am torn between kicking myself for not doing more (which is the primary reflex action of most people who are drawn to trying to change the world around them), and being thrilled that there are so many people organizing around social justice issues that there’s no way one person could everywhere that there’s something worthwhile happening. Still, you just lit a fire under me to get to a protest or prisoner letter writing night soon.
In your mind, what are some of the most important issues that vegans—particularly radical vegans with an itch to take action and effect change—should focus on or learn more about in the future?
I want to go back for a second to my experience with open rescue. I often say that I think I ended up working on foie gras in particular because I hadn’t had much experience around animals growing up, but I had fed ducks at ponds. I had seen them around me growing up, watched them, wondered at them. I had seen them, so I could see them. Sometimes, I worry that if I spend too much time online I’ll lose sight of them, and all the animals for whom I’m trying to advocate. I can see it happening sometimes when I get on Facebook or wherever the new big theoretical debate is happening. We can argue tactics in terms of strategic efficiency, or break down activism as a numbers game, but unless we stay connected to other living creatures (including humans), how are we even going to imagine what a better world would look like? It’s critical we support sanctuaries, interact with real-live individual animals of the sort we are talking about saving from violence and exploitation, and get off our computers and into our communities.
Thanks so much for speaking with me about your work!
Posted on January 11, 2015 Author Justin Van KleeckCategories interviewsTags Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, animal liberation, direct action, open rescue, sarahjane blum, veganism1 Comment on Fighting the Chill: Interview with Sarahjane Blum
In Memory of Coriander
The hardest part of being responsible for another’s life is not death. It is burial. It is digging a hole, laying in a body, and covering it with shovels full of dirt. It is the finality of loss enacted through putting someone underground. We live with rescued chickens, and our constant affection for them all is inextricably linked to a wariness and worry over their well-being. Coriander came to us in the spring of 2014, with her “sister,” Beatrice, and several other hens. She was an Easter chick who, like many others, quickly wore out her welcome and was abandoned. She was a beautiful being, whose bond with Beatrice was a joy to behold.
We also experienced unfading moments with her, such as when she would plant herself firmly in the middle of a plate of treats in order to block her flockmates with her body. Bonds are always flexible, of course…
The victimization of hens begins before they are born and is carried in their bodies until death. All for the sake of human consumption of eggs, these wonderful beings have been manipulated to lay at such frightening rates that their bodies are virtually ticking time bombs. (The wild ancestors of modern chickens lay 12-15 eggs per year, solely for reproduction. The hens whose eggs we steal lay between 250-300 annually, and typically live for only a few years before they die.)
Whether a hen is in a battery cage, on a “free-range” farm, or in a backyard flock, the biology is the same…the exploitation is unchanged.
We understood this quickly after starting to rescue chickens. The knowledge of impending death does not ameliorate the experience of it, of course–especially when those who die are innocent victims of human greed.
We brought Coriander inside to care for her and keep her warm when she started showing signs of discomfort. Despite constant care and attention, her body could not handle whatever she was struggling with.
I have been carrying a great deal of rage around since losing Coriander. Since burying Coriander, honestly. It is a non-specific rage–there is no particular target, though there are some very clear causes behind her death–which makes it all the more frustrating.
What I constantly circle around, though, is how hard it is for me to see veganism, animal rights, and the totality of oppression outside of the impacts human society has on individual bodies. In caring for, losing, grieving over a tiny fraction of these bodies, it becomes utterly impossible not to telescope one hen’s short life and devastating death. I cannot but replay her burial and try not to choke on the absolute repugnance I feel towards human privilege, mentalities of domination, and a convenient apathy that keeps our hands bathed in blood.
There is no solace in knowing that Coriander had a better life (and death) than many of her species. Our sanctuary is not a bucolic place of joy where no one suffers or where death, when it happens, is a quiet nodding off to sleep.
Our joys are like clay-footed gods, always.
Posted on January 10, 2015 October 4, 2018 Author Justin Van KleeckCategories commentary9 Comments on In Memory of Coriander
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New articles published in Economic Geography, European Urban and Regional Studies
Since last summer I’ve been pretty focused on helping get the What Works Centre off the ground, so I’m posting these two articles rather late in the day.
The first is online at European Urban and Regional Studies. It’s my over-ambitious attempt to build a framework for thinking about the economic impacts of diversity in cities, drawing on my own work as well as the growing international literature. Specifically, I critique and try to move beyond Richard Florida’s thinking on these issues.
Here’s the abstract:
In recent years, most European countries have experienced substantial demographic changes and rising cultural diversity. Understanding the social and economic impacts of these shifts is a major challenge for policymakers. Richard Florida’s ideas have provided a popular – and pervasive – framework for doing so. This paper assess Florida’s legacy and sets out a ‘post-Florida’ framework for ‘technology, talent and tolerance’ research. The paper first traces the development of Florida’s ideas. ‘Florida 1.0’, encapsulated by the Three Ts framework, has performed badly in practice. There are problems in bringing causality to the fundamental relationships, and in consistently replicating the results in other countries. ‘Florida 2.0’, though suggests that Creative Class metrics have value as alternative measures of human capital. This create space for a post-Florida agenda based on economic micro-foundations. I argue that the growing body of ‘economics of diversity’ research meets these conditions, and review theory and empirics. Urban ‘diversity shocks’ shift the size and composition of populations and workforces, with impacts operating via labour markets, and through wider production and consumption networks. While short-term labour market effects are small, over time low-value industrial sectors may become migrant-dependent. Diversity may help raise productivity and wages through innovation, entrepreneurship, market access and trade channels. Bigger, more diverse cities help generate hybridised goods and services, but may also raise local costs through crowding. All of this presents new challenges for policymakers, who need to manage diversity’s net effects, and address both economic costs and benefits.
The full piece is here. There’s no pre-print available, but you can access this paper in the IZA Journal of Migration which covers some of the same ground.
The second piece is out in Economic Geography, and is co-authored with Neil Lee. This is an empirical study testing links between firm-level demographics, innovation and entrepreneurship. We use a recent sample of London businesses, and uncover some small but robust diversity effects.
A growing body of research is making links between diversity and the economic performance of cities and regions. Most of the underlying mechanisms take place within firms, but only a handful of organization-level studies have been conducted. We contribute to this underexplored literature by using a unique sample of 7,600 firms to investigate links among cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is one of the world’s major cities, with a rich cultural diversity that is widely seen as a social and economic asset. Our data allowed us to distinguish owner/partner and wider workforce characteristics, identify migrant/minority-headed firms, and differentiate firms along multiple dimensions. The results, which are robust to most challenges, suggest a small but significant “diversity bonus” for all types of London firms. First, companies with diverse management are more likely to introduce new product innovations than are those with homogeneous “top teams.” Second, diversity is particularly important for reaching international markets and serving London’s cosmopolitan population. Third, migrant status has positive links to entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit.
The full piece is here, and a pre-print version is here.
This entry was posted on April 29, 2014 at 11:52 am and is filed under cities, culture, demographics, economics, my work.
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Electronic Producer Diplo Going Country, Has All-Star Collaborations Planned
Rich Fury, Getty Images
Diplo will use his birth name, Thomas Wesley Pentz, to release country music. The first taste of an album called Thomas Wesley arrived Wednesday (April 24) in the form of a collaboration with Cam entitled "So Long."
Expect that several more collaborations with country artists are on the way. This week, Diplo will play Stagecoach, at the first-ever Stagecoach Late Night at the festival’s Palomino stage on Sunday (April 28).
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Along with the Cam collaboration, Diplo tells Variety that he has been in talks with Zac Brown, Thomas Rhett and Sam Hunt. He also made friends with Sturgill Simpson and hopes to create country music with the same energy he has.
"There’s all these kids who are doing country in a really new way. There’s new energy in the sort of outlaw, outsider country that hasn’t been around in years. I’ve always felt that way, and it’s fun to push myself and see what I can come up with getting in with these artists," he explains, not offering much in the way of details.
Though he's a platinum-selling and Grammy award-winning producer, it was still hard for the DJ to get into the genre's inner-circle, he admits. "It’s actually a hard thing to get some of these guys to take a chance, because country’s such an insular community, but I’m trying to do something a little bit different with the songwriting just trying to experiment, y’know?" he says.
Diplo credits his want to create country music to his upbringing in Southern states like Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina.
"I feel like I had to do a bunch of other stuff first, but now I’m coming back to it," he insists.
Aside from being a successful DJ, he is a member of Major Lazer, LSD (with Sia and Labrinth) and Silk City (with Mark Ronson). Diplo is also an in-demand producer, working with big names from all genres such as Beyonce, Bad Bunny and Turnstile.
Non-Country Artists Who Unexpectedly Went Country
Categories: Country Music News, New Country Albums
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Fifty Shades Darker Torrent Free
Fifty Shades Darker is a 2012 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the second installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. The first and third volumes, Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Freed, were published in 2011 and 2012. The novel is published by Vintage Books and reached #1 on the USA Today best seller list.
Three days since leaving Christian, Anastasia “Ana” Steele has begun her job as personal assistant to Jack Hyde, and editor at Seattle Independent Publishing (SIP). He continually asks Ana out, making her uneasy, but writes it off. Christian emails her to see if she needs a ride to her friend Jose Rodriguez’s gallery exhibit in Portland, which she had forgotten about until Christian emailed her. The pair attend the show together and reconcile their relationship by kissing in an alley and visiting a restaurant together. Christian buys José’s portraits of Ana for selfish reasons, one is to prevent random people from buying them, and the second is for his own amusement.
Christian reveals to Ana that he has bought SIP, but the deal must stay secret for another month. Ana is furious that Christian is interfering in her career, especially after he freezes the company’s accounts preventing her from going on an overnight business trip to New York with Jack. Christian insists it was for her own protection, because Jack is a “known philanderer”, as he apparently harassed his last five assistants. Those suspicions prove correct when Jack corners Ana after hours and blackmails her, demanding sexual favors. Ana’s self-defense training allows her to escape. Christian has Jack fired and confiscates his work computer.
While attending a masquerade ball at Dr. and Mr. Grey’s residence, Ana meets Elena Lincoln (whom Ana nicknames Mrs. Robinson) for the first time and discovers that Elena and Christian own a salon business together. Later, Ana is auctioned off and Christian bids $100,000 for the first dance with her. Ana is disgusted that Christian continues to be friends with the woman who seduced him when he was only 15 years old, and initially introduced him to the BDSM lifestyle. When Elena realizes that Christian sees Ana as a girlfriend and not a submissive, she becomes antagonistic towards Ana, trying to sow discord in the budding relationship.
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February 6, 2019 / 12:05 PM / in 5 months
Alpine skiing - Vonn sits out downhill training after Super-G crash
ARE, Sweden (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn sat out women’s downhill training at the Alpine skiing world championships on Wednesday after a high-speed crash in the opening Super-G.
FILE PHOTO: Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - Lindsey Vonn Press Conference - Are, Sweden - February 5, 2019 Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. during a press conference REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
Sunday’s downhill in Are will be the final race of the former Olympic champion’s career after she announced her retirement last week.
The American great, winner of 82 World Cup races, has battled knee injuries throughout her career and sustained a black eye when crashing out of Tuesday’s Super-G won by compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin.
“I feel like I’ve been hit by an 18-wheeler, but other than that I’m great,” Vonn told reporters after her crash. “My knees are the same as they were before the race, so that’s good.
“I’m just going to be really sore, I think my neck’s going to be sore. I got the wind knocked out of me so my ribs are pretty sore. But I’ll be fine, Sunday will be great,” added the 34-year-old.
The U.S. ski team said all three of its downhillers, none of whom took part in the second training run, planned to race on Sunday.
All-rounder Shiffrin is not scheduled to enter the downhill, and said on Twitter after the Super-G that she had also decided to skip Friday’s combined event, leaving her a week to prepare for the next race.
“It has been a tough decision for me, but my team and I have finally decided that competing in AC (Alpine Combined) will be too much to manage in this World Championships,” she said.
“The most difficult thing through it all has been balancing my desire to race as much as possible with managing my energy levels both physically and mentally and not taking anything for granted.
“We believe the SL (slalom) and GS (giant slalom) are where I need to focus my energy,” added the defending world slalom champion.
Switzerland’s Jasmine Flury was fastest in training, ahead of compatriot Lara Gut-Behrami.
Writing by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Christian Radnedge and Pritha Sarkar
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September 7, 2015 / 2:45 PM / 4 years ago
Britain says to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over five years
David Milliken
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, responding to public clamour for his government to help those fleeing civil war in the country.
“We are proposing that Britain should resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refuges over the rest of this parliament. In doing so, we will continue to show the world that this country is a country of extraordinary compassion,” he told parliament.
Cameron has been under pressure from the media and his European counterparts to take in far more refugees to help with the wider migrant crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousand of people arrive in mainland Europe.
Even British newspapers generally hostile to increased migration last week called on Cameron to let in more refugees after featuring pictures of a drowned Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach on their front pages.
The 20,000 Syrian refugees Britain will now accept is still far below the numbers being taken by some other European countries. Germany expects to receive around 800,000 refugees and migrants this year.
Britain has so far taken in only 216 Syrian refugees under a U.N.-backed relocation scheme. About 5,000 other Syrians who have made their own way to Britain have been granted asylum.
A survey published late on Monday showed that most Britons did not want greater numbers of refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria and Libya.
Only 40 percent of people polled by ComRes for the BBC said Britain should let in more refugees than it does currently, compared with 57 percent who want the same number or fewer.
Nearly two-thirds of Britons said the image of the drowned toddler should not influence migration policy, and made it harder to take a rational approach.
Cameron said the refugees would be taken from camps in Syria and neighbouring countries. Since 2011, millions of Syrians have been displaced by civil war, with more than 4 million ending up in refugee camps in surrounding countries like Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
“We will continue with our approach of taking refugees from the camps and from elsewhere in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon,” he said. “This provides refugees with a more direct and safe route to the United Kingdom.”
Additional reporting by William James and Kate Holton, editing by Stephen Addison, Larry King
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United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act 1937
Chapter number:
In-force:
THE UNITED KINGDOM DESIGNS (PROTECTION) ACT.
Arrangement of Sections.
Rights in Uganda of proprietor of design registered in United Kingdom.
Innocent infringer not liable for damages.
Grounds upon which court may declare that rights have not been acquired in Uganda.
Commencement: 15 June, 1937.
An Act to provide for the protection in Uganda of designs registered
in the United Kingdom.
1. Rights in Uganda of proprietor of design registered in United
Kingdom.
Subject to this Act, the registered proprietor of any design registered in the United Kingdom under the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932, or any Act of the United Kingdom amending or substituted for those Acts shall enjoy in Uganda the like privileges and rights as though the certificate of registration in the United Kingdom had been issued with an extension to Uganda.
2. Innocent infringer not liable for damages.
The registered proprietor of a design shall not be entitled to recover any damages in respect of any infringement of copyright in a design from any defendant who proves that, at the date of the infringement, he or she was not aware and had no reasonable means of making himself or herself aware of the existence of the registration of the design.
Nothing in this section shall affect any proceedings for an injunction.
3. Grounds upon which court may declare that rights have not been
acquired in Uganda.
The court shall have power, upon the application of any person who alleges that his or her interests have been prejudicially affected, to declare, upon any of the grounds upon which the United Kingdom registration might be cancelled under the law for the time being in force in the United Kingdom, that exclusive privileges and rights in a design have not been acquired in Uganda under this Act.
Such grounds shall be deemed to include the publication of the
design in Uganda prior to the date of registration of the design in the United Kingdom.
History: Cap. 84.
Patent and Designs Acts of the United Kingdom, 1907 to 1932.
Industrial Property Act, 2014
Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act
Anglo Fabrics (Bolton) Ltd & Anor v African Queen Ltd & Anor (HCT-00-CC-CS-0632-2006) ((Bolton)) [2008] UGCOMMC 67 (27 January 2008);
Anglo Fabrics (Bolton) Ltd and Another v African Queen Ltd and Another (HCT-00-CC-CS-0632-2006) ((Bolton)) [2008] UGCOMMC 15 (21 February 2008);
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Tag: Sleeping Beauty
Ranking the top 5 moments from “Supernatural” season 14 episode 3: “You Proved That You Have The Mind Of A Hunter”
Happy Friday TV fans! After watching the CW’s Supernatural season 14 episode 3, Jack reminded us that you don’t need to have supernatural abilities in order to truly make a difference and save someone. Sometimes someone ordinary can become extraordinary just by not giving up. Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In last night’s episode, “The Scar,” Sam tries to get through to Dean about Michael’s possession, but Dean wants to race ahead to the next case. Meanwhile, Castiel and Jack desperately try to help a girl named Laura who has been cursed by a witch. My top 5 moments from Supernatural season 14 episode 3 are:
“No people say that.”
In the beginning of the episode, Dean brings back the laughs, revealing that at least Michael did not kill off his sense of humor. He starts describing something that is a bit like a nightmare and we initially think he is talking about the possession, but quickly learn that he means Sam’s new beard. Sam defends his choice in facial hair and explains that some people say it looks good and Dean hilariously replies, “No people say that.” Even though Dean has been through a lot, this is what Supernatural does best. They know how to perfectly blend in some light fun to offset all of the drama and darkness that the Winchester brothers have to face. It’s good to have you back Dean.
“Like someone stabbed you with a giant meat fork?”
After Castiel taps into Dean’s memories, Dean remembers that the thing that killed Kaia in “The Bad Place” had a run in with Michael and actually managed to injure him, leaving behind a scar that Dean is now forced to bear. Sam and Dean decide to head off to Sioux Falls to meet up with Jody and chase down a lead. It’s good to have Jody back. While I’m disappointed that “Wayward Sisters” did not get picked up, Jody really elevates the show and brings a fresh perspective to everything. Jody explains that she thought she was dealing with a serial killer here, but soon realizes that it may be connected to the thing that killed Kaia after all. Small world.
“You saved us.”
Sam and Dean soon run into the hooded threat and capture her, stunned that she looks identical to real Kaia. Other Kaia explains that she is a dream walker too and she is a sort of double or connection to the real Kaia. She was able to see what she could and she further explains that she killed her by accident, as she was really trying to kill “the blonde one.” We know she is referring to Claire Novak here, Jody’s adopted daughter. As Kaia begins to open up, she no longer appears to be the bad guy and she is being hunted by vampires who are trying to take her weapon. Michael sees the weapon as a threat to him since it was able to hurt him, but Kaia is not about to give it up without a fight. When Sam, Dean, and Jody are under attack by vampires, Dean manages to set Kaia free and she makes the decision to save their lives, proving that there is some goodness within her. While her existence may be complicated, it’s clear that she could be the key to stopping Michael.
“You proved that you have the mind of a hunter and the heart of a hunter.”
While Sam and Dean head off to Sioux Falls, Castiel has his own crisis to deal with, as he tries to reverse the curse of a witch on Laura. Castiel explains to Jack that she has been “enchanted” and Jack hilariously asks, “Like Sleeping Beauty?” Castiel calls up Rowena for guidance and is ready to try his best. After casting the spell, the curse is not lifted and the aging spell speeds up, taking away Laura’s life force. Jack is beyond devastated, as he spent some time with Laura and feels some kind of bond or connection with her. Jack glances at her amulet and realizes that he can still help Laura. He explains that the witch bullet may have killed the witch, but it was still keeping Laura’s life force trapped in a way. Jack takes a chance and destroys the amulet and saves Laura. Jack proves that knowledge really is power and Castiel is extremely proud of him and even suggests that they all go on a hunting trip together. It seems like Jack is finally finding his place in the world without his grace, only he begins coughing up blood at the end of the episode. Jack hides this from Castiel, but it looks like his own life may be in immediate danger. Let’s hope that he fills in his family before it’s too late.
“I thought I could make it out but I wasn’t strong enough.”
After shutting Sam out for most of the episode, Dean finally opens up to his brother on the way home. Dean explains that he just wanted to race ahead and skip to the part where he got to take down the bad guy, but recognizes that it’s not that simple. Dean confides in Sam that he felt like he was drowning underwater and that he was constantly clawing and fighting for air. Dean tried to be strong, but he wasn’t strong enough to defeat Michael. Dean clearly feels guilty about everything that has happened and thinks that everything that Michael is doing is on him. While this was absolutely heartbreaking to hear, I’m glad that Dean finally decided to open up to Sam. Dean may not be able to resolve everything overnight, but at least he knows that his family and friends are there to support him. Stay tuned!
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The following information about the fire department's ambulance services and charges has been taken from Irving, Texas - Code of Ordinances, Part II - The Code, Chapter 5 - Ambulance Service, Sec. 5-02 - Emergency Service Generally and can be reviewed at the following link: Code of Ordinances
Sec. 5-02. - Emergency service generally.
(a) To be provided by city fire department. The fire department of the city shall provide emergency ambulance service within the city. It shall be unlawful for any person not employed by the City of Irving Fire Department to provide an emergency ambulance pick-up of any person in the City of Irving. It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this subsection if the ambulance service is provided:
(1) By another governmentally owned ambulance service operating pursuant to an interlocal agreement for mutual assistance;
(2) By a private firm operating under a contract with the City of Irving which specifically allows in writing the provision of ambulance service at the request of the fire chief;
(3) By a firm operating an auxiliary ambulance licensed by the City of Irving and providing such service to a special event as required by this chapter; or
(4) By a firm operating an auxiliary ambulance licensed by the City of Irving which firm was requested to provide emergency ambulance in a specific instance by the chief of the fire department or his designee.
(b) Fee.
(1) The following fees shall be charged per trip for the transportation by emergency ambulance of a resident to a hospital:
Basic Life Support (BLS) $750
Advanced Life Support (ALS) 1 $850
(2) The following fees shall be charged per trip for the transportation by emergency ambulance of a resident sixty-five (65) years of age or older to a hospital:
Advanced Life Support (ALS)1 $750
(3) The following fees shall be charged per trip for the transportation by emergency ambulance of a non-resident to a hospital:
Advanced Life Support (ALS) 2 $1,050
(4) Consumables used by the ambulance personnel to treat an individual that is transported to a hospital by emergency ambulance shall be charged at a rate of thirty (30) percent above cost.
(5) A fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per mile shall be charged for the transportation by emergency ambulance of a person to a hospital.
(6) A fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be charged for advanced treatment/no transport of a resident.
(7) A fee of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) shall be charged for advanced treatment/no transport of a non-resident.
(8) A technology fee of five dollars ($5.00) per patient will be added to each transport bill in order to recoup costs of electronic patient data capture.
(9) The city shall accept as full payment of the fee, required by this section, the money paid as the "allowable charge" pursuant to a proper claim by an eligible patient under Medicare or Medicaid.
(c) Responsibility for payment of fee. The person receiving emergency ambulance service and any person contracting for the service shall be responsible for payment of the fee. In the case of service received by a minor, the parent or guardian of the minor shall be responsible for payment of the fee.
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Supporting young people, their families and creative enterprises
Our Mission / Social Purpose
To develop programmes and support for young people, families and creative enterprises.
We are a social enterprise that aims to support the development of young people, families and creative enterprise. Unit Twenty Three delivers programmes for which it has been commissioned or provided with grant funding to enable. The focus of work will be on areas of economic deprivation and need for the development of great art & a great future workforce to deliver this for everyone. We will produce professional arts work and support young artists to achieve success.
Unit Twenty Three has grown out of a long standing desire to further develop training opportunities for young people interested in the arts by the founders. Finding cost effective & sustainable routes to delivering such opportunities is a key challenge in the economic climate experienced since 2010. By working closely with existing organisations, Cloud Artisans and CEG Productions, we have been able to create an organisation that shares core costs, has a wider network of professionals to engage as needed, and can build on the projects they have already experimented with.
Our major community projects have included a Young Carers focused theatre production aimed at identifying hidden young carers called Freefall, and a community arts festival which engaged all ages in activity throughout the market town of Diss called DissFest.
Find out more about what we offer or view our projects.
We operate teams based on projects and work with a number of freelancers to make our work happen, whether it is in school, on the professional stage, or online.
The core team includes:
Joshua Gould – Director & Interim Project Support
Joshua fancied a career in the sciences when he was at school. He soon found Unit Twenty Three instead and spent more than 2 years with us as our apprentice and moved on to being a project co-ordinator. However he could never get away from his real passion – being an actor. He has performed professionally in a large range of shows. He puts his acting skills to good work running roleplay sessions with new Prison Officers up and down the country, and continue to find time to keep a hand in creative project administration.
Sally Zabroski BA(Hons) – Projects Co-Ordinator
Overseeing our youth engagement and community programmes, Sally coordinates and organises projects such as DissFest, our Youth Theatre, Young Associates and FreeFall Tour. With a background in theatre and drama, having worked in Creative Learning departments across the country, Sally helps to organise young people’s involvement in the arts and manages participation.
Emrys Green MInstLM, LCGI, FRSA, BA(Hons), TechIOSH – Founding Director
Emrys has many years experience working within the arts, participation and enterprise support space. He has been a judge at local, regional and national level for Young Enterprise, been involved in national Arts Council England projects and founded the supporting commercial organisations. Working within digital marketing and arts management, primarily his first love in the arts is Theatre.
Stuart Mullins BA(Hons), MA – Artistic Associate
Stuart leads the artistic development of Freefall and works closely with us to bring his experience of producing high quality arts projects across the East in a number of guises, not least as CEO & Creative Director of Theatre IS… Stuart is currently producing and directing work across the UK with a special interest in emotional wellbeing and Young Carers. Stuart is also a Visiting Lecturer and Subject Co-Ordinator of the Acting for Screen course at the University of Hertfordshire. Find out more at: stuartmullins.eu
Tom Inniss Bsc(Hons), MA – Director
Our resident sounding board. Tom holds a first class degree in politics and has been involved in the Arts Award Youth Network since it’s inception in 2011. Starting as a network leader he is now a key associate, undertaking commissions. He is also the Deputy Editor of Arts Award Voice, holds a Masters in Journalism and is based just down the road in Bury St Edmunds. Tom provides a listening ear for the U23 team and provides strategic guidance as a member of the board.
Dave Thomas BA Hons, BDMA Dip DM, MIDM- Director
Dave is an internationally renowned Blues Musician. He has been touring for over 50 years and even holds an official citation from the City of Cleveland, Ohio in the USA for his contribution to music. In business, Dave has led successful marketing agencies and was the Diploma Director for the Institute of Direct Marketing. He continues to run & play at a lot of gigs – including leading on Fine City Blues.
Jules Talbot – Director
Jules studied fine art at the Harrogate College of Art and Design, and is a grade 8 classical guitarist who picked up an electric guitar in his teens and never looked back. He has been writing songs and performing them with his own bands and working as a session musician for over 30 years and still loves to write and perform. He’s is passionate about art, drama, music and all things creative and teaches song-writing and guitar to all age groups.
Jules ran a music venue and arts centre for 4 years where he built up a strong portfolio of international eclectic musical performers. Prior to this, he worked with disadvantaged children in social care. Jules’ aim is to bring the creative arts to the masses and loves seeing people find joy through performance and artistic expression.
Lora Stimson – Director
Lora is a Programme Manager with The Writers Centre in Norwich, managing among other projects the Inn Crowd – a rural touring scheme. She also sings in a swing band and is a published author. Lora is particularly passionate about arts provision in rural communities and brings her years of professional practice and creativity to supporting the widening of our arts activity in to the literary world. As well as pop-up events, Lora has managed work with Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Latitude Festival. (Photo by Martin Figura)
Creative Apprentice of the Year 2014
As well as joining us in 2018 as a board member we were delighted that Joshua was also the 2014 Creative & Cultural Skills Creative Apprentice of the Year! Watch the video about Josh’s achievement below.
We are a social enterprise registered in England as a Community Interest Company with company registration number 8564486 – running completely not for profit. Please be aware that copies of all terms & conditions of contract or hire are available on request when making a booking. Our physical address is Diss Youth & Community Centre, Shelfanger Road, Diss, Norfolk, IP22 4EH.
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Iran nuclear deal: The golden opportunity for the EU to live up to its own goals
By JO on July 7, 2018 1 Comment
• On July 6, 2018 there was a meeting in Vienna concerning the JCPOA, or the Iran nuclear deal, and how to handle it after the U.S. withdrawal from the deal and the U.S. attempts to isolate Iran further and suffocate its 85 million people even more by trying to prevent it from selling its oil and simultaneously have Saudi Arabia increase its production.
The participants were China, Russia, Germany, France and the UK and the meeting was chaired by the EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini. Here is a PressTV report about it. And here is the EU’s document that was produced at the meeting.
According to TFF director, Jan Oberg, the major problems with this is that the EU, Russia and China have known for many months that President Trump would withdraw from the deal and also has an almost personal hate of the country and of the deal being signed by Obama. In spite of that, there seems to be no deadline in the document as to when Iran can expect that the signatory countries, the EU in particular, turn their very good and promising words into action. (China and Russia have taken concrete steps to support Iran through other channels than this meeting).
The other issue mentioned by Oberg is that the word compensation is nowhere to be seen. Iran has all reason to expect that the signatory states will seek to compensate Iran for not only the costs of the US sanctions but also for other losses that the United States deliberately incur on the country and its people.
Few people in the West seem to have an adequate impression of just how harmful US policies on Iran are and that, at the end of the day, it could all end up in military action.
The EU has a golden historical opportunity to now prevent a new war in the Middle East and work for the peace that is its highest goal according to the preamble of its Lisbon Treaty.
Get the background and see it all here right after the meeting in Vienna had taken place.
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Iran nuclear deal: The golden opportunity for the EU to live up to its own goals added by JO on July 7, 2018
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Vibeke Larsen July 7, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Trump’s economic blockade of Iran won’t pay off
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Part 6 • US policies of invasion and regime change: Afghanistan
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The first Missionary Servant was missioned to California in 1957. Our ministry then was to the Mexican farm laborers who were brought in with visas to work the farms in what was then rural Orange County. Most of them returned to Mexico in the early 1960’s, but we stayed and found new people to serve.
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When we first arrived at Our Lady of Victory parish in Compton in 1969, just outside Los Angeles, the population was largely African-American; today’s parishioners are primarily Hispanic, many of them first-generation immigrants. Recently, Our Lady of Soledad parish in the desert town of Coachella was given over to our care. This diverse community with members from Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico serves 7,000 families through various pastoral and sacramental ministries. Our missionaries in California comfort the sick, celebrate the sacraments, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and provide a safe haven for youngsters who have been caught up in the gangs. We offer hope and a helping hand to thousands of families whose Catholic faith is such an integral part of their lives.
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Father Francisco Valdovinos, S.T., was ordained a Trinity Missionary priest in 1994. He grew up in Mexico, in the town of Santa Ana in the state of Michoacán. When he was 17 years old, Trinity Missions took over the pastoral care of his parish. A few years later, Fr. Eugene Mueller, S.T., came to the … more
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Sleep deprived? What missing too much sleep might be doing to your body
Leslie Young GlobalNews.ca
How sleep works: The reasons why we can't live without it
It’s the middle of the night and you’re staring at the ceiling.
Slowly, so slowly, the minutes tick by. It feels like forever before you fall back asleep – just in time for your alarm clock to go off.
If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Nearly one-quarter of Canadians reported experiencing symptoms of insomnia and about one-third reported sleeping for less than the recommended seven or eight hours, according to a Statistics Canada report from December 2018.
This can have profound consequences for your health that go beyond simply feeling tired, cranky and slow the next morning.
A growing body of research is pointing to the long-term consequences of too little or poor-quality sleep, suggesting it’s connected to poor cardiovascular and mental health, metabolic disorders and possibly even conditions like dementia.
Sleep is important to health, said Charles Morin, the Canada research chair in sleep disorders at Laval University and president of the World Sleep Society. “It’s one of the three pillars for sustainable health.”
“Sleep is just as important as good nutrition or exercising.”
While we’re asleep, our bodies are still busy, taking care of things that it doesn’t do when we’re awake. One example Morin gives is hormone production.
“At night, we produce a number of hormones including leptins. Leptins are an appetite-controlling hormone so if we only sleep four or five hours a night, we produce less of that hormone and therefore we’re at greater risk to become overweight and eat more,” he said.
Similarly, getting too little or too much sleep is associated with changes in how our bodies react to glucose, and a higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
WATCH: Good sleep leads to a healthier heart
When we’re sleeping, our blood pressure also decreases relative to when we’re awake. Sleep disturbances, like insomnia or sleep apnea – a breathing disorder – can interrupt this rhythm. “It’s like the heart is working overtime and it may predispose these individuals to higher risk for hypertension,” Morin said.
Sleeping in on weekends can help you live longer, study finds
A 2015 statement from the American Heart Association found that short sleep duration was associated with a higher risk of hypertension and of coronary heart disease, and recommended public-health campaigns to increase awareness of the importance of a good night’s sleep.
Sleep also affects your mental health. In a 2016 meta-analysis, insomnia was associated with a higher risk of depression, though the connection can go both ways – people with depression often have trouble sleeping, and trouble sleeping might lead to a higher risk of depression. Treating sleep disorders alongside depression can lead to a better outcome for both conditions, Morin said.
Sleep might even affect how well your brain works. Right now, an Ontario study is even examining a possible association between sleep and the brain’s health, alongside other health issues. The Ontario Sleep Health Study, which has examined about 2,800 people so far, is hoping to publish some results later this year, focusing on signs of dementia.
“What we’re interested in doing is taking a look at folks in mid-life and try and get a feeling for whether we are starting to see early changes in MRIs and cognitive function that may lead to dementia in a working-age population,” said the study’s principal investigator, Dr. Andrew Lim of Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital.
During sleep, he said, the brain flushes out toxins. “There’s a mechanism whereby waste products that are produced by neurons and other cells in the brain build up during the day and then when you sleep, they are literally flushed out of the brain.”
WATCH: Having a baby? Don’t expect to sleep for at least six years
In a 2017 review, researchers found that several studies point to a link between sleep deprivation and more amyloid-beta protein accumulating in the brain – thought to be a key factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
Although clinical trials haven’t yet proven that sleep deprivation causes dementia or Alzheimer’s, Lim said, “I think the data is building that this might be one potential consequence of sleep disruption.”
WATCH: Dr. Charles Samuels from the University of Calgary discusses the importance of sleep for our health
The sleeping brain may also play an important role in learning and memory, he said. “When you’re awake, as you learn new things and as you remember new things and encounter new experiences, you form new connections between neurons in your brain, called synapses.”
“What happens is if you kept on building up new synapses, over time, your brain would simply become overloaded with new synapses, many of which are not necessarily important.” During sleep, he said, the brain reinforces synapses that are most important for learning and pares back the less important ones, leaving room for new connections to be formed the next day. “This process is critically dependent on sleep, making sleep an important mediator of learning.”
World’s largest sleep study shows too much sleep as bad as too little
While trials showing this have so far mostly been done in mice – it’s much harder to examine synapses when you can’t do an autopsy of the brain – Lim thinks it’s clear that poor sleep makes it harder for you to learn. If you treat someone’s sleep apnea, for example, “you can see immediate obvious changes in cognitive performance.”
WATCH: Excessive sleep, lack of sleep can lead to cognitive impairment, study finds
The upshot of all this? We need to make sleep a priority, Morin says. “There are very significant costs associated with chronic insomnia in the work environment and in one’s own personal life in terms of fatigue, decreased energy and even mood disturbances.”
If your poor sleep lasts for more than a few nights a week for a few weeks, and it’s having an impact on your daytime functioning, you should contact a health-care provider, he said.
“People need to make a priority of their sleep,” he said.
“We need to prepare ourselves for a good night’s sleep, just as we do when we travel. We prepare our journey ahead of time. We need to do the same when we sleep.”
Although the amount of sleep needed varies from person to person, experts generally recommend about 7.5 to eight hours of sleep every night, with some rare people needing as little as six or as many as nine hours. If you feel tired after a night’s sleep, try sleeping longer until you find what’s right for you, the Canadian Sleep Society suggests.
If you have persistent trouble sleeping, or no amount of sleep makes you feel well-rested, contact a medical professional, since sleep is important for your overall health.
“I think we take it for granted until we have problems with it,” Morin said.
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Review: William McCarthy at Liverpool Arts Club
Posted on May 3, 2017 by Tom Power under Music
October 31st 2016 will have seemed like an ordinary Halloween celebration for the vast majority of people in Liverpool. For those crammed into the city’s O2 Academy, however, it was the end of an era.
That night, on the day that Augustines played their final-ever show, the swashbuckling trio of William McCarthy, Eric Sanderson and Rob Allen brought down the curtain on their six-year career to leave the band’s loyal supporters heartbroken at their decision to split.
On Tuesday 2nd May, six months after McCarthy’s last visit to Merseyside, the only things broken on a night of pure joy were the guitar strings thanks to the New Yorker’s passionate strumming.
With a set that lasted around two hours 15 minutes, McCarthy’s triumphant return to Liverpool was, to put it simply, sensational and, while he may not have sold out the city’s Arts Club, the 150-strong crowd that assembled at the Seel Street-based venue wouldn’t have dreamed of being anywhere else.
And McCarthy knew it. Boy, did he know it.
Oozing a perfect blend of wit, charm and a humbleness often lacking in the frontmen of current and/or past bands doing the circuit, McCarthy brought the ruckus – in more ways than one – as he belted out songs from a back catalogue stretching all the way to his beginnings as a musician.
Old classics from his Pela and Augustines days – coupled with some extraordrinarily hilarious covers that saw McCarthy marry the likes of Neil Young’s dulcet tones with George Michael hit single ‘Faith’ – went down a storm, and gave witness to the sheer prowess of McCarthy’s artistic flair.
In true scouser fashion, the mass of Liverpudlians gave as good as they got as the quips and jokes were batted back and forth between McCarthy and his devoted fans, while McCarthy’s own tales of self-reflection and humorous behind-the-scenes revelations drew laughs and applause in equal measure.
It was McCarthy’s tunes, however, that many had come to see, and the Irish-American songwriter did not disappoint. His impressive set of lungs still able to project a stunning voice into all corners of the building, coupled with his unrelenting showmanship and expert guitar playing, left all present marvelling at the man affectionally known as ‘Billeh’.
It may be a source of frustration for his fanbase that McCarthy doesn’t get the recognition he deserves within the wider music community, but McCarthy’s raw passion, devotion to music and modesty sets him apart from the crowd. It’s what endears him to those who have followed his work for years and years, and offers an insight into why people watch him up and down the country, and across the globe.
There may be more successful artists out there. There may be more widely known bands out there. There may be other gifted frontmen out there. McCarthy, though, knows what he has – a dedicated following of supporters, his trusted set of guitars and harmonicas, and a desire to make the world a better place through his music.
Sometimes that’s all that’s required to help mend those broken hearts from six months ago, and beyond.
Power Rating: 10/10
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Marc Kerridge
Fantastic review and totally spot on! Billy’s songs and his performance do exactly what it says on the tin, rocks, inspires and comforts in equal measure. Rarely do we have the opportunity to share in such creative, honest and humbling events such as this and for a short time (well two hours plus) the World seems a better place! He and Augustines deserve so much more than the fickle music industry can offer but Billy has fans that will support him in whatever direction he chooses because they know he’ll not let them down. A great guy, a great gig.
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12 Reasons Why Old Souls Have Such A Hard Time Finding Love
By Brianna Wiest Updated July 7, 2019
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1. They have a strong sense of identity. They know who they are, which means they also know – specifically – what they do and do not want in a partner, what works and what doesn’t. While this is fantastic in terms of being able to choose wisely, it ultimately diminishes their pool of prospects pretty significantly.
2. Left unchecked, their hyper-intuitiveness can wreck relationships. Often prone to overthinking because of how deeply sensitive they are, their capacity to worry and make assumptions can break relationships that don’t have a perfectly strong foundation.
3. Many are in the throes of twin flame relationships. They’re attached or are with people who are not their “forever” people, rather, intense connections they’re meant to learn, and rapidly expand, from.
4. They often have a greater purpose that must be attended to first – one that love would distract them from. They usually have to accomplish quite a bit on their own before they find love – this is because old souls love deeply, and completely. To be given love too soon would keep them from the other important things they are here to do.
5. They will not settle for anything less than soulmate love. They require a lot more than just a surface-level, “average” relationship. They absolutely will not settle, and sometimes, that means biting the bullet and being alone for longer than what’s “average” as well.
6. While many people can bring them passion, few can bring compatibility. Because they feel so deeply and others find them so fascinating, it’s easy for them to find infatuation, but to be with someone who is truly their best friend, deepest confidant *and* lover is a challenge.
7. They’re less inclined to go out and meet people in modern ways. Even if they have nothing against online dating, it doesn’t always come naturally for them, nor does finding a random hookup at a bar or being set up blindly seem appealing.
8. They’re natural healers, and often attract people who need help, not love. And that attraction is reciprocated. There’s almost nothing that feels better to an old soul than being able to help someone who truly needs it. However, at some point in time, it’s crucial for them to realize that they have to choose a partner, not a student, or a charity case.
9. They dislike the “game.” Dating is inherently exhausting to an older-spirited person. Feigning disinterest for the sake of looking “cool” or knowing which faux pas other people find off-putting (how long after the first date do you text again?) isn’t instinctive to them, and can stress them out more than they ever find it “fun.”
10. Their standards are sky-high. They expect a lot from themselves, so likewise, they expect a lot from their partners. While this is a great thing, it’s another quality that has to be kept in check: it’s more important to be able to accept the qualities that aren’t deal-breakers than it is to just write a person off because they’re imperfect.
11. They have baggage. People who developed their inner selves quickly did so for a reason: they had to cope, they had to grow, or they had to learn from some challenging experiences that life set up for them. While this is a great thing on its own, unresolved issues can often re-manifest in close relationships.
12. They feel fear as intensely as they feel love. The degree to which they love something is proportionate to how much they fear losing it, or not being “good enough” for it. They don’t just love intensely, they feel everything else intensely, too, and sometimes, that gets in the way of the really good things in front of them.
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Brianna Wiest is the author of I Am The Hero Of My Own Life, Salt Water, and 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Follow Brianna on Instagram or read more articles from Brianna on Thought Catalog.
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What to Know About the 6,000 Federal Prisoners Being Released
By Maya Rhodan
David Mosby had to take a moment to praise the Lord. Without his faith, he told TIME via telephone, he doesn’t know how he would have survived the 25 years he served in federal prison for drug crimes. But he also wouldn’t have known who to thank when he was released 10 years early due to a change in U.S. sentencing guidelines.
“I give glory to God,” Mosby said. “I’d rather be 63 [years old] than 73 when I got out.”
Mosby, who has been working with the advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimum, is one of thousands of prisoners whose sentences were significantly reduced as a result of changes that curbed punishment for some of the nation’s strictest drug laws. Though the news came as a surprise to many—and the alarmist headlines that 6,000 prisoners would be freed didn’t help—the change has been a little over a year in the making.
Mosby spoke to TIME while operating a tractor on a farm in Southeastern Missouri, a job he received about a month after being released from prison last year. When Mosby “fell” as he put it, he was sentenced to 40 years behind bars. He was a first-time offender, but his interactions with a motorcycle posse that dabbled in methamphetamine sales landed him in rough waters, and he was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to distribute the drug.
Last March—10 years before his original projected release date—Mosby’s whole life changed. He entered a halfway house, still under Bureau of Prisons supervision, but no longer behind bars.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission first voted to unanimously reduce sentencing guidelines for some federal drug trafficking crimes in April 2014 and a couple months later the body made the reduction retroactive. When the new policy went into effect that November, a decision was made not to release any prisoners from Bureau of Prisons custody until Nov. 1, 2015. Between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2 of this year, 6,000 prisoners will be released from Bureau of Prisons custody—some of whom, like Mosby are already in the process of transitioning to community confinement and halfway homes.
About 46,000 federal prison inmates were eligible for early release under the updated guidelines. Of those offenders, about 17,000 have had their cases processed through the federal court system and about 13,187, or 75%, were granted sentence reductions. The Bureau of Prisons has not yet released a demographic breakdown of the prisoners being released, but a report by the sentencing commission gives us a general idea. About 92.2% of the eligible offenders are male and 7.8% are women. The majority are people of color—43.1% are Hispanic and 31.2% are black. Just shy of a quarter are non-citizens. On average, the inmates’ sentences were reduced by 25 months. According to data provided by the BOP, the bulk of the inmates will be released in the south—with 578 heading to Texas alone.
Advocates consider the upcoming release a small step forward in the ongoing efforts to reform the criminal justice system. The Governmental Accountability Office reports that the federal government spent $7.4 billion on prisons on in 2014, and those prisons are 30% overcrowded. But the release is also a bit of a test of the existing reentry infrastructure. Frankly, has the federal government properly prepared these inmates for life on the outside? And will their early release pose a threat to public safety?
The Department of Justice delayed the release of this group of inmates for a year in an effort to better prepare them for reentry, says Nancy La Vigne, the director of the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center. Aside from residing either in halfway houses or under home confinement, all of the prisoners being released will be under some form of supervision, most of them under federal probation. Probation officers will be tasked with helping them find employment, getting them in touch with resources like addiction prevention and health care, and making sure they’re staying on the right path and out of trouble.
La Vigne says while there’s no guarantee that those who are being released won’t recidivate and that among those who do some could commit a heinous crime—but that’s true of any release.
“This is about larger policy and not about what one individual may or may not do,” she says. “This isn’t about letting people off the hook. It’s not even really about reducing mass incarceration, although I think that folks on the left like to think of it that way, it’s about right-sizing very long, punitive federal prison sentences.”
Ann Jacobs, the director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College, says the release itself probably isn’t in any way a formula for disaster, but it will be a real test of the most of how the system helps—or doesn’t help—folks adjust to life on the outside.
“You’re moving someone from a closed environment that literally provided everything to an environment where you have to have a plan for every aspect of your life,” says Jacobs. “There’s a lot of anxiety and a lot of stigma that comes with it.”
If past is precedent, however, there may be little cause for alarm. A reduction of penalties for crack-cocaine related crimes in 2007 resulted in 16,000 prisoners receiving shorter sentences. According to The Marshall Project, the prisoners released under those guidelines did not return to prison at a rate higher than normal.
For folks like Mosby, that “right-sizing” means a second chance at life. Since his release, he has reconnected with his family, gotten back at work in agriculture, and even had an early holiday celebration with his children and grandkids. But Mosby realizes his situation is pretty unique.
“God has blessed me. There’s a lot of guys in prison that don’t get a Christmas card,” Mosby said. “When I got out, I had support.”
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Donatella Versace and Antonio D’Amico: Where Gianni Versace’s Loved Ones Are Now
By Melissa Chan
Two decades ago, Gianni Versace was fatally shot by Andrew Cunanan outside his Miami Beach mansion. The killing and subsequent manhunt became an international media sensation.
Now, FX is bringing the story of Versace’s murder to a new generation with The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. The show premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.
But, the two surviving people at the center of the tragedy, are not happy with the show’s portrayal of Versace.
His death on July 15, 1997 at age 50 shocked the fashion world. Eight days later, Cunanan, shot and killed himself on a houseboat near Versace’s home.
Versace’s younger sister Donatella, who is portrayed in the new series by Penelope Cruz, and the slain designer’s longtime boyfriend, Antonio D’Amico, who is played by singer and actor Ricky Martin, were among the many loved ones left reeling in the aftermath of the killing.
Here’s a look at where they are now:
Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Donatella Versace walk the runway at the Versace show during Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2018 on September 22, 2017 in Milan, Italy.
Jacopo Raule—Getty Images
Donatella Versace, 62, took over the company her brother founded after he died and has been the artistic director at Versace since 1997. In an interview with the Guardian, published in September, she said she was “lost” during the first five years after Gianni’s death. “When my brother was murdered, I had the eyes of the whole world on me and 99% of them thought I wasn’t going to make it. And maybe I thought the same, at first,” she said. “My brother was the king, and my whole world had crashed around me.”
The designer pushed through the pain in public but often broke down when she was alone, she told the New York Times in February 2015. “I was going home and crying, but closing the room,” she said, “because I didn’t lose the king of fashion, which he was. In that moment, I lost my brother.”
She went on to successfully lead the company into the 21st century, telling TIME in 2008 that she always thinks of her brother before every fashion show. “I close my eyes and think of him,” she said. “Will Gianni approve of this? I tell myself, Yes, he will. He taught me everything I know. Even if my fashion changes, evolves with the millennium, the DNA is the same.”
In September 2017, Donatella Versace paid tribute to her brother during Milan Fashion Week in Italy. The designer had supermodels who had worked closely with Gianni Versace — including Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Naomi Campbell — walk the runway in her brother’s signature gold dresses.
The Versace family has been vocally outraged about the American Crime Story series. In two recent and separate statements, the fashion house slammed the series as a “work of fiction” and said it presents a “distorted” version of what happened. “Gianni Versace was a brave and honest man, who engaged in humanitarian work for the benefit of others,” the company said. “Of all the possible portrayals of his life and legacy, it is sad and reprehensible that the producers have chosen to present the distorted and bogus version.”
The Versace family also said it not did authorize or have any involvement with the show, which FX said is based off author Maureen Orth’s book, Vulgar Favors. “We stand by the meticulous reporting of Ms. Orth,” FX said in a statement.
Antonio D’Amico
From the left, the fashion designer Antonio D'Amico and Santo Versace, respectively the former partner and the elder brother of the deceased Gianni Versace, are awaiting the beginning of the fashion show dedicated to the spring/summer collection at the via Gesù seat. Milan (Italy), 6th March 1998.
Mondadori Portfolio—Mondadori via Getty Images
Gianni Versace’s boyfriend, Antonio D’Amico, fell into despair after Versace’s death and mostly kept out of the spotlight in the last two decades. But he broke his silence about the murder in July 2017 when he criticized a critical scene in the American Crime Story series as “ridiculous.” “There has been so much written and said about the murder, and thousands of suppositions, but not a trace of reality,” D’Amico told the Observer last summer.
D’Amico, who had been with Versace for more than 15 years, was the one who found Versace’s body after the shooting. “I felt as if my blood had turned to ice,” he recalled. “I saw Gianni lying on the steps, with blood around him. At that point, everything went dark. I was pulled away, I didn’t see any more.”
Production photos of the new series show Martin, the actor portraying D’Amico, crying and clutching his lover’s bloody body on the front steps, which D’Amico said never happened. “The picture of Ricky Martin holding the body in his arms is ridiculous,” he said. “Maybe it’s the director’s poetic license, but that is not how I reacted.”
D’Amico told the Observer that Versace’s death “had torn me in two.” “I was in a nightmare,” he said.
Martin later told Ocean Drive Magazine that he asked D’Amico to keep an open mind and not judge the quality of the show by just photos. “You have to see what we’re doing, and you’re going to be so pleased with everything,’” Martin said he told D’Amico. The actor went on to defend the intention of the series. “We’re treating this story with a lot of respect and really serious about it,” he said. “It’s very dramatic and powerful, but you will also see a lot of love. The love between Antonio and Gianni was a very beautiful one.”
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Science is the engine behind the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke. Researchers at Duke are passionate about understanding the “how" and “why” of brain tumors.
The research activities of the Neuro-Oncology Program are supported by government grants and contracts, foundation and agency awards, and philanthropy. The program is currently funded at a level of more than $14 million in direct costs annually (government, foundation, and agency awards). The 28 primary program members hold 27 NIH grants, including 11 R01s, a P50, an R35 grant (Outstanding Investigator Award, Darell Bigner, MD, PhD, [PI]), a P01 grant (Clinical Program Project grant, Bigner, PI), and a NCI SPORE in Brain Cancer grant (Specialized Program of Research Excellence, John Sampson, MD, PhD and Francis-Ali-Osman, DSc, [PI’s and Program Directors]) and 6 F Awards. In addition, Duke is only one of three Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Institutes (Sampson, PI and Director) funded by the foundation since 2003.
Most glioblastoma tumors are marked by one or two broad mutation patterns, but about 20 percent of the lethal brain tumors have biomarkers that cannot be identified. Scientists at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center identified mutations for the vast majority of the remaining 20 percent of uncharacterized tumors, which tend to be especially lethal. The findings indicate that these mutations involve a previously unknown disruption of the cell’s normal mortality that is governed by components called telomeres. Telomeres are pieces of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes. Under normal circumstances, they become shorter with age and eventually trigger a series of events that leads to a cell’s natural death. Some genetic mutations cause them to remain long however, so cells never die, leading to immortal cells and tumor growth. Hai Yan, MD, PhD and Bill Diplas, MD/PhD candidate and colleagues in the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center published their findings May 25, 2018 in the journal Nature Communications. The Killela Oncotarget manuscript has molecular classification of gliomas now adopted by the World Health Organization.
A phase 1 trial of a therapy developed by researchers at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma. The poliovirus therapy showed a three-year survival benefit of 21 percent. In comparison, just 4 percent of patients at Duke with the same type of brain tumors were alive at three years when undergoing the standard treatment. “With the survival rates in this early phase of the poliovirus therapy, we are encouraged and eag er to continue with the additional studies that are already under way or planned,” said Darell Bigner, MD, PhD, senior author of the study. Director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke and co-senior author David Ashley, MBBS, FRACP, PhD along with co-lead authors Matthias Gromeier, MD and Annick Desjardins, MD, reported median follow-up of 27.6 months in the phase 1 trial, which was launched in 2012 with a young patient who is now in remission and working as a pediatric oncology nurse.
Results were presented June 26, 2018 at the 22nd International Conference on Brain Tumor Research and Therapy in Norway and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
(The Following is a Select List of Recent Scientific Accomplishments)
The newest edition of the World Health Organization I ARC Blue Book Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System is published. The mission of The International Agency for Research on Cancer is to provide a standard language for oncologists and pathologists internationally as a major step in improving cancer prevention and treatment. All of the molecular classifications of gliomas in this fourth edition are based entirely on molecular discoveries made by Bigner; Hai Yan, MD, PhD; and Bert Vogelstein, MD. This extensive text, equipped with more than 800 color images and tables, will be the go-to material for any type of tumor referencing needed. It is invaluable to neuro-oncologists, and covers everything from diagnostic criteria, pathological features, and associated genetic alterations, all of which are described in a disease-oriented manner.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a governmental agency that invests $32.3 billion annually to the leading medical researchers in the United States. Bigner, MD, PhD, director of The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, is ranked number seven nationally in NIH funding among all Pathology Principal Investigators for 2015—a remarkable feat considering that grants were distributed to a total of 876 Pathology Principal Investigators. Bigner received more than $4.5 million in NIH grants, including the prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award (NCI R35), for this past fiscal year. This funding has enabled him and his staff to conduct pioneering research projects that lead to the discovery of innovative treatment methods, such as the oncolytic poliovirus therapy, an unconventional approach that uses a re-engineered poliovirus to kill cancer cells in brain tumors. Over the course of his career, Bigner has led numerous unique projects on neuro-oncology research, procuring millions of dollars in support funding to expedite the search for a cure for such a devastating disease.
The poliovirus therapy used to combat glioblastoma is given “breakthrough therapy designation” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in May 2016. The treatment, which was spearheaded by Matthias Gromeier, MD, uses a re-engineered poliovirus that is lethal to cancer cells but non-lethal to normal cells. This radical therapy has shown substantial improvement over the available therapy for glioblastoma — one of the most difficult human cancers to treat — and the granted breakthrough status will expedite the poliovirus approach and hopefully lead to overall FDA approval of the therapy.
60 Minutes launches part two of their two-segment story “Killing Cancer.” Anchor Scott Pelley describes the poliovirus therapy’s recent breakthrough therapy designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and takes a closer look at how the novel therapeutic approach can potentially be applied to other types of cancers, including (but not limited to) pancreatic, melanoma, prostate, and breast cancer.
Investigators at The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center determine the no-observed-adverse-effect-level and maximum tolerated dose of their novel immunotoxin, D2C7-(scdsFv)-PE38KDEL (D2C7-IT), in rats. This preclinical toxicity study supports a Phase1/Phase 2 Investigational New Drug application. D2C7-IT reacts with wild-type epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and EGFR variant III, two overexpressed proteins on glioblastomas. While it is still too early to determine D2C7-IT’s therapeutic efficacy, the new agent is showing promising results for glioblastoma patients currently enrolled in the clinical trial.
Read more about D2C7-IT here
60 Minutes launches their two-segment story “Killing Cancer,” which follows brain cancer patients at Duke undergoing a clinical trial of a therapy that uses a re-engineered poliovirus to kill cancer cells.
Watch "Killing Cancer" here
The Division of Neurosurgery is elevated to departmental status within the School of Medicine. The Duke University Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Department of Neurosurgery, with Sampson named as chair of the department.
Check out the Duke Department of Neurosurgery here
Bigner, director of The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, is awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award grant (R35) (NCI) for his work with oncolytic poliovirus, immunotoxin, and checkpoint inhibitor therapy for gliomas.This combinatorial therapy should create paradigm shifts in GBM treatment resulting in significant increases of high quality of life and ultimate survival.
Sampson is awarded the 2015 Abhijit Guha Award. Jointly administered by the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the AANS/CNS section on tumors, the award honors an accomplished investigator who has achieved significant results both in the laboratory and the clinic, and has actively mentored the next generation of neuro-oncology professionals.
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (http://www.curethekids.org/) awards Duke more than $1 million to fund projects, which are conducted under the direction of Sampson, involving pediatric brain tumor research.
Peter E. Fecci, MD, PhD, is awarded the Sontag Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award for his work with bone marrow T Cell sequestration. This four-year grant provides support for Fecci’s project with the aim to better characterize T Cell sequestration in glioblastomas by deciphering the causes and developing the means for releasing T cells in order to create a more effective mode of brain cancer therapy.
Roger E. McLendon, MD, Chief of the Brain Tumor Biorepository, has distributed 6,338 cases to 45 collaborators, both at Duke and elsewhere, to support basic and translational discoveries. At present, the Biorepository includes 31,636 frozen tumor blocks, 11,359 paraffin-embedded blocks, and tissues for over 2,340 individual brain tumor patients. The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center (PRTBTC) Biorepository achieves certification under the College of American Pathologists’ Biorepository certification program.
Investigators at The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center discover that administration of tetanus toxoid vaccine leads to enhanced CCL3 systemic levels, which are responsible for improving dendritic cell migration in both mice and GBM patients. Nature publishes an article that describes how a small clinical trial for glioblastoma patients demonstrates that the immune and anti-tumor response to dendritic cell vaccination (a type of immunotherapy) is increased by pre-conditioning the site of vaccination with tetanus/diphtheria toxoid (Td). The benefits of adding tetanus toxoid injections to the dendritic CMV vaccine therapy for glioblastoma patients is broadcasted on all the major news networks, including ABC, NBC, and CBS.
Read more about the Tetanus Toxoid vaccine here
Sampson and Amy Heimberger, MD (MD Anderson Cancer Center), in collaboration with multiple investigators from other universities, publish the results of a phase II, multicenter trial of the EGFRvIII-targeting vaccine rindopepimut in newly diagnosed GBM patients. The results demonstrate an increase in overall survival and progression-free survival in patients receiving the vaccine.
Read more about Rindopepimut here
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Student Senate Update: March 3, 2019 – Body Urges Action on Parking, Climate as March Warms Up
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Extensive debate on improvements to university student parking and calls for action on climate change were just some of the topics covered in the latest two-hour-long meeting of the Student Senate as it convened for its 18th meeting of Session XL.
Taking up the largest portion of Sunday’s gathering, Resolution 40.20 – entitled “On Parking Reform” and introduced by Senior Financial Advisor Allison MacPhee, Sen. Kelsey Crowley (Non-Res. 6), Student Trustee Christian Merheb, Judicial Affairs Chair Alexandra Work, and “community member” José Calvo – urged UNH administration and Transportation Services to act on improving transparency and accessibility when it comes to student parking, suggesting solutions including potential reductions in paid parking hours at both the Campus Crossing and Edgewood Road visitor lots, creating a “comprehensive list” detailing all UNH parking areas and their associated rules, increasing the maximum hours allowed at “Pay and Display” parking areas to four hours, and adding a representative from Student Senate to the parking appeals process; it also called for Transportation Services to submit parking appeal records from the past two academic years to the Senate to be “reviewed and audited” by its Campus Structure Council.
The motion argued that students have “consistently expressed concern” over UNH’s parking policies in recent years, especially since the rise of multiple online petitions addressing student complaints. One Change.org petition cited by the motion, which has garnered over 1,400 signatures from students, alumni and community members so far, asserts that students are “improperly receiving parking tickets,” with some students reportedly receiving them when their parking meter time expires while in class and unable to reset the timer. The motion states that expired meters are the most common parking penalty facing students.
Although commending efforts by Transportation Services to improve training for ticketing staff, the motion also pushed UNH administration to do more, citing another Change.org petition from 2017 that garnered over 5,400 signatures and asked administration to reverse changes made to its parking policies that summer for major visitor lots to prevent long term negative impacts on the university and commuter students engaging in extracurricular activities; at the time, UNH administration did not act on the petition’s demands, per the motion.
“I think we can all agree that parking is one of the biggest problems on campus,” Sen. Crowley told the body in her defense of the motion, “it’s a big problem with the community; it’s something that brings everyone together by far. And it’s something that we’ve been urging administration to do something on for a long time now, and we’ve been trying to get everyone’s input on this to make it the best we can.”
Trustee Merheb added that parking had been “on the back burner” and called the motion a “call to action” at a time when students are calling for an end to inaction by UNH administration on the issue; he furthermore stated that administrators he and motion author MacPhee had visited in recent days expressed “understanding” and “willingness to work with students.”
“This resolution is trying to start a process,” Trustee Merheb said, “and start discussions without saying ‘we demand all these changes, we demand all these things to be reversed.’ But it’s pretty much saying that…we want to look into and try to find out what are appropriate means to address issues and what are not.”
Defenders of the motion pointed to potential improvements and added flexibility, such as the current maximum time limit for campus parking meters, benefitting students with classes lasting longer than three hours. The body also made several revisions to the resolution, such as additional sections addressing student concerns over insufficient communication of campus parking regulations and the lack of student representation in the appeals process, among other concerns.
Some senators, however, questioned the motion’s legitimacy, with Sen. Joseph Ramirez (Non-Res. 8) expressing concerns when discovering that the motion had not gone through the Campus Structure Council as most resolutions typically do. Trustee Merheb replied that the issue’s timeliness, as well as a lack of action from UNH administration, was motivation for not running it through the council before presenting it to the Senate, stressing that, if not passed at Sunday’s meeting, it would lose traction due to the Senate’s three-week hiatus during the week of and after spring break.
Following nearly half-an-hour of continued debate, Sen. Ramirez called for a vote to remand the motion to the Campus Structure Council, saying that it should be pored over by the council and finalized by its members before presented to the Senate floor to avoid passing what he called “the bare minimum.” Student Body Vice President Jake Adams, in the wake of Sen. Ramirez’s motion to remand, said that the move would only work if the Senate could “justify” waiting three weeks to pass the resolution and continue progress on the issue of campus parking after that much time and no bill to show for it.
“…I truly believe that if we spend a little bit more time talking about this, if we spend a little bit more time actually discussing on how we can find solutions, the resolution that comes out of that will be bulletproof,” Sen. Ramirez told the body, “and we can take to administration and say, ‘this is something that we worked on for however-many weeks; we understand how important this is.’ This isn’t something that we should be rushing just because we want to get it before spring break, this is something we have to get right.”
When it came time to vote on the motion to remand, the Senate voted five in favor and 23 against; the final vote passed the resolution with 26 in favor and seven abstentions after over an hour’s worth of debate.
The night’s other resolution – R.40.19, entitled “Urging Action in Accordance with Projected Climate Warning” and brought to the floor by Campus Structure Chair Devon Guyer, First–Year Representative Julianna Phillips, Sens. Nick Crosby (Stoke 3), Joseph Bradley (Hetzel 1) and Tom McDonough (Gibbs 1, Co-1) – urged the university to meet a 45 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020, create a plan utilizing current and previous university research to address climate change and seek solutions, create a plan concerning how UNH would meet the needs of its student body and local community while simultaneously addressing climate change on campus, call on UNH President James W. Dean, Jr., to “reaffirm” UNH’s role in the “climate leadership network,” and regularly share progress of its actions and efforts to the Student Senate on a consistent basis, all the while completing any projected plan by May 2020.
The motion cited a recent report issued on global warming by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stating that the planet’s global temperature will rise by 1.5 degrees in 2020 while predicting “further long-term changes in the climate system” in the near future. The resolution argued that sustained global warming is a “threat to the continuation of human civilization” and that UNH possesses the technical and economic capabilities to combat the problem and serve as a call-to-action for UNH stakeholders and other universities to take similar action on a “global” scale.
R.40.19 added that UNH has already adopted a goal of “carbon neutrality” by the year 2100 – as set by the American College and University President Climate Commitment – and stated that the university is on track to meet a goal of 50 percent reductions in carbon emissions by 2020. The motion furthermore stated that UNH is a signee of the “We Are Still In” declaration, which aims to promise world powers “that Americans would not retreat from the global pact to reduce emissions” and combat climate change.
“There isn’t really, like, ‘this is your bill to reduce emissions;’ but it actually is more fiscally responsible for us to work in this direction as this is the direction that the market is going in for energy, and it’s becoming cheaper to not rely on fossil fuels and to rely on renewable energy sources,” Chair Guyer, who worked on the bill since last semester, told the Senate when asked about the economic impact of the motion. “So, we’re actually kind-of ahead of the curve on this…it’s actually been advantageous for us to take this route and we’ve actually avoided costs by going in this direction.”
R.40.19 ultimately passed the Senate unanimously.
Dr. Nicoletta Gullace, the faculty director of UNH’s Discovery Program, served as the meeting’s guest speaker as she discussed with the body an ongoing faculty five-year review of the program, with a final report on the findings due to be released in 2020. The report, per Gullace, seeks to address student concerns over balancing the needs of their majors with completing the required Discovery courses, which aim to cover core, but not necessarily related, subjects such as math and science. Gullace also answered general questions from members of the body about the program itself and potential changes pending the outcome of the review.
In other senatorial business, the body unanimously passed revisions to its bylaws concerning the election of student senators within residence halls in both September and February. Executive Officer Brittany Dunkle, meanwhile, brought forward an unanimously-passed bill adding Student Activity Fee Committee (SAFC) Chair Joshua Velez as a senator from the Upper Quad, while Parliamentarian and acting Chair David Cerullo – filling in for Speaker Nicholas LaCourse due to personal injury – introduced a bill adding Sen. Matthew Dipallina (Mills) to the Judiciary Committee with no objections. Sen. Luke O’Connell (Congreve 1) was unanimously approved as the newest member of the Senate’s Election Committee as well.
Following debate over R.40.20, the Senate adjourned at 8:21 p.m.
Benjamin Strawbridge
Benjamin Strawbridge is a News Editor and the Senate Correspondent for The New Hampshire newspaper at the University of New Hampshire. He joined in September 2017 as a contributor, and was promoted to his current position in April 2018. Strawbridge is part of the UNH Class of 2020 and majors in English/Journalism.
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Most Americans unaware of mortgage modification programs
Although so many mortgages are underwater, most Americans are unaware of the modification programs available to the public in the form of HAMP and HARP.
Public unawareness
Despite one in five mortgages being underwater, over 60 percent of respondents of a FreeScore.com survey indicated they were not aware of government mortgage modification programs designed to help such borrowers, noting that 73 percent had never heard of the Home Affordability Modification Program (HAMP) or the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). Fully 8.98 percent had heard of HARP, while only 5.26 percent had heard of HAMP and 13.31 percent had heard of both, leaving 72.76 never having heard of either.
The poll by FreeScore.com was performed online, limiting responses to only those with internet access, and only those aware of their site, so the sample size is only 300 people, but is in line with many economists’ suspicions that Americans are highly unaware of the modification programs, most notably when referred to by their proper names.
The U.S. Treasury Department reported in February that since the Obama administration launched their foreclosure prevention program in 2009, nearly one million homeowners have been given permanent modifications to their mortgages, reducing their monthly payments.
HAMP and HARP give mortgage servicers incentives to modify mortgage loans by cutting interest rates, deferring a portion of the loan or extending other terms. While the one millionth mark is praise worthy, critics point out that the administration launched the program with the promise that four million homeowners would be helped and be able to stay in their home.
Perhaps in hopes that the four million mark is still attainable, the program was recently extended an extra year to end in 2013.
The Treasury Department said 84 percent of homeowners entering into the Home Affordable Mortgage Program in the past 18 months received a permanent loan modification, although they did not say what percentage of applicants were given temporary modifications that were not ultimately granted a permanent modification.
An executive order
Last fall, President Obama made a controversial move by bypassing Congress and moving forward with anexecutive order to fix housing by issuing the second phase of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) which eliminates fees and appraisal process, along with other adjustments.
In January, the Obama administration announced that they are taking a similar approach seeking to improve the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) by expanding eligibility to mortgage holders with higher debt loads and the new phase of HAMP triples the incentives it pays banks that reduce principal on loans, a move the administration has been strongly advocating.
Despite the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac asserting in a statement that pincipal reductions at Fannie and Freddie would cost taxpayers another $100 billion, the administration also announced this week that it would offer incentives to Fannie and Freddie to reduce principal on loans which previously was only offered to private entities and banks.
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Is the real estate industry endorsing Carson’s nomination to HUD?
National Associaton of Realtors CEO Dale Stinton retiring, now seeking successor
(BUSINESS NEWS) Ben Carson’s initial appointment to HUD was controversial given his lack of experience in housing, but what is the pulse now?
Tara Steele
NAR strongly backs Dr. Carson’s nomination
When President-Elect Donald Trump put forth Dr. Ben Carson’s name as the nominee for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, NAR President William E. Brown said, “While we’ve made great strides in recent years, far more can be done to put the dream of homeownership in reach for more Americans.”
At the time of nomination, the National Association of Realtors (the largest trade organization in the nation) offered a positive tone regarding Dr. Carson and said the industry looks forward to working with him. But does that hold true today?
The confirmation hearings yesterday were far less controversial than one would expect, especially in light of how many initially reacted to his nomination. Given his lack of experience in housing, questions seemed to often center around protecting the LGBT community and veterans, both of which he pledged to support.
In fact, Dr. Carson said the Fair Housing Act is “one of the best pieces of legislation we’ve ever had in this country,” promising to issue a “world-class plan” for housing upon his confirmation…
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Job openings hit 14-year high, signaling economic improvement
The volume of job openings is improving, but not across all industries. The overall economy is improving, but not evenly across all career paths.
Marti Trewe
Job openings hit a high point
To understand the overall business climate, the U.S. Labor Department studies employment, today releasing data specific to job vacancies. According to the department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLT) for April, job openings rose to 5.38 million, the highest seen since December 2000, and a significant jump from March’s 5.11 million vacancies. Although a lagging indicator, it shows strength in the labor market.
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The Labor Department reports that the number of hires in April fell to 5 million, which indicates a weak point in the strong report, and although the volume remains near recent highs, this indicates a talent gap and highlights the number of people who have left the labor market and given up on looking for a job.
Good news, bad news, depending on your profession
That said, another recent Department report notes that employers added 221,000 jobs in April and 280,000 in May, but the additions are not evenly spread across industries. Construction jobs rose in April, but dipped in professional and business services, hospitality, trade, and transportation utilities. In other words, white collar jobs are down, blue collar jobs are up, which is good or bad news depending on your profession.
Additionally, the volume of people quitting their jobs was 2.7 million in April compared to the seven-year high of 2.8 million in March. Economists follow this number as a metric for gauging employee confidence in finding their next job.
If you’re in the market for a job, there are an increasing number of openings, so your chance of getting hired is improving, but there is a caveat – not all industries are enjoying improvement.
If you’re hiring talent, you’ll still get endless resumes, but there appears to be a growing talent gap for non-labor jobs, so you’re not alone in struggling to find the right candidate.
Economists suspect the jobs market will continue to improve as a whole, but this data does not pertain to every industry.
#JobOpenings
Gas prices are down, so are gas taxes about to go up?
Do low gas prices mean higher gas taxes are on the way? Budgeting for 2015 just got a bit more complicated, if some politicians have their way.
Gas taxes and your bottom line
Many industries rely heavily on time in their vehicle, not just truck drivers and delivery trucks. Sales professionals hop in their vehicles throughout the day, as do many other types of professionals (service providers like plumbers, and so forth). For that reason, gas prices and taxes are a relevant line item that must be budgeted for 2015, but with politicians making the rounds to push for higher gas taxes, budgeting becomes more complicated.
Gas prices are down roughly 50 cents per gallon compared to a year ago, which some analysts say have contributed to more money in consumers’ pockets. Some believe that this will improve holiday sales, but others believe the timing is just right to increase federal taxes on gas. The current tax on gas is 18.40 cents per gallon, and on diesel are 24.40 cents per gallon.
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Supporters and opponents are polar opposites
Supporters argue as follows: gas prices are low, so it won’t hurt to increase federal gas taxes, in fact, those funds must go toward improving our infrastructure, which in the long run, saves Americans money because smoother roads mean better gas mileage and less congestion.
Gas taxes have long been a polarizing concept, and despite lowered gas prices, the controversial nature of the taxes have not diminished.
While some are pushing for complete abolition of federal gas taxes, others, like former Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell (D) tell CNBC, “Say that cost the average driver $130 a year. They would get a return on that investment” in safer roads and increased quality of life, he added.
The Washington Post‘s Chris Mooney points out that federal gas taxes have been “stuck” at 18 cents for over 20 years, last raised when gas was barely a dollar a gallon and that the tax must increase not only to improve the infrastructure, but to “green” our behavior, and help our nation find tax reform compromise.
Is a gas tax politically plausible?
Mooney writes, “So, this is not an argument that a gas tax raise is politically plausible — any more than a economically efficient tax on carbon would be. It’s merely a suggestion that — ignoring politics — it might be a pretty good idea.”
Rendell noted, “The World Economic Forum, 10 years ago, rated us the best infrastructure in the world,” adding that we “need to do something for our infrastructure, not in a one or two year period, but over a decade.”
Others would note that this rating has not crumbled in just a few years, that despite many bridges and roads in need of repair, our infrastructure is still superior to even the most civilized nations.
Regardless of the reasons, most believe that Congress won’t touch this issue with a ten-foot pole, especially leading up to another Presidential campaign season starting next year.
“I think it’s too toxic and continues to be too toxic,” Steve LaTourette (the former Republican congressman best known for his close friendship with his fellow Ohioan, Speaker John Boehner) tells The Atlantic. “I see no political will to get this done.”
Whether the time is fortuitous or not, and regardless of the positive side effects, many point to a fear of voters’ retaliation against any politician siding with a gas hike, so this matter going any further than the proposal stage is unlikely.
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Cook County Sheriff's Police Department
9511 W. Harrison
www.cookcountysheriff.org
TELECOMMUNICATOR/911 COMMUNICATIONS
$26.881/hourly
($55,912 - $75,148 after 9 years)
**In addition to fully completing an application and meeting all noted minimum requirements, all applicants MUST successfully complete testing offered through the National Testing Network, as described in the 911 Telecommunicator Assessment section below, in order to be considered for this position. The testing must be completed no later than October 23, 2017**
Characteristics of the Position:
The Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department Emergency Communications Center, located in Des Plaines, Illinois is seeking applicants for the position of Telecommunicator. The Emergency Communications Center is multi-jurisdictional operation that receives and dispatches police, fire and emergency calls for service in unincorporated Cook County, as well as Metra rail lines located in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kenosha (WI), Lake, McHenry and Will counties. The Telecommunicator position supports a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days a week operation where applicants must have the ability to work rotating shifts that include weekends and holidays. Telecommunicators are responsible for answering Emergency 911 and non- emergency calls for all unincorporated areas of Cook County, as well as assisting those jurisdictions that do not have Emergency 911 systems and enters all emergency data into the Premier One Computer Aided Dispatch (P1 CAD) system. The Telecommunicator, from the information received, determines the nature of the call (police, fire, or other emergency) and assigns its priority using designated codes and dispatches the appropriate beat car to the scene through the use of the radio and P1 CAD system. Telecommunicators are responsible for entering, retrieving and accurately interpreting information contained in the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (L.E.A.D.S.) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system and for responding to public works, utilities, and community service calls for assistance and/or repair.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
Enters all emergency data into a Premier One Computer Aided Dispatch (P1 CAD) system.
Receives information and requests for additional personnel or equipment from field units; informs field units of potential threats, risk, and hazards, such as involvement of weapons, hazardous materials, or violent subjects.
Dispatches, via radio or telephone, emergency and other calls for service to the proper police agencies and units; maintains strict radio discipline at all times; complies with Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) regulations, department policies and procedures in the transmission of all radio traffic; maintains radio communications with department units for the purpose of providing assistance and coordinating operations.
Assists with the maintenance of records, maps and all communications equipment and performs administrative, clerical tasks and data entry and retrieval essential to the efficient operation of the communications center.
Cancels, Confirms, Enters, Locates or Modifies records into the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) and/or the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system.
May assist in the on-the-job training of new Telecommunicators personnel, and/or assist or relieve other Telecommunicators, as required.
Keeps informed of County ordinances, State Statutes and other law enforcement related information/documents through memorandum.
Maintains and cares for communications console station and related equipment.
May be required to review transcripts and/or tape recordings related to the investigation of complaints/calls for service and may be required to testify in court.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Actively listens to others and understands their needs and situations; writes and speaks English in an understandable manner; assertively controls conversations in order to quickly and accurately gather pertinent information and communicates this information professionally and precisely to the proper recipient.
Reads and understands correspondence, directives and General Orders; willingness to support and carry out directive and the mission of the agency.
Acts in a decisive manner, using good judgment; assesses problems and situations; anticipates needs and evaluates alternatives; deals professionally with emergency and stressful situations so as to avoid over-reaction; maintains flexibility in adjusting to situations and procedures.
Deals with people with a high degree of personal integrity; sensitive to other’s problems without direct involvement; excludes personal biases from work performance; has ability to accept criticism and/or discipline; has tact and diplomacy; strives to promote a cooperative atmosphere in the Communications Center and maintains a positive attitude.
Must have emotional stability, self-motivation, loyalty and commitment to the organization, to include the County, as well as agencies the 911 Center serves; willingness to take the initiative; be dependable; display maturity in relationships with others; have good personal appearance and self-confidence.
Ability to represent the organization to other agencies and citizens with a courteous, helpful, accurate and business-like attitude in all radio, telephone, computer and personal contract.
Detects and corrects errors; performs multiple tasks simultaneously; coordinates heavy workloads to maintain organization and utilizes work time properly and productively.
Successfully acquires working knowledge of radio equipment, telephone and computer functions during probationary period; updates and maintains such knowledge on a continuous basis; acquires and applies knowledge of equipment limitations and alternatives.
Possess knowledge of the service area, surrounding area and cooperating agency procedures and resources.
Possess the ability to quickly learn new information and initiate improvements in both technical and procedural areas.
Ability to work up to twelve (12) hours at a time, continuously wearing a communications headset that will cover one (1) ear or fit within the ear canal of an ear, while retaining the ability to hear and understand other outside sound sources not coming to this ear piece; ability to read and discern visual images on a variety of media; ability to remain seated at the same workstation for up to twelve (12) hours at a time, while maintaining the ability to type accurately on a computer keyboard, all while conversing with callers.
Must be able to work any and all shifts of a twenty-four (24) hour, per day period.
Must be able to report for mandatory overtime, four (4) hours before the start of your scheduled shift OR four (4) hours after your scheduled shift.
Must be able to speak and express oneself in a clear and articulate manner.
Possess knowledge of techniques and procedures used in operating emergency communications equipment.
Possess knowledge of customer service standards and best practices.
Possess knowledge of applicable Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)/National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system and guidelines.
Possess skill in operation emergency communications radio equipment.
Possess skills in empathetic listening techniques.
Miscellaneous Requirements: WORKING CONDITIONS
This position is located in a call center environment, with exposure to multiple computer screens and requires work under stressful conditions. Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for sitting for prolonged periods of time and continuously wearing a headset which restricts movement in the work area.
The hours of operation are twenty-four (24) hours a day, three hundred and sixty five (365) days a year.
The employee is primarily scheduled for shift work hours and work periods may have permanent or rotating days off, frequently requiring the employee to work holidays, weekends, evenings and nights.
Possession of a High School Diploma or General Education Development (G.E.D.) test certificate.
As of the date of application, candidates must have reached their 20th birthday.
Possession of a valid Driver’s License. (The Sheriff’s Police Department Emergency Communication Center is located in Des Plaines, Illinois; the location does not have any access to public transportation).
Must be capable of working up to twelve (12) hours at a time, continuously wearing a communications headset that will cover one (1) ear or fit within the ear canal of an ear, while retaining the ability to hear and understand other outside sound sources not coming to this ear piece; ability to read and discern visual images on a variety of media; ability to remain seated at the same workstation for up to twelve (12) hours at a time, while maintaining the ability to type accurately on a computer keyboard, all while conversing with callers.
Typing skills (30 w.p.m. with 95% accuracy), familiarity with computer keyboards and data inputting, clearly legible handwriting and proficiency in spelling.
Must successfully pass written examination(s).
Must successfully pass an oral interview panel.
Must successfully pass a hearing and vision test.
Must successfully pass background investigation(s).
Must meet all unit requirements to the satisfaction of the Director of Communications within the contracted three hundred and sixty five (365) day probationary period.
Must possess the ability and willingness to work any or all assigned shifts of a twenty-four (24) hour day period and be available to emergency call-in; overlapping of shifts and/or overtime may be required.
Must successfully obtain certification from the State of Illinois as a Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) Operator within ninety (90) days of hire and maintain current certification throughout course of employment.
In addition to fully completing an application and meeting all noted minimum requirements, all applicants MUST successfully complete testing offered through the National Testing Network, as described in the 911 Telecommunicator Assessment section below, in order to be considered for this position. The testing must be completed no later than October 8, 2017.
911 Telecommunicator Assessment
The Cook County Sheriff’s Department offers full testing services for Emergency Communications through the National Testing Network, Inc. To fill out an application and schedule a test, go to www.nationaltestingnetwork.com, select Telecommunicator/911 Communications and sign up for the Cook County Sheriff’s Department.
What to expect at the www.nationaltestingnetwork.com website:
Completion of the application process.
Review all information related to the Cook County Sheriff’s Department, including minimum requirements, salary and benefits.
Detailed information about the testing process (entry level test).
Schedule your own convenient test time; tests are offered multiple times a week.
Take high quality, job simulation tests in a standardized, fair testing environment.
Upon completion of the entry level exam, all applicant scores are automatically forwarded to the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. Applicants who fully complete an application, meet the minimum qualifications for the position and attain a passing score on the entry level exam will be placed on the Cook County Sheriff’s Department’s eligibility list for the Telecommunicator/911 Communications position. The Cook County Sheriff’s Department will contact successful applicants on the eligibility list and will invite them to continue to participate in other stages of the selection process.
National Testing Network is a service provided to conduct entry level testing and physical abilities testing in a standardized, professional environment. National Testing Network does not replace the Cook County Sheriff’s Department’s responsibility and decision making in the testing process. All applicant results are provided to Cook County Sheriff’s Department, where the final decisions are made.
One (1) or more years of professional work experience in the use of the Premier One Computer-Aided Dispatch (P1 CAD) system.
Possession of a current Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) certification.
One (1) or more years of professional, full time work experience in a multijurisdictional 9-1-1 Center.
One (1) or more years of professional, full time work experience as a Police 9-1-1 Dispatcher AND trained as an Emergency Medical Dispatcher AND/OR a Fire Dispatcher.
Completion or current enrollment in a Public Safety Communications course resulting in obtaining a vocational training certificate.
**In addition to fully completing an application and meeting all noted minimum requirements, all applicants MUST successfully complete testing offered thru the National Testing Network, as described in the 911 Telecommunicator Assessment section below, in order to be considered for this position. The testing must be completed no later than October 23, 2017**
The duties listed are not set forth for purposes of limiting the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the many duties normally to be performed under a job title or those to be performed temporarily outside an employee’s normal line of work.
If interested in this position, please apply online at the Cook County Sheriff's Office website:
Please note that you can only apply for this position online and you must have a valid e-mail address to apply.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office prohibits all unlawful discrimination in its hiring and promotional process.
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Diane Kraal
Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University
Diane has held roles in the minerals resource sector as a management and financial accountant. She is an experienced CPA professional having worked with the ‘Big 4’. For eight years she was Manager (Taxation and Banking) at La Trobe University. Diane has worked in the financial services sector as the taxation manager with Australia's largest administrator of industry superannuation funds. Diane has presented tax research papers at conferences both in Australia and overseas, including at the University of Cambridge, University of Houston and Groningen University. Diane was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University followed by a visit to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC to pursue extractive industry tax issues. The National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the PNG Treasury appointed Dr Diane Kraal and Dr Craig Emerson (former Minister with the Australian government) to research petroleum and mining tax reform. Tax reform in PNG has the support of the IMF. PNG's National Budget 2017 broadly includes Kraal and Emerson’s petroleum and mining tax reform initiatives. In 2017-2018 Diane is conducting further research for the National Research Institute of PNG. In July 2017 Diane was called as an expert witness to the Federal Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance in relation to Australia's offshore oil and gas industry. In 2018 Diane received the Monash Business School Dean’s Commendation for Research Impact. Diane’s latest research concerns tax and policy around biofuels.
Senior lecturer , Monash University
La Trobe University , PhD
In 2018 Diane received the Monash Business School Dean’s Commendation for Research Impact.
@dianek MonashBusiness
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T-Mobile CEO slams data abusers — and becomes an ally for broadband wireline consumers
Matthew Keys
on August 31, 2015 • Editorial, In The News
A cellphone running on the T-Mobile wireless network.
On Monday, T-Mobile chief executive John Legere issued an ultimatum for a small percentage of the service’s data abusers: Cut it out or we’ll kick you out.
In an open letter published on T-Mobile’s website, Legere targeted a small number of customers who have been circumventing restrictions on the company’s data services in order to download a large amount of Internet services and content.
T-Mobile is one of the last wireless phone companies to offer its users an all-you-can-eat, or “unlimited,” data plan for smartphones. One perk of T-Mobile’s data plans is that users can connect their tablets, laptops and other devices to their smartphones — a practice known as “tethering” — allowing other devices to essentially piggyback off T-Mobile’s data network.
For most of T-Mobile’s data plans, the amount of data one is allowed to use through tethering is equal to the amount of data a customer pays to use on their phone, and that data is treated equally. On unlimited plans, though, T-Mobile caps the amount of tetherable data to 7 gigabytes — the equivalent of seven one-hour high-definition TV shows streamed over Netflix.
Most of T-Mobile’s users abide by the company’s request, using tetherable data the way it was intended — connecting a Wifi-only device to a phone, sending a quick e-mail from a coffee shop, or temporarily helping out a friend on another network who might not have a data connection.
But some, Legere noted, have been abusing T-Mobile’s unlimited data service, circumventing restrictions on their phones and on the company’s network to download and stream an absurdly large amount of content — in some cases, as much as 2 terabytes worth of data, or the equivalent of 1,000 high-definition movies, every month.
Legere noted that the number of abusers didn’t represent a large amount of T-Mobile’s customer base — just 1/100th of one percent of T-Mobile’s 59 million customers, or around 3,000 phone subscribers, Legere said — but the abuse has become so problematic for the company that the chief executive felt the need to address it in an open letter.
There could be any number of reasons why Legere chose to go public with his concern rather than simply directing T-Mobile’s customer service agents to send warning letters to subscribers: Legere may have wanted to get in front of the issue before it became a larger one, or the company may have wanted to avoid the bad publicity that sometimes accompanies warning letters sent to subscribers who use copious amounts of supposedly “unlimited” data (to be fair, T-Mobile clearly advertises the difference between unlimited phone and not-unlimited tether able data, and customers are generally supposed to understand the difference between the two).
But Legere’s letter may also have an unintended — but positive — consequence in that it recognizes the limitations of a wireless company as a broadband Internet provider.
Even though most home Internet users have just one or two choices for broadband Internet — usually AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, or some other large company — traditional wireline broadband Internet service providers have tried to use wireless phone companies like T-Mobile and Sprint as proof that consumers have a multitude of choices for broadband Internet service.
Last year, in a letter filed as part of ongoing regulatory considerations for a proposed merger, Comcast Corporation asserted its Internet competition included “fixed wireless providers. Other broadband Internet companies have made similar arguments in an attempt to monopolize the home Internet space or for any other number of reasons.
Ask any regular consumer and they’ll tell you that accessing the Internet from a wireline broadband Internet company like Comcast or AT&T is a very different experience from accessing the Internet on a smartphone connected to a wireless data service provider like T-Mobile or Verizon. But lawmakers and regulators often overlook this experience difference because, on paper, an Internet service is an Internet service.
Except now, the head of one of America’s largest wireless phone companies is saying exactly the opposite: T-Mobile is not the same as your home Internet, Legere asserts, and using it as such severely impacts the experience of other customers on the network. In fact, Legere writes, if T-Mobile doesn’t immediately address the issue of tethering data theft, it could “jeopardize” the company’s plans to continue rolling out broadband service to other parts of the country, something that could “eventually have a negative effect on the experience of honest T-Mobile customers.”
That distinction effectively ends any argument that supports the idea that all broadband services are created equally, and — much to the chagrin of the legacy wireline broadband service operators — that wireless is a suitable competitor to their offerings. Perhaps in 25, 10 or even five years we’ll be in a position to say otherwise. But we aren’t there yet. So says the man himself.
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Creepypasta Of The Week: The NoSleep “Search And Rescue” Series
December 20, 2017 by Lucia
Previously: “Username:666.”
In 2015, a Redditor going by the name u/searchandrescuewoods began posting stories to r/NoSleep about some of the strange things he had experienced working as a Search and Rescue Officer for the United States Forest Service. What began as one post, titled “I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell,” became two posts, and then three, and then a whole series; in fact, it’s got its own subreddit now, r/StairsintheWoods.
The name of the sub, of course, comes from the part of the saga that stuck with many people — myself included — the most: The Stairs.
Although initially u/searchandrescuewoods had intended to turn the series into a novel, that hasn’t quite materialized; in a recent post on the sub, he wrote, “I have a manuscript but it’s not even remotely ready for release. It’s something I haven’t ruled out but for now I’m working on some other things.” However, he has continued to turn out stories related to the series, both on Reddit and elsewhere — and, perhaps most notably, the series will be incorporated into the next season of the SyFy Channel’s creepypasta-based series, Channel Zero. (Previous seasons have featured “NoEnd House” and “Candle Cove.”)
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The early entries of the “Search and Rescue” series aren’t really story-shaped; they’re formatted as bullet-pointed lists, with each bullet point addressing a different incident or event. Although it’s pretty clear that the incidents are related, there isn’t much of a through-line to the whole thing — which, honestly, makes excerpting it all the way I typically do for Creepypastas of the Week a little difficult. Instead, I’ll give you the first line of the first part, and the bullet point that stuck with me the most. It’s about the Stairs — and, incidentally (or perhaps not), the Stairs are what will be coming to Channel Zero. The season looks like it’s going to be called Butcher’s Block; you can watch the trailer here.
I wasn’t sure where else to post these stories, so I figured I’d share them here. I’ve been an SAR officer for a few years now, and along the way I’ve seen some things that I think you guys will be interested in. …
… This is the last one I’ll tell, and it’s probably the weirdest story I have. Now, I don’t know if this is true in every SAR unit, but in mine, it’s sort of an unspoken, regular thing we run into. You can try asking about it with other SAR officers, but even if they know what you’re talking about, they probably won’t say anything about it. We’ve been told not to talk about it by our superiors, and at this point we’ve all gotten so used to it that it doesn’t even seem weird anymore. On just about every case where we’re really far into the wilderness, I’m talking 30 or 40 miles, at some point we’ll find a staircase in the middle of the woods. It’s almost like if you took the stairs in your house, cut them out, and put them in the forest. I asked about it the first time I saw some, and the other officer just told me not to worry about it, that it was normal. Everyone I asked said the same thing. I wanted to go check them out, but I was told, very emphatically, that I should never go near any of them. I just sort of ignore them now when I run into them because it happens so frequently.
Read the original series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.
Click here for the master list of all the stories.
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Seriously. This is why I don’t go camping. Those stories are freaky!
Lilly Delight Epic says
Lucia, I’m waiting for another fantastic post here. One of your biggest fans here.
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| Filmography | Forum | Gallery || Max von Sydow: DVD | Blu-Ray | Collectibles
Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor, and director.
Max von Sydow was born Max Carl Adolf von Sydow, in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. His zodiac sign is Aries.
As an actor, Max von Sydow acted in movies such as Needful Things, released in 1993 portraying Leland Gaunt, Hamsun (1996) (character: Knut Hamsun), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) in which he plays Jesus, Non ho sonno (2001) (character: Ulisse Moretti), Utvandrarna (1971) playing Karl Oskar, and Vargtimmen (1968) as Johan Borg.
Max von Sydow is also a movie director and has worked on .
, starring D. Ridley, J. Boyega, A. Driver, H. Ford...
Directed by: J. Bradshaw, starring I. Dapkunaite, M. Ignatova, J. Laskowski, L. Sobieski...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
, starring S. Bullock, J. Gandolfini, J. Goodman, V. Davis...
Directed by: M. Scorsese, starring E. Mortimer, M. von Sydow, J. Earle Haley, P. Clarkson...
, starring F. Deak, T. McEnchroe, A. Whitlaw, R. Russell...
Emotional Arithmetic
Directed by: P. Barzman
Le Scaphandre et le papillon
Directed by: J. Schnabel, starring M. Amalric, E. Seigner, Marie.-Josée. Croze, A. Consigny...
L' Inchiesta
Directed by: G. Base, starring D. Liotti, D. Lundgren, M. Cruz, H. Shopov...
Directed by: A. Hanan Kaminski, A. Simpson, P. Marcus, starring E. Bolger, M. von Sydow, G. Chaplin, D. Rigg...
Directed by: J. Carlos Fresnadillo, starring L. Sbaraglia, E. Poncela, M. López, A. Dechent...
Max von Sydow ➤ Filmography
Max von Sydow as The Emperor Ming in "Flash Gordon" (1980), a film by Mike Hodges
no reply yet - Released on December 05 of 1980 in the USA, «Flash Gordon» is an Action/Adventure/Science Fiction/Thriller film directed by Mike Hodges,...
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Max von Sydow as "Chief Justice Fargo" in "Judge Dredd" (1995)
"Judge Dredd" (also known as "Dredd - La legge sono io") is an Action/Crime/Science Fiction film directed by Danny Cannon, and written by Michael De Luca (story) and William Wisher Jr. (screenplay), released in the USA on June 30 of 1995 . Sylvester Stallone (Judge Joseph Dredd) is starring, alongside Diane Lane (Judge Hershey), Armand Assante (Rico), Rob Schneider (Herman Ferguson (Fergie)), Max von Sydow (Chief Justice Fargo) and Joanna Miles (Judge Evelyn McGruder).
Max von Sydow as "King Osric" in "Conan the Barbarian" (1982)
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (Conan), James Earl Jones (Thulsa Doom), Max von Sydow (King Osric), Sandahl Bergman (Valeria), Ben Davidson (Rexor) and Gerry Lopez (Subotai), "Conan the Barbarian" (also known as "Conan il barbaro", "Conan, der Barbar") is an Action/Fantasy/Adventure film directed by John Milius, and written by John Milius (screenplay), released in the USA on May 14 of 1982.
Max von Sydow (The Emperor Ming) and Ornella Muti (Princess Aura) in Flash Gordon (1980)
Thief Warrior Gladiator King: "Conan the Barbarian" (1982), a film by John Milius
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1995: Sylvester Stallone is "Judge Dredd", in a film by Danny Cannon
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Michael D. Jones is a producer, and actor.
A producer, Michael D. Jones has worked on movies such as Follow the Profit, released in 2008, Spiral (2007), Lockdown (2007), Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006), Harvest of Fear (2004).
Michael D. Jones is also an actor and has been seen in movies such as Rock and Roll Fantasy, released in 1992, Casualties of War (1989), Class Action (1991), Harvest of Fear (2004).
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A Movie Like No Other: "Michael Jackson: Moonwalker (1988), a film by Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers, and Jerry Kramer
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Plight Of India’s Mental Health: Nearly 60 Million Indians Suffer From Mental Disorders
September 10th, 2016 / 2:54 PM
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Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda informed the Lok Sabha in May 2016 that nearly 60 million Indians suffered from mental disorders. This number is larger than the entire population of South Africa.
The statistics were quoted from the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, 2005 that is the last available report on India’s mental health.
The report highlights some serious concerns and the data reveals that severe mental disorders such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder are common in nearly 2 per cent of the Indian population. Depression and anxiety are suffered by another 50 million (5 per cent of Indians).
This shocking data evidences towards the deep malaise gripping our society. India only spends 0.06 per cent of its health budget on mental health care. The 2011 World Health Organisation (WHO) report says that most developed nations spend above four per cent of their budget on mental health research, infrastructure, frameworks and talent pool. Recently, the government has taken several initiatives to address mental healthcare.
A programme by ‘National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences’ (NIMHANS) was started in Bengaluru, to estimate the number of mental patients and utilisation patterns of mental health services. The programme, since its inception on June 1, 2015, has interviewed over 27,000 respondents for its research analysis. However, it is imperative that India addresses the acute shortage of mental health professionals at the district and block level as well.
Today, nationally, there are only 3,800 psychiatrists, 898 clinical psychologists, 850 psychiatric social workers and 1,500 psychiatric nurses. This means that there are three psychiatrists per million people, according to the WHO date. This is 18 times lesser than the commonwealth norm of 5.6 psychiatrists per 100,000 people. The Mental Health Care Bill, 2013 which was passed last month is a beacon of hope. It aims to provide protection and promotion of persons with mental illness. The Bill was passed unanimously by a voice vote in the Rajya Sabha on August 8, 2016. The Bill increases funding for every centre of mental health from Rs 30 crore to Rs 33.70. As of now, 15 centres of excellence in mental health and 35 post-graduate training departments in mental health specialties, have been funded to address the shortage of mental health professionals nationwide.
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Ex-CJI Dipak Misra Was “Remote-Controlled By An External Source”: Justice Kurian Joseph
The Logical Indian Crew India
December 4th, 2018 / 6:30 PM
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Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph recently claimed that India’s former chief justice Dipak Misra was being controlled from outside. He further claimed that some cases were being allocated by Misra to judges with political bias. Regarding this issue, Justice Joseph and three other senior judges, Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan B Lokur, had held a press conference on January 12.
“External influences” controlling Misra
“There were several instances of external influences on the working of the Supreme Court relating to allocation of cases to benches headed by select judges and appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts,” said Justice Joseph, talking about what went wrong within the months during which Justice Misra had taken over as CJI.
He further said that since he felt that someone from outside was controlling Misra, they asked the CJI to “maintain independence and majesty of the Supreme Court”. But when their attempts did not succeed, they had to hold a press conference, reported The Times of India.
At the well-known press conference, the functioning of then CJI Misra was questioned by the judges. A petition seeking probe into the suspicious death of Judge B H Loya was discussed before the bench.
On April 19, 2018, any foul play was ruled out by the Supreme Court in the death of Judge Loya.
A 209-page criminal writ petition has been filed by advocate Satish Mahadeorao Uke before the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench alleging that judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya did not die of heart attack but due to radioactive isotope poisoning. He has also complained of threats to his own life.
The press conference
An open revolt was staged by Justice Joseph and three other senior judges of the Apex Court on January 12 by the means of an unprecedented press conference. In the press conference, the judges flagged their concerns regarding sensitive cases being allocated to judges with political bias.
“The then CJI was working under some influence of some external source. He was remote-controlled by an external source,” said Justice Joseph, who retired on November 29.
However, he was unwilling to elaborate either on who the “external source” was or which the cases with a bias were, reported Business Standard.
Justice Joseph said that it was the unanimous decision of all the four judges to hold the press conference. The development has been termed as “extraordinary” by Justice Chelameswar, as reported by The Wire.
“We tried to persuade the CJI that some things are not in order and he needs to take remedial measures. Unfortunately, our efforts failed. We all believe that the SC must maintain its equanimity. Democracy will not survive without a free judiciary,” Justice Chelameswar said.
Justice Kurian Joseph
From a humble beginning, it was Justice Joseph’s determination to rise in his profession. In his career, he has written over 1,000 detailed judgements and disposed of 8,612 cases. His tenure in the apex court has been of five years and eight months.
He began his practice in the Kerala High Court at the age of 26 in 1979, where his father worked as a clerk. His steady rise began when he was in 1994 appointed Kerala’s additional advocate general. In 1996, he was appointed as a senior advocate.
Justice Joseph mentioned how proud a moment it was for him when he took oath as a judge in the same place where his father worked as a clerk. His father’s income was not enough to run a household as large as theirs, with seven children. “I used to go to school barefoot and got my first slippers when I was in class 7. But we never even thought of complaining as hardship was a part of life,” he said.
The same prayer that plays on Justice Joseph’s lips every time he takes up a case is that because of his own lack of knowledge and not enough preparation on his part, justice must never be denied to a person who deserves it. He further said that every single case file was read by him and that only for research purposes were his law clerks utilised.
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Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Posted on 12/26/2013 by lovepirate77
The Two Towers is my favorite film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. While most people either preferred the pitch-perfect styling of the first film, or the epic conclusion of the third, for me I thought the middle chapter stood out in an interesting way. I feel like a lot of the film’s success owed itself to how writer/director Peter Jackson was able to take a book in which little happens and craft it into a satisfying story arc which fit perfectly into the trilogy but also stood alone as a unique accomplishment. He took the handful of major events in the story and fleshed them out, allowing him to focus much more on character and drama and less on sticking to the detail of the text, and it really showed off his (and his team’s) writing skills. I had high hopes that The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film of Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy would follow in the footsteps of The Two Towers, and while it’s definitely an excellent film, it lacks the creativity and emotion of his previous middle movie.
The Desolation of Smaug picks up right where An Unexpected Journey left off. Bilbo, Gandalf, Thorin and all the other dwarves are still on the run, pursued by Azog and his band of orcs while making their way towards the Lonely Mountain, the abandoned dwarf kingdom and current home of Smaug, a fearsome dragon. Along the way they have a variety of encounters, most of which will be intimately familiar from anyone who read the book as much as I did when I was a kid. They stop at the house of the shapeshifter Beorn, battle giant spiders in the forest of Mirkwood, are captured by Wood Elves, and pass through depressing Lake-town before they can finally arrive at the Lonely Mountain. The dwarves and Bilbo have to undertake most of this journey alone, as Gandalf leaves them to investigate the Necromancer, a sorcerer rumored to be building an army in the fortress of Dol Guldur.
Our heroes from the first film actually take a bit of a backseat to some of the “new” characters this time around, though the returning cast is still solid, particularly Martin Freeman as Bilbo, Ian McKellen as Gandalf and Richard Armitage as Thorin. They’re joined this time around by Mikael Persbrandt as Beorn, who has one scene in the film and made basically no impression on me, despite being a bigger character from the book. Luke Evans fares much better as Bard the Bowman, a citizen of Lake-town who smuggles the dwarves into town and has an important role to play in the final film. Evans gives Bard a soulful, sorrowful quality that tells us much more about the state of Lake-town than we could learn from the Master of the town (Stephen Fry), who lazes in his lavish rooms while his citizens barely manage to scrape by. And then there are the elves. We briefly met Lee Pace’s Thranduil in the first film, the elven king who refused to help the dwarves when they were first attacked by Smaug and who now imprisons Thorin and company in an attempt to keep them from their quest.
Thrandui is not the only elf in the film, however, as he is joined by a pair of younger elves who help give The Desolation of Smaug its narrative force: Thranduil’s son Legolas (Orlando Bloom reprising his role from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel, a new character created for the film. The inclusion of these two characters marks both the film’s biggest deviation from the book and the film’s most creative bit of storytelling. It’s fantastic to see Bloom back as Legolas, years before his partnership with Gimli, whose sole concern is the protection of his home regardless of who might suffer because of his inaction. Tauriel, who was added by Peter Jackson to give the film a much-needed female presence, disagrees with her friend Legolas, both on principle and specifically because she may have fallen in love with Kili (Aidan Turner), known online as the “sexy dwarf”, who has definitely fallen for her. In addition to Legolas simply being a familiar face, he and Tauriel give some much needed depth to the otherwise faceless elves of Tolkein’s book, whether in the Legolas-Tauriel-Kili love triangle, or in the class dynamic between Tauriel and Thranduil, or in the debates between the two over isolationism versus intervention. The movie is considerably more interesting and entertaining with them in it.
It also helps that having two elves as major characters seriously ups the quality of the action sequences. Particularly fantastic is the dwarves’ barrel escape from Mirkwood, which has been transformed from a fun passage in the book into a major action setpiece, with both the elves and the orcs pursuing the dwarves as the barrels race down the river, plunging off of waterfalls or tumbling into the air. It’s visually stunning, both exciting and funny, and gives us moments of character growth as well. The elves provide a visual counterpoint to the dwarves, and make the rhythms of the action more interesting merely by their presence, whether in this section of the film or in another later. It’s by far the best action sequence of the Hobbit trilogy thus far. The spider sequence actually felt a little flat by comparison, taking a big moment of bravery for Bilbo from the book and diminishing it slightly for the film. As for the action at the end of the film, which I won’t spoil, it felt largely unnecessary, as though it was simply created in order to give the film some action to end on because of their choice of stopping point.
Unfortunately, unlike The Two Towers, The Desolation of Smaug feels much more like a middle chapter than it should. Most everything that happens either feels like a continuation of a point from the first film or setup for something in the last. While individual events along the dwarves’ journey work well in the book, in the film they largely come off as filler (even if they’re not). It’s interesting that the overriding opinion I’ve heard from people about the film is that it’s very “long”, despite being 8 minutes shorter than its predecessor. A film’s length is an entirely subjective feeling, because a short film can feel long if it lacks content while a long film can fly by if it keeps the viewer engaged. Many of the events of the film are just stepping stones on the way to the trilogy’s conclusion, meant to be passed over along the journey, rather than each feeling like a necessary stop on the road to something larger. Where each aspect of the story in The Two Towers built on each other in order to add weight to the narrative, each encounter in The Desolation of Smaug feels strangely isolated, no matter how well they’re executed. Thank goodness for Legolas and Tauriel, who are the strand holding these separate events together.
However, The Desolation of Smaug does have something going for it that gives the film a much needed boost in its last half-hour or so. Smaug himself, the titular dragon who invaded the Lonely Mountain and made himself a bed of gold, is a wonder to behold. He is a truly stunning and remarkable creation, combining a spectacular design with the voice and performance of Benedict Cumberbatch and the best that visual effects can provide to create one of the greatest dragons ever seen onscreen. (Not the best, however. That would be Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonslayer.) Smaug is to this film what Gollum was to An Unexpected Journey, a shot in the arm for the film and a boost of energy which in many ways saves the movie. I could spend hours just watching him move through his mounds of gold, without even getting to listen to Cumberbatch’s confident voice which can be both charming and terrifying. A tip of the hat needs to go to Martin Freeman, who is of course acting in front of a viewscreen but whose reactions really help sell what an awesome sight Smaug is. As for Cumberbatch’s other role as the Necromancer, there’s almost nothing to say as there’s almost nothing to the part in this film; clearly we’ll have to wait for the final chapter for the payoff of that role.
In the end, The Desolation of Smaug is a difficult film to review. Unlike The Two Towers, it is such a middle chapter that it almost feels unfair to talk about it without having seen the finale. I felt like An Unexpected Journey did as good a job as it could have considering the decision to split the book into three films, but I feel like The Desolation of Smaug deserves an incomplete. We know that Peter Jackson and company are capable of crafting an engaging middle chapter, but I can’t interpret their failure to do so here as a fault because they clearly didn’t set out to. Several alternate paths they could have taken seem obvious to me, but they chose none of them. As a result, the film instead feels like nothing more or less than a chunk of chapters from the middle of a book, which may work well in the end but for now feels like a way to fill the two year gap between the first and third films. It’s impossible to fault any individual thing in the production, the design, sets, costumes, effects, cast, performances, music, etc. are all top notch, but the whole here just feels like less than the sum of its parts. It feels like the first half of a complete film, with a yearlong intermission, which is a different direction than The Lord of the Rings. As such it will be impossible to have a solid perspective on The Desolation of Smaug until There and Back Again is released next year. I enjoyed The Desolation of Smaug, sure, but I wish I could have just waited and watched it back-to-back with the finale.
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7 thoughts on “Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
Natalie on 12/30/2013 at 11:40 am said:
Excellent review! I was a tad underwhelmed by The Desolation of Smaug because it felt like it was simply moving from one action sequence to another, and it indeed felt longer than An Unexpected Journey. I hope it was laying the groundwork for a great finale in There and Back Again, and I think you’re right that it might be better-appreciated seeing them back-to-back.
mwaters2013 on 12/30/2013 at 4:48 pm said:
Good review. You are right that is too much of a middle movie, there is not a single plot thread that meets any kind of resolution and it cannot find a natural place to break the action. It is always fun visiting Middle-earth though.
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Chicago Sues ‘Empire’ Actor for Police Costs
The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Thursday against Jussie Smollett, saying the actor owes it more than $130,000 for police costs incurred in the investigation of a hate crime that authorities allege was phony, according to legal documents.
The lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court more than two weeks after prosecutors in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office dismissed all criminal charges against the “Empire” actor.
Chicago officials previously said they would sue Smollett after he refused a demand by the city for $130,000 to cover police overtime costs.
The actor’s criminal defense attorney, Mark Geragos, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Smollett, 36, who is black and gay, ignited a firestorm on social media by telling police on Jan. 29 that two apparent supporters of President Donald Trump struck him, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach over him while yelling racist and homophobic slurs on a Chicago street.
After weeks of investigation, Chicago police determined that Smollett cooked up the scheme, in which they allege he hired two brothers to pose as his attackers, because he was dissatisfied with his salary on “Empire.”
Smollett, best known for his role on the Twentieth Century Fox Television hip-hop drama, has said he has always been truthful about the incident.
He was charged in February with staging the incident and filing a false police report.
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Honda’s XR500, XR500R & XR600R History 1979-2000.
Honda XR500 and XR600 machines 1979-2000
Over the years, Honda’s Open class Enduro racers have developed a legendary reputation for their power, reliability and versatility. Winning races in every environment from the mud bogs of West Virginia to the dusty deserts of Baja, Mexico. The XR’s multiple cross country and desert racing titles are a testament to the capability of Honda’s big four-strokes.
Started in 1979 as the XR500, the original Honda Enduro featured an advanced 4-valve “Pentroof” head and slightly odd 23″ front wheel shod with Honda’s exclusive “Claw Action” tires. With 8.8″ of travel in the front and 7’8″ out back and tons of torque, the original XR500 was a stump puller, but not much of a real racer.
Two years later in 1981, the XR500 adopted the “R” designation of the CR line with its first major redesign. The newly renamed XR500R maintained the Pentroof motor design but gained 1cc of displacement and a reed-valve (yeah, you read that right) to prevent backfiring. The chassis was also all-new and featured Honda’s first use of a single-shock rear suspension. Dubbed the Pro-Link, the new system was similar to those found on the all-new ’81 CRs and featured a rising rate linkage and single Showa damper. In addition to the shock, the new XR500R featured beefier 37mm front forks, powerful dual-leading-shoe brakes and much-improved ergonomics, The bizarro 23″ front wheel was also gone, but an almost equally weird 17″ rear was added to make sure tire selection would continue to be a pain in ever XR owner’s fanny-pack.
The 1983 season would see the next major redesign for the largest XR in Honda’s lineup. Literally reimagined from the ground up, the ’83 model laid the groundwork for what the XR would become over the new two decades. This is the first model to use Honda’s new RFVC (Radial Four Valve Combustion) head that combined a hemispherical combustion chamber with a super-narrow valve angles. This allowed the engineers to run a higher compression and extract a more efficient burn than the Pentroof design.
This new XR500R also moved to a “dry sump” configuration that carried most of its oil in the frame. This was done to alleviate much of the over-heating issues of earlier XRs. All-new bodywork once again updated the looks and massive new 43mm front forks matched the size of those found on Honda’s even more potent CR480R. One area where the new XR bested its motocross counterparts was in breaking, where is actually got the dual-piston front disc brake that the CR’s would have to wait one more season to adopt.
The next major XR milestone would occur in 1985, with the introduction of the all-new XR600R. Boasting a full 591cc, the new XR maintained the dual-carbs and RVFC head of the old 500, but boosted performance greatly through its whopping 93cc displacement increase. Once again, all-new bodywork freshened the looks and a new tank design slimed out its notoriously portly proportions. At a claimed 266 pounds (dry), it remained a heavy beast, but the new motor and redesigned chassis made it by far the best performing big-bore XR to date.
Three years later in 1988, the XR600R would see its last truly major redesign. Once again the chassis was revised to shed weight and offer more aggressive handling. The 591cc RFVC motor was also redesigned and featured a lightweight Nikasil coating for the cylinder for the first time. This change saved weight and improved performance by allowing tighter tolerances and improved heat dissipation. A new decompression system also made starting easier than ever. Further weight savings were achieved by dropping the finicky dual-carb setup and going to a far easier-to-tune single 40mm unit. Stainless steel headers and slick new bodywork once again updated the looks on Honda’s desert bomber and a regulation 18″ wheel (hallelujah!) finally made its way to the back of the machine. All told, the ’88 XR600R dropped five pounds suet and gained a major step up in performance.
After 1988, it would only be incremental changes for the might XR600R. In 1991, it would finally get a much-needed upgrade in brake performance with the adoption of a powerful Nissin rear disc brake. The ’91 season would also see a major step up in fork performance with the adoption of Showa’s highly touted 43mm cartridge sliders. Maybe to help pay for the new brake and forks, Honda also deleted the trick stainless headers in use since 1988.
After 1991, it would only be slight tweaks and Bold New Graphics for Honda’s big earth mover. During the nineties, it would soldier on mostly unchanged, but reach cult status through the exploits of GNCC freak of nature Scott Summers. In spite of its desert roots and prodigious girth, Scott was able to pilot the XR600R to an astounding five GNCC titles.
In 2000, the XR600R would finally be retired in favor of a new machine, the XR650R. Even though the XR had reached the end of its lifespan, it did continue to live on in Honda’s lineup in the form of the street-legal XR560L. Nearly identical to the off-road version, the XR650L continues to this day as the spiritual successor to the iconic XR600R.
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Opinion: 5 Reasons Why You Should Start Watching 12 Monkeys
Posted By: Taylor Coleon: July 01, 2018 In: Tags: 12Monkeys, Syfy2 Comments
12 Monkeys is one of the top three TV shows currently on air in my opinion. Like another fantastic show that shared some space on the SyFy network, The Expanse, 12 Monkeys has flown under the radar during its four-season run.
It is also a remake of the 1995 Twelve Monkeys movie starring Bruce Willis. For those of you that are unaware of the old film (don’t worry, it was pretty bad) and have no idea what this TV show is about, here is a quick synopsis:
12 Monkeys is a time-traveling TV show on the Syfy network. It revolves around James Cole, a time-traveler from the post-apocalyptic future where most of the population has been killed by a plague. Cole must travel back to the year 2015 in order to stop the virus and those responsible for creating it.
Today, I’m going to give you five (spoiler-free) reasons why you should be watching 12 Monkeys.
12 Monkeys is a Time-Travel Show Done Right
If you’ve ever watched shows like The Flash or Lost, then you would know how frustrating time-traveling can be. 12 Monkeys doesn’t have this problem. There are rules on how time-travel works in this universe and the series always follows them.
Which leads me to my next point.
Well Thought Out Plot with Satisfying Twists and Turns
Other than Game of Thrones and maybe The Expanse (who both have numerous books to look to for content), I’ve never seen a television show plan for everything ahead of time as much as 12 Monkeys. Quick side-note; this is a great club to be in.
If you are someone who enjoys consistency in their shows, you’ll love this series.
Like I mentioned above, the plot revolves around stopping a deadly virus that will eventually kill most of the world’s population. Over the seasons, the focus will shift to more complicated matters but you can always tell that the writers know what they are doing.
As for the twists (and there are a ton of them), these are some of the best reveals that I’ve seen since the early years of Lost and it has continued to impress over its four seasons.
Quality Cast and Characters
Going in, I’ll admit I was skeptical about the quality of acting coming from 12 Monkeys. Mainly due to the stigma of the Syfy network.
After binging three seasons in the span of two weeks, I gotta say that I can’t really name one character that I’ve hated to see on screen. Some actors and actresses stand out here, like Kirk Acevedo as Cole’s best friend José Ramse and Emily Hampshire as the crazy Jennifer Goines. Hampshire actually plays a gender-swapped role from the original film, taking over for Brad Pitt of all people. After watching a few episodes of Hampshire in the part, you’ll quickly realize that she steals every scene she’s in.
Speaking of the original film…
The Series Diverges from the Movie after Season One
If you’ve never seen the 1995 film, feel free to skip this but if you have, I’m sorry that you had to sit through that mess of an ending. (Spoilers ahead for the 1995 version of Twelve Monkeys) For those of you who haven’t skipped to the next part or watched the movie, it ended with James Cole (Bruce Willis) failing to stop the virus and dying from a gunshot wound a few feet away from his younger self, thus completing a never-ending time-loop.
Luckily, the series bases its first season after the movie but diverges onto its own path for the remainder of their run.
It is what Lost should have been
Look, I know I haven’t been very…what’s the word I’m looking for here…supportive of Lost in this article.
Lost was a great series that housed some of the best TV moments of all time but it could have been so much better. They spent so much time hooking us in with over-complicated mysteries that the show ultimately suffered due to the lack of payoff.
Piggybacking off of “This is a Well Thought Out Plot with Satisfying Twists and Turns”, 12 Monkeys has many questions to answer. What is the Army of the Twelve Monkeys? Why do they want to destroy humanity? Why is James Cole so important? All of these questions have a worthwhile answer that won’t take six seasons (and some deleted scenes) to reveal.
12 Monkeys is wrapping up their fourth and final season on the Syfy network (click here to see our latest review). You can watch the first three seasons via Hulu and to see the final season, you can go to Syfy’s official site.
Those of you who have seen the show, do you agree with these points? Is there anything I missed? Let us know in the comments and be sure to follow us here at The Nerd Stash for all of your nerdy news and needs!
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Most underrated show I’ve seen. It’s so great. The payoffs are so big and well deserved it makes you want to rewatch it again and again.
Agreed. I went back to watch the pilot the other day and was shocked by the foreshadowing of some pretty big plot points, especially with Jones.
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Posted on June 16, 2019 by TheScrapbookGirl
Welcome to a new addition to the blog, my recent Television and Film watches. I will do my best not to contain spoilers but if this is a concern for you, I would warn that there may be some. It depends on what you consider a spoiler.
Getting straight into it:
Game of Thrones – Season 8
Well, what can I say? Even if you haven’t seen it, chances are you’ve seen the reactions from the fans. It’s not exactly been well received. I don’t want to give away any spoilers as I don’t believe in that. However I will say I was left deflated and confused. So many loose ends or ends tied up with what felt like a speedy storyline. Character arches that bombed. Deaths that were disappointing. Game of Thrones was a series I loved, I would put everything on hold to watch it. I would avoid solical media for fear of accidentally learning a spoiler.
This last season plummeted. Everything that’s been building, the characters you’ve been getting to know, thrown out of the window. A season offered 10 episodes and only 6 were created. Says it all really.
This was a welcome relief after Game of Thrones. It’s now ended but it was a Comedy on Mondays, BBC 1 at 9pm. It’s the same people who create Horrible Histories and Yonderland. Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) are a young couple with little money. They inherit a large country manor and due to a series of events learn that they’re not the only ones there. There’s a range of different ghosts all from different eras from prehistoric to more recent.
Alison suffers an accident which results in her being able to see them. This causes chaos for her and Mike who desperately need to make some money and renovate. It’s safe to say that the ghosts don’t make this easy for them!
I’ve been fascinated by Chernobyl for some time. However I never fully understood what happened. Before watching the series, I was more interested in Chernobyl as it is now, it’s become a place for danger explorers. It’s almost become a thrill for people.
This show put everything back into its place. It’s reminds you that it’s a tragedy and victims should be respected.
I’ve also listened to the podcast on Spotify, also named Chernobyl. Through this I’ve learnt that the screenwriter, Craig Mazin, has kept as close as possible (without being disrespectful) to what happened.
The show opens with the explosion, there’s no build up of back story. It’s gets straight on with it. You’re there in the fear and panic with the actors on screen. From there it shows how it all unravelled. Civilians didn’t understand the dangers, the Soviet leaders covered up so much! The concern of the spread of information was higher than the concern of the danger to the people. The technology and structures were not up to the standard they should have been, for reasons that are explained throughout the series.
This show allows you to see true bravery in people, the frustration of others and overall real sadness. It’s a disaster that could have been avoided.
Beautiful done, it’s no surprise that it currently holds the title of the highest rated mini series of all time.
This is a series I’d heard of but couldn’t find anywhere watch it, however I bought NOWTV for Game of Thrones and Chernobyl and found Westworld also on here.
The name of the show never really stood out for me, it was word of mouth that allowed me to know what this was about.
In a nutshell, it’s set distopian future. There’s a vast park that’s been created for the wealthy to visit. The park houses lifelike robots, to the point that if they are cut our shot, they bleed. However the robots cannot hurt the visitors or park workers. The setting of the park is the Wild West and it’s very much a playground with adventures, violence and prostitution.
There’s a sense that the park has been running for some time and you meet the characters as the robots begin to question their reality.
I’ve watched all of series 1, there is a second but I’ve not gotten round to starting it. Personally for me, the series started really well and it began as a binge watch. However, I started to slow on my binge. I’m yet to pinpoint the reason for this. It could be the multiple story lines and flitting from the narrative world to distopian reality but I did start to struggle with it. I will stick with it and see if this resolves itself for me in series 2.
I really enjoyed this new 2019 adaption of Disney’s Aladdin and it seems I’m not the only one. There were hardly any spoilers for this film, the trailer showed all it needed to. I’m finding that some more recent trailers for films show you way too much!
A lot of people will have seen the 1992 Disney animation so they will know the story, this meant that the teaser trailers and relatively short main release trailers could wow us instead with the look and feel of the film.
They did not disappoint. Everything from the music, costumes, acting (obviously) to VFX was outstanding with 2019’s Aladdin. The stunts were outstanding, the animation has a lot of leaping from buildings to shops fronts, these were replicated in a way that had you questioning how these were done.
It didn’t follow 1992’s version by each screen. We had variants in dialogue and some brand new scenes. We also had new songs, one of which was the highly appreciated “Speechless” written by Alan Menken and performed by Naomi Scott (Princess Jasmine).
Mena Massoud was a perfect Aladdin, he captured the mischief and confidence of the character that we recognise.
The big question for me was how would Will Smith live up to being the Genie, he had some huge shoes to fill. Well, I couldn’t be happier with this performance. The VFX allowed him to still have the wackiness that was seen in the 1992 animation but he made the role his own. He brought his own style to it and the writers gave a little bit of a backstory to the Genie. This meant that the character had more substance and depth to his reasoning on wanting to be free.
You can see that so much work went into this film, right down to taking four months to choose the cast. I can’t wait to watch it again!
That’s all my watches for now.
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Te Kura Hourua O Whangārei
Māori kids lose out when the charter school debate is drowned in ideology
Laura O'Connell Rapira | Guest writer
Charter schools are no silver bullet, but the principle behind kura hourua is a form of rangatiratanga (sovereignty) in action. The kōhanga reo example is a reminder that Māori education is too important to fall victim to partisan battles, writes Laura O’Connell Rapira.
The Anglican missionaries who arrived in Aotearoa in 1814 came with a mission: convert Māori from “barbarism to civilisation”. They believed their divine purpose was to replace Māori gods with their one. They believed their culture was superior to the native people of this land.
The first mission school was opened in 1816 in the Bay of Islands. More schools like it were built throughout Te Tai Tokerau (Northland), where I whakapapa to, over the next decade.
“Although Māori had whare wānanga (schools for teaching their own genealogy of knowledge), they wanted to send their children to the mission schools to access the Pākehā knowledge that produced large ships, powerful weapons and an amazing array of goods. Perhaps schooling would unlock the secret to this material wealth.” – Ranginui Walker, Reclaiming Māori Education
Māori at that time weren’t to know that most of the material wealth of the people who came here on large ships was gained by dispossessing other cultures and societies of theirs.
While the missionaries saw teaching Māori kids how to read as a conversion tool to the scriptures, Māori were more interested in understanding ships, firearms and tools. Māori who had attended the missionaries’ schools would return to their villages and create their own schools, taught in te reo Māori.
In 1847, George Grey, the governor of New Zealand, decreed that forced assimilation was the way forward for Māori. He believed the best gift the British could give the people of this land was to turn them into “brown Britons” so he instituted the Education Ordinance that gave greater support to the growing network of missionary schools. Schools that taught exclusively in English and favoured teaching religion and manual labour to Māori. This proved to be an efficient way to train up Māori labourers who would build houses for the colonisers in the future.
“I do not advocate for the natives under present circumstances a refined education or high mental culture … they are better calculated to get their living by manual than by mental labour.” – Henry Taylor, school inspector, 1862
This was the beginning of 150 more years of non-Māori deciding they know what’s best for Māori education. It was also the beginning of a sad intergenerational decline in fluent speaking of te reo Māori. A sadness that I, and many like me, carry with us today.
The reclamation of Māori education and language begins
The first kōhanga reo (“language nest” or early childhood education centre delivered in te reo Māori grounded in Māori values) was opened in April 1982.
It was a grassroots movement fuelled by concerned kaumātua (elders) and aunties determined to save te reo Māori from disappearing by teaching it to our tamariki (children) in marae (meeting houses) and community centres around the country. It was a movement that paved the way for kura kaupapa, primary and secondary school immersion programmes, as well.
By the end of 1994, there were 800 kōhanga reo with more than 14,000 students. Kōhanga were being established all over the motu (country), with very little financial assistance from the government. We were leading our own destinies to flourishing once more.
Then, the government decided kōhanga reo needed to be integrated into the state’s early childhood education regime. Prohibitive regulations were put in place. Damaging reports were written. Kaumātua who didn’t have the right government qualifications could no longer teach, and over the next 10 years the number of kōhanga reo in Aotearoa was slashed by half.
Today there are just over 450 kōhanga reo. Kōhanga are the biggest employer of both Māori women and men in any early childhood service. And as is stated in the Waitangi Tribunal report, “The kōhanga reo movement is a key platform for the retention and transmission of te reo Māori… and the survival of te reo Māori is critically dependent on them.”
History repeating itself?
Earlier this year, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced all charter schools would have to close by the end of this year unless they succeeded in joining the state system.
Six of the 11 charter schools that will be abolished have a Māori roll of 87% or higher.
Charter schools were the brainchild of a National-ACT alliance and have been criticised heavily by teachers’ unions because of their privatised nature.
Teachers want more money and resources going into delivering the best state school education possible, whereas proponents of charter schools say public education can’t deliver for everyone and that, in particular, it has failed Māori.
In a 2016 comparative study between Māori and African American students’ experiences of state schools, researchers found teachers have low expectations of these groups of children and as a result Māori and African American children’s education suffers.
Research has also shown that New Zealand primary school teachers overestimate the abilities of Pākehā students, and underestimate Māori students’ abilities. Teacher expectations of students are strongly linked to academic success.
Kura hourua (or charter schools) can provide an alternative to this low expectation-setting environment.
Te Kāpehu Whetū in Whangārei is a bilingual and coeducational school that was set up four years ago by Māori community leaders appalled at the high failure rate of Māori boys in state schools in their rohe (area, territory). Only 19 percent were gaining basic NCEA, and many were dropping out. But last year the school’s University Entrance pass rates were the second highest in Northland and above the New Zealand average. A key part of this success has been the culture of high expectations from kaiako (teachers).
Thankfully, Te Kāpehu Whetū has gained approval to become a state school under Labour’s changes so they’ll be able to continue in their great mahi (work). But the school also stands to lose support staff and decision making power because of the change.
Once again, the future of Māori education is decided by non-Māori.
Are charter schools the silver bullet for Māori educational achievement?
I don’t think so. Underfunding of our education system as a whole probably has a lot more to do with it. Another approach would be to overhaul the curriculum, so te reo, tikanga, and Aotearoa’s history are incorporated as core subjects alongside English, science and math.
But it does seem to me that the principle behind kura hourua – allowing schools more decision making power over how they operate and use their funding, and for teacher qualifications to be decided by the local community instead of Wellington bureaucrats – is a form of rangatiratanga (sovereignty) in action. And that might provide for better outcomes for Māori.
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Between 1996 and 2013, the proportion of the Māori population able to converse in te reo decreased from 25% percent to 21.3%. Kura hourua can offer a solution to this. The model enables people who have skills and knowledge in te ao Māori and te reo but don’t necessarily have teaching degrees to still impart their knowledge on our tamariki – something kura kaupapa does not currently allow.
From the outside, the charter school debate mostly seems like a partisan battle drawn across ideological lines. Which is a shame, because it’s our kids who have the most to lose when these politicians seek political wins.
The kōhanga reo movement was set back by ideology. Let’s not do the same again.
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Xeonbit Can Help Improve The E-Commerce Industry
UseTheBitcoin · 12 Jul 2019 in Press Release
Even though the e-Commerce industry has shown exponential growth during the last few years, especially with the emergence of giant companies such as Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay, a lot of people are still reluctant to purchase goods and services online. One of the main reasons why some people still refrain from purchasing online is the security and safekeeping of their private information.
Identity theft is perhaps one of the most known online crimes we’ve heard of, where an unknown party misappropriate the identity of somebody else, including information such as email addresses, web-pages and the combination of username and passwords used to access systems such as online banking. This information is sufficient for an individual to obtain a credit card in the victim’s name. This type of hacking has been employed successfully to obtain mass identifying information, including the account information held by Card Systems Solutions for 40 million credit card customers.
Every time we go online and register our personal data in any website, our information remains stored in their database, and if we’ve used our banking information to pay for something online, this information is also stored. This makes a lot of e-Commerce sites the perfect target for hackers looking to steal private data and banking information. The Cambridge Analytica scandal or the Marriot scandal is just a couple of examples where the user’s information was targeted to make a profit out of it. A great solution for this type of issues is blockchain technology, but many projects just don’t offer the privacy users need to protect their information. Xeonbit offers a fully private digital currency capable of enabling a secure payment network, fully decentralized and specially tailored for the e-Commerce industry.
How Xeonbit Can Improve The e-Commerce Industry
The technology behind Xeonobit can help users keep their information private. The “ring signatures” feature shuffles the users’ transaction data, eliminating the possibility of identifying a particular user within the ring. Payments remain anonymous by default, with each transaction using multiple cryptographic signatures and controlling multiple outputs to mix with the outputs of the sender. Therefore, interested parties cannot determine which outputs are controlled by which party, providing untraceability for everyone included in the ring signature.
With the usage of Xeonbit, users can benefit from blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in everyday transactions. Using Xeonbit can guarantee that each transaction you send or receive remains private and untraceable. This is achieved through the generation of one-time receiver addresses for each transaction.
For example, let’s assume Ally wants to pay for something online using Xeonbit. Once Ally sends the payment, her transaction automatically goes into a ring signature with other people that also sent out transactions during a specific period of time. Ally’s transaction log is now mixed with Bobby’s and Cathy’s; making it impossible to determine which out of the 3 transactions in the ring actually belongs to Ally.
This information is especially helpful given that nobody will be able to track Ally’s transactional data. Additionally, people also won’t be able to determine how much crypto is Ally holding in her crypto wallet since its cryptographically secured, with an especially designed algorithm. Privacy is the top feature that Xeonbit offers, with the possibility of remaining anonymous when doing transactions and without being forced to cooperate with third parties.
Xeonbit is untraceable, allows the use of pseudonyms and shuffles public keys, making it nearly impossible for people to identify anyone in the platform. The enhanced cryptography feature ensures that nobody can inspect outgoing transactions to determine the balance of a specific user. All of these features allow for users to remain unknown, both the sender and the receiver’s information remains private; shielding both from being exposed to potential hackers.
With Xeonbit technology, users can finally feel secure and safe when purchasing goods and services online, without fearing that their information may be stolen or sold. A Win-Win situation for both e-Commerce companies and customers. If you wish to know more about Xeonbit, please visit their website.
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More than 400 exhibits, which date from the prehistoric period to the 5th century AD, are displayed in thematic groups inside the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of Antiquity.
© Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia
Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of Antiquity
Once Olympia’s first Archaeological Museum—completed in 1888 after the first excavations—it housed exquisite finds of the sanctuary until the 1970s. With the Athens 2004 Olympiad, this magnificent spot became the Museum of the History of the Ancient Olympic Games.
Visitors will have a full picture of the historical development of the Olympics and the other Panhellenic Games through a wide selection of exhibits, as well as information panels and visual material. – © Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports / Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia
More than 400 exhibits, which date from the prehistoric period to the 5th century AD, are displayed in thematic groups inside the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of Antiquity. The majority comes from Olympia, but also from other important sites in Greece. Visitors will have a full picture of the historical development of the Olympics and the other Panhellenic Games (the Pythian at Delphi, the Nemean at the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, and the Isthmian Games at the sanctuary of Poseidon near Corinth) through a wide selection of exhibits, as well as information panels and visual material.
The basement of the museum is equipped with a digital exhibition, which informs about the ancient Games through multimedia content: texts, pictures, maps, videos, 3D representations of the ancient games, and an interactive 3D theater. Please book in advance for a guaranteed spot in the Digital Exhibition—and preferably as a member of a group.
Winter Time:
Daily: 08:30 - 15.30
Last Admission: 20' before closing time
Daily, 08.00 - 20.00
Holidays:
1 January: closed
25 March: closed
Good Friday: 12.00-17.00
Holy Saturday: 08.00-15.00
1 May: closed
Easter Sunday: closed
25 December: closed
Full: €12
Reduced: €6
November-March:
Full: €6
Ticket price includes access to the following areas:
-Archaeological Site of Olympia,
-Archaeological Museum of Olympia
-Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of Antiquity and
-Museum of the History of the Excavations in Olympia.
Free Admission Days:
6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri)
18 April (International Monuments Day)
18 May (International Museums Day)
The last weekend of September (European Heritage Days)
Every first Sunday from November 1st to March 31st
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The Muslims who shaped America
Trump's ban on Muslims from entering America makes the country a poorer place.
Stuart Jeffries
What have Muslims ever done for America? If your sole source of information were Donald Trump, you’d think that the answer was not much, apart from murdering its citizens and trying to destroy its values. The Republican president made every effort to halt to Muslims from entering America.
What Trump doesn’t seem to grasp is his own country’s history, and how many American achievements worth celebrating are the work of the kind of people – Muslims – he wants to keep out. Here is a guide to some of the things Muslims have done for the US. It’s not an exhaustive list – but it’s still more impressive than what Trump has done for his homeland.
Creating America
Muslims were part of the US from its very beginnings. Among those who served under the command of chief of the continental army, General George Washington, in the war against British colonialism were Bampett Muhammad, who fought for the Virginia Line between the years 1775 and 1783, and Yusuf Ben Ali, who was a North African Arab. Some have claimed that Peter Buckminster, who fired the gun that killed British Major General John Pitcairn at the battle of Bunker Hill, and later went on to serve in the Battle of Saratoga and the battle of Stony Point, was a Muslim American. This may be so, but the chief ground for the claim is that Buckminster later changed his surname to Salem or Salaam, the Arabic word for peace. But clearly, Washington, later America’s first president, didn’t have a problem with Muslims serving in his army. By giving these Muslims the honour of serving America, Washington made it clear that a person did not have to be of a certain religion or have a particular ethnic background to be an American patriot. Trump seems to want to overturn that venerable American principle.
The largely Muslim kingdom of Morocco, incidentally, was the first country to recognise the US. In 1786, the two countries signed a treaty of peace and friendship that is still in effect today, the longest unbroken treaty of its kind in US history.
Building its cities
The US wouldn’t look the way it does if it weren’t for a Muslim, Fazlur Rahman Khan. The Dhaka-born Bangladeshi-American was known as the “Einstein of structural engineering”. He pioneered a new structural system of frame tubes that revolutionised the building of skyscrapers. That system consisted of, as he once described it, “three, four, or possibly more frames, braced frames, or shear walls, joined at or near their edges to form a vertical tube-like structural system capable of resisting lateral forces in any direction by cantilevering from the foundation”.
The result was a new generation of skyscrapers that reduced the amount of steel necessary in construction and changed the look of American cityscapes. Islamist terrorists may have blown up the World Trade Center, but without Khan’s innovation of the framed tube structure, the twin towers probably wouldn’t have been constructed in the first place. Nor would the John Hancock tower, with its distinctive exterior X-bracing (devised by Khan) or the Sears tower (also made possible by Khan’s variant on the tube structure concept, the system was the so-called “bundled tube”) both in Chicago. The Sears Tower was for nearly 25 years from 1973, at 108 stories and 1,451ft (442m), the tallest building in the world. Khan died in 1982, but his innovations have proved key for future skyscrapers – including the 2009 Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.
Among other buildings on which Khan served as structural engineer is US Bank Centre in Milwaukee and the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. He also worked on the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, where officers are trained. If it weren’t for this Muslim, arguably, the US air force wouldn’t be quite so good at its work that, as we know, sometimes involves bombing other countries, some of them populated chiefly by Muslims.
Living the American dream
Shahid Khan is the personification of the American dream. The Pakistan-born billionaire arrived in the US aged 16 on a one-way trip to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. “Within 24 hours, I had already experienced the American dream,” Khan said, by which he meant he found a job for $1.20 an hour washing dishes — more than the vast majority of the people back in Pakistan earned at the time. He started a car-parts business after university. Now, the 65-year-old – best known in the UK for owning Fulham FC – is the head of the $4.9bn (in sales terms) auto-parts company Flex-N-Gate, the 360th richest person on the planet and three years ago Forbes magazine put him on its cover as the face of the American dream.
Treating the sick
Without Ayub Ommaya lots of people, some of them American, would be dead or suffering appalling pain. In 1963, the Pakistani-born Muslim neurosurgeon invented an intraventricular catheter system that can be used for the aspiration of cerebrospinal fluid or the delivery of drugs. What that means is that a soft, plastic, dome-shaped device is placed under the scalp. This so-called Ommaya Reservoir is then connected to a catheter that is placed into your brain. The reservoir is used to provide chemotherapy directly to the site for brain tumours. He also developed the first coma score for classification of traumatic brain injury and developed, too, the US’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, which, as part of its mission, focuses on traumatic brain injury.
Giving hip-hop its greatest MC
For many music fans of the 80s and 90s, hip-hop was the first, thrilling, exposure to Muslim culture and the religion of Islam. After the early days of breakdancing and braggadocio, it found room for a spiritual and religious element. The range of Muslim rappers spans the obvious – Yasiin Bey (the Artist Formerly Known As Mos Def) – and the superficially unlikely – T-Pain, taking in such luminaries as Nas, Andre 3000, Lupe Fiasco, Ice Cube and Busta Rhymes.
The expression of Muslim belief through hip-hop has frequently been mediated through fringe groups such as the Nation of Islam and the Five-Percent Nation, and the language they use has bled into the rap argot. A lot of this is down to Rakim, perhaps the first and most prominent Muslim rapper to speak openly about his faith. As one half of Eric B & Rakim, the man known to his mum as William Griffin – but to fans as Rakim Allah – dropped frequent allusions to Muslim religion and culture into songs that quickly propelled him to the top of the MC list. While artists such as Jay-Z and the Notorious BIG went on to wider fame and bigger sales, Rakim is still regarded in many quarters as the greatest rapper in history. His unique flow and gravitas helped to usher in the brilliant “Afrocentric” era of hip-hop in the late 80s, and allowed more Muslims to profess their faith on record.
Established classic rap albums like KMD’s Mr Hood (1991) and Brand Nubian’s One for All (1990) were made possible by this strain of Muslim influence. There’s an often jarring disconnect between songs about dealing dope and love of Allah on releases by such influential artists as Scarface and the Jacka, and modern mainstream hip-hop is markedly less vocal about Islam. But perhaps that’s because its deep, important impact on the music and culture is so long-standing and obvious that it no longer needs saying out loud. Andrew Emery
Inventing the ice-cream cone
Picture the scene. It’s the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair. An ice-cream vendor has run short of dishes. I predict a riot. How are God-fearing Americans supposed to eat their ice-creams now? Lick them from cupped hands like animals or something? That’s not America. That isn’t even Italy. Thankfully, at the next booth is a Syrian Muslim immigrant. Ernest Hamwi is selling something called zalabia, a waffle-like confection. He rolls a waffle into a conical shape to contain the ice-cream, thus inventing the world’s first edible cone. But not the last. Business acumen and community spirit rolled up into a delicious proposition: how could you refuse that, America? Nowadays incidentally, the zalabia is so integrated into American society that Martha Stewart has a recipe for it.
Being sporting heroes
Trump tweeted the following earlier this week: “Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who?” One of those sports heroes is, Mr Trump, someone you’ve met before. Here are some clues. He was known as the Louisville Lip. He was three times World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Oh yes, and in 1965 he changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali and later gave interviews explaining his perspective on his new faith. Now you remember. He’s the same guy you met in 2007 when he presented you with a Muhammad Ali award. In May, you posted a photo on Facebook posing with the great Muslim sporting hero and claimed then that he was your friend.
Barack Obama was making a point after the San Bernardino shootings. “Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbours, our coworkers, our sports heroes. And yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defence of our country,” he said, speaking from the Oval Office. “We have to remember that.” Here are some more sports heroes he might have meant. Basketball icons Shaquille O’Neal and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the latter perhaps the greatest NBA star after Michael Jordan. Hakeem Olajuwon, 52, Hall of Fame NBA centre. Oh yes, and Mike Tyson, who set the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles aged 20.
Promoting diplomacy
Farah Pandith worked in the George W Bush administration at the National Security Council as a director for Middle East Initiatives and then in the Department of State as adviser on Muslim engagement in Europe. In 2009 she became Hillary Clinton’s envoy to the world’s Islamic communities. She argues that Islamic State is exploiting a crisis of identity for young Muslims. “Muslim millennials are growing up in a post-9/11 world and are asking questions about culture versus religion, being modern and Muslim. The people who are answering their identity crisis questions are not parents or family or community voices that in the past may have helped young people navigate their identity. Instead, they’re going online to Sheikh Google. The loudest voices are those of the extremists that know how to shape the way young people see everything.”
Fighting injustice
After the end of slavery in the US, many African Americans began to move to cities in large numbers. But because of restrictive housing and employment policies, the result was that many lived in troubled ghettos. In such a context, some African Americans returned to what they believed to be the religion of their ancestors. Many of them were attracted, during the 1950s and 1960s, to the brilliant oratory of a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, who was born Malcolm Little in 1925, but became famous as Malcolm X, the Muslim convert who cast off his slave name and exhorted African-Americans to cast off the shackles of racism “by any means necessary”, including violence – a message contrary to his fellow civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King, who called for non-violent civil disobedience. “I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self-defence,” he said once. “I call it intelligence.”
Advancing science
Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1999, becoming thereby the first Egyptian-born scientist to do so. He is known as the “father of femtochemistry” and for doing pioneering work in the observation of rapid molecular transformations. Zewail, now 69, has spent most of his life in the US where he is now professor of chemistry and physics at Caltech and director of the physical biology center. He joined President Barack Obama’s presidential council of advisers on science and technology (PCAST), an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers to advise the president and vice president and formulate policy in the areas of science, technology, and innovation in 2011. When he joined PCAST the White House hailed this Muslim Egyptian-American as one who is “widely respected not only for his science but also for his efforts in the Middle East as a voice of reason”. Postage stamps have been issued to honour his contributions to science and humanity.
Bringing the laughs
Can Muslims even be funny? Hell yes. Try this. When Rupert Murdoch tweeted this January: “Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible”, Aziz Ansari counter-tweeted: “Rups can we get a step by step guide? How can my 60-year-old parents in NC help destroy terrorist groups? Plz advise.”
Ansari, who you’ll know as Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation, as a hilarious standup and the author of a book about sexual mores. Modern Romance: An Investigation, describes himself as an atheist, but he was born to a Tamil Muslim family in South Carolina. His mother, Fatima, works in a medical office, and his father, Shoukath, is a gastroenterologist. And then there’s Dave Chappelle, who came to our attention as Ahchoo in Mel Brooks’ 1993 film Robin Hood: Men in Tights and is now a leading American standup. He converted to Islam in 1998 but doesn’t go on about it. Why? “I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing,” he told Time magazine in 2005. “And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.”
Portions of this article were originally published on theguardian.com as The Muslims who shaped America – from brain surgeons to rappers
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The song's lyrics question the singer's purpose in life.
The song's first recording session was on 3 October 1967 along with "With the Sun in My Eyes" and "Words". The song's last recording session was on 28 October 1967. "World" was originally planned as having no orchestra, so all four tracks were filled with the band, including some mellotron or organ played by Robin. When it was decided to add an orchestra, the four tracks containing the band were mixed to one track and the orchestra was added to the other track. The stereo mix suffered since the second tape had to play as mono until the end when the orchestra comes in on one side. Barry adds: "'World' is one of those things we came up with in the studio, Everyone just having fun and saying, 'Let's just do something!' you know". Vince Melouney recalls: "I had this idea to play the melody right up in the top register of the guitar behind the chorus".
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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2017, file photo, construction workers build one of the Facebook data center buildings in Los Lunas, N.M. A powerful regulatory authority in New Mexico decided Tuesday, April 16, 2019, it is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for the construction of a new transmission line, a move that the social media giant says could affect its long-term operations in the state. (Marla Brose/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
New Mexico panel surprises Facebook with $39M utility bill
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A powerful New Mexico regulatory authority is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line construction for its data center — a move the social media giant says it was not expecting.
The Public Regulation Commission's on Tuesday ordered the Public Service Company of New Mexico to charge Facebook for nearly half the cost of the $85 million transmission project for its New Mexico data center that opened this year, the Albuquerque Journal reports .
Commission members, who voted 5-0 to approve the order, contend that the utility cannot bill ratepayers for the transmission project because the line will not benefit retail customers. It only helps Facebook and wholesale electric operators who need the transmission capacity to supply renewable energy to other markets, the commission said.
But the Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said that the ruling could affect its long-term operations in the state, raising costs and putting in doubt plans to use 100 percent renewable energy to run the facility, Facebook said.
The company sees the bill as "a significant deviation of our understanding of the terms and conditions" of its contract with the utility and added that the bill is "creating uncertainty around the long-term costs of our operation in New Mexico," Bobby Hollis, head of energy and site selection for the Facebook subsidiary Greater Kudu LLC, wrote in a March 29 letter to the commission.
State officials and economic development professionals have said the decision could hurt New Mexico's efforts to attract more large companies.
It's unclear how the utility will respond to the order. It has 30 days to file a motion for a rehearing, or it could appeal the commission's decision to the state Supreme Court.
Public Service Company of New Mexico representatives did not immediately return emails seeking comment.
Facebook in February opened its data center in New Mexico, where the company has said servers have begun storing many of the videos, photos and other media that its 2.3 billion users have posted to the social network.
The data center is one of seven such sites for Facebook, and includes six buildings for data storage. It is located on a patch of desert at the edge of Los Lunas, New Mexico, just beyond the edge of Albuquerque.
The proposed high-voltage line would transmit electricity produced by a 166-megawatt wind farm being built by Avangrid Renewables to supply Facebook's data center.
Under a special service contract between the utility and Facebook that the commission approved in 2016, no ratepayers are supposed to be affected by any renewable generation systems managed by Public Service Company of New Mexico to supply the Los Lunas data center.
That contract comes out of a new "green energy tariff" that the commission authorized to allow the utility to supply renewable electricity directly to customers such as Facebook with special rates negotiated between Public Service Company of New Mexico and those large-scale consumers.
Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
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Oral history interview with Helen Zell, 2016 December 5-6
Zell, Helen, 1942-
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Summary: An oral history interview with Helen Zell conducted 2016 December 5-6, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art and the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, at Zell's home, in Chicago, Illinois.
Zell discusses growing up as a Jewish Northerner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; her parents and their extended family and the impact on her of visiting with her father's bohemian relatives in Brooklyn; her early interest in reading and English studies; her enthusiasm for collecting and organizing paper dolls and books as a young girl; the family's relocation to Rockville Centre, New York on Long Island; her visit as a teenager to Europe and the Rome Olympics with her grandparents; her college years at the University of Michigan, where she met her first husband, James Fadim; her work as an editor for the American Society for Microbiology; the couple's meeting and socializing with Sam and Janet Zell at the University of Michigan; their move to Chicago in 1967; her first purchases of art at the Old Town Art Fair in Chicago; her work as the general manager for the Chicago String Ensemble; her work on the Women's Board at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; her divorce from her first husband and her return to school to study interior design at the Harrington Institute and her subsequent work as an interior designer; her deeper involvement with Chicago-based art collectors through her work at the MCA. Zell also describes her reintroduction to Sam Zell after many years apart at an art fair in Chicago in 1995; their burgeoning relationship and his desire to help her acquire and develop an art collection, initially concentrating on Surrealist work; their marriage and acquisition of a neighboring apartment in their condominium building which they renovated in order to create space for their growing collection; the expansion of their collection into photography; her enthusiasm for the work of Joseph Cornell, Louise Bourgeois and Lee Bontecou, among others; the assistance of the gallerist Alan Koppel in acquiring work for the collection; her feelings about loaning from the collection for exhibitions; the valuable assistance of curators and dealers in expanding her knowledge and expertise; and her and her husband's feelings about eventually creating a legacy for their collection. Zell also recalls Robert Natkin; Grace Hokin; Bud Holland; Helyn Goldenberg; Marilynn Alsdorf; Allen Turner; Stefan Edlis; Gael Neeson; Kevin Consey; Madeline Grynsztejn; Elizabeth Smith as well as Michael Heltzer; Meredith Palmer; John Vinci; David Tunkl; Lynne Warren; and Wilbur Ross, among others.
Helen Zell (1942- ) is a philanthropist and art collector in Chicago, Illinois. Avis Berman (1949- ) is an art historian and author in New York, New York.
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Funding for this interview was provided by Barbara Fleischman.
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Helen Zell, 2016 December 5-6. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Zell, Helen
Art Collectors: A Project in Partnership with the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection
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August 15, 2013 by Karen L Hogan
What in the World is Goin’ On?
“What in the world is going on?” my grandmother asked my grandfather as he crossed the yard. She was hanging the laundry to dry, my two oldest uncles playing nearby, my aunt in the cradle by her side.
Beyond her yard, sirens were blaring. Fireworks were booming. People were whooping and hollering.
“Put down your laundry and put on your hat,” he said. “We’re going to town. The war is over. The boys are coming home.”
It was November 1918.
That image has stuck with me 34 years after my grandmother told me that story: my grandfather striding across the yard. My grandmother, surrounded by domesticity, wondering, “What in the world is going on?”
It was a common expression back then: What in the world is the matter with you? What in the world am I going to do with you? What in the world am I going to do with this fallen cake?
But, it also told a piece of a story. I think the story went beyond my family, but it’s not always easy to tell how much is cultural and how much is familial.
My grandmother was born in 1889 in Kansas. When she was five, her family moved to Lawton, Oklahoma. “First there was nothin’. Then there was tents,” she explained to me. This was in 1979. I was recording her life story—it was to be a surprise for her 90th birthday.
She had wanted to be a telegrapher, she said. But she was nineteen, there were eight others at home, so she thought it best she got married.
And so she did. And so started a story about women and their choices: you could either be out in the world, or in the home, you couldn’t do both. A woman out in the world was a threat to the domestic scene—you might be more interesting to the man, keep him from coming home at night. The woman out in the world was barred from things domestic; to the woman in the home, she was as useless as the man she served when it came to things of the hearth and home persuasion. More man than woman.
Was that the story or is that how I interpreted the story? I don’t know. In retrospect, I think that storyline resulted from my grandfather’s philandering ways—an assault on my grandmother’s quest for domestic perfection and satisfaction.
At any rate, I have spent a good amount of time trying to reconcile my yearnings to be both a woman in the world and a woman in the home. It took me years to free the creativity that expresses itself in cooking, creating an inviting home, nesting—even cleaning (without the obsession). I chose a stealthy path of woman in the world. It wasn’t a career path, more like a quest. I was careful not to tread on the territory held by my grandmother, a territory that intimated my mother into stealthy submission.
I ate lunch at a bakery on Tuesday. This wasn’t a hippy-dippy bakery, my friend told me. It was more like the way my grandmother baked, buttery and sweetness. The aroma as we stepped into the shop confirmed it.
A woman named Betty (my mother’s name) invited us to sit with her. She was 83, born and raised on a dairy farm in Sequim, my new hometown, milked cows every day when she was growing up.
We got to talking about pie.
“Do you use lard or butter for your crust?” I asked. It is the closest thing I had to an intelligent question about the subject of making pie crust. I am totally intimated by pie crust. It is as mysterious to me as knitting.
“Half lard, half butter,” she said. “It’s all about not overworking it,” she said.
I’ve heard that before. Don’t overwork it. But as far as I can tell, you can’t tell that you’ve overworked it until its overworked. It’s a sensory thing—the touch and feel that comes with care and commitment to creating.
I find myself these days, not so much ignoring what’s going on in the world, as wanting a retreat from it from time to time—having time for and to reflect on things that are of what I have come to define as home. A friend’s father recently died at home. She called on her friend to be with her and her father during those final fours, that most intimate of time.
It is the intimacy of home, I think, that I have begun to embrace. I’m learning to bring all that I learned from being out in the world into the intimacy of my home. I think I am dispelling the curse and sentence domesticity was to the women in my family.
I wonder what my grandmother would think of Twitter. I find it baffling, wonder how you know when to shut it down, take a break from it. I think I tweeted once. But for her, who wanted to be the receiver and sender of news from the world, maybe she would have embraced it, setting down her knitting needles from time to time to tweet and respond.
“I’ve buried three husbands,” Betty, our lunch companion told us. “I think they thought the only way to get away from me was to die.” She was the very definition of 80 is the new 60. Lonely and sad to be a widow, somewhat baffled by it, but ready and willing to be vibrant and out in the world.
“I think you wore them out,” I said.
She smiled. “That’s how I’m going to look at it.”
I’d like to think that my years of working with words—the way I put myself out into the world—has given me the touch and feel for texture that her years of working with pie crust gave her. I do plan on trying my hand at making pie crust.
Knitting update. I am still unraveling.
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3 thoughts on “What in the World is Goin’ On?”
Barbara Soules | August 15, 2013 at 11:00 am
I’m glad you are finding Squim freeing. Finding a balance between home and the world has always been a battle for me too.
Paula Aiello | August 15, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Sometimes life gives us a chance to retreat a bit and we should relish it. Enjoy “dispelling the curse and sentence domesticity was to the women in my family.” I know the feeling.
Nancy Wheeler | August 16, 2013 at 10:56 am
Great story, Karen! Glad Washiington is a good environment for you to write.
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Home » Science » Global population could hit 10.9 BILLION by the end of the century
Global population could hit 10.9 BILLION by the end of the century
Global population could hit 10.9 BILLION by the end of the century, UN predicts
The UN Population Division predicts there will be 10.9 billion people by 2100
Suggests growth rate is slowing, with 2100 estimate down from previous, 11.2bn
Population is expected to hit 8.5 billion by 2030, and 9.7 billion people by 2050
Global population could surge by more than three billion people before the end of this century, according to a new UN report.
The UN Population Division has released its biennial prospects for fertility rates and population changes around the world, estimating overall population will swell to 10.9 billion people by the year 2100.
The world’s population currently sits at about 7.7 billion.
While a staggering estimate, no doubt, the new figure is lower than predicted just two years ago; in 2017, the UN forecast the world would reach 11.2 billion people by 2100.
Global population could surge by more than three billion people before the end of this century, according to a new UN report. The United States is among the nine countries expected to see a large population increase in the next few decades. File photo
The latest predictions combine 1,690 population censuses conducted between 1950 and 2018, according to the report.
It also includes information on birth and deaths from 163 countries.
While global fertility is expected to decline – a trend that’s already underway – the population will still rise dramatically over the next few decades.
By 2030, there will be an estimated 8.5 billion people in the world. This will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050, and 10.9 billion by 2100, the report predicts.
And, much of this growth will come from just a handful of countries.
According to the UN, the largest population increases over the next three decades will occur in: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States of America.
In less than a decade, India is expected to pass China to become the most populous country in the world.
Several other countries, on the other hand, will experience a decline in population as the number of older citizens outweighs birth rates.
China’s population is forecast to shrink by 31.4 million, or 2.2 per cent, by 2050, while Lithuania and Bulgaria are expected to see the largest declines.
In these regions, the population may be 23 percent smaller than it is today.
The predictions suggest there will be mounting challenges for both the growing and declining nations.
‘Recent demographic trends are harbingers of the future challenges to sustainable development,’ the authors note.
According to the UN, the largest population increases over the next three decades will occur in: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt and the United States of America
‘For example, countries experiencing rapid population growth, most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, must provide schooling and health care to growing numbers of children, and ensure education and employment opportunities to increasing numbers of youth,’ the report says.
‘Countries where population growth has slowed or stopped must prepare for an increasing proportion of older persons and, in some cases, decreasing population size.’
In addition to issues of hunger and malnutrition, a growing population will also put a greater burden on the global fight against climate change.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN MALE AND FEMALE BIRTH RATES?
There is an existing quirk of nature which means for every 200 births, 105 will likely be male.
This ratio has long puzzled population scientists who muse over the deep-rooted cause of it.
A prevailing theory is that more males are born to balance out the superior longevity of females.
Women have a greater life expectancy in most countries. In the UK, the Office for National Statistics reveals a newborn baby boy could expect to live 79.2 years and a newborn baby girl 82.9 years
And for every male that reaches the age of 100 – there are four women who also become centenarians.
A conclusive answer has yet to be widely accepted.
Modern pressures in some societies has worsened this ratio up to 118:100 following.
Added pressure of China’s single-child policy and the desire of parents to have a boy compounded the problem.
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Philadelphia to further limit cooperation with ICE
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia will stop giving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to a real-time arrest database, accusing the agency of misusing the information to target people who are in the country illegally but are otherwise not accused of any crimes, the mayor announced Friday.
"We're not going to provide them with information so they can go out and round people up," Democrat Jim Kenney said.
The decision by the mayor means the city will not renew a contract that expires Aug. 31.
He said the federal agency's actions have created fear and distrust in the city's immigrant community and made it more difficult for police to solve crimes.
As a "sanctuary city," Philadelphia had already limited cooperation with immigration enforcement. It won't release inmates to ICE without a judicial warrant.
The Trump administration wants to cut funding to the city as a result but has so far been blocked by a judge.
"How anyone can define this as making America great again is beyond me," the mayor said.
Anyone who interacts with law enforcement is entered into the database, including those who are arrested, victims and witnesses, with limits on what ICE officers can view.
The mayor said city's conversations in recent weeks with ICE only confirmed what he had feared.
With access to the database, Kenney said ICE has been arresting otherwise law-abiding residents for civil immigration violations. He said it's also been targeting for investigating foreign-born residents even though there is no information on their immigration status.
In a letter to ICE, Kenney said the contract "has created the false perception that the city is willing to be an extension of ICE."
"It is not in the best interests of the city and its residents for the city to acquiesce to that perception," he said.
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FILE - In this April 30, 2017 file photo, Alex Trebek speaks at the 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center in Pasadena, Calif. Longtime “Jeopardy” host Trebek had surgery for blood clots on the brain, but says he’ll be back behind the podium soon. Trebek appeared in a video on the “Jeopardy” Facebook page Thursday, Jan. 5, 2018, to announce that he’d had the surgery during the show’s holiday break. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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Outages leave thousands across San Diego without power
Posted: 9:35 AM, Mar 21, 2019
By: City News Service
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - More than 7,000 utility customers were left without power Thursday morning after three separate outages across San Diego County.
The first outage was reported around 5:55 a.m., affecting 2,109 customers in San Marcos and Carlsbad, according to San Diego Gas and Electric's online outage map. The second outage was reported around 7:15 a.m., affecting around 1,859 SDG&E customers in the Rancho Penasquitos, Rancho Bernardo and San Pasqual areas.
As of 1:45 p.m., power had been restored to all but 366 customers affected by the first outage and all but 595 customers in the second outage, SDG&E spokeswoman Sara Prince said.
Power was expected to be restored to all customers in the first two outages by 6:00 p.m., Prince said.
A third outage was reported around 9:05 a.m., knocking out power to around 3,134 customers in the Clairemont and Kearny Mesa areas. Customers affected by third outage had their power restored by 10:15 a.m., Prince said.
All three outages were caused by faulty equipment, Prince said.
Copyright 2019 Scripps Media, Inc. City News Service contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Scottish Independence: What would it mean for business and your investments?
by Alexander Beard, on Jul 2, 2014 4:10:39 AM
Even if you live in a cave on top of a mountain a very long way from anywhere, it won’t have escaped your attention that the referendum on Scottish independence is drawing inexorably closer.
Voting will take place on September 18th – little more than five months from now – and at the moment the indications are that the ‘no’ camp will prevail. That said, the bookmakers will only give you 3/1 against a ‘yes’ vote, with the opinion polls currently suggesting around 45% of the votes will be cast in favour of independence.
At the moment, therefore, a ‘yes’ vote appears unlikely but very far from impossible. Rightly, many of our clients have asked what the implications of an independent Scotland would be for their savings and investments – and the wider economic prospects of the country. The notes below reflect our current thinking: we’ve tried to answer the questions clients are most often asking us. However, they are necessarily general in tone – if you would like to have a more specific discussion, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Would an independent Scotland keep the pound?
The ‘yes’ campaign would like to, with John Swinney, the Scottish finance secretary, arguing that the benefits of a currency union are “clear for both sides.” However, George Osborne has specifically ruled out a currency union with an independent Scotland and at the moment is supported in this by all parties at Westminster. In practice, a currency union would be very difficult. After independence, the economies of Scotland and the rest of the UK are likely to diverge. For example, Scotland would be a major oil exporter while the UK would continue as an importer. And if currency union did go ahead, clearly it would be under the control of the Bank of England – with the rest of the UK ten times the size of Scotland, there is little doubt where priorities would lie.
What would be the impact on business?
Clearly, the UK is Scotland’s biggest market and Business Secretary Vince Cable is fairly specific on the threats independence would pose. “Breaking up Scotland’s most lucrative market would potentially put growth and jobs at risk.” The ‘yes’ campaign dismiss this as ‘scaremongering’ but there is little doubt that business would be affected by a vote for independence. The impossible question to answer is ‘how much?’
There is clearly the potential for significant differences between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK: regulations, employment law and the tax regime would all be different. Different businesses would be affected in different ways and the simple answer at the moment is that nobody knows who the winners and losers would be.
Would businesses leave Scotland?
Quite possibly. Again, it is difficult to estimate accurately and much would depend on factors such as the regulatory framework and taxation regime in an independent Scotland, but inevitably some companies would want to operate under UK law. Standard Life – which employs 5,000 people in Scotland – has warned that it could relocate, and is believed to have already set up subsidiary English companies in case it made such a move.
Royal Bank of Scotland has also voiced concerns, suggesting that an independent Scotland could damage its credit rating. Clearly, many major businesses have worries and in the event of a ‘yes’ vote it is likely that at least some of them would vote with their feet and cross the border.
What about the banks?
At the moment, Scottish banks and other financial institutions operate under UK law. In the event of a ‘yes’ there would need to be a new regulatory framework and new measures for consumer protection. Against that the pro-independence lobby point to many European countries roughly the size of Scotland that operate banking and financial sectors quite successfully – albeit very often under the EU umbrella. What’s clear is that Scotland cannot vote for independence on September 18th and be admitted as a member of the EU on September 19th.
How would financial services be affected?
Inevitably the regulatory regime would change in an independent Scotland. It may well be the case that some products and services currently available may cease to be available. At the moment, clients’ policies and investments are governed by UK law – whether a policy set up under UK law could still operate under that law if Scotland were independent is a question which must have the barristers rubbing their hands. So yes, financial services and its regulation could very well change, as could the taxation treatment of clients’ policies and investments.
We hope the above is helpful – sadly, for many of the issues there are far too many ‘don’t knows’ for comfort and as September 18th draws closer, it is likely to be the rhetoric – not the clarity – which is increased.
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'Purple Spots' on Ancient Documents Indicate Deterioration by Microbes
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Credit: Migliore et al., Scientific Reports (2017)
Ancient documents decay over time. Understanding the underlying cause of the deterioration is obviously necessary to prevent or reverse it.
Many ancient documents were created on parchment, which is derived from animal skin. Over time, parchments can be covered in purple spots, making the documents unreadable. (See upper left image.) For the past 40 years, scientists have tried to figure out what was responsible for the splotches, but little progress was made. But now, a team of mainly Italian researchers believes it has identified a potential cause.
The authors obtained a nearly 800-year-old, 5-meter-long parchment from the Vatican Secret Archives that details the story of a young soldier who accidentally killed a man and went into a self-imposed exile for 34 years. The parchment had both damaged and undamaged spots, so the researchers were able to compare them using DNA and sequencing and chemical analysis.
DNA sequencing revealed that the purple spots contained greater microbial diversity. The undamaged spots were dominated by the bacterial order Pseudonocardiales. This order was also present in the purple, damaged spots, but these spots also contained a higher fraction of different bacteria, such as Vibrionales. (Incidentally, this bacterial order includes the infamous Vibrio cholerae, the etiologic agent of cholera.) Many of the bacteria were to tolerant to high levels of salt, which makes sense because the process to create parchments from animal skin involves salt treatment.
Chemical analysis showed that the purple spots were due to pigments, such as bacteriorhodopsin, that are used by bacteria to perform their version of photosynthesis and to protect them from UV damage. Further analysis showed that parchment with purple spots displayed a greater deterioration in some of the molecules that make up the parchment (e.g., collagen fibers).
Taken together, the authors believe that no single microbe is responsible for destroying ancient parchments. Instead, they believe that a succession of microbial communities causes the damage. Over time, the members of the community shift, and the newcomers are likely responsible for the purple spots*. (See figure on right.) A similar phenomenon can happen in human neighborhoods. Over time, a community can change from good to bad. No single person is responsible; but over time, the character of the neighborhood changes.
In this case, the authors hypothesize that purple, salt-loving microbes (Halobacteria) are the first to grow, and then, as they die off and leave purple stains behind, other environmental microbes move in. This insight, combined with further research, may help archivists and museologists restore damaged parchments.
*Note: This so-called "microbial shift" is also thought to be the cause of conditions like periodontitis and inflammatory bowel disease. For more on this topic, see this review article I wrote.
Source: Luciana Migliore, Maria Cristina Thaller, et al. "Purple spot damage dynamics investigated by an integrated approach on a 1244 A.D. parchment roll from the Secret Vatican Archive." Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 9521. Published: 7-Sept-2017. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-05398-7
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Adrian Heathfield writes on, curates and creates performance. He is the author of Out of Now, a monograph on the artist Tehching Hsieh, editor of Ally and Live: Art and Performance and co-editor of Perform, Repeat, Record. His numerous essays have been translated into ten languages.
He conducted the three year European Union funded creative research project Curating the Ephemeral (2014–2016) on immaterial art and museal practices. He was co-director of Performance Matters, a four-year AHRC funded research project on the cultural value of performance (2009–2013).
He co-curated the Live Culture events at Tate Modern, London (2003) and a number of other performance and durational events in European cities over the last eighteen years. He was curator of Doing Time, the Taiwan Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), a curatorial adviser and attaché for the 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016) and an artistic director with the collective freethought of the 2016 Bergen Assembly, Norway.
Heathfield has worked with many artists and thinkers on critical and creative collaborations including film dialogues, performance-lectures, dramaturgy, writing and workshop projects. He was President of Performance Studies international (2004–2007) and is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton, London.
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Writing Not Yet Thought
Hélène Cixous in Conversation with Adrian Heathfield. Paris, September 2010.
In this exchange the acclaimed and prolific author Hélène Cixous discusses the practice of writing – considering fiction, theatre, the essay and poetry – alongside its relation to painting, music and philosophy. As the dialogue with Adrian Heathfield evolves, writing emerges as a site and instrument for encounters with other voices and otherness, mortality and mystery, the infinite and the ‘not yet thought’.
Recorded in Cixous’ home in Paris, the conversation is punctuated by various interruptions and affinities (animal and familial) that are taken into the movement of her thought. Cixous’ discourse flies between subjects as diverse as the song of the poetic, the temporality of invention, the re-thinking of the tragic, and the word becoming flesh and air in theatre.
This engaging, eloquent and passionate exchange will be of interest to artists, writers, and readers in the fields of theatre and performance, literature and the visual arts.
Hélène Cixous is an eminent French thinker, writer, educator and theatre maker. Her experiments in writing, including the development of ‘l’écriture feminine’ for which she is renowned, have had a wide-ranging influence on the fields of feminism, cultural theory, philosophy, literary criticism and theatre practice. She is Professor Emerita of Literature and Women’s Studies at the Université Paris 8 and Andrew D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University, New York.
Direction, Camera and Editing: Hugo Glendinning
DVD Design: David Caines
Writing Not Yet Thought is produced by Performance Matters
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Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987 by Eilenna Productions in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and sponsored by Yamaha musical instruments, which are prominently showcased in the episodes. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the fictional New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although fictional, it was based heavily on the actual Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Most interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood, California. In all seasons except the third, the show filmed several exterior scenes on location in New York City.
The popularity of the series, particularly in the UK, led to several hit records and live concert tours by the cast. Despite its success, very few of the actors maintained high-profile careers after the series was cancelled. A number of the cast members were seen again briefly in Bring Back…Fame, a reunion special made for UK television in 2008.
The show was produced by MGM Television and aired Thursday nights at 8:00–9:00 on NBC beginning on January 7, 1982. Despite glowing reviews from critics, ratings were less than impressive, and NBC cancelled it after only two seasons. However, by special arrangement with LBS Communications, MGM revived the series for first-run syndication in the fall of 1983, where it continued for four more seasons, with the last first-run episode airing in the US on May 18, 1987.
Ira Steven Behr wrote twelve episodes of the series. He recalled the series thusly:-
“I did three years on Fame, which was a lot of fun and was also in syndication. We had no one looking over our shoulder. We got to do some wonderfully bizarre things on the show, and the only time they gave us any trouble was the last show I was going to write after I knew we were cancelled. It was going to be Road Warrior meets Fame. It was a show that takes place in the future, and you could only sing for the state. It was a fascist society, and we were going to have motorcycles going through the school and have Iggy Pop as the guest star. It was great, and I was in the midst of writing the episode when somehow MGM read somewhere that we planned to burn down the sets, which was a lie. We were going to trash them a bit, but it wasn’t the last episode. We had one more after that, and they stopped me from writing it“.
Following its cancellation, two versions of the series were syndicated in reruns: the original hour-long episodes, which usually contained a primary plot, a sub plot and two or more musical numbers; and a second version, stripped of the musical numbers and the sub plot and reduced to 30 minutes in length.
The show’s theme song was a pop hit for singer Irene Cara, having been featured in the motion picture. A re-recorded version of the theme, using similar instrumentation to the 1980 track, was used in the TV series and sung by co-star Erica Gimpel, who played Coco Hernandez.
Although Gimpel left the series midway through the third season (after the show moved from NBC to first-run syndication in 1983), her opening vocals were still heard on the show for two more seasons. An updated version of the song, featuring a modern, synthesized hard-rock flavor, was introduced in the fall of 1985 and performed by new cast member Loretta Chandler (Dusty). This version ran for the final two seasons of Fame.
“I Still Believe In Me”, from an episode of the series titled “Passing Grade”, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Original Song. It was performed by Erica Gimpel and Debbie Allen and co-written by Gary Portnoy who would go on to co-write and sing the theme from Cheers.
In the UK, two singles credited to The Kids from “Fame”, “Hi-Fidelity” and “Starmaker”, reached the top ten.
There were four cast members from the original movie who appeared in the television series. Lee Curreri portrayed the character Bruno Martelli, an introverted musical genius. Gene Anthony Ray who portrayed Leroy Johnson, a tough hood from the projects with a natural talent for dance who muscles his way into an audition and wins. In the film, Leroy is also illiterate, but this was not addressed in the television series. Albert Hague who played teacher Benjamin Shorofsky, a German music teacher who constantly battled with Bruno Martelli over music styles. And the final cast member from the film was Debbie Allen who played dance instructor Lydia Grant.
Although Lydia only appeared briefly in the movie, her character was expanded in the series. Debbie Allen also became the show’s original choreographer, in addition to directing several episodes, and co-producing one season.
There were also several characters carried over from the movie, played by different actors. The character of Coco Hernandez appeared on the show, played by Erica Gimpel and not Irene Cara, who was offered the role by the show’s producers, but politely declined as she wanted to focus on developing her budding singing career. Actor P. R. Paul played Montgomery McNeil in the series, while Paul McCrane portrayed the gay student in the film. The Montgomery character was changed for TV and was no longer gay. English teacher, Elizabeth Sherwood was played in the film by actress Anne Meara, but in the series was played by actress Carol Mayo Jenkins.
The character of Ralph Garci (Tommy Aguilar inheriting the role played in the film by Barry Miller) appeared in the first episode of the TV version, but was metamorphosed into the character of Danny Amatullo. The character Doris Schwartz, played by Valerie Landsburg, was in the series while the character Doris Finsecker appeared in the film version and was portrayed by Maureen Teefy.
Since 2011, reruns of Fame have been airing in the United States on the arts-focused cable network Ovation.
The series won a number of Emmy awards and in 1983 and 1984 was voted the Golden Globe Awards: Television, Best Series Musical/Comedy.
Actress, director and choreographer Debbie Allen, who had a small role in the motion picture but played a major character in the television version, also won several awards.
Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant
Albert Hague as Benjamin Shorofsky
Michael Thoma as Greg Crandall (Season 1)
Carol Mayo Jenkins as Elizabeth Sherwood (seasons 1–5, final episode of season 6)
Ann Nelson as Mrs. Gertrude Berg (Seasons 1.07-6)
Morgan Stevens as David Reardon (season 2, recurring seasons 3 & 4)
Ken Swofford as Principal Quentin Morloch (Seasons 3–5.09)
Graham Jarvis as Principal Bob Dyrenforth (Seasons 5.10-6)
Eric Pierpoint as Paul Seeger (Season 6.03)
Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy Johnson (seasons 1–6)
Carlo Imperato as Danny Amatullo (seasons 1.02-6)
P. R. Paul as Montgomery MacNeil (season 1, final episode of season 6)
Lori Singer as Julie Miller (seasons 1–2)
Erica Gimpel as Coco Hernandez (seasons 1–3.08, recurring seasons 4–5, final episode of season 6)
Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli (seasons 1–3.23, final episode of season 6)
Valerie Landsburg as Doris Schwartz (seasons 1–4.24, final episode of season 6)
Billy Hufsey as Christopher Donlon (seasons 3–6)
Cynthia Gibb as Holly Laird (seasons 3–5.10, final episode of season 6)
Janet Jackson as Cleo Hewitt (season 4)
Jesse Borrego as Jesse Velasquez (seasons 4–6)
Nia Peeples as Nicole Chapman (seasons 4.02–6.10)
Page Hannah as Kate Riley (season 5.10)
Loretta Chandler as Dusty Tyler (seasons 5–6)
Carrie Hamilton as Reggie Higgins (seasons 5.10-6)
Michael Cerveris as Ian Ware (season 6)
Elisa Heinsohn as Jillian Beckett (season 6.02)
Olivia Barash as Maxie Sharp (season 6.12)
Carmine Caridi as Angelo Martelli (seasons 1–2)
Judy Farrell as Charlotte Miller (seasons 1–3)
Michael DeLorenzo as Michael (seasons 1–3)
Bronwyn Thomas as Michelle (seasons 1–4)
David Greenlee as Dwight Mendenhall (seasons 2–5)
Stephanie E. Williams as Stephanie Harrison (season 2)
Connie Needham as Kelly Hayden (seasons 1.05–2.21)
Jimmy Osmond as Troy Phillips (season 2)
Sam Slovick as Cassidy (season 4)
Dick Miller as Lou Mackie (seasons 4–6)
Robert Romanus as Miltie Horowitz (seasons 5–6)
Caryn Ward as Tina Johnson (seasons 5–6)
Carolyn J. Silas as Laura Mackie (season 6)
Denny Dillon as Corky (season 6)
International Broadcasts
France: Series started on March 6, 1982 on TF1
UK: Series started on June 17, 1982 on the BBC. Only the first four seasons were screened by the BBC, the full series was broadcast on The Children’s Channel in 1992.
Sweden: Series started on September 5, 1982
Israel: Series started in 1982
Italy: Series was renamed “Saranno famosi”, started in January 1983 on Rai Due
Brazil: Series started in 1983 on Rede Manchete
Bring Back…Fame
On 27 December 2008, Channel 4 TV in the UK screened a 90-minute special titled Bring Back…Fame, which sought out and reunited some of the original cast members of the television series.
Presented by Justin Lee Collins, and apparently filmed the previous summer, the show followed the presenter around the United States as he tracked down actors from the series and then staged a reunion. The programme showed Collins appearing to surprise the former cast members in locations including restaurants, a recording studio, a gym, LAX airport and a cinema, before interviewing them and persuading them to take part in the reunion.
The actors featured in the programme were Debbie Allen, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Lee Curreri, Erica Gimpel, Valerie Landsburg and Carlo Imperato. Also interviewed were Irene Cara, who did not appear in the TV series but sang the theme song and played Coco in the original motion picture, and the mother of the late Gene Anthony Ray. It was not stated whether other actors from the series had also been approached but had declined to take part. Excerpts from the TV series were shown throughout the programme. The final scenes of the programme showed the six principal actors and a number of backing dancers taking part in a recreation of the title sequence of the TV programme.
The programme was made for and broadcast on Channel 4, despite Fame having originally been shown in the UK on the BBC.
Fame U.K. Reunion 2019
In May 2019 8 members of the cast: Lee Curreri, Erica Gimpel, Carlo Imperato, Valerie Landsburg, PR Paul, Cynthia Gibb, Jesse Borrego and Nia Peeples perform 2 Reunion Concert in Liverpool. This is the first time in over 35 years that the cast have performed together. In addition to the concerts there is a 3 day fan Convention: The Fame Family Experience, the first of it’s kind anywhere in the World. Carol Mayo Jenkins, Loretta Chandler and David Greenlee are special guests at the convention.
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Prosecutors aim to reverse bail decision in Kodak Black case
FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2017 file photo, Kodak Black arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. New York state police say rapper Kodak Black was arrested on drug and weapons charges as he tried to cross from Canada into the United States near Niagara Falls. Police say Bill Kapri, whose stage name is Kodak Black, was among three people attempting to enter the United States in a Cadillac Escalade on Wednesday, April 18, 2019. Black, who was driving, was found with marijuana and officers discovered a Glock 9mm pistol in the vehicle. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
MIAMI (AP) — Rapper Kodak Black is due back in federal court after his arrest at a Miami hip-hop festival around which several violent incidents occurred.
Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge’s decision to release the 21-year-old on $550,000 bond. The rapper was arrested at the Rolling Loud festival this month in connection with an earlier weapons purchase. Black pleaded not guilty to falsifying information on federal forms to purchase three firearms. The arrest prevented him from performing at the festival.
Authorities are investigating three unrelated shootings in the Miami area with possible connections to the festival.
Authorities also say one weapon purchased by Black was found at the scene of a shooting in nearby Pompano Beach.
Black faces drug, weapons and sexual assault charges in other states.
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iDKHOW announce Night Heat headlining tour dates
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I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME have announced their Night Heat headlining tour, and we couldn’t be more excited!
The band will make 17 stops around North America this spring (as well as two outdoor festivals) in support of their 2018 debut EP, 1981 Extended Play.
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The Night Heat tour will kick off Sunday, April 28 at ALT 93.3’s Band Splash Festival in Phoenix, finishing up May 18 in Minneapolis.
Los Angeles rock band Superet will provide support on iDKHOW’s headlining dates.
Artist presale tickets will take place tomorrow, March 21 at 10 a.m. local time. General tickets will be available starting this Friday, March 22 at 10 a.m. local time. Tickets will be available for purchase here.
Check out the full list of cities and dates for iDKHOW’s tour below!
04/28 – Phoenix, AZ @ Big Surf Water Park (ALT 93.3 radio fest)
04/29 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues, Bronze Peacock
04/30 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues, Cambridge Room
05/02 – Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
05/03 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees (festival)
05/04 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
05/06 – Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage
05/07 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre
05/08 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House/Canadian Music Week
05/10 – Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall
05/11 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
05/12 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
05/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
05/15 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
05/16 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
05/17 – Madison, WI @ The Majestic
05/18 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Cafe
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The band take their name from a line in Back To The Future and embrace the concept that they’re a lost act from the late ’70s/early ’80s who never quite made it. However, their music has recently been unearthed thanks to modern technology, and they’re resurrecting the tracks for today’s generation.
The band released a video for their track “Choke” earlier this year.
While the track appears on their latest 1981 Extended Play, it was actually released more than a year ago. “Choke” originally dropped Oct. 26, 2017, a date relating back to Back To The Future.
“I wrote ‘Choke’ to sort through how disenchanted I had become with living in Los Angeles,” Weekes said at the time. “I still love L.A. a lot, but it’s never felt like home for me. It can be a difficult culture to navigate if you don’t have any desire to fit in.”
You can check out the video below.
iDKHOW are also on the cover of AP issue #366, which is available for order below!
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2nd Night of Rioting in Paris
By Rick Moran
Paris police were out in force on Monday night, attempting to tamp down a second night of violence set off by the deaths of two youngsters whose moped struck a police cruiser:
Dozens of youths clashed with the police for the second night in a row in a working- and lower-class suburb north of Paris on Monday, throwing stones, glass and firebombs against large contingents of heavily armed riot police officers and moving nimbly from target to target on several fronts, burning cars and a garbage truck.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, in China on an official visit, appealed for calm.
The clashes began when two teenagers traveling on a motorbike died in a collision with a police car on Sunday afternoon in the town of Villiers-le-Bel, about 12 miles north of Paris, in the Val d’Oise department. The two teenagers were identified in the French news media merely as 15-year-old Moushin and 16-year-old Larami, who were riding a motorbike in Villiers-le-Bel.
On Monday night, more than 100 youths had pushed riot police officers into the middle of a four-way intersection, raining projectiles on them from at least two directions. Police officers responded with tear gas and paint guns to mark the attackers for future arrest.
Broken glass and used tear-gas canisters littered the roads. At least one police officer was wounded. Within sight of the intersection, a garbage truck was on fire, apparently unattended as youths lined up behind it.
Police intelligence evidently picked up some gossip that there would be further unrest so they sent the riot police out to quell the disturbances. Unfortunately, the mob - which seemed pretty well organized for a bunch of people responding emotionally to a tragedy - virtually surrounded the gendarmes, pelting them with projectiles while setting around 15 cars on fire.
The mob also attacked some public buildings, including the library.
The violence has spread to some other districts but does not appear as widespread or as serious as the riots that took place two years ago following the electrocution deaths of two youths on the run from police. And it appears that this time, there will be no coddling the mob. Having the riot police out in force shows that Sarkozy means business.
And so do the rioters. Gateway Pundit blogs the riots and reports that some of the rioters were using shotguns and throwing Molotov Cocktails. This is an updated AP report on the night's violence:
Rampaging youths rioted overnight in Paris' suburbs, hurling Molotov cocktails and setting fire to dozens of cars. At least 77 officers were injured and officers were fired at, a senior police union official said Tuesday. The violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro.
Police were shot at and are facing "genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," Ribeiro said. Some officers were hit by shotgun pellets, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said. She said there were six serious injuries, "people who notably were struck in the face and close to the eyes."
AP also reports that dozens of cars were torched during the riot.
Sounds like a war zone...
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New York based cellist Alan Richardson maintains a packed touring schedule as a member of the award winning Aeolus Quartet. Raised in Richmond, Virginia, Mr. Richardson went on to earn a BM from the Cleveland Institute of Music, an MM from the University of Texas, and an Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School. His primary mentors include Melissa Kraut, Richard Aaron, Joshua Gindele, Evelyn Elsing, Joel Krosnick, Neal Cary, and Jim Wilson.
Mr. Richardson has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia, in halls such as Carnegie, Severance, Wigmore, Seoul Arts Center, and Shanghai Oriental Arts Center. He has performed with many wonderful artists including Renée Fleming, Ángel Romero, Joel Krosnick, Michael Tree, Sam Rhodes, Nina Lee, Jon Kimura Parker, Pedja Muzijevic, and the Miró, Juilliard, and American String Quartets. In addition to his work with the Aeolus Quartet, he has performed as a guest with the NYC based chamber collective Decoda, and with the Mark Morris Dance Group.
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Maxims (Penguin Classics)
Paperback – January 28, 1982
by La Rochefoucauld (Author), Leonard Tancock (Translator, Introduction)
--Book Condition: USED/GOOD..Beige Brown pages clean. Medium wear.--
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical author who was one of the most active rebels of the Fronde before becoming the leading proponent of the maxime, a French literary form of epigram that expresses severe or contradictory facts with brevity. La Rochefoucauld published only two works, the Mémoires and the Maximes. Additionally, about 150 letters have been collected with 19 shorter pieces, now known as Réflexions diverses.
Leonard Tancock (1902–1986) was an eminent translator of French and a renowned scholar. He taught French at University College London and is best known for his translation of classic French literature, including works by Émile Zola, Voltaire, and Guy de Maupassant.
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics; First Thus edition (January 28, 1982)
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.3 x 7.8 inches
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Public Policy Report for 14 November 2016
Trump Presidency Could be a Significant Change for Science
President-elect Donald J. Trump is a bit of an enigma on science, in part because the campaign was short on policy discussions. The only information about his views on research was provided in response to twenty questions posed by Science Debate, which the American Institute of Biological Sciences helped to prepare.
Trump’s responses were peppered with positive statements, such as “scientific advances do require long term investment,” and “Though there are increasing demands to curtail spending and to balance the federal budget, we must make the commitment to invest in science, engineering, healthcare and other areas that will make the lives of Americans better, safer and more prosperous.”
But these sentiments were seemingly contrasted by other responses. “In a time of limited resources, one must ensure that the nation is getting the greatest bang for the buck,” Trump wrote. “We cannot simply throw money at these [research] institutions and assume that the nation will be well served. What we ought to focus on is assessing where we need to be as a nation and then applying resources to those areas where we need the most work. Our efforts to support research and public health initiatives will have to be balanced with other demands for scarce resources.”
Trump called freshwater possibly “the most important issue we face as a nation for the next generation.”
Of note for the scientific community, however, was a reinvigorated skepticism of climate science: “There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of ‘climate change.’” When asked about the rapid loss of biodiversity, Trump responded about overreach of unelected officials writing regulations. His response on maintaining American leadership in innovation focused on the role of businesses and ignored the fact that the federal government is the largest provider of funding for basic research.
Trump has previously called for taxes to be lowered and for non-defense spending to be cut. The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculates that by the tenth year of Trump’s plan, non-defense spending would be 29 percent lower than current levels, after accounting for inflation.
Some experts, however, urge caution in reading too much into Trump’s prior statements.
“As someone who spent 15 months researching Trump’s past statements, if anyone says they know what a President Trump will do they’re lying,” tweeted CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski.
As President, Trump could look to increase spending on infrastructure and the military, and building a wall along the Mexican border. Congress, however, may be a roadblock to significant new spending.
According to Representative Dave Brat (R-VA), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus: “Yes, there is an inevitable clash on fiscal issues because of the leadership we’ve had over the past 20 years who have led us into $19 trillion in debt. Right now, there are no easy answers. And I will continue to push everyone to define pay-fors [spending offsets] on everything moving forward.”
One possible source of savings is a hiring freeze in the federal government. President-elect Trump wants to reduce the size of the federal workforce through attrition. “This is a road that many prior presidents have been down, without success,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service. The federal workforce is currently about the same size it was during the early 1960’s at 2.1 million civilian employees.
President-Elect Trump on the Environment
In 2012, Donald Trump famously tweeted that: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” He also said in 2015 that climate change is “a hoax. I mean, it’s a money-making industry, okay? It’s a hoax, a lot of it.”
Given these past statements, what might the nation expect during the Trump Administration in regards to environmental protection and regulations?
“I think there is a real risk a Trump administration would be science-unfriendly,” said Chris Field, a climate scientist and director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. “[T]here is a sliver of opportunity for a conversation about how science and technology can be real keys to the agenda Trump obviously emphasized: making the U.S. competitive on the global stage.”
Trump has pledged to undo the Clean Power Plan, the rule put in place by the Obama Administration to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Legal experts say that there are three ways to do it: create a new rulemaking to revoke the existing standards, allow the Supreme Court to kill it, or let the Republican-held Congress amend the Clean Air Act to bar regulation of greenhouse gases.
Trump has also said that he would end U.S. participation in the global climate deal, which recently went into effect. But Todd Stern, the former U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, who helped to broker the Paris Agreement, said that candidates’ statements during a campaign are not always consistent with their actions once in office. “I’ve seen administrations come and go, and the fact that there were some applause lines tossed out there on climate doesn’t necessarily mean that he, for example, pulls out or walks away from Paris…although he might.”
There is also the complication that the international agreement has a binding four-year withdrawal process. Even if President Trump withdraws from the agreement, the U.S. would still be legally bound to fulfill its commitments or it would break international law. But President Trump and Republicans in Congress could withhold funding for international climate adaptation programs. The U.S. had promised $800 million a year for the least developed nations to cope with the impacts of climate change.
During his campaign, Trump promised large funding cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), although no details were ever provided. Trump has appointed Myron Ebell, a well-known climate skeptic, to lead the EPA transition team.
Another hint of what is to come can be found on the newly launched Trump transition website, which states that: “America’s environmental agenda will be guided by true specialists in conservation, not those with radical political agendas. We will refocus the EPA on its core mission of ensuring clean air, and clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.”
115th Congress Will Have Many Familiar Faces
In spite of fundamental political change coming to the White House, Congress will largely be unchanged for the next two years. Last week’s election resulted in very few congressional seats changing parties. The Democrats picked up two seats in the Senate (New Hampshire and Illinois) and at least six seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans retain majorities in both chambers, although with smaller margins.
Seven new members will join the Senate. Six have already won their races. The results of the Louisiana race will be determined in a runoff election in December, but neither candidate is an incumbent. More than 50 new members will join the House.
The freshman class of the 115th Congress adds some diversity to the body. Among the freshmen members is the first Hispanic woman elected to the Senate, Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV). Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) will be the first woman and the first African-American to represent Delaware in Congress; only two other states have never elected a woman to Congress. The number of female Senators will reach a record high of 21. A record of 48 African-Americans and 39 Hispanics will serve in the 115th Congress.
Committee leadership will largely remain the same, especially for many of the committees with jurisdiction over science. The leadership of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees; the House Natural Resources Committee; the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee; and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will likely not change.
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) will stay on as leaders of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Long-time committee member Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) is retiring. Two Democrats on the panel lost primary races for Senate seats and will be leaving Congress. There may be other turnover in committee membership, as the panel is one that most lawmakers are eager to leave in pursuit of more powerful committees.
Ranking Member Johnson pontificated that Chairman Smith may change gears during Trump’s presidency. “He’s primarily been focused on investigating the Obama Administration over the past couple of years, using his expanded subpoena and deposition powers. I would imagine that there will be much less interest on his part in carrying out a similar investigative agenda against a Trump Administration. I thus am hopeful that the Chairman will return the Committee to a constructive legislative agenda that advances our nation’s research, development and innovation enterprise.”
The House Appropriations Committee will have new leadership. Current chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) is facing a term limit of six years per Republican caucus rules. Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)—the current chair of the Defense Subcommittee—is likely to be promoted to full committee chair. This could cause a ripple of changes in the leadership of other subcommittees. It is speculated that John Culberson (R-TX) will remain at his current post leading the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee. The ranking member of that panel, Mike Honda (D-CA) lost his race for reelection and a new Democratic leader will need to be selected.
In the Senate, Thad Cochran (R-MS) is likely to stay on as chair of the Appropriations Committee. Several Democrats are interested in serving as Ranking Member, a position that will be vacated with the retirement of Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are reported to be vying for the position. Mikulski also served as ranking member of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over science. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) is rumored to be interested in the position. One committee member, Mark Kirk (R-IL), lost his reelection.
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) will likely be the new chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The current chair, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), is term-limited. The ranking member slot is also open due to the retirement of Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
AIBS Statement on U.S. National Election
The following statement was offered by AIBS interim co-executive director Robert Gropp:
The American Institute of Biological Sciences congratulates all of the individuals who ran for an elected office during this election cycle. Regardless of whether they won or lost, their willingness to stand for office is a symbol of their commitment to the nation.
The U.S. government’s history of supporting investments in scientific research has long been an important engine for our nation’s economic growth. Vetted scientific information provides a sound foundation from which informed decisions about public policy can be made. Scientific collaborations have also played an important diplomatic role in bridging divides between cultures and countries.
A sustained national commitment to science is a national interest.
We at the American Institute of Biological Sciences are committed to the advancement of the biological sciences for the benefit of science and society. We stand ready to work with all of our nation’s policymakers as they strive to solve the complex problems facing our world. We also strongly encourage President-elect Trump to make the appointment of a respected scientist to serve as his science advisor a top priority of his transition.
Expand Your Broader Impact Skills: AIBS Communications Boot Camp for Scientists
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is offering a professional development program designed to enhance the communication skills of scientists, particularly those interested in communicating with decision-makers and the news media. The program is an excellent way to develop new communication skills and identify effective methods for broadening the impact of research and education programs.
The AIBS Communications Training Boot Camp for Scientists expands on AIBS’ highly successful media and science policy training workshops. The Boot Camp meets the needs of everyone from graduate students to senior researchers and program administrators to newly elected professional society leaders.
The Boot Camp is an intensive, two-day, hands-on training program that will be held in Washington, DC on 27-28 February 2017. Please note that registration for the December workshop is full.
Participants will learn:
How to translate scientific findings for non-technical audiences
How to tell a resonant story that informs decision-makers
How to prepare for and participate in a news interview, including broadcast interviews
How to prepare for and engage in a meeting with a decision-maker
How to protect your scientific reputation
How to identify and define the audience you need to reach
What policymakers want and need to know from a scientist
What reporters are looking for in an interview
How the nation’s science policy is developed and implemented
Participants will also have the opportunity for formal and informal discussions with science policy and communications experts working in Washington, DC. A course outline is available here.
AIBS Individual Members and individuals nominated to participate by an AIBS Member Society/Organization receive a $75 discount on registration.
Learn more about the program and register now at https://www.aibs.org/public-policy/communicationsbootcamp.html.
Apply for the 2017 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award
Are you a science graduate student looking to make a difference in science policy and funding? Applications are being accepted for the 2017 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who have demonstrated initiative and leadership in science policy. Recipients receive first-hand experience at the interface of science and public policy.
Winners receive:
A trip to Washington, DC, to participate in the Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition Congressional Visits Day, an annual event that brings scientists to the nation’s capital to advocate for federal investment in the biological sciences, with a primary focus on the National Science Foundation. The event will be held on April 25-26, 2017. Domestic travel and hotel expenses will be paid for the winners.
Policy and communications training, including information on the legislative process and trends in federal science funding.
Meetings with congressional policymakers to discuss the importance of federal investments in the biological sciences.
A one-year AIBS membership, including a subscription to the journal BioScience and a copy of “Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media.”
The 2017 award is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a graduate degree program in the biological sciences, science education, or a closely allied field. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and commitment to science policy and/or science education policy. Prior EPPLA winners, honorable mentions, and AIBS science policy interns/fellows are not eligible.
Applications are due by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on 9 January 2017. The application can be downloaded at http://www.aibs.org/public-policy/eppla.html.
MacArthur Fellows Class of 2016 Includes Three Biologists
Biology made a strong showing in the announcement of this year’s MacArthur Fellows Program grant recipients, with three biologists being selected for this prestigious award:
Dr. Dianne Newman is the Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Newman’s research into ancient bacteria and their metabolisms has not only advanced our understanding of early Earth biology but also has resulted into insights into modern biomedical research on certain drug-resistant pathogens.
Dr. Victoria Orphan is the James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. As a geobiologist, Dr. Orphan has conducted groundbreaking research into deep-sea microbial communities, especially those involved in the methane oxidation process that plays an important role in reducing methane in the atmosphere.
Dr. Manu Prakash is an assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Bioengineering. His expertise is in physical biology, but he has also made a name for himself as an inventor, designing devices to aid resource-poor communities to conduct important scientific endeavors, such as the Foldscope, a foldable, mass-producible paper-based optical microscope, and an inexpensive microfluidic chip to aid in screening mosquito bites for pathogens.
The MacArthur Fellows Program rewards people of extraordinary talent and promise in their field with a five-year grant to help them continue their pursuits. More information on the MacArthur Fellows Program can be found here.
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Newest Samsung Patent hints at a "Smart Ring"
By Daniel Fuller December 29, 2015, 8:15am
Samsung has been a fairly big player in IoT and other various smart endeavors since the movement hit it big not too long ago. This comes as no surprise, since Samsung has their hands in just about every tech industry from computers to smartphones and fridges to ships. From time to time, Samsung tends to lay down some pretty outlandish, but practical, patents. Things like foldable smartphones, for example, are regulars in their patent portfolio, though we've heard no whispers on most of these products since. Though it's likely that Samsung does want to make these things, it's just as likely that they're simply laying down plans for the far future in order to keep other OEMs from "having the same idea".
In their latest patent, they've outed a possible control method for all the home automation and smart appliances that are gaining popularity lately, plus perhaps a new way to interact with that most personal of objects, your smartphone. This comes in the form of a "smart ring", a finger-worn apparatus that works with existing devices, likely via Bluetooth or NFC, to control various gadgets in your home. In the graphic above, it looks as though a user could control different parts of their home by using the ring with their smartphone. It's assumed that various appliances and other smart objects could be controlled directly by the ring as well as through a user's connected smartphone, but there was no confirmation of this.
Control seems to be done via gestures, hovering and moving the ring, or perhaps tapping it to the device, to control various things that the user can most likely assign. Locking the door at night with a twist of a finger, turning the speaker system up or down with a swirling gesture or even turning all the lights off before bed by swiping the ring down over your smartphone all look like distinct possibilities. Most likely, users will be able to control not only what appliances and devices are added to the control panel, but how they're controlled. A favorite TV station could be navigated to with a heart gesture while controlling the TV, or the thermostat controlled with upward and downward flicks. The possibilities for this system are near infinite and incredibly exciting. Similar systems are sure to crop up, but Samsung has the official patent, meaning they get the final say on shaping this particular segment of IoT growth.
December 29, 2015, 8:15am
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Possible Moto E4 (XT1723) Gets Certified by the FCC
By Kishalaya Kundu March 31, 2017, 6:15am
A new Motorola smartphone bearing model number XT1723 has been cleared by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), paving the way for its possible release in the U.S. at some stage going forward. While Lenovo is yet to say anything about this upcoming device, reports in the online tech media suggest that this may very well be the fourth-generation Moto E handset from the American brand now owned by Chinese tech giant Lenovo. If that is indeed the case, it will be an entry-level smartphone that will replace the Moto E3 (XT1706), which was launched last year along with the Moto E3 Power. The FCC Listing, as expected, doesn’t give away a whole lot about the hardware specs of the upcoming smartphone, but it does reveal that the device will ship with just 16GB of built-in storage, but carry a rather large 4,000mAh battery.
Lenovo’s Moto E devices are positioned at the entry-level, with prices typically starting at just over $100, making them fairly affordable in most regions around the world. The line was introduced back in 2014 as a cheaper alternative to the best-selling Moto G, which was already priced at a fairly modest level for the hardware on offer. Since then, the company has launched a couple more Moto E handsets in the subsequent years, with the Moto E3 and Moto E3 Power being the company’s latest entry-level offerings that were launched late last year. While we haven’t seen a lot of leaks about the fourth-generation Moto E handset, it probably won’t be long before new info starts poring in, now that Lenovo seems to be prepping its launch in the coming months.
This year has already seen the launch of multiple Motorola handsets, including the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus, both of which were released earlier this months in many regions around the world. Their predecessors - the Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus – reportedly did brisk business in many emerging markets, so Lenovo would probably be hopeful that its latest mid-rangers will be able to keep up the momentum going forward. The company also apparently has at least a couple more devices in the pipeline, including the XT1750 & XT1754, both of which reportedly received their Wi-Fi certifications just last week. Some sections of the media apparently believe that the two devices will hit the market as Moto X 2017 or Moto C / Moto C Plus, although, there’s no official word from Lenovo on this matter.
Source: FCC Via: The Android Soul
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Azerbaijan, Tajikistan discuss expansion of ties (UPDATE)
16 October 2014 17:58 (UTC+04:00)
By Aynur Jafarova
Cooperation between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan in the political, economic, defense, regional security, trade and investment fields, as well as expansion of scientific and cultural ties was high on the agenda of talks held between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon.
President Aliyev, who arrived in Tajikistan on an official visit on October 15, was officially welcomed by the Tajik president at the Palace of Nations in Dushanbe on October 16. After the official welcoming ceremony, the two presidents held a one-on-one meeting.
During the official talks held in an expanded format the sides reviewed the two countries' achievements in the fields of economy and trade, and stressed the importance to further strengthen the activities of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation.
The two leaders also noted the importance to develop direct relations between the business circles of the two countries, expressed readiness to strengthen and expand the interaction in the security and defense fields, as well as cooperation in combating against terrorism, extremism and other threats of the modern world.
Later, the two leaders attended a ceremony of signing Azerbaijan-Tajikistan documents.
The two countries signed a joint declaration, an agreement on cooperation on civil defense, prevention and elimination of emergency situations, an agreement on cooperation in the field of quarantine of plants, an agreement on cooperation in the field of healthcare, as well as an agreement on scientific cooperation between the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and the Tajik Academy of Sciences.
After the signing ceremony, President Aliyev and President Rahmon held a joint press conference.
President Rahmon said they discussed a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues and reviewed various priority fields for expanding the cooperation.
"In this context, we expressed our hope for increasing investments of Azerbaijan's business circles in the construction of hydropower facilities and oil and gas industry of Tajikistan, exploration of mineral resources, as well as cooperation of banking systems of the two countries," he noted.
Rahmon also said weak transport and communication ties are the main obstacle in increasing the trade relations between the two countries.
"We are interested in the revival of the Great Silk Way within the TRACECA project. The Permanent Secretariat of Intergovernmental Commission of TRACECA is located in Baku," Rahmon added.
The Tajik president went on adding that his country is also interested in establishing direct flights between the two countries.
Touching on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Rahmon said Tajikistan supports the peaceful solution of the conflict on the basis of relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council.
President Aliyev, for his part, said Baku takes serious steps to expand trade and economic cooperation with Tajikistan.
He noted that Azerbaijan plans to commission several new transport infrastructures, including ports in near future.
"These facilities will ensure the cargo transportation via short and reliable ways to Asian and European countries," the Azerbaijani president added.
President Aliyev supported President Rahmon's ideas about the necessity to develop transport infrastructure to increase the trade relations between the two countries.
"The transport infrastructure is of great necessity to expand the trade-economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Tajikistan," he said.
As part of the visit to Tajikistan, President Aliyev also visited a statue of Ismoili Somoni in Tajik National Solidarity and Revival complex in Dusty square. He was also awarded with a diploma of the Honorary Doctor of Tajik National University and selected as the Honorary Member of the Council.
Azerbaijan and Tajikistan, both post-Soviet republics established diplomatic relations on May 29, 1992.
The two countries' cooperation reached a new level in 2008, when an intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation launched. It coordinates the realization of economic ties and develops new offers for future cooperation.
Currently, the legal base of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan relations consists of over 30 documents. This legal base paves the way for strengthening and developing future political, economic, humanitarian banking, as well as investment relations between them.
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Tajikistan amounted to $11 million in the first half of 2014, and it enjoys great capacity to increase in the coming years. Tajikistan purchases aluminum oxide, coke and other raw materials.
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Out of Reach provided me with a greater perspective. I didn't realize what was behind the BGF
Good article (“Out of Reach,”
, Feb. 15). It provided me with a greater perspective. I didn’t realize what was behind the [Black Guerrilla Family] gang, and now I know a whole lot more thanks to you. Grateful!
John B. Carter
The article by Van Smith brings to mind the late Marcus Garvey, who was the founder of black nationalism. I believe that Thomas Bailey knew that if everyone had the same thoughts, people would communicate better and form a tighter community. Black failure to unite exemplifies a tragedy that is the real reason why black America has never been able to compete with white America. Black America has the highest unemployment rate in the country. They have MAs, BAs, and Ph.Ds. They have a market as a race of people that is almost worth a trillion dollars annually. Just about every other race of people exploits that market except the people who own it. They won't come together to create their own employment opportunities.
Leo A. Williams
Great Job?
Regarding Ericson’s “Not Cable Ready” story (
Mobtown Beat
, Feb. 15), I find the quote given by Community Media of Baltimore City President LaNette Davis more than a little bizarre: “We’re doing, I feel, a great job.”
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Davis’ disillusionment might be the problem. She’s been a member of the board since its inception in 2007.
This is a board that has failed in every category a board can fail.
This is a board that at best has only managed to schedule a few social events for “producers” each year. Davis’ excuses for this monstrous failure run the gamut. When informed the board’s minutes haven’t been updated on the web site in four years, she blames the contractor paid to PDF the minutes—in other words, the contractor hasn’t been doing her job for four years and Davis hasn’t noticed.
When asked why the CMBC offices are never open to the public, she replies that since operating expenses are only $40,000, CMBC can’t afford to open its offices. Apparently the idea of asking for an increase in operating expenses is an idea that never occurred to Davis. And it’s not like the money isn’t there. CMBC receives $250,000 in funding, $950,000 of it banked because Davis and company don’t know how to spend it. So what do we end up with? A public access facility that’s never opened. “We’re doing, I feel, a great job.”
Here’s another example: For the past few months, Davis has been advertising a training class this February, but when we go to the site as late as Feb. 16, we see no date for this class but instead an advertisement for someone to teach the class. Gee, why didn’t they think of that a few months ago when they began advertising there would be a class in February? That’s right, after five years in operation—of a nonprofit in place to teach the public—the CMBC still doesn’t have anyone to teach the public. “We’re doing, I feel, a great job.”
I could go on all day about how miserably this board has failed its mission, but what’s the point?
If the mayor and City Council don’t have a clue about this massive failure that’s been going on right under their noses, how can there be any hope for change?
Ric Landers
The writer is a source in the article.
Black Guerrilla Family
Collage artist Mirlande Jean-Gilles uses her art to cope with tragedy
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Is it possible to find a work-life balance in motorsport?
Striking a balance between racing and life is important for sustaining success, but it's not easy to say what that looks like
By James Newbold
@james_newbold
Published on Wednesday September 6th 2017
When Nico Rosberg announced his retirement at December's FIA prizegiving gala last year, days after prevailing in an epic season-long Formula 1 world championship duel with Lewis Hamilton, it sent shockwaves throughout the motorsport establishment.
'How could a competitive sportsman at the peak of his powers suddenly go cold turkey?' they cried. 'Clearly he was never all that interested in the first place,' others complained.
But perhaps Rosberg's decision shouldn't have been all that surprising - even if it meant turning down the chance to defend his title in a car most of the F1 grid would have given their great aunties to drive. To beat a driver who will go down as one of F1's true greats in the same car, over the longest season in the sport's history, Rosberg put himself under enormous pressure and took a step back from family life to give the world championship his full focus.
He recognised that this was not sustainable and, having emulated father Keke's 1982 title, was satisfied that his dreams had been accomplished.
It may be that Rosberg returns to racing someday, but his example shows that nobody is immune to the pressures of competing at the highest level of motorsport and that finding a work-life balance is vitally important if success is to be sustained.
The problem is that's easier said than done in an industry that by definition moves at a relentless pace.
After returning to 20 races this year, the F1 calendar will swell back to a record-equalling 21 grands prix in 2018, including its first triple-header of three races in as many weeks across the French, Austrian and British GP weekends. No sooner had the calendar been announced than teams began working on provisions to facilitate the rotation of staff.
Although the traditional summer break after Hungary comes as a welcome reprieve, Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley believes that it does not do enough.
"It's very difficult to keep people fresh on more than 20 races," he says.
"We start with testing in March in Barcelona and we don't finish until the last week of November. It has a massive impact on families and, especially if people have children or get married, it puts quite a strain on their relationships.
"Occasionally we can do 21, as we have done, and then in other years it drops back to 19, so overall we can take the odd extra race. Once you go above that, whether it is 21, 24 or 25 races on an annual basis, you need to look at supplementing the crew and maybe running two teams. That is where the issues come."
Limitations placed on travelling staff means Force India are no more impacted than any other team, but even F1 sporting chief Ross Brawn acknowledges that the situation is not something he is in favour of in the long term.
"The triple-header was not ideal, and we're not trying to set a precedent for doing triple-headers," he said.
"There will be a point at which teams have to restructure to manage an increased quantity of races.
"When I was at Mercedes, we had more mechanics than we needed to service the cars so that we could rotate them, even without the number of races we have now, and give them a few races off. Those are the sort of initiatives the teams are going to have to take.
"There are certain personnel for whom rotation is more difficult, such as race engineers, but for certain levels it's possible and we'll need to have a think with the teams, about how we achieve it at other levels."
"There's no doubt that the drivers today are going to get tired of the travel and all of it faster than they used to" Bobby Labonte
Of course, F1 isn't the only series affected by a demanding schedule. In IndyCar, the entire season takes place between March and September - in 2014/15 it finished in August - while the top-level NASCAR Cup series takes in 38 weekends per year from February to November, all without a summer break.
Bobby Labonte, the NASCAR Cup champion in 2000, was on the tour for two decades and his unbroken streak of 704 races between 1993 and 2013 is third only to Ricky Rudd and Jeff Gordon in series history.
Now 53, Labonte admits that it became tough to sustain peak performance as the schedule intensified and he's not the only one - in recent years, top drivers such as Gordon, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards have all opted to step out of the cockpit, with Dale Earnhardt Jr the latest set to follow suit at the end of the year.
"Looking back, the more it went up with more races and more commitments, it became a lot more challenging to get motivated every year," says Labonte.
"By the time you get to race 30, you're getting tired, but you know you have to do it because you're an athlete and you're committed to it. I consider it today and go, 'I don't know how I got all this stuff done'.
"There's no doubt that the drivers today are going to get tired of the travel and all of it faster than they used to. For the most part, I'm glad I did it, it was a tonne of work travelling all the time, but you don't stop doing things and it was a great time. If they could make it less it would be better, but you just have to balance it out.
"Nobody does it right, it's just about trying to do it the best you can."
Labonte's point is a good one - namely, it's difficult to say what a proper balance looks like. A degree of disciplined preparation is important to make sure drivers fulfil their potential - Jan Magnussen is often cited as a driver who didn't live up to expectations in F1, having broken Ayrton Senna's British Formula 3 wins record in 1994 - but it can just as equally go too far the other way. For drivers seeking what Mark Donohue coined 'The Unfair Advantage', it can be difficult to escape the bubble and set their mind on other things.
Aston Martin factory driver Jonny Adam is one such example. This year, the Scot has three full-time programmes totalling 20 weekends across the World Endurance Championship, Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and British GT, in which he is the reigning double champion. Having worked hard to rebuild his career in sportscars after a shortlived spell in the British Touring Car Championship, Adam isn't about to ease off any time soon and acutely feels the weight of responsibility that comes with representing Aston Martin both with the works team and in customer racing.
"My mind is always on motorsport, I don't really switch off," he says.
"I'm probably at a race circuit two or three days [per week] on average all the way through the year. It does lighten up slightly after British GT finishes in September and Blancpain as well, but then we've got the flyaways for WEC, so the racing season for me doesn't really stop - the only chance to chill out is over Christmas and new year.
"You're always there to do your job, but you always want to be the best you can be. As Aston keep saying, the devil is in the detail and that's the key to finding that last little bit, because I'm a paid professional and I'm representing Aston Martin across the world."
Tim Harvey is best known for winning the BTCC in 1992, but for the past 10 years has also served as the director of the BRDC SuperStars programme, which works to equip elite British talents with the tools they need to reach the top in their chosen fields.
Having seen over 60 drivers pass through the scheme since its inception in 2008, Harvey knows what it takes to succeed and sympathises with Adam's all-encompassing desire to be the best, even if this stance can impact on other areas of life.
"It is innate that there is some imbalance because in order to reach the very top, you have to make some sacrifices," says Harvey.
"Since I retired, I realised just how much time and effort I was putting into my career - it will be the last thing you think about when you put your head on the pillow and the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning. You'll be thinking about it while you're having Sunday lunch with your family, you're thinking about it 24/7.
"There are times when you have to become quite self-absorbed and concentrate on your racing. If you don't, you're very unlikely to get to the top."
"Anything that you try to be the best at will take up all of your time" Rickard Rydell
But does this mean a work-life balance is incompatible with motorsport? Rosberg's case would lend weight to that theory, but there are plenty of drivers who have gone on to sustain success well into their forties that suggest otherwise.
"One person's idea of normal life is very different to another person, so what might be acceptable for one person may not be acceptable to another," Harvey offers.
"It totally depends on the individual - unfortunately, there is no manna from heaven guide to perfect preparation."
Since retiring from competition last year, Harvey's former Volvo BTCC team-mate Rickard Rydell has maintained an active role in the sport by mentoring Formula 2 racer Gustav Malja. Rydell believes the pressure on drivers in today's social media-governed age is greater than ever before and has applied the lessons from his own career to his handling of Malja, with a well-planned schedule key to keeping the youngster on the right track.
"I always took it quite seriously when I was racing, maybe sometimes too seriously - I think you have to relax a little bit between the races depending on how many travel and PR days you have," says Rydell, who won the BTCC at its Super Touring zenith in 1998.
"I remember in the BTCC when Volvo had the best budget during 1997-99, I had between 170 and 180 travelling days. In those days, I found it quite tough and I had help from a mental trainer to relax me.
"On the Monday after a race, you feel like the worst hangover you can have, but not from alcohol. It's like a racing hangover, you have so much on your mind over the weekend that you're just exhausted, but then the next day you have to think about the next race and start again.
"Now with Gustav, we look at his calendar and we fit in a full week of training at home and relaxing, because if you fit too many media days in then your physical training is going to suffer as well.
"It's all a balance and it's always going to be quite difficult because whatever you do, if you are reaching to be the best in the stock market or if you are a Formula 1 driver or whatever, anything that you try to be the best at will take up all of your time."
In that sense, professional motorsport is no different to any other industry you can choose to work in. It can be hugely rewarding, but also highly stressful. Success has to be earned and invariably comes at a price.
All things considered, Rydell believes he got the balance right during his career, but admits that this owed much to circumstance.
"I lived in England one year and Japan one-and-a-half years, but I'm quite happy that I decided to base myself in Sweden and have my family at home - they came to one race per year maybe, or two," he says.
"But in the BTCC days we only had 13 or so weekends, it's quite a lot more to do 20 races, travelling all over the world with all the PR days as well.
"It's like Nico Rosberg - you give up a lot and I can understand his decision to say, 'It's not worth it, I want to be there when my children are growing up'. I hope they don't go to 25 races because then there might be more drivers doing the same thing..."
About James Newbold
James Newbold is the editor of Autosport's Performance and Engineering supplements. After completing his Politics and International Relations degree at the University of East Anglia in 2015, in a sign of things to come, he left his graduation ceremony early to cover the Spa 24 Hours. He joined the Autosport staff in 2018 after a period as a freelancer, mostly covering sportscar racing for a range of online publications, and has a keen interest in uncovering the stories behind unsuccessful motorsport programmes. He counts an interview with Mario Andretti as his career highlight to date.
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Benenden Nurses in Kilimanjaro Climb
A team of Benenden Hospital staff have successfully completed an adventure of a lifetime by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and raising £5,000 for a medical centre.
Simon Brooks, Marcus Dallamore, Rebecca Fellowes, Debkumar Pandit, Su Pothuraju, and Alex Trimmings scaled the highest mountain in Africa in six days.
But it took them just two days to get back down from the 19,340ft peak in Tanzania with the help of 21 porters, two cooks and two guides.
They raised £5,000 to purchase anaesthesia equipment for the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi and spent the first three days of the trip teaching medics how to use it.
Simon said: “It was a massive feeling of elation when we got to the top and it felt like we were literally on top of the world.
“Some of us had a few slips and falls but luckily none of us suffered too badly from altitude sickness and we all made it up and back down again.”
In April, Simon, Becky, Su and Debkumar climbed Mount Snowdon and Cadair Idris as part of their training for the Kilimanjaro climb. Marcus and Simon also completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge.
Anaesthetic practitioners Simon, Becky and Marcus each received funding from Benenden Hospital’s Lord Plant Travelling Fellowship to help pay for the three-week trip last month.
The fellowship was set up in memory of one of Benenden’s most well-known and respected members and former chairman, Lord Cyril Plant of Benenden.
The grant first became available in 1988 and has since been awarded to staff throughout the hospital every year.
Staff have previously travelled to The Gambia to help set up a health centre, to Japan to study fibre-optic technology and to Romania to help abandoned children.
The group were also supported by Marden-based charity Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide whose mission is to provide life-saving anaesthesia to those in need in poor areas of the world.
There are only around 17 practising anaesthetists in Tanzania, with a population of 56 million people, and very few doctors trained in anaesthesia.
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Monographs in German History
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A Question of Priorities
Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany
Rebecca Boehling
ISBN 978-1-57181-035-9 25% OFF! $120.00/£85.00 $90.00/£63.75 Hb Published (November 1996)
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"A well-written and informative source ... a useful contrast to much of the existing literature." · H-Net Reviews (H-German)
"... a much appreciated contribution to the current discussions about the reunification of Germany and what it can mean for its economy and relationships to the other European powers." · Wisconsin Bookwatch
"... most welcome as the first detailed analysis of political reconstruction in major postwar German cities available in English." · Choice
... unique quality. There is really nothing in English - and relatively little in German - that explores the early days of the occupation of Germany with this degree of detail or with such an extensive knowledge of the interaction between Germans and Americans at the local level." · Thomas Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and political developments in Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart, Rebecca Boehling offers a most valuable contribution to this debate. She examines the decisions made by the U.S. Military Government regarding German municipal personnel from the first year of the occupation, when all city officials were appointed directly by Military Government of with its explicit approval, through the first postwar municipal elections in 1946 and 1948, when democratic self-government was gradually restored. Boehling explores the far-reaching effects of personnel decisions on German political life within the framework of U.S. policies intended to denazify and democratize Germany. The conclusion she draws is that the early local-level German developments under U.S. occupation facilitated economic recovery in a manner that restricted the implementation of political and social goals of democratization.
Rebecca Boehling teaches in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Subject: Postwar History
LC: DD901.F78 B64 1996
HIS037070 HISTORY/Modern/20th Century;
POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/General
HBJD European history;
Chapter 1. American Preparations for Postwar German Self-Government
Chapter 2. Structure, Jurisdiction, and Policies of the Office of Military Government – U.S. Zone (OMGUS)
Chapter 3. From Resistance and Liberation to Conquest and Occupation
Chapter 4. The Stunde Null: American Occupiers, German Appointees, and Pre-democratic Municipal Administration
Chapter 5. German Grassroots Democracy and U.S. Military Government: Early Manifestations of Local Self-Government
Chapter 6. U.S. Military Government in Retreat: The Return of German Self-Government and the Results of Democratization Initiatives
Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Legacy of the U.S. Occupation
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Cadent
Barb Rocks is now working with Cadent!
Barb Rocks is proud to announce that she is now working with Cadent, an up-and-coming female-fronted Bay Area band. Cadent features a wonderful blend of rock, pop, alternative base with a touch of R&B vocals that makes them a force to reckon with! With such few female-fronted bands in Northern California, it's refreshing to hear such a mature sound out of the "younger" band with power-house vocals that touch your soul. Currently recording at Castle Ultimate Studios, the band has already released three of their tracks, with plans to release a full album soon. Plus Cadent just placed 3rd in the San Jose edition of Your Music Olympicks after being selected "Editor's Choice" by Your Music Magazine. It is my pleasure to work with such a diverse band that I feel will take the local scene by storm, with hopes they might just be the next Paramore!
Check out Cadent's websites:
http://www.facebook.com/Cadentband
http://www.myspace.com/cadentmusic
http://twitter.com/CadentMusic
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Birmingham NEC
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Birmingham summer Chefs and Experts Mary Berry
Mary will be at the Show on Sunday 16 June. See her around the Show in live interviews and in the Big Kitchen.
Mary Berry is one the country's best loved cookery writers and television presenters.
Mary is known nationwide for her work as a judge on The Great British Bake Off, Junior Bake Off, and Comic Relief Bake Off. She also presented the Love Production's American spin-off show The Great American Baking Show for NBC.
The past couple of years have been extremely busy for Mary who has been fronting a number of series for the BBC. These include Mary Berry Everyday and Classic Mary Berry, both of which were accompanied by cook books which featured recipes from throughout the series; Mary Berry's Country House Secrets, and most recently lead judging on the new TV series Britain's Best Home Cook. Mary also guest presented on Gardeners' World and from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Mary trained at The Cordon Bleu in Paris and Bath School of Home Economics, and in the swinging '60s became the cookery editor of Housewife magazine, and later, Ideal Home magazine.
She first appeared on television in the 1970's when she became the resident cook on Afternoon Plus with Judith Chalmers.
Combining motherhood and work, she continued writing books and filming television series for BBC from her home. Mary launched the extremely successful Aga Workshops, a cookery school at home, which had over twelve thousand students over sixteen years. She has written over eighty cookery books with total sales of over six million.
Mary is a Patron of the Child Bereavement Trust, an Ambassador for the RHS and President of the National Garden Scheme. In 2012 Mary was honoured with a CBE for services to culinary arts and won Best TV Judge at the 2017 National Television Awards. Mary has won many other awards including Good Housekeeping Award for Food Book of the Year and an NRTA for Best Television Chef.
Mary continues to write books alongside Lucy Young, her assistant of over twenty years. She lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, has two grown up children and five grandchildren.
Mary Berry is available for cookery demonstrations, personal appearances, brand campaigns and 'In conversation with' style talks.
Find out more about Mary on her website.
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Congratulations Denzel King
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs would like to congratulate Under 20s Holden Cup player Denzel King, who was awarded the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Trainee of the Year award at the Central and Northern Sydney Training Awards.
Conducted annually by the NSW Department of Education and Communities, the NSW Training Awards recognise outstanding achievement in the vocational education and training sector.
Denzel was recognised for his outstanding contribution to the Bulldogs and NRL School 2 Work (S2W) program, in which he has been working as a trainee alongside Bulldogs Aboriginal Project Officer Dean Feeney; mentoring local Aboriginal students, and identifying career and educational paths for them.
The NRLs Learn Earn Legend S2W Program is a combined initiative of the four western Sydney Clubs - Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Parramatta Eels, Penrith Panthers, Wests Tigers with the guidance of DEEWR,to help create pathways to successful careers for Aboriginal students in years 11 and 12 in participating schools across Western Sydney. The aim is to support students in the program complete their senior schooling and move into further study, training, or meaningful employment.
Through the program, Denzel has been able to perform a mentoring role to local Indigenous Students, assisting them in securing post-school pathways in education and employment. He has also worked with over 200 students in the Greater Western Sydney region, spoken at school assemblies and assisted in workshops such as the NRLs Tackle Bullying campaign.
Most impressively, Denzel has been able to balance full-time work, education and volunteer work with his football career. Denzel has given countless hours of his free time to working with the local Indigenous community; attending programs including Get Black on Your Feet at Juniperina Juvenile Centre for Girls, working with local Indigenous elders, and participating in the Koori Youth Forum.
Brad Morrin, former Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldog player and Account Manager at Australian Training Company, has high praise for the young Bulldog.
Denzel is a proud Indigenous young man and is always willing to share his story and experiences in order to help other Indigenous youth reach their potential, Morrin said.
The guidance he provides and patience he demonstrates is far beyond his age and would be equivalent to someone who has experienced a working life of ten or more years let alone only one.
Denzel will now represent the Central & Northern Sydney region as one of eleven finalists in the NSW Training Awards. Congratulations and best of luck, Denzel!
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High jumper, tight end to be inducted Sports Hall of Fame
Ricky Moore
mooresports@thestargroup.com
The 2017 edition of the Burleson ISD Sports Hall of Fame might not have be large but it is has plenty of talent.
The classes individual inductees include a member of national championship track and field team and a standout college player who earned an NFL tryout. The team being inducted made its way to the regional finals.
The induction luncheon is scheduled for noon Feb. 25, 2017 at the Burleson High School cafeteria.
“All of the inductees are highly-qualified,” Burleson Athletic Director Phil Anderson said. “We still have a lot of individuals and teams that are qualified but our two inductees shined not only in their honors at Burleson High School but also with their college qualifications.”
The first member of the induction class is high-jumper Wendy Ator. The 1986 Burleson graduate was a Class 5A All-State track performer her senior year, finishing sixth at the 1986 UIL Class 5A state track and field championships.
Ator attended Abilene Christian where she continued to high jump. In 1990, she was a member of the Wildcats NCAA Division II National Championship team. Then in 1991-92 Ator earned All-America honors in the high jump. In 2006, Ator was named to the Abilene Christian All-Century Team.
Former Burleson football and baseball player John LeRoy Hampton is other of the individuals who be induction. Hampton, a 1999 graduate, started at tight end for the Elks as sophomore and dominated for three seasons. He earned All-State honors as a senior along with All-District accolades during his senior and junior year. In baseball, he was an All-District player as a senior.
Hampton played at SMU where he became the leading all-time pass-catching tight end with 114 receptions for 1,485 yards and eight touchdowns. He earned team MVP honors at SMU from 2000-2002 and was an WAC All-Conference selection. In 2003, the Tennessee Titans signed Hampton as a free agent but he didn’t stick on the squad.
He went on to coach a year at Cisco Junior College then worked as a color analyst for SMU football broadcasts and currently works on Aledo football broadcasts.
Burleson’s 2011 baseball team is the lone squad being inducted. The Elks won their bi-district, area, regional quarterfinal and regional semifinal series before losing to eventual Class 4A state champion Wichita Falls Rider.
The Campbell Community Champions inductees are Les Todd and Dallas Owen.
Tickets for the induction luncheon are currently on sale at Citizens National Bank, First National Bank and Northstar Bank. The price is $25. Ticket sales end Feb. 13. There will be no tickets sold at the door.
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Face Off! Bill O'Reilly Vs. Jon Stewart
Gillian Reagan
Feb. 3, 2010, 10:07 PM
Daily Show host Jon Stewart, a frequent critic of Fox News, sparked some fireworks last time he was on Fox News star Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor in 2004.
The hosts are at it again tonight and tomorrow.
Stewart had some words about Fox News' coverage:
"Here's what Fox has done, through their cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao," Stewart says during tomorrow night's show.
O'Reilly responded that the narrative of a couple of guys" doesn't represent the entire network.
The full script and videos of the show will be posted Thursday night on FoxNews.com. The O'Reilly Factor airs at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
"Jon is entitled to his criticisms," Bill Shine, executive vice president for programming, told the Los Angeles Times. "We both make our living off the 1st Amendment. We invited him on, and what other place would allow him to do that? That's what makes us No. 1. We invite our critics on and let them criticize us to our face."
Plus, Shine said, "It's good TV. I thought it was fun."
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PHOTOS: The Palace William And Kate Will Call Home Just Got A $19 Million Facelift
Meredith Galante
Courtesy of newsteam.co.uk/
Last week, Queen Elizabeth unveiled the nearly $19.2 million renovation at Kensington Palace, the future home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Will and Kate.
The renovation was the largest transformation of the palace since the fire of Windsor in 1992, which was caused by a German bomb, according to The Daily Mail.
The change to the exterior of the palace is among the most noticeable: the iron gate that surrounded the palace is gone and only the original "golden gates" remain. Visitors and pedestrians can now see straight through past the new meadow to the palace.
Inside, patrons can view memorabilia and dresses such as the bronze frock Queen Victoria wore when her uncle died and she was declared sovereign, and a black gown Princess Diana wore on her first official public engagement with the Prince of Wales.
Kensington Palace reopened to the public today.
Press image courtesy of newsteam.co.uk
Queen Elizabeth views the personal gifts exchanged between Queen Victoria and Albert as part of the Victoria Revealed exhibition.
"Little William's birthday party in the Dining Room" is a part of an installation by theatre-makers Coney.
Installation by Coney in the Bedroom of Queen's Apartments.
The inside of the Queen's apartments.
The Love Room.
A flock of porcelain birds featuring as part of Coney’s set design in The Queen’s Gallery.
The Red Saloon in the Victoria exhibition.
A later marble bust of Prince Albert sits amongst family portraits in the Mourning Room. The bust was often in the photographs after his death.
The display case of Queen Victoria children's clothes in the Family Room. The case features outfits worn by Victoria's eldest children - Bertie and Vicky.
The dress was worn by Queen Victoria at her first Privy Council on June 20, 1837. It is displayed in the Red Saloon of the Victoria Revealed exhibition.
Princess Diana's Black silk taffeta gown by Emanuel. The designer went on to designer her wedding dress as well. This particular dress has never been on display before.
A collection of historic royal wedding dresses.
The Queen views a light sculpture made of more than two miles of electroluminescent wire.
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Chris Soules' 'Bachelor' Changes Are Making The Competition Really, Really Hard on The Women He's Wooing
By Nicole Pomarico
I never believe Chris Harrison when he says that a season of The Bachelor is like nothing we've ever seen before, but now that Chris Soules' season is underway, I might have to eat my words. I don't know if it's ABC pulling the strings behind the scenes or if Chris is making his own decisions, but on Monday night's episode, he threw his "potential wives" more than a few curveballs, and I'm not sure if I like it. Don't get me wrong — I'm all about switching things up, especially on a show that's lasted 19 seasons. But I'm really not a fan of the changes Chris is making on The Bachelor , especially since they aren't fair to the women vying for his heart.
Right from the get-go, change number one was official. After Kimberly came back and pleaded her case to Chris when he kicked her off in last week's premiere, Chris decided to bring her back in — and the faces of the other remaining 22 women when they realized she was staying basically said it all. Usually, I don't condone Bachelor contestants being snotty about other contestants, but in this case, I can't help but feel it's kind of justified. Now that Kimberly's back, the game is totally changed for the worse.
Not only is there an extra competitor in the mix, but what about the other seven women who got the boot last week? None of them got a second chance, because until now, it wasn't an option. Also, Kimberly snagged a spot on the first group date just minutes later — a spot that would have gone to one of the other women had she not come back — not to mention the fact that this is setting a terrible precedent for future rose ceremonies. After all, it's not exactly fair that someone else gets a re-do if Chris isn't going to hand it out to everyone who requests one.
The other big change? During the first group date, Chris sprang a one-on-one date on the women — and none of them knew it was coming. Essentially, it cut their group date short, and although everybody agreed that it was "fair" of Chris and so sweet that he trying to be a gentleman, it was easy to read between the lines and tell that wasn't how any of them were feeling at all. Instead, Chris basically makes their competitors seem like the bad guy instead of him, because at the end of the day he's the one who has to hurt every single one of these women — but one, if all goes well.
Despite having gone through this process with Bachelorette Andi, Chris is so oblivious to the fact that each of these women truly believe that he is their future husband. They're so invested in him that it's almost heartbreaking to watch when they're let down in the moments they remember they're up against nearly two dozen other women fighting to win his heart. Maybe The Bachelor should take a break from the random changes for awhile? I (and probably these poor women) can't handle much more!
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Colosseum Bans Selfie Sticks Because Of Vandalism — Where Else Are Selfie Sticks Banned?
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It took a few hundred years, but tourists have now ruined the Colosseum. According to BBC News, the Colosseum has banned selfie sticks, those newfangled inventions that allow photo lovers to take the perfect Instagram selfie without fumbling with a smartphone or camera. The historic Rome attraction is the latest European monument to prohibit selfie sticks — all because of damage caused by overeager tourists.
The ban comes a week after two tourists visiting Rome from California were caught carving their initials into the wall of the Colosseum. The two women, who are in their 20s, reportedly carved the letters "J" and "N" into the wall with a coin, then took a selfie of their work. Of course, that selfie later led them to being apprehended by Rome police.
Why would two tourists feel the need to vandalize a nearly 2000-year-old site and snap a selfie of their damage? A spokesperson for the Special Superintendency for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome told The Guardian last week that some tourists just don't respect the Colosseum because of its age. "Museums are treated like churches, sacred places where there are things of great value," the spokesperson said. "Whereas the Colosseum is an incomplete building which has already been robbed."
So it's not too unusual for the Colosseum to endure vandalism from tourists, but last week's selfie incident was the last straw for Rome. From now on, no one will be allowed to take a selfie stick inside the amphitheater — so tourists better brush up on their handheld selfie skills.
As it turns out, the Colosseum won't be the first world attraction to ban the camera device. On Wednesday, officials at the French palace Versailles and the National Gallery in London announced that selfie sticks are now banned from both establishments.
The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., also banned selfie sticks in early February. Just last week, the rest of the Smithsonian's museums in D.C. followed suit. Several other high-profile U.S. museums have already barred the device from their grounds, too, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Art museums were perhaps the starter of this selfie-stick ban, as many art museum officials have expressed to the media in the past that they were worried about the safety of the multimillion-dollar artworks.
Even soccer stadiums are jumping on the ban-wagon, including several sports centers in England and Brazil. In fact, Brazil barred the selfie-taking device at every single soccer stadium in the nation.
It looks like selfie sticks are nearing their end.
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Rihanna Is On The Cover Of 'Harper's Bazaar China' — Here Is Why That Matters
By Maxine Builder
If global domination was Rihanna’s new year’s resolution for 2015, she’s been doing well for herself. She released a track “FourFiveSeconds” with Kanye West and Paul McCartney, and it turns out that the trio will be touring together later this year. She’s got a new animated movie Home coming out at the end of March. All the while, she's been making one bold fashion choice after the next, from her bubble gum pink princess dress at the Grammys to the batman mask she wore to Moschino's show at Paris Fashion Week. Since January, she has appeared on the covers of i-D’s music issue, AnOther Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, W Korea’s tenth anniversary issue, and now, Harper’s Bazaar China. Twice.
The images for these newest covers and the accompanying spread for Harper's Bazaar China's April 2015 issue are visually stunning. The colors are rich, and Rihanna looks flawless. But the theme of the shoot, photographed by Chen Man, a Chinese fashion photographer, seems to be a little problematic, and the spread is confusing. It evokes a kind of “something Asian” feel, a strange mixing and matching of different visual cues from different cultures to create this exotic wonderland through which Rihanna can float, decked out in gorgeously sumptuous couture outfits by Viktor & Rolf and Dior. But it’s gorgeous, and appears in a Chinese publication, so is it really that bad?
The confusion starts with the combination of Rihanna's henna-inspired tattoos, which are traditionally associated with Indian and South Asian cultures, and more East Asian references in the outfits and sets. It turns out Rihanna had those patterns inked on her hand in 2013, so they weren't for this shoot in particular, and were probably not taken into account by stylists when coming up with the concept. But that permanent body art paired with sartorial references from East Asian cultures makes the overall look a bit of an orientalist mess that doesn't seem to get that India is not China... or East Asia.
The East Asian references are, in and of themselves, a little strange. Rihanna’s hairstyle in this shoot, with blunt, slicked-down bangs and a bun, is reminiscent of a geisha’s traditional up-do. Although she's not wearing a kimono, the image of Rihanna standing on a wooden foot bridge holding a paper umbrella further invites the comparison. There are also some shots where she is holding a fan, gazing toward the ground, signifying submissiveness. These demure shots are juxtaposed with ones in which she stares directly at the viewer, with dramatic makeup and sexy clothing. The strong smokey cat eye and claws-for-nails give Rihanna a dragon lady-vibe when she's staring directly at the camera in a cut-out form-fitting red dress. The shoot seems to pull from either end of the spectrum of stereotypes of Asian women: exotic dominatrix or submissive concubine.
The confusing looks are further complicated by their presentation in an Asian publication. This highly stylized shoot is definitely dramatic and exotic (did you notice that fake fog in one of the pictures? Nothing says "drama" quite like some good fake fog), but that’s part of the problem. The reaction from western media has been overwhelmingly positive, with blogger Perez Hilton raving, “ZOMG. She. Looks. So. FIERCE!!” So it seems that the fact these vaguely orientalist images are appearing in an Asian publication gives them a free pass, and excuses them from critical thought from American and European commentators.
Despite the mixed imagery and confusing messages to western media, this cover story is probably a good thing, especially in Asian markets. Chinese culture (and East Asian cultures, more broadly) isn’t known for being welcoming of foreigners, especially those with a darker skin tone. This stereotype has a few different roots.
First is that China is an overwhelmingly homogenous country, and although there are many different ethnic groups, about 92 percent of those living in mainland China are Han Chinese. This means that there's not a lot of exposure to people of different races within China. This unfamiliarity is compounded by the fact that back in the day, Chinese with darker skin were lower class peasants or farmers because they worked in the sun all day, a bias that has continued to this day. There are some horror stories of people of African descent facing overt and blatant discrimination in China, and despite some criticism from the west, there's no real indication that this attitude will change soon.
Overall, the Chinese attitude toward "others" is less than favorable, and this prejudice is why Rihanna's appearance on the cover of a major Chinese fashion magazine is important. Rihanna has been a trailblazer for women of color in fashion, most recently — and perhaps notably — becoming the first black spokeswoman for Dior in the company’s history. These cover images and accompanying shoot in Harper’s Bazaar China can be considered to be part of that same work of diversifying fashion on an even bigger global stage.
For a western audience, the pictures from Rihanna's Bazaar China spread are somewhat problematic and confusing and raise serious questions about how East Asian culture is perceived by the media. But the fact that Rihanna, a black woman, is on the cover of a Chinese fashion magazine has an entirely different significance for an Asian audience. If it takes dressing Rihanna in oriental costumes on weird Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-style sets to start to ease some of the racial tensions in Chinese culture against foreigners, especially those with darker skin tones, then maybe it's OK in the long run.
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Sunday 15th April 2018
Third Sunday of Easter (B) / Second Sunday after Easter
MAY GOD BLESS YOUR GENEROSITY
Last week’s retiring collection for the Sisters’ Mission Committee of England and Wales raised £4,766. The Franciscan Missionary Sisters of St Joseph (Mill Hill Sisters) are very grateful for your generosity!
CATHOLIC ENQUIRY COURSE
Wednesdays at 8pm in St Joseph’s Hall. This course is mainly for those who desire to become Catholic (whether or not they are already baptised). Adult Catholics who are not yet confirmed and want to receive this Sacrament are also welcome. The course started on 11th April and will run until July 2018. No need to register.
ORATORY LATIN CLASSES
The Oratory Latin classes with Mr Dominic Sullivan will-recommence on Thursday 19th April at 7.30pm.
ST THOMAS AQUINAS STUDY GROUP
The study group exploring the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas with Mr Dominic Sullivan has resumed. The next meeting will be on Thursday 26th April at 7.30pm in St Joseph’s Hall. The topic for next term is liberalism and the common good.
CUBS AND SCOUTS TASTER EVENING
The Cubs and Scouts are having a Taster Evening for prospective parents and helpers on Friday 27th April at 6pm. There will be food & drink, as well as various displays by the Cubs and Scouts, in the garden of the Oratory House.
ADVANCE NOTICE: ORATORY GARDEN PARTY
Saturday 23rd June 2018, 12noon to 5pm. All are welcome!
The Annual Garden Party is a much-enjoyed parish and local event, but the increasing cost of tent hire is making the profit margin smaller and smaller each year. We need to raise around £3,000 to help defray our section of the costs for this. Donations will be very gratefully received for this purpose, and should be sent to Father McHardy, clearly marked “Garden Party Tents” and payable to “London Oratory Charity”. Last year we were helped by one very generous donor, for which we are most grateful.
ROSARY ON THE COAST
A day of pilgrimage and prayer for faith, life and peace in the British Isles will be held on Sunday 29th April along the coast of the UK. This initiative was inspired by the faithful in Poland and Ireland, and marks an important step in the spiritual preparation for the re-dedication of England as Our Lady’s Dowry in 2020. A group from the Oratory will organize a coach to go Ramsgate in Kent, the site where St Augustine of Canterbury landed in the sixth century to re-evangelise Britain. There will be a chance to visit St Augustine’s Cross and to venerate the saint’s relics. For more information and to book a place on the coach, please contact rosarycoastuk@gmail.com or call Margaret Forrester on 07733 299 968. See also here.
MARCH FOR LIFE UK
March for Life UK/LifeFest18 will take place on Saturday 5th May in central London. 9.30am–1pm: Life Fest in Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden. 1.30pm: March. 2.30–4pm: Rally in Parliament Square with speeches. Please make every effort to attend this event. A full itinerary is available here; see also the posters in the church porch for more information.
ORATORY YOUTH GROUP
There have been some changes to the format of the group. The meetings now start at 7pm (not at 8pm). Also, the age range is now from 12 to 17 years (and it doesn’t matter whether or not you’ve been confirmed). The next meeting will be on Friday 20th April, with the theme: Sin: Refusing to follow Christ. For more information, email youthgroup@bromptonoratory.co.uk
The Oratory’s group for young adults meets in St Wilfrid’s Hall. Meetings begin with hot snacks and drinks from 7.30pm. Talk at 8pm. Social after until 10pm.
Thursday 26th April: “Modern education’s two greatest challenges. What they are and how Christians can help” by Ferdi McDermott. Mr McDermott is Principal of Chavagnes International College in France. Chavagnes houses both a Catholic boys' school and a university college devoted to the Liberal Arts. He has written and lectured widely on education, literature and cultural history.
For some years our faithful (especially those from this group) have helped out on Wednesdays at the Night Shelter run by Glass Door UK at St Augustine's Queen's Gate, near South Kensington Station. More information here.
The circle will meet again on Wednesday 18th April at 8pm. We are going to continue our discussion of Fr Jonathan Robinson’s book Spiritual Combat Revisited (Ignatius Press, 2003). Come anytime from 7.30pm to pray in the Little Oratory (ask at reception to be directed). The Circle is open to men only. For further information contact Fr Michael Lang at the Oratory House.
VOLUNTEER DRIVERS NEEDED
Volunteers from the Oratory SVP provide an ambulance service to bring people to Mass on Sunday who would otherwise be unable to come. Sadly our rota of drivers is now short and on certain weeks we are not able to offer this service. If you would like to volunteer or to find out more about helping, please email generalenquiries@bromptonoratory.co.uk or call the Oratory House at 020 7808 0900.
During the 10am, 11am and 12:30pm Masses, St Gregory’s Library is usually available for parents with small children who become restless. There are books and some toys. Entrance is through the Sacred Heart Chapel at the back of the church. Children must be supervised by their parents at all times. We need more help to maintain this service, especially during the 11am and 12:30pm Masses. If you can spare a few hours on a Sunday occasionally, please tell Farah, Giulia or David (call 07768 176 848).
ORGANIC SKINCARE PRODUCTS MADE BY TRAPPIST MONKS
The Oratory Repository and Bookshop has now expanded its monastic range to include high-quality skincare products made by the Trappist monks of Czech Abbey of Nový Dvůr, located in West Bohemia. Only the best ingredients are carefully selected by the monks, as these are essential to ensure the natural life of the products and the ability to exclude chemical preservatives. Currently we have in stock Crème Reparatrice, organic restorative face cream with wheat germ oil, and organic Lip Balm with avocado, shea butter and sweet almond oils. Products of the Nový Dvůr Abbey have Ecocert and Cosmos organic certificates, which is a guarantee of the use of quality raw materials that are kind both to sensitive skin and to the environment. For more information, please visit the Oratory Shop. Guaranteed opening times: Sunday 10.45–1.15pm, 3.15pm–5.25pm. Tuesday–Saturday 3.15pm-5.45pm
LOVING 4 LIFE
Loving 4 Life is a Catholic Marriage Enrichment apostolate, dedicated to strengthening spousal love through weekend seminars, sharing the beauty and truth of lifelong love open to life, and allowing couples to discover the depths of their sacramental vows. There are several Saturday/Sunday retreats (with the option to stay overnight) in 2018. For the dates and venues, and for more information, see here.
The Wilfrid Faber Counselling Service (WFCS) is staffed by professionals who can help people address a range of personal issues including anxiety, bereavement, depression, relationship difficulties, stress and other emotional challenges. They can also offer support for mothers who are struggling to cope and can give assistance to those suffering from addictions, if necessary guiding them towards more specialised agencies. Each member of the team is a practising Catholic and is either accredited to, or working towards accreditation with, the BACP, ACC, BPS or other professional body. The WFCS operates as a charity and clients are seen on the basis of discretionary contributions being made towards their costs. Contact can be made through the Fathers of the Oratory or via email info@wfcslondon.org.
Three young women from Vienna are looking for accommodation in London from 7th to 28th July. During these weeks they will study at a summer school at the London School of Economics. If you have space to put them up please call (mobile) +43 699 10422310 or email elisabeth.studener@gmx.at.
If you would like to be married at the Oratory, we will need at least 6 months notice. For the initial enquiry please come to the Oratory House in person and ask to speak to the priest on duty (see Hours of Duty below). All subsequent meeting, bookings and arrangements will be done through him, so please make a note of his name! No wedding bookings will be taken over the telephone or by email.
According to canon law, “Parents are obliged to see that their infants are baptised within the first few weeks. As soon as possible after the birth, indeed even before it, they are to approach the parish priest to ask for the sacrament for their child, and to be themselves duly prepared for it” (Code of Canon Law, can. 867 §1).
The choice of godparents (sponsors), who are to help the baptised to live a good Christian life and faithfully to fulfil the duties inherent in baptism, is an important one. “There is to be only one male sponsor or one female sponsor or one of each” (Code of Canon Law, can. 873). A godparent must be a Catholic of not less than sixteen years of age, who has been confirmed and who lives a life of faith that befits the role to be undertaken. A baptised person who belongs to a non-Catholic ecclesial community may be admitted in company with a Catholic sponsor as a Christian witness. See also here.
CATHOLIC SINGLES
Catholic Singles is an organisation that helps practising Catholics to meet other Catholics. It does this by providing a strictly confidential service, sending members a monthly bulletin, which includes brief personal descriptions of themselves, if they wish, and advertises social events organised by Catholic parishes and organisations free of charge. Phone 0161 941 3498, email info@catholicsingles.org.uk, or visit their website.
EDUCARE, a service that provides e-learning for safeguarding and duty of care, offers on-line courses to be available to every number of the Catholic community until Summer 2018. The Diocese encourages as many people as possible in our parish to access and complete the on-line training modules. If you are interested, please register at safeguardingadmin@rcdow.org.uk and you will receive all the necessary information to access and complete the modules of the course.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Helpers are needed for the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes from Saturday 21st July to Friday 27th July 2018. If you are over 18, your help would be very much appreciated in the Accueil St Frai, where sick pilgrims in most need of support and medical care stay. The role of a St Frai helper is to support the nurses and provide the sort of care for which you do not need a medical qualification. Working in the St Frai is a moving and rewarding experience. If you are interested, please email chief helper Nick Leonard and team at westminsterstfrai@gmail.com.
Matrimony: A calling to forgive! Retrouvaille offers a welcoming and loving space to couples who have been living with the misery of a failing marriage. Retrouvaille offers hope: hope that it is not too late, hope of a different and better marriage. Retrouvaille helps couples to show each other mercy through the opportunities it provides to listen, to forgive, to be reconciled and to move into their futures believing that God loves them and with His help and their effort, their marriages can be healed and restored. Retrouvaille provides help for marriage problems, difficulties and crises. See www.retrouvaille.org.uk. Phone or text 07887 296 983 or 07973 380 443.
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Home > Blog > Greek Orthodox Church > USA Congressional House Foreign Affairs Committee passes HR 4347 - Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act
USA Congressional House Foreign Affairs Committee passes HR 4347 - Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act
By James Stathis on Jun 26, 2014 at 01:15 PM in in Greek Orthodox Church, Ancient Greece, Culture & Weddings, Modern Greece, Politics, Today's News in Greece
Congressional House Foreign Affairs Committee passes HR 4347 - Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gus Bilirakis, Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues and member of the Caucus on International Religious Freedom, praised House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Edward Royce and others on the Committee for approving in a strong bipartisan fashion H.R. 4347, the Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act which incorporates language from Congressman Bilirakis’s previously proposed legislation, calling upon the Government of Turkey to facilitate the reopening of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Theological School of Halki without condition or further delay and released the following statement:
“I am extremely pleased that H.R. 4347 has been approved by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and that Chairman Royce readily assumed into his bill the language of my resolution calling upon the Government of Turkey to facilitate the reopening of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Theological School of Halki without condition or further delay. The Theological School of Halki has been illegally shut down for over 40 years by the government of Turkey. This legislation would call on Ankara to reopen the seminary immediately and to address other longstanding concerns related to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. I look forward to H.R. 4347 reaching the House floor for final passage, and I will continue to demand the reopening of the seminary without condition or delay. Further, I will persevere in the fight for religious freedom of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Holy See for nearly 300,000,000 million Christians worldwide.”
The American Hellenic Council (AHC) joined with the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), Armenian American religious leaders and Hellenic American groups including the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), American Hellenic Educational and Progressive Association (AHEPA) and the American Hellenic Institute (AHI) in securing Committee passage of the measure. Below is a press release from ANCA.
WASHINGTON, DC - The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a powerful religious freedom measure this morning holding Turkey accountable for the return of thousands of stolen Christian holy sites and urging the immediate opening of the Greek Orthodox Halki Theological Seminary, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-NY) led the effort which received broad bipartisan support despite a last minute campaign led by pro-Turkey lobbyists to gut the measure. An amended version of H.R. 4347 was adopted by voice vote.
“Americans of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian heritage – the descendants of those subjected to genocide by Ottoman Turkey from 1915-1923 and whose churches continue to be held captive by the Turkish Government – join with friends of all faiths in welcoming Committee passage of the Royce-Engel Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act,” said ANCA Chairman Ken Hachikian. “The adoption of this measure sends a strong signal to Ankara that it must stop its anti-Christian conduct and start coming to terms with its moral, material, and legal obligations to Armenians, Syriacs, Cypriots, Pontians, and other victims of Turkey’s still unpunished genocidal crimes.”
Introduced this March of this year by Chairman Royce along with the panel's Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-NY), H.R. 4347 would require that the U.S. Department of State formally report to Congress on an annual basis about the status of Turkey's return of stolen Christian churches and properties in Turkey and occupied Cyprus. H.R. 4347 builds on a measure (H.Res.306), spearheaded by Chairman Royce and then House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Democrat Howard Berman (D-CA), which was overwhelmingly adopted by the House of Representatives on December 13, 2011. That resolution set the groundwork for H.R.4347 by calling upon the government of Turkey to honor its international obligations to return confiscated Christian church properties and to fully respect the rights of Christians to practice their faiths.
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Opening: Saturday, Apr 13, 2019 6 – 10 pm
Saturday, Apr 13 – May 18, 2019
Chicago Truborn
Chicago Truborn proudly presents: “Ulterior Motifs” Featuring Ouizi & Emmy Star Brown
"Ulterior" relates to the hidden/unapparent ideas behind abstract artwork while the word "Motifs" references the elements of design, pattern, decoration, shape, and ornamental detailing in these new featured works. Both artists will have a vast offering of originals ranging in size and price - including framed illustrations, canvas work, and limited edition prints.
Two brand new in store installations will be revealed at the opening reception from 4/13/19 6- 10 pm
A Custom Ulterior Motifs Cocktail crafted by the mixologists at Bar Biscay will be served as a complementary offering to those 21 +
About the Artists:
Louise Jones (formerly Chen), AKA Ouizi, was born and raised in Los Angeles to Shanghainese parents. She studied drawing and printmaking at UC Santa Cruz, and continued a steady studio practice after graduating. She was heavily involved in Los Angeles bicycle culture after college, which inspired her to make public art and experiment with different creative outlets. She moved to Detroit in 2013 and was soon commissioned to do her first outdoor public mural. She has made over 50 public works since 2013, and continues to make work in and outside the studio including many international endeavors.
Her aesthetic is inspired by folk, indigenous, and spiritual art, as well as patterns found in nature, and patterns from textiles and wallpaper. What she chooses as her main subject is often what other artists would use in the margins as she places a lot of value on the edges. Mark making and craftsmanship are critical to appreciating her work, both are important to her as she makes a lot of effort in producing harmony between line work, composition, and color. She is always working towards masterful execution in all aspects of her practice, and considers herself more of an artisan than an artist.
Emmy Star Brown is a painter, illustrator, and muralist living in Chicago. Her artwork is reflective of her graphic design background, as well as her love for modern design, typography, plants, repurposing, geometry, and her city. While Emmy made a name for herself focusing on lettering and design/pattern based work, she recently expanded her work to large scale murals and canvas. Her style has evolved into a more abstract painterly aesthetic which she will be debuting at this show!
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Glenbrook South grad fondly recalls improbable year on Michigan football team
By Jonah L. Rosenblum
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Glenbrook South graduate Michael Hirsch, who overcame a rare disease to graduate from Harvard and walk on to the Michigan football team, runs up field after catching a pass in the Wolverines’ home game against Hawaii on Sept. 3, 2016. (U-M Photography)
Michael Hirsch deals with risk on a daily basis.
Working high-yield bond sales at Citi, the Glenbrook South alumnus guides transactions that, if unsuccessful, could lose clients hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Then again, what's risk to a guy who left Wall Street to pursue his childhood dream of playing football at Michigan? Hirsch was a prolific fullback for the Titans, but his career never took off at Harvard due to a rare disease called Wegener's Granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Making one of the top college football teams in the country six years after he played on the Harvard JV team seemed like a stretch.
"He'd obviously been through so much with his health, and I knew how much Michigan meant to him, so you could kind of feel the overwhelming magnitude of the whole thing even in the early stages," former Glenbrook South quarterback Michael Pullano said via email. "I was completely caught off guard by it all because I wasn't even 100 percent sure he was physically able to play again, let alone at Michigan, nor did I have any idea it was on his radar."
Yet when Michigan takes on South Carolina in the Outback Bowl on New Year's Day, Hirsch will be rooting for the Wolverines as an alumnus.
"It's hard to imagine being more passionate than I was as a fan," Hirsch said. "Now knowing all those guys, having close friendships with almost all those guys on that team, it really brings it to a different level. When I see those guys, I'm happy as a fan, but my heart swells as a friend to those guys, because I want the best for each one of them. I know what it's like to go through those summer workouts, the whole deal. I know how hard they work. I have an extra appreciation."
Who does that? Who, in the midst of a successful career on Wall Street, returns to a childhood dream, especially one as unlikely as making the Michigan football team?
It was a vision Hirsch held for a very long time. It stemmed in part from his parents both going to Michigan and falling in love there. It was a rabid passion. According to Pullano, Hirsch wore Michigan gear to school most days. He followed recruits on Twitter the moment they made an official visit to Michigan.
"Michigan football was all Mike talked about since he was (in) grade school," Pullano said. "Anyone that knew Mike growing up knew how much he loved that school and that football program."
It never waned, not even when Rich Rodriguez was in charge from 2008-10 and the program had some of its lowest days. When Michigan didn't come calling before he graduate high school in 2010 and he committed to Harvard, Hirsch still had the idea that he would spend his fifth year in Ann Arbor.
However, during spring football practices his freshman year at Harvard he got a cold that he couldn't beat. Then he found blood in his saliva while walking around campus.
Back home in Glenview for the summer after finals, he was diagnosed with Wegener's Granulomatosis. It is an uncommon disorder, according to the Mayo Clinic website, in which blood vessels in the nose, sinuses, throat, lungs, kidneys and other organs develop inflammation. Without treatment, it can be fatal.
Hirsch went through at least 14 rounds of chemotherapy and five or six surgeries, according to a story in the Detroit Free Press, sometimes injecting himself with medicine while back at Harvard.
The drugs worked. The disease went into remission. His days of playing football for the Crimson were done, but Hirsch graduated from Harvard with a degree in economics in four years.
Even as Hirsch lived out a different dream on Wall Street, that vision gnawed at him until he decided to give the Wolverines one last shot.
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"Different kids dream to play for the Bears in the Super Bowl or be an astronaut," Hirsch said. "This was my ultimate dream. This was the coolest possible thing."
One person who said he was not surprised by Hirsch's plan to play again was Mike Noll, Hirsch's coach at Glenbrook South.
"I was very excited for him," Noll said. "I told him, 'If anybody can do it, you can do it.'"
Noll knew how good of a football player Hirsch was when healthy.
"At the high school level, he's the best fullback I ever coached," said Noll, who was the head coach at McHenry for 16 seasons before leading the Titans from 2004-2015. "He could do everything. He could run. He could catch. He could block. He's very fast for the position. He's got really good feet. He could jump cut. He could run to daylight. He was exceptional at all the things that we asked him to do."
A three-year starter, Hirsch finished his high school career with 3,375 rushing yards and 50 touchdowns.
One of the most memorable was his game-winning touchdown against Notre Dame in the first round of the 2009 Class 8A playoffs his senior year. On fourth-and-10 at the Dons' 13-yard line, Pullano rolled right and flipped a pass to Hirsch. It was a play they had practiced "literally thousands of times," Pullano said, since their childhood. If things went south on any pass play, Hirsch would "slip out and act as a safety valve." Against the Dons, he was the ultimate safety valve, scoring with 4:20 to play in the fourth quarter.
Glenbrook South won 28-27 in Glenview and went on to reach the quarterfinals.
"I'm positive that if Coach Noll (was told) he could wave a wand and construct the best possible fullback for his offense from scratch, the final product would look a lot like Mike," Pullano said. "The numbers don't lie, the kid was a beast."
More importantly, Noll knew the kind of heart Hirsch had.
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"If you know Mike, you're not surprised (by his return to football)," Noll said. "I've only coached a handful of kids in my 28 years that are driven like he is, so when he says, 'Coach, this is what I want to do,' (I thought,) 'Yeah, you can do it.'"
By the time Hirsch told Noll, Hirsch already had a plan. He just wanted to let his high school coach know what he was up to. He laid out a series of concrete goals he had to achieve in the weight room, where he was every weekday from roughly 6:30-8:30 p.m., in between working from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and studying for the GMAT, the exam used for admission to graduate school, from 9-11 p.m.
Weekends were similar, Hirsch said, except that instead of heading to Citi, he had more time to sleep, study and work out.
"I'm a big believer in visualization and the law of attraction," Hirsch said. "As it moves from an idea to a focus, from a focus to a passion, it went from being something that seemed like a pipe dream to something that I was working my tail off to potentially earn."
As Hirsch began reaching out to the Michigan football program, Noll decided to give his fullback one last assist.
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"I made a couple phone calls to the football staff just so they'd know that he wasn't just any kid," Noll said. "He's one of the best players we've ever had at Glenbrook South."
Still, it took a special kind of person, Hirsch said, to even consider bringing a Wall Street analyst to Ann Arbor. Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh might be best known around the nation for his sideline antics or having a sleepover at a recruit's house, but that's not what Hirsch will remember.
"Something that's pretty cool about him is he has a very, very open mind. Every single day, he's evaluating, he's weighing every possible option to determine if it could help the program," Hirsch said. "It was that mindset that he had that led to him being receptive to crazy emails from a 24-year old trying to get on the team."
Making the Wolverines as a preferred walk-on graduate student in 2016, two years after graduating from Harvard, was only the beginning. Hirsch was older than his new teammates, and whereas they had been playing football for the last several years, Hirsch was readjusting to the gridiron.
"It was incredibly challenging," Hirsch said. "All those football movements are different than anything else. You can't replicate that in a workout or the gym or playing by yourself or whatever. In a lot of ways, it was a shock to the body. I was extremely sore.
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"Still at the end of the day, football is football. If you're a football player and you love the game, you figure out a way to play."
Harbaugh made clear Hirsch wasn't in Ann Arbor as a public relations stunt, telling The Rich Eisen Show before the 2016 season that Hirsch was competing for time at fullback.
In the first game of the year against Hawaii, Hirsch got his chance, making a graceful 15-yard catch that put his name in the Michigan record book.
That reception was featured on ESPN College GameDay earlier this season. Pullano called his father right away and said his dad, "was partly pumped and partly emotional." The families have been close for a long time.
"It was really moving and such a fitting end to all (of) it," Pullano said. "Even after the dust settled and Mike went back to Citi, it still kind of seemed surreal. Like, 'Did he really just do that?'"
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Hirsch also played against UCF and Illinois in 2016. On his lone carry with the Wolverines, he ran for 2 yards against UCF. Hirsch earned both a varsity letter and a master's degree.
A year later, Hirsch is back in New York, back at Citi. Things aren't all that different, except he now has his own accounts. He's no longer the backup. Money managers look for his advice on what might be a good trade and rely on Hirsch to help set those trades up.
It's not all that different from football. He has to survey the market and find a good hole for his money managers to run through. There is a scoreboard keeping track of how much he is making for the firm, or on a bad day, losing. Just like football, the market can be very humbling.
Hirsch said he is glad to be back. He's enjoying being with his Citi colleagues. They aren't all that different than football teammates. He spends half his waking hours with them.
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"I like to joke with a lot of people that I'm the happiest dude in New York," Hirsch said. "I really do feel super blessed that it all worked. It wasn't just a couple — it was a massive number of coin flips that all went my way. I certainly recognize that and appreciate that every single day. I feel very fortunate having fulfilled my childhood dream. Now I carry a smile on my face and a happy heart as I try to attack my adult dreams."
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Of course, there is one thing that could make Hirsch a little happier — a Michigan victory on New Year's Day.
Jonah L. Rosenblum is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.
Twitter @Pioneer_Press
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Google Preview: (No) Value in Unified Communications
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By Dimitri Osler
Dimitri Osler , was born in 1982. With a degree in lnformation Technology acquired in Trento in 2003, he has always been an IT and Open Source enthusiast. After finishing high school, he began working as a systems analyst substituting expensive and complex Windows based infrastructures with Linux at StarSystem company. While attending university he becomes quite interested in communication systems and he begins to experiment with software like Asterisk, SER, Kamailio, he participates in the development of Callweaver for which he writes updates and applications. The idea to create Wildix and the core of the system was born out of this experience. When the Wildix project gets underway in Ukraine, he concentrates more and more on the strategic vision of the company and the management of the development team and he moves to Odessa, where he spends most of the year. He learns Russian and today speaks it fluently. With the start of production in China, Taiwan and Canada he works assiduously on the realization of media gateways, phones and other equipment based on Linux, collaborating with various work teams.
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Critical Essay
Martin Niemöller before the Nazis finally came for him
The German pastor opposed Hitler—eventually.
by Matthew D. Hockenos
Martin Niemöller in 1937. Photo © bpk Bildagentur / Art Resource, NY.
On a wintry November day in 1945, a simply dressed, white-haired woman huddled beside a gaunt, somber man as they read a plaque affixed to a tree in southern Germany: “Here in the years 1933–1945, 238,756 people were cremated.” Overwhelmed, the woman leaned into her husband for support. He was the Protestant pastor Martin Niemöller, famous for defying Hitler, and she was Else Niemöller, his wife of 27 years. They were standing at the entry of the crematoria at Dachau concentration camp outside Munich, where he had been jailed from July 1941 to April 1945. His years in Dachau had been preceded by four years of imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Even more than the number of people murdered, Niemöller was taken aback by the plaque’s dates: 1933–1945. Dachau had commenced operations in March 1933, just one month after Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists had come to power. The camp’s first prisoners were the Nazis’ avowed enemies—communists, socialists, and Jews. Niemöller, like most Germans, was well aware that the Nazis were rounding up their adversaries as Hitler tightened his grip on power. But it was only in late 1945 that the famous pastor began to fully acknowledge his own culpability in the Nazis’ 12-year regime of terror. The Niemöllers were visiting Dachau so that Martin could show his wife the cell block where he had been held for four years. Unexpectedly the plaque outside the crematoria jarred his conscience.
Niemöller had been a prominent pastor of an influential parish in Berlin-Dahlem from 1931 until his arrest in July 1937. His incarceration first in Moabit prison, then in Sachsenhausen, and finally in Dachau had provided him with an alibi for the years 1937–1945. But the dates on the plaque did not read 1937–1945, they read 1933–1945, and for those first four years Niemöller had been silent about Hitler’s attack on Jews and the Left. This revelatory moment at Dachau, and the feelings of shame and guilt it surely prompted, gave rise to his famous confession:
Matthew D. Hockenos
Matthew D. Hockenos teaches history at Skidmore College.
Sep 26, 2018 issue
First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
In the year following the Dachau visit, Niemöller recited versions of the confession to his German compatriots, an admonition of sorts to repent for their complacency toward and complicity in the Nazi era and its heinous crimes.
The popularity of what is known as the “Niemöller confession” spread in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the rise of the human rights movement. Today it is frequently invoked by a variety of activists and prominently displayed at Holocaust memorials in the U.S. and Europe.
Would Niemöller’s contemporary admirers in the American public embrace the confession so enthusiastically if they knew of the pastor’s wholehearted support for Hitler during his climb to power? Indeed, the Nazis’ stigmatization and persecution of minorities did not initially trouble the nationalist pastor. Born in 1892, Niemöller grew up during the German monarchy’s struggle for world recognition and served proudly as a submarine officer in Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Imperial Navy in World War I. After the war and the socialist revolution that overthrew the Hohenzollern monarchy, Niemöller entered the seminary. Ordained a Lutheran pastor in 1924, he remained an archconservative during Germany’s short-lived liberal republic, the so-called Weimar Republic, casting his ballot for the Nazis in 1924 and again in 1933. He uttered not a word when the Gestapo arrested communists, socialists, and Jews—and not because he possessed a timid demeanor. He was silent because he believed that these groups were disloyal to Germany and anti-Christian.
Niemöller was slow in comprehending that it was Hitler himself and the Nazi worldview that were the real threat to Christianity, and ultimately Germany. Throughout the course of 1933 it gradually became clearer that Hitler was not the advocate for a conservative Protestant Germany that Niemöller had hoped for. His growing opposition to Hitler’s church policy during the mid-1930s, however, did not include active opposition to the führer’s racial or foreign policies.
As the Great Depression swept through the industrialized world, nearly half the German workforce was either fully or partially out of work by late 1932. Bloody street fighting raged between Hitler’s supporters and the left as the Nazis sought to stake out their turf and project an image of invincibility. Germany’s conservative elite—landed estate owners, military officers, high-ranking civil servants, industrial barons, and church leaders—looked on with considerable admiration as the Nazis grew to become the most popular party in the German parliament.
It was in this environment of chaos, instability, and Nazi insurgency that Niemöller preached on New Year’s Day 1933 in St. Anne’s Church in Berlin-Dahlem. “What God’s intentions may be with regard to our nation or to ourselves in the New Year, we do not and shall not know,” he intoned. But he warned that, in these dark times, God’s grace is not just a source of relief or comfort. That is “easy Christianity” and “artificial grace.” Rather, God offers us his grace so that we will put our whole trust in him and his son. “We are not God’s generals but his soldiers. Ours is not to make the plans but to carry out the orders.” Niemöller’s message was clear: it was not the responsibility of the individual or the church to meddle in the secular affairs of state and its law.
On the very same morning, some of Niemöller’s parishioners most likely encountered an equally imposing demand for their trust: the Nazi Party newspaper. Hitler, leader of the most popular party in the country, had been demanding for months that the president, Paul von Hindenburg, appoint him chancellor—the most powerful position in the German government. Now, emblazoned on the front page of the party’s mouthpiece, Völkischer Beobachter (National observer), was Hitler’s “New Year’s Message of 1933.” Article after article underscored the threat of the Judeo-Bolshevik menace and called on Hitler’s rank and file to reject power-sharing with the conservative parties by putting their entire undiluted faith in him. “Any compromise,” Hitler warned, “bears the seeds of destruction of the [Nazi] party and therefore of Germany’s future.” Niemöller’s parishioners, at least the more conservative and nationalistic ones, must have suffered a conflict of conscience after reading this propaganda, wondering whether it was possible to trust both their God and the Nazi leader.
If the parishioners looked to Pastor Niemöller for direction on this question, the answer was clear. Niemöller made no secret of his support for the Nazis, although he never campaigned from the pulpit for Hitler. Niemöller initially saw no contradiction in calling on his flock to follow a merciful God while at the same time backing the Nazi leader who demanded absolute political loyalty to his racist worldview. German Protestants, Niemöller believed, could and should do both. After all, during the centuries of monarchy, they had long revered the alliance of throne and altar. It wasn’t a great leap from there to the alliance of the Nazi Party and the Protestant Church.
When Hindenburg, bowing to pressure, appointed Hitler chancellor on January 30, 1933, Niemöller responded enthusiastically. The new chancellor spoke frequently about the vital role that the churches would play in the reborn Germany. The Nazi program committed the party to “positive Christianity” and to battling “the Jewish materialistic spirit.” Hitler reassured the nation that the government would protect Christianity “as the basis of our entire morality” and “fill our culture again with the Christian spirit.” The Nazis claimed to stand for the freedom of all religious denominations, “provided that they do not endanger the existence of the state or offend the concepts of decency and morality of the Germanic race.”
This platform was most welcome to conservative Protestants. Hitler’s appointment, they convinced themselves, would usher in the hour of the church—God’s hour. They anticipated that churches, which had been gradually losing attendance for a century, would soon fill again. In the first half of 1933, some 20 percent of the 550 pastors in Berlin joined the Nazi Party, eager to participate in the movement for “one nation, one people, one church.” Although Niemöller never signed up as a Nazi Party member, his sermons during this period were rife with references to the dual awakenings of nation and church. Under the Weimar Republic, Niemöller believed, the nation had lost its way and the churches had lost their public significance. The Nazi revolution would restore Christianity to its rightful place in the public life of the nation. Hopeful Protestants looked to Hitler to complete Luther’s Reformation by replacing the 28 regional Protestant churches with one “Reich Church.”
In a sermon at St. Anne’s a month after Hitler took power, Niemöller took up the question of the proper role of Christians in the public life of the nation. “The fact is,” he preached, “it is simply impossible for us today to accept the comfortable formula that politics have no place in the church.” Political events, he maintained, were of great importance “to our fate and to that of our nation,” and he encouraged his parishioners to “take a conscientious stand . . . this very day.” The date of the sermon, March 5, 1933, is significant: that day saw the first and only election in Nazi Germany. Niemöller took his “conscientious stand” by voting for the Nazis.
The Nazis’ program of positive Christianity was vague. For some Nazis, it meant a form of Christianity that emphasized Germany’s special role in God’s plan for establishing his kingdom on earth—something Niemöller welcomed. Others attacked traditional Christianity for its allegedly weak, crucified God and advocated in its place an Aryan Christianity that worshiped a powerful, thoroughly masculine Jesus. Still other Nazis, who identified as pagans, worshiped nature. This wide range of religious beliefs, as well as the Nazi desire to relegate religious faith to the private sphere and subordinate it to the nation, increasingly concerned Niemöller.
As the Nazis grew in popularity, a group of fervent Protestant supporters emerged, calling themselves the German Christian movement. The German Christians (Deutsche Christen, or DC) believed that Nazism and Christianity were mutually reinforcing. As Nazi enthusiasts, the DC were anti-Semitic, but in a uniquely religious way: they denied the Jewish ancestry of Jesus and wanted to purge German Protestantism of everything associated with Judaism, including the Old Testament. Their goal was a racially pure church that excluded anyone with Jewish ancestry, even baptized Christians. As far as the DC were concerned, converts from Judaism to Christianity remained biologically non-Aryan and therefore were not welcome in the church. One particularly offensive DC slogan—“Baptism can’t straighten out a hooked nose”—conveys the priority of race over grace. “If Christ were alive today,” a DC leader declared, “he would have been an SA man.” These self-proclaimed “storm troopers of Christ” subscribed to a völkisch (racial) theology that viewed Jews and Judaism as alien to the German people’s norms, laws, and spirituality.
Niemöller had strong reservations about the idea of Aryan Christianity and drew a thick line between his conservative-nationalist Protestantism and the DC’s völkisch version. Although the two groups shared a commitment to conservatism, nationalism, anticommunism, and anti-Semitism, there were significant differences between them. Traditional Protestants rejected a racial litmus test for church membership. They defended the Old Testament and the Jewish origins of Jesus. And they took offense at the blatant politicizing of Christianity. By twisting the cross to resemble a swastika, the DC won over many Nazis to the church but also alienated many conservatives, Niemöller among them.
Many Protestants thought that the Nazis would enhance the standing of the church.
Niemöller’s disapproval of the German Christians was the starting point for his eventual opposition to Hitler’s church policy, which favored the German Christians over the traditionalists. In reaction to the DC’s boisterous rallies and politicized church services, Niemöller preached that Christ “wants no frenzied enthusiasm.” And in contradiction to the DC portrayal of Christ as an Aryan-Nordic warrior, Niemöller insisted that Jesus “treads the path that leads to suffering and to the cross.” Bemoaning the DC’s “large-scale propaganda scheme for Christianity” and the “sugary Christian confection” they concocted to entice the masses, Niemöller advocated the “unaffected message of Christ’s word and work, of his life and suffering, of his death and resurrection—and nothing more.”
As the struggle for control of the churches intensified in the spring and summer of 1933, SA attacks on Jews rose steeply. Hermann Göring, the head of the Prussian police, declared that he was “unwilling to accept the notion that the police are a protection squad for Jewish shops.” The literary scholar Victor Klemperer, a Christian of Jewish descent, described the atmosphere in Dresden as resembling the “mood as before a pogrom in the depths of the Middle Ages or in deepest Czarist Russia.”
In April, storm troopers participating in the Nazi-led boycott of Jewish-owned businesses marched through hundreds of towns and cities singing anti-Semitic songs, blocking shoppers, and smashing windows. The German Protestant Church was silent. Indeed, some clergy defended the boycott as a natural response to disproportionate Jewish influence in German society. The Nazis soon after passed the first major piece of anti-Jewish legislation, the April 7, 1933, Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. Its notorious “Aryan paragraph” banned Jews and Christians of Jewish descent from state employment. Although pastors and church officials were part of the civil service and paid by the state, the Nazi government did not include the churches in the April 7 legislation.
The German Christians, however, wanted to pass a parallel law that would ban “Jewish blood” from the pulpit and the pews. “Anyone of non-Aryan descent or married to a person of non-Aryan descent,” the proposed law read, “may not be called as a minister or official in the church.” At their national convention in Berlin, the DC reiterated their call for the coordination of church and state, and the creation of a united Evangelical Reich Church led by an all-powerful Reich bishop, similar to Hitler’s role as head of state.
The sudden ascendancy of the German Christians, with the help of the Nazi state, alarmed traditional churchmen as well as a younger generation of pastors and theologians, who felt closed out of the church’s governing bodies. Wanting to have a voice, they organized the Young Reformation movement with the aim of blocking the DC and infusing the church leadership with new blood. At age 41, Niemöller was among the 3,000 pastors who joined the Young Reformers.
As impressive as the Young Reformation movement appeared to be, there was an incongruity at its core—the same that characterized Niemöller. Their “joyful affirmation” of the Nazi state and simultaneous demands for independence in church affairs and condemnation of the Aryan paragraph were incompatible. The Nazis weren’t about to allow churches any more independence than they allowed political parties, trade unions, or courts. And could the Nazis really countenance a church that worshiped a Jew? The contradictory position weakened the Young Reformers’ ability to oppose the regime and earned the derision of the eminent Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who was teaching in Bonn at the time.
Twenty-seven-year-old Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, living in Berlin at the time, was one of the scant few who agreed with Barth’s critique. Bonhoeffer first met Niemöller in early summer 1933. Although they agreed about the need to fight the German Christian threat, they did not see eye to eye on much else. In a letter to a friend, Bonhoeffer referred to Niemöller and his type as “naive, starry-eyed idealists” who thought that they were “the real National Socialists” because of their dual devotion to National Socialism and national Protestantism. This was nothing less than delusional, as far as Bonhoeffer was concerned. Nazism and Protestantism were inimical because the Nazis openly derided Christ’s message of love and mercy. Simply put: a good Christian, Bonhoeffer believed, could not be a good Nazi.
In the coming months, Nazi church policy would prove Bonhoeffer right. Indeed, by that May even Niemöller was beginning to express concerns. While he did not explicitly critique Nazi attacks on Jews and leftists—of which there had already been many—he did respond to the increasing political and racial tensions in a May 21 sermon when he exhorted all Christians to follow the gospel’s call to “love our enemies” and “pray for all men.” Only by exercising love toward all men and women—“toward Christians and infidels and Jews”—could Christians move toward God.
On June 24, 1933, in an effort to break the power of the establishment church, Hitler installed Nazi jurist August Jäger as commissar of church affairs in Prussia—Germany’s largest state and a Protestant stronghold. Jäger immediately suspended Prussia’s established church leaders and appointed German Christians in their stead. Niemöller and his colleagues condemned this incursion into church affairs and accused the German Christians of falsifying the Gospel for political purposes. Hitler then made his ambitions even clearer by ordering new church leadership elections for July 23, with an eye to securing DC majorities. Young Reformers and traditional church leaders would square off against the German Christians for the entire range of offices from parish councils to the most senior governance positions.
Niemöller was instrumental in the Young Reformers’ campaign, writing evocative brochures urging an independent, “confessing church”—one that based its proclamation on scripture and the Reformation confessions, such as the Augsburg Confession from 1530, not the prerogatives of the Nazi state. “We struggle for a confessing church against false teaching in the church like that expressed daily by the leaders of German Christians,” according to one such pamphlet.
The night before the election, Hitler took to the airwaves to promote the German Christian movement, which has “consciously taken its stand on the ground of the National Socialist state.” The German Christians won by a landslide and soon moved to install the Aryan paragraph. Niemöller could no longer sustain the belief that he was involved in merely a struggle between rival church factions. In the aftermath of the election, he openly criticized the state’s intervention. Though the election was lost and it was obvious there would be none to contest in years to come, Niemöller refused to stand down. He called on the Young Reformers to continue preaching the theology of the gospel and to confront German Christian blasphemy.
In the fall of 1933 Niemöller and Bonhoeffer founded the Pastors’ Emergency League, which in 1934 became the Confessing Church. For the next three and one-half years Niemöller and his followers in the Confessing Church defied Hitler’s attempts to Nazify the Protestant Church. His sermons became increasingly defiant—openly questioning the führer’s trustworthiness—until Hitler had had enough and ordered Niemöller’s arrest in July 1937 on charges of misusing the pulpit for political reasons.
After the war, Niemöller encouraged people to speak out when other human beings were being attacked, whatever their race, religion, or political beliefs. His name became linked with anti-Nazi resistance and the moral imperative to come to the defense of persecuted minorities.
Yet, before his defiance of Hitler’s church policy, he was an influential pastor who voted for the Nazis, welcomed Hitler’s rise, and showed contempt for groups he deemed anti-Christian and anti-German. In this respect, it is legitimate to group him with Hitler’s early enablers. And his dissent during the Nazi era was no more than a defense of the German Protestant Church.
It is tempting for admirers to rationalize Neimöller’s earlier years by speaking in terms of a clean break between a young, imprudent man, on the one hand, and a mature, wiser man, on the other. But Niemöller was a 41-year-old father of six with two decades of professional experience when he applauded Hitler’s ascension to power. He was a middle-aged man who had read Mein Kampf and knew very well what Hitler stood for. And even after he watched Hitler abolish the national parliament, ban political parties and trade unions, and persecute his opponents, Niemöller refused to distance himself from radical nationalism and anti-Semitism—even on occasion after 1945.
Once the legend is stripped away, Niemöller necessarily disappoints us. But the imperfection of his moral compass makes him all the more relevant today. This middle-class, conservative Protestant, who harbored ingrained prejudices against those not like him, did something excruciatingly difficult and uncommon for someone of his background: he changed his mind.
This essay is adapted from Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis, © 2018 by Matthew D. Hockenos. Available from Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a division of PBG Publishing, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. A version of this article appears in the print edition under the title “Before they came for him”
Martin Niemoller
Confessing Church
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Summits & Institutions, Trade & Finance
The St. Petersburg Summit: Obama’s Futile Quest for Support on Syria Overshadowed the Summit’s Economic Successes
Series: G20 St. Petersburg Rapid Response
Leonard J. Edwards
If the G20’s leaders were looking for an issue on which to prove the G20 capable of expanding its work beyond the purely economic agenda (which they were not), they would certainly have chosen a different one than the current crisis in Syria.
It was known from the start that this issue would be very divisive. Many countries had already made their views clear for and against the Obama administration’s proposal for a military strike, and where countries had not, it was not difficult to guess where they would come out on the matter.
President Obama must have known this, and yet he persisted in using the occasion in a campaign to advocate a line of action on which there could be no agreement. Why? Did he want to use the summit to burnish America’s image for taking the high ground on this terrible turn in the Syrian civil war? Did he hope his approach would gain him support in Congress? Was he trying to embarrass his host for Russia’s continued support of the Assad regime?
Unfortunately for Obama, the main outcome seems to have been to strengthen the resolve of those against the US plan, to force out into the open those leaders whose opposition to a strike has, so far, been muted, and to draw greater attention to the arguments against a strike. His failure to garner support and change minds has served to highlight America’s declining influence and ability to exercise global leadership, and will only embolden Obama’s political opponents in Washington in their efforts to deny the administration the congressional approval that seemed within reach earlier in the week.
Worse, leaders leave St. Petersburg not only with their divisions more deeply etched on the plan for a strike, but apparently no further ahead on other possible approaches for dealing with this increasingly vicious civil war and the reprehensible use of chemical weapons by Assad.
As for the impact on this summit, the issue has dominated the media coverage, and public perceptions of the G20 and its effectiveness (or lack thereof, if it is judged on the Syrian issue, as many will). This is unfortunate. It will also serve as a cautionary example for future summits when there might be temptations to expand the G20 agenda into the political domain. This is not a happy precedent.
It is hard to know to what extent Syria distracted leaders’ attentions from dealing with pressing economic issues. BRIC countries cannot have been happy to have this matter take precedence over their primary concerns about links between US monetary policy and their struggles with declining growth rates, capital fight and falling currency values.
While the formal agenda went ahead as planned, some of the private conversations and pull-asides that would normally be given to sorting out differences over economic matters were certainly impacted. The leaders-only dinner on Thursday evening — traditionally an important informal event focusing on key global economic issues of the moment — was apparently taken over by the Syrian issue.
Just the same, it does appear that despite the time and attention given to the Syrian crisis, St. Petersburg produced some solid economic outcomes.
Much of this was the result of progress since the Los Cabos summit on the G20 work program, which leaders mandated and have encouraged in the lead up to St. Petersburg.
One worthy outcome was the decision to press ahead with greater cross-border transparency on tax data, and an initiative to cooperate on efforts to ensure that corporations doing business in more than one country do not avoid paying taxes in those jurisdictions where “economic activities deriving the profits are performed.”[1] Another plus is a commitment to press ahead with the G20 Anti-Corruption Action Plan.
Leaders also agreed to pursue “until the job is done” the G20’s critical work since 2009 on regulatory systems and cross-border arrangements affecting banks, insurance companies and other financial businesses, to prevent future financial crises.
This and other progress is partly the result of the emphasis on G20 “accountability” pushed by Canada and others to drive implementation of past commitments. The G20’s record of meeting expectations and deadlines has not been perfect, but it means that summits should always have some good results to report.
Other outcomes required some final negotiation in St. Petersburg. This includes the renewal, for a further three years, of the 2010 Toronto summit’s commitment not to introduce any new protectionist trade measures, and the agreement that advanced countries (and some others) committed to provide medium-term fiscal strategies for bringing their fiscal deficits under control, again building on an earlier Toronto agreement. Careful wording allows flexibility for the United States and others with regard to promoting growth. Canada provided a precise debt reduction target of 25 percent of GDP by 2021, a step too far for most.
In the macroeconomic area, there was an agreement that future monetary policy changes should be gradual and communicated in advance, an important recognition of BRIC concerns over lack of clarity from the US Federal Reserve concerning the speed and timing of its exit from quantitative easing policies.
These and other measures set out in the (overly long) communiqué and its annexes indicate that St. Petersburg met and probably surpassed its modest promises of success. But for the G20 as institution, it will be remembered more in the public eye for its failure to find a way forward on the Syrian issue.
[1] From the Leaders’ Declaration.
Unfortunately for Obama, the main outcome seems to have been to strengthen the resolve of those against the US plan.
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Top 10 QBs in NFL: Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers battle for second behind unanimous No. 1
CBS Sports' NFL team collectively ranked the top 10 quarterbacks in football right now
by Sean Wagner-McGough
@seanjwagner
Jul 3, 2019 at 10:51 am ET • 8 min read
With a wonderful blend of both young and old, the state of quarterbacking in the NFL has never been better.
At the top of the table, there's 23-year-old Patrick Mahomes, who just won MVP in his first season as a starter. Lagging not far behind are the likes of 41-year-old Tom Brady, 35-year-old Aaron Rodgers, 40-year-old Drew Brees, 23-year-old Deshaun Watson, and so on. The NFL's best quarterbacks are both young and old, well-established and up-and-coming, near the end of the journeys and just beginning to pave their paths toward Canton.
All of this is just a long-winded way of saying, it wasn't easy figuring out who the top-10 quarterbacks in football are right now. It wasn't easy, but it's what the NFL writing team here at CBS Sports tried to do. In the days and weeks to come, we'll be releasing our collective top-10 rankings at every single position group. Today, we begin with the quarterbacks.
Below, you'll find CBS Sports' list of the 10 best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. On that note, it's worth reiterating that the quarterbacks were ranked collectively by a group involving more than 10 writers and editors. All of us ranked our top 10 quarterbacks. Our individual ballots were then turned into one list using a point system. This is not my own personal list. This is the list for the entire NFL team here at CBS Sports.
Before we move onto the list itself, it's worth noting that only one quarterback barely missed the cut: Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz. In addition to Wentz, Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield and Panthers quarterback Cam Newton both received at least one top-10 vote, but neither were close to sneaking their way onto the list. That's it. Those were the only three quarterbacks to receive at least one top-10 vote without making the final list. So in all, 13 quarterbacks garnered at least one vote.
OK, onto the actual list. We begin in Houston.
10. Deshaun Watson, Texans
Watson has been in the league for only two seasons and he played in only seven games during one of those two seasons, but he's already established himself as one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. If you were starting a franchise right now and all the players in the NFL were placed in a draft, Watson would either be the second or third pick -- definitely behind Mahomes and possibly behind Mayfield.
In 2018, despite playing behind the league's worst offensive line, Watson took the Texans to the playoffs by throwing for 4,165 yards, 26 touchdowns, only nine interceptions, and a 103.1 passer rating. Imagine how great he'll be when the Texans finally supply him with adequate protection.
9. Matt Ryan, Falcons
It still feels like Ryan is underappreciated, so it was relief to see him find a way onto this list, even if he slots in at No. 9. Even though the Falcons were not a good team in 2018, Ryan experienced one of the best seasons of his career, completing 69.4 percent of his passes for 4,924 yards, 35 touchdowns, seven picks, and a 108.1 passer rating. And of course, it was only just three years ago that Ryan pieced together one of the best MVP seasons in recent memory.
It turns out, Ryan's been playing like one of the league's top quarterbacks for a while now. Since beginning his career in 2008, he ranks third in passing yards, fifth in touchdown passes, and fourth in quarterback wins. How much different would his reputation be if the Falcons hadn't blown that 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl?
8. Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers
The upcoming season will be a big test for Big Ben considering it'll be his first season without superstar Antonio Brown since 2010, when Brown barely contributed during his rookie season. But for now, let's give Roethlisberger credit for everything he's accomplished. In his 15-year career, he's averaging 3,746.3 yards and 24.2 touchdowns per season. Since he entered the league in 2004, he ranks third in passing yards, fifth in touchdown passes, and third in wins. Like Drew Brees, Tom Brady, and Philip Rivers, he's managed to age gracefully. Over the past five years, he's averaging 4417.8 yards and 28.8 touchdowns per season.
7. Philip Rivers, Chargers
Due in large part to Brady's success, it seems like we've underappreciated just how gracefully Rivers has aged. He's 37 years old. But he managed to throw for 4,308 yards, 32 touchdowns, and a 105.5 passer rating while leading the Chargers to a 12-4 record last season. Those are MVP type of numbers.
At this point, Rivers' resume is only lacking a Super Bowl. The Chargers do have one of the most talented rosters in football. So, Rivers might get a chance to complete his resume during the upcoming season.
6. Andrew Luck, Colts
Remember when we were all so concerned about Luck's ability to simply pick up and throw a football? After missing the entire 2017 season as he worked his way back from a shoulder injury, Luck wasn't able to throw a football until last June. That's what makes his 2018 season especially impressive. He looked like the Luck of old.
In Frank Reich's offense, Luck completed 67.3 percent of his passes for 4,593 yards and 39 touchdowns. By DYAR, he ranked seventh -- one spot ahead of Brady. By DVOA, he ranked ninth -- one spot ahead of Russell Wilson. And by QBR, he ranked fifth -- one spot ahead of Brady, again.
That'll do.
5. Drew Brees, Saints
It's a little surprising to see Brees fall all the way to the middle of the list after he spent most of the season in a battle with Mahomes for MVP. It's likely that Brees' underwhelming final stretch of the season played a role in his placement on this list. Over the final four games of his regular season, Brees averaged only 6.4 yards per pass attempt, threw three touchdowns and three picks, and posted an 84.7 passer rating, allowing Mahomes to run away with MVP.
That all said, Brees managed to throw for 3,992 yards, 32 touchdowns, and five interceptions in a 15-game season. And if not for a missed pass-interference penalty, he likely would've taken the Saints to the Super Bowl. He's one of the best quarterbacks of all time and he's still playing at an elite level as he enters the upcoming season at age 40.
4. Russell Wilson, Seahawks
Wilson has firmly established himself as one of the best quarterbacks in football. He's deadly as both a runner and a passer. He can survive behind bad offensive lines. He's remarkably durable. And he's almost always in the playoffs. In 2018, Wilson completed 65.6 percent of his passes for 3,448 yards, 35 touchdowns, and only seven interceptions. Over the past two seasons, he's thrown for 7,431 yards, 69 touchdowns, and 18 interceptions. In his career, he's posted an insane 75-36-1 record as a starting quarterback. Only Brady has won more games since 2012.
3. Tom Brady, Patriots
Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time, but he's not the best quarterback in football right now, which is understandable really given he's about to turn 42 years old. It's incredible that he's still one of the three best quarterbacks at his age, even if he's taken a slight step back. In 2018, Brady threw for 4,355 yards, 29 touchdowns, 11 interceptions, and a 97.7 passer rating. He also helped the Patriots win their second championship in three seasons. So yeah, he's still great.
There's bound to be a few criticisms of Brady's placement on this list. While it's widely accepted that Brady isn't as good as Mahomes right now, there's an argument to be made that he's as good as Aaron Rodgers, who ranks one spot ahead of Brady. Neither Brady nor Rodgers are playing the best football of their careers right now. But Brady has gone to three straight Super Bowls. In that span, Rodgers has been to the playoffs only once.
So, it's worth noting then that Brady and Rodgers were separated by one total point in our cumulative ranking. That's how close it was.
2. Aaron Rodgers, Packers
It's telling that in a so-called down season involving a serious injury and Mike McCarthy's stale offense, Rodgers managed to throw for 4,442 yards, 25 touchdowns, and only two interceptions. There's no doubt that Rodgers hasn't hit the peaks he once hit a few years ago, but there's also no doubt he's still one of the league's best quarterbacks.
The question is, how will Rodgers mesh with new coach Matt LaFleur? For years now, so many of us have been complaining about McCarthy's antiquated offensive system and how it wasn't putting Rodgers in a position to succeed. Well, the Packers have finally given Rodgers a coach who is supposed to be an offensive innovator. So, we'll find out in 2019 if McCarthy was responsible for Rodgers' slight decline or if Rodgers himself deserves some blame.
With that in mind, it wouldn't be surprising if Rodgers takes the top spot away from Mahomes a year from now. But it also wouldn't be surprising if he slides down the list. Either way, 2019 should be a very revealing season.
1. Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs
No surprise here. In his first season as a starting quarterback, Mahomes became the second quarterback in NFL history (joining Peyton Manning) to throw for at least 5,000 yards and at least 50 touchdowns in a single season. Despite being saddled with one of the league's worst defenses, Mahomes led the Chiefs to a 12-win season. He's the best quarterback in football right now -- and it's not particularly close. Every voter at CBS Sports ranked Mahomes first on their individual ballots.
Danny Kanell joined Will Brinson to discuss his Top 10 quarterbacks on Tuesday's Pick Six Podcast episode.
Listen to the full episode, and subscribe on Stitcher, Spotify and iTunes.
Sean Wagner-McGough
Sean Wagner-McGough joined CBS Sports in 2015 after graduating from UC Berkeley. A native of Seattle, Sean now resides in the Bay Area. He spends his spare time defending Jay Cutler on Twitter. Full Bio
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A Legend in the making
China's Legend Group has transformed itself into one of the world's fastest-growing technology conglomerates, but can it leap from being a local leader to a player on the world stage?
August 12, 2002 8:55 AM PDT
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 12, 2002, 4:00 a.m. PT
BEIJING--It's one of the few PC companies today with profits and growth in market share. Its close allies on various projects--Microsoft, Intel, Texas Instruments, America Online--reads like high-technology's A-list.
But one important difference separates the company from the pack: It's based in China, one of the world's hottest markets for technology.
The Legend Group, which once existed only as a wholesale distributor for U.S. and European brands, has transformed itself into one of the world's fastest-growing technology conglomerates, with its hands on everything from desktops and servers to cell phones, retail franchises and information technology services. Many businesses in China that it's involved are expected to grow by double digits through 2006 and beyond.
The rapid rise of Legend contrasts markedly with the stagnating state of PC makers in the United States, which last month reported that worldwide shipments had declined nearly 1 percent in the second quarter of this year. Although no one is calling it an immediate threat to Dell Computer, competitors are following Legend's moves with a mixture of envy and nervousness.
The numbers show why. Legend grew shipments by 24.2 percent in 2001, Gartner analyst Charles Smulders said, and the company pulled in $2.7 billion (HK$20.9 billion) in revenue and $134 million (HK$1.045 billion) in profit for the fiscal year ended March 2002. Only Sony at 25.2 percent grew faster, he noted, while Dell grew by 18 percent, "and everybody else was negative" in 2001.
"I believe Legend's success lies in the catering of their products toward the market," said Dennis Lam, a financial analyst with Hong Kong's Kim Eng Securities. It benefits, he said, from "the amount of retail locations and a great distribution network, a great brand name, great customer service reputation, and a dominant market share, especially on the consumer side in China."
In some ways, however, Legend may face far greater challenges ahead as its domestic success reaches an eventual plateau. As Dell and Hewlett-Packard experienced in years past, Legend will likely have to look beyond its borders to keep booming, and industry analysts wonder whether the company can leap from being a local leader to a player on the world stage.
And going abroad won't be easy. The company's growth has largely been fueled by two factors: the explosive demand of technology in China--a historical anomaly that won't repeat itself anytime soon--and the enviable fact that the company is the local favorite.
"They are certainly aggressive in price, but they are operating in a private market," Smulders said. "They have a stronghold at home, but that doesn't really extend to other markets."
First moves into Europe
Still, the groundwork has quietly begun. Last fall, the company started selling consumer PCs in Hong Kong for the first time, and laptops under its QDI brand name in Spain, Germany, Italy and Greece. QDI motherboards have also become a leading brand in Europe.
Perhaps more promising, the company has already taken steps toward becoming a contract manufacturer, a path to success paved by Quanta, Acer and other Taiwanese giants.
Last September, Legend and Taiwan-based Gigabyte, one of the world's largest motherboard makers, signed a $30 million U.S. joint venture for contract manufacturing. Under the deal, Gigabyte will provide design expertise and sales contacts; Legend is to concentrate on running low-cost factories. The venture will initially focus on boards but likely expand, the companies said.
China's new destiny
A sleeping tech
giant awakens
Legend even opened a U.S. research site last year in San Jose, Calif., staffed with American and Chinese engineers.
The company has not been immune to global economic problems, seeing its growth rate slow to 5 percent in the second quarter of 2002 because of a decline in Asia-Pacific PC sales. But even in these relatively tough times, it was still able to move into the top 10 of PC manufacturers worldwide with a 2 percent market share, rising from from 13th place at the end of last year, according to Gartner.
The imbalance between Asia-Pacific growth and declines everywhere else will continue to push the company up the charts. Legend is on the verge of passing Gateway in overall shipments worldwide and will begin to close in on Toshiba, according to market researcher IDC.
The technology slowdown has prompted the company to play down global expansion at the moment. But the outward push is inevitable.
"Speaking for the next two to three years, we will focus on mainland China," said Qiao Jian, vice president of marketing. At the same time, she said, "Legend's mission is to be an international company in 10 years. We are thinking of doing some branded sales in Southeast Asia."
That time frame might seem ambitious to outsiders, but not to those familiar with the company's history. If anything, the company has shown it learns quickly.
Evolution in a hurry
Founded in 1984 by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Legend first existed as a distributor of foreign information technology products. AST Research, once a fairly strong brand, essentially taught the company how to build PCs, according to Kitty Fok, research director at IDC.
It wasn't the best move for AST. After Legend entered the PC business in 1990, it subsequently stopped distributing AST computers, one of China's most popular brands at the time. In the mid-1990s, Legend signed an agreement with Acer to distribute that company's PCs to consumers, paving the way for the upstart to develop its own lines in that market.
Legend's deals have proliferated along with China's growth. In 2001, AOL and Legend said they would each invest $100 million in a joint venture dedicated to creating new online services. Alliances have been struck with Asian cell phone makers, notebook manufacturers, LCD makers, printer manufacturers and digital camera suppliers that have helped Legend cement its position or get into these markets in the past two years.
Many leading component suppliers have also formed or tightened partnerships in recent months. Among them are Siemens and Texas Instruments in cellular parts, IBM in storage technology, Microsoft in software and Intel in server technology.
"They only partner with a very strong multinational and then learn what they can," Fok said.
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Though some analysts have pointed out that the company has benefited by strong ties to local buyers and low operating costs, Qiao asserts that Legend has also succeeded by studying the local market better than others.
Teaming with private enterprises has also helped the company achieve an edge over local competitors. Rival Great Wall has largely remained an operation owned and run by the government.
For example, she said, in 2000 Legend became the first Chinese company to automate Internet access through a link on the desktop. Before that, Chinese consumers had to go to the post office to get a number for a Net account.
Not confined to hardware
More recently, the company has gone on an acquisition spree to get into software and services. In March, the company acquired 51 percent of Han Consulting, a technology consulting firm for medium-sized to large enterprises, and a month later formed a joint venture with AI Software to develop services for insurance and finance customers.
"Ninety percent of our revenue still comes from hardware, but in the next three to five years we think that 20 percent of our revenue will come from software," Qiao said. "Legend is transforming into a service-centric company."
Diversifying into other business will likely help the company skirt some of the competitive realities of the PC market, which are occurring in China despite an expected growth rate of around 18 percent for the next five years, according to IDC.
Generic "white box" PC makers are eroding profits in the consumer segment, and multinational manufacturers are expanding in China, which will reduce some of Legend's cost advantages. Chinese factory workers make about $1 a hour, according to estimates from Deutsche Bank, and engineers are comparatively inexpensive.
In the business market, the company still can use local connections, but that won't help in exports or in attempts to sell to Western companies moving to China. Brand names often don't travel well, requiring millions of dollars and years of advertising to cement.
As a result, the contract manufacturing alliance with behemoth Gigabyte may begin to loom larger as time goes on.
"Just look at the experience of the Taiwanese technology companies, almost none of which have built brands overseas," Legend Chairman Liu Chuanzhi said last year in an interview. "I think we could take the path of Taiwanese companies that are original-design manufacturers, or we could cooperate with Taiwanese companies."
Securities analyst Lam, on the other hand, believes the power of Legend's brand within China's borders should not be underestimated--regardless of what it sells. Even if the nation's economy slows, its markets will still be growing faster than those of its counterparts around the world.
"Legend's strength, I believe, is their brand and localization, which will help them sell products and--more importantly--services going forward," Lam said. "PC demand in other parts of Asia or the world is stagnating. China remains one of the markets with the greatest potential."
Founded: 1984, as a distributor.
Businesses: Primarily PCs, but has expanded into consumer electronics, Internet access, cell phones, consulting and software.
China market share: No. 1 PC seller in China, with 26 percent of the market in first quarter of this year.*
Wordwide market share: 2 percent.**
Revenue: $2.7 billion for fiscal year ended March 31, 2002.
Net profit: $134 million for fiscal year ended March 31, 2002.
Sources: Information provided by Legend, unless otherwise noted. *IDC. **Gartner.
Reflecting the disparity between the Chinese and Western stock markets, Legend spun off its distribution business last year for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong exchange.
The spinoff of China Digital reduced friction with customers, company executives said, as Legend often sold products that competed with its distribution partners. Legend also trades publicly on the Hong Kong bourse.
The move underscores the evolution of Legend, which was founded as a distribution company for foreign technology products. Digital China specializes in distributing products such as Toshiba notebooks and HP printers throughout China.
Its 39-year-old Chief Executive Guo Wei is one of two leading candidates to become chairman of Legend. The other is Yang Yuanqing, who took over as Legend's CEO last year as part of the split.
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All The Top Highlights From David Murathe’s First TV Interview After His Resignation From Jubilee
by Teddy Munene January 6, 2019 - 19:27 0
Immediate former Jubilee interim vice-chairman David Murathe officially resigned this evening after a long week of heavy jabs on DP Ruto and threatening his 2022 bid.
Murathe appeared on an exclusive interview on KTN just hours after his resignation and we have compiled video highlights of some of his key remarks.
First of all, Murathe made it very clear that he had no problem with the Kalenjin community, he only had a problem with one member of the community who he, and many other people within Jubilee, felt he wasn’t suitable for the top job come 2022.
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Murathe added that William Ruto had a long trail of scandals and it would be morally incorrect if he was allowed to lead the country.
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When asked if he himself had any political ambitions, Murathe was quick to rubbish it, insisting he had no such plans at all.
When asked why he decided to resign from his position in Jubilee, Murathe said he did so so people stop saying he was speaking on behalf of Uhuru Kenyatta, insisting that whatever he said was simply his own opinion.
Murathe also noted that there is no crisis whatsoever in Jubilee.
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In yet another hit on William Ruto, Murathe informed the public that there was no MOU between William Ruto and Uhuru, and dared them to produce one if it existed.
Murathe also said that many people within the Jubilee party held the same opinion on William Ruto.
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Lastly, Murathe made it clear that he does not take orders from Uhuru Kenyatta and that he didn’t consult him before his decision to resign.
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